Two Sides of a Coin: Chapter 1
A New Student
Sonata: Yaaaayyy! The first chapter of my COMPLETELY re-written Magic Kaito/ Meitantei Conan fanfic! Like how I'm posting it on Halloween? My second favorite holiday (though I don't get today off of school...)! -is doing a happy dance with party poppers- -throws confetti-
Sora: Why are you dressed in visual kei...?
Sonata: It's my costume for tonight!
Saguru: You are a strange person.
Sonata: Don't kill my good mood.
Kaito: Have fun getting up to where you left off last time.
Sonata: Like I said, it's COMPLETELY re-written. Don't expect it to be like the old one. And ha! No way am I posting the old one again, that was one crappy (forgotten) plot! -is all smiley-smiley-
Sora: Like this one is any better.
Sonata: DON'T. KILL. MY. MOOD.
Disclaimer: I don't own Detective Conan/ Magic Kaito; if I did, it wouldn't be six or seven-hundred something episodes long.
(Sora's POV)
I groaned as I saw the school just a few blocks away. This'll be the third high-school I've been to since moving back to Japan. I wondered how long I would be here, then shrugged and figured that it didn't really matter... I yawned and turned my attention back to what's in front of me. Lucky too, because I almost stepped off the sidewalk and onto a busy intersection. "Watch where you're going, idiot!" I mentally chided myself. I turned my attention back to the walk/ don't walk sign, and it shone green. I walked across and no longer busied myself with distracting thoughts.
I reached the school gate, and saw nobody familiar (no surprise there). I sighed and went inside. At the shoe lockers, I looked for my name and found it. I took off my sneakers and put on my school shoes. Just as I started putting on the left one, I heard laughter coming from the far side of the room. My curiosity got the best of me and I went to investigate.
I saw a boy with dark brown hair entertaining a group of girls with... magic tricks? I watched from afar, and saw through his tricks. "So simple..." I mused. I 'hmmmed' and walked away. The bell started ringing and the magician boy ran off to who-knows-where. I shook my head in disapproval and continued on my (insert sarcastic tone) merry way.
I reached classroom 4-C and let out a long breath. As soon as I heard sensei say that a new student was joining, I slid open the door and walked in. There were seifuku and gakuran everywhere (well, no duh). I sighed and introduced myself.
"Hi, the name's Fuyuhana Sora. Nice to meet'cha." I added an 'I guess' that no one but I heard.
"Everyone, she just transferred here from Hokkaido, so don't make fun of her dialect, alright?" Sensei added sternly. I rolled my eyes and thought, "I don't have a dialect, I have a slight accent, that's about it. And seriously, who even says that to high schoolers? This isn't elementary school."
"Sensei, where may I sit?" I asked with a bored tone.
"Hmm... Go ahead and sit behind Kurouba-san. Kurouba-san, please raise your hand." The boy from before rose his hand. I rose my eyebrow at his grin. "Is he excited because I'm a girl? Whatever..." I took my seat behind him, and blew my bangs out of my face. "I really need to get a trim, my hair is starting to touch my shoulders..."
Sensei started the lesson, and apparently it was History. "Hmm, this is all stuff I learned in Karuizawa." Because of that, I had no reservations about falling asleep behind my book... Due to a particularly loud student, I was able to wake up for my turn at reading the chapter. I read it (well, not really since I already knew this part), and sat back down to sleep. When I woke up, the bell was ringing and it was time to get to the next class. Unfortunately for me, it was music. As usual, I was singing off-key, off-beat and I sounded horrible. The music sensei and the others stared at me in shock, not knowing whether or not my horrible singing was on purpose or not. I merely shrugged and they continued on. I noticed the sensei shoot me a glare whenever I opened my mouth so I kept it shut.
After that disaster, we had English. When it was my turn to recite the British poem, I stood up and recited it with a slight accent. The students and sensei were surprised to say the least. I just smirked and sat back down.
After first period was a free period (only for seniors since many are studying for entrance exams). I lay down on the grass, not caring for a moment that I was in the sun. "This heat feels good... it's so cold in Hokkaido..." I thought lazily. Just as I really started to really unwind, a few girls came and interrupted my peace.
"Hey! You're the new girl, right?" They asked. I raised an eyebrow and nodded.
"Great! We were wondering if you could help us out with English... We heard that you speak with no Japanese accent, so we figured that you're really good, and..." One of the girls rambled on.
"It only makes sense that I have no Japanese accent- since I lived in Australia for awhile, that is." I said with a yawn.
"Really? Wow, that's so cool!" One of the other girls chimed. "Please, go away. I just wanna sleep..." I thought as I rolled over onto my side. Just as I thought they wouldn't go away (until I helped them, that is), I heard a wolf whistle, and looked for the source of the noise. I saw Kurouba, and the girls squealed and ran over to him. "Whoever you are, I owe you one." I thought gratefully before nodding off.
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Rang the bell. I sat up with a stretch and a yawn. "Well, that was a nice nap." I thought glumly. "And now it's over..." I got up and took my time getting to the Home Ec classroom, (seeing as it was only ten or so yards away) and yawned once more.
At Home Ec, we were learning how to make a tart. I cringed at the thought of sweets. Somehow, I made the best tart in the class... I didn't eat a single bite. After that, we went on to PE.
