[ficbit] Vampyre Universe: Fun at the Beach

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yuncyn asked, so we're posting this. This is prolly.. *scratches head* the first third to quarter of the fic.
Next part will be Shin'ichi, Conan and company. (sonoko kinda wants to butt in too)

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"Alright. Explain this to me one more time." Kaito crossed his arms and raised an eyebrow at Hakuba, who was spreading some towels underneath an extremely large beach umbrella in the sand. "We come to the beach for a lotta sun, sand and water, and you want to hide under a beach umbrella the entire time?"

"Precisely."

"Riiiiiiiight." Kaito scratched the side of his head. "And you came with us why?"

"Because Aoko-kun LOOKED at me." Hakuba deadpanned, as if not at all ashamed to be bullied into something by a small slip of a girl. After all, he was talking to probably the only other person who understood that completely.

The power of Aoko's glare was truly scary to behold.

"That's it, I'm getting on a sugar high." Kaito waved his hands in the air and looked around for the nearest ice cream vender.

Hakuba winced, changing expressions for the first time this morning. He did not care to be reminded of what happened the -last- time Kaito decided that the leech on his energies needed to lighten up. "...and then Koizumi threatened to lock me in a room with that blasted pet cat of hers if I did not come. The cat YOU gave her."

"Err..." This time the magician winced. He wasn't fond of being reminded of his own magical failures. In this case, the transformation of a harmless little bunny into a spiky winged cat. That breathed fire. "Okay, you win. This time. But if the girls drag you into something, I'm not coming to your rescue."

"Fair enough." Hakuba agreed mildly. "And not to point out the obvious or anything, but Mr. Sun is most emphatically not my friend."

The zombie didn't shrivel into a mummified husk or burst into flames, but he did find that too much sun did tend to make him sluggish and slow. Not to mention was murder on his un-dead eyes, which were more comfortable in the cool shades of after dark.

"There's always the Sugar High option." Kaito offered cheerfully.

"No."

"Spoilsport."

"Here comes Aoko-kun and Koizumi."

"About time. How long does it take to change into a bathing su..." He trailed off as he caught sight of the other two members of their party.

He blinked.

And blinked again.

And found his jaw somewhere around his ankles as his brain verified that yes, he was seeing what he thought he was seeing.

It wasn't just Aoko in a blue bathing suit strolling towards him with a faint blush and a small nervous smile on her face. No, he was prepared for that.

What he wasn't prepared for was Aoko in a Blue BIKINI.

"Ran-kun and Kazuha-kun dragged Aoko-kun swimsuit shopping when they heard she was going to the beach." Hakuba commented genteelly in his ear, startling him from his reverie. "Tissue?"

"Thanks." He took a tissue from the offered box and wiped his nose from the aftermath of the blood rushing to other places besides his head. He paused a moment, looking at the tissue, then up at the stoic Hakuba. "Wait a minute. Why are -you- carrying tissues around? You shouldn't get nosebleeds!"

The blond zombie raised an eyebrow. "Force of habit." He commented blandly with a slight shrug.

Kaito looked around the beach, and the amount of scantily clad people, over at Hakuba, whose skin had always been extremely pale even when alive, then over at Akako, who was wearing something that resembled nothing more than black dental floss in a cobweb pattern.

Understanding crossed Kaito's face. "Ohh..."

"Exactly."

Kaito's face lit up into a gigantic grin. "You pervert!" He laughed.

"Hardly." Hakuba's tone was dryer than the sun warmed sand they were standing on.

"Kaito! Hakuba-kun!" Aoko smiled as nervously set her bag of clothing down next to the umbrella. "Thanks for setting up while we got changed."

"Not a problem." Hakuba gave her a small smile. "It is not like we have to do much to change." Upon finding a spot, Kaito had stripped down to the swim shorts he'd worn as normal clothing, and Hakuba had switched tops to an open Hawaii' an patterned shirt.

Which in addition to the customary tropical leaves, was decorated with grinning white skulls. It was on loan from Akako, after his tropical fish from around the world shirt mysteriously went missing.

"Of course, the time generally does differ as to what you are changing in to." Akako purred, reclining on one of the towels completely hidden in shade. Both boys ignored her jibe.

