Looking around outside the airport. Koji felt just how hot it was. Stretching his legs, rolling around on his board after sitting on a plane for what felt like ages. He constantly kept popping ollies. The others were celebrating like mad, arriving in Okinawa, bar Chisa and Aina. Before getting picked up however. Koji saw a little bump over the pole gap. Running and pushing at it. Koji popped, ollied up and spun backside 180 before landing pretty sketchy and rolling back to the others. "First trick in the Okinawa trip, done!"

A short while later the club arrived at a nice looking guest house. Everyone started grabbing things and bringing them in. "We're staying here. It's so beautiful!" Aina said.

"Yeah." Tokita said carrying in two boxes, as was Kotobuki.

"We have to cook ourselves though." Kotobuki said

"There's even a pool, Kitahara." Kohei told Iori.

"What did you say?" Iori ran off to see for himself.

"Seriously dude, You have to start calling us by our first names." Koji told Kohei. Tokita and Kotobuki laugh in the background. Chisa went outside, looking at the view. Mesmerized by it, the younger Kotegawa girl took a picture with her new camera, capturing the moment.

Later on, the guys were all in one bedroom. Trying to figure out the sleeping arrangements. However there was a problem… a small problem for a change. "It's a tight fit." Kohei pointed out the obvious.

"There's five of us sleeping in a room for two."

"It's small. We can't help it."

"I can. I'm taking the couch." Koji stated.

"You sure?"

"Yeah. That means I get the TV at night." Koji said as he left the bedroom and went back downstairs. He dropped all his stuff next to the sofa and fell on it. "Not bad I guess. Board probably needs changing soon. Glad I gripped my spare before we left."

"Hey! We're going to the beach out back." Tokita stated from the bedroom.

"Okay! Time to get changed I guess." Koji wandered into the bathroom to change. Once in his trunks, he walked out back. Only to find the other guys stark naked and Aina crying in horror again. "Some things will never change." Koji saw Nanaka, Azusa and Chisa walk out in their bikinis and felt her cheeks blush a bit. Shaking his head, He soon joined everyone.

"No need to worry about others with the place to ourselves." Tokita said.

"You're right." Iori said as the guys laughed.

"Let's go somewhere else." Aina said to Tokita and Kotobuki, with a blank almost hollow look in her eyes.

"Why?"

"There's no one here. We can dress however we want."

"We're going somewhere else, right?" Aina asked again, even closer than before. Putting Tokita and Kotobuki off somewhat.

"Uh… okay."

"I'm not sure why, but that's okay."

A little while later, the club arrived at another beach. Only this one was packed with people. So that meant no stripping for the guys. "It's a lot better over here." Aina said.

"It's just a normal beach." Tokita pointed out.

"Well, if you like this spot. I'm okay with it too." Kotobuki said.

"This looks fun." Azusa said as she looked over at Koji. "Hey, Koji. What do you think?" Azusa posed for Koji, making him blush like mad.

"Uh… Y-Y-You look g-g-good." Koji nodded his head repeatedly trying to appease Azusa as she wrapped her arms around his shoulders. 'OH MY GOD! Tell me this isn't happening. Or should I be glad that it is. Wait, she's older than me. Doesn't that make it wrong. If Chisa sees this, she's gonna kick my ass. I need to do someth-…' Koji's thoughts were cut off as he felt Azusa's chest on his back. 'Oh no! Not this, please Azusa?' Shaking Azusa off. "I… I need to u-u-use the bathroom. Excuse me." Koji ran off to the bathroom, leaving a bemused Azusa behind along with a shocked club freshmen.

Walking around trying to calm down, Koji was alone with his thoughts and looking for any skate spots. "Damn, I should have brought my board with me. Still can't believe I'm in Okinawa though. Maybe joining Peek-a-Boo was the best thing for me. I guess more time will tell me the answer. Should probably head back to the others." Koji walked back to the others. Finally getting there he saw that Iori and Kohei were at it again and Chisa walking away. "Probably best not to ask." Koji muttered to himself. He watched as Aina took a ride on the banana boat. With Kotobuki and Tokita of all people, she was crying about something. 'I might never understand that girl.' Thinking to himself, Koji went to get some juice, but another thought popped into his brain. 'Wait, if Chisa went on that with Iori & Kohei. Aina was with Kotobuki & Tokita. Then that means… Oh crap!' Koji thought that he might get dragged on with Nanaka and Azusa. So to avoid that, he hid until everyone was ready to head back to the guest house.

