[Comprehensive] different hearts

"No, I—"

Rina subconsciously hid her hands behind her back, and met the serious and quiet eyes of the red-haired boy. She dodged her eyes, and before she could finish her faltering words, Akashi walked up to her with slender legs. He stretched out his hand to her, and said indisputably, "Give it to me."

"It's not a serious wound." Rina wanted to argue, but Akashi directly grabbed her slender arm and lifted her wrist.

Bright red blood was flowing on the white and slender fingers, and the wound was covered with blood, and it was hard to see how deep it was.

"Clean the wound first. There is iodine and gauze in the medicine box." As Akashi said this, he turned his eyes slightly, looked at the cutting board behind Rina and Zhuo who was standing aside, and continued, "Dongyuan, cooking is just a matter of time." please."

"No problem, no problem." Zhu Xu quietly glanced at Li Ming who was full of discomfort, and promised with a bright smile, "Just leave it to me! There are two younger brothers at home, and it's just a meal. It can be done!"

"Then Zuo, let's chop the vegetables first. The wound is not deep, and I'll help you after I'm done with it." Rina lowered her eyelids not to look at Akashi, and responded in a calm tone as much as possible.

The medicine box was placed in the study.The desk is facing the window sill, the window is open, the breeze is gentle, and the sunlight is abundant.

After washing the blood and food residues on his hands with clean water, the wound on Rina's index finger that was accidentally cut by a kitchen knife was exposed.The wound was not very deep, but it turned white after being washed by water.

When she reached for the medicine bottles in the medicine box, there were too many medicine bottles of the same color, and she couldn't tell which one was iodine for a while. Just as she picked up the medicine bottles one by one to identify the labels on them, Akashi had already picked up the left number. Second vial.

"Oh, thank you..." Li Ming stretched out his hand to take it, but he held her injured hand gently and forcefully.

She was startled and said, "Akashi-kun?"

"Do you think you can bandage with one hand?" Akashi's tone was indifferent, and he said questioning words, but his expression did not show the slightest doubt.

"I think so." Rina nodded confidently.Either she was seriously injured and couldn't lift her hands or shoulders, or she just had a cut, just take some medicine and apply a Band-Aid.

"Unfortunately," he raised his eyes to look at her, one gold and one red eyes were filled with clear sunlight, like thousands of glass, Akashi slightly curled his lips, and said slowly, "I don't think so."

"..."

Rina's eyelashes fluttered slightly, and she lowered her eyelids, waiting silently for Akashi to bandage her wound, and when Akashi put the remaining gauze back into the medicine box, just as he was about to leave, Rina couldn't help but grabbed his sleeve.

"Akashi-kun..."

He turned his head to look at her.Akashi didn't ask further, and Rina didn't know what to say for a while, only dust as small as snowflakes danced up and down in the quiet air, she opened her mouth slightly, but finally made no sound.

"Let's go," Akashi looked at her calmly for a while, without pulling back his hand, but broke the silence naturally, and said calmly, "Atsushi and the others are still waiting outside."

"Yeah." Li Ming replied softly.

——"...Although it was a bet at the beginning, but, big sister, you like Akashi Seijuro, right?"

(...How could such a thing be possible.)

If he knew that she confessed to him because of a bet with Zhuxu... Stop!Stop thinking about it, isn't it good to live?

·

When Li Ming returned to the kitchen, most of the ingredients had already been prepared - Yangquan's ice room came to help in the kitchen at some point, and with Li Ming's return, a table of meals was prepared soon.

After serving the table, Atsushi Ziyuan, who had been hungry for a long time, picked up the bowl and chopsticks and started raging, puffing up his cheeks, like a little hamster hiding food, murmuring indistinctly: "Delicious!"

"Of course, you don't even look at who made the rice. Ah, by the way, I made thick egg yaki, egg tofu and tempura, and the rest are all thanks to Rina." Zhuo enthusiastically Gao Gao said, "Usually, it's not easy to eat rice cooked by Liming." Although the elder sister can cook, she hates the smell of oily smoke and is lazy.

——Zhu Xu, you boasted so clearly that Sima Zhao's heart is known to everyone!

At this moment, Rina noticed that Akashi was picking up the beef roll on the plate in front of him with his chopsticks - that dish... was probably her masterpiece.

Rina pretended not to care, but quietly looked at Akashi's expression until he swallowed the food with a calm expression. Rina couldn't read "delicious" or "not delicious" from his usual indifferent expression. Some frustration.

"How is it?" Zhu Xu glanced at her, and said briskly, "Rina has been working on that beef roll for a long time, is it delicious? Hmm—"

Before she finished speaking, Zhu Xu was kicked by Li Ming who was sitting next to her without changing her expression. Li Ming kicked her lightly, but Zhu Xu still looked at her with tears in her eyes, saying "Big Sister, I'm helping you!" Eh, good intentions don’t pay off.”

(No need for your help, thank you.)

Rina who retracted his feet responded in the same silent manner, with a calm and steady posture on his face.

Zhu Xu, who had a gray nose in front of Li Ming, curled her lips and looked back, she already knew the nature of the elder sister's arrogant head, she didn't help her because she looked at the elder sister's head and wanted to know, but she was embarrassed to ask. Jiao is the eldest sister with no future.

Taking into account the delicate interaction between the two, Akashi's indifferent eyes fell on Rina, but for some reason, there was a trace of scrutiny, he smiled slightly, and said naturally: "It's really not easy to eat, but... …It was delicious."

