Disclaimer: Don't remind me, I don't own Detective Conan. How depressing it is to write this for every chapter.

Note: Italics, asides from the 'quoted' ones are thoughts. Underlines are English.

Chapter 4

Heiji rummaged through his duffel bag to find his bottle of water when a flash on his cell phone caught his attention. He picked it up, wondering if something was wrong with it when he noticed the message on the screen. What the…? 13 missed calls…?

"Captain, five minutes is up. Do you want us to resume practice?"

Heiji continued to scroll through his phone for the caller. "Huh… Oh… Yeah, resume practice," he replied while he stared at his phone trying to get it to work.

So while the vice-captain resumed practice for him, and the rest of the kendo team was hard at practice, Heiji was still fiddling around with his cell, and was on the verge of breaking his phone by throwing it on the floor and stomping on it for good measure. Where is the…? Call log? Maybe that's it… There it is… Missed calls… Let's see… Kudo…? This thing 'really' must be broken…

That's when his phone rang again…

Heiji raised his brow. It's from 'Kudo'…? He smirked. "Kudo…? What 'is' it?" He asked, pretending to be agitated.

Shinichi laughed sheepishly, "Uh… I need to ask you a favor… Actually, for a character letter…"

"A character letter…? As in the one you write about what kind of person someone is?"

Shinichi sweatdropped. What other character letter is there? "Uh… yeah…"

"Couldn't you get one from somebody there? They can't all think you're an arrogant bastard." Heiji replied laughing.

Shinichi glared, he knew Heiji wouldn't be able to tell the difference over the phone, but he did so anyways before replying. "I need twenty, and I want it to be as credible as possible. So could you get one from Kazuha too?"

"Yeah, I'll ask her. But twenty…? Is someone trying to punish you or something?"

"Ask my new roommate." Shinichi grimaced, Although that's probably the idea.

Heiji laughed. "You don't have any luck with those do you?"

"Tell me about it," Shinichi laughed grimly. You don't have to tell 'me' that.

"What happened?" Heiji asked, his curiosity getting the better of him.

"Kuroba pulled a prank on the wrong person, that's what happened."

"And you got pulled into this because…?"

"He was nice enough to frame me for it. Long story short, he changed everything in my room that I had to do with mystery with everything perverted and my roommate walked in to see it."

"Must've been pretty damned convincing if your roommate took it that way after he saw it." Heiji replied while wondering how Kaito got a hold of so much porn-related items, before shrugging it off. This was Kaito they were talking about, who knows?

"Let's just say that if I were unfortunate enough for Ran to happen to see my room how he saw it, I would've gotten my ass kicked by now."

"That bad, eh…?"

"Just about… It didn't help that my roommate doesn't have a sense of humor either."

"Can't be helped with your luck," Heiji replied laughing.

"Not funny. I'm going to 'kill' Kaito after he writes my character letter."

"You'd be laughing if he pulled something like that on me. Anyways… when do you need it by?" He asked, still laughing between words.

Shinichi would've retorted, but he reasoned that he's probably right, and left it as that. "Tomorrow morning, e-mail it over tonight."

"Jeez, you just had to procrastinate didn't you?" Heiji asked while he watched everybody pack up their kendo gear. Oops, didn't mean to be on the phone this long.

"We came to this agreement about an hour ago." Shinichi defended.

"And you accepted it? Are you out of your mind?" Heiji retorted incredulously.

Shinichi sighed. "I didn't have a choice, but I'll get it all somehow…"

"Well, good luck and tell me how it goes… You know, with your roommate and all."

"In a hurry?" Shinichi asked, catching the haste in his voice.

Heiji laughed sheepishly. "Well, kendo practice ended while we were on the phone so…"

"Aren't you glad you're the captain?" Shinichi asked, laughing.

"Whose fault do you think this is?" Heiji asked mockingly.

"Mines completely, so I'll let you go. Just don't forget to send the letters."

"I won't." Heiji said as he hung up. Now to go find Kazuha, and hope no one told her I was slacking.

On the other side of the line…

Shinichi hung up the phone, looked at his teacher's letters and sighed. Better call Ran. He thought, but before he could dial her number, he heard someone calling his name.

