Song of Light and Shadow

The competitions in the middle school are still going on. Since they can't take up class time, they usually play on Saturdays and Sundays, and they can still train normally.

Today the basketball team was on vacation due to the rest of the court, so Heizi left school after school, preparing to go home.

"Little Heizi~ I don't have anything to do today, let's go to karaoke together." As soon as he reached the school gate, Huang Lai hooked up with him, and wanted to make a fuss, but Heizi reached out to block him.

"Sorry, Kise-kun, not today." Heizi said calmly, a little blankly.

"Woo~~~Little Heizi is so cold, I'm so sad~~" Huang Lai insisted, "Little Lujian, you also come to persuade Xiao Heizi."

"Hmph, why did I come to persuade him?" Midorima held her schoolbag and pushed her glasses away from her head.

"Kise-kun, please stop, I'm leaving." Heizi took a step back politely, avoiding Kise's hug attack, bowed to Kise and Midorima, and quickly walked out of the school gate.

Because today is the day of mc's vanilla milkshake special.

However, as soon as he walked to the convenience store on the second street, Heizi saw a figure he hadn't seen for a long time and walked in.

Subconsciously, he raised his footsteps and followed in, but the person immediately noticed Heizi's arrival, he was taken aback for a moment, and then said to the cashier, "Let's get two."

Seeing the ice cream that the man handed over, Heizi subconsciously stretched out his hand to catch it.

"Take it well, don't drop it." The man glanced at Heizi who was a little dazed, and specially instructed him.

Seeing the extra ice cream in his hand, Heizi was stunned. Seeing the man walk out, he immediately followed up and asked, "...Mr. Qingfeng, why haven't you come to practice these few days?"

The person eating the ice cream was none other than Daiki Aomine who hadn't shown up in the basketball club for a few days.

"Ah..." Kacha took a bite of the ice, and Qingfeng chewed the ice in his mouth and swallowed it down, and said indifferently: "It doesn't matter, if you practice, you will become stronger, right? Even if I work hard It doesn't necessarily make basketball more interesting... Now basketball is getting more and more boring." Qingfeng said indifferently, turned the ice cream in his hand, lowered his eyes and said softly to himself "Besides, if things go on like this, I'm afraid that what I want will be... Well, forget it." Suddenly stopped talking, Qingfeng put on a rather helpless smile, "Basketball is just a casual game." It’s all just for fun, I just need to put in a little effort in the future competitions..."

However, before he finished speaking, Qingfeng felt that the frozen skin on the back of his neck was aching.

Heizi calmly opened Qingfeng's back collar, stuffed the unopened ice cream into it, stuck it on Qingfeng's warm skin, and said blankly, "This is not allowed."

"What! Zhe, take out the ice cream first! I'm freezing to death! Murder!" Qingfeng jumped up excited by the coldness of the ice cream, and as soon as he stretched out his hand, he slipped Heizi over and rubbed him hard His head, "You kid..."

"Because I usually cooperate with everyone, so I work very hard." Heizi was rubbed on the head by Qingfeng in a daze, and did not resist, but said calmly: "Maybe it's because I am weak, so, to be honest, I am not I understand how Aomine-kun feels. But..."

After listening to Heizi's words, Qingfeng let go of his hand and stopped in his tracks.

"No matter how big the gap in strength is, if I am the opponent, I definitely don't want to be merciful." Heizi said, looking seriously into Qingfeng's eyes.

Qingfeng fell silent.

"Also, someone who is stronger than Qingfeng-kun will definitely appear soon. If not, I will help Qingfeng-jun find it." Heizi looked at the ice cream that had melted a lot in his hand, and said firmly, tearing open the package , took a bite.

Qingfeng was taken aback for a moment, then sighed, and smiled helplessly: "Zhe you bastard, I really can't do anything with you...haha."

"I also feel very helpless to Aomine-kun." Heizi threw the finished popsicle sticks into the roadside trash can.

