[Kuroko's Basketball] The First Promise

Heizi took out his mobile phone and looked at it. It was an unfamiliar number, and the location indicated was the United States.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++The service conditions of Beppu Onsen are quite good, even the owner is very enthusiastic.Heizi originally wanted to go directly to the summer festival, but before leaving, he was held back by the proprietress there.Knowing that Heizi and the others were going to the summer festival, the proprietress specially prepared dinner for them in advance, in case they would come back late at night, she also left lights for them and made exquisite bento.

Heizi has only been to the summer festival once, and he was still very young, so he is very happy to be able to go with everyone this time.After soaking in the hot spring, he rinsed himself again, and when he opened the door, he found that the proprietress had thoughtfully put the changed clothes on the floor.

Bending down to pick it up while wiping her dripping hair, Kuroko found that it was a kimono embroidered with light blue patterns. It was unfolded and looked exquisite and brand new. It must have been placed for a long time and no one wore it. A little quiet aroma in the wooden cabinet.There are floral prints on the sleeves, and a white lotus stitched on the gusset. Kuroko likes the light tone and pattern very much, but this is the first time he wears a kimono to go to a summer festival. I think he just wore casual clothes when he was a child. Went with adults.

After changing his clothes, he went to the lodging to get his wallet, and just as he entered the door, he heard Huang Lai's call, and the next second, he was hit in the chest.

"Little Heizi looks so good in this dress—"

Huang Lai's words immediately attracted the attention of the people around him. He pulled Heizi's cuff and looked at it repeatedly, admiring at the same time: "Ah, I would have known that I had also picked this color just now, so I could be with you." Is Little Heizi paired up?"

Hearing this, Heizi took a closer look at Kise's clothes, and the latter was indeed what he had imagined, wearing a light yellow kimono.The hanging collar is long and looks very loose, all of Huang Lai's snow-white neck is exposed, and even the collarbone inside is faintly visible.

Smiling slightly, Heizi raised his hand to help him lift up his collar to cover his collarbone, and said softly, "Mr. Huang Se looks good like this."

Huang Lai was rarely praised by Heizi in person, so he felt a little embarrassed immediately, coughed twice, and immediately rearranged his clothes.Patting Heizi, Huang Lai put a camera in his hand: "There must be a lot of people going to the summer festival later, Xiao Heizi, remember to take more photos."

Heizi responded, and looked up at the people behind Huang Lai.Almost everything is ready, only Ziyuan is still trying to stuff too many delicious sticks into the backpack, probably because he does not have such a large kimono, the dark purple kimono seems to be a little short on him, but it does not matter. You can't see it even if you look closely.Akashi covered all the lids of the bento, put it in a bag and handed it to Murasakihara, raised his head and smiled at Heizi: "Okay, let's go."

This is not a large-scale summer festival, but because it is close to the front and rear schools and not far from the residential area, there are a lot of people here.When Heizi and the others arrived, the inside was already bustling with people.He walked beside Akashi, and the surroundings were very noisy.Because the surrounding shops were crowded with people, Kuroko saw that Akashi didn't have the desire to squeeze in, so he followed him obediently.

I could vaguely hear the sound of the taiko drum, every sound, very contagious atmosphere.You can faintly see goldfish fishing and candy shops from the surging crowd.Beautiful magic lamps are hung on both sides of the street, green curtains can be seen everywhere, and screens are erected in some places. The melodious singing of singers can be heard faintly, attracting large crowds to watch and appreciate.

Probably because the sense of existence is too low, Heizi was not hit by the crowd, but despite this, Ziyuan still held him in one hand and held him in his arms to avoid the flow of people, and waited until the wave passed. Let go and let him go shopping by himself.Heizi looked left and right for a while, and suddenly heard the sound of bells ringing behind him. He looked back and saw a very beautiful float and boat. Among the colorful flowers, there were musical drums and dolls. On the top, holding a flower basket in her arms, there are all kinds of beautiful candies inside, because many adults accompany their children to visit the summer festival, and the dancer will take out a lot of candies from the basket and sprinkle them down.

