Here is part II ! You all please have fun with Heiji and Kazuha! And review if you like, okay?


The Christmas trilogy

by jojo


Story II:Fun in the snow


"Is it really necessary?"

"Yep."

"But I dont want to!"

"Nobody asked you if you want to."

"But I can not handle such things!"

"They are not things but living people!"

"But, why do I have to?"

"Because you are so nice!"

"N-nice? M-me? Nooo, I am NOT!"

"You are!"

"Fine, but thats not enough reason for me to do something like that!"

"Oh shut up! Look, here we are!"

"But.. Kazuhaaaaa!" he whined but it was too late. She had already let go of his hand after dragging him here not too gently and had ringed the door. A few seconds late a woman in her mod thirdies opened the door and smiled at the young adults.

"Oh, hello Kazuha- chan! Its so great you found time to help me out!"

Kazuha bowed and hit the grumbling Heiji in his stomach, forcing him to bow as well. Straightning up again, Kazuha smiled still innocently.

"No problem!"

"And who is your friend here?" the woman asked her.

"Oh right. Excuse me. Thats Hattori Heiji, he is a friend of mine who voluntered to help me! Heiji, thats Misses Hara, the friend of my family who needs us to babysit today."

"Nice to meet you young man!"

"Same here.." Heiji murmured in return.

"Where are the two pumkins?" Kazuha asked, quickly stepping in front of Heiji.

"Oh, they are in the living room, all dressed. If you could take them for a walk and be back in two hours that would be a great help!"

"No problem!" Kazuha smiled friendly.

"Kenji! Motoki! Kazuha is here! Are you two ready?"

"Yeahhh!"

Within three seconds everybody would have thought an earthquake was on its way. The two four year old were running towards the door, making it sound like a bunch of buffalos. Both were wrapped up in warm jackets, gloves, a hat and scarf, being perfectly dressed for a walk in the snow that was laying outside.

The two beamed and quiecked as they saw Kazuha who they knew from former baby sit sessions. The both hugged her tightly.

"Kazuha- neechan! Hello!" they said with one voice.

"Oh hello my sweethearts! How are you?"

"Great! Are we going for a walk now?"

"Yeah!"

"I trust you not to come so late, okay? We still need to go and visit the grand parents today. After all, its the day before christmas eve."

"Yes, no problem. We will be back in exactly two hours!" Kazuha assured the mother and they said their goodbyes.

"Kazuha- neechan." One of the boys who was holding her right hand spoke, "Who is that man?"

"Oh sorry, I forgot. Thats Hattori Heiji. He will come with us today and we will have lot of fun. Say hi to him."

"Hellooo, Heiji- niiiiichaann!" the two boys chanted.

Heiji had to giggle without really meaning to and destroyed in the progress his ennerved feature.

"Hi you two."

"Is he a friend of yours?"

"Uh.. yeah, he is!"

The two boys looked at each other, then started grinning and looked back up at them.

"Are you going out together?"

"WHAT?" Heiji and Kazuha looked shocked with blushed faces down at the boys. "NO! We are NOT!" both said in unison, making the kids burst out laughing.

"Where are we going today?" Motoki asked, changing subject of his own.

"I know a quiet path outside the forest where its still completely white I want to show you."

"Yipiiee!" the boys chanted again, missing the strange look of confusion Heiji cast them.

They were walking through and out of the city, coming to a place that was at the edge of the white forest. Everything around them was covered in the cold white, shimmering gently as the sun shone on it. The kids were running around, playing, screaming, throwing snow balls and laughing loudly.

"Admit it!"

"Admit what?"

"They are cute!"

"T- these brats? Naahh!"

Kazuha giggled and shook her head as she looked at Heiji with a raised eyebrow. He looked back into her endless gentle eyes. He was suddenly enchanted and magically pushed towards her and as he was only a few inches away from her, something cold hit the back of his head.

He spun around bewildered with a look of murder on his face.

"Who the-"

He saw two boys, looking with huge and innocent eyes up at him, their fist covering their mouths. A cold wind passed between them, Heiji looking furious down at them with the snow on his face and they staring up at him oh so innocently.

Silence.

