30 Kisses Valentine's Genuine Deception

Title: Valentine's Genuine Deception (by SakuraHanami/Celestial Death Sakura)
List: 30 Kisses #23 candy
Fandom: Detective Conan (Meitantei Conan/Case Closed)
Pairing: Miyano Shiho x Kudo Shinichi
Any Applicable Warnings: For Everyone / G-Ratings / K

And it's Detective Conan-verse-AU

Disclaimer: I don't own anything of Detective Conan, except some manga volumes and the 2nd movie.

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Sweet romantic love hung in the air. It was ever-present lately. And especially today. The calendar showed that it was 14th February. And every halfway-sane girl knew and loved that date. Valentine's Day, where you give your sweetheart or crush a sweet present.

This date also was popular for confessions. Or for just simply going out. However the girls in Japan were crazy after Valentine's Day. And they probably were the only ones. No other country had such a deep-going tradition with Valentine's Day and also creating a twin-day called St. White's Day, although this special day's (Valentine's Day) origin didn't lie in Japanese history.

But the girls weren't affected by that at all. In fact they probably didn't even know it, and they didn't care. All they cared for were their crushes, loves, candy and chocolate. Not that the boys blamed them. They got sweet stuff and lovely romantic girls for free!

The Teitan High School was a well-educating school with serious teachers and students, everyone fulfilling their duties if needed. There were always some exception but that wasn't important.

But the High School made one mistake: The council consisted mainly of girls. Teenage girls. And that meant they just had to come up with some crazy idea featuring romantic Valentine.

"Did you hear?" Sonoko asked, waving the monthly school newspaper in her hand. Only that this wasn't the monthly issue but a special Valentine's issue. "Oh my god! This day is going to be sooo romantic!" she squealed in delight and Shinichi inwardly cowered, subconsciously taking smaller steps, letting Ran and Sonoko step ahead while he fell in step with Eisuke and Shiho shortly behind the two other girls.

"Shiho-san, are you alright?" Eisuke asked with innocent big eyes. The next thing he knew was that he was face-down on the ground.

"Ooops, sorry about that, Eisuke-san!" One of their classmates said (a girl of course), some girls around her giggling while she bent down, pulling up a small package Eisuke had been tripping over nicely wrapped up in glittering paper. She helped Eisuke up with an apologetic smile, then ran away giggling with her friends but not before sparing a not-so-secretive and admiring glance at Shinichi.

"Eisuke is right," Shinichi spoke up as Eisuke moved his glasses that had been hanging off one ear of him. "You don't look well, Shiho."

"You still ask?" The redblonde shook her head at the constantly giggling girls, the overly white-red-pink decorated halls and the many banners. Bright red faces here and there, the scent of chocolate, some sweets and even the scent of a pie. Spring scent was mixed amongst all the others, although the breezes were still fresh and freezing cold. But the buds at the cherry trees and other fruit trees were already big, ready to bloom when the warmth would arrive. "I somehow feel sick..."

"So Shiho and Valentine's Day don't react well with each other." Shinichi concluded with an almost sly grin, taking a chemistry-like expression just to tease the hobby-scientist.

"Shut up, Kudo." She grumbled. Shinichi congratulated himself silently.

"Ne, aren't the people from the council great?!" Sonoko exclaimed, turning around to get the attention of the three behind. Not only are they planning on making some stalls for love-games and food stalls, they also called out for a voting!"

"What kind of voting?" Eisuke asked curiously. He peeked up at the school-newspaper which was held by Ran now.

"We shall select a Valentine's King and Queen." Ran said with a smile. "From a group of selected people. Apparently they made a survey last week for population."

"I guess we missed it." Shinichi shrugged. "What's the big deal?"

"The big deal is...," Sonoko snatched the newspaper out of her friend's hand and shoved it almost into Shinichi's face. "Here! Look!"