"What..." Qingfeng cut, then stretched out his fist and raised it.

Heizi also stretched out his fist habitually, and touched Qingfeng's fist.

"Then, I'll just wait." Qingfeng said with a smile.

"Well, that's it." Heizi also showed a rare slight smile.

When Qingfeng appeared in the basketball court the next day, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Heizi walked up to Qingfeng, looked him in the eyes, and said softly, "Welcome back."

Three days later, the final two games of the All-China group stage.

The first and second games are consecutive games, that is to say, if you want to qualify for the group, you have to win two games in a row.

In order to save energy for the last tough opponent, the coach only arranged for Kuroko and Aomine to play for two quarters in the first game, while Kise and Midorima sat in the rest area and prepared to play in the second game.

However, even with only two quarters, the cooperation of Heizi and Qingfeng scored [-] points, unstoppable.Even if the opponent resisted to the end, they were not able to reverse the defeat.

"Nice, Xiao Qingfeng!" After the first match, Kise smiled and handed the towel to Qingfeng, "Although I am very unconvinced, it really is the perfect cooperation between you and Xiao Heizi."

"That's inevitable." Qingfeng wiped his sweat with a proud smile, looked around and found that Heizi was gone, so he said hello and went out to look for Heizi.

When walking past the vending machine at the corner of the corridor, Qingfeng found that Heizi had fallen asleep sitting on a chair leaning against the wall.

"Hey, I said Zhe, you'll catch a cold if you sleep like this..." Qingfeng frowned and walked over, just about to wake Heizi up, but his outstretched hand stopped in mid-air, pausing for a long time.

It's been a long time since I saw Heizi's sleeping face. It seems that the last time I saw it was at the celebration party. At that time, he also discovered the secret that Heizi would be very obedient when he was drunk.

Qingfeng watched Heizi's even breathing, sleeping softly and cutely like a kitten, and unconsciously supported his face.

"Tell me, what should I do with you, Zhe..."

Muttering and leaning down, Qingfeng gently looked at Heizi's pearl-like soft cheeks, and gently kissed his cherry blossom-colored lips, thinking silently in his heart, hoping that time could freeze in this place forever. Seconds, forever and ever...

The second game started three hours later.Aomine is like a motor that has been unrestricted, fully turned on.

"Another ball is today's No. 40 points! That Diguang's No. [-] is really amazing!" The audience in the stadium exclaimed, and everyone held their breaths waiting for Qingfeng's performance.

Sitting in the coaching area, Momoi looked at the extremely serious Aomine and felt a little moved. It had been a long time since he had seen such a serious Aomine, and he also came back to training a few days ago. It seemed that some knot in his heart must have been untied.

Qingfeng looked at the opponent in front of him, panting slightly.

Obviously the person standing in front of him was Inoue, who had put him in trouble several times, but now he didn't feel that he would be suppressed by him at all. On the contrary, he said that he was amused at how he could be suppressed by an opponent of this level before.

Heizi swept across the field and motioned for Kise to pass the ball.Kise smiled and threw the ball to Heizi, who changed the course of the ball with a backhand.

Qingfeng raised his hand just by feeling, and firmly caught Heizi's precise pass. He didn't even need to look at it. He knew where Heizi's ball could go. After all, after so many years of cooperation, the tacit understanding had long Has been integrated into the flesh and blood.

However, when Qingfeng dribbled the ball and was about to break through the opponent to shoot, he saw the opponent immediately turn around and follow up.

"Xiao Qingfeng!" Huang Lai found that the person on the other side seemed to say something in Qingfeng's ear, and Qingfeng's face suddenly changed, as if he had heard something that frightened him, and he lost his color in an instant. Then his face darkened, and he dribbled the ball into the penalty area almost without hesitation, and went directly to the opponent's player.

"Black Six, offensive foul!" The referee blew his whistle.

"Aomine, what's the matter?" Midorima pushed his glasses and walked to Aomine, just about to ask, but Aomine gave him a cold look, left without saying a word.

