"I admit it," Hyuga said. "You can actually teach someone how to play basketball," He and Kisumi were standing around the center of the court, minutes after the game had ended.

Kisumi smiled. "Thanks for the compliment, Hyuga," he said.

"We did great!" Rin said, he wrapped an arm around Kisumi's shoulder and Kisumi wrapped one around Rin's. Both boys smiled happily. Even if they had lost, they had managed to do this good against Seirin. It was really something worth being proud of.

"It was a good game," Hyuga agreed.

Riko made her way up to them. "Shigino-kun, what was it that everyone did?" she asked. "I don't remember,"

Rin smiled at Riko, charmingly. "We're all swimmers," he said. "We'd actually like a rematch. All nine of us players against nine of yours?" he suggested.

"In what?" Riko asked concerned.

"Swimming!" Rin said like it was obvious, which it probably was.

Riko thought it over for a bit. "In what part of swimming can you even be that many?" she asked. "I thought it was an individual sport?"

Rin nodded. "Sometimes it is, but in relays, you are parted in teams of four," he continued.

Makoto and Haruka silently joined up with them at this point.

"All we watched was the Medley Relay, is there a difference?" Hyuga asked, concerned. He had noticed that during each round of the relay they had been swimming different styles, and he wasn't sure he could perform all four of them, or any of his team could.

"There is," Makoto smiled kindly. "In medley relays you take turn swimming a specific style that you specialize in, like I swim the backstroke. In an ordinary relay you choose whichever style you want, usually people do freestyle because it is the fastest," He looked to Rin. "Why are you guys even talking about relays?" he asked.

Rin smiled. "I figured it would be nice to challenge them in what we are good at," he said.

Makoto looked unsure about the matter. "We could do so, but then we should just do an ordinary relay and not medley, I'm sure none of them can perform the butterfly stroke,"

"We can learn that!" Hyuga stated.

Rin shook his head. "Not without a teacher. The only one who has ever performed the butterfly stroke to almost perfection without a teacher, is Rei," He nodded in Rei's direction. "It is the toughest stroke of them all. It is also difficult to do,"

"I think we can do it," Hyuga said.

"You're not gonna," Riko interrupted the conversation with a stubborn expression. "We don't have the time for you go learn that. We have to train for the Winter Cup, I would like to finish these get-togethers today, at least at sports,"

"Then we will have two turns," Rin said. "One of an ordinary relay and one of a medley relay where we lend you guys one of the three butterfly swimmers we have to offer, all of us will have to swim, but you can chose whoever you think can do it the best,"

Kisumi looked skeptically at Rin. "You know I'm not a swimmer,"

"That's their advantage," Rin said. "We give them a fair chance of winning,"

"What would you rather swim, Haru?" Makoto asked. "The relay or the medley?"

"I only swim free," Haruka said.

Makoto laughed. "Of course you do," he said.

The agreement on teams for the swimmers was easy enough. Since they were only allowed to swim once each and had to lend one, they decided quickly. Rei, Nagisa, Momo and Ai were on the relay team, Rin decided to lend himself to the basketball players as their butterfly swimmer, and that left the last team as Haruka, Makoto, Sousuke and a much less confident Kisumi.

"You can swim, can't you?" Makoto asked concerned as he looked to Kisumi after the teams were decided.

Kisumi nodded. "I can swim fine," he said. "But I'm not that good at swimming like you guys,"

Makoto smiled. "What styles can you swim?" he asked. "Haru is gonna go with free. If not, I'm afraid he won't even want to swim, and Sousuke got butterfly,"

"So that leaves the breaststroke and the backstroke," Kisumi said. He knew a little of swimming thanks to Makoto, from their time during middle school.

"It depends on whichever you find yourself better at," Makoto said.

Kisumi nodded, and thought for a bit. "I'm better at the backstroke I think," he said.

Makoto smiled in response to that. "Then I guess things are decided," he said, being happy with how things turned out. He wouldn't tell Kisumi, but he did prefer the backstroke over the others, but if Kisumi wanted the backstroke, it was fine with him. It wasn't like he couldn't perform the breaststroke. After all he had done that before he learned the backstroke.

"Excuse me," Kuroko said. Makoto and Kisumi both jumped. They didn't hear him coming. "We need help deciding what we're gonna swim,"

"Didn't Rin come over?" Makoto asked.

"Matsuoka-san says we should get one of you," Kuroko said.

Makoto looked around, unsure of who would be the best to help out, this was stopped when Kisumi placed a hand on his shoulder. "You should go," he said. "I'm confident you can help them,"

Makoto shook his head and hesitated but Kisumi pushed him up on his feet.

"You taught me all I know about swimming and you helped Hayato get rid of his fear, you might even be able to help them further if they need it," he encouraged.

Makoto looked skeptically at Kisumi, but then decided there was nothing he could do and went with Kuroko to help the Seirin basketball team.