[Kuroko's Basketball] The First Promise

Every minute and every second, he wanted to go back to those three years.The Generation of Miracles without Little Heizi cannot be called the Generation of Miracles.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++++++++++++++++++ "Ah——Midorima is too cunning, she went to the dormitory to report first. Xiaoqingfeng and Xiao Akashi don't know where they went , It’s really... so boring, I leave people behind every time..."

Kise complained softly while standing up from the audience.The chaotic crowd downstairs made his eyes dazzle.On the side, Murasakihara covered his face with the finished package of potato chips and said in pain, "I'm so tired without energy" before falling back and falling asleep.There were no shortage of people in the gymnasium, and Kise was a little irritated by the heat. He filled out Heizi's registration form carefully, put it in his bag, and got up to go out.

After going through all kinds of hardships, he finally squeezed out from the exit. Before Kise could catch his breath, he was suddenly patted on the shoulder by the person behind: "Excuse me... are you that model Kise-kun?"

Huang Lai smiled dryly and turned back to look at the girl with glowing eyes. The weak and unassuming "You've got the wrong person" was instantly drowned out by waves of girls' screams.

Familiar with the flashing lights and the girls' screams, Kise quickly cleaned up his expression, and took pictures with the girls who squeezed in with a charming smile on his face.He remembers that he always encountered such things in junior high school. Sometimes the whole team had to wait for him alone and postpone training. For this reason, Akashi increased the amount of training for him.He also remembered one time when he finished training, he had made an appointment to go home with Heizi after changing clothes, but when he left the training ground, he was surrounded by a group of girls who had been waiting for a long time.From a distance, he saw Heizi staggering and being squeezed into a corner. Although the loneliness in the corner of his eyes was not obvious, he still keenly caught it.Later, he, who has always been gentle to his fans, showed his impatient expression for the first time, apologized to the enthusiastic girls with a forced smile, then squeezed through the crowd and moved to Heizi, bent over to help him dust off the dirt on his body, and pulled him He smiled and said, "Little Heizi, let's go home~"

At that time, Heizi looked up at him, and the spots in his blue eyes flickered slowly, extremely beautiful.

No matter how long it has passed, Kise can still remember the scene at that time, and every time I think about it, it hurts. When I went to challenge Seirin, I wanted to say to Kuroko again, "Little Kuroko, let's go home", but he didn't say anything After holding back for a long time, he just teased with a forced smile, "How about returning the little blackie".

Every minute and every second, he wanted to go back to those three years.The Generation of Miracles without Little Heizi cannot be called the Generation of Miracles.

Kise retracted his thoughts, and suddenly heard the girl next to him blushing and whispering, "Kise-kun's smile just now was so gentle."Startled, Kise smiled and didn't speak.There were many people who wanted to take a group photo, but he wanted to go to Akashi and the others first, especially when he learned that Kuroko was also at Tokyo University, he was even more eager to meet Kuroko.Finally, when there were fewer people, he avoided the crowded gymnasium by "going to get a bottle of water", and decisively moved to the back of the gymnasium and walked back to the teaching building along the tree-lined path.

The University of Tokyo is indeed too big. Huang Lai has not been familiar with the environment here for three days. During the first few days of school, he has to be late every time he goes to class because he is looking for a classroom. He walks from the west to the east. Moreover, the dormitory is the new area farthest from the basketball court. It seems that the journey back to the dormitory after training can be regarded as part of the training.

Huang Lai suddenly thought of the person in the dormitory who had to return the report to the future, and kept imagining "it would be great if that person was a little blackie", but every time he thought about it, he couldn't help laughing at himself, how could it be possible? Such a coincidence happened to me.

Kise walked around the street lights blocking the way while thinking about something, and stopped suddenly after taking two steps.He heard the familiar sound of slapping a basketball. He paused for half a second and walked along the short bush. The barbed wire blocked his way, and inside the barbed wire was an open-air basketball court divided into six areas. The empty basketball court Makes the sound of the basketball hitting the ground extra noticeable.

Looking over the somewhat tight iron net, Huang Lai's eyes suddenly widened.

Akashi started holding the ball, keeping his eyes fixed on the person in front of him. He dribbled the ball two or three times and suddenly broke through to the left, then changed to the right and instantly passed the sunspot in front of him. He raised his hand and hit the ball steadily with a hook into the basket.Heizi catches the falling ball with no expression on his face and relies on his speed to directly break through. On weekdays, opponents often pay attention to the fake movements of people's feet and hands to mark the second move. Heizi didn't make too many fake moves and directly He made a horizontal breakthrough to the right, and was cut off by Akashi, who had seen through it a long time ago. Kuroko immediately reached out to block, but the angle of his arm was staggered, and Akashi scored another layup.

Oneonone, almost one-sided situation.

Heizi wiped the sweat off his chin, gasping for breath.

"Have you forgotten how I taught you to attack at the beginning?" Akashi dribbled the ball without any haste, seeing that Kuroko had no offensive tendency for a long time, but his smile did not diminish: "It seems that after so long, you haven't improved at all. None, but a step back too much.”

