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"Haru! Don't just-" With a splash Rin was cut off as his friend dived into the ocean. Surprisingly Haru had waited for Rin to walk down to the beach, considering that Haru was almost ready to strip whenever he saw water. Rin just had to watch him so that no one else saw Haru swimming, especially with the rumors going around. It really wasn't a problem if anyone saw Haru swimming, or at least his top half..

"Rin!" Haru called to his friend from the ocean. The water was really nice today, not too cold and not too hot. The sun also wasn't beating down to bad on the beach.

With a sigh Rin began removing his clothes till he was left in only his swimsuit. Honestly Haru was such an odd person when he thought about it. Some days he would go forever without speaking, and when he did it was usually short one or two word answers. Then other days -usually the days he saw water- he was eager to talk.

"I'm coming, I'm coming." Rin walked down to the water, walking into where it was deep enough and dove under. Coming up a little bit farther out, closer to Haru. "Be glad no one else was on the beach or you diving in here could have turned into some awkward conversation." Rin was treading water close to his friend occasionally feeling something rub against his leg.

"I know Rin. Stop lecturing me. You honestly sound just like Makoto." And with that Haru dove back under the water leaving Rin to his thoughts, 'I'm honestly just trying to make sure no one else finds out. Why does he make it so much harder than it has to be? It's becoming harder with more and more rumors about that mermaid people say to have seen. Ha! Mermaid.' Rin chuckled to himself, 'More like extremely attractive merman.' Rin was broken out of his thoughts when he felt a splash on his back, when he turned around he didn't see Haru but two young kids splashing each other.

"Oh sorry Mister. I didn't mean to splash you." The little girl of the two responded when she saw Rin turn around. Since he thought it would be Haru that was behind him he was ready to splash him back. But once he realized that it was the little kids and not his friend it was too late. He already had splashed the kids. He held his breath as he waited for them to react, thinking that at least one of them would start to cry. But, thankfully that wasn't the case as the both started giggling. Rin's face softened at the kids' laughter, and he began to laugh with them.

"I'm sorry to the both of you. I thought it was my friend who splashed me." Rin rubbed the back of his neck as he explained, after they all stopped laughing.

"It's okay Mister." The little boy responded. "Is that your friend over there?" The boy pointed right over Rin's left shoulder. Rin followed his gaze to see Haru floating so that his head was barely above the water.

"Yep that's him."

When Haru noticed Rin and the kids looking at him, he dove under the water appearing next to Rin with a couple seconds.

"Why are you talking about me?" Haru whispered in Rin's ear when he was close enough.

"Well these kids accidentally splashed me, I thought it was you so when I turned around I accidentally splashed them. I told them I meant to splash a friend, and so they asked if you were my friend." Rin explained to Haru while the kids took a good look at Haru.

"Mister don't you work at that restaurant that sells almost only mackerel?" The little girl asked Haru.

"Yes, I own the restaurant. I hope you like the food."

"We've never eaten there, I've only heard of you! You seem nice though." The boy nodded in agreement.

"Oh, I hope you stop by sometime."

"Well we'll see you kids later!" Rin waved goodbye to the kids and smiled a closed smile, he didn't want to accidentally scare the kids with his sharp pointed teeth. The kids waved goodbye and went back to their game. Rin and Haru swam away a bit to get away from the other people who were now showing up.

As the day progressed people came and people left, although Rin and Haru stayed the whole time. By the time they had been there for some amount hours Haru broke the conversation they were having, "Rin I'm tired."

"I don't know how to help you Haru. It's not like you can get out right now there's about 50 people here. And also the fact that you would be naked. Public nudity is frowned upon you know."

"I know." Rin could clearly tell that Haru had come up with an idea that didn't require them to get out of the water. Apparently this plan consisted of Haru coming really close to Rin, which Rin wasn't against. And then wrapped his tail around one of Rin's legs.

"Haru." Rin took a couple minutes to get used to having to keep both of them up. "This doesn't seem like a really good idea."

"Do you have a better idea?" Rin couldn't reply as he did not have one. "Then this it is." And with that Haru rested his head against Rin's shoulder, closing his eyes and wrapping an arm around Rin. With a sigh Rin did his best to keep the both of them above the water's surface. Although Haru would be able to stay underwater without much of a problem, but it would be a problem for Rin, you know with the possibility of drowning. And drowning doesn't seem like fun.

'How is he even tired? Doesn't he always do this? I mean go for swims? Isn't he supposed to be like this majestic as hell merman? And he can't even go a full day swimming without getting tired? I'm the one who should be tired, not him.' Having no one to talk to currently Rin was having his own conversations in his head. 'But he is cute when he sleeps.' Rin let out a sigh as he looked at his sleeping friend. 'Wait! He's asleep?! This wasn't apart of the deal! I guess it's fine, but only if the weather doesn't get too bad. It looks like it's going to start to rain soon.'

With a glance up at the sky Rin could definitely tell that it was going to start raining today. He decided to wait for the first bit of rain to come before waking Haru. Considering most people would start to get out of the dark blue ocean to completely escape the rain and raging currents that usually came with a storm.

The first drop of rain came much quicker than Rin anticipated, but luckily he was correct in assuming almost everyone would leave. There was only a couple people left on the beach drying off, putting cover-ups back on, packing up whatever they brought or anything of the like.

"Haru." Rin poked his friend, with the arm that wasn't helping to hold Haru. "Haru wake up. It's starting to rain." Another poke from Rin which was followed by another look up at the sky only to see the rain clouds coming closer.

"Hmmm." Haru drowsily opened his eyes to look up at the sky as well. "I don't want to go."

"Haru we have to go. You know how bad the currents get when a storm comes."

"But… The water." Haru wrapped his arm around Rin tighter showing that he didn't want to leave.

"Haru you have a bathtub if you need the water that bad." Rin attempted to escape from Haru's grip. "I'll let you swim for a little bit more if you let me go."

"Fine." And with that Haru unwrapped his tail from Rin's leg, and let go completely.

After Haru let go Rin began to swim back to the shore to find the extra swimsuit he brought. In the distance Haru was diving in and out of the water occasionally shaking the water out of his hair.

After 10 minutes or so the rain began to fall heavier and everyone had gone. When Haru surfaced Rin waved him back over to the beach. During the time Haru was swimming Rin had put his clothes back on as well as a rain jacket and tied his hair up in the small ponytail.

One last dive under and Haru began coming closer to the edge of the water. Once he was close enough Rin threw him his swimsuit and stared out to see, the same thing he did the day before.

When Haru came back onto the now wet sand Rin handed him a rain jacket for the current rain.

"Come on. It's only going to get worse."

A silent nod was all Rin got from Haru. As they left the beach Haru would occasionally look longingly over his shoulder at the ocean in which the surf was getting a lot rougher.

This is definitely the longest chapter for this story that I have written. Hope you guys like it. A couple things I would like to say, I will most likely not be naming chapters. Sorry I just really like the song Paradise by coldplay so I wanted to name a chapter after it. And the second thing is, that I am posting this as part of a mass update for my birthday (Today June 23rd) It's like a gift from me to you guys. I worked my butt of trying to write all of the chapters, and I accidentally procrastinated the most on this one. But thank you so much for reading!