FINALLY!! I got my 5th chapter uploaded!
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The six of them were crouched together, hiding behind the bushes. They had followed the happy couple all the way here, but weren't close enough to hear what Kaito and Haibara were saying. They watched and held their breath as Kaito took a deep breath, and for the first time looked hesitant to say something.
Kaito shut his eyes for a second, then opened them, and locked his gaze with Shiho's. He started slowly,
"Shiho, I don't mind whatever your answer is, but I want you to think over this carefully…"
Kaito looked out at the pond. He sighed, and hugged Shiho closer.
"I want you to be adopted as my younger sister."
Kaoru Kuroba carefully folded the file folder, and placed it back inside the file cabinet.
"Adoption papers. Kaito, always two steps ahead."
She carefully closed the drawer. Kaoru gently pushed open the secret door behind the portrait. She exited Kaito's room, and descended down the stairs.
"If it really comes down to that, take care of her well."
Shiho closed her eyes. She looked up at Kaito. She put her arms around him.
"I- I'll have to think about it."
Kaito rested his chin on Shiho's head as he brought his right arm around and clasped his fingers together.
"I'll wait as long as you want. I waited eight years for you to come back. I can wait a little while longer."
"But why? I really do love you like I would a brother, but this could just be putting you in danger."
Kaito sighed,
"I know that. But I'm ready to take chances. And it's for other reasons too. But it's something that you might be better off not knowing."
Shiho looked into his eyes, but said nothing.
Kaito thought to himself,
"It doesn't really matter, but I just want her to be happy. It's the least I can do for her when she has to live in fear, hiding all the time. But the reason I'm asking her this is for her own safety."
The conversation soon led back to what they had been talking about before.
"Kaito, take good care of her. She herself doesn't even know about that incident. Only her mother knows excluding us and your own mother."
"I know."
"But are you sure you don't need to let him know about this?"
"I don't want to have him know something he can survive without. In fact, he knowing about it may cost his life, because it's supposed to be a secret between her mother, mom, and me. And I don't want to hurt him. Knowing the truth about this will only bring him pain."
He lifted his head and leaned back on the bench as he ran his fingers through Shiho's hair. She looked at her watch.
"It's getting pretty late. Anyway, just take good care of her. It's the least you can do for her. This really had nothing to do with her until then."
The three first- graders and three high school detectives ended up going home without knowing a thing about Kaito and Haibara's date. But Conan noticed that Kaito seemed to act strange nowadays.
The next day, Conan, Mitsuhiko, Genta, and Ayumi came to school still curious about Haibara. The four of them tried desperately to bring out some information.
"Ah, Ai- chan! How did it go yesterday?" Ayumi said.
"Oh. It was fine," Haibara replied without looking up.
"Uh, Haibara- san…Are you still not going to tell us who you went out with?" Mitsuhiko asked.
"If you want to know about my date, then you should just ask," Haibara said coolly.
The four of them were taken aback at her coolness.
"But that doesn't necessarily mean that I really will tell you about it," she said.
Conan stared at her, annoyed,
"But that still means that there is a chance that you will tell us right?"
Haibara smiled,
"You probably won't let me get away with not telling you anyway."
The four of them shook their heads. Haibara sighed and said,
"It was with Kaito- san. But the date was just a promise from a long time ago. Years back. I just wanted to call it a date is all. But it was really fun."
"That's one of the first times I heard Ai- chan say that something was that fun," Ayumi said.
Haibara merely smiled and reorganized her notebooks.
Meanwhile, Hakuba Saguru was trying desperately to hold in the urge to ask Kaito about the day before. But he knew that he would have to tell Kaito that Hattori had told him, and that they had followed him around town.
Kaito, on the other hand, immediately noticed that Hakuba seemed restless. He chuckled to himself. Hattori, without even knowing it, had told Kaito directly that he, Hakuba, and Aniki would be following him. "There are many uses to wireless tapping," he thought to himself. Kaito could almost feel Hakuba breathing heavily, frantically keeping his questions to himself. He decided to leave it that way. He wanted to enjoy Hakuba's desperate situation as long as possible.
"Heiji…Heiji..."
"..........................."
"HEIJI!!!"
"Ow! What did you shout in my ear for? You idiot!" The dark skinned detective yelled at his classmate.
"You're the idiot! You've been banging your head against your desk ever since first period ended, and you couldn't even hear me!" Kazuha said angrily.
Hattori looked away with a huff, and thought,
"Well, you're not the one who has a mystery on their hands. Why the hell was Kaito going out on a date with that neechan from the school festival?"
Hattori proceeded banging his head on his desk for the rest of the day.
How was it???
Please review! (Guesses as to what Kaito and Shiho are talking about are welcome.)
