~*~Kansai Couple --- More than Friends, Less than Lovers~*~
DISCLAIMERS: All the Detective Conan characters are belonged to Aoyama Gosho, YTV, and Shonen Sunday.
Chapter 1. Nice to Meet You
A small, dark coloured skin boy was totally absorbed into the television, "I'm Detective Maeda, you can't escape now!" The small boy then picked up his toy gun, and then pointing at some imaginary criminals in front of him, and yelled, "freeze!"
"Heiji! Could you please stop playing your toy gun for a while," said a beautiful lady, who was wearing a purple kimono. "Someone will be visiting us, so it's better for you to tidy up a bit your toys."
The little boy looked around the room, the toys were spread around the room. He definitely did not want to tidy up the room, and then he heard someone talking with her mother at the door, "welcome, Toyama-san."
"Thank you, Shizuka, for looking after my daughter today," said Toyama, a little girl with a ponytail was holding his hand tight, her other hand was holding a bunny. "My mother-in-law has fallen sick suddenly, my wife had gone to look after her last night. I really appreciate for your help."
"Heizo and you're best friends, moreover, my son would be too happy to have someone to play with him."
"Kazuha, greet obasan now." Toyama pushed the little girl to Shizuka, and she said, "I'm Toyama Kazuha, nice to meet you."
"It's time for me to go now, Kazuha, be a good girl," said Toyama. "Bye-bye." Toyama then kissed her daughter goodbye and left her with Shizuka.
"Kazuha-chan, my son was also five years old, same as you," said Shizuka. "He would be too happy to have someone to play with you."
Kazuha then saw a dark coloured skin boy playing with his toy gun, "this is Heiji." Kazuha was quite afraid to see him with such dark skin, and hiding her face behind Shizuka. "Heiji, this's Kazuha-chan, she'll stay here, so be nice to her. Don't ever try to treat her badly. Kazuha-chan, do you want some orange juice?"
Kazuha nodded her head slightly and said, "yes, arigato."
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Kazuha was sitting at the living room silently, drinking her orange juice. Heiji was observing this small girl with a ponytail; she was holding her bunny tight in her hands. 'I definitely don't want to play with her, I don't want to play dolls with her!' He went to talk with her mother at once.
"Okaasan, who's that girl?" said Heiji to Shizuka, "I don't want to play with her."
"Haven't I tell you already? She's the daughter of Toyama-san, your father's best friends. She would stay here for the day until his father comes back from work. So go and play with her." Heiji could do nothing but go back to the living room.
When Heiji came back to the living room, he found out that Kazuha was weeping silently. "Ka…Kasuha, why're you crying?"
"Not Kasuha, Kazuha!" Kazuha stopped crying at once, "I'm not crying, papa and mama have told me to be a good girl, I won't cry anymore." She was wiping her tears off her face. Heiji was looking at the little girl in front of him, and said, "but you don't look happy!"
Upon hearing his words, Kazuha's eyes started watering again. "I miss mama and papa, I don't want to be alone here." Heiji started to panic, he was afraid that her mother would find out that he had made Kazuha crying. He tried to find words of comfort, "you're not alone, and I would play with you." They then started playing together, most of them were girlish game that Heiji preferred not to play. Since he did not want to upset her anymore, he played with her. He then managed to show his latest toy gun to Kazuha, and played a policeman game with her.
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"I wonder why girls like this kind of fluffy things," said Heiji, he was holding Kazuha's bunny in his hands.
"It isn't a things, it has a name," said Kazuha. She immediately grabbed her bunny back, "it's Ka-chan, a birthday present I'd received last year from mama. You can also come to my birthday party coming up next month. I'll tell mama to invite you also."
"Thanks for your invitation, but I don't know if I could come," answered Heiji. Shizuka entered the room before Heiji had finished his sentence, "Kazuha-chan, I'm afraid that your father would come back late from his work, so you would stay here overnight," said Shizuka. "It's better for both of you to bath and then go to bed now."
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It was already late at night, and Heiji was already sleeping soundly in his bed, and then he heard a knock on his door. He opened the door, and asked, "Who's there?"
"Can…Can I sleep with you?" It was Kazuha at his door, "I can't sleep alone, I'm afraid."
"Okay!"
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The next morning, Toyama came back from work and picked Kazuha up. "She's probably still sleeping," said Shizuka, leading him to the guest's room, and found out that no sign of Kazuha was there. "Maybe she's gone to play with Heiji."
Shizuka then found Kazuha at Heiji's room, sleeping together.
"Bye-bye Heiji! Remember to come to my birthday party!" Kazuha said cheerfully before she left the Hattori's house.
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A month later, on Kazuha's birthday, Heiji came to her part, "Happy birthday," and brought a nicely wrapped present to her. "A present for you."
Kazuha was too surprised to receive a present from him, "thank you!" Kazuha started unwrapping her present, it was a brown bunny.
"It seems that you like this kind of fluffy things, so I bought you one," said Heiji.
"Kazuha-chan, Heiji has spent lots of time finding a present for you at the department store," said Shizuka. "He's surprised me by going to the doll section instead of the toy gun section."
"I like it so much, Heiji!" said Kazuha, "I need to give it a name first. Um…I'll call it Hei-chan, because it also has dark-coloured skin like you."
"Urgh…I don't want to be your bunny," complained Heiji.
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To be continued or not…
Please R & R. I just come across ideas on the childhood of Heiji and Kazuha, it's so funny to write their childhood story, don't know how long would this fanfic be…but I think it will at least have one more chapter on their handcuff story(depending how many reviews I get of course…)