I've recently gotten attached to this Anime/Manga series and I've actually been writing a lot for it, I've only just now decided to post them here instead of my private blog. Give me your insight, if you see any misspells or would like to beta my one-shots, I'd be very much obliged. I'm going to start putting these up at least once a week until I hit writers blockage. So I hope you enjoy my ficlets, drabbles, one-shots and so-forth.

Title: Not So Alice
Fandom: Detective Conan/Case Closed
Character(s): Kaitou KID/Kuroba Kaito, Hakuba Saguru, Nakamori Aoko, Hattori Heiji, Edogawa Conan/Kudo Shinichi
Rating: K
Genre: Humor/Friendship
Wordcount: 1,589
Disclaimer: I don't own Detective Conan/Case Closed. Rights belong to Gosho Aoyama.
Summary: Saguru-centric. This was, indeed, a very strange dream… Gift for a friend :3

"Friend - a person known well to another and regarded with affectionate liking,and loyalty."
Collins English Dictionary

Habuka Saguru prided himself on his mind and deductive reasoning. He also liked to have control over every situation he was in, and it didn't matter if it was a murder or school day, he was in control of things around. If they weren't in his control, well, it set him slightly off balance. Which is why it didn't take him long to adapt to Kuroba Kaito's antics. They were just another thing to predict, even in their unpredictability. Kuroba's pranks were expected everyday even if he didn't know the when, the where or the how. He knew they were coming.

However, how can one be in control of a situation when one was in a dream? A dream of falling down a rabbit hole after a white clad thief who stole his pocket, exclaiming how he was late for a very important date?

Well, one Hakuba Saguru was trying to figure that out as he continued to fall. In a dream things weren't suppose to occur to you that were at all rational, but then again Saguru wasn't like most others having a dream. His logic driven mind said this had to be a dream and that he should wake up.

Why couldn't he then?

Maybe he was drugged? However he hadn't been doing anything that warranted him getting drugged. He'd fallen asleep in his Japan garden. Having just come home from school, it really wasn't him to fall asleep like that, but jetlag was something hard to fight after being in London for three months.

When he'd thought he'd awoken to someone rummaging through his pockets, he found KID's insane and annoying grin in his face, along with his gold heirloom pocket watch in the thief's silk gloved hand.

"Mind if I borrow this? I lost mine and I'm late, late for a very important date! Come on, Tantei-san, catch me if you can~"

Oh, he'd given chase alright. Demanding the return of his precious pocket watch; Saguru had chased the tuxedo clad thief further into his garden, until they came to one the huge trees growing there. That's where everything started to turn weird. After catching up to the running thief, Saguru had found him standing at the base of a huge hole under the tree, waiting. His cape flapping in the breeze as he stared out over the garden, since they were at the top of a small hill; you could see a good deal of the beautifully arranged traditional Japanese garden.

"KID!" He shouted. "Give me back my watch!"

Kaitou KID turned to him with that enigmatic smirk that slowly formed into an even more confusing soft smile. He tipped his top hat to the High School Brit Detective and held out his hand.

"Come along, Tantei-san. You're wanted for a very important date. Things can't get started without you!"

Saguru blinked at that and ran forward, for some reason he reached for the gloved hand, but as he did he found himself falling forward as the thief fell back, back into the black hole.

Saguru did not scream. Nope. It was a dignified shout of surprise. NOT a full blown scream of terror of falling to his death; because Hakuba Saguru didn't scream that high pitched.

Suddenly someone gave a warm chuckle near his left and Saguru turned to see KID with the ever easy going smile when he fell from death deifying heights. The white gloved hand was clasped around one of his own hands. When did he grab the hand?

"Tsk, tsk Tantei-san, you should trust your friends more." KID scolded.

Saguru didn't have time to question the friend comment. All he could think of was NOT splattering everywhere. "KID! YOUR GLIDER, USE YOUR GLIDER!" he shouted.

KID just grinned and squeezed his hand reassuringly. "Trust me Tantei-san, just enjoy the ride."

