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"Once upon a time long ago there lived man, he was a fisherman who loved the sea as if she were his wife, everyday he would go out to sea through the calmest days to most darkest storms he sailed. He believed in the ocean with all his heart and for so long she treated him like her lover however, the sky god found out about this love and got jealous thus he created a storm to drown the man. Rolling thunder, flashing lighting, raging winds and life wrenching waves upon waves crashed onto the man, destroying his boat as the sky god forced him under the whirlpools of liquid ice. Seeing this the sea panicked she tried to calm the sky god but his anger was far more than she could handle, knowing that she couldn't do anything herself for the man she did the only thing she could do, something that was forbidden, something that was unheard of. She sent one of her daughters to save the dieing man, a mermaid one of many daughters of the sea. Swimming out towards him the mermaid saved the man's life however as she did the man woke and saw that the mermaid had saved him! quickly before he had time to think of anything she swam away, leaving the man on the beach." An old man closed his son's favorite night time book as he looked at his son with a smile beaming on his face.

"Dad, is that story true? do mermaids really live in the ocean? are they really the sea's daughters? did the sky god really love the sea so much?"

"Now now son, rest your mind you don't want it to break do you?"

"But dad!"

"No buts Toushiro! sleep and get some sleep and I'll let you go fishing with me tomorrow" the old gray haired man combed his three year old son's black hair from his left eye, his bright green eyes shining at the news.

"Alright dad! I promise!" and quickly he was out like a light.

"Rest my little Toushiro, may you never meet our families cruel fate" silently whispering as his lips held a hard smile Juushiro got up and closed the door to his son's room.

"Dad! dad! come on! hurry up!" Toushiro yelled enthusiastically pulling his father's hand towards the small boat they owned, catching the ripples sparkle off the crystal clear Caribbean sea Toushiro smiled, he couldn't hold it in! this was going to be the first time he was going out to sea! he was finally going to be the fisherman he was born to be! just like his father and his father!

"Alright Toushiro get into the boat and we'll be off" Juushiro smiled at his three year old son, he was proud that his young boy was ecstatic about going to sea but he couldn't help but feel anxious. What would happen if his son fell victim to their curse as well? he couldn't bear to think of that, knowing that each male member of their family was obsessed with finding what everybody thought, knew didn't exist. A mermaid.

'No Toushiro is different, he loves the sea but he will not fall into obsession with finding what isn't real!' Juushiro thought in determination as Toushiro climbed onto the boat his voice pulling him from his thoughts.

"Dad! LET'S GO!"

"Alright! alright! let's go!" and go they did. Under the perfect cerulean clear sky, the light of the fresh sun kissing their skin, the cool wind blowing with their boat pulling them along the smooth waves of the azure waters below. Mind blowing colored reefs aligned the sea floor as vibrant colored fish swam passing Toushiro's eyes as he looked down, a huge bliss filled smile across his face. It was the perfect day! however as every fisherman knows that in a flash such a day like this could easily be turned into a terrifying horror in a heartbeat.

He was right. In an instant the skies turned dark, the clear ocean blackened, the winds picked up and pulled against the boat holding the gray haired man and his black haired son.

"Daddy! what's happening?!" Toushiro yelled terror filled his tiny voice, as his body hung to his father's leg

"It's okay Toushiro! hold onto the pole and I'll bring us out of this! I promise!" running towards the pole like his father told him Toushiro watched as his father ran to the wheel and forced the boat to turn towards home. However hard he tried the boat kept refusing to listen to its captain and only to the winds. And as the thunder and lighting hastened Toushiro shut his eyes only to see the pole he was clenching in a death hold break off the boat, as the tiny ship tore apart spreading to the four winds, his father screaming his name in terror, watching his father's gray hair and brown eyes look at him one last time before sinking under the murky waters below, he could barley hear his horrified scream over the waves crashing upon his tiny body begging him to follow.

'No! please! I don't want to die! please someone SAVE ME!!" feeling tiny arms wrap around his chest pulling him out of the raging waters towards safety he knew, Toushiro saw a shimmer of a pearl white tail with a lightly tinted purple fin, and a slim body of a girl before all he saw was darkness as it swallowed him whole.


'That couldn't have been a mermaid... right?' Toushiro thought as he sat on the beach letting the cool waters caress his toes his mouth behind his entangled fingers casting his vibrant emerald eyes to the horizon, letting the wind blow his white hair making him think of the change that night had on him, or rather the girl who changed him.

"It's said that if any person is touched by a mermaid their hair changes to the color of their tail! so they will always be a part of them!"

"Impossible! what none sense! little Toushiro just lost his father and survived most likely the worst storm we've had in ages! this is no time to be talking about fairytales!" he could remember the doctors talking rashly outside his door, as he remembered looking into the cold water beaker beside him on his hospital nightstand and indeed see that his hair was white,

"The color of that mermaid's tail..." Toushiro whispered to himself as his eyes squinted. He was now seventeen and fully grown, having lived his life alone now that his father was dead, he grew cold. Never setting foot into the water for that night scarring him deep into his heart, yet no matter how much he deeply yearned too he couldn't help but feel betrayed! the sea had betrayed them! his entire family had always been fisherman, through so many generations and this never happened! never did the sea claim one of their lives.

