A hot day drew sun and Sun too to this place - Oasis in Sunagakure. This place looked very different from something you could see everyday. First of all, there was water. A big with crystal clear water. It's unsure if fish lived there because the water was constantly hot. During the night it did cool down, but soon in the day it heated up. Secondly, there were green patches and even some palms around the lake. So even if the water was hot, it could support life forms. Thirdly, there was very little sand around the lake. It all has been blown away and stacked further around like some kind of hills. These sand hills protected the inside of hot southern winds. But also due to this the ground around the lake was not sand. There were some sand ground found everywhere, of course, but you mostly walked around on hard rock. It was very unusual for Suna's citizen to place his feet on hard ground. And because of this, it was called almost a beach. Beaches usually have soft sand and seashells along the coast, but this lake had nothing like that.

Sun left her house with intent to not get distracted by anything and reach the oasis without running into a fancy shop, without petting some house animals and without getting in a mission. Especially, she didn't take her leather bag along, so in case if she saw an accident that needed immediate treatment, she had to rely only on her medical ninjutsu. Some might say that she was selfish now and only thinking about herself, but she wasn't a full time medical-nin yet. In fact, she wasn't even half-time medical-nin. She craved to become one though. And not just working in the hospital, of course, but going to the front lines and in hard missions with her fellow shinobi. Saving those who needed the saving right away, instead of waiting to get to the hospital.

Sun went to oasis springs to get tan. She wore blue shorts that didn't go past her thighs and and a yellow sleeveless shirt with straps that connected around her shoulders. Sun wanted to get sun on her skin, so she did reveal more skin that she did usually. The hair emphasized her naked shoulders since they were long enough to touch the skin, but they curled up in a way that seemed the hair was avoiding contact with the untanned surface. She didn't feel embarrassed while making her way from home to the oasis, people usually didn't put on too much clothes in this hot weather.

Upon arriving in the oasis she noticed that this place was fitted for needs of sunbathing. There were some wooden sunbathing chairs with a white cloth lied over them. Some of these chairs were already taken. Mostly by other girls who wanted to get that perfectly tanned body instead of pale white tone. Sun wanted it too, but she came here to primarily relax. First Sun run over the rock floor, because it was way hotter than sand is. She jumped on one of the free chairs and started to spend her free day carelessly: just lying in hot weather, not thinking about anything. The other women around here were eager to spend their time efficiently. They were reading some magazines or chattering among themselves. Most of them also were in bikinis to get as much tan as possible.

But that 'relaxing and not thinking about anything' part came with difficulties. Emptying her mind and falling asleep in the middle of day wasn't what Sun did usually. She was stuck thinking about all kinds of stuff. About her family, about her medical career, about that jounin she saved the other day and about that nice guy Futoshi who she ate lunch together with. Futoshi was the only male friend Sun had. She had had boys in her academy class, but they were all younger than her (due to her late start in academy) and they were all kind of jerks. Sun seemed kind of lonely there (she didn't feel like that thought) lying of her face all by herself and two sunbathing chairs unoccupied both to her left and right.
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"Good god, this heat is unbearable." Futoshi would say this under his breath after having arrived and trained for only around thirty minutes. His body was getting stronger, but not heat resistant. It seemed that even his sweat evaporated. It wasn't exactly rare for Sunagakure to be hot. That was a given. It was a desert village. This day in particular, though. This day was scorching. Not even the kids were out playing unless it was with water guns. Those didn't last long either, though, as the heat was all-defeating.

What could someone do on a day like this? Things were so limited. He could return to his home and study, making some progress with some Taijutsu manuals. That just wasn't appetizing to him, though. He wanted to face the heat in some way. He was struck at that moment by the realization of what he could do as he saw a few women walking toward the villages spring, wearing bikinis. Sunbathing sounded splendid. His body could use a decent tan.

Futoshi made his way home and packed a cooler full of some supplies and put in a pair of cargo shorts, no shirt necessary. His body was shaping up since he has made the decision to begin focusing on training. A very faint six-pack could be detailed and his biceps and triceps were muscular. Not extremely muscular, as that type of musculature seemed way excessive to him. He preferred being in shape, but not to some ridiculous macho-man physique. With his body all sun-screened up and his bag packed, he placed sunglasses on and made his way out of the door. A bit of lovely Suna breeze swept through the village, just light enough not to unsettle the sand, but strong enough that everyone on the streets looked visibly relieved. It was lovely.

