Eiji had returned to school after lunch stopping by the Aquarium to make sure everyone was okay and to say hi to her Mama. Now she was sitting in her final class, waiting for the day to just finally end. She wanted nothing more right now than to just go to the aquarium and swim with the fishes.

The bell signaling that school was over was music to the young punk's ears. Eiji quickly gathered her things and exited the classroom without a moment's hesitation. Speed walking down the halls she expertly dodged students like a small fish in a crowded school of tuna. Skidding to a stop in front of her locker she reached for her lock and then froze

"Oh Fuck me." She cursed to herself as she realized she still didn't remember her locker combo. She just wanted to get home as soon as possible. Growling she dug through her cluttered bag searching for that damn piece of paper that the combination was written on. When Eiji had finally found the damn thing she realized that almost the entire hall had cleared. Shrugging to herself she went to unlock her locker but then she heard a commotion from down the hall.

"You're such a selfish bitch Gou!" Eiji looked up to see Gou further down the hall surrounded by 3 girls who looked like they were 3rd years. "I have student council and lacrosse and yearbook club! I don't have time to do my homework!"

"I'm not doing your homework! I have my own to do!" Gou retorted

"But you don't contribute to this school like I do! The least you could do for a student council member is offer your assistance, it's your obligation as a 1st year." The older girl stepped closer to Gou "You don't wanna make me mad the first day of school Matsuoka."

"I don't have time to do your homework!" Gou said again as she still struggled to open her locker obviously distracted.

The 3rd year turned Gou around to face her slamming her back against her locker. Her lackeys giggled "You just think your hot shit because your brother is a star swimmer over at Samezuka but let me tell you how things work at iwat-"

"Yo!" Eiji had left her locker and approached the situation at hand "What's the issue?"

"This has nothing to do with you punk!" one of the lackeys sassed

"Yeah! Nothing to do with some punk!" the other one repeated

"I just asked you a question." Eiji said calmly "What the problem here? Why are you making such a commotion?"

The 'leader' of the trio backed away from Gou to approach Eiji but the two minions immediately surrounded her to make sure she wouldn't escape.

"You listen here Yankee-"she growled looking up at Eiji.

"You just spit in my eye." Eiji commented annoyed as she wiped away the moisture.

"I don't know who you think you are, but your just some 1st year delinquent with no real standing in this school, I run the show around here and if you think you can just interrupt my business with such disrespect your dead wrong now BEAT IT!" she shoved… well attempted to shove Eiji to the ground but only managed to make her stumble…barely. Eiji snatched the girl's shirt and lifted her up to her height making the girl stand on her tiptoes

"I don't know what the fuck your issue is or who the fuck you think you are but If you think I won't smack you across that nasty mouth of yours because you're in a 3rd year your sadly mistaken." Eiji pulled her closer their noses almost touching "Don't. You. EVER. Shove. Me. Or anyone else. Again. Are we clear?"

The 3rd year nodded slowly fear wide in her eyes. Eiji set her back down gently but still managed stumble back into her minions then they booked it faster that a sailfish.

Eiji looked over at Gou who seemed a little scared "Are you okay?"

"I…thank you." Gou beamed at her hero "I was afraid she was going to bully me all year!"

"If she does it again tell the principal." Eiji advised "There's no point in dealing with that all year."

"I don't think she'll even breathe in my direction again!" Gou smiled at Eiji "You really scared her!"

"I hope…" Eiji shrugged

"Oh no!" Gou exclaimed her hands flying to the sides of her face

"What?" Eiji raised a brow at the girl.

"I missed the bus!" she cried out "Those stupid 3rd years made me miss the bus!"

"Can you call your mom?" Eiji inquired

"She'll be at work… this sucks! Now I have to walk." She deflated whimpering to herself

Eiji looked at the girl with sympathetic eyes. She didn't know her and didn't particularly appreciate that she asked her to join the swim team even though it was a completely innocent question, but looking at her all deflated made Eiji feel guilty at the thought of leaving her to walk home. "…I can take you home." Eiji offered

"R-Really?!" Gou flushed red, it wasn't everyday a boy (or so she thought) offered to take her home, not that she was particularly interested in Eiji romantically but the sentiment of Eiji saving her and then offering to take her home made her feel like she was in a cheesy shoujou manga.

"Sure." Eiji shrugged like it was no big deal. Even though this setback meant that she would have to go straight to work without stopping at home for food. She'll just text Agamine to bring her food.

"Thank you so much!" Gou squealed.

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"Thank you so much Eiji!" Gou thanked as she removed Eiji's spare helmet from her head.

