It was Friday morning. But it wasn't just any Friday morning. It was the morning of the day when the Tachibana family would move from Iwatobi to Tokyo. Everything was packed. All that was left would be to pack the sleeping bags that they'd used for the night and clean the bathroom.
Despite everything was so different, one way was the same as always. The way that Makoto was awakened this morning by Rin who yet again was complaining about Haruka taking up the bathroom.
"I really wanted a bath too…" Rin mumbled irritated.
"I know," Makoto said. "You can shower in the new apartment," he tried to comfort. "For now, let Haruka enjoy his bath. There's no bathtub in the apartment," Makoto informed.
Rin looked up and met Makoto's eyes. "There isn't? Does Haru know of this?" he asked.
Makoto thought. Had he told Haruka yet? To him it wasn't such an important matter. "I haven't," he answered.
Rin nodded. "I see," he answered simply before turning on his heel and leaving.
Makoto got up and awakened Rei and Nagisa and started packing the last they needed. Rei and Nagisa got dressed and started helping out too. So did Rin. When it was time to clean the bathroom, Makoto went to get Haruka out of the bathtub and while he cleaned the room, Haruka got dressed and shortly after they all were ready to leave.
Makoto had send the furniture to Tokyo the day before and set everything up in the apartment. Therefore they went to Tokyo by train. Another reason for this was that Makoto didn't own a car.
They boarded the train without trouble at all, however when the train was about to leave the station, Nagisa ended up curling up in Rei's lap while crying like a baby.
"There, there, Nagisa," Rei said softly as he comfortingly stroked Nagisa's back. "We'll be just as happy in Tokyo as we've been here,"
The comfort sorta helped. Nagisa's cries got a bit easier for a moment, until Rin started sobbing too. This caused Nagisa to turn to his crying 'older brother' and hug him instead and Rin hugged Nagisa too while they were both crying.
Haruka looked out the window with a distant look in his eyes, simply watching the landscape passing by. He tried his very best to ignore his crying embarrassing twin.
"Why're you crying?" Makoto asked concerned.
"We're leaving so many good memories behind," Rin sniffed as he turned to Makoto.
"We all met here and have lived here for so long," Nagisa wiped his eyes, though it didn't help much since tears kept running down his childish looking face.
"Don't be upset," Makoto placed a hand on Nagisa's shoulder while smiling at both him and Rin. "I'm sure we'll create just as many good memories in Tokyo as we have in Iwatobi," he said.
Slowly but surely Makoto managed to comfort Rin and Nagisa enough so that they won't cry. From then on, the rest of the ride went fine. They changed trains once and while being in the other train they had lunch – riceballs that Makoto had made last night – and before they knew it, they were in Tokyo and on their way to their new home.
The little family were walking down a street with tall buildings on either side when Makoto finally stopped in front of a white building that was among one of the taller ones. He took out a key and used it to open the door to the street. He entered the house and the four adopted boys followed him as they made their way up the stairs to the 5th floor.
"Now, be aware that this is going to be much smaller than what we're used to," Makoto said. "So, I don't want to hear too many complains because this can't be helped. Also please try to be good to each other during the first week or so here. Bear in mind that this is new to all of us," he instructed.
All four boys just nodded as Makoto turned and opened the door.
They all looked over Makoto's shoulder as the door opened, revealing their new home until they moved out on their own. Before anyone knew it, Nagisa had taken off his shoes and were running around inside the place, checking every single room out he came across. The others followed in a much slower pace though they were just as curious as Nagisa.
"I'm surprised," Rin said. "The furniture is already in place," he looked at Makoto, "When'd you do this?" he asked.
"Yesterday when the things were brought here I had it organized," Makoto answered while smiling.
"Beautiful!" Rei had his eyes stuck on the view from the window in the living room. It revealed the sunset over Tokyo and truth be told, it really was a beautiful sight.
"Report!" Nagisa called as he appeared in the living room where everyone else had ended up as well. "I went through the entire place but I only found three bedrooms. Is that correct Mako-chan?" Nagisa asked Makoto with a hint of disbelief in his voice.
"There are only three," Makoto got a troubled look on his face. "You'll have to share rooms from now on," he informed. "Rin and Haru will take the room furthest down the hall, Rei and Nagisa will share the one in the middle and I'll be taking the last room," Makoto informed the four.
"You mean we'll be sharing rooms?" Rin looked at Haruka and Haruka looked back at Rin as the former spoke.
"That's correct," Makoto said. "I'm sorry. My only other option was for all four of you to share a room and I figured this would be for the better,"
To this nobody disagreed with Makoto. They were actually relieved he had found this to be the better solution.
"Furthermore," Nagisa continued. "We've got one bathroom only and it has no ba-"
Haruka stood, cutting off Nagisa, and ran to the bathroom to check if it was right what he was about to say. He was so lightning fast that nobody managed to stop him. Everyone else looked at each other for a second and then just waited in silence for Haruka to return.
When Haruka finally did return he was wearing a dark expression on his face. The others didn't dare to say a thing since they could all somehow relate to how Haruka felt. Even though it didn't occur to them that Haruka loved soaking in the bathtub that much.
Rin finally took in a deep breath before walking up to Haruka and placed a hand on his shoulder. "Haru," he said. "It's going to be okay. We'll both become members of the Swim Club at our new school, and if there is no Swim Club, we'll start one," Rin's spirit was as cheerful as ever and Haruka couldn't help but smile just a little bit.
"I'll join too!" Nagisa called.
"Shouldn't you be focusing more on studying?" Rei asked as he turned from the view from the window to look at Nagisa.
"But it's boring and I love swimming!" Nagisa whined.
Rei smiled at this. "If you promise to focus on your studies then I don't see a problem with it," he said.
Nagisa ran up to Rei and hugged him tightly. "You're the best, Rei-chan," he exclaimed. To this, Rei could only smile.
"I don't know about that…" Rei fixed his glasses to hide the slight blush that was creeping across his face.
"Now that that's aside," Makoto interrupted. "Since we just moved in, I've ordered pizza for the night. It should be here at any minute now,"
Just then the sound of the doorbell ringing was heard and Makoto got up to answer the door and get their pizzas.
