Yukio grinned when Hitomi-chan smirked and shook her head so much that her long hair swirled around her head . She was exactly the kind of beauty who didn't make Kyoko uncomfortable, the slender type, like Kuri .

Right now Hitomi-chan exaggerated a show of disdain for Urufu and Kuri to the joy of their friends .

"She broke up with that?"

Yukio followed Hitomi-chan's finger with his eyes until the straight line pierced Urufu a little further down the beach . "He was skinnier back then," Yukio said in Urufu's defence, or if it was Kuri's . He wasn't certain himself .

"Is she daft?"

Yukio's head swivelled almost by itself . He was just that surprised . 'Kyoko?'

"She's my best friend . Doesn't make her immune to stupidity . "

There wasn't much more to do than agree . Urufu was his best friend after all, and by every deity that ever existed, and most that didn't as well, that guy sure as h.e.l.l wasn't immune to stupidity . He probably used that oversized brain of his to invent new kinds of stupid .

Advertis.e.m.e.ntBoth Yukio and Kyoko joined Hitomi-chan in the shaking of heads and pointing fingers . It caused a small ruckus, and friends around them cackled with glee in a most unj.a.panese way . Being around arrivals for too long must be infectious .

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"What's going on?"

Yukio stopped shaking his head long enough to notice Noriko who had walked up to them with three of their guests, Riksempai, Jenny-sempai and Jun-sempai .

He quickly explained, which had Noriko join them in the head shaking, much to the surprised mirth of their guests .

"And you call us strange," Riksempai said .

"You're strange . They're just sad . "

Yukio glanced at Noriko after she spat out that comment . It was a little like the old, cynical Noriko . "Look, guys, let's head into the shade for a while . " It wasn't really like he needed to get out of the sun, but Noriko's voice just now gave him a sour taste in his mouth .

Just as he was about to leave for the beach walk Kyoko took his hand and shook her head . "If we're here I'll swim, and you're joining me . "

Yukio just couldn't resist a request like that from Kyoko, so he followed her down to the water and tried to recall his swimming lessons . Almost there they were overtaken by their squealing guests who rushed into the sea and started playing in the water like they had been born in it .

'And I thought Sweden was too cold for bathing . ' Either it wasn't, or the people living there had grown used to ice cold water like polar bears, because only Jun-sempai looked a little awkward between girlfriend and girlfriend's best friend . Riksempai might have been born in j.a.pan, but she certainly had gotten used to parts of the Swedish which lay beyond Yukio's understanding .

Then Yukio got into the water himself, still clasping Kyoko's hand . It was steeper than he had expected, and he soon had to try his skills at swimming .

The water was cool, but in the baking sun that only came as a relief . Still, he only managed a few metres in water that had a life of its own, totally unlike the stale water of a pool . To his surprise keeping afloat was easier in the sea though .

Yukio felt he enjoyed it all, and he regretted not having gone into the water last year when they spent weeks by the ocean .

He let himself be carried by a wave, and when he looked at the sh.o.r.e it was further away than he remembered . At that time Jun-sempai came up beside him .

"You know," he said and paused to take a breath, "you shouldn't swim out like this if you're unused to it . "

Yukio almost answered with an angry retort, but the next wave dunked him and when he resurfaced a smidgeon of worry built inside .

"Jun, get him ash.o.r.e!"

Yukio turned in the water to see where Riksempai's voice had come from, but he suddenly stared into Jenny-sempai's face .

"If you can't swim then please get back, will you?" she said in English .

'But I can swim, what's the problem?'

"Jenny, get him back . I'll help . "

Jenny-sempai gave Jun-sempai a nonplussed look, and then her boyfriend laughed and said something in Swedish .

"Yukio, please float on your back . I'll support you . " With those words she swam under him and came up by his head . "Fantastic weather today," she said and grabbed him under his arms .

Then he felt her legs moving under him and there was a feeling of being tugged . Yukio could feel her b.r.e.a.s.t.s pressing against his back every time she kicked out with her legs . Soon enough Riksempai and Jun-sempai turned up beside them and Yukio was dragged upright .

"OK Yukio, let's get this clear," Jun-sempai said, "these kids learned to swim in the sea . " He pointed at the three native born Swedes . "If they say water's dangerous the rest of us had better listen . "

Yukio hardly listened, because as soon as Jenny-sempai could stand she waded to her boyfriend, and now a long string of worried words in Swedish poured out of her .

"What's that about?"

"You put Jun in danger, and now she's angry with him, or worried," Riksempai said . "Yukio, the ocean isn't a pool, not even when protected like this," she added and swept her hand across the surface to show him how the man made inlet made the beach almost a little like a very large pool . "If you're careless like this at an ordinary beach it could become dangerous for real . " She smirked . "Jenny's my best friend . If you make her worry I'll get angry with you . "

Yukio felt more than a little shame and nodded .

"What are you guys up to?" That was Kyoko's voice .

He looked at her, but in her face he couldn't read anything that gave away that she had even been aware of the small drama unfolding .

"If you make your girlfriend worry I'll be angry as well," Riksempai said and grinned .

Yukio returned a thin smile and sent her a silent thanks .