As he made his way into the facility, he was thankful for sandals, as he could see people skittering across the stone ground hastily, in pain most likely. The surface had to be scorching, and he chuckled to himself. As he passed a row of bikini wearing women, he caught them looking at him. None of the other men around were as fit as he was, which gave him a bit of benefit. He didn't act on it or even say a word though as he proceeded to one of the two available chairs. He was slightly careless as he paid no mind to whom he was sitting beside, just knowing that they probably wouldn't mind, as both of the last available spots were on her either side.

He crossed one leg over the other and laid back his head, eyes closed and feeling the nice hot tinge of warmth across his form as the sunlight washed over him gently. It was pretty nice, and would actually help with the slight ache in his muscles from the intensive training he'd been doing. He thought of Sun and the lovely lunch they'd had. At this point she was really his only friend. He has many acquaintances and was friendly with everyone he met, but Sun had a special place. Was she too young though? He had only just eclipsed the age of 19, he didn't know Sun's age, only that she was petite. He tried not to dwell, after-all it was only a little lunch date.

As his eyes wandered around he realized he was definitely in a good position in life. He had successfully completed a combat mission with success, he had made his first kill as a shinobi and had maintained control. His path was clear, and life was good.

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Sun wasn't sleeping when someone approached and took the free chair on her left side. She didn't bother lifting up her face and looking who was it. It's very unlikely that it was someone she knew. Probably just another woman getting some tan. She appreciated this person keeping quiet and not disturbing the peace on this end of oasis.

As time passed and the sun changed it's shining angle, it found an object in light's path that cast a shadow on Sun's arm. The normal thing was to change her position and keep on sunbathing. But this was Sun - she got up and almost yelled at this person while pointing her finger and looking generally upset:"Hey you! Big meanie, stop blocking the sun!" She was rather confused upon seeing someone who wasn't an older woman. Instead she slowly lied down her hand and with open mouth in surprise just stared at the shirtless, muscular man that lied there. Her eyes were jealously staring at the man's body. Sun was piecing together a big puzzle: first she looked at abs (everybody finds abs hot), then the muscular chest, triceps and biceps. Her eyes also went lower and inspected those nice calves that appeared below shorts he was wearing. Piecing all these body parts together she was able to realize that this man was way bigger and stronger than she was. While thinking about it, she first regretted what she had said and slowly raised her eyes to look at the man's face.

An even bigger shock appeared on girl's face and her mouth took even rounder shape when she realized that she was adoring Futoshi. "Fast, I need to say something mean," went through her head. "Oh, it's you," she suddenly tried to fake a careless expression, "no wonder you are blocking the sunlight," it wasn't exactly mean but she started laughing anyway and fell back in her chair. She did appreciate some company, so she immediately struck a conversation:"So have you come to peek on girls in bikinis?" she started to tease him which was meaner that what she had said before. It was almost like Sun could never be serious if there wasn't someone wounded nearby. And she had an idea how to squeeze more fun out of this totally unplanned meeting.

"Well, I'll help you!" without hesitation she pulled off her yellow shirt and revealed a blue bikini top. Sun wasn't ashamed of herself teasing someone older than her. Girls loved attention, after all. And it's not like Futoshi was a 30 year old man. He was 22 at most, and Sun loved attention from someone like him. Sometimes she did fear that her attitude would anger Futoshi and he would unleash rage upon girl. But she took the risk anyway by also jumping out of her shorts and revealing blue panties this time. She didn't intend to just stand there, instead she hurried off to lake and jumped in to take a swim. Getting some ground, where water covered her up to neck, she called off to Futoshi:"Come and join me!"

These weren't exactly more dire circumstances she had imagined when they ate lunch together, but this was a more interesting and daring occasion to get know Futoshi more. Would he really follow her in the water? The water wasn't cool, it was quite warm. It wasn't refreshing and nice. You would probably sweat more whilst swimming in it, than sitting on those chairs. And there wasn't any fresh water source to drink after exercising in such a way. Sun also knew that swimming in hot day like this had bigger chance to get sunstroke or sunburn. She wasn't protected from this either. These probably were the drawbacks why no one choose to swim, but just sit on a chair and sunbathe.
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The day had gone exceptionally smooth. He already felt the nice, slightly tanned feeling spreading across him. The sun was doing it's job. The place had become slightly more busy, people were somehow using the warm pool as if it were a traditional one. Beach balls and inflatables drifted around among the heads of people that poked out above the waters surface. He had begun to work his sensory abilities while laying here, trying to determine who nearby was a civilian and who was a shinobi. Those with a stronger chakra 'feeling' were most likely to be shinobi. Those who had weak or almost non-existent signatures were civilians.

