Thank you for all the kind reviews! THANK YOU! Did you all enjoy the final chapter of Ai Edogawa? Here's chapter two of Haibara's Confession! I hope you all like it! Enjoy!
CHAPTER 2
Conan walked out of his room after what seemed like hours of thinking, ready to finally eat his lunch when the door opened, and Ran, Kogoro, Haibara and some strange young lady walked in. Must have been a client of Kogoro. His eyes fell onto Haibara's and he blushed.
She ignored him and walked off after Ran, following her into the living room where Kogoro and the lady sat down on the chairs around the table. Conan scratched his head. If he hadn't remembered what had happened just now, he would have thought she was angry with him or something, or that she was just acting like-well, Haibara. But this was different. Did she think that he did not love her back? Did she think that his answer to her would be negative?
Or was she just ignoring him to avoid unnecessary conversation?
Kogoro gave a nod of affirmation at Ran who pointed at the empty cups on the tables. She filled them with coffee soon afterwards.
" So what's the urgent need you have to see me about?" Kogoro asked.
She woman reached into her purse and took out a diskette and placed it on the table. " I have no crime or anything to report." She said, taking a sip out of the cup of coffee. " I just want-this tastes delicious-you to help me keep this secure until I come back from Australia for a few days."
Kogoro raised his eyebrows at the diskette.
" What's in it?" he asked.
" Alas," she said. " I cannot tell you. It is top secret, it is."
" But I can't be sure on what sort of defense I can show for it." He replied, rubbing his chin. " I might look at the contents when you are gone, so you might as well tell me now anyway."
The woman hid a laugh, spitting into her coffee.
Ran turned back, alarmed.
" What's so funny?" Kogoro asked.
" You can try if you want." She said, folding her arms. " But it's layered by a number of codes, and you would have to be one of us in order to crack it."
Conan frowned.
One of us?
Haibara sneaked a peek at him.
He turned around to face her, but she looked away.
He bit his lip.
' Was she angry?'
" I guess I'll be going." She said, getting up from her seat. " I'll give you your money when I come back. Name your price."
" Name yours." He said.
She bit her lip and looked up at the ceiling.
" I think-twenty thousand would be sufficient."
" TWENTY THOUSAND!" Kogoro yelled, spitting out the coffee out of his mouth.
" If that's not enough, I would gladly raise it." She said.
" It's enough." Ran said, smiling at her and she wiped up the loose coffee from the table. " Alright." The woman said, laughing. " I guess I'll see you when I get back. I'll bring you all some souvenirs from Australia."
" Thank you!" Ran said cheerfully as the woman made for the door.
Kogoro wiped his mouth.
" Twenty thousand dollars." He muttered. " Might as well bring me back from Australia a koala figurine made of gold."
Conan frowned at the woman. Twenty thousand? There was a great possibility of her not returning for the disk. It could be that she was running for her life, and wanted to entrust the sole thing the organization hadn't got their hands on onto someone else other than her. He walked up to her, that kiddy smile back onto his face.
" Aunt!" he said cheerfully, and she smiled at him.
" Do you have any alcoholic friends?" he asked, and watched her eyes darken.
" Gin?" he went on, and he could see her hand clench on her coat. " Vodka? Or even," his eyes unknowingly led over to Haibara. " Sherry?'"
There was silence.
" CONAN!" Kogoro yelled, slamming his fist into the base of Conan's head. The woman glared at the little kid before walking out the door. Haibara raised her eyebrows at her, then her eyes led to the diskette.
Okay.
Interesting.
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" So? Got anything in it?" Conan asked anxiously.
Haibara didn't answer, but type furiously on the keyboard. They had secretly exchanged the diskette with some strange game that the professor had invented and were trying it over at Haibara's place. Conan, obviously, chose to stay over for the night. The professor leaned over the shoulders, biting his lip. " But Ai," he said tensely. " Are you sure that she's-one of them? It could have been a common mishap. Or that she was just screwing around."
" There's a possibility for that." Haibara said, still not turning around. " But when Kudo asked her about the drinking habits, I sensed a cold aura coming out of her. It's almost definite that she's on the run. Nine out of ten chances, she's not going to come back for that disk, dead or not."
Conan nodded.
" Yeah. But I don't think she's in the organization."
" Oh no?" Haibara asked sarcastically.
Conan frowned, biting his lip.
" Do you have a problem with me, Haibara?" he asked.
" Lying, no. Telling the truth, yes." She answered.
" Why?"
" I don't know." She said, voice as oily as hair cream.
" But just this morning, you said that you,"
" I think there are roughly three codes here." She said, cutting in sharply into his sentence. " I would be able to get through them but at least next Tuesday. That wouldn't give us much time if she's coming back, but I sincerely doubt so. I could copy out the answers after I get them off the password block, but that's only if I have time, luck and NO DISTRACTIONS." She finished off the sentence, glancing sideways at Conan who blinked.
" Me?" he asked. " I can help!"
" The only help you give me is more nightmares." She said silkily.
He glared at her before stomping off into his room and slammed the door shut.
" That was slightly too mean, don't you think?" the professor asked.
Haibara turned around.
" No." she said, before continuing to type.
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" Ah? A kid love?"
Ran nodded as she bit into the fish she had cooked.
" They'll both get over it." Kogoro said in an offhand voice. Eri, who had come over for dinner that night, raised her eyebrows at him before turning to the worried Ran. " What does that concern you?" Eri asked. " Although I admit it's kind of disturbing to see one kid confess to the other, they're still young. They'll forget it."
Ran bit her lip and nodded.
" That's true. But still,"
" But still?" Eri echoed.
" I always thought they were made for each other. Both are extremely smart, obedient and even mature. Haibara's much more compatible with Haibara that he is with other girls who like him, such as Ayumi."
" But they've all split up, haven't they?" Kogoro asked, drinking his tea.
" Yeah." Ran said. " Only Conan and Haibara are in the same school."
Eri thought for a moment before shrugging.
" Well, be the matchmaker." She said. " Put them together."
Ran blinked.
Kogoro snorted, but didn't say anything.
Then Ran brightened up.
" Yeah." She said brightly. " I'll do just that."
Eri smiled.
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It was midnight.
Conan got up, yawning as he walked towards the kitchen. It was getting harder and harder for him to have a nice peaceful sleep these few days, and all he wanted now was a nice, warm cup of milk before snuggling back into his soft bed sheets, and falling fast asleep. He yanked open the fridge door and pulled out the carton of milk. Then his eyes fell onto a young girl who was sleeping on the computer table, the computer light still flashing on.
" Was she awake all this while?" he asked himself, placing the carton back into the fridge and shut the door quietly. He walked softly up beside, clicking his fingers up to her face. She didn't even blink. He smiled at the sleeping figure of Haibara. She was just so unknowingly beautiful when she wasn't scowling or spitting sarcastic comments at people, that he almost slapped himself for not knowing it before. He reached out to touch her but stopped himself in time.
What was he doing, was he stupid?
There was this strange feeling of watching the girl who destroyed his life sleep there. He remembered hating her when he first met her. Hating her existence, hating her face, hating every inch of her. But now-hey, she wasn't so bad.
Unknowingly, he bent down and pressed his lips lightly on her cheek before pulling away, smiling as he walked back to his room. There was no need for milk after all.
Indeed Haibara was the girl who destroyed his life.
He looked at her back as he shut the door.
But she was also the one who saved it.
Hearing the door shut, Haibara Ai's eyes flicked open.
She blushed and wiped her cheek.
" That idiot." She muttered.
END OF CHAPTER 2
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