Chapter 179

Guests in the restaurant came and left, but this booth had never changed. Three drunk diners were half-lying on the seats.

The remaining young man and girl were chatting easily and freely, occasionally bursting into laughter, and time passed unknowingly~

Suddenly, with a bang, the camera brother who was not honest even after being drunk, turned over, and his whole body fell under the table!

"Yabai!"

Naoki Nagayama hurriedly bent down to check, and Akina, who was further away, also probed her head with concern: "Daijoubu? Was Yuta-san injured?"

"Nothing... just... too heavy, I can't pull it up..."

The brother who carried the camera all day was fat and strong. It was definitely not that Naoki Nagayama's strength was small!

"Haha, Akina-chan~ what should I do~" Gave up pulling the person up, Naoki Nagayama sat back on the bench, looked at the watch, it was already almost 8 o'clock, actually chatted for more than an hour?

"Time is not early, have to think of a way to send them back."

Little Akina was also helpless, couldn't call her a little woman to lift a few drunkards...

"Sure enough, have to call others."

"Chotto matte, I have another way." Naoki Nagayama, who had drunk alcohol, was much more open than usual. He directly asked the restaurant waiter for a towel and ice water,

and then put the towel soaked in ice water on Yuzo Shimada's face.

Yuzo Shimada immediately opened his eyes: "Nani! What's wrong! Is it raining?"

Being suddenly applied to the face with ice water when sleeping soundly, even for a drunk person, it was too stimulating.

"Yuzo-san, time is almost up, we can go back."

"Go back where? Ah... hai, should go back... thanks for the hospitality~"

The appearance of speaking incoherently was clearly not sober, but finally could communicate and could act on his own.

Naoki Nagayama used the same method to force the two shooting brothers to start up,

fooling the 3 drunkards to stand up and prepare to leave.

Witnessing Naoki Nagayama's actions, Akina Nakamori opened her eyes wide, almost covering her mouth,

"Naoki-san is terrible!"

A group of five people, called two taxis, little Akina sat in the front car, with Yuzo Shimada and shooting equipment, pointing the way by the way, Naoki took the two shooting brothers in the back.

About ten minutes later, the taxi stopped at the door of a star-rated hotel. Behind the sound is a chaebol, of course, it will not wrong its employees.

The two carried the three drunkards back to the room, and finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Originally wanted to say goodbye and go back, but after all, he had drunk a lot of alcohol, and after moving, he felt his brain was more dizzy.

Naoki Nagayama had to sit on the sofa in the hotel lobby for a while.

"Naoki-san, daijoubu?" Akina asked for a glass of water from the front desk and asked with some concern,

"Ha, nothing, just a bit dizzy after drinking. Rest for a while~"

After drinking alcohol, he was actually not very thirsty. Naoki Nagayama just took a sip, and then looked at the girl sitting on the side,

"Akina-chan will start working tomorrow, right? It's going to be busy~"

"Hai, but because I arrived a few days early, the intensity of recording should drop a lot, really lucky~"

Little Akina's skilled tone of talking about work made people almost forget that this little girl was clearly still in high school.

Naoki Nagayama's dizziness was slightly relieved, and he looked at this immature face with a calm belonging to an adult, and didn't know why he asked: "Scared?"

"Recording? A little bit worried, but daijoubu~" Little Akina shook her head and made a full-of-energy smile,

"Not recording... Akina-chan, coming to America alone, scared?"

Akina hesitated, but still smiled and said: "Isn't there Nobuo-san and Yuzo-san, everyone together won't be scared~"

How could she not be scared? A girl who was in high school 3 months ago suddenly came to America thousands of miles away from home. Everyone in the group except herself was a male colleague she had known for less than a few months, and some names couldn't even be called out.

In a strange environment, surrounded by foreigners with blonde hair and blue eyes, and her English was only a little bit, even basic communication was very difficult.

However, Akina Nakamori, who had always been delicate, didn't want to add trouble to others, so she pretended to have a smiling face, just like what was taught in the training course. As an idol, she must keep a smile at any time...

Little Akina's voice lowered: "Just... don't know how mother is doing, didn't see her before leaving."

The eye circles also turned red.

"Chieko-san must also be missing Akina!" Naoki Nagayama was a bit anxious, waving his hands like a child, "From the moment she opens her eyes in the morning, and then lying on the bed and can't sleep!"