As he lay on that wooden reclining chair he felt watched, and only a second later the shouting began. He was apparently blocking someone's sun. In fact, in a literary twist, he was blocking Sun's sun. She didn't realize immediately who she was yelling at, then she stopped and slowly scanned his whole body. It was a little embarrassing to just glance over in sunglasses and know that someone you were good friends with had become shocked and enamored by your body, but he kept quiet until she saw his face and seemed completely taken aback. What did she mean by "Oh it's you."
Did his body not compliment his face or something? Was he less attractive because of who he was? These thoughts only danced about momentarily, as she assailed him with another little verbal poke.

He was a fan of women, and in fact in a sexual sense he was more attracted to them, despite often classing himself as Pansexual. He had never even thought to come here to check them out though. What a crude practice it was to show up and gawk at ladies, as if they were animals at a safari. That wasn't within Futoshi's code of manners. In an effort to get more of a rise out of him, she teasingly removed her shorts revealing a bikini bottom and went dashing for the water. Futoshi went red in the face, though not because of what he saw of her, more just because everyone around had seen him get teased that way. What would they think if she was exceedingly too young?

Not to deny her the kindness of friendship, he quickly got up and submersed himself into the water too, ducking under to fully submirge himself and his hair. As he rose back up he pulled his hair back out of his eyes and bundled it into a little tiny man-tail. It was only just long enough to be bunched and tied back. He smiled after this little act and looked at his friend.

"We seem to ALWAYS be running into one another huh? Small world I suppose."

He was happy in the water, despite the fact that it was extremely warm. Normally one would imagine a pool as cool and inviting. Fun in the sun. A place to cool off, not to heat up. At this point it was more of a hot tub.

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Total WC: 1137

Sun was glad that Futoshi did join her in the water and didn't stay on the shore. It seemed that Futoshi was always okay to rejoice with Sun. She did have friends and were used to constant day of fun. But she was still too young to think of Futoshi as a lover. All she wanted was another friend. You can never have enough of those, right? Although she had hoped to hear a comment about her outfit. She didn't see Futoshi's face redden when she revealed her bikini, because she ran off to the lake. That would have served as a compliment, but she expected to hear at least some reply concerning her looks. Maybe her chest was too flat or her hips didn't show her feminine charm.

"I'm not actually that good swimmer," girl revealed. But the lake wasn't very deep so it was okay to just swim around, and not try to swim across it. "I don't think the world is small. It's just that Suna is small," only now she replied to Futoshi. Although Suna had all kinds of different buildings, people and shinobi, her idea of a big world was something of a fairy tale - a big city with wide streets, with rivers and parks, shopping malls, universities, museums, dojos and all kinds of events. Suna's citizens perhaps were used to this dull life. There were no real events organized my higher ups, but everyone had free time and found many things to do with it. For example: sunbathing and swimming.

Sun continued to explain her idea of big world, while floating on the water:"We should travel! To see how big the world is!" what she had imagined, she had never heard of. Perhaps there was something like that beyond the borders of Earth country or Fire country. "Perhaps there is a place with dragons," she let her fantasy free, "or a place with forest fairies! Perhaps there is a place where fish fly. Or even speak!" and then looked at Futoshi and put on a very serious grimace, "maybe there is a country, where all the girls are naked! You would like it, wouldn't you!" she splashed Futoshi with some water and immediately after hid her head underwater.

Forcing your head in warm water wasn't a pleasant experience. The water got in her nose and it got in her ears. She tried to open her eyes too and look around while she was completely submerged. It truly was crystal clear. She could look at Futoshi from this angle, but he would probably notice it, instead she looked around and saw everyone's bottom who was in water. However, the sounds were not clear and she could only hear water flowing in and out of her ears. After spending about only 15 seconds underwater Sun started feeling her chest to hurt. She lacked air, therefore she got both her arms out of water and tried to pull herself up while pressing her hands against the water's surface. It worked only partially. She was out of water, but her hands didn't support her emerging.

