DISCLAIMER: I own nothing and no one from Magic Kaito or Detective Conan/Case Closed. I am just a poor college student who also happens to be a Kaitou Kid fan and this just happens to be a fanfiction that my mind came up with that I feel like sharing with other fans. I make absolutely NO money from this. It is merely for fun and hopefully the enjoyment of other fans. Please don't sue and fans please enjoy. PS: Also note that the character Aakesh featured in later chapters was created by the fanfiction writer peppymint. I am just borrowing him (with permission) for this fanfic.

Title: Shattered

Notes: Hello everybody and welcome to 'Shattered.' This is my first attempt at a Kaitou Kid fanfic and I hope you will enjoy. First off I would like to state before people start wondering, this is NOT a death fic!. Next I would like to thank peppymint for the consent to use Aakesh in this fanfic. I really appreciate it. He will be showing up in later chapters. Here is a little background on Aakesh for those of you that don't know him yet (those that would like to read more about Aakesh can go look him up in Peppymint's fanfic[s].) Aakesh is Kaito Kuroba's ancestor of many centuries past who, along with Mizuki, the human he fell in love with, started the Kuroba blood line. He is a youkai, an immortal, who has watched over the Kuroba line for as long as it has existed and because Aakesh's magical blood runs through all the Kuroba descendants, they all have a little something 'extra' in them… Everyone else in this fanfic already exists from the Magic Kaitou series and are probably already known so I won't go into their characters. I do wish to say this is a serious fanfic and I tired to keep it, at least in my mind, as realistic/Kaitou-ish as possible even with the 'real' magical and kind of emotional stuff that will happen in it. Thanks for reading – Keajo.

Chapter 1: Bang, Bang

The moonlight fell upon the roof as the gunshot rang out. Blood splattered on the pavement and a white top hat was picked up and carried away by the wind. Kid staggered as his right side flared hot with pain. Surprise shone on the young thief's features, replacing his normally playful pokerfaced. He was shot! The thought briefly flowed across his mind before he felt the air rush by him as his legs gave out.

Nakamori, Hakuba and a few others in the Kaitou Kid Task Force stared in shock as they watched their thief fall. To their horror, there was nothing they could do, no help they could give to their long time adversary. The moment the wounded Kid stumbled, Nakamori tense, ready to run to the thief's assistance, but shooter noticed him. The man raised his gun threateningly. "Don't you think about it," he growled.

The members of the Kaitou Kid Task Force were at a loss. They were not even allowed to even go over to see how badly the thief was hurt. Every time any one of them made a move to approach the injured thief, that person would be driven back by that man and his gun. All they could do was watch.

Dammit. Dammit, dammit DAMMIT. Hakuba thought furiously. How the heck could we have been so stupid?!? The reason for the Task Force's and phantom theif's current predicament was because the force, after losing Kaitou Kid, had managed to pick up the trail of the man they saw shooting at the Kaitou during his heist. Then, to their shame they got jumped by the very man they were chasing. The gunman had managed to divide the force and then lured Nakamori and the few others he had with him up onto the roof of this damned building and then bam, he had them. Taking the force as hostages, the hit man threatened to kill Nakamori if Kid did not show himself. Nakamori had yelled for Kid to run, but, being who he was, the Kid ignored the advice totally and appeared. And look what it got him, Hakuba thought miserably.

The phantom thief fell to one knee, gripping his wounded side tightly. He gritted his teeth against the pain and looked up through his unruly, sweat streaked hair to glare at Snake. "You missed," he managed to gasp out, his voice was shaky and thick with pain even though he tried to hide it.

Snake, who was known for his 'heart shots,' just smiled maliciously. "No I didn't," he said smugly. "I decided that since we have been together for so long I should make your death a little more special then the others."

"Forgive me if I don't say thank you." Kid said sourly. He could feel the blood leaking though his fingers and knew he did not have much time left before he lost consciousness. This situation had defiantly turned into a worse case scenario. If only he could somehow get Nakamori and the others out of here. Kid tried to call on his magic for help, but he couldn't concentrate enough through all the pain to attempt something as delicate as a mass teleportation. He glanced over to Nakamori and his team. What did Snake want with them anyway?

It was then Snake had the courtesy to answer the thief's unspoken question. "Now lets see, who should I shoot next? The young one perhaps?"

"Leave them alone, Snake! Your quarrel's with me and me alone. They have nothing to do with this." Kid's mind was desperately racing, trying to figure out what he could do to save them, but it just came up blank. He couldn't come up with anything fast enough that was even close to a plausible rescue.

