Chapter 18: Swimming Festival
Disclaimer: I do not own Free! Iwatobi Swim Club
The girls woke up very lazily the next day. The night before has gotten them exhausted and very alerted thinking that there is something or someone after them. They were tired until loud crashes came from the kitchen woke them up. They both ran to the kitchen and see that Nana has dropped a pot of miso soup on the floor.
"Good morning girls!" Nana says with an awkward smile.
"Aunty!" Bo yelled at Nana with an angry look. "You scared us half to death! Plus, how many times have I told you to not cook! You always end up dropping something or burning the food!" She scolded her.
"Bo, don't you think it is too early to yell at your aunt?" Gou complains as she wipes her eyes.
"It's never too early to yell at someone who is doing things that they aren't suppose to do." Bo crosses her arms and gives Nana a glare. Nana laughs a little and rubs her head.
"Oh yeah Bo try this!" Nana suddenly says and gets up, rushing to a blender filled with a strange green liquid. She pours it into a cup and hands it to Bo. Bo carefully looks at it and sniffs it. She gives a look of disgust, holds her nose, and chugs the liquid down.
"Oh god, it tastes awful!" She said between coughs and gags. "What's in it this time?"
"I think oysters, seaweed, this weird plant I found on the cliffs, and fish gallbladder." She answers uncertain.
"You think?" Bo said in disbelief.
"Yeah, did it work?" She asked. Bo turns on the sink and touches the running water. She waits for a moment until her legs gave out under her. She falls to the floor and her legs turn into a large golden fin.
"Ouch, damn it!" She shouts in pain.
"I guess it didn't work." Nana sighs and washes the cup.
"What were you trying to make Watanabe-san?" Gou asked confused.
"Hon, Nana is fine you know." Nana says happily. "I was trying to make a potion to at least suppress the curse. It's not working out so well."
"Suppress it? What do you mean?" Gou raises an eyebrow.
"You know suppress the curse for a few days so Bo doesn't have any trouble with water." Nana said as she takes a sip of coffee.
"Is there really a way to do it?" Gou said surprised.
"We don't know. We've been trying but nothing has happened." Nana frowns. Then Gou's phone alerts her that she has a text message. She picks up her phone and reads the message.
"Oh who is it!" Bo says as she looks over Gou shoulder.
"It's Makoto. He is asking if we want to head over to the public pool next week to help Gorou-san with the festival."
"We?" Bo said dumbfounded.
"Yeah, you and me." Gou answered bluntly.
"But I'm not part of the swim team. I don't even know who this 'Gorou-san' is." Bo explains.
"It's fine. It will be fun. Besides, Haru-senpai will be there`!" Gou sang. "Come on, I know you like him."
"No I do not!" Bo retaliates while blushing.
"No way, you like someone!" Nana shouted. "Who is he? What is his name? How old is he? What school does he go to?" she bombarded the girls with questions while they tried to answer but the questions kept coming, making it a long morning.
A Week Later…
"Hey guys!" Gou greeted the swim team while dragging Bo with her.
"Hey girls!" Makoto greeted her back awkwardly as he sees her drag Bo behind her.
"Bo say hello…" she nudges Bo with her elbow.
"I'm going to kill you senpai." Bo said angrily. "This is your fault." She looks away.
"I'm sorry?" Makoto apolgizes confused.
"That's not nice Bo." Gou says to her.
"I don't really care." Bo said bluntly.
"You remind me of Rin-chan!" Nagisa laughs.
"Why do you call Gou's brother Rin-chan?" Bo asked.
"Oh so you already know him! Well because he has girl's name!" Nagisa laughs.
"But, don't you have a girl's name Nagisa?" Bo points out. Nagisa stopped laughing and went to the corner of the lobby, squatted and started to pout.
"Oh Nagisa…" Rei goes over to Nagisa, trying to cheer him up.
"Finally, we have been waiting for you two to show up." An older man with blonde hair came up to the teenagers. "So this is Watanabe Boboa." He sticks his hand for a handshake. "I'm Sasabe Gorou, I run the pools here." Bo takes his hand and shakes it.
"Call me Bo please." Bo said. The man nods his head with a smile.
"It's nice to meet you Bo." He smiles. "Oh, looks like Samezuka Swim Team is here too!" he said happily looking out the door. A group of guys came in Samezukas' sweats.
"Onii-chan!" Gou says surprised. "What are you doing here?" She runs up to him.
"For the swim festival. I forced these guys to come with me because I'm the captain now." Rin says proudly. Then he spots Bo and the Iwatobi swim team behind her. "Hey!" he waves at them. They waved back with smiling faces. "Guess whose back?" he asked Gou.