"No problem." Eiji took back her helmet and stuck it into the back compartment "I have to go now."

"Wait!" Gou stopped her before she could speed off.

"What?" Eiji asked somewhat annoyed. She didn't want to be rude but she also didn't want to be late for work.

"I was wondering…" Gou started "Do you wanna sit with me at lunch tomorrow?" Eiji's thought process stalled. She was utterly taken aback by the smaller redheads offer.

"Ummm….." Eiji thought of a way to respond "Yeah…sure." She shrugged

"Awesome!" Gou smiled "You know where the cafeteria is right?"

"Yep." Eiji nodded.

"Okay ill meet you there!" Gou trotted up to her house and turned to wave at Eiji "See you tomorrow!"

"Bye!" Eiji shouted speeding off on her moped trying to fight the stupid smile that was on her face.

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Eiji loved fish. She could watch fish all day long and be perfectly content with herself. But what she loved even more was swimming with fish. The Aquarium had a very large tank dedicated to only fish and a few stingrays. After closing after everyone leaves Eiji puts on a dive skin and floats around the pool watching all the beautiful rainbows of fish swim around her.

The reason Eiji loved being in the water with the fish so much was because it was so peaceful. The way the water embraces her tightly and securely in a fierce yet loving embrace, how all the fish just swim around no fighting, no drama, just all of them swimming around going about themselves. Eiji sometimes wished she was a fish herself, while relaxing she could hold her breath 7 minutes at a time but it still never felt like enough for her. Reaching out her jet black painted fingernails she gingerly reached out to a very small school of red fish letting them swim between her fingers watching in wonder and amazement as the little fish nipped at her fingers without fear.

Eiji's bliss was cut short as a shoe landed on her stomach. This was Agamine's special way of signaling her without jumping in himself. Eiji grabbed the shoe and slowly swam to the surface.

"Hey dork! I brought you some food!" Agamine held up a package wrapped in paper and a bag of chips in his other hand was a juice "Ramee made you a sandwich."

"Thanks." Eiji pulled herself out of the water and dried herself off with a towel.

"Soooooo how was your first day?" Agamine gave a Cheshire grin "Did you talk to anybody?"

"No I did-"Eiji stopped herself when she remembered. "Actually… you remember those guys from the Samezuka pool yeah? The ones you didn't recognize?"

"Yeah." Agamine nodded.

"Well they go to my school." Eiji explained "And remember that one chick who dropped her bracelet in the pool and I jumped in and then I got that cold?" Agamine had to think for a moment since that was a few days ago, he snapped his fingers when he finally remembered.

"Yeah! The redhead! What about her?" Agamine asked

"She goes there too." She said as she unwrapped her sandwich "Her name is Gou Matsuoka."

"Get out!" Agamine gasped

"I know right?" Eiji took a bite of her sandwich and she continued "She's actually the reason I couldn't stop by the house." Eiji swallowed her bite of sandwich and continued "I took her home."

"Why? Not that there's anything wrong with that but why?" Agamine tilted his head to the side.

"Some girls were messing with her, I told them to fuck off but she ended up missing the bus so I took her home." Eiji explained going for a drink of her juice.

"Awww you're a hero." Agamine pinched her cheek.

"Staaaaahp." Eiji slapped his hand away.

"So what did he say after you dropped her off? Did she say thank you?" He asked sitting down on a bench motioning for Eiji to join him.

"She… asked me to sit with her at lunch tomorrow." Eiji said quietly.

"SHE DID!?" Agamine violently sparkled and leapt from his seat "That's so great! Your making friends!" he twirled around the room.

"Chill Agi." Eiji rolled her eyes at her brother's antics "I don't know if she wants to be my friend."

Agamine's twirling came to a screeching halt "What? Why not?"

"Because she asked me to join the swim team right before lunch." Eiji said bitterly

"Oh Eiji." Agamine sighed and grabbed her hands "I don't think-"

"I don't really feel like talking about this right now." Eiji said quickly stopping her brother before he could bring up painful memories.

Agamine sighed. The way Eiji's eyes laser focused on the floor made his heart sink Not wanting to make his sister upset he decided to drop the subject "Okay…"

"Let's go to the main office." Eiji suggested standing up "I don't wanna get Crumbs on the floor."

"Okay." he agreed following his sister out of the enclosure. Please please please let this girl be nice. Agamine prayed in his head.

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"Eiji what's wrong?" Ramee walked into her sister's room rubbing her eyes to see her sister pulling apart her room.

"I'm sorry Ramee did I wake you up?" Eiji sighed guiltily looking at her sleepy sister.