An evil glint came into Snake's eyes. "Oh but I think they do. I can't just have witnesses running around everywhere now can I? Plus, it will be so fun to watch you watch them die and know there is nothing you can do to stop it." Snake's gun slowly rose and came to bare on Hakuba.

"No, Snake. NO!" Kid tried to stagger to his feet in a panic, but fell. A whimper escaped him as he crashed back into the ground. Kid automatically curled up into a ball as the pain hit him. He didn't even see the shot.

Bang. The sound hit the thief like a thunderbolt. He jolted upright just in time to see Nakamori fall. The inspector had taken the bullet for Hakuba and now lay unmoving on the ground. Hakuba was on his knees above the inspector and vacant eyes stared at the body before him, not seeing.

"No," Kid whispered. Tears filled his eyes as he watched the Task Force run to their fallen leader. Kid's mind could not comprehend what had just happen, but as the realization that Nakamori was dead slowly seeped into his brain, a rage unlike any other the thief had ever felt started to wake up inside him.

Greatly enjoying the anguish on Kid's face, Snake turned away from the thief towards his next would be target. He calmly ejected the shells of the used bullets from his weapon. They clattered noisily to ground, punctuating the seconds of shocked silence after the killing. Snakes eyes lighted upon another of the task force. "Let's do this one next."

An inhuman howl of fury filled the air chilling Snake to the marrow. "SNAKE!"

The hit man whirled to face the sound, hastily reloading his gun.

Kid's eyes blazed in the darkness as he crouched on the ground. They flashed viciously with a fire of their own. Hatred filled that violet gaze. Another cry filled the air as dark wings burst from Kid's back in a shower of violet sparks: the color of his magic. Kid slowly picked himself up from the ground, wings half outstretched, like the vision of a dark angel, never taking his disturbing violet gaze from Snake for a second. Kid's wound no longer seemed to bother him. In fact it was almost like he had forgotten about its existence altogether as the excess magic he had brought to bare halted the bleeding completely and the writhing anger inside him took away the pain. Fully standing, Kid smiled.

Snake could see madness in that smile. He raised his gun and fired. The bullet sped along strait towards Kid's heart. Having just reloaded his gun some high-tech, experimental and very specially made rounds, Snake smiled. The projectile was supposed to be able puncture any type of armor as if it wasn't there and proceed to tear through muscle and sinew killing instantly. Snake smile turned into an evil smirk. He had hoped to play with the boy a little longer but this would just have to do. Kaitou Kid would die either way and his silly illusions and scare tactics along with him. Huh wings, Snake thought disgustedly. As if a stupid trick like that could scare him. The bullet sped along its way. Soon it would be all over. Suddenly, in a flash of violet sparks, the bullet disintegrated.

Snake stumbled backwards in shock. He was visibly shaken by the ineffectiveness his weapon had had on the thief. That was not possible. A bullet can't just disappear. It had to be an illusion. Another one of Kid's tricks. Like the wing s. they couldn't be real. Could they?

Kid's smile grew calm as he folded his wings behind him and tucked his hands into his pockets, but the look that had settled in his eyes scared the crap out of everyone around him. Kid gave a laugh as Snake tried to shoot at him again and at the assassins surprise as the bullet simply vanished. The sound was nothing like Kaitou Kid's joyful and annoyingly yet charming laughter. Instead it was ugly, harsh and fierce. All but promising retribution and tears to come.

The laughter issuing from the phantom thief chilled Hakuba to the bone. The person standing in front of him was no longer the Kaitou Kid he knew. Instead the thief had been replace by… something else. Something dark and vengeful and thoroughly terrifying.

Snake was firing at the young phantom thief hysterically now, but none of his bullets ever came close to Kid even though Snake's aim was right on target.

Kid leisurely raised his arm in front of him and expelled a little magical effort. Every single bullet Snake fired froze in mid air a foot in front of the phantom thief and just hovered there, useless.

Snakes jaw dropped. This couldn't be happening. This had to be a dream. Oh god please let me wake up.

A slow smile spread across Kid's face, but there was absolutely nothing appealing within it. Now Snake saw his death in that smile and it froze him with fear.

Kid then let his arm fall. There was a clatter of metal on pavement as the bullets came raining down out of the air. "Anything else?"

Snake couldn't even speak. He fell to his knees shivering with fear. He was going to die and there was nothing he could do about it. He should have killed Kid when he had had the chance, but instead he had gone too far. He had pushed Kid over the edge and now he was going to pay for it.

"No? How disappointing." With a beat of his great black wing Kid was instantly behind Snake. He just appeared there, in that space, his wings still slightly spread.

