Disclaimer: Detective Conan is not mine. The series belongs to its creator, Gosho Aoyama, and I'm just borrowing the characters and scenery to create these short tales.
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Drabble 2: Do I Exist to Cause Misfortune to Others?
Premise: Summer break is a time for the children to go outside and enjoy the day without worrying about school.
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She had to think about it for a moment. To decide between staying secluded inside of Dr. Agasa's home or a trip to Okinawa. It was summer break, so she wouldn't be missing anything if she went.
Then she remembered that Kudo would be going...the choice was obvious. She stayed at home.
Everyone returned a few days later. The children were happily telling her about the treasure that they found on the beach. It wasn't much, a few coins and several shells. When Conan finally decided to leave for a moment to find a bottle of water, she took advantage of his absence to ask the other children why they left the murder mystery out of their story.
She was surprised when she heard their answer. "What murder mystery?"
Then one of them asked why she thought a murder would happen on their trip. Silly, she was thinking, haven't you noticed that a murder always happened whenever Kudo came along?
Instead of voicing her thoughts out loud, she calmly brushed Ayumi's question away with an "oh, no reason." She pretended to ignore them after that. It was such an Ai response, and Conan had just returned to the room with an armful of juice, that the children didn't press her for an answer.
A quiet week later, she found herself joining the others for a trip to the beach. 'Forced' was a better word... Kudo had joined again. The sun was shining and the water was clear. But the happy mood was not to last. By midday, Conan was once again presented with a murder mystery, which he pursued with his usual enthusiasm.
She found herself wondering what changed between the murder free week and today. There was only one thing that she could think of, she hadn't been near Kudo for the entire week. Was her presence the key? It was completely illogical, but the thought continued to bother her. On the way home, the others asked her what was wrong. In answer, she blankly stared out the car window to hide her expression and avoid the question.
The next day, not wanting to cause further harm to others, she had refused to leave Agasa's home, even when the other children called her out to play.
As she stared blankly at the magazine in her hands, the phone rang.
"Haibara, I need to know where the..." came the voice from the other end. Conan was involved in another murder and he needed to know whether it was possible to reconfigure one of the professor's inventions.
After putting down the phone, a small smile appeared as a crushing weight seemed to disappear. So it really was just a coincidence.
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A/N: I prefer stories...but...there's a reason for these drabbles. If you think that a character wouldn't do that, please let me know. I'm trying to get a feel for the characters so that my eventual stories would be more believable.