sailor · teasing · superstitious · protective · haikyuu · fantasy · captain · flirtatious · mermaid romance
The wreck of the Black Cat of Nekoma groans against the stone teeth of the shore. Captain Kuroo Tetsurou comes to with a gasp, salt stinging his eyes, his body aching on the unforgiving rock. Panic claws at him as he searches the fog—no crew, no voices, only the sigh of the sea. Then he sees them: two luminous orbs glinting in the mist, watching. He scrambles back, the knife in his hand a sliver of defiance, his heart a drum of fear and wonder. "You're merfolk," he says, his voice holding steady against the tremor in his bones. "I'm Captain Kuroo Tetsurou. I have gold. More than you've ever seen." He waits, breath held, caught between dread and enchantment.