[Kuroko's Basketball] The First Promise

My Tetsuya has never been a loser.You have to impress them with your skills.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++++++ Just finished the regional selection competition, everyone's physical energy consumption is the most important problem to be solved, Akashi did not let everyone resume high-intensity training so quickly, the first two days were based on basic training Lord best.

Putting down the notebook, Akashi took a look at everyone's intensive training. Except for Aomine who made a few shots, he was dragged to coach the substitute players. The rest of them were mainly based on their own playing characteristics.

——Of course, Heizi is not among the remaining people.

Akashi frowned slightly, and twirled the ballpoint pen between his fingers.

From yesterday's match against Akutagawa, it could be seen that Heizi had suffered a great blow. He had thought that Heizi would need to work hard to recover, but it seemed that the situation was out of his control.

——But it is also within expectations.

The sound of the basketball hitting the backboard caught Akashi's attention again.

This is already the sixth time today.

Heizi wiped off the beads of sweat that had slid down his chin. His feet didn't stop at all. He took a step back and stepped out of the inside line. He picked up the basketball that had rolled to his feet, leaned over and quickly rushed to the basket with a straight pass and smashed it hard. On the backboard, the ball with an outspin rubbed against the board and spun a few times before falling into the basket.

Akashi noticed that the surface of the dropped basketball was peeled, and it bumped a few times as it rolled on the smooth floor.

Less than 15 minutes from start to now.

Akashi lowered his head and wrote a few lines in the notebook, then looked up at Kuroko's back.

"Little Heizi seems to be full of energy today."

Huang Lai also looked back because of the sound of hitting the backboard constantly, he wiped his sweat off his collar and couldn't help laughing: "Ah, I haven't seen such a little blackie for a long time~ As expected of a little blackie, Looks so handsome~"

Midorima responded and looked over, the glasses mirrored the light, and he turned to look at Akashi who was standing outside the diagonal line.

As if feeling Midorima's gaze, Akashi turned his head to look at him, and didn't speak for a while.

Personal basic training is just a warm-up for daily training. Akashi saw that Kuroko seemed to be passing the ball in a straight line again. At the same time that the latter had just dribbled the ball, Akashi closed his notebook and walked to the center of the court: "Okay, let's form a team by ourselves Do some passing practice. Watch the speed on your feet."

After Akashi said this, he ordered a few substitutes to come over, and was going to point out the shortcomings of each of them first.Heizi picked up the basketball and looked at it. Aomine happened to go to the rest chair to get a drink of water, and Kise went over to get a towel.

Without any hesitation, Heizi walked towards the two of them holding the ball.

"Aomine-kun, Kise-kun."

Seeing the two turning their heads back at the same time, Heizi unconsciously hugged the basketball tightly, pursed his lips slightly and said, "Can you practice passing with me?"

Huang Lai froze for a moment, then glanced at Qingfeng beside him.The latter put down the water bottle, and first threw the towel in his hand to cover Heizi's head: "Yes. Ah Zhe, wipe your sweat first. Speaking of practicing passing, one-on-one is better. If there are two people, you Are you physically fit?"

Heizi pulled off the towel and held it tightly in his hands:

"No problem. Please begin now."

Now Aomine was also a little dazed, he frowned, looked at Kuroko for a while, then rubbed his hair and said: "It's possible, but don't force it. Didn't that fellow Akashi also say that your eyes are not good yet, so you can't do it." If you practice for too long, your eyes will get overwhelmed."

Heizi still looked at the two people in front of him seriously, but he didn't speak any more.The azure blue eyes were bright and clear. After being stared at for less than ten seconds, Qingfeng was helpless. He sighed, and bent over to pick up a basketball after passing Heizi: "You don't want me to show mercy, do you?"

In the team, Heizi's physical strength was already at an inferior level. Qingfeng remembered that Heizi and everyone in the Taiguang period often couldn't keep up with the rhythm during training.

This guy actually wants two people to practice with him today.

Aomine dribbled the ball and looked at Heizi opposite.The latter still had the same tepid expression, but he just felt that today's Heizi was very different.But in detail, he couldn't tell what the difference was.