Back at the guest house, Koji was reading through some possible spots. Knowing that he might get only one chance to skate them. Maybe not any at all depending on the next few days. That was when he was given a diving booklet, as were Iori, Kohei and Aina. "What's this?" Asking slightly confused.

"The license class starts tomorrow." Said Chisa diligently.

"Review the booklets before you go to bed tonight, okay?" Chisa told them a little more upbeat.

"By the way, what about your bed, guys?" Tokita asked Iori and Kohei since they had a bet.

"Oh… you're right."

"Which one of us was winning?"

Looking at the footage of when they fell off. The winner was shown. "Kohei won by the height of the wave." Kotobuki announced. Kohei screamed in delight, and Iori howled in defeat. He tried to argue about an error, but it didn't help him. Iori lost, simple as that.

"What's wrong?" Azusa asked Tokita. He then explained to the girls about the shortage of beds.

"That's a big problem." Nanaka stated.

"You guys won't be able to sleep."

"It'll be dangerous to do the license class without enough sleep." Said Chisa holding the booklets for Iori and Kohei.

"I'm sleeping on the couch so I'm good." Said Koji stating his intentions of getting a booklet for himself and was reading through. That was when Nanaka seemingly came up with a solution.

Koji still took the couch. Chisa and Aina shared a room. Kohei, Tokita and Kotobuki took another bedroom, and Iori. Well he was sharing it with Nanaka and Azusa. Iori was trying as hard as he could not to stare at either of them and stared at the ceiling, clinging to the diving booklet for his life. Any other time and person, this would have been a paradise. For Iori though. He was trapped in hell. Beautiful girls, and he couldn't do anything.

"You can stretch out in this room."

"You have to get a good night's sleep for the license class."

"Well… Good night."

"Good night."

Iori was stuck and didn't know what to do. Either way he turned over. He came face to face with both girls and their chests. Kohei sleeping in the other room, slept through his phone going off. Receiving numerous messages from Iori, begging to be let in. Nothing back. Iori was now trapped for the rest of the night. In between Nanaka and Azusa.

The next morning, most of the guys were on the couch just chatting away. Chisa and Aina soon walked down to greet them. Koji was busy in the kitchen, sorting something out for himself. He heard Kohei talk about getting some messages the night before. Aina read them and was shocked. Chisa read through as well. Concerns were raised that Iori might not have gotten much sleep being in the same room as Nanaka and Azusa. They thought it could even affect his test.

"No. It'll be fine. It won't make much of a difference how much he sleeps. He's always stupid." Said Kohei. Earning him a hard smack on the back of his head from Koji.

"Dude. That's my brother. Sure he may not be the most intelligent person ever, but he does have his moments. Even if they are sometimes stupid."

"Thanks for the vote of confidence, Koji." Iori said walking in. "Good Morning." He sat down next to Koji. "I'm telling you now. I'm confident that I'll get a higher score than you."

"Idiot. Look who's talking" Said Kohei.

Once again the two clashed against each other with the others as spectators to stupidity. "You got 17 points on the German test!" Iori threw at Kohei.

"You just got 20 points by luck! Don't get so cocky!" Kohei threw back.

The two squabled against each other. Everyone else looked on, starting to feel a little bit worried about Iori and Kohei. "How about a quick little quiz then to find out?" Koji suggested, getting Iori and Kohei's attention.

"Thank you, Koji. Which method of moving long distances is less tiring? A, face-down with your face in the water, or B, face-up?" Kotobuki asked the three guys.

"-B!" Answered Iori, Koji & Kohei.

"Correct." Stated Tokita. "How deep can open-water divers dive?"

"-Eighteen meters!"

"These questions are easy."

"I have a question to ask too." Aina chirped in. "Dressing rooms are good-"

"Don't need it!" The guys barr Koji answered.

