The water is alive. Once you dive in, it will immediately bare it's fangs and attack. But there's nothing to fear. Don't resist the water. Thrust your fingers into the surface and carve an opening. Then you slide your body though the opening. Moving your arms, your head, your chest...
"Her swimming always looks so smooth." A young boy with olive green hair commented as he watched the girl that in the pool swim through the water.
"Yep, she's like a dolphin!" A shorter boy with blonde hair remarked.
The two boys turned their heads and saw another young boy stepping onto one of the diving blocks.
"Who's that?" Nagisa asked.
"Matsuoka Rin-kun." Makoto answered. "He transferred into our class last week."
After adjusting his goggles over his eyes, Rin snapped the bands of the goggles on the back of his head. Then he got into position and jumped into the water with a loud splash. Makoto and Nagisa watched the other boy swim through, catching up with the girl that in the lane next to his. When the two swimmers reached the other end of the pool, they propelled themselves off the wall and swam back to the other end of the pool. When they finally reached the end, the girl raised her head from the water and panted slightly. She removed her goggles and swimming cap before she shook her short, chin-length raven hair out of her face. She opened her ocean blue eyes and saw a hand being held out towards her.
"Nobody can beat you when you're in the water, Haru-chan." Makota commented, smiling at the girl.
Haru stared blankly at him for a second. "Stop adding '-chan' at the end of my name already." She said before she took his hand and allowed him to pull her out of the pool.
"That was so cool, Nanase-chan!" Nagisa remarked. "I wanna swim like you!"
"You're as fast of the rumors say." Rin, who was still in the pool, said. "What was your time?"
"I don't care about my time." Haru replied coolly as she turned to face away from the redheaded boy, her eyes closed.
Rin stared at the girl for a moment, slightly surprised by what she said, before he started to laugh slightly. "That's just like the rumors said, too."
The young raven haired girl reopened her eyes and watched the young boy climb out of the pool.
"Hey, Nanase. You interested in entering a relay with me at the next tournament?" Rin asked.
Haru stared at him, her face expressionless. "I only do freestyle." She said simply before she turned around and climbed onto the diving block she was using before.
That's right, I don't care about swimming faster times. All I want to do is feel the water.
Haru put her swimming cap and goggles back on. She got into position and jumped into the water, her form closely resembling a dolphin.
With my skin, my eyes, my soul... To never doubt what it makes me feel. Believe in myself. Don't resist the water. Welcome it. We accept one another.
...
Four years later
"Yep. There was some pretty weird stuff going through my head at the time." Nanase Haruka said to herself as she sat in her bathtub, her arm in the air with her hand held out.
While being called 'Haru' by her friends and family hasn't changed, the former female athlete has grown into a very beautiful young lady with a large bust, slim waist, and large hips.
She let her arm drop. "There's an old saying my late grandma told me. When you're ten, they call you a prodigy. When you're fifteen, they call you a genius. Once you reach the age of twenty, you're just an ordinary person." She raised her head to look up at the ceiling. "Just three more years until I'm ordinary."
