The Smiling Merman CHAP 2!!
Title: The Smiling Merman
Author: a1y-puff
Pairing: TezuFuji of course, and… InuKai, yay! XD
Genre: parody/romance
Rating: G
Sumary: a parody of the little mermaid. Fuji was a mermaid who found interest to a certain stoic Prince named Tezuka xD
Warning: Shonen Ai, AU! And maybe… some OOC-ness >_>
Disclaimer: PoT and its characters aren’t mine, neither “The Little Mermaid”. I’m so sad >.<
A/N: Haha, unlike my Fuji's b'day fic, this wasn't done in a rush. I tried not to get careless XD
I’m back with chapter 2! Hope you didn’t wait for too long XD
Anyway, this chappie is kinda short, gomen! I still hope you’ll enjoy this though ^^
and we have InuKai here XD
thanks again for moehoshi and Lizzie for the help!
Chapter 1 HERE
-Chapter 2-
SUPER DELUXE INUI POTION
It had been a week since the storm yet Fuji still couldn’t get rid of the man’s face off of his mind. He had never been like this before. Yumiko said he was in love. Fuji said it was mere interest since that was the first time he got a close-up look on a human.
Yes, it was a mere interest.
It was a mere interest in that particular human-being that he thought he would like to meet again just to satisfy his wonder about humans. Yes, that was the only reason. Really.
And that was why he was now here, in front of a cave deep under the sea.
Fuji calmly swam in to the cave. The cave was creepy, but Fuji didn’t feel scared or anything. He was familiar with the creepiness after all. He had been here for many times already, since he was friends with the one lived in this cave.
As he got closer to the deepest part of the cave, he smelled something weird. Fuji thought that his friend might be on his experiment again. That was why he lived in this desolated area in the first place; his experiments had always been causing chaos in the neighborhood.
“Ah, Fuji. What brings you here?” a bespectacled male merman with light green fins turned his head from whatever he was working on with a big pot full of some weird liquid.
“Hey, Inui. I’m only visiting a friend; can I not do that?” Fuji asked, smiling.
The merman fixed his square glasses-which he found in a wrecked ship and had taken a liking to it that he never let it slip off of his face-then fixed his gaze on Fuji’s smiling face.
“Judging from your smile, there is 88.9% chance of you needing something from me. Now can you tell me what is it that you need?” Inui asked.
Still, smiling, Fuji opened his eyes. “As perceptive as ever, eh, Inui?” he said.
When Inui did not answer, Fuji continued, “Well, actually something had caught my interest. And I want to know if you could provide some information?”
“If I have the data,” Inui replied. “Is it about a human that fell off of his ship last week?”
Fuji was surprised Inui knew that much. No, he was more surprised of HOW Inui knew about it.
As if reading Fuji’s mind, Inui then spoke, “An was here two days ago, asking about a human that fell off his ship.”
“An-chan?” Fuji asked, a little surprised. But then he continued, “Well, the human I’m interested in is probably different from An’s, since last week, there were-”
“-two humans who fell off of their ships, am I correct?” Inui continued for him. “Both of them are apparently princes from respective countries on land. And the human you are interested in must be a tall man with dark brown hair and hazel eyes?”
Fuji was stunned for a moment before he finally smiled and nodded. “Good. If you know, that would make things much easier. Now, can you tell me anything about him?” Fuji asked.
Inui swam a little to his right, grabbing a green notebook containing his data-which we would never know how the book didn’t get shattered from being wet-and flipped its pages until he stopped at a particular page.
“Tezuka Kunimitsu, 18 years old. Height: 182 cm. Weight: 60 kg. Blood type: O. Born at October 7th. Hobbies: Mountain climbing, camping, fishing, hiking…”
“Wait-wait-wait-wait a second. How exactly did you know about ALL that?” Fuji asked in disbelief. He had wondered of how Inui knew of the accident a week ago, about which human he was interested on, but he didn’t think much about it, yet now… he really wanted to know just HOW exactly Inui gathered all his data-that he seemed to have data about just about everything.
Inui smirked. His glasses shone somewhat evilly as he did.
