Pairing: Yamazaki Sōsuke / Tachibana Makoto

Oh dear… Free! Eternal Summer took me in with all its might xD I just had to do a Makoto/ Sōsuke fanfic. The sexy boys meet at last. My mind goes too far with this xD leave a review if you liked! enjoy!

Chapter 1: Stranger

"Man I'm so excited to hear about what happened!" Rin smiled at his best friend, finally reunited again after he joined Samezuka for his last high school year.

"We have a lot of catching up to do Sōsuke!" Rin grinned at his friend while holding a smile. They were at the grocery store getting some stuff for the swimming club's initiation party.

"Yeah, we have to make up for lost time" Sōsuke gently smiles back at his friend, eager to tell him what he's been through all this time. Rin tells Sōsuke he's going to look for other stuff he needs for the party and runs along to another aisle. Sōsuke then starts getting the items on the list, and the first one was in front of him, a pack of rice. He reaches for the pack in the stand but before he puts his hand over it, another big hand gets there first.

"Oh, Sumimasen, I didn't see you over there" Sōsuke looked at the guy standing next to him at the rice stand. He looked kinda familiar. Those olive locks of hair and green emerald eyes caught his attention and he froze for a moment, his serious gaze catching a glimpse of Makoto's semblance.

"Iee… don't worry about it, you can have it" Sōsuke gave the pack of rice to Makoto and stared seriously at him. It was awkward enough, he always looked down to meet people's gazes but he barely needed to tilt his head downward to meet Makoto's eyes. All of a sudden Rin steps by in the aisle and dashes to Makoto from behind.

"Oi Makoto!" He puts his hand on the olive haired captain's shoulders and greets him.

"Rin-chan! What a pleasant surprise, what are you doing here?" He let out a cute smile to his friend and Sōsuke's eyes catched it.

"Sōsuke, come over here! This is Makoto, he's friends with Haru, remember him?" The shark boy held his hair and his cocky attitude was all over the place.

"Long time no see, Tachibana-san"Sōsuke greeted him in a serious fashion.

"I'm glad you remember! Yamazaki-kun!" Makoto always held that bright smile up while talking to Sōsuke.

"So, is Haru with you Makoto?" Rin began looking to the sides to see if he saw Haru.

Sōsuke's gaze went from being frozen into Makoto's look, to an angry expression after hearing Rin call out Haru's name. He was usually a calm guy, he rarely got irritated by stuff but hearing that name caused him to slightly flinch out of his normal behavior.

"No, he's at his house wi-"

"Rin, lets hurry and get the stuff, it's getting late" Yamazaki interrupted in a somewhat rude manner. Makoto looked at him a little bit surprised, he barely knew the guy. Hands in his pockets and giving that tough guy look with centered gaze, the tall man shifted his look to Rin.

"Right, Makoto, why don't you come with us to the party?

"Ehhh? Now?" Makoto seemed uneasy about something.

"It's not like you have anything better to do" Rin implied.

Weird enough, Sōsuke smiled at Rin's idea.

"You're not from Samezuka though…" Rin put his hand on his chin and posed in thought before Sōsuke quickly added:

"He'll be fine Rin, cut him some slack will ya?" He looks at Makoto with a side smirk that was easily mistaken for flirting from Makoto's point of view.

"Well… I guess I could go for a while" Sōsuke gets closer to Tachibana and extends his hand while holding a serious and seemingly mad frown. Makoto felt intimidated at first but Sōsuke suddenly changed his expression and…

"Let's go Tachibana-san!" He stands there with his muscular arm stretched, one hand in his pocket and those gleaming teal eyes awaiting Makoto's hand.

Makoto smiled back and shook his hand. "Those are some big hands he has… he's even taller than me!"The cute tall boy thought to himself as he shook that big hand in front of that giant.

The boys finished their greetings and quickly end their trip to get groceries. Makoto left with Sōsuke and Rin to the party.

-At the Party!

Everyone in Samezuka's swim team was there. Even Gou was there watching some of the guys do a demonstration for the first years in the different swimming styles… but we all know she just wanted to get a look at those big muscles the members had. Rin and Sōsuke were helping out serving the beverages and Makoto was standing beside them giving them platters to hold their treats.

"Full house huh!?" Rin cleaned off the little droplets of sweat from his forehead as he served the final drinks to the remaining members.

"Let's take a break and eat something too!" Rin said this and Makoto gave them some platters and they took food into them. Rin and Sōsuke left to get some food but Makoto stayed to help the people who were coming.

