Nagi No Asukara: (Netty&LullDayBreak13)

[Netty]

A Gentle breeze was in the air as the clatter of computer and electronic sensors and keys were being pecked away at and beginning to come to life as the silent equipment slowly started to groan itself into a useful state as if it was being dragged out of its bed for the first time in weeks "why do they feel the need to supply me all the inadequate, outdated reject scraps of the lot..." Nozaki said to himself almost wishing subconsciously someone at the college was listening to his remarks as his fingers hovered over the keys waiting to perform the majestic dance they had been trained to do.


A wall of light barraged Nozakis dim face in the cold night giving his eyes the signal to focus in and get to work as he systematically ordered each and every electronic station to life, he then turned his head to the wet suit and approached it as he got ready for the great below.

 

[LullDayBreak13]

Silence was all Marina could hear as she was sitting on her chair and looks up at the moon that was seen clearly tonight from the sky. The sea was calm and the people in her village were in their homes all cozy and warm inside. She sighed as she saw fish swimming pass her as she watched it swim up. It was simply entertaining to see a fish swim, especially something as small and cute as this. It entertained her as she decided to follow it and looks back to see if her parents are there. "Good." she said and then starts swimming up across the ocean to follow the little fish.


After a few moments have passed, she caught up and she ended up being near the surface again. She swims up, feeling a bit nervous and as she walked over to the soft white sand she looks back at the sea. The moon was beautiful as she hears some teenagers giggling at the side as she decided to go back and swim. Marina looked at her hand as she was now floating in the water as if she was reaching out for the moon.

 

[Netty]

Nozaki muscles tensed as he pulled the tight wet suit material up his legs and his body, it kept his body warm from the insulation and it was a great transition compared to the cold air in the dead of night, he tightened up the diving tank hooked up to the diving air compressor and set it to pump air to fill up the empty void inside his rusty tank, he waited awhile watching the gauges on the monitors watching for changes in the wave patterns he looked across the sea watching the moons light refracting on the oceans surface rippling like exotic dancers.


Minutes later the cylinders belly was full as cogs were unscrewed and reattached to Nozakis diving regulator and slung onto his back, it weighed him down and made him work to keep himself up straight with him not exactly being the manliest of men strength wise, but he adjusted to the weight as he sat on the edge of the pier dipping his feet into the sea ready to drop in, "1...2...3.......lets do this", he fell in straight into the water now submerged under the abyss.

 

[LullDayBreak13]

Marina closed her eyes as if she could here the ocean's peaceful waves. It sounded like the ocean was singing to her to sleep. She loved this feeling as if the Sea God was trying to sing a lullaby to only her. She felt at peace but then she suddenly heard someone dive into the water. Opening her eyes and looks around to see if there were someone she knew that would have dive in so late at night. She starts swimming around the sea and she noticed a figure of a guy. "Hmmm, a land dweller?" she mumbled under her breathe as she sees the equipment tied around his body.


She decided to follow him around and see to it to what he was about to do with his contraptions. 'He sure is swimming in deep, I thought anyone would be afraid to swim at night, especially land dwellers.' she thought as she follows him curiously.

 

[Netty]

He sank a little from the force of dropping himself in, slowly looking around as he drifted to acclimatize to his new environment. He had limited diving experience before and managed to ascertain the gist of the procedure through reading and discussions about it with the college professors, he focused in on the pressure gauge noticing the needle pointing at the appropriate numerical value then turning his attention else where he looked downwards shifting his body to begin his descent.


He noticed a crowd of porkfish a few feet away gliding through the water with they're beautiful yellow fins with black stripes on either sides of they're body's as he continued to mindlessly drift downwards, an occasional bubble rose from a small hole coming out from the brown rusty regulator yoke began as its rhythm picked up the pace letting out tiny pockets of air unbeknownst to him with his mind being in a different world to his own right now.

