30 Kisses I'm With You

Title: I'm With You (by SakuraHanami)
List: 30 Kisses #9 the road home
Fandom: Detective Conan (Meitantei Conan/Case Closed)
Pairing: Miyano Shiho x Kudo Shinichi
Any Applicable Warnings: For Everyone / G-Ratings / K

Disclaimer: I don't own anything of Detective Conan, except some manga volumes and the 2nd movie. I also don't own I'm With You by Avril Lavigne which I actually used for the title.

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It was over. But somehow Shinichi didn't feel like cheering or something like that. He was relieved that he won the fight against the perilous Black Organisation but he didn't feel like a winner.

Maybe it was because so many fell. The loss on their side was great to get down the villains.

But then he thought of his friends and family, his beloved ones at home. They were save now and he hadn't to lie anymore. The loss was worth it. He hoped that someday he could convince himself about that.

A soft moan in the plane room pulled him out of his thoughts. He walked up to the bed and sat down on the chair next to it. "Hey, Shiho, how are you feeling?"

"Miserable," She answered honestly with coughing to get her voice clear again. "...it's over, isn't it?"

Shinichi hesitated a bit. "Remember, it never is. There will always be organisations and groups like the Black Organisation." He convinced his lips to smile. "However...for now it's over."

Her smile she returned was a bit more sincere than his. Her blue eyes glinted in relief.

He couldn't bear this.

"How?" He asked.

"Shinichi?" Shiho whispered in confusion.

"How can you be like this?"

"Like what?"

"Like everything will be okay?! Like ...nothing will change to the worse now?! Like...you can just go on?!" Shinichi's voice rose with every word, he noticed barely as he leaned closer to Shiho, his face twisted in pain.

Shiho's eyes were wide in surprise, maybe also in mental pain. "Shin-"

"Don't start with something like 'Let me pretend it's like that.' or "You're tired, get a clear head first.' or something like that!" All the stress...

"Shin-"

"You just can't start slacking off now, now that we came so far! One danger taken the sting out of isn't enough! If you pretend now that everything is okay, nothing will change for the better!" All the strain...

"Shin-"

"Just like this!" He motioned with furious gesture towards her scarred body on the plane bed. "You were so careless! You were ready to throw everything away only...only because Gin shot? Just how dumb-"

"SHINICHI!" Shiho bellowed at him now, her eyes narrowed, her lips pressed to a grim line. Her upper body rose slightly up of her bed, until she winced, hissed in sudden pain and bit her lip.

Shinichi jumped up from is seat and bent over to her, laying his hands on her shoulder and back to help her back onto the bed. However his pain wasn't forgotten.

And he was silent.

"Shinichi," Shiho spoke gently. Sometime lately she changed from calling him by his surname to calling him by his given name. Shinichi did the same with addressing her. The fight against the Black Organization bound them together. "Shinichi, I perfectly know how you feel... lately we're stressed, strained, there was so much to think of, so much depending on one thing, one thought, one problem, one person, or just one second.

"We kept pushing us beyond our limits. It was hard and we often were so frustrated to no end. Sometimes it didn't work what we have been working on for so long, sometimes we were just blind.

"Shinichi... you were the one keeping a logical mind when needed, but getting so passionate at times... but one thing was only like you. Only you can be like that in the most difficult times. You never gave up. A detective-thing, isn't it?" Shiho paused and chuckled.

Wish pained expression Shinichi watched her almost carefree attitude after such a cruel victory.

"Stupid detective!" She spoke softly, looking straight into his eyes. "I really gained too much. So many loved ones...so many precious and happy moments since I'm with all of you. Do you really think I'd just let these go once I finally found true happiness?"

Shinichi sceptically and hesitantly spoke up. "But...you threw yourself into the line of fire!"

She smiled. "Because otherwise you would be here instead of me, most likely dead."

"What gave you the idea...?" Shinichi asked, now much calmer, much straighter thinking, much more aware of the pressure that still was there, even if it shouldn't be. "What gave you the idea that I'd die? And not hurt?"

Shiho's smile twisted into a halfhearted smirk. "Call it female intuition, detective-san. And instinct, because that was what led me to being shot.

"And I'm not slacking off." She continued on. "I'm just resting, trying not to let too many different and opposite emotions get to me, which is currently your case.

"I'm not pretending or dreaming. Because you're here with me."

"Huh?"

She chuckled again. "Shinichi, when I just woke up, I found you at my side. Every morning I wake up to hope that I'm not dreaming my current life. That I'm not being lulled into sleep, into security that turns out to be fake or only my imagination's game. Everytime I see you guys I'm so sure that everything must be a dream for you all are so dear to me...and yet it was too realistic to be one.

