Song of Light and Shadow

After explaining to his family that he would go to Shimizu's house for dinner tonight, Akashi hung up the phone and put his whole body weight on the back of the car seat through his back.

It was clearly the backrest filled with high-grade cotton velvet in the leather, but it seemed to be inelastic, causing him to sink into the whole body, but he could not get the slightest support.

Akashi moved the backrest uncomfortably, but the irritating feeling could not be eliminated.

"Young master, is the backrest not to your liking?" Tanaka, the butler holding the steering wheel, asked with concern after seeing the displeasure between Akashi's brows in the rear mirror.

Although the name has been changed after Akashi was officially appointed by the elders' house as the next head of the house, Tanaka, who has been with this stubborn child for thirteen years, has not changed at all.

"No..." Akashi closed his eyes, pinched the bridge of his nose with his thumb and index finger, and at the same time stopped moving his body in a small range, but the wrinkles between his brows still did not relax.

The distance from school to Shimizu's house is not long, and it's only a ten-minute drive, but Akashi hopes that these ten minutes can be extended indefinitely...

But reality is always unsatisfactory.

"Zhengjun!"

As soon as the car came to a stop, a familiar sweet female voice sounded outside the door.

The temple suddenly hurt, Akashi raised his hand, rubbed the temple, took a deep breath, put on a gentle smile in an instant, and raised his head as Tanaka opened the car door.

"Good evening, Yu."

"Seijuro, I thought you wouldn't come, and almost made them remove your plate."

Standing behind Shimizu Yu, Shimizu Tsubasa looked dotingly at her smiling younger sister, while expressing her dissatisfaction with Akashi's late arrival.

"It's good that Masamune is here, brother can't bully Masamune." Shimizu Yu took a step forward, took Akashi's arm, and stuck out his tongue at Shimizu Wing.

Akashi kept a gentle smile all the time, and calmly responded to the conversation between the siblings. Although most of them were pretending, even if they were pretending, there was no trace of it.

"How is your father and mother's health recently?" Sitting at the dinner table, the Patriarch of the Qingshui family started to ask questions without any surprise.

Akashi responded one by one, without showing any flaws in the conversation, but after all, his age and experience are limited, and his calm demeanor makes people feel aloof and disdainful.

Probably stimulated by Akashi's attitude, the head of the Shimizu family narrowed his eyes, stared at Akashi, and suddenly changed the subject.

"Although I also think it's a bit early, but I think it's time to mention it. After all, it's an agreement with your father. In addition, Yu'er also hopes to settle it early. As a father, I should also fulfill my daughter's wish. After a while, I will pay a visit to discuss the specific time and arrangements with your father, let's hold the engagement banquet first."

Akashi's hand holding the knife and fork visibly trembled, and there was a crack on his calm face.

Repeating in his heart to be calm, Akashi tightly clenched the things in his hands, trying to stabilize himself, reminding himself not to be impulsive, even if he refuses, he should not be too straightforward.

"My father also mentioned it, but now Yu and I are only in the first grade, and the road ahead is very long, with many people and many things. Wouldn't it be a pity to make a premature decision and regret it later. Moreover, I have always been Yu Sister, uncle, you should also be very clear about this."

"Zhengjun has always said that, really, people know that Zhengjun is shy, but it doesn't matter, as long as people marry Zhengjun, no one is allowed except Zhengjun!" Qing Shuiyu put down the tableware, looked at Akashi, said in her characteristic sweet voice, "If Masaki-kun doesn't want me, I'll die~"

"Yu!" Before Akashi could speak, Shimizu Tsubasa reached out and knocked Shimizu Yu's head, half angry and half helpless, said: "Don't say unlucky words, how could Seijuro not want you."

"Hey, of course I know that." Shimizu Yu said with a smile, but there was madness and persistence in the eyes that looked at Akashi without a smile.

Akashi once again felt a sense of inadequacy, and his temples were throbbing again.

Although he hinted many times, Shimizu Yu didn't seem to listen at all.

After leaving Shimizu's house, Akashi sat in the car and let out a long breath.

Thick, cloudy, full of unwillingness and anger.

"Tanaka, what happened to the kid you picked up last year?" Akashi unbuttoned the first button of his uniform, and pulled off his tie. It was completely different from the rigor he was at school during the day, and he was much more casual.

"You mean Sato? The bones have almost recovered, and the nerves of the prosthetic eye will start to connect next week." Tanaka replied after thinking for a while.

"Well, in other words, that kid should be able to play a role." Akashi raised his head, moved his neck left and right, and after a slight silence, he said, "Turn around and go to the park."

Without saying a word, Tanaka turned the steering wheel to the right, turned into the trail, and drove towards the park that Akashikou had mentioned.

Walking on the already familiar park path, Akashi breathed the air full of vitality that is rare in the city, and absently looked at the already gray night sky reflected by the street lamps.

