[Kuroko's Basketball] The First Promise

If Tetsuya wants a safe haven, there is always your place in my arms.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Night on the mountain There is already some dry, cold air.

When Kise entered the room, he just shivered, and Midorima next to him had already handed over the blanket leaning on the heater.

Saying thank you, Huang Lai wrapped the blanket around her body, put the lunch box in her arms on the radiator to continue warming, looked at the person in the furthest distance who was curled up in the quilt with her back facing her, and couldn't bear it after a pause Lvjian who lives next to him whispered: "Little Heizi hasn't eaten all night...won't he be hungry?"

"If you let him eat it now, he won't be able to eat it."

"This is the only supper in the restaurant... I don't know if Xiao Heizi will like it."

Kise huddled under the blanket, looked at Heizi's back, wondering if he had fallen asleep or not.

When the lights were turned off, Heizi still maintained the same posture, facing the wall and turning his back to everyone.Probably because he was afraid that Heizi would feel uncomfortable and didn't speak out, Kise wanted to go over to comfort him, but was pulled back by Akashi.After everyone lay down and rested, Akashi also returned to Kuroko's side to prepare to rest. He sat on the bed and looked down at the silent person on the right with his back turned to him.From losing the game until now, Heizi hasn't said a word.

Qingfeng is definitely the first one to fall asleep on weekdays, but today I didn't hear his snoring.Midorima didn't take off his glasses before going to bed, and could vaguely hear the sound of Kise turning over and over again and Murasakihara eating snacks in a low voice.

Can't sleep?These few people.

Akashi smiled, leaned down, put one hand in front of Kuroko who was lying on his side, and put one hand behind him, leaning against the ear, Akashi whispered: "You haven't slept yet, Tetsuya."

Heizi didn't open his eyes and didn't speak, but his eyelashes trembled.

"Get up and eat something when you're hungry. Doesn't your stomach hurt if you don't eat something after a game?"

Heizi slightly opened his eyes, his blue eyes flickering faintly in the darkness of the night.Akashi kept this extremely ambiguous posture, and let out a low laugh.I don't know if it was because of Akashi's laugh, Kuroko pursed his lips, and directly covered his head with the quilt, as if he didn't want to listen to anyone's words now.

Not annoyed, Akashi lowered his head even more, protecting him in his arms through the quilt.With his lips attached to the position of the left ear under the black quilt, he whispered: "Don't cover yourself with the quilt, it's not good for your health. If Tetsuya wants a safe haven, there is always a place for you in my arms."

Akashi's voice was exceptionally deep, passing through the not-thin quilt, and Kuroko suddenly felt that the quilt was so stuffy that he couldn't breathe.Leaning against the wall, he felt the coldness of the wall being infected through the quilt, and he felt that his breathing became easier, but this feeling did not last long, and a hand hooked his waist through the quilt. Waist, directly took the person back.

It's not like I didn't have the experience of being hugged by Akashi to sleep before, such as the first night when I came to the camp.But that's all what happens when he falls asleep.Heizi opened his eyes, and what he saw was pitch black, but he felt safe in the arms of the person holding him.Pressing against Akashi's chest, Kuroko suddenly felt drowsy, rubbed his eyes, and decided to sleep like this first, after all, it wasn't the first time.

Afterwards, Heizi didn't know whether it was a dream or it happened in reality. He felt that the things covering his body when he was so stuffy suddenly disappeared, and a burst of refreshing air rushed towards his face.A cool hand reached out from behind him, helping him wipe the sweat off his nose.

Then he felt that he was hugged even tighter, so tight that he was about to suffocate in his sleep.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++++++++ The special training is almost at the end stage, and because of a disastrous game, people's hearts are scattered.I don't know what Akashi's plan is, and the next morning announced that the whole day's training arrangement is free activities.When the team was disbanded, Heizi disappeared at the end of the team, and when Kise turned around to find him, he was nowhere to be found.

There are a lot of tourists in this hot spring villa, and because the business is too prosperous, the villa is constantly expanding.Heizi asked the proprietress here if there was any quiet place to enjoy the flowers, but was told that winter came early this year, except for the flowers in the backyard, almost all the blooming flowers in other places withered, or they were in buds before they opened. The shape freezes to death.

Feeling lost, Heizi had no choice but to bypass the crowded fountain route and take the narrow path in front of the mountain instead.After passing an open-air place where children played, he was a little surprised to see that there was also a small open-air basketball court here, with four basketball hoops set up on all sides of the court.

Perhaps it was because the road was too remote, and the area of ​​the venue was small, so there were not many people there.Standing outside the iron net of the basketball court, Heizi was surprised to see a 7- or 8-year-old boy practicing dribbling in the middle of the court.Probably a Boston Celtics fan, this kid is wearing a Kevin Garnett green jersey, but because of his short stature, this kind of wide recognition jersey has passed his knees on him, and he dribbles a few times And almost tripped over.

At first glance, it seems that I took some adult's jersey, and it will be fun to wear it.

Smiling slightly, Heizi thought this child was very cute.Because he is born with no resistance to small animals and children, every time he sees them, Heizi's heart softens unconsciously.

