Fandom: Detective Conan/Case Closed
Title: Either way, don't tell any of this to your mother
Author/Artist: sk-animefan/silentstarlight
Theme(s): #27 Love you for a lifetime
Pairing/Characters: Hattori Heiji/Toyama Kazuha
Rating: G
Disclaimer: 20 volumes of Detective Conan that has been imported, that's it.
Summary: Heiji tries to explain to his daughter why no one asks her out.
"'tou-san", Heiji's daughter poked her head from around the door frame. "Can I ask you a question?"
Heiji was working in his office typing a whole bunch of overdue reports. Evil things, reports, they sometimes took as long to type up as solving the mystery behind them. A break was welcomed, so Heiji motioned his daughter to come inside.
"'tou-san, am I ugly?"
This question threw Heiji off, he had expected a math problem or some puzzle, as his daughter was constantly trying to outsmart him, but a question on beauty?
Heiji gestured toward the chair in front of his desk and told her to sit. "So, what brings up this question?"
"I'm the only one that has never dated. I figure it's because I'm not good looking." Trust his daughter to think of such a reason.
"You know," Heiji started, "your mother is a very beautiful woman, and you look like her." But then he turned serious, "But don't tell her I said that."
Hikari looked at her father strangely; well it is his relationship with her mother. She thought about what he said for a minute and asked him a question. "Then how come no one will ask me out?" At age 17, Hattori Hikari had never been asked out, in her opinion, the boys avoided her like plague, not that her brothers helped much to form her opinion.
So how was he supposed to answer that question without telling his daughter that all her brothers, father, and that boy scared all the other guys away?
"Well, I first fell in love with your mother when I saw her under the cherry blossoms at a temple. We were traveling together, but I was too impatient, so I left without her. So when I saw her, I didn't recognize her, and didn't figure it out until ten years later. Then when your mother and I were your age, your mother had a lot of guys after her, but she didn't know that." He stared at his daughter, "Don't tell her that either."
His daughter only rolled her eyes and sighed; seriously, what was her father's problem?
"The reason was because I kept glaring at all the other guys away, I was on the Kendo team and they really didn't want to be on the receiving end of a sword. It took me a long time to ask her to a date, but when I asked, she said that she was meeting another guy."
Hikari opened her eyes and blinked, this was starting to sound interesting.
Her father looked sheepish, but a bit proud, "I ended up kidnapping your mother in the middle of the date."
She blinked her eyes multiple times, kidnapping was, and is still illegal. But she still didn't get what this had to do with her problem; evidently her face showed it because they reversed roles and her father sighed.
"Have you ever thought that someone might be scaring all the guys away from you?"
She thought for a minute, well, Kashin had a habit of monopolizing all her time during lunch, break, and after school, her twin brother was constantly glaring in class, and her other brothers followed her everywhere so not many people apart from family friends, friends, and girls were able to talk to her. And her father, he had this really cool thing that whenever he was ticked his head would grow really big and several veins would start pulsing. Her mother normally only glanced wearily at her husband when he did this. But it didn't click. There were a few pieces of the puzzle that puzzled her. Who was doing majority of the scaring?
"Either way, don't tell any of this to your mother."
Five minutes after Hikari had left, Kazuha knocked on the door. Heiji looked up to see his wife leaning against the doorframe, grinning. "So, what were you and Kari talking about? And why did you say", she tried to mimic Heiji's voice, "don't tell any of this to your mother."
Heiji got up and walked over to his wife, she met him halfway and he embraced her. Kissing her ear, he whispered, "Because I want to tell you myself how much I love you." Kazuha fell into a fit of giggles as Heiji kept whispering things into her ear and Heiji had a smile so bright, that it rivaled the sun.