A/N: Of all the multi-chapter fics I've written, this is the first to have survived this long. Normally they never go past five chapters and I usually remove them because they just plain suck. And to be honest, I'm actually impressed anyone is even reading this. Big thanks to the few reviewers! I appreciate the support. Many many thanks

Disclaimer: No, Kaito is not at fault. I was the one that gave the teachers the miraculous tablets that sent them all to the toilet at the same time…muahahaha XD

Chapter 9: Class 2-D

"No kidding! You still don't have a boyfriend?"

"I've told you thousands of times already, I don't want any of them. Most of them are too stuck up or perverted or over-confident or whatever else that makes me feel sick when it comes to guys."

"Mou, Arina-chan, you really should take advantage of your position! All the boys of the school are lining up for you, why don't you just pick one?"

"Because, I just said why. Besides, I'm pretty sure that that one guy that I actually would consider has no interest whatsoever in me."

"Ooh, so you do have someone in mind?"

"Yes, now shut up and let me write my shopping list for this afternoon."

"Who is it?"

"Pleeease tell us!"

"Come on! Who's the lucky one?"

"Don't tell me it's the Saito-kun?"

"I said shut up!"

Heiji listened with a slightly amused smile as he stared at the ceiling, leaning back on his chair, his hands behind his head. For some reason, he couldn't help but imagine Ran being pestered by Sonoko and a couple friends the very same way.

"You really should leave Arina-chan alone."

"Well then you tell her she should date someone, TJ!"

"I-I'm most certainly not! Why do you think I'm telling you to stop? B-Besides, I think it's better if people take their time- I mean, if you wait you might find your soul-mate- I mean- umm-"

"Hihi, I didn't know TJ was the romantic type!"

"T-That's not funny!"

Heiji turned his head to take a look at the conversing party. 'Arina-chan' was probably the girl sitting on a chair scribbling things on a paper while listening to the others- actually she was looking at them, now. She had long, sunny-blonde hair that went all the way down her back and dark eyes that contrasted with her hair wonderfully. Judging from the hair-color, she was a foreigner. Standing in front of her desk were three girls that seemed quite ordinary, and opposite them, next to Arina's desk was 'TJ'. If it weren't for the fact that he was wearing a guy's uniform, Heiji would've thought he was a girl. Long, straight brown hair with a red headband coursing through them and around his forehead., a voice that was rather high for a guy, and plenty of oddly feminine physical traits. And truth be told, he was extremely red in the face.

"How about you date her, TJ?"

"Ooh, you would look so great together!"

"Hihi! I think they would look more like two girls dating each other, forget it."

"W-Would you stop that?"

"Yeah, stop that. I'm the only one that's allowed to make him feel embarrassed."

"Eh?"

The guy's reaction to Arina's words made everyone laugh. Apparently Heiji hadn't been the only one eavesdropping on their conversation.

"But actually Hana-chan is right," Heiji's seatmate said quietly with a smile, turning to the dark-skinned detective. "Arina-chan and TJ really would make an awkward couple."

"I couldn't tell ya. I don' know 'em enough ta know."

"Ya serious? Everybody in school knows 'em!"

Heiji just shrugged. "I just transferred here today, I only just somewhat know th' layout of th' school buildings."

"I'll make it easy for you, then," Heiji turned and his seatmate jumped, both now looking up at none other than the 'Arina-chan'. When did she move over to them? She brushed her long, blonde hair back with her hand.

"The school knows and thinks of me as a wandering succubus or something, because I like to play with boys minds. I never date, I never kiss- not romantically, anyway- I never sleep with a guy in the same bed, I just make boys go nuts and confuse them and all that because I think it's fun. Don't think badly of me- I'm just a teenage girl with nothing better to do. And who knows…"

She leaned forward towards Heiji's face with an evil smirk.

"…maybe you'll be my next victim," she purred seductively in his ear, sending a shiver down his spine. She pulled back, smiling brightly.

"I'm Rouya Arina, by the way. And my friend there- the other oh-so-famous student in the school out of several- is Jinamai Tracy, but we all just call him 'TJ'. That's how everyone called him back in the States, anyway. Everybody knows him for his girly face and his insanely long fear-and-phobia list."

"Is it that long?" Heiji wondered.

"Long enough for most students to not remember the entire list, even though most of the classic phobias are there. He hates: spiders, bugs- and that includes butterflies, but only if they get too close to his face- reptiles and mainly snakes at that, rats, elevators, earthquakes, anything aquatic that isn't a dolphin, whale or a normal-looking fish- like sharks, jellyfish, squids, octopus, eels and the such- carnivore plants, clowns, cheese- don't ask- bats, anything Halloween-related like ghosts and zombies and vampires- he can't even watch 'The Nightmare Before Christmas' without going nearly insane- a typical claustrophobe, can't stand the sight of blood, is awfully afraid of heights, and his fear of the dark is almost unnatural."

"That ain't most- that's all of 'em!"

"Nah, I'm pretty sure there's at least one we're missing and I can't think of it. There's a couple more, but that's not for me to say what they are."