"Who?" Gou titled her head. Then a tall boy with black hair and blue eyes waves at her.
"Yo." He says to her.
"Sousuke-senpai!" she squealed. "You came back!"
"Yeah, I did." He smiled.
"Gou-chan!" a boy cried. A red-headed boy runs up to her and grabs her hands. He was blushing hard as he looked at her. "My name is Mikoshiba Momotarou but you can call me Momo!" he said to her and told her many things that he likes. After he introduced himself, Makoto pushes the boy away from.
"Gou let's go help out with the festival." He smiled and pulls the girl by the hand towards the pool. Bo whistles a little as she watches them go by.
"Looks like someone is jealous`" She sang softly. "Alright let's go!" she stretches and follows them.
"Hey, Bo-chan, wait for me!" Nagisa cries and rushes to her. Then the others followed.
They all helped clean up the pools and other rooms. Nagisa kept making a mess. Rei scolded him every time he messed something up but Nagisa laughed it off. Makoto helped Gou with grabbing things from high places. The Samezuka cleaned up the pool. Bo and Haru cleaned up the lobby together. After a few hours the pool was ready for the festival.
"I'm so tired." Bo complained.
"We got to help the kids today too." Gou said to her.
"I know." Bo pouts. Gorou opens the doors and many kids run in. "Ugh, this is going to be a long day." She complained again and went to go help the kids.
"It's time for the relay race!" Gorou announced. Samezuka and Iwatobi swim teams went up to the pool one by one, preparing themselves to swim.
"I didn't know that they were doing this?" Bo said amazed that they are going to swim. She turns to look a Gou.
"So amazing…" Gou said wide eyes. She looked hypnotized by the half naked muscular boys.
"Weirdo." Bo mutters. 'It probably sucks for her since we are in the back away from the water Oh well.' Bo turns her head to watch the relay race.
…..
After the race, everyone was preparing to go home.
"See you around Gou." Rin said to his sister as he ruffles her hair.
"It was nice to see you again Gou." Sousuke said and pats her shoulder.
"Gou-chan!" Momo called out to her and was about to hug her until Rin stops him.
"Let's go." Rin drags him by the shirt.
"Never forget me!" Mom shouts as he's being dragged. Sousuke looks at the Iwatobi swim team and glares in a certain direction. Gou looks behind her and sees Haru doing the same thing. 'I guess they don't like each other…' she thought. After that the Samezuka team left.
"Man that was a long day." said Nagisa, stretching.
"You guys are really good!" Bo praised them.
"Thanks Bo-chan." Makoto smiles at her.
"It's getting late, you girls should go home." Rei tells the girls.
"Is Ryugazaki worried?" Bo mocks him. Then they start to fight with each other.
"Come on, time to go." Gou pushes Bo out the door. "I'll call you Makoto-senpai!" she said to him. Makoto blushes and nods his head. Gou blushes and leaves the public pool.
….
"Call you later, that was lame." Bo laughs as she and Gou walked down the street.
"Shut up, you were blushing the whole time when you were with Haru-senpai." Gou points out. They were making fun of each other until Bo suddenly stopped walking. "What's wrong?" Gou asked worriedly.
"My vibes went off…" Bo looks down.
"Is something going to happen?" Gou gave a stern look.
"I don't know we have to wait and see." Bo tightens her fist. They became silent. Then Bo pokes Gou, shocking her, breaking the silence.
"Ouch! Did you just shock me!?" Gou yells at her. Bo shrugs and does it again. "Hey! Stop!" Gou shouts and they continued to fight all the way home.
In a Cave Somewhere…
"Finding you was really hard you know." Hex said to a large block of ice. Inside the ice was a large dark, burry figure. "It's time to kill those bitches and end this deal." He rubs his hands together, creating fire. Then he shoots the fire to the ice, melting it. Then a tentacle breaks free from the ice and attacks him.
"Woah buddy, calm yourself. It will be over soon." He said and continues to melt the ice.
Somewhere near the Cave…
"Do you want to me to stop him milady?" asked a man with in a white dress shirt and black slacks and short brown hair as he squeezed a little girl's hand. The girl shakes her head.
"No or else it will ruin the fates' course." She said in a small voice. The girl wore a nun like outfit but it was all white. The only thing that had color was her long light blue hair and blue eyes. "We must wait a little longer Hishikawa-san." He was silent for a few moments.
"I understand milady." He said dejected. The little girl squeezes his hand back and continues to watch Hex free the monster in the ice.
