Shinichi/Ai, Detective Conan, Theme Four
Title: Love of Gray
Author/Artist:silky_sarii
Pairing: Ai/Shinichi
Fandom: Detective Conan
Theme: 04: The Golden Year
Rating: G
Disclaimer: Detective Conan and all its related material belong to Gosho Aoyama. Borrowed without permission. Themes belong to the LJ community, 100_chances. Plots are mine, cannot be used without permission.
a/n: Ran out of inspiration on this one. It's not really intended to be comprehensible. ^.^
Theme Four: The Golden Year
.:x:.
Neither Conan-kun nor Ai-chan is at school that day. Genta-kun and Mitsuko-kun went after school to Hakase’s house. Hakase says that both Conan-kun and Ai-chan are sick.
Ayumi doesn’t see them two days later. Nor the day after that. Nor the day after that. All three of them go to Ran-neechan’s house and then to Hakase’s house-both are resting, it’s easily contagee…catch-able, no, they can’t see Ai-chan.
Genta-kun asks, “But how come you-”
The door shuts quickly before he can finish.
.:x:.
That night, Ayumi makes get-well cards for her two friends. She puts extra stars on Conan-kun’s.
.:x:.
Nearly a month has past when Ai-chan returns. One class is spent showering her with gift cards that they all made and eating the “Welcome Back, Conan and Ai” cake. Only… Conan is still not back.
“Our dear friend Conan-kun will not be coming back,” Sensei announces, after the class has given Ai-chan her set of cards. “He has moved back to his home in America.”
No…no…I haven’t…given him his card…yet-
Ayumi takes in a deep breath before she starts crying. With her blurry vision, she can barely see Mitsuko-kun stand up and move toward her, his mouth curved downwards in a frown. Genta-kun is also shocked somewhat, and he has torn his gaze from his lap to stare at her.
After she calms down, she looks toward Conan-kun’s seat. Ai-chan, looking…strangely incomplete, is staring out the window...
.:x:.
Ai-chan later explains that Edogawa-kun’s brush with death had scared his parents back in America. The safest thing for the little detective was to leave Japan. Ai-chan is always right, Ayumi knows, but she can’t understand why he didn’t say goodbye.
She has also noticed that Ai-chan, after her recovery, limps slightly as she walks. Sometimes, Jodie-sensei, who barely knows about Haibara Ai, is at Hakase’s house after school, drinking tea and chatting about the weather…
Things have quieted down, and although the trio has expanded with more and more junior detectives added to their fold, something has changed. Ayumi thinks that, more than anyone, Ai-chan has changed. But how? Ayumi is not as good a detective as Conan-kun had proved to be, but…It’s suspicious. Her friend is different. She never really wanted to play before, but now she refuses outright. When she comes to class, she looks so tired and sick; her days are spent staring out the window, her eyes too bright to be normal. Ai-chan, their friend, is slowly drifting away.
.:x:.
Suddenly, Ai-chan begins to act like her normal self. She makes jokes once in a while, and again only the adults understand. She eats gracefully. The mysteries that come to the Detective Boys, she solves them faster than the Boys can ever hope to solve them themselves. She reads a book while the teacher isn’t looking.
Sometimes, she stares out the window.
“I’m fine,” Ai-chan says quietly to her after school, “I’m just a bit tired. That’s all.”
Ayumi can’t get her to respond and prepares to leave, but just before she walks out of the classroom door, she stops.
“Ai-chan, did you like Conan-kun?” Ayumi knows she doesn’t have to explain the difference between liking and liking liking. Not to Ai.
“No,” Ai-chan says, “no.”
Ayumi can’t but smile widely, and for the first time in quite a while, Ayumi sees her friend smile in reaction. She laughs. So does the other. Ayumi doesn’t know which “she” it is, but somehow it doesn’t matter as much.
“How do you feel?”
Ai-chan smiles, looking out the window once more.
“I feel…”
She turns away from the window to give Ayumi the brightest, happiest smile that Ayumi has ever seen from her friend. There are flecks of green in her eyes. Ayumi can’t help but think she’s pretty.
“I feel…golden.”
And then, everything is normal.
For one thing, Kudo Shinichi-niisan has come back. For good.
He had been at the picnic yesterday with Hakase and Ran-neechan in the park. He had just come fresh from the airport, according to Ran-neechan, and had been watching Ayumi pick the flowers next to Ai-chan. Ran-neechan looked extra pretty that day…He’s nice.
And despite the fact that Conan-kun left her, everything is right. Ai-chan doesn’t make any sense. It sounds right.
“I feel golden, too.”
