Seijuurou was astonished when he heard about the four guys that'd busted into the pool last night after hours for some kind of a race. It was bad enough that they'd managed to rouse the coach with all their commotion, but now one of them was requesting permission to join the swim team. Names were strictly kept out of the question until he arranged to meet the Samezuka student in his office one evening. That little curveball wasn't expected, but the coach apparently saw the race and was impressed by the Samezuka student that'd been involved. In an effort to keep the rest of the school (AKA the principal) from banning the bot from the team because of his trespassing, the name was kept under wraps. Unexpected but understandable if the kid was really as impressive as the coach said, Seijuurou supposed. What he really didn't expect was the familiar, red hair and well-built figure of his boyfriend to be the one that wandered in.
"Matsuoka? What're you doing here? I've got a meeting I'm supposed to be doing, but the guy hasn't shown up yet," he laughed, hoping it didn't sound as forced as it felt. His boyfriend wouldn't be dumb enough to break into a school building after hours for some stupid race, right?
"Sei, it's me you're supposed to be meeting with."
Wrong.
"Rin? You were one of the idiots that broke into my pool?" Seijuurou was in a state of disbelief at the revelation. He didn't even know that Rin could swim let alone at a level that wowed the coach so much that wanted him on the team.
"I'm sorry, Sei," Rin apologized, eyes firmly fixed on his lap. "It was just something I had to do. Those guys and I . . . Fuck it, are you going to let me join or not?"
Mikoshiba leaned back in his chair. By this point, he was more than used to the way Rin tended to snap questions like that out when he was freaking out on the inside. "How do I know you're not terribly out of shape? Have you even swam since middle school?"
"That's why I lived in Austrailia. I was there for swimming."
"And you just gave it up?"
Angry red eyes met Mikoshiba's gold.
"Fine, I'll let you on the team. If you can hold your own against me in a race. What was your best stroke?"
"Fly."
"Good. We'll do free. It wouldn't be fair for one of us to do our best while the other was on their worst or something. This should level the playing field."
After the seeing the sheer passion in Rin's eyes while they were swimming when their eyes would meet, it was impossible for Sei not to let his boyfriend join the team. And that was how they found themselves weeks later hiding their relationship from the team due to the fact that it would look terrible for the captain to be dating someone on the team. That didn't stop it from being blatantly obvious how worried Mikoshiba was at their first competition when he saw how Rin interacted with the Iwatobi swim team.
