Remember when you were a little kid and you went to the beach with your family. Now remember when your dad would bury you in sand to your head. All those gritty particles covering your form and pressing down on your chest making it hard to breathe; now multiply that by one hundred.
That's how I was feeling at the moment. The nasty ass sand was crushing down on my chest making it hard to breath. I had yet to answer the red headed sand nin as I figured saying I was trespassing because I was looking for a stupid ass ferret would caused instant death. And that my friend is something I would like to avoid.
"Why are you here?" as if to emphasized his point the sand constricted tighter. I gasped in pain and closed my eyes. Using my one free hand I hit the sand with a closed fist, trying to push it off.
"I'm here looking for my brother's pet ferret, Ewie…gets it off! I hate sand. This is worst than when Chi bit me." I mumbled to myself as I shuddered. As if on queue I saw a gray blur dash behind the sand-nin, upon closer inspection I saw it was the demonic fur ball, Chi.
"FUR BALL!!!" I called out for once in my life ecstatic to see her. She froze on the spot and stared up at me questioningly. "Chi. Chi! Get your ass over here. You've got me into this, now get me out!" I struggled more wishing the sand off of me.
"Do you expect me to believe that you are out here searching for a ferret?" he asked in disbelief.
"Well, yeah. She's right there!" I said pointing behind him, the sand-nin refused to turn around thinking it was some type of trap. He smirked sadistically. I don't like that look.
"You shouldn't have been trespassing and for that you will die." He said a hint of malice in his eyes. No, I don't want to die. While all of this was going on Chi just looked at me as if saying, "serves you right". Now I'm going to die just because of a stupid ferret. I felt my eyes water as the sand constricted around my upper body as it slowly made its way up to my head.
My head perked at a quick thought. That's it! Using my free hand I made a simple hand sign concentrating all of my chakra into my tears. As they made they're way down my cheek I yelled "Water Expansion Jutsu!" holding the hand sign. Chi knowing exactly what jutsu I was using jumped up onto the sandnin's head and then used him to catapult over to me. As she clawed her way up to my head, my chakra enhanced tears landed on the ground as a wave of chakra extended in a 3 yard diameter. The wave of chakra transformed into water creating a man-made pond; the pond was at least eight feet deep and although many would think this plausible this was no illusion.
The sand-nin was caught off guard and instead of using chakra control to stay above water he sunk below, his sand-filled gourd weighing him down. As the sand that was constricting me loosened falling into the water below I floated down to the pond. The moment my bare foot touched the water it froze a two inch sheet of ice covering the top. Chi curled up around my neck snuggling into my body heat. I looked down at my appearance; I was still covered in grains and bits of sand.
"Ew, now I'm covered in it." I tried wiping it off but to no avail. "And this is all your fault," I said glaring up at her. I plucked her from her perch and threw her on the ice below. Stupid ferret! I walked over to where the sand-nin was sinking below. Knelling on the ground, I wiped the frost from the ice getting a clear few of the shinobi below. He looked irritated and in disbelief, he tried effortlessly to break through the ice, banging and hitting it angrily.
"Serve you right for trying to kill me." I said sticking my tongue out at him childishly. I continued to make childish and annoying faces effectively angering him. His pounding was slowed by the weight of the water tiring him out farther. I smirked at his stupidity.
"Doesn't look like that's going to work. Maybe if you grip the ice with your chakra and then enhance your punches with chakra you'll be able to break through." I stated. As I looked at my surrounding I finally noticed that the dun was setting; signaling that I was already late at beating DaiChi home. I got up from my knelling position and walked over to Chi.
"Let's go." I said as we stared at each other. She stood her ground and looked at me expectantly.
"You know I don't speak ferret, that Daichi. And speaking of which we're late, we wouldn't want to anger him farther, now would we?" She ignored me and walked over to where the ninja was banging on the ice.
"What? Just leave him, he's a shinobi. He'll get himself out of there alright. I told him how! Now let's go before he gets out and kills us!" I yelled stomping over to where she stood. She looked down; I following her gaze looked down at the ninja below. He was no longer banging on the ice; his eyes were closed as he sunk to the bottom. Shit! Looks like he didn't get enough air before he went under, panicking I made a fist. Focusing chakra into my fist I broke through the ice. As it broke and went in different direction, I reached down into the frozen water and grabbed the ninja's hand. He was heavier than I thought possible as I dragged him out of the water.
As his head hit the surface I didn't hear the usually gasp of fresh air. Oh Kami! Please don't be dead. Don't be dead! As I slid him across the ice to sandy desert I began to hyper-ventilate.
"Oh Kami, what did I do? I only wanted to scare him, not kill him." I panicked looking at Chi for the answer as she shook her head. This would be one of those times I wished I spoke ferret. My whole body was shaking at the prospect that I had killed someone. I've never taken a life before and I sure as hell didn't want to start now. Tears were welling up in my eyes yet again as the thought went through my panicked mind. Calm down Mizu. If you don't calm down you're not going to get through this. Taking a few calming breaths I cleared my mind. Okay so he's not breathing because there's water in his lungs. So all I have to do it get the water out of there so air can get in. That makes sense. Placing my hands on his chest, I concentrated searching for the water, as I grabbed a hold of it I motioned with my hands; directing the water out of his lungs. Coughing was heard and he began to hack up water as his eyes opened and then quickly closed as he passed out. I jumped back surprised. I did it. I saved his life. Oh thank you Kami! I jumped up ecstatic throwing my hands in the air. I went to hug the unknown ninja but decided against it as he must be tired. My knees 'plopped' on the ground as I landed besides him exhausted. I must be low on chakra; looks like I'll have to train more with DaiChi.
As I wiped the perspiration that had accumulated on my forehead I fell backward into the sand tired. I was already covered in sand as it was so what was a little more. Besides all I want to do is sleep. Chi ran to my side and ran her furry body against my bare leg; I grunted a response drifting off into unconsciousness. I felt myself slip into my dream world before a shooting pain shot up my arm. Screaming I flung Chi off of me and shot her a death glare.
"What was that for?" I yelled rubbing my wounded arm. She looked back at me innocently as if she had done nothing. I mumbled a few choice worlds before getting to my feet. Most of them included four letter words not suitable for most audiences. I looked down at the ninja below and sighed. I kicked him lightly in the side yet he didn't stir at all. I'll have to take him back home. I grabbed the sand-ninja's hand hauling him onto my back. Home it is!