The feeling of stuck water in her ears and nose was unpleasant. It felt irritating when a breeze of wind passed her ear and made a ringing sound because of that excess water. Now her mood rapidly changed and she wanted to leave for shore. Her feet were bare when she got out of water and it immediately reminded her how hot the rock footing here was. Sun didn't take a towel to the oasis, because she didn't plan on going swimming. And it seemed that neither did Futoshi, because she looked over his chair and didn't see a towel either. There she was - jumping and changing her foot that was touching the ground and waiting to dry off. It didn't take long to get her skin dry again since the sun was shining hot. She put her clothes back on after that. But that water was still in her ears. This ruined her day. She only waved Futoshi goodbye and hurried back to her house to get a towel and ear picks.
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The water was extremely warm, and the longer Futoshi partook in it, swimming about and making laps around while avoiding people, he began to feel an unease wrap around him. A blanket of just general bad vibes. His face would appear visibly uneasy as he stopped moving around so much and moved out of the pool to sit instead at the edge. Perhaps the hot waters were just in disagreement with his body today. It was fine though, to sit at the poolside and watch his smaller friend dart around having fun also. Friends were in short supply, after all. Fun days like these wouldn't last forever. Once the ranks started to rise, the world would become one of much more duty. It wasn't easy being a Sannin, after all. That was Futoshi's goal, and he was more than willing to make sacrifices for that.

Sun noted that she wasn't much of a swimmer, which prompted Futoshi to keep an eye on her at all times. He wouldn't have her drowning on his watch, after all. She retorted that it wasn't the world which was small, but that it was Sunagakure which was small. She wasn't entirely wrong in what she said. From what Futoshi had read in the past, Sunagakure wasn't the largest village by far. It quite possibly could've been smaller than the others, depending on your definition of small. Size could be detailed in so many different ways, it was all a matter of perspective. To a child, Sun would be large, but to Futoshi, Sun was small. Perspective meant everything. To Futoshi, something large would be a thunderous mountain range, spanning across the vast plains of a tribal land. The sky itself, which spread across, seemingly functioning as the earths ceiling. The truly large thing, though, was the universe itself. The immeasurable magnitude of the plane of existence on which they made a living. Nothing could see the universe itself as small.

Futoshi tuned in from his thoughts to listen up and notice that his friend had gone on a cute little rant. Her childish imagination brought a smile to his face. She wanted to travel the world. She wanted to find a land where dragons existed. To venture to a place where there were forest fairies and talking, flying fish. And then of course she would make a small jab at the calm man, trying to get him flustered at the mention of a land of naked women. At that point, before he could even open his mouth to speak she splashed him with water and ducked beneath the surface to evade any retaliatory motions from his side. As she ducked beneath the water, Futoshi couldn't help but thing how utterly awful that must have felt. Very hot water bombarding the nose and ears could not have been a very great feeling. She remained under for a few moments, looking all around underneath before realizing she was stuck. She did a silly little motion to try to get herself back above the water, but only when Futoshi reached forward and grabbed her hand did she find a successful way out.

With a bit of irritation in the way she moved about, Sun found her things and hopped around without a towel to dry herself, dressing and trying to keep her feet off of the burning stone ground. Once dressed she waved to Futoshi and made her way out of the place in what looked like a bit of a rush. Some people really struggled with little irritations like water in the ears, so it was understandable that if she were the type, she'd make haste to get that sorted out. Futoshi, on the other hand, was determined to finish out this little night of relaxation and fun in the sun with some age appropriate fun. He walked over to the little oasis bar and had them make him a mojito. This was a minty, sugarcane alcoholic drink. It was his very favorite. He enjoyed it on his wooden reclining chair while taking a passing glance of everyone still there.

The girls who has been eyeballing him consistently the entire time all sat with winks and smiles flying about regularly. They were probably civilian girls who has just graduated from the non-shinobi academies. Those sorts would take on the jobs that weren't the best for for shinobi. The graduate girls from that place often liked to play fast and loose with anyone they could get their hands on. Untamed, lacking any real poise or composure, they could gawk at Futoshi all they wanted but he wasn't paying them any mind. He was merely enjoying the delectable flavor of Mojito delight.

When he finished his drink, he decided that it was time to call it a day. He picked up his things, remembering he had brought a cooler but never used anything from it as he slung it over his shoulder. On his way home he offered any hot looking people he passed by a drink from the cooler, emptying its contents before he arrived at his doorstep. It had been a very pleasing day. His tan was just perfect. He now had one less reason to wear a shirt.

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