19A new story? Nah, I already write this story quite some time. I think it wills only a short one, I guess. I still want to focus more on my JR fic. Anyway, I thought maybe I just publish it to look if I need to continue this story or not so please review. Maybe I will try to update it.
SIH is not mine and sorry for any mistake.
Part 1: Meeting you again…
Absolute Romance, Absolute Romance
Dream of it and it'll come true.
A huge romance way carrying you along
An actual romance, A real romance.
I will offer this way to love only you, I won't leave you alone anymore.
Slowly, a small merman swam across the subzero sea. His eyes diverted towards the mainland, searching. His small scaly blue tail matched the sea's sapphire color, making it invisible in the water. The droplets slowly trailed down from his chocolate hair, passing by his beautiful emerald eyes.
A sudden explosion shocked the boy. Immediately he could see an inferno coming from a villa just a few hundred meters from the shore. Ritsu dived into the sea and flew through the icy water as fast as lightning. He looked up from the shallow water and he saw an injured boy thrown into the nearby rocky sea. He immediately swam in the direction, carefully not to attract attention from the scary looking humans. When he reached there, he dived deeper into the sea, searching for the missing boy.
Then, he caught the sight of the black hair youth. Immediately, he grabbed the unconscious boy and swam to the shore away from the villa. He hid the boy behind a big chuck of stone that surely humans could not see from up above.
"What I'm gonna do with him?" The mer-boy looked to the human. He could see a wound on his shoulder, blood dripped slowly from the tear. Suddenly, golden orbs greeted the boy's sight. The human was shocked to see him but his face quickly morphed into an expression of pain as he gasped out loud. The human looked to the injury and sighed.
"Are you ok?" The mer-boy asked in concern. His beautiful tail splashed in the water, as if he were wiggling his tail.
"I'm ok… anyway, who are you? Don't tell me I died and went to the heaven." The black hair boy rubbed his injured shoulder gingerly.
"You haven't dying yet. What the hell is heaven when you're bleeding like that? Anyways, I'm a merman. Ritsu is my name…" Ritsu slowly eliminated the gap between them.
"I'm Takano. I presume that you saved me, right?" Takano looked to the beautiful jade eyes. He was mesmerized with the beauty of the orbs decorating the water dweller.
"Yeah. I was on my way home when I heard a big explosion coming from the mainland so I went to see what had happened. Then, I saw you being dragged by those two men. I figured that I should save you from the sea what with the water being very cold and the waves very strong today." Ritsu explained to the boy. They were having a very nice chitchatting before a second explosion went off.
"You better go now. It will be dangerous if you stay on the land for a long time." Takano ran his fingers through the boy's hair.
"But… you…"
"I'm ok. Go now. I need to return to the house." With this, their short meeting ended. For the next few days, Ritsu kept going to that place but he never saw the boy again…
"I'm home~" A young merman came whizzing through the deep-sea water. He smiled while holding a plastic bag filled with some food from the mainland. He was greeted by a swarm of little water sprites.
"Nii-chan!Okairi~" A young princess looking mermaid hugged her older brother. Akari smiled to her brother, looking at the red plastic bag.
"It's that for us, Ritsu-ni?" Akari, with shiny stars in her deep purple eyes, peeped at the content of the gift.
"Yeah, it's all for my cute little sisters and brothers." Ritsu smiled beautifully at his siblings. He averted his gaze to the side and saw his father who was certainly enjoying himself bathing in the limited sunlight coming from the surface of the sea.
"Father, didn't go to work again today?" Ritsu asked Akari who was enjoying the fish snack. Her little cute eyes looked up at her brother.
"No. He just slept at home when you went to the mainland." Akari opened the warp and stuffed the snack into her mouth. Little Jullya and Jun were happily sharing their snack together, while the older Lily was enjoying the desert like jelly that wrapped in a colorful wrapper.
"Seriously?…sigh. What he has ever done after mother died? Anyway, Akari did you mind your sisters and brothers?" Ritsu asked in a serious tone.
