Here is the second chapter! I am sorry for any spelling or grammar mistakes, as always. I do read over my chapters but sometimes I just miss them and when I read over it again once it's posted I feel like an idiot. Anyway, please enjoy this chapter!

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Rin sat at his desk bored, looking around the class to see others talking to each other. He sighed and looked behind him to see neither Makoto nor Haruka. They always seemed to arrive later than everyone else, Rin guessed it was probably because his water obsessed friend spent the whole morning in the bath, as Makoto had told him.

He wished he could walk to school with the two of them, but he lived closer to the school and it would just be an extra street to walk up. It would make Rin late for waiting and the others late because they had to get him. Not only that but he also had to walk to school with Gou as she always wanted to get to school early for whatever reason.

The doors slid open and Rin looked up to see the two he was hoping for, giving both a wide smile as they approached.

"Hey! You're a bit later than usual today, did Haru spend too long in the tub again?"

Haruka glared at his red haired friend while Makoto laughed lightly "Actually, Haru slept in. I walked into his house to get him and he was still sleeping."

Rin's eyebrows rose and he turned to Haruka to see bag's under his ocean blue eyes, he knew Haruka didn't like mornings but the teen never actually looked tired.

"Did you not get a good sleep then, Haru?" Rin asked, seeing Haruka nod

"Too much on my mind"

"Too much on your mind?" Rin questioned "What are you thinking about? Do we have a test coming up or something?" he turned to Makoto to see him shaking his head.

Haruka visibly stiffened as the question was asked and turned to the red head, his frown deepening "Rin, you're going to get in trouble."

Said teen's eyebrow rose and he looked down at his shirt, where Haruka was looking.

"Oh, you mean since I'm not wearing my tie? Please, Miss Ama-chan doesn't even care any more, she only reported me once for it. And if you haven't noticed about half the students in the school don't wear the tie anyway, look around you"

Haruka opened his mouth to speak until three girls suddenly pushed past him and ran right up to Rin, making him stumble slightly. Makoto grabbed his shoulders to help him steady and Haruka thanked the brunette.

When Haruka turned back to Rin, he noticed the three girls leaning in around him, giving him large smiles.

"Hey Rin! Are you going to eat lunch with us today?" the first girl chimed.

The red head leant back and yawned "Uh...no, I don't think so"

The three girls pouted "Why? We want to hear more about Australia!" the second girl whined in an annoying, high pitched voice.

"Yeah, come on Rin! Just sit with us for once! All our other friends will be there too!" the third girl frowned, all of them leaning closer to him.

Rin sighed and rested his head on his hand "I don't even know your friends"

"We will introduce you! They'd love you I'm sure! And we all want to know how you build so much muscle!"

Haruka watched the three girls harassing Rin with dark eyes, feeling some kind of rage bubbling in him...was it even rage? It felt kind of different from rage, but whatever it was it made him hate the three girls surrounding his best friend.

The teen felt his eye twitch as the conversation continued and, without thinking, he walked up to them.

"Hey" he said in a low voice, all four turning towards him.

"Oh, you're Nanase right? Rin's friend?" one of the girls asked. Haruka nodded and the three all began to glare at him "I'm sorry, friend or not but you're interrupting our conversation with Rin. How about you go sit at the back of classroom by yourself like you always do?"

Haruka's eye twitched again "But I was-"

"What? You think just because we're inviting Rin to sit with us, you're invited too? Why don't you just piss off? I don't even know why Rin is friends with a loser like you!"

Haruka's hand was clenched and shaking, his pure blue eyes glaring down the three girls.

"I had no intent on sitting with-" Haruka continued, but was cut off once again by one of the girls

"Ha! You're probably so desperate for a girlfriend! I bet that's why you hang around Rin, you're trying to get a girl, right? Well let me tell you this, that's never going to happen! Everyone knows about your weird water fetish you know, it's just not normal. I bet soon Rin will see just how much of a freak you are and ditch you! He'll probably even leave that stupid swimming club you're in since you're such a-"

"OI!" Rin violently yelled, quickly standing and making everyone in the class jump and turn towards the red head.

Haruka stared at his friend with wide eyes, seeing his crimson eyes burning with rage that he must have been holding back through the conversation.

Rin's mouth was turned into a sneer and the three girls stared at him, almost in terror. "R-Rin? What did we do? You know what we said is-"

"SHUT THE FUCK UP! Honestly, you three annoy the hell outta me! I've only let you talk to me to be nice, but now you've really pissed me off!"

The three girls looked hurt "We...we annoy you? Well w-we can change! We won't annoy y-"

"I SAID SHUT UP! You know nothing of my relationship with Haru! You have no idea what we've been through to have the friendship we have now, you know nothing about me! I'm not going to just sit here and let you hurt and insult my best friend like that, so piss off! I'm sick of you!"