Now, Fuji thought, maybe he didn’t really want to know after all.
“Whatever. Anyway, as I told you before, I am interested in him, so…”
“Are you in love with him?” Inui cut him off.
Fuji sighed. “Yumiko-neesan told me that too, but oh please, Inui. You had known me for years. Do I look like I will fall in love at all? At first sight?”
“According to my data, there is 0.04% chance of you falling in love at first sight-”
“See?”
“-but for all these years I’ve known you, you’ve always defied my data.”
Fuji was silent.
“Whether you’ve fallen in love or not is something you have to find out yourself, Fuji,” Inui said again. “Now, what if I tell you I can give you legs so you can go and meet him?”
“You can?” Fuji asked, and winced inwardly at his own all-too-hopeful tone.
“Yes, I can. Although there are some consequences you would have to face.”
Fuji looked thoughtful, before he finally said, “Okay, go on.”
“First of all, I will need your hair-” Inui paused as he felt Fuji’s suspicious eyes on him. “Don’t get me wrong, Fuji. I need your hair in my potion for it contains the D.N.A. Otherwise, you might get legs that wouldn’t fit you at all,” Inui explained.
“Oh, okay,” Fuji said as he casually grabbed a sharp object and cut off his long, beautiful hair into chin-length. “Here,” he gave his hair to Inui.
Inui stared at Fuji’s hair and said, “It’s actually too much. I only need a little, but oh well. I might use it on my experiment to create a potion that may make people smart like you,” he mumbled, as he accepted Fuji’s hair.
“Whatever. I was thinking of cutting it short anyway. It had gotten too long,” Fuji said as he combed his now chin-length hair with his fingers.
“Please wait,” Inui said as he picked some bottles of potion, and mixed them together in another pot. He stirred to the left, and after some time, he stirred back to the right and he looked like mumbling something. Perhaps a spell, since he uses magic after all.
Then, after throwing in some of Fuji’s hair into the pot and stirring the potion some more until bubbles started to appear, Inui smirked.
“Ne, Inui. Whatever it is that you make, it’s safe, isn’t it?” Fuji looked doubtful as he took a peek to the purplish liquid in the pot.
“Don’t worry, Fuji. It has been tested. I gave An-chan the potion two days ago, and she got her legs just fine,” Inui said as he picked another small bottle and poured some of the potion into that bottle.
“She did?” Fuji asked. “Wait, are you saying that she’s actually gone to the land? Does Tachibana know anything about this?” Fuji asked worriedly.
“Yes, she’s gone to the land, to meet the human she had rescued a week ago. And she said she had told Tachibana about that, though I am not sure Tachibana gave her permission. She probably fought for it, though.” Inui explained as he swam closer to Fuji.
Fuji eyed Inui as the spiky-haired merman swam closer to him with the potion on his right hand. “I suppose I should drink that?” Fuji asked.
“That is true. Now, I need one little drop of your blood to mix in this potion, and then my ‘Super Deluxe Inui Potion’ will be ready.”
Fuji eyed the potion with a thoughtful look, then he sighed and cut a little of his forefinger, letting his blood drip on to the potion. As soon as his blood made contact with the potion, the bottle shone and then the liquid color had turned from purple to maroon.
“It’s ready now,” Inui said.
Fuji still looked doubtful; he just stayed still and did not take the potion from Inui.
Inui sighed. “I suppose you need proof?” Inui stated as he turned his head to the direction of an entrance for another part of his cave. “Kaoru, come here,” he called.
“Kaoru?” Fuji asked himself. He had heard that name before, but he couldn’t recall… wait. Isn’t that the name of a sea snake of Inui’s pet?
Then, from the entrance, came a merman with dark green fins and sharp eyes. He was wearing a bandana that Fuji recalled Inui had found in another shipwreck the two of them had ventured on.
“Fsssshhhuuuu~” Kaoru hissed in greeting.
“Fuji, meet Kaoru. He’s-”
“-your pet sea snake,” Fuji continued for him.
“Correct. He wanted to be a merman, so I gave him the potion. And he got his body just fine, as you can see,” Inui stated as he circled his arm around Kaoru’s waist.
