"OI! CONAN-KUN!" The brunette waved her hand over Conan's face, trying to get his attention. "Are you even listening to me!?"
"Huh?" Conan came back from his somewhat daydream. He turned to look at the brunette who was sitting in front of him from across the table. "Oh I'm sorry Ran-neechan."
"You've been acting rather weird this morning as well," Ran pointed out, finishing her morning smoothie. "Did something hap-" She looked at Conan who had gone back to his daydream like stance. "Conan-kun, I'm talking to you!"
"Heehee." He kept on smiling like an idiot.
Ran just kept her mouth shut, knowing Conan wouldn't listen anymore. "Geez, I've never seen you so happy before."
"What was that?" Conan snapped back into reality once more.
"It's just," Ran explained herself. "This is the first time in a while I've seen you happy, ya know?"
Conan had thought about what she has said. It did occur to him that this was the first time in years since he's felt happy. The last time he was happy was when he, with the help of the FBI, CIA and his other friends, had finally stopped the Black Organization for good. "Yeah," he wryly laughed. "Guess it's been awhile."
"Did something happen yesterday?" Ran seemingly asked. "Something that you're still happy about?"
Conan still remembers. He still remembers the events of yesterday back in the park...
Flashback...
"All of this," He placed her hand onto his heart. "Is coming from here. Not a rash decision, not because of this or that. From here, my heart."
"K-Kudo..." She didn't know what to say.
"You still doubt me?" He asked her.
"I-I don't know... I just don't know..." She looked down. Suddenly she felt one of his warm hand on her chin, raising it once more. "K-Kud-" Her mouth is suddenly shut, his lips meets hers.
The taste of both Vanilla and Chocolate mixed between each other's lips. Unlike Conan, this was Haibara's first kiss. They were warm, soft, nothing like she would expect. Their kiss was the broken up when they both gasped for air. It wasn't long before the two teens embraced once more to kiss.
"Kudo...?" She said breaking the kiss.
"Yes?" Conan said.
"I just wanted to say that... I've always loved you." She said, finally no longer keeping it in.
"I love you too." He smiled, still embraced with her.
Present...
Every little part, he remembered his moment with Ai. "..." He couldn't hide his blush, reliving that moment.
"Conan-kun," Ran somewhat started teasing him. "You're all red! What did you do yesterday? As a matter of fact who were you thinking about?"
"I-I wasn't thinking of a-anyone..." He tried hard not to play her game but was failing.
"Liar! Your blush is telling me a different story." She continued to tease the 13 year old.
"…It's no one really..." He tried avoiding her questions.
"Come tell me her name," Ran was trying really hard to get Conan to spill the beans. "Or is it a h-"
"It's not a he!" Conan was annoyed.
"I'm not against same se-" Once again, she was interrupted.
"It's Haibara!" He reluctantly told her. He quickly turned away, trying to avoid Ran's fangirlish squeal.
"Oh my Gosh!" She closed her mouth with her hands then quickly attacked with questions. "Tell me all about yesterday! What did you do!?"
"That's all I'm telling you!" He held his arms around his chest, trying not to look her in the face.
"So cold..." Ran was disappointed but still very happy for Conan. "Maybe I'll just imagine what you guys did..."
"What?" He finally faced her in the face.
"Let's see here..." Ran started to brain storm.
"Honestly? Is that all you can think about?" Conan was irritated.
"What I was only thinking what your babies could look like..." She teased Conan.
"W-What!?" He turned all red.
"Hee hee hee," she slightly laughed. "I'm sorry, it's just, you two have such good chemistry."
"... hmpht..." He only grunted.
"So you guys went on a date?" She continued on with her ridiculous questions.
"..." He didn't say a word. Only looked down on his breakfast plate, where a once omelet and bacon used to be.
"No?" Ran quickly jumped to a conclusion. "My god Conan-kun, what did you guys do?"
"That's like the only question you've been asking for like the last 15 minutes," Conan again deflected the question, rapidly trying to change the subject. "Can't you like ask another one?"
"I'll take that as a no." She raised an eyebrow.
"I-I..." He tried thinking of what to say. It was useless, whatever he said would never convince Ran. He raised his white flag in defeat. "I-I... got nothing."
"Does that mean you'll answer my questions now?" She was eager to start.
