STEPBROTHER (HAIKYUU X KUROKO NO BASKETBALL SUMMER CAMP)
12
Even a few weeks after the bloody incident, Akashi's condition has also improved after undergoing treatment at the Hospital which happens to be located not too far from the Summer Training Camp.
But not with his mentality and attitude, he more locked himself in the room and avoid interaction with his friends. And his attitude also became more and more when he had to accept the fact that his left eye could no longer function, obviously this made him very angry and repeatedly cursed his own life. Not to mention the feeling of being increasingly devastated because he could not help his team, to the point of making Rakuzan Team suffered continuous defeats in the Summer Camp Training match.
"That'sghhh...!" yelled Akashi while throwing Basketball in every direction, he had spent half an hour just shouting and throwing basketballs to all sides of the room with a fairly dim lighting.
Akashi is really crazy lately, he no longer even cares about the worries of his friends or the anger of the Father who feels Akashi should not act shamefully like this. To his father, Akashi is the successor to the Akashi family fortune and it does not seem appropriate for the child to behave shamefully like that. Moreover, Akashi is the only precious treasure left by his late wife who should have been Mr. Akashi educated into a sparkling gold among the vortex of the Solar System.
"My future? My strength was gone" murmured Akashi, who looked like he had lost his mind, as he stared at the window of his room as if imagining something.
For a moment he was silent, this time he actually shed tears that flooded his cheeks and let the basketball roll back against his feet.
"Basketball is a relic of Mama. Then, how can I live without Basketball?" he asked in a soft voice, as he rubbed gauze and bandages covering his left eye.
"How can I live with this imperfection? How can I live up to all my family's expectations, and how can I let my pride be torn apart like this?" he muttered once more, before he finally released the bandage that covered his eyes and beat his eyes with a fist repeatedly until it was painful.
The pain that made him sit limp on the floor of the room, he lowered his head while crying softly trying to withstand the pain that he could still hold in his heart. Until the sound of knocking on the door from the outside called out Akashi's name many times, his voice was so familiar in Akashi's ear that it made Akashi feel sick to listen to him.
"Are you okay?" asked Ushijima who sounded hesitant and felt guilty for his actions at that time. Of course Ushijima feels very guilty, anyone would not have thought that the actions we do accidentally can take the future of others.
"If you're okay, better stop locking yourself in the room! Your servant has made dinner for you" said Ushijima, who intends to leave without even once intending to apologize directly to his half-brother. Although in fact he feels very uncomfortable when being kind to others, even if remembered once again that Ushijima is not a person who cares and cares about anything.
"Based on useless garbage! You think you can live a quiet life, after you destroy me and hide behind a word of accident!" yelled Akashi who suddenly had opened the door of the room and hit hard Ushijima's stomach which happened to have not had time to move from there.
Obviously Ushijima did not want to lose, he returned to reply Akashi's punch which made the two repeatedly hit. They fell down simultaneously on the floor and struggled violently right then and there, both of them repelling each other's blows. His eyes could not lie that there was currently an aura of anger behind Akashi's eyeballs, as opposed to Ushijima's expression of a visibly guilty face.
Akashi did not stop attacking Ushijima who was physically much stronger than Akashi, he gripped hard neck Ushijima that made Ushijima immediately kicked hard Akashi to be able to escape from the clutches of hard.
Akashi, who was a petite body, was immediately thrown down next to Ushijima, he lay on his back while adjusting his breathing for a few moments. It seemed that he seemed grateful for Ushijima's actions just now that had stopped him from finishing Ushijima right then and there.
"You really are a monster, you could have almost killed me!" keluh Ushijima who is also regulating his breathing. For him, the fight with Akashi just now was much more tiring than the daily Volleyball practice.
However, Akashi did not give any response. He was still silent as he stared at the ceiling of the corridor of his house, there was not even an interest for him to bully Ushijima other than to close his eyes for a moment.
