Heyaaa! So I'm here with another fanfic! Hoooray :3
It'll be: Free! – Iwatobi Swim Club this time! *Sigh*I'm so obsessed atm...
Aaaanyway, this fanfic will contain my OC (Ea Hashimoto, who is a girl btw) and the regular Free! characters :3 It's OCxGou/Kou and HaruxMakoto hehehheh ... I really hope you like it
ALSO I'd like to announce that I'm not Japanese and have absolutely no idea of traditions/culture and all the cool stuff so IF I MAKE MISTAKES in surnames and the like: PLEASE LET ME KNOW! I hate to insult (Japanese in this case) cultures in any kind of way... so yeah...
I'm using Ea as a boy's name tho, not sure if it's even a Japanese name but I liked it and that's that!
Ea made her way to her first class with great reluctance weighing down each step. What was she even doing here? She hated school, no, in fact, she loathed the damn place.
All these people and all these hallways. It was just so crowded. Too crowded for her liking. But she went on with it anyway.
Her parents had left her the money to go to college before they moved to Europe with her grandmother, who had become very ill over the summer. Europe had the special treatments that Ea's grandmother required, but she couldn't move alone, so her parents had agreed on going with her.
Ea had insisted that she'd be just fine and had happily waved her parents and grandmother goodbye.
Unknowing of how hard it could be to wake up at this ungodly hour and then make yourself presentable for school.
Ea sighed as she saw the number of her first class on the classroom's door. She put on a straight face and knocked. The teacher soon opened the door.
"Well, hello! You must be the new transfer! How lovely!" The woman said excited and ushered Ea inside.
"Class, this is Ea Hashimoto! He's a nice boy so be kind!" The woman in front of the class smiled and eyed Ea, then gasped and clasped a hand in front of her mouth as she realised her mistake. The class burst out laughing and Ea's brow twitched in irritation.
Okay, she might've a boyish name and she might have had a pixie cut and she might have a slightly flat chest, but that didn't mean she looked like a boy. Right?
She cleared her throat.
"I'm a girl actually. And it's my pleasure." Ea dipped her head respectfully and looked up again. Spotting a place near a redheaded girl she slowly walked over and took place.
The lesson soon ended and without really having talked to the girl next to her, Ea exited the classroom.
The first hours went by pretty fast and Ea was slowly getting used to the annoying ways teachers introduced her to the class.
By the time the lunch bell rang, Ea was exhausted of all the listening and taking in information. It was truly boring and she longed for distraction. Like a good book and her stuffy couch. Yeah, she thought, that'd be perfect right now. Ea was so lost in thoughts that she hadn't noticed where she was walking and immediately bumped into someone when she rounded a corner.
"Oh! I'm so sorry!" Ea said, eyeing the blonde boy in front of her. He somehow looked familiar and she wondered if he was in one of her classes.
"Ah, it's okay! Don't worry!" The boy told her and flashed a toothy smile.
"I'm Nagisa by the way. Nagisa Hazuki!" he stuck out his hand, clearly waiting for Ea to shake it, which she hesitantly did.
"Uhm.. Nice to meet you, Nagisa. I'm Ea Hashimoto." Ea smiled faintly at the boy whose eyes were widening by the second.
"Ea?!" he asked incredulously. "Ea.. as in a boy? " Nagisa cocked his head and grinned widely.
"Yeah, Ea is a boy's name! Right?" Ea nodded slightly and suddenly the boy was dragging her with him, talking rapidly as he went. Ea could barely make out where they were headed and almost tripped over several stairs but Nagisa caught her just in time.
Finally they came to a stop. Ea looked around warily as wind blew in her face, loosening several short strands of her perfect auburn braided hair. They were on the roof of the school.
"Hello guys! Look, look! This is Ea! She has a boyish name like Gou!" Nagisa yelled at the group of boys and girl sitting against the wall.
A girl with red hair, who Ea remembered sitting next to during her first class, spoke up.
"It's Kou. Not Gou, Kou! There is a difference in pronunciation." The girl, Gou, huffed and returned to her lunch. Ea looked from the girl to Nagisa and frowned.
"Okay, hold up. You took me all the way here, just because I have a boyish name?!" Ea yelled at Nagisa and huffed as well.
