Hiya guys! :D I'm pretty new to this fandom so forgive me for my awkwardness~
Yosh! I welcome you to my new and first Free! story~! :D I hope you all enjoy reading it even though it's just a crappy prologue.
Disclaimer: I do not own Free! and its characters. I only own the plot and maybe the attitude of the reader.
Prologue: An Awkward Meeting
RIIIIIIIINNNNGGGGG! RIIIINNNNNNGGGGGG! RIIIIIINNNNNNNGGGGGGG!
The school bell rang loudly through your delicate ears as you ready for battle. Feet firmly on the floor, hands on your bag and a face with a determine grin.
"Oh, class dismiss!" Your last period teacher declared.
Students cheered and started to chatter, making the classroom filled with noise and the atmosphere got intense by it.
You stood up, got your bag and charged dashingly at the door.
"Oi! F/N-chan!"
Your fabulous exit was interrupt by an intruder once again. Well, not really. You just hate it when someone is disturbing you. With your poker face still on, you slowly looked back at your opponent.
A petite girl with long burgundy hair, tied back in a ponytail, pouted as you sighed in response.
"What now, Gou-chan?" You straighten your back and looked at the girl.
Her red eyes shot wide at the way you called her. "F/N-chan! How many times—"
"Sheesh! I get it, Kou-chan! I was just joking!" You immediately cut her with a whining shout that you don't want to hear her speech about her beautiful Kou name again.
Matsuoka Gou, but prefer to be called as Kou, smiled bright. "Okay!"
You sighed again. "Anyway, what do you want? Don't you see that I was going to do my fabulous exit before you—"
This time, Kou cut you by doing unnecessary movements at you. She starched her head so nervously and kept repeating the word 'um'.
You felt uneasy. "H-Hey, Kou, is something a matter?" As her best friend, you really feel worried about her. What's going on?
She gathered up her courage and looked back at you. Her red eyes are determined like it was on fire. "I want you join the swimming club please!"
What? You furrowed at her statement but quickly regain conscious. "I already answered that question last month, right? I rejected your offer because the club doesn't have a female swimmer."
Kou clasped both of your hands, which widen your eyes, and kept begging. "Onegai, F/N-chan! I feel so lonely with just Ama-sensei around. Plus, I need someone to stop my obsession over muscles!"
You struck a death glare at Kou. "How dare you use me as your fangirling-stop-mechanism."
"B-But that's not the point!" Kou protested. "We really need a new member for the team." She beamed her puppy-dog eyes. "Please~ F/N-chan~"
You sweat dropped and looked at the side. "I don't know…"
"I know you want to." She grinned. "I know you want to swim again~"
You sighed in defeat and loosen Kou's grip. "Fine." You quickly agreed without thinking. She is your best friend anyway and you will do anything just to make her happy.
"Eh? Really!?" Kou happily cheered.
"Yeah, but in one condition…" You looked seriously at Kou. "…I swim for fun, not for competition." With that, you swung your bag over your shoulder and coolly walked out the room.
Kou chirped. "Horray~!" She practically pulled you and ran to the swimming club.
You sighed. Another un-fabulous exit…
"Konnichiwa minna-san~!" Kou cheerfully greeted the swimming club members as she dragged you inside.
"Ah! Gou-chan! Konnichiwa!"
"Don't call me that, Nagisa-kun!"
"Gou-chan?"
"Kou-chan."
"Gou-chan."
"It's Kou-chan, Nagisa-kun!"
"Oi oi. Gou-chan, calm down."
"I'm going to swim."
"Ah! Haru! Don't strip here! There's a girl here!"
"It's just Gou."
"But still!"
"That would be beautiful."
"EH!?"
You watched the Iwatobi Swimming Club members have their random and riot conversation. While you, yourself, are enjoying the sight.
"Wow. That was fun…" You slowly removed Kou's grip and quietly turned your back to the exit.
"Konnichiwa." A woman with brown, shoulder-length, slightly wavy hair, jolted you in surprise as you examined her more.
She looked like a teacher with her white shirt, green sweater, blue jeans and white shoes. But you are disturbed by her appearance. She's really cute!
"Ah! Ama-sensei!" Kou swung her arm over your neck and excitedly introduced you. "This is L/N F/N-chan, a first year and a classmate of mine. She wants to join the club as a swimmer, sensei!"
