FASH: Kotaro is adorable, not that it has anything to do with the chapter, but ahhhh, I think he's adorable!

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They were supposed to be in the main room celebrating with the rest of their teammates but somehow before the party even began Hiruma had rounded him up and pushed him into the empty hallway to 'inform' him of something.

Sena stood awkwardly in front of Hiruma, his face becoming a rather lovely shade of pink that grew darker every second Hiruma was talking to him.

"What do you mean by: I've arranged a play-date for you?!" Sena demanded uncomfortably once Hiruma was finished speaking.

"I meant exactly what I said. I know your mind inside and out, I know that you are no longer sure about your sexuality, I know that you wouldn't want to focus on a relationship when the Christmas Bowl was coming up. But, it's over now, and I think your little hug with Riku a couple hours ago made a couple people jealous, so it's only fair."

"Fair? How so?" Sena asked, genuinely curious since he knew no matter how much kicking and screaming he did Hiruma would never change his mind.

"It's fair because I say it is so stop complaining!" Sena sighed and asked. "Why are you so interested in my lack of a love life anyways?" "I get bored very easily." Sena sighed again, he should have known that the answer would be something like that.

'And since there's no way I can stop this boulder once it's started rolling...' "What exactly am I doing with who?"

Two days later found Sena at a recreational center with a duffle bag the Hiruma had prepared for him and a map of where he was supposed to go to find the change rooms. He wearily followed the directions on the map, his pace slowing down when the unmistakable smell of chlorine infiltrated his noes.

When he made it into the change room he quickly slipped out of his clothes and put on his black swimming trunks and placed the pair of goggles Hiruma had seen fit to bestow upon him around his neck.

Apparently it was going to be just him, Mizumachi and Kakei in the pool but for some strange, clearly unprecedented reason Sena really doubted that Kakei would be there.

'I hope Hiruma-san didn't set up any cameras.' He thought as he stepped out of the changing room and into the swimming area, the smell of chlorine overwhelming his senses for a moment.

"Sena! Over here! Over here!" The voice called and suddenly there was a whole lot of splashing noises coming closer to him.

Sena turned to look at Mizumachi and forced a smile that he hoped didn't look fake on his face. He didn't see Kakei anywhere. "Mizumachi-kun, was Kakei-kun unable to make it?" 'Or did Hiruma-san just lie about him being there to in order to make me more willing to go through with this.'

"Kakei-chan called me up this morning and said he wasn't feeling well, but that just means more fun for us." Mizumachi gripped at the side of the pool and shifted his eyes around as if someone could hear their conversation before saying. "Kakei-chan can be a bit of a stick in the mud sometimes."

'So Kakei-kun was supposed to come.' Sena slipped into the pool a couple feet away from Mizumachi, feeling a bit less nervous than he had before. If Kakei was supposed to come but had to stay home because he wasn't feeling well then there was less of a chance that Hiruma had done something unacceptable like call Mizumachi up and say: "Take him, he's all yours." Or something equally freaky.

'But still, I guess it's nice to swim around for a bit, even if my hair's going to smell like chlorine afterwards.'

"Sena, wanna have a race?" Mizumachi asked excitedly , gliding through the water as if he were some type of merman.

"Uh, I think a race would be fairly pointless Mizumachi-kun..." Sena trailed off at the utterly heartbroken look the other boy was giving him. "But I guess we could, just once." Mizumachi grinned widely and started swimming towards the edge of the pool. "Come on Sena, I'll even give you a head start!"

'Even with a head start I'm pretty sure I'm gonna loose terribly.' He thought pessimistically and was proven right not even two minutes later.

"Mizumachi-kun, do you want to go visit Kakei-kun after this?" Sena asked as he lazily floated around, when Hiruma had told him he'd arranged a play-date for him swimming around with Mizumachi wasn't really what he thought would happen, thankfully his instincts were wrong.

If just swimming around with Mizumachi was Hiruma's version of a play-date, what the hell was it going to be like with Sakuraba?