A Chaotic Start
After giving Conan his homework Ran heads back inside. Shinichi was still sitting in his chair, reading his newspaper, engrossed in said paper. She was about to ask what he was reading when her stomach growled. She guessed the growl was loud because she heard Shinichi start chuckling. Embarrassed but realizing she was more hungry than embarrassed at the moment, she went and got a plate, placed a couple of pancakes on the plate, poured syrup on the pancakes and sat down across Shinichi as she started watching what he was doing with a careful eye.
"You aren't reading that paper are you Shinichi?" Ran asks while glaring at Shinichi. She waits for a couple of seconds until she starts eating away at her pancakes getting no response from her husband but she still watched him out of the corner of her eye. Silence reigned in the kitchen for a while.
"Yup, I finished reading as soon as I heard that growl." Shinichi replies. He places his newspaper down and looks at Ran with a big smile. He picks up his coffee and starts drinking it.
Ran sighs and rolls her eyes. "That wasn't a growl it was me telling you to get me a glass of milk if you please." Ran says while finishing a pancake and pointing her fork to the fridge.
"Okay, I'll get it for you." Shinichi replies while snickering to himself. Shinichi stands up from his seat and goes to the fridge to get the milk. He opens the fridge and looks around for the white substance.
"Where is that- Found it!"
Shinichi took out the milk and walks over to the cabinet. He grabs a glass from the cabinet and walks over to the nearby window. He looks outside to the backyard.
The backyard has a couple of trees and bushes around. The ash tree is the biggest item in the yard and has a tree-house that his children and his best-friends' kids go to almost every day. He smiles fondly remembering the time he and his two friends built it for their kids. He also remembers the children's' faces when they completed the tree house.
'Ahh, time does fly by.' He then starts pouring the milk in the glass when he hears cooing in front of him. He looks to the window again and saw a white dove with red eyes looking at him, perched on the window still, and scratching on the window with its claws softly cooing at him.
Shinichi recognizes the bird currently on the window still.
"Hey look Ran one of Kaito's doves is here." Shinichi says while putting down the glass of milk. He opens the window for the dove. The dove hops in and looks at Shinichi and softly coos at him.
"What are you doing here little one?" Shinichi asks while stroking the dove's head.
"That must explain the cooing I heard when I was about to shower." Ran says while finishing her pancakes. She stands up then walks over to Shinichi and looks at the dove. She grabs the milk from the counter and drinks it in one gulp.
"Wait, what cooing?" Shinichi asks Ran with a confused look. She puts the glass in the sink then looks at Shinichi. Then she looks at the dove and replies "Well after you left to handle the little 'problem' downstairs I was about to take a shower when I heard cooing outside the window. I looked and saw nothing assuming that it was just my imagination. You then called asking for help."
"Ooookay." Shinichi says raising one of his eyebrows then he looks back at the dove. "Hmm, I wonder what Kaito wants… ahh there is a note attached to his leg."
The dove was preening itself then sensed that they saw the note on its leg and holds it out so they can get it.
Ran then took the note off carefully from its leg. "I wonder why Kaito-kun would send one of his doves when he could have just called us." Ran says.
Shinichi and Ran look to the dove and it coos softly. Then the dove starts preening itself again.
Shinichi, realizing the dove won't leave, took the note from Ran and opens it. "Well it is Kaito, he never does things normally." Shinichi says. He reads the note aloud.
'Help me Shin-chan, Aoko got the dreaded movie called 'Finding Nemo' for Sachiko and thhhere are the evil finny thingys in the telly now. She won't let me leave and threatened me if I try. She even tied me to a chair. HELP ME!...Please I swear she doing this on purpose! I only had one chance to send Shiro over. So please HELP!'
Shinichi's eye twitches at the word 'Shin-chan' then Ran starts giggling. "What are you laughing about Ran?" Shinichi asks while putting the note down.
"Oh nothing Shin-chan." Ran chirps to annoy him. Shinichi twitches again and looks away.
"Pleeeeease don't call me that." Shinichi whines. Ran just laughs when she saw Shinichi start pouting.
"I wonder what Kaito-kun did if Aoko is making him watch 'Finding Nemo'. He must have done something very bad for Aoko to go to such measures." Ran says while putting her hands on her hips.
"Yeah I wonder." Shinichi says. They stayed silent for a while until Shiro started cooing.
"Sooooo are you gonna help Kaito-kun, Shinichi?" Ran asks while walking over to the cabinet. She starts rummaging in the cabinet looking for something.