Obviously, the little boy didn't know how to dribble past people, he was not tall, and he couldn't make continuous dribbles very quickly.I don't know where it was brought from, he has been practicing dribbling over people, but just counted roughly, Heizi found that in the last few times he passed over people, only one time he didn't get tripped And successfully dribbled the ball without making a mistake.

Come to think of it... I was at the age when I just started to have a good impression of basketball.

Heizi's eyes softened, as if he saw someone in the child, and seemed to think of someone, he was a little distracted.He didn't come back until the basketball hit the iron net above his head.When the ball fell, it stopped at his feet, but because of the net, Heizi couldn't throw him to the boy.

The moment he looked at the boy with the big black eyes, Heizi's heart was suddenly touched.

I don't know what I think.

Heizi regretted his impulsiveness when he picked up the ball, but he couldn't bear to refuse when he saw this innocent child with big eyes shining in front of him.

"Really? Brother, are you willing to teach me how to play basketball?"

Hearing his excited voice, Heizi swallowed the words that came to his lips, paused for half a second, and nodded: "Yes. But... it wasn't a good fight."

The kid probably liked basketball so much that he didn't care about Heizi's words at all, and pulled his hand towards the center of the court.Children's hands are naturally soft and feel good when they hold them.Heizi smiled slightly, and said softly, "Slow down, don't trip over your clothes again."

The little boy turned around and smiled at him twice, but changed from walking to running.Heizi walked briskly to keep up with his running, and was brought in front of that person just like that.

"Can you teach me to dribble? Be as handsome as a power forward!"

Heizi laughed and nodded.

The boy's eyes lit up even more:

"Really? What's your name?"

"Heizi. Heizi Tetsuya, you can call me whatever you want."

"Oh—that's Brother Heizi? I'm Izumi Gamo!"

"Quan-jun, nice to meet you."

Heizi bent down with a smile, held Pusheng's soft little hand and shook it gently.

Gamo wasn't puzzled when that person's post was removed.He imitated the action of LeBron James holding the white powdery thing in his hand and sprinkled it to the sky before the game. The latter was very domineering when he demonstrated, but this little guy is too small, but it is cute when he actsMore .

"Come on! Do you want OneonOne?"

Pusheng's voice has not changed yet, and his pronunciation is more crisp. Heizi couldn't help laughing again, and slowly dribbled the ball: "Is Mr. Quan learning James' movements?"

Gamo immediately shook his head with a very serious expression:

"No—before James learned to imitate this action, this posture was the wolf king Garnett's patent!" He patted the number on his jersey and smiled as if he was talking about himself: "I want to be like KG Be the greatest power forward ever!"

Then, he pursed his lips and imitated a wolf howl.

Heizi was completely amused by him.

This OneonOne sunspot did not deliberately let the opponent down because the opponent was a child. His sharp steps, false positioning, and accelerated dribbling were almost no different from regular games.It is also because the lifeless person in front of him has become a big living person, and he has high basketball skills. Gamo soon fell in love with this basketball atmosphere. He interfered and blocked him seriously, even though he Even with his arms fully extended, he couldn't block Heizi's attack.

In fact, although the kid is small and doesn't have any advantages in playing basketball, Heizi has already sensitively noticed that his ability to conceal is very strong. Explosive power, two times when Heizi dribbled the ball, Gamo's sudden outburst successfully interfered with Heizi's dribbling route.

When Gamo used the explosive power of his feet for the third time and successfully broke the rhythm of Heizi's feint, he said "fastbreak" in a low voice, and then put his five fingers together and cut directly at the basketball that Heizi dribbled in mid-air before it touched his palm. Wants to snap the ball and take a fast break.However, the latter has a lot of experience after all, so he immediately withdrew his hand and turned his wrist to the inside. The second after the ball was broken by Gamo, he regained control and returned to his dribbling route, successfully breaking through again.

After a few rounds of back and forth, it was obvious that this was a one-on-one one-on-one match, and Heizi played with ease, but Gamo was already tired and panting after playing for a while.He straightened his hands and supported his knees, exhaled a few breaths, looked up at Heizi, and showed an extremely excited smile for a while: "It's really——that's great!"

Seeing his happy appearance, Heizi was also happy in his heart.Lead him over and let him sit and rest on the chair over there first, and go out of the stadium to the canteen to buy two bottles of iced Coke and go back.Sitting next to Gamo, Heizi opened the Coke for him and put it in someone's hand.

"Drink quickly, are you thirsty?"

Gamo took several sips of the Coke, wiped the corners of his mouth, and smiled at him: "Hehehe..."

Seeing him like this, Heizi couldn't help but also smiled:

"So happy? What are you laughing at?"

"Where is it~"

"No?" Heizi couldn't help raising his hand to poke the dimple on Gamo's cheek, smiling gently, "Don't you see how the corners of your mouth are grinning?"

"Hey, don't poke...don't even pinch! Okay, I admit, I'm very happy~ because I played hard just now and I was very HIGH~"

Heizi was stunned for a while, before saying:

"But... Mr. Quan lost, right?"

