Tomorrow
Disclaimer: Er… I'm not Gosho Aoyoma. Got that? Good.
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Chapter 2
"Oh, Heiji, I am going to kill you!" She had stood at the movie theater for the last half hour, waiting for a certain Osakan detective to show up. Unfortunately, he seemed to have forgotten. Again. Something has got to have been wrong with that boy's memory. 'Just you wait, Heiji Hattori, just you wait.'
Just then, a distant and familiar roar of a motorcycle announced the much waited for and about to be hurt Heiji. 'Damn it, I'm late again! Maybe I should work on my skills a bit more… Just wait 'til Kudo hears about this. He'll laugh his head off…' The unfortunate detective slammed to a stop five feet away from his fuming friend. "Hey, Kazuha! Hope you don't mind that I was late; I had another case, and it took a while." He didn't seem to notice that his fellow teen was unusually red…
"Heiji Hattori! I- I- What's the case that's so hard that it'll take you so long to just solve it! Just how idiotic can you be to take that long!"
"Wha? I- You- Aho! I'd like to see you try and solve it! For your information, it only took me thirty minutes to solve it! I had to rush here! That place was twenty-five miles away! If you can't do the math in your tiny head, it took me forty minutes on this thing to get here! And all you can say is that I'm an idiot!"
"Well, you're the one to say that another person has a tiny head! You don't even have one!"
"Aho!"
"No, you're the aho!"
"No, you!"
"You!"
"You!"
…and so it went, yelling at each other, the two 'friends' were completely oblivious to the general public staring at their fight. And they certainly didn't notice a shadow under a nearby tree, observing them, dressed in a trench coat. A black trench coat, to be exact. His (or was it she?) eyes betrayed no emotion in them. A cigarette went out. The figure walked away. "Subject spotted. Will continue surveillance. Possible removal." The figure got into a car and drove away. It was a black car.
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'No… This can't be true, it isn't!' To put it mildly, she was in shock. Threats, she could deal with. Murder, she could deal with. But this? This was near genocide! To have everyone- everyone killed! Even those that are your enemies, if they know you, then it will be a death sentence… And to the person caught in the middle… To face the possibility of having every person that they know, that they care for, to watch them die if they knew the truth! Unthinkable! And yet… 'This is what he had to deal with, ever since that night…'
He watched her with a faint trace of humor on his lips. It didn't reach his eyes. 'Well, at least she knows why I didn't tell her… I hope.' He saw the stun in her eyes, of the disbelief that was threatening to boil over. He understood the feeling. It was one that he had to deal with constantly since that night when he met that God dammed pill. "Ran, I know that it's a lot to take in, but…" 'How can I tell her to deal with it if I can't even fully face that fact? It's madness!' "But you get used to it after a while…"
"Is this what you had to go through?" Her whisper echoed through the empty residence.
"…Yeah… I… I didn't tell you because of this, like I said all along. It's just that… Well, if you were in danger…" The words were left hanging. He didn't want to finish the words.
She understood now, why it was. Why he didn't tell her. And she forgive him. She already had, but now… With this new information, she also understood him; at least, she understood a little more about him. And that was enough for now.
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Meanwhile, across town, in an alley, two people met in a rendezvous. Both were wearing black coats. No one was in sight except for those two. They exchanged packages, and then went on their ways.
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"Heiji! Let's go!" The young teen dragged her friend out of the movie theater, despite all protests of the man trying to go back and 'investigate' the candy aisle.
"Ow! Kazuha! Let go of my ear!"
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Please don't sue. I've been busy for the last…six months…
Chinese-freak 05.16.2005