Who doesn't like flowers? [ he squints at haru, feeling self-conscious about his flowers now. ] I just found them outside of McDonald's so they're not that nice or anything.
[ for a second, he doesn't respond. that's right—he'd never talked in much detail about when he went to high school. because it didn't matter if iwatobi had a pool when he had no intention of joining the team there.
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Moving around is a pain. It was easier to just stay at Iwatobi.
[ Rin freezes for a minute, aware that Haru's hit the nail on the head. ]
That was when we were kids! Nagisa used his cute looks to his advantage...
[ He sighs, quiet for a moment as he thinks about his last few interactions with Nagisa and Makoto. There was no trace left of their childhood friendship. ]
Whatever, the point is at least he got you to swim again. I'll give him credit for that.
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he's just going to nap until rin comes back with his flowers. he hasn't moved from the penguin sleeping bag since he left. ]
...What are those?
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... They're flowers. What do they look like?
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I didn't know you liked flowers.
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Doesn't everyone like flowers?
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Not everyone. [ he gets up to go touch one. ] I guess you do like sakura.
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Who doesn't like flowers? [ he squints at haru, feeling self-conscious about his flowers now. ] I just found them outside of McDonald's so they're not that nice or anything.
... I should've gotten something else.
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I like them.
[ after a moment, he delicately tugs a few of the stems out, tapping the water off of them. ]
They won't last very long. We should dry a few.
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I'll just get more. You don't have to keep them.
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I like these ones though.
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Ugh, he's embarrassed but he gets up to see what Haru is doing. ]
What are you going to do?
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I'm going to hang them until they dry. My grandmother would do that with aji.
[ this is not fish but it'll still work... ]
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Fish and flowers are pretty different, Haru... But I guess you're good at things like this.
[ Rin means more like... arts and crafts. He just watches Haru contently. ]
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[ nothing compares to swimming, but. ] I couldn't swim during the winter.
[ when their swim club closed. ]
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[ He doesn't know that it didn't exist a couple months ago. ]
You should've gone to a school with an indoor pool.
[ He's teasing, leaning one arm on Haru's shoulder. ]
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Moving around is a pain. It was easier to just stay at Iwatobi.
Soaking in the tub was enough.
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You can't swim in a tub. [ ... ] Is that why you stopped swimming competitively?
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I guess. I just didn't feel like doing it anymore.
...But Nagisa set up the club again. Couldn't really say no.
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You're still weak to Nagisa, huh?
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that doesn't sound right. ]
Enough. [ he knows he's being teased, focusing on tying up the delicate flowers instead. ] You're the one who'd do whatever he wants.
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That was when we were kids! Nagisa used his cute looks to his advantage...
[ He sighs, quiet for a moment as he thinks about his last few interactions with Nagisa and Makoto. There was no trace left of their childhood friendship. ]
Whatever, the point is at least he got you to swim again. I'll give him credit for that.
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...He's persistent.
[ nagisa is not the singular reason he started swimming again, but he was the hardest working at convincing him. ]
He recruited Rei, too. So that we'd have enough members.
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You couldn't find anyone in your entire school who could swim a decent butterfly.
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He's improving, and he works hard. [ ... ] You don't remember what he did for you?
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What has he ever done for me?
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Didn't he talk to you? Before the tournament.
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