headcanons for ukai meeting and falling for a flirtatious and sassy merrmaid for the supernatural au?

The
trip to the beach was supposed to be relaxing but taking twelve rowdy boys to a
place filled with exposed skin was a decidedly bad idea.
Thankfully,
Ukai had the foresight to bring Sakeo along and she is more than willing to
help keep them in line.
Before
long their addiction to volleyball outweighs the rush of their hormones and the
boys are happily playing skins versus shirts; now garnering the attention of
the females they were formerly oogling. The entire situation gives Ukai a
headache.
He
goes for a stroll, finding the opening to a cave and the little boy in his soul
can’t help exploring it. Upon entry, however, his adult self is back in full
force when the sight of a decidedly beautiful woman comes into view.
She
greets him with a bright smile, waving him over to join her. Lost in a trance
of sorts, he complies, shucking his shirt and entering the pool she’s in,
finding the water surprisingly warm.
It’s
when he gets closer that he notices…she has a tail; a mermaid tail. At which
point he faints dead away into the water.
He
awakens drenched upon his back on the sandy floor, his vision filled with her
face. When she sees he’s ok she giggles. “If you wanted a kiss, you could have
just asked,” she teases. It takes a minute for him to realize she saved his
life.

She
pouts a bit, crossing her arms. “That’s because there’s not many of us left.”
Her voice is sadder now, eyes staring into the distance. But she snaps out of
it quickly, eyes landing on him once more. “So, tell me about yourself, you’re
the first human I’ve actually met!”
Ukai
sits up, leaning against the stone of the cave and talks. He tells her about
himself, his life, his team, his fears, his dreams, all of it. It’s like she’s
unlocked his ability to be honest with his feelings for the first time in
decades simply because he knows, there’s no one for her to tell these things to.
She
shares about herself as well, the vast distances she’s traveled and the beauty
in the depths of the sea not experienced by humans.

“Do
you want to go there?” she asks excitedly.
“How?
I can’t breathe underwater.”
“Silly
goose,” she teases pushing against his chest, the touch warming him all the way
through, “don’t you think if I’m real, magic is real too?”

Ukai
agrees he never considered that. And so, from that day on he’d meet with her
once a week on the weekend, traveling far and wide within the sea.
Their
relationship blossoms into deep love, their shared experiences treasured by
both.

“I
want to stay with you,” he confesses one day years later. He’s no longer a
coach, the last of “his boys” from the original team he started with long gone
to college and into their own adult lives. He’s stayed in touch but he knows, no
human woman will ever fill the void of his mermaid princess.
“Then
let’s go see the witch doctor,” she advises.

When
all the preliminaries are set, he asks if he can say goodbye to his family and
friends. She agrees, and so he goes, one by one to each of his boys, explaining
that he’s leaving for good. At first, they don’t understand, don’t believe him,
think he’s crazy. But he gets them all to agree to come to the shoreline on a
certain date at a certain time.
And
in the sight of his former team, Takeda and the girls included, Ukai undergoes
his transformation. Gone are his legs, replaced by a brilliant orange tail.
There’s many tears of goodbye, but most of them are happy since Ukai is so
overjoyed to finally be able to travel with his love for the rest of his life.
The
two, mermaid and man, wave goodbye to their shoreline friends, promising to
come back in a year’s time to see them.
And
none of them ever miss those meetings.

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