"Mikan: the Princes of the Sea"

Helo there! This story is something I made up years ago, Hope you enjoyed.. :D

After years, I finally decided to redo this story again, hope you don't mind.. :)

BTW, Thanks for those who complimented this story and to those people who told me to improve it., but please do continue to tell me if there are still some mistakes. Thanks a lot :)

Disclaimer: I don't own anything. It belongs to Tachibana Higuchi alone. The cover picture, does not belong to me.

A story about a 5 year old mermaid namely Yukihira Mikan. In their kingdom, they have Two rules. (One) When a Mermaid or Merman turns 16, they are given the chance to know and explore more about the Human world and (two) they are not allowed to visit the Human world until 16. But an unexpected encounter happened and somehow they enjoyed each other's company. Unfortunately, her father found it out.

-Characters in this chapter-

Mikan Yukihira - Has a long brown hair, brown eyes, her tail color is orange with some accessories around at the tip part of her tail.

Natsume Hyuuga – Her Unexpected encounter.

Izumi Yukihira - Mikan's Father, Most of Mikan's characteristics are his.

Puu- Mikan's dolphin

"We meet for the first time! And bid Goodbye"

"Hey! Wait! Puu!" A Little mermaid shouted trying to race her friend dolphin.

"I can't hear ya!" Puu said with a grin on his face and swam faster.

"Enough! I give up, your win already so wait for me" Mikan said with an exhausted face.

Unfortunately, the dolphin was already out of her sight which made her now lost. Scared and horrified, she desperately tried calling out to her friend. She looked around from left to right but the dolphin was not in sight, she swam up and down but none and started to sob. Tired from crying and looking for her friend, she decided to rest for a while and looked above her. Somehow she got interested on what's above the water.

Eager to know, she swam up to the surface of the sea and forgotten her will to look for her friend. She swam with only her eyes being out in the air, found an empty forest she decided to swim nearer. The place looks very relaxing she decided to rest,she saw a nice resting area with the tree roots by the seawater and decided to rest with only half her body shown and stare at all those big trees. After minutes of staring at the wonders of nature.

"BOO!" is what she heard, surprised she screamed and attempted to swim away. But failed to do so, her hair so long, it got stuck to the root of the tree where she was sitting.

"Are you alright?" a raven haired boy said to her. Scared, she tried to tear her hair away from where it got stuck. In pain from pulling her hair, tears fell from her eyes. The raven haired boy was surprised from her tears, and decided to wipe it away. With nothing to use, he wiped the tears away with his hand. The sudden physical action stilled Mikan and stared back at the young boy and she felt calm from the little warm hands that cupped her checks.

"Are you Hurt?" said the worried boy but she only stared back, not talking. The boy looked at her carefully and soon he noticed her hair got stuck to the roots of the tree and tried to untangle it and succeeded.

"Are you alright?" asked the boy but no response was said. The boy let go of her hair and looked at her again.

"Hey, who are you? What are you doing?" the boy asked in curiosity. No words were spoken. She was so focused on the crimson eyes of the young boy, that she didn't hear him talking to her.

"Natsume" the boy suddenly said, Mikan faced him with a questioning look. He smiled back, happy that somehow he got her attention.

"My name is Natsume, Natsume Hyuuga. But Natsume is fine, you? What is your name?" She smiled and when she was about to tell him her name. Her friend dolphin showed out of nowhere, cutting their first conversation. He was surprised to see a dolphin out of nowhere but he stayed calm, then he noticed that it seems to be talking to the girl in front of him.

The dolphin doesn't seem to notice his presence at first, but when Mikan turn back at him to look at the young boy. He was surprised with the boy's presence, he bit her by the tail and swim back to the sea. Mad and in pain Mikan swam back to get her revenge. But she didn't fail in telling him her name, not at all.

The young boy's mind was filled with her name, he didn't notice the fish tail of his new found friend. He hoped that they will here meet again.

The next day, Natsume woke up early, ate his breakfast, took a bath and played a bit with his blonde friend. While playing with his friend, he came across to a ring that he found on his toy box and gave it to his blonde friend. The blonde refused saying its ugly, but he insisted on giving it to him, so he won't be able to see it again in his toy box.

They were pushing the ring on each other; they decided to play a bet. He, who lose will keep the toy ring that looks funny and ugly. Unfortunately for him, he lost the bet and placed it in his pocket. Hours later after lunch, his blonde friend already went home with his mommy.

Around 3, he decided to go to the forest where he met his new friend. Thinking she will not be there, but there she is the mysterious person he met yesterday. But this time, she was still inside the water with only her shoulders and face in the air. The girl swam towards the boy, which made her tail being shown.

The boy was surprised that he fell on his butt, while pointing to the tail that he failed to noticed yesterday. The young mermaid turned around, looking for what the young boy was pointing but failed to notice what it was and continued to swim towards him.

''You got fish tail'' Natsume uttered slowly almost a whisper to himself. The young mermaid stared at the boy carefully and realized what he was pointing.

"You have fish tail" the boy repeated, but this time louder.

She smiled a smile that almost reached her ears and said "Yep, I have one. Want to touch my tail?" she asked.

Although he was surprised, he was still interested in what he saw. He gulped and nodded his head, she placed her tail in front of him and he touched her tail with his index finger.

