I walked to the familiar place after school. I wanted to see him and ask him some questions about what I was thinking and feeling. As I arrived at our family grave I saw the familiar Samezuka jacket.

"What're you doing here, Rin?" I asked the scarlet haired boy.

"I thought I would come and pay my respects." He answered. I placed the flowers I brought for the grave in front and left my brother a small prayer.

"Thank you for coming." I told him.

"Don't worry about it." He said. We stood in silence as we looked at the gravestone. I could feel my older brothers presence as I stood beside Rin.

"He always liked you, you know?" I could feel Rin turn his head to look at me with a confused face. "He was the only one who kept telling me not to be angry at you because you might be going through something that I don't know, but then I would always yell and freak out and say that he didn't know anything." I began to laugh at my usual exchanges with my older brother.

"You still yell like that." Rin joked with me.

"Ya I do, but he wouldn't have me any other way." The silence came over us again for a few seconds. "You know, the day he died he had called me and told me that I should forgive you for everything. I never understood why he pushed me so hard to always forgive you, but he did. Then he randomly told me how much he loved me." I started to laugh again. "For someone who never showed how much he cared he always had a soft spot for me." As I regained my composure I continued with my story, "Anyways, he told me how much he loved me and was proud of everything I had accomplished. I guess I'm lucky – the last words I got to say to him were how much I loved him."

"You are lucky." I looked towards Rin to see him looking at me. "Many people would die for that chance to tell someone they loved them. I know I would give up anything just to tell my dad one more time how much I loved him, but I know that he knows that I will always be his biggest fan."

"I'm sure your dad always knew that you were his biggest fan." I said to my best friend.

"Thanks." I turned around and was ready to walk away, but I was stopped when Rin said something, "Sora, would you come to prefectural tomorrow?"

"Why?"

"Because it would be nice if I could have some support from you too."

"I'll see."

I walked on the top of the bleachers and had a look around. It took me all morning to actually decide if I was going to come to watch Rin swim or not. I continuously debated on whether this was a good idea or not, but I thought that I should try and not hold a grudge against him anymore and I should try to rebuild this friendship. I saw the Samezuka swim team all sitting in a giant mob and I saw the familiar chestnut coloured hair.

"Hey, Sosuke." He looked over his shoulder and was surprised that I had come.

"Rin said you might come, but I put money that you wouldn't." I sat down beside him and nudged his shoulder.

"I think you two have a betting problem." I joked.

"Well, you did come at a good time because Rin's going to race soon."

"Really? Good! At least I didn't miss his race." I smiled at him and as soon as I muttered those words the scarlet haired boy walked out to the platform. I watched him closely as he stood off to the side. He looked up and saw me sitting in the stands. I gave him a small wave and smile as he gave me his trademark smirk and waved back before getting onto his platform. The rest of the Samezuka team all turned around to see who he was waving and I they all stared at me with confused faces.

"Ready…Go!" I quickly looked at the race and saw Rin swim against one of his closest friends, Haruka Nanase. I was thoroughly impressed and surprised to see how to two boys swam with such speed that no one else could ever catch up to them. Everyone cheered for their swimmer, but I didn't listen to any of it. I was completely mesmerized by how aggressive Rin's swimming has become and how badly he wanted to pass the prelims.

"0.02 seconds difference?!" I nearly shrieked as I saw the time. Rin had lost by a simple 0.02 second difference. In my head that didn't make any sense! How could that even be possible? "He's so fast now!" I cheered as I looked at Sosuke.

"He's always been fast, but he shouldn't have lost." He said as he crossed his arms over his chest.

"Oh Sosuke, it's only 0.02 seconds! It was so close! I'm impressed, aren't you?" He didn't answer my question. He only looked at his best friend. I shrugged my shoulders and turned back to see Haruka and Rin talking before they left to go shower.

"Thank you for coming." Rin said to me as I stood in front of him. I smiled up at him and shook my head.

"It was nothing! I surprisingly enjoyed myself."

"We have the relay tomorrow, so would you like to come and watch that too?" Rin began to awkwardly rub the back of his neck as he avoided eye contact with me.

"Sure, but only if you come to my track and field meet this weekend." I told him. He managed to put on a giant grin as he looked at me.

"Of course!"

"Rin-senpai!" I looked passed him to see a short boy with silver hair run towards us.

"Ai, what's up?" He asked the silver haired boy.

"We wanted to know when we were going." He stated.

"In fifteen minutes."

"Hi, I'm Sora Koyama." I introduced myself to one of Rin's teammates. He looked at me with a surprised look before bowing respectfully.

"H-Hello, Koyama-san." He stuttered out of nervousness.

"Ugh that sounds so formal!" I complained. "Please, use my first name."

"O-Okay. Are you a friend of Rin-senpai?" He asked me. I nodded my head.

"Sadly, we've known each other since we were like…five?"

"I think it was even before then." Rin tried to think back to when we first met, but that was the problem, we didn't remember a time when we weren't a part of the others life.

"I hope Rin isn't too hard on you guys." I said to Ai.

"Rin-senpai is the best! I aspire to be him one day!" He looked at his captain with such admiration that it made me smile.

"I think you're perfect just the way you are!" He blushed as he smiled at me.

"Thank you!"

"Ai, can you go tell the others to get ready for us to leave?" Rin asked.

"Yes!" Ai then bowed and said his goodbyes before turning around and leaving.

"Sorry about that." Rin apologized for our conversation being interrupted.

"Don't, I think he's absolutely adorable." I squealed because he was so cute that I could pinch his cheeks.

"So will I see you tomorrow?" He asked.

"I will honestly have to see because I do need to practice for my own meet this weekend." I could see the smallest bit of sadness flicker across his face as he heard my words.

"Well, I will come to your meet this weekend."

"Really?"

"It's the least I can do."

"Thank you, Rin."