(Started: 6/11/10)

More Than You Think

Chapter Five

Hattori just couldn't understand what had happened as Shinichi would either avoid direct eye contact with him, or just avoid him completely. He's even caught Shinichi blushing and talking something over with Kaito just the other day ago. He thought things had been going great the night that he got caught stalking Shinichi and he still could remember the kiss that he had stolen. He looked over at Shinichi, who had looked away quickly, if only he could somehow corner his friend. He bit his lip as he thought of ways to corner Shinichi; the best way would probably be a murder case. He sighed, god that was a depressing though. Baiting for Kudou vita murder.

Hattori glared at his latest follower, who was also stalking Kuroba, Hakuba raised an eyebrow at him. Why did his follower have to be Hakuba? He hated Hakuba, that prissy know it all, it didn't help that Hakuba would be whispering several things that made Kuroba; Kid. He could see where Hakuba was coming from, but he felt that Kid meant no harm; after all he returned all the jewels that he stole. Hattori was about 100 percent sure that murders completely took priority over phantom thieves any day.

Hattori caught Shinichi staring at him again, and frowned, now what was up with Shinichi? Avoiding him constantly, then staring at him, god and he wasn't even going to go into that thing with Kuroba the other day. He still shuttered at the looks that Kuroba kept giving him, like a jealous glare with the intensity for mischief, but much much worse. Hattori sighed and glanced back to the teacher, who was going on about some complicated chemical method in the front.

Hattori couldn't be happier when the never-ending class ended, to bad his happiness didn't last longer as Hakuba followed him from the class. "Hattori, I have an idea about your slight problem." Hakuba said, idling messing with his school papers, then pulling out a case file and handed it to Hattori. "It's a cold case, but I've heard that Kudou is very strict about catching murders."

Hattori looked through the file and grinned, this was perfect bait. "This is prefect! What's the catch?"

Hakuba grinned at Hattori.

Shinichi raised an eyebrow at the file that Heiji held in front of his face. "What's that?" He asked reaching for the file, only to have Heiji pull it away from him. "Come on! Let me see it!" Heiji grinned at him, pulling it further away from the other detective as he reached for the file, completely absorbed by the nice manila folder and the promises it held with in it. "Heiji! Let me see it!" Heiji just held it higher, enjoying the excitement of a new case on Shinichi's face.

"I'll give it to ya, when we're on the boat to the island" Heiji said with a huge smirk. Shinichi frowned for a second before pulling away from his quest of getting the manila folder, giving Heiji a wearily look before nodding.

"I'm guessing you've just assumed that I'd go with you." Shinichi said walking ahead of Heiji, they were currently on their way to a local dinner, and Heiji had told Shinichi that he wanted to talk to him. Shinichi had wondered if it was about that…He closed his eyes, rubbed the bridge of his nose and shook his head. He wasn't even going to think of that again, it brought up to many feelings. Feelings he just didn't want to understand towards Heiji, let alone acknowledge said feelings.

He still was hurting from Ran. He fell back from walking side by side with Heiji and looked sadly at his friends back. Why couldn't they just be friends? He frowned and quickly brought up a fake smile when Heiji looked behind him to see what was keeping him.

Shinichi stared out at the sea, waiting for Heiji to arrive, he smiled as Kaito tried to latch on him again. "Cut it out, Kaito, it's not like they are going to jump out of the water at you." Kaito pouted before glaring out towards the salt water, it gave him chills just knowing that it contained those evil creatures that…Kaito shook his head, pretending that he wasn't near creature contaminated waters. Shinichi sighed as Kaito tensed up, on full guard. Shinichi silently wondered if there was any way to get rid of his stalkers, he really didn't understand why it was so much fun following him around, at worse, it was life threatening.

When he was Conan, he couldn't count the number of times one of his friends or family was in life threatening danger because of him. Even Heiji risked his life to save him; he heard someone call out to him and turned to see not only Heiji, but Hakuba too. He nodded to Hakuba and smiled at the sour look on Heiji's face at the sight of Kaito next to him. "So, which boat are we taking to the island anyways?" Kaito asked to distract Heiji and Shinichi, who were staring at each other. "And why is Mr. Prissy here?"

"I found the case, and why are you here, Kuroba? Is there something of value on the island that catches your eye?" Hakuba answered.

"How many times do I have to tell you! I'm not KID!" Kaito growled at Hakuba. Heiji had sighed, and motioned to Shinichi where the boat was located, in hopes of leaving the other two behind.

"Hakuba, please lay off of Kaito till we're on the boat at least…" Shinichi sighed and followed Heiji to the boat. Hakuba and Kaito glared at each other before following Shinichi and Heiji on to the boat.

Shinichi looked over at Heiji expectantly, holding his hand for the folder that was promised upon arrival on the boat. Heiji sighed, pulled the file out of his bag and handed it to Shinichi, who then grinned like a maniac and flipped through the file.

"Well, that's new…" Shinichi blinked at the crime scene photos. "This guy was seriously murdered by chopsticks? Hmm…And then nailed to the wall with said chop-sticks…." Shinichi continued to look over the file as Heiji directed them to their temporary seats.

"I knew he'd be out to space the minute he got that file…" Heiji sighed, but smiled at the bright look on Shinichi's face, it was much better then that fake mask the other had been pulling up lately. If he'd known that a good mystery would have lit up Shinichi's face like that, he'd found one much sooner. Heiji set his and Shinichi's bags next to them and sat down as he watched Shinichi pace in front of him, already thinking before seeing the scene.

Of course, his prefect vision of Shinichi was ruined when Hakuba and Kaito got to their seats, still growling at each other, well more of the pranking on Kaito's side then growling.

-End Chapter Five-

(6/26/10)