Don't worry I'm still writing Selachimorpha, Disgusted, and Fly. They will all have their time to get updated just as this will. However I wanted to start another Rin/Haru fiction so I have something to switch to every so often. So I hope you fans of my other Free! Fic, enjoy this one as well. This is very AU-ish like my first one, and may or may not be a crossover, or at least it draws ideas from other anime that I enjoy. Think Soul Eater + Alice In Wonderland + Free…or something.

Opener: N/A WILL BE COMING SOON

Trigger Warning: Suicidal Thoughts & Acts for this Chapter.

Chapter One: You Only Die Once

Rin Matsuoka stood on the precipice of his mind and body. He was one push away from toppling forward or backward and there was no room to save him. At least that's what he believed. What was the point in all this?

The shark could be such a drama queen sometimes. He'd had some excuse when he was a child. Children can only be so strong after all, but now? It was just pathetic. He was a man now. There were was no room for this sort of thing. So here he was, standing on the support bar of a balcony several feet in the air staring down at the streets below him. It would only take a simple wind gust to throw him off, just, one, little, nudge. He'd considered jumping several times over the past month.

The red head would simply come up here for an hour and debate whether or not this would be the time that he'd do it.

Nothing. Was. Keeping. Him. Here.

With his dreams of fulfilling his father's own banished to the sidelines he felt empty inside. He had absolutely no reason left to remain where he was. Did he? His eyes closed as he sighed stuffing his hands in his jacket pockets. Maybe tonight really would be the night. There was no one to stop him. It was dark out and he was wearing his black school uniform.

So why. Couldn't. He. Just. Step Off?

There was something keeping him here. Rin could see it every time he closed his eyes. Ice cold eyes, a disinterested scowl and muscles that went for days. How could one person be such a solidifying anchor? It wasn't as if they talked much. Sure there was a text here and there. Maybe they would even occasionally see each other, wave, everything that acquaintance do, not lifelong friends. Matsuoka knew the lilt in communication was his fault. He'd run off to Australia, come back, and ruined whatever friendship they could have had. All do to his selfish nature. So there was no possible way, that idiot dolphin wanted anything to do with him. Not that Rin had bothered to ask.

Red, watery, eyes opened back up as he wiped the fleeting tears away from his face. The shark didn't think he could take any more of this. He couldn't face that person every day, he could barely look at a pool even. He hadn't been back to school in weeks. He knew people were going to take notice soon. So it was bet to just get it over with now. He inhaled deeply and glanced down at the street below. It would be over so quickly. There was absolutely no reason to hesitate now.

A foot came off the bar hovering over the empty space ahead leaving the shark to balance on a single leg. Just lose balance. He mocked himself for being so terrified. Maybe that would be enough to do it.

The sudden vibration and the sound of the ringtone breaking the silence made him jerk. The sudden surprised reaction combined with only being balanced on a single limb sent the red head tumbling forward without warning and a disheartened scream pierced the air. His life was making quick work to flash before his eyes, he didn't want to see it. His eyes clamped shut as water streamed from his still teary eyeballs. I'm going to die…

Then something nothing more than miraculous happened. Something snapped around his waist, like an elastic band of a bungee cord causing his mid-fall flight to stop abruptly about half way down. Pain swelled in his abdomen from whatever had caught him and his eyes flew open as he struggled around like a fish on a hook. The shark's hands snaked down to cradle himself. As soon as they touched metal he panicked further, his thrashing was only increasing the tight hold of whatever was wrapped around him.

"Stop struggling!" A voice echoed in his ears, or was it his head? Rin instantly went limp however deciding that he was probably only doing further harm to himself in the end. He was slowly tugged back up and dragged over the balcony by a pair of slender arms."You bastard, what were you thinking?" The voice sounded awfully familiar…

Rin's eyes fluttered open and shut as black dots began to fill his eyes. Images of a chain, a face, and glowing blue eyes filled his vision before it blinked out. None of it made sense, but he felt a sense of relief to be alive, for the first time.

"Dammit Rin." The mysterious voice belonged to Haruka Nanase. The very person that had Rin in such a state of despair. His long fingers stretched out to the metal chain that was wrapped around the shark's abdomen and it snapped into blue particles dispersing into the air.

