[Liuhua Tongren] I really want to say I love you loudly

The person I like is... Rukawa Kaede...? !

"No, no, no, no! Rukawa Kaede, that bastard is a man! This genius is also a man! How can a man like a man?! No, no, no! Impossible, impossible!!"

Sakuragi, who suddenly fell into confusion, was talking to himself while beating his head, as if he could knock out that ridiculous idea from his brain so that it would never appear again.

Standing downstairs in Sakuragi's apartment, Rukawa didn't leave immediately, but was thinking about the "like" that Sakuragi blurted out.

It turned out to be like this...

The person that idiot likes is Akagi Haruko.

If so...

Early the next morning, Sakuragi met Rukawa by the shoe cabinet at the entrance of the school building.

Perhaps because he didn't expect to meet him in a place other than this kind of stadium, Sakuragi's originally slow pace suddenly became faster.It's not so much faster, it's better to say it's a flying speed.

Seeing an energetic red-haired man beside him moving faster than a normal person, Rukawa moved his lips, suddenly feeling a rare interest.

Although I always feel that Sakuragi's nonsensical behavior is idiotic and incomprehensible, but Rukawa does not deny that sometimes it looks really funny.

Thinking of this, the lines of Rukawa's face became softer again, like snow gradually melting under the spring sun, glowing with pale golden light, warming the heart.

"Student Rukawa..."

The voice came from behind Rukawa, and it was not an unfamiliar voice.

"There is still an hour before the training starts, Rukawa-san, you are really early."

Akagi Haruko glanced at her watch, then smiled and raised her head to look at the black-haired boy in front of her who was only turning sideways to her.

The young man's expression was still as stern as ever, and his black eyes were as deep as ever, revealing the inherent alienation and coldness.

Rukawa didn't respond to Akagi Haruko's gentle greeting, Rukawa only glanced at her slightly, but what flashed in her mind was the words that Sakuragi roared: "I like Miss Haruko today! That's why you bastard dare to do any harm." She will never let you go today!"

Over and over again, echoing endlessly, so that he didn't hear any more voices from Haruko Akagi's mouth.

Seeing Rukawa lost in thought, Akagi Haruko only showed a little confusion, but didn't ask.

And just when she changed her shoes and was about to close the shoe cabinet, Rukawa's voice suddenly sounded.

"Are you free?"

These five simple words did not contain any emotions, but they swept every corner of the girl's heart like a hurricane blown by the Jedi in an instant, almost destroying her sanity and annihilating her wisdom.

Flow, flow, flow, Rukawa actually took the initiative to talk to her? ! ! ! ! !

what to do?what to do? !what to do? ! !

Excited, excited, nervous, terrified.

In an instant, Akagi Haruko's body was quickly filled with all kinds of bizarre emotions and then slammed wildly, like a gas that couldn't find a breakthrough at all, every time it collided in the body, it was fierce enough to be fatal.

"Yes, yes..."

Taking a deep breath, Akagi Haruko gave an affirmative answer in an extremely small voice.

"After practice, stay."

After speaking, Rukawa took a step and quickly disappeared from Akagi Haruko's sight, leaving a girl with a flushed face standing in place and saluting the long gone figure.

"Yo! Miss Haruko!"

The voice that suddenly rang in her ears scared Akagi Haruko, she shrugged her shoulders suddenly, and quickly looked at Mito Yohei who was standing aside.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, did I scare you?" Scratching the black hair at the back of his head, Yang Ping smiled, like a warm spring breeze blowing through a willow branch, leaving a touch of green.

"A little bit. Ah, bad, I have to go to the basketball hall quickly, Yang Ping, will you come over later?"

"Well, let's look at that guy in Huadao."

"Then see you later!"

Looking at Haruko Akagi who ran away in a panic while looking at his watch, Yohei raised one corner of his lips, turned and opened the shoe cabinet.

Recalling Akagi Haruko's flushed appearance just now, he couldn't help but think of her appearance when she faced Rukawa yesterday.

and many more……

Shouldn't...

Thinking like this, Yohei involuntarily shifted his gaze to the shoe cabinet with the words "Rukawa Kaede" written on it, and stopped his movements for a moment.

"Yesterday, you said that you must tell me something?"

In the basketball gym where only Rukawa and Haruko were left after training, Rukawa spoke directly.His tone was the same as his expression, always flat and indifferent, making one unapproachable.

"That... I... yes."

Asked by him, Akagi Haruko's already slightly flushed face turned even redder, and her whole body stiffened a lot.

Wearing a red and black tracksuit, Haruko lowered her head, making the height difference between her and Rukawa even more obvious. Seen from behind, she seemed to shrink into a small ball. And Rukawa in front of her was getting taller and taller.

"I..." Suddenly raised her head to look at Rukawa, Akagi Haruko frowned, looked up at the expressionless young man, but felt that the distance between the two was so far away.

Obviously it was only within reach, but at this moment, she felt more and more that she couldn't understand the boundless darkness in Rukawa's eyes at all.

"I... I'm sorry! Rukawa-san! I want to say, I like you!"

**

"Hanato, what have you been upset about since early in the morning?"

