Disclaimer: I don't own the characters from Detective Conan and never will.
They belong to the one and only Gosho Aoyama.
Chapter 3
"That was just cheating, man!" Heiji pointed his finger at Kid as an accusation.
"It's not cheating. It's magic!" Kid rebutted.
"Magic my ass!" Heiji turned away from Kid and slumped down onto the sofa near Shinichi's bed, annoyed. Why does he have to show off all the time?
"Hey, I'm a magician!" Kid chuckled at Heiji's immature reaction giving Shinichi a knowing smile. Shinichi gave him a weak laugh. That was all he could manage. Ran hadn't visited him at all. He had been dying to meet her. To see her face and be assured that she is fine. He had convinced Kazuha to visit her, and she had told him that Ran would be fine. But that didn't sound convincing. He knew she was probably still angry with him for lying to her. Betraying her faith in him. His mother had told him that it will take a while for Ran to understand, that she would finally forgive him and that there was nothing to worry about. But his parents were never the one to ever be worried about anything. Well, look at them. They're out watching a play while their only son had been shot and admitted in the hospital. He let out a tiresome sigh when nobody noticed.
"That was amazing!" Kazuha, who had just returned from Ran's house, clapped at him smiling widely. That only annoyed Heiji more.
"Show off.." He muttered.
"Do you two need anything? I'm going down to the convenient store nearby." Asked Kazuha, looking at only Shinichi and Kid for reply, ignoring Heiji intentionally. At her nonchalant action, Heiji stared at her with an opened mouth.
"Just some soft drinks, please." Asked Kid politely.
"No thank you." Came Shinichi's lifeless reply.
"Alright then, just soft drinks?" she asked Kid for confirmation and walk towards the door.
"H-Hey! Wait! Don't forget my green tea!" Heiji called after her. But Kazuha had already left. "Fine! Whatever! Just ignore me like - like.. What is wrong with her anyway?" He turned to his friends for an explanation, but Kid just shook his head and chuckled.
Shinichi on the other hand, was staring absentmindedly out the window.
"Hey detective dude, cheer up." Comforted Kid. "She'll probably realize soon enough how much you cared and how much she love you!"
"That's not like her." He said, as he turned his head slowly to face his friends. "What I did to her, it'll probably take her forever to forgive me. She'll never forgive me. I.. I saw her.. Well.. I don't know.. Do you guys think what I did was absolutely forgivable?" He almost mentioned that he had seen her naked in the bath. But no matter how much he trusted his friends, he would never betrayed Ran. Not again.
"Yes. Absolutely understandable!" assured Heiji. "You did it for her own goods!"
"It's the best thing you can do to protect her, boy." Kid shrugged as Shinichi grabbed an apple nearby and threw it at him.
"Stop calling me boy!"
Kid only chuckled harder as he caught the apple in his hand. "Hey, watch it. It's not a good manner playing with food that way!"
Heiji joined his chuckling. "Say.. When will that girl and Dr. Agasa be done developing the antidote?"
"No idea. I hope it would be soon!" Shinichi said bitterly as he glared at the chuckling Kid.
"Did I miss something?" asked Kazuha, interested, as she entered with a Pepsi, evidently for Kid.
"Nothing you're interested in." snarled Heiji, noticing that she hadn't bought him his green tea. "Where's my green tea?"
"You didn't asked.." she answered nonchalantly.
"What? Were you deaf or what? I did ask you to buy me some green tea!" he stood up, facing her.
"No you didn't!"
"Yes I did!"
"No you did not!"
"Yes I did!"
"You never tell me anything!!" she shouted into his face. Turning away from him, she folded her arms.
"What are you talking about?" he redeemed her volume, although confused. Why are girls so hard to understand?
"Whatever. You don't care!" she shouted back.
"What?"
Shinichi sighed as he watched the couple argued with a laughing Kid behind the scene. 'At least, Kazuha would talk to Heiji.' He thought to himself. 'Ran will never look at me again.' At that point, he felt a sudden rush of pain flowing across his heart. The pain was even greater than the one caused by his wound. He's losing her. That realization caused his very being to freeze in fear. 'Ran..'
** After his parents and his friends had left, Shinichi closed his eyes as an attempt to ease his pain. There, sitting alone in silence. This was supposed to make him feel relaxed. Instead, it caused him to be able to pictured her painful face even more clearly. He opened her eye immediately, hoping that the image would go away. It had been almost a week now. Ran still hadn't come to visit him. He wanted to see her so badly, although still unsure whether seeing her would help make things better. But he needed her. May be, if she would give him one more chance to explain, may be she would finally understand. And then.. And then.. He could see her smile again. His angel.. Smiling the way she ought to.