 

[LullDayBreak13]

Marina continued to follow the land dweller quietly and swims enough to follow him without him noticing her. And it seemed like he was really into whatever he was doing. 'Is he studying something? What was he looking at?' she wondered as different questions keeps popping in her mind as she swims. But then as she swims, it felt like something was wrong as she realized something. Something bad was gonna happen if he continues to swim aimlessly like that.


She sees that there was a whirlpool and he was heading towards it. It was one of those whirlpools that sometimes pop into the ocean and mostly in this area. "H-hey! You there boy!" she tried to call him out but she was too far for him to even hear her voice. 'Ah damn it!' she thought as she started to swim faster over to him.

 

[Netty]

Nozaki heard a loud desperate sounding call out towards his vicinity, he turned himself around to see what the strange noise may have been, a girl without a wet suit? Was she one of the sea dwellers? What a golden opportunity it would be for him to talk to her and find out everything he needed to know first hand, this had got to have been too good to be true, he'd be able to turn his findings in at least within the week and would have the high level of recognition he would need to get in good with the colleges up north perfect!


He finally noticed his body had been being pulled in very subtly as his mind was drifting over the last few coming moments, his head jerked quickly noticing the strong underwater whirlpool with what felt like a giant cupped hand scooping him towards it, at the same time the sharp movements in his panicked body broke away some of the rusty fittings in his regulator yoke as the tanks air stopped getting diverted into his lungs and ran free to the outside ocean, unprepared for either obstacle his body and mind especially froze like on ice as his body began to spin wildly, his body no longer keeping track of which direction the surface could now be.

 

[LullDayBreak13]

"Oh no..." Marina watched the boy get sucked into the whirlpool like it was nothing. She quickly swam over to it, having a bit of difficulty in trying to get a hold of his body. After a few tries, she finally caught his arm and starts to pull him out of the whirlpool. "Don't worry, I got you." she said and sees him now all unconscious. She starts to swim back up to the shore and back to the beach. She walks over to the sand and then lays his unconscious body down.


She looked at him and he isn't breathing, so the only thing she could do is CPR. "Come on..." she said as she starts giving him CPR. She was already used to seeing people drown and mostly it was others doing the cpr not her. But this time, it was her doing it and she was doing well for her first time. 'This is what my father told me, right?' she thought as she sees him now gaining consciousness as she watches him cough up some water out like any other reaction.


Marina sighed in relief and noticed that he clothes were now dry again. It was pretty normal for the sea dwellers' clothes to dry up very fast.

 

[Netty]

Nozakis stream of consciousness had darkened as if somebody had turned off the lights in a well lit room, he banged away at the walls in his inner mind with a short burst of ferocity before he resided himself to his fate. 'What a wasteful way to go...at least it was a fairly tranquil way to kick the bucket...', he then all of a sudden felt warm and his neck and nostrils forcing them selfs to react to something and his lack of visuals and senses flipped on as his back muscles lunged his body from prone to sitting up straight and water gushing out of his throat.


A slender looking figure was present beside him it seemed, maybe he was dead and this is what the afterlife was like, while his senses were sinking back into him the air had a familiar sway to its breeze as well as the wet grains of sand in between his clenching fingers, his eyes widened, the figure he had almost forgotten about while taking in his surroundings was also familiar, the moons rays shone on the figures back, Nozakis eye's adjusted to the contrast of light and darkness and fine details of the once shadowy figure came into fruition.


It was the female swimmer he saw not too long ago, however long ago that was since the concept of time was lost on him right now, her hair was beautiful as it flowed over her shoulders with her leaning looking down at him, for a long moment he just stared forgetting how strange he must have seemed at this very moment then he finally thought to speak..."uhhh... hey! Uh I mean thanks I think ? Weren't you in the sea not too long ago, some feat for a girl to be able to drag a body through the water to shore even if I'm not the heaviest of guys.."