"No, I'm not pretending." She smiled tiredly at Shinichi, who decided to give her a small smile in return. And somehow it wasn't even that difficult.

"Hey Shiho...is it because of the painkillers they gave you or why are you suddenly so...emotional?"

Shiho snorted. "Nah, who yelled at me not too long ago because his mix of emotions?"

He didn't say anything but sat down on the chair before he decided to speak. "Shiho...I'm sorry. For...yelling at you."

"Now...finally the long awaited apologize." She scoffed softly and smiled. "I told you already that I understand you actions."

"It's-"

"Polite, I know." She finished his sentence and then yawned.

"You're tired, you should sleep." Shinichi remarked, tugging the quilt over her shoulders

"Mm...heh, Shinichi?" She wormed her right arm free, the other one being connected with the drip, and lifted it up to Shinichi's face.

"Hm?" Confused he observed her hand that stopped shortly in front of his jaw.

"Would you be sad if I had died?"

The tiniest hint of anger flashed in Shinichi's eyes. "Of course, because your death means a loss, and it would have left me as only one with the experience of being shrunk and so on...besides, you're the one inventing that stupid sort of pill." He complained loudly. He sighed and added: "And, not to forget...I promised to protect you, no matter what. Remember?"

She smiled tiredly. "I never forgot." Tenderly she touched Shinichi's jaw. A strange, not uncomfortable chill ran down his spine. Her touch was cool, even if she had been lying in the warmth. She did lose a lot of blood.

"I'm not slacking off or anything... It's just...you are here...I am here...we are on our way home." Her finger trailed up along his jar, towards his cheekbone.

"They're all waiting for us." Shinichi agreed.

"I can't wait to come home and hear them say: Welcome back!" She chuckled and a small but sincere smile wormed its way onto Shinichi's face. "But actually...," She paused, her hand caressing his cheek tenderly. "Actually, I can wait..."

Her hand slid down from his cheek towards his collar, with her finger trailing down his neck, leaving a tingling trail and Shinichi suppressed the urge to lean closer. However as she reached his collar she gently grabbed it and pulled his upper body towards her, until Shinichi's and Shiho's face were barely some minor inches apart.

And then Shinichi felt her lips touching his ear. He could feel her warm breath brushing against his ear. And when she started speaking, her soft, weakened but still melodic voice, he felt a pleasurable chill going through his body.

"You...are my anchor. All the time, since we've personally met." She paused. Shinichi stayed silent, wishing her to continue one speaking. "Shinichi, you are the one being at my sister's side as last person she spoke to, touched ...she trusted you. And, you... are the one person I fell for. I can wait...because I'm with you." Her lips slid from his ear across his cheek towards the corner of his mouth, where she pressed a feather-light, innocent kiss on not exactly his lips.

Still, it left Shinichi breathless for the moment. The corner of his mouth, where her lips kissed him was burning. Where her lips have touched him, it was tingling. His heart...why was it racing?

Shiho released him with a smile. He could see that she was already half asleep, her usually clear eyes totally unfocused. But they shone with genuine love. "Smile for me...will you?" She whispered, almost inaudible, but Shinichi still understood.

Before Shiho really surrendered herself to sweet sleep she caught a glimpse of the most sincere smile Shinichi gave her since she woke up. Was there love she saw in his eyes...?

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Author's Note time! Actually I should learn maths stuff and such (even if I still have holidays! ;; ), but since I should have an entry soon, why not now... Still, I hope you like it! (Because my English can be...weird?...yeah...)

Yeah, I'm a new idiot who takes the challenge of 30kisses...::clears throat:: Okay, after I was almost purged off the Claim-List because I somehow tagged my first entry stupid I again come with a way shorter entry...shorter than my standards at least. And I just found out that I'm constantly writing fluff... .. And now and then sickening sweet clichés? Does that show that I, self-proclaimed reverier/dreamer, am also hopelessly romantic? My, my, my...

Okay, who thinks Shiho –x- Shinichi needs more fans? Although I'm quite happy that I find a lot of people who think Shiho/Ai would fit better with Shinichi than Ran would. ...AND my 30kisses stuff will sometimes be AU, I mean...I sometimes want to write about Shinichi & Shiho when they were smaller...and I'm not allowed to take Conan and Ai, so...

And the lovely reviews I got! Thankies so much for the constructive critism (Note to myself: A/Ns only in the middle of a fic when's a crack-fic!)! ...even though I haven't answered all of the reviews yet...

Review? Please? ::puppy dog eyes::