The three girls were on the verge of tears, all huddled together like small, scared animals. They all ran out calling Rin an idiot and saying he would regret what he said.

The red head tsked and turned to the raven haired teen, who was staring at him with wide eyes.

"Don't let them get to you Haru, you know I'd never quit the swimming club. You also know I'm just as much of a freak as you are"

"You didn't have to yell at them..." Haruka mumbled, looking to the ground in embarrassment.

Rin smiled and sat back down "Why did you even try talking to them anyway? You've never done that before...are you trying to get a girl?"

Haruka looked at him in a slight glare "No, I'm not interested in a relationship"

"So why did you interrupt us then?"

The blue eyed teen started to shift uncomfortably, not too sure how to answer the question. He wasn't sure himself, he just walked up to them without thinking. He must have been catching the flu to do something like that, surely...

"Haru?" Makoto frowned, looking at his friend with concern. First he slept in because there was too much on his mind, and now he wasn't answering Rin's question? Makoto could see the confused look in Haruka's ocean blue eyes and was about to speak until the bell went.

Haruka quickly sat down in the desk behind Rin, ignoring their questioning looks. Makoto turned to Rin with a raised eyebrow and the red head shrugged, making the brunette frown and sit next to the raven haired teen.

Through the class Makoto kept glimpsing at Haruka, seeing the teen would look at Rin and then out the window, then look at Rin again. This continued for the whole lesson and Makoto could feel his frown deepen, getting a bad feeling as to what was happening to his best friend.

Once lunch time finally came around, the three of them walked up to the roof where Nagisa and Rei would be waiting for them. They walked up to see the blonde stealing food from Rei's bento box, as he always did.

"Ah, Haru-chan! Mako-chan! Rin-chan!" Nagisa smiled

"Cut out the chan" Rin and Haruka both said simultaneously, frowning at the blonde.

Nagisa giggled and turned to Makoto "Hey Mako-chan! What do you have in your lunch today?"

"Sorry Nagisa, I don't have anything to your tastes" Makoto smiled warmly as the blonde pouted. He had learned what Nagisa's favourite foods were and avoided making them, otherwise he'd find all his food gone in less than a minute.

Nagisa turned to Rin "Do you have anything, Rin-chan?"

"You're not having any of my food" the red head immediately responded, already eating.

Nagisa frowned and turned to Haruka "I know you don't have anything Haru-chan, you've only ever got mackerel"

Haruka frowned at the blonde "What's wrong with that?"

"Nothing, nothing" Nagisa said, waving him off "Rei-chan barely has anything to eat too"

"Are you kidding me?!" said teen turned to the blonde with wide eyes "You ate half of my lunch!"

"Now, now Rei-chan, you shouldn't complain so much. It's good to help friends out!"

Rei's shoulders slumped as he sighed "How much do you eat anyway? You've already eaten all your lunch plus most of my own. I'm surprised you're even that skinny, it doesn't seem scientifically possible"

"Rei-chan, you're so mean!" Nagisa pouted, making Rei frown.

"Rei, will you be okay with the lack of food?" Makoto smiled, slightly concerned about the blue haired teen as he knew just how much Nagisa could eat and remembering the blonde once ate all of Rei's lunch.

"I will be fine, Makoto Senpai. I've learned to pack a second lunch" as if to prove this, Rei pulled a second bento box out of his bag. Nagisa eyed it and Rei quickly shoved it back in his bag while saying "You're not having any!"

"Rei-chan!" Nagisa whined, now grabbing onto the teens arm "Rei-chaaaaan! You're so meeeean!"

"Pack a bigger lunch if you get hungry then! I'm not your personal chef!"

"But the lunches Rei-chan makes are so yummy!"

Makoto watched the two arguing and smiled. Makoto knew just how much Rei actually cared for Nagisa, since Rei knew all of Nagisa's favourite foods. Instead of avoiding to make them, like Makoto did, Rei always made half of his bento box out of them. Even though Makoto knew Rei didn't like those foods himself. The brunet noticed this a while ago but kept quite about it.

"I just remembered something," Haruka announced, making everyone turn to him "my math teacher told me to go get notes off him this lunch because I missed his last class"

"Why'd you miss it?" Rin asked

"Emergency at home"

"What kind of emergency?"

"I forgot to turn the bathroom tap off"

Everyone stared at the raven haired teen blankly "...you're kidding right?"

"No"

The four sighed, knowing how Haruka was and not questioning it any further. Haruka packed his lunch and stood up, telling the others to watch his bag.

"I'll come with you" Rin stated "I have to go to the toilet anyway. Makoto, Rei, make sure Nagisa doesn't touch my food" Nagisa pouted and the two teens walked off.

The two were quiet as they walked, neither of them talking. This was normal, well...for Haruka anyway. It was odd for Rin to be so quiet, Haruka had gotten used to the red head's pointless chit chat as kids, and it even felt weird without it. So he turned to the teen to see him looking right at him, making Haruka's eyes widen and quickly look away.

