Merman

Iruka dropped the rope he was holding as the rain poured. The angry waves pushed him against the hard wood, causing his head to bash up against the boat.

The waves pulled him away from the boat and he tumbled down deeper under the water. He shook his head slightly then checked if he was bleeding at all.

Finding no blood, he looked around for Kiba and Naruto. He couldn't see them anywhere. More crashes and booms were heard from above the sea and suddenly things started to fall into the ocean.

Iruka maneuvered around the falling objects and swam up a bit almost to the surface looking to see if he could find Kiba or Naruto. He kept moving, thinking that would be the best way to avoid getting hit.

He looked down and saw a figure down deeper in the water. Thinking it was one of his charges, he swam down to catch up to the sinking figure. As he got closer he could make out a few things.

Most importantly, he figured out it wasn't his charges but a human. The next thing he noticed was that the human was bleeding; he got a cut along his left eye.

Iruka just stopped and floated around the man. He bit his bottom lip then looked around and reluctantly turned his head towards the man. He grabbed the man, from behind then pulled on him, swimming up to the surface.

Once they reached the surfaced he noticed the man wasn't breathing. Looking around he found a floating craft of some sort (a box). He threw the man's head up onto it then pulled some air into his own lungs and opened the human's mouth.

He tilted the chin slightly, brushing away any loose grey hair from the face, and held the tongue down and breathed into the man. After a few times of repeating this, the man started to breath on his own again.

Kakashi felt air returning into his system, his mind was still blurry but he felt something pressed on his mouth, giving him air.

He lazily opened his eyes and saw an outline of a brown haired man, who had a cut across his nose. That's the only thing Kakashi could focus on since his mind wouldn't let his other sense didn't work yet, so he didn't really want to move his eyes around to examine the figure in front of him.

"Sasuke! Kakashi! Hinata!" Iruka heard some screams coming towards him; he could see a light above the water. "Where are you?!"

It came closer and Iruka dived under and swam farther down. He turned back up to check on the man he left, he saw the man's legs being lifted from the water.

Iruka sighed, and then it hit him. Naruto, Kiba! He swung his head in all different directions looking for the two mermen.

But by swimming blindly and not paying attention to where he was swimming he got hit on the head. He became dizzy and things went blurry until everything went black. The strong current pushed his body along.

When he came to, he blinked a couple of times then realized he was leaning on something. Instead of looking over to who or what he was leaning on he focused on the two figures in front of them.

Once everything came into focus, his mouth dropped into the sand and his eyes doubled in size. (1)

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Kiba grabbed onto the railings and held on as much as he could, but the wind was to strong and the railings he was holding onto broke. He flew into the water tumbling deeper, after regaining his balance, again he looked around.

He couldn't see Naruto or Iruka. He looked around again, being careful as to not get hit by any of the falling objects. He looked around again, when he saw a big ball of fabric, not to far from him.

It seemed to be struggling like it was stuck in a fishers net. Curios but cautious, he swam a little closer to the ball of fabric. Careful to keep his distance, he peered all around the thing trying to see what exactly it was.

But no matter how many different angles he tried he couldn't make out what it was. Then air bubbles came out rapidly from the ball, and it stopped moving. Kiba looked at it and looked around the sea.

Then the fabric started to drift downwards. Over come with curiosity he swam over to the bundle and pulled at it. His eyes widened and he swam away form the thing immediately, bumping into a falling chest.

It's that girl! ...Oh my God! He swam over to her again.Name?...ugh what was her name? Kiba waved his arms around and closed his eyes trying to think of it.

AH! What am I doing?! He swam over to her again and just grabbed a bunch of fabric and pulled her up. He tugged on her harder but no matter how hard he pulled; he still couldn't swim any faster.

Panicking he pushed the fabric down low enough for him to see her head. He grabbed the space between her boobs and ripped the dress down. Now if this wasn't an emergency he probable would've tried the zipper; but since he was panicking he didn't pay any attention to the fact that he just put his hands between a girls breast.

It was hard to get it off of her but after much squirming and after him ripping the fabric some more, he successfully got the dress off of her. He saw that they were still pretty deep down and that she needed air, fast.

He clasped his hand together and closed his eyes concentrating; he pushed out the water that was in his lungs. Then filled his lungs with stored up air; all mer-folk had an air reserve inside of them, but the trick was to know how to access it.

Holding in the new air, he grabbed the girl's chin and opened her mouth forcefully. He pushed his mouth onto her's. He sucked in all the water that was in her mouth and gave her all the air he could get out of himself.

Holding her chin he snaked an arm round her waist and swam to the surface. Once up, he dodged a falling piece of wood. Then he made sure her head was above water. He pulled his mouth off of hers then looked around for a place to put her, where she'd be safe.

He looked to his right and a light could be seen dancing above the water. He cocked up an eyebrow. "What the?...What's that?" He asked no one, he tightened his grip on the girl.

The light came closer and he swam back a little before a voice came into hearing range.

"Let me go!" there was a brief silence. "I don't care, my cousin is in there! Hinata!"

"That's it." Kiba looked at the girl again. "Your name's Hinata." He gazed at her frizzed up hair, it fell all over her face, and he smiled admiring her beauty.

He could hear the man calling her name. "Cousin, huh? Then he'll be able to take care of you." Kiba said, looking at Hinata's unconscious face.

Neji was about to kill the sailors that were on the boat with him. They kept holding him down. Didn't they get it, his cousin could be dead. He had to go and at least try to save her.

A splash in his face silenced everyone. They all looked and there in the front of the boat, draped over the side was Hinata's upper body. It took only a second for Neji to react; he pushed past the one sailor in front and grabbed his cousin's arms pulling her whole body onto the small boat.

He took some calming breath and checked Hinata over, he sighed when he didn't see any injuries but then he noticed she was in her undergarment. He huddled her into his arms and glared at the sailors who were staring at the 'indecent' girl. (2)

Kiba sighed once he had helped the guy pull Hinata fully into the boat. He swam down a bit and looked up again at the small boat. He smiled then recalled the whole thing and tuned bright red.

"Oh my God!" He yelled grabbing his head and shaking it. "I kissed her... twice!! Ahh!" Then he paled and blushed an unbelievably dark shade of red. "I grabbed in between her..." He trialed off, he pulled on his hair again, then looked down. (3)

"Huh?" He noticed another figure. "Iruka!" He recognized the merman and swam over to help him.

He looked around for a place where he could have Iruka and himself rest, then he saw how close the shore was. "Wow I didn't know we were that close to shore."

He shook his head then pulled one of Iruka's arms around his shoulder and swam towards the shore.