"I didn't even finish asking the question." Sulked Aina, but Koji gave her some support; somewhat.

"Don't worry Aina. I knew that would be their answer."

"Let's try some hard questions."

"At what water temperature do your hands stop moving?" Kotobuki asked.

Koji and Kohei were thinking back to the booklets. "It's 18 degrees." Answered Iori. Shocking his brother and "friend". Koji went through the booklet to be sure. He was right.

"How in the-"

"You have no idea how much time I spent reading that booklet last night." Stated a proud smug looking Iori. Koji fell onto the couch in disbelief thinking how it was possible. Kohei grabbed the booklet looking for anything to catch Iori out with.

"All right then you bastard. At what depth is the safety stop done?" Asked Kohei.

"Three to six meters." Was the answer.

"What is the name of the sharp hook used to cut fishing lines and nets?"

"A Z-knife." Iori answered. Tokita and Kotobuki were really impressed with Iori now.

"What is this hand signal?" Kohei asked, as Koji did the hand signal.

"Boobs." Wrong answer Iori. Everyone knew that something was up now.

"Wait…what." Koji said, being surprised. Even though he shouldn't have been.

"Uh… I made a mistake. It's "Look this way"". Iori retracted with the correct answer this time. Kohei looked through the booklet for another hand signal.

"Then what about this one?" Koji did signal as shown in the booklet. They all saw Iori start to panic.

"Look at the back of my neck. No, that's not it." Falling to his knees. Iori started muttering to himself about focusing on the booklet.

"Okay. Something is definitely wrong now." Said Koji. That was when the bedroom door opened, and they appeared.

Chisa and Aina looked up in shock, seeing Nanaka and Azusa come out like they did. Tokita and Kotobuki weren't bothered as they were probably used to it. Koji fell over the back of the couch in disbelief, and maybe amazement . Kohei had a nosebleed running like mad.

"What do you think?" Iori asked the otaku.

"I didn't look, Lalako-tan." Kohei responded...whatever the heck that meant. Koji grabbed his board and began to spin one the wheels and mutter different tricks. Desperately trying to take his mind off of what he just witnessed as Chisa and Aina led to two older women back to the bedroom to put some clothes on.

A little bit later on. Iori, Koji, Kohei and Aina were told they would be taking the written test for obtaining the diving licenses in the house. "Are you sure it's okay to take the test here? Shouldn't we be doing this at a dive shop or something? Koji asked the seniors.

"The test itself is pretty easy." Tokita told them.

"Most of the questions have four choices." Kotobuki added on.

"Huh? Really?" Aina was really surprised hearing this.

"Then why did we work so hard?" Iori asked. That was when Tokita and Kotobuki got serious.

"What are you talking about? Listen. This is knowledge about dive safety."

"Studying for safety is never a waste of time!" Aina looked in disbelief as these the two of the same guys that would drink naked without a care in the world. Pointing them out to the boys.

"We're starting the test now." Nanaka said finishing organising.

The four of them were stuck into their tests. Going through all the questions and answers, making sure that they were the right ones. They were so deep into the test that they didn't even notice Chisa coming over to see how they were doing. More specifically however Iori, and maybe Koji. She saw Koji doing fine, even with his ears plugged in with whatever music he was listening to. Looking at Iori's test however. She saw the name he put down without him even realising what he'd done himself. "Boobs Kitahara." Chisa slapped Iori across the face repeatedly before booting him to the ground.

"Chisa! What did I do?" Iori didn't understand why she did that. However he saw a fiery aura surrounding her. So it was better to not even bother.

An hour passed, and after looking at their tests. Nanaka seemed happy. "Okay! You all passed!" She happily said. Koji, Kohei and Aina breathed out a sigh or relief, but the two guys looked over to Iori and his swollen face.

"The hell happened to you.?" Kohei asked.

"It's because I stayed up all night." Iori answered.

Koji knew that was a lie. He saw the look Chisa was giving them… or rather Iori, and it was very chilling. He slowly turned away not wanting to deal with anything like that. Aina noticed that everyone was still in the house waiting on them. "Um… Were you waiting for us the whole time?" Aina asked the senior members. They nodded.

