Chapter 3
Warning: Thugisa! (he will make an appearance later on)
It was the giant cherry blossom tree that stood in the vast, immaculately kept grounds of the magnolia mansion, it's pink petals dancing in the cool twilight breeze that first caught Rin's attention of his sister's expensive abode. Rin was always a sucker for sakura, a big romantic softie at heart. For Sousuke, it was the size of the whole villa that made his jaw drop and eyes widen, three stories, gardens for miles, a gate enclosing it all, he could hardly take it all in, especially the fact he would be living here for a while.
"Nice ne?" the younger Matsuoka giggled as she unbuckled her seatbelt and exited the car.
"Gou, however did you manage to get a place like this?" asked her stunned elder brother, also unbuckling.
"I'll explain inside," she beckoned them to follow, retrieving her key from her bag as she trotted over the tiled path to the porch with the archway, pillars which lead to a double sized front door, "Oh don't worry about your luggage Sousuke-kun, just leave that, I'll get Seijuro to bring it in later."
Feeling only the presence of her brother behind her, Gou had looked back and saw her new brother-in-law at the rear of her car, trying to tackle how to open the trunk to unload all their suitcases and bags. He just shrugged at Gou's statement and slowly traipsed over to them.
"So where is the swordfish that replaced me in the heart of my sister?" asked Rin playfully, referring to the marine name that all Samezuka students was given while removing his shoes in the hallway as he entered, no way was he going to risk leaving any dirt or stains on the off-white marble floor that covered the entrance way and beyond to the numerous other rooms and of course, the huge set of stairs centred in the very middle underneath the diamond chandelier.
"ONII-CHAN WILL ALWAYS BE NUMBER ONE!" she scolded him while giving Rin a quick reassuring hug on his arm before turning to hang up her coat and purse, "He's at work still, he is actually trying to secure a major deal with an old friend of yours."
"Oh?" inquired an intrigued Rin, taking hold of Sou's hand as they let Gou lead them past the beautiful dining room on the left into the kitchen for hot tea, and full description of her life these past few years since Rin neglected to keep up-to-date with her on Skype.
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Rin let out an over exaggerated long sigh of pleasure, smacking his lips together after he had swallowed the first sip of the oolong tea from the over-sized red mug with a great white shark on that Gou had made for him. She had actually made tea for all three of them but where as she and Sousuke had delicate china cups with a pink floral which matched the teapot and sugar bowl, Rin got to have his own customised mug brought especially for Gou for his homecoming, not only as a little gift, not only because Rin always insisted on his own mug but because Gou had remembered from the two previous times her brother had spent in Australia he always would complain no end how he could never find oolong tea anywhere so this was Gou's way to 'give him more' and make up for the last three years he had to survive without his favourite beverage. Gou topped his mug back up which he greedily swallowed, his husband sipped his more reservedly, eyes roaming the mansion's lavishly fitted kitchen, he swore he could of fitted his whole old home in that one room.
"So what's with the fabulous home sis? House-sitting for someone?"
"Nope," she smirked, almost boastfully, "All mine, and the boyfriend's of course."
"Win the lottery?"
"Hey no! All our own hard work onii-chan! If you bothered to answer my calls you would know!" she shot him a painful look which instantly made him feel guilty at his lack of attention to his family.
"Gou, look you know, with all the training, time difference, being in a new culture and new life, I sort of, you know," Rin struggled for excuses, none seemed good enough to reason for not keeping in full contact with his beloved sibling, he just ruffled her hair in response, "you, know I love you."
"You're back, that's all that matters," smiled Gou, re-doing her ponytail as Rin's ruffle had made it loosen
"Soooo then spill, I just hope it isn't anything Nagisa related."
"As if I would get mixed up with all that icky stuff! Anyway Nagisa, sorry Big Poppa NG, he legally changed his named last year, was finally recaptured for all his, uh, offences a few months ago, looking at a long stretch from what I heard."
Rin felt relieved his former friend and team mate was finally behind bars where in his mind, the little blonde deserved to be. They hadn't been best of friends as such, they shared a mutual friend, Haruka Nanase, which led them to be team-mates and swim relays together as youngsters, however once Rin had returned from Australia, it was like a totally new Nagisa was before him – he didn't know the penguin lover well enough to know the full story, only that he had drowned a boy named Shinji, been involved with drug dealing, numerous murders he been linked too, plus he was now a signed rap artist. Escaped prison and retuned to high school and to the swim team which Gou had managed, Nagisa was charismatic and Gou was sweet and naïve, he could of easily used her and in return she may of gotten this mansion with her ill money gains. Luckily his fears were lied to rest at the news he was now incarcerated.
