Endless Summer [Kaito & Blades]

Kaito would accept the individual's offer of help in getting back to his feet.

"Thanks." He said stoically as he brushed the sand off of his khaki cargo shorts and green muscle tanktop. Looking down at the ground he could see a little boy, probably no more than six or seven years-old, crying hysterically. They had a little blue plastic bucket and a blue plastic shovel to match. Whatever it was they were making had stood no chance against the Uchiha's weight, and it came crumbling down as Kaito did.

"Oh geez..." He gritted his teeth solemnly and knelt down beside the boy, placing a delicate hand upon his shoulders. "I am so so sorry that I crushed your... your..."

"M-my sandcastle!" Wailed the kid, acting as though he had just been hit head-on by a powerful technique. The boy began to cry harder and louder, and this would draw the attention of some of the other beachgoers. Kaito would blush with embarrassment.

"Yes. Your sandcastle..." He said with a defeated sigh.

The other individual standing with Kaito and the boy would then speak up. They informed Kaito that they were at a place called "Mikadzuki Beach" and that they needed some assistance in manning the lifeguard tower. Kaito couldn't help but tilt his head askew, trying to remember what had happened to him in a similar fashion only a few months before. He had been there with Yusuke, Sebastian, a man named Niento, and the Lord Third Kazekage. Then, after the realization that it had been at the "Eastertide Fairgrounds", he was able to draw the conclusion that this event and that one were similar in nature.

'Gosh. I didn't realize that becoming a shinobi entitled me to getting sent off to these otherworldly places so often...'

Kaito, feeling a bit apprehensive about the whole thing, was about ready to take off back in the direction that he had come, but upon seeing the kid continue to cry and hearing the other person's assistance in helping said child fix the sandcastle, Kaito couldn't bring himself to leave just yet. With another defeated sigh, the False Inuzuka would let out another defeated sigh and place a delicate hand upon the child's head to ruffle up their hair. It drew a bit of laughter from them, making Kaito himself smile.

"I guess that is the only fair thing to do." He replied cheerfully.

Without hesitation, he would pick up the bucket and shovel and make short work of filling them up and helping to make some awesome-looking towers. He would also show off to the child a bit, insisting on using his proficiency in Earth-Release to help sturdy the castle and ground around it so that it would not fall down. Once done with that, instead of walking back and forth between the ocean and the castle, he would fill up the mote that they made around their creation with some Water-Release generated water.

After a short while, Kaito and the child would walk about a meter away from the castle they made to admire it. Kaito placed the boy upon his shoulders so that they could get a birdseye view of it, and this made their day. This too made Kaito happy, who had been having a rough time of being happy otherwise. The experience truly did remind him of his father, who had acted just like he was when Kaito was but a child himself.

After a short while longer of spending time with the child and finishing up their sandcastle, Kaito would wave him goodbye and go off to join the other person who had greeted him at the lifeguard tower. Upon reaching them, Kaito couldn't help but feel as though he had seen them somewhere before. After thinking it over for a moment, he knew for a fact that he had seen them around before.

Not on Mikadzuki Beach, however...

Back in Sunagakure.

"Excuse me?" He asked them after a moment. "This is going to sound like a weird question, but are you from Sunagakure? I swear that I've seen you there before in passing." Kaito would allow them to respond before nodding and smiling. "Well its nice to meet you. My name is Inuz... uh... Uchiha, Kaito." Still not used to saying his real name out loud, Kaito almost always found himself stammering when he said his name. It was perhaps a bit embarrassing for him in the moment, but it didn't really matter. He would surely get used to it over time. "Please give me just a few minutes to go find a pair of swim trunks. I can't rightly be a good lifeguard if I'm dressed in this tanktop and khakis."

The Wet Dog:

After about fifteen minutes, Kaito would return with his long brown hair down and draped over his shoulders. He had removed the green muscle tanktop he sported before, revealing his rather toned body thanks to his time as a Taijutsu specialist, and he had also switched out his khaki cargo shorts for more comfortable red-orange swimming trunks. He still sported his dog tooth necklace; the only remembrance of his old ninken Kawomaru. That necklace would never leave his neck, not for anything in the world. It just meant entirely way too much to him to remove.

All in all, however, Kaito felt rather out of place. In his almost fourteen years of life he had never been to the beach. Hell, it was only a few months back that he had been to his first major festival and had his first drinks of alcohol.

'I really do live under a rock, don't I?' He asked himself.

With a bag carrying his regular clothes in tow, Kaito would shortly meet back up with Blades. He sat the bag down in the sand next to the lifeguard tower and proceeded to climb up the one next to their new companion's. The feeling of the ocean breeze upon his face felt odd, but nice at the same time. The sounds of the waves crashing blissfully and carelessly upon the sandy shores resonated with him as well, and it all made for a rather relaxing time. He couldn't stay too relaxed, however, as he was now officially on lifeguard duty. He had to stay vigilant.

"So," He would say, leaning his head in slightly towards Blades. "How did you get wrapped up into lifeguard duty? Did you volunteer?"

Blades' answer, if any, would be cut off by the sounds of people shouting from the ground below. Kaito looked down to see many people pointing out into the ocean, where about fifteen meters out into the open sea was a person frantically trying to keep their heads above the water. They were not having a good time of it, either, as harsh waves would crash down upon them and thrash them about violently. Without hesitation or warning he would stand straight up in his chair and jump down to the ground before bursting out into a run out into the ocean. He made sure to flow some of his Chakra underneath his feet, and because of this he was able to walk upon the ocean water. It was unlike anything he had ever experienced in his life, as this water was much more rough than the water back in Sunagakure, but he would perserveer.

He would not allow anybody to die on his post.

With only five meters left to run, the person's head bobbed down underneath the water. This time, however, they did not clamor back up above the surface.

"Gah!" Kaito exclaimed as he frantically dove down into the water below. The waves were pushing against him in all directions, but a few feet below he could see the drowning person. Wasting no time, he would face the waves head-on and wrap his hands around them before pulling them and himself back up to the surface. He would await help from Blades, as there would be no chance in hell of him being able to get the person back to shore himself, but once they did get back safely, Kaito would begin the CPR process. It took a few tries, but soon enough all of the water from the person's lungs would be cleared and they could semi-breath normally again.

After this, Kaito would take things easy the rest of his and Blades' shift. Thankfully, no other major events would plague the remaining seven hours, and small talk and laughs were had between the two of them. Once their replacements arrived, Kaito would take his reward and go off on his own to explore.

"It really was nice meeting you!" He exclaimed with a happy and respectful bow. "I'm sure that I'll see you around."

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