[SD Doujin] Light Blue Summer

In the early morning, half asleep and half awake, Rukawa rubbed his sleepy eyes dimly, pushed out the bicycle from the warehouse, slowly walked around the road in front of the apartment, and stood in the middle of the road while holding the handlebar.

There was a soft and tight sound as the chain of the car brushed and rattled, and it just pedaled forward.

The irritability of being awakened in the early morning mixed with tiredness is buzzing in my mind, and the refreshing morning breeze blows over, already carrying the light golden breath of the morning sun, slowly agitating and wrinkling the pure white and light linen fabric of the summer uniform, The moisture of the early summer rain clouds permeated the air that was rubbed against the skin tightly, delicate and cold.He put more weight on his feet, climbed up a slope, and rode on the main road. Students in the same uniform could also be seen among the crowd passing by in twos and threes. He looked up and saw her waiting on the sidewalk at a glance. She was taller than her. The other girls beside him were much taller, their skin was very fair, and they had a slight smile on their faces, as if they were talking to the people around them.

"Ayu Sakurai, Ayu means 'step', so it's an interesting name. 』

『From now on, please give Rukawa a lot of advice! 』

Her black hair was draped down her shoulders, and the curvature of her chin was as clean and clear as the clear lines of flowing water.

×

Rukawa's impression of her was vague at first.

Whether it's the one who always clenches his fists and looks very flat, or the one who is watching him play basketball seriously on the seat next to him, it seems to be no different from the girls beside him, but it seems What's the difference.

"you try."

He retracted the basketball and twirled it with his fingertips, watched Ayu stand up straight from the chair, and blinked.With an expression that seemed to be thinking, he slowly walked towards him, took the basketball with a smile, adjusted the angle slightly, and then imitated his posture to shoot. The basketball only spun a few times outside the frame before sliding down.

"Well, it doesn't seem right, Rukawa should be like this just now, right?" She raised her arms high, she turned her head, as if talking to herself or asking him, frowned slightly, stepped back outside the line and began to practice again, Once, twice, three times, with a serious and focused demeanor, not the kind of sudden attempt to try something new, even in Rukawa's view, he worked harder than many boys in the team.

"Rukawa, is it like this?"

The other party asked a question suddenly, with a familiar tone, and looked at her slowly. Rukawa hugged her shoulders and watched her dribble, jump up, layup, and finally scored the ball steadily. Picking up the basketball, she wiped the sweat on the side of her face with the back of her hand. After seeing himself nodding silently, he seemed relieved. Perhaps because of the hot weather, the thin lips showed a particularly bright color, very bright red.There was a nice smile on that pretty face.

"Great, can I learn something else next?"

"Oh."

Rukawa looked away from her lips and nodded indifferently.

"To thank you, let me have today's dinner!"

Rukawa's parents are both in the United States, and they come back about once every six months. They usually contact each other by phone or email, but he doesn't know anything about Ayu. He went straight to the kitchen, squatted in front of the open refrigerator door, rummaged through it, then closed the refrigerator door in discouragement and frustration, and when he smiled at him in embarrassment, he realized that she was also alone, living like this with.

"It's been a long time since I've cooked...how about instant noodles?"

She walked over and closed the freezer door, opened the closet, and cooked the instant noodles on the stove. She stared at the boiling hot water without saying a word, stirred the cooked food with chopsticks, put the cooked food into the container, and served it carelessly. After serving the table, Rukawa looked at the poor-looking instant noodles on the table, holding the chopsticks in his hand, and sighed heavily in confusion.

"Too bad to eat."

Rukawa expressed his opinion pertinently, but the other party looked up, with noodles hanging from his mouth, very dissatisfied.

"Just eat what you have, you are really picky."

The warm indoor light came down from the top of his head, and Rukawa himself didn't notice it, and a smile flashed away.

×

Speaking of which, his attitude is also quite strange. Originally, he never cared about the girls around him, whether they were in the class or those girls who often cheered outside the gymnasium. In the beginning, Ayu was so positive. When approached, Rukawa was still quite conflicted.

Ayu Sakurai is not his friend, let alone familiar with him. He is just a neighbor in an apartment building, someone who plays basketball together, and is not even a teammate. But his so-called resistance is only verbal and formal. It is still unavoidable. Every day after school training, she goes home to practice in the small court, and then goes to the other party's house for dinner. The so-called dinner is just clumsy for a long time, and she is nervous and entangled to the point of exaggeration. The frequency is once every five seconds. Repeatedly asking, "How is this time?" "Is it delicious?", as if what she is doing is nothing else, just to make him happy... Sometimes they will watch TV together, but Most of the time, he slowly became sleepy and fell asleep after watching it by himself. After waking up, he could only see her dissatisfied but helpless expression.

Rukawa thinks that she is a girl with a fairly strong personality who can't see any troubles. He rarely sees Ayu cry in front of others, and sometimes he feels that this girl is so strong that it is hard to understand.But on that day, he saw her crying.

Standing at the mailbox in the hall downstairs, then suddenly turned around and walked to the corner where a person was sobbing secretly. This moment lasted very short. When Rukawa saw it and tried to organize some words to comfort her, Ayu had already wiped Dry your tears and greet him with a smile.

She is not as strong as he imagined, and she can't keep herself in the best condition all the time.

