Tear

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The entire group was woken up, bright and early, the next morning by the loud bellow of a certain inspector's voice. It appeared that Nakamori-keibu had arrived to start fortifying the home guard. Conan sat up or, at least, he tried to. Something was holding him down. Grumbling in annoyance he glanced down to see an arm wrapped securely around him. What the...

"Ran-neechan?" he mumbled. Maybe she'd started snuggling him in her sleep again. It had happened before. Not often, but...

Glancing over, he noticed that Ran was... clear across the room. The karate champ, in fact, looked like she'd been having a competition in her sleep and was half off her bedding.

Then... who...

Slowly, and in a rather horror film way (Conan thought later) Conan turned his head found himself (horrified) to be face to face with Sonoko. Ewww, was she drooling on him?! (And, how had she managed to sleep through that loud mouths yelling, anyway?!)

He hadn't known he could scream so loud, but watching Sonoko almost teleport across the room in surprise was kind of worth it. At least until she'd started pointing at him, and screeching right back, one hand braced against the paper wall behind her.

Ran had jerked up at some point, and was staring at Conan in confusion. He'd been catapulted into her lap thanks to Sonoko. Who knew that twig of a girl was so strong?!

The sound of running feet thumping along the walk way outside was almost drowned out, but the snap of the door opening and Sonoko falling backwards through it wasn't.

Everything stopped. Everyone stared.

"What the hell are you kid's doing?!" Nakamori bellowed.

A cloud of birds exploded into the air from the trees around the estate, screeching and chirping like mad. Conan's ears were ringing something awful. That had been loud enough to bring a tear to his eye. Owwww...