"Oi…" A serious voice from Sōsuke came out with a ramble.

"Nani?" Rin turned curiously.

"Isn't Tachibana going to eat something?" He points at Makoto serving the platters and being harassed by cute girls in the stand he was.

"Mataku… Makoto's always getting into trouble" Rin laughed a bit and gave an extra platter to Sōsuke.

"Go get him something, the guy's so busy helping other people that he forgets to help himself"

"But, what do I get for him? I don't know what he likes" Sōsuke asked a little perturbed but keeping his cool. His face displayed that frown he always had on, and that charming rough guy attitude wasn't holding back either.

"Well ask him! He won't bite you!" Rin smiled and went on to greet some of his friends who had just arrived. Everyone was wearing their swimsuits in the party and the music was starting to get good. Sōsuke raised his gaze and looked at Makoto from the distance. He watched his enormous composure, those big arms he had, those emeralds he had for eyes were beautiful but what hit Sōsuke right in the heart was when Makoto turned around… The humble boy had his swimsuit on, no shirt and an apron on. When he turned back and Sōsuke took a glimpse of Makoto's back muscles he widened his gaze and quickly looked in another direction with a slight red face. The green-eyed boy had an amazing back, no wonder from all that backstroking he did. Sōsuke remembered Makoto from a long time ago but damn, he never expected Makoto to turn out like this. He liked Makoto's physique that's for sure but come on… he just met the guy, he didn't want to stir up any trouble with his friends either so he toned down his flirty attitude towards Makoto.

"Oi-! Tachibana! Here" Sōsuke placed a platter with different treats for Makoto.

"Arigatou Yamazaki-kun! I was getting a little hungry myself haha" He smiled again at Yamazaki… But this time Sōsuke just nodded back and slightly smiled and turned back. He found Makoto incredibly handsome but didn't want to get involved or was it that he was shy on the inside? He was very direct for most things but… why was he avoiding Makoto all of a sudden. Anyways, the party went on and the people started doing some crazy things. Sōsuke was just enjoying the party since he was a third year and he wanted to make the most out of it. He poured some juice on his cup and headed towards Makoto who was eating the treats he brought him earlier. Sōsuke was oblivious on what to talk about with Makoto since he didn't know him that well.

"Damn that Rin…" he thought to himself in a serious expression.

Sōsuke was left with that green eyes angel and he was starting to feel a little tense. Some of the third years were pushing themselves around the place where Makoto and Sōsuke were. One of the guys pushed another and the guy fell on Sōsuke, pouring his drink all over the tallest of the boys. The strong man frowned up and sparked up a little, he grabbed the boy by his arm and brought him to meet his gaze.

"What are you doing" The guy who was pushed was one of those cocky third years who was having fun with his friend and got mad at Sōsuke for being such a bad sport.

"Let me go you fool, it's just juice that fell over your swimsuit" Sōsuke felt even more irritated and held his fist up to hit the guy but Makoto grabbed his fist before he made something that could crash the party.

"Yamete Yamazaki-kun, it's not worth it!" Makoto had a serious and caring face for his newly met friend. Sōsuke lowered his fist and the third year broke out of his grip and pushed Makoto aside.

"Loser!" Where the last words Makoto and Sōsuke heard before the boy pushed Makoto and the latter fell onto the table that was behind, completely flipping all of the party food that was on it. Sōsuke got mad and tried to catch the guy but suddenly a lot of people was staring at Makoto, with anger on their eyes.

"What do you think you're doing!?"

"Who is that guy!?"

"What a stupid thing to do!"

"Oi you klutz!"

Makoto heard everyone call him stuff just because of that little incident. Yamazaki tried to explain to everyone but the angry club wouldn't listen.

"GET OUT!" everyone shouted at Makoto.

The humble man felt his eyes swell up as if he felt horribly bad for what he did. He stood up and ran away from the party, with his eyes almost breaking apart in tears. He felt so ashamed that everyone called him stuff but he was sad because he accidentally crashed Rin's party. What would everyone think when they found out? All of these things quickly rose to his mind and he ran faster. Yamazaki went after him but lost his track at the schools' exit.

"Tachibana-san! Tachibana-san!" He screamed as loud as he could but had no response. Sōsuke was boiling on the inside, he went back to the party and saw that they turned the table over and managed to save the remaining bits of food. He ignored this and started looking for the third year that caused Makoto to feel like that. He felt like he needed to do something, it was partly his fault that Tachibana went through that. If he was a little bit calmer maybe that wouldn't have happened. He would probably be the stupid one if Makoto hadn't gotten in the way.