She is only gentle on the surface, but in fact she is a bit stubborn, and loves to cry.

But at that moment, looking at her crying face silently, Rukawa felt that he was not so happy at the same time, he had seen her laughing unscrupulously when fighting, and he had seen her get up in the morning with bangs flying Qiao looked a little dazed and cute, but it happened that because she was holding back her tears, her expression was a little stiff, which made Rukawa feel "I want to protect this person" for the first time.

I want to protect this person, I want to say something comforting to her, I want to help her dry her tears... Even if I don't do anything, I want to stay by her side, I don't want to see her cry alone.

When Rukawa saw Ayu, he felt more special than ordinary friends from now on.

×

"Well, Captain, is the girl who always waits for you to go back after training to be your girlfriend?"

Rukawa, who was still instructing the training, looked at the junior in front of him and shook his head silently.

"Then, can the captain introduce us?"

The other party's eyes immediately burst into light, but Rukawa still firmly believed that she would refuse, so she would not associate with such a boy.

Such... boys?

What kind of boy will she like?

He thought about it carefully, but there was still no result.

Walking side by side with the first-year juniors on the way back, when passing the small court at the entrance, there was a rare sound of hitting a ball inside, and what she saw through the barbed wire was Ayu's familiar but unfamiliar smile. Standing was a boy wearing the uniform of the same school as her. He dribbled the ball skillfully and quickly, and then raised his wrist to send a three-pointer. He had brown hair and a fairly recognizable appearance. After the ball entered the basket and fell, He yelled at Ayu.

"I like you---! Go out with me---!"

She was even seriously considering the other party's proposal.

"Oh, good."

Rukawa was inconspicuously stunned for a moment, and the face of the junior next to him froze, and he wanted to say something, but he didn't say it.

Unconsciously, the eyebrows raised slightly, watching her walk out holding the boy's arm, and then smiled at him, and the two gradually walked away, Rukawa continued to remain silent.

Rukawa has gotten used to Ayu occasionally playing pranks on him, used to her always using inexplicable reasons to explain why the dinner is as bad as ever, used to seeing her smile every time he turns around during practice, and started He didn't think deeply in a certain direction, but Rukawa himself really liked the feeling of getting along with Ayu, the pleasant atmosphere was very reassuring, and it gave him an illusion called "sense of belonging".

"Xiaofeng, why don't you feel very happy."

The call came from the mother on the far side, the tone was the same as usual, after a few scattered words, the other side suddenly spoke.

"no."

He stopped with the hand that was still wiping his hair, and then continued to dry his hair before.

"Really? But a while ago, I always felt that you seemed to be very happy. Could it be that you have someone you like?"

Mother asked half-jokingly and half-certainly, and he interrupted her impatiently, and at the same time tapped his knuckles on the table, frowning.

"……No."

He never knew what it would be like to like it.

After hanging up the phone, Rukawa walked out of the house and stared at the other person's door for a while, intending to take a breather to calm down. Ayu probably didn't come to see him for a week because he started dating that person. Rukawa's life is no different from usual. Wake up early for training, go to class to sleep, practice at night, go home to sleep, every day seems to be very busy, but occasionally insomnia, I will hear small footsteps in the corridor and then the sound of the door opening, and then fall into silence.

It's boring, I don't know what to do, and I'm absent-minded about everything I do.

He watched the live basketball game on TV, closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, he suddenly found her in front of him, her eyes were as clear as glass, and she pursed her lips into a smile.The smile covers many elements to a large extent, interferes with his judgment orientation, and is more or less annoying.

"Long time no see! Come to my house to eat hot pot tonight!"

The smile was the same as before, Rukawa watched coldly as she sat beside him skillfully unbuttoning her shirt to reveal her white arms, and then exaggeratedly kept fanning the wind, "It's finally over, huh~"

"How did you get in here?"

He felt an inexplicable heat on his body, and slightly tossed his hair to look away.

"Oh, you didn't give it to me, didn't we exchange house keys with each other?"

She deliberately teased him with a shrill voice, put one arm on her forehead, fluttered her long black eyelashes, and pretended to be very troubled, "Rukawa must be hungry because his IQ is so low now." Why, come and eat, I'll wait for you at home." After speaking, she got up and planned to leave, at that moment, Rukawa reached out and grabbed her hand.

"What's the matter? Hey, maybe I'm angry because I haven't eaten together for so long... But I really have no choice but to date him because..."

for what?Rukawa found that he was unexpectedly looking forward to the second half of her words, but in the end she just waved her hands disapprovingly, let go of his restraint, and left. It took Rukawa a while to raise her hand, looking at Touching the palm of her hand, it seemed that the touch of her skin still remained on the palm of her hand.Her skin is very white, her body is very soft, and when she suddenly grabs her hand from behind, her body temperature seems to rise slightly...

This feeling is completely different from his feeling playing basketball on the court.

For basketball, Rukawa loves and devotes himself wholeheartedly. He has always believed that his dedication and reward are directly proportional, but in the face of such a situation, he will become at a loss.

He didn't know if he liked it, but he felt happy when he saw her smiling beside him, and wanted to share her pain when he saw her sad, it was just such a simple mood.If there is any difference between this feeling and liking, it is that Rukawa hopes to make Ayu happy, and the person who can share Ayu's pain is himself, and it will never be someone else.

If so, does it count as "like"?