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Chapter 7: Misunderstanding at the Hospital
As he reached the Beika Hospital, he quickly ran to the information counter gasping for air. He shouts while gasping, "Clerk! Clerk! This girl has a very high temperature! She needs cold compress and some medication! Please! Hurry!"
Upon the clerk hearing this, she quickly called a nurse to bring a stretcher and send her to the emergency room. The nurses helped in carrying the feverish Shiho on the stretcher, then, pushed her stretcher fast into the emergency room. Conan walked to the emergency room together with the stretcher. As he looked worriedly at Haibara, he smiled at her and whispered, "We can bare this pain together. Let me unite with your aching soul." Haibara slid her eyes toward Conan, smiled back and murmured at him, "Kudo- kun, you are the light that broke the shield of darkness within my soul. Thank you! But, but, I, I am guilty! I, I feel that you are suffering because of me! You are always there for me; however, something unimaginable might occur to you during the span of time that you are with me! Don't you know that your life is at risk whenever you are with me? Oh, Kudo- kun!! You must be blaming me for all of this!! It's my entire fault! I am so sorry that you got involved in my threatening life! Please forgive me!!", then her smile turned into a bitter heartbreaking expression as her tears flowed out from her beautiful eyes.
Conan looked at her very gently with sad eyes and explained, "I know that I am in great danger whenever I want to look after you but in spite of that I do not care! I do not care because if anything happens to my life, that has been always offered to you! Don't be stupid, I promised you that I would always protect you and comfort you! I care so much about you as well! Nothing is forcing me to always be at your side and share a shoulder to cry on, I would want to help you in any way myself! So, don't be stupid by thinking that I am just doing this because I have to but instead remember that I really want to do it for you myself because you are my dearest friend! Never think that way! I would never blame you of anything you do! Never did I think that you were ever at fault! Never think that you are a nuisance to me! All these horrible things that keep happening to you are absolutely not your fault!!! In fact, you even gave me courage to continue searching the Black Organization and get my real body back! Without you, maybe I would have already given up by now. Both of us should help each other in times like this! You should always keep in mind that you mean a lot to me and I don't know what I'd do without you!! So, please, stop crying, and, and wipe your tears because seeing you like this makes my heart excruciate also! Every tear that you shed is like a gunshot piercing through my heart! I love Ran, that's true, but, but, I….I think I ….I…"
Haibara looks at him with a painful smile and said, "Please, don't speak Kudo- kun. This is enough for me. And I just want to confess to you that I, that I….I….I... want to let you know that I….I…I…..", as tears rolled down her cheeks. Conan looked at her gently, questioned ever so softly, "That….that….that you love me?" Haibara with eyes filled with anxiety was in great shock, blushing and said, "How, how….but….I never told…..but….but….I…."
Conan used his index finger touching her lips and said, "Don't speak, don't worry. You never told me. In fact, you are so good at hiding your true feelings that I never even realized it. I know that you don't want anyone to find out about your feelings for me, especially me. However, just while you were sleeping a while ago, Dr. Agasa and I overheard you deliriously calling out my name, and, and, about that you loved me…. Wh…why did you hide that feeling from me all this time? Don't you trust me?" Haibara replied ever so sweetly, not anymore with cold eyes, "Well, it is not that I didn't trust you, but, I knew that it was pointless telling you this." Conan inquired disappointedly, "Doshite?"
Haibara questioned with reassurance sadly and also stated, "Well, your heart already belonged to someone else, am I right? And I didn't want to interfere." Conan, with an assuring smile asked her and stated as well, "Even though I love Ran, it doesn't mean that I can't love you, too.", as he started to giggle. He says that to her while gently holding her cheeks. Haibara was surprised. She shouted angrily and annoyed, "Kudo!!!!! YOU IDIOT!!!! BAKA!!!! Don't be a fool!! I think I know what you mean Kudo and I won't let it happen!!"
Conan asked confusedly, "Huh? What do you mean, Ai?" Haibara grew more furious upon hearing Kudo question her like that. "The nerve……." Ai thought in her head. Then, she responded to Conan shouting at the top of her voice, saying, "What the hell do you mean by, huh? Huh?!!! How on earth can you love two people at the same time, baka?!! How!!? You are a total idiot, Kudo!!" Conan didn't know what to answer.
After their little argument, silence filled the air. For a while, none of their voices could be heard. Only the voices of the doctors talking, the gasping nurses who were pushing the stretcher and the squeaking wheels of the stretcher. Suddenly, their moment of silence was broken by a nurse gasping for air after hurriedly have pushed the stretcher saying to them in relief, "At last! We have arrived to the emergency room. Just wait here and take a rest, miss while we find a room for you to admit on and get you an assigned doctor, too. Okay? Is it okay? Is it okay, okay, okay?? Oh, and, young boy, come with me and we will give you a form of admission to fill up. Okay? Really, okay?"
Conan and Haibara thought that the nurse was really a weirdo because she kept on repeating the question "okay?" to them when it was already clear and obvious that it was the right thing to do. Conan murmurs to Haibara with annoyance towards the nurse, "Jeez, what the heck? Why does she have to keep on asking that? It's not like we have a choice and those are the procedures of admitting into a hospital, right? Man, this nurse is driving me insane. What do you think, Shiho? Isn't she a lunatic?"
Haibara responded softly and mockingly, "Well, Kudo, it's good that you know that this nurse is absurd or somewhat like that, therefore, go nuts with her. In fact it is good so that you will know the correct answer to my question a while ago when she makes you insane. Can't wait to see you die from insanity because of that stupid nurse! Was I too harsh, Kudo- kun?" Conan just stared at her blankly and suddenly shouted at her with an angry, sort of depression in his eyes,
"Hmmph! I guess I was wrong about my feelings after all!!! I guess that you are not a true friend of mine!! And yet I even thought we were like family!! I think Ran is my real friend!! At least she never talks to me in a sarcastic way, unlike you! You always have a very cold expression towards me!! Not like Ran, she would always have a cheerful and smiling look in her face!!! I think she's the one who makes me happier!! You're right, she makes me happy and… and all you offer me is sadness!!! Can't you ever be friendly to me, Shiho??!! Even, even, even just as an acquaintance?"
His last sentence wasn't an angry statement; rather, it was a heartbreaking question. Then, right after that, tears quickly fell from Shiho's beautiful eyes down to her cheeks. She said sadly while her apology kept on stopping as she cried and gasped for air, "I'm sorry. I didn't intend for my personality to be this way. But, but, it is just that I don't want you hurting her feelings and I like both of you to be together. You were childhood friends after all. I don't want to ruin your good relationship, and, I think you two are meant to be. She is the right person for you. I am so sorry, Kudo- Kun. Sorry, for how I have been acting towards you." Haibara covers her face with the sheets of blankets and the pillows so that Conan will not be able to see her crying face. Conan didn't understand what she just said. All that escaped his mouth was, "Huh? What the heck does Haibara mean?" After a few minutes of solitude, Conan finally understood what Haibara meant after his deep thinking over what she said.