The Talk

The house of Suzuki Sonoko was never something someone just got 'used' to.

Ran looked around herself bashfully, taking a seat on the solid white suede couch, a solid white suede couch that was worth hundreds and thousands of dollars, as Sonoko babbled on around her about some scandalous happening that had lately occurred in her father's business that she now worked for since graduating from high school last year. That is, if you call work lounging around in her decked out 'office' with a laptop cuddled next to her watching stream line television with an hourly wage starting out of twenty five dollars. Her father wanted to start her out 'small', something that was parallel to the 'real world'. Oh, the benefits of being set up since birth.

"…and that's when I told him he just needs to quit looking at my ass. I mean, I know it's great and all, perfectly toned, but you don't have to stand there and just gawk at it!"

"Mhhmm…", Ran absent mindly added in, taking a shy sip from her cup of coffee as she took in the new sights of the Suzuki household. Maybe it was just her imagination, but the dang house, over the course of her years being friends with Sonoko, never ceased to keep growing. Ran was sure it was due to their increased wealth, especially with KID having some appearances to their business to bring in the crowds of people, yet still it amazed her.

"Ran, seriously." Sonoko sighed, rolling her eyes as she took a seat next to her best friend on the couch crossing one leg under butt and leaning forward to poke Ran in her cheek to divert her attention back to her. "You have been coming over since you were five years old, you should kind of be used to this by now."

Ran blushed from being called out on the spot, "I cant help it! It's just so big, especially compared to where I come from!"

Sonoko laughed at Ran's childlike admiration " Ran, you speak like you come from the slums or something! But anyway, I kind brought you over here for a more important matter…."

Ran perked up, setting down her cup on the small saucer she held and placed them both on the adjacent coffee table nearby her. "Yes, of course!"

With drinks and distractions set aside, Ran folded her hands together, pulled up both her legs to sit under on the couch, and leaned in towards her best friend smiling "What's up? It's not every day the infamous Suzuki Sonoko wants to have a serious talk!"

Sonoko nodded her head, more to herself than anything, and started fiddling with the trim of her skirt, looking for somewhere to begin her topic of interest.

"Ran. We're like, what, nineteen now? We're out of high school, in the work force, one of us is engaged!" Sonoko made sure to stop and look at Ran pointedly, eyebrows raised with a full frontal sharky grin, that still no matter what made Ran blush because she knew was being teased even after the obvious.

"Yeah, so?" Ran asked, trying to get to the point of this. Sonoko loved to beat around the bush and dramatize things.

"Well….I was wondering…if I wasn't the only one that has.." Sonoko quickly redirected her eyes back down to her lap where she fiddled with the trim of her skirt again and if Ran wasn't being mistaken, Sonoko was also blushing…..

"…if I wasn't the only one, that, you know…."

Ran burrowed her eyebrows, not catching on "Know, what?"

Sonoko groaned, slapping her hand to her forehead. "Oh, come on Ran! You know!" Sonoko made a quick glance around the living room they sat in, making sure they were still alone and no one, not even her father, was lurking around before dropping her, usually obscenely loud voice, down a good couple notches to where she was almost whispering.

"You know! Did it!"

"…..did it?" Ran asked innocently, still confused.

"Are you kidding, me?" Sonoko gave a dead pan look at Ran "Do I seriously have to spell it out, Ran?"

Sonoko shook her head in frustration before pulling Ran fiercely closer to her face speaking through gritted teeth.

"Am I the only that has had sex yet!"

…..whoa…

" SEX!" Ran yelped out loud with Sonoko immediately pouncing on her with her hands slapped across her mouth.

"Shaddup! Shaddup! Shaddup! Are you crazy! If my father heard those words or even knew the slightest idea what I have done, I am as good as dead meat!"

Sonoko slowly peeled her hands away from Ran's mouth, after a confirmation of a double nod of the head from Ran sworn to secrecy, to let her gasp in shock.

