[Comprehensive] Kazuya's happy life

East University campus.

Akiyama Naoya walked into the classroom with a backpack slung across his shoulders and a pair of thick panda eyes.

He stayed up in the lab last night until it was almost dawn before he was reluctantly sent back to rest by his instructor. He only slept for less than two hours when he returned to the dormitory, and got up again to catch the morning class. He didn't even have time to eat breakfast at the moment , I felt empty in my stomach and empty in my mind, and my whole person was in a trance.

Akiyama's mentor is a master of the Department of Physics and Engineering of the Faculty of Engineering. Recently, he is busy with a new research. Akiyama followed him back and forth in the laboratory for almost two months. He stayed up until the early hours of the day almost every day before being accepted by his instructor. I hurried to rest, I felt less sleep, and I can still keep my spirits up in class, as for other times...

He yawned loudly without any image, and when Akiyama passed the podium sleepily, he stumbled suddenly, and he was about to fall in shame in front of nearly a hundred students of the same grade in the entire lecture hall upside down...

Fortunately, at the critical moment, a powerful arm suddenly stretched out from behind, firmly grasping Qiushan's shoulder, and once it was retracted, it easily helped him regain his balance and avoid the embarrassing end of shame and anger.

Akiyama is now fully awake.

He hastily turned around and thanked the kind person who saved his life:

"Thank you! I'm really sorry...thinking..."

In the middle of speaking, he was frightened back by the familiar yet unfamiliar face in front of him.

Akiyama stared wide-eyed, scrutinized the person in front of him for a while, and then confirmed with some uncertainty: "Uesugi?"

The black-haired young man who let him look at him with a good temper smiled slightly, "It's me. Long time no see, you seem to have changed a lot... monitor."

A cry of squad leader made Akiyama's eyes tingle inexplicably.

He blinked, tried to suppress the sudden wetness, hesitated for a while, then raised his hand, and lightly thumped the opponent's chest, "What's the name of the squad leader, I'm not your squad leader now, Uesugi .”

The young man named Uesugi didn't seem to take his words seriously.

"The former squad leader is also the squad leader." With a gentle smile on his face that hasn't changed for many years, the other party blinked at Akiyama, as if he wanted to say something more, but was interrupted by the call from his companion outside the door. Break——

"Kazuya? You'll be late for class if you don't hurry up?"

A strange young man lay at the door of the classroom and shouted at him.

Only then did Akiyama realize that it was just a coincidence that the young man opposite him appeared in this classroom.

The other party does not want to study here.

"you……"

He was a little hesitant, and wanted to ask the other party if he walked into this classroom because of him, but he felt that with such thoughts, he seemed to value his weight in the other party's heart too much—after all, he hadn't seen him for almost three years. The other party has already become famous in the professional baseball circle. After playing in the college league for a year, he was signed by the Giants at a high price together with his twin brother and became a professional baseball player. Since then, the frequency of appearing on campus has become more and more frequent. not enough.

In addition, university and high school are different, different classes, different departments, and even different colleges. The friendship between classmates who used to get along almost day and night in high school inevitably faded with the passage of time. To the extent that they can call each other friends, right now, they dare not expect each other to run into this classroom because of themselves.

Maybe it's just a chance encounter.

he thought silently.

Unexpectedly, the next moment I heard the other party say——

"Too bad, I almost forgot the morning class for the next period! It's rare to see you Qiushan from a distance on campus, and I came here specially to say that I want to catch up with you, but it's a pity..."

The other party looked sad.

But soon, he changed into a bright and bright smile again:

"But it's not all bad! At least if I don't follow you, you will be in danger, Akiyama."

While talking, the other party patted Qiu Shan on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Take care of your body, Qiu Shan. After all, not every time there will be someone who can hold you back."

After finishing speaking, without waiting for Akiyama's reaction, the other party had already waved to him, left a sentence, and we will talk next time when I have time, then hurriedly stepped on the preparation bell, and left the auditorium together with his companion.

Leaving Akiyama standing blankly on the podium for a while, turning around, he was overwhelmed by a large group of familiar and unfamiliar students who surrounded him with bright eyes——

"Akiyama-kun! You actually know Uesugi? That Uesugi?"

"Wow! Uesugi-kun even ran in and held Akiyama back on purpose! Are you two good friends?"

"Hey~ I haven't heard of this!"

…………

The scattered discussions were buzzing endlessly.

Akiyama's temples were already swollen and painful due to lack of sleep. Seeing this, it seemed that the pain was even worse.

It's really the same as before, leaving him a huge mess to clean up for no reason!That Uesugi guy!

