[Jiren] Sea Salt and Roses

January is the height of summer in Australia.

Nioh got off the plane empty-handed, and Byodoin, who was seen as the head coach, folded his arms impatiently and began to form the team.

He turned on the phone, glanced at it, and put it away again when he didn't find any unread messages.

Shishido came up from behind, still dragging his suitcase, and stopped beside him: "Where's your luggage?"

"We're at the hotel." Nioh said.

Shishido was stunned for a moment, then gave a half-embarrassed oh, and touched his nose.

Ghost was the last one to get off the plane. He vaguely heard Nioh's words, so he came up to imply: "This year's U17 Japanese team's sponsor is quite generous, right?"

King Ren glanced at him, snorted and said, "It sounds like the organizing committee is short of money."

"What are you three talking about there?" Byodoin, who had finally finished the team, frowned and glanced here, and raised his voice, "It's time to go."

The bus they booked was parked outside the airport, and they needed to walk some distance.

Many of the coming and going crowd recognized these Asian faces—or rather recognized a few former professional players and the clothes they wore.

"The Japanese team has arrived!"

"Last year's top eight? I don't know how this year's results will be."

"Anyway, it is also a representative team that has won the championship, so it cannot be underestimated."

"Didn't you say that most of the people have changed? Last year, most of the group that got the top eight graduated, and this year they are all newcomers with little experience. It's hard to say what results they can get."

……

The bus stops in the parking lot outside the airport.

Byodoin walked in the front, frowning slightly, still thinking about the group of inexperienced newcomers behind him.

He has a bad reputation, and his actions are simple and crude, but he is still convincing.From the team leader of the national team back then to the current head coach, I have come step by step, and I have a little more patience.

Planning to find some acquaintances to give special training to these newly elected team members while the exhibition match and lottery are still a week away. As soon as Byodoin turned a corner, they saw people standing in front of the bus.He stopped.

"What are you doing here?"

The tone is quite aggressive.

"Ah, my uncle is a sponsor, can't you come?" The man wearing sunglasses took off his sunglasses in a leisurely manner, showing a pointed expression, "I also found a temporary coach for you."

"There are already enough coaches here." Byodoin said gruffly.

Atobe didn't bother to pay attention to him.

He hung the sunglasses on the neckline of his shirt, and put one hand in his pocket and one hand between his eyebrows: "My uncle thinks that there is no harm in having a few more coaches."

"How many?" Byodoin sneered, "Did you count yourself in?"

"Why, do you have an opinion?" Atobe raised his eyebrows.

The oppressive force generated by the collision of auras when they spoke made the members of the representative team following Byodoin couldn't help but breathe lightly.

Compared with Atobe, what attracted the attention of these players was the indifferent person behind Atobe who was wearing a tracksuit and carrying a tennis bag.

"Is that Tokugawa-kun?"

"Didn't it mean that Tokugawa-kun was specially hired as a coach by the French team after retiring?"

"The news said that Tokugawa-kun refused!"

"Then Tokugawa-kun will be our temporary coach?! Is that what the familiar person wearing sunglasses said?"

"That's really great! That's Tokugawa-kun!...By the way, I also think the person wearing sunglasses looks familiar..."

Shishido couldn't help coughing.

King Ren turned his head to the side: "What, you have a cold? If you don't feel well, take a good rest."

Shishido: "...No, I'm fine."

He looked at Nioh's half-smiley expression, pressed the brim of his hat and looked away.

The confrontation between Atobe and Byodoin did not last long.

After all, it is really strange that so many people are stranded in the parking lot, and Byodoin is not planning to be on the entertainment news in Australia.

And after he got in the car, he didn't even have the time and energy to fight aggressively.

Oni came up from the end of the line, arranged a seat straightforwardly, and reserved a seat next to Tokugawa in the first row for him.

Facing the still handsome but cold face of the no longer young man, he was speechless for a moment.

As soon as Nioh got on the bus, he sat in the last row, and Atobe naturally sat next to him.

After the press conference, they didn't see each other very much. One was to deal with work matters, and the other was to deal with matters related to the national team's going out for games.

But Nioh knew some of this person's plans from Atobe's words that day, so he was not surprised when the national team suddenly changed sponsors.

Keigo Atobe's dominance hasn't changed for more than ten years.

The distance from the airport to the hotel is neither long nor short.

Nioh watched the game video of several teams on the plane, but got a little sleepy on the bus.

He leaned back and closed his eyes.

Opening the time trace department again, I just stretched out my arms to wrap his arms around his shoulders: "Go to sleep if you are sleepy."

Nioh pursed his lips and leaned on Atobe's shoulder with all his strength.

When Nioh stood up when he got off the car, he saw Shishido's indescribable expression.

He raised his eyebrows: "what's the matter?"

Shishido: "No, nothing."

He was sitting right in front of these two people, and he couldn't help but want to hear what was going on behind him.But there was no movement behind.

Could it be that King Ni was really asleep?

It's not like that.

Just look now, how does this person look like he just woke up.

He almost broke the fruit plate in his hand when he was watching a TV press conference at home. He couldn't figure out how these two people got together, and they were going to get married again.

What is said on the Internet that "the relationship has finally been made public after more than ten years" is all nonsense!

More than ten years ago, these two people... that is, the relationship between two doubles teams once or twice, right?

He has been in the U17 training camp as a coach for two or three years, and there is no contact between Nioh and Atobe.