"Is he alright?" Ryūgazaki asked as he flipped down from the balcony above with little to no difficulty. He was dressed in his school form similarly to both the unconscious red head and the boy worrying over him.

"He's going to have a hell of a bruise." Haruka muttered as he pushed up the male's shirt to inspect his stomach for any extensive damage.

"It's better than dying.." Ryūgazaki quipped as he adjusted his red glasses and crossed his arms looking over the balcony. "One hell of a jump." He could tell that Haru wasn't entirely amused by his comments. That icy stare was enough to freeze a summer breeze.

"Do you think we can get by with him assuming it was a dream?" Haru questioned with little to no conviction.

"Oh I don't know. I'm sure he won't question the bruises and imprint from a chain."

Haruka shot Rei a look before moving to pull Rin over his shoulder to stand up."So what do you suggest we do then?" Honestly he was at a loss, he'd never thought they'd have to deal with this. Rin was never supposed to find out about it.

"We could just you know, tell him." Rei suggested as he removed his glasses to wash them. Again with the icy stare."Look,Haru he's going to figure it out eventually, if he doesn't lob himself off a building again first." There was a pause as he placed his glasses back on." Well then we won't have to worry I guess…"

Haru sighed deeply as he shifted his weight onto another leg. It wasn't as though Rin was heavy for him, he was just extremely perturbed. "How am I supposed to tell him about this?" He exclaimed, rather loudly at that. Ryūgazaki could only roll his eyes and clean out an ear with his pinky finger.

"Just tell him you're a weapon. Simple as that." That sounded far easier than it would actually be in practice.

"Right, I'm just going to tell Rin that I'm not particularly human."

"Haruka you are human, your just happen to be able to do some things humans can't do, just like me, just like the others."

"It was my promise to myself that I would never expose him to this." Haru snapped as he turned toward the direction he'd come from, Rin still dangling from his shoulder. "Being able to do what we can, isn't even remotely human."

The exasperated sigh that came from the violet haired male could be felt not just heard. He moved his way toward the distraught teen and placed a hand on the shoulder that wasn't occupied by the unconscious body. "Perhaps your right." He said softly bending down so that he could be eye level with the other. Blue eyes shifted to meet his purple.

"But?"

There was always a but with Rei.

"But if you want him safe….there is only one option left anymore." Ryūgazaki shifted to the support bar once more as Haru's eyes followed him."Make up your decision Haruka." He vanished in a disintegration of purple particles and Haru was left to stand there, at a loss of what to do. Even if he didn't want to admit it, Rei was completely right. This was partially his fault. He'd been so distant from Rin, he'd thought it make keeping his secret easier.

"Damn." Nanase vanished in a similar fashion to his classmate, only it was blue sparks that followed after him.

He reappeared in his own home putting Rin in his bed. He stood there over him biting his lip and considering his options. He had to tell him, there was no other way around it. He had to. He had to. He had to. He twitched when the shark turned over to face the wall, dragging blankets with him.

At least he's asleep…

Haru collapsed in his study chair as he stared at the ceiling. Where would he even begin?

Hey Rin. You're in my bed. Fancy that. No. I mean. Well. I don't mind that you're in my bed. Just. Shit. Look I'm going to start over. Hi Rin, you know me as Haruka Nanase, your childhood rival…but other's, many others even, know me as Scythe of Binding. I have a special ability, if you can call it that, to summon chains to do my bidding, and if paired with the right person I can completely transform into a supernatural weapon of magical mass destruction…..annnnd you happen to be that person. So. Yea. We're were sort of born to be together. I was going to tell you one day. Hell I was going to tell you the day you came back from Australia. But then I made you cry, and then you drifted away from me. I thought then maybe it would be better to keep you in the dark about myself, about yourself, about all the things you couldn't see. Though now I see that was a mistake. You need me more than ever and I need you more than ever. So please, please…before you say anything. Consider becoming my Weapon Master. .Er…User…er..er…er…..

Haruka let out an exasperated groan as he covered his face with his hand. This was going to go swimmingly. Why did this have to happen now? Why had Rin decided to throw himself from a building? Had he really caused him so much despair? What a rubbish partner he was turning out to be. Although it was a bit hard to be a partner of any kind when the other didn't know anything about it to begin with.

This could only get worse from here.

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