"It's okay." Ramee yawned out before looking around the room "Did you lose something?"

"Ramee when was the last time you saw me wearing my dog tags?" Eiji asked her sister seriously. Eiji almost never went anywhere without those dog tags. They weren't just any dog tags either, they were her grandfathers, her biological grandfathers.

"umm…" Ramee thought hard. "I guess the other day when mom had me bring you up a snack."

"That was when…" Eiji's eyes widened in utter horrification "Oh god…" she slapped a hand on her face.

"What's wrong? Did you lose them?" Ramee's eyes widened in worry.

"Ramee can you please go get Agamine for me? He's studying right now." Eiji asked her sister politely "Please don't wake up Mom or Mama."

"Sure." She smiled happy to help out her sister. Not a minute later Agamine walked into Eiji's room where she was tying on her boots.

"What's up?" Agamine asked

"I have to go back to that old swim club." Eiji said seriously "I dropped my dog tags there I need you to cover for me if our parents ask."

"What? No Eiji not again." Agamine shook his head "You can't keep sneaking out when it's dark it's too dangerous."

"Agamine they're gonna tear that place down any day now." Eiji explained with an almost pleading voice "If they tear it down there's no way ill find them."

"Just wait until the morning."

"No Agi." Eiji said sternly "They could tear it down in the morning I'm not risking it."

"Eiji…I don't know…"

"…you know how important those dog tags are to me." Eiji's voice was so heartbreakingly somber it moved Agamine to submit.

"Fine!" he puffed "But you have to take the dog with you."

"Thanks bro." Eiji kissed her brother's cheek. "I'll be quick."

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Eiji ran all the way to the old swim club Queenie right beside her Happy to tag along for a walk on Eiji's midnight adventures once again. Eiji would've taken her Moped but if one of her mom's had decided to go down to the garage to get a Popsicle or something from the freezer they would most certainly notice it was gone. With Queenie they would automatically assume she was sleeping in one of their kid's rooms like she always did. Plus Despite the fact Eiji had a job she was painfully short on cash at the moment spending her entire last paycheck on new earrings, a full tank of gas and the latest issue of Fishy-pedia. She was completely and utterly broke and only had enough gas to last her until her next paycheck.

It was possible for Eiji to take the bus but Eiji loathed the bus with a passion. She wasn't claustrophobic per-sey… she had no problem climbing through vents to clean out the dust or hiding in cabinets when she was a kid, she had a problem with being surrounded by a bunch of people and not being able to move. People always unnerved Eiji especially when they were in big herds.

"Finally." Eiji finally made it to the Abandoned swim club sighing in relief that they hadn't torn it down again. She stepped through the same window she entered through the first time but picked Queenie up with a grunt to carry her over the broken glass.

She retraced her steps searching the floor for her beloved dog tags. This time she took the red flashlight she kept under her bed, it was one of those huge steel ones that could light up a room like a bonfire but knock a bitch out like a wrecking ball. She finally made it to the pool where she jumped out the window. She sighed in relief when she saw the glint of her tags in the light. She scooped them up to notice the chain had been broken. No biggie, she had an extra somewhere but the important thing was that all the tags were there.

Pocketing the tags Eiji walked down the hall she came to leave when Queenie had decidedly nudged open a door with her nose sniffing the air.

"Queenie, no." Eiji pulled on the leash sharply "We are not doing this again."

"You again?" Eiji tensed a little bit ready to swing her flashlight as looked up into the room but relaxed saw that shark mouth guy she saw the other night. Was this their hangout or something? Were they homeless? What is with this place? "What are you doing here?" he sounded almost annoyed.

"Don't patronize me we're both trespassing." Eiji growled. "What is it with you guys acting all entitled?"

"I'm not acting-" Rin stopped as the dog started sniffing his leg. She gave a happy bark and wagged, he kneeled down to pet the dog a sort of… relaxed face came over him completely different from the one he had before. Eiji became more relaxed as she saw her dog trusted him. How bad could he be if Queenie liked him? Suddenly he did a complete 180 and glared at Eiji "Are you following me or something?"

"Oh please. Don't flatter yourself Shark week." Eiji scoffed rolling her eyes. "If anything your following me." She shot back.

"You were at my School last night." Rin pointed out.

"It's my brothers school too dipshit." Eiji growled "He's the new kid he's in your math class as a matter of fact."

"…Katsuyaia? That's your brother?" Eiji nodded "You don't look even remotely related."

"We get that a lot." Eiji shrugged.

"And Katsuyaia seems like a good kid. You just seem like some delinquent trying to score some drugs or do graffiti." Rin said harshly as he stood up to cease petting the dog. Queenie whined in protest.