Yohei, who was lying on the back of the chair, looked at Sakuragi who kept tapping his fingers on the table, and asked with a frown.

"Why are you so upset today?!"

"Could it be because of Miss Haruko and Rukawa?... Hey, your eyes are too serious..."

Seeing Sakuragi's suddenly gloomy expression, Yohei moved back.

Staring at Yohei for a while, Sakuragi snorted angrily and closed his eyes, but suddenly stood up as if suddenly remembering something, and shouted at Yohei, "What did you say?!! Miss Haruko and Rukawa ?!Can you say that again?!!"

"I met you this morning. Rukawa seems to have something to say to Ms. Haruko... Hey! Hanako! The bell for class has already rang!!"

Shouting at the back of Sakuragi who was running out of the classroom, Yohei's voice did not dissuade him from wanting to stop something.

********

"You! You!...You!..." Standing outside the door of the basketball hall, gasping for breath, balls of pearly white breath continuously drifted out from Sakuragi's mouth, drowning the complicated expression on his face.

Rukawa was the only one in the basketball hall, and when Sakuragi broke in, Rukawa had just completed a beautiful three-pointer.

The bright red basketball crossed a wonderful parabola in the air, and when it reached the apex above the basket, it suddenly fell, falling from the sea of ​​brilliance into the mortal world.

His movements are always so perfect, as if they have been calculated delicately, but they are also full of madness.

The dropped basketball rolled toward Sakuragi, deflecting at an angle as it hit his left foot.

Looking at Sakuragi standing at the entrance of the venue, Rukawa walked towards him without saying a word, his clear eyes were always fixed on Sakuragi's amber eyes, and he didn't stop until he walked up to him.

"Wow! You bastard, don't get so close!" Sakuragi suddenly reacted and jumped back, but somehow stepped on the basketball that was only at his feet, and then fell down heavily with a "plop".

"What a super idiot..."

Under Sakuragi, came Rukawa's helpless and cold voice.

Jumping up from Rukawa violently, Sakuragi stepped back instantly, his face was full of shock and panic, as well as some kind of confusion tinged with anger.

"You just messed up like this without paying attention, you idiot, did you ignore the doctor's warning?"

Picking up the basketball with no expression on his face, Rukawa looked at Sakuragi, and there seemed to be ice-cold anger burning in his dark as night eyes.

"I don't want you, a bastard fox, to take care of today's genius! What did you say to Miss Haruko?!"

Roaring and retorting, Sakuragi's face flushed red, whether it was because of anger or something else.

After listening, Rukawa narrowed his eyes, and asked after a brief pause: "Is that very important?"

"Of course! Miss Haruko's business is my genius' business! This genius said it! I will never let Miss Haruko get hurt! If you bastard say anything that makes Miss Haruko sad, I will never let you go !"

Clenching his fists together with a "click", Sakuragi's roar almost shook the entire basketball arena.

After staring at Sakuragi for a while, Rukawa suddenly turned around without saying a word and fixed his gaze on the basket again.

"If you want to know so much, you might as well ask her."

********

"Hanado, you're finally back...you, you probably didn't do anything to that guy Rukawa, did you?" Yohei's voice was slightly worried, he looked at Sakuragi thoughtfully, and couldn't wait for a long time for a response.

"Miss Haruko came to look for you." Taking a deep breath, Yohei frowned, and said the only name that could bring the red-haired boy back to reality from his contemplation.

Haruko... yes, Haruko!Haruko!

"You, what did you say?! Ms. Haruko came to see me?!" excitedly grabbed Yohei's shoulders and shook them again and again, Sakuragi's eyes were rounded, and the childish and handsome face was a little more surprised, less A little bit ashamed.

"Yes, yes..." Yohei, who was shaken by Sakuragi, responded helplessly.

This guy...is really pure and uneasy...

Looking at the back of Sakuragi rushing out of the classroom in front of Mr. Oda again, Yohei helped his forehead.

After walking back and forth outside the classroom where Akagi Haruko was in class for a long time, the bell for the end of get out of class rang.

Just when Sakuragi waited and waited for no one to come out and was about to open the door by himself, the back door of the classroom was pulled open from the inside, and the person standing at the door was exactly Haruko Akagi who he wanted to see with all his heart .

Haruko didn't seem to be surprised by Sakuragi standing here, on the contrary, she seemed to know it early on.

"Sakuragi-san, I have something to tell you."

The smile on Akagi Haruko's face was as gentle as Sakuragi's memory, but there were some differences.

In the past, Haruko's gentleness was like a spring breeze, but now, there is a subtle disharmony mixed in her spring breeze-like gentle smile.

It must be a psychological effect!

Sakuragi took a deep breath and told himself in his heart.

What did Rukawa say to his Haruko-san? ! !Miss Haruko doesn't seem to be any different... Ahhhh! !He really wants to know! !

Following Akagi Haruko to the open space behind the teaching building, Sakuragi was always a little nervous.

"Sakuragi-san, I, I confessed to Rukawa-san."

When Akagi Haruko mentioned the word "Rukawa", there was a faint blush on her cheeks, and a hint of longing blended into her eyes.But these two beautiful emotions of the young girl Huaichun only stayed on her for a brief moment, and then disappeared without a trace.

