
The next day, Sasuke was still standing in front of the glass. He saw the reflection of himself having slightly longer hair than usual.
"Sauke." Calling Igarashi made Sasuke turn to him.
"I didn't expect your hair to be this long in one night." Said Igarashi while holding onto Sasuke's long hair.
"Igarashi." Call Sasuke weak and uninspired as always.
"Eh." Igarashi only replies to Sasuke with deheman.
"Can you cut my hair." Sasuke said while holding his hair.
Igarashi nodded at his friend's request. "Sit down." Igarashi orders him to cut Sasuke's hair.
But strangely, Sasuke's hair seemed to not want to be cut. Every time Igarashi tried, Sasuke's hair looked very hard to cut.
"Is there a problem?." Sasuke asked in confusion.
"Squeaky. Your hair can't be cut." Igarashi still has trouble cutting Sasuke's hair.
Sasuke simply kept silent not to reply to Igarashi's complaint. Meanwhile, Sakuraba who had just finished dressing up saw Igarashi who seemed to be in distress.
"What's up?." Sakuraba asked curiously.
Neither Igarashi nor Sasuke answered. But by the time Igarashi turned his head, Sakuraba was immediately shocked to learn that Sasuke's hair was so long in one night.
"What happened to your hair, Sasuke?." Sakuraba asked who could not hide her surprise.
"I don't know when I wake up, my hair's been this long." Sasuke replied. He then got out of his seat and picked up his bag and left his two best friends.
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Just like Igarashi and Sakuraba, all the children were shocked when they saw Sasuke whose hair had been shoulder-length in one night.
"What happened to you, Sasuke-kun?." Tanya Hanada took the initiative.
"I don't know when I wake up my hair has suddenly been this long.
Sasuke then sat down to his seat and just stayed there. Akiko then came to him and asked him to talk.
"Something's been stuck in your mind lately?." Akiko asked in amazement at Sasuke's attitude.
"Eitherway. I myself feel something strange about myself." Sasuke replied feeling confused about himself.
"Is this about your brother?." Guess Akiko who seems to know the root of Sasuke's problem.
"maybe." Sasuke replied curiously because he did not really understand whether this was because of his brother's actions.
"How to relieve your stress we go to Zakuro's fruit parlor." Take Sakuraba who suddenly appears from behind Akiko.
"You just surprised me." Akiko's words were answered by Sakuraba.
Sasuke was silent for a moment. But then he agrees to Akiko's invitation. "Well, I haven't seen Aunt Apple in a long time."
"All right, we're leaving at 15:00 today." Akiko then returned to his bench leaving Sasuke.
Meanwhile, Zakuro still hopes that his mother won't do anything to hurt Sasuke.
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This afternoon, the Alpha Group Members will head to Fruit Parlor run by Zakuro's mother, Apple. While they were on their way there, they got a call from someone familiar to their ears.
"Hey." Hino's call made everyone look up to him. Akiko, Sasuke, and Igarashi show their dislike faces to Hino. While Sakuraba, Hanada, and Zakuro just smiled awkwardly at Hino.
"What's up?." Sasuke asked ketus on his kayak.
Hino then walked towards Sasuke and held onto Sasuke's hands. "Sasuke's. I'm sorry, yeah." Please Hino with a hopeful tone in each of his words.
Sasuke was silent for a moment. She was actually still angry about her brother's attitude that had ruined her day yesterday. But at the same time, she also missed her long-gone brother.Maybe forgiving him is not a bad thing.
"alright. I'll forgive you all your mistakes." Sasuke forgave Hino.
"Thank you." Said Hino who was happy because her sister had forgiven her.
"But please don't repeat it again." Sasuke continued so that he Hino did not repeat his actions.
"alright. Brother promised." Said Hino invites Sasuke to do a pinky promise reciprocated by Sasuke as well.
"By the way.Where are you going?." After apologizing for doing a pinky promise with Sasuke, Hino now wondered where they were going.