The creaked door distracted him from his thoughts. He turned around warily only to find.. Shiho Miyano staring back at him. "Haibara.. I mean, Sh- Shiho?"
"Hi." Shiho gave him an odd smile. She surely was out of practice. "As you can see, we had finally came to success!" She held out a small pill for him. "Anti-APTX 4869!"
He lifted his eyebrows as a sign of happiness. He was happy. He thought he had forgotten how to be happy. He gave her a weak smile before taking the pill from her hand and popped it in his mouth. He felt his body burning furiously. The heat was killing him. He grabbed hold onto the bed sheet as tightly as he could and screamed at the intense heat burning his body. Shiho stood there, watching him carefully. And then, it was over. He collapsed down onto the bed and was panting furiously.
"Are you alright?" Shiho asked with a tiny hint of concern in her voice. She bent down over him, staring down at his face.
He nodded weakly and then stared down at his hand, still panting softly. It was no longer the hand of an elementary school kid, but the hand of an 18 year-old. He smiled at the sight and then sighed.
"I thought you would be happy to returned into your old self again." She asked monotonously.
"It didn't matter anymore." He said softly. "There was one main reason why I wanted to return to my old self. And that was to.. To confess my feelings for her.. and to.. to.."
"To propose." She finished up his sentence for him. He nodded, his eyes still fixed to his hands.
"But now that she wouldn't even look at me again, it didn't matter anymore." He said weakly.
"What?" she scolded, causing Shinichi to jumped in his place. "Giving up so soon? Did you even talked to her yet? And you're giving up already?" She snickered. "Loser."
"What do you want me to do?" he shouted back hotly.
"I don't care what you do!" she shouted back. Then, regaining her composer she said coldly as she headed towards the door, "But remember. That girl wasted years of her life waiting for a pathetic loser like you."
"Pathetic loser indeed.." he muttered, until what she had just said hit him. He looked at the door with determination.
A/N: * phew * - another chapter down. I didn't expect the story to be moving so slowly, but I'm so into writing it I didn't noticed. :P Think I didn't do a good enough job? Then get me in your reviews! ^^ Well - I'm off to work on Chapter 4 now!
Chapter 3
"That was just cheating, man!" Heiji pointed his finger at Kid as an accusation.
"It's not cheating. It's magic!" Kid rebutted.
"Magic my ass!" Heiji turned away from Kid and slumped down onto the sofa near Shinichi's bed, annoyed. Why does he have to show off all the time?
"Hey, I'm a magician!" Kid chuckled at Heiji's immature reaction giving Shinichi a knowing smile. Shinichi gave him a weak laugh. That was all he could manage. Ran hadn't visited him at all. He had been dying to meet her. To see her face and be assured that she is fine. He had convinced Kazuha to visit her, and she had told him that Ran would be fine. But that didn't sound convincing. He knew she was probably still angry with him for lying to her. Betraying her faith in him. His mother had told him that it will take a while for Ran to understand, that she would finally forgive him and that there was nothing to worry about. But his parents were never the one to ever be worried about anything. Well, look at them. They're out watching a play while their only son had been shot and admitted in the hospital. He let out a tiresome sigh when nobody noticed.
"That was amazing!" Kazuha, who had just returned from Ran's house, clapped at him smiling widely. That only annoyed Heiji more.
"Show off.." He muttered.
"Do you two need anything? I'm going down to the convenient store nearby." Asked Kazuha, looking at only Shinichi and Kid for reply, ignoring Heiji intentionally. At her nonchalant action, Heiji stared at her with an opened mouth.
"Just some soft drinks, please." Asked Kid politely.
"No thank you." Came Shinichi's lifeless reply.
"Alright then, just soft drinks?" she asked Kid for confirmation and walk towards the door.
"H-Hey! Wait! Don't forget my green tea!" Heiji called after her. But Kazuha had already left. "Fine! Whatever! Just ignore me like - like.. What is wrong with her anyway?" He turned to his friends for an explanation, but Kid just shook his head and chuckled.
Shinichi on the other hand, was staring absentmindedly out the window.
"Hey detective dude, cheer up." Comforted Kid. "She'll probably realize soon enough how much you cared and how much she love you!"