"Even the Succubus knows what ta not say," Heiji's seatmate sniggered.

"That's not very nice of you…By the way, what are your names?"

"Hattori Heiji, at ya' service!"

"Tomoya Kazuha, nice ta meet'cha…both!"

Heiji grinned at his seatmate, Kazuha, who grinned back. Arina smiled.

"Looks like the flames will someday fuse into one…" she mused. Heiji gave her a questioning look when the strange girl-boy came over.

"Arina-chan, I umm…oh, hello. Friends of Arina-chan?"

"Just met," Arina smiled. "TJ, these are Hattori Heiji and Tomoya Kazuha. I just recited your phobia list to them."

"Wha- huh? What for?"

"So they know that if there's some crazy nut screaming in the halls it's probably you." she teased, deciding to hug him from behind, resting her head on his shoulder and her cheek against his.

"If it's in the school it's usually your fault!" he accused, blushing.

"Ah, true…but I can't help it if you're such a big bundle of fun!"

Arina started poking him innocently in his sides- or not, since Tracy almost immediately began to fidget and squirm.

"No, Arina-chan, please…" he begged. Arina sighed first then giggled.

"Alright, alright, I'll be a good girl today…" she stopped poking and hugged him tighter, making him blush again.

"You're lucky, Arina-chan," Kazuha smiled. "You have such a cute friend!"

"Ah, I forgot to mention," Arina suddenly noticed. "There are certain words that are taboo around TJ, 'cute' being one of them." Seeing how Tracy had gone from a little bit red to extreme crimson, Heiji understood why. Or at least a different why compared to Kazuha, because when she asked Arina answered:

"Because when you call him cute, his face goes like this-" she started teasingly poking his cheek with a giggle "-and it makes you just want to squeal and scream how cute he is all over again!" Heiji wasn't a girl, but from a girl's point of view, it made sense.

"Oi, TJ!" someone called from the other side of the classroom. "Come here for a second!"

"C-Coming!" Arina let go of him and watched Tracy huddle off to the boys who called him.

"You seem to get along very well," Heiji smiled. Arina smiled back.

"We met each other in the middle of last year when he transferred from Seattle. He's half-American, but his mother was Japanese and he got all her features- and I'm not just talking about Asian, I'm talking about the feminine face and all that, too."

"'Was'?"

"She…died when he was only four," Arina admitted. "Drowned. TJ never really got over it. That's why one of his phobias- it's one of those I didn't think I should mention- is water. He doesn't mind rain or a glass of water, but a salad bowl would be big enough to make him freak. Eita-sensei wrote a medical certificate for him that lets him skip off swimming lessons last year. He probably swims like a rock."

Arina turned around as the three saw and heard Tracy come back with a sigh.

"What did they want?" Arina asked.

"You," he mumbled darkly. Arina patted him on the shoulder.

"I'll go and play with them some other time. Green isn't exactly my favourite color, after all."

Heiji wondered what the color green had to do with anything.

"Green and red are opposites, so they make a good match," Tracy said.

"If we're talking about opposites, then I think red and blue make a better match. Those guys are not my element, you know," she smiled mischievously and slowly put her arms around his neck, purring "But pink would be quite a sweet color, don't you think…?" Tracy blushed and shoved her off of him.

"That's not funny, Arina-chan," he said reproachfully. Heiji didn't understand what on earth they were talking about. But he guessed that it was probably some coded-language they used when they talked about something others shouldn't know of. But what was there in that conversation that was supposed to be secret?

…Heiji just really didn't get it.

At the same time, the teacher had just walked back in and asked everyone to regain their seats. Heiji watched as Arina sat by her desk next to a girl and Tracy stopped by his desk a couple rows behind.

"I'm takin' back what I said," Kazuha whispered with a giggle. "They'd make an awesome couple. I wish I got along like that with someone."

Heiji secretly thought that he was glad to be friends with people like the kind Shinichi and Kaito were.

"Ne, Tomoya, mind joinin' me and my buds for lunch later?"

"Eh?"

"I'll probably ask those two too. Best get ta know some of my classmates, ya know."

Kazuha grinned evilly.

"Got a crush on Arina-chan?"

"Of course not!"

"Hattori Heiji, please quiet down or I'll have to send you outside!"

"S-Sorry!"

Heiji grumbled as the class laughed a little. Well, wasn't the first morning exciting…

A bit short, this one is, but I'd rather it be short than too much useless nonsense. For the cheese phobia, if you wanna know where I got it from…then the culprit (victim?) is one of my classmates. We were more shocked than amused when he admitted it to the ten that were listening, and rather than laugh we all started asking questions like if he had some trauma concerning cheese (he doesn't remember having one, either he didn't and the phobia comes from elsewhere or it must have been such a horror we don't even want to know what the hell happened) and understand why. I never imagined my class as immature (we all finished high-school anyway), but I still kinda feel rather proud of my classmates ^_^ Four introduced, two more to go! Maybe even three, depending on what I feel like. Yes my dear friends, I have more creepy OCs up my sleeve…and I'll have them jump out at you in your nightmares very soon *evil laugh* Please review!