Heizi dribbled the ball around the three chairs on the opposite side, and when he ran diagonally to Heizi, he made a long pass behind his back with a hanging arm. For this extremely tricky angle, Heizi was not surprised. He stepped back and pulled the basketball away in mid-air In time, he turned sideways, and slapped the basketball with his left palm quickly, adding a strong spin to the ball and instantly deflected the trajectory. Kise, who was behind the chair, immediately reached out to catch it, and Kise couldn't help but wrinkle when the ball hit his hand Frown.

The hand rotated a few times in his palm before stopping, which made his palm very hot and numb from the pain.

Huang Lai looked up at Heizi who was a few steps away. The latter wiped the sweat from his cheeks with his wristband, and his eyes revealed a hint of ruthlessness.It was this kind of ruthlessness that shocked Huang Lai slightly.

The following balls were exactly as Kise expected. For every ball passed by Aomine, Heizi passed it to him with the same strength as the first ball. The angle made it easy for him to catch it, but the strong rotation and The style of play made him very uncomfortable.

It's just practice, is it necessary to work so hard?

Kise could only attribute this confusion to Heizi's seriousness in training.

"Azhe, slow down. Will your physical strength not keep up?"

Seeing Heizi running around the chair to pass the ball, the explosive speed of his feet made Qingfeng keep reminding: "Azhe, you..."

"—It's okay, please continue."

Heizi interrupted Qingfeng's words bluntly, and before Qingfeng could reply, he slapped the incoming ball with his palm, it seemed that because Qingfeng's attention was focused on Heizi's words just now, the incoming ball was not too big strength.Heizi straightened his five fingers, and his slightly tilted body did not adjust the angle at all. All the force seemed to be concentrated in the left palm, and the straight five fingers suddenly bent. He retracted his forearm backwards, and then pushed forward violently.

When the basketball, which had no spinning force, hit Kise's palm, the latter obviously took half a step back.

Heizi's panting gradually became louder.

"Okay, Azhe."

Qingfeng looked at sunspots like this, and it was impossible not to worry:

"Take a break before continuing."

"it does not matter."

Heizi didn't even bother to wipe off his sweat this time, while panting heavily, he looked at Qingfeng, his tone still as serious as before: "Please continue."

Unable to resist such a sunspot, Aomine signaled Kise to continue with his eyes, and then continued to dribble the basketball.But obviously, Qingfeng has noticed the state of Heizi. When the latter is catching and passing the ball around the chair, the speed of his feet has become a little sluggish. It is obvious that his physical strength can no longer keep up.

Anyway, he shouldn't use such a lot of strength to train the pass, or two people pass the ball to him at the same time.

Just as he was thinking, he suddenly heard a "bang chi", Qingfeng looked up and saw the weightless posture of Heizi bumping into the back of the chair in order to adjust the angle of the pass, Kise over there reacted very quickly and grabbed Heizi The arm, so that no one just knocked on the chair and fell off.

"Little Heizi, rest first, you can't train like this!"

Huang Lai tugged at the man, and stretched out his other hand to hold him steady. He wanted to take him to the rest chair over there to slowly strengthen his strength: "Why do you practice so hard? If you want to practice physical strength, there is no need to do so Are you working hard? Do your eyes hurt?"

While Kise was talking, Akashi's voice also came:

"A 10-minute break for the audience."

Heizi shook his head, his left arm trembling slightly pushed Kise away, he bent down to continue picking up the ball, but before his hand touched the ball, the other hand had already scooped up the ball ahead of time.

Looking up, Kuroko saw Akashi's somewhat indifferent face.

"A 10-minute break for the audience."

Akashi's voice was a little cold, he has never been a person who likes to repeat.He stared at Heizi for a long while with strange eyes mixed with obvious threats, then turned and walked away with the basketball.

Knowing that even if he asked for training again, Akashi would not allow it.

Kuroko watched Akashi walk to the back of the coach chair, bit his lower lip unwillingly, and after a while, he straightened his body on his knees and walked directly to the door of the training hall.

"Azhe, where are you going?"

Noticing that Heizi was going out, Qingfeng immediately stopped him.Akashi looked over after sitting down.

"Go drink water."

Heizi didn't even stop walking, and he didn't even see that Qingfeng had raised the water bottle behind him, and walked out of the venue quickly on his own.

The wind outside the basketball court seems to be hot.