 

[LullDayBreak13]

Marina puts her ear onto his chest to hear if he was still alive but then looked at his face and waited for him to gain consciousness. After awhile, she sees him twitch a bit. 'Ah he's finally....' she thought and stood up, was about to leave when he suddenly spoke to her. It's been awhile since a land dweller has ever talked to her. It's been awhile since he even held a land dweller's body, more over a guy. When he told her that the way she dragged him to shore was really a big feat for her, she slightly blushed and was a bit embarrassed. "I-it's nothing... a-anyway, I'm sorry, I need to go..." she said and runs back into the water and swims back to her village.


While she was swimming, even through the cold water surrounding her right now, she puts her hands on her cheeks and felt the slight warmness of her cheeks. 'It has really been awhile.... I ended up running away like some shy little kid.' she thought while swimming. She looked at her hand and sighed "His face was warm.... and it felt really nostalgic..." she mumbled. Marina had a quick flashback of her boyfriend as she looked disappointed and shakes her head. "No! It's not gonna happen ever again... not with a land dweller... not anymore..." she told herself as she finally made it back to her village.


When she finally got back to her house, she sees some fishes swimming to the other side and sighed. "I need to rest now... it's not like I'll ever see him again..." she said and walks back to her bed and then lied down and closed her eyes.

 

[Netty]

Nozaki saw her run off into the distance and dive into the water only to disappear, there was no questioning she was one of the sea though she seemed rather together with herself until he spoke to her, 'was it something i said?', He'd of thought after saving his life she'd at least stick around for some gratification or least that seemed like what most people would do in that situation, 'i guess there is such thing as a selfless act...' he stood up albeit a bit stiff from being thrown around the water but he felt fine after clearing his throat.


He walked back to where his equipment and car were and dried himself up to stop the shivering, he felt surprised at the readings from his equipment even if his own expedition was less than desirable other than his mystery encounter, putting the engine into ignition he pondered thoughts about this girl he met, from what he remembered she was very cute, from her hair to her eyes and even from the short sentence she spoke her voice was rather....'that's not what i was there for...', he snapped himself back into alignment with his goals as his mind drifted off, although whether she was cute or not, he wouldn't mind another meeting with this beautiful girl from the sea.


Stumbling into the front door as quietly as he could not to wake his sister and parents he gently closed his bedroom door behind him and threw his things onto the floor and instantly fell stomach first onto his bed, 'ahh there's nothing more comfortable than a simple feathered pillow to rest on...' before drifting into sleep he tried thinking of more ways to meet this girl again, its not like he could call her up even if she could use a phone underwater, not that he had ever gotten any girls number before so that was out of the question, he doubted fishing her out would be the most welcome surprise to her either, but for now he'd just have to regroup his head together and try again the next day to see what he could think up.

 

[LullDayBreak13]

Next day...


Marina was already up and was swimming with some of the fishes. It always felt good with them, it was like they were dancing around you. She even sometimes felt like she was flying, and she could even see her village from where she was swimming. It looked so peaceful and it she saw a couple walking around and was both carrying two baskets. They looked like they were about to go the market this morning. She simply smiled at the sight, it was innocent and really loving. Not like she could ever be that happy. She wanted to be like that as well but she just didn't see anyone that she liked, someone who piqued her interest. But then, when it comes to interest, she remembered the face of the boy she saved last night. She shakes her head as if to shake the thought off of her. "Impossible..." she told herself.


She then swims up and decided to go the beach. She remembered she liked buying the ice cream near the beach. It was a small shop that sells candies and ice cream and some toys for the kids. But first, she needed to dry her clothes first before going to the shop. As she walked, she looked at her arm and it had crystal-like scales. they were like protection for them to breathe in land. It was really beautiful that even some of the men and women wished they have these. She laughed at the thought and figured it would be hard on them if they actually have these. For them to stay longer in land, they had to soak themselves in sea water or even water with some salt in it as well.


Marina continues to walk as passed by some children going to school and just bought some candies with them and starts eating it with their friends. "I got a red lollipop!" "Mine is yellow!" ""Mine is awesome! It's blue!" the three children giggled and walks to the direction to where their school was. She smiled at them as the little boy blushed as the girl with a pigtail glared at her and pulled the boy away from her. She chuckled at the cute little act of them and walks over to shop.

