[Comprehensive] Kazuya's happy life

Kazuya was originally worried that his way would not work out, which would make Kise depressed for a long time, but when the two of them walked out of the Kamakura Hall together that night, Kise had already brought back a cheerful and energetic smile on his face. I can't see any seriousness...

Kazuya silently observed his friend's smiling face for a long time.

It's been so long that Kise's whole body is stiff under his gaze, and his cheeks are slowly flushing red——

"Look, what are you looking at!"

He turned his face away uncomfortably, unwilling to face Kazuya again, "Is there something dirty on my face or something!"

He was also amused by his friend's rare embarrassment:

"It's nothing. I just think...it's great to see Ryota you are still so energetic. It seems that you haven't continued to be depressed about Heizi?"

"It's useless to be depressed all the time." Kise stretched his waist without any burden of being an idol, and looked up at the dark night sky full of stars:

"Since even Kazuya and you can't work it out, then there's nothing you can do. Although Xiao Heizi seems soft and easy to talk, he is actually a very stubborn person? If he insists on If you don’t want to be contacted by us, then no matter how hard you try here, isn’t it useless?”

"So," Kise said, turning around to look at Kazuya: "I've decided. Since it won't help if you continue to worry about it alone, it's better to start by changing your mentality and behavior."

"In that case, when I meet Xiao Heizi again after the start of next semester, I can tell him openly that I have taken care of myself!"

"Even if I have gone in the wrong direction, I have been working hard to find my original intention."

——So, I hope he won't be disappointed in me...for us again.

Kise's slightly squinted eyes reflected the brilliant starlight in the sky, which made Kazuya feel a little dazzling for a moment.

"...that's it." He smiled, and turned his gaze to the top, the vast starry sky:

"Now that you've decided, let's go ahead and do it! It would be great if Ryota's heart can be conveyed to Kuroko smoothly."

"Yeah." Kise nodded.

At this moment, both of their faces were full of infinite good wishes and hopes.

However, they didn't know that there was a subtle deviation in each other's understanding of the same thing, which directly led to Heizi, who had indeed had a glimmer of hope. After the performance, it disappeared even more completely, and even seldom came to school...

—Of course, that’s all for the future.

As for now...

Kazuya waved goodbye to Kise in front of the tram stop.

In his memory, this was the first time he came home so late because of something other than training.

The streets at night are more empty and quiet than during the day.

Every time I pass by on a morning run, the uncle who runs the shop will forcefully stuff me with a few apples, peaches and other seasonal fruits. The fruit shop has closed, and the shutter doors outside have been closed, and it is glowing in the night. The iron-coloured luminescence seen;

The small Kanto cooking stall on the street corner that he and Tatsuya often frequented was booming, and the small car was full of diners, and bursts of lively laughter could be heard from time to time;

Once, Cida was also teased by the proprietress, who deliberately cut her hair exactly like her own, causing neighbors to watch and laugh at the barber shop. The red, white and blue lights that stood in front of the door for a long time seemed to have existed for many years in my memory. It is an ordinary thing, but it seems to be soaked in the traces of the years, revealing a kind of quiet tranquility;

The butcher shop always smells like hot and freshly fried croquettes. The owner of the shop has changed from grandma Asakawa to aunt Asakawa, and then to sister Asakawa last year. What remains the same is the familiar one that runs through the entire childhood and adolescence. attractive aroma;

Xinwu’s father would always go to the Go club for half a day on his off day; Haruko’s mother couldn’t help but stop and chat with the boss for a long time every time she passed by the beautiful flower house; A sporting goods store; the two brothers played in it since they were young, and then went to the big street park...

——Here is the place where he was born and grew up.

Kazuya raised the corners of his mouth slightly, and his steps became more and more brisk.

"What happy things did you think of?"

Unexpectedly, a familiar voice suddenly came from behind.

Kazuya stood still and looked back, and saw Tatsuya standing outside the range illuminated by the streetlights passing by in front of him, in the slightly dim night, looking at him jokingly with his arms folded.

Kazuya then smiled naturally:

"Thinking of when I was a child, my brother was chased by a fierce dog for a long time in this alley to protect Xiao Nan and me, and finally fell and hurt his knee, but he still comforted the crying Xiao Nan and me who was about to cry , kept saying 'it doesn't hurt at all', 'what's so scary about that kind of puppy' and other pretentious words, but in the middle of the night, I cried softly on the bed in pain..."

——Before he finished speaking, Tatsuya stepped forward in three steps and covered his mouth:

"Stupid, stupid! Who told you to say this!"

"Then brother, what do you want me to say?" Kazuya said with an innocent face, "Didn't you ask me what I thought...you are not happy if you say it."

He looked at Tatsuya with a helpless and conniving look of "I'm so capricious, brother, what do you want me to say?", until the latter gave him a chill of indigestion (?).

"It's rare for someone to run out to pick you up with good intentions because they're afraid of you walking alone at night!" Tatsuya raised his hand bitterly, and quickly pinched his cheek firmly under Kazuya's puzzled eyes:

"In the end, you started to bully people again, didn't you? Recently, you seem to be more arrogant than before, Kazuya-san..."