"No." He grunted.
"No what?" She asked, confused to which question he's answered to.
"No, it was not a date," he finally admitted. "And I-I..."
"And what? Gosh you always start stuttering when you get to the good part!" She joke around.
"I kissed her..." he lowly said.
"What?" She couldn't hear his response.
"I said I kissed her." He spoke up.
"Y-You k-kissed her!?" She instantly went inside her own head, imagining Conan and Ai kissing.
"Yeah I did." He blushed, still remembering the thought.
"Yeah you're growing up so fast!" She instantly got up from her chair and quickly squished Conan in a hug.
"Ran... can't... breathe..." He gasped for air.
"Oh sorry," she finally let go of him. "But I still can't believe it."
I'm the same age as you. Conan had thought to himself as his true alter ego, Shinichi Kudo.
"But you skipped to many stages!" Ran told Conan.
"What do you mean?" Even as his alter ego, he didn't know what Ran was talking about.
"You have to ask her out on a date!" She blurted out. "And it'll be your first date!"
Believe me, Conan raised an eyebrow. I've been out with many girls as Shinichi. Including you! As his alter ego, he had given it more thought. But she's still right, this is my first date as Conan Edogawa, not Shinichi Kudo.
"Are you still listening?" She somewhat gave him a nudge on the head. "Or are you thinking about your Ai?" She jokingly said to him.
"Yes I'm still listening," he softly massaged the bump on his head. "Yes you're right. So that's why, today I'm gonna go and ask her out."
"Splendid! I know this good spot that I and Araide go to." Ran took out a piece of paper and pen, and quickly wrote it down. "Here." She handed it to Conan.
Conan read it out loud. "Marco's Sushi Plaza... a sushi restaurant?"
"It's actually a really good restaurant," Ran picked up her purse, ready to leave. "Both of you will like it."
"She's more of a sweets girl," he put the note into his chest pocket. "But I'll take your word for it."
She opened the door. "Come on now Conan-kun," she called him. "Dad's says he needs us at a crime scene."
"Something about that sentence doesn't make sense," Conan irritatingly said. "But whatever."
"I know," they both walked out, heading towards the street. "But he does."
Back at the Professor's place, Ai had just made breakfast for herself. She was eating alone when Agasa had come through the Garages door that lead to the kitchen. "Morning Ai." He said, getting a cup and heading towards the freshly made orange juice.
"Good morning Professor," she greeted back. "Still fixing your car?"
"Yeah," he sat down across from. "Still trying to figure out what is wrong with that thing."
"You'll figure it out," she tried boosting his confidence. "Eventually."
"Yeah," he laid back on his chair. "Anyways about what happened yesterday..."
"You mean the trip?" Ai knew what he was gonna ask but decided to advert the question.
"Ha ha very funny," he saw right through her trick. "No, about you and Shinichi."
"Yeah," she put her fork down, finally finishing her strawberry pancake. "I'm guessing I'm gonna have to explain it right?"
"No need to explain," Agasa drank his last remaining orange juice he had in his cup. "I'm just glad that you have something else on your mind now, that's all."
"R-Really?" She was surprised to hear that come from him.
"Yeah," Agasa chuckled. "I mean I always thought that you and Shinichi had some good chemistry."
"Again, really?" She raised an eyebrow at the professor.
"Yeah," Agasa straighten himself. "What do you think I was gonna say about it?"
"I don't know," she cleared her throat, readying her Agasa impression. "Something along the lines of 'NO YOU TWO SHOULDN'T DATE' or 'YOU AND SHINICHI DON'T MIX WELL.'"
"Is that it?" He could only laugh at her impressions of himself.
"That's about it." She too started laughing.
It took a few minutes before the laughter died out and the room succumbed to silence. "I do have one question that is lurking inside my brain." Agasa said, breaking the silence.
"Ask away." She gladly accepted hearing his question.
"Did you guys go out on a date yesterday?" He asked.
"..." She didn't know how to answer that question.
"No?" Agasa was slightly worried.
"Yeah," she finally thought of what to say. "We didn't go on a date."
"T-Then how did you guys come back all lovey dovey?" Agasa now had more questions for her.
She had thought back at their kiss.
Flashback...
"All of this," He placed her hand onto his heart. "Is coming from here. Not a rash decision, not because of this or that. From here, my heart."
