Disclaimer: I don't own Detective Conan, that I don't. Gosho Aoyama does.

Summary: Satou-san's turn!

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I hear your mother as she greets you, but then her tone turns into surprise.

"A dog, Miwako?"

"We have a police dog on the team now and it's my turn to take him home today."

Seeing her worried look, you add, "Don't worry, he's completely trained."

Once inside your room, you drop your bag onto the floor and plop down on the bed.

I would let you find it on your own time, Takagi's notebook I mean.

With that in mind, Takagi must be worried sick by now.

His diary/notebook is nowhere to be seen, so of course he would.

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When you are finally asleep, I look around the room.

It's relatively clean, probably being that you barely have anytime for messing it up.

I rummage through the paperwork on your kotatsu.

They were mostly work-related to my disappointment.

But, your mother who comes to your room often would have kept anything that had to do with a relationship, no?

I continue my search anyways.

Hey, there is a piece of paper stuck on the underside of the kotatsu.

I carefully take it out from the underside of the table.

It was a letter.

To me.

'Matsuda-kun,

It's been two years since the incident….

This year, I have a new partner. His name is Takagi Wataru.

He has blue eyes like you.

A painful reminder whenever I look at them.

Luckily he's too nervous to keep eye contact for long.

By the way, I kinda liked you too.

But you probably noticed right?'

There was a different date after that.

'When Takagi-kun escaped the burning warehouse alive with my father's handcuffs intact, I didn't know whether to be happy or sad.

I was going to yell at him for thinking that his life was more important than keeping my father's handcuffs intact, but he fainted just then.

At that moment, I couldn't help but think that he was a very sweet idiot indeed.'

There was the date of the bomber incident.

'When I later did apologize to him today, Takagi had said he deserved it for disobeying orders.

Then he asked if my burns were okay. He held my hands gently in his and his concerned eyes accidentally locked with mine.

By then, we were mere inches apart. We both chickened out though, and pulled away.

His face was bright red. Probably mine was too.

I thought history was going to repeat itself when he was trapped in the elevator.

I actually thought he would be joining you Matsuda-kun….

But luckily, Conan and Takagi both made it alive.

Then came the capturing of the robber.

I was about to shoot him, with only one thought in mind, of revenge.

But Takagi-kun came and saved me from myself.

He told me I what I always told him.

To carry out our duties while respecting human rights at all times.

To not give into anger.

Then trying to comfort my crying self, he added that I shouldn't forget such an important memory of you.

Takagi-kun…. He always knew the right things to say.'

Reading a letter addressed to me of all things made me feel strangely homesick in a sense.

I carefully put it back under the table.

Well, I didn't have anything for him, but perhaps you didn't need everything down in black and white for Takagi Wataru.

During the bomber case, you made your feelings very clear to him.

But then again, knowing Takagi, he would still be insecure about part of it.

I would have to put you two in the same room when you read that diary of his.