5 Days, 2 Boys, 1 Drifted Boat- ch4

~Day 2~

Kiba's POV
 Holy crap, what's going on! I panicked; I couldn't feel my feet, or my face. Water was everywhere, on the floor, on the benches and in my eyes and ears. It wasn't long before I noticed I was on my left side, half my body on the bench, and the bottom half in the flooded boat. Naruto's sweatshirt was draped around my shoulders.
And almost instinctively, I looked around for the kid himself, and saw him lying on one of the benches on his belly, across from me. His short breaths echoing off the wood.
"Naruto?" I grunted. Standing up, only to fall back down in pain, my stomach hurt real badly. Kind of, a sharp stabbing feeling, I guess from the salt water that I swallowed, ugh.

"K-kiba?" I heard him mumble, flexing his fingers. And lifting his head, "Kiba!" he said, louder and with more emotion.
"Right here, dude, we made it!" I coughed, smiling though.
Naruto flipped over onto his back, looking across at the rising sun poking through grey clouds. "oh my god, I thought we were gonna die for sure" he said, smiling with me.
"Did I fall asleep on you?" I asked.
"Yes! You liar! you said you'd stay awake! Our boat almost got flipped over by a wave and we almost died while you were messing around in dreamland! Crazy-ass!" Naruto replied, he sounded angry but was still smiling.
"Well, uh… sorry?"
Yeah, I really wasn't sure how to reply. Last night had taken every little thing out of me, it wasn't my fault my brain shut down and I fell unconscious. But hey, I know I should have held on a little longer. I know I gave Naruto a near heart attack, I didn't mean to make him take over for the night. That was never my intention.

Naruto's POV
Oh thank god we made it, the sun was up, the waves were calm and best of all it wasn't cold. The temperature had gone back up to a comfy 60 degrees. Well, if we weren't in the middle of the ocean and covered in salt water, then maybe it would be comfier, but hell, what are we gonna do about it?

We had lost all the stuff in the boat, when the wave came. It threw our remaining fishing pole, the tackle box, a towel and my shoes over board, but thankfully not me and Kiba. Haha.
But actually, we didn't lose everything; Kiba had put the knife in one of his pockets, and a fishing hook and a bit of extra line somehow got in the pocket of my sweatshirt, which Kiba had given back to me(we hung it on an empty spot on the bench, hoping to dry it along with both our shirts)

But what sucked the most, and what we feared the most, was that we were starving and thirsty. We hadn't eaten or drank something in more than a day, and we had nothing to drink or eat. Salt water was not an option, and if we couldn't even catch a fish with a pole, then I doubt we can catch one with anything else. Well, I planned to try the hook and line later…just to try it….

Kiba's POV
 Ugh, it was nasty. I had slept most of the night, but I still felt like I had stayed up 24 hours straight. Maybe it was just from the fact that we didn't have any food or water, and it had been a tiring night. And now, the clouds were gone and the sun was high, beatin' down on us.
The temp raised 20 degrees in the past few hours, it was shocking how it could be 30 degrees and night and then it'd jump to 80 degrees in the mornin'. Not really the best kinda weather to be in, y'know?
Naruto had his hat to get the sun off his face, but I didn't. I was tryin' to shield myself from the hellish sun by holding my flannel shirt over my head. And it wasn't working very well, Naruto looked fine sitting there with his baseball cap and that dumb grin on his face as he looked at his reflection in the calm waters. And I was crawling around the boat, trying to get comfortable somewhere. The salt water on my skin had dried out, so it got itchy and sweating made it worse.

"Naruto, how the hell do you cope with this?"
Naruto turned and looked at me, "I dunno, the sun likes me like the moon likes you"
"….. whaaat?" I was actually kinda confused, he sounded childish and waaay too happy for this situation, waaay more than his usual self. Had he gone insane or was he faking all this smiley stuff to hide his inner anger! Did he snap? Did I snap?
"I said, I never usually get affected by high temperatures, only cold ones."
Good, that sounded more… Naruto-ish
"Oh… well, this heat sucks." I grumbled
"At least it isn't as cold as last night!"
"At least last night wasn't scorching all the water out of our bodies and burning our skin!"
"At least we uhm…" Naruto stuttered, "at least we can go swimming now!"