Kazuha looked between the three, feeling the icy mood go straight under her skin. She noticed the two little boys were shaking and before another thought could go through her mind, the both kids started laughing loudly.

"Why, youuu…!" Heiji roared and before he could do anything else the two boys were already running away from him as fast as they could, still laughing tears and laughing loudly which made Heiji only more enraged as he started taking off after them, screaming loud threats. Kazuha could hardly get a grip on her laughing and she had to hold her stomach for it had started hurting. There were tears in her eyes but she could not stop. Heiji looked simply too funny, trying to catch the boys with the snow in his hair, swaying his arms wildly and swearing.

Kazuha immediately stopped laughing as a snow ball hit her head. She brushed the wet substance off her face and looked confused around only to catch a glimpe of a fife year old grinning evily at her while already running away.

"Ohh you are going to pay for that!" she roared before bending and gathering snow to form a huge snow ball. Done, she took off after the guys and started throwing the snow ball, meaning to hit one of the boys but unfortunately it landed right on Heijis head, making him trip and fall face first into the snow.

Kazuha clapped her hands over her mouth in horror and the boys stopped running but started laughing even more as they all saw Heiji, almost completely covered in snow. He slowly started getting up and turned to look at Kazuha with a destroying gaze. This was the moment Kazuha burst out laughing even harder than before, no matter how serious the situation. Heiji really looked like a snow man, now more than ever! And considering that his skin colour IS darker than usual, this was a harder task to fulfil but Heiji had succeeded. Now every brush over his face revealed more of his dark colour.

Heiji looked annoyed at the girl and the boys who were laughing madly and shook his head. Most of the soft snow came off but the look that made him look like a wet dog remained.

"Say, on whose side are you anyway?" he asked with annoyed voice the girl who laughed while brushing the tears away from her cheeks.

"Haha.. on yours of course… hahaha… but you look… haha.. so… so.. funny, hahahahaha!" she chocked a little but went on laughing. Now that was too much for Heiji.

Suddenly Kazuha, who was already on her knees for she could not stand anymore because of the lots of laughing she was doing, fell backwards on her behind as a huge snow ball hit her right on her head. She blinked while hearing Heiji laugh. Enraged, she stood up and started chasing after Heiji, meaning to kill him, screaming loud theats that were actually not supposed to be heard by childrens ears.

While watching the two run after each other, the two boys soon got bored and started building a snow man since their baby sitters obviously had better things to do.

"Gottcha!" Kazuha screamed as one of her snow balls thatb she had started forming had hit the back of Heijis head.

He was very quick in recovering this time for he turned and caught her in his arms in no time.

"So you think, huh?"

"Aaahhh, let me go!"

"No way, you have been a bad girl!"

"Heiji!" Kazuha squeaked as Heiji kept holding her hands together tightly while leaning her against a tree, trapping her between it and himself. "Dont!"

"Dont..what?" he asked slowly, leaning towards her so that his breath played across her red cheeks. Kazuha swallowed as she tried to remain in control of her senses.

"Heiji… dont… the kids…" she breathed out, leaving a longer break between the single words.

He had now his cheek against Kazuhas and still held her hands together behind her back. He leaned in and whispered into her ear.

"They are playing…" while his words trailed of, his lips did the same as they traveled to explore the soft skin of her gracious neck.

"Heiji!" she breathed but leaned her head to the other side to give him better access. She pulled gently to free her hands and he did not hold her back. Because instead of pulling herself free, she wound them around his neck and drew him closer to her. Heijis arms slided slowly around her waist as he held her close to himself as well. Somehow, since their confession, both couldnt seem to be able to stop themselves from touching the other. Nor did they want to, at least when they were alone.

She looked beautifully into his gentle eyes and traced his cheek softly with her fingers. He grinned down at Kazuha with all his affection shining in his eyes that he felt for her. She replied with a shy and tender smile of her own and as he slowly leaned his head closer closed her eyes. She could feel his warm breath playing across her face, around her nose and cheeks, and she even felt the warmth of his lips that were mere milimeters away from her own and that would touch hers any second. Any second now. Almost there…

"Kazuha- neechan? Where aaare youuu?"

"Heiji- niichan? Where are yooouuu?" two very disturbing voices interupted the moment.