The hobby detective blinked, stepped some steps back to get a better view of the main page of this issue - and his eyes widened in surprise and mild shock. "Oh!"

"'Oh!' what?!" Shiho frowned and almost shoved Eisuke away roughly, but only almost, because she got a glimpse of the main page and she was already shocked. "Why am I in there as candidate?" Her eyes narrowed and she glared at Shinichi.

"H-Hey!" Shinichi replied with a nervous stressmark on his cheek. "Don't ask me, ask the council!"

"And Shinichi-san is candidate as well...!" Eisuke remarked. "And Ran-san!"

"Yep, that's why this year's competition is sooo cool!" Again Sonoko squealed and her friends sweatdropped nervously (except for Shiho, she deadpanned with crossed arms in front of her chest). "Ran and Shiho fighting for gaining Shinichi's love...!" She sighed dreamily. "I'm almost jealous, but I already have Makoto so..."

Ran and Shinichi had turned red, Eisuke blinked cluelessly and Shiho's cheeks were dusted in a soft color of rose. "I'm not interested in being up for being elected, let alone winning it...and especially not because Kudo might end up being the King." She said calmly with raised eyebrows.

"Everything you say!" Sonoko sang and giggled.

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"It's Valentine's Day, damnit!" Shiho ranted to herself. "Why did they have to put up a competition that has pretty much nothing to do with Valentine's Day but is more likely a popularity issue?" She was sitting on the rooftop of the school eating her bento. Thank goodness for that the roof was undecorated...for how long? She was enjoying it pink-white-red-less as long as she could.

The wind was pretty cold but the clouds had moved to let the sun shine through the gapes to warm her place a bit. Soon she heard someone coming up and Shinichi's head appeared between the gap of the not-quite-open but also not-quite-closed door that led to the stairs which lead back down to the building.

"Ah, there you are!" Shinichi slipped through the gape and closed the door. Then he leaned heavily against the door with a tired sigh.

/Is he sweating?/ Shiho wondered silently. /And he's out of breath?/ "So what are you doing here? Not hanging out with Ran and Sonoko?"

"No today, thanks." Shinichi removed himself from the door and walked up to her. She was sitting close to the edge of the flat roof where some classes sometimes had P.E., her back leaning against the barred railings. He sat down next to her and it was then when she noticed the pink ribbon in his hair. "Oh, poor most-popular student of the school...," She raised an eyebrow and smirked, nodding at the ribbon. "Were the rabid fangirls after you?"

Shinichi was confused at first. "How...?" He trailed off as his hand flew up to feel his head. With a grimace he pulled out the ribbon, along with some of his hair, throwing it off the rooftop.

"Aw, you surely made one girl sad, Shinichi! It's Valentine's Day, it was obvious that something like this would happen. And this behaviour isn't really nice." She teased.

Shinichi gave up long ago asking her to address him either with his surname or his first name, but not with both. She however always did as she pleased and called him Kudo now, and Shinichi then. "See who's talking, Shiho!" Shinichi scoffed with a grin. "Isn't it tradition that the girls give the boys presents today? In your case the boys still wanna give you things?"

"No, it's because of the Valentine's Dance this evening. Again a stupid idea of the school council..."

"I see, they try to ask you out! You've been avoiding the boys today altogether. Quiet successfully, I have to admit. Somehow I'm jealous..."

Her heartbeat fastened for a brief moment but she pushed that reaction aside. "Of what? The boys?"

"Err..." It was just then that Shinichi noticed the ambiguous sense of what he just had said. "I rather meant your way of avoiding your fanboys...I'd like to avoid my fangirls as well..."

"There's one major problem, Shinichi." She spoke with a smirk, hiding the little pang of disappointment but just like with her heartbeat she ignored the feeling now. "I have my ways because I'm female...you have no such luck."

