Beached

[vile_queen]

Characters: Uchiha Obito (live_memory), Carmen Sandiego (vile_queen)
When: Tuesday or Wednesday? During the day
Where: On the beach
Rating: G
Summary: Carmen learns there's more to beaches than stealing them. Even if stealing them is fun.

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[live_memory]

"CARMEEEEEEN!"

Obito's yell and enthusiastic waving could be seen and heard from way across the hot sand of the beach.

...Which was pretty much why he ran all the way across it to her, and almost ran straight into the woman; able to veer off course just slightly, but then tumble a good few feet as the sand tripped him up and he miscalculated how wedged his feet were in it. Lying face-down in the sand, Obito groaned.

The young Chuunin pushed himself up much more slowly than he'd been moving, and shook his head wildly; not doing much of anything for the dark tousled strands atop his head that were amassed with sand. Obito pulled his knees under him and sat up, wincing, then spat out a mouthful of the grainy particles. He looked up at Carmen and shaded his eyes with one arm.

"Hey! Sorry 'bout that. Almost ran into ya. You alright?"

[vile_queen]

Carmen turned with a slightly startled laugh at hearing her name yelled so cheerfully. That was a first. As Obito charged at her, she raised an eyebrow. He seemed determined to run into her. Was this a more enthusiastic greeting? His veering off answered that for her. "Obito. Are you well?"

She knelt down beside him and carefully brushed the sand out of his hair. "I am fine, you need not apologize. That did not seem to be an ordinary tumble." Carmen turned her head, so she could see him fully with just the one eye. There. The sand seemed to be taken care of.

She smiled. "I have never been greeted with such enthusiasm. You are most definitely unique, Obito." Moving back so she was seated on one towel, she gestured for Obito to join her. "It is not so hot, when it is covered."

[live_memory]

Obito just grinned with a nod and let her go as Carmen fussed over him. It was kind of nice, after all. "Oh, I'm fine." He assured her, "I've fallen a lot harder than that before, believe me- and from way higher too."

His smile flickered somewhat as he noticed she moved her head to accommodate the loss of vision in one eye. 'My fault' was the brief thought that passed through his head, but he shoved it to the side and smiled again. 'It won't ever happen again.'"Yeah? Well, I'm surprised at that too!" Dusting off all the sand on him, he crawled onto one of the towels and spent a moment appraising them before nodding in agreement. "Yeah! This is much better

[vile_queen]

She cound not entirely blame the Animus for her desire to attend to Obito. Carmen knew such things had begun long before being placed into a family with him. But as she had decided it was not something she could or wanted to end, she would learn. She smiled when he assured her that he was fine. "I am certain you have, in your occupation. However, you were on a mission and expecting such things to happen. So your body was prepared