It is estimated that the act of sprinkling sugar attracted the attention of many children, and the crowd became slightly restless. Several children had to squeeze to the front of the crowd to pick up the candies. to others.Heizi walked two steps with the crowd, his gaze was always on the two orange lights on the flower boat, especially under the night, the soft orange light seemed to reveal a little halo, spreading in the air, beautiful abnormal.

Heizi came back to his senses after being bumped into by someone behind him. When he looked back, he realized that Ziyuan had disappeared, and when he looked around, there were all strangers.There was a moment of panic in his heart, but Heizi didn't want to call someone like that, it was really rude, he stood still, his eyes flicked to the faces of people, but he couldn't find the familiar ones.

The flow of people dispersed him and his friends.

Heizi pursed his lips and frowned quickly.There were many figures, and his hand was suddenly grabbed tightly.

He turned around and saw Akashi's smiling face.Instantly he felt at ease.

"There are a lot of people here, let's go shopping in the street next to it."

After Akashi finished speaking, he didn't let go of Kuroko's wrist, and Kuroko followed obediently.Although the crowd was still crowded, but looking at the back in front of me, I suddenly felt at ease.

"Don't worry, I won't let go."

Akashi turned his head and raised his lips towards Kuroko, his pupils of different colors showed a little softness under the night.

After crossing this street, the flower street at the corner is much less crowded. After all, if the floats don't pass by here, the crowds don't follow.Heizi watched the street scene, it was full of small shops, which looked very cozy.Akashi led him around, and Kuroko also enjoyed the atmosphere.

"Zhe also wants to buy something, huh?"

"I don't have anything to buy. Isn't the summer festival just for shopping and relaxing?"

"That's it."

Akashi smiled and stopped in front of a shop.Heizi looked up and saw the beautiful green curtains swaying in the wind, and all kinds of masks were hung inside and outside the shop.Akashi pulled people in and carefully selected a delicate mask in a cabinet, while Kuroko stood beside him and tilted his head to watch.

"How is this?"

Akashi looked at it for a while, and picked out a mask. Kuroko took it over and realized that it was not called a mask, but a set.

This mask is a blue flower on a white background, which is divided into two parts from the middle, and it can also be put together to form a complete set of masks.The eyeholes are lined with gold borders, and are connected with beautiful and soft blue gauze.

After paying the money, Akashi gently put the mask on the left half of Heizi's face on Heizi's left face, helped him smooth out the broken hair in front of his eyes, and smiled slightly: "Isn't this beautiful."

Heizi looked at the mirror on the table, and said after a while:

"...Akashi-kun, this is for a couple, right?"

Akashi put on the mask on the right side of his face, raised his eyebrows, and smiled suddenly after a long while: "I like it."

Kuroko looked at the smile on Akashi's lips, no matter how he looked at it, he felt that this smile was full of rare evil.

The enthusiastic shopkeeper kept asking them to take pictures as a souvenir, but Kuroko didn't express his opinion, but Akashi, who didn't like taking pictures, suddenly agreed.

When the shop owner went to pick up the camera, Akashi raised his hand to touch the exposed right side of Kuroko's face, and smiled lowly: "Remember to close your eyes when taking pictures later."

Heizi looked at him blankly, then nodded in agreement the next second.After the shopkeeper gestured for them to pose, Heizi obediently narrowed his eyes slightly. Only a little light could shine in front of his eyes. He raised his head slightly, and at the same time he heard the flash of the camera, he only felt a scent of peppermint. Coming over, his right eye touched two pieces of softness.

There were several girls' shouts, and then more flashing lights.

Akashi kissed his right eye for a long time, and others could only see their side faces covered by masks.

The brain froze for a few seconds, and Kuroko pushed either to hide or not, so he could only choose to take half a step back, so Akashi immediately took a step forward, raised his arms around Kuroko's waist, and continued to kiss his right side Eye.

Kuroko felt his eyelashes being slowly licked by the tip of Akashi's protruding tongue, and soon became wet.He protested in a low voice, which caused Akashi to chuckle: "What's the matter, they can't see our faces."

Heizi was choked for a moment, but he didn't think of a rebuttal.

When he let go of Kuroko, Akashi's expression was very satisfied.He asked the store owner for the developed photos. The photos were taken from different angles, and two of them looked more like a dislocated upper lip kiss, which was extremely ambiguous.But because they both wear masks covering each other's cheeks, they really can't see the original appearance.

