It was way past the cherry blossom now. Haruka and Rin had graduated from middle school, same for Aki, Aiichirou and Sousuke. All of them were not attending school in the high school building. They weren't all in the same classes, but those who were in different classes took their time to see their friends from middle school. Rin and Haruka were still in the same class though.

At home things hadn't really changed that much. Rin and Haruka had both agreed that they would stay with Makoto instead of moving in with their biological family, because no matter what, they would always feel more at home with the Tachibana family than any other family.

Today was a special day. Kisumi had made an offer a while ago about having Makoto and everyone else move in at his apartment, which was a huge one with way more space than he could ever take up. There were even three extra bedrooms.

Because Kisumi's job as a model was bringing in so much money it meant that Makoto could spend less time at work and still earn for a living, and thereby could spend more time with his family instead. This had been the main reason why Kisumi had suggested this in the first place.

At first Makoto had declined it. "I can't let you do that to us, it's way too much and I'm not sure I can give you anything in return," he had said.

"Cut it out, Makoto," Kisumi had then laughed a bit before continuing because this was really characteristic for Makoto to say. "If your boys just keep the place clean and make me food, that's all the payment I need, I don't have time for that myself,"

Makoto had refused again, claiming that he couldn't just let the adopted boys do all that on their own, but then Kisumi had suggested that he helped out too and they made it a family-thing, and then it had been a bit easier for Makoto to agree on. Plus, he would pay his part of the bills too.

Today Rin, Haruka, Rei and Nagisa were going to Kisumi's place for the very first time. Makoto had taken the week off at work and so had Kisumi as they could pack up everything at Makoto's current apartment and prepare to move as soon as possible. Today, the plan was that the teens would clean up the unused rooms, and then they would have dinner at Kisumi's place as well. Kisumi had already demanded the dinner was his treat, so none of the Tachibana family had to have anything to do with the food.

"Aren't you excited to moving in at Kisumi's place, Haru?" Rin asked as he and Haruka exited the school building to go to that place.

"Not really," Haruka answered, staring straight forward. He would rather see what the place looked like, before deciding if he should be excited or not. Until he knew what he was dealing with, it wasn't worth getting all worked up about it.

"Rin-chan! Haru-chan!" Nagisa yelled "Wait up!"

Rin looked over his shoulder to see Nagisa and Rei running up to them as fast as possible. Both Rin and Haruka slowed down a bit, to make the other two able to catch up.

They walked to Kisumi's apartment, following the GPS on Rei's phone. It took a little while getting there, but it was still less than half an hour and this was despite the fact that Rei's GPS led them in the wrong direction for a few minutes before they figured it out.

Kisumi was waiting for them outside the apartment and led them in.

"You boys have the place to yourselves for the afternoon, you know what needs to be done. Makoto and I will be over by 6 and we'll bring along some dinner," he said.

"What rooms do we need to clean exactly?" Rei asked to make sure they didn't do too much or too little.

"Those three bedrooms by the end of the hallway, and the bathroom," Kisumi pointed all of the rooms out to them. "Well, I'll be off," he said and left the place.

Figuring that three bedrooms and a bathroom was just a room for each, they split evenly. Haruka got the bathroom, on Rin's suggestion, while each of the others took a bedroom.

Haruka grabbed everything he would need to clean the bathroom and then slowly made his way down the hallway, wondering what he would find down there. Rin had taken a quick look in there and only after that suggested that Haruka cleaned it up. Was it because it was exceptionally dirty? Haruka wondered.

He reached the door and used his elbow to open it because his hands were full of other things that he didn't really feel the need to put down yet.

The sight that met him when he entered the bathroom was as far from what he had expected as anything. It wasn't particularly dirty, yet he could clearly see the reason why Rin had wanted him to clean it up. By the wall furthest away from the door, was a huge bathtub. It was even bigger than the one they had had at the house in Iwatobi.

Haruka felt a small smile creep across his face as he started cleaning the bathroom. He knew he didn't need to tell anyone about the happiness he felt when he had seen the bathtub. He was pretty sure all of them knew of that already.

