AN: Happy New Years, everyone! Let's all agree to pretend that this obvious new years related one shot wasn't written nine days into it! Well, then, with that, thanks for reading as always, and until next time!
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Good Luck, Bad Luck, Worst Luck
Characters: Ran Mouri, Kazuha Toyama, Sonoko Suzuki
Summary: Luck is a fickle thing.
"Wow, Ran-chan! I've never actually seen anyone draw Great Luck before!" With bright eyes, Kazuha couldn't help but praise her friend. "And the fortunes here are supposed to be super accurate as well!"
"Well, for our Ran, something like that is rather expected." With a shrug of her shoulders and a teasing grin, Sonoko couldn't help but keep her amusement off of her face. No matter how lucky she got, Ran always stayed somewhat modest about that sort of thing- that was part of what she liked about her, really.
"Geez, when you put it like that, Sonoko, it's kind of embarrassing." With a slight puff of her cheeks, Ran turned to face her good friend, before sparing a glance over towards Kazuha. "But your fortune wasn't bad either, Kazuha-chan. It might not be great luck, but good luck isn't anything to sneeze at either."
"Well, that might be so, but..." Trailing off a little, Kazuha glanced down at the small paper fortune in her hand, letting out a long sigh. "I'd feel happier about it if my luck in romance wasn't the only thing that was bad about it."
"Well, I only got small luck myself, though." Sonoko observed, glancing at her paper fortune. "And the romance part of it seems rather vague, speaking of which." Letting out a long sigh, she planted her hands on her hips, shaking her head. "Honestly, to think that Makoto-san has a wonderful girl like me waiting here for him, and he only comes home once in a blue moon. Well, although given my current company," she said, sparing a glance over towards Ran. "...I suppose I really shouldn't complain that much. At the very least I know what Makoto-san is doing."
"It says my luck in romance is good this year!" Ran insisted, even as her cheeks tinted a bit red as she spoke. The slightly leering grins her words earned her from her two friends really didn't help matters much. "So everything should be fine! It's only just a matter of actually seeing Shinichi again, really. The next time I see him, I'm definitely not letting him go."
"So you say, but considering Kudo-kun's own luck..." Sonoko said, heaving another sigh. "Maybe you should share some of your good fortune with him, as his wife~."
"Like I said, I'm not his wife!" Ran protested, crossing her arms in front of her chest. "Honestly, Sonoko, isn't it about time you gave that line up?"
"Does Kudo-kun usually have bad luck?" Kazuha asked, frowning a little. "I don't really know him as well as either of ya, so..."
"Ah, now that you mention it..." Trailing off a little, Sonoko glanced towards the line they had just left from, after drawing their own omikuji. "Ah, there, there. He would probably be getting the exact same fortune as that brat in glasses is right now. See, you can tell from the look on his face that he got bad luck, right? Kudo-kun's luck is like that."
"As much as I hate to admit it, Sonoko's right about that." Ran admitted, glancing back towards Conan, watching as he grumbled at his fortune, tying it up on the wire rack out of habit. "Well, neither Shinichi or Conan-kun really believe in that stuff. I think they only draw one out of habit. It's tradition after all."
"Speaking of tradition, what made you and Hattori-kun come all the way out to Tokyo today, Kazuha-chan? Not that I mind, but there's plenty of shrines in Osaka, aren't there?" Glancing over at the ponytailed girl, Sonoko couldn't help but frown. "Wouldn't it be less crowded back there?"
"Ah, well that's..." Letting out a slightly awkward laugh, Kazuha's own gaze darted over towards where Heiji was, watching him open up his own omikuji. From the expression on his face alone, she could pretty much guess that it had been a miss here too. "I think Heiji was hopin' that a change of pace might change his fortune, or somethin' like that."
"Change his fortune?" Ran asked, frowning slightly. It seemed unusual that Heiji of all people would be bothered by a superstition like this. "Don't tell me that Hattori-kun's fortunes are all..."
"If Kudo-kun has bad luck, then Heiji has no luck at all." Kazuha told her simply, shrugging her shoulders. "Just look at him. We've been ta every shrine an' temple in Osaka over the past few years, an' even some in Kyoto, at the start of the year, an' without fail he always, always manages ta draw nothin' but worst luck."
"That's almost it's own kind of amazing luck in a way." Sonoko couldn't help but observe, watching a rather irritated looking Heiji tie up his fortune, only to tear it by accident in the process. "...But not any kind of luck I'd like to have. Maybe Hattori-kun is jinxed?"
"Who knows? It's always been this way, ever since we were children." Kazuha said, shrugging her shoulders. "Well, I guess it's no wonder that when ya put bad luck an' worst luck together, yer bound ta run into troubles, no matter how good yer own luck is. I don't think even the force of Ran-chan's good luck can win against the force of Heiji's terrible luck."
"And when you put him and the brat in glasses together, it almost starts feeling like we're overdue for something happening." Sonoko couldn't help but quip.
"Come now, I'm sure that's not true." Ran began saying, but even as she opened up her mouth to protest a bit further, her words were cut short by the sound of a scream in the distance. With a rather blank look on her face as she watched the figures of both Conan and Heiji dash off in that direction without a second thought, she heaved a long sigh, looking between her two friends.
"...you might have a point, actually."
"So it would seem." Kazuha said, already reaching into her purse to pull out her cellphone. "Come on, we'd better join them. They'll probably want someone ta call the police."
"Not to mention an ambulance." Ran observed, pulling out her own cellphone.
It seemed as if it was going to be the start of another long year.
