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TMPD Antics

By Taliya

XLVII: Kuroba and Hattori

Heiji noticed that morning that Saguru had very swiftly made tracks away from him, and that there had been a mix of a blush on his cheeks and a greenness to his complexion. It was an odd combination, to say the least. "Oi, Kuroba," Heiji called out to Kaito, who was a few paces ahead and had also seen his old classmate jet. "What's up with Hakuba?"

Kaito stared in the direction Saguru had fled. "No idea," he said with honest confusion in his eyes. That bafflement quickly turned into mischievous inquisitiveness. "Though I wouldn't say no to finding out what caused that expression."

Heiji snickered. Kuroba's constant antagonism of Saguru was one of the reasons he got along spectacularly with the Division Three officer. It helped that Shinichi more than tolerated the two of them, so the trio could hang out with a decent amount of frequency outside of the office. "I wouldn't either," he agreed, though had he known exactly what the source of Saguru's distress was, he was more than likely to have run off screaming in horror. But as ignorance was bliss, Heiji and Kaito began to throw increasingly preposterous ideas regarding Saguru's discomposure, whether or not they actually had anything to do with his seeing Heiji and turning tail.

"He misplaced his polka-dotted wear-every-Thursday underwear," Kaito tossed out.

"He figured out his watch was off by more than three-thousandths of a second," Heiji snickered.

"He got his ass grabbed by a random guy on the street."

"He found out that Kaitou KID was secretly courting him." Kaito inwardly shivered and gagged at that suggestion.

"He discovered an official secret ending in which Sherlock Holmes was thoroughly trounced by Arsène Lupin."

"He realized that I'm a much better detective than he is," Heiji chortled.

"He dreamed he got a kiss from you!" Kaito crowed, unaware that he had actually guessed correctly.

"Oh, gods," Heiji groaned, shuddering and making a face. "Please, Kuroba, please never allude to Hakuba and use the word 'kiss' in conjunction with me in the same sentence ever again."

Author's Note: Ah, Heiji and Saguru's antagonism is legendary. Mix that in with Kaito, and you have a "let's poke all sorts of fun at Saguru" session in play. I hope you enjoyed it.

Completed: 21.11.2015