Now Heizi must still be practicing in Hall [-].

The body moved naturally, squatting on both knees, stepping forward, and dribbling with the right hand, as if facing a very powerful enemy, with a fake move, one person who was intercepted was swayed, and someone came up to defend, but Haizaki was watched, Midorima didn't play, Murasakibara was still in his own half, only Aomine's mobility was worth fighting for, but how to pass the ball to Aomine...

Akashi stopped in his tracks, staring at the place where there should be a person in the illusion on the field, the place where the person with genius-like insight should stand.

"Come on quickly...Tetsuya, I can't wait anymore...In various senses..." Akashi moved his eyes and looked at the now empty outdoor basketball court, only the little sun was still there There is a persistent light...

The next day, after the first class ended, someone unexpectedly called Akashi out alone.

"What's the matter, Haizaki-kun." Standing in the courtyard between the back school building and the front school building, Akashi asked calmly looking at Haizaki with his back turned to him.

"Ah, it's nothing too big, just to tell you, that guy named Kuroko is quite interesting." Haizaki said turning his head back, with a slight sarcasm in his smile.

Akashi narrowed his eyes, but said nothing.

"Because you seem to take good care of that guy, so I investigated it curiously, and the result surprised me." Haizaki took out a stack of photos from his pocket, and waved them in the air, "They can really go down Got it."

As the image on the photo gradually took shape in his pupils, Akashi's fist clenched tighter and tighter.

He already knew what Huizaki said. It should be said that he asked Tanaka to investigate immediately after seeing Kuroko, although the result of the investigation made him angrily take action himself for the first time. , but after that, he also ordered Tanaka to clean up everything, so how did Haizaki know?

"Don't look at me with that kind of eyes, it's just that someone I know happened to know about this and happened to get a photo of it." Haizaki shrugged and said indifferently, "When encountering such a thing It didn’t collapse, but it still came out, this guy is interesting, I like it.”

"Put away your pity, he doesn't need it." Akashi said coldly, "If you still want to stay in this school, then seal your mouth."

"Of course." Haizaki put the photo away, then licked his ear with his little finger, blew off the spoils on his nails, and said in that joking tone: "Just to tell you, I have a crush on that guy gone."

"What's wrong with you? Do you know each other?" Akashi blurted out almost without thinking, and then closed his mouth again, secretly blaming himself for his impulsiveness.

"I don't know him, I haven't said a word." Haizaki raised his eyebrows, "But that doesn't prevent me from falling in love with him."

As he said that, Haizaki walked towards Akashi, stopped beside Akashi, and said softly: "I really want to press him down and fuck him hard, to see if he can still show the beauty in the photo What about that expression, that expression full of hatred but still clear..." Said, Haizaki licked his lips, glanced at Akashi with livid face, and was about to leave.

"Haisaki, you know the consequences of annoying me." Akashi only felt a prickly pain in his palm, which was sticky and wet.

"Ah, it's scary, I'm really scared." Haizaki laughed, as if he didn't take Akashi's threat to heart at all, "At most, you can only drive me out of this school. As for your Akashi family , My father and I have fallen out a long time ago, the Haizaki family means little to me, and your status as the shogunate is invalid to me."

Looking at Haizaki who raised his hand and left, Akashi's left eye twitched, numb with pain.

Although being in a bad mood by Haizaki, the arrival of Kuroko during training in the afternoon made Akashi feel a little better.

"It seems that you have already found the answer." Looking at Kuroko who was no longer confused, Akashi smiled slightly.

"Yes." Heizi nodded, "However, I have no way to show it right now. If possible, I hope to hold a competition."

"The game..." Akashi thought for a while, and threw the ball in Midorima's hands, who was listening to the conversation between the two seriously, "I can just leave this matter to me, but such an opportunity can only happen again." Once, you should understand too."

"Yes." Heizi clenched his fists, "I understand."

"Okay, the game will be played tomorrow afternoon. The conditions will be very harsh, so be mentally prepared."

Heizi nodded, both excited and nervous.

"Zhe, what's the matter?" Qingfeng, who realized that Heizi was coming, ran over immediately, but was caught by Hongcun before taking a few steps, dragged him back, and continued training.

"Aomine-kun, I'm going back first." Kuroko nodded to Aomine, then bowed to Akashi at the same level, then turned and left Building No. [-].

After Kuroko's back completely disappeared, Midorima jumped up lightly, flicked his wrist, and threw the ball out. After watching the ball go into the basket, he pushed his glasses with his fingers and said, "Are you sure? "

"Not yet." Akashi said calmly, and walked towards the coaching room, "However, it is necessary to try."

"It's rare that you do something you're not sure about." Midorima narrowed his eyes.

"Really?" Akashi didn't deny or admit it, just smiled lightly and disappeared from the side door.