Pretty Maelstrom
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or Disney's Lilo & Stitch
-Chapter Start-
"Over here!" Lilo shouted. Waving at the approaching duo, while Nani, Kalea, and Stitch winced at the young girl's volume.
Naruto and Sakura calmly walked off the paved road, and onto the soft sand. The blond, as always, wore a loud long-sleeved flower print shirt. Blending in with the other tourists.
The pinkette was the one that looked different. Having, for once, not worn her fluffy fuchsia robe. Instead wearing a thin strap sundress that matched her white wide brimmed hat. Shielding her eyes from the bright light of the Hawaiian day.
"Sorry we're late," Naruto said. Wrapping his lone visible arm around Lilo when she jumped at him.
"It's fine, we only just got here," Nani laughed as her sister crawled onto the blond's shoulder. Taking his bucket hat to wear herself. "I had to carry my board from the house."
A shortbroad and two longboards had been set up in the beach sand. With Kalea watching over them and a lone bag.
"Hey! How's it going," Nani's friend called with a wave. The soft jiggle of her bikini clad chest accompanied the rapid movement. "Name's Kalea. Nani and I have been hoaloha since preschool."
"I'm pretty sure that means friend," Naruto pondered out loud. His pinkette companion nodding at the information.
Kalea chuckled. "Nani did say you were smart."
"Amazing how things can change," Sakura said with a smirk at her teammate. Causing his shoulders to slump. "Naruto mentioned we could buy swimsuits around here?"
"The Surf Shack's got everything you need," Kalea pointed behind the group.
A few paces beyond the beach's sand, was a singular building. Covered with fake bamboo walls, and a faux straw roof. Advertising several aquatic activities, with different equipment for each.
"Let's go then," Sakura said, turning towards the building. "Nani come with us, I'll need your help to keep Naruto from buying something silly."
"I'll come too. I need to get a locker to store my muumuu," Lilo added, running in front of the group. "Stitch can help Kalea watch the boards."
Nani thought about it for a second. "It would be best to keep him away from anything he could destroy."
Kalea grimaced. Having spent the previous night listening to her friend talk about the blue dog. She wasn't keen on spending any time alone with the animal, but couldn't think of a counter argument.
"Don't worry," Naruto chimed up to the native. Stretching the fingers on his visible hand. "Stitch will be on his best behavior."
With a huff from the creature, the blond turned to follow his teammate and pair of sisters. With the two locals still wearing their usual attire, and neither carrying a bag. Leading Naruto to suspect they wore their swimsuits underneath their clothes. Although, given Nani's ever visible midriff, he could only imagine what she was wearing underneath.
Two minutes later the group was walking around the store. Sakura and Nani took a minute to look at the women's swimsuits before making sure Naruto didn't pick something stupid. Which is when they found him in front of the full body wetsuits.
"What are you doing?" the pinkette sighed, used to her teammate's antics.
"I wanted to get something that would cover my arm, and the only thing they have that could work are these," the blond answered back.
The medic groaned. "The ocean water shouldn't be too bad for your arm, so you don't need to worry about covering it."
"Yeah, but…" Naruto answered back. Stopping to grab a packet out of the air.
"There you go," Nani said. Her arm still outstretched as she stood next to a stand of waterproof tape. "If you want to hide your arm, you can use that. A lot of people with injuries use it when they go to the beach."
Sakura moved next to the display. Looking over the boxes of tape. "This will work fine, so no wetsuit for you."
The blond deflated with a smile. Taking the box that Nani had tossed him, and grabbing a second one, he began looking through the men's section. While the pinkette started her own shopping. Keeping an eye on her teammate every once in a while.
After ten minutes, Naruto had finished buying a pair of swim trunks, and moved next to Sakura. Passing her some money to pay for her swimsuit, and a key to one of the lockers he had rented.
When another seven minutes had passed, Sakura and Nani made their way to the outdoor changing rooms and lockers. Wher Lilo was standing attentively outside a changing stall.
"What are you doing?" The elder sister asked.