Snakes mind registered the fact that his enemy was close but his muscles weren't responding. He couldn't move!

Kid's hand lightly caressed Snake's right cheek and continued downward to his throat where it clamped on; choking the Black Organization hit man. Snake eyes grew wide with shock, but he didn't even have the will left to try and stop Kid from strangling him. The assassin's hands continued to hang down limply at his sides, one still grasping his useless gun, the weapon that had failed him.

Kaitou Kid's voice turned venomously sweet as he bent down to breath into Snake's ear. "You killed my father. Now tell me," Kid purred dangerously "why I shouldn't do the same to you?"

Snake caught a glimpse of Kid's eyes and a new fear came to life inside him. Kid's eyes no longer looked human. They glowed violet from within, showing the depths of the young hybrids magic. They also shown coolly with Kid's conviction. This time Snake had gone too far and the magician thief was prepared to kill him.

"Cannot think of any reason? Neither can I, but let us make this a little more interesting, shall we? "

The hardcore hit man almost fainted right then and there as those words floated over him. Oh god… I'm going to die.

Kid released Snake's throat, stepped back, and raised his magic. The Kid had now become a predator with his eyes locked upon his prey and much like the predatory cat plays with its mouse before devouring it, Kid was going to play with Snake a little before killing him. Slowly Snakes right hand, the hand that held his gun, started to shake and then rise as Kid's magic forced its influence upon it.

Snake was helpless to stop it. He watched in horrified silence as this own gun barrel passed his eyes and came to rest upon his temple. The hit man started to weep then. "Oh please, oh god, don't kill me." The plea forced its way out of Snake's lips desperately in a last effort to survive.

"Too late. You had your chance. Now it is time for my revenge." The seconds ticked by as the silence stretched. Kid reached out his arm ready to trigger Snake's death with a flick of the wrist.

"Kid, that's ENOUGH!"

A voice cracked through the tension. The authority in the words would have been enough to make anyone pause, but it was the person whose voice called out the words that made Kid's eyes snap up and away from his prey.

Those violet orbs came to rest on Nakamori. The inspector was alive! The man sat pretty much where Snake's bullet had felled him, but now it was obviously his injury was just a flesh wound, the slug had barely grazed his shoulder. Nakamori was leaning tiredly back upon a Hakuba, who was staring at Kid with an indescribably look upon his face. Kid's eyes flickered briefly in indecision before hardening and growing bright again, the predator returning. "Don't stop me Nakamori."

"Kid this is not you. You do not kill –"

"I have to." Kid's harsh whisper was carried to Nakamori's ears upon the wind. Judging by the hopeless tone of the words, Kid's confidence was starting to shake. He looked down at the ground before continuing as if he couldn't finish with Nakamori's eyes looking into his. "I have to kill this man. He killed my father and countless others. He hurts the innocent and preys on the weak. You don't know this man. He deserves to die. Justice calls for it, and justice will be done. I will force it to be done." A single tear flowed down Kid's face halfway through his speech and his voice cracked. Something no one present had ever seen or heard before.

Nakamori was taken aback by those words, but he still persisted. "Kid, you are not a killer. Don't become one for the likes of him. It will haunt you forever. He's not worth it. Just stop this now. That man will get what's coming to him, I promise. Just – release him."

The haunted violet eyes were dim now. They rose to meet the detectives who almost flinched away from all the pain that filled them. "But… he hurt you."

"If you won't do it for yourself then don't kill him for me. Stop this all now. Do it for me."

The Kid stared strait into Nakamori's eyes, trying to challenge him, to come up with another reason to finish the dastardly deed he was committed to do, but he couldn't.

"Alright." he nodded. Kid let his hand fall and the spell on Snake broke. The hit man fell forward onto all fours and stayed there sniveling and shaking on the ground.

Tears and snot streaked Snakes face as he raised his head to look at Nakamori. "Thank you, oh god tha –"

The anger in Kid flared again. "ORASAI" he spat viciously at the man on the ground cutting him off. "You do not have the right to speak to him. Not now, not ever!"

Snake cowered away, but Kid wasn't done with him yet. Kid reached down and grasped a handful of the hit mans dark hair, jerking Snake's head up so his violet eyes were looking down into the terrified ones below him. "You dare to try and take away anyone who's precious to me again and your dead, understand?"

Snake nodded his head frantically. Or at least he would have if the phantom thief still did not have his hair in a fist.

"Say it," Kid hissed dangerously.

Y-yes.

"Yes what?"

"Y-yes I u-understand."

"Good." Kid released of Snake's hair. The phantom thief seemed to consider the hit man groveling his feet for a moment before casually flicking his wrist.

