Yup, another trilogy! Sorry I am a little late...hope you enjoy this late Christmas present anyway. If you like part one of the trilogy a lot, the other two parts with H/K and K/A will follow very soon! Let me know!
The Christmas trilogy
by jojo
Story I:Anticipated joy of Christmas
"Look, here he is!"
"Wow!!"
"Applaus!"
As the young man entered the room, the cheers arose to a high level.
"Its really him!"
"How in the world did you do that, man?"
"Amazing!"
The murmures in the police office came to life with the entrance of the young boy. He blushed and waved his hands a little.
"Nahh, it was really no big deal!"
"What are you all doing?? Dont you have any work to do? Everybody who wants to go home tomorrow for Christmas eve should better go back to work right now!" the sharp voice of a rather furious, older man in orange suit and hat spat.
"Immediately!" he screamed, half enraged and half amused.
"Yes Inspector Megure!"
The corpulent man turned to his new man in the group.
"Seems like your new succeeds has already reached their ear!"
The young man put a hand behind his head and laughed slightly embarrassed.
"Seems so. But it was really nothing special! It was too easy."
"Well, its a matter of fact that I could not have solved it. Who could have guessed that it had been the sister of the victim? Good job, boy. Now all I need is your report."
"Thats what I wanted to talk to you about. Could I do that after Christmas? I would like to go home… I have some.. things to.. do…"
"I see." The Inspector grinned knowingly and the boy blushed a little. "Well, thats fine. You deserve it. Go already, Kudo- kun. See you after the free days then. Merry Christmas!"
"Thank you, Inspector. The same to you. Byee!" and with that, Shinichi turned and walked out of the office.
He was so glad he could get home finally! It had been a long day and he had solved two cases. He was dead. Well, almost anyway. Lets say he could not wait to get home. Soon he was standing in front of his old mansion, looking all ghosty and huge. He was hardly able to believe he had lived in here for over a decade, all alone. And because of the time of the year where it was already dark, it seemed more than ever scary and a little cold. Not at all like some houses around them with all their lights and decoration.
But Shinichi didnt care. It was stupid, spending hours decorating the house for these few days you actually need them. Absolutely not necessary and he had better things to do. Like solve murder cases. He walked through the gate and took out his keys. Coming to a halt in front of his door, he turned the key and stepped inside his house, a slight sigh of relief and happiness escaping him.
As he looked left and right, the first things he noticed were the decoration of the season that were hanging all around his house. Walking a step inside, he placed his jacket over a chair, his keys on the table next to the entrance, and put his shoes off, slipping inside his slippers. Still amazed by all the colors that were decorating his house, he silently counted down from fife to zero.
3…
2…
1…
"Shinichi? Is that you?" a soft voice rang around the house. Shinichi closed his eyes and smiled warmly.
Like always, he had entered as quietly as he could and had done not more noise than a mouse. But there was nothing he could deceit her senses with. It was like radar.
A few seconds later, our still grinning detective lay his eyes upon the beautiful appearance of a young woman in a red dress, with a white apron and a towel in her hands who was coming out out of the kitchen.
As she saw him, she smiled brightly and threw the towel on a table along with her apron. Turning, she ran to him and threw herself into his arms wildly, throwing him backwards on the carpet. She wound her arms around his neck and hugged him close, seizing his lips in a sweet kiss. He hugged her back and repositioned her slightly, making her position on his lap more comfortable for her while responding to her soft kiss.
After some time, Ran pulled away and smiled brightly at him with shining eyes. For a second he discovered himself entranced by her beautiful face before finding his voice back.
"Well, hello to you, too!" he said, grinning stupidly while brushing her hair behind her ear with tender fingers. She smiled back.
"Hello!"
Leaning down, she gave him another kiss, this one a little deeper, before she pulled away.
"You are early!"
"Yeah, Megure let me go earlier cause I have done such a great job today." He said purposely in an arrogant kind of voice and she laughed slightly, pinching his arm playfully.
"Auu! What did you do that for?"
"To keep your head from swelling, big head!" she giggled.
Shinichi looked at the other direction with a hurt gaze.
"If you dont want me here, I can go back to work. Ts!"
"Noo!" she hugged his head to her chest and he giggled. "I am glad to see you. I missed you!"
"Mmmhh I am glad to see you, too!" he nuzzled her neck with his lips, feeling her shiver slightly but in the same time lean against his touch. "Couldnt wait. Was almost running home!"