 

[Netty]

Nozaki had arrived at the college, still feeling quite groggy from last nights events and even more so from an amass of research papers and documents, which he had to go through before he could carry on with his own personal work, while doing he he compiled his thoughts on how to seek a second audience with this sea dweller girl that fought for his fleshy life to carry on. Stumbling past other students and professors he waded towards the storage rooms, not one to allow anyone to help him less the glory be diverted away from himself, he swung open the door and looked around.


Most of the items looked like junk to him, and rightly so, giant wooden crates lay on top each other and cobwebs littered the place which reflected just how little anything from this room was used or even looked at, he did however find something of use, "well she seems to be quite adept at saving me last night, lets see if she'll do a repeat performance", he uncovered a crate with an inflatable raft and a couple paddles, "well its not the more elaborate plan I've ever come up with, but sometimes the simpler the better..", he had planned to get himself into a similar situation, hedging his bets that the girl would be a sucker for another rescue situation.


It was a risky move but without having a direct method of communication it would have to do, he'd just make sure this time to not be half unconscious before making conversation

 

[LullDayBreak13]

Marina had already bought an ice cream and was now headed to town. Some of the towns people know her, she was treated like they their own daughter. Maybe it was because she used to date someone from the land. She felt shy at first but then end up being spoiled now. She was given some things to take come, useful for her hobby in making something from scratch. She always ha the hobby to make sculptures for some reason and it always turned out popular among the land dwellers.


After that, an old time friend of her, also a land dweller taps her shoulders and started to talk to her. She was distant at first but then she ended up warming up to this friends of her as she walks over to her school just a few blocks away. Students everywhere and it wasn't some high school, it was a university and everyone had this different talent everywhere and it seemed like some of them were just roaming around. Some were studying, holding their notebooks and some were doing some kind of experiment at the field.


She excused herself and some guys noticed her and now she the center of attention, even though she didn't want it. She was shy and tried to look calm and cool. And she did. She had this cool aura around her as she walked with her friend as she listened to her friend chatter around. It wasn't bad that someone actually tried to talk with her. She just hoped that she wouldn't see her ex here.

 

[Netty]

Nozaki lifted the heavy crate through the halls of the building, it was pretty sparse today in terms of people so he didn't have much trouble making his way to the front door and outside on the path to his car. He saw a small sized crowd gathered around that he curiously peaked at from the corner of his eye. He flung the crate into the back trunk of his car and shifted over to see all the commotion.


He nudged his friend Makoto, "Another one of them upper university bigwigs here again today Makoto?", "Haha nah not quite, just the prettyest girl on the university site right now!", Nozaki was a bit disappointed, hoping there was a better reason to be distracting everyone from they're study's, he wasn't really all that interested but he thought to take a look just to seem to fit in for the moment. He stood on tip toe trying to edge himself over some of the towering Giants, his view just about peaked through, and to his amazement instantly noticing the girl from the sea, 'it's her!'.


Using his calm aura of confidence he pushed and slipped his skinny body through the crowd, "'excuse me...thanks....sorry...", he snuck his way through and ended up face to face with the girl, pausing for a moment to gather his composure, "Hay long time no see!!! So your back in the area again! I got your text from earlier, boy we got some catching up to do heh" he used the quiet moment from the distraction he made and grabbed her arm to pull her out of the crowd without her permission and pulled her over towards his car then sprung around to stare her straight in the face, "okey, no running off away this time, that sea is way to cold for me to go swimming in again just to find you again, my names Nozaki, nice to meet you for a second time"

 

[LullDayBreak13]

Marina was walking through the halls with her old friend when someone suddenly appeared before her. She stepped back a bit and when they boy looked up at her, she was startled to see the guy from last night. The guy who nearly drowned and died from the deadly whirlpool. When he suddenly talked to her, she was confused at first. 'Text? catching up?' she thought and didn't really know what to say to this guy right here. But when he finished, she was about to answer. But when she was about to say something, he suddenly pulled her away from the crowd and her friend and ended up being dragged by him.


