Chapter 2

Stuck Together

After calming down, well, sort of. Kazuha paced back and forth, dragging Heiji with her, muttering all kinds of complaints, the boy was beginning to get annoyed, but said nothing. She started muttering things to, like what if they can't find Kid? Will they be stuck like this forever? Heiji finally had enough, stuck a leg out, Kazuha not paying attention tripped right over it, not wanting a repeat of last time, Heiji caught her before she hit the ground. He lifted her back up, letting her go; the girl was disappointed, but didn't voice it out loud. Heiji was just happy the girl stopped pacing around the room.

"So," Kazuha began."How is this going to work?" she asked, Heiji blinked.

"What do you mean?" He asked, raising an eyebrow, Kazuha face palmed.

"You know? Restrooms, Showers, Getting dress? Need I explain more?" she said, a blush growing on her face as she said this. The boy blushed too, not expecting her question.

"Urm, I really didn't think of that, I guess we won't be able to shower until we catch Kid?" He replied, wrong choice of words.

"Are you crazy? Maybe you could do it, but I'm not planning on walking around smelling like some dirty animal!" She exclaimed, blowing up at him for even suggesting an idea like that.

"Well you have a better idea?" He yelled back, he had mixed feelings about taking a shower with Kazuha. Some of them were dirty, who was he kidding? All of them were dirty, course he'd never voice that out loud. Kazuha deflated when he said this.

"We could always, no, how about, no, that's not right either." Kazuha slowly came up with ideas, but dismissed them. The boy became impatient, was this that important? He didn't think it anymore.

"Screw it, Kazuha-" she cut him off.

"Ugh! We'll just put on some towels like were at the hot springs, Kay? Good." She then dismissed the subject. Heiji couldn't let it end there, stupid ahou.

"Kazuha, we have a problem." Heiji said, a nervous sweat drop coming down his fore-head. The girl becomes annoyed.

"What Ahou?" she said, irritation in her voice.

"I have to go to the bathroom."

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"One or two?" she asked nervous, Heiji grew paler.

"One..." He replied, all kinds of swears went off in the teenage girl's head.

"Why me?" she mumbled, as they walked awkwardly to the bathroom. Heiji looked at her when they made it to the toilet, she didn't catch the hint.

"What?" Kazuha replied.

"Could you close your eyes, or do want to see my big friend?" he smirked at the last sentence, Kazuha blushed really hard, closing her eyes, and she turned around as much as the chain would let her. She had her eyes closed tightly; flinching when she heard him relieving himself, her blush deepened when Heiji let out a shaky moan, indicating that he's been holding it in for awhile. When Kazuha heard him zip up his pants, she signed, happy that it was over. They said nothing to each other as they exited the bathroom, not wanting to talk about the, at least they handled that better than expected; she thought he would've ended up pissing himself.

Kazuha looked out the window they passed, it was getting darker, soon, they'd have to shower, she couldn't wait, notice her sarcasm. On the bright side, they didn't have to go to school tomorrow, today was a Friday, and the weekend would start tomorrow. Heiji suddenly came to a halt, Kazuha crashed into his back, catching herself from falling, and she glared daggers at the boy's back, mad at his sudden stop. Her glare faltered when she heard his stomach growl, Kazuha laughed, while the boy blushed. He liked her laugh, wait, did he just say that? Kazuha stopped laughing and pulled her cuffed hand so Heiji would follow her, baffled he followed her.

"Where are we going?" he asked.

"To the kitchen."

"Why?"

"So we can eat why else Ahou?" she answered annoyed.

"Oh." he responded dumbly. When they entered the kitchen, she immediately began getting items from the cabinets, a confused Heiji watched, not knowing what to do. Kazuha didn't like this and started giving him orders on what to do. She gives him a soup can and told him you heat the soup up.

"What are you making?" He asked, feeling his mouth drooling already.

"We are making Sukiyaki." She answered, Heiji liked her answer, wait, did she say we?

"What do you mean us? I can't cook save my life!" Heiji exclaimed waving his free hand around, Kazuha rolled her eyes.

"I guess you're going to learn today huh? Now heat the dang soup up!" She ordered, grumbling, he did as he was told. Heiji didn't want to admit it, but heating the soup up was pretty easy, he looked to see how Kazuha was doing, she was slicing the meat into thin pieces, he silently thanked Kami that the girl was left-handed when it came to holding knifes, all her focus on cutting the meat. Heiji couldn't take his eyes off the girl, he forgot about everything just paying attention to Kazuha. Heiji didn't even stop when she looked at him. Not even when her eyes widened. Well, until she startled him with her piercing yell.

"Ahou! The soups burning!" She screamed; he jumped, the sudden yell snapping him out of his daze.

"Shit!" He cut the stove off and took the pot off the ring. Fortunately, the soup was saved. Kazuha scolded him to pay more attention, asking him why he was distracted, he told complete bogus, she believed him anyway and told him to be more careful. This time Heiji was determine to get it right, but made the mistake putting the tofu in first, Kazuha then stopped what she was doing and chewed him out, while she saved the Sukiyaki. Heiji hanged his head in shame; Kazuha stopped yelling when she saw how dejected Heiji looked. Feeling guilty, Kazuha praised him by saying that he did really good for a beginner, he grinned hearing this, after finishing the food they both made plates and sat down to eat.

Both thought that maybe it wasn't so bad being stuck together and they'd be able to last at least a week. That was what they thought until they both tried to eat. Both was right-handed, Heiji ate to fast, while Kazuha ate at a normal pace, Heiji had to slow down. Slowly, he learned her pace, both was able to eat peacefully, Heiji's mother, Shizuka, was watching the scene, silently squealing on how cute the two looked. She took a quick picture, but the camera made a loud click sound, alarming the teenagers. The lady then ran, the pair right behind her, but eventually she got away, speeding away in her car.

Heiji and Kazuha got over it, planning on coming up with excuses for the picture. Both went back inside and watched some television, this time, both agreeing to watch a certain movie that was on; it was called The Bone Collector. It had somewhat romance and enough crime for Heiji, though, the dead bodies nauseated Kazuha, she still watched it, liking how the lady cop was slowly warming up to the handicapped ex-cop. They reminded her of Heiji and herself, both at each other's neck, but really have a good chemistry. She took a quick glance at the boy next to her, he had that look on his face, like he was trying to figure out who the criminal was, a smile graced her lips, and he never changes does he?

Kazuha yawns, her eye lids became heavy, and she leaned on Heiji, closing her eyes. The boy doesn't notice, to engross in the movie. When the movie ended he turned to his companion, surprised that she's asleep, he was planning on waking her up, but she looked cute leaning on him, he blushed, and did he really think that? Heiji looked at her and raised his hand, shakily moved her bangs out of her face, he slowly leaned in. He couldn't do, so he did a quick peck on her cheek and closed his eyes, trying to get some sleep. If Heiji stayed up, maybe he would've seen the big smile that was on Kazuha's blushing face.

Maybe it wasn't so bad being stuck cuffed the ahou after all.

Hey guy's! I wanted to tell you that it might take awhile before I can post chapter 3. Why? I been taken requests on HeijixKazuha fanfics and it'll take awhile before I finish any of them. I'll try to post a chapter every week. If you're interested in requesting something go on my profile and on stories it'll say something like Request for HeijixKazuha fanfics. That's all for now guy's. I'll see you later bye!^_^
-JazzyMire