Disclaimer: I own nothing but my own idea. And many thanks to Shinran and Shinhei(Laura) for helping out
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"Heiji...you ahou..." Kazuha sat at his bedside. Watching the heart and oxygen levels with the monitors beeping steadily.
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'Wha?' Heiji slowly opened his eyes. Where was he? He looked around. He was in Osaka, people rushing past him. It wasn't until everyone was gone that he realized he was in the middle of the street.
"Heh?"
A truck came barreling down the street.
"WAAAAAAAAAAAH! STOP YOU AHOU!" He yelled as the truck plowed through him.
'What the?' The truck continued down the road.
"Oi! Did you not see me?!"
It was then that he realized that he was floating.
"Oi... What the heck?!"
Heiji walked/floated over to the street and stood infront of people. But they just walked right through him.
Kaito just happened to be in Osaka today to scout out his new location when he saw what looked like Hattori Heiji floating there. Wait. Floating? Oh great. He was used to these kinds of things, but this would put it at the top of the weirdest things he'd seen on his list. Now what happened to the Osakan Tantei to make this happen, he wanted to know so he decided to hop off the roof he had been on as the guard and land somewhere unnoticed and went back to being himself and found Hattori.
Heiji wondered how exactly he was supposed to communicate with anyone. Could he even hold solid things? Solid things obviously things went through him... He put his hand to his chin. Things that he could use ran through his head.
Kaito touched Hattori on the shoulder and in a low voice said, "Follow me."
With that he started to walk off, barely glancing over his shoulder to see if the guy was following.
Heiji blinked. 'He saw me?' Heiji followed him.
"Oi, how can you see me? Ghosts don't even exist.. Even though I exist..." He twitched
Heiji remembered the numerous times that Kazuha and nee-chan overreacted over the culprit's plan to scare them...and the numerous times that it worked...
They arrived at the park and went to a secluded area in the park.
"Yes I can see you. My family can see spirits."
Kaito thought for a bit.
"What was the last thing you remember anyway?"
"Being with Kudo, nee-chan, and Kazuha." He didn't even realize that he made a slip up with Kudo. But he figured he must have been taking it to his grave anyway...
"I see....And you can't remember anything else?"
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Kazuha was in the hospital crying over Heiji.
"Ahou....You didn't have to save me like that....Why must you do stupid things like that? You had to make that save with your bike...If only you hadn't solved that case and he hadn't tried to gun me down..."
"Kazuha-chan..." Ran placed a hand on Kazuha's back and rubbed it. "It's not your fault. Criminals are always doing that..."
Ran remembered the time she was first in Osaka with Conan and the killer tied to stab Conan and was saved thanks to the Omamori.
"Yeah, but he hasn't woken up and the doctors said he was going to wake up soon....." Kazuha cried a bit more
"Hattori-kun was wearing his Omamori! Of course he'll be ok." She assured her
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Heiji gawked at Kuroba.
"Who are you? You look familar...but I can't put my finger on it."
Heiji looked at the young boy more.
"How do ya know me? And how come ya look like Kudo?"
Ignoring the latter half of the statement, Kaito responded.
"Well how I know you is not important right now. What is important is what were you doing to have gotten you in this situation. However, I suppose it's best if I give you my name. It's Kuroba Kaito."
Heiji narrowed his eyes in thought.
"Kuroba... The son of the deceased magician Kuroba Toichi?"
'A petty magician can see me? Great.'
"Does this mean I am dead? What about Kudo..."
Heiji looked at the ground. If he was gone...then who'd protect Kudo? Not just Kudo... but the fact that everyone else would be in danger too. A missing person report would go out...things would get leaked...the Black Organization would find out... Heiji shook his head. 'No, I can't think like that. Not now.'
"To be honest, I don't think you're actually dead, but if we can figure out what happened to you to put you like this, we can get you back. And the little one will be fine. Now once we figure out what happened we have to find someone to help put you back..."
Kaito trailed off going into plotting mode.
'And what about Kazuha.. .probably crying her eyes out.' Heiji couldn't help but feel bad. What horrible event had happened that would have caused all of this mess in the first place?
"Then, shouldn't the first place that we go to be the hospital?" Heiji looked over his shoulder in the direction they should be currently be going but weren't.
Kaito nodded. "Sure. I bet you'd love to see your girlfriend wouldn't ya?" He smirked and nudged the tantei a bit.
"She's not my girlfriend!" He turned a little pink. 'How can everyone even be thinking that?!' That Suzuki girl... Not just her, but it seemed like everyone. Then again, Kudo, despite being shrunk, definitely seemed like an item with Nee-chan.
"If she's not, then why are you blushing?" He said while poking a tad more fun at the guy.
"Ahou.. Who wouldn't after saying such things.."
He turned redder from embarassment.
"A- Anyway we should go to the hospital to find out what happened," he said trying to change the topic as quickly as possible.
Heiji led the way. It was very odd to be flying like this...It was tempting to do aerial maneuvers, but not now...
Kaito followed and tried his best not to poke a little more fun at the now flustered Osakan tantei. They passed by what looked to be a crashed motorcycle. He whistled sharply.
"Well now...I wonder what happened here...Looks to be bad..."
'Could it be...'
Heiji had already started putting a scenario in his head. He had a feeling that was definitely his bike... and that most likely, he used it to protect someone.
Kaito seeing the gears of thought turning in Heiji's mind looked back to the scene realizing what this might be.
"Care to share with the rest of the class?"
"Judging from the damage... Most likely I got injured while protecting someone with my bike..."
Was someone attacking Kudo?! And why couldn't he remember any of this? This was very aggravating not knowing what was going importantly, the fact of not knowing what happened to him and his friends was driving him crazy.
"I can see that, but the answer to our question is still missing. We gained another piece to the puzzle, but have gained more questions instead of answers"
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When they arrived at the hospital, it wasn't long before he found his room. The hospital was a buzz about how the Osakan High School Detective was in a coma.
Heiji entered his room.