She rubbed his scalp with her fingers lovingly, keeping his head close.
"Shinichi!" she breathed affectingly as he peppered her neck with light kisses. He grinned against her, loving to hear her voice like this. She squealed a little in surprise because he suddenly had gathered her in his arms and was walking over to the couch.
Sitting down, he placed her comfortable on his lap, her legs on his right side and on the couch, and leaned back. She smiled at him and lay her upper body back against his chest, her head underneath his chin, feeling his arms come up to hold her, making her feel safe and loved here in his tight embrace. She played gently with one of his hands, as she spoke up quietly.
"How was your day?"
"Well, I had this two cases today. The first one was an ordinary bomber case, with a guy who had this endless grudge against a director of a bank and forced him with a bomb to do whatever he liked but in the end he simply killed .. I mean.. nevermind about that. The second was another case of a jealous woman who thought her husband was being unfaithful.. what he actually was but… anyway, she... she.. yeah, it was kind of complicate to find any evidence against her but it was interesting. Then in the office everybody cheered and I went all red and then I asked Megure if I might write the damn reports after Christmas and well, here I am."
Ran smiled at his story telling.
"You leave out a lot of details."
Shinichi looked at her, caught, knowing what she meant.
"Well, I just dont want you to get involved in all this kind of murderers and corpses more than you have to. For my taste, you had to be on too many crime scenes already, my dear." He kissed her forehead and Ran smiled at him.
"Which does not mean I will drop dead out of fear if you tell me that that woman killed her husband out of jealousy or the way she did it. You know I can handle it."
"Still.." he argued back and dove his head in her hair, breathing her sweet scent in deeply. He wanted to keep her out of all kind of bloody cases, wanting to give her a normal, special and peaceful life.
Ran understood him. She knew what he was thinking and although she was touched, she did not want for him to have to hold back everything whenever he was at home.
"Darling, we already talked about that. No more brooding at home. When you want to say something you just say it. No more single actions. You are not alone. I am here to help you with all your problems, remember?"
He tightened his arms around her without another word at first, showing her his affection his way, knowing she understood. Which she did, that proved her sweet smile.
"I do." He finally whispered against her cheek before pulling a little back to look in her eyes. "But I want to take special care of my lovely wife."
Ran giggled with rosy cheeks and stoked one side of his head.
"Oh sweetheart, you do!" she kissed his lips gently. "And now that you mention it, I do too! Wait a second!" she jumped off the lap of the surprised detective and disappeared.
Shinichi looked after her with sweet gaze, feeling warm and all nice inside. There were no words to describe what she meant to him, how much he loved and adored her. Ever since their wedding they had hardly left each others side and were still not to be separated. And the best part was that both wouldnt want it otherwise.
The feeling every time he came home and found her waiting for him and kissing him after a long day without her sweet presence was not describable. It was pure bliss and, as he was convinced, the heaven on earth.
Before he could think further along these lines, what he could do the whole day as he had once figured out, the young woman danced again inside the living room and sat herself down on his lap. Holding her again, he observed her as her hands opened a small, green tissue. Holding it open on both her outstretched hands, she proudly presented him cookies.
"I made them myself, today!"
"They look great! But didnt we want to do the Christmas cookies together this year?"
"Of course! I just tried this recipe to see if its good." She took one and placed it in front of his mouth, giggling. "Say aaaahhhh!"
Shinichi just grinned at her with raised eyebrows. He opened his lips and let her feed him the cookie, always finding her caring side really sweet.
"Its delicious." He stated honestly and Ran smiled proudly. "Oh I am such a lucky man. Being feed delicious homemade cookies by a beautiful woman. I know a lot of guys who would be jealous now! Haha!"
Rans cheeks colored but she giggled a little.
"Ah I take that back. Not by SOME kind of beautiful woman, oh nono no! By MY beautiful woman, wife, the most beautiful and best on earth."
Now Ran went all red as she looked at him with surprised gaze. "Shinichi..!?"
One second later she felt his lips already on her own, kissing her lovingly. She closed her eyes and let herself being absorbed in his sweet kiss. A minute later he pulled away and tipped her nose with a finger while grinning brightly.
"Red cheeks suit you oh too well."
Ran opened her mouth to reply to his arrogant statement but his finger on her lips was faster, silencing her. He took another cookie and feed it to her.
"They really are good!"