"Ah… More like Kou-chan wants me to join because she feels lonely and stuff like that." You corrected.
"Oh, in that case…" Ama-sensei, but introduced herself as Amakata Miho the supervisor of this club, hugged you tightly. "Welcome to the club!"
"U-U-U-U-Um-m-m… Thank you?" You awkwardly thanked her.
After the hug, Kou wrapped her arm with yours and so is Amakata with your other arm. "Horray for female member!"
You had trouble smiling because of the hyper attitude of the two. "Y-Yeah."
"What style or stroke do you swim?" A tall, young man with short, straight black hair and blue eyes asked you with his serious expression.
You looked at his face and grinned. "Freestyle."
"F-Freestyle?" He was taken back from your answer.
"Yup." You escaped from the girls' wrap. "But I can also do Backstroke…" You looked at a tall young man with short, olive green hair and droopy green eyes. He smiled at you.
"…Breaststroke…" You felt a presence behind you and saw a short, young man with wavy blond hair that goes down between his dark pink eyes, cheerfully smiling.
"…and Butterfly." You finished your statement as you detected a tall young man with short, dark blue hair and purple eyes, adjusting his red-framed glasses.
Amakata applauded. "That's so wonderful, L/N-san."
You bowed to show respect. "Arigatou, Amakata-sensei. But I only swim for fun."
"Fun?" The four swimmer boys asked in union.
You nodded. "Hai. Plus, my main purpose to join beside Kou-chan's request is because I want to feel the essence of swimming again…" You smiled at them.
"So, am I in?"
Silence had filled the air as you hear crickets playing and bull frogs croaking.
Okay? I honestly don't care if I will be accepted or not because of Kou-chan's desire for me and her… But since I kind of forgot how swimming feels because of problems in the past, I guess I'll try my best… Plus, I still love to swim.
You scanned around the place. Kou-chan is praying that the boys will accept you and Amakata-sensei is doing the same thing. You guessed that they really want you to join.
Back to the boys, three boys are looking at the black haired guy with their unsure face. It might be their captain, well, you're still not sure.
You fisted your hand and coughed. "Ehem…" Four boys jolted and quickly looked at you.
You tilted your head. "I'm still waiting." You slightly frowned.
Again, the three boys looked at the black haired guy. You started looking at the blackette as well.
Seconds passed, minutes passed and still all of you are still waiting for the response of the guy.
You sighed. "I guess that—"
"You're in."
Your eyes shot wide. "N-Nani?"
"You're in." Your eyes widen more when you see him smiling lightly.
You smiled back. "Arigatou, senpai!"
"By the way, it's Nanase Haruka." The not-so-emotionless guy said.
"I'm Tachibana Makoto, nice to meet you." The tall sweet guy, which always has a smile on his face, smiled brightly at you once again.
"Hazuki Nagisa." A hyper kid jumped in front of you and pointed to himself. "Hiya!"
"The name's Ryugazaki Rei." The handsome nerd boy offered you a hand and you gladly accepted it.
"L/N F/N." You introduced yourself.
"Yosh~!" Kou suddenly entered the scene. "Since F/N-chan doesn't bring her swimsuit today, she will just swim tomorrow!"
"Alright."
"I'm okay with that."
"Okie!"
"Sure thing."
You giggled at the responses of your new friends. "Arigatou, minna."
"L/N-san."
You turned around and saw Amakata smiling at you. "Hai?"
"You can leave early for today." She said. "Take it as a reward or a day off for preparing yourself for your first day in the swimming club tomorrow."
You smiled big. "Okay. I will!"
"You better come back here tomorrow, F/N-chan!" Hazuki Nagisa, a whining little kid as you presume, shouted.
You giggled. "Hai!"
"F/N-chan! I'll go to your house later to talk about the swimming club, okay?" Kou reminded.
"Un!" You nodded.
You jogged your way to the door, excited to go home. But before you go, you take a quick glimpse at your new club.
This will be a fun experience, I just know it!
I'll try my best to update but since I'm a college student it will be hard for me but what the heck! I will still do my very best to update!
I'm sorry for the OOCness, I guess? Ugh. I'll try to manage that too. Mm... Please tell me your critics since I just started writing again after so many months of being hiatus.
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