Oh wait, he was finally right on that one. Now that the waves were calm and we were out of the current, we could go in the water and hopefully get cooled off by doing so.

But our biggest hopes right then was that a search boat or helicopter would come across us and we would be saved! It sounds super easy that way, but it really isn't. This ocean is huge, we're in a tiny rowboat and we don't even know where we are. I vowed not to say any negative comments on that to Naruto, that would only make things worse, but deep inside I knew it was gonna be a lot longer until someone found us. But no one said we couldn't hope, or pray, or wish that someone is out there looking for us.

Naruto's POV
 Kiba was first to jump in the water, I watched him. He came back up, smiling and hollered, "this feels awesome, dude, c'mon!"
So I cannonballed in, making a spontaneous splash and man, Kiba was right, the water definitely cooled you down. There weren't any huge waves, so we kinda relaxed and swam around in circles for a few minutes.
Earlier, I had said that I'm not highly affected by warm temperatures, and it's true. I don't feel sun on my skin, or sweat when it touches me. Unlike Kiba, who seems like he can't even stand 60 degree weather.
I don't know, I guess some people are just physically different. I can't stand cold, he can't stand heat. Whatever! The water was nice no matter what went through our minds, we were finally as calm and happy as we were before we figured this whole… lost at sea… thing…..

~meanwhile~
There was a calm knock at the door.
"It's unlocked, come in!" a grungy sounding man shouted.
"Got it…" Minato muttered, turning the wooden doorknob and opening the door. Only to be tackled by a few excited dogs. "Agh, get em' off me Dobutsu!"
"Sorry Uzumaki, I didn't know you were coming over, I would have kept em' in the kennel…" the Inuzuka chuckled, pulling 4 large huskies away from Minato. "So… uh… what made you show up? Lemme guess, you got an answer from the coast guard!"
"Yes! And why are you not concerned?" Minato huffed.
"Because the search teams are great! And heck, the boys may not even be out on the water, y'know?"
"Hey, did you not get the message from the coast guard this morning?"
"Hm? What message? I didn't get no message! You're the one who called em' and forgot to mention me" Dobutsu had one eyebrow raised at how frustrated and stressed Minato was acting.

"They can't start a search unless they know where the boys launched the boat, crazy-ass!"
"Well, that's not a problem, Kiba took my truck. So if I can find my truck, we know which area they launched the boat, right?"
"I don't think it's that simple…" Minato sighed
"Ah, you'd be surprised, Uzumaki. I know the scent of my own truck! If I just follow my nose I can-"
"Dobutsu! That's NOT what I meant. Of course we can find the truck! But the big problem is that I heard the currents were really bad yesterday, and that's what I'm most worried about. It doesn't matter where they launched! It's how far the current pulled them out! They could be anywhere in this entire ocean! Don't you get it?" Minato had raised his voice to a near yell, it was clear the blonde man was worried.

"Gosh, Uzumaki. You don't have to squeal about it. We'll go down to the beach, and talk to the coast guard about this little mess we got into. Okay? So I'll go start up the- oh crap, I don't have a truck…."
Minato rolled his eyes, and took a deep breath, "I'll get my car…"
Dobutsu smirked and rubbed his sunburnt neck, letting out a gravely chuckle through his fangs.

Kiba's POV
 Dude, the water had totally cooled me off. I felt like a grill when I was up on that boat, I could have easily been on fire. And since the water still held the coolness of last night, it was complete heaven being in the water.

Naruto's POV
 Kiba looked like he was having fun, but I was getting real tired and a little bit chilly. You'd be surprised how cold the water still was. So I crawled back into our boat, and sat in the flooded bottom of it. Once in a while, Kiba would get in the boat and dive back in the water, more for entertainment I guess. I climbed over to the side of the boat and watched him, he was about 25 feet away from the boat, I told him to come closer, but he ignored me anyways.
But then I saw something that really made my heart skip a beat, a sharp fin passed by the other side of the boat. A fin that was popular in all the oceanic horror movies out there. I swear, I had expected to hear a director yell "cut!" and bring out some donuts and coffee for the two of us. But nope, no camera crew, no director, no coffee… this wasn't a thriller movie.

My best friend was in the water…..
with a great white shark….