Trapped in the sunset

"Monday, 06:30 in the morning—"

It was originally a peaceful morning disrupted by the irregular "click click", Wei Young couldn't react and looked up at a tall figure who was eating snacks happily, her questioning gaze fell naturally. It landed on Akashi beside him.

"Akashi-kun, is this—?"

As soon as she made a sound, the purple-haired boy on the opposite side raised his head, his lazy eyes flicked across her face, and a soft, powerless voice came out of his mouth—"Ah~ this is the girl Chizi you mentioned The one I saw at the Winter Cup."——with half-closed eyes, she looked at the black-haired girl whose height was as high as his chest with a hint of interest, and the hands that unwrapped the package of delicious sticks moved skillfully, without any speed slow down.

"Hello, Haiyin~"

——Haiyinniu?

Wei Young blinked, although she was not disgusted with this strange title, she still was. . .feel very. . .Strange.

Akashi looked at her momentarily bewildered expression, and explained kindly: "Atsushi lives in Akita, because of his sense of direction problem, he asked his teammates in Yangquan to send him to the airport early yesterday morning, and then let him go to the airport. My driver picked him up at Kansai International Airport and stayed overnight at my house." Otherwise, it is absolutely impossible to expect this super road idiot to return to Tokyo by himself.

He omitted the last sentence, but if he didn't say it, it didn't mean that Wei Young didn't know.

"Hello, Murasakihara-san." She nodded slightly towards the boy, her gray eyes permeated with friendliness.

When I met Atsushi Ziyuan for the first time in the Winter Cup, Wei Young’s first impression of him was only the big bag of snacks he was holding in his hand, his height, and his lazy attitude; With an expression that doesn't care about anything, his movements and tone are slow, his casual appearance coupled with the oppressive feeling that his height brings to others all the time-that appearance is simply rejecting people thousands of miles away.But maybe it was because they were all rivals at that time, and the tension when they met made it difficult for any of them to have a good impression of anyone.

But now it is different.Leaving aside the hostile relationship, the current Ziyuan only reminds Wei Young of a sentence——

——"A child who can't grow up".

Ziyuan bent down to look at her at the same level, and said in a unique voice that made her laugh and cry: "Haiyinniu, you are so small~ you are actually shorter than Moongirl~ But, Haiyinniu, are you Chizai's girlfriend? "

——It's not that she's short, it's that you are too tall, Murasakihara-san. . .

Wei Young took a small step back, and turned to Akashi as if asking for help.

"Okay, Don, don't make trouble."

As soon as Akashi opened his mouth, Murasakibara stepped back consciously to continue his "snack business", bag after bag of potato chips, and delicious sticks one after another, at an extraordinary speed.

At the moment the three of them are standing on the platform of the Shinkansen station, 10 minutes before the arrival of the bus to Tokyo, Wei Young frowned uncomfortably at the increasingly crowded space.

. . .

It took two and a half hours from Kyoto to Tokyo, and it was ten o'clock in the morning when they walked out of Tokyo Station—two hours faster than expected.

Ziyuan, who finally stopped stuffing his mouth because he finished eating his snacks, looked at the crossroads in front of him, without the slightest thought of moving: "By the way, Chizai, how long are we going to stay in Tokyo this time?"

"Three days."

"Well, three days~ Chi Zai, what about my place?"

——Why did you wait until this time to ask this kind of question? !

The two-color eyes glanced at the former teammate who was still indifferent: "You live in my house like Wei Young. But I believe that if you ask Shintaro, he will be happy to accept you."

"I don't want to~Chizi, you definitely said that on purpose, knowing that Luzi will only whisper in my ear, it's very annoying~"

Wei Young took out her mobile phone and dialed Tetsuya's number.

. . .

"Heizi House——"

"Hello, this is Heizi's house."

"Tetsuya, it's me. Me, Akashi-kun, and Murasakihara-san are all here."

"Wei Young?" Hei Zizhe also glanced at the clock: "But there are still two hours before our meeting."

The girl on the phone smiled: "It's impossible."

"Where are you now?"

"Outside the station," the girl's answer paused, and there was a thin discussion from the other end: "Akashi-kun said that if you want to go to his house now, it will take more than two hours to go back and forth, so Tetsuya, we can go to you first Are you going home?"

He looked around to make sure everything was in order before saying, "No problem."

"By the way, Tetsuya, are your uncles and aunts at home? And your grandma."

"Father and mother are away; grandma is meeting friends, so technically I'm alone in the house now."

"Really? I'm not here again..." Wei Young's voice sounded regretful: "Why haven't I met them since I came back from the United States?"

"Mother and grandma often complain about this."

After hanging up the phone, Tetsuya seemed to have a "pleasant" smile on his paralyzed face.Although, that arc lasted only three seconds.