Fuji looked a little confused at first. He knew of course, that Inui loved his sea-snake pet so much, but he didn’t know it was that kind of love. He just shrugged it off.
“Good for you, then, Inui,” he said, smiling knowingly.
Inui had a slight blush on his cheeks.
Fuji was about to tease his friend again, when he suddenly remembered something. “Wait a minute. But Kaoru drank it to get a merman body, not legs. He must’ve drunk a different potion, then?”
“Well, the potion was only slightly different, but they have the same concept, worked in the same way, and also have the same side-effects,” Inui explained.
“I see. Then, I’ll drink it-”
“Wait, Fuji. There are something I need to explain before you drink that,” Inui cut him off, again.
“What is it?” Fuji asked.
“First, the side effect. Once you drink the potion, you will lose your voice,” Inui paused to see any reaction from his friend.
Fuji’s eyes were opened, but not in dangerous glint. He merely watched Inui, waiting for the bespectacled mermaid to continue.
“You see, this potion have some magic in it that is bad for your throat. Once it makes contact with your throat, it will damage your throat, and you will lose your voice,” he continued.
“Oh… that’s not a good side effect,” Fuji commented.
“Yes. That’s why Kaoru can only hiss. He doesn’t have his voice… for now,” Inui explained. And before Fuji could comment, he then added, “Second, this potion will not last forever. You will have to make Tezuka Kunimitsu to fall in love with you and marry you-”
“Marry me?” Fuji cut off in disbelief.
“Yes, marry you. You will have six months to do that. If you succeed, you will have your voice back and you can keep your legs. If you don’t, you will have to kill him. Otherwise, you will turn into bubbles and die,” Inui explained with a very serious tone.
They were silent for a minute, each of them lost in their own thought. Fuji looked really thoughtful while Inui… well, we would never know what kind of expression he had behind his glasses. And Kaoru was also silent, as if understanding the heavy atmosphere. He just reached out his hand to hold Inui’s, offering comfort.
Fuji smiled when he noticed the little gesture Kaoru made. Inui sure was lucky to have someone like that to be by his side.
“Turn into bubbles and die… just like that tale from long ago,” Fuji remarked.
“Actually, I learned the potion from an old book that I suspected came from the era of that mermaid tale,” Inui said, then he added, “Of course, I have modified it, so it would give the legs that suits the user best, and also extending the time limit to make the human fall for you. You can’t make someone love you just in several days, can you?”
“Maa, I suddenly think that your potion is pretty convenient, then. I have a good six months to make him fall for me and marry me right?”
“That is true. However, if things do not turn the way we expected it-”
“-then I will kill him,” Fuji said. His eyes bored through Inui’s glasses, making the spiky-haired boy shiver.
“Are you sure you can do that?” Inui asked.
“Of course I can. I would certainly feel bad, but I will not be as stupid as that mermaid who gave her life for an ungrateful prince. I value my life and will defend it, and I will kill if I have to,” Fuji stated calmly. Yet, somewhere in his chest, something was aching as he thought about killing that person. But he tried to steel up himself. He could do it. No, he should and would do it, if need be.
Inui was quiet. He thought that Fuji still had yet to understand just how strong love can be, strong enough to even make you let go of your life. But he said nothing. Fuji will find out for himself, sooner or later.
“Oh, by the way, I want to ask something,” Fuji suddenly said.
“What is it?”
“How come I would get my voice back and keep my legs just by marrying the prince?”
Inui shrugged. “No science and magic could beat the power of love.” He felt annoyed to say such illogical thing, but it was true anyway. “Oh, and not just marrying, he should marry you because he loves you.” Inui emphasized so that his friend wouldn’t just… well, maybe threaten the prince with something terrible to force him into marrying him.
“Hai, hai… I know,” Fuji waved his hand a little. “Oh, that reminds me… why don’t you marry Kaoru so he could have his voice back?”
“FSSSSSHHHUUUU~~!!!” Kaoru hissed with his all-bright-red face, while Inui coughed uncomfortably. Fuji had to laugh to see such a cute reaction from the couple.
