Capítulo 10: Chapter 10: Swimming

「8th April 」

Upon the arrival at the swimming center, the girls and boys entered their respective cabins. I, alongside Hirata, Ayanokoji-kun, Koenji and the rest of my male classmates, entered the male cabin.

Suddenly, I heard Ike and Yamauchi talking in hushed tones. "Haruki, our plan is in motion. We're going to…hehe…have a recording of…hehehe…Kushida-chan in a swimsuit," Ike whispered.

"Kanji, I'm allowing you to take Kushida. I'm taking…ah…Sakura," Yamauchi responded.

"S-Sakura? Who's that?" Ike asked.

"You don't know? Ike, Ike, Ike. I can't believe it. My friend, what is the most important thing for a male on the female body?"

"Ass," Ike replied without hesitation.

"Uh-huh, wrong. Kanji, man, it's the big tits. The big tits. I can't believe you saying that ass is the first thing. I'm disappointed," Yamauchi chided.

"Haruki, forgive me. I wasn't in my senses. I got seduced by Kushida-chan's…instead of her…" Ike said, but at that point, I didn't listen anymore.

I quickly removed my clothes and changed into my swimwear. However, I couldn't help but notice the attention on me.

"Haruki, look at that," Ike said and gestured towards me.

"A-an e-eight pack," Yamauchi announced in shock.

"Woaahh, for real? Is that even possible?" Sūdo asked in bewilderment. "How much did you train, Kurushima?" Sūdo asked me with expectancy.

"Before entering the school, on a daily basis," I answered truthfully.

"Hahaha, did you think Kurushima-boy is the only one with an eight pack?" Koenji announced.

"Here, be honored that I'm willingly allowing your peasants to look at my perfect body." Koenji exclaimed as he removed his shirt. "Beautiful, right? Hahaha, I'm the epitome of perfection." Koenji said and walked away.

In the meantime, I also finished changing and went to the swimming hall. There, I could only see Koenji swimming.

It seemed like we were the first ones. I sat myself down on the edge of the swimming pool and waited for the rest of the boys to finish changing, whilst I could hear murmurs from the girl's cabin.

I could suddenly see someone approaching me and sitting next to me. It was Ayanokoji-kun.

"Ayanokoji-kun, you're also quite trained. Have you done some training in the past?" I asked him upon surprise.

"No, not that I know of," Ayanokoji-kun answered.

"Ahm…I see," I replied in awkwardness due to Ayanokoji's strange response.

"Woaahh, the girls are coming," Ike shouted and every boy, alongside me, watched as the girls left their cabins.

"Professor," Ike shouted.

"Got it," he replied and took out a camera.

"Professor, Hasabe-san isn't here. What's going on?" Ike cried out.

A few seconds later, she was behind him and took the camera out of his hand. One by one, the girls now entered the swimming hall.

I could hear Ike muttering in self-deprivation, but after that, I didn't listen anymore.

I could see Ayanokoji next to me standing up and walking to the back of the swimming hall. Is there any particular reason as to why he walked away?

As I sat still on the edge of the pool with my legs in the water, I could suddenly feel something soft pressing against my head. Something…very soft.

I looked up to see Matsushita-san standing behind me. "Kurushima-kun, how are you?" she exclaimed with a flirtatious smile.

However, before I could respond, someone from the group of girls chided, "Chiaki-chan, not fair. You don't play by the rules."

Instantly, I heard more footsteps approaching and turned to see a group of girls walking towards me.

Uncomfortable with the attention, I stood up, but Matsushita-san slipped on the wet ground caused by Koenji, who splashed water all over the ground, because of his aggressive swimming style, the butterfly stroke technique.

I quickly moved to catch her, but I too slipped, because I seemingly forget that the ground was slippery due to Koenji and we both fell to the ground.

To my surprise, Matsushita-san ended up sitting on me.

With her eyes she scanned me from my face to my trained and honed abs. "Chiaki-chan?" one of the girls exclaimed in shock.

"Ahm…Matsushita-san?" I asked her upon bewildered.

"Yes, Kurushima-kun?" she replied casually, not knowing that her hands are on my abs and she is sitting on a certain area…where it might get hard which would shock her even more.

"Ahm…If you don't mind, can you stand up?" I asked, because she was still sitting on that particular area.

"Ehh, I'm sitting on you?" she exclaimed in surprise, seemingly not recognizing that she was sitting on me until now.

Accordingly, she tried to stand up, but slipped again and this time she was in danger of falling against the edge of the pool, which could cause serious injury.

"Ahh!" she shouted in a fearful state gaining the attention of everyone.

"Chiaki-chan!" Sato-san shouted, in a fearing tone.

As she was almost falling against the edge, I quickly adjusted myself and carried her with the seemingly called princess style, as it is described in books relatively often.

Alongside Sato-san, Hirata, Kushida-san and almost every classmate approached us.