However, for some reason, Akiyama felt that his mood had inexplicably improved.

The feeling of bewilderment, strangeness and awkwardness when I reunited with Uesugi just now seemed to have completely dissipated.

In my memory, the boy with a gentle and bright smile is now the same as before.

For Akiyama, who thinks that he has a mediocre relationship with the other party, at best, he is just a former high school classmate, as long as this is the case, perhaps it is enough.

——Uesugi, still the same Uesugi.

He didn't change any of his traits just because he stepped into the professional circle.

Isn't that great.

Surrounded by the crowd, Akiyama raised the corners of his mouth silently, and smiled as if he was in a good mood.

After that, he never felt the same sense of strangeness and distance to the boy named Kazuya Uesugi in his heart.

Even though the two of them had long since broken up, even though the other party was going to a place that he could no longer set foot in.

However, Akiyama has been silently paying attention to the other party, and has been silently... supporting the other party.

Until a long time later, Akiyama graduated and became an ordinary researcher in a research institute under the University of Tokyo.

This kind of attention and support has never been interrupted.

Maybe some people are destined not to be your lifelong friends.

However, even if it is only for a short moment, as long as the other party has sincerely delivered friendship to you, this should be enough.

Akiyama smiled and picked up his two-year-old daughter, and picked up his four-year-old son, followed by his gentle and beautiful wife who looked at their father and son with a quiet smile, and the whole family mobilized——

Go to Koshien and watch the game!

Eh?Where did you get the Giants family tickets?

Lie.

This is a secret.

***

Kotaro Matsudaira was sitting in the auditorium, waving the colored flags in his hands desperately along with his companions, and beeping the small horn in the other hand.

"Uesugi!"

"Beep beep!"

"Uesugi!"

"Beep beep!"

"giant!"

"Beep beep!"

"giant!"

"Beep beep!"

"Uesugi!"

"winning!"

"giant!"

"champion!"

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The supporters of the team tacitly came to a wave of massive group cheers, and the uniform movement slogans cooperated seamlessly. At the end, the cheers resounded throughout the audience. It was obviously a neutral final held in Jiashien, but they were forced out There was an momentum of the Giants' home court.

The supporters of the final opponent were not to be outdone, and immediately organized a wave of counterattacks on the opposite side.

Kotaro picked up the kettle and gulped a big mouthful of water. After replenishing the water, he was about to give a loud roar before retaliating, but suddenly, he heard a light snort from beside him.

It was obviously a field full of cheers, but for some reason, this unexplainable sneer with complicated meanings was clearly transmitted to Kotaro's ears, which made him a little stunned for a moment——

When did the team's loyal stands get mixed up with an enemy agent? !

This security work is not in place!

It's time for the leaders of the support team to rectify the team!

Thinking of this in his heart, Kotaro couldn't help turning his head to see what this enemy spy who had the audacity to sneak into the team single-handedly looked like.

As a result, after looking at it, it felt a little familiar.

Kotaro looked at that face that was a bit stubborn, a little bit timid, but more of an inferiority complex mixed with unwillingness, and after thinking for a long time, he took out an uncertain name from the corner of his memory:

"... Gibbon?"

The other party jumped up on the spot as if being burned to the buttocks!

"It's Yoshida!"

He corrected viciously.

"... Oh." Kotaro looked puzzled, and he didn't know why the other party was angry.

In the end, his blank look seemed to make him even more angry in the eyes of the other party.

"Do you think... this is interesting?"

Yoshida—that is, Yoshida gritted his teeth, and with suppressed anger in his eyes, he growled at Kotarou in a low voice.

"Pretend to forget my name, look at me in shame, and think that I am such an insignificant person, let me learn to retreat in spite of difficulties and stop comparing with him—with them—is this interesting? !"

"……what?"

Kotaro was stunned.

I thought to myself, what is this kid talking about? I just forgot the name of an unfamiliar classmate. As for being so bitter and bitter?

And "they"...

Who is this talking about?

What the hell is this guy doing, I have no idea.

The look of bewilderment on his face became heavier.

Yoshida glared at him viciously, seeing his expression of "who am I and where are you and what do you want to do", the grievances on his lips could only be swallowed together with the tears of grievance Back in the stomach——

This feeling, don't mention how aggrieved.

Why!

he thought angrily.

"Don't you feel unwilling, don't you feel annoyed?"

He seemed to be talking to himself, and also seemed to be questioning Kotarou, whispering almost gnashing his teeth.

"Talent, opportunity, popularity, luck... The Uesugi brothers seem to be deeply loved by the heavens. Even if these ordinary people want to own any of these things, they can easily get them all. "

"Obviously they are in the same grade as them. Obviously they also have good talents, and they have been able to have opportunities. But why! Why are they the only ones who can shine?!"

