No.2!

Summary: A rumor has started to spread of a second Haru in the Iwatobi High School. But is it even possible to have someone exactly their special friend of the swim club? Not to mention she's a girl! Haru Gender-bent x Makoto and probably a few other pairings!

Hello, Hello! This is the author Vincere Orbe! I want to first thank whoever decided to give this fanfic of mine a try! Ahhh it was so scary uploading this fanfic but I did it! Just a quick note, this fic occurs just a year after the current storyline in Free! meaning that Haru and Makoto are third years (Blue tie) and Nigasa, Rei, and Gou are all second years (green tie/bowtie)! Hope this doesn't cause too much confusion... But anyways, I hope you enjoy this fanfic!^^

Disclaimer!: Free! or the cover image doesn't belong to me!

Chapter 1: Haru no.2~!

Gou Matsuoka stared blankly at the white tiles of the pool floor. Not caring that the sun was beating down on her or the fact there beautiful specimens around her. Just stared and barely blinking at the individual small little tiles beneath her feet. The Iwatobi Swim Club started to gather around her for new instructions, well most of them anyway. A certain blacked haired one still continued to swim with amazing swiftness in the pool. The three boys looked at one another questioningly seeing their manager's face. She wasn't her usual bright self nor was she ranting or talking or ogling at anything muscle related, something was definitely off.

"Earth to Gou-chan, Earth to Gou-chan~!" Nagisa waved a hand in front of her face.

"It's definitely a godly miracle that I witnessed!" She shouted with a clenched fist. Her sudden outburst caused the others to jump slightly.

"Heeii a miracle? Are you sure you're not just seeing ghosts instead Gou-chan?" Nagisa teased.

"Of course not! I swear it was a miracle!" She snapped back at the blond haired boy. "And it's Kou not Gou! It's been a whole year now, get right already!" The blond haired boy just giggled.

"What's the miracle though?" Makoto asked in a polite voice.

"I'm really curious too." The blue haired Rei added solidly like always. Gou looked around carefully and motioned the three to come closer. They leaned in with anticipation.

"Would you believe me if I said I found another Haruka-senpai?" She whispered. They gave her an incredulous look and started to chatter amongst themselves. She quickly quieted them down.

"Do you mean like someone who swims like him?" Rei asked in a hushed voice.

"Did you recruit him yet?" Nagisa added on.

"Nope and nope! What I meant was that they looked alike! Like their face, hair, the way they walked and acted, everything!"

"Are you sure you're not stretching this? Haru is a bit….. One of kind…." Makoto stated questioningly remembering all of the times where he had to save both Haru and himself from public embarrassment.

"Yeah… Haru-chan is really unique and special." Nagisa muttered looking away. They all peeked over at the said boy who was still cutting through the water effortlessly.

"Wait if there was someone like that wouldn't one of us notice this 'other' person by now?" Rei questioned.

"How did you meet this second Haru anyways?" Makoto added.

"Gou-chan are you making it up?" Nagisa laughed.

"No really I really did see her!" Gou insisted.

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With a cheerful stride Gou strolled through the hallways holding the newly made banner happily against her. They won't be able to make fun of my drawings this time! Even the art club was impressed by it! She thought smiling. Just as she looked up she caught a glimpse of familiar short black hair. Determined to show off her master piece she jogged towards it.

"Haruka-senpai! I have a new banner made for the swim club!" She called after it. "Haruka-senpai!" The black hair continued bobbing along with the many other heads in the hallway. He can't hear me…. She pouted to herself

"Oy! Haruka-senpai! Wait up!" She cried again weaving through people as quickly as she could. Seeing that the black hair was close to the end of the hallway, out of panic of losing sight of it Gou made a last sprint towards it and clasped a hand tightly on its shoulder. "Haru-senpai wait!" She panted catching her breath.

"Hm? I think you've got the wrong person." A girl's voice said. Gou's head immediately snapped up but only to be met with the familiar face of the water loving Haru she knew, but the face wore a puzzled look. Gou glanced around searching for the owner of the voice she had just heard a moment ago.

"Is there something wrong?" It was the girl's voice again. Frantically, Gou searched the crowd of people around her again but no one seemed to be directly talking to her. Just then a hand waved across her eyes. It was Haru's, who was still looking confusedly at her. "You know if you're looking for a Haruka I think I saw her going down the west staircases." Gou watched in amazement as a clear but sweet feminine voice came out of the lips of Haru.

"Hey miss are you-" Just then a group of students knocked into Gou making her to drop the banner from her paralyzed arms. The thud of the banner snapped her out of her daze and quickly bent down to retrieve it. In front of her skinny legs wearing high knee socks also bent down and thin hands organized the banner back into its folded shape before handing it to her. "Here." It was that voice again. Gou looked up to meet the face of Haru, but it was smiling this time. She shot up and covered her mouth in shock. Haru's head rose to meet her eye level staring at her oddly. Gou's eyes scanned the Haru that was in front of her. He had long socks on with the girl's uniform and green bow tie to go along with it. Slowly her eyes met with "Haru's". But right then she noticed something wrong about them, his eyes weren't its usual aqua blue but instead a dark purple and his bang's seemed to have grown out a lot even though she had just seen him yesterday. Her eyes shot to the body again. It no longer had the beautiful triceps or muscles she once fawned over. Instead, the shoulders were much too narrow to be a swimmer's and the body carried very feminine curves. She sucked in a breath in realization.

"I'm so sorry…." She muttered behind her hand. "Haru's" face formed into a gentle smile.

"It's alright, but you seem a little pale. Is everything-"Before the other girl could finish her sentence Gou fled the scene from embarrassment.

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"Wait, by what you're saying this other Haru is a GIRL?!" Makoto shouted the obvious earning himself hurtful hits on the head, arm, and back to quiet down.

"Is it even possible to have a look alike like that though?" Nagisa asked.

"Well, theoretically it's possible since there are so many people in this world. But through simple genetics and crossing the right phenotypes with the right amount of allele frequency look-a-likes could easily be produced by chance. On top of that with what is common or popular in hairstyles, fashion, favorable features of the face similarities in people can be achieved easily as well." Rei explained confident, pushing up his glasses. "There is also a high chance too that you just didn't get to study the face carefully and just assumed it to be the same as Haru-senpai's."

"Maybe… but I'm sure I had a good look at her face though." Gou muttered.

"Fear and shock might've impaired your judgement as well." The blue haired boy added.

"I guess… but you know Haru-senpai has always been a bit of a pretty boy though…" Gou mumbled. "AHHHHH~! I don't know anymore!" She yelled ruffling her hair in stress.

"It's okay Gou-chan, I'm sure one us will bump into her again sometime." Makoto assured.

"Ah! Gou-chan you said that the girl Haru was wearing a green bow tie right? I bet she's like a new rumored transfer to our grade!" Nagisa told the group putting fist on the palm of his other hand.

"How do you know…? Plus it sounds so… typical…." Rei stated with a doubtful look.

"Why couldn't she? People transfer all the time and rumors are bound to follow!"

"Where's the-"

"My intuition!" Nagisa replied happily.

"THAT'S NOT VALID EVIDENCE!" The blue haired boy shouted back. While the two were throwing retorts at one another the real Haru stepped towards them, taking his swimming cap off in the process.

"What's with the commotion?" He asked in an emotionless voice.

"N-nothing…" A collective answer.

I hope you enjoyed reading the first chapter of my fic! It's probably a bit rocky and cliché but I'll work hard to avoid that in future chapters! Suggestions and reviews would be greatly welcomed~! Chapter two is up so why not go check it out? :D

-Vincere Orbe