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Hakuba led Conan up the pathway to his house, watching the boy carefully as he did to make sure nothing happened. He pulled out his key and unlocked the door, opening it quickly and allowing Conan to go in ahead of him. Shinichi slipped off his shoes and stepped on to the wooden floor, Hakuba followed suit. Conan glanced around the house and noticed right away the size. It was a lot bigger then his house. Hakuba watched him and headed up the nearby stairs.
"Conan-kun, you're staying.."
"Demo..." Conan blinked. "I'm supposed to stay with you." He pointed out. Hakuba blinked and then laughed nervously.
"A-ah I know, my room's upstairs." He explained. Conan blinked and then followed him up to set his overnight bag down. Hakuba had previously set up a mat for Conan complete with pillows and blankets. Shinichi surveyed the room and noticed a desk with a new model of computer.
"Ne, ne... is this new?" Conan pointed to it. Hakuba followed his gaze.
"Ah, just got it last month, I still haven't finished transferring some files to it, so please be careful with it." He requested. Conan blinked, did that mean…
"You mean I can get on it?" Hakuba shrugged as he walked over to it. He pressed a key to wake up the computer.
"Just don't break it, that's all I ask." Conan nodded and climbed into the chair, opening up the file titled 'KID.' Hakuba watched as his eyes scanned the file's information, waiting for any form of question Conan asked. Nothing. Conan seemed quite content. "I'll see what Baaya is fixing for dinner then?" Conan said nothing, just continued to read. Hakuba shook his head and headed down to the kitchen. He looked around and noticed that his housekeeper wasn't around.
"Baaya?" He searched the study but didn't see anyone. He heard the front door open and the sound of voices. "Visitors?" He blinked and then headed to see who it was.
"Saguru!" A teenaged boy greeted in English, his hair was short and dark brown. "It's been awhile, I decided to come see you! Lizzy too." He gestured to the blonde beside him. Hakuba blinked and then smiled.
"Jake! Lizzy, how are you?" He asked excited. Jake and Lizzy were his best friends in England. "It's good to see you both." Conan seemed to have heard the conversation as he came down the stairs to see. All eyes fell on him and he had an urge to hide.
"Who's this little one?" Lizzy asked, smiling at Conan. Hakuba smiled and ruffled Conan's hair. Conan felt a tinge of annoyance but did well to hide it.
"This is Conan." Hakuba explained in English. "He's staying with me for the weekend." He switched to Japanese, "Conan-kun, these are my friends from England. Jake Coleman and Elizabeth Sumner." Conan nodded and smiled up at the two.
"Konnichiwa!" He said happily. Elizabeth smiled and patted his head.
"He's darling." She said, straightening up again to face Hakuba. Jake nodded to Conan in recognition.
"So why are you watching a kid? A relative?" He asked Hakuba. Saguru blinked and shook his head before lifting Conan up so he didn't have to look up.
"No, not a relative... but in a few months, he'll be like a step son."
"Y-You're getting married?" Lizzy blinked, Jake gaped. Shinichi glared, he hated those words. He squirmed to be put down. Hakuba blinked and obliged.
"Sorry Conan." He said in English, a little distracted. "Yeah, I'm getting married to the person who has custody over him. He's not her son though,." Lizzy looked at Conan curiously as he left the room.
"He's not happy with the arrangement?" She asked. Hakuba sighed.
"I'm not sure what he thinks, most of the time he gets along with me, but sometimes he acts like this. He also wants Ran to be with a different detective, one that she said she couldn't forgive." Jake nodded in understanding.
"So, what did this guy do?" He asked. Hakuba looked over at Conan who was now climbing onto the couch.
"I can't say, it's a secret. Conan does know the reason." Hakuba explained. "Also, please try not to freak Conan out or stress him out, he has a very weak heart, and could easily die if his heart starts to pump to fast." Jake and Lizzy looked over at Conan.
"Poor kid." the girl said. "Saguru, why are you getting married? You're seventeen, it's a little young." She pointed out. Hakuba sighed.
"I know, but I don't have a choice, I got... well... I'm going too..."
"Don't tell me you got your girlfriend pregnant." Jake blinked. Hakuba's cheeks reddened slightly. Conan was glad that they were discussing in English, he knew what they were saying, but it was easier to tune out a language he didn't know as well.
"If I denied it... I'd be a liar.." Hakuba mumbled. Jake and Lizzy looked at each other and then back at Saguru.
"You... idiot." They both declared. "What were you thinking?"
"I wasn't. We were both drunk at the time."
"You... got drunk?" British teen blinked. "You're kidding right?"