"With who! When! You….you….you did it!"

Sonoko blushed under the interrogation, looking away from Ran's shocked face.

"With Makoto…a couple weeks ago before he left to California in the States for a two month training session before his big tournament…it was the first time we said 'I love you' to each other as well…"

Sonoko looked back at Ran, blushing harder from her still Kodak moment shocked face. Ran's mouth hung open with her hands slapped across her cheeks, an almost replica scene from Home Alone. "Oh, come on Ran! Don't look at me like I'm some sort of alien! It's not like we couldn't see it coming…I mean we were getting more serious….and.."

Sonoko looked away smiling, a very sentimental smile with a gaze that seemed more distant "….it is one of the most precious memories I have in life right now, Ran…"

"Sonoko…" Ran gasped, her cheeks turning red as well. Sonoko acting like this was almost too much for Ran to handle, it was rare when Sonoko acted like she truly had feelings than lust or when her eyes shined like the way they did now.

Ran smiled grabbing her friend's hand tightly in assurance "I mean….it's not like you're different or anything! You're still my Sonoko…..just now…a little more grown up than me."

Ran laughed towards the end of what she said, still a little shocked that her best friend has already grown up so fast and doing such adult things. She never saw the day this would be finally happening….and to think now it was.

"So…" Ran began, leaning back towards Sonoko, smiling as her best friend's cheeks darkened even more waiting for the questions. "It was your first time, right?"

Sonoko nodded.

" Well!" Ran stopped, leaning even closer, eyes glowing with curiosity, her cheeks faintly blushing as well. " Give me the details! What was it like?"

Sonoko gasped in delight from this question, "Oh, Ran! You have no idea, it…it's incredible. Come!"

Ran was suddenly pulled up from her wrist as Sonoko leaped off the couch, suddenly back to her normal self. " The details….shall be revealed in my room behind locked doors. I'll warn you…"

Sonoko grinned looking over her shoulder as she dragged Ran behind her " The whole story is a little bit rated R. But, I guess it's time for, I, Sonoko Suzuki, to educate my best friend on this before she gets married!"

"Sonoko!" Ran gasped again, her cheeks burning red now.

"Shh! Shh! Come now, child. Enter my lair."

_Forty Eight Hours Later_

"You know…..I'm not a pharmacy correct, Kudou-kun?"

Shinichi pulled at his hair like he had a nervous tick and then removed his hand from his head and flinged it in front of Miyano's blank face.

"I just need some help, Haibara!" Shinichi exasperated.

The woman once known, and always known to Kudou Shinichi as Haibara Ai, placed her face in the palm of her hand and shook her head as her dear friend, who has been through hell and back with her and in numerous events had them almost killed while retaining a cool, calm, and witty attitude, stood more a mess than ever in front of them now.

"You mean the kind of help your father should have supplied you with, ages ago?" Miyano groaned as she trekked back down stairs to her laboratory in the Agasa household, where she still to this day still lived as means to watch over the aging scientist after she regained her normal body, with Shinichi hot on her heels.

"My father hasn't been with me since I was sixteen and like hell am I going to call him now about this!"

Miyano continued to walk to her desk without an etch of sympathy on her face for her friend, sitting in her swivel chair to start typing at her computer again.

"And you're coming to me, because…..?"

Shinichi grabbed a hold of the desk corners and looked Miyano dead square in her cerulean green eyes when she flicked her eyes back up from her monitor screen and back to the poor boy.

" Because I am desperate for advice and you are the only to come to mind that has any professional medical experience!"

Miyano refrained herself from snorting, but continued to play her best poker face. "You mean professional research experience. I am not some clinical physician, Kudou-kun. I'm a scientist. "

Shinichi narrowed his eyes, "I'm not seeing much of difference here, Haibara."

This was starting to give Miyano a headache, and a headache was the last thing she needed right now. She had about another eight hours to go in front of her computer researching her latest pill creation to continue to fight any adverse health conditions for her and Kudou-kun's antidotes they took almost now a year ago from the consequences of APTX4869. To be frank, Miyano had a lot to do today, and something like this, was just another unnecessary distraction.

