Detective Conan: A fan's fantasy

Chapter Five: Damsels in distress

“Aiyaa!! This is so much of the turn of events.” She stood up and bowed in front of everyone as a sign of apology. “I’m really sorry for causing so much trouble!”

“Hey?!” A loud, booming voice blurted behind Noemi.

“Wh—What?!” Noemi answered in a frightened tone.

“Hey, Missy!! Look what you’ve done!” His voice is so furious that all of the customers began fretting and was begun to feel afraid. Apparently, she bumped the coffee that the man was drinking. It was now all stained in his white shirt and trousers.

 “I—I’m sorry!!” She clutched her chest and began to shiver. Tears began to swell in her eyes.

The huge man who looked no more than a villain in an old movie grabbed her hand.

“What do you think you’re doing crazy American?!” He yelled.

Noemi’s looks are really more of an American than Japanese with her fashion.

“I—I…” She began to stutter and choke.

“Hey…” A light tap broke the man’s rage for a split of second. He threw the frightened girl to one of his frightened looking bodyguards.

“What now?!” He screamed and turned around only to see two young girls looking rather angry. “What’s this?! Now you little kids hurry and get away from this place!!”

“No way!”

“What?!” He raised his big fist as to hit the fragile girls in front of him.

Kazuha backed down a bit, searching for strength through her friend.

“R—Ran-chan…” She squeezed her friend’s shoulder, she’s frightened.

“It’s alright, Kazuha-chan. We have to save Noemi-san. I’ll take him with my karate, and you, take his bodyguard with Noemi-san with your aikido.”

“But shouldn’t we wait for Heiji and Conan-kun?”

“I think we should do something really quick now!” She threw a quick glance to the trembling Noemi-san.

“A—Alright!”

“What, Hattori?! You could stop pretending that we’re going to use the bathroom now.”

“Ah… Y—Yeah.” Heiji put him down. “So, what should we do now? Are you going to tell her what happened to you?”

“Not a chance.”

“What? But isn’t she better knowing? She might be suspicious about you too. She has many information about you.”

“That’s right. She have too many information about me. She might have been suspecting me from the time she’d seen me.”

“That would be really troublesome since those men have been suspecting you now.”

“Yeah. This is a crucial time.” He took off his fake glasses and rubbed the bridge of his nose. “Why did she have to come now? She left Japan for almost 8 years now.”

“Then, we should be getting ready for the things that are upcoming this time. We should also be careful.”

“I hate being me right now.” He let out a long sigh.

Heiji grinned in his friend’s suffering. “Yep! It sucks being you, Kudo!”

“Noemi is the most irritating person I’ve ever met. She’s so persistent even more persistent than Ran.” He put his glasses back on. Tidying the mess of orange juice stains on his pale blue shirt.