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The Name: Sakuraba:
The Quote from DC Coda-The Music of My Soul (Ivan): "That was stupid... Now how are we going to find a boat?"
"Well, this sucks." Sakuraba said with a nervous laugh as he eyed the short brunette beside him. Sena did not look like a happy camper, not at all. "That was stupid... Now how are we going to find a boat?" "Eh? Can't we just swim back? It's not like we're exhausted anymore."
Sena threw the blonde a rather pathetic look over his shoulder. "Do you have any idea how cold this water has gotten?" Sakuraba shook his head but decided he could live without knowing how freezing the liquid had become. 'Man, this was a stupid idea.'
The White Knights and Devil Bats were having joint training sessions together at a currently unused camp site and today after practice Shin said he was going to swim some laps in the lake they were beside. Sakuraba and Sena had foolishly thought that they could keep up with him only to have Shin disappear from their sight after only ten minutes. But they kept on going, perhaps in the hopes of seeing Shin again as he swam back, until Sena caught sight of some rather large slabs of rock that broke the surface of the lake and suggested that they wait there until they saw Shin swimming back.
The lake was fairly wide, with a rather large mass of land breaking the water's surface in the center and it was also fairly long, although it did narrow down a bit at the edges and had multiple little 'islands' that jutted above the water ever so often.
And now it was getting dark and cold and Shin still hadn't crossed back into their line of sight. "I guess he decided to do a lap around the entire middle island-y thing." Sena said with a shiver and Sakuraba nodded. "He probably would, in fact, he's probably done and back at the camp already." The blonde looked up at the sky before sighing. "I think we should start swimming back now." "But it's cold!" "I know, but once the sun's gone down it'll just get colder, and my coach and your team captain will probably just think of swimming back in freezing water as a type of endurance training, so I don't think they'd bother to start looking for us for another hour or so."
Gritting his teeth together Sakuraba began stepping back into the water, turning partially to tell Sena to hurry it up.
"But I really don't like the cold." The boy replied, although he was already cautiously dipping his toes in to test the temperature before deeming it safe enough to step into.
Sakuraba went out a little further before crouching down to get everything up to his shoulders wet before pushing off and treading water several meters away from Sena. "Come on Sena-kun, we don't have all day, if you take any longer I'll just have to take you by the hand and drag you in." Sena slumped a bit and pouted before running the rest of the way in.
"There, that wasn't to bad was it?" Sakuraba asked as he lazily swam on his back, Sena dog-paddling beside him. "I don't know about you Sakuraba-san," Sena began, his voice a higher pitch than normal. "But my nipples are so hard they could cut through diamonds!"
Sakuraba blushed and sputtered uncomfortably. "That's the kind of information you keep to yourself." "But I'm so cold!" "That doesn't matter, you don't just go telling people that type of stuff!"
Twenty five minutes later and they were both finally back at the camp, Sena was happy to curl up inside a warm blanket during their nightly campfire, and Sakuraba couldn't look at Sena for a week without a blush streaking across his face.