"Is there something wrong with that?" Kotobuki asked Aina.

"I feel like we're slowing you down to match our pace." Aina stated her thoughts.

Azusa laughed a little bit saying that it was fine. Tokita and Kotibuki reassured that it was okay and that they should focus on their practical tests. Aina said she understood but seemed apprehensive about it, and Iori caught on to it.

With the club outside. Everyone began sorting out their equipment and Nanaka showed the learners what to do. "What are your initial tank pressures?" Nanaka asked.

""""Two Hundred."""" The Kitaharas, Aina and Kohei answered.

"Let me know when your tank pressure reaches 60."

""Okay."" Said Aina and Kohei. Koji nodded.

"What happens when it reaches 60?" Iori asked Nanaka.

"It's a good indicator for when we ascend." Nanaka stated as she zipped up her wetsuit, followed by the others. Putting their gear on. They made their way out into the water.

"We'll start by learning how to operate the BCD (Buoyancy Control Device)." Nanaka grabbed a hose connected to the power inflator and pointed it out to the others. "When you press the button on the side, the air will fill the vest and you'll float. Press the button on top and hold it upwards, the air will leave and you'll sink." Nanaka said as she bit on her regulator and showed the younger members. They soon followed her instruction, but with mixed results. Kohei mastered it on the first go. Iori somehow didn't expel the air in his vest and so stayed on the surface. Koji descended but had trouble keeping steady. Aina just sank all the way due to the weight of the tank.

After being helped out. The Four learners watched Nanaka as she demonstrated the next lesson. Clearing your regulator. Nanaka removed her regulator, holding it in her hands. She motioned for the learners to watch as she put the regulator back in and cleared. She did it twice to show two methods of clearing it. One. Blowing into the regulator. Two. pressing the purge button on the front.

Kohei did it first try, by pressing the purge button. Iori went next, but accidentally let the regulator out of his hand. He started to panic a little bit, but Nanaka came up to him and gave his regulator back, telling him to keep calm. Koji looked at this and remembered a piece of advice Chisa gave them.

"Here's my advice. If you lose your regulator, lower your right shoulder, and swing your right arm from below. Your arm will catch the hose." Chisa said to them.

Remembering that. Koji went next. Taking his regulator out, he dropped his shoulder and snagged the regulator hose. Putting it back in his mouth, Koji pressed the purge button and cleared his regulator, before signalling okay to Nanaka. Aina removed her regulator next. She pressed the purge button, but a large stream of air escaped the regulator. She thought that if she pressed the purge button when her regulator was in her mouth, it would blow up a huge cloud of air in her face. Nanaka helped by turning the regulator downwards to stop the air escaping. Aina put her regulator back in her mouth and blew into it to clear it before signalling okay.

Next on the agenda was mask clearing. Nanaka demonstrated as she let water flood her mask. She gently pressed the top of her mask. Blowing the water out of the mask from breathing out her nose. Kohei again did the task first try, and it was actually pissing the others off.

'''Showoff.''' Iori, Koji and Aina thought.

Aina was able to clear her mask. Koji had slightly more difficulty as he hated the water stinging his eyes. Thankfully he was able to pass the task. Iori, meanwhile. He didn't clear the mask properly and freaked out. Nanaka calmed him down and he was somehow able to do it. Nanaka grabbed her air gauge and asked the learners what their air pressures were.

"80." Kohei signalled.

"""60.""" Iori, Koji and Aina signalled. Nanaka signalled to begin safely ascending and evidently, end the dive. Everyone gave the okay signal and began to leave the water.

Back on the surface. The senior members sat around talking about their first dive.

"The ocean in Okinawa is great!" Stated Kotobuki.

"I wish I could stay underwater forever." Azusa said.

"We're so lucky to have such good weather." Tokita said as the others arrived for lunch. Of course Iori and Kohei were arguing and fighting with each other.

"Your pressure was only 60." Kohei said smug.

"I started out with only 180!" Iori tried to argue, even though it was complete BS.

"You're lying through your teeth Iori." Koji said to his brother.

