[Kuroko's Basketball] The First Promise

The familiar sight and viscous blood chilled his heart little by little.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++While various associations are launching activities one after another, various college leagues are also competing to start signing up, and the college basketball league is the first one to start.The distribution of the list of players has always been a headache for the president, but for Akashi it is the easiest thing.

"The starting players for next week's game will be Ryota, Daiki, Shintaro, Atsushi and me. Tetsuya is a substitute, and the remaining two substitutes will be selected from the freshmen. The preliminaries will start next Monday. The time will be adjusted accordingly according to the competition system and progress. If there are any personnel changes, we will notify you separately.”

After roughly reading the list of personnel and the schedule in his hand, Akashi looked up at the players standing in front of him. He had just done a series of high-intensity training. Except for the old teammates he was familiar with in the first row, those selected The freshmen and seniors were too weak in physical strength, they just ran fifteen laps around the field, and they couldn't stand up straight at every stop.

"I said—"

Even though it has been three days since the last match with Heizi, Huaze's tone has not changed. It seems that the match did not affect him at all. After all, it was just an ordinary three-on-three bullfight for him. It's nothing worth caring about if you lose.The attitude towards Akashi is still arrogant: "That's a college league. Although it's not a national competition, at least we should send some seniors to play. They are all freshmen, and they are not afraid of being laughed at by other schools."

Akashi glanced at Hanazawa in the last row, and his tone could not tell any emotion: "The loser who lost to the freshman has no right to raise objections."

Suddenly being pushed back by Akashi, Hanazawa's complexion was very bad, and he cursed in a low voice almost in a second, turned around with his hands in his pockets and walked towards the entrance of the basketball court: "I don't feel well, I left early."

The two players who played with him that day glanced at Akashi hesitantly and stepped up to follow Hanazawa.

Akashi ignored it, and in his eyes, a worthless player was the air, even if he died, he didn't bother to look at it.

"Have you had enough rest? Continue training."

Ignoring the complaints behind him who deliberately forbear but still couldn't suppress, Akashi sat on the coach chair and pulled a towel to wipe his slightly sweaty forehead. Suddenly, a bottle of iced Pocari appeared next to his left hand.Akashi turned his head and saw Kuroko standing next to him.

"Have you reached your training volume?" Akashi took a few sips of water with his head raised.

Regarding Kuroko's current special situation, Akashi did not arrange for him to join those people's daily training activities, but instead gave him some exercises specifically tailored to his system and style.To his satisfaction, Heizi didn't resist like before.

"According to Akashi-kun's regulations, I have run back and forth [-] times with the lead plate." Heizi's words were still very flat, but his breathing was obvious. Akashi saw him holding the coach chair with his right hand, as if this was the only way to stand firmly Some.

"Take off the lead plate. Sit down and recover your strength." Akashi threw the water bottle back into Kuroko's arms and stood up.

"Half an hour, 50 laps around the field. Whoever didn't complete it within the stipulated time waited for the training volume to double tomorrow."

The unbelievable sounds of exclamation and complaints behind him unexpectedly increased to a higher level, Akashi didn't bother to pay attention to it, he pulled the coat on the back of the chair and threw it over his shoulder, and waved his hand in Kuroko's direction.

"Akashi-kun, you've worked hard." Kuroko knew that Akashi would go back to the club office to make detailed preparations for the university league that started next week, so he bowed slightly towards Akashi.

Even if the president left, those members did not dare to neglect the training.I still remember that when Akashi took office on the first day, he set training goals and then left. Those senior students then started chatting and chatting, completely ignoring Akashi's request, but when they were chatting happily, they suddenly heard There is the sound of scissors being sharpened behind.

--Then?There is no more.

——Anyway, from the next day onwards, everyone was training in a regular manner, and there was no one who was lazy anymore.

——Also, the few seniors who chatted very high asked for sick leave for a few days in a row.

Kuroko sat on the chair Akashi had just sat on, bent down to untie the lead plate wrapped around his ankle, then took a bottle of Pocari and opened it to take a sip.At the beginning, the formation of the members who were still running in circles in the queue gradually became fragmented, and many of them were unable to run and fell to the ground to rest.

"Ah——I'm exhausted, that guy Akashi, he only ran 20 laps in Teiko!" Aomine was the first to complete the course, and walked towards Kuroko while taking off his sweat-soaked sweatshirt , the latter tacitly took out a bottle of water from the cardboard box, and before he could unscrew it for others, Qingfeng had already snatched the water bottle that Heizi had taken a few sips of earlier.

"Mr. Qingfeng is indeed very good. He is the first one to finish every time." Heizi handed over the towel and saw Qingfeng pouring water into his mouth. He hesitated for a while and said: "...Mr. Qingfeng, that bottle of water I've moved before."

"Ah, does it matter?" Qingfeng continued to drink disapprovingly. Kise and the others also completed the prescribed amount of training one after another. They all looked like they were sweating profusely. Kise, who was overdrawn, sat down to rest for a while.

