[Slam Dunk] Undefended heart

Early in the morning, Xiao Yuan, the owner of the flower shop, was sweeping the floor in front of the store, and saw a familiar figure walking towards the morning glow from a distance. Xiao Yuan looked down at his watch, and today seemed to be earlier than before.

Putting down the broom, Xiao Yuan greeted her with a smile and said, "Student Nanase, are you here to buy flowers again?"

"Yeah." Kaoru returned the same smile.

Xiao Yuan opened the store door for Kaoru, and said, "Should I still buy a bouquet of tulips today?"

Kaoru thought for a while, and said, "No, I bought roses today."

"There are several colors of roses, which one do you like better?" Xiao Yuan took Kaoru to the rose exhibition area and introduced her enthusiastically, "The roses here are all fresh from flowers this morning. Picked from the shed, they are fresh! Especially the red roses bloom very beautifully, and of course the white roses are also very beautiful..."

After scanning the dazzling array of flowers, Kaoru's eyes stopped on the pink roses.

"I want the pink one." Xun pointed to the pink rose, interrupting Xiao Yuan's chatter.

"Okay, I'll wrap it up for you." Picking eleven of the best-blooming pink roses from the flower bucket, Xiao Yuan wrapped them up deftly, and a beautifully packaged bouquet was completed in a short while.

When Xun took the flowers and admired them, Xiao Yuan said with a smile, "Today, I changed to happy roses. Is it to celebrate that important friend's discharge from the hospital?"

When Xun heard this, the smile on his face froze for a moment, but he recovered quickly, making people unaware, "Yes, he will recover soon."

Xiao Yuan sent Kaoru to the door of the store, and said politely, "Next time Nanase's boyfriend comes to choose flowers, I will definitely give him a discounted price." The friend is her boyfriend, otherwise, besides relatives, who would buy flowers to visit the hospital every day.

"Then thank you in advance!"

Xun smiled faintly, the meaning of that smile was unclear, which made Xiao Yuan feel strange in his heart, and he couldn't tell where the blame was.Forget it, don't think about it, it's important to open the door for business!

Xiao Yuan turned around and walked into the store to continue to be busy, and Kaoru also embarked on the familiar road to the hospital.

Boyfriend... Thinking of this, Kaoru couldn't help but smile bitterly.

Pushing open the door of the ward, seeing that the person on the bed was still sleeping soundly, Xun couldn't help but hold his breath, closed the door gently, and tiptoed to the bedside.

After putting down the bento box, Kaoru carefully took the vase on the bedside table and walked out. He threw away the tulips that were still in full bloom and replaced them with the fresh roses he just bought.

Even if there is only a trace, she doesn't want Hiiragi to see the withered flowers at the first sight when she wakes up, because she knows Hiiragi's sensitive heart better than anyone else, and she can't relieve his pain, so at least these small things within her power, she It must be done well.

Putting the vibrant pink roses on the head of Hiiragi's bed, Kaoru sat down on the chair beside her, quietly looking at Hiiragi's sleeping face.

This is a handsome face that is almost exactly the same as Feng's, enough to fascinate thousands of girls, but the difference is that this face is thinner and full of sickness.

Looking at Hiiragi's slightly sunken eye sockets, Kaoru couldn't help reaching out and gently caressing his face, as if he had been stabbed by something in his heart, it was so painful, he seemed to be thinner than yesterday...

This feeling of seeing the person she cherishes is getting thinner day by day in front of her eyes makes Kaoru, who has always been fearless, feel unprecedented fear and despair. She knows that death is approaching step by step, but there is nothing she can do...

"You're here..." Hiiragi's voice was hoarse after waking up, but it still sounded nice.

Kaoru recovered from the sadness, and quickly withdrew her hand while putting on a smile, "You're awake!"

