Chapter 3. Chain of Love
A small girl with ponytail was looking around the school, searching for someone. Then she spotted a dark coloured skin boy, and said, "Heiji, where've you been? Don't you remember we're animal-care duty now?"
"I've finished cleaning up already," answered Heiji. "Kazuha, have you finished your work already?"
"I've finished," answered Kazuha sweetly, "we can go home now."
"Kazuha, let's go home," Heiji was already holding Kazuha's hand, "don't be such a slowpoke!"
"Wait, Heiji," said Kazuha. "My school-bag!"
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"Heiji, isn't this way going back home?" asked Kazuha. She was pointing the other way where they were going.
"This way is the shortcut, it's faster." Kazuha had no choice but to follow him. They continued to walk for a while, and then Kazuha said, "Heiji, are you sure this is the right way?" They were in a completely unfamiliar place, Kazuha was afraid that they had gotten lost. Then she heard barking noises coming in front of them, it was a large black dog.
"WOW!! Heiji!" Kazuha screamed immediately, and hid herself behind Heiji. "Shhhh! Don't yell so loud, it may think that you want to attack it."
"What should we do then?" Kazuha whispered slightly to Heiji's ear, "we can't cross the road."
"Do you have any snacks or food?" asked Heiji. "I have some chocolates."
"That's good. This is my plan, I'll throw the chocolate to the opposite direction, and then we'll cross the road quickly." Heiji got the chocolate from Kazuha's pocket, "Kazuha, are you ready?" She nodded her head slightly, and then Heiji threw the chocolate to the opposite direction of their way home. The black dog went for the chocolate at once. Heiji and Kazuha crossed the road as quickly and silently as possible.
"Kazuha, come quickly, or else the dog would coming for us." Heiji looked back where Kazuha was, and he saw that she had just fallen down to the ground. "Daijoubu, Kazuha?"
"I'm okay," answered Kazuha. She tried to stand up, but her leg was bleeding. "You've cut your leg," said Heiji. He was looking a bit guilty, "if I haven't chosen the short cut, we would not met the dog."
"It's not your fault!" Kazuha was trying to walk, but Heiji stopped her. Heiji pulled his backpack down, and bent his back in front of Kazuha.
"Come on, I'll carry you home." Heiji insisted to carry Kazuha on his back. Kazuha blushed slightly, "but Heiji, I'm heavy."
"That's okay, and you can't walk with your leg hurt!" So Heiji carried Kazuha on his back to her home, "Kazuha, you're heavy! You definitely need to be on diet! You shouldn't have eaten so many chocolates!"
"Heiji!"
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"Kazuha-chan," said Shizuka, "you come and play with Heiji again." Kazuha had come to the Hattori's house to play with Heiji today, Heiji was too happy to see her. "Kazuha, you're late!"
"He's been waiting for you the whole afternoon," said Shizuka.
"Mama wants me to finish my homework before I could come out and play." Heiji was already holding her hand and leading her inside the house, "we'll play something different today."
"Aren't we playing at your room?" asked Kazuha. "Where's this place?" Heiji had led Kazuha in front of a large warehouse.
"Today, we'll have some adventure inside this warehouse," said Heiji, "there're lots of things inside, and maybe we could find some treasure there."
"But Heiji, obasan may get angry."
"That's okay, okaasan is just too busy at the kitchen, she won't find out we've been here, come on!"
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"It's so dark here, Heiji," said Kazuha as they had entered the warehouse, she had her hands holding Heiji's clothes tightly. "That's okay," said Heiji, and he had the torch turned on in his hand, "it's not dark anymore."
They looked around the warehouse, Kazuha was quite afraid, and she held her hand even tighter to Heiji's clothes, "Heiji, did you hear any noise over there?"
Heiji turned his torch to the direction where the noise was coming from, and then they saw something moving, "Heiji, it must be gh…ghost!" Kazuha's body was already trembling, "let's get out."
A small squirrel came hopping out, "it was just a squirrel, Kazuha," said Heiji, "let's go upstairs."
They went up the stairs, "Heiji, is it safe to go up the stair? There're squeaking sound coming from the stairs."
"Daijoubu, Kazuha," said Heiji, "oh, I remember this cupboard, and it used to be at okaasan's room." Heiji was already searching the drawers of the cupboard, "Kazuha, Kazuha, I've found something good!"
There were something shiny in Heiji's hand, "a handcuff?" said Kazuha. "What's so good to find a handcuff, Heiji? You already have one."
"That one is just a toy, it's a plastic handcuff, but you see," Heiji was showing Kazuha the handcuff, "this is made of metal, it must be an old handcuff of otoosan."
"So what do you want to do with the handcuff?"
"We can now play a more realistic police-catch-thief game!" said Heiji, waiting for her answer, "or do you want more adventure here?"
"No, I don't want to stay here any longer," said Kazuha, "okay, I'll play police-catch-thief with you."
"That's great! So you'll be the thief and I'll be the detective!"
"Huh? I'm the thief again?" Kazuha was complaining about being the thief most of the time. "I want to be the detective also."
"You run too slowly, you can't catch me every time," said Heiji. "Do you remember last time you're the detective? It takes you almost an hour to catch me! Or do you want to stay here longer?"
"No, I don't want to stay here, okay," said Kazuha, "I'll be the thief."
"Okay, let's go and play now."
