A/N: Almost missed the deadline, but ha hah ahem, no I didn't forget.
Disclaimer: Nobody pays me. Starving artist here.
As the narrowed, suspicious eyes stared down at him, Daisuke struggled to ignore the discomforting feeling of sweat rising. How he had ended up in an interrogation about Hiwatari-kun instead of by Hiwatari-kun, he did not know.
"If he's not an android experiment, then is he a human experiment?" Harada-san asked, leaning in further over Daisuke's desk.
"I don't know why you're asking me, Harada-sa—"
"Because you're his closest friend, if you want to call it that," she explained, then grumbled under her breath, "He's so closed off from everybody, I don't know if he actually has friends."
"I— I think we're friends," he stammered as he rubbed the back of his neck.
"Then do you know if he's a secret agent? A spy?"
"Really, Harada-san, I don't think—"
"And you're his partner in crime?"
He jumped at that particular turn of phrase, then tried to laugh it off, but he only managed a nervous chuckle. "Wh-why would you say that!"
"Because," she replied, firm, "you're hiding something too and I want to know what it is!"
Unable to suppress his apprehension, he shifted awkwardly under her determined stare. "Harada-san..."
"I'm going to find out eventually," she told him, well convinced, then leaned in closer still and pointed an accusing finger at his nose. "I can't let you date my sister if you have all these secrets."
"Uh...!" he forced out, his voice wavering towards cracking.
"He is a master criminal and I am his arch-nemesis, tasked with taking him down for good and saving the world."
At the unexpected interruption, both of them swung around and blinked up at Hiwatari-kun, who met their bewildered glances with his imperturbable deadpan.
"Ha ha, very funny," she said once she had collected herself, then she frowned at him. "I'm being serious, Hiwatari-kun."
Hiwatari-kun only stared back at her, unflappable, until she stepped back from Daisuke's desk and huffed, "Fine! But I will find out your little secret eventually."
She swept off, chin held high, and the two boys watched in silence. As soon as she could not turn around and catch him, Daisuke whispered urgently to Hiwatari-kun, "Why'd you tell her that?"
"Because now she will never accept that I gave her the correct answer and will come up with some other explanation," Hiwatari-kun explained, then gave half a smirk before he walked off as well.
"Uuugh," Daisuke groaned and slid down into his seat. He was not cut out for the job of a master criminal, that was for sure.