Kaoru said while carefully helping Hiiragi to sit up. Since the end of the national competition, Hiiragi's health has been deteriorating. After experiencing several illnesses, Hiiragi was admitted to the hospital again. As for when he will be discharged from the hospital, the doctor has no idea. Said, but everyone knows in their hearts that this time is, indefinitely...

Regarding Kaoru's overly nervous behavior, Hiiragi persuaded her several times, but she refused to listen, so Hiiragi let her go.

Noticing the newly replaced pink roses on the side, Hiiragi couldn't help being slightly stunned, eleven...

Seeing Hiiragi staring intently, Kaoru could not help but smile slightly, "Does it look good?"

"Yeah." A long-lost smile finally appeared on Hiiragi's face.

Seeing that Hiiragi was happy, Kaoru also felt better. It turned out that buying roses was the right choice, "In fact, these roses are only ordinary. There is a famous Rose Valley in Kazanlak, Bulgaria. Every year, lively celebrations are held, I remember when I was ten years old, my cousin and I sneaked out to play, and the roses all over the mountains and plains were blooming beautifully!"

"Really?" After hearing this, Hiiragi couldn't help feeling a little yearning.

"In addition to the Rose Valley in Kazanlak, there are many places to enjoy flowers! For example, the Keukenhof Tulip Park in Liz, the Netherlands, is the most famous tulip garden in the world. Every year, different Themed flower show. There are also lavender flower fields in Provence, France, which have different styles throughout the year..." Seeing that Hiiragi was interested, Kaoru also became energetic, so he talked about what he saw during his travels over the years What he heard, Hiiragi was fascinated by it for a while.

"The world is so big. Apart from flowers, there are of course many natural landscapes and scenic spots worth seeing. I remember that when I was studying in Italy that year, after school, I had a sudden whim and went to the water city of Venice alone... ..." Kaoru was in the middle of talking, but suddenly noticed that Hiiragi's eyes were a little erratic, and couldn't help asking, "What's wrong?"

Hiiragi couldn't help being secretly taken aback, he didn't expect Kaoru to be so careful, he could even detect his subtle mood changes, if it was the former Hiiragi, he would probably just laugh it off, but now he will put his own thoughts Tell Kaoru, "I just think that I haven't even been to Mount Fuji, and I feel a little regretful."

When Xun heard this, she couldn't help feeling sad, yes, she was talking too much here but she forgot that she couldn't travel far because of her health, let alone travel all over the world.

"When you are better, we will climb Mount Fuji together, and then go to Hokkaido to see the hot springs in the snow in winter." Kaoru held Hiiragi's hand and passed on his strength and faith to him. Even in summer, these hands are still so cold...

"Okay." Hiiragi never seemed to doubt Kaoru's words.

"Ah, after talking so much, you should be hungry, right? Let's have breakfast first!" Kaoru said, and got up to make arrangements.

After laying out the lunch boxes full of breakfast in front of Hiiragi one by one, Kaoru respectfully handed the chopsticks to Hiiragi, and said very dog-leggedly, "Your Highness, please eat~~" After waking up early today, Hiiragi's spirit is obviously stronger than before It's much better, which makes Kaoru feel relaxed, but also can't help but feel more playful.

Hiiragi was stunned at first, then couldn't help but chuckled, obviously amused by Kaoru's appearance.

While Hiiragi was having breakfast, a strong wind suddenly blew outside, causing the curtains to rattle in mid-air.

Kaoru and Hiiragi looked out of the window at the same time, only to see a few dark clouds floating in the originally clear sky.

"The weather forecast said it would be sunny today, but it's going to change. It's going to rain again..." Too bad, she didn't bring an umbrella today, but the summer rain should be over soon. It will stop.

Kaoru turned around and was about to close the window, when she suddenly heard the sound of a bento box falling to the ground from behind, she hurriedly looked back, and saw Hiiragi clutching her heart in pain, lying on the hospital bed gasping for breath, her face pale as if about to Blends in with white bed sheets.

