((Seijuurou came out to have a good time and he is honestly feeling so attacked right now

Or: I thought I'd only have to deal with one big brother, but there are five of you and I feel threatened

This is obviously canon divergent, as in Rin never gets super angsty: he stays on okay terms w the iwatobi bunch when he goes to Australia, and then when he gets back they do have some of the s1 fighting, but they get over it way faster and then they all become... well, they become friend-rivals like how they all are post-s1 in canon))

Looking back, Seijuurou has no idea how he didn't see it coming.

When Gou had said that she might've been able to bribe someone into giving them a pizza discount, he'd been too excited about the prospect of a date to realize that any of her friends could've informed the Iwatobi boys.

If he hadn't been too busy trying to flirt with Gou from across the room (and he'd had little success since Matsuoka kept bothering him whenever he caught Gou's eye), he would've noticed that all the boys glared at him during their last joint practice. Had he been paying attention, he would've seen the Iwatobi boys plotting between laps and he would've been better prepared for the day of his date.

It had taken him hours to choose the perfect casual outfit and then, when he got to the Matsuoka house at 5:08 - about twenty minutes early - he stood in front of the door for ten minutes, too afraid to knock.

"Matsuoka?" Seijuurou suddenly remembered that 1. Matsuoka actually, technically, lived there, and 2. he had forgotten to tell Matsuoka that he was asking out Gou. But it shouldn't be too much of a problem, right?

"You're early," The lack of any emotion on Matsuoka's face as he eyed Seijuurou down was unnerving, to say the least. Matsuoka turned away from the door to yell to someone inside, "He's here! I'll bring him in!"

Matsuoka grabbed his arm and pulled him into a room with all four of the Iwatobi boys standing around a table, glares of different degrees gracing their faces. It was then that Seijuurou began to wonder just how much he had thought out this whole "I want to date Gou" thing. Obviously he'd never not want to date her, but if he had thought it through... maybe he would've suggested a secret romance.

Their captain, Tachibana, spoke first, "Sit. So Mikoshiba, you want to take out our manager. You'll have to pass our inspection first."

Seijuurou gulped, "I-inspection?"

"Oh, no need to worry," Tachibana grinned, the smile much more intimidating than his normal one, "Nothing too hard, just a few simple questions. I think Haru wanted to go first?"

Nasane blinked back at Tachibana before turning to stare at Seijuurou, deep, blank eyes penetrating Seijuurou's soul. Seijuurou felt a cold sweat break out on the back of his neck.

"Does the water like you?"

After a moment of silence, during which four hands flew to their respective foreheads, Seijuurou replied, "... Yes?"

Nanase nodded, apparently pleased. "He can go out with Kou now."

Matsuoka groaned and pushed Nasane out of the room, "No, he can't! God, I don't know why I even thought you'd actually help, go make some mackerel or some shit."

"Anyway," Now the blond one started, ignoring the light bickering coming from what was apparently the kitchen, "How did you ask Gou-chan out?"

"Well, she actually asked me out," Seijuurou smiled sheepishly, more at ease now that Matsuoka was preoccupied elsewhere, "She beat me in a race because I underestimated her and the prize was planning a date."

A boy with blue-ish hair - Ryugazaki, the one who almost drowned, he remembered - fixed his glasses as he thought. "Hm, we'll have to alter our questioning a bit, but otherwise that changes nothing. Where do you two intend to go?"

Before he could answer, the blond one latched on to the taller boy's arm, exclaiming, "Rei-chan! You were supposed to ask him when he's gonna bring her back, that's the most important question!"

The blunet rolled his eyes and pushed his friend away, as if this happened all the time. "That was to be the next question, Nagisa-kun. Regardless, he can answer both now."

"Uh, well Gou-kun said that she wanted to go get some pizza," At this the boys began to grin in what Seijuurou should've recognized as a malicious fashion. He was too nervous to notice, so he continued, "I was also thinking that we could go on a walk in a nearby park, so we won't be back any later than nine."

"That's nice," Matsuoka's voice, or an overly cheerful approximation of it, spoke from behind Seijuurou and he wondered When the ever-loving fuck he had gotten back in here, oh my god, my heart just stopped. "But if you even think about touching my sister, and I will know, then you'll learn how sha-"

"Seijuurou-kun!" Gou chimed from the room's entrance, saving Seijuurou from more interrogation and threats, "I didn't hear you come in. I hope that my brother and his friends haven't bothered you too much." Gou continued in a voice sounding almost scarily similar to the one that Matsuoka had been using seconds ago, glaring at each of the boys in turn, all of whom slumped like children caught taking cookies from the cookie jar - that is, except for Matsuoka.

"Of course not, dear sister," Matsuoka glared back, "we were just getting acquainted with him."

"I would've thought that you were well acquainted with your captain, brother."

The two continued their deathstares, and when none of the others did anything to stop it, Seijuurou coughed lightly in hopes of defusing the situation, "You look really nice, Gou-kun."

Gou's grin flipped to a more sincere, much less scary, one, "Thank you! And now if you boys would excuse us, we have to get going." She grabbed Seijuurou's arm (God, did all the Matsuoka's have such a strong grip? He swore he was going to bruise) and tugged him up, stopping to spin around and tell the Iwatobi boys, "We'll talk about this at practice tomorrow," before pulling him out the door.

"I'm really sorry for that," Gou sighed as they began walking to the restaurant, "They're all so... annoying. And needlessly overprotective."

"It's sweet," Seijuurou said, because he would probably be the same with his little sister - that is, if any punks dared to think that they were worthy of trying to ask her out - but he'd honestly probably appreciate the boys' effort more if it wasn't him that they were harassing. "They all really care about you. And I'd go through it a thousand times if I could go out with you."

Gou beamed up at him and in that moment that Seijuurou decided that he actually would gladly be questioned and threatened a thousand times if he could be with her.