He only nodded and took the tissue from her hands, placing it on the table. Leaning back against the couch, he placed a last cookie he had in his hands between her lips. Just as she bit down she found his lips once again on hers, fighting over the cookie. Smiling she played along and soon had her arms around his neck again, hugging him to her as she kissed Shinichi, the cookie only sweetening his taste, adding cinnamon and vanilla flavor to the intoxicating one of him.
Without her noticing he had lay back down on the couch and was cradling her on top of him, never taking his lips from hers. They were amazing, these sensations she could awake in him with the simplest touch of her lips. The kiss was by now heated and passionate, making the lovers forget it was icy cold outside for the whole world didnt matter to them. All that mattered were they.
Needing to breath, Ran pulled away half an inch, panting slightly but staying achingly close, her lips touching his the slightest bit. Shinichi was panting as well and while doing so both their open mouths brushed sometimes, sending jolts of pleasant tingles up their lips. Soon Ran had caught herself and had opened her closed eyes, looking with soft gaze down at her man, simply looking at him thoroughly. How much she loved looking at him, it was amazing.
Ran nested her chin on top of his chest, getting comfortable in her position in her lovers arms. Then she smiled lovingly as she remembered something.
"I like spending Christmas with you!" she whispered and he smiled back.
"Me too."
"Whenever I think back at Christmas, my most vivid memories all have to do something with you! That time you almost burn the Christmas tree for example." She giggled and he smiled. Ran lay her cheek against his chest and got comfortable on top of him. His hand that was not holding her around her waist, came up and stroked her hair lovingly, making her feel like a kitty and she loved kitties.
"Yeah, I remember. I always loved Christmas because I could spend it with you." She snuggled deeper into his embrace at his words, closing her eyes to savour the sensation more intensely.
She opened her eyes again and looked around the room, enjoying his never stilling hand that was stroking her hair and her scalp with loving motions.
"The house looks great!" she whispered after some while of comfortable silence, looking at all the decorations they had put up all over the house. He had struggled at first but she had dragged him along and convinced him to help her decorate and set up the tree and it had been a lot of fun. As reward, hed got from her a special dinner with his favorite food.
"Yes it really does!" Shinichi had to admit as his eyes wandered over the decorated house and the tree he and Ran had set up and decorated the previous day. His detective instincts noticed something in her sentence though, her trying to avoid a certain word, and thats why he grinned slightly and asked.
"Whose house?" he grinned and fell silent, waiting for her answer.
Rans cheeks colored. Why had he to know her so well? He knew exactly it was still kind of hard for her. Since their wedding, he was trying to get her comfortable with the idea, that everything he possessed belonged to her just as much. She could get used to that but this house was so huge and seemed so mighty it was still kind of hard for her to say it out loud.
Grinning she thought one moment about teasing him, saying "this house,idiot!" but somehow didnt feel like teasing.
"Our house." She whispered but he heard her and shifted underneath her. He was trying to get all of her lithe body on top of his broad one.
"Yeah." He whispered contently and the comfortable silence fell once again upon our couple who was basking in each others closeness, warmth and affection, content with the world and everything else.
"Sweetheart?" Ran whispered.
"Hmm?" he responded lazily, tracing patterns on her back.
"We still need to do the cookies."
"Hmmhm." He murmured in agreement but held her a tad tighter. Ran on top of him, warming him with her own warmth was feeling way too good. Shinichi was not a weak person, in more than one kind of ways and he knew that, but whenever it came to her… he was not strong enough, he felt, to let her go now or forever. And making her his wife meant he didnt have to and that thoughts always made his heart feel light and warm.
"Only if I dont have to let go of you!" he murmured as he buried his nose in her hair. He felt her chuckle.
She lifted her head and looked at him, one finger on her chin and she looked up the ceiling, making a face as if thinking very hard about his proposal. "Hmm… that could be possible!" she chuckled again, making him grin and lift his head, not being able to resist her soft lips, kissing her.
His only weakness.
Ran grinned and kissed him back. How much she loved this sweet kisses when he returned from work. They felt like as if he had been missing her the whole day and was now trying to make up for it. After pulling away and smiling lovingly at him, she lay back down on his chest, forming sweet little patterns on his chest with her finger, loving how she was able to make him squirm a little.
"When are they coming?" she asked him.
"Tomorrow evening." He responded without needing to ask what she was talking about. "And your parents?"
"Tomorrow afternoon." She responded and looked back up at him.
