Kazuha sat beside the bed Heiji had stumbled to , spun around and then finally passed out onto after she had with the help of Sonoko dragged him into their hotel room. Sonoko said she was going to go check on Ran and how she was doing with the other drunk baka leaving herself alone staring at the Osaka teenager sprawled out on her bed as she stared down at him with her eyes half lidded completely annoyed with the fact that one he is drunk two he stole her bed three she must now have to watch over him. Okay maybe she didn't have to watch over him but heck what else could she do, she just couldn't leave him unwatched in this state could she? Kazuha let out a small sigh and stood up from the corner of the bed she sat on and carefully lifted up a blanket from underneath the sleeping Heiji, care fully pulled it up and over him smoothing out the wrinkles smiling to herself as she stared at his snoozing face, he looked so peaceful so quiet for once ,a little adorable so...she hadn't noticed that she was inches from his face when the sleeping detective began to squint his eyes and slowly started to move that made the her immediately jerk her face back afraid she had woken him
" K..Kazuha?..." By now Kazuha's face must've been the color of flaming hot red when she cleared her throat to answer back
" Y..Your awake?.."
"Kazuha..I..."
" You should be ashamed of yourself! Going out with Kudou-kun and getting drunk like that! I can't believe you, what were you thinking! What would your Ot--
" Could you ...like shut up..for one moment because first off...my head really...really hurts and I don't need your annoying high pitched voice lecturing me right now"
Kazuha slowly closed her mouth from being cut off when she had just got started on a roll and narrowed her eyes as Heiji let out a groan rubbing his temples
" ...does your head hurt?..."
" you can't see that?..."
Kazuha let a sigh escape her lips before taking a seat on the bed surprisingly out of the blue lifting his head and laid it softly on her lap as she ran her fingers through his hair
" K..Kazuha!"
" Just relax...Heiji..."
Kazuha softly pressed her lips near his ear sending chills up and down the by now very red Osaka detective as he cleared his throat loudly as she began to speak in his ear
" Well, Heiji how do you feel now because...THIS IS WHAT YOU GET FOR GETTING DRUNK YOU BIG AHOU!"
Heiji eyes snapped wide open when Kazuha had shouted resulting in a loud ringing in his ears that made the poor Detective grab his head and yelp out in pain
" YOU AHOU! YOU MADE IT WORSE!"
Kazuha sent the Detective that rocked his head back and forth in his bed a sweet smile as she got into the other bed cheerfully calling out
" Good night see you in the morning! Bright and early too! I'm sure you will be just peachy then!"
---------------------------------------------------
"Oh geez...my head...it feels like I was hit in the head with a sledge hammer..."
Shinichi barely began to open his eyes only able to make out 2 blurry figures that stood over him, his head throbbing with pain as he found himself laid on the hotel couch, his head propped up with 2 pillows and a wet rag across his forehead
" Ne, Sonoko-chan! I think he is beginning to wake up, could you bring me another wet washcloth?"
" Okay, I'll be right back"
Shinichi forced himself despite the pain to open his eyes a little more to make out the now just one blurry figure that stood over him looking down upon him
" Shinichi? Can you hear me?.."
Shinichi began to make out the figure now of a young woman with long chocolate brown hair that she pushed behind her ear as she leaned over him looking at him with a worried gaze through those dark bluish purple eyes
" ...Ran..."
Ran smiled softly as she removed the wet rag and turned it over and placed it carefully again against Shinichi's forehead brushing his long dark brown bangs out of the way
" I see you are beginning to wake up ne?"
" I bet you think I am really stupid for doing that huh?"
Ran burrowed her eyebrows together as the smile vanished as she let out a groan making Shinichi mentally let out a laugh
" Mou...but you really are a huge baka for getting drunk like that Kudou Shinichi!"
" I knew it..."
" I wasn't expecting that to tell you the truth, I really thought you had enough brains to know better, I was probably just fooled by your inflated head..."
Shinichi mentally glared at the girl that sat hovered over him
" OI OI!.."
"but I really wanted to talk to you about something...but you had to go get yourself into a mess like this.."
" ..eh?..."
Ran tried her best not to let the disappointment really show much as much as it did really hurt her when she had finally and was really ready to speak her feelings but was this something new? Not at all.
" Irony isn't it? You leave me for a year alone, a phone call every once in a while then suddenly come back and just act like nothing was really a big deal and take me on this trip, no explanation no nothing but it's okay..."
Ran looked sadly into Shinichi's eyes that stared at her in utter shock from the forced upon smile she placed on her face
" ..it's okay because your back right?..."
The young detective now officially felt like a piece of crap, Shinichi had the feeling he was going to explode into thousand pieces of broken glass, he didn't really have a clue he was actually stupid enough to completely had looked over this. He mentally cursed himself ,screamed to himself ' You baka! How on earth did you forget her!'. Aw Kami...the guilt had whip lashed full throttle onto his heart, his face falling as he stared up at his childhood friend, who's heart he had stepped all over and didn't even give a moment's chance to acknowledge the feelings she held out in her hands to him.
