Pool Pool Pool

[all_wound_up]

Who: Everyone!
Where: Hinoto-Ri Public Pool
When: The weekend of June 7th-9th
Summary: We have a pool now!  Summer fun for everyone!
Warnings: Probably none.

[It's summer, and what would summer be without a pool?  Well, thankfully for the good citizens and Visitors of Hinoto-Ri, the public pool is finally open for business!  With three different pools, a snack bar, and plenty of space on the grass for playing frisbee or just laying out to get some sun, there's plenty of summertime fun for everyone!  There are also a number of pool toys to use, ranging from basketball hoops and plastic balls, water noodles, boogie boards, and just about anything else you can think of.]

((OOC: Open log!  Everyone just tag around at your leisure!))

Comments

[otakuro]

Oh! ...Hey, you're right.

[Atsuro frowns for a moment or two.]

I need to go change. Maybe you should talk to the manager or something when you're done with whatever you're doing in the lockers.

[bondsofsuffering]

Huh? No way! That would take too long!

[He shakes his head.]

I've got to leave in a while anyway, so I'd rather just let them know right before I go. Besides, it might take me a while at the lockers, too.

[otakuro]

[sadness his last ruse penetrated. Atsuro gives a shrug as if to say 'up to you' before he heads inside with perfect nonchalance.

...It takes him a good five minutes longer than it ought to have taken him and he walks out later with a hand rubbing a bump on his head that somehow appeared for whatever reason.]

Sheesh...

[bondsofsuffering]

...Just what did you do to yourself back there? I thought you were just going to change.

[He's just finished putting whatever it was away! Although judging by the leftover white on his cheek, it was probably sunscreen.]

[otakuro]

[Atsuro may or may not have tried to sneak out of the locker room by slithering under the stalls.]

...Hit my head on the open locker door when I was standing up.

[Plausible.]

Anyway... I guess I'm set. ...Should we go?

[bondsofsuffering]

[Riiight.]

Yeah! Let's see, I'm guessing you'd probably do best in the... middle pool, maybe?

[He'd been enjoying the adult pool earlier just because of the freedom it gave to swim around, but if Atsuro isn't actually that strong of a swimmer, it's probably not the best choice.]

[otakuro]

The middle pool?

[...Atsuro glances out at the pools from their position at the door of the locker room.]

Is that the one with all of the 12-year-olds running around it?

[bondsofsuffering]

Well, if you want to go to the adult pool, I'm not gonna complain. You can tread water, right?

[otakuro]

...

Is that the thing where you kind of sit there and try not to drown? I think I can do that. ...Probably.

[bondsofsuffering]

And that's why I suggested the middle pool.

Well, it's up to you! I don't know any life guard skills though, so if you start to drown you're on your own.

[otakuro]

The mark of a true friend.

Fine, fine, we'll take the grade schooler pool. ...I'll grab one of those colored floaty things, even.

[bondsofsuffering]

I'm still looking out for your health! But I can't do everything.

[Though he'll also grab a pool noodle on the way over, since it's not like they're about to do any serious swimming.]

[otakuro]

You could at least pretend you would try and help.

[With as much dignity as he can muster, Atsuro grabs a bright orange floaty thing and hangs on tight as he marches into the pool with a grim expression. ...All he needed to complete the image was the gangplank.]

[bondsofsuffering]

Didn't you know? It could be really dangerous for someone without any training to attempt a rescue, because they might just get in the way or even get injured by the person they're trying to save!

[He checks to make sure the coast is clear before happily jumping into the pool, sinking into the water only a bit before the pool noodle drags him up to the surface again.]

[otakuro]

It'd be totally worth it, though! My life is worth a lot; I've got the record for Donkey Crown in three arcade stores in Shinjuku!

[Atsuro is at least dignified about plummeting to his death. The skinny boy simply takes a small breath before jumping in as rigidly as a stick.]

[bondsofsuffering]

[...]

You realize just touching the water isn't enough to drown you, right?

[otakuro]

[Atsuro deliberately stays at the bottom of the pool as long as he can just to spite Hizumi before he slowly bobs to the top.]

...T-There, see? Exercise.

[He says as he clings to his noodle for dear life.]

[bondsofsuffering]

Congrats, you've exercised enough to burn off a grain of rice!

[He idly kicks around a bit, pushing his own pool noodle underwater in the process.]

[otakuro]

A grain of rice is exercised off in a half minute of breathing. That was at least five.

[Atsuro huffily floats forward a few more feet.]

[bondsofsuffering]

[Well, at least that makes him an easy target.

With a mischievous grin, Hizumi suddenly brings the noodle up again, blowing into one end so that the water that was previously inside comes shooting out the side and straight at Atsuro.]

[otakuro]

[The water of course strikes Atsuro straight in the face, sending him reeling backwards into the water and away from his noodle.

He slowly sinks great job Hizumi.]

[bondsofsuffering]

[And then Hizumi's first murder wasn't a cursed Blade Child but an ordinary human instead.

Wh...oops...?]

[otakuro]

[...Atsuro pops up after a few seconds of glubbing and sticks out his tongue.]

Splashing people is rude, you know.

[bondsofsuffering]

With weather like this, you should be grateful for the cool water!

[otakuro]

Yeah, the cool, Hizumi-spit contaminated water.

[Actually it probably had everyone's spit in it. Atsuro leisurely floats a few feet further into the deeper part of the pool.]