[Comprehensive] Kazuya's happy life

"You are……"

Tatsuya looked at the tall black-haired young man who seemed to be very familiar with Kazuya, who was holding his younger brother's shoulders from behind, and frowned slightly in doubt for a moment——I always felt that this person seemed a little familiar... Where have you seen it?

"Oh! Isn't this Uesugi brother? Long time no see!"

The other party noticed Tatsuya's existence, maintained the posture of pressing the whole person on Kazuya's shoulder, raised one hand, and greeted him with a smile.

"...Ah!" The unique way of addressing familiarity made Tatsuya quickly extract the image of a certain person from his memory, and after comparing it with the familiar person in front of him, he showed a horrified expression: "You You, you are Terashima?!"

"Hmm! It's me!"

The tall young man - Keita Terashima seemed to be entertained by Tatsuya's terrified expression, and the smile on his face became brighter and brighter:

"Have I changed a lot?"

As he said that, he clapped his hands suddenly as if he had suddenly realized something, "So Uesugi, you didn't ignore me on purpose, but you didn't recognize me at first?"

...No, I recognized you at first sight.

And you haven't really changed much either.

He also turned his head silently.

He has long been used to and learned to calmly ignore the cheerfulness and rough nerves of this friend who he barely knew since he was a child.

Sure enough, his silence did not make Terashima show the slightest loss.

Different from his evil, charming and wild (...) looks and his natural deep and husky voice with a natural lazy and sexy voice, Terashima is a very, very, very natural guy.

Sunny, cheerful and straightforward personality, accompanied by familiarity and rough nerves that don't make people feel annoying at all, aside from face(?), he is an easy friend to get along with.

Kazuya also knew him because of Kise's relationship - Terashima was the squad leader who caught Kise as a young man to participate in the football game in order to help him integrate into the class as soon as possible when Kise first transferred to Romance Elementary School.

Later, Kise temporarily joined the baseball club with his help. Although in the end, Kise quit the baseball club after only playing one game, but he and Terajima became friends in a real way and became a good relationship. friend.

At that time, Kazuya and Kise also had a very close friendship. Because they were in different schools, the two would often go to each other's house to do homework together during the holidays. Terashima, who always ran to his house, also gradually became familiar with him.

To be honest, Kazuya felt that it was very difficult for someone to hate him or get along with him with Terashima's personality, so slowly, he and Terashima became very good friends. Later, Kise transferred to another school and left, and Kazuya The friendship with Terajima has not been interrupted because of this.

And when they enter junior high school, because the structure of Romance Academy is very strange, there are high school and elementary school, but there is no middle school in the middle, so the students in the elementary school can't go directly to the middle school of the school, but Terashima's No. No. [-] Middle School and Mingqing Middle School where Kazuya is located coincidentally are just like Romance Elementary School and Mingqing Elementary School. Stuff chatting or something, but then...

Well, in fact, it’s not like getting busy with schoolwork and work, and gradually running out of time to meet with each other as we grow older.but...

Kazuya slapped Terashima's arm that was still on his shoulder until now, turned around, and looked behind the two of them——

From the open door of the basketball hall, one can see that a fierce competition is going on inside.The vigorous teenagers are running and jumping, attacking, defending, shooting, blocking shots...

The movements of the teenagers are clean and neat, giving people a very smooth and natural feeling. From the perspective of a semi-layman like Kazuya, the strength of this team should be very good.

However, the focus of Kazuya's eyes is not the group of teenagers who should be the first protagonists in the scene of the basketball stadium, but a person sitting on the bench beside the court, holding a book that seems to be a sketch book in his hand. Ben's notebook quickly draws something black-haired boy...

"Ah, you found Nozaki?"

Terashima followed his complicated and unspeakable eyes to look into the field, and after noticing who he was looking at, he raised a cheerful smile and waved to a teenager who ran over to pick up the ball.

Kazuya silently turned his gaze away.

That's right.

He gradually saw less time with Terashima, and later even less phone calls and emails. The reason was the young man who was sitting in the basketball gym at this moment, writing like a fly.

——Nozaki Umetaro.

Classmates, tablemates, friends of Terashima's middle school days, teammates and good partners in the basketball club.

Kazuya didn't dislike Nozaki.

He still remembers the first time the two met under the introduction of Terashima, and his first impression of each other was very good.