Putting the photo in Kuroko's hands, Akashi said:

"When Ryota and the others come over, why don't you show them."

Kuroko looked up at him, how he looked at him now, he felt that Akashi was like a kid showing off.

There are many places to visit in the summer festival, but Akashi doesn't like to be lively, so he took Kuroko around for a few laps, avoided the crowds, and went to the shrine at the end of the street.The scale of this shrine is small, and there are few people who visit it, but because of the summer festival, there are also magic lamps hung on the corner of the temple, and the light and shadows sway with the wind.

According to the custom, the two went to the pool on the right side of the temple to wash their hands and rinse their mouths before entering.There are not many people in the temple, so you can directly pray and make a wish.

Putting coins in, clapping his hands twice, Heizi clasped his palms respectfully and prayed for blessings. Akashi next to him looked at him for a few seconds, and then lowered his eyelids to pray and make a wish.Akashi didn't like to come to the shrine, and he didn't believe in these things, but he knew that Kuroko had the habit of going to the shrine to pray, so he went with him.

Pulling the hemp rope in front of him, the wind chime rang softly.Heizi put money in and immediately asked for a lottery.

"Don't Akashi-kun ask for a lottery? It really works."

Heizi said while looking down at the sign.

"No. I don't need anyone to predict my fate."

Akashi refused without any hesitation, and moved closer to see the lottery in Kuroko's hand.

It's a lucky sign, not bad.The signed paper is yellowish, with four lines of Chinese below it, and a small explanation in Japanese below.The front is probably generally auspicious. When there are occasional small disturbances, you should retreat and don't confront them.With the help of noble people, success is expected.

Heizi was slightly startled when he saw the bottom line.

The old people return, today is different from the past.Look at the choice, there is a share.

When Kuroko was wondering if his deduction was correct, Akashi's voice interrupted his train of thought.Taking the lottery paper from Heizi's hand, Akashi took a few glances at it and said, "Do you believe this?"

"Ah."

Heizi responded, still thinking about what he said just now.At this moment, the phone in his trouser pocket vibrated suddenly.

Heizi took out his mobile phone and looked at it. It was an unfamiliar number, and the location indicated was the United States.

With a sudden jump in his heart, Heizi hung up the phone almost subconsciously, pursing his lips, and stuffed the phone back into his pocket.

Seeing Heizi's series of bewildered actions, Akashi frowned slightly, returned the paper to him, and said calmly, "What's the matter, you don't answer the phone?"

"No... probably a typo."

Heizi smiled, and quickly recovered his gentle face just now:

"Let's watch the fireworks, everyone should have gone to the mountain too."

Akashi let out a "hmm", and cooperatively did not continue the topic just now.When he walked out of the shrine with Kuroko and walked up the stairs, Akashi clearly felt that his emotions were not right.Heizi is usually not a person who likes to show his feelings to the outside world, but looking at it now, half of Heizi's thoughts have long since stopped on this summer festival.After looking at him for a while, Akashi said indifferently: "What's wrong, a phone call influenced Tetsuya like this?"

Heizi immediately smiled and said:

"It's nothing... I just saw an unfamiliar number and wondered who it was."

"Then call back and have a look. It's not Tetsuya's style to hang up the phone directly."

The smile on his lips froze, and Heizi said after a while:

"It's... from the United States."

Akashi was not surprised, but said:

"Is Vulcan older than me?"

Heizi immediately interfaced:

"Sorry, I don't know."

After a pause, he added:

"Probably...not."

"Give me his number."

Akashi said calmly, and when he found that Kuroko was looking at him with a bit of astonishment, he repeated it again, with a vaguely commanding tone: "Give it to me."

"I don't know if it's Fire God Lord..."

Kuroko still wanted to try to explain, but after seeing Akashi's eyes, he couldn't say anything more. He took out his mobile phone and called up the call log, and showed Akashi the number on it.Akashi entered the phone number above into his mobile phone, saved it, and directly pressed the call button.

Kuroko stared at Akashi's mouth, his heart suddenly started beating wildly, pounding his chest, as if the caller was himself.

Akashi remained expressionless, and after a long silence with each other, Akashi lowered his head and hung up the phone.

