Seijuurou was never the kind of guy to make a huge scene about anything. He preferred not to in fact, but there were times where he was tempted. Tempted specifically by the one Makoto Tachibana and by god how the temptation killed him.

The Samezuka captain walked over, as casually as he could manage, as though he didn't have any nagging thoughts about the tall boy, and stood just outside their little circle and listened to their pre-practice small-talk.
"Eh.. my sisters were bullying me again," Nagisa was complaining. "They tried to get me into one of their dresses again. It's so annoying!" he whined.
"Eh? They're still picking on you like that?" Rin asked, "Man, I thought they would have given up on that ages ago,"
"Say, that got me thinking. I know Rin-chan and Gou-chan are siblings, Haru-chan's an only child, and Mako-chan has Ren-chan and Ran-chan, but I never found out about Rei-chan's family,"
All of a sudden, the blue-haired first year seemed to go into a bit of a panic. "I, uh, well there's my mother and fath-"
"Yes, we know," a rather impatient Nagisa cut in, "but what about your siblings?"
"I- well, um- I have an older brother," he eventually murmured. It was barely audible within the small huddle and Seijuurou had to strain quite a reasonable amout to hear properly.
"Eh? How cool! I bet he's just like you!" Nagisa chirped.
"I- uh," Rei coughed uncomfortably, "Quite the opposite really. We don't talk much,"
Makoto tilted his head to one side (to which Seijuurou supressed the urge to sigh loudly at). "Really? I had imagined you would have been very similar,"
"My brother has had many... outside influences," Rei replied, finally regaining his analytical composure, "most noteably our older cousin who he is cur he is currently living with further south for university,"
There was a collective "ahh," and then some "that would make sense"s and "I never thought of that"s.

With their curiositities sated (for now), Rei retreated to the pool, but the peace was not to be for long. During their break, Nitori came running to them from the locker room waving Rei's phone, saying something about a "Yousuke" calling, and that there were already ten missed calls.
Panic seemed to break out on the blue-haired boy's face like acne on a teenager. Whoever it was seemed to have spoken immediately because Rei's face dropped and a hand was quickly slapped to his forehead, though this changed after a few moments when his expression changed to one of complete and utter shock.
"Wai-, Hold o-, What? H-, Oh no, no, no, no, no. I don't have enough bloody space!" his voice had gone shrill by the end of it, grabbing everyone's attention, although he himself didn't seem to notice.
There was a brief pause, and then a definite, "No," as if the person on the other end was attempting to bargain at something. Several members of both swim teams had begun to become worried at this point, since Rei was normally incredibly composed and very difficult to evoke such agitation from. "Why are you calling last minute anyway?"
There was another pause.
"Osaka has it's own bay! And beaches! And better facilities! Why can't you just do it there?" He shouted into the phone.
There was a brief response from the other end and then, "The sea looks the bloody same everywhere you git,"
There was a longer pause this time and half way through a look of mild terror had set in his eyes somewhere, but his irritation apparently still won out. "No."
A short response, and then, "There will be room available,"

At this point, Nagisa, who had been listening intently, positively lit up like a fairy light on Christmas night and jumped onto Rei's back, forcing a piggy back from him and causing him to jump out of his skin, almost dropping his phone.
"Ne, Rei-chan," the small blonde started, "are you having visitors?"
"A-absolutely not!" Rei barked back.
At this point, whoever was on the other end of the line decided to pipe up and yelled through the phone, "HELLO REI'S FRIEND. NICE TO MEET YOU. I'M GLAD OUR LITTLE BUTTERFLY-CHAN IS BEING SOCIABLE," which was then promptly followed by hysterical laughter from the speaker and one other female audience.
"Butterfly-chan?" Nagisa repeated with an obnoxiously genuine curiosity.
Rei was positively red all over, matching the lovely shade of his glasses, and began sputtering nervously and slamming the "end call" button on his phone hard enough to almost dent the small device before running off shouting that break was over.
Needless to say, everyone was fairly bewildered. Rin and Seijuurou shared a look and shrugged, as did Makoto and Haru, but Nagisa, optimistic as ever, stuck a finger in the air and declared, "Rei-chan is hiding something!" Then turning to his friends, "We must investigate the matter,"
The rest found themselves in the pool with Rei sooner than they had expected.

There was still some teasing and questions in the locker room after practice but, thankfully for Rei, the joke got old quite soon and he was left alone. The ride home seemed to be shorter than they normally were that evening and his heart sunk with dread when he saw the small red Mustang attached to a trailer loaded with a jet-ski and other water-sporting equipment. He sighed and got off his bike, walking the last few steps up to the from of his apartment where he found two familiar faces fast asleep in the small car. A small smile of fondness graced his face as he watched them for a small while. It had been two years since he'd seen either of them and they'd appeared to change a lot. Older, definitely; perhaps taller and it looked like they had been under quite some amount of stress. Rei sighed. How odd that they were so fiendishly immature and trouble-seeking while they were awake, but so incredibly… incredibly adult when they weren't paying attention to the world.

Rei raised a hand and tapped on the window of the car door.