Before you start reading just know that flashbacks and dreams are going to be italicized just to make it easier. Hope you guys are liking it so far and can't you just feel the tension between Rin and Tomoe?

Disclaimer: I don't own Free!: Iwatobi Swim Club or it's characters if I did I'd find a way to make them human and keep them in my basement. I only own my OC Tomoe.

"Eh! A new kid. She came from the same school as Rin! Wow she's really pretty. Look at how long her hair is!" the whole class gawked at her whispering to each other about her pretty hair and eyes. Rin glared around the classroom. Rin had known Tomoe for a long time. He'd known her longer than anyone in the classroom. He didn't want anyone gawking at his friend. She was his friend and his friend only.

"Mochina-kun play with us!" a little girl ran up to her at recess. "No, no play with us Mochina!" a little boy came up to her with a soccer ball.

"Tomoe lets go!" someone yelled to her grabbing her hand in theirs. Everyone was surprised to see Rin looking confidently at all of them. He made it known that Tomoe was his friend already and they could just leave.

Tomoe saw how protective he was becoming, just because people wanted to play with her instead of letting her play with Rin. She smiled. "Rin, I think I want to play soccer with Sanami-san." She smiled at him, pulling away from his grasp.

He glared at her. Why didn't she want to play with him. Everyone else wanted her, but she was his friend! "Tomoe! You're my friend! I've known you forever."

She knew she was taking it a little far. Rin's jealously and protective instincts were high right now and she didn't need to be messing with that. She'd seen how he got as a child. "Come on Rin-chan I was only kidding." She smiled and skipped off, pulling him along.

"You're going to get sick. What were you thinking running out here at the beginning of spring?" she didn't realize herself shaking until the sound of her own teeth chattering filled her ears. Rin sighed. His eyes caught on the sight of the thick red bracelet linked around her wrist. He'd seen it when she had run out, and he couldn't stop staring at it now. She'd kept her promise, that he knew.

The sound of a cold laugh caught his ear and he looked down at her. "Y-You think you can c-c-come out here and-and throw your jacket around me and act all heroic. Like I'm g-going to forgive you or something." She said pulling the jacket around her even more. She was freezing as a wind whipped around her again instantly chilling her entire body.

"You seem to like my jacket." He smirked.

"If you can just tell me how the hell I can get out of here I can just get home and not have everyone staring at my bra through my shirt." Immediately Rin's eyes flickered down, just to make sure it was true and the noticeably pink colored bra peeking through her now see through white button up was right there staring at him. He had to admit it she looked pretty hot.

The 5 years had been amazingly good on her. Of course he was now taller, but she'd definitely grown and in all the right places. She had a willowy frame, a slender waist with long milk white legs and a petite yet well defined bust, something that he couldn't help but notice. The only thing really different about her was that she had chopped her hair. He always loved to run his hands along her mint colored locks. They were always so soft and never had any tangles in them. He didn't mind so much the haircut because it suited her and he really liked the short look better. Her eyes though, the meadow green eyes that looked like the grassy planes. A grass ocean blowing in the breeze. He could stare into them all day long. As of right now she had her eyes set to a glare with her brow wrinkling in between. Those petal pink lips of hers were set into an indifferent pout as she stared him down.

"No, you're going to shower, get some dry clothes and then you can leave." He ordered.

"When have I e-ever listened to you?" Tomo retorted glaring as another wave of shivers ripped her to pieces.

"I know you're still bad at directions." Rin had caught her there. She might've known her way around the town now after all these years, but if she was in a new place, she couldn't remember a lick of directions without someone showing her exactly where everything was. Rin remembered that after having to find her lost in the streets somewhere on the way to school before they were both late.

She had always refused to wait for him when getting ready for school because he was always late. Then, she got stubborn and headed off on her own, got lost, and finally got found by Rin and they sprinted to school.

"Why do you care? I obviously don't mean anything to you so I'm going home." Quickly, she threw his jacket at his face and ran off before he had a chance to retaliate.

Tomoe's anger must've propelled her in the right direction because she soon enough found the exit to the school and it was quite easy. As she headed home she thought about well, everything. She was angry and confused.

There was something definitely different about Rin. Along with that, a lot of things were the same. The stubborn childlike demeanor had been replaced with a stubborn anger filled demeanor. His protectiveness was still the same as he didn't like any boy to be near her except for him. That was something that had shocked her the most. After what she did, and what she'd said. After all that time she thought Rin didn't care about her, but he was still jealous and protective, right there to scare off any guys that would try to take her away from him. that's the part that confused her.

He was less demanding though, easily letting her go and run away from him. She kind of wished that he had made her stay, but she quickly dismissed that thought. She didn't want him. He forgot about her. He'd broken his promise to her when she kept his. That's what hurt her the most. They'd always kept their promises to each other. It practically broke her heart.