"Ritsu-ni, I do my jobs so you don't need to worry about them." Actually, Akari was already fifteen years old and the oldest daughters of Onodera family. Their mother passed away two years ago. She had been injured when accidentally a razor sharp propeller cut her tail. Actually, his mother was on her way to the main land with his father when a big ship suddenly moved near them. For a mermaid cutting your own tail is like killing yourself as the tail is the symbol of life for the water creature.
Back to the siblings, Ritsu was the oldest child in the family. He was twenty-five years old while the twins, Jullya and Jun were ten years old and Lily twelve. They lived somewhere in the deep part of the vast ocean about a kilometer from the nearest bay where the human's industry run, making the bay busy. Being the oldest, Ritsu had to work to support their family as his father had lost the motivation to work with humans as his wife was killed by them. Although Ritsu was sad that his mother died when they really needed her, he had to think positively.
Actually, their tribes was located somewhere deep in the Serene Blue sea. They were separated on their return home when Ritsu was only nine years old. Sixteen years had passed and they lived comfortably in their castle like house. It was the only thing that they had since their fortune was running low. It was because of this, Ritsu had to work for the sake of his siblings.
Enough with talk! In basic, Ritsu worked as a new secretary in a publishing company. He was accepted after his fifth interview and he was very delighted. He had made an accomplishment in his life.
Being a merman was very fun sometimes; you can go from one place to another faster than taking land transportation along while takes a break by playing in the water. However, it had being past down generation to generation that a mermaid or a merman can never tell a lie that will affect another being. If they do that then they will burst into sea foam if the person doesn't forgive them before the sunsets. This was because of the legend of the Mermaid Princess where she fell in love with a prince but she could not confess her love and in the end, she was turned into sea foam.
It is difficult to find and seems to be having a long life trip
If you become aware that it's an old tale again, Wake up!
It's a new day. The happy young merman swam in the deep blue ocean. He had an hour before he had to go to the office so he thought he could go to a nearby store to buy the bandage for his cut. While cutting the seaweed, Jullya and Jun accidently bumped into him making he cut his right hand. Thankfully, it had been shallow.
Ritsu swam happily accompanied by a school of colorful fish. He diverted his eyes to see the underwater scenery. He popped his head out of the water to be greeted by the nearest land mass. Swiftly, he leapt from the swallow water and transformed himself into a normal human. His scaly beautiful tail turned into a pairs of human legs. Although he had changed, his legs still had the scaly skin. This showed that they would always be a water dweller although they didn't want to at the moment.
Ritsu make his way to the nearby medical store. Happily, he opened the door and walked to the shelf and took the bandage that he needed. He spotted a bottle of vitamins and decided to buy it too. He also bought a bottle of herb and strawberry scented lotion. He needed the lotion as he was too exposed to the sunlight, making his skin dry. For his species, drying out meant death.
A loud bang shocked the boy. He glanced to the door to see a black hair man walked slowly forwards like he was some kind of zombie. The man supported himself on the wall and the shelf of the counter.
"Give me some aspirin!" Ritsu could see how desperate the man was. He looked like he could collapse any second. Ritsu glanced to his hand when he felt the touch of a small box. He looked to the box and immediately he took it and walked to the counter with his things.
"Here the aspirin, mister…" Ritsu put the small white box on the counter near the man. Ritsu could see the man gaze on him but he just ignored it.
"I want to buy this, sir. And pay for the aspirin too" Ritsu put down the things he had chosen earlier. The cashier took the things and scanned them.
"It's will be ten thousand yen, please." The cashier smiled softly to him. Ritsu took out some money and paid for them.
"Thank you." With that, Ritsu took the bag and was about to make his way to the door when the man from earlier grabbed his hand, making the boy looked back.
"I can pay for it… you know. You don't need to pay for it." The black hair guy smirked at the boy, like he was teasing him.
"Don't bother with it. Can you let go off my hand?" Ritsu directed his eyes at the hands. The man released his tight grip letting the boy go.
"And you should thank someone when they help you rather than saying that you can pay for it. I was not that stingy that I wouldn't give my money to help others." With that, Ritsu walked past the door and slowly disappeared from the man's sight. The Man huffed slowly as he had caught someone fascinating in his radar.
