[free] Sharks and Dolphins

Joining the swimming club will soon be the qualifiers for the county competition. This time, the minister spent a lot of money and asked everyone to go to an island for training.

Rin wiped the water off his face and looked up at the sky beyond the glass roof.For him, it doesn't matter whether it's Australia or Japan, school or island, training is the same wherever it is, it's practice anyway.The only difference is the one who trains.

There was an hour's break after lunch, and he left the noisy hall for a walk on the island's paths.The scenery on the island is beautiful, even he who has lived by the sea for many years has to admit it.

Green mountains and seagulls circling by.The sun shines on the earth, and the waves beat the shore.

On the soft sand, he saw several familiar figures - Haruka, Makoto, Nagisa, and a blue-haired man with glasses whose name he didn't know.The four of them were training together, Rin's gaze fell into the distance, he was supposed to be standing there, but was replaced by the man with glasses.

Rin couldn't tell what it was like in his heart. At the beginning, he wanted to go back to the country wholeheartedly. This is the homeland that he longed for day and night. There are cherry blossoms, friends, and, moreover...he looked at Haruka from a distance, but he didn't pronounce the name , with a sigh forgotten in the wind.

But after returning to China, various accidents happened, he did not go to Iwatobi High School, and Haruka and the others also had new partners.The former freestyle partner was replaced by someone else, all of this was caused by him, no wonder others.

Thinking of this, Rin withdrew his subconscious pace of wanting to go.Why bother, he is missing anyway, not to mention, he joined the swimming club not to cooperate with them, but to surpass them!

Once a partner, now an opponent.

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Recently, he had more and more dreams. This time, he dreamed of his father on the eve of the game.Like a revolving lantern, his father's life flashed in his dream. His father's long life was condensed into just a few minutes, and the dream was finally frozen on the aggrieved expressions of him and his younger sister Jiang.

The frown became tighter and tighter, and when he woke up, he found that his body was covered with sticky sweat. Rin, who woke up from the dream, bent his body into a shrimp shape, and his father, whose dream was higher than the sky, died just like that.

Dad won competitions everywhere, had many trophies, and dreamed of going to the Olympics.

But in the end he still made a living by fishing. Marriage flattened his passion for swimming, and earning a living occupied his time to practice swimming. He once had such a dream, but in the end he just became an ordinary fisherman.

Sweating profusely, Rin raised his hand and looked at the lines on his palm through the moon outside the window. It is said that a person's life has already been doomed, and it has been written on his hand. Some people can see it from the fine lines on his palm. Out of a person's life.

Rin looked at his big palm in a daze, could he pursue what his father could not get in his life?

Man, what is the point of pursuing these things?He can survive without swimming, so why is he chasing desperately now?

What did he do swimming for?Hobby?dream?Profession?

Life, he never understood what the hell it was.

He only knows that to realize his father's wish, he must win. Winning others is not enough, he must also surpass Yao.

Maybe even he himself has to admit that Yao is a hurdle and a wound in his mind.Yao Mingming has an amazing talent, but he has to use the excuse of liking water and feeling water, and is unwilling to swim for records and championships.His astonishing talent was something other people could only dream of, and he was so simply wasted.

He envied such a person from the bottom of his heart, Rin clenched his open palms tightly, and then slammed on the wall!

"Boom!"

The bird on the upper bunk was startled awake, and asked sleepily, "Senior Rin, what's wrong?"

Rin shook his head: "It's nothing, just sleep well."

He must defeat Haruka, otherwise he will not be able to move forward!

The preliminaries of the county competition, the men's 100-meter freestyle.

After hard work and struggle, it is a shocking ranking.

"Yao!" Rin looked down at the blue-eyed boy with no emotion in his tone, "I won!"

He didn't miss the regret that flashed in Yao's eyes, but he had to go on, he wanted to leave Yao and go to a further place.

"I will never swim with you again!"

Only swimming with Yao is the time when he feels most at ease.But this sentence cut off all his escape routes. In order to achieve better results, he must go beyond Yao, stand higher, and bravely advance in more cruel places.Once he is with Haruka, he is the Matsuoka Rin who just wants to be happy, the Matsuoka Rin who doesn't care about gains and losses, but this can't work.

He ignored the pain in Yao's eyes, he used to love to see the expression on Yao's poker face, but now, he couldn't bear to watch it.

"Never," Rin added, before turning away that he wouldn't let himself be vulnerable again.

Yes, their pursuits are different. Haruka swims for freedom, but he swims for no other purpose, just to be faster.

Haruka was still in the swimming pool, he knew that Makoto would reach out to Haruka again and say, "Haruka, get up." Along with that, there was Makoto's ever-warm smile.

When he returned to China this time, he found out that although Haruka cared about him, she cared more about Makoto.If Haruka is compared to a frog, then his existence is like putting the frog in boiling water suddenly, and the frog just wants to escape from the heat.

But Makoto is different. Makoto is like a pot of water that is gradually getting hotter. The frog has been placed in it long ago, silently accepting the temperature of the other party.

He saw Makoto's protection of Haruka, but Haruka's dependence on Makoto caught him off guard.

Moreover, Makoto is more concerned about Yaoyao than he imagined, such as now.

"What do you want to say?" Rin put his hands in his pockets, tilted his head, and looked at Makoto in a naughty manner.

"You shouldn't have said such hurtful things to Haruka." For the first time, Makoto talked to him without smiling.

"What I say is my business and has nothing to do with you." He said indifferently, just wanting to leave quickly.

"But this has something to do with Haruka!" Makoto yelled, almost breaking his voice, but his attitude was firm, "It has something to do with Haruka, I can't ignore it!"