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"No way for you to escape," said Heiji to Kazuha; he was running after Kazuha to a corner at the garden, he brought his handcuff out, "catch you!" He had the handcuff on Kazuha's wrist, and then he had his wrist handcuffed also, "you can't escape now!"
"Let's go to my room now," said Heiji, leading Kazuha to his room, "I want to ask you detail about the case." Kazuha was a bit confusing on the serious little detective Heiji, but she followed him.
They were at Heiji's room, and he got a small notebook out, asking Kazuha many questions. "Heiji," said Kazuha suddenly, her face was blushing slightly.
"What is it, Kazuha?"
"Um…I want to go to the washroom," whispered Kazuha. "But you see," she hold her handcuffed hand up, "how can I go now?"
"Argh! Okay, we'll go back to the warehouse to find the key for the handcuff." So they headed back to the warehouse.
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"Heiji, can you find the key?" Kazuha was waiting for Heiji who was searching through the different drawers in the cupboard where they had found the handcuff.
"How about that drawer you have just searched, can you find it?"
Kazuha shook her head slightly, "no. What should we do now? I really want to go to the washroom now." Her large eyes had started watering already. Heiji looked at their handcuffed hands, and then he got an idea.
"Um…okay, let me try this." Heiji than held Kazuha's small hand and tried to pull her hand out from the handcuff. "It may hurt you a bit."
"Ouch! Heiji, stop it! It's painful!" She was crying already, her hand was reddened.
"Stop crying, Kazuha," said Heiji, he was trying to comfort her, "you can go to the washroom."
"But how?" before Kazuha finished her question, Heiji had already led her out of the warehouse.
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Heiji and Kazuha were already at the door of the washroom, and then Kazuha shouted loudly, "WHAT? GOING TOGETHER?!"
"Don't be so loud, aho! Okaasan may hear us," said Heiji, "don't you want to go?" Kazuha nodded her head slightly, "but you can't look at me." Her face was flushing deeply.
"Who want to look at you?" Heiji immediately turned his back to her.
After a while, Heiji asked, "Are you finished? Can I turn my back now?"
"Don't turn back! I'm not finished yet!" Kazuha was in a panic already, "wait…wait till I tell you to turn back."
"You're so slow," complained Heiji.
"How dare you start complaining? You're the one who find the handcuff and put it on my wrist!" Kazuha then flushed the toilet, "okay, you can turn around now." Her little face was already red as apple, "aren't we going out now?" She was looking confused as Heiji headed to the washroom also.
"Hey, turn your back now, I didn't look at you before." Kazuha already burst into laughter, "so you want to go to the washroom also."
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"Heiji, is it safe to hide hear?" Kazuha and Heiji were both hiding from Shizuka, they were afraid that their parents would beat them when they found out they were handcuffed together.
"Daijoubu, Kazuha," said Heiji. "I've hidden here many times before, and okaasan couldn't find me every time."
They then heard Shizuka calling for them in a distance, "Heiji, Kazuha-chan where're you? Kazuha-chan, your father is here to pick you home."
Heizo then signalled Shizuka to keep quiet, he had noticed the clothes sticking out from the cupboard. "What're you two doing here?" He then found out Heiji and Kazuha were handcuffed together. "Otoosan!" Heiji exclaimed in panic.
"Heizo, where's the key?" asked Shizuka.
"It had lost a long time already," said Heizo, he then turned to Heiji, "how dare you play with my handcuff, Heiji?" Upon seeing at Heizo's angry face, little Kazuha started weeping already.
"Come here, Heiji." Heiji then walked to his father, Kazuha followed him. Heiji was then beaten by Heizo on his hip, and Kazuha cried loudly.
"Heizo, you've scared Kazuha-chan," said Shizuka. "You see, how she's crying now?"
"Oh, Kazuha-chan, I know that this isn't your fault, so don't cry," said Heizo, trying to be gentle to Kazuha. "It's late now, I think you two better go sleeping. We can't break the handcuff until tomorrow."
"I'll tell Toyama-san that Kazuha-chan would stay here overnight," said Shizuka, "and also about the handcuff."
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"Okay, you two need a bath now before you go sleeping, you two are dirty," said Shizuka. "What?" Both Heiji and Kazuha said together, "but how can we bath with the handcuff on?"
"Of course, you two need to bath to-ge-ther!" said Shizuka. Both of their faces blushed slightly, but they did not dare to go against her.
"Don't look at me while I'm taking off my clothes, Heiji hentai!"
"Aho! I'm also taking off my clothes, who want to look at you?"
At first, both Heiji and Kazuha were quite embarrassed, but they forgot it later on. "Heiji, does it hurt now?" Kazuha was pointing at Heiji, looking at him.
"Oh, that's better now," said Heiji, "otoosan always beat me whenever I'm naughty, it's okay. I'm get used to it already. Moreover, I'm strong."
"But you need to thanks me."
"Why?"
"Because if I weren't crying so loudly before, your father wouldn't stop beating you!" Kazuha then gave a naughty smile to Heiji.
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To be continued……
This chapter is long…please read and review. Actually I've cut some details of the handcuff story already, but still it's long…but I don't want to cut it into two chapters…I just think that both Heiji and Kazuha are so cute!! I don't know what the next chapter would be, may be the omamori? Or should they go for more adventures, camping, or festival?? Don't know yet, welcome for any comments?