Although his eyes are slightly fierce, his appearance is tough and masculine, he has a height that can disdain most of his peers, and he has a frustrating name (hey), but after getting along with him in practice, he will find that Nozaki has a very easy-going personality and is a very friendly person. A friendly boy.

So at the beginning of the acquaintance, Kazuya actually felt that he got along well with him.

But slowly, Kazuya found that the way Nozaki looked at him often made people feel very... weird.

Sometimes when the two were talking, he would suddenly take out a small notebook and start to write down something.

Occasionally, I would ask myself some strange questions——

For example, "As a popular campus prince, how do you think you would fall in love with an ordinary girl?"

Also, "Uesugi, how often do you receive love letters? Will there be a small peak during Valentine's Day or school festivals?"

And, "If the girl you like feels ordinary, but is actually very popular, and everyone except herself is more or less aware of this, what action will you take at this time? Do you remind her pretending to be teasing? Or keep silent praying that she never finds out?"

……and many more.

At first, Kazuya thought that Nozaki had joined strange associations such as the Questionnaire Fan Association in addition to the basketball club, so he always asked himself some weird questions, until one day he found a piece of information in Nozaki's notebook. An outline full of messy character relationships and plot clues, and a few original character settings...

After realizing what it was, Kazuya was in a bad mood.

He never imagined that Nozaki would use him as the prototype to set up a shoujo manga!

Although the hero's character is quite different from him in some aspects, there are also many aspects that are exactly the same, okay?

Kazuya didn't feel any annoyance at being the reference object of his friend's character setting, but, as a young boy who had just turned 12 years old at the time, his face was really thin...

It's so embarrassing... what kind of expression will I use to face Nozaki in the future qaq

Ever since he figured out what kind of eyes Nozaki was looking at him with, Kazuya really couldn't look directly at this good friend who often held a small notebook while asking himself questions and taking notes.

Fortunately, since that summer, Kazuya’s position as the main pitcher in the baseball club has been thoroughly recognized and consolidated, and the amount of training has naturally increased. In addition, Nozaki and Terajima joined the basketball club together, because of height and physique Due to the natural advantages of these two people, the two of them got the seats in the regular election in the first grade, and gradually began to spend a lot of spare time on department activities, so the contact between the few people naturally weakened, from frequent meetings to occasional meetings. email contact...

Up to now, more than two years have passed.

But just now, Kazuya recognized Nozaki who was sitting in the basketball gym, seriously lowering his head and writing something.

That's why he showed such a complicated expression, hesitated for a moment, but decided to turn around and leave instead of going up to say hello.

——Of course he is no longer the thin-skinned boy he was back then. Although he still feels a bit ashamed to be used by his friends as prototypes for characters in shoujo manga, he no longer wants to reduce his friendship with his friends because of this. contacted.

However... when he thought of his obvious evasive behavior back then, he felt ashamed and embarrassed, and felt a little sorry for Terajima and Nozaki.

Before he had figured out how to face these two old friends from the past, he actually didn't want to reunite with them rashly.

It's a pity that Terashima's eyes are still as good as ever. He was fighting fiercely with others on the field before, but as soon as he turned around, he had already run over and stopped Kazuya...

This motor nerve is also developed to be convincing.

Kazuya sighed silently.

"What a coincidence, Terashima."

He resignedly gave up his plan to continue to escape with Tatsuya (no), turned his head, and met Terashima's eyes seriously:

"haven't seen you for a long time."

The short black hair was slightly sweaty, and his handsome face was a bit sinister, but there was a bright and refreshing smile that was completely different from his appearance. The tall and straight young man smiled and reached out to pat Kazuya's shoulder:

"Oh! Long time no see!"

——It seems that he has completely forgotten that he "caught" Kazuya before, so that he didn't let him take the opportunity to sneak away.

So it should be said that thick nerves also have the benefits of thick nerves...

He couldn't help but secretly heaved a sigh of relief.

Moreover, I saw that Terashima's personality has not changed much except for his mature appearance and heightened height (wait for this idiom seems to be used incorrectly!), and his personality has not changed much. He is still as natural and straightforward as before. Kazuya also I feel very relieved.

He curled up his mouth and smiled warmly at his long-lost friend, and was about to continue the conversation with him, but saw Terajima's expression suddenly become a little surprised and...excited?stand up.

Seeing him staring straight behind him, Kazuya subconsciously turned his head——

From a distance, he saw a group of people talking and laughing, approaching the basketball court.

Among them, the impatient and yawning figure of the man seemed particularly prominent and eye-catching...