——"Little Heizi, here I come!!!"

Discordant shouts sounded without warning, and then his door was knocked twice: "Little Heizi, it's me, Kise!"

Kuroko Tetsuya's sky-blue eyes flashed a gleam. He walked to the entrance and opened the door. Facing the sudden flying pounce, he calmly missed his body, stood still and said, "Kise-kun, please shut up. You like this It bothers me."

"Wow!! Little Heizi, how could you do this?! I'm hurt!!!"

"Please respect yourself, Kase-kun, if you go on like this, I won't invite you in."

The blonde model obediently kept quiet when she heard the words, and followed Tetsuya into the room with bumpy hands and feet, but recovered her nature in the next moment: "Number two! Long time no see!!" Picking up Tetsuya's puppy, Kise rubbed against its furry head, with an expression of "I miss you so much, you must also miss me very much".

— was defeated by him.

Hei Zizhe also looked at the person and dog who were "chatting" happily, and heaved a long sigh.

——Weiyang, Akashi-kun, please come quickly.

. . .

"Haiyinniu, can you play basketball?"

Wei Young, who was walking quietly with Akashi, turned her head back, and the boy who asked this question held the chocolate bar they bought for him at the convenience store that they stopped on the road just now, and looked back at her innocently.

"Unfortunately, I only know how to look."

"Oh, so can you make dessert?"

- This is the main point. . .Bar.

"Although the craft is not very good, but simple pastries can."

Zi Yuan's eyes lit up strangely after Wei Young's words escaped his mouth: "Then can you make some cake for me to eat during the few days I live in Chi Zi's house?" is the bad guy. . .So is Shizai.

"Dun." Akashi's expressionless face remained unchanged, but his voice became dangerously cold.

Zi Yuan curled his lips, and turned his head away in a fit of anger.

Seeing the reaction of the "subdued" boy, Wei Young smiled softly instead.

At that time, her thoughts in the Winter Cup were not wrong: the friendship of this group of teenagers still exists.Even if they are separated, have disagreements, and are cold-eyed on the court, once the issues are frankly spread out and reconciled, they will be reconciled as before—no, the more accurate term may be "better than before."

——Wei Young couldn't help but envy them.

She thought of her days in America; she spent most of the day with her brother, except for class and practice.At school, she has very few friends, and the few who count as friends are not the ones she can talk to—they are all "ordinary" friends who are not ordinary.Talking less, being introverted, and unwilling to take the first step are all her shortcomings; although many people who know her think she is easy-going and kind, Wei Young knows that she is not that kind of person.But at that time, she didn't care about it at all.

Deciding to go back to Japan with her father, Wei Young originally thought that her life here would be the same: she finished the three years of high school in a mediocre manner, and then returned to the United States to study in university without any worries, but she did not expect that she met him—this A boy like a king.She walked into his world, and he broke down the walls of her heart that no one knew; she really learned a lot through getting along with him.

She who didn't care about "friends" was deeply affected after watching the interaction between him and his teammates.She deludes herself into thinking she doesn't mind, but she doesn't know that a seed called "loneliness" is sprouting inside of her.

——However, she no longer knows how to communicate with other people normally.

Mother's accident, father's self-blame, she and her brother have fought all the way through this.

Even Harada Ai and Annie couldn't make her truly open her heart and fully accept them.Yes, they are friends, but that's all.

Kuroko Tetsuya and Akashi Seijuro are really an exception.

Not to mention Zhe Ye being her bamboo horse, Wei Young thinks that if it wasn't because he knew her before the incident at her house, maybe they could only grow up and look back and comment on each other as "ah, yes, I used to and she/he are neighbors" adults.

"Wei Young, we're here."

A gentle voice pulled her back to reality, Wei Young stared at him blankly, with a complicated look in her eyes that she couldn't hide.

Akashi reached out and stroked her hair skillfully.He slowly raised his lips towards her, his indifferent eyes were replaced with a warmth that would only open to her, and then he spoke, with the usual helplessness and connivance in his tone, and said——

——"You seem to like to think wildly recently, Wei Young."

She retorted weakly, if her red eyes didn't reveal her truest mood, maybe there was still a little bit of persuasiveness——

——"That's your illusion, Akashi-kun."

The author has something to say: Actually. . .Akita is far from Tokyo. . . "Farther from Kyoto". . .Murasakihara, why on earth did you go so far away? ! ! !

This chapter is relatively devoid of developmental content. . .Please allow me to relax a few chapters! ! ! "Tearful petition"

Suddenly, I feel that the interaction of the miracles is very loving. . . ~(￣▽￣)~ How do they look like high school students? !

Ah, by the way, Lulu, happy birthday! ! ! (⌒▽⌒)

PS: This chapter is coming soon, isn't it? XD

☆, spring break ([-])