Heizi looked up at him, his pointed chin was dripping with sweat.

"You haven't scored a single point so far." Akashi chuckled, "If you're not satisfied, guard me and break through, instead of standing there and staring at me like this."

Kuroko pursed his lips, gritted his back teeth and waved his hand to intercept the ball again in response to Akashi's movement, countering the rhythm of the opponent's dribble, he directly held down the ball that had just bounced off the ground and was about to steal it with one step to the right. Akashi squinted his eyes slightly , with his right foot as the pivot, and the second after Heizi broke the ball, he broke it back again.Heizi's emotions suddenly became a little uncontrollable. At that time, he only had one thought.

——I just don’t want Akashi to touch the ball.

With an impulsive impulse coming from nowhere, Heizi kicked the ball flying with a backhand.

The basketball hit the barbed wire fence with a "bang", then fell to the ground and bounced a few times before being picked up by someone bending over.

"Ah~ so it's true that Akashi is real. He said he went out to get some air, but he came out to play with Xiao Heizi secretly." Kise said this in a teasing tone, twirling the basketball with his index finger, but his expression suddenly turned slightly cold: " Even little Akashi, you can't bully little Heizi."

The faintly flowing wind seemed to freeze the air, piercing the dark blue sky.

Kuroko looked over Akashi's figure and saw Kise standing at the gate of the stadium. Against the light, his lenses were stained with dirt again. He felt that Kise's face looked a little blurry, and he couldn't even tell the truth from the angry words. fake.

After a few months of not seeing each other, Heizi thought that Kise would rush over and shout "Little Heizi, I miss you so much, hurry up and give me a loving hug" to say hello.

"Ryota didn't take a good look at the club's booth," Akashi didn't care that the game was interrupted. Looking at Kise, he smiled unchanged: "Do you want to double the amount of training?"

"It just so happens that I've gained two catties recently, so I'll treat it as a weight loss." It's very rare for Huang Lai not to feign pain and clamor for a reduction in punishment. He slapped the ball on the ground and began to dribble slowly, while bending slightly with a smile: " If Akashi wants to find someone to play basketball, just say so—why do you have to work so hard for Xiao Heizi to be your training partner?"

Akashi looked at him for a while, and then said, "The two of you go up together."

Kise glanced at Heizi in a little surprise, but the latter's expression was still not salty.

"If it's two-on-one, Ryota doesn't have the confidence to beat me?" Akashi smiled lightly and bent over to make a mark: "Then don't even think about wanting to replace Tetsuya as my training partner."

"That's good~ Anyway, I haven't played with Xiao Heizi for a long time." Huang Lai passed the ball to Hei Zi, and walked over to stand in a two-on-one formation, smiling happily: "If you can play with Xiao Hei Zi, it's one-on-one." One hundred to two, I don't care~"

Akashi laughed, without any warmth.He didn't answer any more, and directly cut off the ball that Heizi had just dribbled. The latter quickly passed the ball, the speed was not fast, and the angle was a bit inaccurate. Kise didn't care too much, and adjusted his movements according to the angle of the ball. After stepping out and catching the ball, it is necessary to break through Akashi.Although Akashi's height is a disadvantage, his speed is second to none. At the same time that Kise received the ball, he had already changed direction and disconnected Yokoten.

The ball was forced to be played, Kise hooked the corner of his lower lip, and slapped the ball in the air to Kuroko who was two steps away. Akashi didn't stop the ball, and Kise was wondering why he kept dropping the ball he passed to Kuroko When I hit the ball, I heard the sound of "slapping" basketball bouncing.

Kuroko actually didn't catch Kise's ball.

Kise was stunned for half a second, and immediately smiled and said, "It's okay, it's okay, who didn't make a mistake~ Don't worry about it, Xiao Heizi, just pass the ball to me next time~ In fact, I always couldn't catch the ball before~"

Kuroko's eyes darkened slightly, Akashi didn't say anything, he picked up the ball and threw it back to Kise: "Come again."

Huang Lai's eyes suddenly became sharper, and his dribbling voice seemed to be a little deeper than before.Feint again, drive, dribble behind.Kuroko caught the ball this time, but his catch was unstable, but his reaction was not slow. By the time Akashi changed direction to steal the ball, he had already rushed to the basket for a three-step layup.

"Little Heizi—" Huang Lai's voice was full of excitement.

Heizi breathed a sigh of relief to calm himself down, looked at the basket above his head, and raised his hand to throw the ball neatly.

The ball drew a beautiful arc in the air, hit the basket in the next second, spun a few times before falling to the ground, bounced a few times and stopped next to Heizi's sneakers.

The ball missed.

Heizi took a deep breath, his lips turned white.

Huang Lai quickly stepped forward and hooked the man's neck, and said with a smile: "Well——Little Heizi is so powerful! I couldn't even defend Xiao Akashi just now! Next time we will cooperate just now, and we will definitely score ! Xiao Heizi has not played basketball for so long and found it so quickly, he really deserves to be Xiao Heizi!"

Heizi followed Kise's movement of hooking his neck and leaned slightly towards him, paused and said in a low voice, "...that's not the case, Kise-kun."