The next game could no longer be called a game, it was almost a performance by Qingfeng alone, stealing, dribbling, and scoring by himself, almost without letting others touch the ball in a coherent manner.

When Qingfeng scored No.60 with [-] points, Heizi felt that he couldn't stand it anymore, trotted to Qingfeng's side, and asked suspiciously: "Qingfeng-kun, why?"

Qingfeng didn't look at Heizi, but said coldly: "Heizi...Although I don't think there is anything wrong with what you said, but it really doesn't work. Probably, I can't find what I want, and I can defeat you." My people, and only myself. So, I thought, I don't need shadows anymore..."

Seeing the back of Qingfeng running farther and farther, Heizi just stood there in a daze, his mind went blank.

Although the game is still going on, no one feels that it is a game anymore. In the end, the audience has already left. He hardly even moved, basically watching Qingfeng scoring goals like crazy on the field alone.

In the end, Teiko defeated his opponent with a huge score and entered the round-robin match in Tokyo.

After the game, Qingfeng changed his clothes immediately and left the team without even saying hello.

Heizi clenched his fists, apologized to the coach, and chased him out.Seeing this, Huang Lai grabbed her bag and ran out with Hei Zi.

Heizi caught up with Qingfeng and stopped him, he wanted to know what happened.After all, during the game, Qingfeng's state was too strange, it didn't look like something that a fool who only had basketball in his mind could do.That expression, as if he no longer likes basketball.

"Why? I've already said, I don't need you anymore, don't get too close to me in the future." Qingfeng looked at Heizi indifferently, as if looking at a stranger who had nothing to do with him.

"Why." Heizi looked into Qingfeng's eyes, obviously still so calm, but even Kise who had just rushed to stand aside could see the sadness implied in that calmness.

"It's nothing, it's just that I don't need it anymore." Qingfeng replied coldly, "Because, since the only one who can beat me is myself, why do I still need you?"

In a word, Heizi's heart was shattered. It turned out that everything was his wishful thinking. It turned out that he didn't regard him as a partner, but just a shadow, just a shadow...

"I'm sorry, Qingfeng-kun... It seems that I'm being self-indulgent... I'm sorry..." Heizi still apologized calmly, but the trembling that was already too obvious made people see that even the tip of his heart began to ache.

"I'm sorry, I'll take my leave first. Goodbye, Qingfeng-kun..." Heizi said and turned to leave, but his steps seemed to be a bit unsteady.

"Xiao Qingfeng, you bastard, what stupid things did you say to Xiao Heizi!" Huang Lai grabbed Qingfeng's collar and punched Qingfeng in the face, so angry that even his handsome face Some ferocious twists.

However, Qingfeng just wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth with a smile after taking Kise's punch firmly, looked at Kise with disdain, and said indifferently: "Don't make a mistake, although we are teammates, But I didn't allow you to do it to me. Don't be too arrogant."

"Am I arrogant? I think you are too arrogant!" Kise punched Aomine in the face, "Go and apologize to Xiao Heizi, go!"

"Hmph, I didn't say anything wrong, why should I apologize, but you, are you excited? I'm in a very bad mood right now!" Qingfeng sneered and kicked Kise with his knee before he finished speaking. Kise kicked Kise on his stomach and immediately covered his stomach and knelt on the ground.

"Xiao Qingfeng, have you been kicked in the head by a donkey? What's wrong with you! Didn't you always treat Xiao Heizi..." Huang Lai struggled to stand up.

"Shut the fuck up! I have nothing to do with Heizi!" Qingfeng immediately clenched his fists when he heard what Kise said, and wanted to smash his fists on Kise's face ferociously.

"Please stop!" Heizi, who had already left, appeared in front of the two of them again at some point, and opened his arms to block Huang Lai's body. He looked at Qingfeng coldly, and also said coldly: "Please stop!" , Lord Qingfeng."

