I wrote this a while back so forgive me for any mistakes. This is an AU of sorts, nothing much has changed except the characters are interested in different things. Rated M for language. I don't own Free!
"Come on Rin, you can do it! Another 50 and you'll be done!" Gou said.
Rin felt the sweat on his face as he managed another shaky press-up. "G-Gou…" he stuttered, breathing heavily. "Why the- ah-!" He felt his arms collapse under him.
Gou kicked him. "You need to stay in shape!" she instructed. She looked at the stopwatch around her neck. "I could have finished in half your time!"
Rin was panting and lying on the ground. "I'll stick to fishing…" he said indistinctly.
"Fishing won't get you a girlfriend!" Gou yelled.
"I don't give a damn," he said, pressing his face against the cold floor.
Gou stormed out of the room. Rin pushed himself up on his weak, aching arms. He stood up and made his way out of the gym.
"Rin!" came a familiar voice. He turned around, wiping the sweat of his face with his t-shirt.
Nagisa waved and strode towards him. He was dressed in his usual expensive attire. Rin swore he'd seen that shirt on sale for at least thirty thousand yen.
"Another photoshoot?" Rin asked sardonically, as he noticed the direction Nagisa had come from.
"Yeah! You'll see me on the front cover of Mizushi any day soon!" Nagisa winked at him. "You seem out of breath. Been working out?"
"More like 'tortured'," Rin muttered. He looked towards the fishing docks longingly.
Nagisa laughed. "See you at school then," he said, waving again before running off. Rin sighed heavily and then began walking to the docks.
He had enrolled at Iwatobi the day before. Of course, the little nit Nitori had started crying and grabbing him, begging him to stay. Rin scoffed out loud. Couldn't the nit leave him alone for once? Rin didn't even properly know him.
The captain had been happy to get rid of him; even if he hadn't said so, Rin could tell. They didn't get on all that well – the captain liked order and control, but wherever Rin went, chaos was guaranteed to occur.
As for his classmates at Iwatobi… the girls became interested after he mentioned his time in Australia. He wasn't sure the boys felt the same way. And Haru, Makoto and Nagisa had all changed a lot since he last saw them.
Rin scowled as he thought of them. They hadn't even tried to bloody contact him whilst he was in Australia. He glared at the pavement, kicking small pebbles. One hit a young child who began crying. His mother looked alarmed and picked her child up and hurried away. Rin stuck his middle finger up at her and felt a bit better.
Rin had been trying to befriend Haru, who was distant and didn't have any friends because he knew the feeling. He talked to him whenever he could. Haru had just started to fucking warm up to him, when he had had to move to fucking Australia-
Rin kicked a wall in frustration and swore loudly. He was at the docks now. He clenched his jaw and went down to the boats. Fishing always calmed him down. If he didn't get in one of those damn boats soon he was going to hurt somebody. Or himself.
He shut his eyes tightly and counted to ten out loud. When he opened his eyes again, an old fisher man was smiling at him. Rin forced himself to smile back.
"Good morning, Rin," the man said warmly. "I have the fishing boat set up over here."
Rin followed the man to his boat. "Thanks," he managed to say. He really didn't want to make the fisher man sad by yelling or glaring at him, so he avoided his eyes.
"You're very welcome," the man said. He smiled, and then walked back to the dock.