"Confession?!! Ms. Haruko, you actually...!"

"Sakuragi-san, Rukawa-san said, because you are his most important person, whether you refuse or accept, it will hurt you, he said, he will not do anything to hurt you. Sakuragi-san..."

Akagi Haruko was smiling and weeping, she couldn't see the red-haired boy's face from ear to ear due to excessive shock.

********

"Rukawa-san! Me! What I want to say is that I like you!!"

Some people say that it takes a lifetime of courage to confess to someone you have a crush on.

From the moment you confess, all the sweetness, uneasiness, apprehension, helplessness, and fear will turn into sharp weapons in an instant, attacking your soul like a dagger, piercing you to pieces.

At this very moment, Akagi Haruko was experiencing this.

"Is it?"

"...Huh?" Rukawa's reaction was somewhat unexpected to Akagi Haruko, she blushed and blinked, not knowing how to respond for a moment.

"If it were someone else, I would find it troublesome and refuse. Akagi, I can't refuse you, and I won't accept you. You are the most important person to that idiot Sakuragi, and he is the most important person to me."

At this moment, Akagi Haruko suddenly realized that it turned out that the person who spent a lifetime of courage was not herself, but the Rukawa Kaede in front of her who she had been secretly in love with for two full years.

********

Sakuragi Hanadao, who has zero love experience, never knew how to comfort a girl crying in front of him, especially someone he had liked for a whole year.

"Sunny... Haruko..."

********

"Huadao, mom doesn't have dad anymore..."

********

Half of a face suddenly flashed in his mind, Sakuragi couldn't see the whole face, only the sharp nose tip and gentle lip line...and the transparent liquid rolling down the lips.

That face belonged to the only important woman in Sakuragi's life besides Akagi Haruko since Sakuragi could remember.

The momentary trance prevented Sakuragi from hearing Akagi Haruko's words clearly. He only knew that Haruko was crying and laughing, crying miserably and laughing with relief.

When she came to her senses, the person standing in front of Sakuragi was no longer Haruko Akagi, but Yohei Mito.

"I just saw Miss Haruko running out crying, Hanamichi, are you two alright?"

There was worry in Yohei's voice, he stretched out his hand to grab Sakuragi's shoulder.

"Damn it!!" Suddenly holding Yohei's head and giving him a hard headbutt, Sakuragi rushed out of the basketball arena.

Sakuragi didn't go back to the classroom, didn't participate in the after-school exercises, and didn't go home, but stood on the overpass, staring at the vehicles and pedestrians passing below in a daze.

The four members of the Yingmu Legion stood far away somewhere under the overpass, looking at his eye-catching red hair that was always recognizable by others.

"Hey Yohei, isn't that guy Sakuragi broken in love again?" Gao Gong looked at Yohei, clasping his hands behind his head.

"Impossible, impossible, didn't such a single-minded idiot always like Miss Haruko?" Immediately denying his guess, Danan shrugged.

"All in all, let's wait and see here..." As he said that, Yohei's eyes suddenly widened, and at the same time, Rukawa was passing between these four people, as if he hadn't seen these boys at all.

"Wait, Rukawa...!" With a low cry, Yohei took a step forward, but he didn't go any further because he heard a sentence.

"Finally found that idiot." As if talking to himself, Rukawa continued to walk unhurriedly as he looked towards the overpass not far ahead.

"Go away, today I don't want to see you now!"

When Rukawa was one step away from Sakuragi, Sakuragi suddenly turned his head and glared at Rukawa.

The amber eyes reflected the orange-yellow light of the street lamp, and they looked extraordinarily transparent, like real amber. Although it did not have the dazzling luster of gemstones, it was restrained enough to absorb all the beautiful brilliance in this world into the body. the deepest place.

As if close to him, you can keep warm.

But now, those eyes that seemed to be shining with infinite brilliance only had the anger of a beast.

"boom!"

Rukawa's fist imprinted hard on Sakuragi's face, and a dazzling blush appeared on the corner of his lips.

"Now you have a reason to look at me."

Spitting out a mouthful of bloody phlegm, Sakuragi only casually touched the place where Rukawa had beaten with his fingers, then turned around stubbornly, and took big steps.

He has 1 reasons to persuade himself not to pay attention to Rukawa, but there is only one reason not to ignore him.

Especially after Rukawa rejected Haruko, this made Sakuragi feel that he was a complete rotten person.

For Haruko, besides liking him, he also had a trace of gratitude.

But Rukawa, he doesn't understand.

A moment of confusion, a moment of apprehension, a moment of panic, a moment of heartbeat.

All the emotions that shouldn't exist in his body expand and re-expand almost instantly, unpredictable and complicated.

He obviously hated that bastard fox, but he didn't know when he wanted to run on the same stadium with him, win all the championships and medals together, and walk through this glorious youth together. Share all the happiness and unhappiness in youth together.

Sakuragi doesn't understand.

Actually, I also understand.

This is not a simple friendship...

Because I understand it, I can't accept it.Because I understand, I am even more angry.

Because... this will hurt, his most important Miss Haruko...

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