"……who is it?"

Heizi tried to ask him softly.

"It's turned off."

Akashido.

Heizi suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, he found that his fingertips were cold, and after he clenched his fists, a little cold sweat broke out in his palms.

He just hoped that everything was just a coincidence.

Although he believed the sign.

There were more and more people in the back mountain, and there were already many people when Heizi arrived.Akashi took out the picnic cloth from his bag and spread it on the grass, letting Kuroko sit down and rest first.The latter hadn't warmed up the cloth when behind him he heard Ziyuan munching on a delicious bar, saying indistinctly: "Ah—I found that little black boy——"

Heizi couldn't help smiling, Ziyuan put the backpack on the tablecloth, and took out all the bento inside, followed by the endless quarrel between Kise and Aomine: "It's all Xiao Aomine's fault!"

"Kose, you bastard, shut up—"

"—If you hadn't insisted on playing the basketball machine, how could I have separated from Xiao Heizi!"

"Huh? What's wrong with me, and aren't you also addicted to playing basketball?"

"Tch, Xiao Qingfeng never likes to admit mistakes!"

"Kose, you bastard, I finally warn you to shut up..."

Hearing the voices of the two people, Heizi couldn't help feeling much better. He smiled, took the sushi handed by Ziyuan, and suddenly a hand appeared in front of his eyes. Looking up along the arm, he saw the person who was pushing the glasses. green room.

On Midorima's palm was a small light blue cloth ornament, with a string of golden bells hanging from it, and two gold ribbons hanging down.Fine dark blue flowers are printed on the bottom of the ornament, which is small but exquisite.

Heizi thanked him, and accepted Midorima's gift:

"Thank you Midori-san, is this... the lucky thing for Aquarius?"

Luma nodded and said:

"A talisman from the shrine."

"Thank you, I will wear it every day."

Heizi carefully put it in his pocket, and in the next second his neck was strangled by Kise.The latter sat behind him, and when he saw Midorima giving him a gift, Kise immediately stuffed the cotton candy he bought earlier into Heizi's hand: "Hurry up, little Heizi, it's very sweet!"

Not to be outdone, Aomine next to him put two skewers of takoyaki into Heizi's other hand, and then stared back arrogantly at Kise.Heizi, who had gotten used to it, was sandwiched between the two, his neck was still strangled by Kise's arm, and Aomine had already wrapped his arms around his waist.Smiling helplessly, Heizi looked down at the food in his hand, thinking which one would be better to eat first.

In the distance, the melodious and lingering ethereal vocals of the singer could be heard faintly, followed by the sound of the majestic taiko drum beating, and the shouts of the crowd could be heard endlessly.Sitting between them, Heizi looked back at the gradually approaching floats. The lights on the mountain reflected the night like a burning dusk.

The first cluster of fireworks bloomed in the night, covering up all sounds.Heizi looked up at the beautiful fireworks blooming in the darkness, and the intersecting spots of light illuminated the sky.The color is bright, and the afterimage of falling fireworks is like spray painting with a lot of thick colors.

Heizi looked at the night sky that was gradually turning from dark to dark blue. After a while, he lowered his head and took a bite of the marshmallow, and then took another bite of takoyaki. It was sweet and salty. It tastes good alone, but it tastes strange when eaten together. But he doesn't reject it at all.

It's great to be able to watch the fireworks with everyone around me.

Heizi smiled, lowered his eyelids, and the curvature of his lips became more and more obvious.He seemed happier than he had ever been, without making it obvious.He just wanted to sit by everyone's side for a while longer, to forget those feelings that made him unable to let go, or that might cause him melancholy.He just wanted to be infected with this strong but light atmosphere, and memories were already precious.The road ahead seems to be bright for him.

Someone patted on the shoulder, Kuroko turned around, and saw Akashi with a faint smile in his eyes, the latter approached, the light of fireworks reflected in the strange-colored pupils, and the full moon.

The expression is soft and the reflection is deep.

Akashi's lips pressed against his ear, and he whispered softly.Because the sound of fireworks was blooming in his ears, Kuroko frowned slightly, and asked Akashi with his eyes if he could say it again, the latter smiled and shook his head, sat back and continued to watch the fireworks.