Tomorrow
Disclaimer: I don't own Detective Conan because I'm not Gosho Aoyoma. Damned cloning machines wouldn't let me make a copy of him to use as my puppet.
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Chapter 3
A lonely man occupied the room. No sound was heard in this forlorn place. The man gestured to a being unknown and left it at that.
"Go."
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'That's the last time that I'm taking her to the movies. She's never grateful, the little…' Dark thoughts were in the Osakan detective's mind. He, along with Kazuha, was going home after the 'date,' as many of their friends called it.
'Hmm… Heiji seems sorta mad… Must be because he feels guilty about been so late!' She was deep in thought, going through the movie in her mind. In retrospect, it wasn't very interesting. Just the stereotypical film, full of boring plots and cheesy lines. Both she and Heiji were nearly sleeping at the end. Still, it was good to spend some time with him, especially with Heiji's calls becoming more frequent recently.
"So how'd you like the movie?"
She heard him, but didn't answer. She was determined to ignore him until he made an apology…
"Hello? Hey, Kazuha, do you still have a brain? Or did you lose what you already have?"
"Oh, shut up!" Without missing a beat, Kazuha absentmindedly answered, almost as a habit. Her peripheral hearing picked up his speaking as an insult on its own, and a signal sending the message 'Heiji's insulting me' was sent through the nerves in the cerebral cortex and into the region that governs involuntary action.
'…' So he was pissed. That wasn't unusual. He had a lot of things that were on his mind, like Kudo's situation, the Organization, that antidote of Haibara's… And on top of it was trying to get Kazuha to talk to him.
"So, Kazuha, d'you wanna go and grab a bite to eat?"
She walked ahead without answering, even though it was tempting to say yes. She was hungry, after all.
'Dammit She's still ignoring me!'
"Kazuha-" A cell phone ringed. It was his. Annoyed at being intercepted just as he was about to rant at Kazuha, he answered. "Who is this?" he snapped.
"…Hattori, this is me." The voice sounded tired and stressed, such as when one hadn't slept.
"Kudo!"
"Yes, Hattori, it's me. Who'd you think it was, the tooth fairy!" In the background was a 'Shinichi! Stop being rude!'
"Uh, Kudo? Why is neechan there? And why is she calling you Shinichi! How did you mess up this time!" he hissed into the phone, not wanting any prying ears to listen, especially the ears of the person walking beside him.
"It's a long story… Look, do you have some time right now? I can tell you. I'm pretty sure that it's safe right now…"
"Kudo! You forgot your phone could be tapped!"
"Oops…"
"Look, I'll talk to you later. Meet me…at that professor's house in two days. I'm going to be there for something. See ya! And keep safe you idiot!" With that parting shot, he ended the call, despite protests of "Hey, wait! Stop!" coming from the voice on the other end. 'And they say I'm the impulsive one…' He grumbled a bit, and then noticed that Kazuha was looking at him. When she noticed that he was looking, she quickly turned away.
"If you don't know, Heiji Hattori, I'm ignoring you. So you can forget talking to me."
Indeed giving up on talking to her, nevertheless, he pulled her toward the nearest restaurant. They didn't call him a stubborn dumbass for nothing. Besides, he was starving…
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"Hello, Gin. I would think that you succeeded?"
"Yes." The one word rang, and then the room went silent.
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She was exhausted. For the whole day, they had done nothing but talk, and occasionally reminisce what life was like before Conan. They had sat at the table for all that time, except if you count the times they went to get drinks of water. Now, as Conan finished the story, right up to yesterday, she suddenly realized that her eyes wouldn't stay open. Try as she might, her eyelids inevitably drifted together.
"Hey, Ran, do you want to go to bed?"
"Yeah, thanks…"
With his help, she painfully made her way toward the guestroom. However, Conan steered her to his, Shinichi's, room. As she started to lie on the bed, she pulled him to herself. "Shinichi, can you keep me company?"
"Uh…"
"Come on! I need company! Please?" She gave him the puppy eyes. "For me?"
'Never!'
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'How did she do this?' He was lying in bed next to her. Against all his will, she still managed somehow to convince him to lie down with her. 'This is getting insane…'
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And I'll leave it at that!
Chinese-freak 05.23.2005