Paranormal Deception (Tales of the Detective and His Angel)
Title: Paranormal Deception
Author: Ran-dezvous
Genre: Romance/General
Fandom: Detective Conan
Pairing: Kudou Shinichi and Mouri Ran
Word Count: 586
Rating: PG
Original Publish Date: January 29, 2007
Disclaimer: If I believed in subjective reality, then I would gladly say that I'm Aoyama Gosho, the creator of Detective Conan/Meitantei Conan. But I don't.
Summary: Sometimes it's better not knowing everything.
This, thought Shinichi, can’t be real.
He shouldn’t have brought her to the library in the first place. All he wanted to do was read his favorite Sherlock Holmes novels in peace-away from Agasa-hakase’s explosions. But no, Ran just had to find a book about ESP, and is now goading him to think of an object. She, on the other hand, would be the receiver. Sometimes, he wished, she just stuck to her romance novels.
“Shinichi, I can’t see anything!”
“That’s because your eyes are closed!”
“That’s because I’m trying to concentrate! Could you please do your part?!”
“But Ran, no matter how much you and I try to concentrate, it still wouldn’t work. C’mon, if we could all read each other’s minds, then there’d be no need for detectives!”
“Not everyone has the ability to read minds, you know.”
“That includes the both of us.”
“What makes you so sure about that?! You’re not even doing your part!”
“It’s not scientifically proven!”
“Oh and you consider yourself shrinking to a little kid scientific?”
Shinichi heaved out a sigh. “All right already, let’s just get this over with.”
The detective closed his eyes and tried to think of an object. Minutes passed by, and he still couldn’t think of anything. No, scratch that. He was able to think of a cornucopia of things, but he couldn't bring himself to concentrate on any single one of them, his attention shifting from one object to another.
“It’s too hard, Ran. I can’t do this. I give up.” The meitantei, in spite of the fact that it wasn’t a contest, had conceded defeat.
“No, you can’t give up!”
“Why shouldn’t I? There’s no such thing as telepathy!”
“Because-” Ran opened her eyes and leaned over to the detective’s lips, touching his for a moment with her own.
Shinichi felt her lips touch against his, and opened his eyes in surprise. As she let go of her lips, a blush of crimson came across his face. His cerulean eyes continued to look at her face in shock, and for once, the loquacious detective had absolutely nothing to say, although his mouth was still left hanging after the kiss.
“Gotcha!”
Shinichi was really confused now. “Huh?”
“I can’t believe you actually thought I believed in that!” Ran teased. “After all these years we’ve known each other, you should’ve known me better than that!” She gave out a huge smile and sat-
Shinichi leaned over the wooden table and pressed his lips against Ran’s. The kiss didn’t last very long, nor was it deep; nevertheless, it left a tingling sensation inside her. She really didn’t anticipate that.
“You should have known better than to mess with the Detective of the East.”
“I guess you’re right.” Ran replied. She tilted her head back to look at the black-rimmed wall clock hanging on the beige wall behind the circulation counter. “It’s getting late now. You know how Dad is without his dinner.”
“Yeah. Would you like me to walk you home?”
“No thanks. You know how my Dad feels about you.” Ran stood up from her seat. “See you in school tomorrow.” She heard Shinichi mutter a “see ya” before she left.
There was a huge smile plastered on Ran’s face as she skipped her way home. Everyone around her had puzzled looks on their faces, and for some reason, her cheer had spread to them.
Maybe not being able to read other people’s minds isn’t such a bad thing after all.
Despite the fact that I enjoy reading DC romance fics, I've never really thought I'd write one (only thirty-nine left). It's all ivory_petals’ fault. She told me to write forty oneshots of any DC pairing of my choice, and since I'm most familiar with the Shinichi and Ran pairing, I picked them. This series would be updated at least once a month, or else Ivory-chan's going to constantly bug me. (To IP: You're evil, you know that?)
This really weird (?) fanfic idea had long existed in my head before I was 'challenged' to write this series. And as I typed this, I turned out to be different from what I originally planned. (I wasn't even sure I want to even post this in the first place.) There wasn't supposed to be any kissing originally. Then I thought Shinichi should kiss Ran. Then I wanted Ran to outsmart Shinichi. Then...you have the fic you just read. -sigh-
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