Ran shook her head hopelessly once again mentally kicking herself for being so stupid for have feeling like this, she should've known better, why does it have to hurt this bad? Ran looked towards the door softly cursing under her breathe as she placed her hand on her eyes squeezing them shut chanting to her self ' don't cry, don't cry, please don't cry, you can't cry, stupid..now your crying...'. Silver streams of hot water ran across her cheeks when she stood up still having her head turned away from the detective that laid on the couch
" I..I'm going to go check what has been taking Sonoko-chan so long."
" no..."
Surprised, Ran felt a strong grasp entwine around her wrist pulling her back from walking off
" you have to listen to me first..."
Ran let out a teary sniff as she turned her head facing the detective that felt even worse when he saw the silver tears that brimmed her eyes
" Ran..."
" Shinichi I--"
" Just hear me..."
The young detective slowly lifted himself off the couch and carefully stood himself up not letting go of Ran's wrist, as he let out a sigh closing his eyes, and slowly opening them revealing his piercing sharp blue eyes that stared at her with sorrow
" I'm sorry...I'm so sorry, I treated you like that. I didn't even stop and talk to you, ask you how you were, what was happening in your life, how you feel...I didn't act like the best friend I am suppose to be... I ..yeah, my head was inflated once again and by now I should've known better to not let that happen."
Ran didn't say a word, just continued to listen to him, just stared up at him with the tears that brimmed her eyes
" You should know, I care for you..I really, really do care for you..." Shinichi took a deep breathe as he squinted his eyes shut trying to grasp onto the courage he had been building for way to long to find the exact words to say to her..whenever that time came and by god it was now or never, and opened his eyes again staring straight into her "...I really do love you..."
Ran continued to stay quiet not speaking, no words, no uttered sound, she couldn't help it, to shocked for it. She only rose her eyebrows even more, her mouth opening to say something, just couldn't force them out
Shinichi felt even worse than ever as red warmed his cheeks afraid that her response her thought would be something different, he felt like a complete and utter fool at this point
" Listen I--"
Shinichi was quickly stopped when he felt two hands wrap around his head leaning his face closer to the girl that smiled at him softly with half lidded eyes whispering out
"--just what I wanted to hear..."
and kissed him, Shinichi blinked in surprise before quickly responding to her action and closed his eyes, wrapping his hands that was frozen against his sides, around her waist pulling her closer to him never imaging he was finally able to do what he dreamed for so long feeling his head lighten as his whole body as well as hers swell in emotion and--
" I'M BACK RAN-CHAN!"
holy hell...
Ran had quickly jerked back pushing the confused Shinichi into the couch, as she inhaled a deep breathe trying to cool herself so Sonoko wouldn't notice the quite flushed look that dawned upon her face
" Sonoko-chan! Your back!"
" for the love of..."
Sonoko prodded herself through the door she had shouted out in to get Ran, and quietly tip toed up to Ran her teeth clenched against each other as she burrowed her eyebrows together as she spoke in a hushed tone
"I'm sorry, is Kudou-kun awake?..."
Ran rose her eyebrows and smiled at Shinichi that had his whole body turned away from them on the couch pretending he was still asleep
" Nope, still passed out."
Sonoko let out a sigh in relief as she handed Ran the small wet rag she had went to get
" Good, then I didn't disturb him..."
Shinichi mentally scowled
" No..but you disturbed something else.."
" Sorry it took so long, I went to our room to get some towels but had some trouble with Hattori when he began ranting at me when I turned on the lights that I was trying to kill him or something just like the other evil witch and I am replacing witch with a w so I don't say anything bad then Kazuha had gotten in it and..yeah..."
Ran had to refrain herself from giggling aloud not because of what Sonoko had just said but because of the other thing, Sonoko raised an eyebrow at Ran that stared into space with a giddy smile that had formed on her lips.
" Ran-chan. Did you just hear a word I said? "
" Y..yeah"
Sonoko narrowed her eyes at Ran that sheepishly smiled at her
" You look like you've been kissed or something..."
Shinichi that laid on the couch felt his cheeks warm as he scowled even more
"...baka..."
" N..No! C'mon, we better get some sleep while we still can ,we have a long day tomorrow!"
" Whatever...I'm just not sleeping with the Osaka twins, I would like my head still intact tomorrow thank you very much, I'm stealing Kudou's bed."
"...not cool..."
day two of the road trip to be continued...
Squeal! Finally got that out of the blue! Okay this chapter was fluff, next chapter shall be filled with craziness ( cackles evilly) I hope you enjoyed and don't forget to review! Remember...anything can happen in a Road Trip...
-DetectiveGirl2005