"Hiragi!" Kaoru hurried to the hospital bed, helped him to lie down, pulled the oxygen mask next to him with trembling hands and put it on for him, "Don't scare me, Hiiragi! You'll be fine, you'll be fine !"

After Kaoru pressed the beeper, doctors and nurses rushed over in a short while, and Chiyo who came home to get a change of clothes came in together.

Seeing Hiiragi having a heart attack, Kazuya, who is the attending doctor, called the nurse to prepare first aid kits, and said to Chiyo and Kaoru, who was full of anxiety, "Sister, Kaoru, you go out first, I will definitely do my best Let Xiao Hiiragi tide over the difficulties."

"Then... I'll leave everything to you, Kazuya." Although she felt very reluctant, Chiyo pulled Kaoru out of the ward together.

The waiting time outside the ward seemed to be longer than a whole century. Just when Kaoru felt that he was about to have a nervous breakdown, the door of the ward finally opened.

"Is Hiiragi okay?!" Chiyo and Kaoru immediately stepped forward and asked.

"Well, it was finally rescued..."

Chiyo and Kaoru couldn't help but looked at each other and smiled when they heard the words. Just as they were about to breathe a sigh of relief, they heard Kazuya say with a painful and sad face, "But I'm afraid Xiao Hiiragi won't be able to hold on for long...it's... its limit..."

This was undoubtedly a bolt from the blue for Chiyo and Kaoru. Chiyo's body flickered and she was about to faint. Kaoru quickly supported her, "Aunt Chiyo, take care..."

"..." Yes, she can't fall down, Xiao Hiiragi has to rely on her, she can't fall down!

"Sister..." Hezai hesitated again and again, but still said, "It's time to call everyone over, if you find it difficult, let me speak."

Chiyo let go of Kaoru's hand, held back tears, and forced herself to say, "No, let me, as a mother, do the talking."

After Chiyo finished speaking, she turned around and went out to make a phone call. Kazuya walked to Kaoru's side, patted her on the shoulder, and left first to calm down.Kaoru stood blankly outside the ward door for a while, loosened and tightened the doorknob, and finally raised her head, took a deep breath, and opened the door of the ward...

In the ward, Hiiragi was lying quietly on the hospital bed wearing an oxygen mask. The bright pink roses on the bedside table became the only color in the entire ward. Kaoru suddenly felt a little dazzling.

As if aware of Kaoru's arrival, Hiiragi slowly opened his heavy eyelids, those eyes were as dazzling and bright as stars, Kaoru never forgot until many years later.

Didn't it mean that the eyes of dying people are cloudy?Does that mean that Hiiragi will not leave...

"Xun..." Hiiragi murmured angrily, as if she wanted to sit up, but she couldn't do it.

Kaoru came back to her senses and hurried to Hiiragi's hospital bed, tightly holding Hiiragi's slightly raised hand with both hands, "I'm here, Hiiragi, you lie down and don't get up, you'll be refreshed after a while , I will always be with you."

Kaoru knelt by the bed, trying to keep eye level with Hiiragi, yes, she has to smile, laugh happily, and never let Hiiragi notice any clues, acting, she has been good at it since she was a child, nothing can trouble her, nothing can trouble her...

Hiiragi took off the oxygen mask with difficulty, and said to Kaoru with gentle eyes, "I can't sleep, you can continue the previous topic, I think it's quite interesting."

Of course Kaoru would not disappoint Hiiragi, seeing that he wanted to hear, she simply sat on the ground, half leaning against the edge of the bed and continued talking about what she had seen and heard during her travels, this time, she did not let go of Hiiragi's hand.

Seeing Kaoru speaking vividly, Hiiragi's eyes dimmed slightly, his smile was uglier than crying, do you think he can't see it?In fact, he is very clear about Kaoru's intentions, but no one knows his body better than himself. He knows that he doesn't have much time...

