Title: Love is Backwards
Day/Theme: March 7: Blessed is the blind, pity is the fool
Series: Detective Conan/Case Closed
Character/Pairing: Shinichi/Ran
Rating: PG/ K plus
-O-
Upon getting off the train from Tokyo, Ran certainly hadn't expected the shouting match that the whole station was probably privy to. And sure enough, she saw several people from the next car over craning their necks out the window to see what was going on. She pulled Conan along, out of the way as people bustled to get off the train behind them, and she looked around for the source of the commotion.
"Ran-neechan…isn't that Heiji-niichan over there?"
Ran looked where Conan was pointing. Sure enough, it was Heiji. Engaged in a verbal war with Kazuha. Using very…creative words. She started over, but was surprised when Conan tugged at her hand.
"I think they're almost done," he said, smiling.
"Ahou!"
"Ahou!"
Ran grinned down at Conan. "I think you're right."
They settled into a bench where, when they were finished, Heiji and Kazuha couldn't miss them.
"Ran-neechan?"
"Yes, Conan?" Ran looked down at the little boy, and he was grinning at her.
"What do you think they're fighting about?"
"I don't know…sometimes I think they just fight because it's something to do," Ran grinned. "You know, Conan, sometimes when people fight, they kind of like each other."
Conan laughed. "Then they must like each other a lot!"
Ran laughed too. "I guess so!" She privately wondered if the same didn't hold true for her estranged parents…
"Conan?"
Conan looked up at her again.
"If they liked each other…do you think they'd ever tell each other? Or do you think they'll just keep bickering?"
"Well, Heiji-neechan likes bickering!"
Ran chuckled. "What makes you say that?"
Conan pointed at the pair before them, and the two who were still going at it. "If he didn't like bickering, why would he do it? When I don't like doing something, I stop."
Ran blinked. That made sense…in a weird way… "Well, if they did like each other, don't you think they'd want to stop squabbling long enough to say so?"
Conan laughed. "No!"
Ran pulled a confused face. "No? Why?"
Conan grinned widely. "Heiji-niichan is too stubborn."
Ran sweatdropped. If Heiji was her father, and Kazuha was her mother…then one was blind, and the other was a fool. Trouble was…she wasn't sure which was which…
"Ahou! Your shouting made our visitors wait!" Kazuha had finally noticed them. She came forward, and Ran stood, smiling.
"We just got off the train, so we haven't been waiting long," she insisted.
"Ran-neechan, that's not our train, that's the train after ours," Conan said, pointing at the train, smiling innocently.
Ran shot a glare at the boy and Kazuha reddened, before turning to Heiji. "This ahou told me the wrong arrival time!"
"Ahou! I wasn't the one who drove here at half the speed of smell!"
"Ahou! If you would have driven, we would have been pulled over!"
"Not if we'd have taken the squad car like I suggested in the first place! Ahou!"
"See, Ran-neechan? Heiji-niichan likes arguing!"
There was a pause. Ran shushed Conan, who was inexplicably glaring at Heiji, and Kazuha grinned.
"Well, Heiji, you know what they say about fools who are wise until they speak!"
"Well what do they say about people who can't adapt to the nature of fools?"
Ran sighed. At least they were moving now. Why had Heiji invited them, anyway?
"…well you're just lucky I –"
"What do they say about Fortune favoring fools!"
"Ahou! No one says that! They say fortune is blind!"
"That's 'Hatred is blind," piped Conan.
Ran just put her head in her hands. They would stop eventually. Maybe they were having an off day. And Conan wasn't making things much better. "Conan, why are you making them fight?" she scolded softly.
Conan grinned. "The full quote says 'Hatred is blind, as well as Love.' Maybe you were right, Ran-neechan!"
Ran thought on that. Huh. Go figure. She smiled, taking Conan's hand in hers again. Some definite color entered his cheeks, she noticed. Oh well. "Maybe I was right," she replied at length. Thinking on it, anyway, there were several sayings about fools in love…so maybe a bit of arguing wasn't so bad.
"Hey, Conan? How did you remember that quote? Where did you see it?"
"Oh…probably something I saw on Kamen Yaiba! He's the neatest!"
Ran smiled. Television sure had gotten weird since she'd been a kid…
"I'm sorry that Ahou has been so pigheaded," Kazuha said at length, smiling at Ran. As they engaged in their idle chatting, Ran noticed that Conan had slipped away from her to talk to Heiji. She smiled. I bet I know what they're talking about, she thought, smirking.
Meanwhile, Heiji was repeating to himself that Murder was bad.
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A U T H O R S N O T E :
(clears throat)
Behold, the quotes to go along with this!
Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and stretching the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy. – Marguerite De Valois
Fools are wise until they speak – Randle Cotgrave
Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people – Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky – Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
Hatred is blind, as well as Love – Thomas Fuller
:D
Upon re-reading what I posted yesterday, I decided I wasn't very happy with it... :( but I don't want to fix it…so I guess I'll just have to live with it until it bugs me too bad. I attribute it to my tiredness. I'll try and get these in during the daytime, so I'll be happier with them. :D
In other news, my wisdom tooth is growing in SIDEWAYS!! So I get to have my wisdom teeth ALL taken out! Yay pain! (masking dread with enthusiasm)
But it'll give me more time to write stuff! And that's good, right? Right?
Ayaia