All of them had finished cleaning around the same time, but Haruka still had to check all the bedrooms to see if the others had done OK. It was something that both Rei and Rin had insisted on. Nagisa went to check out everything, and by everything I mean that he even tried to open a locked drawer, by using a hairpin that was randomly lying around. Fortunately for Kisumi's privacy, Rei found out in time to stop Nagisa before he managed to open the drawer.

Makoto and Kisumi came back carrying five pizzas, a couple of mackerel that had already been grilled, and a white box, holding what Nagisa guessed was a birthday cake.

"Oh yeah, I forgot," Rin said, smiling sheepishly at Haruka. "It's our birthday today,"

Haruka nodded. In truth, he had forgotten too.

"Well, Mrs. Matsuoka and Gou remembered," Makoto said. "She asked me to stop by on my way home and so I did, she had bought the cake for you two, and there are also some presents for you in my bag,"

Rin smiled at Haruka, who didn't express anything.

"May I go get them, please!" Nagisa begged, and Makoto had no choice but to allow Nagisa to get the presents.

They sat down and had dinner together. Haruka had the mackerel and everyone else had pizza. They had the cake for decert, and then Rin and Haruka opened their presents. Both held a silver chain with a small charm. Rin's was in red, and Haruka's in blue, aside from that they were identical.

After they left the table, Makoto and Kisumi went to wash up, Nagisa dragged Rei along for more exploring and Rin and Haruka stayed by the table in silence.

"Haru," Rin said. "I know it's early, considering we just started our first year at high school, but what are your plans for the future?" he asked.

Haruka thought about it. "None," he said.

Rin nodded. "I figured, well if you still have nothing in about three years, maybe you should consider joining me. I plan on going to Australia to train. I want to become an Olympic swimmer someday," he said with a faraway look on his face, like he was having a nice dream.

Haruka nodded. "Is Sousuke coming?" he asked.

"Maybe… His shoulder has been troubling him a lot lately. If that keeps up, he might figure out something else to do,"

Haruka nodded. "I'll think about it," he said. Thereby he didn't promise anything.

The two fell silent for a while, listening to Nagisa's cheerful blabbering and Rei's loud complains of being dragged around.

"It's just…" Rin started out of nowhere and Haruka took time catching on that they were still on the same topic. "It's just… that I can't picture myself swimming without you," Rin said.

Haruka wondered where this came from, when Rin had been swimming without him for six months.

"Stop looking at me like that!" Rin yelled as he caught Haruka's eyes. "I know I swam without you for six months, but it just… It didn't feel the same, it didn't give me the same thrill that it usually does."

Haruka nodded. He couldn't exactly understand what Rin meant, because Rin was the only one who had ever demanded to race him. He was also the only one he had ever minded racing.

"My future dream, is to stand with you by my side, at the Olympics," Rin said, smiling at Haruka.

Haruka pictured that. It came to him surprisingly easy. "I guess that doesn't sound so bad," he said, and he returned the smile at Rin.

Guest: Certainly not. I actually agree and have thought that all along. I just needed to get on with the story and sorta forgot it in the moment of writing and... I really don't know what happened but I should have done something about that.

A huge thanks to patamon642, mapleleafhero1, Shion Kyriuu, Nirakun, Maeve007, and HTTYD-PJATO-ROTG-41185 for favoriting this story. I'm so happy about that.

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I'm happy that so many came to like this story and read it. I would also like ot thank all of you guys who just made it to the end and felt like putting up with me and my weirdness. That is also much appreciated.

I will start publishing a crossover between Free and Kuroko no Basuke. I don't know when that will be, but some time soon. It will be called Amateur Basket. After that I hope to be nearly done with the story I just started writing yesterday for Free only. It will be called Dear Haru and that's all I will say for now.

My mother actually requested to read the latter of the stories. Why? Because apparently my parents know I write stories and then she and one of her friends got curious as to what I was writing at the moment and I couldn't just give them a vague answer. I had to tell them, so now they got curious and want to read it. Take my advice, make sure your parents never find out what you do in your spare time!

We will end this here! sorry that the A/N became so long but I had a lot to say. Check out more of my stories if you'd like. Also be sure to check out those I mentioned above if you want to know more. I'll hope you read some more of my work.

See you all!

Jackie