About half an hour later, almost everyone from Rukawa's family and Hanayamain's family arrived, even Reiko of Saiyuanji came.

Facing the heavy and mournful atmosphere in the room, Hiiragi was the calmest one.

With Kaoru's help, Hiiragi sat up with some difficulty, and after calming down his rapid heartbeat, Hiiragi finally spoke, "Grandma, your knee joint is not very good, you must pay more attention to it, don't suffer cold……"

"Little Hiiragi, let's not talk about this. Grandma is tough. Grandma just hopes that you will be fine." Hearing her precious grandson telling her as if telling her last words, Huashanyuan Caihua could not calm down. , although she had been mentally prepared early in the morning, when this day really came, she realized that all preparations were useless. She didn't want a white-haired person to send a black-haired person!

"Grandma..." Seeing the sadness of his grandmother who loved him since he was a child, he felt uncomfortable, but he was afraid that he would never have a chance to say something if he didn't say it now, "Just let me finish it, like this I can go with ease."

Hearing Hiiragi say this, everyone was heartbroken, but no one interrupted him anymore.

Hiiragi has always given people the impression that he is cold and reticent, but today he talked a lot uncharacteristically, and only then did the elders know that he is such a delicate child.

After exhorting the elders one by one, Hiiragi turned his head to look at Rukawa. Although they had the same appearance, their life trajectories were completely opposite, and all this may have been doomed from the moment they were born... …

"Feng, after I'm gone, you have to learn to take on the responsibility of the Rukawa family. Remember to honor your parents, take good care of your grandpa and grandma, and take care of me..." Seeing Rukawa nod vigorously, Hiiragi continued , "There is also basketball. If you go to the United States, you must continue to climb up. I believe that one day your name will be so loud that even I can hear it."

"I will!" Rukawa promised, not only to Hiiragi, but also to himself.

"Reiko."

Hearing Hiiragi call her name, Reiko bit her lower lip and walked up to Hiiragi holding back her tears. This was the first time Hiiragi looked at her with such gentle eyes. This was originally her dream, but it didn't happen I thought it would be in such an occasion...

"Thank you for taking care of me all the time, and... I'm sorry." For Reiko, Hiiragi has always felt guilty. He knows Reiko's feelings for him, but he still can't respond to her. He only hopes that after he leaves, Reiko can find himself true happiness.

Reiko heard the words, couldn't hold it anymore, tears flowed down, "Don't say I'm sorry, don't..." She didn't ask for anything, she just hoped that Hiiragi could live a good life, why even such a small wish It can’t be realized, and it’s all a lie to talk about gods, Buddhas and gods!

After explaining everything, Hiiragi breathed a sigh of relief, as if he had no worries, "Mother, I want to go to one last place."

While wiping tears, Chiyo nodded repeatedly, "Okay, okay, mother will accompany you!"

Hiiragi glanced at Kaoru, hesitated to speak.

Kaoru was about to speak, but someone was one step ahead of her, "Let Kaoru go with him."

To everyone's surprise, it was Rukawa who spoke.

Kaoru and Rukawa looked at each other, everything was kept silent...

The gloomy weather made the pedestrians on the road quicken their pace, but there were two young people who were exceptions. The handsome boy was sitting quietly in the wheelchair, looking very weak, while the girl was pushing the wheelchair slowly. Walking forward in the wheelchair, the two sometimes talked and looked at each other with a smile, and the scene was like a painting that made people stop.

"Here we are." Kaoru stopped in front of an abandoned park.

"I heard that construction will start next month..." This place bears many fond memories of his childhood, and now it will be converted into a large shopping mall. Hiiragi feels regretful but also feels a little regretful.

"If you feel sorry, I will find a way." No matter what it is, she will do it for Hiiragi.

Hiiragi shook his head and said, "Fate arises and dies, everything has its own way of survival, so don't force it too much." Disappearing in this world together with the place where everything started may be an arrangement of fate...

