Translated Drabble Collection

The following is a small collection of a dozen "drabbles" (fic-bits aiming to be precisely 100 words) originally written in French, most of them rather old and prompted by friends. So expect an eclectic mix of canon pairings and oddness, and very few of them to actually be 100 words.

1. Loss of confidence
Heiji-Kazuha for Louna

Heiji Hattori lives his day to day life without ever losing his self-confidence. There's only one person who can ever take it away from him. There she is. She has done it again.

So, she asks, what was this ever so important thing he had to say to her before dying? What had he to confess, when there was a gun against his head?

He is sorry, but he doesn't have the courage to tell her. So he says something silly, that he regrets. He has no other way of escaping from this torment.
He isn't brave enough to tell her.
"I love you, Kazuha."

2. Header
Footie moment.

"SHPOING! PYONG! PAOUNG!"
Multiple collisions of a bag of air against the outer rubber skin of a ball, between one wall and one expert foot.
"PON! PAM!"
The young boy begins juggling with his ankles, then his knees, while grinning like a champion.
...Moment of apprehension: the ball is balancing on his forehead.
"PIM! POM!"
And back to juggling between ankles. A smile as he prepares to shoot.
"PIONGG!"
And now for the header...!
"SHBLAAGH! PING. Ping..."
Conan is sprawled upon the floor, unconscious... The ball bounces gently away.

Why on earth did he not think to turn his super powered shoes off...?

3. Spying Specs.
Movie 6, anyone?

"Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the exclusive pre-release session of Cocoon, the first-born of the latest video gaming technology! So as to fight corporate espionage, we require that you leave any form of recording device at the cloakroom. This includes mobile phones."
With a sigh, Ran, Conan and Kogoro go to the cloakroom to comply. Once the chore is done, they queue to get past security and enter the hall proper. Kogoro and Ran are both through without trouble. As for Conan...

BIP! BIP!
"Mister Mouri?"
"Yes?"
"Could you please explain why this child's glasses are full of secret listening devices?"
Six suspicious eyes turn to Conan.
"Oops?"

4. Aborted guide tour.
for YokoTsuno - Prompt: Hakuba, Kazuha, Kunai (or Shuriken)

That visit of the Tokyo museum was quite cool. For once, Kazuha and Heiji had been alone while visiting the capital. Ran, her father and young Conan hadn't been available to come with them this time. Kazuha even made the scrumptious encounter of a nice young man with light hair who offered to join them for lunch, while telling them interesting tales about the various items on display.

It was only when Heiji threw a Kunai (Belonging to the museum! What an idiot!) inches away from Hakuba's face that Kazuha realised he'd been hitting on her all along.

5. Night Trip
for Neo - prompt: Bed, Train, Ran

Ran had been taking the train more often, ever since Conan had been staying with them.
Trips to Osaka, to see Heiji and Kazuha, trip to Hokkaido, to see Natsume and her husband, various trips to weddings, and so on...
Sure, Conan would quite often misbehave during these journeys, especially if there happened to be a murder, but she found it really quite nice to be travelling like this, as a "family."

"But it is even nicer travelling at night..." She whispered to herself as she cuddled her pillow to the gentle sound of train tracks and her two companions' snoring.

6. Mistake
for Samiha – Post DC Shinichi-Ran, prompt: Octopus, Ink, Wardrobe.

No need to be Sherlock Holmes to decipher the scene.

An enormous octopus drawn in black ink on the wardrobe, a picture book used as reference to the splodge... Her husband in his chair, snoring without tomorrow, and from the upright piece of furniture comes the sound of her son's giggles.

If the child were to continue playing with the dart-watch, Shinichi would find himself with the title of "sleeping" in turn.

Ran smiled, having thought of a way to punish the young whipper-snapper spying on them from his hiding place.

Shinichi awoke to a lustful kiss from his wife. Disgusted sounds from their boy interrupt them. Both parents burst out laughing.

