Ani-fun-me

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto. Never will. Not even in my dream. I do like to mess with the characters though for my own amusement. I make no money off of anythings.

 

The Little Mermaid ~Naruto Style~

 

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Meanwhile deep, deep down at the bottom of the sea, there is a grand celebration taking place for the youngest daughter of the all powerful  Sea King, A.  The entire mernation gathers to the coral built castle to see young Kyo’s debut.  Darui, A’s right hand man, floats near the entrance ready to announce the beginning of the ceremony.  Blowing his conch shell horn to quiet the rowdy guests, Darui introduces the King to his people.

“His Royal Highness! King A!”  Everyone cheers as A, mighty trident in hand,  is pulled into the massive coral amphitheater by his dolphaine  chariot.  He smiles and waves to his people as he takes his position on his giant clamshell throne high above the merpeople.

“And His brother. Prince Killer B!” Darui announces right after A takes his seat.  

“Yo! Say! Ho!” The rapp centric merman cries riding in on a shark.  A shakes his head at his brother's antics.  Everyone laughs, used to things like this from their  beloved prince, though they are still wary  of the deadly predator.

Hikaru,one of Kyo’s best friends, giggles.

“I love that man. He is a riot!.” She says slapping her tail fin. Kyo’s other friend, Yami simply rolls her ruby red eyes.

“I just hope Kyo shows up on time. You did tell her what time to be here right??” She asked the green haired mermaid. Her golden eyes widen. She hadn’t actually.  When she went to get the young princess this morning to prepare for the concert for her debut, Kyo had said she needed to take care of something first, but that she would be there on time. She said not to worry. Hikaru had figured she knew the time. It is her birthday debut after all.  Then again….Kyo would forget her own head if it wasn’t on her shoulders.

“Uh…..yeaaaahh….” Even she isn't convinced when she finally answers Yami. The Black and red mermaid turns on her, the fins where humans ears would be shaking in anger.

“Hikaru!” She hisses.

“What?!” Hikaru cries. “ She said not to worry. I don’t think we should worry. Besides, how do you forget your own birthday celebration?”  Yami face palmed, not at all understanding her friends. One's an air head and the other has the attention span of a goldfish.  She just knows this is not going to end well.

 

Far away from the underwater kingdom, Kyo swims briskly through the water. The rays of sunlight reflecting off her blue and white tail. Her long snow white hair trials after her as she makes her way to the  underwater graveyard where  hundreds upon hundreds of wreaked, sunken ships reside. To most merpeople, it was a scary place and few traveled there, especially with the threat of sharks. Besides her Uncle B and her father, no one else has managed  to tame those savages beasts. But Kyo loved adventure and finding new things. And this place was her favorite. She always found something interesting there. An she hasn’t gotten anywhere near completing a thorough search of the area..

Swimming over to a ship she has yet to explore, Kyo dives inside it.  Twisting and turning she searches.  For a while she finds nothing of interest. Just more rotten wood and rusting metal. After a while Kyo considers giving up. Maybe all the interesting things had fallen away into the abyss below.  

“Well that’s disappointing.”  She pouts, giving the wreaked area she’s in another looks over. Still finding nothing, Kyo swims away. Just as she is about to leave the ship however, something glistens, catching her eye.

“Huh? What’s that?” She questions, turning to face it.  A single ray of sunlight shines through the remains of the ship, landing on a single artifact.  Without hesitation, Kyo darts over to it, happy to have actually found something.

“OH!” She exclaimed excited.  “This is amazing! I’ve never seen anything like this before!” Pulling it from in between two pieces of   wood, she examines the slightly rusty three pronged spear like object.  She turns it over and runs her dark fingers over the rough surface, trying to figure it out.

“It’s like a tiny trident.”  She giggles.

So caught up in the inspection  of her new artifact, Kyo fails to notice the rather large shadow swimming near her.

“I wonder what it’s used for.” She ponders aloud, unwittingly drawing the deadly predator closer.  “Maybe Chika knows?..I’ll have to make it quick though.” She feels a bit of apprehension remembering her birthday celebration.  Kyo really didn’t get the big deal with the whole debut thing. Sure she can sing a bit better than her sisters. And yeah turning sixteen is great. But really? A huge celebration. Kyo would much prefer to explore all day, then be around merpeople who had no appreciation for  adventure and the human artifacts she found.