Kazuha heard Heiji groan as he leaned his forehead against her shoulder. She grinned and stroked the back of his head quickly in compassion while turning her head to one side.

"We are here!" she screamed. Heiji gave a loud sigh and let reluctantely go of her, both already missing the warmth of the other.

"Oh, good you are both still alive. We though Kazuha- neechan killed you!"

The boys laughed and pointed at Heiji who lookes stupefied.

"She did not, but I may kill you two for being this nasty!" Heiji warmed and slowly walked to them with raised arms and loud growls, reminding on Gozilla or another monster of that kind.

"Aaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!" the kids screamed and ran away, Heiji once again following. Kazuha smiled warmly for the scene was too sweet.

He had always been the one who said that he could not handle children. But then he would be like best friends with the little Conan and get along with her babysit children so well and with so much devotion and fun that she felt warm inside and cant help but think about how lucky his own children will be one day.

Immediately she rethough her last thought and her cheeks colored even deeper, this time not because of the cold. Looking at the guys again she giggled as she saw that both the boys were clinging on his legs, forcing Heiji to carry them with every step he did. He was swaying dangerously, almost losing his balance as he tried to remain upright while waving around with his arms wildly.

"Hey you! Get off! You are heavy you monsters!" he tried to make them go away and walked a few more steps and the boys giggled louder. "Kazuha!" Heiji screamed for help, sounding desperate to his limits.

She laughed again, finding the scene too cute, wishing she had a camera right now for this image sure was worth a picture. Eventually she took mercy on him and walked over. She leaned down and started tickling Motoki who screamed loudly and let go of Heijis leg, laughing loudly and begging for mercy. Learning from the clever woman, Heiji did the same to Kenji until he was curling on the snow, also begging for mercy.

'This is fun!' our great detective thought.

Kazuha smiled as the boys slowly stopped screamed, breathing loudly to calm themselves. She sat down on a bench and soon the young boy followed her, climbing on her lap and sitting there in her embrace to warm himself.

Heiji watched the scene, his insides going warm immediately. He never had had any doubts that she would be a great mother some day, but seeing her here with he little boy on her lap and seeing her act like a real mother was something different. Something way more real. What lucky children she would have. He looked away, blushing slightly more, trying to crowd these thoughts out of his mind for now.

"Heiji- niichan, you are drooling!" Kenji told him while looking with tilted head up at Heiji. "Over Kazuha- neechan maybe?"

"Why you…!" Heiji went all red now and bend to take some more snow, throwing it at the laughing Kenji but missing. Seeing the little boy stumble and falling face first on the ground Heiji giggled and took mercy on him. He walked over to him and helped him stand up, brushing his clothes off.

"Thank you!" the boy beamed.

"Haha, it was nothing."

"Heiji- niichan, do you want to built a snowman with me? A really huge one?Pleaseeee!"

Looking at the big and begging eyes from the small boy, Heiji indeed had no chance of refusal.

"Sure! We will built the biggest snow man on earth!"

"Yipiiieeee!" The detective smiled at the boys enthusiasm and started telling him exactly what to do.

"Are you cold sweetheart?"

"No, not anymore!" Motoki told Kazuha with a grateful smile as he snuggled closer in her arms.

"Good." She said and smiled warmly down at the little boy. Looking over at Heiji, she was impressed that he could handle the little boy all by himself, and that so well!

"Kazuha- neechan, are you staring at Heiji- niichan?"

"What? No, no no I was only.."

The boy giggled and after a second, Kazuha grinned and ruffled his hair.

"Stop teasing me!" both chuckled and soon Kenji came to them.

"Come on, come on, Heiji- niichan promised to built with us the biggest snow man on earh! Come on, we need your help!"

'He did promise such a thing? Our great, manly detective did something like that?' Kazuha wondered when her friend had learned to treat children so nicely. She let the boys push her towards Heiji who was already starting to form the legs of the snow man. At her knowing gaze, he simply grinned and went back to work. Smiling, Kazuha and the boys started helping him.

Half an hour, lots of laughing and teasing later, they had the snow man finished and were admiring it.

"He is so gorgeous!" Kazuha said loudly.

"He is sooooo great!"

"The greatest snow man on earth! Heiji- niichan was right!"