Gamo's smile remained undiminished, and he slapped his sweating neck with a cheerful tone: "Hey, hey—don't underestimate me!" Quan paused, with a look of satisfaction on his face, "Although I I lost this time, but I was stealing my master? I won’t lose in vain! You just wait—I’ll practice more when I’m older, and one day I’ll be as good as you, Teacher Heizi! "

Seeing Pusheng's longing eyes, Heizi lost his mind for half a second before continuing, "Master...?"

"Well, it's Teacher Heizi~ because you taught me a lot today, let's call it that!" After finishing speaking, Gamo shrugged helplessly.Looking at Gamo like this, Heizi's eyes became softer and softer: "You are really... From this point of view, I feel that Quan-kun is the winner."

Gamo looked at Heizi with some weird eyes:

"What about winners and losers? Is this important?"

Heizi lowered his eyes slightly and said nothing, just smiled, noncommittal.Seeing that Heizi had nothing to say, Pu Sheng shook his legs, and continued: "I think, as long as I am happy, show my strength well, and run freely, that's enough. Winning or losing, what is happiness? Hmm...Although I can't deny that winning the game is really cool, but playing basketball itself is the source of my happiness!"

Heizi was stunned for a moment.Looking at the chattering children beside him, he sighed in his heart that the real winner of this game was indeed him.But as the child said, it doesn't matter whether the winner is the winner or not.

After a long while, Heizi couldn't help but burst out laughing. He stretched out his hand to rub Gamo's fluffy black hair, and said softly, "Izumi-kun is really good at talking."

"Ah... actually my mother taught me. My mother is a volleyball coach who plays basketball very well!" Pusheng stuck out his tongue and said in the tone of his mother: "My mother said, happy It's always more important than winning or losing."

Lowering his eyelids, Heizi felt the curvature of his lips rising.This moment is probably the most relaxing time of his day.After taking a sip of cool cola, Heizi took Gamo's sweaty little hand, rubbed it lightly, and said in a low voice, "It seems... Mr. Quan has taught me a lot. I also want to call you Mr. Quan Already?"

Gamo tilted his head to look at him blankly, the doubt in his eyes seemed even more cute to Heizi.Heizi laughed again, gently kneading the little hand in his palm.

"...Uh, why do you keep looking at me and laughing?"

"It's okay, just seeing Mr. Quan reminds me of a friend of mine..."

"What kind of friend is he? Is he good at basketball?"

"—Well, he is very strong."

Although Heizi knew that he would never have a chance to meet Gamo in the future, he remembered everything that the child inadvertently revealed to him.He looked back in surprise and found that if it wasn't for Gamo's suggestion, he would have fallen into the desire to win or lose without knowing it, and the fun of basketball itself had been covered up too much.

It is really difficult to completely immerse yourself in the joy of playing basketball, regardless of the theory of winning or losing, and the law of winning and losing. But once you do it, you can work hard to keep it going.There are some emotions in life that he cannot appreciate. He can enjoy the rough feeling when his palm touches the sphere, and he can also enjoy the intoxication when sweat slides down his bangs.But at the same time, he couldn't overcome the anxiety and annoyance caused by wanting to defeat someone.

— but it doesn't matter.It doesn't matter anymore.

When he put his hand on the doorknob of the dormitory door, Heizi paused in his movements.Because the sound insulation effect of the house is not good, the noise in the house can be heard clearly.The most obvious one is Kise's cheeky voice: "Foul - why me!"

"Stop talking nonsense, you don't want the chance now? Kise, are you going to do it or not!"

"Oh...why is Xiao Qingfeng so fierce? I also want Xiao Heizi to be happy, but do I have to use this method? Xiao Heizi will laugh at me..."

"Dahui, get out of the way first."

"Ugh! Little Akashi, you don't want to--ahhhh my face!"

There was a moment of dead silence in the room.Heizi suppressed the desire to laugh out loud, pushed the door open and walked in.Just in time to face Kise who was about to come out with tears in her eyes.The two looked at each other, Heizi wasn't surprised at all, but Huang Lai was caught off guard, he hurriedly stepped back half a step, but Aomine pushed him a big step forward.

"Little...Little Heizi..." Huang Lai, who was originally very eloquent, suddenly stumbled when he spoke. He smiled awkwardly, but couldn't say anything after that, as if he was squeezing toothpaste: "I, I, I..."

Heizi tilted his head, and hummed a word through his nasal cavity expressionlessly: "Huh?"

Seeing that Heizi was still indifferent and uninspired as in the morning, Huang Lai frowned slightly, gritted his teeth and stomped his feet after a while, and suddenly shouted: "—Little Heizi, let's go on a date!"

As soon as these words came out, Heizi still didn't look very surprised, but the group of people behind Huang Lai had slowly become dark.

Covering his face, Huang Lai was ready to be rejected. After all, he didn't follow the script, but in the next second he heard the warm voice of Heizi on the opposite side: "Okay."

Originally, that fist was about to land on Kise's head, but Aomine had to stop it abruptly, and turned his head stiffly to look over with Kise.

"Okay."

Thinking that Kise didn't hear clearly, Heizi repeated it again.He smiled slightly, still calm and gentle: "The summer festival on the weekend, let's go together? I can't wait."