“I’ll just make a quick stop to Chika then rush back to the city. No one will have noticed I’m gone.” She convinces herself.  Placing the mini trident into her red carrier bag, Kyo  to swim off and find her little avian friend.  Once she exits the ship, she turns in the direction she usually finds Chika...and comes face to face with a ferocious great white shark.  It’s small black, hunger filled eyes zero in on the shocked  princess.  Kyo screams in fear and turns the other way, swimming as fast as possible. The shark immediately takes off after her, it’s razor sharp teeth  snapping at her flowing fish tail. Kyo yelps and swims faster.  

“Go away!” She cries looking back at the beast. The shark growls in response.

‘This is bad! This is sooooo bad!’ Kyo panics. ‘I gotta lose him or I’m a dead fish….’  Diving down, Kyo has no other choice but to use her beloved ships as obstacles. She swims through a  porthole, hoping it will lose interest once it can’t see her.  The shark is persistent. It just smashes through the decayed waterlogged wood and continues to chase after her.  That just really annoys Kyo. Like really? Just destroy everything why don’t you. Irritation for her precious treasure troves out waying her fear of being eaten, Kyo kicks things into maximum overdrive. Zig-zagging, twisting, turning,flipping and diving,she does everything she can to distance herself. That damn shark still manages to stay on her tail no matter what she does though.

Kyo rolls her eyes in exasperation. Shark must be really hungry.

 

It just won’t give up.

 

Finally as a last ditch effort, Kyo dives through the hole of a detached anchor, hoping that the shark is dumb enough to try and follow her threw it.

 

It is.

 

The shark  charges threw at full speed ready to take her and ultimately gets stuck in the immoveable ring.  It wriggles and shakes trying to free itself, but it just gets more stuck. Floating a few waves away, Kyo giggles. Now that it isn’t trying to eat her, it was  kinda funny.

“That’s what you get for trying to eat a princess.” She teases, scolding it mockingly. The shark glares.

“When I get out of this. You’re mine.” It threatens, growling in frustration at its situation.

“That’s if  you get out.” Kyo shoots back. “ Now before I was so rudely interrupted, I have places to be.” With that, Kyo sticks her tongue out at the angry shark and swims over it head and back in the other direction.

 

Kyo surfaces just a few waves away from the segals resting place. Her violet eyes scan the tiny rock formation near the shore.

“Chika!” She calls when she doesn’t see her little friend in his nest he made in the remains of a stern.

No answer.

Kyo frowns. Where the heck was that bird?!? If he doesn’t come soon, she wouldn’t be able to show him what she had found.   Puffing her cheeks out,Kyo searches the sky, hoping to see him flying overhead.

Still nothing.

“Well this is disappointing.” She sighs, dejected. “I’ll just come back tomorrow.” A smile breaks out on her face. “ Maybe I’ll have more stuff by then.” Her smile immediately disappears as she remembers her encounter with the shark. “Unless that dummy destroyed everything. Why must sharks be so aggressive? ”

While she is lost in her roller coaster of thoughts, she fails to notice the two humans running towards the ocean.

 

“ Naruto! You can’t run away from your fitting!” A tall man with a shiny black bowl cut and extremly bushy eyebrows shouts as he chases after a blonde.  The blonde looks behind him, a beaming smile on his face.

“Oh come on Lee! I’ll look good in a potato sack. It’s pointless. Now live a little and swim with me.” Naruto says, splashing in the water marrily. Lee stops and looks at him, shaking his head.  He may look like his father, but their personalities are completely different.  While Minato is calm and thinks things through , Naruto is loud, hyper and headstrong. Acting before thinking. If princess Hinata can’t calm him down, Lee is truly worried about where the monarchy is going.  

Once Naruto was deep enough in the water, he dives in, swimming farther away from shore. Watching him causes Lee to sigh in defeat. If you can’t beat em, join em.  

The bushy eyebrowed man takes off after the prince and dives in right after him.

“That the spirit!” Naruto laughs happily.

 

Yami always told Kyo  she needed to be more observant of her surroundings. What with her status and  importance to the people around her, she could easily taken or hurt. And truthfully, Kyo had taken the warning to heart. But sometimes, she just gets caught up in the moment.There were just so many amazing things in the world,s he can’t help it!

So, it really isn’t surprising that she doesn’t hear he two humans getting close. If it wasn’t for the blonde hooping loudly as he dunks is black haired friend, Kyo would have surely been caught.

Snapping out of her inner monologue, her eyes widen in panic. “OhNo!”  She slips under the water just before they notice her.

After a few agonizing long moments of waiting for them to catch her, nothing happens. Cautiously, she slowly swims up, peeking her head out of the water until only her eyes are visible.

The blonde and black haired man rough house happily. Seeing that she hasn't been discovered, Kyo peeks more of her head out and watches the two human males in fascination.

“Wow...Humans up close….they are so amazing...’ She thinks completely mesmerized.