31_days | [March 5, 2008] [Detective Conan/Case Closed] Wits are Wasted on the Aged.

Title: Wits are Wasted on the Aged.

Day/Theme: March 5: Way of the Wise

Series: Detective Conan/Case Closed

Character/Pairing: Shinichi/Ran

Rating: PG/K+

Ran Mouri stormed into her apartment, muttering under her breath and slamming some bags onto the counter. Behind the eyes of Conan Edogawa, one Shinichi Kudo was afraid.

“Ran-neechan?”

“Conan, are you going to sit there or will you help me with dinner?!”

Conan leapt to his feet immediately, rushing to Ran’s side. He glanced at her in worry as she viciously peeled a carrot. She muttered obsceneties to it, the scene reaching its climax as the vegetable was brutally decapitated.

“Ran-neechan, is everything…all right?” he tried tentatively, quietly peeling his own vegetables, though much less violently.

“Everything’s fine,” Ran clipped out, her words betrayed by the beauty of her chopped carrot. It couldn’t have been more beautiful if it had been done by an industrial strength machine. Or a food processor. She dumped the puréed carrot into a pot that appeared out of nowhere.

Shinichi just decided to not say anything. Silence was golden. He quietly tipped his own crooked celery pieces into the pot.

“You’d think, though, wouldn’t you?” Ran burst out, peeling another carrot with vengeance. “You’d think that a smart person would think before he opens his big, stupid mouth, wouldn’t you?”

Peel, chop, peel chop, was the mantra in Shinichi’s head. Silence is golden.

“Wouldn’t. You. Conan?”

“Uh, y-yeah,” stammered Shinichi, pushing more vegetables into the pot.

“But no. My father has to go and drink himself stupid, and then when he just so happens to run into my mom, he’s hanging all over some random college girl!”

And who arranged this ‘accidental’ meeting anyway? Shinichi thought traitorously, as Ran continued her ranting.

“It just goes to show, doesn’t it, Conan? You’d better cherish your wits while they’re still about you, because wisdom sure as hell doesn’t come with age!”

Shinichi just blinked. And he decided to shrug it off. Because who was he to tell her he didn’t know whether to take that comment as a compliment or an insult?

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A U T H O R S N O T E

Soo….between my dentist appointment today and the news that one of my wisdom teeth is coming in SIDEWAYS, I didn’t realize I hadn’t posted this until just now. (I’ve been commiserating the future loss of said wisdom teeth by watching the random violent goodness that is Yu Yu Hakusho, the animated series. :D )

Sooo…yeah. Forgive my lateness and the shortness…but I didn’t really plan on this one being too long anyway, so it all worked out. Now if I could just find a way to schedule an oral surgery around my school and my work… *frets*

~Ayaia