"You look like some Angsty weirdo with a lot of personal issues." Eiji reflected back stunning the redhead for a moment before he growled at her and looked away. "Where are your buddies?" Eiji asked "You guys gonna try to swim in that empty pool again?"

"No!" Rin exclaimed "And those Guys are not my buddies."

"Well… I guess that makes sense. It adds to your whole Agnsty, loan shark persona." Eiji nodded.

"I am not angsty!" Rin growled.

"mmmhmmm." Eiji said unconvinced.

Rin paused for a moment before speaking up again. "For real this time why are you here? Did you swim here as a kid?" he asked a little nicer this time, the curiosity was killing him, who was this mysterious stranger with all the piercings? And why did he feel like he had this conversation with her before?

"No." Eiji said simply "I just dropped something Important when I was here last time." She explained "Now it's my turn what are you doing here?"

Rin looked at Eiji for a long moment before pointing a photo off the wall. "I came here for this."

"You came here for an old ass photo?" Eiji looked at him with confusion furrowing "Why?"

"Cause' it's a photo of my dad!" Rin yelled in defense

"That's your dad?" Eiji leaned in and looked at the photo closer shining her flashlight on the photo "Is that him?" Eiji pointed to the kid with the dark hair and red eyes

"Yeah… that's him." Rin said with mirth in his voice.

"You have his eyes." Eiji pointed out "You also have his one sharp tooth as all of your teeth."

"Hey you have a sharp tooth too." Rin berated as he flicked Eiji's Fang

"Yeah a sharp tooth, singular, I don't have the mouth of a tiger shark." Eiji scoffed. "You swim like your dad did?"

"I did…" He sighed

"Well you seemed pretty keen on swimming last night. So keen you almost jumped into a pool of weeds and rat shit and you snuck into your schools pool and raced that other guy." Eiji pointed out and Rin looked a little irritated.

"I quit swimming a long time ago." Rin said somberly

"You swam the other day."

"I know!" Rin barked "I'm not stupid!"

"Your kinda acting like you are, or you're just being unnecessarily vague." Eiji looked at him quizzically

"I raced him so I could beat him." Oh god he was one of those guys. The guys who are obsessed with winning and being the best "But… I couldn't beat him." Eiji tilted her head at him waiting for him to continue "He hasn't been training… so it doesn't count." Rin slammed his fist into the wall obviously frustrated "I can't… I can't… improve until I beat him… I won't be able to go to the Olympics."

"If you wanna be an Olympian so bad then join the damn swim team." Eiji barked almost frustrated with his idiocy.

"It's not that simple!" Rin barked right back "I can't move on… until I beat Haru."

"Well you don't seem like you wanna even try." Eiji said harshly "It seems like you wanna sit around and whine like a little bitch." Rin gave a very small gasp right after Eiji said that… why did that seem so familiar to him? It felt like someone had once told him something similar. There was just something about the sharp look in her eyes that just drifted in his mind like a piece of driftwood in a vast ocean of thoughts and memories, completely lost at sea. He turned his face away from her his eyes closed

"How am I supposed to even try to beat Haru if he won't even give it his all?" he shot back "Iwatobi doesn't even have a team."

"What the hell are you talking about?" Eiji shook her head "Yes they do."

"No they don't."

"Uh yeah they do." Eiji corrected "Some Chick named Gou asked me to join."

"Gou?" Rin perked up at the sound of his sisters name "Gou Matsuoka?"

"Yeah." Eiji suddenly had an epiphany "Holy shit your like twins or something aren't you?" that's why he seemed so familiar! He was his sister's male doppelganger.

"She's, my little sister." Rin raised a brow "How did you know we were related?"

"You're like male and female versions of each other." Eiji said like it was obvious because it was.

"hmm…" Rin hummed

"Back to the previous subject" Eiji rerouted the conversation back to his dilemma "Your making this a lot harder than it needs to be. Just join your Swim team and race that dude."

Rin didn't say anything for the longest time and Eiji wondered if he had malfunctioned or something. After more awkward silent moments he finally spoke up "…I have to go."

"Are you going to leave the photo?" Eiji asked nodding her head over to the photo of his father.

"The frame is mounted to the wall, I can't-"Rin was cut short as Eiji took the butt of her flashlight and smashed it against the glass of the picture frame shattering it. She pulled her sweatshirt sleeve up over her hand and pushed away the rest of the glass so she could get the photo.

"Here." Eiji handed him the photo of his dad. "They won't notice it's gone."

"…thanks." Rin said quietly honesty grateful.