Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Under the Crashing Waves ❯ Simple Day ( Chapter 1 )

Under the Crashing Waves

By: Cece Williams

 

 

 

((Disclaimer: Once again, Yoshihiro Togashi owns YYH, not me.))

 

Cece: This is another project I'm working on. It's an AU, and I thought of this while I was watching dolphins on TV.

Kurama: On, Inari….

Cece: Anyway, hope you like.

 

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Chapter 1: Simple Day

 

Kurama, more known as Shuichi Minamino, walked onto a boat, carrying a cooler in his hand. Rose-colored sunglasses covered his emerald green eyes as the slight breeze teased his tan khakis and his sea green shirt. His vibrant red hair wasn't excused from the breeze, either; it danced lightly around him.

Yusuke, wearing a white T-shirt and blue jeans, turned around and saw the redhead. “Hey there, Kurama!” he said, waving at the kitsune.

The fox sighed. No one, other than the Tantei, knew of that name, and the other people around would surely ask questions. “Yusuke, please be mindful,” he said in his usual calm voice. “I'm Shuichi here.” No one knew him by Kurama, and the kitsune youkai did not need anyone to know, either.

Yusuke looked at Kurama. “Sorry, Kurama,” he said to him.

Kurama sweatdropped as Kuwabara came out from down below, wearing an orange tank top and blue shorts. “Urameshi, what's taking you so long?” he asked him.

Hiei, who had boarded the boat behind Kurama, looked around with a bored look on his face. But as his garnet eyes looked at the cooler in Kurama's hand, he looked up at the fox. “Please let there be sweet snow in that… thing,” he said.

Kurama took off his sunglasses, revealing his emerald green eyes, and smiled down at Hiei. “Of course,” he said, setting the cooler down on the deck.

Hiei looked at the boat, which was big enough for only four people. From what Kurama had told him, it was a boating trip “for the guys.” That meant that none of the girls would be around, especially the object of Kuwabara's affection. Of course, hearing Kuwabara wanting to call her all weekend long was worse than being on a boat with the moron.

“Well, shall we sail off?” Kurama asked the group.

Yusuke nodded, starting the motor. “Let's get this party started!” he announced as he drove the boat away from the port.

Hiei had already begun to dig into the sweet snow that Kurama had saved for him. While he ate, Kurama looked out at the water. It looked so clean, so pure, and yet it was mysterious at the same time.

“You seasick, Kurama?”

Kurama blinked and looked at Kuwabara, who was leaning against the railing. “Oh, no, I was just admiring the beauty of the sea,” he answered.

“The sea doesn't compare to my lovely Yukina,” Kuwabara replied, which made Kurama sweatdrop again. Here he went again.

Yusuke walked up to them and wrapped an arm around Kuwabara's shoulders. “Hey, why don't you give her a call?” he said to his orange-haired friend.

Kuwabara's eyes widened as he raced down below. “That's it! I'll call my lovely Yukina!” he said from the bottom deck.

Yusuke shook his head. “Stupid,” he muttered under his breath as he followed Kuwabara down.

Kurama smiled inwardly and continued to look at the water as it shimmered with the sunlight like rare jewels. Yes, the water was beautiful indeed, but it was also mysterious. He pulled on his sunglasses again and started to join where Hiei was when he felt a bump under the boat and saw the little black-clad demon's hand against the doorway.

“What in the hell was that?” he asked Kurama.

But before Kurama could answer, another bump caused the kitsune to hit his head on the railing and fall into the water with a splash.

“Kurama!” Hiei shouted, trying to get to where the fox had fallen overboard. But he didn't make it. In fact, he was thrown overboard himself.

Twenty feet down, two girls were giggling. One had a green fin and the other had a blue one. The girl with the green fin had brown hair with her sides pulled up in two small pigtails and blue eyes. Her friend had dark brown hair, almost black and purple eyes.

The girl with the pigtails looked up to see two people floating downwards. With a startled gasp, she swam up to the redhead and looked at the person. “It's a human,” she said, her soft voice full of shock.

Her friend grabbed the other person, a person in black. “So is he,” she added. Then her purple eyes widened. “Our fathers aren't going to be happy. What are we going to do, Aria?”

The brown-haired-pigtailed mermaid looked at the redhead and gasped. “We'll talk later, Mina,” she said. “Right now, let's just find them some shelter and some air.” With that, the two girls separated, each with a person.

Aria swam as fast as her fins could take her into an underwater cave. She knew it very well, since there was a cliff that she could rest on out of the water. Reaching the surface of the cave, she set the woman's limp form on the cliff. “Please, wake up,” she said, smoothing the hair from around the woman's face. She heard a gurgling sound and dove back in the water.

Kurama coughed up the seawater and spit it out. He opened his eyes to hear a splash. He started to sit up and found himself in somewhere he didn't know. “Where am I?” he asked, echoes ringing out the same question.

Aria stayed underwater, but her eyes widened. It was a man? She didn't want him to know that she was a mermaid and didn't know how he would react to something like that. But he looks like a woman, she thought as she stayed below the surface. How could a woman have a man's voice? Hopefully, her friend was having better luck.

Kurama looked down and saw a couple of bubbles on the surface. “Who's there?” he asked, trying to look in the dark depths of the water but found nothing. Seeing a ripple in the otherwise calm water, he looked to see two pigtails, which belonged to a face of a girl.

Aria's eyes widened and she ducked back in the water. That's the woman that sounds like a man, she thought to herself. Oh, what do I do?

Kurama blinked and lay back down. “Who are you?” he asked as his emerald eyes closed.

Aria took a small breath of relief. She swam to the bottom of the cave to find some food, even if it wasn't much, for the man-sounding woman. She swam slowly up to the edge of the cliff and laid some underwater berries next to the figure. She then slipped back underwater and swam out of the cave, heading for home. Surely her father would be worried.

Meanwhile, Mina brought the black-clad figure to another cave a good distance away. She didn't want to get Aria in trouble, but then again, associating with humans was strictly forbidden in their realm anyway. She put the black-clad person on a cliff and dove back in the water. In a sense, she could have cared less what happened to him. He was a human, for crying out loud! Why should she care? She swam out of her own cave and back home.

Hiei coughed and sat up, the salty water of the sea coming out of his mouth. He opened his eyes and looked around. He was in a cave of some sort. Wait… the last thing he remembered… Kurama! He looked to his side and saw that the fox wasn't there. Where could he be?

Meanwhile, on the boat, the thumping had stopped, and Yusuke and Kuwabara walked out onto the deck. “Kurama? Hiei?” Yusuke asked, but stopped short when he spotted Kurama's rose-colored glasses. Then, reality hit him. “They went overboard!”

Kuwabara tried to look down. Kurama and Hiei were good swimmers, but something about them being overboard didn't sit well with him. “I don't see them,” he said to Yusuke. “You don't think they…” he left the rest unsaid.

“Come on,” Yusuke told him. “Let's head back to shore.” With that, Yusuke started the motor and drove the boat away.

 

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((I think there's a lot more to this story than what is on here.))

 

Cece: Sorry it's short, you guys. I'm also working on “Trial of Halves” and got a bad writer's block.

Kurama: Mermaids rescue Hiei and me?

Cece: (laughs nervously) Well, review here and tell me what you think.