[Black Basket] Winter Cherry Blossoms

May in Kyoto is a month of concentrated festivals. In addition to the grand parade of the Aoi Festival, there is also the Hikiyama Festival known as the "Little Gion Festival", the Landlord Festival of the Marriage Shrine located in Higashiyama, Kyoto, and the Saga Festival in mid-May. Among them, the sunflower festival is the largest.

As the candidate for this year's acting king, Saya began to cooperate with the festival committee to carry out related work after she was discharged from the hospital. From trying on costumes to learning the precautions of the ceremony, she dared not be sloppy in the slightest. Even the only rest day was spent on the ceremony. During the practice, after several days of special training, the ceremony before the parade of the Aoi Festival is about to come, which makes it inevitable for those who are participating in a large-scale festival for the first time to be a little nervous.

Only to succeed, not to fail.

This is what Saya kept saying to herself before the ceremony. For this Aoi Festival, she has not participated in club activities for several days, let alone meeting Akashi in school. Kicking off the gong, he almost devoted the rest of his usual time to intensive training. The number of times he met and talked with her was completely rare, and there happened to be a practice match today, so it was even more impossible to see him at the ceremony.

What the hell was she expecting, a fool?Obviously, the two have just started to adapt to the changed relationship, and they haven't reached the point of confessing, why does she feel so lonely because she can't see him appearing?Sure enough, as my grandmother said, after the gymnastics training stopped, she became free.

"Saya, don't be in a daze, the ceremony is about to start, come with me quickly."

Reminded by her grandmother, Saya quickly came back to her senses. She hurriedly got up and walked out of the lounge, but the twelve singles and hakama skirt she was wearing restricted her movement. In desperation, she couldn't be impatient and could only follow the priests waiting outside to the place where the ceremony was held.

Shimogamo Shrine is the place where the ritual of the festival is held every year. The king Daisai and the wives who wear the costumes of the Heian period will reenact the scene of the ceremony of the festival held in the palace at that time. This is also a routine ceremony before the annual festival. Last year's Dai Saiwang was much younger than previous years, which naturally attracted many tourists and media to watch.

Time slowly passed by the sound of the music in the shrine. Under the guidance of the priests and priests, Saya successfully completed all the ceremonies, and then returned to the lounge to accept media interviews. It was almost time when all the work was over. lunch time.

Changing out of her Ping An Chao costumes, she bid farewell to the staff. Saya was about to leave, but before she left, her grandmother stopped her and told her that she could go out without bodyguards, at least bring the family dog ​​with her.

So, Shaye, who received the order, went to the nearby parking lot to pick up the puppy at home, but unexpectedly saw a strange scene there, a golden retriever squatting next to her Shiba Inu, and it wore a Wearing a striking red collar, she is obviously a domestic breed, but the strange thing is that her Shiba Inu has always been fierce towards the opposite sex, but this time when she encounters a male golden retriever, she will not bark, but can coexist peacefully with it.

"Uncle, is this your dog?" Saya asked the parking lot attendant who was working.

"No, but this dog seems to like your Ruth very much. If it has no owner, you may consider adopting it."

"It should have an owner. I'll wait here. If I can't wait, I'll take it home." Shaye took out dog biscuits from her bag and fed them to the two dogs. As soon as her Ruth saw the biscuits, she She just stepped forward to eat it in one bite, not a lady at all, but the golden retriever was very humble, and came over to eat after Ruth finished eating, he was a gentleman with grace.

But after more than half an hour, the owner of the golden retriever still didn't show up. Shaye suddenly felt hungry. In desperation, she took out the spare dog leash and took the two dogs to the dog restaurant on the commercial street for lunch .

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It is really conspicuous to be dragged by two dogs for a walk in the shopping street. According to the usual habit, Saya will go to the old store opposite before going to the dog restaurant. Unfortunately, pets are not allowed in the bookstore, so she can only ask the dog restaurant first The waiter in the house helped take care of her temporarily, and then she rushed to the bookstore to buy books.

The second-hand bookstore on the shopping street has a long history, and many rare books can be found there, but this time Saya found a book that surprised her. In the light middle school special, the covers of several books are group photos of five ball-handling teenagers, and one of them is actually Akashi and the ace from another middle school as the cover. Driven by curiosity, Saya who wants to know more about Akashi Teiko bought several monthly magazines.

Back to the dog restaurant with the book, Saya found a seat and sat down, Ruth and the golden retriever ran over, because this store is the only restaurant in the shopping street that can eat with pets, so it is popular with many dog ​​lovers Praise, and Saya only comes here when she takes Ruth for a walk. Like other dogs, Ruth is quickly attracted by the dishes held by the waiter, and her eyes are fixed on the food. The golden retriever is much calmer , it didn't look at the food, it was only interested in the magazine in her hand.

"Is there your master in the book?" Of course, this is Saya's guess. The golden retriever can't understand her words, and when her finger touches a person in the book, it reacts abnormally, other than barking Just wagging his tail violently, at this moment an ominous premonition flashed in Saya's heart. Could the owner of the Golden Hunter be in the Generation of Miracles?

