It was a busy morning at Haruka's house. The owner of the house had been up at around six in the morning, waking up all his guests to ensure that they had enough time to prepare for what was to come a little later that same day, just around noon.

Viktor was first to get up and first to finish packing up everything completely. It seemed like he still had plenty of energy left in his body. He was also in a good mood that day, this showed when he told Haruka not to wake up Yuuri, who was still sleeping peacefully in the bed.

The next one to get out of bed was Phichit, who was all sunshine as usual. Not even the slap he received from trying to wake up the Russian boy could wipe off his smile. The Thai boy simply concluded that this boy probably would be fine sleeping for a bit longer.

Otabek had already woken on his own as Haruka had entered the living room and was quietly getting himself dressed and packing up, pretending that nothing else was going on in the room.

When JJ woke up, he was in a slightly bad mood, but when he came downstairs around twenty minutes later with all his luggage, he was nearly sparkling. And with JJ's sparkles and Phichit's sun, the lower floor of the house was almost blindingly bright.

Haruka was standing in the kitchen, preparing some food when Viktor and Yuuri came down a little later. The Russian man had taken the time to wake Yuuri up after he had finished doing everything himself, and he had even been kind enough to help Yuuri pack his stuff. Now the only one who was still sleeping was Yuri, whom Viktor simply went to drag out of bed under loud protests from said boy.

Haruka simply tuned all of them out while he was still cooking. Most of the time, the figure skaters in his house had been extremely noisy. It had been strange with so much noise within his house the first week, but now, he might actually find it strange when the noise would be all gone for good in a matter of hours.

Breakfast was quickly over with, and then all the figure skaters grabbed their luggage and went out the front door. Haruka exited his house as the last one and closed and locked the door behind himself. He then led the way down the stairs.

Half way down the stairs, they could see someone standing and waiting for them.

"Makoto's come out too!" Phichit said, sounding both surprised and happy.

"You sure that's his name?" JJ said in a slightly teasing tone.

Phichit thought. "Nah, I still think his name is Tottoro." He smiled, remembering how they had struggled to remember all the Japanese names in the beginning.

"You guys really should stop that," Yuuri said.

They reached the place where Makoto was standing and waiting and the tall boy greeted them in his best English, though he was still speaking with a thick accent.

As they walked on, Makoto fell in beside Yuri to walk with him and Otabek. None of them said anything at first, but then Makoto broke the silence.

"How has it been?" he asked Yuri in English.

Yuri thought on that. "I could've been doing something better, but it wasn't all that bad," he said.

Makoto took some time translating what Yuri was saying into Japanese before he spoke. "I'm glad you... liked it? It was fun I thought."

"You seem to have learned something too," Yuri commented. "I can understand what you're saying now."

If Makoto hadn't known better, he would have wondered if this was an insult or a compliment, but since he had come to understand what kind of person Yuri was, he knew it was meant as a compliment and therefore he just smiled, not saying another word.

As the group reached Iwatobi Station, there were three more standing under the shade of a nearby tree, waiting. Nagisa was standing in the middle with Rin and Rei on either side of him. The blonde boy waved as the group approached them.

"Hey everyone!" Nagisa exclaimed as the group was still on its way.

"Good morning, Nagisa!" Makoto was the first to respond the wave and reply before the group reached the three people under the tree.

"You're still in due time," Rei informed after checking his watch. "There is still more than half an hour until the train departs."

"All the more time to say goodbye then," Viktor answered.

"Half an hour still isn't that much time though," Phichit said. "I actually liked it here."

"You can stay-" Nagisa almost said but he was interrupted by Haruka.

"No," sounded the strict answer.

"But Haru-chan," Nagisa whined, turning to Haruka to cling to him in an attempt at begging.

"Seems like Haru has had enough of this," Rin said in English, keeping his tone amused.

"It's not funny," Haruka turned away, feeling slightly irritated with Rin.

"Hold on, you understand English?" Yuuri asked Haruka in Japanese.

"Some," the other replied.

As they all waited for the train to come, they made sure to keep all conversations lively, which went exceptionally well. A mess caused by the sound from Japanese and English mixing together created a lot of noise that had the people passing by turn and stare at the group.

It all died down when Nagisa remembered that he had gotten a camera with him and pulled it up, yelling to get everyone's attention. He wanted a group photo before the figure skaters left.

Two photos were taken. Viktor took the first one where they all, on Yuuri's suggestion, tried to stand properly like they were lining up for a class photo, the shorter ones in front and the taller ones in the back. The second one was taken by a lady whom Viktor managed to stop as she was passing by. This meant that he could be in the photo too. He placed himself in the center of the back and placed Yuuri beside him, grabbing his hand tightly. Nagisa sat down with Phichit, right in front of Viktor as the three of them made out the center of the photo. Everyone else either stood or sat around them in any way they liked. This caused the second picture to become much more lively than the first one.

The lady only managed to hand Nagisa the camera back before Rei checked his watch and they realized that there were only ten minutes until the train would depart from the station. They hurried there to ensure that the figure skaters weren't going to miss it, and this was where the two groups said the final goodbyes to one another and parted ways. It was now time for all of them to go back to their normal lives and routines. Now they had had an entire summer off where they had only been focusing on one thing, that thing being the mix between swimming and figure skating, Figure Swimming.

Cheesy way to end it. I know. But it was better than the other half-assed ending I had written. I'm glad my editor told me her opinion on the former one as I could open my eyes and see that she was right.

Well, that does it for this time. Thanks for reading my story until this point. Thanks to everyone who favorited, followed and/or left reviews. It's all much appreciated, and also a huge thanks to everyone who stuck around until the end. It will be a while before you hear from me again.

I tell this just because I want to hear your opinion, after reading this. I wrote an original story which I might be publishing on a site for that. If anyone of you have any good advice, any thoughts on my writing in general or just things that are good to keep in mind for original stories, please let me know. I'm really nervous about it Nd I've already been hesitating for two weeks now.

Anyways, thanks for everything this time.

Jackie