"It's so hot...Really, the cooling equipment in the gym doesn't work at all." Kise covered his face with a towel, gasped for a while, then pulled off the towel to look at Heizi: "Little Heizi, go back to the dormitory right away?"

"No." Heizi shook his head: "I want to stay and train for a while."

"Do you want me to practice with you?"

"No need, Kise-kun is already very tired." Seeing that Kise was about to be overloaded, Heizi naturally couldn't bother him anymore, and turned to look at these people, that is, Qingfeng looked more relaxed: "Qingfeng-kun Do you have time for a while?"

"Ah." Qingfeng replied, rubbing Heizi's hair while wiping his sweat: "You just wait for me here, I'll come back after taking a shower." His whole body was covered in sweat, and he always felt extremely uncomfortable.

"Hey~ I also want to train with Xiao Heizi, it's not fair~" Kise pouted and looked at Aomine dissatisfiedly for a while, received Aomine's return glance, coughed dryly, and continued to say to Heizi: "Then I I'll go back and take a shower before going back to the dormitory, what will Xiao Heizi have for dinner tonight? I'll make an order for you in advance."

"Thanks, Vanilla Milkshake."

"...That can't be used as dinner! By the way, Xiao Heizi likes to eat Fukagawa rice bowls, right? Just buy that?"

"Then Kise-kun will trouble you."

"Haha, no need~ It's the happiest to have dinner with Xiao Heizi!"

"I want to eat together too..."

"Huh? Xiao Ziyuan is coming too?"

"Then I'll go with you, too."

"Wait, wait, how can Little Green Room..."

"That's it, then Ah Zhe and I will go back and eat together after training."

"Hey! Xiao Qingfeng is coming too?!"

Heizi couldn't help but smile after watching the group of people who were still in high spirits leave after training.Turning around, I tidied up the towels and water bottles that those people had left behind, and took the broom by the way to clean it up again.Heizi looked at his watch when the gymnasium was almost finished. It was almost 08:30. Since today is Friday, the gymnasium can be used for a while.

He was thinking for a while whether he should ask Qingfeng for advice on shooting or his extraordinary knowledge, when he was suddenly stopped by the person behind him: "That... Heizi Jun?"

Heizi looked back and saw a student who was about the same height as him. He looked familiar. If he remembered correctly, he should be a new member of the basketball club in the same grade.The man seemed very nervous, and he stumbled over a simple sentence.

Nodding his head, Heizi asked him what was wrong with his eyes.

"I... I watched the match between you and your seniors a few days ago, and I felt... that Heizi-jun's interception was really good, so I was wondering... can you teach me? Because my height is a disadvantage... I am often ridiculed by my seniors for my shooting skills, so... I want to try to see if I can learn to steal the ball... because this is also a very powerful skill..." The boy still had no confidence in his words, and he was a little incoherent, and his eyes even had some Qiyi: "So...do you have time now?"

Heizi thought for a while, Qingfeng just went to take a bath, and he should not come back in a while, so he nodded: "Okay, but I have something to do later, I only practice for half an hour, is that okay?"

"Okay, okay!" The boy nodded immediately, then said after a pause, "Also... this gymnasium is only open until nine o'clock today, Mr. Heizi, shall we go to the outdoor basketball court?"

Heizi nodded, took out his mobile phone and sent Qingfeng a text message "see you on the outdoor basketball court", then picked up the backpack on the ground and followed the freshman out of the gymnasium.

The cool breeze made the night quieter.Occasionally, you can hear the broadcast from the playground in the distance. The gymnasium is located in the remote east district, and there are no teaching buildings around it. Instead, it looks like a new undeveloped venue. There are not even many street lights. Heizi squinted his eyes slightly. Looking further away, the scene is pitch black.The night in Tokyo is always so completely dark.

Heizi habitually kept silent, and his temperament made the freshman a little embarrassed, as if he wanted to find some topics to break the deadlock: "Um...does Heizi-jun usually practice basketball?"

"No."

"Oh...then, is Heizi-kun naturally very good? Your match that day...the second half was really good!"

"Thank you, but it's not natural."

"Is that so... Then, that must have been acquired! Those teammates of yours are so good, they are my learning goals!"

"Well, that's my goal too."

Perhaps because he didn't know that Heizi's personality was like this, that freshman was a bit of a bore in his life.As if to take a shortcut, the freshman proposed to go straight through the tree-lined path, and just walked along the cobblestone road for a few steps, the boy suddenly slapped his forehead: "Ah! I actually left my schoolbag in the gymnasium! My God ……what time is it now!?"

Heizi looked down at his watch, luckily it was luminous: "Eight fifty."

"It's over, it's over... If the museum is closed, I'll be miserable—that, that, Mr. Heizi, go to the open-air court and wait for me first, I'll be right back!"