"That's not like her." He said, as he turned his head slowly to face his friends. "What I did to her, it'll probably take her forever to forgive me. She'll never forgive me. I.. I saw her.. Well.. I don't know.. Do you guys think what I did was absolutely forgivable?" He almost mentioned that he had seen her naked in the bath. But no matter how much he trusted his friends, he would never betrayed Ran. Not again.
"Yes. Absolutely understandable!" assured Heiji. "You did it for her own goods!"
"It's the best thing you can do to protect her, boy." Kid shrugged as Shinichi grabbed an apple nearby and threw it at him.
"Stop calling me boy!"
Kid only chuckled harder as he caught the apple in his hand. "Hey, watch it. It's not a good manner playing with food that way!"
Heiji joined his chuckling. "Say.. When will that girl and Dr. Agasa be done developing the antidote?"
"No idea. I hope it would be soon!" Shinichi said bitterly as he glared at the chuckling Kid.
"Did I miss something?" asked Kazuha, interested, as she entered with a Pepsi, evidently for Kid.
"Nothing you're interested in." snarled Heiji, noticing that she hadn't bought him his green tea. "Where's my green tea?"
"You didn't asked.." she answered nonchalantly.
"What? Were you deaf or what? I did ask you to buy me some green tea!" he stood up, facing her.
"No you didn't!"
"Yes I did!"
"No you did not!"
"Yes I did!"
"You never tell me anything!!" she shouted into his face. Turning away from him, she folded her arms.
"What are you talking about?" he redeemed her volume, although confused. Why are girls so hard to understand?
"Whatever. You don't care!" she shouted back.
"What?"
Shinichi sighed as he watched the couple argued with a laughing Kid behind the scene. 'At least, Kazuha would talk to Heiji.' He thought to himself. 'Ran will never look at me again.' At that point, he felt a sudden rush of pain flowing across his heart. The pain was even greater than the one caused by his wound. He's losing her. That realization caused his very being to freeze in fear. 'Ran..'
** After his parents and his friends had left, Shinichi closed his eyes as an attempt to ease his pain. There, sitting alone in silence. This was supposed to make him feel relaxed. Instead, it caused him to be able to pictured her painful face even more clearly. He opened her eye immediately, hoping that the image would go away. It had been almost a week now. Ran still hadn't come to visit him. He wanted to see her so badly, although still unsure whether seeing her would help make things better. But he needed her. May be, if she would give him one more chance to explain, may be she would finally understand. And then.. And then.. He could see her smile again. His angel.. Smiling the way she ought to.
The creaked door distracted him from his thoughts. He turned around warily only to find.. Shiho Miyano staring back at him. "Haibara.. I mean, Sh- Shiho?"
"Hi." Shiho gave him an odd smile. She surely was out of practice. "As you can see, we had finally came to success!" She held out a small pill for him. "Anti-APTX 4869!"
He lifted his eyebrows as a sign of happiness. He was happy. He thought he had forgotten how to be happy. He gave her a weak smile before taking the pill from her hand and popped it in his mouth. He felt his body burning furiously. The heat was killing him. He grabbed hold onto the bed sheet as tightly as he could and screamed at the intense heat burning his body. Shiho stood there, watching him carefully. And then, it was over. He collapsed down onto the bed and was panting furiously.
"Are you alright?" Shiho asked with a tiny hint of concern in her voice. She bent down over him, staring down at his face.
He nodded weakly and then stared down at his hand, still panting softly. It was no longer the hand of an elementary school kid, but the hand of an 18 year-old. He smiled at the sight and then sighed.
"I thought you would be happy to returned into your old self again." She asked monotonously.
"It didn't matter anymore." He said softly. "There was one main reason why I wanted to return to my old self. And that was to.. To confess my feelings for her.. and to.. to.."
"To propose." She finished up his sentence for him. He nodded, his eyes still fixed to his hands.
"But now that she wouldn't even look at me again, it didn't matter anymore." He said weakly.
"What?" she scolded, causing Shinichi to jumped in his place. "Giving up so soon? Did you even talked to her yet? And you're giving up already?" She snickered. "Loser."
"What do you want me to do?" he shouted back hotly.
"I don't care what you do!" she shouted back. Then, regaining her composer she said coldly as she headed towards the door, "But remember. That girl wasted years of her life waiting for a pathetic loser like you."
"Pathetic loser indeed.." he muttered, until what she had just said hit him. He looked at the door with determination.
A/N: * phew * - another chapter down. I didn't expect the story to be moving so slowly, but I'm so into writing it I didn't noticed. :P Think I didn't do a good enough job? Then get me in your reviews! ^^ Well - I'm off to work on Chapter 4 now!