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"Nuuuu!" she yelled dramatically as he reached her and then felt her arm grabbed by his hands. She stopped as he caught her and then giggled as she turned around and faced him again. "Well....fine you won" she said with a fake sigh hanging her head in a deafted way. "But honesly I'm a neko, we're not the best swimmers!" she said sticking out her tongue but laughing again. "Thanks for being my friend Hideki, I'll always be there for you" she said as she nuzzled up against his neck.

Kimonto smiled brightly as she nodded her head happily and giggled again, yet again oblvious to the pink in his cheeks. "Whatcha want to do now?" she asked him curiously as she streatched and then swam around him in a circle. She was trying to make him dizzy but ended up making herself that way and rested her head on his shoulder. "I'm up for anything, just something less...dizzy" she said her eyes swirling around for a few minutes before she managed to gain control again. She looked up to him grinning again as she waited for an answer patiently.

"No it sounds good, its all good, let's just go, I'm in a hurry all of the sudden!" she said giggling again. She tugged on his arm swimming with him over the edge as she got out and grabbed a towel. This time she did take her clothes and went into the room to change, she came out wearing her normal clothing and her now wet, blonde hair was out. She ran her fingers through it as she chewed on a piece of new bubble gum and waited for him patiently. She liked him a lot, but she knew she couldn't tell him that, not after her promise. She would stick to it no matter what, unless he said otherwise, they would just be friends, she thought firmly.

Kira scooted over towards Rivera and put his arm around her shoulders gently. "This is perfect... Nothing like a break from training..." He said softly. The warm water and hot steam felt so good. He hated the fact that his body appeared seventeen yet was only really around a few months old and already had deep scars in it, but he didn't care. Everything was perfect, and having Rivera nearby made things better. He sighed happily and kissed rivera's cheek. "So then... After we're done here... What will the next lesson be?" He asked curiously.

Rivera snuggled a little closer to him as well, laying the side of her face against his chest. She was quite small compared to him... the better to out run him with. "The next lesson deals with speed as well as accuracy and stealth. I'm going to make you race me through three courses while shooting moving targets and trying not to get hit by other projectiles. It's all complicated... I'll work it out for you later." She moved away from him and stood behind him. "You've been stressed a lot... " Rivera spoke softly as she massaged his shoulders and his back. Because she fought a lot and came back sore all over, Kai often used what he learned of massage therapy in books. She knew by common sense what she should do.

Wolfsbane, leaving his clothes at a rock, slides into the hotspring carrying a bucket of cleaning supplies. He grabs a bar of soap and rubbs it all over his hands, then begins wasing his arms and neck, his torso hidden under the murky water and the haze of mist. When he'd finished that, he grabbed a bottle of shampooh, ducked his head under water to wet it, rubbed the stuff in thoroughly, then rinsed and shook his head (much like a dog) to dry it. Finally, he laied against the wall and relaxed, letting the warmth seep all over him and through him. A black cat sat, twitching it's tail atop a rock nearby. He notaced it, smiled, and closed his eyes, finally relaxing fully.

"I'm glad you like it. It's good for you, but it's not icky... like peas." That was the stupidest analogy she had ever made. Rivera wasn't good with words. She butchered literature and tossed it out to the hawks. She thought the moral to Cinderella was 'having small feet is pretty' and the moral to the Tortoise and the Hare was 'drug your opponents if you can at all costs'. The moral for the story of Adam and Eve's expulsion for her was 'don't wear clothes'. But she wouldn't tell Kira that she had failed every single literature class there was except for creative writing, where scraped a B-minus.

Working her way down his back, she loosened out all the kinks and tightnesses in his muscles. Drawing squiggly lines down his lower spine was something Kai had taught her. It loosened waist muscles and helped with flexibility. It also helped that she was doing all this underwater. Usually doing it in the colder air gave unpleasant shocks in the first few moments.