"Visiting my mother." Answer Zakuro briefly.
"Oh, yeah. Can I come with you?." Hino asked who seemed to miss her aunt as well.
"of course. Mama must be happy to see you." Replied Zakuro who had suspected that his mother was very happy about the presence of his favorite nephew.
"alright. Let's go together." Take Hino and hold Sasuke's hand.
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"Hii-chan. Welcome to." Apple said Hino's greeting back with a smile.
"Auntie how are you?." Hino asked about his aunt.
"Auntie is very healthy." Apple replied that it was so happy that its nephew had come home.
Feeling his presence ignored, Zakuro yells loudly to get attention from his mother "Mama I also came home." Shouted Zakuro.
"Ah. Mama forgot that you also went home Zakuro." Apple replies that Zakuro has come home with his friends, as well as the boy.
"Good afternoon." Greetings Akiko, Igarashi, Sakuraba, and Hanada.
"Good afternoon, everyone." Apple is still smiling.
"Aunt how are you?." Sasuke asked his aunt
"How about we drink some juice first?." Regardless of Sasuke's questions, Apple offers Hino, Zakuro, and his friends a drink.
"It sounds fine too." Hino said soberly without realizing his sister's feelings.
Pomme, who could not bear to see Sasuke, who had never received attention from Apple, now tried to reprimand him.
"Apple's." Call Pomme to the wife.
"What's up?." Asked Apple who seemed to feel a little annoyed at being bullied by her husband.
"Sasuke asked how you were doing. Answer it!." Reprimand Pomme to get Apple to answer Sasuke's question.
"Tell him that I'm good news." Instead of answering Sasuke's question, Apple asked her husband to reply.
"You're this." Somehow Pomme felt that Apple's attitude was a little outrageous. As hard as he asked Apple to be friendly to Sasuke, the results were always zero because Apple would never consider Sasuke as his nephew.
"Everything come on." Apple said it was switching the conversation.
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During his time at the fruit parlor, Sasuke was always ignored by his aunt. The only ones who always teach talk are Zakuro, Ichigo, Hino, his friends, and his uncle Pomme.
It seemed that coming to fruit parlor was the wrong choice, as her aunt never wanted to see it.
"Did Auntie hate me so much that she wouldn't see it." Sasuke muttered to himself.
"Sasuke-Kun." Call Zakuro from a distance
"Zor." Sasuke said as he watched Zakuro approach him
"I'm sorry mom, yeah." Sorry Zakuro for his mother's treatment.
"It's okay." Sasuke was just resigned to a situation where he was again ignored by his aunt.
Zakuro sat down and said, "I don't really understand why you hate Sasuke-Kun."
He wondered why his mother hated Sasuke so much as his own nephew
"I don't know myself either." Reply Sasuke briefly while looking at the floor below him.
"And I wish that my mom would love Sasuke-Kun like she loves Kak Hino." Really he wanted to see Sasuke can be loved by his mother like Hino.
"I myself also want to be treated like Hino by your mother." Sasuke agreed with Zakuro's wishes. Deep down he was very jealous of Hino who got more attention.
"But it seems like it was just a dream." He then left Zakuro alone. Right now he just wanted to return to the Dormitory so that he could rest.
Meanwhile, Zakuro stared at Sasuke's back which was getting further and further away from him.
"I'm sorry, brother." Zakuro's regret for Sasuke will never be heard of.
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"Don't think too much." Said Igarashi folding his uniform.
"Although I didn't think about it, somehow it couldn't get out of my mind." Reply Sasuke who was terrible hair with a towel.
"Remain kind to your aunt. Because one day he's gonna melt down and start loving you." Sakuraba's advice is to get ready for bed.
Not long after, Igarashi also went to sleep leaving Sasuke still silent at the suggestion of his two friends.Before he finally began to sleepy and decided to meet his two best friends in the dream.
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The time was long enough when Sasuke's long hair now began to extend up to his back and blackened at the bottom.
TB