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Kiko's face drew a blank look, as if she were thinking 'what the hell?'. She sat for a moment, and let the waves splash over her legs, still sitting in the cool water. Then, Kiko looked sleepy. Really sleepy. She gave Ichi the sheepish grin he had seen at the Chunin exams, and spoke in the slurred tone, indicating that she was going to have another sleepy moment soon. "Now whaddya think bout that? Tha ocean's....just....sand....with....wa-" Kiko swayed back and forth, and plopped backwards into the water, head floating just lightly above the surface.
By the Sea

He'd been keeping his gaze set on the ground in front of him, eyeing all of the sticks and shells and dried seaweed and wondered why it was that people loved to come here so much, but his head snapped up when Seika said she liked his company. At first he found that hard to believe. He wasn't particularly interesting or fun or any of those other things that people liked each other for. But apparently, there was someone who found reason to like his company. So unfamiliar with this, he wasn't at all sure of how to react. "Ehhh... well, once you spend so much time alone.... it doesn't seem so bad anymore." he murmured, unsure of his own words. Before meeting Seika, he'd never had a friend. And you can't really miss what you've never had, so he didn't, and being alone never seemed so horrible to him. Especially when his only other comany were his brother and his lackeys. But.... now that she WAS his friend, he had to admit.. it was pretty nice. So, he let himself be dragged along for the ride.

He listened to her well detailed plan, he got confused about half way through when she mentioned.... "water ballons." A look of utter confusion crossed his face and he regarded Seika with questioning eyes and a raised eyebrow. He knew what baloons were, but... water ballons? "Um, Seika-chan? ...What are water ba-AH!" One of her particularly hard yanks on his arm jerked him forward a bit too hard and he tripped over a piece of driftwood. The force sent him crashing onto Seika, flattening her in the sand underneath him. "MMPH!" he grunted as he fell on her. He winced a bit as they crashing into the sand, and when he opened his eyes he found himself staring right into Seika's eyes.... with his lips pressed against her's. Ren blushed such a deep red, it was as if his cheeks had been painted with blood. His eyes went so wide they almost poped out of his head. It took a while for him to register what just happened, during which he didn't move, half out of shock. But, when he finally came around, Ren hurriedly pushed himself up so he was off her and he stammered, "I-I'm so sorry! I- I didn't mean to- I-...." Oh, there were no words he could say right now. He couldn't even move any farther. He remained proped up by his arms above her, one on either side of her body, hands in the sand, trying to keep them steady so to avoid a repeat performance. While they held, they were shaking a bit. Aw man, what would she do to him now? Would the snake attack him, would she hit him? If she did, he'd just figure he had it coming for being such a clumsy idiot! He.... he had no friggin idea what to do now! His brain was far beyond short-circuiting now, it had more or less exploded. He just- but he didn't mean to- it was all-. There's no need to continue, by now you should get the picture. What freaked him out most was.... he didn't actually... regret it. Acknowledging that thought made him blush deeper.

~*Yuzuki*~

Yuzuki was slowily licking away at her icecream as Kishi was explaining how his little adventure went in the land of Sand. She paused injesting the sweet, yummy substance when he mentioned that he captured the Kazekage's sister in the process of completing his mission. Yuzuki's eyebrows slowly raised and her head turned towards him, the achievement obviously peeked her interest enough to let her forget that icecream that was in her hands temporarily.
"The Kazekage's sister? Re~ally?" She certainly didn't think that Kishi was lying to her. If anyone could lead a band of hobo's in the dessert to snatch a sandwich cart and the sister of the singlarly most powerful man in the Sand village... Kishi probably wouldn't have been her first pick of people who could pull it off. But she didn't doubt that he could... she hardly knew him but had a feeling that the half of him that was ninja could be absolutly terrifying in combat. "So... did you dismember a small portion of her body to send to the Kazekage and demand a huge randsom so that when he came after you he ended up being lured into a huge trap? With such a valuable piece in your hand, you could have gotten some nice, rare and powerful jutsu after you backstabbed your hobo allies and gave her back to the Kazekage, to have a man that powerful under your thumb would have given you a magnificent amount of power so long as he owned you a boon."
Yuzuki then nonchalontly started to lick at her icecream again, visions of grandeur temporarly put aside so that she could work on the cold treaty goodness of here and now. Yuzuki didn't really care what Shuniji thought of her and her little points of veiw concerning positions of power and the trechery that she would use in order to obtain it.