"Well remember I started that fashion course at Tokyo University? During one project we had to create a whole new range with a personal twist. I made a few samples and my tutor really was impressed by them! At the time, a very important fashion mogul from Milan was visiting for new ideas and my tutor who was in contact with her passed on my samples and draft diagrams, she loved it! Long story short, she paid me a very large sum for the rights to my range. Another year of experience under my belt at University and she got in contact with me again, and now..." she paused for effect and took one of the sweet treats she had also served along with the tea, smiling boastfully she continued,"now, you are dining with the Head Designer of a certain well-known world-famous Italian fashion house."
"Really? As much as I'm so proud how my beautiful little creative genius of a sister has done for so well for herself, I still find it hard to believe after only three years of study you own Armani," Rin asked sceptically but still with enough sweetness in his tone to portray how incredibly proud of her he was.
"It's not Armani! And well, I'm head of the Japanese branch," she admitted sheepishly.
"That's still amazing, and I am completely proud of you too. You have matured so much since I time I last saw you," complimented Sousuke, reaching across to place a warm hand on Gou's, Rin flashed him a thankful smile for caring about his sister as deeply as him. One big, happy family.
"Arigato Sousuke-kun!"
"So how does Seijuro fit into all this? Hire him as a model for your designs?" Rin questioned, reaching for the small bento box Gou had placed out for him as he didn't particularly have a sweet tooth and had avoided the snacks so far that both Gou and Sou was happily digging in to.
"No, don't be silly onni-chan! Sei carried on with swimming and paved a career in it, not Olympics standard like you, he is more into the business side and running of it."
"I admit, he was a better coach than I was. He knew exactly how to manage a whole team and push us to us limits. I owe him a lot," Rin smiled at Gou and added, "and not just for helping me at Samezuka."
"Well you can thank him when he arrives," Gou giggled, refilling Rin's mug and then her own, Sousuke still hadn't finished his first serving, "He went on to coach the National Team for a year and half but he wasn't enjoying it then, one day he had a marvellous idea! He decided to open his own pool, not just a pool but several with a joint gym, sauna, sun-bed etc. People took well to it and soon it grew and grew and now is the leading franchise of gyms in all of Japan! We have made loads from it!"
"Whoa, I'm stunned, never thought Seijuro had a head for business, just filled with swimming and body-building."
"It is!" laughed Gou, "and it's all that knowledge that helped turn it into such a money-earner."
"Didn't you mention he was in a meeting with an old friend or something...I'm guessing... he got Ai to run the Iwatobi gym."
"Close! Aiichirou-kun has been running the Iwatobi branch since it opened 8 months ago, Sei actually put Momo-chan in charge but until he has finished his final year at Samezuka, he is letting his boyfriend run it. Of course once he graduates, they will become joint owners."
"Wait, Momo was a first year in my last year there, wouldn't he of graduated last year?" mused Rin, thinking back to the goofy ginger ball of energy better known as Seijuro's younger brother.
"Well as great a person, and swimmer, Momo-kun isn't exactly academically gifted. To put it plainly, he was more interested in swimming, hunting stag beetles and making out with Ai-kun that he neglected his studies. He failed them so badly he was kept back a year, at least he got to coach the swim team two years in a row."
"So who's this old friend of Rin's he's meeting up with?" asked Sousuke solemnly, a knot forming in his stomach at the thought of who it could be. He didn't want to think of a deal going ahead that would probably lead Rin to be around Haru for long periods of times.
"Oh yes! It's Makoto-san! Do you remember him? After leaving Iwatobi he wanted to focus on teaching side of swimming. He volunteered at a swimming school and really enjoyed seeing children learning to swim because of him, he is great with children! So Sei had the idea for Makoto to manage a program at his gym franchise, Little Orcas. He's meeting up with him to finalise the details."
"What about Haru?" asked Rin bluntly.
"Haru-san, well he -," Gou was interrupted in her explanation of Rin's ex-best friend by the urgent ringing of her home phone which she rushed to answer after excusing herself.
"Are you alright darling, you're very quiet and look pale. Are you feeling OK?" a concerned Rin had turned to his husband, placing a hand to his forehead after Gou had left.