In order to verify what she thought in her mind, during the time before serving the dishes, Saya took a magazine to test the golden retriever, and saw that she pointed at the people on the cover one after another, but the strange thing was that it didn't respond, and it didn't give up. She had to use all the magazines she bought, but the response remained the same. Finally, it was the turn of the recent high school basketball monthly magazine, and it called out to the book.

The reaction of the golden retriever made Saya's face turn pale in an instant. The good news is that she finally found the owner of the dog. The bad news is that its owner is someone she knows—Seijuro Akashi. But what puzzled her was that, Why did it not respond to Akashi in the Teiguang period, but reacted strongly to the current Akashi? He should be the same person in the past and the present.

With this question in mind, Saya first opened the monthly magazines of the previous two years. What greeted his eyes was a red-haired boy with the same eye color. In the monthly basketball magazine, Akashi's eyes are cold, and there is a heavy sense of coercion in his strength. Comparing the two together, they seem to be two different individuals.

What the hell is going on here?Two Akashi?Is it her illusion, or is her brain over-imagining?Will that kind of situation similar to Mika really happen to Akashi?No, it's impossible, he is different from Meixiang, even though she has two different feelings, she still thinks they are the same person.

In this way, a new question took root in her heart. Before finding out the answer to the question, Saya took out her mobile phone and notified the Akashi family. Mr. Masao Nakamura of the restaurant is the head of the Akashi family.

"What, Jack is with you? I'll come to pick him up right away, thank you, Ms. Saya." After receiving Saya's call, Masao Nakamura, who was also looking for a dog, was finally relieved. After thanking him again and again, he drove to the place immediately. The shopping street meets Saya.

"Jack, I'm sorry, my Ruth, please give me your advice." While waiting for Masao Nakamura to meet up, Shaye's lunch was also delivered, and she also ordered extra portions for Ruth and Jack. Vegetable mixed steak, maybe it’s because she’s been hungry for a long time. Her family’s Ruth ate voraciously as soon as the food bowl was put on the ground. Eat slowly and don't spill food on the floor. Compared with the two dogs, her Ruth is really inferior.

After putting away the magazines on the table, Shaye picked up a fork and ate the bacon and seafood pasta that was served earlier. With the food, the empty stomach was satisfied. At this time, the number of customers in the store gradually increased. The table next to her After a while it was full of guests with pets.

"Wow!" Jack, who had finished eating the steak, suddenly barked at the Labrador at the next table. Shaye looked back and saw that it was the Labrador who was curiously sniffing and licking Ruth. Before he became fierce, Jack was already barking warnings.

"Sorry, it's just protecting its companions, it's not malicious, it's causing you trouble." The male voice that suddenly appeared politely apologized to the guest next to Saya.

"Sei... Seijuro?" Seeing Akashi appearing in the restaurant, Saya almost choked on the spaghetti in her mouth. She didn't expect that the person who came to pick Jack up was not Masao Nakamura, but Akashi.

"Jack, sit down!"

As soon as the red-haired boy gave the order, Jack immediately stopped barking and sat up. By the way, even Ruth was stunned for a moment, and sat up with him.

"Why are you here? There should be a practice match today." Seeing Akashi's strange-colored eyes, Saya thought of that new question again. What happened to Akashi in the Teiguang period to become what he is now? like this?

"Luoshan's practice match has long since ended. When I passed the shopping street, I received a call from Uncle Masao, saying that Jack sneaked away when he was going to the veterinary hospital. I didn't expect him to bump into you." Sitting down beside Saya, Akashi Call the wait staff to order.

"It's not me, it's my Ruth. The two of them seem to get along very well." It's rare for his fierce sister to be quiet, and Saya feels very relieved.

Akashi glanced at Jack, and then at Ruth, with a playful smile on his face, "I was worried that Jack would get bored, it seems that he has a companion to go for a walk in the future."

"The premise is that I can take her out." Saya sighed softly, who told Ruth to spend a lot of time with grandma, and to take her out for a walk, grandma's permission must be obtained.

"Jack's patience is very good, he will definitely wait, but you are very strange today, seeing me come to the restaurant as if you have seen a ghost, why, what have you done that you dare not tell me?"

Saya's slight abnormality could not escape Akashi's eyes. In order not to see through his mind, Saya hurriedly changed the subject, "I didn't do anything wrong, I was just surprised to see you come to pick up Jack."

"You're lying." Akashi saw through her little trick at a glance.

"I didn't." Saya tried her best to hold on.

"With or without you know best in your heart, I don't like you hiding something from me." Akashi held Saya's hand and continued: "Also, after the parade on the 16th, you came to my house."

"Why are you going to your house?"

"Aren't you going to help the school girls with overnight tutoring? My house is more convenient than yours, and Liangta is a boy, so I can't let him live in your house."

"But it's not right for me to go to your house, my house..." Saya wanted to say that it was difficult to get the permission of grandparents to stay overnight, but Akashi had already solved the problem one step ahead of her.

"Your grandfather has agreed."

"Huh? How did you do it?"

"This is a secret, you don't need to know." Although Saya tried his best to hide certain things, in Akashi's eyes, he already understood that some things could not be hidden after all, and that worrying moment would always come, but he was still full of confidence , no matter how much she knew, he was still the one who won in the end.