“Well, I still have a good five months to convince my parents so that I could marry Kaoru,” Inui said as he looked away with slightly flushed cheeks. Kaoru immediately turned his head to Inui in disbelief. Fuji figured that Inui never told Kaoru about his plan.
“I can’t let you die, Kaoru. I will marry you,” Inui said reassuringly and received another hiss form Kaoru. But this time, a softer one.
“Maa, I wish both of you luck. Now if I may drink this, or is there anything else I should know?” Fuji interrupted.
“Hmm… no, that’s all about it. Oh, and you will fall unconscious after you drink that. The transformation of your tail into legs is pretty painful too. But worry not. I will have Kaoru take you to the land near Tezuka Kunimitsu’s castle. Fortunately, his castle is very close to the ocean.”
“Oh, okay. Sorry to burden you, Kaoru-kun,” Fuji smiled to Kaoru. He didn’t mind his good friend entrusted him to Kaoru, since he knew that Kaoru was probably faster then Inui.
“Fssshu~” Kaoru nodded. Inui then opened a map and was pointing here and there while Kaoru just nodded.
“Okay, Fuji. You may drink it,” Inui said.
Fuji brought the potion closer to his mouth. This was it. This was the time. Once he poured the potion into his mouth, there would be no turning back. He would have to make Tezuka fall for him or kill him if need be.
Fuji sighed, then took a deep breath before finally draining the potion in one gulp.
As soon as he swallowed it, he felt like his throat was burning. He gasped for water, but it did not help. He wanted to say something, but his voice came out in whispers before finally fading. He heard Inui mutter a “Take care of yourself, Fuji,” before finally, he felt his body was being swept up by Kaoru. They went at high speed towards the surface, which was still very far.
Slowly, he felt like he couldn’t breathe. Damn it, he remembered that humans couldn’t breathe inside water. He had to make it to the surface soon. He reached his hand to Kaoru’s face and made a pleading look. Kaoru caught this and hastened his pace.
When he was still struggling for his breath, he felt a great pain in his tail. The transformation had started. It really, REALLY hurts.
Kaoru looked at the painful look Fuji had. He started to worry and hastened even more. And as soon as they got to the surface, as soon as Fuji caught his breath again, he blacked out.
-To be continued-
A/N: Yay! Chapter 2 down! And sorry for the little cliffy there, heheh… Tezuka will appear in th next chappie ^^
Oh, and I modified a little on Tezuka’s height and weight, since he had grown up, heheh…
And about Inui’s ranting regarding the potion, D.N.A whatsoever, I made those up of course, and I’m very sorry if there are illogical things in there ^^;;
Oh, and I used ‘Kaoru’ instead of ‘Kaidoh’ because he was… well, a pet. It’d be weird to call him with his surname while he was a pet >_>
About An, she will appear in the next chappie, with the man he had rescued xD
Here’s the teaser for next chap: Stand up and Walk
Fuji was trying to stand up, but hell. He never had legs before. He fell immediately as he stood up.
As he heard a soft thud behind him, Tezuka turned his head and saw Fuji was on his knees.
Okay, first try never best. Fuji once again tried to stand up and… he did! Now, he just had to walk. Fuji was about to move his left leg when he froze again. ‘Err, how do you walk again?’ he asked himself.
If any of his mermaid friends were here, they would considered the frowns on Fuji’s face a rare sight. Fuji was always smiling, not frowning.
He tried to move his left foot at last, but as soon as his left foot was off the ground, he lost his balance and fell down again.
‘This is really annoying. Damn, I should’ve learned how to walk first… or at least read some books on how you do it,’ Fuji mused inwardly.
“You can’t walk?” Tezuka asked almost in annoyance, perhaps.
Fuji slowly raised his head to face tezuka, shook his head and smiled apologetically.
“Are your legs injured?” Tezuka asked.
‘No, I just haven’t learned how to walk,’ Fuji answered in his mind. But it would sound weird if he said that, so he merely nodded.
Tezuka sighed again, before finally walked towards Fuji, picked him up, and carried him, bride-style.
