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hi fellas (:
well... i want to compensate for the (very) long update of the previous chapter, so this is it: a new fragment to you.
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this chapter, as usual, is unbeta-ed.
DISCLAIMER:
Detective Conan /名探偵コナン
Gosho Aoyama©1994
::Memories in Mozaic::
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FRAGMENT #12:
Classroom
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TICKING his mechanic pencil in an almost-inhuman-speed, Edogawa Conan tried his best not to stand up abruptly and kick his innocent desk as hard as he could, plus—if possible—,throw it away from the window. Behind those spectacles, his eyes looked serious looking at the back of a certain boy who sat two desks behind Haibara Ai. Tsk,tsk. Conan gritted his teeth in annoyance.
What was his name again?
Shimazaki something.
A transfer student who was coincidentally put into 6-1 class around a month ago. That boy always tried to get close to Ai from time to time like a porepack. It pissed Conan off seeing him like that. Haibara Ai was a member of Detective Boys. She was his partner.
She didn't relate to that Shimazaki.
Not at all costs.
"Haibara-san," Kobayashi Sumiko called Ai. "Can you help me carrying these to the office?"
She referred to two high piles of textbooks and three rolls of map she used in history class. Both of her hands were already full with students' notebooks and clear holder.
"Yes, Sensei." The strawberry blonde-haired girl nodded and rose from her chair. It wasn't anything strange for a sight, if only that transfer student didn't stand up as well.
"Uhm, Kobayashi-sensei?" he spoke.
"Yes, Shimazaki-kun?"
"Mind if I help her out? There are so many things to carry... and those textbooks seem heavy."
Conan choked. What was that kid saying?
Their teacher simply smiled. "Of course not. Thank you."
The young detective snorted in disgust. Oh well, so that boy wanted attention... but he didn't know whom he was dealing with. Haibara Ai was not an easy girl to get. She was the Ice Queen, wasn't she?
"You don't have to do that, you know." Conan heard Ai's soft voice between their classmates' chatting noise. Kobayashi-sensei had just left and Ai was now bending down to collect the maps. "Keiichi-kun."
Ah. Now he remembered.
Shimazaki Keiichi.
Wait up. Keiichi-kun?
"It's alright, Ai-san." Keiichi replied with a wide smile plastered across his face. He didn't realize the death glare thrown at him from the corner of the classroom by a certain spectacled boy.
Ai-san!
What the fck with this first-name basis? She still called him Kudo—or Edogawa, in case they are in front of other people—despite of what they had gone through!
What... what an injustice.
Feeling that he couldn't take this any longer, Edogawa Conan rose on his feet so suddenly. He pushed his chair backwards and his desk forward in the process, bumping it against Genta's seat since that big boy was the one who sat in front of him.
"Ow! Conan, what're you doing?"
He didn't answer. Wordlessly he strode forward, approaching Haibara Ai with determined steps. When he finally reached her, he stood between Ai and Shimazaki, apparently blocking him from seeing the girl.
"No, Shimazaki-kun." Conan said with emphasis. "You can enjoy the ten minutes break. I'll help Haibara—" his eyes glinted in silent threat, "—carry them to the office."
And before either one of them could react, Conan picked up the heavy textbooks on the teacher's desk, secured them into his embrace and walked out of the classroom. Ai just stared at his back for a moment before turning her head as she spoke to the transfer student.
"Seems it had been handled. Anyway, thanks for your offer, Keiichi-kun."
Somehow, Shimazaki Keiichi had a vague idea that Haibara Ai did her best to suppress a giggle.
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end of the twelfth fragment.
