Chapter 3: Her name and a shadow

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Shinichi's heart skipped a beat as he realized he was in love with this mysterious girl.

A loud BANG! Echoed throughout the jungle as a sick smile formed on Takeru's face.

The girl's face was now blushing from shinichi's touch but eyes wide when he protected her from the bullet.

He saw Takeru's body now collapsing onto the grass.

Shinichi felt a pair of feminine hands embrace him as he fell; falling into the darkness…..

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Shinichi found himself in a jungle; he wandered aimlessly around the jungle for what seemed like an eternity before coming across a human corpse. He moved closer and to his horror it was the mysterious girl from before. Her lifeless face shocked him; he stumbled backwards and begun to run. Shinichi came onto a field of grass. He saw two figures outline, he went closer and recognized it was Takeru and the girl from before. He saw takeru pin her down, his eyes widen as he sees takeru claw the clothes of the girl off with the lust and arousal. Shinichi began running towards them to help her when he felt his a sharp pain in his chest, he dropped to the floor as he felt his muscles being slashed and the pain intensified and, he looked up once more to see a face streaked with tears and piercing azure eyes…..

Shinichi's eyes snapped open as he blinked to clear the fuzziness from his sight. He looked around and realized that he was in a some sort of room similar to his camp. As shinichi tried to sit up, he felt a sharp pain pierce in his torso before letting up a choked gasp and falling back onto the hard mattress. After a few desperate attempts of getting up he finally gave up when he felt the pain in his torso to be too unbearable from the strain of trying to get up.

Shinichi breathed a heavy sigh as he shut his eyes again trying to deduce where he was. A sudden gust of wind blew one of his bandages off him. Shinichi grumbled loudly, with all his strength left he pushed himself off the bed. The bandage managed to lodge itself under the steel enforced door of the room. When he bent down slowly to retrieve the bandage, a loud "BANG!" echoed the room. The once closed door was now open fully, and shinichi face was in it. "ITTE!" he shouted stumbling back to rub his sore face.

"GOMEN!" a female voice entered his ears. He looked up and saw the girl from before.

"AH! It's you!" he managed to blurt out stumbling to his feet to get a clearer view. As an idiot he was he ended up tripping over his feet and landing back onto the floor." Ouch"

The girl sighed and extended her hand out for him. "My name is Mouri Ran and tks for saving me from that guy earlier." Shinichi got up slowly careful not to aggravate his wounds. "My name is Kudo shinichi and you're welcome. He shot her his trademark grin, earning a tingle of red on her face. "Anyway aren't you worried your commander will find out; I mean I am an enemy right?" he asked pointing at himself stupidly earning a giggle from Ran.

"Actually I am the commander here." Earning a shocked look on shinichi's face like this o.o

"What you think women can't be commanders?" Ran replied annoyed earning a shake of a head from him.

"No, just surprised is all." he smiled

"Oh and your Osaka friend is here too."

"Huh? Why the hell is hattori here?"

An EXPLANATION LATER

"Um why is everybody staring at us?" shinichi asked Ran as they walked across the army barracks to the medical tent. He sweat dropped at the male soldiers giving him a death glare.

"Just ignore them; they probably don't really trust you that all." She replied. Shinichi looked around counting the amount of glares he was receiving. He's been around people long enough to know that they were jealous; he inwardly smirked as he followed Ran. "They probably like her is all." He thought silently.

As the two approached the tent, shinichi heard an "AHOU! WHY DID YOU HIT ME ON THE HEAD FOR?"

"YOU WERE An ENEMY BAKA! HOW THE HELL SHOULD I KNOW?"

"WELL YOUR FRIEND WAS TALKING TO ME!"

"I ALREADY APOLOGIZED YOU GOT THAT?"

"WILL YOU BOTH JUST SHUT UP?"

Hattori and hakuba stopped yelling insults at each other and turned to face Ran, behind her shinichi sweat dropped. "Commander!" hakuba said and the other soldiers in the tent saluted immediately. Ran asked them to stand down while shinichi explained the story to hattori. Hattori shot hakuba daggers before being dragged out of the medical tent by Kazuha.

"Since you saved my life and your friend saved kazuha's life, you both can stay here." Ran explained while on the tour on the army site. Kazuha nodded in agreement, "Shinichi, you will stay at my house and hattori will stay at kazuha's." Ran finished with a slight blush on her cheeks.

"Ran-Chan you naughty girl!" kazuha said with a giggle making Ran blush harder. Heji and shinichi shrugged and look at each other confused. "Girls! Who can understand them." They both mumbled under their breath obviously not hearing their conversation. "Ja ne! See you at the rations unit later Ran-chan!" kazuha shouted to Ran and dragged a dumbfounded heji away.

"Come Shinichi I'll show you where you be staying for now" Ran said while dragging shinichi through a dirt path which led upwards a small hill. Shinichi smiled and walked behind Ran, all of a sudden he felt like someone was watching them. When he didn't turn around, he felt the glare intensify. Slightly nervous he turned around quickly and felt the glare fade instantly. "Must be my imagination." He thought when he saw no one there. He quickly turned back and ran up the path. If shinichi had looked again, he probably could have seen an unknown figure casting a shadow behind him…..

AT THE HOUSE

"Wow! This is your house?" Shinichi said awestruck. His eyes gleamed with childlike happiness. Ran giggled when she saw this. "He is so cute!" she thought as she saw him wander around the house. "You will be sharing a room with me shinichi!" she called out. "The view here is beautiful!" shinichi said looking out of the balcony window. "How did you get this house?" he said obviously impressed

"Actually this is my father's house; he was the archduke of this country." Ran replied looking down sadly. "Their names were Mouri Kogoro and Eri kisaki."

"I am sorry I didn't mean to-" he looked at Ran and was surprised when he saw tears in her eyes.

"No its ok." She replied going back into the room. When she stepped into the room, a pair of muscular arms grabbed her waist and turned her around and pulled her into an embrace. Ran was pulled into shinichi embrace so fast she hadn't had the time to react. Ran blushed when she realized she was this close to him. "I'll take that as an apology so don't worry anymore." She managed to force out after he let go. Ran saw his face relax when she said this.

"Oh no! We're late!" she shouted when she looked at her watch. Ran sprinted out to the door, then she stopped suddenly and ran back to Shinichi earning her a confused look from him.

"This is an apology for letting you worry." She said, without any warning whatsoever she leaned forward a planted a kiss on his cheeks. Blood ran up to both their cheeks almost immediately. She ran out of the bedroom door shouting for him to hurry up, leaving a confused but happy, brightly flushed Shinichi in a daze.

A/N:

Ha ha! I completed the third chapter! AND also thank you pachysam for giving me an idea! Please review! See that small button below? Go on click it and REVIEW!