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The L i t t l e Mermaid
written by oathk33p3r
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Disclaimer: No, I do not own The Little Mermaid or Kingdom Hearts. Note that I made a typo on the first chapter…I put nor instead of or. But, being the lazy butt I am, I don't think I'll get the chance to fix it, so I made this one sentence disclaimer to three.
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"Kairi, aren't you going to eat?" Amber asked through the seaweed she was chewing.
The seven sisters were all seated at the long table of the castle with seaweed dumped onto their shells, which they used as plates.
The youngest of the seven had her head thrust to the surface with a far away look on her face. Six pairs of eyes stared at her, each chewing on their share of food.
Kairi, not aware of her sisters' stares, let out a sigh. Only a mere trail of bubbles left her lips and floated to the surface to turn into sea foam. They seemed to be laughing at her chanting "I can go to the surface but you can't". Annoyed, the little mermaid brought her fist down to the table and startled her sisters. She couldn't even sigh properly under water.
The six of them immediately started to concentrate on their food as Kairi turned to them.
Letting out another bothersome sigh, Kairi looked down at her untouched seaweed. That was all she ever had here at the bottom of the sea and she was sick of it. But at the surface she heard they had marvelous food. Warm food. This amazed her.
A school of fish swam by Kairi's nose as she stared at nothing in particular. A rather large grey one showed off its scales as it wiggled past her.
They were so shiny…
A goofy smile wormed its way to her lips as she closed her eyes. The human…he was shiny, wasn't he? Yes, he definitely was. His skin gleamed in the sunlight. She remembered his rosy lips. They were so fine and thin. Only if she was able to kiss them…
"Kairi!"
The little mermaid snapped her eyes open to find a pair of unblinking, wet ones looking back into hers.
She let out a little scream and let the fish slip out of her hands.
"I think Kairi's in lo-ove," Cora teased as she leaned on her elbow and smiled at her.
"Really? Who is it? Oh my, don't tell me it's Riku?" Corina asked with bright blue eyes.
Utterly speechless, Kairi gave her sister an "are you kidding?" look.
"Oh, my gosh, it is," Corina said when she didn't get a reply.
Riku was her father's seahorse caretaker. He was a nice guy and rather good looking, but he was not the one for Kairi. She had once said she liked his eyes and her sister never left her alone after that.
"I'm gonna go," Kairi finally said.
She shook her head and rolled her eyes as the teasing from her sisters followed her.
The little mermaid made her way to her grotto. It was the only place in the whole sea where she felt safe and belonged. She made her way to the large stone in the middle of it and lied down, her tail waving in the water.
Her sisters' giggles still rang in her ears. But she would've been laughed at if she told them she was in love with a human. It would be like telling them she fell in love with a fish. Plus, she didn't know the human's name either. For the past week she called him Human when she was talking to herself.
Frustrated, Kairi rolled onto her back and looked up at the small hole in her grotto. It was only a bright, white light, but she knew it was the sky she was seeing.
The sky.
Kairi gasped in surprise as a shadow blocked her view.
It was Riku.
She quickly sat up and stared at Riku's aquamarine eyes. His bare chest gleamed, but it wasn't the same kind of innocent shine Kairi saw on the human. His skin looked cold and tough.
"Hey Kairi," he said suavely.
"Um, hi," Kairi said uneasily.
Riku chuckled and looked around her grotto.
"So, this is where you sleep."
Kairi squealed as he pushed her against the cool walls of her underwater cave.
"Mind if I sleep here too?"
Frightened, Kairi looked up at Riku. She was no match for his strong arms and both of them were blocking her way.
He leaned closer to her and stroked her auburn hair. His fingers were smooth despite the fact that he handled giant seahorses. She wished they were cracked and rough.
"So soft," he whispered into her ear.
Riku didn't even bother covering the lust in his eyes. Disgusted, Kairi turned away and forced her eyes to shut.
"I knew you wanted me," he continued.
A chill went up Kairi's back as Riku ran a hand through it. He was reaching for the strings of the clams that covered her breast.
Angry and scared, Kairi kicked her tail and jammed it into Riku's. She opened her eyes to see Riku a good three feet away from her, unconscious. Her arms may have been week, but all the swimming she had helped build muscle in her tail.
Kairi swam out of the grotto to see her sisters with a look of surprise and disappointment in their faces. Tears squeezed through Kairi's eyes and joined the seawater. Her own dear sisters were behind this.
"How can you guys do this to me?" Kairi cried.
Not wanting to hear their useless excuses, she swam away. She didn't know where she was going, but she had to get away-away as far as possible. Somewhere they can never reach her would've been good…somewhere like the surface…
Kairi slowed down and came to a stop. She looked up at the surface of the sea, the lights dancing as if welcoming her. She smiled.
The human. She would go to the surface and find the human.
And she knew exactly who to go to for help. She was what people like her called a sea witch. She had heard from two elderly mermaids that the sea witch lived in an abandoned octopus's nest near the shore. Kairi's already been there once and she was sure that she can go there again.
A surge of pride and hope filled her insides as she swam towards the surface; it was the easiest way to see the shore.
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