Chapter 4. Red Hot Summer

I had spent a lot of summer with that girl with a ponytail before, more than ten years, but this was sure the most unforgotten one. That was the first summer in High School, and we went to the beach together…

The captain of the boys' Kendo club and the captain of the girls' Aikido club in Kaihou High School started going out that summer, so both clubs had lots of after school activities together. They had decided to go swimming in the summer to strengthen fitness. So the member of both clubs ended up in the beach, and of course Heiji and Kazuha were there also.

Heiji was lying lazily under the sun; he actually did not like the idea coming to the beach too much. His skin was dark enough already that he did not need to tan his skin anymore.

"Yo, Hattori," said Tatsuya, one of his kendo teammates, "have you looked at the girls over there; they're the most beautiful things in the summer!"

"Aho, who would like to watch them? Don't look at them too much, bad for your health!"

"Then tell me what Toyama-san would wear today? One-piece? Tankini? Or bikini?"

"How could I know? And I'm not interested in the swimming suit that little girl would wear!"

"Little girl? You mean Toyama-san? I don't think so," said Tatsuya, "I think that she would grow to be a lovely lady, if you don't mind, could I date her?"

"Don't you ever try to date her, she's a very violent girl," said Heiji immediately, he did not know the reason why he was a bit angry, he just did not feel like Kazuha going out with other guys. "I need to warn you that she's not as good as she looks."

"What're you guys talking?" Kazuha's voice entered Heiji's ears suddenly, and Heiji stopped at once talking with Tatsuya.

"Kazuha, what take you so long? It seems take you forever…" Heiji could not continue after he looked at Kazuha --- she was wearing a red bikini, a really hot one. Only two strings were tied at each side of her bottom, and another string around her neck. He stared at her hardly, and then he covered his nose as he could feel like something coming out from his nose.

"What do you think, Heiji? It's the first time I wear bikini," asked Kazuha, her face was blushing slightly.

Heiji could not speak for a few seconds, all he could manage to mumble a few words, "eh, lo….lo"

"I can't hear you. What? Love?" Kazuha looked puzzled, and she leaned towards Heiji to hear again.

"Lobster! You just look like a giant red lobster swimming in the sea! It doesn't fit you at all. Don't wear it again!"

"AHO! Heiji!" Kazuha stormed away immediately.

"I go swimming too!" Heiji left to the water, leaving a really puzzled Tatsuya at the beach.

"I need to calm down, stop thinking about Kazuha," said Heiji to himself, his hand was still covering his nose, "I don't want to lose even one drop of blood for such a silly girl. Okay, let me find some other things to concentrate, I'm the great detective of the west, it's easy for me to find something interesting to do on the beach." Heiji looked around the beach, and his eyes stopped at the people swimming in the sea, "it would be funny to guess other people's swimming suit, and there're so many people out there."

So Heiji had himself slept comfortably on the floating chair, and decided to start his "swimming-suit-guessing-game". He saw a fat guy with short hair nearby, 'oh, this is easy, he must be wearing black swimming shorts." The fat guy then headed back to the shore, and he did wear a black swimming shorts. "Bingo!" Heiji then looked at a young man, with his hair dyed blond, with a surfing board under his arm, "he must be wearing a Hawaiian-patterned board shorts!"

"Bingo!" Heiji then continued to guess correctly several other guys too, and he soon become bored and decided to guess girls' swimming suit instead.

"Tankini with blue and white strips!" "Bingo!"

"A pink halter-neck swimming suit!" "Bingo!"

"A yellow bikini with floral patterns!" "Bingo!"

Heiji were totally absorbed in his newly invented guessing game, and did not notice a pair of eyes was staring at him coldly. It was Kazuha staring at him, she was mad at his comment on her bikini at first, but then she just thought that he was just too stupid to appreciate her effort on wearing it. So she tried to forget about that "aho" and started to enjoy swimming instead. Then she saw Heiji lying on the floating chair comfortably, looking at the girls around him.

"That pervert!" Kazuha decided to take a little revenge on him. She dived into the water, and carefully swam near his floating chair. Heiji was trying to make his 20-th guess today, and did not pay much attention to the dangerous shadow that was swimming near-by.

Kazuha gave a hard push to the floating chair, and Heiji fell into the water immediately. After a while, Heiji managed to swim to the surface, and he searched around for the suspect that made him fallen from the chair. And he spotted the girl with pony-tail, staring him as cold as ice.

"Kazuha, do you know what're you doing? If someone who can't swim had this experience, he would get drowned definitely."

"If he's a pervert, I wouldn't mind to be the one who drowned him!"

"Pervert? Who're you talking about?"

"I can't see anyone beside you here," said Kazuha coldly. "The only person that was eagerly looking at the girls around, and smiling like an idiot!" Kazuha was about to leave Heiji, but he grabbed her arm in time.

"I'm not looking them like other perverts, I'm just playing a game with myself," explained Heiji. Kazuha wanted to escape from his clutch and Heiji did not let go. They were closer now, and Heiji suddenly noticed Kazuha's red bikini, and the waves just magnified the effect on him. He covered his nose but he still could not stop the bleeding.

"Heiji, are you okay?" Heiji was so depressed after he finally lost his battle with Kazuha's red hot bikini.

To be continued……

I always want to write a story on how Heiji start to have a habit on guessing swimming suit and I always think that it's somehow related to Kazuha, hope you like this chapter! Please Read & Review! Tell me think what you think! Just read the latest file on Detective Conan, and Heiji/Kazuha finally appeared after almost a year! Although there is not much romance between them, there're still some lovely moments, you can check it at my homepage. I've made a forum for Heiji and Kazuha only; I've added some new topics too. Please feel free to drop by a few words. I'll try to update soon!

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