"Heck no just last week he turned my hair neon orange and changed my clothes into a dress. Why would I help him?" Shinichi replies angrily while turning around with his arms crossed. Ran starts laughing.
"I remember that you both came running in here with you holding the dress up and chasing Kaito-kun. But still he did ask for help." Ran says while pulling out a bag of seeds.
"Nope, not this time. I'll consider this his punishment for that prank." Shinichi says with a small smile.
"I'll help him if it's something serious like maybe bailing him out of jail if he decides to cause a public disturbance."
"I doubt that will happen because Aoko-chan will kill him first before you even hear the news." Ran says. She walks over to Shiro and puts her hand in the bag of seeds. She pulls some out and holds out her hand to give some to Shiro. Shiro hops on her hand and starts eating the treats. Ran puts down the bag.
"Lucky we keep bags of seeds around just in case this happens. You must be hungry aren't you" Ran says to Shiro while stroking him with her free hand.
"Yea I guess you're right." Shinichi says while facing outside the window and then looks at Ran.
"About what the seeds or Aoko getting Kaito-kun first?" Ran replies while still stroking Shiro.
"The Aoko part Ran and first of all Aoko-san is the one who suggested having seeds around the place just in case Kuroba sends a dove for any reason you know." Shinichi says.
Shiro then decides that it was full and hops off Ran's hand. It hops over to the window and takes off to the skies. Then Shiro soars in the sky leaving a couple of feathers behind, the only proof that he was ever there.
Shiro flies about two blocks till it lands on a roof with other doves and starts preening. Currently in the house where Shiro landed screams were resonating throughout the place.
"Ahhh… Aoko please have mercy on me pleeeease!" a man yells tied to a chair and desperately trying to look away from the television that is showing a movie with fishes swimming.
"Sush Kaito, Sachiko is watching the movie and you are being too loud." a woman says with a laughing one year old girl in her lap.
"And anyway this is punishment for that prank you did to Kudo-kun last week and also that big mess in the kitchen yesterday. I still don't know how you managed to blow up instant ramen." the woman named Kuroba Aoko says while glaring at the messy haired man.
"That was an accident and microwaves hate me. But you should admit orange is Shin-chan's color." The man named Kuroba Kaito chirps with a grin. Then he looks to the television screen to see fishes flopping about and gulps praying that the letter he sent will save him from the finny things his wife is forcing him to watch.
The child named Kuroba Sachiko starts laughing and clapping cutely at the fishes on the screen. Sachiko has Kaito's bright blue eyes and both Aoko and Kaito's messy hair. She is very bright for her age and loves to play. She is young but is starting to look like her mother. (Sachiko means happiness)
"Woman this isn't punishment this is torture!" Kaito yells while trying to escape the tight ropes. Sachiko's eyes shine then giggles at the fish on the screen.
"Don't you dare try and escape or I will get the mop Kaito." Aoko threatens while glaring at him with an evil look. Kaito squeaks and stops trying but refuses to look at the screen.
"You are not a good influence to Sachiko you know. Sachiko shouldn't see her poor daddy tied up by her mother against his will. She shouldn't even be watching those monsters on the screen. Now does she?" Kaito asks Sachiko trying to get away.
"As if you're a good influence Bakaito you always do something like mess up the kitchen and that time you dyed the whole building occupants' hair blue." Aoko retorts while bouncing Sachiko on her lap.
"You're lucky Aoko that the police know me or I would have been put away long ago." Kaito says with a big smile. He wiggles his arms to try to escape again but Aoko glares sensing that Kaito is trying something.
"Pleeeease, let me go I promise not to do anything Aoko. I'll even massage your feet tonight. I'll be good today, I beg of you." Kaito whines.
"No way, the last time you said that you have only been behaving in front of me. I only figured out what you did when Heiji-kun told me you sent your doves on an attack fest on him three days later, so no." Aoko retorts.
The movie ended during their bickering and Sachiko then starts watching her parents argue with wide eyes. She got bored so she squirmed in her mom's lap. Aoko looks down to Sachiko and puts her on the floor. Then she went to the toys on the floor. Aoko and Kaito were still arguing and Sachiko starts playing with her toys. She then looks at the side table with a picture of her family on it. Kaito and a 14 year old male (now 15 years old) standing next to Aoko in a hospital bed holding Sachiko when she was born.