Ice Emperor holds a regular tennis club gathering every year, and he has never heard of Nioh from the history club.

So how did these two get to this point without ever crossing paths?

He really wanted to ask in person, but every time he met King Ni's eyes, he would take back what he was about to say.

I knew in my heart that even if I asked, what King Ni said was unlikely to be the truth.

So ask the trace department?

Shishido imagined himself asking "Why are you and Nioh together" in front of Atobe... He would probably be told "You still ask me such an unglamorous question".

Atobe's room is set in the suite on the top floor, and the national team is naturally set as a standard room.

According to the usual practice, the players are divided into pairs, the coach lives with the coach, and the gender must be matched. ALPHA and OMEGA definitely cannot be put together.

In the past two years when he led the team to compete, Nioh lived with Shishido, and it is naturally the same this time.

Among the four coaches, only Nioh is an OMEGA, so he has to stay and see if it is safe in the room allocated to the only two OMEGAs in the national team.

Atobe calculated that it would probably take a long time, so he handed over the key card of the room to Nio.

"I'll wait for you in the room," he said.

Nioh nodded.

Shishido had a complicated expression: "Do you live together?"

"Why don't you stay if there are better rooms." Nioh snorted softly, and glanced at Shishido with a smile, "Don't worry, I will remember to save you when you forget to bring your room card, piyo~"

You are the only one who will forget to bring your room card and lock yourself out of the door!

Shishido growled inwardly.

There are too many people on the representative team, 32 in the high school group, [-] in the junior high school group, plus four coaches, a total of [-] people, not counting the accompanying doctors and assistants.

They took the elevator separately, and Byodoin took the first group of people up first, while the other three coaches were still guarding below.

The atmosphere finally became more active, so the members of the selection team began to gossip.

They were a little curious on the bus, and after hearing the conversation just now, they had various guesses.

"Coach, is that your new boyfriend?" asked a team member who was quite familiar with Nioh.

King Ren hooked his lips, neither saying yes nor no.

On the side, Shishido exhaled and clicked his tongue: "That's not her boyfriend, that's his fiance."

"what?!!!"

Exclaimed one after another.

Shishido looked at them wonderingly: "Didn't you guys watch the news?"

"You mean the video of the press conference?" Another team member paused after asking, with a weak tone, "I saw the video on the Internet, and thought it was written by those reporters just like before."

"That's right, Coach Nioh and Yukimura-kun used to make news all the time."

"There was also news about getting married with Sanada-kun."

"...Even XX-kun clearly stated in the interview that he was dating Coach Nioh, but Coach Nioh never admitted it."

"I also thought this was gossip..."

The more a group of people talked, the lower their voices became.

The ghosts who were listening couldn't help laughing.

Shishido glared at Nioh: "You don't pay attention to your own image."

"Pfft." King Ni felt that Shishido's words were very boring.Pay attention to the image?What image should we pay attention to?He didn't do anything, and he wouldn't lose a piece of meat if someone said a few more words.If he hadn't become acquainted with Ren as a colleague for two years, he would probably just say "it's none of your business".

He glanced at the number of the elevator, and took two steps forward: "Okay, pay attention to the image. I'll take them up first, someone is waiting for me."

There was a booing sound.

On the elevator, the OMEGA team member who had just split up asked cautiously: "Coach, are you and Atobe-kun really the same as what you said on the Internet?"

"What did you say on the Internet?"

"Love for a long time or something."

Nioh turned his head back with a smile, and he could see the uneasiness in the eyes of the two OMEGA players.

They were all selected for the national team this year, and they hadn't differentiated in the training camp a year ago.

Nioh knew their panic.

Whether it's in tennis or beyond.

"Coach, we are..."

The boy's voice gradually decreased.

Niwang didn't want to speak comforting words, but he couldn't say cold words either.

The elevator just stopped.

He walked out of the elevator door: "Don't think about what you have, I don't recommend you to fall in love with your teammates."

"coach!"

"Pfft, did I hit the mark?"

"You stop joking."

King Ren pursed his lips and stopped talking.

He understood that what Atobu said at the press conference was to help him out, but he didn't want to admit to such things as "love with each passing day".

And he also understands Shishido's hesitation to speak several times.

But he didn't want to explain at all.

Anyway, it was impossible for that guy to walk up to him and ask.

Nioh thought so, and smiled self-deprecatingly as he opened the door.

The author has something to say: Make up for last week's update, and there will be another chapter tomorrow.

Shishido is BETA.

So there will be a little bit (just a little bit) of Feng Xi in the future.

I don't dislike double beauties, but I don't like them either, so if I can't write ORZ, I can just read the articles (but in fact, I basically avoid articles related to Fuji).

In fact, the cp I stand on is very complicated. Although I write Jiren, I actually stand on both sides. Although I am cute, I am on Xing ALL. I can also accept Xingmaru because of Lihai Daquan's fans.

Basically, the writing does not involve the characters of Qingxue.

There is no need not to let Fuji appear.

How should I put it, my favorite, my gay friend who came to find me by bullet train from Xiamen just to have a meal with me and chat for a while during the National Day, was once my best friend.But she has climbed the wall.

So...

It takes a lot of love to write about fandom, so all my articles are centered on Nioh.

At least I like the sub-cp, like Yagyu Shinobi who was tagged by me...

If there is no way to like both, I will not write.