Chapter 7:

HEY! Sorry it took me so long to update...I mean the chapter was written up and ready to go and everything buuuut...I kept on forgetting to post it XD...yeah sorry~. OH and just to let you guys know I'm gunna be going to Glass City con this weekend as Italy and Eren! Any of you guys going? Anyways onto the chapter~! Reviewing and Favoriting is appreciated! ^-^


OC info:

Forgot to say this in the beginning but Catori is in the same grade (2nd year) as Rin, Haru, and Makoto~. Just thought I'd let you guys know~


It was the next day and we were holding a club meeting today after school. Gou and I were about to tell them that we scheduled a joint practice.

"Well we have so great news for you guys," I said folding my arms with a smile, looking down at Makoto, Haru, and Nagisa who were all sitting down.

Unable to contain her excitement Gou put her hands on her hips and said, "We were able to schedule a joint practice with Samezuka!"

"What? Really!?" Nagisa said looking up at us.

"Yup!"

"Did you ask Rin?" Makoto asked looking up at the both of us as well.

"Ummm no," I said cocking my head to the side, "Wait…Rin? Do you mean the Rin that was like on your team a LONG time ago and left halfway through the year?"

"Yup that's the one. Why, do you know him Cati-chan?"

"Well yeah, I did. I mean I didn't hang out as much with him as you guys did, but he still hung out around me 3 months before he left. He was my friend and he was actually the one to approach me first. Rin knew I knew some English and he wanted me to teach him some English. You see I grew up in America before I moved here, which I have no idea how he found that out anyways, but he asked me if I could teach him what I knew. He didn't tell me why though. To cut things short I wasn't a very good teacher but I was able to teach him some and through that we became good friends for the short time he was here."

"Really?" Makoto said, eyes widening in surprise.

"Wow we didn't know Cati-chan. He never told us about you…well I think he mentioned you but he never told us your name. He probably wanted us to think you were his mysterious girlfriend so he would look cool."

"Really? He didn't? Wait what?!"

"Nope~. And hey you never know~," Nagisa said shrugging his shoulders.

"Well I see where I stand," I said bluntly.

"He probably didn't because he didn't want us to know he was learning English because he was leaving to Australia!" Nagisa exclaimed.

"That seems like a pretty sucky reason…" I said rolling my eyes. "But anyways, so did you guys meet up with him?"

"Well we did see him but-" Makoto said being interrupted by Nagisa.

"He's changed a lot. He's a bit more grumpy and definitely not as smiley~. Oh and he goes to Samezuka!" Nagisa said.

"What?" I said in astonishment

Rin without a smile on his face seems odd….

"Well you'll see for yourself when we go to the practice."

"Yeah I guess so, but um yeah, so why didn't you ask Rin, Gou?" I said trying to get back on subject.

"He wouldn't have listened to me," Gou said sighing, "So that's why I wanted us to go straight to the captain!"

"That's our super managers for us!"

"And that means we are able to use their indoor pool," Makoto said glancing over at Haru.

"Weeeeelll here's the thing…" I said with a nervous smile, "In order to have a joint practice we need 4 swimmers…aaand I've already asked and begged some of my drama club members to just be like a temporary person-type-thing just for the practice and they all have plans, lied about having plans, or have said no…"

"Awww man! That means we need to find a fourth person before the practice. Especially since Gou and Cati-chan used their sex appeal to get us this chance."

"Whoa hey!" I said narrowing my eyes, "I didn't use any sex appeal! Who do you think I am?"

"Huh? You didn't?"

"You better watch yourself blonde…"

*******line skip*******

Somehow because of Nagisa, we were able to get that Rei guy as our trial member for the joint practice. Although right now I was mainly thinking about Rin.

I mean how could a bubbly kid like that turn cold?...well I guess I'm about to find out.

We had finally all made it to the Samezuka pool and it was filled with boys. And of course Gou was going crazy.

"Hey thanks for coming," Seijuro said walking up to us.

"Thanks for letting us come," Makoto replied.

"Sure no problem. So you're Nanase-kun right?" Seijuro said looking over to Haru.

Of course Haru didn't really reply, but I guess Seijuro wasn't looking for one because he started talking him. Haru didn't seem to be paying attention, but something must have caught his eye, because he kept looking to the side. Glancing over I saw-

Wait….is that RIN?! He got huge.

"Big brother!" Gou exclaimed running over to him.

"Gou what are you doing here?" Rin asked with his hands in his swim jacket's pockets.

"Come on Cati-chan! Let's go see Rin! I'm sure he'll remember you!"

Grabbing my arm Nagisa dragged me over by Gou, Rin, and a grey haired kid which I assumed to be one of Rin's teammates.

"Hey Rin-chan!" Nagisa said as we stopped next to Gou.