Kaoru gave Hiiragi a deep look, and then said, "Then let's go in."

"Ah."

That's right, this is where Kaoru and Hiiragi met for the first time.

When they came to the abandoned basketball court in the park, both of them couldn't help feeling filled with emotion, as if the time had returned to that day 11 years ago...

Kaoru and Hiiragi sat side by side on the steps, just like back then, but it's a pity that things are different now.

"Will you feel uncomfortable after walking so much?" Kaoru couldn't help worrying about Hiiragi's body.

"I'm fine." Although Hiiragi said so, his pale face was not convincing.

At this time, suddenly a strong wind blew past, and Kaoru raised his hand to straighten his flying hair. This scene fell in Hiiragi's eyes, and he couldn't help but feel rippling in his heart.

"After so many years, I finally waited for you..." Hiiragi stared at Kaoru with unprecedented warmth in his eyes.

Kaoru was startled, and gradually softened her gaze, "Sorry, I'm late." She was 11 years late...

Hiiragi's gaze fell into the distance, as if lost in memory, "During the long years of waiting for you, I have thought about what you will look like when you grow up more than once, but you are always in the clouds, I have never been able to see... ..."

"Then you will be disappointed to see me?" Kaoru joked.

Hearing this, Hiiragi couldn't help but chuckled, "No, after seeing you, I thought, so she will look like this when she grows up... That's a very natural feeling."

"You haven't changed at all since you were a child, I recognized it at first sight." As soon as the words came out, Kaoru regretted it, bad...

Seeing Kaoru looking like she wanted to slap her mouth, Hiiragi comforted her instead, "Actually, you don't have to worry about it. No matter who encounters this matter, it will be wrong. After all, you didn't know my name at the beginning. , I don’t even know that I have a twin brother.”

Hiiragi is indeed a good man!Kaoru couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

"Kun, can I ask you a question?" Hiiragi suddenly looked at Kaoru seriously.

"You ask." Kaoru also responded with the same expression.

"If, ten years later, the first person you met was me instead of Feng, would you still..." Hiiragi didn't say any more, I don't know if it was because of embarrassment, or because he felt a little embarrassed.

But even if Hiiragi didn't finish, Kaoru knew what he wanted to ask. In fact, she had thought about this question before, but she didn't come up with an answer. Today Hiiragi asked Kaoru, and Kaoru had to face this problem again.

Seeing Xun frowned and lost in thought, Hiiragi sighed slightly and said, "Actually, I should be happy that you met Feng."

Hiiragi didn’t lie when he said this, instead of going through life and death parting with Kaoru after being together, he would rather they had never been together, so that at least Kaoru wouldn’t feel too sad, and after he left, at least there was still Feng was by her side, so he could feel much more at ease.

"Hiragi..." Kaoru is so smart, how could he not understand the deep meaning of Hiiragi's words...

"Don't talk about these unhappy things." Hiiragi found the old basketball discarded in the corner with sharp eyes, so he stood up with difficulty, walked over and bent down to pick up the ball.

After dusting off the dust on it, Hiiragi patted the ball and found that it was quite full of air inside. He couldn't help feeling a pity, "It's still usable, why did you throw it away?"

Hiiragi dribbled the ball under the basket, but was unable to shoot the basket, so he passed the ball to Kaoru, "Did you continue to play after that?"

"Yes, yes, I have always insisted on playing tennis." It's just that I played tennis later, but it was also a ball~~ Kaoru has always been cheeky, so he answered without blushing or panting.

Hiiragi smiled, stepped aside and gave Kaoru the venue.

Kaoru played the role of commentator while dribbling the ball, "Okay! Now the ball has passed to the basketball superstar Rukawa Hiiragi. Facing the three-man defense, Rukawa jumped up and shot without fear!"

Boom!

The ball hit the edge of the hoop, bounced out, and missed.

