Rei was taking his turn doing laps, of course doing the butterfly stroke (legit the only thing he can do). Makoto, being the team captain, was giving Rei tips on how he could accelerate his speed.

"Really extend your arms out and pull the water with you, Rei!" Makoto shouted in Rei's direction."

"Maybe he only swims free," Haru says in his usual monotone voice.

"He can't swim free… He's like a caged butterfly that sticks to math," Gou said, "Wait, that's actually what he is. A really muscular mathematically bound butterfly."

Rei appears from under the water and begins to yell at the others, "Hey! Don't call me that. It isn't beautiful…" Rei says ashamed.

"Just try to leap out of the water more to cover more ground and try not to take as many breaths; it slows you down." Makoto was trying to be helpful, but Rei had aLREADY STUDIED THE THEORY OF IT ALL, GOD DAMMIT!

"It's okay Rei-chan-"

"It's san to you, Nagisa."

Nagisa pouted.

Rei rolled his eyes at Nagisa, "Stop being so sad. I hate to see you that way, even though you are as annoying as a fly that won't get the hell out of my face."

"I like to think that I'm a penguin," Nagisa said while eating strawberry pokey.

"Quit flirting you two," Makoto sighed, "and Rei finish your 400 meters."

"Alright, Makoto. I'm going to make it as beautiful as I possibly can!" Rei shouted as he pointed up at the sky with the most determined look on his face… He was really trying to be beautiful (that poor bastard).

"Swim free, Rei. Always remember that." Saying that Haru is bad at giving advice would be an understatement.

Makoto smiled with his little cute face and continued with Rei's drills. While Rei was on his 325th meter, Makoto noticed that Rei's phone went off. It was a call from a guy called Ootori Yoshio.

"Rei, some Ootori guy is calling you right now!" Makoto shouted.

Rei popped out of the water faster than Haru when he sees Rin or mackerel.

"Wait seriously?!" Rei shouted back. He almost drowned of surprise.

"Yeah… Do you want to come pick it up?"

"Yeah sure, just lemme get out of the po- NAGISA DON'T YOU DARE TOUCH THAT PHONE!"

"Too late," Nagisa chirped. He fucking chirped.

"GOD DAMMIT, NAGISA!" Rei shouted at the top of his lungs… but it was still beautiful.

"Hello?" Nagisa asked to this mysterious Ootori guy enthusiastically.

"AT LEAST PUT HIM ON SPEAKER, NAGISA," Rei wailed, dramatically wiping the tears (pool water) from his eyes (because his goggles fell off, again).

Nagisa complied (surprisingly) and hit the speaker button.

"With whom am I speaking to?!" The Ootori guy said.

"My name is Nagisa!" Nagisa said into the phone joyfully.

"May I please speak with Ryugazaki Rei?"

"Sure! Let me hand the phone over to him real quick," Nagisa said, "Make sure you dry your hands before you touch your phone, Rei."

"Nagisa, so help me, or I will- gahhh!" Rei was exasperated. Nagisa cheerily handed the phone over and demanded that Rei keep it on speaker.

"Hello, Uncle Yoshio," Rei said, "It's been a while, hasn't it?"

"Quite. I called you to inform you of some plans. My son needs some… motivation to succeed. He seems to be falling behind. I think that you could do something to help him," Yoshio said.

The rest of the team was confused. Since when did Rei have a cousin?

"What could I do?" Rei asked with a glint in his glasses (when the fuck did he put those back on?).

"Next week you are coming down to Bunkyō, Tokyo. I have enrolled you into Ouran Academy and you will be going there for a month to rekindle the fire under my son."

"Well… Uncle, this seems like too short of a notice. I'm not sure that I will be able to make it anyhow. I am on swim team now, and I have prior commitments to it. I can't just stop practicing. I have been trying my best to get better at it. The team is relying on me to get better for the upcoming races that we will be attending,"

"You don't have any choice or say in the matter. I have already spoken to your mother and she had allowed you to come. I have also made accommodations for your friends. They have been given the choice to join you and we have a pool at Ouran. It was your Mother's only condition."

Rei thanked his mother and started to get a tad pissed at his uncle.

"When are we going to be boarding the plane?" Rei asked, trying to hide the fact that he was pissed.

"The plane departs at 10:00 p.m. next Friday," Yoshio said, "I sent the tickets and uniforms to each of your personal lodgings. Also, each of your parents have given me their permission to take you all. I shall be saying goodbye now, and I will see you next week. Kyoya will be very happy to see you."

The call ended and Rei said, "I can't wait to see you too, Kyoya." There was a hint of malice in his voice.

"Do you guys want to come?" Rei asked his friends. He was secretly hoping they wouldn't, but he knew they were dying to join in on the fun.

'I'd love to," Makoto said with a smile.

"They have a pool, don't they?" Haru's answer was obvious.

"I can't let you guys have all the fun!" Nagisa exclaimed.

"It's settled then. We will be leaving next Friday at 10:00 p.m.. I just hope that the flight won't be delayed," Rei said.

"I'm sure that we will be fine, Rei. Don't worry so much about it! Be excited that you get to see your cousin again!" Nagisa jumped..

"Second cousin actually, but I sure am excited," Rei's tone was quite devious, hell even a little scary. The team shuddered (except for Haru.)

"As manager of this team, I demand that I go as well!" Gou said… (haha, no pun intended).

"Sure, if you want. I guess it couldn't hurt," Rei responded.

Everything seemed to drown out because Rei's thoughts were more important than the team arguing about Gou coming. (I was actually going to say "going"... but no).

Rei was looking forward to seeing his second cousin again. They seemed to be the only somewhat sane people in their family and they may or may not have a competitive rivalry over everything.

"Rei-chan, tell us about your Uncle and second cousin!" Nagisa commanded.

"Yeah, we'd love to learn about them," Makoto said cheerily. Haru just nodded and Gou was fantasizing about what type of muscles Kyoya would have.

"Maybe later. Practice is over anyway and I have a lot of homework today. I will see you all later," Rei excused himself from the group, just for the sake of not wanting to talk anymore.

Next week was going to be fun, so to speak.