STEPBROTHER (HAIKYUU X KUROKO NO BASKETBALL SUMMER CAMP)
71

"Is he asleep?" akashi asked as he whispered softly to one of his servants.

"Yes, young master. Mr. Ushijima was resting in his room" the maid replied, carrying a tray of empty glasses from Ushijima's room.

"Then, where are his friends Ushijima-san?" ask Akashi again.

"Your friends Mr Ushijima just came home a while after you returned, did Young Master not cross paths with them?" ask the waiter.

"No, they may have left this house before I arrived. Yes, Already. You can go back to the kitchen" said Akashi, who was only obeyed by the waiter.

Then, Akashi slowly opened the door of Ushijima's room. He could see Ushijima who was falling asleep as an effect of the influence of the drug he was taking a while ago. Indeed, he was allowed to go home, but still he had to spend the drugs prescribed by the hospital in order to recover completely.

"When I defended coming home to greet you, it seems that you have slept well." Akashi stared at Ushijima, not since when he had stood there. Until his eyes were fixed on a marker that was on the table rack, suddenly his ignorant ideas began to appear at that time.

With a sly laugh, he grabbed the marker and scribbled Ushijima's face carefully so that Ushijima would not wake up. His smile did not stop between the corners of his lips, he could imagine how shocked Ushijima was when he woke up and saw his face.  It seems like Jahil Akashi's soul is starting to grow, maybe because it often sees the mischievous behavior of his friends that makes him learn to behave like a normal child.

After all, he no longer cared about the problems that occurred in the hospital before, he had even forgotten about the words of his female friend Ushijima. It was a foolish matter to think of such an insignificant matter and start enjoying the fate line that had already been given to him at this moment.

Moreover, the meeting with Nijimura had made him start to miss arguments with Ushijima, so he needed to judge Ushijima to make him upset. Naturally he did this, because lately Ushijima seemed always sweet to him and never once provoked him back.

"Take it this is my welcome gift, Ushijima-san. I was really childish," he muttered to himself as he patted the eel. Then, he walked on tiptoes leaving Ushijima who had been filled with scribbles all over his face.

Akashi could not smile with satisfaction at Ushijima's doodled face, he could not wait for Ushijima to wake up. Until his steps stopped in a room Masaomi private library that is not closed tightly, the, it may be the carelessness of the waiter who forgot to close again after cleaning the room or indeed the room was being cleaned and left briefly by the waiter.

However, for Akashi this was a golden opportunity for him to occasionally enter the room. A room that was barely allowed to be entered by him. Not even all servants were allowed to clean the room, at most only a few.

Moreover, he was curious at all with references to the reading of the father. And this is a golden opportunity for Akashi to get to know more about his father, as well as see some past photo albums that might have been stored there.

With enthusiastic steps, he immediately entered the room and closed the door again without changing the position of the door as before. There, he seemed amazed to see the arrangement of bookshelves that are very neat and elegant. There is even a single sofa and smoke funnel facing the fireplace directly from the library shelf. It's just that his father really likes to be alone here, it feels very comfortable.

To the point of not stopping smiling, he lyrics every shelf filled by English and Japanese books with very heavy topics. A genre that Akashi is completely disliked, even though he feels comfortable reading and understanding the contents of the book.

His hands touched every row of bookshelves in the room, his eyes did not stop being amazed and his lips always showed a smile of admiration for the atmosphere in the room. Until accidentally, he found a rather dull notebook with a cover that had been peeled off like ever falling water.

The omission of a notebook that has a twin is quite thick and the opening of every page that has yellowed and smelled damp. The smile on his face instantly disappeared when he realized the diary belonged to his late mother, he hurriedly hid the book and walked towards the sofa to read it immediately.

With the hope that the book will take him to explore his mother's beautiful past, he never realized that there is a past that until this moment is still a secret in the Akashi family.

Where on a page that somewhat folded and made Akashi become interested in reading it, his eyes immediately stunned and could not hide his surprise at that time.

Dear diary

Seijuro's presence in our lives made this spring a truly memorable one, so I was happy to see Masaomi's smile back. It feels like I'm falling back in love with her who is currently reminding me of her youth version.

Akashi begins to turn the pages of the book upside down, still trying to hide his feelings in confusion.

Dear Diary

Today I had a fight with Masaomi, he seemed disappointed at my decision. And for me this is the first time I have denied her wish and refused to continue with all the plans we have designed together. It's not for no reason that I do, I just feel it's inappropriate to be a mother if I let the plan work out. After all, Seijuro deserves a decent life in this world and his birth was the most beautiful mistake I have ever made.

I am truly a pitiful mother, how could I possibly lose to that red-haired little baby figure? Though he was only the only hope for me and Masaomi to wake Yuki back up, however I realized the fact that Seijuro could never be Sakura who brought our family smile back to normal. In fact, I could feel resentment from the eyes of my husband's family and my family who were unhappy at my decision. Seijuro really is a poor baby!

Akashi's hand began to shake, he began to get a slight gap that became a pointer to a secret he never knew at all. His heart was completely crushed and felt reluctant to re-read the book, but all his might tried to turn the next page upside down with ears that started flushing out from the flames of anger.

Dear diary

My health deteriorated over time, but not with Yuki's health starting to improve after getting a transplant of several organs. For some reason it felt like we were like a mother and daughter struggling to stay alive. Luckily the problem about the plan was slightly improved after getting another donor who helped Yuki heal, but still Yuki still needed some of his damaged organs from Seijuro's body.

But that's not the case, I feel annoyed at my family and my husband's family who are still cold to Seijuro. My little baby who has turned 6 years old is often crying because it feels isolated, I can not see it sad like this.

Not to mention my husband who always spent time outside the house on the grounds of work, when in fact he was with Yuki. I know it's not fair to Seijuro, he needs a father in his life. The favoritism made me so upset with him. But, I also can't possibly separate Yuki from her father. Moreover, Yuki is much more loving to her father than me, since these few years I keep a distance from Yuki which can make me change my mind.

I'm just a weak mother, I should be able to protect my two sons. But in fact, fate asked me to choose between the two. I don't know how much longer Yuki can live, but there's no way I can sacrifice Seijuro to keep him in this world.

Akashi had completed the entire folded page earlier. For a moment he fell silent to understand everything that had happened in his mother's past, his eyes shedding tears as he realized how miserable his life had been.

"Young master, what are you doing here?" asked a waiter named Kuruya who even looked shocked to see the whereabouts of Akashi.

Obviously his call broke Akashi's daydream, he immediately stood up with an angry look and gave the book to Mr. Kuruya.

"My father never loved me?" asked Akashi who was beginning to be flooded with tears on her cheeks, her hands trembling as she handed the notebook.

Mr. Kuruya who never knew anything about the Diary was confused, he achieved Akashi's giving without saying anything.

"Kuruya-san, are you also hiding something from me?" asked Akashi whose voice began to shake, only this time Akashi was this confused. And this is the only thing that everyone who works in that house never expected.

"Young master shouldn't have entered Mr. Masaomi's room." Mr. Kuruya tried to shift the subject. He could not possibly let the secret they had been hiding leak out just like that. Unknowingly, Akashi knows more about the secret.