Disclaimer: Detective Conan © Aoyama Gosho… I'm not intelligent enough to plan those cases.

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pitter patter

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The sound of heavy raindrops drummed on his ears as their whole campus was showered with the pitter patter of the rain.

His jaw dropped at the sight of the dark clouds that begun to bath Osaka, or at least the part of it where he was currently at.

Analyzing the clouds hovering around their place, twelve year old Heiji knew that it would at least take two hours before the rain was going to halt.

And that was a bummer! How was he supposed to watch the one-hour special episode of his favorite mystery show today if he was trapped in the school building by the pitter patter of the rain?!

"Argh!"

He kicked the floor and angrily sat himself in the main entrance of the building. Maybe he should not had had practiced too much kendo that day.

It had been obvious that it was going to rain. And indeed, it did.

He was thinking of running fast and ignoring the rain so that he could watch his favorite show. But somehow, he was not in the mood of getting wet because of the rain.

What was worse was the fact that he was alone in the school premises; everyone had gone home an hour earlier. And that 'everyone' included his best friend.

Heaving out a sigh, a lopsided smile escaped his lips as he rested his chin on his left hand. At least, that ahou was already at home; he did not need to worry about her getting sick because of the rain.

She was probably enjoying some hot chocolate right now, or maybe some ramen made by her mom... And he was sure that she would be watching his favorite mystery show right now just to spite him tomorrow.

So typical of Kazuha to do that.

Well, at least to his logic, it was.

That was why his eyes widened in disbelief when the rhytmical pitter patter of the rain was broken by a set of familiar footsteps and when a figure of a girl in ponytail came in sight.

The young lad immediately stood upon recognizing that it was no other than his childhood friend who was excitedly running under the rain with only a raincoat to protect her and who was being stupid enough not to use the umbrella in her left hand.

"Heiji!"

She waved towards him as she neared the school entrance where Heiji had been waiting for the rain to stop.

"What are you doing here, ahou?!" Wasn't she supposed to be safe and warm in her own house?

Pouting, she handed the umbrella that she brought. "I knew you didn't have an umbrella today, you ahou."

He could only stare back at her.

Her actions were quite illogical based on his thoughts and he didn't quite grasp as to why she bothered to bring him an umbrella when she could just have watched the mystery show and spite him tomorrow.

Well, she was his best friend. She's only be doing this because-

"You were worried about me, huh, ahou?" A grin formed in his mouth and he couldn't help but chuckle for no apparent reason.

"Hmp." Kazuha snorted at first, but ended up smiling as Heiji patted her head and beamed at her.

"C'mon, let's go home." He opened the umbrella and pulled her so that the two of them were both under it. "You should have had brought two umbrellas, ahou."

"I would have, if mine wasn't broken," Kazuha scowled. "Who would want to share an umbrella with you??"

"Hmp!" Heiji snorted the same way Kazuha did earlier and decided to move the umbrella away from her. "Then don't share with me!"

"Hey!" Kazuha eyes widened and instinctively pushed herself towards her friend. Heiji couldn't help but laugh at her funny expression.

"Heiji, if we run, we could still catch up with that favorite show of yours."

"Shoot, you're right!" Placing an arm around her to make sure that she's safe under the cover of the umbrella, Heiji started for a run. "Hurry up, you ahou!"

"Who are you calling ahou?! Ahou!"

And the loud steps of the two best friends (along with their shouts of 'ahou') were soon unheard as the pitter patter of the rain continued.

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owari

Aki: Currently addicted to Detective Conan… the title was supposed to be 'Clueless' but 'Sweet Innocence' sounded cute… X3 Review?