At least, she does, until the next week, when Ai-chan says she’s moving away as well.">
Author/Artist:silky_sarii
Pairing: Ai/Shinichi
Fandom: Detective Conan
Theme: 04: The Golden Year
Rating: G
Disclaimer: Detective Conan and all its related material belong to Gosho Aoyama. Borrowed without permission. Themes belong to the LJ community, 100_chances. Plots are mine, cannot be used without permission.
a/n: Ran out of inspiration on this one. It's not really intended to be comprehensible. ^.^
Theme Four: The Golden Year
.:x:.
Neither Conan-kun nor Ai-chan is at school that day. Genta-kun and Mitsuko-kun went after school to Hakase’s house. Hakase says that both Conan-kun and Ai-chan are sick.
Ayumi doesn’t see them two days later. Nor the day after that. Nor the day after that. All three of them go to Ran-neechan’s house and then to Hakase’s house-both are resting, it’s easily contagee…catch-able, no, they can’t see Ai-chan.
Genta-kun asks, “But how come you-”
The door shuts quickly before he can finish.
.:x:.
That night, Ayumi makes get-well cards for her two friends. She puts extra stars on Conan-kun’s.
.:x:.
Nearly a month has past when Ai-chan returns. One class is spent showering her with gift cards that they all made and eating the “Welcome Back, Conan and Ai” cake. Only… Conan is still not back.
“Our dear friend Conan-kun will not be coming back,” Sensei announces, after the class has given Ai-chan her set of cards. “He has moved back to his home in America.”
No…no…I haven’t…given him his card…yet-
Ayumi takes in a deep breath before she starts crying. With her blurry vision, she can barely see Mitsuko-kun stand up and move toward her, his mouth curved downwards in a frown. Genta-kun is also shocked somewhat, and he has torn his gaze from his lap to stare at her.
After she calms down, she looks toward Conan-kun’s seat. Ai-chan, looking…strangely incomplete, is staring out the window...
.:x:.
Ai-chan later explains that Edogawa-kun’s brush with death had scared his parents back in America. The safest thing for the little detective was to leave Japan. Ai-chan is always right, Ayumi knows, but she can’t understand why he didn’t say goodbye.
She has also noticed that Ai-chan, after her recovery, limps slightly as she walks. Sometimes, Jodie-sensei, who barely knows about Haibara Ai, is at Hakase’s house after school, drinking tea and chatting about the weather…
Things have quieted down, and although the trio has expanded with more and more junior detectives added to their fold, something has changed. Ayumi thinks that, more than anyone, Ai-chan has changed. But how? Ayumi is not as good a detective as Conan-kun had proved to be, but…It’s suspicious. Her friend is different. She never really wanted to play before, but now she refuses outright. When she comes to class, she looks so tired and sick; her days are spent staring out the window, her eyes too bright to be normal. Ai-chan, their friend, is slowly drifting away.
.:x:.
Suddenly, Ai-chan begins to act like her normal self. She makes jokes once in a while, and again only the adults understand. She eats gracefully. The mysteries that come to the Detective Boys, she solves them faster than the Boys can ever hope to solve them themselves. She reads a book while the teacher isn’t looking.
Sometimes, she stares out the window.
“I’m fine,” Ai-chan says quietly to her after school, “I’m just a bit tired. That’s all.”
Ayumi can’t get her to respond and prepares to leave, but just before she walks out of the classroom door, she stops.
“Ai-chan, did you like Conan-kun?” Ayumi knows she doesn’t have to explain the difference between liking and liking liking. Not to Ai.
“No,” Ai-chan says, “no.”
Ayumi can’t but smile widely, and for the first time in quite a while, Ayumi sees her friend smile in reaction. She laughs. So does the other. Ayumi doesn’t know which “she” it is, but somehow it doesn’t matter as much.
“How do you feel?”
Ai-chan smiles, looking out the window once more.
“I feel…”
She turns away from the window to give Ayumi the brightest, happiest smile that Ayumi has ever seen from her friend. There are flecks of green in her eyes. Ayumi can’t help but think she’s pretty.
“I feel…golden.”
And then, everything is normal.
For one thing, Kudo Shinichi-niisan has come back. For good.
He had been at the picnic yesterday with Hakase and Ran-neechan in the park. He had just come fresh from the airport, according to Ran-neechan, and had been watching Ayumi pick the flowers next to Ai-chan. Ran-neechan looked extra pretty that day…He’s nice.
And despite the fact that Conan-kun left her, everything is right. Ai-chan doesn’t make any sense. It sounds right.
“I feel golden, too.”
At least, she does, until the next week, when Ai-chan says she’s moving away as well.">