And unnecessary distractions were ranked in the top five on her most unfavorable things list.

Miyano glared now at Shinichi from behind her computer desk, holding up a hand almost as a barrier to her face. "I'm giving you five seconds to leave my presence."

"Haibara!"

"Five…"

"Wait- you have got to be kidding me!" Shinichi half screamed now, clenching the desk even harder " You can't leave me in this time of need!"

"I'm not kidding you and I can. Four…."

Shinichi pressed two fingers to the temple of his head, frustration and embarrassment coloring his cheeks. The last thing he wanted to do was push Haibara to the edge, but he was in a desperate situation.

"Listen, Ai." Shinichi rushed out " Ran…she uh…we talked. We want to progress our relationship but with caution and I needed from a medical perspective all that I needed to do to ensure this caution and be the best…." Shinichi grabbed the collar of buttoned down shirt and pulled it away from his neck, feeling hotter than before in Miyano's usually very low temperature room.

" …be the best at what I'm needed to…uh…do." Shinichi finally finished, his voice dropping several notches.

Miyano stared at her friend in shock making Shinichi cough even more embarrassed than ever into a balled up fist. Miyano quickly shook her head to recover from what she had just heard, now after letting it seriously soak in that the boy she once had so much respect for, had actually asked her something like this. She had no idea that he was this bloody oblivious to these areas in life after all the knowledge he retained in that thick head of his.

Playing back on her poker face, and this time with a little more effort than usual, Miyano got up from her seat and walked to lean against her desk as Shinichi took a couple steps back in watchfulness to give his friend room to dwell on this.

Miyano closed her eyes processing all of this in her head as Shinichi stood waiting for her reply. "You couldn't go to Hattori-kun for this information?"

Shinichi scoffed at the idea "Yeah, right. Hattori hasn't even realized or come to telling his feelings for Kazuha yet. He is no position to advise me right now. If anything, you should consider this an honor I am comfortable enough to come to you about this, Haibara!"

Psh…..

Miyano glared at Shinchi again, this time revealing all of the annoyance she has been withholding in the whole time.

"An honor…?" Miyano echoed that immediately made Shinichi sweat.

"No, no!" Shinichi corrected himself " I mean, I would have the honor for your wise advisement and help!"

Miyano pushed herself up from the desk nodding her head, her eyes still half mooned in irritation and disbelief that is was coming to this.

"That's what I thought you meant, Kudou-kun. Now for your situation…"

Miyano leaned over to her desk to grab a pen and a scratch sheet of paper and begin writing something down for a minute before popping back up and slapping it into Shinichi's chest.

With a serious gaze, Miyano squared her eyes on Shinichi's helpless blue orbs " On this piece of paper is a description of the best contraceptives at your local drug store. All else, is in your genetic and anatomical design to figure out. Hope that helps and we are not…."

Miyano emphasized her last sentence word by word for Shinichi to cleary comprehend " and I repeat….we are not to have this come up again. I am leaving this in your hands Kudou-kun. You're a big boy now."

Shinichi gave one reassured nod and a very sincere thank you before running out of the Miyano's laboratory with his very precious paper clutched into his hand. Watching Shinichi run up the last case of stairs and hearing the lab door slam shut, Miyano went back behind her desk to sit down. She began typing fervently before stopping to process what just happened. Then, with a sincere smile and a chuckle to herself Miyano, realizing, she had just attained a great accomplishment.

"I did it. I survived the talk and with all people, Kudou-kun, himself."

Miyano nodded her head in quiet reverence before going back to work.

Haha, I had fun writing this one. Hope you guys enjoyed as much as I did and make sure to review me your thoughts. I appreciate the feedback. This is developing somewhat the way I wanted it to be- another chapter should be on the look out in time.-Detectivegirl2005