Hi, I officially want to add myself to the fandom of Free! by writing a fanfiction for well… the fans! So I hope you like this and I plan on making it a looong thing so sit back and enjoy!

P.S. I recommend that you copy and paste this into something and find and replace all the [Name]s so it's a more enjoyable read for you.

This chapter uses:

-[Nickname]

Your Granny was the first to wake you up, tempting you out of sleep with a hearty breakfast. Rubbing your eyes you lethargically dragged yourself out of your futon. Futons were strange to sleep in, seeing as you were so used to normal beds, but your grandparents you've come to visit in Japan had quite the traditional taste in housing and you weren't presented with any other options. Your father must be used to it though, seeing as he was raised in this house.

Your parents were already at the dining table, eating their meals, unwilling to wait for you or your grandmother. You smiled at seeing your family all together.

"Ah, she's back from the dead," Your father chuckled, patting you on your head as you walked to your chair next to him.

"Your hair is even crazier than usual honey," you hopped into your chair with some effort as your mother sighed. You would reply but it was the morning right now and you found talking right after you woke up was too much effort sometimes. Eating?Oh, that was a whole other thing entirely.

As you stuffed your cheeks with a delicious breakfast, your grandfather slowly sat across from you, releasing a fit of deep coughs as your grandmother took his side. His old finger fumbling with the chopsticks as he looked up to you before eating and smiled, "Five weeks begins now. Excited, eh?"

You could only nod. Your parents always got angry when you talked and ate at the same time.

For about forty days you'd be here in Japan, spending the summer with your grandparents. Which was a big deal. You'd never been here before, they always came to you guys and you were a little happy for some role reversal, though the reason for it was a little sad. Grandpa was too sick for travel.

You had come with a small condition though.

After swallowing another big bite of food, you eyed your parents suspiciously, wondering when they'd mention the fulfillment of your requirements and they both seemed to read your mind sighing at the same time humorously.

"Yes," Your mother gave you a funny smile.

"We found a local community center for you. It's got a pool and everything," Your father chuckled and your grandparents echoed his. You threw your arms up in victory and said your first word of the day in cheer, "Yay!"

Over the summer you had to leave behind your precious swim team and it was a little depressing. Your coach had told you to keep practicing but you didn't know how many times your family would be able to frequent the beach with your sick grandfather so you wanted to be sure you had a regular place to go.

"It's close enough for one of us to take you," your mother added, "We'll alternate I guess." She looked to your grandmother pleadingly, but she looked eager.

"I'm sick of being surrounded by old people at bingo or elderly cardio! It'll be nice to be surrounded by you young people. I'll definitely take you too," Her Japanese accent got heavier the more she talked in English.

Your silent grandfather sat down his chopsticks to finally speak again, "That reminds me," he gave a rough cough, "we should all start speaking Japanese. [Nickname] will have to get by with other children."

Luckily your father had loved to teach you Japanese and you loved learning so you were quite good at it as a second language. You weren't ready to write poetry or anything but you were a foreigner and looked like it, people would understand, at least you hoped. You knew there would be kids at the pool though, and it'd be nice to make friends.

"Can we go... test it?" you slyly asked to go to the pool and shot your infamous puppy eyes at your susceptible elders. Your grandma was an easy target

"Hurry up and eat. Then we'll get changed and go."

Everyone began to talk about random topics after that, but all you could do was focus on dominating breakfast.

Hope you liked it! I'll have the second chapter up soon! Please leave a review!

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