"Very slimy" he said,

"Thanks" she replied back. With questioning look, he stared at her but shrugged it off.

After a while, they started to have their conversation. They enjoyed their conversation that they didn't notice the time. When suddenly, someone was shouting or more like looking for someone "NATSUME" came from the loud man, looking for his son. They stared at each other for a while.

"Let's meet here again?" She asked. He too enjoyed their talk and nodded his head.

Happy that she found a new friend, Mikan placed her hand behind her neck and took her necklace off. She grabbed his hand and placed it in his palm.

"Nice to meet you again Natsume, I'll give you this necklace. It means that we are now friends"

The boy was not happy when he realized he didn't have anything to give to her in exchange, but then he remembered the toy ring that he had. He pulled it out and gave it to Mikan.

"I know it's ugly and funny, but when I get older. I'll give you another one" and he smiled. The girl took it and wore it on her finger and smiled back at him. They shook each others hands with a smile on their face and they separate ways.

She was already out of sight when the boy looked back at her. Big hands came out of nowhere and placed him on the big man's shoulder.

"What are you doing here, Natsume?" His father asked.

The boy only smiled at his dad and said "Just looking at the sea."

"Oh my, are you an old man Natsume?" his father joked.

"We better go home now; your mom might kill us if we're still not at home yet". The boy smirked and replied to his father back

"You mean she will kill YOU, if I am still not at home yet." He teased while smirking and raced his father home.

Mikan arrived at the sea kingdom happily, she was about to head straight to her room when her father greeted her.

"Where have you been Mikan?" her father asked

"outside playing with the turtles" came her reply smiling at her father and went straight to her room.

Curios, her father stared at her daughter's playmate, the dolphin. In hopes he will tell him, but puu just shrugged his head from left to right while raising his flipper a bit, as a sign that he knows nothing.

The next day, everything was fine. Fishes swimming back and forth, some are in a hurry while some are just swimming slowly, some are enjoying their food before they started their day.

Mikan was having fun with her playmates, swimming around the area trying to catch each other's tail so they will be 'it'. They enjoyed their game, unknown to them. Someone was lurking and hiding around the area they were playing. This suspicious person is named as Izumi Yukihira, the king of their kingdom, father of Mikan Yukihira.

Ever since that day, he is very much eager to know why his only daughter looked so much happy. Although he should be happy that his daughter is happy, but his curiosity killed the cat. So he decided to follow her one and only daughter.

Minutes later. The small mermaids, merman and some small fishes decided to bid their goodbye, since they got tired. Thinking that his daughter will go home now, he was surprised to see his daughter swam to another direction opposite from their home. He followed her daughter silently, he was more surprised when his daughter went up the land with only her tail on the water. He went up but only her eyes can be seen.

There, he was shocked and surprised from what he saw. His daughter was breaking their rules, the Rules that he kept on telling her to follow and never forget no matter what. Angry, he wanted to swim towards them and separate them. But he tried to calm down and decided to go home.

After hours of talking and playing, the two toddlers had enough with their conversation and decided to go home soon, since the boy's Father started to shout out loud calling for his name again. They bid their farewell to each other and separate ways again, hoping to see each other again tomorrow.

Upon arriving Mikan saw her father and greeted him. His father asked her where she went. In fear that she will be scolded if he knew about her Human Friend, she decided to lie.

Angry and felt betrayed, he shouted at his daughter that he knew about her Human Friend. Fear was clear in her eyes and turned to his dolphin friend for help, but her friend was scared and hides at the wall far from them.

His father calmed down a bit and forbid his daughter in meeting her friend again, and warned her "If you will not obey. You shall not be allowed to go to the human world again, even you turn 16. Crystal?" Mikan tried to oppose but before she could say anything, her father pointed his finger towards her room.

"Not another word, you disobeyed our rules." in defeat, the young mermaid started to sobbed and tugged at her fin.

Her father sighed and tilted her head to face him "Mikan, please Understand, I don't know what will happen to you and I don't want to lose you. Like what happened to your mom. Please? Please understand? Okay Mikan?" His daughter nodded her head and tears from her eyes floated and hugged her father.

After they had their dinner, Mikan bid goodnight to her father and went to her room without another word.

Morning came and Mikan woke up grumpy, remembering what happened yesterday. But after hours of thinking she still wants to meet her human friend and decided to disobey her father's orders one last time and went to meet her human friend.

She went to look for Natsume but found nothing; she started to wait with a smile when she noticed a piece of paper stuck between the rocks. She grabs it and started to unfold the paper and found that something was written inside. She read what it was, after reading the letter a tear fell from her eyes, while holding the ring in her left hand.

END

If you want to know what is written in the paper here it is.

To: Mikan

I'm sorry Mikan, we might not be able to meet each other again. It was so sudden, you already know that I will be a big brother soon right? Well, it seems that I will be a Big Brother today. :D This morning my mommy felt her tummy hurts and daddy told me, I should start packing my things. I don't know when we will meet again but I promise you that I will never forget you, so you should not forget me too, okay? Oh yeah, Mommy told me that the necklace you gave me is beautiful and she wants to meet you too. Hope you wouldn't mind. I think I should be going now, the car will be here soon. byebye. Hope we will meet again

From: Natsume

P.S I'll treasure this necklace you gave me, so you should treasure the ring to.

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God Bless,

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