"People like us are destined to only be supporting roles in their lives?!"

"Why?"

"Why?!"

Yoshida's tone was almost hysterical.

"Matsudaira, you used to be Uesugi's exclusive partner pitcher, but now, they have abandoned you and stepped onto a wider stage. They don't even want to pull you into the professional team, even as a substitute!"

"Don't you hate them?!"

"Don't you feel unwilling?!"

Kotaro: "..."

I said, is there something wrong with you that needs to be cured?

With a caring expression on his face, he looked at his ex-students at the same level who were yelling frantically, with distorted and hideous faces and "God, you xxxx are in vain!"

"Kazuya and Tatsuya are able to achieve what they are today, relying on their own talent and hard work, step by step, in exchange for countless sweat and tears."

Kotaro said coldly.

"And me, I tried, but I didn't have the talent they had. I loved baseball, but I didn't have the ability to make a living out of it. So they went pro, and I chose my own path. .”

"Isn't this very simple and completely in line with common sense in the world?"

What is so unwilling, so resentful?

Is there a hole in your brain?

Kotaro hehe.

"In terms of talent, you are not as good as Kazuya Tatsuya; in terms of opportunities, you may not have had them back then; in terms of popularity, how much popularity do you think you can gain with your distorted personality?"

"As for luck..."

Kotaro laughed even more angrily when he said this, "This thing is born with a fixed number, and you should blame those who are lucky if you are not lucky? What kind of reason is this?"

Yoshida, once Kotaro felt that there was an inexplicable evil in his eyes looking at Tatsuya, which made people feel that something was wrong. Thinking about it now, maybe at that time, he already had deep resentment towards those two people?

So during high school, Kazuya and Tatsuya were inseparable for a period of time. I'm afraid that Tatsuya's big heart would accidentally be taken advantage of by this guy, and he would help count the money if he was sold?

Kotarou's impression of the person in front of him was already so weak that it was almost non-existent, but because of the other party's disturbance, it suddenly became clear.

Seeing the distorted expression on the other party's face, he didn't bother to say anything more to the other party.

just.

"For me, Kazuya and Tatsu are also my important friends. If they succeed, I will cheer for them. If they fail, I will silently stand by their side. No matter how far the future road is, at least this friendship is important to me. In terms of it, it has never changed.”

"However, you obviously don't understand my feelings."

……never mind.

What's the point of talking to such a person?

In his eyes, perhaps these are not worth mentioning at all.

Kotaro shrugged, turned his head, and devoted himself to the game, ignoring Yoshida's reaction any longer.

Beside him, Yoshida sat there in a daze.

Friendship?

friendship? !

This kind of thing... this kind of thing!

He recalled his old self.

How innocently he yearned for Uesugi-san at that time!

Looking forward to his sunny and cheerful smile.

Looking forward to his unrestrained willfulness.

Longing for him.

Longing for him.

Longing for him.

But when did this longing turn sour?

Is it when you find that no matter how hard you try, you can't get close to the other party?

Is it when you realize that your little talent, which you are faintly proud of, is not worth mentioning in front of the other party?

Or, when you find that no matter how hard you try, you can't become the other party's... friend?

Yoshida just couldn't speak.

All he knew was that he was very blocked right now.

The emotions that have been unable to pour out for many years now seem to be opened a gap, surging out, but they are at a loss as to where to go.

perhaps……

Maybe it was all wrong from the beginning.

Whether it's his longing, or his hopeless...friendship.

Yoshida stood up in a daze, walked through the crowd in a daze, and left the court in a daze.

At the last second when he walked out of the stadium, he turned his head and saw on the big screen, the person he had been, maybe until now, still looking forward to, was laughing and running towards his twin brother who was waiting there with a smile on the sidelines. .

Sure enough...it doesn't belong to me.

A smile that doesn't belong to me.

Not my passion.

Not my...friendship.

Yoshida just squeezed his fingers slowly.

Then he turned and left without looking back.

So be it.

That's it... Let go of this longing that has lasted from youth to the present.

If this one-sided friendship ends without a problem, I hope that from the very beginning, I never dreamed of you.

That way, at least, hope is not in vain.

Yoshida's departure was as unnoticed as his arrival.

Or maybe he wanted someone to notice him, but he couldn't do it after all.

Since then, neither Kazuya, Tatsuya, nor Kotaro have seen Yoshida again.

Slowly, he also completely faded from their memory, leaving no trace.

——just as he expected when he finally left.