"Uh huh, it was just a momentary mistake, this is not my real water..." Kaoru smoothed things over for herself, and turned her head to look at Hiiragi who was outside the arena in embarrassment, but this glance nearly knocked her out of her wits. Fell to the ground, breathless!

"Hiragi!!"

Kaoru immediately ran over to help Hiiragi into her arms, and rummaged through his pockets with trembling hands, "Hiragi, where is the medicine?!"

Hiiragi pointed to the pocket of his coat, and Kaoru immediately took out the medicine for him to take, but it didn't work at all. Seeing Hiiragi's life slipping away in his arms, Kaoru was at a loss for the first time in his life.

"Hiragi, you will make it through, you will..." Kaoru clenched her teeth tightly to keep her tears from streaming down. She was comforting Hiiragi, and even more trying to calm down her emotions about to collapse.

"Don't...don't cry, I like to see you...smile..." Hiiragi slowly reached out to caress Kaoru's cheek, the movement was very gentle, very gentle...

"Well, I won't cry!" Xun forced herself to smile. It was the first time she knew how to laugh, and it turned out to be such a difficult thing.

"Xun, you...know? Actually, I've always been...very indifferent to life and death, but since you appeared, I...I started to feel a little scared, hehe..." It was obviously very difficult for Hiiragi at this moment to speak Regarding the matter, his voice was intermittent and not very clear, "If it wasn't...not because of this body, even if you like...like Feng now, I wouldn't...give you...to him..."

The liking for Kaoru may have originated from the affection and persistence when he was a child, but after so many years, Kaoru's existence has become like the warmth of the sun to him who has been suffering from illness all year round.After such a long time, although Hiiragi will miss him, but he no longer expects to have the chance to see the little girl who made an agreement with him back then, but fate always likes to joke with him, just when he is calm Just as he was preparing to face the death that would come at any time, she appeared in front of him again so domineeringly...

Hiiragi didn't know whether it was luck or misfortune... But, no matter what, he was very happy that she broke into his short life again.

After learning that she regarded Feng as himself back then and fell in love with Feng, Hiiragi's mood was extremely complicated. He wanted to tell her that he wanted her to belong only to him, but the weaker and weaker heartbeat stopped him , so he chose to keep a long distance from her. If he doesn't get close, he won't be hurt. This is good for the three of them, but why does his heart still hurt so much...

Maybe he has been unwilling to admit that he is actually a little jealous of Feng. He has everything he wants, health, basketball, dreams, and Kaoru... They were born together in this world, but their fates are completely different. different.

Hiiragi knew that he was really going to leave this time, so he dared to tell Kaoru what he had kept in his heart all this time, not to make her sad, let alone to make her never forget himself, just afraid... If he didn't say anything else, It really can never be conveyed.

"Koru...remember, want...to be happy..." Hiiragi showed a smile to Kaoru at the end, that smile was beautiful and clean, and Kaoru never forgot it all his life.

Kaoru hugged Hiiragi's body that was no longer warm, and choked up, "Hiragi...you don't want to die, I don't want you to die, I haven't answered your question yet...I'll tell you now, if I met you first It's you, I will definitely choose you... No, if you wake up now, I will always be by your side! So wake up... wake up..."

It's a pity that Kaoru can no longer get an answer from Hiiragi...

Kaoru's body was trembling violently, and she could only hear her repeating in a murmur, "I can't cry, I can't cry, because Hiiragi doesn't like to see me cry, so I must never cry..."

I don't know if it sensed Kaoru's mood, but the sky that had been gloomy finally started to rain cats and dogs, and then Kaoru smiled...

"Hiragi, I'm not crying, it's rain..."

Outside the court, Rukawa silently looked up at the sky, letting the rain run across his face...

The author has something to say: In fact, this picture has been in my mind for a long time, and I can’t bear to write it. I really like Hiiragi, so I cried when I wrote it. What’s wrong with this self-abuse rhythm? QAQ