"Just tired I guess," yawned Sousuke answered half-truthfully.
"Jet lag or last night?" smiled Rin sympathetically, stroking the back of his neck now.
"Both, I suppose."
"Gou, do you mind if you show us to our room now please? The big man needs to crash," Rin stated upon her returned
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The soft feminine like hands reached around the washboard stomach the dark haired male, head resting between his shoulder blades as one hand made it's way under Sousuke's grey t-shirt, the other starting to get to work at unbuckling his belt.
"Rin, I.." began Sou but was silenced with a kiss to the nape of his neck, a very sensitive area which made him release the sigh. The same time he was released from his jeans which Rin had now pushed down to his thighs, gravity made them fall to his ankles which he himself kicked off.
Criss-crossing his muscular arms he grabbed the hem of his grey shirt which was hitched up due to letting Rin currently having access to his nipple, pulling the t-shirt over his head and throwing it to the floor, Sousuke now stood there in the largest guest room of the Mikoshiba mansion, naked beside his boxers and Rin roaming hands and hungry mouth.
"Still tired baby?," Rin pressed kisses over the expanse of that equally muscular back, neck, arms, anywhere he his lips could reach while standing on his tip-toes, taking extra care of Sou's injured shoulder. Sou had said many times it wasn't hurting as of late but it still didn't stop Rin from showering attention on it whenever possible.
"Y-yeah," Sou replied with a stutter at the same moment the extra-large lump in the front of his boxers was grabbed.
"Let's get this hot body into bed then," the red-haired uke whispered seductively into his seme's neck. (too short to reach his ear) Hand firmly still attached to that bulge, giving it a full massage through the white, tight-fitting cotton, the smaller pressed fully against his husband, his own bulge now obvious through his black skinny jeans nestling happy between Sousuke's solid peach ass cheeks, as he used his weight to urge him over to the bed followed by a large push making him fall face first on the king-size canopy bed.
The brunette god quickly turned and positioned himself so he was flat on his back, head resting comfortably on two fat pillows, eyes fixated on his lover at the end of bed who by now had relieved himself of his own jacket and top and was right now seductively crawling up from the bottom of the bed, tongue tracing the route up Sousuke's body as he went, the wet tip trailed all the way over those rock hard abs, over hard little nipples, up that neck which still carried indents of shark bites and finally to those inviting lips where their tongues met and locked.
The kiss only broke when both could no longer last without oxygen. Both was left gasping for breath, Sousuke's heavy breaths become softer as sleep started to creep over him, lolling his head on the pillow as his eyelids drooped. His red-haired shark however had no inklings of meeting his partner in dreamland, he was only just getting started. He used the saliva left around the corners of his mouth that had originated in Sousuke's mouth, to moisten the two hard pink nubs centred on his drowsy hubby's chest. Lavishing affection on each in turn, flicking his tongue against them before travelling lower to the larger pink organ of Sou's that Rin wanted to devour.
That skilled tongue now played within Sousuke's belly button as his fingers teased the waistband of Sousuke's underwear, trailing over the large mushroom head which already making itself known by poking out. Rin circled the head with his pinkie finger.
"Rin...please...," the sleepy brunet whispered, almost in a beg.
"I'm getting there baby," moaned the shark, his mouth replacing his fingers after letting the 12 inch shaft free from it confines. Those sharp shark-like teeth tugged on the foreskin he so loved to suck on. Sou's hand came to rest upon the burgundy strands, pulling on them gently for encouragement with all the strength is sleep-deprived body would allow. Rin made sure to get every inch of that extra hard manhood, wrapping his tongue around it at every angle. He received pleasurable moans but he still wished to hear even more louder, lewder noises from his soulmate therefore he let his wet juicy tongue enter the tiny hole, drinking up the pre-cum that emerged as he finally relaxed his throat to take it all in. Sou emitted the groan that Rin had been aiming for, it urged him to continue with more vigour, faster and faster when without warning Rin's mouth and throat was coated with the salty liquid which he happily swallowed down and licked him clean.
Without looking up, Sou raised his arms up to Rin to indicate for him to lay on chest so they can both drift off together, Rin however just sucked on the digits reached out for him and giggled.
"Oh no, not yet, I still have to thank you for them sneakers," placing a kiss on the sleepy Sousuke he unzipped his own pants as he crouched above him.