"Naruto's been inside for a long time," the little girl responded. Taking a few seconds to look around for eavesdroppers before adding with a whisper, "He's been grunting and banging around in there." A low thump was heard a moment later, accentuating the younger girl's statement.
"Sakura, you go get changed," Nani said.
"And what are you going to do?" the pinkette questioned. Pretty sure she already knew the answer, but was rewarded when the eldest of the group crossed her arms and pulled her shirt over her head. Revealing the blue and green striped bikini top she wore.
"I'll check on Naruto," the local explained. As she began to kick her boots off and shimmy her denim shorts down her toned legs.
Passing the pile of clothes to her sister, with instructions to put them in a locker, Nani knocked on the wooden frame of the stall. Noting that Sakura had entered a neighboring changing room. About a second later, a garbled sound that could be translated as "Come in," was heard from the other side.
Pushing aside the fabric cover that blocked the entrance, the woman moved into the tight cubicle. Where Naruto was sitting on a bench against the far wall. With his injured arm held in air, and wrapped in tape past the elbow. With the blond desperately trying to finish tying a knot with the material, while keeping what was left of the roll in his mouth.
"Well, that explains it," Nani commented to herself. Getting another muffled response from the blond.
"Hold still," the local coaxed, as she moved farther into the stall. Taking the roll of taped from Naruto's mouth.
"Thanks," the blond said. "I've never had to wrap my arm past the elbow before."
"You wrap your arms often?" Nani questioned. Following her friend's lead as he tightened the badges against his skin.
"Sometimes for training," he responded. "My friend Rock Lee taught me."
Training? The only people who regularly wrapped their arms, that Nani knew of, were boxers. And Naruto definitely had the physique of a fighter. From his broad chest, to his full biceps. Leading down to his normally hidden injury.
This was the first time that she had seen his arm up close. What had once been a ghastly appendage, she had seen through a window, was now a pale limb that crashed into his usual tan bicep. Still sickly looking, but much better since the quick view she had gotten earlier.
With a few more wraps around his arm, the straight line where his arm had been cut was blocked from view. Pulling her own arm back to tighten the fabric, her elbow brushed against Naruto's hard stomach.
Muttering a quick apology, Nani tried to busy herself with tying one final knot. All while trying not to think about the rock hard set of abs behind her. While she had yet to fully see her friend without his shirt, she was now acutely aware of the fact. Especially with the pervasive warmth that surrounded her as she crouched between the blond's legs.
Naruto had been just as quiet. Although, his was caused by a distracting softness that was now pushing into his leg and arm. As Nani fumbled with the last knot, she continued to lean forward. Pushing her soft chest deeper against his leg.
With the only mercy being that his friend was turned away from him, and couldn't see the glowing red on his face.
"Finished!" Nani exclaimed. Almost jumping to a standing position. Keeping her back to Naruto, whose face was now level with her wide hips.
The blond did his best to focus on the, well done, job his friend had done wrapping the bandages around his arm. However, he was unable to distract himself from the sinful jiggle of her curves as she swung around to the closed cloth door, and pushed her way out. Naruto took a few extra seconds to make sure that nothing was poking out, before he followed the beautiful local.
Outside the changing cubicle, Sakura had joined Lilo in waiting for the duo to exit.
"You two were in there for quite awhile," the pinkette snickered. Wearing a frilly red and white two-piece bikini.
"Yeah," Nani nervously laughed, looking away from the other girls to hide her blush. "Naruto needed help wrapping his arm."
"Ahh," Lilo cried, stamping her foot on the ground as she noticed the blond's bandaged arm. "I wanted to show Stitch, Naruto's weird, cool, alien arm."
A bellowing laugh came from the lone male of the group. "Sorry kid, I need to protect my arm to make sure it heals quickly."
"Can I be there when you take the bandages off, so I can see your arm then?" the youngest questioned.
"Maybe," Naruto replied. Moving his right hand with natural movement to pet the little girl's head.
Nani was, once again, grateful that her friend was so easy going. Shaking off any comment from her sister about his injury.
Where most people would be insulted or embarrassed by the topic, Naruto took it at face value. Treating his wound as a single part of himself. Indulging the young child's curiosity, without going into some of the more morbid details.
