Blue Lock: Hello, Student A

[Wild Imagination, Sorry!!! Written in third person... First person is hard to read. Derivative work. I really love the favored child of heaven... Pure feel-good fiction, with a romance plot. Maybe an all-pairings direction? (I really love Blue Lock...)]

Hana no Kaze Asanagi.

From what I remember, when people were asked about him, most classmates would say, "He's a really strange, unremarkable person." They never seemed to see him have a close relationship with anyone. He wasn't exactly bad at studying, and could easily take first place in the grade rankings. He should have been someone who stood out, yet he was always overlooked. How strange.

So everyone jokingly called this strange person, who was good at school and came from a good family, "Classmate A." Someone once asked him about it. He said he didn't mind, but he couldn't hide how pleased he was. He seemed to like the nickname a lot.

Asanagi. Asanagi. Isn't it a lovely name? A windless, still morning.

One day, Mikage Reo suddenly brought up Hana no Kaze Asanagi to Nagi Seishiro. Nagi, busy playing a game, didn't want to respond, but Reo kept making noise until he finally answered.

"I know who he is, but we're not close."

"Nagi!!! Listen, he's a genius!! I want him to join us!"

Mikage Reo was quick to act. When he invited Hana no Kaze Asanagi to play soccer with him and Nagi Seishiro, Asanagi rejected him without hesitation.

"No. Sounds like a hassle."

Mikage Reo wasn't discouraged by that one sentence. If he could look after someone like Nagi Seishiro, then he could look after one more person, too.

Come to think of it, Mikage Reo was puzzled. Nagi Seishiro and Hana no Kaze Asanagi were so alike in personality, and they even shared the character "Nagi" in their names. Reo couldn't help wondering whether there was some connection between them.

When he asked Nagi Seishiro about it,

"No. I don't know him," Nagi replied.

Mikage Reo could only drop the subject and start asking Asanagi's classmates about the genius.

"Classmate A? Hmm... He seems to like sleeping."

"Classmate A!! He's really weird, but not in a bad way."

"Classmate A? I think he likes sweet things."

"Oh, oh, you mean A! Unless he's on cleaning duty, he always leaves school really, really early."

After gathering all this information, Mikage Reo decided to stake out Hana no Kaze Asanagi with Nagi Seishiro. Nagi didn't want to, but Reo dragged him along. He couldn't get away, so he gave up resisting.

When Mikage Reo saw Hana no Kaze Asanagi leaving campus, he pulled Nagi Seishiro along after him.

Reo couldn't believe it: Hana no Kaze Asanagi had walked into a bar. It didn't look like a legitimate establishment, or else a minor wouldn't have been allowed inside.

Mikage Reo's feelings grew even more complicated.

If only he hadn't seen Hana no Kaze Asanagi's tattoo, he wouldn't have ended up pinned here.

"Maybe we could talk."

"No. And don't tell anyone what you saw today."

Mikage Reo was at a loss between laughter and tears. The other guy had him by the face, but being threatened by someone shorter than him really didn't scare him.

A little... childish?

"Then, Classmate A, how about playing soccer with me?"

*

Nagi Seishiro felt bothered. While he was playing a game, Mikage Reo suddenly asked if he knew Hana no Kaze Asanagi. Nagi was in the middle of a final and didn't want to deal with him, but the person beside him wouldn't stop pestering him, so he had to answer honestly.

Mikage Reo suddenly got so excited that Nagi was startled.

He pressed his lips together. Faced with Reo's enthusiasm, if he were Hana no Kaze Asanagi, he definitely wouldn't be able to handle it, so to avoid all the unnecessary trouble, he would just agree.

But Hana no Kaze Asanagi wasn't like that. He had directly rejected Mikage Reo.

If it seemed like such a hassle, why reject him? Why not agree? Nagi Seishiro found himself wanting to play soccer with him, but he didn't need to go recruit him. Mikage Reo would be far more proactive.

Mikage Reo had been asking around about Hana no Kaze Asanagi lately. Sometimes Nagi would look up and listen for a while, then quietly commit the details to memory.

Reo said he wanted to stake out Asanagi's usual route. Nagi wanted to go home and play games, but Reo still dragged him along.

When he saw Hana no Kaze Asanagi walk into a bar, he was just as surprised as Mikage Reo.

When Nagi Seishiro suddenly stumbled upon Hana no Kaze Asanagi pinning Mikage Reo against the wall, he was bewildered. But when he saw Asanagi's bare upper body, the black snake-pattern tattoo immediately caught his eye.

He blinked, then stepped forward and leaned against Hana no Kaze's shoulder.

"What are you doing?"

"Let's play soccer together. I want to play soccer with Asanagi, Classmate A."

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There are three kinds of egoists in the world: one wants to live and let others live; another wants to live but won't let others live; the last doesn't want to live and won't let others live., Ivan Turgenev, Rudin

Hana no Kaze Asanagi was a combination of all three kinds of egoist. If he felt like it, he could casually wave a hand and put himself on the path to the pinnacle of life. But he didn't want to choose that path or anything like it. He wanted to live and let others live, too. He could die himself, if he wanted. In that case, he would just have someone else live on in his place.

Why do you get to walk on shore? I'm so jealous. You should be just like me.

Let's drown together in the deep sea.

Hana no Kaze Asanagi didn't want to play soccer, but somehow, there was always a force drawing him toward the game.

Maybe he was fated to be connected to soccer. A poorly passed ball came flying toward him.

When he looked at the ball in his hands, his body seemed to move on its own. He tossed it into the air, kicked it, and sent it straight into the net.

After a brief silence, the sports field erupted in astonished cries. His instincts told Hana no Kaze Asanagi to leave immediately. Little did he know, someone had already set their sights on him.

A few days later, he had already forgotten about kicking the ball into the goal. As he walked toward the classroom, someone stopped him.

Faced with the invitation from the purple-haired boy in front of him, he rejected it without hesitation.

Hana no Kaze Asanagi felt as if someone was following him.

Leaving aside the whole situation, he was caught between two people inviting him to play soccer. He was more than a little speechless. He didn't even know their names, let alone want to agree...

Well, somehow, he agreed anyway.

Hana no Kaze Asanagi could only blame his bad luck. When he asked their names, one of them smiled brightly, while the other looked like he didn't want to talk, his face drooping.

"I'm Mikage Reo! I look forward to working with you, Classmate A, my other treasure!"

"Mm, Nagi Seishiro. Nice to meet you, Classmate A..."

*Here's a little about Hana no Kaze's appearance: dark red hair with a few blue highlights. The hair on the left is longer, hanging over his shoulder. The hair at the back isn't very long, just an ordinary length. Sometimes he clips a lock of hair on the left up with a hairpin. His eyes are blue and yellow, with slit pupils.

Height: 179 cm

Age: 17

Personality: Moody.

Talent: S

Likes: Raising snakes, sweet things, sleeping, alcohol.

Dislikes: Things that are especially troublesome, bitter melon, pickled radish.

Catchphrases: "Ah, what a hassle."

"Ah, okay, I got it."

Also, Kira won't be eliminated. That's just my personal preference.

Theme: Human reason shatters superstition, and human emotion will shatter it, too.