Qingfeng's fist abruptly stopped within a centimeter of Li Heizi's face, and he paused for a long time before falling down, "Cut, boring..." Qingfeng said, spitting the blood from his mouth on the ground beside him. Turn your head and stop looking at Heizi.

"Kise-kun, are you okay? Please help me to stand up." Heizi stretched out his hand, helped Kise up, and said with his back to Qingfeng: "It seems that I can no longer be the shadow of Lord Qingfeng Yes, because I probably don't deserve it... Sorry, Aomine-kun... I still think that the real victory in basketball is when everyone laughs and wins together, and there must be someone who can surpass Aomine-kun, so I will go Find, find a way to make everyone laugh again..." As he spoke, he helped Kise, who was struggling to walk, go farther and farther.

Qingfeng stood where he was, looking at Heizi's small, thin but resolute back for a long time, which made people want to hold him in his arms, bit his lower lip tightly with his teeth, and didn't relax until the blood flowed out.

"Why didn't you tell Tetsuya the real image?" Akashi, who had been standing in the shadow of the forest, stepped out at this time, stood behind Aomine, and asked calmly, "If it was Tetsuya, he would understand, right? "

"I can't say it." Qingfeng's voice was hoarse with a bit of suppressed crying, "I can't say it... Isn't the purpose of those bastards just to destroy the relationship between me and Zhe? Zhe is in trouble and distress, it would be better for me to cut it off, at least he probably won't be too embarrassed..."

"Then, don't cry like this, idiot." Akashi walked up to Aomine, looked at Aomine, whose eyes were tightly closed, shoulders trembling, tears streaming down his face, and said coldly.

"Ah, I know, bastard, bastard, bastard... I know..." Qingfeng clenched his fists, cursing the word 'bastard' in a low voice, and gradually disappeared in the lonely sunset...

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"Then, in the summer finals, because of Aomine-kun's power, we also won an overwhelming victory. Then those four people also began to change... and because of something in the middle school, I, I left the Teiko basketball club." Heizi said calmly, without the slightest turmoil or ups and downs in his tone, but Vulcan, who had been listening to Heizi's story quietly, could feel the special sadness and sadness in Heizi's words .

"Huh..." Vulcan let out a breath, scratched his head, thought for a long time, and said, "Well, if it was me, I would definitely scold him immediately when I heard this sentence, 'Don't get carried away, idiot '." Vulcan felt furious, and wished he could find Qingfeng directly and beat him fiercely, "It's boring because it's too strong? Is your generation of miracles a bunch of idiots? It's too arrogant!"

Heizi didn't know how to answer, because it would be very arrogant to say that it was those five people.

"'I'm the only one who can beat me'? Seriously it's as boring as a wolf's arrogance."

"It's Yelang." Heizi corrected calmly.

"It doesn't matter!" Vulcan coughed awkwardly, "You, hand, take it out."

"Eh?" Heizi didn't understand what Vulcan wanted to do.

"In short, take it out first." Vulcan ordered.

Heizi had no choice but to stretch out his hand obediently.

"No, it's not the palm, make a fist for me." Vulcan pointed to his fisted hand.

Heizi followed suit and clenched his hands into fists.

So, Vulcan gently touched his fist with Heizi's fist, making a congratulatory gesture that he would only do after scoring a goal. At the same time, with the other hand on his hip, he said with a sense of encouragement: "Anyway, he won't listen to what he says, so just win him once and let him wake up."

Heizi looked at Vulcan calmly for a while, then gently raised the corners of his mouth.

"Yes, I will spare no effort."

Hey, Aomine-kun, even though I don't know why you acted like that at the time, I still kept the promise... Kuroko closed his eyes, and walked into the basketball arena under the breeze.

"You two are only coming back now?! Heizi-jun, come to me for training!" Lizi shouted dissatisfied.

"Yes."

The sound of the basketball touching the floor sounded again, and the training resumed. Everyone was working hard for the goal in their hearts.

Then, finally came the day to play against Emperor Tong.