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[oneechan]

Who: Ran Mouri and...? (read: open to all!)
Where: Outskirts near the forest.
When: After "Shinichi's" arrival, early morning
Style: Anything~
Status: OPEN!

Ran's usual morning jog took a little detour today. Instead of a refreshed and uplifted expression on the Japanese girl's face, her features were sharpened with a subdued rage. She breathed steady, channeling the negative energy into her legs, pushing off each step as her sneakers hit the pavement.

Beads of sweat ran down her face as she veered off her usual path and towards the forest, she she continued forward until, without warning--

"HaaAAAAAAAAHHHH!" A fierce scream pierced the peaceful morning, followed by a deafening crack as her foot connected with a tree mid-trunk. Her leg still raised, fists tightly clenched, Ran panted heavily, her bangs matted against her dewy forehead. She drew back her leg slowly. "Stupid...SHINICHI!!!" She punctuated her cry with a punch, followed by a roundhouse kick.

Stepping back, she let out a sigh, leaving the poor tree still standing, but with a sizable crevice now indented into its surface. Pushing back her damp bangs with the back of her hand, she smiled. "Well! That felt better!"

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[oneechan]

Ran froze when she heard a heavily-accented voice from behind her. Glancing over her shoulder, her eyes lit up when she saw a rabbit.

"Waah~~!" It was a very pleasant reaction. Nevermind that the rabbit talked--it was a rabbit! She knelt to Bugs's eye-level and smiled.

"I'm sorry! Were you asleep?"

[hecklinghare]

"YOU BET I...er...was. Uh." Okay. He has just deflated, figuratively, at her reaction. The sleepy look is gone and he just blinks at her. This...this was not how people normally reacted to him showing up unannounced.

"Er, yeah. but you ain't the first kid to wake me up lately." Still reeling a little bit, "But I guess it weren't all yer fault." He shakes out of the stuppor and slips out of the hole. It ain't proper to make a lady kneel.

"Got a thing against trees, doll?"

[oneechan]

Ran giggles a bit and shrugs her shoulders. "No, I really don't. I was just releasing some pent up anger at someone...and jogging just wasn't doing the trick, you know?"

Why was she talking to a rabbit? Ah, but he seemed so peculiarly charming, and there was something about him that just wasn't as intimidating as another person.

[hecklinghare]

"Heh, interestin' plan. Though, I'd hate to be da poor slob that made you mad." Giggles are good and he just shakes his head, "But so early in da mornin', toots?"

How do you have energy, Ran?

[oneechan]

"I doubt I'd actually hurt him, but..." Yeah, that would defeat the entire purpose, wouldn't it?

"I gotta get my jog in before Conan-kun's up! Because then I have to make breakfast and make sure he's brushed his teeth and gotten dressed and everything before he goes outside."

[hecklinghare]

He glances at the tree, then back at Ran then once more to the tree. "Sure, doll, whatever ya say." That poor pine. We weep for that Willow...

"Conan?...Little guy about dis high?" He lowers his ears completely and holds his hand over his head.

[oneechan]

Ran giggles at Bugs's gesture when referring to Conan, and nods. "Yeah. And glasses." She circled her fingers and put them in front of her eyes. "A little bit too smart for his own good. Likes to meddle in things. You know him?"

[hecklinghare]

Bugs taps his chin, nodding at each description. Sounds like the kid he ran into a bit ago. "Yeap! Kinda...hard to buy tings as is too."

[oneechan]

"Yeah, he's a pretty skeptical kid. Not like a kid at all, really..." Ran nervously chuckled about this. But then again, it wasn't like rabbits typically talked, either.

[hecklinghare]

"Skeptical. Unimaginative eh it's da same ting." Bugs knows his whole talking deal throws a lot of people for a loop. Which is weird because he's pretty normal compared to a few other toons he knows.

"Yeah...most kids I know don't try to figure out how I do dis." Pulls out a mallet from behind him, "That kid did."