"Little Heizi, don't be depressed, this expression doesn't suit you at all~" Huang Lai's heart twitched slightly when he saw his ugly expression.He didn't like this atmosphere at all, and looked back at Akashi who was standing there, the latter gave him an inscrutable smile, which made Kise feel a little uncomfortable.

Indeed, Heizi's specialty is passing the ball. Whoever passes the ball to him and whom he passes the ball to, will never make a mistake, and it is even more impossible for him to fail to catch the ball. Besides, he was so close just now. distance.It is very difficult to make mistakes in the three-step layup, which is repeated hundreds of times a day. It is obviously a very simple basic movement, but Heizi makes mistakes again and again. To put it bluntly, he really looks like a beginner.

Huang Lai involuntarily hooked Heizi's neck tightly, as if wanting to dilute the weird atmosphere, he took off Heizi's glasses while smiling: "Where can you buy Heizi's glasses? Wearing such beautiful glasses~ By the way, Xiao Heizi is short-sighted? Why did he suddenly wear glasses? Hey, if I don’t wear glasses, will I not be able to see such a beautiful face clearly? If so, Xiao Heizi won’t be caught I'm lost..."

Heizi pursed his lips and looked at Huang La who was talking to himself, the people in front of him blurred into two shadows.

"Kise-kun, return my glasses."

After a while, Heizi raised his hand to grab Huang Lai's arm, but he misplaced it and missed it.Seeing Heizi's action, Huang Lai frowned slightly. From such a close distance, he could see the expression on Heizi's face clearly, and he could even see the not deep but stitched scar under the corner of his eye.

Wearing those thick-rimmed glasses to hide that scar?

"Little Heizi looks good without glasses—why do you have to wear glasses like Xiaoluma?" After a long while, Kise smiled and raised his arms to prevent Heizi from reaching his glasses, and his tone didn't look like he was joking. : "I just like the look of Xiao Heizi without glasses~"

"Kise-kun, return the glasses to me, don't make trouble..."

Heizi's tone was vaguely helpless, and his face was also slightly pale.

Kise didn't put his hand down, but instead held Heizi tighter:

"Listen to me, little Heizi, no matter what happened to you before..."

"—Kise-kun, give me back my glasses!"

Heizi suddenly interrupted Kise, and the sudden increase in the volume made the latter's eyes widen in surprise.

"...Little Heizi, are you angry?" Kise was frightened now, and hurriedly returned the glasses. Heizi took it and put it on with his head down. His shoulders trembled slightly, and the subtle movements seemed to convey through the bones It's on Huang Lai.Heizi pursed his lips again, broke away from Huang Lai's arm and took a step back.

Seeing that Heizi's eye sockets turned red, Huang Lai's heart throbbed in pain.

He rarely sees a sunspot who loses his composure, unless it really touches his bottom line or makes him excited.Did my actions offend him just now, or did I lose my sense of proportion in what I said?

Kise wanted to raise his hand to hug him back, but Heizi took another step back and bowed to him: "Kise-kun has always wanted to play with me. I'm sorry, I just disappointed Kise-kun gone."

"Hey? Little Heizi, what are you talking about... Playing with you is the happiest thing, what nonsense..."

Ignoring what Kise said later, Kuroko turned around and bowed deeply to Akashi who was not far away: "I disappointed Akashi-kun, I am not qualified to join the team now, I'm sorry."

There was no smile on Akashi's face.The eyes under the bangs were faintly glowing with complex colors.He didn't answer.

Heizi said sorry again in a low voice, turned around and picked up the backpack leaning against the barbed wire, stuffed the books thrown on the bag indiscriminately, and immediately walked out of the basketball court without any lingering.The pace is anxious like a child who is running away but can't find his way.

Kise didn't even think about chasing him out, Akashi called him back, Kise didn't listen, Akashi frowned and grabbed the person rushing out.

"What are you doing—didn't you see that little Heizi was crying!" Huang Lai's voice was no longer joking like before, and he frowned anxiously: "I have to apologize... I must have offended Little Heizi Not happy anymore!"

"What can you do when you go." Akashi looked at him coldly: "Since he wants to leave, you will only make him feel more embarrassed if you go."

"Then you mean to let Xiao Heizi hide in the corner alone and feel sad!" Kise couldn't understand Akashi's thoughts at all, he just wanted to hurry to Heizi's side to hug him, and accompany the sad person people.

"Say another word of resistance and pin you to the wall." Akashi let go of the man, turned around to pack the backpack placed by the wall: "If the person he needs is not you, no amount of comfort will be of use."

No one can accept the current Kuroko, and both Akashi and Kise understand this.They really wanted to know what happened to Heizi and why he suffered so much.

But what we can do now is to wait for the opportunity, slowly approach the sensitive person, and help him open up a little bit.Other than that, all they can do is look at the lonely person from a distance, and feel sorry for them helplessly.

Kise lowered his head and tugged at his bangs in pain, suddenly thinking.

—Would it be a wrong choice to let him enter Seirin in the first place?

Otherwise, why would he go farther and farther away from himself, so far away that he can't even see the future that is so close.