"No, I wish I was... anyways, that's why I have Conan with me. I need to get used to him being around." Jake and Lizzy looked back over at Conan. The small boy blinked and turned away. Hakuba shook his head. "There's really no telling how Conan feels about all this. Sometimes he acts like a downright brat, other times he sweetest little boy in the world, but no matter how he's acting, he's a genius." Hakuba explained about Conan. Lizzy had approached Conan and they were both staring at each other.
"Konnichiwa Conan-kun." Lizzy said brightly in thickly accented Japanese. Conan blinked and then looked over at Hakuba who nodded to him. Conan studied the girl's bright blue eyes and frizzy blonde hair.
"Konnichiwa." Conan responded, bowing his head slightly. "It's… nice to meet you." He remembered his manners. Lizzy smiled and bowed back. "Do you want to get something to eat?" She asked. Conan resisted the urge to twitch. She was baby talking him.
"I-I'm not really hungry." He admitted. Lizzy frowned.
"Why not?"
"I'm just not." Conan shrugged. Hakuba was sure the attention was making Conan uncomfortable. He knew Conan well enough to recognize when his temper was going to start ticking. The boy didn't have much patience, he was polite and he did try to be patient, but he just wasn't.
"Lizzy, you should probably just let him alone." He offered. The blonde blinked up at him and then turned back to Conan.
"He should be social, he seems so grown up for a kid." Hakuba sighed. Conan did need more of a social life, especially lately. Recently the kid only talked to Him, Hattori, Ran, and of course Kogoro. According to Ran, Shinichi had left to go back on his case and wouldn't be returning for a long time. Hakuba thought Conan was taking it extremely well.
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Night fell. Conan was fast asleep and so Hakuba was able to go through the newspapers and look over the apartments and houses available for sale. He really needed Ran here for this one. He sighed and decided to just highlight and circle the houses and apartments he was interested in. He was only picking ones he thought she would also have an interest in.
He could hear Conan mumbling softly in his sleep. They were random strings of words and Hakuba could barely make them out. Jake and Lizzy were both in separate rooms down the hall.
Saguru pressed a button on the computer to wake it up and keyed in a search for available living residences. He looked through the results, not even looking some of the, rundown looking, places over once. He knew Ran would never want to leave the city her parents and best friend resided in, and he would never ask her too. When he took Conan back tomorrow he would discus housing with Ran.
"No…" Saguru looked up at the weak, pained voice. Conan must have been having a nightmare. Hakuba pushed the chair away from the desk silently and walked over to the mat Conan was snoozing on. "No… she didn't know… please!" He sounded so urgent. Hakuba knelt down next to the boy. He needed to wake him up. Gently, Hakuba shook Conan's shoulder. The kid was a light sleeper.
"Conan-kun." He said softly.
"No…. please don't…." He moaned in his sleep again. "No!" He suddenly called as his chest throbbed. Hakuba's face paled and he reached for the phone, all the while trying to wake up Conan.
"Conan-kun! Please wake up!" Saguru shook him roughly as he dialed the emergency number. "Oi. Wake up." He shook the boy again. Conan remained asleep, starting to pale and sweat.
"Shit! Conan Wake up!" Hakuba shook him harder, slipping into English from his panicked state. "Conan!" He tried again, by now the blonde had awoken his two friends and the house keeper all three were at the door and looking in. Hakuba told the operator all the necessary information to get an ambulance there. He pushed Conan's bangs back. What was he supposed to do? How was he supposed to know how to calm his heart down? Had Conan neglected his medicine? He grabbed his phone to call Ran and was not the least bit surprised when she didn't answer, she slept through everything. He hung up and dialed the agency, getting a hold of Kogoro and explaining the situation as quickly as possible while he tried to think up a way to get Conan's heart to calm down. There had to be something he could do. Possibly rushing him to a hospital would have been a better idea.
"Is he alright?" He heard Lizzy asking. Hakuba shook his head.
"No, his heart is… not good… Conan please wake up." He pleaded with the sleeping child. Obviously it had been too early too let him out of the hospital. He had a quick intake of breath as blue eyes opened meekly, peeking out at him. Hakuba felt relief spread all through him.
"Taku…" Shinichi said weakly, feeling the pain in his chest as his heart attempted to explode on him. Jake, Lizzy, and his housekeeper approached cautiously to see how Conan was doing. Hakuba set Conan up and fixed him with a look, relief plain as day on his face, which he hoped was in a scolding expression.
"Conan-kun. You have to take you medicine every night." He stated, reaching for Conan's bag and pulling out the medication the doctors had prescribed. He set the pills in Conan's small, sweaty hand and watched as the boy shoved them in his mouth, swallowing. Hakuba thanked whatever Gods he could think of that the hospital wasn't that far away. He sighed as he heard the distinct sound of sirens. He ordered Jake to get a glass of water for the child which was brought, fast. Conan gulped down the water, ignoring the pain in his chest as best as possible. He took several breaths as Hakuba saw the lights form the ambulance stop in front of the estate.