"Young Master, what happened? Your face has been bruised like this" said the maid, who was obviously worried for the employer's son.
However, it seems that the atmosphere of Akashi is not okay. He immediately brushed off the hand of the Servant who was intending to help him stand up, his eyes staring resentfully at the servant. And his body immediately got up at that moment with a sitting position.
"Stop looking at me with such a pitiful look, you're just making me even more upset!" akashi's repulsive assertiveness made the Servant surprised. At the same time, Akashi stood up again and walked into the room, which he immediately locked once more as usual.
Akashi really returned to the darkness that now controlled his heart and mind, even he no longer needed the lighting of the lights in the room he deliberately turned off. To him, a dark or light room felt the same.
Meanwhile, Ushijima had already walked out of Akashi's room. He is also not too interested in poking around the concerns of the Servant who immediately turned to him after Akashi entered the room. For him, he is not the son of the Akashi family to worry about. He is also not interested in being part of the conglomerate family, the only thing he wants is to be considered a Volleyball national athlete like the wishes and expectations of the Father who has allowed him to be forcibly seized by the Mother.
The steps continued to walk out of the house, "Mr Ushijima, where are you going? In a moment, the Madam and the Great Lord will be home soon."
One of the servants seemed suspicious of Ushijima's movements, so he immediately blocked Ushijima from crossing the doorway.
"You are being punished by Mr and Mrs for not going anywhere in the past few days. I hope you can follow the rules that apply to you," said the Servant, as if she held full confidence to watch over Ushijima who was being punished.
"He's not my father, there's no reason for me to listen to his orders. You're not supposed to get in my way, I'm going to my real dad's house now!" tell Ushijima regardless of what reaction he will get after saying that.
"You shouldn't speak such disrespect, however Mr. Akashi has become your father now. And stop rebutting like this after injuring our beloved Young Master, you should be grateful for the light punishment given by Mr Akashi even though you have done a very fatal deed to Young Master Akashi!" cursed the Servant who seemed to dislike Ushijima's presence, however, he has to watch over and respect his new employer as he has great respect for Mr. Akashi and loves Young Master Akashi whom he has been guarding since childhood.
"Your words really sound like someone's blaming me, you think only Akashi is the victim here? Just so you know, there can't be a fire if there's no axis to trigger it." Ushijima spoke bluntly, for him none of this would have been possible had Akashi not fished for him that day.
"If it is young master Akashi who has become the axis of your anger at that time, still you should not do fatal actions to make him lose something valuable to him. We really can't imagine what it would be like if Young Master stopped playing basketball again. " The servant approached a few steps, he could see the stored feelings of anger piling up in Ushijima's fist.
"You're all overreacting! If indeed he does love basketball more than anything in the world, then there is no need for him to hate Basketball just because he lost one of his eyes. Anyway, why should he be so overreacting like that? Basketball is just an extracurricular sport, he shouldn't curse himself much less hate Basketball."
"Basketball is not just a simple game in the eyes of young master Akashi, Basketball is the only precious relic that the late great mistress inherited to the Young Master. With the game of basketball, young Master Akashi can feel the warmth of the Madam and basketball is also able to restore a warm smile on the cold face of Young Master Akashi. And the eyes of the young master Akashi are the only beautiful thing inherited also by the Big Lady gene, the beautiful eyes that always remind us of the deceased."
Ushijima was stunned to hear the Servant's words, his mind started raging and his heart rate was beating faster than usual. He began to understand a strong reason to make him realize how valuable basketball is in the eyes of his stepbrother.
"I have to go now" Ushijima said without giving any response. He immediately broke through the servant's shoulder and set foot leaving the mansion, even though he was currently feeling claustrophobic and full of guilt. As we all know, Ushijima is only interested in something he understands and now he has managed to understand a little about the figure of Akashi through the words of the servant. And now, we can only wait for how Ushijima will behave to the captain of the kiseki no see.