The other male is currently attending Teitan High School. His name is Kuroba Yasue and he looks like his father and is as mischievous as his father but has his mother's temper. (Yasue means 'peaceful one')
*Teitan High School*
Yasue was sitting in class 1-B listening to the teacher's lecture of Pi. He looks to the clock then to the board that had many different equations that he wasn't even bothering to copy down. He then looked outside the window and saw the track field.
"Kuroba!"
Yasue stands up suddenly from his seat. "Yes Sensei." Yasue says hastily.
"Solve the equation on the board since you were listening so intently." the teacher told him sarcastically.
Yasue glances at the equation. "Ummm… r=48" Yasue answers.
"Hmp, that's correct sit down." the teacher told him.
The teacher was a male who used to teach at Ekoda High school for 25 years till he switched to Teitan cause of relocation.
'I swear Tanaka-sensei hates me.' Yasue thought. He then hears snickering behind him. He looks and sees Irene chuckling two seats away. Yasue grumbles to himself till an idea hit him. He smiled wide, a smile worthy of a Kuroba.
Then smoke fills the classroom.
"KUROBA!" their teacher roars.
"Open the window!" one of the students said. They open the window so the smoke would clear out.
When the smoke cleared all of the students had different colored hair and Tanaka-sensei was now wearing a puffy, pink dress and a hat to match.
Yasue was laughing hysterically from his seat and holding his stomach.
"KUROBA! YOU'RE JUST AS BAD AS YOUR FATHER!" the teacher yells while slamming his hands on his desk.
Yasue stops laughing after a while, but was still snickering. Then he puts his hand on his chin in thought "Huh, as bad as dad, huh. Hey that rhymed. But sorry sensei I take that as a compliment rather than an insult." Yasue says to the teacher with a wide smile.
Then a shadow covers the smiling Yasue. He looks to the source of the shadow and saw Irene with purple hair glaring at him. Irene looks like Ran but has more of Shinichi's attitude. Yasue looks at her then burst out laughing from Irene's face.
"YASUE!" Irene yells. Irene was absolutely fuming with a red face.
"What I can't help it, you look funny. Hahahaha." Yasue said between laughs and pointing at her. He then started pounding his desk while laughing. All the other students are already used to these antics everyday so they just shook their heads while others sweat dropped.
"Why you…" Irene growls with her face getting redder if that was possible, then she tries to grab Yasue but he hops out of the way at the last second.
"HAHA you can't catch me Irene and you never will." Yasue claims while running around the classroom with a mad, purple haired, red faced, Irene chasing him.
"WHEN I GET MY HANDS ON YOU, YOU WILL BE SORRY, KUROBA YASUE!" Irene screams. The students didn't ever bother to stop them since this was a daily routine since elementary.
"Alright both of you stop!" Tanaka-sensei yells at them and tosses a piece of chalk towards the running duo.
Yasue was in a roof corner with Irene below him ready to hit him if he comes down.
Their teacher looks at them. "Stop you'll settle this at lunch just please sit down so we can finish the lesson and Yasue please change my clothes back." he said while pointing to his current attire.
"Alright sensei" the two of them says. Yasue got down from his position on the roof and Irene goes to her seat with a huff.
Yasue walks over to his teacher to change his clothes back. "You know sensei you look good in pink." Yasue remarks.
"Kuroba, shut up and change my clothes." Yasue snickers then changes the clothes back in a snap then walks back to his seat and sits back down. Then the teacher continued his lesson.
A piece of paper hit Yasue's head and bounces on his desk. He looks around and figures out Irene sent him the note. He opens it up.
'You know I will get you at lunch right?' the note reads. Yasue chuckles and scribbles something down then tosses the note back to Irene with practiced accuracy.
Irene got the note and reads it. 'I guessed that but I say you were even more mad than usual.' She writes something then sent it back.
'Yeah I know I guess it was because of the argument me and Conan had this morning.' Yasue thought for a while then writes something and tosses it back.
'Yea you told me about that and at least your temper isn't as bad as Sakura's.' Irene chuckles.
"Kudo is there something funny about Pi hmmm?" Irene got startled at this and hid the paper.
"No sensei!" Yasue just laughs.
In classroom 1-D, a girl sneezes. 'Darn I better not have caught a cold from Toichi. I'm having a tournament this weekend.' the girl, Hattori Sakura thought while wiping her nose with a handkerchief.
A couple of seats away Conan hears the sneeze and looks over to Sakura. Sakura looks like her mother and has darker skin than her mother's but lighter than her father's. She is very hot-headed, courtesy of her father's genes but very sensitive at the same time from her mother.