"Yeeiii! Thank you!" the boys were now hugging Heijis midsection and he was looking surpried at Kazuha only to receive a warm smile from her. He slowly and still stiff hugged the two boys back the best could and found it was not so bad and difficult after all.

"We should get going, sweethearts. Its already late!" Kazuha interupted the mood after some time.

"But we did not even do snow angels."

"Snow angels?" Heiji asked the kids.

"You dont know what a snow angel is, Heiji- niichan?"

"Umm.. no?"

"I cant believe it!"

"Me neither!"

The kids looked at each other in shock, then back up at the stunned Heiji. Suddenly they pushed him rather hard and knocked him off his feet, making him fall on his behind in the snow.

"Hey, what!"

"We will show you!"

"Yeah, Kazuha- neechan, you too! Come come!"

They pulled at her coat and made her lay down next to Heiji. They shared a quick gaze and the children were already laying down to their sides, taking the adults in their middle.

"Now, all you have to do is move your legs and arms a little as to leave traces in the snow."

"Yes, its really easy! Look, like that!"

"You have to do it proper or it will look not good!"

The boys showed them exactly what to do and how to everything, actually teaching them like real teachers. Heiji and Kazuha complied and did as they were told. Soon after they started to get up as the boys did. Standing, they were looking down at their snow angels.

"Wow, not bad for your first try!" the boys gratulated.

"True, they look great!"

"They really do!" Kazuha grinned.

"Now, we can write our names underneath our snow angels."

They did exactly that and once again admired their work. Heiji noticed the boys were shivering slightly first.

"Are you cold?"

"O-only a little!" Motoki answered.

"Lets get you home, hm?" Kazuha suggested.

"Okaaay!" they screamed in unison.

Kenji surprised the great detective as he walked by his side and took his hand. Heiji looked stunned and confused down at the boy. Kazuha grinned inwardly as she took Motokis hand. After recovering, Heiji held the little hand of the small boy back. Together, they started walking back home.

"Heiji- niichan?" the little Kenji asked.

"What is it?"

"Could you take me on your back?"

'He wants me to piggy- back him?' Heiji thought, now more than surprised but the boy looked so cute up at him he could not refuse.

"Fine!" he murmured, trying to keep up his macho face but he could not fool anyone especially as he kneeled down. Cheering, the boy jumped on his back and held on his shoulders with his little arms. Heiji stood up again and held his hands tightly, astrounished at how small they were, the fact making him smile a little.

Kazuha observed everything with a loving smile and said nothing, her eyes telling everything her heart was thinking.

The rest of the walk was filled with a comfortable silence and almost at home, she spoke again.

"Did you like the little walk?"

"Yeeiiii!" Motoki answered.

"Can we do this again?" Kenji went on.

"Of course sweetheart. As long as the snow is still there."

"Can Heiji- niichan come with us then?" Motoki asked.

"Yeah, can he?"

She looked at the again surprised Heiji and smiled at him.

"Of course he can."

"Yippiiee!" the boys cheered happily and Kazuha cast him a 'see- I- told- you-' look.

"Do you want to come?" Kenji asked him from the spot on his back.

"Um.. sure!"

"Great!" the boy screamed.

"Great! Next time we can do a lot more snow angels and another snow man, an even huuuuuger one!"

"Yeah! With looots of snow and we have to take a carrot with us then, for the nose!" they started making plans and Kazuha and Heiji only grinned.

The people that passed by them looked with tender eyes at the small group. They were all convinced that the happy little family that was walking by them was one of the cutest things they had ever seen. Noticing some of the people were thinking they were their children, Kazuha and Heiji looked at each other with shocked gazes before looking away again with red cheeks.

Too soon, they arrived.

"Oh, hello! You are already here!"

"Yeii!" the children ran and hugged their mother.

"Did you have fun?"

"Yeah, sooo much!"

"Heiji- niichan is so cool! We built a huuge snow man!"

"And we did snow angels!"

They started telling their mother everythng that had happened, sounding still very exited.

"I am glad you enjoyed yourselves so much!"

"We did! Can we do that again, mommy?"

"Sure, if Kazuha wants to."

"No problem!"