Shinichi frowned, opened his mouth to argue to her almost sexist remark, but then closed his mouth again, only to open it some seconds after that again, but not continuing the conversation. "Every year it's the same. Girls get so excited about this whole stuff...! Why are they actually so crazy after giving presents rather than receiving one? St. White's day will be in a month, so..."

"Sorry, you're asking the wrong person." Shiho looked up to the sky bored. "I may be the same species, but I'm not the same kind."

"I need some plan to get them off me...for the whole day!" The genius student tapped his chin thoughtfully.

"What, Kudo? Your oh-so-intelligent head doesn't give you a good idea?" Shiho teased. Shinichi shot a small glare that was lacking sharpness at her and she of course ignored it easily. "Hook up with Ran. If you have a girlfriend the fangirls automatically take at least a bit of distance."

"Not necessarily..." Shinichi murmured, but now again in thoughts. "But it would work. Although Ran does seem to like this day... wouldn't it be more intelligent if wepretend that we hooked up?"

Shiho slowly closed her bento box, her mind proceeding what he had said. She turned slightly red. "What?! Are you kidding?" She stood up and walked away a few steps, not facing Shinichi, who was looking at her expectantly. "I mean...why me if you can have your childhood friend? Maybe she turns out to be your one and only true love?"

"That sounds corny...," Shinichi began slowly.

"I know, that's why. Something like that fits Ran more than me."

"...but unlike you Ran likes Valentine's Day. You don't, and neither do I. Sowe should hook up, because each of us would have a better usage out of this fake-relationship."

Shiho didn't know what she should think of the little but annoying stabbing in her chest. She may have a crush on Shinichi that eventually developed into love, but she never showed and never would, at least she didn't plan so. Because Ran had more rights to be with Shinichi. This hurt, and now it hurt even more that Shinichi was talking about something she only could dream off, only that he emphasized that it was fake.

Shiho only shook her head quietly and left the roof through the door to the staircase.

She left a confused Shinichi, who wondered what he had been doing wrong. He was a brilliant head, but when it came to girls he was horrible it seemed.

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The schoolday came close to an end and the council was starting to announce the winners of the competition, not that Shinichi wanted to care, there was only the problem that he was in on it as one of the candidates.

Officially classes were over by now and he wanted to leave school, because the clubs in the afternoon were all cancelled. He didn't dare to look into his locker because he was sure that it was not good to look at the things lots of girls had stuck up into it.

As he turned around a corner he caught a glimpse of red-blond hair. "Shi-"

"Kudo-senpai! Kudo-senpai!" Several girls gathered around him with bright or shy smiles, all of them blushing, each of them having a small package wrapped up in nice paper and a big ribbon around each present.

"Uhm..." He gulped. "Hello there, how can I help you?" He took a step back. Even if the girls were all a lot smaller than him he feared their mood-swings. At least he feared Ran's, Sonoko's, his mother's and at rare times Shiho's.

"Kudo-senpai, do you know that you outran every other candidate by far? You are Valentine's King!" One of them squealed and the rest looked like ready to faint right there and then. Quickly Shinichi looked around him, but despite some more girls standing in groups whispering with each other or now and then a lost boy, maybe also fleeing from his fangirls, he couldn't find Shiho anymore. He was sure he had seen her before...

"And do you know who Valentine's Queen is?" Another said excitedly.

"Err...?"

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Shiho shook her head as she observed the scene from afar. The girls now had Shinichi cornered. The hobby detective was now pressing his back against some random locker, looking nervous at the girls in front of him. They weren't exactly rabid fangirls, but they obviously were fangirls. He didn't like either kind.

But he also couldn't go against them. He would feel guilty if he did so. That at least was what his excuse towards Shiho was one time when she asked him about it.

"Excuse me, Miyano-san." A tall student with broad shoulders came up to her, almost making her jumping in surprise since she was absorbed with thinking about Shinichi, the guy she really, really loved and never ever would admit. That was what she told herself. Her heart wanted something completely different of course.

