Sasuke carried on with his patrols as usual. He paid extra attention to the glowing fishes, they were a really helpless bunch. They attracted attention with their bioluminesce and had no defense mechanisms to deal with the attention they attracted. All Sasuke could do was try as much as possible to keep them safe till they found a new location to settle.
Sasuke was following them around again when he noticed something above the water. It was a boat, and whoever was in it had decided to fish there. It didn't take a genius to figure out that the fishes had once again attracted unwanted attention and were now in danger. Sasuke was angry. The glowing fish were an endangered species because they were preyed upon faster than they reproduced. If humans found them they would probably be driven to extinction, and now one was sitting above hoping to catch the unknowing fish. Sasuke suddenly remembered how much he hated humans.
Without a second thought Sasuke swam towards the boat, resolve steeled in his mind. It would just be another human who died at sea.
Sasuke emerged at the surface and was shocked to see the familiar pink hair of the woman he had interacted with the previous day. For some reason his anger doubled he felt... betrayed?
She had sworn that she meant no harm, yet here she was hunting the same fish. He had trusted her like a fool. Since when were humans ever trustworthy?
In a second Sasuke had easily flipped the small boat over. The woman was taken by surprise as she struggled to hold onto the capsided boat.
Sasuke closed in on her once again gripping her by the neck.
"Do you take me for a joke?"
The woman began to struggle, beating against his hand with her two smaller ones. She looked like she was trying to say something. Sasuke released his grip on her throat enough for her to talk, but he never let her go.
"It's not what it looks like." The woman claimed as she coughed and tried to breathe.
Sasuke was getting angrier by the minute. Was this really the same human he met the day before? Sasuke scoffed to himself, of course it was humans were all the same in the end.
"Please ju-just hear me out please." She begged.
Sasuke tossed her carelessly back into the water. She quickly scrambled towards the boat's location searching around for something. Sasuke never took his eyes off her, watching her like prey. Before long she came up with a fishing rod. Sasuke was confused.
"I wasn't trying to harm them." She brought up the fishing rod and pointed towards the line. "I made sure to remove the hook so the fish wouldn't be harmed."
Sasuke scrutinized the rod. True to her words there really was no hook, only a simple line with bait tied to it. This was even more confusing. If she wasn't trying to catch fish, then what exactly was she doing!? Before Sasuke could vocalize his questions the woman spoke.
"I was just trying to get your attention, but what I did was manipulative, and wrong. I didn't realize, i'm sorry."
It all finally made sense to Sasuke, the whole scenario was bait to lure him out! And he had played directly into her hands.
"Well played human, well played."
"Please don't be angry, I figured this was the best way to get you to come out and I just did it. I didn't mean anything malicious."
Sasuke could not tell if this human was incredibly brave or incredibly stupid. Who goes out of their way to lure out a creature who had once tried to kill them? Perhaps it was stupidity after all.
"Why have you sought me out?" Sasuke asked. He wanted to know what went on in the head of this stupid human.
The woman began to fidget. "Well uh yesterday you left before I could ask any questions."
"Why do you think I won't do the same today?"
The woman was dumbstruck for a while.
"What if I say please?"
Sasuke scoffed at the reply. At the moment he considered humoring her, she was truly intriguing. He could not understand her thought process. A thought crossed his mind; this woman was human, no matter how different she may be she was still human. Sasuke's expression became cold again.
"I have no intentions of discussing my kind with a human. You should be glad you are still with your life. Leave and don't come back."
"I promise I will never tell anyone, you already know that no one would believe me even if i tried. You said yourself that I won't be the first crazy person to have seen things at sea."
"Don't put yourself on a pedestal because I spoke to you. You're in no position to demand things from me know your place human."
The woman's face dropped like Sasuke's harsh words had physically hurt her.
"Leave."
Sasuke said with an air of finality. He dove back into the water with a swish of his tail he had flipped the boat back upright and disappeared back into the sea.
Sasuke swam far from where the woman was. He could not understand the guilt he was feeling, he felt bad all over and the image of the woman's expectant face dropping in sadness kept appearing in his mind.
He had responded the way he did because she was a human and that was it. She may have been different from all the other humans who were unfortunate enough to meet him, but in the end she too was a human. He couldn't be getting on friendly grounds with humans of all creatures, it went against all he stood for as a protector of the seas, the very purpose he dedicated his life to.
Humans were selfish, vile creatures and they never meant well he knew this from personal experiences. They could only leave destruction in their path whether they meant to or not.
Sasuke resigned to believing that the woman must have had some hidden dark intentions and decided then and there that he would not be meeting her again. He made the right choice, he made the right choice.
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Depths Unspoken ~A SasuSaku Story ~
Fanfic"Humans have hurt you, they've hurt me too, it is something we have in common." Sakura a human who has seen what the world had to offer her, and accepted that only her job could bring her happiness. It was the only thing she loved that had never hur...
