Hitone didn't care about the fact that Ari, his father, is a merman. That he spent most of his time in a wheelchair, had a tail and an aversion to covering his chest. That he had red hair and blue eyes. No. It really didn't bother him. He loved his dad as he was. The problem was elsewhere.
Fact that Hitone was a nymph - this was real problem. Unlike his little brother, this was what annoyed him. That he wasn't a human and he wasn't a merman either. He was an abomination, mutant, something that probably shouldn't even exist.
He had twocolour hair, but it didn't matter. Worse than this was the fact that as soon as he touched the salt water, he turned into a merman and only could wave his tail for the next twenty four hours! He was annoyed that nymphs can't control it. And he'd even prefer to live in water, if he could.
Tooru didn't care about it and even laughed when he touched salt water and had to sit in the bathtub, but Hitone...
If his mum was a nymph, they would live under the water since forever and they wouldn't even go to the mainland.
But their mum was a human.
Yes, Manako born as normal human woman. Or maybe not so normal. After all, she was very tolerant of all species. Which doesn't happen that often. In fact, almost not at all.
Hitone thought that it could be a good idea to use Ayame Kessho to erase crosbreeds. He wanted to give them a choice. That they could choose to be mermaids or humans, for the example. He didn't want to be a human. So he decided to go for a for the opportunity to be a full-fledged mermaid for himself and Tooru, as he called it in his mind.
"Are we going only with Sanoi?" asked Hitone.
"I don't think so" replied Fumiru. "But I won't run around all Aoumi and ask who wants to go with us."
"And your cousins?"
The noctilucas were Fumiru's, Sanoi's and Hitone's cousins, but Hitone wasn't Fumiru's and Sanoi's cousin. They were just noctilucas' cousins from two sides of family.
"They said that they'll probably go with us" replied Sanoi. "But I don't know. And if, they'll go, they'll take Sabukai and Onisakura with them. They will catch up with us."
"So, Sanoi" Fumiru looked at him. "Do you think that Aki..."
"HELLO, EVERYONE!" they heard suddenly.
Fumiru cut his sentence, Hitone looked pre-infarct, and Sanoi just smiled.
They saw a man with tanned skin, orange eyes and colorful hair. A membrane was growing between his fingers.
"Akinji told me that if he won't oversleep, he'll come. But I gave him an ultimatum that if he won't be here on time, we won't wait for him" Sanoi explained.
"This was a motivation to get up before ten o'clock!" Akinji was excited.
"It's 3PM" noticed Hitone.
"I know, but I had to eat a breakfast and dinner. Have you ever eaten a dinner made by my mum? Probably not. Believe me, I can't miss it" said Akinji. "So, dad was grumpy about it and said that I should stay, because I don't need this flower, but I can't miss such great adventure, right?"
"You're right" nodded Fumiru, doubting whether he should agree to Akinji's participation in this expedition.
Akinji was a triton. Tritons were hybrids of sirens and chimeras. They differed from nymphs in that they had membranes between their fingers, their hair was multicolored and their skin was tanned. But their tail grew under the same circumstances.
Akinji's mum was also a triton. Crossbreed ffsprings could have children with themselves and with their parents' species.
Akinji's father was a chimera. A little mean workaholic, but Ayaka-san knew how to deal with him after all these years of marriage.
"So? We're going or not?" Akinji smiled radiantly, adjusting the orange bag on his shoulder, then walked forward with lively steps.
"Who's that?" asked Hitone.
"Sanoi's best friend" explained Fumiru, when Sanoi started running, because he wanted to catch up Akinji. "But I think that they're more than friends."
"What are you talking about?"
"You will see" Fumiru laughed, fluffing Hitone's hair.
The nymph sighed.
Who knows, maybe Fumiru and Hitone someday will become "more than friends" too?
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