A small dark-skinned boy was walking back home with his mother; his hand was holding tight his mother's kimono. They had just finished shopping, the little boy's other hand was holding a lollipop, "okaasan, can I go to the park and play for a while before I go home?"
"Okay, Heiji, but don't come back too late," said Shizuka.
"Yes," answered Heiji, he headed to the park immediately. When he entered the park, he was looking around for something interesting, 'um…what should I play today?' Then he heard a familiar voice calling his name, a small girl with a ponytail appeared in front of him. "Heiji, you just come in time! I've started to play a new game right now!"
Kazuha was smiling happily at him. He looked at the direction where she was coming, and found out that there was a small table had already set up. He looked more clearly, it was only a box there, but there were several bowl and plates. He also noticed the bowl was full of sand; the plates had some leaves and twigs on it. Her two bunnies were sitting beside the table already, looking at him as though waiting for him. He immediately had a bad feeling that Kazuha was forcing him to play some stupid game, "Kazuha, what're you playing?"
"Some kind of family game," said Kazuha happily, "I'll be mama and you'll be papa, Hei-chan and Ka-chan will be our children. Come and let's start playing now." Kazuha held her hand out to grab Heiji's arm and brought him to her "house".
Heiji was obviously not happy with her idea at all, "wait, Kazuha, I've got a better idea. Why don't we play hide-and-seek, or play police-catch-thief?"
"Heiji, you don't wanna play with me?" Her watery eyes were staring at Heiji. Heiji was afraid to make her cry again, and said, "of course not!" He then noticed a little boy was coming to their direction.
"Kazuha, what're you playing?" said the little boy, "can I play with you?"
"Okita, nice to meet you," said Kazuha. "I'm going to play the family game."
"I see. Can I play with you?"
"She'll play with me!" Heiji said before Kazuha could answer Okita's question, "Kazuha, let's play now!" He did not wait for Okita's response, and pushed Kazuha to their "house".
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"Heiji, do you like the food?" asked Kazuha. They were sitting around the "table", with the two bunnies in between them. Heiji was holding the bowl of sand and pretended eating.
"Yeah, I think they all taste good," said Heiji, then he was pointing at an empty bowl, "what's this empty bowl for?"
"It's not empty, there's miso soup," said Kazuha. "Can't you have some more imagination?"
"I think that I'll never be as imaginative as you girls," said Heiji, then he was pointing at plate full of leaves and twigs, and "so, what're these used to be?"
"They're teriyaki chicken," said Kazuha.
"Oh, I see," said Heiji. He immediately had a thought that he would never know what the girls were thinking; it was so boring to play here. But he did not want her to play with Okita either.
"Heiji, I'll play with you police-catch-thief next time," said Kazuha, as she had noticed that Heiji was not enjoying too much. "Mama told me that I'm too small to cook, but once I've learned, I'll cook for you." Kazuha was smiling brightly at him.
Upon seeing Kazuha's smiling face, Heiji finally admitted that it was not a bad idea to play with her after all. Then, they noticed Kazuha's father had just entered the park, "Papa!" She then rushed toward her father, "let's go home now, it's late already," said Toyama.
"Papa, I'm just playing with Heiji," said Kazuha.
"Heizo's son? Oh, you'd better go home now before it's dark," said Toyama.
"Bye-bye, Heiji," said Kazuha, "see yah!"
"Bye-bye!"
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A beautiful housewife in kimono was bringing her son to school, "Heiji, you're an elementary student now, and this is your first day of school, so behave properly."
"Yes, okaasan," said Heiji. "I'll be a good boy at school."
"Bye-bye, okaasan," said Heiji as he entered the school entrance. He was just so happy to be an elementary student now, which means he was no longer a baby boy and he could play more detective games.
While he was dreaming about the detective games, he saw a familiar pony tail was swinging in front of him, "oh gosh! She's studying at the same elementary school with me!" He decided to pull his cap lower to hide his face, and walked right pass her.
"Huh? Heiji," said Kazuha, she went to Heiji immediately, "wow! We're studying at the same elementary school. Why do you pull your cap so low? It's hidden half of your face. But I could still recognize you, your dark skin!" She was pointing at his arm where his dark coloured skin was clearly seen.
"That's because I don't want to see you," Heiji murmured.
"Huh? What're you saying?"
"Eh…I just asked which class are you in?"
"Class 1-B," answered Kazuha.
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"Heiji, why are you looking quite mad?" Kazuha was looking at Heiji with a worrying face. Heiji was at class 1-B also, and he was sitting next to Kazuha.
"I'm not mad, but I just want to ask why are you sitting next to me?"
"All the seats are arranged by the teacher according to the student number," explained Kazuha. "Moreover, isn't it better to sit close together?"
"Okay, keep quiet! We're going to choose everyone's school duty now," said the teacher.
"Heiji, what do you want to do?" Kazuha was whispering lightly to Heiji.
"I haven't think about it yet, but I think I would want to do something more interesting."
"Toyama and Hattori, keep quiet please!" The teacher had noticed they were talking. The whole classroom was roared with laughter when the teacher had caught them talking. Kazuha's face blushed immediately, but Heiji did not care much about the laughter around them.
After the teacher had explained all the school duties, all the students were discussing with one another. "Heiji, it's all your fault to say so loud before," said Kazuha.
"You're the one who talk first."
"Eh? Heiji, there's something on your shoulder," said Kazuha.
"Huh? Where's it?" Heiji was looking at his shoulder to see more clearly.
"Try to raise your hand up a bit, so that you can see more clearly," said Kazuha. Heiji raised his hand up, and then he saw immediately Kazuha was raising up her hand also. Then he heard the teacher said, "Toyama and Hattori, you two will be the animal-care duty. You two are responsible for taking care of the small animal at school."
Heiji immediately noticed that he was just tricked by Kazuha, and she was smiling slyly at him. It was also too late for him to do anything as they were both appointed as animal-care duty.
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To be continued…
Please read and review. Too busy recently, so it's a bit late for the update (^o^). Thank you for all the reviews (the most reviews I ever got for one chapter!) Still need to wait for their handcuffs story, maybe next chapter?! I still had a few more adventures for Heiji and Kazuha, wondering do you want to read it?? It seems that Heiji was a naughty boy in his childhood…_; See you all in the next chapter!!