[oneechan]

"Uwaaah!" Ran gasps in wonder. "How did you do that?!" Ran wasn't really one to question the talking animals--this place didn't make all that much sense to begin with, and if she spent all her time trying to figure it out....well, she'd rather spend her time doing other things.

Besides, the rabbit seemed nice enough...Ran chuckled a bit. "Did he ask how you were able to talk?"

oh hey it blinks o.o!

[hecklinghare]

"Not really." Yeah he's ignoring the how question. Toon secret. He tosses the mallet off to the side and dusts his hands. "He was a bit more focused on sometin' else."

Trying to figure out the world is good an all but Bugs'll agree with Ran. Anything else is loads more fun.

Are you surprised by animation, Mister Cartoon? ;)

[oneechan]

"That sounds like him!" Ran lightly chuckles. "I hope he wasn't too much trouble for you? He tends to get his hands into a bit of everything. Always on the go and all that."

Ran still couldn't help but be intrigued by the mallet, though. Better not to ask though, right?

yeeeeeeeeeeeeees xD

[hecklinghare]

"Trust me, doll, I've hard worse den a curious rugrat." AT least she was confirming what he'd suspected during the little meet up. Oh well, right again as the saying went.

Best not to. There's really no way to explain it. "So aside from lettin' out steam; ya really do this whole ting every mornin'?"

Have another one then~

[oneechan]

"Yup!" Ran lifts a fist and exhales an energetic sigh. "I have to stay in shape if I want to continue being karate captain when I get home!"

She lowered her arm and smiled apologetically at Bugs. "But I'll try to find a different path if it's been bothering you...I usually don't kick at trees, though. That's..." That's just because she was angry...

aww pretty

[hecklinghare]

"Kaate Captain?" He blinks and then carefully asks, "Like all dat 'hi-ya' stuff dat goes on over seas?"

He shakes his head and waves his hand, "Nah. It was more da yellin' dat woke me up but uh if you ain't always mad at" He glances around her then smiles a little, "trees. You don't have ta worry."

[oneechan]

Ran giggles and nods. "You got it! I'm Japanese, after all! Karate is a very popular sport in my school! And I'm the captain of our team!"

Ran turned back to look at the tree again, suddenly feeling guilty. "...oh, I'm sorry about that..." She turned to Bugs and gave an apologetic smile. "It's just that Shinichi always seems to forget that I exist, even though we've been separated for a long while."

[hecklinghare]

"A sport she says." He...isn't really talking to anyone but his tone is obviously sarcastic.

He follows her gaze again before hearing that name. Oh! A lovers spat? That would explain everything.

"Aw doll. I'm pretty sure no one could forget you. The guys probably just gettin' used ta havin' you around again. If it's been a long time, it might happen." It had with many of the soldiers that had come back in his world.

[oneechan]

"Even so." She pouted out her bottom lip and folded her arms. "We'd talk over the phone regularly enough. Did he think that we'd just stick to that when he was back here in person? Geez..."

[hecklinghare]

"Sounds like the guy's nervous." He scratches an ear and glances at her, "Uh...maybe you're not from da same time? It's sometin' dat happens an awful lot around here."

[oneechan]

Ran pouts out her lips and glares off to the side. "I somehow doubt it. He hasn't seem to have forgotten that we haven't seen each other in months."

[hecklinghare]

He scratches his nose a little. Poor slob was really in for it from what he can tell. It's hard to keep from laughing.

"Huh. Okay, maybe the slob does deserve a nice thrashin'."

[oneechan]

Ran balls her right hand into a fist and thrusts it into her open left palm. "He better watch himself..! Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned!"

[hecklinghare]

Bugs just blinks before laughing, "Ya ever manage ta catch him doll. I kinda wanna see."

[oneechan]

"It'll be pretty hard to miss! He's a quick runner, that's for sure."