[ShoYou] Mermaid prince stories #1
Title: Mermaid Prince, #01
Author: myself ( hyuuga_princess / mugendainomousou on tumblr)
Pairing: Jinnai Sho x Ohmi Youichirou
Genre: romance
Rating: safe
Words: 1,060
Notes: a series of fics, at 1,500 words most each, were supposed to be written for this theme in the summer, for each of the D2 ships. This just happened last night so I wrote it before the others. Unless it happens again, the other ones will come in July, probably.
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The first thing he sees is fins, where there should be none. There’s a majestic fish tail right in the middle of the forest trail, twisting, jerking, shaking violently, and gasping sounds accompanied by heavy breathing soon fill his ears.
Sho lowers his dagger and walks close quietly, careful not to crash a single leaf or twig beneath his boots. As the bushes clear out to a meadow, he stops dead on his tracks to stare at the view that has just unfolded beyond his eyes.
The fish tail actually belongs to a mermaid, no, a merman, who’s struggling, crawling on the dirt trying to reach the water. The water; the lake in the middle of the meadow, perhaps, the river after it or the waterfall that pools out to the sea after some miles maybe? Do they even live in those waters?
He doesn’t sit to think for long. The merboy before him has started coughing and the tremor is now so bad that he can’t even move anymore. Sho runs to him, turns him over, pulls his flask forward on his shoulderstrap and empties it between the colorless, chapped lips. The merboy twitches and his eyes spin a little, and Sho looks away -if there’s one thing he’d prefer not to have eye contact with that’s the white of the eye- and then some color paints his face. He stops shaking almost completely and certain fingers are now grabbing onto his ragged sleeves.
“Thank you.” The voice of a thousand summers and then some. Sho is sent back to reminiscent a childhood spent entirely at the sea, when his step-father would take him on the closest of his merchant sails… Years ago. Years of sea, days and nights of salt on his tongue and bloody sunsets in his eyes. He shakes his head.
“It’s nothing.” He mouths, not certain if he’s even uttered the words.
“I know it’s not the best thing to ask right now but…” The merboy is blond, sunshine in his hair, his eyes are chestnut skin left out in the sun. His skin is radiant and sparkles where covered with little fins; the flesh is young and strong. If mer-people years are the same with human ones, Sho thinks they’re probably the same age.
“Please allow me to introduce myself.” The merboy is still clinging on him, the muscles on his arms showing like the veins on a tree trunk. “I am the second child of the sea lord. I have no idea where I am now but once I’m in the water again I can probably navigate… So could you please… take me somewhere with water? Stupid as it might sound…” the merboy laughs bitterly now, but it’s all sweet music to Sho’s ears somehow; what is he thinking? “…I was abducted for ransom. By pirates, I assume.” I’ve read in the books about them.” He concludes, now even his fish tail shining bright. The water has colored life back in him, that’s for sure. His face is a sun, his green tail glistens in more shades of green than the nature around them gives. “My name is Youichirou.” He finally adds.
“I’m Sho…” he nods. “You said you were abducted by pirates? How did you end up… here? In the middle of this…” he asks, now sitting down on the ground for good. The merboy weighting down on his lap is actually quite heavy.
“I was kept into some sort of box, I don’t know what happened. I was given water but never enough, only half my container filled, I was always weak. Then at some point there was really… nightmare. Shaking, so many angry voices, for some time I thought I was floating in the sea but… I couldn’t open the box from the inside, and the water… I called out to them but didn’t get an answer. I was really weak; I think I passed out for some time. When I finally came around, I was thrown out here.” He concludes, trying to lift himself off of Sho’s lap. Steadying his back on a tree trunk, he almost looks like a human sitting. Except for the fish tail. His magnificent, color-catching and reflecting fish tail.
“It was you.” Realization then hits Sho. “You were in the chest! At lowest level in the ship! You were the ultimate treasure of the sea they were talking about! What ransom could they have asked for you?!”
Youichirou peered up at him.
“Pearls.” He replied. “Corals. Full shells.”
“We were on the same ship! I was kept prisoner by them too!” Sho lets out then, as if the connection is something special, something to be treasured. “I was already there when they captured you… I didn’t know you were a living… person.” He stumbles with his words a bit. “Had I known, I would have tried to help you! But I was chained too…” he remembers on the last moment.
“How did you escape?” Youichirou opens his eyes wide.
“There was a storm… But if you were locked in the chest, you don’t know, right. The shop was thrown on reefs by the waves. There was nothing left standing. One of the masts fell down right next to where I was chained and crushed them; thankfully they were pretty rusty so they were damaged immediately. A few of the shards got me, though.” He points down to his left thigh; his pants are torn and drying blood is staining a self-assembled bandage. “You need water though! The lake isn’t far, I’ll carry you!”
“But you’re injured!” Youichirou protests, starting to feel bad now. “I didn’t know when I asked for your help. I’ll go on my own.” He says but Sho shakes his head, not having it.
“No way. I can see you’re too weak for that. You’ll die out here like this!” he makes an ominous statement yet his heart is light. Light? Weights have lifted. And the merboy is lifted in his arms now, despite his complaints, and he’s walking towards the lake at the other side of the meadow. Peculiar thing; he’s not heavy now. Or maybe he feels rejuvenated. When did this happen -how did he end up so energetic? And even though his heart is so light, what is this thing fluttering between his lungs like a caged dove?