"Makoto…" His name echoed in his mind while his gaze stared sharply at the crowd who was still partying. He saw the kid and he immediately dashed to him, he was about to leave the party too. Yamazaki grabbed him by the shoulder.

"Why did you push Makoto" He held a fist up but his face never lost composure.

"Whatever man! It's a party, who cares!?" At this moment Rin popped up and called on to him.

"Oi- Sōsuke what are you doing?" He let the boy down and the stupid kid ran away after seeing the captain.

"That idiot made Tachibana fell on the table and everyone got mad at him" He explained to Rin.

"Nani!? Where's Makoto?" He looked around.

"He went away because everyone chased him away sputtering nonsense"

"Makoto, I'll look for him Sōsuke" Rin took his cellphone out but Sōsuke stopped him by holding out his cellphone.

"Can you give me his number?" He bluntly asked.

"Why do you want his number?"

"He stopped me before I did something very stupid, I'll go apologize to him. You head back to the party and keep everything going smoothly"

"Hmmph" Rin gave Yamazaki Makoto's number and went away to the party.

All that was left was to call Makoto and ask him where he was… or HOW he was. Sōsuke took out his cellphone and when he was dialing Makoto's number his eyes widened and his face got red and he quickly closed the lid on his cellphone.

"Why do I feel like this…? I just want to know if he's okay" He tried once more. It was ringing constantly when…

Makoto: "Moshi moshi?"

Sōsuke: "T-Tachi-Tachibana-san!"

Makoto: "Who is this?"

Sōsuke: "It's Sōsuke, this is my number, anyway, are you okay Tachibana-san?"

Makoto: "I'm fine Yamazaki-kun, I went home… I couldn't go back after that."

Sōsuke: "I am so sorry Tachibana-san, it was my fault. I shouldn't have done that in the first place"

Makoto: "Don't worry about it Yamazaki-kun… but, can we talk later, I'm not feeling well"

Makoto's voice was slowly breaking, he was still sad and ashamed from what happened and Sōsuke knew that very well. He wondered what could he do… what could he say…

Makoto: "See you later Yamazaki-kun, Oyasumi…"

Before Makoto hung up Sōsuke suddenly startled him.

Sōsuke: "Matte! Tachibana-san, c-c-can I call y-you tomo- tomorrow?" He suddenly lost his cool over the phone and even his expression reddened up. Makoto had no idea of this but he was too sad to even care.

Makoto: "Sure Yamazaki-kun, I'll wait for you call and I'm sorry. I just don't want to talk right now"

Sōsuke: "I understand"

Makoto: "Good night"

Makoto hung up before Yamazaki could say anything else. After the call, the big guy closed the lid on his phone and let out a big breath. He couldn't believe he said that to his friend but he felt the need to do it. Makoto was too great of a guy…

The next morning came quickly after and Sōsuke was looking at his cellphone again, lost in thought and wondering what should he do now. Rin was right beside him and stared in confusion.

"Just call him, Sōsuke" Rin smiled in that "I know you like him" way.

"Urusai Rin" He drove his gaze to the opposite corner of his eyes, trying to avoid eye contact with Rin.

Matsuoka took this chance and grabbed Sōsuke's cellphone and dialed Makoto's number while laughing. It was ringing while both boys were fighting over the cellphone that Sōsuke tried to get away from Rin. He managed to snatch it back and a loud "MOSHI MOSHI" was heard, the phone was accidentaly put on speaker… Sōsuke quickly turned the speaker off and…

"Hai! Tachibana-san! Ohayo-!" Rin looked at Sōsuke in a teasing way.

"Being courteous now? Makoto must have you crazy" He slightly hit Rin with his elbow while trying to keep the conversation with Makoto.

"Ohayo-Yamazaki-kun! What's up?"

Rin suddenly stopped bugging Sōsuke and raised his thumb.

"Go for it Sōsuke"

"Tachibana-san, I-I was wondering if you wanted to grab something to eat today…"

A terrible silence stood in the way of those last words Sōsuke let off…

Seriousy, these two are making me crazy... =) give me opinions on what you thought! I always welcome new things :) You can also request some stories if you'd like! I love writing so anything is good for me 3 Hope you liked! I'll update next chapter through the week.