7. Gift
for Neo and KazuhaFansub – prompt: perspective, crayon, colour.

Tracing a line with her red-coloured crayon, the young girl sticks her tongue out as she concentrates on the challenging perspective in her drawing.

The door squeaks and, afraid, the child hides her artwork beneath an exercise sheet and pretends that she is focussed on her additions. Satisfied by the auburn-haired seven-year-old's studious air, the man in the black coat nods before leaving the room.

She sighs as the door squeaks behind him and lifts up her master piece to admire it: two happy young girls.

"Happy birthday, Akemi!" She whispers.

8. Firefly and Sadness
for Claude-le-noctambule - prompt: rose,nostalgia.
Sailormoon crossover featuring Hotaru Tomoe and Ai Haibara

A grey rose next to an indigo rose, two young school-girls admiring them. Both of them remember with a nostalgic feeling a time when they too had blossomed: the beauty of adolescence, the tender love of a family member, a gardener, whether they are called father or sister.
Unfortunately, with maturity comes the realisation that in life, there are also thorns and something even more painful: Death.

They are lucky, these two, to have had the chance to become buds once more, to find friends to help them forget their pain.

(Author note: If you don't know Sailor Moon, Hotaru (meaning firefly) goes through a rather similar tale to Ai's.)

9. A certain notion of peace
for the inspiring Sargon88 - prompt: mist, Kazuha, Kaitou Kid, Duel.

The sea mist recovers everything in the port of Osaka. An ideal environment for a fleeing thief, especially if he is dressed all in white as is the Kaitou Kid. Not that he was all that pleased with the ease of his escapade, though it was always better than joining the fishes in the sea. His duel with the Kansai detective will have to be for another time. And anyway, what kind of gentleman thief worthy of the name would dare get in the way of a young and tanned high-schooler wanting to enjoy a peaceful trip on a billionaire's yacht with his potential girlfriend?

For a certain notion of peaceful, naturally...

10. Your smile
for Claude, Sargon88 and Natalie - requires knowledge of Moroboshi Dai's past.

You would always smile during our dates. A peaceful smile, full of warmth, when you knew full well that this world was cold, that the night was all but silent. At first I thought you naïve. Afterwards I assumed you merely chose to ignore all that was dark in your life. But it was in the end, at our last meeting, that I finally understood. You knew full well that your life was stained with the blood of others, that you were but an orphan among many.

Your smile wasn't for yourself. You smile was for your sister. Your smile was for me.
Your smile was for hope.

But now, it is gone...

11. Suffering
A touch of angst.

Yukiko and Yusaku have lived through many an adventure together.
When one is wed to a renowned crime novelist who flees his editors by travelling the world, one sees many things. When the latter is a true magnet for murder cases, one learns to put on a brave face, to look at the bright side of things, as well as their dark side.

But nothing could ever prepare a mother for this.

Her son definitely took after his dad, yes, but she would have liked him not to have inherited her own hot-headed temperament... Her husband can only hold her in his arms, his expression dark, as she, her acting talents forgotten, lets her tears run.

The tears of a mother standing before her son's corpse... The tears of a mother at the funeral of her only child.

12. Anguish
More angst.

"Fool, I am such a fool..." She mumbles for the umpteenth time.
How could she ever have allowed Kudo to convince her to take her own antidote, to come to this place? She holds back a tremor as she faces the gaze of her adversaries. She must not show them her fear, her weakness. She had never thought she would ever have to live through this situation again.
Crossing her arms, a defiant act but also one that allows her some comfort as she tightens her grip on the shirt she had borrowed from Ran, she shows them one of her most emotionless glares.

And Kudo who is grinning like a fool...

"Class, let me introduce our newest student, Shiho Miyano. Please be kind to her." The teacher presents her to the room.

When at long last she gets to take a seat, Shiho has but one urge... To make Kudo pay for this anguish a hundred-fold.