Authors Note: This is just a little something I wrote during Spanish class. For some reason, I don't think my Spanish teacher was very pleased with me nose deep in my notebook half the class. But I hope you enjoy!

Also, before I forget, 'Disclaimer: I don't own Detective Conan'. As if that wasn't obvious enough.

Stress Relief

"Uh, Conan-kun?"

"Yes, Ran-neechan?"

"Um, do you want to go to the arcade and play a game with me?"

"Eh?" the boy sputtered, surprised, looking up at his 'neechan'. 'Since when has Ran been interested in video games?' "Uh, sure. But why do you want to go?"

"Ah," she said, looking relieved, "I just want to relieve some stress."

Conan still wasn't sure why she wanted to go to the arcade, but he decided to join her.

---A while later---

'How did she get me to do this again?' Conan asked himself in exasperation.

The second they had arrived at the arcade Ran firmly took his hand and steered him over to the first available Street Fighter game. He tried to decline, telling her that he was bad at this game, but she shot him a ferocious glare, and he shut up immediately. 'Where did that come from?' he had thought at the time.

And he really started panicking when she put in his player name for him as 'Shinichi'.

Currently the normally loud arcade was being drowned out by another, harsher sound. Many people passing by outside snuck looks in to see what the commotion was about.

"STUPID SHINICHI! I'M GOING TO MAKE YOU PAY FOR ALL THOSE TIMES YOU WALKED OUT ON ME!" she shouted at the game, her character in-game absolutely destroying the other fighter. "THIS IS WHAT I THINK OF YOU AND YOUR STUPID CASE!" she yelled, just as she delivered the final blow to the unfortunate opponent. Conan's character crumpled to the ground, unmoving.

The boy found himself staring at a 'Game Over: Ran Wins!' screen, sweating in renewed fear of Ran's wrath.

"I'm sorry Conan-kun," Ran apologized for her outburst, a little flustered from all the yelling, "but I've been wanting to do that to Shinichi for forever. But he's never here. Besides, you're so bad at this game I was sure I'd win." She giggled a little at the way he pouted at that remark.

"So, you wanna play a different game now?" She offered him kindly.

"Uh, no thanks." He quickly declined, not wishing to see her so angry again. Somehow he knew that when Ran said that she wanted to do that to Shinichi, she wasn't talking about in a game.

'I really hope she isn't that enthusiastic when I do come back.'

Authors Note: I can't believe it. I was looking at stories when I found the word 'plot bunny' (excuse me, I'm very new to the fanfic community). I thought that was cool and I stuck it in the back of my mind. 2 days later (only 2!) my first one attacked me, and wouldn't let me go until I wrote it down on paper. Vicious little things.

Anyways, It doesn't really matter to me. I needed to write this down. Don't feel obligated to review this (I consider it a creation of the plot bunny, not one of my own), but I would appreciate it if you would. Thanks for reading! (even if it was only a couple hundred words long...)