"Hey, Wo Sen called Qihu extraordinary..."

Tatsuya pinched his cheek, and Kazuya, who couldn't even pronounce the words clearly, smiled kindly and wryly, while "appealing" for himself.

Seeing his more "innocent and pure" appearance, Tatsuya couldn't help but put his hands together, and simply pulled his younger brother's fair and handsome face into a straight line :

"It's now!"

"..." Kazuya was completely speechless, and could only silently accuse his "violence" with his eyes——

Who is bullying whom?I didn't see him being so ripped off that he couldn't even speak...

Tatsuya almost felt internally injured by his expressive eyes!

Letting go of his hand angrily, he glared at Kazuya who still raised his hand and rubbed his cheek innocently:

"Go home!"

After finishing speaking, without waiting for He Ye to respond, he turned his head and walked forward first.

Kazuya stood still and blinked his eyes, then quickly realized and quickly chased after him——

"Brother is waiting for me here on purpose?"

"……certainly not."

"Hey, but just now you clearly said 'you ran out to pick me up with good intentions'?"

"...If I say no, then I won't! If I knew it earlier, I wouldn't care about you."

"Brother is being stubborn again. Next time I come back late, please ask brother?"

"...I said I don't care about you."

"Really don't care?"

"..."

"elder brother?"

"……To shut up."

Kazuya did not speak honestly this time.

On the street that seemed strangely quiet and peaceful in the night, only the footsteps of the two brothers went up and down.

It was clearly two people, but the footsteps sounded like one person.

Is this a tacit understanding between the twins?

And don't know either.

He only knew that this time, he would never let the same footsteps become the only one walking by Tatsuya.

This is the footsteps of the Uesugi brothers.

He would never leave Tatsuya alone again.

"Speaking of which, next semester starts, and it's time to elect a new 'Miss Mingqing'?"

"I guess so—by the way, when did you care about such a thing?"

"Nothing special, it's just a sudden thought... Who will my brother vote for? It must be Xiaonan?"

"...Who said it must be that guy! I can't vote for others? The first-year Tiaozuka looks pretty good, do you know what they usually call her? 'Mingqing's popular star' oh!"

"It doesn't matter if you talk about other girls in such an excited tone? Be careful Xiaonan hears it."

"Why are you afraid that she will hear it, and I didn't..."

"Xiao Nan! Why are you here?"

"Pfft! Who?! Where?!"

"I lied to you. My brother is obviously so nervous, but he still says he's not afraid. It's really awkward."

"What...! I'm not!"

"Well, no."

"……Hey!"

There was another silence.

Kazuya wondered if he had stimulated him too much, making Tatsuya shrink back into his shell again - no way, his brother is such a dishonest guy.

Caught off guard, Tatsuya suddenly took two quick steps, stood in front of him, and stopped him from moving forward...

"elder brother?"

"And also."

Tatsuya, who stood in front of him, had an unexpectedly serious and serious expression on his face.

"I've wanted to ask you for a long time, but... I can't seem to find the right time."

Tatsuya said, his eyes fell right on his younger brother's face that was exactly the same as his own, but upon closer inspection, the facial features were much softer and more delicate than his own:

"At the beginning, I was afraid that I would make a mistake. Later, I was fully preparing for the national competition. I didn't want to think about extra things to distract myself and affect your state."

"So it has been delayed until now."

"However, we have already won the national championship."

"I think it's okay to ask now."

"so--"

"Kazuya you..."

Tatsuya paused, and seemed to observe Kazuya's expression carefully, seeing that his younger brother still had that calm and calm smiling face, he couldn't help but slightly frowned:

"You already...don't like Xiao Nan?"

——As soon as this sentence was uttered, Kazuya felt that Tatsuya's whole body relaxed for a moment, and at the same time, he seemed to become more tense in another form.

He raised the corner of his mouth slightly.

"Correction." He raised a finger, and said with a smile under Tatsuya's gaze, whether it was nervousness or anticipation. "It's not 'dislike', it's 'no longer like'."

As he said that, he raised his head, did not look at Tatsuya's expression, but looked at the deep and still vast night sky above his head:

"Brother, do you still remember last summer vacation, I said I had a dream?"

"Um……"

"Although I don't remember the content of the dream anymore, after waking up from the dream, I suddenly found that I no longer had the hazy and green heartbeat towards Xiao Nan that I had just sprouted not long ago."

"Now that I think about it, that... should be called 'like', right?"

"It's just that I don't know why, it just came out, and it was inexplicably wiped out by that dream that I can't even remember the content of."

"So, if this is what you want to ask, brother, then this is my answer."

"—Yes, I already... I don't like Xiao Nan anymore."

Kazuya withdrew his gaze from looking up at the starry sky, turned his head to look at Tatsuya with a smile——

He thought that he would see a look of relief on his brother's face.

However, the truth is, it doesn't.

What Kazuya saw was not Tatsuya's relieved expression.

"Kazuya..."

His twin brother frowned tightly, and called his name in a solemn tone that he couldn't understand at all.