It had not been easy to settle the girl into his bed, not with Naruto still hesitant to open his eyes. Sasuke had absently noticed that Naruto was squinting the whole time, as if he had been trying to look at the sun. The whole walk into his bedroom Sasuke kept telling himself that this was the moment he would one day look back on and say, "that's when I realized there was no saving Naruto from his stupidity." However, it also served as the moment he realized that his friend was useless in emergency situations.
Sasuke was the one to cover her in a blanket and made sure the pillows they laid her on were fluffy enough. Though Naruto had raised a questioning brow at that, "do mermaids even have pillows?"
"Let me text Shikamaru." He replied, voice dripping in sarcasm, though he would never admit that he had wondered the same thing as he fluffed up the pillows for her. He had decided that it was something he appreciated being done for him when he was sick, so he would do the same for the girl and had continued fluffing the pillows.
"She is really pretty," Naruto said as he studied the girl, Sasuke agreed, though pretty seemed to be almost an insult, the girl was stunningly beautiful. "Do you think she has sharp teeth and fangs?"
Sasuke could feel his brain dying at Naruto's words, "she isn't a vampire."
"Well, if mermaids are real maybe they are too." Noticing the scrunch of Sasuke's brow, "It's just, we found a mermaid. A freaking mermaid!"
Sasuke wanted to argue his point with Naruto but decided against it. "Naruto. Focus." He said the words to Naruto, but he was speaking more to himself. He needed to focus, he knew of the two of them he was the one to most likely find a solution.
Sasuke started pacing trying to gather his thoughts, so far Naruto's stupidity had grounded him enough to stay level headed. However, his brain no longer found that distracting enough, and inside he was freaking out like he had never done so before. The only thing that kept him from showing his internal struggle was the simple knowledge that once he did, the few strands of logic keeping Naruto and him up, would vanish. They would crash.
He gathered every ounce of logic he could muster, telling himself to think, there had to be a rational way about this. A sick mermaid on my bed, yeah be rational, his mind supplied sarcastically. "You know," Naruto interrupted his thoughts and it took everything in Sasuke to not tell him to shut up and let him think, "if it wasn't for the pink hair, and the fact that we saw her tail turn into legs." The second part was more of an afterthought Sasuke notes, "I would think she was a normal girl. A very pretty, but normal girl."
Sasuke stopped his pacing, because Naruto is right. Outside of what they saw, by chance, by deciding to go out into the beach as the sun was setting, she was a "normal" girl. He decided then, that's what they would do, sort of. What would Sasuke do if this was a normal girl? "Okay," Sasuke said, gathering his thoughts as to what he was about to say because part of it stung his pride. "This is what we are going to do, you are going to get a hold of Shikamaru and ask him to tell you anything he knows about mermaids, but don't be obvious about."
"It's summer why do I need to use my brain?"
"Because," he replied feeling the storm on the horizon, "there is a naked injured, sick, whatever girl in my fucking bed! And we need to figure out how we can fucking help her."
"No need to be such an asshole about it, it was just one question." Was it possible to feel your hair thinning? Sasuke could swear he could at that moment. "What will you be doing?"
"I am going," to take a nap, his mind happily supplied, and his body demanded it, but he threw that thought away, "to call my brother."
Naruto laughed, he had the audacity to laugh. "What are you going to tell him? "Hey, Itachi there is naked girl in my bed, I don't know what to do." Cause that will go over smoothly." That's not what he was going to say, but Naruto was not completely off mark. He hated himself for that. Naruto was still laughing, "or are you going to tell him how we found a mermaid?"
"Both actually," at his statement Naruto stopped laughing.
"And you call me an idiot." Naruto had a point, but Naruto was also a bigger idiot than he could ever be and did not understand. Itachi could help them, could help her. Whatever happens she is now their responsibility, and over all they are both idiots, Itachi though? Nope, least stupid person he knows, and Sasuke knows that Itachi will help them. Even if he struggled in believing them.
A/N: Next update on this we will switch perspectives.
Also someone left a comment about why is NaruHina on the last update, and may I simply say, "cause I felt like it." Sort of, if you read the Author Notes you will have your explanation into why. Plus over all, Beginnings is for story ideas I am working on and Chaos is one of those ideas, however I feel like maybe I should have started earlier in the timeline of that story... but I did ask how you guys felt about NaruHina, and only one person ever shared their opinion on it. Starting a new "story idea" compilation thing did not feel right either, and I can only tag so many characters. Like I also explained I kept it in Sakura's perspective to adjust for it being written in Beginnings when by all accounts it should be Hinata's perspective. However, Sakura is the only of the characters for Chaos that will be more involved in her friends lives, so she will know more. Her closeness to Naruto, Ino, Hinata, her relationship with the Uchiha family too. Which is another reason I allowed the preview into that story to be from Sakura's perspective, you can see she has connection to all the important characters.