When the cold water rushed down from the top of his head, Heizi felt that the hot and dry feeling that was constantly surging was gradually cooled down.He raised his hand to push the water above his head continuously, and the water droplets flowing down his bangs splashed into the pool, and some water flowed into the team uniform along the collar.He even wanted to go back to the place where he stayed and take a cold shower.

He just wanted to work hard, more seriously than ever, like it was a game.He felt that only such hard work could make him improve faster.

Yesterday's game only made him want to become stronger even more.

There is no doubt that his biggest goal now is to defeat Akutagawa, not to try to be quick, but to prove himself to him.Whether it was Heizi Tetsuya in the past or the current Heizi Tetsuya, he has to prove his ability.

He obviously also understood Akashi's anger at that time, but why he didn't stand up for him, Heizi also understood in his heart.Although Akashi is a person who protects his shortcomings, he does not tolerate everything about him without limit. Some things must be done by himself.

"Are you Akashi Seijuro~ I also watched your game, senpai, and I heard that Kuroko-senpai's skills were taught by you."

At that time, Akutagawa walked over with a smile and wanted to shake hands with Akashi:

"I also want to have a fight with senior, is that okay? I don't think you are very busy. If you have time, let's have a fight? Okay?"

Akashi never raised his hand to shake it back, he even just glanced at Akutagawa briefly, then turned his head to take off the towel from Kuroko's head, and wiped Kuroko's wet right eye with a soft cloth.

His tone even changed from the coldness that suppressed his anger at the beginning, and he just said indifferently:

"Come and challenge me after you defeat Tetsuya."

Akutagawa froze for a moment, and said a little dissatisfied:

"Didn't you see it? I've already won him."

Akashi chuckled, his tone suddenly tinged with sarcasm.

The movements of his hands have always been very light, carefully rubbing Heizi's eyes:

"Really? I don't think so. The really good point guard is to lead the team to victory, not a personal show like you."

Annoyance flashed in Akutagawa's eyes, and he was about to refute, but Akashi continued to interrupt him: "I'll give you ten days, let's play three-on-three in ten days. With your current strength, you can't get us approved."

Ten days, this promise is not only for Akutagawa, but also for himself.

How much can you improve in ten days?

Kuroko doesn't know if there is still room for improvement in his body, he wants to ask Akashi to train him alone, and wants to make the eye injury no longer a problem within ten days, but he finds it difficult.Akutagawa's potential is huge, which the former Vulcan sighed more than once, but Akutagawa is not like a player like Kise. Kise's potential is stimulated by game after game and training, but Akutagawa But with the growth of time, it is constantly strengthening itself.

He even felt that the current Akutagawa was stronger than before.

The cold water on the top of the head suddenly disappeared.

Heizi was stunned, subconsciously supported the pool wall and straightened his body to look over. He saw Akashi standing by the pool. The latter had just turned on the faucet and handed over a towel.The team uniform draped over his shoulders raised slightly, Akashi's expression was still peaceful, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

"Your training without a goal will only increase the burden on your body and eyes. Do you need me to remind you of this?"

Guessing that Akashi would say this, Kuroko took the towel and wiped his dripping hair without opening his mouth to refute.

"It's a good idea to want to be strong."

Akashi folded his arms, his eyes were still relatively gentle:

"If you really want to be strong, just do what I tell you."

Hearing this, Kuroko looked at Akashi, the water on his bangs fell on his eyelashes and shattered into particles, and slowly slid to the corners of his eyes.

Looking into Kuroko's eyes all the time, Akashi continued to speak quietly, but even this tone without emotional fluctuations allowed Kuroko to calm down slowly: "In the game ten days later, no one will play in the Era of Miracles. .This is an opportunity, you not only have to beat Akutagawa completely, but also show your original strength to those substitutes."

"You can win your own basketball. Don't you want to prove yourself to him?"

"My Tetsuya, you are never a loser. You have to impress them with your skills."

Akashi's tone remained calm. He looked down at his watch, paused and continued: "After the afternoon training is over, wait for me in the open space behind the training hall."

He had to tell this kid who was running around in advance that it was completely unworkable to want to become stronger without knowing how to use effective methods.Once there is a goal, there is only a short cut.If the child doesn't bring it up by himself, he will take the initiative to let him rely on it.

If his trump card wants to get stronger, then there's no reason why he shouldn't help him get stronger.