"Oh and this is Cati-chan! You remember her don't you?!" Nagisa said with excitement going on his tippy toes trying to be eye to eye with Rin.

"Nagisa calm down," I said pulling him to the ground.

"Hey Rin, you sure have gotten a lot taller since the last time I saw you. You do remember me right?"

Still wearing his very unamused expression he looked down at me cocking his head to the side.

"Catori?" Rin said squinting his eyes a bit.

Oh please don't pretend you don't remember my name now. I mean seriously.

"Uh yeah~. Remember you practically begged me to teach you English," I said looking up at him with a smile.

"Yeah I remember you," he replied straightening back up.

"Sooo, how's it to be back. I mean it must be cool to see all your friends again.

"Yeah we get to swim together again!" Nagisa said still excited.

"Together?"

Looking to the side he clicked his tongue.

"You guys are a waste of my time," he said walking off.

"Did he just diss me?" I said turning to Nagisa.

"No I think he was talking about us, not you."

"I don't care. He shouldn't talk to you that way! I don't care even if he wasn't my friend! Who does he think he is! I'm gunna give him a piece of my mind!" I said starting to walk after him.

"Wait Cati-chan no! He's still our friend! Don't yell at Rin-chan! Your angry side is scary! I would know!" Nagisa said grabbing me in a hold, holding me back.

"Catori we don't want any trouble. They let us come here, we don't to cause a scene," Gou said nervously, trying to calm me down.

Grunting I got out of Nagisa's grasp saying, "Fine…but afterwards I'm gunna give shark week a few choice words."

"Shark week?"

*****small time skip *****

"Hey you, get your suit on," Seijuro said looking over at Rei.

"Uh, I'm not-"

"Sorry! He forgot to bring his swimsuit!" Nagisa said interrupting Rei.

He then gave out a nervous chuckle.

"Why is he here then?" Seijuro questioned.

I told them that Seijuro would find it odd that our fourth swimmer would show up with no bathing suit, but would they listen to me…NO.

"You can use one of our spare swimsuits. So go get changed," Seijuro said.

"Huh?"

"Hey Nitori!"

"Coming," Nitori exclaimed jogging up to Rei, "Come with me."

"Uh, I'm not-"

"Hurry up, we're about to start," Nitori said dragging Rei along despite his protests.

A few minutes later he emerged wearing a speedo….

Oh my gosh….that poor boy….

Standing over by Gou I watched as Makoto jumped into the water, while Nagisa and Haru waited beside the pool. When Makoto made it back Nagisa then got up and made his way into the water with Rei being next.

"Keep it coming. Next swimmer get ready," Seijruo said after Nagisa jumped in.

I saw Makoto walk up to Rei and say something, to him, of course I was too far away to hear.

"Hey, next swimmer! Move to the starting block!" Seijuro said over to Rei.

I felt really bad for Rei. I mean the poor boy didn't even agree to swim and there he was in a speedo, possibly about to make a fool of himself. I could barely bring myself to watch, but it couldn't be that bad, right?

After Rei, replaced his glasses with goggles, and made his way to where they jump off, he appeared to be more focused…well at least that is how it appeared.

Rei then crouched down, ready in position. As soon as the whistle was blown he pushed off and seemed to be doing really great…until he plummeted straight down into the water.

"EH?" We all said in unison as we stared at the water in shock.

After a short pause I looked over at Makoto.

"He hasn't come back up yet."

"Uh-uh…yeah," he said with a worried expression.

Ok now I'm really worried…

Since no one seemed to be doing anything, I was about to go in there myself (good idea right~…yeah sure I could totally help a super tall muscular guy out of the pool no prob) but Haru beat me to it. Nagisa who was already in the water, went down after Haru and helped pull Rei up as well.

"Is he ok?" Seijuro said running over.

He was answered when Nagisa and Haru pulled up Rei, who was gasping for air.

Everyone then sighed in relief.

"Oh thank God," I said letting my head fall back.

After getting Rei out of the pool and giving him a towel, he proceeded to half dry his hair, leave the towel on his head, and sit down up against the wall while pulling his knees up in shame…

Ok now I feel REALLY bad.

You could practically see his embarrassed aura radiating off him…

"You ok Rei," I said kneeling down beside him.

He just glanced over at me but then looked back down at his knees.

"So Rei-cahn…" Nagisa said hesitantly, "You can't swim?"

OH MY GOSH WHY WOULD YOU EVEN SAY THAT?! IN FRONT OF EVERYONE! I mean the poor boy is already embarrassed enough….

"Nagisa!" I said elbowing him.

Before Nagisa could reply Rei exclaimed, "Why are you saying it's my fault!? I told you I wasn't going to swim!"

"You should have said something earlier," Nagisa said as he rubbed the spot I elbowed.