'That boy is very interesting…' Hurriedly, he walked past through the door after grabbed the aspirin. A shiny black limousine waited for him.
"Takano-sama, please don't barged into the store like that again. Just let me buy the medicine for you." A man in a black suit greeted Takano.
"Hatori, please. It's just a store. Nothing can happen." Takano went inside the car after the man opened the door.
"We don't know when the enemy could strike. Please refrain from doing it again."
"Yeah, whatever. Just drive. I want to go to the main office."
"Right away, sir."
Slowly the black limousine disappeared into traffic.
Ritsu stormed towards the office as fast as he could. He did not realize that it was already that late to work when he was resting at the park near the convenient store. It seems affected him badly. His skin was close to dry which could be fatal to him. He applied the lotion he bought earlier feeling the smooth moisture to seep into his skin. He checked his watch, another 5 minutes. He thinks he can reach it on time.
'I was so screw! Not just I'm late to work but the CEO of the company who I never met will come to the office today.' He marched to his office floor; feeling cold wind brushed again his smooth applied lotion skin. It calmed him down to be around cold temperature in this scorching weather although it's still could be said early in the morning. It's just half past eight.
"Ah, I made it!" Excitedly he greeted his colleague, Kisa Shouta who already worked here for a year. The said man turned his head and gave a small smile.
"Well, well, Rit-chan, why the rush? It's not the office will fled elsewhere." Kisa seem to checking his boss schedule while drinking hot coffee.
"Haha, not funny…" Ritsu managed to grab a coffee from the vending machine earlier and drank the content while arranged the document that was needed attention the most. It's being a month since he was employed but he never got to meet the man in person. Who else, not other that his boss. He sighed continued to scribble some of the pending document to be sent to Hatori. Hatori is one of the Executive Directors of the company who more like his boss for this long month as all the document that needed attention was delivered to him. This made his mind fled back to the man who was his boss. This past month many rumors could be heard. Some were saying that the CEO was a heartless soul who will work your ass off and never sympathize anyone. The former secretary before him never last for a few month, at last not a year. He sighed. So much for a job, now he got the worst job in the company which office boy looked more appealing. He hoped nothing bad happened as he really need this job now as his family was at the dire state. He needed money to support his family.
It's about an hour after that Hatori came to the office floor.
"Onodera-san, follow me." Ritsu collected himself a minute before he remembered that he will meet his new boss today. Along the way to his boss's room seem like eternity although it's just a few meter from the floor. It situated in a corner which hidden from view by the secretary floor. This company had a unique decoration and office design. There is a floor for secretary not the typical place where they will be by the boss's office but still in the same floor as their boss's office. It was to ensure that they still know each other and can rely on others.
Ritsu was nervous. His heart made a flip while his stomach clenched tight. He took breathed a few times to ease the nervousness. Not long, he reached his boss's room. Hatori knocked the door. There is a ruffled 'enter' command from the other side of the door. Hatori opened the door, Ritsu in the last second checked his appearance, smoothing the wrinkled layer of his shirt before entered the office. Hatori broke the silent.
"I come to introduce your new secretary. Would you introduce yourself?" He instructed Ritsu.
"Oh, yes. I'm Onodera Ritsu. Pleasure to meet you." Bowing a little to show respect. The man across him just held his inspection, directing his honey colored eyes to Ritsu. Finally, he spoke:
"I'm Takano Masamune. How long you already work here?" He asked.
"A month" Replied Ritsu immediately.
"Useless..." He said before looking to his paper back. Ritsu who heard that when angry with fury. 'How dare you say I'm useless… wait until I prove that.' His inner monologue tried to calm his burning heart.
"Here (Throwing a file toward Ritsu) check for any mistake and after that came back here again. Dismiss." In rage, Ritsu snatched the file and went away. Takano just smirked in amusement.
"Do you really need to anger him like that… you were so heartless…" Hatori commented.
"Well, you know me…"
"That's made me more worried." Hatori sighed.
AN: Well, tell me if I need to continue. Anyway, the song in the story is the translating of Romance Way by Issei from anime Okane ga Nai.