Before Heizi could say anything, the freshman turned around and ran away.Heizi frowned.That person... obviously ran in a direction other than the gymnasium.Heizi didn't think too much about it, turned around and continued walking, and stopped in the next second, almost bumping into the person in front of him.

"Yo. The training is over."

Heizi looked up and saw Huaze who left early earlier, and his two followers.

Heizi almost understood what was going on in his heart, and Heizi pursed his lower lip imperceptibly.This place is very remote, basically no one will pass by, if the three people in front of him have any plans, he really didn't think of a countermeasure for a while.

"What's the matter?"

"What's the matter? Of course I want to talk to you."

"Talk about what?"

Hua Ze looked down at this man who was a head shorter than him, and after a while, he let out a mocking smile, and went straight to the topic: "Did you also hear the league list that Akashi arranged today?"

"how?"

"You'd better apply for resignation tomorrow. Your substitute seat should belong to Lao Tzu. If you are sensible, get out quickly. Don't think it's great to have those people backing you."

Heizi watched Huaze's angry words, and just listened with a paralyzed face.

"In the game that day, who couldn't see that it was your hind legs? Even if your steals worked in the second half, so what, you can't shoot, you can't assist, people like you are not suitable for playing basketball. So quit basketball as soon as possible Club, give me the place in the league."

"I'm sorry, but I can't agree." Heizi replied simply: "The arrangement was drawn up by Akashi-kun. Although I can't help the team get any points, I will try my best. Did you forget the game that day? ?”

"Ha! I don't understand what lies you bastard are talking about!" Hua Ze sneered almost from the bottom of his heart, and directly grabbed Hei Zi's collar and pulled him up: "I'll just say it once, let you quit Basketball club, stop talking nonsense with me!"

"Sorry, I won't quit the basketball club." Heizi's stubbornness can really make people angry at certain moments, Hua Ze stared at Heizi's serious expression, and laughed: "Okay, you can do it. No Quit, right? Then I will tell you clearly, no matter what, only my name can be on the league roster, not you to replace me—so you can obediently give me back as a useless bottom player !"

Heizi frowned, before he could speak, Huaze's punch directly hit his soft abdomen hard.

Heizi snorted, and was thrown to the ground by Huaze after bearing the punch. The impact made his forehead slam into the cracked concrete floor, the glasses lenses were instantly shattered, and the frames flew out.When his body hit the hard cobblestone, he felt dizzy, and the burning pain seemed to burn his skin.Then he felt a viscous liquid flowing down his eyelashes, and barely opened his eyes, he only saw a blood red in front of his right eye.

This familiar scene made him froze suddenly.

"If you don't fight, you still have to participate in the college league with this body? It's not enough to hold you back."

Hua Ze sneered and squatted in front of the body lying on the ground, pulled up his soft bangs, looked into Hei Zi's slightly startled eyes: "Why didn't you talk? Are you scared?"

Heizi's body slowly began to tremble, as if he hadn't heard Huaze's words at all, he raised his hand stiffly to touch his right eye socket, and when he saw the bright red stained by his fingertips, his eyes immediately showed a kindness. The color of irrepressible fear.

The blood flowed into the eye socket, and he only felt that the whole right eye was hurting fiercely, and the piercing pain seemed to pierce into the bottom of his heart.It seemed that the fragments of the glasses that had just been broken had stuck somewhere around the eyes, and everything in front of him was blurred.

The familiar sight and viscous blood chilled his heart little by little.

Seemingly feeling that Heizi's demeanor was abnormal, Huaze frowned, watching the blood slowly overflowing from Heizi's forehead.He himself wanted to directly disable this person so that he would not be able to participate in next week's college league, but looking at the current situation, Huaze was a little surprised that he just got punched like this.

"Tsk, it's really boring. I thought I was capable." Huaze let go of Heizi's bangs and stood up, kicking Heizi's chest again, and the latter had no sense of resistance at all, and his body was shaking violently.

"Boss, let's go first. It won't be good when his friends come later." The follower behind him who had been watching for a long time couldn't help but said, and the other took out his mobile phone and took a few pictures with a smile Photos on the ground.

"This time I'm just warning you, don't show off when you have nothing to do in the future, or you won't be so cheap next time." Huaze grabbed Heizi by the collar and dragged him a few meters away, watching He let go of his arm after being scratched by the rough ground, and said in a harsh tone: "If you dare to talk about what happened today, I will make you disappear from Dongda directly!"

After issuing the last warning, Hua Ze clapped his hands, as if he had completed a very huge project.Finally, he stepped on Heizi's left hand, turned around and hurried away with the two people.

Heizi looked at the backs of those people in a daze, his throat was astringent, and he couldn't say what he wanted to say.

This extremely absurd thing, like a sharp bayonet, cut a bloody wound, shocking, and hard-to-heal memories frantically flooded my mind.

The solitude of the night magnified the fear countless times, Heizi's body twitched slightly, and the pain made him convulse continuously.Without any shouts, at this moment of silence and desolation, only darkness and cold remained.