Song of Light and Shadow

"Mom, the weather is very nice today, let's bask in the sun." Kise put the white carnations in a vase and walked to the window, drew the curtains and pushed the window open.The refreshing autumn wind blows in through the window and flutters the white sheets, rippling the edges into waves.

Turning around and returning to the bed, looking at the thin and skinny woman on the bed with the usual smile, Huang Lai stretched out his hand to stroke the broken hair on the woman's forehead, and said softly: "I haven't seen you for a long time, Are you okay in the hospital?" Looking up at the infusion tube inserted into the woman's wrist, Kise chuckled and said, "Ah, how could it be okay... But, mom can't feel anything anymore Such a state is actually the happiest for a mother. You don’t have to think about anything, and you don’t have to care about anything..."

Pulling over the stool, sat down, and lightly held the woman's cold hand, Kise still smiled slightly and said, "Ah, by the way, I have something good to tell Mom. I called from France yesterday and said It's the baron and the baroness... Well, let's say it's my father and stepmother... Ah, they have a baby, although it was born as a test-tube baby. I don't need to go back to inherit the title. But it seems that there is too early Just forget about my existence. It was the old man who called. He said that in the future, all the industries in Japan will be handed over to me. I can draw 40.00% of the profits as my own funds to pay for the medical expenses of my mother. Oh. Not bad, Mom."

Suddenly hearing a beep, Kise quickly looked at the ECG at the side, but there was no change.

"Ah...why do you still have expectations? I really..." Smiling lightly, he took out the tools for manicure from the drawer of the bedside table, and began to help the woman lose her long nails, "And oh , last time I told you about my becoming a model, and it’s going well now. There are more and more jobs, and wages are also rising. As expected, I’m happier with things I earned with my own hands. Many, many people are overwhelmed. I like me, and I won't hit me with small stones like before, so don't worry, mom. Ah, yes, the blonde hair that mom hates the most is now a point of sale. Kind of ridiculous."

After smoothing the nails with a file, Kise blew into his bony hands to blow off the powder.

"Also, I joined the basketball club." Speaking of this, Kise paused for a while, and stopped the movement of his hands. After a while, he smiled and said, "I have someone I like, mom He is a very, very gentle person. Although he often has a deadpan face, people can't understand what he is thinking, but our relationship is the best~ Of course, he doesn't know that I like him... Also, People like me are not good enough for him... But, I really like it... He likes Kawabata Yasunari's books as much as I do. Although they are often misunderstood, they are really amazing! Obviously weak In that way, standing on the basketball court is like a different person, the passing is super accurate. Although I still can’t shoot the ball, and the dribbling is just bad, haha..."

After laughing to himself, Huang Lai slowly lowered his eyes, squeezed the woman's hand slightly with his fingers, and said in a low voice with some sobs: "Hey, mom... before you didn't get sick. Sometimes, you always tell me that I will be happy in the future, but... what is happiness... I don't know... Do I have the right to be happy? I am very scared... I really want to tell him , but I dare not say, if the current friendship cannot be maintained, I..."

The cold and transparent water droplets landed on the dull skin, stayed for a while, slid down the skin's lines, and fell to the ground to form mottled water stains.There was no voice in the quiet ward, only the rustling sound of the bed curtain being blown by the breeze and the whimpering drowned in the rustling sound...

"Nice!" There was a high-five, Aomine hooked Kise's neck and laughed happily, Heizi also exhaled, walked up to Kise and said with a rare smile: "Thanks to Kise-kun, she is really beautiful One ball."

This was the final of the Secondary School All-High School League, just now Kise's three-pointer secured Teiko's final victory.The strength of the opponent made it difficult for Teiko, and he was still one point behind in the last ten seconds. Akashi's face was so ugly that he felt like he was going to knock everyone off, but just when the opponent missed Murasakihara After grabbing the rebound, he passed the fast break to Heizi. Heizi directly passed the ball with one hand to Kise, who was free from defense. Kise didn't even pause. This crucial three points.

Of course, this pitch took him a week to get close to perfect.

"Aomine, Murasakihara." In the waiting room after the end, Akashi's face softened a little, but he was still stern, staring at the two people who had been called.

Aomine and Murasakibara rarely swallowed together, answered "yes", and looked at Akashi nervously.

"I don't need to explain the mistakes of the two of you today." Akashi looked at the trembling two and said coldly, "Murahara is not allowed to touch snacks for a week, and Aomine's lunch break is cancelled."