"Damn it! what did we do? why did you take my father's life?! WHY?! TELL ME DAMN IT!" screaming at the calm ocean tears forced themselves towards the edges of his eyes. He wanted nothing more than to go out to sea and scream at it, letting all his anger and frustration, after all it had taken the one person he loved and let him live reaching towards his left breast he could feel a slight tingle run over his skin as he looked down and under his white muscle shirt, to see the dark mark in the shape of a hand lightly glow.

"The mark of life, giving to a survivor only by a daughter of the sea" he quoted, that day fourteen years ago he died. However he didn't go to heaven with his father or mother no, he had been given life by the mermaid that saved him. That left him alone in this world.

"Damn her!...damn her!" clenching his fists he punched the hot sand thinking of the mermaid he saw a glimpse of her pearly white tail with its slightly tinted purple fin, her slim back and maybe a bob of raven black hair. She was the cause of his life now and the reason he was alone and cold. After all the years he had refused to step into the water his fears were thrown to the wind, he had to find her. Find her and demand her to tell him why she had let him live and not his father! why she didn't let him die. Standing up Toushiro looked out towards the sea with strong determination in his emerald eyes, his white hair blowing fiercely with the mighty winds, he would find her.


Eight years. Eight years of his life he had spent on trying to find the mermaid who saved him. He was now twenty-five and he was still chasing her, as he looked out towards the horizon he couldn't help but shed a humorless smile

'Looks like I couldn't fight what runs so deeply in my family' having read the Hitsugaya family scrolls and books he found that not only were each male member of his family fisherman, but they all chased the dream of finding what he was looking for... a mermaid. Dressed in slip on sandals, light green khakis, and an unbuttoned white shirt with nothing under, letting his tanned well toned torso show he reached up towards the mark over his heart, that never faded.

Lately over the years the mark kept pulling at his heart, as if telling something. Whenever he was out on the ocean the mark tingled and would send his whole body enough adrenaline to ride the waves out into the vast blue crystal, everyday a bit further leading him somewhere, somehow.

Some hours pasted and Toushiro had sailed further than he every had in all the years he had been sailing, spotting an island that wasn't on his map getting curious he anchored off the coast and decided to walk around making sure to write down all that he saw. However Toushiro couldn't help but feel something was off about the island, something that made his mark spark all the more, having no control over his body any longer he allowed his legs take him towards the other side of the island, until he saw something that took all his breath away. For laying on the beach was a raven haired woman, supporting her upper half by her arms elegant pearls dangled over her small shoulders holding her shelled bra up, the sun shining on her making her glow inhumanly, Toushiro could see from his position behind the trees that her lower half weren't legs but a stark white tail with a lightly tinted fin of soft purple. He had found her! he finally found her!

Thinking fast he knew that mermaids loved shiny things, quickly he took his pin out from his notepad and gently whistled making her turn in shock to meet with his emerald eyes, her own amethyst purple looked spell bounding. softly throwing his pen in front of her, she nervously looked at in in mild confusion until she cautiously reached for it, that was when he sprinted to her and toppling onto her.

Her eyes wide in horror as he pinned her body down, shifting his legs on her tail so she couldn't hit him, his much larger body covered her petite figure, she was stuck. Wide purple locked with bright emerald and for a moment Toushiro found himself lost in her orbs, momentarily forgetting why he was on her until he caught himself his face twisted in anger.

"Why?! you're the mermaid who saved me twenty-two years ago! I know you remember me! my hair is the same color as your tail! why?! why didn't you let me die? why did you save me?!" clenching his fists in the sand his eyes closed, he didn't see the mermaid lift her left hand and lay it gently on his right cheek.

"Ahh!" he gasped opening his eyes wide to stare into deep amethyst, her black hair shined under the sun weaving around her head as the waters edge pulled and played with it, along with her single bang in front of her face. Her porcelain skin glowed as a sad smile found its way on her, making him lose his breath once more, she was too beautiful to be smiling so sadly he asked

"Why are you so sad? why do you smile like that?" gently she closed her eyes as a single tear fell from the corner of her rested lids as the soft glitter of diamond sand twinkled over her high cheek bones, and eye lids.

"Why are you crying?" opening her eyes a tainted pink blush made its home on her ivory skin making him lose control of his heart beat, his anger gone, his raging emotions left without a trace, leaving him senseless of his surroundings other than the mermaid under him, as he lifted himself out of the water and stand tall as the woman pushed off and dive into the sea, he called out

"Please! tell me your name! please!" knowing it was useless by now, she was probably out of hearing range and far from this place as possible Toushiro was crestfallen, turning to head back he heard a splash of the water's surface as a raven haired creature broke through staring at him with her inhuman orbs a name rang in his head as clear as bells in a gentle sweet voice, he smiled and nodded reaching over his chest towards the mark the mermaid lifted her right hand as if placing it on the spot like she had so many years ago, to save his life.

She disappeared into the waters deep below back to her mother, back to the sea with a swish of her peal white tail just like his hair, her tinted purple fin flipped as if saying goodbye Toushiro blushed lightly and turned with the name still ringing in his ears.

'Rukia.'


Me- soo? how did ya'll like it?

personally I didn't like it so much, it was a bit worded oddly and

really off...some what sorry!

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