"Haha, how can there be such a Naoki-san~" Akina inadvertently rubbed away the tears flowing from the corners of her eyes, "It's 3 o'clock in the afternoon in Tokyo, mother didn't lie on the bed so early!"

Ah, forgot the time difference...

"Hahaha~" Naoki Nagayama laughed, "That is looking at the cherry blossoms outside the window and thinking of Akina-chan~"

"Yes, the cherry blossoms on Aose Street have bloomed~"

Akina Nakamori seemed to think of her hometown, "Naoki-san, do you know, there is a very large cherry tree not far from my house. Every time the cherry blossoms bloom when I was a child, mother would take us there."

"It's a pity I can't see it this year~"

Akina's voice lowered again. It will take at least half a month to go back. The cherry blossoms must have withered by then.

Seeing Akina's mood start to lower,

Naoki Nagayama felt that his mouth had been possessed by a crow since just now, and everything he said would cause Akina's low mood.

Naoki Nagayama's eyes turned around, but he couldn't think of any words of comfort for a while, and didn't know what to do.

Suddenly,

He aimed at the white piano in the hotel lobby,

It's almost 9 o'clock, there are not many people in the hotel lobby, naturally there is no pianist playing,

The pure white piano stands quietly in a corner of the lobby, the piano seat is slightly tilted, as if it has been looking forward to the next performer to go on stage.

"Akina-chan, although I can't let you see the cherry blossoms, listen to the sound of cherry blossoms falling~"

"Eh?" Akina Nakamori raised her head, but found that Naoki Nagayama had stood up and walked toward the piano in the lobby, "Naoki-san..."

Naoki Nagayama sat next to the piano and said to Akina not far away:

"Akina-chan, this song is called 'Sakura-iro Mau Koro (When Cherry Blossoms Fly)'"

The sound was so loud that the few people in the lobby were attracted.

Under the soft crystal lamp of the hotel, Naoki Nagayama sat at the pure white piano,

The skin that was already white was more crystal clear, the white shirt covered the torso, and the whole person seemed to be integrated with the pure white piano.

However, the black broken hair and trousers, just like the black and white piano keys, depicted the boundary between people and things.

A slender hand pressed on the piano keys,

Pure and crisp notes jumped out from the fingertips, and the beautiful melody danced along with it,

Light notes, like petals that are slowly falling, fell into the ears of the audience,

Sometimes a breeze passed through the branches, bringing more cherry blossoms flying down in the air...

The sad but not hurt music, as if to make people remember,

The ups and downs of the world, just like the cherry blossoms destined to wither,

But can leave the most beautiful memories...

Akina Nakamori closed her eyes unconsciously,

As if the scene of her and her family watching cherry blossoms really appeared in front of her,

She held her mother's hand, looking at the cherry blossoms flying, laughing happily.

The melody of the piano disappeared in a string of crisp notes. The sadness in her heart before seemed to have left with the cherry blossoms,

The tears originally in the eye circles had disappeared, leaving a more crystal clear brilliance.

Little Akina also opened her eyes, seeing Naoki Nagayama next to the piano, looking at her with a smile,

Slender arms gently rested on the piano, under the black hair, a pair of peach blossom eyes closed slightly, the handsome facial features were softer, and a slight smile appeared on the white face.

Didn't drink alcohol, but Akina's head seemed to be a bit dizzy. Looking at the scene in front of her, she felt that time was frozen.

"Akina-chan, how is it?"

Naoki Nagayama saw that Akina didn't answer, so he walked to her side and asked again,

"Akina-chan, how is this song?"

At this time, Akina came back to her senses, seeing Naoki-san so close, her face was a bit hot,

"Nani? What did Naoki-san say?"

"How is this song?"

"Hai, this is of course a very great song, is it also created by Naoki-san himself?" Akina hurriedly drank a sip of cold water to suppress her shock, and by the way changed the subject.

"Yes, it's a song that appeared before going abroad." Naoki Nagayama nodded and asked again, "Is Akina-chan's mood better now?"

"Hai, arigato~"

"That's good~"

The song just now attracted the attention of many people in the lobby,

At this time, the eyes of several waves of people looked here. Naoki Nagayama looked at the possible commotion, feeling that he might have been a bit reckless just now,

"Akina-chan, time is not early, I should say goodbye, otherwise it might be very troublesome later."

It seems that there are still a few American girls pointing here and chatting, eager to come and say hello.

"Eh? Leaving now~" Akina said subconsciously, "Naoki-san is going back to Japan later, right?"

"Yes, after watching Disneyland and Santa Monica Beach, I will go back."