"K-Kudo..." She didn't know what to say.
"You still doubt me?" He asked her.
"I-I don't know... I just don't know..." She looked down. Suddenly she felt one of his warm hand on her chin, raising it once more. "K-Kud-" Her mouth is suddenly shut, his lips meets hers.
The taste of both Vanilla and Chocolate mixed between each other's lips. Unlike Conan, this was Haibara's first kiss. They were warm, soft, nothing like she would expect. Their kiss was the broken up when they both gasped for air. It wasn't long before the two teens embraced once more to kiss.
"Kudo...?" She said breaking the kiss.
"Yes?" Conan said.
"I just wanted to say that... I've always loved you." She said, finally no longer keeping it in.
"I love you too." He smiled, still embraced with her.
Present...
She blushed at the thought. "So?" Agasa called out.
"W-We k-ki..." She couldn't muster up her words.
"I'm waiting." Agasa just sat there, staring at Ai struggling to say her words.
"We kissed..." she said lowly, looking down at the table and turned, trying not to look at Agasa's face.
"Any louder?" Agasa got closer, trying to listen to her.
"We kissed dammit!" She yelled straight in his ear, causing Agasa to fall back. "Sorry for yelling."
"It's alright," he got himself up again. "I was probably gonna fall either way with the news you told me."
"Yeah, I thought that was gonna be the case." She said.
"Wow who knew Shinichi was rather straight forward." Agasa still tried to process the news in his head.
"Yeah I guess." Ai put her arms across her chest.
"You seem irritated though," Agasa looked at Ai's impression. "What's wrong?"
"Nothing," she sighed. "I just wish we had gone on a date..."
"Don't worry," Agasa got up from his chair. "Shinichi will pull through."
Just as Ai was about to get up, her phone rang. She instantly went to her pocket to see who it was. "It's Kudo." She told Agasa.
"I'll be in the garage again so bye." He quickly went back through the door.
She answered. "Hello?"
"Oi, Haibara. Can you hear me?" Conan's voice was somewhat hard to hear since car honks and all somewhat covered it.
"Kinda," she said, concentrating real hard on his sole words only. "Still able to hear you. What's going on?"
"Well currently I'm in a crime scene." He spoke more loudly than the first time.
Crime scene? That's sounds about right at this time. She had thought, internally laughing as well. "Typical."
"Anyways, I was calling to see if maybe you'd like to..." Car honks got louder over Conan's phone.
Like to what? Go on a date? She could still here him but his last words kept on going around her head. "Uh huh?"
"If you'd like to go on a date with me?" He finally finished his question.
Ai lit up bright red, her blush had spread all over her face. "Yeah that'd be really nice," she agreed. "When?"
"How about tonight?" He answered.
"Ok, what time should I expect you to pick me up?" She asked. Still irritated by the sounds in the background.
"Around 8." He said.
"OK then. Bye." She hanged. She silently hoorayed in her head.
Suddenly Agasa came back in. "I-"
"If you say I told you so, I will literally tear that tongue out of yours and choke you with it." She interrupted him, threatening him as well.
"I will remember that." Agasa said, walking back towards the Garage.
"Good." She finally got up and put her plates and such in the sink.
Now I'm gonna need something nice to wear... She thought to herself. She had gone to her room and looked through the mass amounts of clothes she had in her closet. No... No... Double no... She thought to herself, tossing clothes around her room. Jeez, I really got nothing to wear.
She was somewhat exhausted from all the clothes she had thrown around, trying to find the perfect clothes for her night with Conan. It's no use, I really have nothing in my closet that I can wear for this special occasion. She turned to look around her room, finding out that she has left a big mess. I'm gonna need to buy some... she had thought for a moment, trying to see who she would turn to in this distress. Let's see there's Ran but I don't feel like talking to her. There's also Ayumi but she'll probably just get jealous and cry. There's also... She finally thought who to turn to. HER!
Ai quickly put all her clothes back inside her closet and sprinted right out her door.
A/N: Hope you like the sequel to that of A Partner, A Friend, A Lover story. It's gonna be at least 2-3 chapters long so expect more. And this will mark my 3rd ConAi/ShinShiho story. Will update soon. Bye. Oh and leave a review if you like.