The words seemed to imply something, and the melody of Liming's heartbeat suddenly accelerated—not a throbbing, but a sudden guilty conscience.She raised her head, facing Akashi's calm and calm expression, without seeing any flaws, she raised a smile and said, "Thank you, as long as Akashi-kun likes it."

——He won't... how is it possible?

After eating, they said goodbye in the apartment downstairs.The restless Li Ming looked at Zhuxu's cheerful face, bit his lip and said, "That..."

"Huh?" Zhu Xu immediately turned his head to look at her, blinked and asked curiously, "What's the matter? Big sister."

Recalling Akashi's thoughtful gaze at the dining table, Rina took a deep breath, stopped, and asked with a heavy face in Zhuo's bewildered expression: "Do you think... it's just a meal, and you can eat it?" , are the cooks different?"

"This, it's hard to say. Everyone's cooking habits and ingredients are different. Like my family, my father and mother's cooking tastes different, and my father's cooking needs to be spicy... What's wrong with you, big sister? Suddenly asked This is mine." After Zhu Xu answered honestly, her face was still full of surprise and inexplicable.

"...It's nothing, just, you know, when I was still in Teiko, Akashi-kun and the others were busy with the national competition for a while, and then Momoi-san suggested that I prepare lunch for Akashi-kun." Rina's eyes dodged, and he said after a long time, " That, the bento I used to bring... I asked the chef at home to make it." Sometimes I just bought it and put it in a bento box.

After a long silence, Zhu Xu raised his hand and patted her shoulder silently.

"Come on, we're going back."

"Say what you want to say!!"

·

When Fusantaro shot, the basketball brushed past the hoop and rolled out of the white line. He ran over to pick it up, but the blue ball was firmly stepped on by an English-style leather shoe—obviously not suitable for the court. shoes.

The boy's gaze moved upwards, and what appeared in front of him were slender and straight calves, a plaid skirt that just covered his thighs, a denim shirt with rolled up sleeves, and above that was a delicate and beautiful face, draped lazily in light Long gray hair.

"Big sister!" Bushan's eyes lit up.

"Hey, I haven't seen you for a few days. Did you go to class well? Bushan." Li Ming picked up the basketball. She patted the ball casually on the ground, adjusted its position while dribbling, and finally put it at a suitable angle. The ball is thrown in a parabola.

The basketball entered the hoop accurately, without even touching the frame and backboard of the basketball hoop. Seeing Bushan's blood surging, he blew a whistle and said, "Okay!"

"Well, you're tall, I asked you if you went to class and you haven't answered me yet." Rina stood on the spot with her arms folded, and said calmly, "Also, did Haizaki and the others come to trouble you?"

"Back to Big Sister, it's gone, Big Sister's ten consecutive shots last time scared them!" Bushan talked eloquently, "I listened to Big Sister at school, and I haven't skipped classes anymore, Huizaki and the others must have done the same. Afraid of the prestige of the big sister, she will lose face in front of the girls, and I dare not come here recently. Last time I saw one of them, I don’t know why the nose is bruised and the face is swollen. Big sister, it’s not you who avenged us Bar?"

"Stop talking nonsense." Rina raised his eyebrows slightly, completely ignoring Fuzan's flattery, and said casually, "It's just a fixed-point shot, not to mention that I shot 1 point. Although Haizaki-kun is a scumbag, he The basketball skills are not covered, and if I hadn’t played tricks at the time, it’s not certain who will win.” As for being beaten... probably Haizaki did it, that person has a bad temper.

"Well, I'm relieved to know that you are all right," Li Ming glanced at him and said, "Are you tired from playing basketball? Shall I buy you a drink?"

"Oh, wine?"

"I mean milk tea."

Fushan, who ran over dirty with the ball in his arms, immediately shrugged his head when he heard what Rina said. Ten minutes later, Bushan and Liming sat on the stone steps beside them, drinking iced milk tea bought from a nearby milk tea shop, watching the sun gradually fall from the edge of the city.

"Big Sister," Bushan scratched the back of his head and said shyly when Li Ming was about to leave when the sun was setting, "I'm about to compete."

"Competition?" Rina bit her straw and turned her head sideways.

"Yeah! I have made a lot of friends after listening to my sister's head talk about going back to school and studying well. Then they saw that I played well and invited me to join the school's basketball club. Next week is the preliminaries. , I’m in special training today!” Bushan said confidently, and then continued embarrassedly, “Big sister, can you encourage me to go down? With big sister’s encouragement, I’ll be like being possessed by a boxer Just as brave as ever!"

Speaking of recent qualifiers...

"Ah, is it from the Kyoto area? Then, who is your next opponent?" Li Ming pondered.

"Luoshan."

"...Give up on it, you're out of the game." Li Ming was silent for a while, and said expressionlessly.

"You should encourage us, big sister! It's because of our acquaintance for so many years! And I haven't been on the field yet." Bushan looked away awkwardly, and the boy's wheat-colored cheeks under the setting sun showed a faint gleam. Fei, seemed unwilling to mutter, "And..."

Moreover, he hasn't let his elder sister see his handsome side yet. All along, it is the elder sister who is helping him, at least this time... the only time, he wants to show his handsome side .

Bushan couldn't see the girl's face, and Bushan, who avoided her sight, could only hear her soft and silent sigh, and the rustling of the fabric came from the side, and the girl who stood up took the empty milk tea cup easily Throw it into a trash can not far away.

"come on."

Gently, her voice came out mixed with the setting sun, carrying a rich fragrance, but it was fleeting.