"Disneyland ah~ really want to go..." A brilliance flashed in Akina's eyes, but after thinking about the itinerary, she sighed, "But maybe there is no time to go."

In this era, even if it is in the recording studio all day, maybe only one song can be recorded,

And this task has a full 10 songs. Coming a few days early is not generous, not to mention shooting photos and image materials.

Naoki Nagayama had no way for this. This is an important debut album, can't escape halfway~

Akina didn't feel too sorry, and said goodbye: "Then Naoki-san, are you taking a taxi back?"

"Hai~ I'm going to stop a car at the door~"

Naoki Nagayama stood up and walked toward the hotel door, and Akina followed to send him off.

The cool wind at night in Los Angeles blew on her body, a bit cold,

After stopping a taxi at the hotel door, just as he was about to get in the car, Naoki Nagayama looked back,

Akina Nakamori was still waving at this side at the lobby door on the steps,

There was only her alone around, the little person was in the tall lobby, looking especially lonely.

At this time, Naoki Nagayama remembered the brilliance on her face when she said she really wanted to go to Disneyland,

and the regret of not being able to go because of the itinerary, feeling a heat rushing to his head,

He shouted loudly toward Akina Nakamori:

"Akina-chan!"

"Eh?" This made Akina confused, "Naoki-san, what's wrong?"

"Let's go to Disneyland together after the recording work is finished! I'll pick you up!"

"Nani? But isn't Naoki-san going back?"

"That kind of small thing doesn't need to be considered! Akina-chan, do you want to go to Disneyland together?"

A smile appeared on Akina Nakamori's face: "Really a headache, but if Naoki-san insists on requesting so..."

"Haha, then it's a deal~" Naoki Nagayama lowered his head and got into the car, not giving Akina a chance to go back on her word.

Watching the tail lights of the taxi disappear, little Akina returned to the lobby happily,

Naoki-san, who was very stable and reliable before drinking, was unexpectedly impulsive after getting drunk~

Seeing the piano in the lobby, that was the song Naoki-san sat there and played specifically for me,

And seeing the water cup on the seat, this is the cup Naoki-san drank water from!

Wait,

Did I drink it just now?

Little Akina's face turned red again, covering her face and running back to the room.

On the same floor, Nobuo Tomioka in another room knocked on Yuzo Shimada's door at this time. He came to ask about the shooting progress today, but no matter how he knocked, there was no response.

"Haven't come back yet? What time is it?"

He wanted to knock on Akina's room, but it was so late to disturb a person of the opposite sex, not only was it too impolite, but he might also be treated as a bad person.

So he knocked on the rooms of other film crews again, and still no one responded. It seemed that they really hadn't come back.

It's really not decent. What can be shot so late? Isn't it delaying Akina-chan's recording work tomorrow?

Nobuo Tomioka prepared to go back to his room, but decided in his heart that after they came back, he would scold them severely.

Just as he turned his head, he saw Akina Nakamori in a bright yellow sweatshirt running over.

"Akina-chan! You've already come back?"

Just shyly wanting to return to the room, suddenly seeing Nobuo Tomioka, little Akina was startled: "Nobuo-san, why are you in the corridor?"

"Wanted to find Yuzo-kun to talk about some things, hasn't he come back yet? Knocking on the door has always had no response."

"No, Yuzo-san has already come back, but he is drunk, maybe he can't wake up tonight." Little Akina was anxious to return to the room, "Nobuo-san, maybe I have to find him tomorrow~"

"Eh? What about Honda and Kuroki, also drunk?"

"Hai~ drank together."

"Really not decent, leaving Akina-chan a girl in America, actually got drunk himself!" Nobuo Tomioka was clearly a bit angry.

"No, no, Naoki-san was also there, and it was Naoki-san who helped send them back."

???

"Naoki-san, is it Naoki Nagayama?" Nobuo Tomioka couldn't believe his ears,

"Hai!"

"Isn't he in Japan?"

"Naoki-san came to America to participate in an activity, and then met when transferring in Los Angeles, so we ate together."

Little Akina said concisely, "Nobuo-san, if there's nothing else, I'll go back first."

"Ah, oh, okay, pay attention to rest~"

"Hai~"

Watching Akina enter the room, Nobuo Tomioka seemed to have not reacted yet,

"Clearly wasn't it to avoid this guy? Actually met in America?"

The fist clenched, and he slammed it on the wall,

"Kono yaro, this guy, lingering!"