Sakura sensing eyes on her looks over to the Shinichi lookalike with glasses. She waves at Conan. Conan mouthed 'Are you okay' Sakura mouths she was okay back.
"Hattori! Look at the board now!"
"Yes sensei" Sakura said. Sakura then sneezes again. Some of her classmates starts snickering.
"I swear if I get sick I blame Toichi." Sakura mumbles. She looks to the clock waiting for lunch like the rest of the students.
Then they heard yelling, a window slamming open and white smoke drifting by the window. The students and teacher stops for a while.
"KUROBA YOU'RE JUST AS BAD AS YOUR FATHER!"
A note then lands on Sakura's desk. She opens it and sees Conan's messy handwriting. 'I bet a 100 yen that Yasue did something.' Sakura smirks and wrote something and sends it back.
Conan opens it and read 'I am not doing that cause we know it is Yasue anyway.' Conan just snickers and pushes his glasses up his face and listens to the thuds and crashes.
*Hattori Household*
'Achoo' sneezes eight year old boy. "I hate being sick, it's so booooooring." a Heiji look-a-like but with light skin said. He is sitting in bed watching television. On his bed a golden retriever is sleeping.
"Well if it's so boring then ya shouldn't get sick ya know." says a deep male voice. The boy looks to the door to see an older, dark skinned version of himself standing there. The dog wakes up to the sound of the other voice.
"Papa. How long have you been standing there?" the boy asks.
"Long enough to know you're bored as hell Toichi." the man named Hattori Heiji says while sitting down on the bed. The dog jumps down to make room and sits next to Heiji's feet. Heiji then pets the dog's head. "Cause I'll have you know that I am very bored as well."
"Why are you bored papa?" Toichi says to his father. Heiji runs his hand through Toichi's hair.
"Cause like you I have nothing ta do right now. I had to cancel work to stay home and take care of you." Heiji replies. The dog then looks at them and jumps on the available space on Toichi's bed startling the boy.
"Ah Hoshi calm down boy. I'm sorry I had to make you skip work papa." Toichi said while looking down. Heiji runs his hand through his son's messy hair again and then Hoshi licks Heiji's hand.
"Oi, it is okay Toichi I would rather take care of you than worry all day if you're okay." Then Heiji pushes himself off the bed.
"Besides we get to spend the day together." Heiji says to him with a fond smile. The boy looks up and then hugs his father.
"Thank you papa and if I get better you better get me ice cream!" the boy chirps and Hoshi barks while wagging his tail. Heiji sighs.
'The cravings of kids and I swear Hoshi can understand too. I recall Sakura being like this too' Heiji then pushes Toichi away. "I promise. We'll get it for dessert today, okay?"
Toichi nods his head. "Okay! But you better pinky swear papa." Toichi says while holding out his pinky. Heiji eyes the pinky and sighs. He takes the pinky and shakes on it.
"I Hattori Heiji promises to get ice cream for today okay Toichi?" Heiji says. Hoshi then moves to take the space Heiji used to occupy and lays down.
Heiji walks over to the door. "Do you need anything else Toichi?" Heiji asks. Toichi looks to his father. "I need more medicine to get better papa. Can I have some more?"
Heiji chuckles at his son's antics. "Nope, you don't need anymore medicine; all you'll need is sleep alright?" The boy lies down.
"Alright!"
Heiji walks out of the bedroom and almost bumps into a woman next to him. "Zuha, I thought you were at work." Heiji exclaimed.
The woman, Hattori Kazuha, stands before him and giggles. "Well I skipped work to watch Toichi because I thought you couldn't handle it but I guess you can handle some things." she says with a teasing smile.
Heiji's eye twitches at the comment. "Hey what's that supposed to mean! I can handle things." he says while waving his arms around.
"Oh I know but I thought 'since Heiji can't take care of himself he can't take care of a boy, much less a sick one' Kazuha says while crossing her arms.
"Ahou! I could take care of somebody. I helped take care of Sakura when she gets sick."
"Ahou the last time Sakura got sick was last month and you blew up the stove trying to cook soup!"
"That was an accident and it's not my fault! The stove blew up on its own I swear!"
"Stoves can't do that by itself, Ahou!"
"Ahou!"
"You're the ahou, ahou!"
In the bedroom Toichi sighs at the yelling he hears outside the door. 'I can't sleep like this!' Toichi thinks while putting the pillow over his head.
"It's going to be a long day" Hoshi whines in agreement.