"What?" She asked impatiently, glancing up at the student. He was a senior and if she remembered right, he was the goalkeeper of Shinichi's soccer club and a good friend of his.

"I...wanted to give you something...for asking you for a dance later...you know, the Valentine's Dance." He spoke, holding up a single red rose with a candy bound to it.

She snatched the candy out of his grasp and told him: "Sorry, I'm already taken. Thanks for this anyway." With that she approached the mob of girls cornering poor Shinichi.

"And do you know who Valentine's Queen is?" Another said excitedly.

"Err...?" Shinichi didn't look like he wanted to know anyway, but it wasn't like the girls cared.

"Well, it is of cour-hey!" Shiho brushed past the girls somehow gracefully, cutting the leading girl off in process. "Miyano-senpai! What are you...?"

Shiho didn't spare a glance at her but turned towards Shinichi, his eyes wide in surprise. "Shiho?"

Shinichi wanted a fake-relationship? Well, okay, it required a credible show...and why not putting her true emotions into it for making it more than realistic for the observers?

"Shi-"

"Shhh..." She silenced him with a finger on his lips. His lips were luscious, tempting her to taste them. And for this time, after so many other times her heart wanted it she finally did, even if the actual intention for this action wasn't really what her heart wanted it to be. Forget the heart.

She placed her lips without much hesitation onto his. /It's a show./ She remembered herself, as painful at it turned out to be. /There's nothing more behind this kiss...only today.../

Soft lips against soft lips, Shiho closed her eyes, Shinichi didn't respond first.

The shocked gasps of the girls made him snap out of his daze. And then also he acted. Or was it more than an act? Anyway, his arms wormed around Shiho's small waist, pulling her flush against his body. His head leaned down to her, adding more pressure to the kiss and he finally responded.

So many emotions rushed through Shiho's head. All warm and lulling her mind into sleep. Shinichi's hug – she was surprised that he did react after all – was comfortable, secure and she fit perfectly into his arms. Or it was just her imagination, but sometimes imagination is the only thing left for an unrequited love.

Half of Shinichi's fangirls looked like ready to break down crying, the other half was looking so dreamily at the kissing couple, so full of support that it was almost scary.

Shinichi parted from Shiho, and somehow he had the feeling that he wanted more of her lips. He always had wondered whether he had deeper feelings for Shiho, he never tried to figure out. His brilliant brain was made for complex and yet structured things in life, logical thinking and solving of such problems.

But love and relationship was more than only complex. It was also illogical, that's why Shinichi barely could grasp something like love, especially if it concerned him. He was no heartless, romantic-less and loveless human. He just didn't understand these things, which was shown now clearly. These unknown feelings arising...he had a suspicion, but no evidence yet.

With big blue-turquoise eyes Shiho looked into his deep blue ones. Her hand lightly grabbed his and she pressed the candy into his palm. "Happy Valentine, Shinichi." She spoke softly, and it held such an amount of genuine affection and her soft smile was so warm, it filled Shinichi with...butterflies? Warmth, in any case. Warmth and joy.

Shinichi smiled, clasping his fingers around the candy. "Happy Valentine, my Valentine's Queen."

Maybe, maybe at St. White's Day they wouldn't be pretending the relationship anymore.

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A/N:

Ohhh This entry is overdue, and I'm sorry for it. But originally I wanted to wait for Valentine's Day...but now that would be three days overdue...so two days are already too much and I don't wanna risk being purged off the list.

I honestly don't like how this entry turned out to be...because it's...fluff again? ...I'm soo...argh! Anyway, it's shoujo enough for Valentine's Day...I think.

Eisuke...why I brought him in? I kinda like him and his clumsy attitude (kinda reminds me of me...u.u""). I have no idea how he really is, on which side he is and such...he's just here for the fic, okay?

Nya, Happy Valentine's Day, people, even if I'm a day too early for that...

Review, please? Thanks