Ohayou minna! I just suddenly got this idea when I was lying in bed and rereading fanfics! I hope you'll like this!

summary: Kazuha can't understand why Heiji always loves his hat...

No one knew why Heiji always kept his cap with him or why he was always so protective of it.

"Y'know, there are other caps that are much better looking than that one, ahou. Since when did you keep wearing that anyway?" Kazuha had asked him as they both ate ramen in a restaurant one day.

"Ahou, it's not about the looks of a thing but the thought that was given to them that counts." Heiji replied as he gulped down his fourth bowl.

Kazuha frowned at him then shrugged, leaving the case closed.

=.=

"Heiji-sempai, you're amazing!"

Kazuha rolled her eyes as flocks of girls crowded around the western detective. Having Heiji in his normal mode was bad enough, but those comments certainly would inflate his ego.

Heiji grinned at them, absorbing those heavenly words. "Thank you! Thank you!"

"Ahou, we're gonna be late for the train!" Kazuha called out to him. He rolled his eyes. "Hai hai."

As they got inside the train, Heiji reversed his cap since the case he worked on had already been solved. Kazuha looked distastefully at it. It was an ugly green hat with the logo SAX engraved on it. Heiji clearly loved it more than he loved her – wait, what?

The girl shook her head, dispelling those thought. Getting jealous over a hat was ridiculous.

=.=

"Hattori-sempai, since you love hats, please accept this!"

A kouhai in their school had come in class 3A and handed Heiji an awesome red hat that was really popular that season.

"Sorry, but I prefer this green cap better."

Everyone in the class looked at the detective in shock. Even Kazuha was flabbergasted. "Why do you want to keep that old hat when this one looks ultimately better?"

Heiji glared at her. What he said next made her confused. "Ahou, you of all people should know the reason why I'm keeping this old hat! Bakaero!"

"What did you say!?"

And with that, another verbal war ensued, the first year clearly forgotten.

=.=

Both the teenagers were walking down the road, green leaves rustling gently in the breeze. "Ne Heiji, what's so special about that hat anyway?"

He looked at her in confusion. "I thought you knew that already!"

"What?"

Heiji face-palmed himself. "You're such an idiot! Did you actually forget that you were the one who gave me this after my first real case?"

Her eyes grew wide in realization as a light blush covered her cheek. "You've kept that ever since that time?!"

"What do you expect? You'd kill me if I lost it. And besides, it's quite handy when I need to concentrate in something." He grinned at her. "Haven't said it from that time but, thanks!"

She smiled warmly back at him. "You're welcome."

=.=

Five years ago.

"And you, Kuzoku-san, are the culprit!" A thirteen-year-old said as he pointed at the man in the group of three. The culprit sank down to his knees.

"I'm sorry! I admit it; I was the one who killed my daughter's boyfriend!"

The man was taken away after that. Heiji looked around as he searched for someone. "Where'd that ahou go?" he muttered to himself.

"Heiji!"

A voice rang out from the platform of the train station and a pony-haired girl ran up to the new detective, hiding something from behind her back. He glared at her in irritation.

"Ahou, where did you go?! I wanted to let you see me solve my case!"

She just grinned and whipped out what she was hiding from behind her back and clamped it over his head. "Happy first case! This is my gift to you. I know you'd already solve the case so I ran to the nearest hat shop and bought it. With this, you can concentrate better in your case."

Heiji blushed as he took it off and inspected it. It was a green cap with the words SAX engraved in front. "You didn't have to do this for me."

She smiled widely. "It's fine. Besides, you're going to be a much better detective right? So you'd kinda need a thinking cap on."

"Ahou, you make it sound so lame!"

"What did you say, ahou?!"

And so both of them bickered as they got on the train, real words that they wanted to say, unspoken.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

How'd you like it? This will be my first in a series of one-shots. I've already written the outlines of two more oneshots in paper so look forward to more often updates in this!

Please review this story! I'd really appreciate it if you do!

Also, gomenasai for not updating my other stories! With so much schoolwork, I have no idea how I can finish everything!

Thanks for reading it!

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