"Hmph," Rin squeezed out a syllable from his nasal cavity, and said disdainfully, "What do you think of Haruka as yours? Why do you meddle in my affairs with him?"

What I hate the most is Makoto's self-righteous guardian, self-righteously inserting between him and Haruka, what on earth does he have!

"Because I like him."

This sentence made Rin stunned on the spot, like Haruka, why did he say it so easily?

"It's because I like Haruka that I'm so worried." Makoto, who is called an archangel by the girls in the class, is also extremely angry, "Do you know where Haruka is now? Since losing the game to you, he has Disappeared, must be hiding in the bathroom now!"

Rin felt a pain in his heart when he thought about Yao's depression, but when he opened his mouth, it turned into: "It's none of my business! Anyway, he lost to me!"

Makoto took a step towards him, her pale yellow eyes were serious: "For Haruka, swimming is not just about winning or losing."

"Huh?" Rin roared unhappily, "Aside from winning or losing, what else is there in the game!"

Makoto said: "Yes. At least for Haruka, it is, so he accepted the duel with you."

Why are you so clear, Rin said impatiently: "Don't think you know him very well, let him tell me directly what he wants to say!"

Makoto smiled slightly, warming the sun: "This is exactly what I should do, because I like it, so I won't let there be a gap between him and his former friends."

Friends... Are he and Haruka just friends?Did Makoto confess to Haruka?Or did he not need to confess at all?After all, long-term company is better than sweet love words.

Seeing that Rin was still thinking, Makoto continued: "It was you who told him this first, Rin, wasn't it you? In the elementary school confrontation, you let him see a different scene..."

"Who cares so much about you! Anyway, I won Haruka!" Rin put his hands in his pockets, turned and left, "That's all."

Yes, wins and losses and wins and losses, that's what he's after, nothing more.

As for those feelings, they will be forgotten after a long time anyway.

Rin felt that his feelings for Haruka were very strange. When I was in elementary school, I asked him to swim a relay race. On the one hand, I wanted to fulfill my wish. I feel that if I win this award before going to Australia, my heart will be enriched a lot.

So he found Haruka, found Makoto and Nagisa, but not only that, at that time he knew that Haruka was very powerful, just like him, even better than him.

When he returned to China in the first year of junior high school, he deliberately found Yao to ask for a competition.Across a train, the two met on both sides of the tracks.

"Why are you back?" Haruka was surprised to see him, Rin liked seeing Haruka's different expressions the most.

"Yes!" Rin responded in a low voice, counting it as an answer.

Yao's tone was somewhat dissatisfied: "Why didn't you contact me?"

"Uh..." Rin rarely blushed, Haruka seldom took the initiative to ask him, so he became even more embarrassed when speaking, "Well, I'm a little embarrassed."

Haruka didn't hold on to him, but just said that she had signed up for the junior high school's swimming club, and Makoto was there too.

Rin looked at the tenderness on Haruka's indifferent face, ah, it's Makoto again!It's nice to have company.

He offered to swim with Haruka, and sure enough, the other party agreed without saying a word. Swimming seemed to be the most important thing for Haruka.At that time, Rin still didn't understand the gap between him and others, and why his study in Australia was not satisfactory.

Until he met Yao, and saw that Yao was always so interested in water, he suddenly understood that he wanted to win, but he lacked the kind of interest and enthusiasm that Yao possessed.His heart was blinded by speed, filled with distant dreams, and could see nothing else.

At that time, he was living abroad very badly, with language barriers, food rejection, and even training did not make much progress, until he returned to China and saw Yao, and suddenly felt relieved.He was convinced that he lost to Haruka, because Haruka let him see his love for swimming in despair.

But the young heart didn't know how to deal with the disappointment of losing the game, so he just threw his glasses on the ground in a fit of anger, turned around and left.

"Rin, what's wrong with you?" Haruka chased after worriedly.

He yelled angrily: "No more swimming, no more swimming!"

This incident happened three years ago, because of his willfulness, which caused such bad memories.

He couldn't explain why he was angry and why he regretted it afterwards.Even he himself didn't realize it, he put Yao in the most secret place in his heart and hid it carefully.Although he himself was covered in ashes on the road of pursuing promotion and became vulgar, but as long as he thinks of Yao and what he said to feel the water, it seems that even himself has become pure.

Yao is an unattainable dream in his heart.

But now, he actually stepped on his dream.

Makoto was right, it was he who allowed Haruka to see different scenery, similarly, it was Haruka who made him regain his love for swimming, no matter what, it shouldn't be like this between them.

Rin covered his eyes with his hands, should he apologize to Haruka like this before?

On the day of the competition in the Iwatobi High School area, Rin put his hands in his pockets despite the loud cheers and went to the Iwatobi's competition venue.

Haruka, sorry, I was wrong before.

Standing in front of the venue, Rin's pupils dilated slightly, and he saw the scene that made him miss it day and night.Haruka, Makoto, Nagisa, and the man with glasses advanced in the regional competition, and the four of them happily hugged each other to celebrate their victory at this moment.From this point of view, Haruka has recovered, at least there is no need for his apology.

What was he pursuing back then, and why did he attach so much importance to the relay race?It's because he also wants to have such a day, swimming with Haruka, winning the race, and then hugging each other tightly, cheering for the victory.

Rin's hand in his pocket was gripping tighter and tighter. He was the one who had stood there. He was supposed to have won the relay race, and he hugged them with them to celebrate the victory together.

Why didn't he come and go?Why did he go to Australia in the first place?

By the way, it is victory, the distant dream of the Olympics.Compared with victory, he abandoned too many things, forget it, this is nothing.

Haruka was not devastated by losing to him, it was enough for him to know that, Rin turned and left.

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