Sousuke tensed up the second arms wrapped around his shoulders. One, because he wasn't really a person that let or had people invading his personal space so easily (then again, this was Kise). Two, even if he wasn't swimming at the moment, it still didn't mean his shoulder had recovered immediately. The sensitivity and instinctive guarding were still there. But he didn't push the other boy off, simply let him have his moment. Kise had always been a more tender person than people gave him credit for. He could already guess where some of the other athlete's thoughts were going.

Teal eyes shifted to the side for a second. Kise went for the one question he'd rather not talk about. Fitting. Then lowered his gaze, eyes closing again. “Only after he pieced things together at regionals.” The unspoken truth of If I had my way, he'd never have known wasn't hard to pick up on.