Small Towns

Shark Bait, Chapter 5

Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep!

Yori rolls over and hits his alarm clock, making the room silent again. He groans and sits up, wiping the sleep from his eyes. "Why do I have to get up so early?" He mumbles to himself and scritches his head.

Suddenly, a knock on the door echos through the room, making Yori jump slightly. He gets up and shuffles over to it, opening the door and looking at who it is.

Nitori waves nervously. "Good morning, Yor-Senpai!"

Yori decides to let the name slide because it's so early. "Hey Nitori." He yawns. "What's up?"

Nitori blinks. "It's time for first class."

Yori's eyes widen. "What?! Really?! Oh no! I'm gonna be late! Be right back!" Before Nitori can start anything else, Yori slams the door closed and gets dressed quickly, grabbing his jacket and bag and opens the door again.

Nitori looks at him and hides a laugh.

Yori looks back, confused as to why he is finding him funny.

Nitori points to Yori's head. "Your hair..."

Yori raises an eyebrow and reaches up to his head, feeling the poofy curls of bed head. He quickly fixes it and closes his door.

Nitori smiles. "Lucky, your classes are right next to mine so I can walk you around!"

Yori nods and tries to tie his tie, while holding a jacket and a heavy bag. "Thank you Nitori."

Nitori stops him and does the tie for him. "No problem Yor-Senpai!"

Yori smiles and they head to first class.

~~~~~

After an agonizing day of getting homework and study guides, it's finally time for the pool.

Yori is the first out of the classroom and he waits for Nitori to get out.

Nitori was the also the first one out and smiles at Yori. "Ready to go Yor-Senpai?"

Yori nods eagerly. "Yep!"

They walk towards the dorms and both grab their gym bags, meeting by the pool building. They enter and head to the locker room.

Yori puts his stuff in a locker and tries to avoid everyone's line of sight. He awkwardly strips and quickly throws on his suit. He never liked changing in front of people. Him and Nitori head out.

Nitori looks at Yori and smiles. "I have to go practice now! Bye Yor-Senpai!!" With that, he walks away.

Yori doesn't really know what to do so he acts like he is cleaning his goggles. He sees a pair of feet walk up to him and he stops. Then he hears a familiar booming voice.

"You made it kid! I honestly thought you would have been late for your first practice!" Seijuro laughs.

Yori looks up and smiles, chuckling nervously. "I wouldn't miss it for the world!"

Seijuro nods and smiles. "Good attitude! Now, I want to start you off with some stretches. Next I want you to do laps. Then I want you to finish off with a little weight lifting. You need some meat on your bones!"

Yori looks at his skinny arms. "Oh. Okay." He gives a small smile.

Seijuro chuckles and turns away. "Now get to work kid! I wanna see you with muscles in two weeks!" He smirks back at him and walks away.

Yori nods and starts to stretch.

~~~~~

"Oooh!~ Those muscles! Those biceps! I'm in heaven!~" Yori looked up at the high pitched voice.

A red haired girl was staring at people who were flexing and working out. Gawking at them.

Yori looked at the guys and sighed, he reaches for his toes. "That'll never happen..."

"What will never happen?" A sudden voice spoke behind him, making Yori fall forward in a weird split like position.

Yori looked up at the person who just said something and sat up. He looked up and saw a guy with red hair, just like the girl but this guy had shark teeth.

"U-Uh... Me having muscles..." Yori quietly answered and the guy smirked.

"Nah, just give it time. You'll grow some sweet muscles by the end of the school year. Oh, and my name is Matsuoka Rin. But just call me Rin." He smiles and offers a hand to help him up.

Yori takes it and gets lifted up easily. "Hi. My name is Miyamoto Yori. But just Yori is fine." He drops Rin's hand. "Thanks."

Rin nods. "No problem, Just Yori." He laughs.

Yori smiles. 'Maybe these guys are kinda nice...'

Rin looks over at the pool. "Well, I'm gonna do some laps, wanna race after?"

Yori looks at the pool then to him. He smirks. "Sure, Shark Bait." He immediately regrets what he just said. "Er- S-Sorry!--"

Rin looks at him with slightly wide eyes and starts to laugh. "That's a good name! Haven't heard that one in long time! I like it!"

Yori nervously laughs. "Heh... Yeah..."