"Means the peace will be over soon."
"Admit it, you love it!" Ran giggled at the distorted face he had put on and placed a hand on his cheek. He looked back into her eyes deeply, his features turning soft again.
"I love you!" he told her gently, stilling his hand on her back and tracing her hair behind her ear with gentle fingers.
Her eyes brightened even more and began to sparkle like diamonds as her cheeks went rosy. He was certain shed blush even after twenty years of being married to him whenever he confessed his love to her. And for this he loved her even more, making him want to hold her the whole day and night, forever.
"Oh Shinichi!" she moved closer to his head and hugged him around his neck, resting her forehead against his. She nudged softly her nose against his with a smile. "I love you, too!"
"I know!" he replied arrogantly with the sexy one corner smile of his. Ran only smiled, knowing him and his teasing, and leaned in to catch his lips in a passionate kiss. His arms came around her as he leaned up to respond to her kiss better, to show her his neverending affection, to love her the way she deserves to.
"Say," she pulled away gently, nuzzling her nose across his cheek to his neck. "Who is going to pick them up from the airport?"
"Id say you, for my mother adores you so much. But on the other hand.. you can not leave me alone with that father of yours! I am afraid for my life!" he shuddered at the imagination in mock fear, eventually grinning at his wife who rolled her eyes.
"You are being silly, the both of you! Cant you ever stop teasing each other??"
"Hey, what can I do if he has complexes because I am a way better detective?" Shinichi told her.
"Hey, big head alert again!" she poked with her index finger against his forehead. "Come down from your high cloud, oh great detective."
"Rahaaaaaan!" he whined comically, causing her to giggle.
"He is the father of your wife and I think thats reason enough for you to try to get along with him, right?!" Shinichi debated with himself, whether this had been a question or a threat, but decided against asking, seeing her piercing gaze.
"Right, dear, whatever you say!"
Ran smiled contently, obviously planning to ignore the ironic tone of his.
"Good. Silly. I am sure youll be the perfect son in law these days, right?"
Shinichi only smiled at her.
"But I think you better go to the airport. They are your parents and I really can not leave you and Dad alone for a minute! I dont want any murder during Christmas, you heard me?"
They smiled at each other and kissed again, him muttering something that sounded like 'how good you understand me' against her lips.
"We really should go and do these cookies because we still need to go and shop for the dinner tomorrow, remember the shops are closed on Christmas."
"Yeah… unfortunately…" the idea of shopping always making him feel fuzzy inside.
"Ah… I really dont want to let go of you. You are so warm and comfortable!" Ran sighed as she leaned down on him again, her head on his shoulder. His hands that were tracing her spine with light caresses moved synchronically and slowly underneath Rans shirt and up her back, teasing her skin with his fingertips.
"How about…" he started with sensual voice, kissing her neck slowly up and down. "How about I unpack my most precious gift?" his hands moved higher, pulling the bottom of her shirt up a little more.
Ran opened her mouth in a silent moan, closing her eyes but suddenly she jerked away from his lips and hands, rising to kneel above him while trying to create space between them so she would not give in to her own desire.
"Noo, its not Christmas yet!And we still have things to do! Like the cookies!" She gave him a quick kiss on his lips and feeling his hands come up to hug her again she jumped off him and the couch and walked to the door before it was too late. The disappointed look he cast her was so adorable she honestly considered turning back and giving in, but they really had things to do today, no matter how much she wanted to...
"But…" Ran blinked at him seductively "..if you are a good boy today, you may unwrap that one gift tonight, though!" she disappeared in direction of the kitchen after casting him a last, sexy grin. She just knew exactly how to motivate her husband.
Shinichis body sank against the couch as he tried to collect himself. This woman was killing him with her self control. She could be really tough sometimes and mean and bossy.
Then he smiled. He wouldnt want it otherwise. She was perfect the way she was and he loved her even more and more with every passing day, tendance rising.
"Are you coming, darling?" her honey sweet voice called from inside the kitchen.
'If I am coming to her, she asks…Sheesh…' He smiled with closed eyes and shook his head comically. Was there ever such a question?
"Always!" he screamed back. It was simply always he would come to her and no force on earth could keep him away from his love. Not anymore. Not ever again.
A smile formed on his lips at the prospects of tonight and he forced his drained body off the couch and towards the kitchen, knowing everything was worth it. This Christmas is going to be the best ever, he could feel it.