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How far Rin had actually gone that first evening in his sister's guest room he could not remember. When he had finally awoken he was as naked as his spouse, wrapped in his lovers arm and to his shock had found a whole day had passed, stupid jet-lag!
Even though he had missed Seijuro's return home, luckily he hadn't missed the briefing. The actual date was a week from today. Sousuke had wondered why they had to leave Australia so soon but Rin was the type of person who liked to be set well in advance, as soon as he knew he had to be back in Japan, the red-head had booked the flight, hence the quick getaway. He had even gone as far in his need to be prepared by making Sousuke drive him 14 times that week from the mansion to where his preliminary meeting would be held, the official Olympic committee in the very heart of bustling Tokyo. Rin had wanted to gage how long the journey the take, where traffic queues would be most likely etc, well this is the reason he told his hunky hubby, even though it was true and helped him plan at what time to roughly leave on the day, he knew how bad Sousuke was with directions and had often got lost very easily so he hoped doing the route several times would help him remember it, he knew it was a sensitive topic and always tried to avoid it. Also, for one other reason Rin had trouble admitting to, he was scared, literally petrified of it all. No, these fears hadn't become strong enough as of yet to rival his hopes and dreams to be an Olympian, so he felt he should squash the negativity before it took hold of him and made him doubt his ability – to achieve this he felt he should familiarise himself with this building where he not only would be receiving his full instructions and details, but it would be meeting with all the other wannabe Olympian swimmers that was scouted, which is what worried him. Rin was never one to back out easily of competition but these others he would be competing against for a spot on the Japanese team was also Olympic standard like him, it made those two horrible words form in the back of his mind: what if, however familiarising himself where he would meet his first competitors strangely felt to him as I he had the home field advantage which helped to ease his worries greatly.
The week leading up to first meet, if Rin wasn't in the car next to his husband on one of those frequent trips, his time was split between his brother in law's gym and all the amenities there which he had unlimited use of, or if for whatever reason he couldn't get access to it, he could use the pool back at his sister's mansion, it wasn't Olympic size like one of the 5 different size ones at Seijuro's gym but it was still large enough to practice in Practice and preparation. Practice and preparation.
One of his fears was over-sleeping on the day, even though his alarm was set an hour earlier that what was needed to give him ample time to get up, shower, eat breakfast and leave to get there in time. Come the actual day, he didn't have no worries of over-sleeping, he awoke before his alarm, or to put it another way, his stomach woke him.
One moment he was slumbering peacefully in Sousuke's arms, the next his head was down the toilet of their en-suite bathroom, last night's dinner making a sudden re-appearance.
"Do you really think you can make it today," asked a sympathetic Sousuke, rubbing his husband's back while making sure Rin's long red bangs was out of the way of the emergence of the contents of his stomach.
"Probably just nerves. Once I get rid of all this stuff outta me I'll feel better" Rin spluttered as he vomited again, "See, much better."
"Finished?" taking a wet towel, Sousuke carefully wiped Rin's mouth clean.
"Yes I doubt I have any more food in me! I am sorry I woke you darli -," Rin heaved again as Sousuke filled a glass of water for him.
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"See, must of just been nerves Sou. I'm fine now."
"More than fine," Sousuke winked to which he received a quick kiss for his cheeky double entrende.
"Wish me luck!"
"You don't need luck. You have strength, both in your swimming and in your dedication, go show them what a true Olympian looks like."
Rin tried not to cry at Sousuke's emotional statement of how he truly and deeply trusted in Rin's dream and ability, he instead quickly changed the topic so he didn't have to walk into the Olympic briefing with bloodshot eyes.
"I have no idea how long I will be but I'll text you when I'm ready. Love you." Rin reached across to the driver's seat and gave Sou a long kiss goodbye before quickly grabbing his bag and leaving the car like an excited school boy on the first day of school.
As he had suspected, many hopefuls had been scouted, and like him, was crowded outside waiting until they had permission to enter. Rin done a quick scan of them all, trying to make assumptions in his own mind of them all. Who would be his biggest competition? What strokes do they each excel at? He was stuck on a small blonde guy with glasses, he seemed sort of familiar and he was trying to place where he had seen him before, elementary school? Iwatobi? Samezuka? when a voice that seemed to break the general low hubbub from behind him, a voice he knew he definitely recognised.
"So, is there a pool here?"
Any one guess who that is ;)
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