Rin chuckled and shoved his hands in his pockets "You know, you've been acting weird today. But that's probably because you didn't get to soak this morning, considering you slept in." Haruka's cheeks reddened and Rin smirked "That's the first time I've ever heard that you slept in, you must really have a lot of things on your mind if you couldn't sleep. Which is odd for you since the only thing that's on your mind is...well, water."

"And swimming" Haruka interjected

"Water, swimming, in your mind it's the same thing"

"It's not"

"Yeah, yeah I know" Rin sighed, turning towards the toilets "Wait for me would you?"

Haruka said nothing and leaned against the wall next to the bathroom door, watching as people went by. He really didn't want to get any notes for math, it just meant more homework and it was one of his worst subjects. He wasn't bad at it, but he wasn't good at it either.

Lately his grades had been dropping and his parents called him, asking if he was keeping up with everything and if anything was too hard to understand. They suggested a tutor, and Haruka wouldn't have minded it if it was Rei who was tutoring him since the blue haired teen was incredibly smart. But Rei was tutoring Nagisa and Haruka wasn't really comfortable with an almost complete stranger or random student teaching him.

A subject he knew he needed a tutor on was English. English was his overall worst subject and he couldn't understand it one bit, he'd been very close to failing almost every English test. So his parents told him they'd give him one more month and if his grades still weren't going up, they would call a tutor for him.

The bathroom door opened and Rin walked out, seeing his raven haired friend seemed to be daydreaming and completely off Earth.

"Oi, Haru, you still there?"

Said teen blinked, looked at Rin for a bit, then said nothing as he walked off. Rin shook his head at the typical behaviour and followed after the teen.

Finally arriving at the teachers office, Haruka knocked on the door to see Miss Ama-chan. They greeted one another and Haruka requested to see his maths teacher.

"Sir, Nanase and Matsuoka are here to see you" Miss Ama-chan called out, looking at the teacher sitting just a few meters away from the door.

"Ah, Haru is just seeing him actually" Rin interjected

"No, no Matsuoka, you come here too. It's a good thing you're here because I wanted to see both of you" the man said, looking up at the two teens walking over to him. He took a sheet of paper off his desk and held up to Haruka "Here's a sheet on what you missed. Hopefully it's not too complicated, I made the question's at a moderately easy level.

Haruka glared at the equations in front of him, it all just looked like one big mess of numbers and letters to him.

"Now, your parents rang the school Nanase, and they requested that you find a tutor"

"They rang the school?" Haruka questioned, seeing his teacher nod

"I agree that you do need a tutor, especially if you want those grades to go up"

Haruka frowned and Rin looked at him with slight amusement, although the red head had to wonder why he was there.

"Matsuoka," said teen turned to the teacher "you are one of the top students in my high level math class, and I also know you are friends with Nanase. I would like you to tutor him."

Both teens stared at him as if he were mad, shocked at what they had heard. Sure, Haruka needed a tutor, but it was just embarrassing to have Rin tutor him. The red head would see how stupid he was and, being as competitive as they were, he couldn't let that happen. He was also still confused about what happened the other day and didn't really want to get too close to Rin.

"I can't have him as my tutor" Haruka complained

his teacher sighed "And why not?"

"Because Rin is too busy"

The teacher turned toward said teen and raised a questioning eyebrow "Is this true?"

Rin shook his head "No, I actually have a lot of free time. I wouldn't mind tutoring Haru-uh, Nanase"

The raven haired teen gave Rin an annoyed look, only to have the red head give him a wide, white smile.

"'He's mocking me...'"

The teacher nodded "Alright then, it's settled, I will ring your parents and tell them about the arrangements. Matsuoka, if you could, I'd like you and Nanase to get started straight away. Is tonight any good?"

"Tonight is fine, and whenever I have free time after school I will tutor Nanase" Rin smiled, the teacher nodding in approval.

With that they were dismissed and the two teens walked down the hall in silence, Haruka annoyed at what had happened and Rin smiling widely as he knew Haruka was pissed.

"Seems I'll be coming over to your house tonight then" the red head said, breaking the silence

"Please don't" Haruka frowned, refusing to look at the teen.

Rin couldn't help but chuckle, for some reason he felt excited to be going to Haru's. Haruka, on the other hand, was feeling...nervous? He guessed that's what it was, but he didn't know why he'd be nervous. It's just Rin, there was no reason to be nervous...right?

Ah yes, Rin as a tutor. Now I know for a fact that Haruka is bad at English and it is his worst subject, but I'm not too sure about his maths...honestly I just assumed. But I know Rin's best subjects are Maths and English so I didn't make that up.

Anyway the next chapter should be posted tomorrow!

Thanks for reading!