Author: myself ( hyuuga_princess / mugendainomousou on tumblr)
Pairing: Jinnai Sho x Ohmi Youichirou
Genre: romance
Rating: safe
Words: 1,060
Notes: a series of fics, at 1,500 words most each, were supposed to be written for this theme in the summer, for each of the D2 ships. This just happened last night so I wrote it before the others. Unless it happens again, the other ones will come in July, probably.
- - - - -
The first thing he sees is fins, where there should be none. There’s a majestic fish tail right in the middle of the forest trail, twisting, jerking, shaking violently, and gasping sounds accompanied by heavy breathing soon fill his ears.
Sho lowers his dagger and walks close quietly, careful not to crash a single leaf or twig beneath his boots. As the bushes clear out to a meadow, he stops dead on his tracks to stare at the view that has just unfolded beyond his eyes.
The fish tail actually belongs to a mermaid, no, a merman, who’s struggling, crawling on the dirt trying to reach the water. The water; the lake in the middle of the meadow, perhaps, the river after it or the waterfall that pools out to the sea after some miles maybe? Do they even live in those waters?
He doesn’t sit to think for long. The merboy before him has started coughing and the tremor is now so bad that he can’t even move anymore. Sho runs to him, turns him over, pulls his flask forward on his shoulderstrap and empties it between the colorless, chapped lips. The merboy twitches and his eyes spin a little, and Sho looks away -if there’s one thing he’d prefer not to have eye contact with that’s the white of the eye- and then some color paints his face. He stops shaking almost completely and certain fingers are now grabbing onto his ragged sleeves.
“Thank you.” The voice of a thousand summers and then some. Sho is sent back to reminiscent a childhood spent entirely at the sea, when his step-father would take him on the closest of his merchant sails… Years ago. Years of sea, days and nights of salt on his tongue and bloody sunsets in his eyes. He shakes his head.
“It’s nothing.” He mouths, not certain if he’s even uttered the words.
“I know it’s not the best thing to ask right now but…” The merboy is blond, sunshine in his hair, his eyes are chestnut skin left out in the sun. His skin is radiant and sparkles where covered with little fins; the flesh is young and strong. If mer-people years are the same with human ones, Sho thinks they’re probably the same age.
“Please allow me to introduce myself.” The merboy is still clinging on him, the muscles on his arms showing like the veins on a tree trunk. “I am the second child of the sea lord. I have no idea where I am now but once I’m in the water again I can probably navigate… So could you please… take me somewhere with water? Stupid as it might sound…” the merboy laughs bitterly now, but it’s all sweet music to Sho’s ears somehow; what is he thinking? “…I was abducted for ransom. By pirates, I assume.” I’ve read in the books about them.” He concludes, now even his fish tail shining bright. The water has colored life back in him, that’s for sure. His face is a sun, his green tail glistens in more shades of green than the nature around them gives. “My name is Youichirou.” He finally adds.
“I’m Sho…” he nods. “You said you were abducted by pirates? How did you end up… here? In the middle of this…” he asks, now sitting down on the ground for good. The merboy weighting down on his lap is actually quite heavy.
“I was kept into some sort of box, I don’t know what happened. I was given water but never enough, only half my container filled, I was always weak. Then at some point there was really… nightmare. Shaking, so many angry voices, for some time I thought I was floating in the sea but… I couldn’t open the box from the inside, and the water… I called out to them but didn’t get an answer. I was really weak; I think I passed out for some time. When I finally came around, I was thrown out here.” He concludes, trying to lift himself off of Sho’s lap. Steadying his back on a tree trunk, he almost looks like a human sitting. Except for the fish tail. His magnificent, color-catching and reflecting fish tail.
“It was you.” Realization then hits Sho. “You were in the chest! At lowest level in the ship! You were the ultimate treasure of the sea they were talking about! What ransom could they have asked for you?!”
Youichirou peered up at him.
“Pearls.” He replied. “Corals. Full shells.”
“We were on the same ship! I was kept prisoner by them too!” Sho lets out then, as if the connection is something special, something to be treasured. “I was already there when they captured you… I didn’t know you were a living… person.” He stumbles with his words a bit. “Had I known, I would have tried to help you! But I was chained too…” he remembers on the last moment.
“How did you escape?” Youichirou opens his eyes wide.
“There was a storm… But if you were locked in the chest, you don’t know, right. The shop was thrown on reefs by the waves. There was nothing left standing. One of the masts fell down right next to where I was chained and crushed them; thankfully they were pretty rusty so they were damaged immediately. A few of the shards got me, though.” He points down to his left thigh; his pants are torn and drying blood is staining a self-assembled bandage. “You need water though! The lake isn’t far, I’ll carry you!”
“But you’re injured!” Youichirou protests, starting to feel bad now. “I didn’t know when I asked for your help. I’ll go on my own.” He says but Sho shakes his head, not having it.
“No way. I can see you’re too weak for that. You’ll die out here like this!” he makes an ominous statement yet his heart is light. Light? Weights have lifted. And the merboy is lifted in his arms now, despite his complaints, and he’s walking towards the lake at the other side of the meadow. Peculiar thing; he’s not heavy now. Or maybe he feels rejuvenated. When did this happen -how did he end up so energetic? And even though his heart is so light, what is this thing fluttering between his lungs like a caged dove?