The effect on Snake was instantaneous. He fell to the ground hard and lay still. A collective gasp sounded from all around.

Kid looked at the Task Forces scattered around him on the roof and announced bitterly, "Don't worry, he's not dead. Even though he deserves to be."

The thief then took a deep breath and sighed, calming his magic to a more bearable level for the full humans around him. Suddenly remembering something Kid fumbled with his pockets until assumingly finding what he had wanted and taking it out. All eye present were instantly drawn to the object in Kaitou Kid's hand. Nakamori was almost scared to see what it would be and was relieved to find the item was simply the gem Kid had stolen that day.

"Pretty isn't it?" Kid mused almost to himself staring at the gem that lay in the palm of his hand. "It's called the Pandora Gem. Ironic how it's is colored red, almost like blood and appropriate since its history is soaked in the blood of the innocent. I wonder in all how many lived have been sacrificed because of this stupid gem."

Kid then cocked his head back towards the inspector and smiled vaguely. "I'm afraid this is the one item I will not be returning to its owner, inspector." With those final words Kid tosses the jewel up into the air and snapped his fingers. The Pandora Gen shattered in midair. Its shards hovered for a moment above the ground, casting an eerie red light around the roof before abruptly disappearing as Kid's magic erased their existence completely.

With the destruction of the gem, the magic and vitality that had been boiling inside Kid seemed to leave him in an instant. The magical thief seemed to almost collapse in upon himself as he folded his wings and stood there looking about him. He seemed so tired…

Nakamori couldn't stand to look at the dejected back of the phantom thief a moment longer. "Kid?"

"It's over." Kid turned to face the inspector as the words escaped his lips. The simple words had a bleak tone to them, almost hopeless.

Nakamori caught sight of Kid's eyes as he turned as immediately wished he hadn't. Those eyes that had always before been filled with joy and laughter were dim. They looked hollow with the absence of their inner light almost as if the owner of then no longer could think of a reason to go on living. Even the eyes of the vengeful Kid had been a better sight then the ones that now faced the inspector. Nakamori could see the hopelessness within their depths and it made his heart cry out in sorrow.

"It's over," Kid repeated again to himself as if desperately trying to get used to their sound and the tremendous meaning those two simple words held for him. "Over."

Kid gave a small sad smile and a shadow of the old Kaitou flickered across his face. Emotionally he was a wreck, scared he had come so close to killing someone, even if the person deserved it. Confronting his fathers killer like Kaito had done had opened some old wounds that the Kid had almost forgotten existed, but he found himself more or less happy with the way things had turned out even though there was still much left to do. One thing Kid definitely wasn't was a quitter and when he set his mind to doing something it got done. Now it was time to go after the Black Organization as a whole. He would finish what they had started and now that the Pandora Gem was gone he could focus all of his energies on taking them down for good.

With this new purpose in mind, Kid gathered himself together and began to draw near to Nakamori with the intention of seeing what assistance he could give the inspector and any of the other fallen members of the Task Force, but he never made any farther then his first step.

Kid's smile faltered and his eyes grew wide as he stumbled clutching his side. It wasn't until then that anyone noticed the Kid had started to bleed again. The liquid seeping from the gunshot wound given to the Kaitou earlier by Snake was turning more and more of his crisp white suit crimson, slowly stealing his life away as the seconds ticked by. Kid looked down at his bloody hand disbelievingly. He had used up too much magic too quickly. Now he couldn't even keep himself from bleeding to death. Kid noticed his breathing was starting to become erratic and he couldn't seem to be able to see strait anymore. He looked up at the blurry faces of Nakamori, Hakuba and the others of the Kaitou Kid Task Force around him and smiled apologetically.

"Oop." Kid's legs buckled abruptly out from under him and he fell to the ground hard.

TBC…

Hi there. This is my first attempt of a Kaitou Kid fanfic mostly inspired by the awesomeness of peppymint's winged Kaitou 'verse' and other Kaitou fics. Thanks to all for reading and please take a second to review. I would really appreciate it. (No flames though, please. I am totally open to constructive criticism/feedback, but there is a reason the word constrictive is before the word criticism… whining 'just because' is not wanted.) Thanks again – Keajo

P.S. I do want to quickly stress again: this is NOT a death fic.

P.P.S. Chapter titles are mostly inspired by songs or lyrics within a song that I generally like (although sometimes inspired by other media like popular movies etc…)

Title: "Shattered" sung by Trading Yesterday from their More Than This album (2 versions of this song… the longer one from the MTT album is better [I'm my opinion])

Chapter title: "Bang, Bang" sung by Nancy Sinatra