Board Thread:Important Logs/@comment-26068742-20170630230525/@comment-26021384-20170704212256

Shien got caught out, and his feet were swept up from under him. There was no telling how deep that whirlpool was, but he was spun around and tumbled about. His arms flailing as he looked to grab onto something, and grabbed a few chunks of snow only for them to break off and be flung into the mass of water. It was actually kind of terrifying, being forced to try and swim in a whirlpool while he took as many fresh breaths of air as he could. Of course it got gulp after gulp of water into his body while he tried to get at least one full breath of fresh air.

When he went under finally and his arms popped up from the surface now and then, Shien kept his mouth shut, trying to hold his breath for as long as he could. He would have had more had he not been caught off guard, so when he needed to breathe, he just gasped for air while underwater out of relfex, and filled his lungs with enough that the fight in him slowed to a crawl.

He didn't want to go out, not like this, not so soon. Thankfully, the whirlpool stopped as he had lost consciousness. He wasn't as far gone as it would have been thought, but when Hayato came in with the chest compressions and forced breath into his lungs, Shien jolted finally after about a half minute of attention and turned over to cough up a lungful of water into the snow. He was shivering a bit from the water on his body and he looked at Hayato with a terrified and shocked look on his face before nodding slowly. "I--I'm okay. Can you dry me off with some fire chakra or something?" He put his hands together and focused wind chakra through his body, sending excess water off his body while he walked over to Ren, after using the snake handseal to collect his tools with the Verdant Mountain Gale, gathering up all of them while he looked at the poor genin that thought violence was the answer.

"It's a shame, but they brought it on themselves. Attack with killing in mind and be met with harder force." He knelt down and scrooped up Ren, holding the medic's legs in his arms while slumping the Senju's torso over his back and those arms over his shoulders, giving Ren a piggyback ride to carry him. If Hayato pressed on it further, Shien would give a quick, "I'm fine! --I mean, I hate myself for not noticing what was happening sooner." Maybe there was something a little deeper seeded in his brain at this point, but he wasn't showing his cards on the matter just yet. "Let's go, we got some scrolls to deliver."