When they were finally outside, the parking lot? She noticed that they were next to a car and figured that it might be his. "Uhm...." she was speechless of what to say since it all happened so fast. Marina blinked a few times before letting out a sigh. True, she did just ran away from the guy last night. But she was nervous and shy last night. She thought that he might never see him again, but here he is. In front of her and was even taking the initiative to talk to her. Since he wasn't really doing anything bad to her, she figured she might as well introduce herself as well. "My name is Marina..." she introduced herself to this fellow named, Nozaki.


"Look.... if I offended you last night about just running away like that, I apologize, it was rude of me but I was just.... just... how you say... nervous, I guess.." she said and lets out anther sigh and looks up at the man in front of her. Nozaki looked like any other college guy would look like but somehow, looking at his eyes and the other features of his face, it somehow intrigued her.

 

[Netty]

"So tackling a potentially deadly whirlpool doesn't get you just a tad bit nervous but talking to a guy like me does? Well i didn't think i seemed all too intimidating myself personally haha..", he tried to make the tone of his voice somewhat comical, judging from how the girl acted before if she was nervous then, she would almost definitely be a bit shocked up being dragged and pulled out of a crowd by a stranger now. She seemed at least somewhat composed, or at the very least trying to keep herself together.


Her beauty was instantly noticeable, every aspect about her seemed just perfect, luscious soft lips surrounded by the most perfect complexioned skin that seemed as gentle and fragile as her personality, she seemed like a true proper lady, at least as far as her looks were concerned. "So everyone that's here is here for a reason, are you a student, or coming in for some part time schooling, oh and i forgot to say sorry for pulling you out like that, they seemed to be hounding you so i thought id help you out that's all" He smiled softly as he finished speaking, looking directly into her eyes.

 

[LullDayBreak13]

Marina flinched when he suddenly asked about what her business was in school. Actually, she didn't even go to one, she finished high school but never really did entered any other colleges after that. It's not like she didn't want to go to school, back then, she just wanted to take a break from stepping foot on land. She knew if she ever did, she would remember her ex was here. She looked troubled for a second there but then shakes her head. "I was actually with an old friend of mine, she was telling me I enroll to this school and pick a course I want... I mean..." she said and looks down for a moment and then back to Nozaki.


"...I mean, it's been awhile since I've finally come back and interact with the land dwellers here.... but I did entered high school here last time and finished it, it was rather fun since I had friends who were really especially kind to me." she said with a smile and was slightly blushing from her cheeks, remembering the good times she had and the first time she ever had a boyfriend as well. She actually looked happy, after a long time, she was was finally smiling from the heart.

 

[Netty]

She seemed to be comfortable and acting, or at least making a really good effort to not be so shy and give him a chance, "ahh so its been awhile then, it's a nice college, it's not the greatest but for the area its pretty up there." Although at first he mostly wanted to find her to spend hours questioning about her habitat and people, he was quite enjoying the casual flow of conversation, most girls he had spoken to he couldn't stand and only continued talking through his polite nature, he didn't feel like that this time though and thought he should at least extend the hand of friendship before just barraging her with his theory's and research.


"Well if you ever want someone to show you around since this place has changed a bit since the last you were here most likely, there's been quite allot of developments in the past few years." He was hoping she would bite the bait so he could keep the conversation going, he wasn't a bumbling mess around girls, but he never really spent much time at all talking to any of them, he felt his heart beat and pick up the pace, it felt very odd and strange to him, maybe it was just her overwhelming looks that was getting to him, he doubted there was any girl prettier than her in the town or possibly in the whole country for that matter.

 

[LullDayBreak13]

Marina couldn't possibly accept his offer but then she noticed her friend noticed them and was giving her a look of a tease, figured that she followed them here and sighed. "I kind of noticed that, I think this place is pretty nice, seeing how everyone here seems nice and really interesting as well." she said and softly chuckles and sees him looking at her. She blinked and then looks away from him. "Anyway, since we are already here, and my friend already left us, why don't you be my guide here, Nozaki?" she asked with an innocent smile.


