You are a Pirate || Haikyuu

Chapter Ten

Hinata watched the tailed creatures fight in awe. He leaned over the edge, and arms snaked around his waist to keep him from failing. He wasn't sure who was holding him, but he didn't care.

A scream interrupted his thoughts. It came from one of the tailed creatures. Hinata wasn't sure how to react when he fell overboard, when the arms behind him stopped holding him.

Someone tried to save him, probably Sugawara, but they obviously failed. Hinata fell straight into the murky ocean, not to be seen again. Or so he thought.

Hinata closed his eyes in fear, and his body slowly fell beside the fight. One of them tried to help the prince, but the other deterred him. A shark like figure caught him bridal style instead.

"Why aren't you swimming? Or growing a tail?" The shark tilted his head a bit. "You know you can breathe in water since you're a prince of the Miyagi kingdom, right?

Oh god, what do I do? Hinata struggled in the shark's arms, and didn't realize he started to breathe in the water. The shark accidentally dropped him. "Holy shit—"

Hinata's body sank slowly to the bottom of the ocean and he started to freak out. How was he not dying? Why did the shark ask him if he could breathe in the ocean? Of course no human could breathe under the water without air!

All of those questions Hinata wanted answers to. After what seemed like an eternity, his body hit the sea floor. He stared up at the direction of where the surface should be, but it was too far away to be seen.

Would Hinata be here forever? Would he be eaten up and spat out? Would anyone look for him? Would—

"Yaku-san, come over here! I think it's a dead human!" A voice distracted him from his thoughts. A tall, tailed creature with silver hair and a cute smile stared down at him.

"I don't want to see a dead human body— Haiba, you idiot! That's the prince of the Miyagi Kingdom! He's not dead!"

"Whaaa?!"

A shorter tailed creature made his way over to the duo with a scowl. He glanced down at Hinata, and his scowl changed into a comforting smile. "Hey, are you okay?" He said softly. "Is this your first time in the water like this?"

Hinata sat up on the sand, and admired the creatures sitting on rocks in front of him. "Who are you guys?!"

"I'm Haiba Lev, and this is Prince Yaku of the sirens!" Lev happily answered, which got a smack on the head from Yaku. "What was that for?!"

"I'm not a prince anymore, remember Haiba? And you're gonna freak him out by telling him that we're sirens!"

Hinata didn't understand why they called each other by their last names instead of their first, like the humans. "H-Hey, um.."

Yaku immediately stopped scolding Lev, and turned to Hinata. "Yes?"

"Why do you guys call each other by your last names?"

"It's our culture. Being half mermaid, I thought they taught you this?" Yaku frowned. "How did you end up here, truly?"

Hinata hesitated to answer. They haven't tried to attack him yet, they looked friendly, and one of them was even a former prince.. Could they be trustworthy?

Lev poked him with his tail. "I think he's dead."

"You can't just assume he's dead when he doesn't answer, you idiot!"

"Two tailed people were fighting, and I was watching with these pirates I was traveling with, and.. One of them went like WOOSH! Trying to swim away, and WOW!! He was so quick!!"