Fortunately for both of them, the next day was Sunday, so they didn't have to be up early for practice or school. Because of this, Seijuurou ended up spending the morning lying on his back staring up at the ceiling while thinking over his relationship with Rin. It was there that he stayed until a quiet knock sounded on the door once more.

"It's open!" he called, happy to hear that the conflict he was feeling internally didn't show in his voice.

Slowly, the door opened to reveal a downtrodden-looking Rin. "Can we talk now?"

"Fine. I was just trying to decide where to go from here." Seijuurou patted the bed next to him as he sat up.

Rin took the offered seat without question, but didn't raise his gaze to look at the Mikoshiba. "I'm sorry about what I said yesterday . . . I was hurt and pissed off and I had no right to treat you that way. You didn't deserve that."

The apology alone took some of the weight off of Seijuurou's shoulders since it sounded so genuine. "You're forgiven for that much, Rin, but we have to talk about how we're going to move forward. We can't just keep this weird balance where you just yell at me as your captain, because it hurts either way. I'm still your boyfriend, after all, despite what the other guys might think."'

"What do you want to do then?"

"I want you to not fucking yell at me when I'm trying to help for one," Mikoshiba stated. "You shouldn't be doing that to your captain or your boyfriend."

"I know . . . Those guys and I just have a lot of history."

"Then tell me, Rin," Sei pleaded.

Rin squeezed his eyes shut and shook his head. "I can't. Can you just break up with me already or whatever you're going to do please?"

Seijuurou's eyebrows furrowed as he leaned forward to kiss Rin for just a second. "I'm not going to break up with you. Not unless you want me to, anyway." He sighed and looked at his hands in his lap. "I was going to suggest that you just treat me like your friend in practice rather than your boss. I still want respect, but I'm not going to be an ass about it."

"Really?" Rin asked with surprised, wide eyes.

Sei chuckled. "Yeah. And I'm not going to make you tell me what's going on with those guys, but don't do that to me again. Okay?"

Rin's response was to tackle his boyfriend back onto the bed in a hug.

And all seemed to be well.

That is, until Rin started training to participate in Samezuka's relay and, therefore, getting obsessed with beating the Iwatobi team again. After talking with Ai about it and learning literally nothing, Sei found himself staring down the barrel of an obvious, but hard decision to make.