"You said 200 before we started diving. Aina added on, reminding the other three. Though it was intended for just one. Iori and Kohei started grabbing and wrestling with each other. Aina tried to stop them. Koji just watched on.

Iori and Kohei momentarily paused their scrap to ask the others something. "By the way, how much pressure did you have left?"

""110."" The muscle duo stated.

"I had 120." Azusa said, looking at her gauges.

"130." Said Chisa.

"And you, Nanaka?" Koji asked.

"I had the same as Chisa."

"Oh my! Help me Iori, I'm going, I'm going." Koji jokingly stumbled back into his brother's arms.

"That much?"Aina questioned it.

"They're on another level!"

"But, doesn't that mean that you could have continued diving?" Iori asked them.

"Maybe."

"Why didn't you have us ascend first and keep on diving?" Kohei asked as well.

"We can't do that!" Azusa answered with a laugh.

"Diving is a group activity. Tokita told them.

"If one person ascends, then everyone ascends." Kotobuki explained it, and Azusa added on.

"If we had lots of instructors, things might have been different though."

"I see. So that means…" Kohei smugly grinned at both Iori. "Don't hold us back, you loser!"

"You think you're so better than me?!"

"And there they go again." Koji smiled as he sat on the bench. "Honestly we should maybe start thinking about getting some leashes for those two, so they don't rip each other apart." Tokita, Kotobuki, Azusa and Nanaka laughed at his opinion. However he saw Aina stare off into nothing. It seemed like she had a bad memory about something, but stopped when Chisa asked if she was okay.

"You were spacing out. Are you okay?"

"I"m fine. Both in body and spirit!" Aina said, trying to flex with a smile. Although the smile seemed fake.

"If you say so."

"If you're not feeling well, let us know." Nanaka told Aina, expressing her concerns.

"Don't try to push yourself."

"It's really dangerous to tell lies in the ocean."

"Understood!" Said Aina.

Later on the club was back in the water, and the juniors were learning more skills when it came to diving. The next lesson was exchanging the octopus. Or in other words. Sharing the secondary regulator. Nanaka had Azusa help with the demonstration. Azusa motioned that she ran out of air. She took out her regulator and Nanaka handed the octopus (/secondary regulator) to her buddy, letting her breathe. They then held onto each other's arms and motioned to ascend. Afterwards Azusa used her own regulator again and they watched as the junior members attempted this task.

Iori and Koji went first, and with being brothers. It went smoothly. Iori next tried the task with Aina and it went rather, strangely. Iori did everything he was supposed to, but Aina was freaking out. However it didn't seem to be because of the equipment. It looked like it was holding arms with Iori. Seriously! Koji did the task with Kohei seemingly okay. Iori did it next with Kohei. Instead of holding each other's arm. They grabbed each other by the chest, clutching their wetsuits and angrily staring at each other. Even underwater they want to go at each other. Aina worked with Koji next and it almost went the same way as with his brother. However he motioned to Aina to relax which she somehow did. Finally Aina did the task with Kohei and passed it. Iori and Kohei had to do it again and actually try to get along, which was amusing to Koji.

Aina was just staring off into the deep blue and everyone else around her. The muscle duo of Tokita and Kotobuki swam together overseeing everything else. Chisa was taking pictures with Azusa and Koji. Nanaka was helping Iori and Kohei. 'The ocean is so beautiful. I can see why they wish they could stay underwater forever.' Aina thought to herself. Nanaka motioned what the junior members air pressure was. Aina looked at her gauge and saw that it was at sixty. Looking over at the boys. She saw their signals.

"90." From Kohei.

""80."" From both Iori and Koji.

The young blue haired girl started to feel guilty. 'You guys all still have extra? That means… We have to stop because of me. I was fine even at 60 just now. Maybe I can keep going a little…' She turned around to see Iori looking at her. It was a tense stare down for Aina and she finally relented. "60."

"Okay." Nanaka signalled to surface and everyone began making their way back up.

Once back on dry land, Aina distanced herself from the others. Koji found his brother and asked him.

"What's going on with Aina?"