"Baaya, could you get the door?" He requested, keeping an eye on Conan. He seemed to be doing much better. It was amazing how quickly the medicine worked.
"Hai." The housekeeper left to complete her task.
"You're going to have to go to the hospital, they're probably going to want to run tests." Conan nodded, feeling himself starting to calm down and his heart slowing down. Hakuba helped the shrunken one up and watched him carefully, he'd come back later, Jake and Lizzy would understand.
The paramedics entered the room, having had the situation by Hakuba's housekeeper. They were not carrying a gurney or stretcher with them. Conan looked over at them and one offered a hand, smiling prettily at him.
"Come on Conan-kun." She encouraged. "Let's go get some tests run." Shinichi hated being treated like this, like a fragile little child, but he supposed that was exactly what he was, he wasn't allowed near a crime scene and he couldn't go out and do things with the shounen tantei dan, he kind of missed it. Nevertheless he took her hand lightly and allowed her to lead him out of the house and to the ambulance. He was helped in and set on the stretcher sitting in the inside.
Hakuba stepped in after him and took the seat beside the boy.
"Feeling okay?" Hakuba asked as the paramedic closed the doors and the car set off for the hospital. Conan nodded mutely, waiting to see if another throb would come. He sat in silence the whole way to the hospital, vaguely listening as his vitals were taken. When the ambulance arrived at it's destination he was helped out and led to a room so they could hook him into the breathing machine and monitor his heart. Doing what ever they could to find what was causing these attacks.
Hakuba waited calmly in the waiting room, Kogoro and Ran entered soon after the doctors had started on Conan. Saguru embraced Ran and explained Conan was fine, they just wanted to run some tests. He felt kind of awkward with his future father-in-law nearby, but Ran had needed comfort, and he was not going to ignore her. He looked up from the embrace as three more people entered the waiting room.
"Huh?" He noticed his housekeeper, whom Ran knew, and his two friends. "Oh, Jake, Lizzy, come here, there's someone I want you to meet." He said, not breaking the hug he was sharing with the Karate champion. Jake and Lizzy approached and were able to guess.
"So this is Ran?" Lizzy was first to speak, in English. "Hajime mashite." She said in accented Japanese. Ran broke away from Hakuba and bowed slightly inn greeting to the others.
"Watashi wa Mouri Desu." She introduced herself. "Hajime mashite."
"Boku wa Jake." Jake introduced himself, Ran bowed to him as well. She looked over towards the doors, wanting to talk to Conan. Lizzy immediately attempted to distract the soon to be mother.
"Saguru has told us a lot about you." She started. Ran blinked and looked at Hakuba, a small blush on her cheeks.
"Eh? What did he say?" Hakuba's face burned red and he went to lean on another wall. Lizzy giggled at him and turned back to Ran's eager face.
"He said you were the most beautiful girl he's ever seen, and that you're really sweet."
"Eh?" Ran's blush deepened at the flattery. "Anything else?" She wanted to know. Lizzy nodded.
"He also said he was the luckiest guy in the world to have you." Lizzy gushed. Ran blushed deeper.
"O-oh…" She too felt lucky as she cast a look at the beyond red Hakuba Saguru. "Saguru is very sweet." She grinned. Lizzy watched Hakuba for several minutes before pulling Ran's attention back.
"So, I heard you two are getting married." Ran blushed again.
"We are." She suddenly saddened as she looker around to see if anyone with Japanese decent was around. "I guess you know about-"
"Yeah, we know." Jake cut in. "But don't be so down, I know it's scary but-"
"It's a cultural thing." Hakuba stepped in. "I think it's ridicules, but it effects her greatly." He wrapped his arms around Ran who turned red at the public display of affection. Lizzy seemed to understand what Hakuba meant and left it at that. The blonde detective held Ran for a short while, enjoying the girls flowery scent. "Ran, have you heard anything from the doctor's about that?" He asked. Ran blinked, thinking for a few seconds and then shook her head.
"The doctor said it could take awhile but he is on the list." She informed him. "Shinichi called to check up on Conan-kun though. Earlier today." She reported. Hakuba said nothing, he still didn't like Shinichi. A few more minutes of waiting and they were allowed into the recovery ward, which Conan was moved too.
Ran entered the room and embraced her young charge.
"Conan-kun, never forget your medication again." She told him, hugging him close. Conan hugged her back, partially subconsciously.
"Gomen Ran-neechan." He said softly. Ran pulled away and held him at arms length.
"Conan-kun, You're going to move in with Saguru and me."
((end this chapter… ten I think it is… x.x))