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I still have things I'm not sure of yet in chap 3, so I can't update really soon, but be patient ne? thanks before ^^
Reviews would be loved! X3
Con-crits are welcomed :D
Flames would be ignored XD
Author: a1y-puff
Pairing: TezuFuji of course, and… InuKai, yay! XD
Genre: parody/romance
Rating: G
Sumary: a parody of the little mermaid. Fuji was a mermaid who found interest to a certain stoic Prince named Tezuka xD
Warning: Shonen Ai, AU! And maybe… some OOC-ness >_>
Disclaimer: PoT and its characters aren’t mine, neither “The Little Mermaid”. I’m so sad >.<
A/N: Haha, unlike my Fuji's b'day fic, this wasn't done in a rush. I tried not to get careless XD
I’m back with chapter 2! Hope you didn’t wait for too long XD
Anyway, this chappie is kinda short, gomen! I still hope you’ll enjoy this though ^^
and we have InuKai here XD
thanks again for moehoshi and Lizzie for the help!
Chapter 1 HERE
-Chapter 2-
SUPER DELUXE INUI POTION
It had been a week since the storm yet Fuji still couldn’t get rid of the man’s face off of his mind. He had never been like this before. Yumiko said he was in love. Fuji said it was mere interest since that was the first time he got a close-up look on a human.
Yes, it was a mere interest.
It was a mere interest in that particular human-being that he thought he would like to meet again just to satisfy his wonder about humans. Yes, that was the only reason. Really.
And that was why he was now here, in front of a cave deep under the sea.
Fuji calmly swam in to the cave. The cave was creepy, but Fuji didn’t feel scared or anything. He was familiar with the creepiness after all. He had been here for many times already, since he was friends with the one lived in this cave.
As he got closer to the deepest part of the cave, he smelled something weird. Fuji thought that his friend might be on his experiment again. That was why he lived in this desolated area in the first place; his experiments had always been causing chaos in the neighborhood.
“Ah, Fuji. What brings you here?” a bespectacled male merman with light green fins turned his head from whatever he was working on with a big pot full of some weird liquid.
“Hey, Inui. I’m only visiting a friend; can I not do that?” Fuji asked, smiling.
The merman fixed his square glasses-which he found in a wrecked ship and had taken a liking to it that he never let it slip off of his face-then fixed his gaze on Fuji’s smiling face.
“Judging from your smile, there is 88.9% chance of you needing something from me. Now can you tell me what is it that you need?” Inui asked.
Still, smiling, Fuji opened his eyes. “As perceptive as ever, eh, Inui?” he said.
When Inui did not answer, Fuji continued, “Well, actually something had caught my interest. And I want to know if you could provide some information?”
“If I have the data,” Inui replied. “Is it about a human that fell off of his ship last week?”
Fuji was surprised Inui knew that much. No, he was more surprised of HOW Inui knew about it.
As if reading Fuji’s mind, Inui then spoke, “An was here two days ago, asking about a human that fell off his ship.”
“An-chan?” Fuji asked, a little surprised. But then he continued, “Well, the human I’m interested in is probably different from An’s, since last week, there were-”
“-two humans who fell off of their ships, am I correct?” Inui continued for him. “Both of them are apparently princes from respective countries on land. And the human you are interested in must be a tall man with dark brown hair and hazel eyes?”
Fuji was stunned for a moment before he finally smiled and nodded. “Good. If you know, that would make things much easier. Now, can you tell me anything about him?” Fuji asked.
Inui swam a little to his right, grabbing a green notebook containing his data-which we would never know how the book didn’t get shattered from being wet-and flipped its pages until he stopped at a particular page.
“Tezuka Kunimitsu, 18 years old. Height: 182 cm. Weight: 60 kg. Blood type: O. Born at October 7th. Hobbies: Mountain climbing, camping, fishing, hiking…”
“Wait-wait-wait-wait a second. How exactly did you know about ALL that?” Fuji asked in disbelief. He had wondered of how Inui knew of the accident a week ago, about which human he was interested on, but he didn’t think much about it, yet now… he really wanted to know just HOW exactly Inui gathered all his data-that he seemed to have data about just about everything.
Inui smirked. His glasses shone somewhat evilly as he did.
