Chapter 95 I want to practice basketball with my brother
On Saturday morning, it was Naruse’s turn to prepare breakfast.
Although they had to go out, he and Shangzi didn't get up too early. There was wind and snow outside, and they both slept until they woke up naturally.
Naruse: Do you want to wear a uniform today?
Naoko: It is more appropriate to wear uniforms when entering schools and attending concerts at the Civic Center.
Naruse: Then wear it.
Put down the mobile phone, get dressed and get up. Across two windows, Shangzi waved to him from the other side.
I went downstairs, washed up, and prepared breakfast. She came over quickly.
"Breakfast has just started to be prepared."
"I'm here to help."
"So is there any point in taking turns making breakfast?"
She smiled and asked, "What are you going to eat today?"
"Let me see what's left..."
Not long after the two had breakfast, Hikaru Takigawa came to the door and rang the doorbell.
"Good morning, have you had breakfast?"
"Already eaten."
"Then go out, the bus is coming soon."
The three of them went out together, and Hikari Takigawa was holding a bag with basketball uniforms inside.
"It must be very cold just wearing basketball uniforms." After all, Prefectural Jingao is no better than private schools. There is no air conditioning in the gymnasium.
"It's a bit cold when I first change clothes, but it'll be fine once I move."
She smiled at the two of them and said, "Chunhai and Shangzi will also come and play later. It will warm them up."
While waiting for the bus, Takigawa Hikaru said that Takigawa Yue had also woken up, but she had to study at home in the morning and go to the private school in the afternoon.
"It will be more than a month before the common exam."
"Yeah."
"Time is getting tighter and tighter," Naruse said.
She looked at the sky and slowly exhaled a cloud of white mist, "Yes."
When they arrived at school, Hikaru Takigawa went to the gymnasium to warm up first, while Naruse and Naoko went to the club room where the air conditioning was on.
Several members who live nearby also come here to stay on weekends.
One of the senior students has her eye on Naruse.
"Naruse, you're here just in time. Come and help me check if there are any problems with the road map in this guide."
"What road map..."
He looked over and was stunned for a moment, "Tokyo?"
The above are all Tokyo sites.
"Yeah."
He glanced quickly and his eyes fell on the terminal, "Tokyo International Exhibition Center...Senior sister is going to participate in the Winter CM?"
"You can see from this, you are worthy of studying in Tokyo!"
"..."
"This is the first time for Xiao Ai and I to go to Tokyo. We are not familiar with it at all. Is this guide okay?"
Naruse looked at it carefully again, combined with the Tokyo railway lines in his memory, and quickly made a judgment.
"The route is okay and we can reach our destination. However, I think that instead of getting off the Shinkansen at Tokyo Station, walking a long way, and then taking a bus, it would be better to get off the train when you get to Ueno, then take the Ueno-Tokyo Line and transfer to Seagull
Line."
"Wait a minute - what?"
"Ueno."
"What wildness?"
"...I'll write it down."
After re-planning the route for the two seniors who planned to go to Tokyo to attend the Winter CM during the winter vacation, Naruse and Naoko sat for a while until Takigawa Hikaru sent a message.
"Let's go."
"Yeah."
In the corridor leading to the gymnasium, the two met a large group of children who came to participate in basketball learning today.
These children basically come from several nearby nurseries. According to Takigawa Hikaru, there are more than thirty people in total, and at this time, most of them are crowded in the corridor, looking at the playground.
"So awesome——"
"I've never seen such a big snowman!"
"Is it ten meters high?"
Passing between these children, listening to their exclamations, Naruse and Naoko smiled at each other and looked towards the playground.
The boys in the track and field department finally built a giant snowman that was nearly six meters high, but the shape was slender and not as round as an ordinary snowman.
On the side of the snowman facing the main building, there is a calligraphy banner hanging.
【Mindfulness】
“It’s completely impossible to tell that this is to encourage the wind club.”
"Although everyone in the school knows it..."
Walking into the gymnasium, on the basketball court, the members of the women's basketball club were warming up, but the basketballs they used were much smaller than usual.
"Children's Basketball..."
Naruse looked around and saw that the basketball hoops placed next to them were also very low.
"Spring sea!"
He followed the sound, and a basketball was thrown over, and he caught it steadily.
Hikaru Takigawa smiled and had already put on his basketball uniform, "It's very cute. I have never used such a small basketball."
Bang! Bang!
Naruse took two shots on the spot, then aimed at the basket in the distance and shot the ball out.
The basketball hit the board and bounced into the frame. Shangzi clapped his hands.
"It's really good." Hikaru Takigawa's smile showed a little surprise, "You can hit a shot from such a distance, and it's such a small ball."
"Good luck." Naruse said.
She picked up the basketball and threw it over again. Naruse shot it again on the same spot and still made it.
"I'm really lucky this time..."
"I want this kind of luck too."
The people who are responsible for teaching the children today are all members of the basketball club, and there are also many adults here. They just wear suits and ties, and obviously they are not leaving.
"The Information Department is here too." Naoko reminded softly. Naruse looked over and saw a somewhat familiar figure on the other side of the basketball court.
"Who is that from the Information Department?"
"Well, who asked us to repair the dictionary...who?"
Neither of them remembered the name of the news agency reporter who came to interview before.
After a while, today's teaching activities finally started, and the first item was that the women's basketball team donated children's basketballs and basketball stands to several nearby nurseries.
"Is this the school's arrangement?"
"Probably so."
Click! Click!
The reporters from the news agency became active at this time and kept taking photos.
Naruse and Naoko, two unrelated people, wanted to huddle in the corner, but a teacher noticed them and pulled them over to take a photo with them, standing in a very conspicuous position.
Naruse held the ball and smiled, "Why..."
"Look at the camera——"
Click!
After the handover ceremony, the staff quickly left. Only the teachers and students of the women's basketball department and the nursery were left in the venue, and basketball teaching officially began.
More than 30 children were divided into six or seven groups, and one or two basketball members in each group were responsible for instructing them, starting from the most basic standing postures and ball holding methods.
"Pay attention to my posture: feet shoulder-width apart."
Hikaru Takigawa held the ball, assumed the most standard stance, and scanned the children in front of him.
"Can't we start playing basketball yet?" one of the children asked.
"Play basketball?"
She smiled slightly, tossing and catching, and the basketball spun steadily on her fingertips, attracting the attention of all the children.
"Wow..."
"Want to learn?"
"Yeah!"
The basketball stopped spinning and fell steadily into her hand.
"Then you have to listen to me next, okay?"
"Yeah!"
"First, keep your feet shoulder-width apart and maintain this stance. I'm coming over to check."
Naruse and Naoko were invited by her, so naturally they stood on her side and watched.
"I feel like Guang became familiar with the children very quickly."
"Yeah."
After learning the stance and basic ball-holding postures, Hikaru Takigawa then taught passing.
They were all just getting started, so she only taught direct passing, and then they practiced passing the ball to each other.
"Chunhai, Shangzi, you guys can also pass the ball together."
It’s idle to be idle, and it’s cold to stand around. The two agreed and each “got” a child.
"Spring Sea——"
Taking the basketball thrown by Hikaru Takigawa, Naruse smiled at the little girl in front of him and said, "It's about to begin."
"Well..." Her face suddenly turned red.
"She's shy." Naoko leaned over and gently squeezed him to the side, "I'll teach her, and Harumi will teach that child."
Bang!
Naruse dribbled the ball and came to another child.
"I want to practice with my sister."
"No, boys have to practice with boys. Catch——"
"..."
Looking at Naruse who was walking aside, the shy little girl also muttered, "I want to practice with my brother..."