"Are you going to be able to swim in that?" Kaito asked, idly snapping the shoulder strap of Aoko's bikini. "It doesn't look anything like a life preserver..."

"Kaito!" She snapped his hand away, her face turning red with anger.

"Translation." Hakuba spoke up wryly from the relative safety of the other side of Akako. "He could barely keep his eyes in his sockets when he saw you."

"Hakuba." Kaito shot the detective a particularly foul glare. "Please die."

The blond quite obligingly toppled over on to the sand much like he had been struck by a two by four.

"Hakuba-kun!" Aoko reacted with shock as she dove to check on him. Akako muffled a snicker.

"D'oh." Kaito had a mental stutter moment. "Completely forgot. Not funny Saguru-chan."

The zombie opened one eye. "We live to please." He deadpanned.

"Or not, as the case my be." Akako snerked.

"That too."

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"Wait." Heiji reached out and tugged Shin'ichi's swim shorts a bit lower on his hips, so that they showed the curve of his hip bones a bit better..

"Hattori!" Shin'ichi yelped, jumping a bit. "What?"

"Don't be such a prude." Hattori smirked as he straightened, drawing attention to the fact that his shorts were resting just a little bit lower than usual as well. "It couldn't hurt to show a bit more skin. And it's not like Neechan's gonna argue."

The Detective of the East crossed his arms across his chest and shot his friend a very dark look. It would have had more impact if his cheeks hadn't been tinged with pink at the time.

"Interesting." Hakuba noted blandly. "Both of you have scars in the same place."

"Huh?" Both teenagers looked down at the prominent scars on the left side of their lower torsos. Shin'ichi tugged his shorts down a little farther to look at the pale scar on his skin.

"Well, maybe not the exact same place." Hakuba amended. "Hattori-kun's is a little farther left than Shin'ichi-kun's, but they are in remarkably similar places."

"That was when you loaned me, er Conan, your omamori, wasn't it? That time you invited us to Osaka." Shin'ichi commented, reaching over to poke the larger and more jagged scar that ran along Hattori's stomach. The entry point was obvious, but so was the starburst shaped tearing around it.

"Sakata? Yeah." The dark skinned boy didn't seem to hold a grudge against the former policeman. "Kind of surprised that yours isn't bigger as well. Didn't you, uh, -grow- after you got shot?"

"Yeah. Chasing some crooks in a cave." Shin'ichi ran a finger down the slightly puckered skin. "Ran even had to give me a transfusion after we got out, I'd lost so much blood in the cave. Course, when you're that small..."

The other two detectives nodded. When you're smaller, what may not seem like a lot of blood counts for a lot more.

"And people wonder why I stick to chasing the Kid." Hakuba raised an eyebrow at the other two. "People don't try to kill you nearly as much."

The other two detectives looked sceptically the un-dead detective and said nothing.

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"That's funny, I'd never noticed that before..." Ran mused. "Shin'ichi has a scar the same place you got shot, Conan-kun."

Conan laughed weakly from his perch on Ran's shoulders and privately swore to seriously maim the Kansai Detective at the earliest possibility.

-tbc-

Conan gets shot in #24, he's in the hosptial recovering when Ai gives him the pill to turn back into Shin'ichi (thus starting the whole 'Black Knight' Storyline). Always confused me, because the injury is then never brought up again. o_O And yet it seemed quite serious. Especially to be doing something like growing BIGGER. ~_~

Hattori is shot in #19. Once again, you never see or hear about it again.

We're including it because of a damn cool pic in a doujinshi of a shirtless Heiji and a long jagged scar along one side.
That and the similar placement on both of them was just a bit too convienant of a co-incidence. (we pulled out the manga to check too)

In case anyone was wondering, the pairings for this universe are Kaito/Aoko and Hakuba+Akako. So neener neener.

Remember at the beginning of pt II of Night Dreams where the girls are sitting around discussing the boys' best physical attributes?
Well, now it's the girls' turn. ^_______________^
Anyone got any suggestions as to what should be drooled over? Everyone will be in swimsuits and there'll be a crowd too...