The group moved towards their starting point. Where Kalea still stood by the surfboards, while being a safe number of paces away from Stitch. Who had apparently found a popsicle to chew on, or at least the wooden stick from the cold treat.
"You all took your time," Kalea smirked. "Anything fun happen?"
"Nothing you'd want to hear about," Nani chuckled.
The girls began to talk, leaving Naruto by himself. As he began to stretch and flex his no longer contained arm. Doing everything he could to distract himself from staring at the girls in front of him.
Sakura's new frilly red and white bikini hugged her lithe body. While Kalea left little to the imagination with every bounce or jiggle of her blue and black clad figure. As Nani's swimsuit stretched to contain the curvaceous Hawaiian's form.
And the lone blond was having trouble not staring. Not helped when Nani had a habit of bending forward when she was trying to make a point. Displaying her wonderful silhouette in the process.
"Arr!"
With only a growl of warning, Stitch leapt at the preoccupied Naruto. The disguise alien sticking out his tongue, and leaving a single stroke of raspberry blue, in the middle of the blond's face.
The blue furred creature fell back to the ground, laughing the whole way. As the rest of the group stared in silence. While the whiskered man shivered at the cold feeling that had been pressed against his face.
"Urg," Nani breathed out, through clenched teeth. "Let me get you a towel."
When the beautiful local moved towards her beach bag by the surfboards, her sister looked over her still laughing pet. "I don't think his badness level is going down," the youngest stated.
Nani sighed as she heard her sister's words. Crouching beside her board, she began rummaging through her bag, which held everything she would need at the shore, and pulled out a simple towel. But she also saw something that she had almost forgotten about. Something she needed to return to Kalea.
*break*
"Ghaha," Jumba laughed from his palm tree vantage point. "626 has found a target to prank. This earthling with whiskers is in for a rough time if my monstrosity is targeting him."
Behind the mad scientist, his partner was on their galactic cell phone. "Oh Mom, it's been horrible. Our arrival consisted of crashing into a boulder, because someone didn't feel like using the auto park," the three-legged alien stated. "Then we went to a nice Earth themed restaurant, had some lovely local cuisine, and then my head got chewed on by a monster."
"You are lucky that you are not the poor yellow haired fool, who now suffers 626's attention," Jumba chuckled back. Barely acknowledging Pleakley's comments.
The Earth Expert sighed as his comrade went back to watching their target. While he returned to his conversation with his mother. It had only been a few days, and already the one-eyed alien felt it was going to be a long assignment.
-Chapter End-
This chapter was supposed to come out several months ago, and be much longer. But I've chosen to end it here, both because of how long it's taken to write, and to give me a blank slate to start on for the surfing scenes.
Hawaiian Translations: I want to do more of these, because researching the Hawaiian language and culture is fun. Sadly it only makes sense when Nani is talking with another native, so not a lot of opportunities.
Hoa: friends (plural)
Hoaloha: friend (singular) I spent a long time making sure this was correct.
Hoa me na pomaikai: friends with benefits (directly translated as "friends with good luck") I found this while looking for the other words, and I just love this phrasing.
Notes: Lilo's dress/muumuu. After thinking about it for a while, I decided to use the actual name for Lilo's dress. Although this caused me to realize that Lilo rarely speaks any Hawaiian in the movie, so I'm not sure if she would say muumuu or dress.
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With this story nearing its end , I want to start thinking about what story will replace this one. Admittedly I should wait and have this poll after the surfing chapter (like I had planned). But, I've held off on this poll for a while, and I would like to know what everyone's thoughts are. Please go and pick any stories that might interest you. There's an FAQ in my profile to explain things better.
Hopefully this poll will give me some motivation to finish this story quickly.
That's it for this chapter. I am determined to get at least one more chapter of "Pretty Maelstrom" out before the end of the year, so we'll have that to look forward to. I've been a little sloppy these past few weeks, but I try to update my profile every Thursday or Friday, to show I'm still working on the next chapter.
Thank you for reading, and being patient with this chapter. I really wish I could have gotten it out sooner, and in its complete form. With everything else said, take care.