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"this isn't fair!"

"amazing fucking work!"

"what the fuck!"

i high fived zawa as i hoped off his shoulders and into the water. "we won! undefeated champsssss!" i yelled and did a back float. i was now fully exhausted from fighting and being on zawa's shoulders for like an hour. we beat everyone like everyone was thinking due to zawa's tall size. it was a great advantage which everyone was not happy about.

"you guys suck." aran splashed me and i sat up, coughing up the water that entered my mouth. i wiped my face and flipped aran off from where ever he was. "just say you're mad, nigga." i flipped him off. "nobody is mad!" he shot back. "speak for yourself, i'm pissed as fuck." yaku sent him a look. "we were basically out numbered." he continued.

"outnumbered? what does that mean?" zawa asked. "you are basically two different people so with armani on top of you, we were fighting three people." yaku pursed his lips and turned his head away. i rolled my eyes. "the math is not mathing but okayyy." i shrugged and pulled myself out of the water from the ledge.

i looked around and realized that we had less people out here than before. i furrowed my eyebrows, "are we missing people?" i asked and suna nodded. "ushijima and tendo went inside." he answered and i nodded. "cool. i'mma go check on them. be right back." i got up and shook the water out of my hair and off my body. i yawned, sleepiness hitting me like a ton of bricks as i walked into the house.

"i just don't know what to do." i overheard as i got closer to the kitchen. "i mean...if you don't want her to continue flirting with zawa than confront her and do something." i turned the corner and made myself known when i cleared my throat. "shit." tendo cursed as soon as he saw me. ushijima gave me a straight smile before patting tendo on the back and leaving. i watched him over my shoulder as he left and then looked at tendo who just looked at the floor.

"what's wrong?" i asked, standing still in my same place. "nothing...we were just talking." he replied and i raised an eyebrow. "okayyy. why do you sound so sad?" i continued to push on. tendo poked his tongue into his cheek and shot me a quick look. "it's nothing." i moved from my spot in the door way of the kitchen and got closer to tendo by just a little bit. he was leaned back on the large kitchen island so i stood in front of him and leaned on the opposite counter. "tendo. stop lying to me. you obviously don't look fine and it is not nothing. just tell me." i assured and crossed my arms.

it was a pause of silence and i waited patiently for his response. i watched as he flexed his fingers and winced silently to himself. i pushed myself off the counter and got closer so that i could grab his hands. i felt his eyes watch me while i slightly massage in between his knuckles and loosen up the tension. i then looked up at tendo and frowned, "just tell me what's wrong?" i whispered.

tendo sighed, "i'm just confused."

"about what?"

"us. you keep flirting with zawa and he obviously likes you. am i not doing enough to show you that i like you as well?" he explained and i sighed. "i'm sorry...i guess i didn't think about it too much." i admitted, still massaging his fingers until he grabbed my hand in his. i looked up at him as we maintained eye contact. "mani, i love you and that hasn't stopped since i made that stupid decision years ago that pushed you away from me. and i'm here now so i don't want to lose you again." he confessed and it immediately made my eyes water. my heartstrings were being tugged and i pursed my lips, squeezing tendo's hands.

"i love you too." i let out. "i'm sorry for being...oblivious."

tendo let go of my hands and instead placed them on my hips to bring me closer to his body. my chest on his and my hands now holding his biceps. "i don't want anyone else. you make being a mother look so sexy and i am just so grateful to have you as my child's mom." tendo smirked and my face heated up, eyes rolling from the compliment. "shut uppp." i groaned while tendo let out a little laugh. "it's true and i'm not letting you go. so you can tell zawa to fuck off." he got serious.