"Eh?!!!!" Both of them burst into screams, Ziyuan was uncomfortable because he couldn't eat snacks, and Aomine was unhappy because he was deprived of sleep time at noon.Of course, the two are not bold enough to refute Akashi, unless they don't want to play anymore...

"Kise." Akashi turned his head to look at Kise who was talking to Kuroko, seeing Kise turning back with some fear after being stunned for a moment, he said calmly, "Good job."

Kise was really taken aback by this time, only Heizi continued to say from the side: "That's great, I've been praised by Akashi-kun, Kise-kun."

Kise smiled, and after thanking Akashi, he put his head next to Kuroko's ear and whispered, "Let's celebrate, anyway, this is my first championship."

"Are you going to have a celebration?" Heizi's voice caught the attention of Aomine, who had been listening to the conversation with his ears sideways, and immediately rushed in, wrapped his arms around Heizi's shoulders from behind, looked at Kise Lai, and said lazily: "Eh? Kise, you want a treat? That's really nice."

"Eh? Huh? I..." However, just as Huang Lai wanted to explain, someone immediately echoed: "Hui Lai wants a treat?! That's great! Barbecue!"

"Hey, hey, I'm talking about you!" The atmosphere had already heated up, and Kise was a little bit hard to get off now.

"Kise-kun?" Heizi looked at Kise purely with some doubts, looking at Kise's appearance, he seemed very embarrassed.

I want to celebrate alone with you!Kise wailed in his heart, but now he had to agree to this situation.Thinking that their wallets might be empty today, a group of people rushed to the barbecue restaurant.

"Hey, little Heizi." On the way to the barbecue restaurant, Kise beat Heizi with his arm, and asked a little embarrassed: "By the way, what do we need to do about the celebration? What are the etiquettes? Is it?"

Heizi looked up at Kise, a little surprised, but replied calmly: "Kise-kun, you can just do as usual."

Huang Lai breathed a sigh of relief, then scratched her hair and said in embarrassment: "This is the first time I have participated in a celebration party. I always feel my heart beating so fast and so nervous."

Heizi stared at Kise for a long time before withdrawing his gaze and said calmly, "I thought Kise-kun would like such group activities very much."

"Well, I like it very much." Kise said with a smile, "It's just that no one has invited me before."

"...I see." Heizi didn't say anything more, but when he walked to the barbecue restaurant, he suddenly said in a low voice: "Then, Kase-kun needs to get used to it quickly, because there will be frequent celebrations in the future. Yes. Diguang is invincible in every battle."

Huang Lai paused, blinked, and immediately jumped at Hei Zi happily and shouted, "Little Hei Zi cares about me the most." But Hei Zi put his hand on his cheek, preventing him from approaching, "Please don't be like this, Huang Lai. "

"Hey, little blackie, just hug one." Huang Lai was not discouraged.

"No." Heizi refused.

"Just a hug, just a hug~" Kise continued.

"No." Heizi refused.

"..." Huang Lai didn't say anything more, just showed a pitiful expression and lowered her head.

Heizi opened the curtain and was about to enter the store, but seeing that Kise didn't follow, he looked back and saw Kise standing behind alone, with a sad expression on his face, as if he cared about his refusal to be hugged.

After thinking for a while, Heizi put down the curtain, walked back, tiptoed and reached out to touch Huang Lai's head, rubbed it lightly, then stretched out his arms to hug Huang Lai, and said with a still expressionless face: " Thank you." Then he turned and left.

Huang Lai's eyes that had been dimmed brightened again, and a happy smile gradually appeared on his face. He trotted to Heizi's side, and exclaimed excitedly, "Little Heizi."

"What's the matter?" Heizi replied.

"Little Heizi~"

"Ok?"

"Little Heizi~Little Heizi~Little Heizi~~Little Heizi~~~"

"...Noisy."

Even though Heizi gave him a blank look, Kise was still chattering happily.My heart was full as if I had eaten honey, and I was so happy that I wanted to yell at the sky.

Perhaps, this is the feeling of happiness.

After everyone was happy and full of wine and food, the All-China League has officially come to an end.Training also returned to its usual intensity.Except that the whole team had to endure Ziyuan's various inexplicable tempers in the first week, overall it was very harmonious.

Then, when the autumn chrysanthemums were in full bloom, it was the biggest annual ceremony of the whole school.

Teiko Festival.