"I wasn't going to admit I couldn't swim…that would be going against my sense of beauty.."

Beauty?...

"I'll clear things up with Samezuka. Sorry we put you through all this," Makoto said as Haru walked up to the pool.

"Oh it's Haru's turn," Makoto continued.

Right after the whistle was blown Haru was in the water.

Wow….Haru's really good at swimming. Can't say I'm surprised.

Glancing up at Rei he was mesmerized at Haru's form.

"It's really beautiful to watch, isn't it?" Nagisa said watching Haru as well.

"Are you ok Rei?" Makoto said noticing Rei's expressions change as well.

"No…it's just that-"

"See I told you Haru-chan is an amazing swimmer!"

Looking back up from Nagisa, Rei was back to watching Haru again.

Hmmm maybe he'll join the team after all….but….I'm not so sure since he doesn't know how to swim, but hey life's crazy like that.

*****line break*****

It was the next day after school, and we were all sitting on a bench watching Rei at track practice. Sadly Nagisa informed Makoto of my little talk I wanted to have with Rin, so right after the joint practice I had both him and Nagisa drag me out before I could even track down Rin. And I gotta say, Makoto's pretty strong…I'm no feather.

"I can't believe you practically carried me out," I said looking up at Makoto with a jutted out lip wearing a small scowl.

"Heh, sorry Catori. It's just Nagisa wasn't strong enough to help hold you, so it was just easier to swing you over my shoulder."

Narrowing my eyes I said, "That's not what I meant."

"Oh come on Mako-chan! I was able to do my part! I was just fine."

"Nagisa, you were being flailed around like a rag doll," Gou said bluntly.

"And besides you knew after Makoto slung me over his shoulder it was game over. He's too nice to bruise up. He didn't do anything, he was just doing your bidding because you were putting your nose where it didn't belong," I said raising an eyebrow.

"Nu-uh~! If you fought with Rin-chan it would only make things worse~. And hey Mako-chan didn't do it because it was my bidding, he just didn't want there to be any fighting either!"

"Actually I said I didn't want to get in the middle-"

"Shush Mako-chan!" Nagisa said putting a finger up to his lips.

"Guys…"Haru said breaking the silence.

Haru then pointed over to Rei who was about to start his pole vaulting.

"Well looks like Rei-chan is feeling much better," Nagisa said giving me a smile.

"Yeah, looks like it," I said letting out a sigh, putting a small smile on my face.

It's hard to stay mad at Nagisa, and how could I possibly get mad at Makoto…I mean the man's a saint. It's like impossible to get mad at that gentle giant.

Putting my focus back on Rei I saw he was running up about to pull himself up to make it over the bar. As he made his way over the top bar, he extended all of his limbs. I got to say it looked pretty cool, but it wasn't the best move to make to make it over the bar. He then proceeded to fall down on his butt as the bar from up above fell on him.

"Ouch," I said grimacing.

"Hey he's coming over," Nagisa said tugging on my sleeve and Rei approached us.

"I want to be like you Nanase-senpai," Rei said looking down at Haru.

"What do you mean?" Gou asked.

"I want that kind of freedom."

"Freedom?" I said confused as well.

"It's not that kind of freedom," Haru finally answered, "It's freestyle."

"Freestyle? Anyway I would to formally," Rei said taking a deep breath and bowing, continuing saying, " join the swim club!"

"What? Really?"

"If you want to swim go ahead," Haru said in his usual calm voice, glancing to the side.

"Welcome to the team Rei," I said giving him a smile.

"Uh thank you," Rei said looking over at me but then to Nagisa saying, "However, you were the one who initially invited me to join, so I expect you to take responsibility…Nagisa-kun."

Nagisa then had a huge smile plastered across his face.

"You can count on me Rei-chan!" Nagisa said jumping up giving Rei a side hug that pretty much knocked him over.

"Hey! Watch it!"

"So I guess that means we have a full team now huh?" I said glancing at the rest of the team.

"Yeah I guess so," Makoto said giving me a smile.

Looking back over at Nagisa and Rei I couldn't help but smile.

Never would I ever think someone who couldn't swim, would join a swim club, but I did have a feeling he would join for some odd reason. Heh, I wonder how many more unexpected things are going to happen to me this yearI have to say though I already have a whole list. One of them being Rin Matsuoka.


OOOOOOH there's some DRAMA going on between Rin and Catori~~~ Yeah so that's it for now~...Sorry XD! And since Free eternal summer has gotten me all pumped up I'll be writing for that too! I have some ideas~! Oh and as always comments and suggestions are welcome! I'd love to hear what you guys think so far and ideas also help XD. Also while you guys wait you can go check out my other fanfic for attack on titan. I updated that today was well! ANYWAYS~ C U IN THE NEXT UPDATE!

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