Iori looked at his brother and told him. "I think she was going to lie about her air pressure down there." Koji was stunned.

"W-What! Why!"

"That's what I want to know. You coming, Koji?" Koji nodded and went with Iori to see Aina.

"Hey, Cakey."

"What?"

"What do you mean, "What?" You just tried to lie about your air pressure just now." Iori said to Aina, making her head and shoulders drop in shame.

"Aina. You know what Nanaka and the others said about telling lies in the ocean. How dangerous it is. I mean, why. Why do it in the first place?" Koji said towards Aina.

Aina was fidgeting and shaking like mad. "I didn't want everyone to have to ascend just because of me." Both brothers looked at each other.

"So you weren't lying just because you didn't want to lose?" Iori asked going back to his stupid contest with Kohei. If you could even call it such. Koji punched in the head for his idiocy. "KOJI!"

"Are you really that stupid, Iori?!" Koji got a punch in the head back from his brother, and they started to grab and tussle against each other.

"I didn't want to cause trouble for everyone." Aina stated, making Iori and Koji stop going at each other. They let go of one another and nodded, thinking about what Aina just said. "What's wrong?"

"You're not very good at judging people's character." Koji stated, stunning the blue haired girl.

"What?! You're not making any sense."

"You're the one who doesn't make sense. Do you think they'd care about something like that?" Iori asked Aina. She just stood there until she got dragged towards the others by the two brothers.

They began to explain everything to Tokita, Kotobuki and Azusa. Aina hung her head sulking at what Iori and Koji were doing. Almost expecting what happened in the past to happen again.

"You know, Aina…"

"Yes?"

"Why do you talk so politely to us?" Azusa asked her.

"Huh? It's because you're my seniors. It's natural." Aina answered and Azusa understood now.

"I see. So for you, it's natural to show respect to seniors, right?"

"Is that wrong?"

"In that case…" Azusa lightly pulled on Aina's cheeks to make a smile, which Aina didn't get. "Don't you think it's natural that your seniors would be forgiving? It's no big deal. You just used up your air a little quicker than the others."

"Yeah…"

"It's only natural."

"We'll teach you some tricks."

"Just work on getting better next time."

"Right!" Aina couldn't believe that they were this accepting.

"But don't ever lie like that again."

"Especially when it comes to safety."

"Honesty is the best policy."

""Yeah."" Koji and Iori rested an arm, each other of Aina's shoulders.

"The seniors here are different, right?" Iori asked Aina. Giving her that honest yet silly at times smile of his. Looking at Koji, he gave his own smile, the same as his brother.

"Yeah!" Aina was really happy now. Knowing that she wouldn't be shunned like in the tennis club.

"But, you know, if you're worried about what we think, it means you haven't opened up to us yet." Said Azusa, which confused Aina.

"Huh?!" Aina had a cold chill go down her spine, even though she was still wearing her wetsuit. And of course, it was because of Tokita and Kotobuki flexing near naked as they always do.

"That makes sense." Said Kotobuki.

"It's just a swimsuit." Azusa told Aina. she tried to fight it off but…

"Where?! I'll show you an example!" Tokita roared out.

"This is part of our job too!" Kotobuki followed as he and his friend ripped off their suits, leaving them bare naked and Aina horrified again. Much to the amusement of Azusa and Koji.

"What about you, Koji?" Azusa asked the skating Kitahara.

"Huh?"

"Let's see what you've got!" Azusa stated, lunging for Koji.

"Oh, HELL NO!" Koji said running around trying to get away from the purple haired girl. All the while his brother looked on smiling, proud of himself.

"Everything worked out."

"Iori, it didn't." Nanaka said to her cousin.

"Is there another problem?"

"At this rate, you're the only one who's going to fail." Nanaka told Iori. All he could do was smile, as two small streaks of blood came out of his mouth.

A/N Author's Notes: Finally got another chapter up for the story. I struggled with possibly splitting the chapter in half for two smaller(ish) chpaters, but instead I went with this. Hopefully you all like it. If there is any mistakes, please let me know in either a kind of constructive way. Let's hope the next chapter won't be as long of a wait same with my Asuna's Secret story. Thank you again.

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