Now, Fuji thought, maybe he didn’t really want to know after all.
“Whatever. Anyway, as I told you before, I am interested in him, so…”
“Are you in love with him?” Inui cut him off.
Fuji sighed. “Yumiko-neesan told me that too, but oh please, Inui. You had known me for years. Do I look like I will fall in love at all? At first sight?”
“According to my data, there is 0.04% chance of you falling in love at first sight-”
“See?”
“-but for all these years I’ve known you, you’ve always defied my data.”
Fuji was silent.
“Whether you’ve fallen in love or not is something you have to find out yourself, Fuji,” Inui said again. “Now, what if I tell you I can give you legs so you can go and meet him?”
“You can?” Fuji asked, and winced inwardly at his own all-too-hopeful tone.
“Yes, I can. Although there are some consequences you would have to face.”
Fuji looked thoughtful, before he finally said, “Okay, go on.”
“First of all, I will need your hair-” Inui paused as he felt Fuji’s suspicious eyes on him. “Don’t get me wrong, Fuji. I need your hair in my potion for it contains the D.N.A. Otherwise, you might get legs that wouldn’t fit you at all,” Inui explained.
“Oh, okay,” Fuji said as he casually grabbed a sharp object and cut off his long, beautiful hair into chin-length. “Here,” he gave his hair to Inui.
Inui stared at Fuji’s hair and said, “It’s actually too much. I only need a little, but oh well. I might use it on my experiment to create a potion that may make people smart like you,” he mumbled, as he accepted Fuji’s hair.
“Whatever. I was thinking of cutting it short anyway. It had gotten too long,” Fuji said as he combed his now chin-length hair with his fingers.
“Please wait,” Inui said as he picked some bottles of potion, and mixed them together in another pot. He stirred to the left, and after some time, he stirred back to the right and he looked like mumbling something. Perhaps a spell, since he uses magic after all.
Then, after throwing in some of Fuji’s hair into the pot and stirring the potion some more until bubbles started to appear, Inui smirked.
“Ne, Inui. Whatever it is that you make, it’s safe, isn’t it?” Fuji looked doubtful as he took a peek to the purplish liquid in the pot.
“Don’t worry, Fuji. It has been tested. I gave An-chan the potion two days ago, and she got her legs just fine,” Inui said as he picked another small bottle and poured some of the potion into that bottle.
“She did?” Fuji asked. “Wait, are you saying that she’s actually gone to the land? Does Tachibana know anything about this?” Fuji asked worriedly.
“Yes, she’s gone to the land, to meet the human she had rescued a week ago. And she said she had told Tachibana about that, though I am not sure Tachibana gave her permission. She probably fought for it, though.” Inui explained as he swam closer to Fuji.
Fuji eyed Inui as the spiky-haired merman swam closer to him with the potion on his right hand. “I suppose I should drink that?” Fuji asked.
“That is true. Now, I need one little drop of your blood to mix in this potion, and then my ‘Super Deluxe Inui Potion’ will be ready.”
Fuji eyed the potion with a thoughtful look, then he sighed and cut a little of his forefinger, letting his blood drip on to the potion. As soon as his blood made contact with the potion, the bottle shone and then the liquid color had turned from purple to maroon.
“It’s ready now,” Inui said.
Fuji still looked doubtful; he just stayed still and did not take the potion from Inui.
Inui sighed. “I suppose you need proof?” Inui stated as he turned his head to the direction of an entrance for another part of his cave. “Kaoru, come here,” he called.
“Kaoru?” Fuji asked himself. He had heard that name before, but he couldn’t recall… wait. Isn’t that the name of a sea snake of Inui’s pet?
Then, from the entrance, came a merman with dark green fins and sharp eyes. He was wearing a bandana that Fuji recalled Inui had found in another shipwreck the two of them had ventured on.
“Fsssshhhuuuu~” Kaoru hissed in greeting.
“Fuji, meet Kaoru. He’s-”
“-your pet sea snake,” Fuji continued for him.
“Correct. He wanted to be a merman, so I gave him the potion. And he got his body just fine, as you can see,” Inui stated as he circled his arm around Kaoru’s waist.