"Summer in the land of clouds this year has actually been pretty mild... disappointing really, sadly... winter is coming quickly so I'm just trying to get that last bit of warmth in before that blasted snow hits." Yuzuki shuttered, her eyes closed and frowned. "I hate the friggin cold..."
As Kishi went on his daydream about the types of fires that warmed the cokels of his heart, Yuzuki opened an eye and gave a bit of a devious smirk to the man beside her. A wicked soft chuckle echoed in her throat. "My dear Shuniji-kun; nothing about Kishi is normal... and he may very well give you a lecture about how dry and unremarkable the ninja have become... you should be greatful that he's not like everyone else. Its people like him that make people like us feel that much more comfortable about our personal levels of sanity (or lack there of)." Yuzuki grinned a little devilishly and went back to her icecream for a while. The beach needed a big wheel of things to do for those who want to try something new or have never been to the beach before. As she worked on her icecream she head a small group of locals mention something about body surfing as they passed by. Yuzuki's eyebrows quirked up a little and she turned her head.

Body Surfing? Sounded.... kinky. She wondered how that would work? Normally you'd need something boyant to stand on that was at least as long if not longer than you were.
Luckily Shuniji was taller than she was.
Yuzuki tilted her head slightly and looked Shuniji up and down for a moment before an attractive smile bloomed over her face. "I think that I know exactly what we're going to be doing next for our beach activity while we wait for nightfall so we can have that bonfire and cookout you were taking about. We're going body surfing... and your going to be my body-board. I hope your chakra control is good, because I need you to stay boyant while I ride on you. So take your time and enjoy your icecream, my dear Shuniji-san, because for the next little while, your going to be mine." Yuzuki chuckled almost wickedly to herself, then paused to take a few licks of her icecream again before finishing her omninous chuckle. She looked over at Kishi. "I'll be back after body boarding to snatch up your scorpion helper Kishi.... he's just too damn cute."

"Keeseeseesee~ You genin and your illusions of grandeur~" Kishi chided playfully. "Nooo~ Last I checked, that dear, old hobonobber of mine and her got along pretty well, cranky broad that she was~"

Suddenly, he slammed his hands down on the counter (causing the scorpion hanging there to bounce up) and leaned forward.

"And I got the most delicious sandwich out of it!!"

...It was almost too obvious that Kishi would do something like that for a sandwich. The tiny counter scorpion clicked its pincers in agreement.

Kishi pulled back, returning to his calmer state, though still quite pleased with his "accomplishments". He only became more mirthful after hearing Yuzuki's take on body surfing.

"Keesee~ Yessir, honeybee, you're lucky enough to spend the day with ragamuffin here. The least you could do is-keesee-be a proper surfboard for her~"

He degenerated into a series of staccato keesees.

Shuniji felt himself twitching at this weirdo's... weirdness. He normally wouldn't have believed a word of this guy's exploits, but Yuzuki's unhindered interest helped back him up. ...Which just made him creepier. He kept a sharp gaze on the man, but relented when Yuzuki chastised him for it. Being threatened with normalcy was a weak point for him.

"I haven't been outside the village in a month. The Land of Rice is extremely humid, so I'm not complaining. It makes it a blessing the Hidden Sound Village is entirely underground," he sighed, joining the conversation at hand as a sign of defeat. His attention picked up at the sound of literal body surfing, particularly whose body was to be involved.

"Last I checked, it was called body surfing because you lie down on a short board rather than stand on a standard surf board," he tried to explain, but was cut off by Kishi who was pointedly not helping.

"NO. DON'T EVEN. I WILL MELT YOUR EYES."

Kishi kept laughing, though. Shuniji wasn't sure whether it was because he wasn't being taken seriously, or if this guy didn't even have eyes. Both seemed fairly plausible.

Wipe Out

~*Yuzuki*~

Yuzuki visiably grimaced with the sound of Shuniji getting smacked in the face with a thick gelatinous substance. Not that she was worried about, nor had any empathy towards Shuniji, it was just that the sound almost made her feel that herself. When Shuniji turned to smile sweetly at her, she cocked her head to the side slighty and listened to his request. Although she very much wanted to take him body surfing, she wouldn't deny him the opertunity for reveneange. She smiled back, just as sweetly, closing her eyes and giggling a little.
"Oh that sounds like a marvlously fun beach time activity... but don't forget that you owe be a body surfing... other than that I suppose that you could go and have some fun." Yuzuki wouldn't mind helping, but seeing the level of jutsu that he was able to pull off and the fact that she was his partner, it probably put them at least one rank of ninja higher than her. So she would be of little help, especially if she didn't have her ninja tools.