"You have issues." She stated and turned around to leave.
"Wait!" Nagisa called and grabbed Ea's wrist. She reluctantly turned around and raised a brow at the pouting boy, indicating that he should continue with whatever he was about to say.
"Well... I think you should join our swimming club! You're a perfect fit!" Ea felt her hand go cold in the boy's grip and she sucked in a breath.
"S-swimming?" Ea asked softly. Her mind wandered off to the many medals and trophies in her room, decorating the walls, reminding Ea of something she'd rather forget.
No! Ea bit her lip. No.. never.
She'd promised herself that she wouldn't get herself involved with swimming again. She was done with it. Done...
"Ea? Are you in?" Nagisa asked impatiently and tugged on her hand. Ea snatched her hand back immediately and sighed.
She was not done yet. Not at all.
She'd promised herself to never swim again, to never come close to the blue surfaces. But the hypnotic water was always calling for her. She couldn't simply ignore it.
Ea had tried of course. She tried so hard but she couldn't stay away from it. She would swim in the lake near her old house when it was dark enough for no one to see her.
She'd sneak out of the new house at night to swim in the ocean, when no one was watching.
She just knew that she couldn't let swimming be just another part of her past. She had to take it with her to the future as well.
And here she was. Asked to join a swimming club.
It was stupid really, but Ea was fussing over such a small thing. Having broken her promise to herself already, she still felt that this would snap the last cords that were holding it together.
"I'll think about it..." Ea whispered and turned away. She ran down the stairs, passed the lockers and across the parking lot.
She ran until she finally stopped in front of very familiar ebony doors and didn't care that she was skipping lessons on her first day. Hell, she thought, who gives a damn about school anyway? After taking her keychain from her backpack, she slid the right one into the keyhole. After a pull and push the door opened with a soft creak and Ea stepped inside.
She slammed the door shut and ran towards her bedroom, taking off her shoes and coat as she did.
With a sigh she threw her duffel bag in the corner of the room and plopped down on the bed, panting. She was facing the ceiling, not wanting to get a view of the prizes filling her shelves.
"I'm so sorry..." Ea whispered after a while. She turned her head to look at a photo on her nightstand.
"God, Yuki. I'm so sorry, so terribly sorry..." her voice broke and she lifted her hands to cover her face, not able to stand the photograph of herself and her best friend anymore.
*POV change*
"Ehhh? Nagisa! What did you do?" Gou asked when she turned around to see the auburn haired girl run away.
"M-me?! I just asked if she wanted to join the team!" Nagisa said defensively. Gou narrowed her eyes.
"You can't just go around and drag people from one place to another just to ask if they want to join the team!" She shouted and crossed her arms.
To be totally honest, she wasn't mad at Nagisa for causing the girl to run away. She was pretty sure that she was the new transfer and that she'd been sitting next to her during first period. Gou thought she was pretty cute and wanted to befriend her. Unfortunately, she was gone from the classroom before she could've taken a breath.
Ea.. something. Gou frowned, Ea, huh? That was indeed a boyish name.
"Anyway, is she interested? I couldn't catch the last bit." Makoto asked politely to which Nagisa cocked his head.
"Uhm... She said she would think about it..." he shrugged and sat down next to Rin.
Haruka frowned.
"Why would someone want to think about wanting to join a swimming club?" he mused silently. Makoto eyed his friend and smirked.
"Seems not everyone is that fond of water, huh?" he burst out laughing when Haruka pulled a horrified face.
"Truth be told, I think some people hate the stuff!" Nagisa said with a grin on his face. Haruka choked on his drink and everyone burst out laughing.
*POV change*
Ea lay quietly in her bed. She hadn't changed out of her school uniform and had no intentions of doing so. She watched the photograph on her nightstand intently.
"Yuki..." she murmured and felt her eyelids grow heavier every minute she stared at her best friend.
Slowly she began drifting off to sleep as memories of her and Yuki began to surface.
Half slumbering, half awake, her memories began fusing with her self-made dreamworld.
~ Okaaaayy, so tell me what you think?! Please leave a review! I'd really like to read 'em :3
Yeah ... so, that was chapter 1 ^w^ And I hope you enjoyed!
-Fanfic Devil, out!