Disguised: Story Of A Swimmer Girl (Free! x OC)

Back To The Town

A/N: This is my first Free! story. Hope you like it. And English is not my first language. So please ignore any kind of mistakes.

Disclaimer: I don't own Free! and its characters. I only own this story, the OC and her picture attached which I created by an avatar creator app.

N/B: I never heard of a female swimmer beating male in reality. In my story, it will happen for few times, not every time. The picture here represents my OC. Except for a few scenes, the whole story will go by OC's P.O.V.

My name is Ayumu Takahashi. Yes, Ayumu...a male name. Because my parents always wanted a boy for themselves. But that doesn't mean they didn't love me, in fact it was the opposite. My parents loved me more than anything and always wanted me to be strong and self-dependent like a boy. For some reason, they wanted me to become a swimmer. I really didn't have my own choice in my childhood, so I learnt swimming for them.

But my happiness with my parents didn't last long. When I was 6 or 7, we went on a trip to Indonesia by ship, but before it crossed Japan's borderline, a destructive typhoon occurred by which our ship was demolished into the sea. I didn't know how I made it alive but that was the last time I saw my parents.

Fortunately I was not escorted to any orphanage. My mother's twin sister was alive and I started to live with her family. I was lucky because I used to be well treated like my cousin, we were like sibling. I decided myself that I would never ever swim or would never go near water unless necessary...until I met Matsuoka siblings.

Matsuoka family lived at my aunt's next house. I used to talk with the redhead girl , whose father was a fisherman and also was gone by the same storm. We became friends soon. She had an older brother named Rin who also liked to swim. I never talked to Rin directly. But, what I knew from Gou, was that even though their father was gone into the sea like mine, yet Rin never stopped swimming. In fact, after a few months, he won a swimming contest along with three other kids in relay, but then I had a bad experience when I went to join the same contest. Life was really painful to me at Iwatobi because it always reminded of my family and bad memories regarding water and swimming.

Meanwhile, I got admission into a boarding school in another city, which lead me leaving Iwatobi. I felt bad for missing my aunt, uncle, cousin and Gou, but by then, Iwatobi had turned into a haunted place for me. And yes, my life started to get better after leaving that town. Specially, when I learnt to live by myself. This time I was determined that I would swim for my parents...to become the best of all. In order to fulfill the target, I practiced and worked harder and harder. My ultimate target is to defeat the water wave, in which my parents were gone, so I specially worked on my speed in water. I couldn't make many friends since I always used to work out and swim in my free time. At first, it was only for beating the others, but then swimming gradually became an addiction for me.

Now I'm 15, I stand 5'5" and weigh 50 kg (110 lbs). I have fair complexion, strawberry blonde hair that stops above my waist and violet eyes. I consider myself average though I heard people say that I have a pretty face. I also often catch guys looking at my bust because they are pretty bigger for my age. But under that, I got a muscular stomach and toned legs which no one usually expects. My workout really paid off to build an athletic body. I'm short tempered in nature and got a bad reputation for it. I wear a necklace with a sailfish pendant. I consider the sailfish symbol as my lucky charm.

My middle school was Sakura Girls' School, one of the most prestigious schools in the city I was living. Fortunately, they had a swim team in which I joined. I learnt all four types of swimming: Free style, Backstroke, Breaststroke and Butterfly because I had this tendency to become an all-rounder. I liked to swim my own so I didn't use to partake in relays. To be honest, my competitors were nowhere near me whatever the race type was. I knew that I was supposed to be slower when I grew up, so when I started swimming again, this time I never let my speed go down. Every time I used to swim, my primary focus was to increase my swimming speed than previous day. Thus, I was able to swim abnormally faster than other girls. The difference was so huge that the average time gap between me and the runners-up was around 7-8 secs.