The coach was demanding, and said that we had to go through an obstacle course. "How childish..." I thought with a smirk. The course required that we cartwheel over to a beam, walk across it as fast as possible, hop down, do three pull-ups (on the pull-up bar, of course), and do a fifty meter dash with hurdles. "Maybe it's not so childish..." I thought grimly. Since my last name begins with 'Fu' I was going sometime close to the beginning. Once it was my turn, the coach started timing me, and I cartwheeled to the beam. Not without falling over a few times on the way. I reached the beam, climbed up and walked across. I wobbled a few times. I made it across, and ran to the pull-up bar. I jumped up, and tried to pull myself up, but to no avail. I tried for about a minute, until the coach just told me to move on. I nodded and hopped down. I did the fifty meter dash, and stumbled over nine out of ten of them. When I reached the end, the coach shook his head at me.
"Eight minutes and fifty-six seconds." He said sternly. My jaw dropped to the floor (not literally of course). "I took that long!?" I thought with surprise.
"I'll let you off this time, but you better pick up the pace, Fuyuhana-san. You're dismissed." He then blew his whistle to signal to the next student to start. I wiped the sweat off my forehead and frowned. "How on Earth did I do that in EIGHT MINUTES!? That was slow, a LOT slower than expected... Ugh, I'm gonna hit the showers since I was dismissed." I walked tiredly over to the girls' locker room and went into the shower. I sighed in relief as all the disgusting sweat washed away. "I may be a tomboy, but I don't enjoy being smelly, sticky and oily." I thought with disgust. I finished showering in just four minutes and hurriedly dressed and made my way to the next class on my schedule.
At lunch hour, I was still not very thrilled about this new school. "It's boring, people are prejudiced, lots of little cliques and everyone here is just a carbon copy of another person. All of the usual." I thought with a roll of my eyes.
"Ah! Fuyuhana!" Someone called me.
"Haaaah?" I saw that it was Kurouba. "What is it?" I asked him tiredly.
"Yo! So, how are you liking the school?" He asked with a toothy grin.
"Just like all the other schools I went to." I sighed.
"Well, don't get too bored, when you're in the same class as me, it's never uneventful!" He said proudly.
"Yeah, sure..." I walked away to sit down at a table. Unfortunately, he followed me.
"So, how'd you like my magic tricks earlier?" He asked me with that annoying grin still plastered on his face.
"It was okay. I've seen better." I said while taking a bite of tamagoyaki.
"Oh? Who?" He asked with an eyebrow raised.
"Kurouba Toichi." I said simply.
"Kurouba Toichi, huh? Yeah he was amazing." Kurouba said quietly.
"Yeah, it's sad that he died..." I said while sipping some water.
"Yeah, he was my father." I was pretty sure my eyebrows went up to my hairline.
"I-I'm sorry." I apologized. I must be an idiot. They have the same last name!
"Ah, don't worry about it! I want to be a better magician than my father!" I smiled at his ambition.
"Good luck beating that legacy of his." I said before taking a bite of some kare raisu.
"Ha ha! Magicians don't need luck! They need skill, creativity and need to be fun!" He counted off on his fingers.
"I suppose, but I haven't cared for magic tricks as much lately." I said while standing up to dump my trash (I brought a bento).
"Aaahhh! Matte! You have Chemistry next, right?" He asked me hurriedly.
"Yeah, why?" I rose my eyebrow again at his enthusiasm.
"I do, too!" I rolled my eyes at him.
"Whatever." I said with a sigh.
"Mo, be a little more excited, huh?" He said with an annoyed tone.
"KAITO!" I heard a girl's voice yell. I turned my head towards the source. It was a girl with long, brown hair and blue eyes.
"Stop flirting with the new girl!" She scolded him.
"Baka-ko! I'm not flirting!" He yelled back.
"It's AOKO! A-O-KO!" I decided to not get involved, so I walked over to the Chemistry class early.
Well, Kurouba certainly wasn't lying, class was very eventful.
He mixed some chemicals together to create a smoke, and he ran out the door while we were all coughing. "Of course..." I thought bitterly.
After that disaster, the rest of us were left to clean up his mess. "I swear... The world just hates me today..." I thought bitterly.
After school, I was so tired I barely made it back home "I need to get used to city noise..." I walked to my apartment at a snail's pace. Once I made it up, I collapsed onto my bed.
…
"Huh, I fell asleep..." I got up with a yawn, and opened the window. Outside were the sounds of sirens, angry car horns, and other common sounds of basic city life. I took a deep breath, and noticed that it was getting dark already.
I stepped out of my room and into the kitchen. I peeked inside of my fridge and discovered that I was running low on food. "Blast." I changed into normal clothes, and headed out the door.
As I stepped out of the complex, the first thing I noticed was the feeling of being watched. I looked around, but all I saw were people, cars, and buildings. Nobody unusual. I shrugged the feeling off, and went off to do what I needed to.
I reached the grocery store, and saw a girl with a little boy. "Huh, that kid looks familiar." I thought it was strange, but I realized something. "The last time I was in this region, I was seven. There's no way that kid even existed back then." I went off to pick out some produce. "What should I make for dinner? I guess omuraisu would be good." I picked out the ingredients I needed, plus a few extra for later in the week. I was about to head toward the deli, but I heard something.
BANG
BANG
My head turned towards the source, and that noise came from a gun. I had a sinking feeling in my gut that something bad would happen.
"Everybody on the ground! This is a robbery!" A man with a mask demanded.
This won't end well at all.
Sonata: So... what'd you guys think? Is this better than the previous one?
Sora: I guess it's a little better. Please wear something other than visual kei.
Sonata: No!
Saguru: Hey, why haven't I shown up yet?
Sonata: Because, you're not needed right now.
Conan: You dragged me into this again?
Sonata: … Yes.
Conan: Why?
Sonata: Because I prefer mysteries over heists.
Kaito: HEY!
Sonata: Hee hee. So, now you know why it's under Case Closed/ Meitantei Conan instead of Magic Kaito.