The children started screaming in delight and were running up and down the house again. They giggled at the sight and soon Heiji and Kazuha left. After some time of walking in silence, Kazuha grinned stupidly.

"What?" Heiji asked confused with one raised eyebrow as he looked at her.

"Now, that wasnt that bad, was it?" She looked at him with a sweet smile. By now, they were walking back over the same place they had played at before, needing to go through here to reach the side of the town they were living in.

Heiji looked over at the white trees, obviously thinking about an answer.

"No, it was not."

"See, I told you!"

"You did!" it suprised her that he let it just stand like this and did not fight her. It was not often he admitted she had been right. And as he took her hand in his she was certain this must be an alien who took the place of Heiji.

"They are good kids."

"Yes, and so cute!" she giggled and he nodded.

"They have maybe a little bad timing but they are really sweet. It was fun and I am glad you took me with you!" he told her in a low voice.

"Hihi!" she smiled at him and suddenly looked confused at Heiji. "What do you mean with bad timing?"

"Ill show you!" he looked at her wolf like and she smiled brightly before screaming out.

"Oh no, heeelp me!" she ran away from him and hid behind a tree. He followed and caught her but she could free herself and ran away again.

"There is no need hiding. I will find you and then I will eat you, muahahaha!" he roared dangerously, making Kazuha rather grin than shiver in fear.

"Oh no, the dangerous wolf is on my heels. Heeelp!" she screamed and turned to her left to look around the tree where he was but she could not find him. Turning back in wonder she squieked in surprise as she faced the dark tanned boy.

"Gottcha!" he grinned in an arrogant way and pinned her body against the tree, tapping her once again.

"Yeah!" she breathed while staring deep into his eyes. "Do I have to be afraid now?"

"Who knows?" he breathed back, coming closer and closer.

She gave him a loving smile to which he responded and then bend down to kiss her. Kazuha felt him sigh against her lips and she could understand him so well. Finally she could be with him the way her body had jarned to for the whole day. Indeed, his lips felt so good she moaned a little and tugged her hands free, wounding them around his neck and pulling him closer.

For the second time this day, she felt him tighten his grip around her waist as he pulled her body against his. The kiss deepened and one of his hands wandered up to brush her hair away from her face with tender fingers. As they pulled apart she smiled brightly up at him. He grinned down at her and lay his forehead softly against hers. Both sighed out.

"I feel better now."

"Me too!" she replied honestly.

"I love you." Heiji whispered in her ear. Blushing at his tender words, she smiled and turned her head slightly to kiss his cheek with all her affection, before whispering in return.

"I love you, too." He smiled with closed eyes and rubbed his cheek against hers.

"Youd be a great mother one day." He whispered into her ear. Kazuha blushed a deep red.

"W- what?"

"You were so cute, how you treated those kids. They really adore you."

"They adore you, too!"

His cheeks went slightly darker. The really male Heiji was not used to being called kid- friendly.

"Cant be.."

"Of coure they do! It was so sweet how you chased Kenji. I bet youll make a great daddy yourself."

He blushed now deeply.

"Youre making fun of me!"

"Noo I am not! Its the truth!" Kazuha retorted.

"Truth?" Heiji asked surprised, this word ringing some bells.

"Yes, truth. And what is your friend Kudo always telling you? There is only one truth!"

Heiji looked with big eyes at his girlfriend, then smiled warmly at her, one hand fingering nervously the small, velvet box in his pocket. Then he grinned the tiniest bit.

'Thats right, my love. There is only one truth. And the truth is, that I am already scared like hell about your present that I am going to give you tomorrow. Will you like it? And most important, will you say 'yes'? I can not wait to find out. Can not wait to find out, if we indeed are going to spent the rest of our lives together and maybe even find out if we are meant to raise children with our love. Together, everything is possible.'

"Come, lets get home before you catch a cold, sweetheart." He told her softly, brushing his cheek against hers.

"Okay." She whispered and he made an attempt to move away as he suddenly found her lips against his. Smiling inwardly, he leaned in again and gave her another passionate kiss which robbed them both of their breath. Pulling away, he grinned at her tenderly and she smiled up at him with huge eyes that made his heart sing.

Without another word, he took her hand in his and together they started walking home.


What do you say? If you liked it, theKaito/Aoko one will follow very soon!