Hearing people's voices from afar, she looked at painting that one of them was carrying. And the other one was carrying some paint and brushes as well. After that, another one was carrying a small sculpture of some goddess. "Oh wow...." she said softly while watching them carry those art materials. Art always seemed to intrigued her the most.

 

[Netty]

Nozaki noticed her eyes widen, seeing the spectacular sculptures hold of her interest for a split second, "Oh so you like art do you? Why don't we have a gander to the art departments? Have you ever considered signing up?" He was pleased to see she had a keen interest in something, you could tell allot about a person from they're interests, so she must either be quite smart of have a wonderful imagination, "Come on, this way" he held onto her wrist and began walking forwards, he thought she seemed quite timid, so he took the initiative with her.

 

[LullDayBreak13]

"Art department?" she asked as she noticed he was already dragging her all the way to another building. She thought that maybe this guy likes to drag people around, or maybe not. But who cares, she was a bit hesitant about asking where the other students were taking the sculptures and paintings, and it was a good thing that Nozaki noticed her interest in them. As they were walking, she looked at his hands holding her small and delicate wrist and blushed, it didn't feel like he was forceful but he was holding her gently. A slight blushed appeared on her cheeks as she continues to look at it.


When they have finally arrived, there were some students in the right hallway spraying some paint on their works, some were working outside building and was making a mini exhibition of their works as well. On the other side, some students were putting up some kind of invention or maybe some kind of artwork design with a bit of light on it as well? No matter, it was rather interesting. All these students were making was just amazing and interesting to her. It was like a sight for sore eyes actually. She starts to smile as they continued to pass along other students and then in a room she saw a class drawing a woman as she blushed, the woman was nude!! She grabbed on Nozaki's shirt and whispered. "W-w-why are they drawing a nude woman?! Isn't she embarrassed?!" her whole face was turning to like a tomato right now that it looked so cute and she was totally innocent with those kinds of things.


"I know it's art but d-does it really have to be in the nude?! Oh my!" she moved away from the room and goes to another room and sees some students playing an instruments and some were singing as well. Was it some project? She wondered.

 

[Netty]

Nozaki was intrigued by her interest in the arts and wondered more and more about her, he hadn't ran into many girls around his sort of age with similar minds to his own. "Well, I'm no artist myself, but nude art gives the artist more room to express the persons emotion, through the muscle tension, the colour of somebody's flushed chest, etcetera..."


His mind was absent as it ran off with itself talking to Marina, and had completely forgotten he was still holding her wrist, he realised and let go subtly, hoping she wouldn't pick up how long he had been holding onto her for, he felt a bit silly holding a cute girls hand while they both stared at this naked woman posing, and even Nozaki blushed a little.

 

[LullDayBreak13]

Marina nodded and somehow understood his explanation. "Expressing one's emotion through the muscle, huh..." she said and kept that in mind. Maybe she would try sketching something like that, but before she could sketch. She needed someone to be her nude model. But that thought somehow flustered her a bit and just decided to do that next time when she has a chance.


Noticing that he finally let's go of her she chuckled and saw him blushing. It was rather cute that he was blushing like her, probably because of the nude model he was looking at. She giggled at the sight of him blushing while looking at the model as she sees some some students in a room full of sculptures, some were unfinished but most of them were for already in display and it seems like they were all gods and goddesses and some were mythical creatures and some were weird types of shapes as well, which intrigued her but what intrigued her most was a beautiful sculpture of lady, that somehow looked like her for some strange reason.

 

[Netty]

Nozaki noticed her chuckle, she clearly noticed his sudden awkwardness, he did manage to find it extremely cute though regardless, which is probably why she had a crowd of people around herself earlier on, "So do you do any creative things yourself in your spare time? I'm not quite sure how all of that works in the down below of the deep blue sea." He hoped he could at least keep her interested in talking to him by asking some questions about her and her life, at least then he could find out about her world as well as continuing his very slight interest in this attractive young lady.