Fuji looked a little confused at first. He knew of course, that Inui loved his sea-snake pet so much, but he didn’t know it was that kind of love. He just shrugged it off.
“Good for you, then, Inui,” he said, smiling knowingly.
Inui had a slight blush on his cheeks.
Fuji was about to tease his friend again, when he suddenly remembered something. “Wait a minute. But Kaoru drank it to get a merman body, not legs. He must’ve drunk a different potion, then?”
“Well, the potion was only slightly different, but they have the same concept, worked in the same way, and also have the same side-effects,” Inui explained.
“I see. Then, I’ll drink it-”
“Wait, Fuji. There are something I need to explain before you drink that,” Inui cut him off, again.
“What is it?” Fuji asked.
“First, the side effect. Once you drink the potion, you will lose your voice,” Inui paused to see any reaction from his friend.
Fuji’s eyes were opened, but not in dangerous glint. He merely watched Inui, waiting for the bespectacled mermaid to continue.
“You see, this potion have some magic in it that is bad for your throat. Once it makes contact with your throat, it will damage your throat, and you will lose your voice,” he continued.
“Oh… that’s not a good side effect,” Fuji commented.
“Yes. That’s why Kaoru can only hiss. He doesn’t have his voice… for now,” Inui explained. And before Fuji could comment, he then added, “Second, this potion will not last forever. You will have to make Tezuka Kunimitsu to fall in love with you and marry you-”
“Marry me?” Fuji cut off in disbelief.
“Yes, marry you. You will have six months to do that. If you succeed, you will have your voice back and you can keep your legs. If you don’t, you will have to kill him. Otherwise, you will turn into bubbles and die,” Inui explained with a very serious tone.
They were silent for a minute, each of them lost in their own thought. Fuji looked really thoughtful while Inui… well, we would never know what kind of expression he had behind his glasses. And Kaoru was also silent, as if understanding the heavy atmosphere. He just reached out his hand to hold Inui’s, offering comfort.
Fuji smiled when he noticed the little gesture Kaoru made. Inui sure was lucky to have someone like that to be by his side.
“Turn into bubbles and die… just like that tale from long ago,” Fuji remarked.
“Actually, I learned the potion from an old book that I suspected came from the era of that mermaid tale,” Inui said, then he added, “Of course, I have modified it, so it would give the legs that suits the user best, and also extending the time limit to make the human fall for you. You can’t make someone love you just in several days, can you?”
“Maa, I suddenly think that your potion is pretty convenient, then. I have a good six months to make him fall for me and marry me right?”
“That is true. However, if things do not turn the way we expected it-”
“-then I will kill him,” Fuji said. His eyes bored through Inui’s glasses, making the spiky-haired boy shiver.
“Are you sure you can do that?” Inui asked.
“Of course I can. I would certainly feel bad, but I will not be as stupid as that mermaid who gave her life for an ungrateful prince. I value my life and will defend it, and I will kill if I have to,” Fuji stated calmly. Yet, somewhere in his chest, something was aching as he thought about killing that person. But he tried to steel up himself. He could do it. No, he should and would do it, if need be.
Inui was quiet. He thought that Fuji still had yet to understand just how strong love can be, strong enough to even make you let go of your life. But he said nothing. Fuji will find out for himself, sooner or later.
“Oh, by the way, I want to ask something,” Fuji suddenly said.
“What is it?”
“How come I would get my voice back and keep my legs just by marrying the prince?”
Inui shrugged. “No science and magic could beat the power of love.” He felt annoyed to say such illogical thing, but it was true anyway. “Oh, and not just marrying, he should marry you because he loves you.” Inui emphasized so that his friend wouldn’t just… well, maybe threaten the prince with something terrible to force him into marrying him.
“Hai, hai… I know,” Fuji waved his hand a little. “Oh, that reminds me… why don’t you marry Kaoru so he could have his voice back?”
“FSSSSSHHHUUUU~~!!!” Kaoru hissed with his all-bright-red face, while Inui coughed uncomfortably. Fuji had to laugh to see such a cute reaction from the couple.