"Chiaki-chan, are you okay?" Sato-san asked, in a worried tone.

"Chiaki-chan, are you okay" several female classmates such as Kushida asked alongside Sato-san.

"I'm okay?" she asked in a bewildered tone. Her arms were still engulfing my chest, with a lesser force now.

"Kurushima-kun, you c-catched me," she exclaimed in a surprised tone. However, she now also recognized that she was engulfing her arms against my chest and became very embarrassed upon that.

"Thank you, Kurushima-kun," Matsushita-san said, her face still slightly flushed from the embarrassment of the incident. Although, she still had her arms engulfing my chest. Did she also forget that?

"No worries, Matsushita-san," I replied, trying to brush off the attention.

"However, could you stop engulfing your arms against my chest? I mean we aren't a couple so it's relatively awkward, wouldn't you say so?" I responded, trying to make her even more embarrassed, which seemingly also happened.

"Ah, I'm sorry, Kurushima-kun." Matsushita-san replied, upon embarrassment, trying to stand up again.

However, I didn't let go, surprising her and making her more embarrassed, as she might be under the misconception I don't let her stand up because of something else.

"If it happens two times, there will also be a third time." I expressed with a mischievous smile and proceeded to walk to an area where no water is splattered by Koenji.

"Here," I said, letting her go of my arms.

However, the sentence I said seemingly had a drastic effect on her psyche, that she didn't even was aware that the PE teacher entered the hall.

Only upon being reminded further by Sato-san, she finally came back to herself.

"I'll have you start competing against each other. We'll separate groups by gender. Fifty-meter freestyle," our PE teacher announced.

"Compete?! Are you serious?" Ike exclaimed, his voice filled with disbelief.

"I'll give out a special bonus to the first-place winner: 5000 points. The student who comes in last place, however, will have to take supplementary lessons. Get ready," the teacher added, ignoring Ike's protests.

As the competition began, I focused on my technique and powered through the water to win. As I touched the wall and looked up at the scoreboard, I saw that I had come in first place by a large margin of time. But, I didn't go all out here.

"Congratulations, Kurushima-kun," Matsushita-san said, approaching me with a smile. "You were amazing out there." she replied.

However, her eyes moved several times to my abs, chest and to my wet hair and another certain…area, most likely realizing that she sat there for almost a minute.

"Thanks, Matsushita-san," I replied, with a smile. And in the end, it affected her that bad, which caused her to lose in the next round.

The final round fifty-meter freestyle finally begun. Alongside me, Koenji, Sūdo, Hirata and Ayanokoji, the competition for the first place would start now.

However, I was only on one person focused, Koenji. I don't think he cares whether he loses, but he also seemed to be quite excited, competing against me.

As the starting whistle blew, we both dove into the pool and began swimming with all our might. It was a close race, but I could see myself starting to pull ahead. In the end, I was able to touch the wall milliseconds before Koenji.

No, my time was even better that of Koenji's by far. It was 22.97 seconds, whilst Koenji's was 23.12 seconds.

"22.97 s-seconds? H-haruki, how is that possible?" Ike asked.

"Ike, Ike, Ike. Don't you realize it already? Just like Koenji, Kurushima is also my bodyguard. My number one bodyguard. They're here under my orders undercover." Yamauchi replied.

"Woaahh, for real? Then that means you must be better than those two, right?" Ike asked Yamauchi with an expectant tone for an answer.

"Kanji, Kanji, Kanji, I can't believe you ask me that. If it weren't for my dislocated shoulder, I would have finished the race within atleast 14 seconds." Yamauchi responded in a arrogant tone.

"For real? But didn't you also swim and had 45 seconds?" Ike asked.

"Kanji, I swam with only one arm. Also, my legs are exhausted after my 100 Kilometer daily jogging training." Yamauchi sneered.

"100 Kilometer? Haruki…You are a monster in human form." Ike shouted. Their conversation went further, but at that point I didn't listen anymore.

Suddenly, I could see Koenji coming out from the water and speaking. "Well, well, well. Looks like I let my guard down for a moment. My mistake, Kurushima-boy. But don't get too excited, I'll be back to claim my victory next time." Koenji exclaimed upon his loss.

"You're free to challenge me anytime, Koenji." I expressed in a challenging tone.

"Humph, I'll take you by that offer." Koenji said and walked away.

"Congratulations, Kurushima-kun." Matsushita-san expressed, whilst her eyes did seem to move on certain areas once again. "Also, thank you for catching me." Matsushita-san expressed in a quiet voice and became red, as she walked away.

Meanwhile, I ignored the attempts of our PE teacher trying to recruit me in the swimming club.

There is only one thing in my mind currently.

That I should reprimand the class about the S-System if I want to become the leader.

Yeah, I should do that.

A/N: I wasn´t sure whether to include the swimming scene or not. But I decided to do it. Well, this chapter has a bit more of everything combined and I hope it´s to your liking.

That´s all.