"Kudo!"

Shinichi watched as Kaito ran up to him with some papers in his hand. "Got the letters from Hakuba, Aoko, Akako… Oh, and they apologized on my behalf. And here's one from me – although he 'might' not want that one."

Shinichi shrugged. "That's unfortunate for him. You 'are' one of my best friends, after all. When you pull stunts like this, however, you really make me want to see if I can kick you out of orbit. It's kind of unfortunate that I can't." Shinichi said with a glare.

Kaito laughed guiltily, "You don't 'really' mean that."

You have no idea, Shinichi thought, but he just left it at that and flipped through his teacher's letter while heading back to his room. "You know, these things don't sound like compliments."

Kaito looks at Shinichi with a smirk, "Oh yeah? What does it sound like then?"

"It sounds like they're trying to tell me that I'm an egotistical jerk and that I should stop disrupting class… That's what."

Kaito laughed, "Well, what did you expect? We step in and correct the teachers. Of course they think we're arrogant brats."

"It's not like I'm trying to embarrass them, you're the only one that does 'that.' I point out problems and try to stop them from making fools out of themselves."

"That's what they see as arrogant." Kaito reasoned.

"If that's arrogance, Miyano is conceited as hell."

"What'd he do?"

"He talked back to the teacher… Not that that guy noticed what he was saying, but Miyano has talent for 'sounding' condescending." Shinichi replied, smiling as he thought back at the look on the teacher's face.

Kaito laughed, "That he does. Let's just hope that the teachers don't move him like they did to me and Hakuba. They don't seem to like having more than one of us per class."

At the Miyano residence…

Shiina, or currently Shiho, sneezed twice. "Somebody must be talking bad about you." Akemi mentioned with a smirk.

"Are you sure it wasn't you?" Shiho asked suspiciously. She just got back, and Akemi was not the kindest person in the world over her return – Akemi has to be the only one with such a scary second nature, Shiho thought to herself.

I wonder if Kudo really plans on getting those letters by tomorrow. Shiho thought as a smirk formed on her lips. We'll just have to wait and see.

T.B.C

Like I mention in the chapter before, I kind of knew I couldn't write a long chapter without making it incoherent so I divided it up into two separate chapters. And I know this is the worst part of the story, but it'll get back on track in the next chapter. Thanks for bearing with the randomness of character letters. I couldn't think of a better way to have Shinichi and Shiho reconcile, and I thought it'd be funny to see what everybody wrote about Shinichi, coming up in the next chapter.

Now for replies to the reviews…

joeshen – Honestly, Kaito and his pranks… don't you just love it? How could we 'not' have him causing trouble, ne. And I'm glad that you think that the characters are in character, but I'm not so sure about this one. Shinichi 'was' pretty upset, but I just figured almost anyone would be.

Ran Cossack – I'm glad you clicked into this story too, and you like it! I'm even more flattered. Thanks.

ninay – Don't worry, I don't plan on stop writing anytime soon.

Fanfic maniac – I'm glad that you could finally review, and I'm trying to make the chapters longer… Does this double chapter count?

wayupi – I will definitely put Hakuba and Heiji in, how could you 'not' have them in here? I know Heiji already made his appearance, and he will come back later on during the fic. Hopefully I can find a reason to bring Hakuba out instead of just mentioning him. Oh, and I got a chance to read a little bit of Hana Kimi. It was pretty good, although I thought it was too bad that so many people figured out her identity so quickly. As for the name, I did the same thing as Akemi. Shi…Shi… Shiina!

First Silvera – I know, I get a lot of comments telling me about how short all the chapters are. I'm just not good at making things make sense after a while, so I break it up into chapters. I'm glad a lot of people think that this storyline is original and intresting. Oh, and I hope you understood why Shiho called him pervert after reading these chapters.

Elysia Angel – You know when I read the first few sentences of your review, my reaction was WTH! Jess did the same thing when I had her read it for that reason; you have a knack for scaring people like that. And yes I typed like crazy for this one more than the other ones because I needed to have it done before I left for Japan. Funny thing, I rushed on this one the most and it took the longest to write.

Once again, thanks for reviewing everyone!