“Well, I still have a good five months to convince my parents so that I could marry Kaoru,” Inui said as he looked away with slightly flushed cheeks. Kaoru immediately turned his head to Inui in disbelief. Fuji figured that Inui never told Kaoru about his plan.
“I can’t let you die, Kaoru. I will marry you,” Inui said reassuringly and received another hiss form Kaoru. But this time, a softer one.
“Maa, I wish both of you luck. Now if I may drink this, or is there anything else I should know?” Fuji interrupted.
“Hmm… no, that’s all about it. Oh, and you will fall unconscious after you drink that. The transformation of your tail into legs is pretty painful too. But worry not. I will have Kaoru take you to the land near Tezuka Kunimitsu’s castle. Fortunately, his castle is very close to the ocean.”
“Oh, okay. Sorry to burden you, Kaoru-kun,” Fuji smiled to Kaoru. He didn’t mind his good friend entrusted him to Kaoru, since he knew that Kaoru was probably faster then Inui.
“Fssshu~” Kaoru nodded. Inui then opened a map and was pointing here and there while Kaoru just nodded.
“Okay, Fuji. You may drink it,” Inui said.
Fuji brought the potion closer to his mouth. This was it. This was the time. Once he poured the potion into his mouth, there would be no turning back. He would have to make Tezuka fall for him or kill him if need be.
Fuji sighed, then took a deep breath before finally draining the potion in one gulp.
As soon as he swallowed it, he felt like his throat was burning. He gasped for water, but it did not help. He wanted to say something, but his voice came out in whispers before finally fading. He heard Inui mutter a “Take care of yourself, Fuji,” before finally, he felt his body was being swept up by Kaoru. They went at high speed towards the surface, which was still very far.
Slowly, he felt like he couldn’t breathe. Damn it, he remembered that humans couldn’t breathe inside water. He had to make it to the surface soon. He reached his hand to Kaoru’s face and made a pleading look. Kaoru caught this and hastened his pace.
When he was still struggling for his breath, he felt a great pain in his tail. The transformation had started. It really, REALLY hurts.
Kaoru looked at the painful look Fuji had. He started to worry and hastened even more. And as soon as they got to the surface, as soon as Fuji caught his breath again, he blacked out.
-To be continued-
A/N: Yay! Chapter 2 down! And sorry for the little cliffy there, heheh… Tezuka will appear in th next chappie ^^
Oh, and I modified a little on Tezuka’s height and weight, since he had grown up, heheh…
And about Inui’s ranting regarding the potion, D.N.A whatsoever, I made those up of course, and I’m very sorry if there are illogical things in there ^^;;
Oh, and I used ‘Kaoru’ instead of ‘Kaidoh’ because he was… well, a pet. It’d be weird to call him with his surname while he was a pet >_>
About An, she will appear in the next chappie, with the man he had rescued xD
Here’s the teaser for next chap: Stand up and Walk
Fuji was trying to stand up, but hell. He never had legs before. He fell immediately as he stood up.
As he heard a soft thud behind him, Tezuka turned his head and saw Fuji was on his knees.
Okay, first try never best. Fuji once again tried to stand up and… he did! Now, he just had to walk. Fuji was about to move his left leg when he froze again. ‘Err, how do you walk again?’ he asked himself.
If any of his mermaid friends were here, they would considered the frowns on Fuji’s face a rare sight. Fuji was always smiling, not frowning.
He tried to move his left foot at last, but as soon as his left foot was off the ground, he lost his balance and fell down again.
‘This is really annoying. Damn, I should’ve learned how to walk first… or at least read some books on how you do it,’ Fuji mused inwardly.
“You can’t walk?” Tezuka asked almost in annoyance, perhaps.
Fuji slowly raised his head to face tezuka, shook his head and smiled apologetically.
“Are your legs injured?” Tezuka asked.
‘No, I just haven’t learned how to walk,’ Fuji answered in his mind. But it would sound weird if he said that, so he merely nodded.
Tezuka sighed again, before finally walked towards Fuji, picked him up, and carried him, bride-style.
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I still have things I'm not sure of yet in chap 3, so I can't update really soon, but be patient ne? thanks before ^^
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