Saguru looked at the thief as if he was half mad, but then thought to himself, he wasn't half mad he was completely mental. He should have known that by now.

Saguru, with terror in his gaze, looked down and found that the ground was finally in sight. He squeezed his eyes shut and the hand he was holding, deciding not to see the ground come close before he went splat.

But, just as suddenly as he'd fallen, he'd stopped. The air wasn't rushing by anymore, and slowly Saguru cracked his eyes open and saw he was floating just above the black and white tiled flooring. Looking up he saw that KID had grabbed a root sticking out of the hole and stopped their fatal descent. KID let go of the root and they fell gently to the floor. Kaitou KID still held tight to his hand and tugged him along to the only door in the room.

"Shouldn't it be a little door? Don't I need to drink something to shrink?" Saguru asked sarcastically.

KID laughed at that. "That's too time consuming! And everyone's waiting for the guest of honor!"

Saguru blinked at that as he was dragged through the unlocked door and then pulled into a run by their still joined hands.

"Ah, wait! Where are we going? What do you mean by guest of honor?" Saguru asked as he stumbled to keep up.

"You are the guest of honor Tantei-san! Everybody has been waiting for you, and you fell asleep! Tsk, tsk, Tantei-san. You were almost late. You're very lucky I offered to come and get you." KID explained and for what seemed like an eternity they followed a black and white tiled road like the tiles back in the room. It wound every which way, making it impossible to know which direction they were going. Not that it mattered; Saguru doubted he'd recognize anything around him or where he was.

Finally, KID came to a stop and Saguru couldn't help but run into the thief's back, he stopped so suddenly. When Saguru got his bearings back, he rubbed at his nose and looked over the white shoulder to see a long table covered in a pristine white table cloth and a beautiful Victorian tea pot with matching tea cups sitting daintily on its surface. There were also blueberry scones-his favorites-and other things to nibble on. It was the perfect little tea party.

"KID… What is all this?" He had to ask.

"You're welcome home party. We missed you Tantei-san." The thief said kindly and then Saguru noticed people coming out of a small house just a little ways away that hadn't been there before, because he would have seen it. Aoko, Heiji, Conan, and Shinichi came out dressed for a proper tea party and walked over to sit in the chairs arranged around the table.

Saguru blinked several times and didn't notice the thief move away, or that he wasn't Kaitou KID anymore.

"Hakuba-chan! You're here! We can finally start!" Kaito exclaimed happily and pulled on their joined hands. Saguru seemed to be set on automatic as he allowed Kaito to pull him to the front of the table and seat him in the guest of honor chair. Saguru blinked at all the familiar faces and then watched Kaito take a seat at his left and then turned to see KID in the seat to his right.

"I… don't understand." Saguru said blankly.

Aoko glared at him, but the undertone was amused. "We've been waiting forever for you, idiot! Friends shouldn't be apart for so long!"

"Friends…?" Saguru asked in confusion and Kaito snickered at him.

"Duh! What, you thought we would forget you? We're friends baka!" he teased and poofed a scone on his plate.

KID caught his attention with his unusually gentle smile. "You think you're alone, Tantei-san. Quite the contrary, we've been here all along. Waiting with baited breath for our closest friend's return."

"That's a little dramatic, KID-san." Shinichi pointed out and sipped his tea, when he noticed Saguru's stare, he smiled and his eyes danced with amusement at his fellow detective's clueless look.

"Yeah, I have betta things ta do than wait 'round for th' conceited aho." Heiji added as he devoured a blueberry scone, only to be elbowed by Conan. The too smart to be a normal seven-year-old looked up at him with a sugary sweet smile. "WE MISSED YOU SAGURU-NIICHAN!" the child exclaimed happily.

KID stood half-way from his seat and politely cleared his throat into a gloved fist. "Now that our guest of honor has finally arrived, thanks to me, let the party begin!"

Everyone laughed excitedly and lifted their tea cups in cheer.

"WELCOME HOME SAGURU-CHAN!" they all exclaimed happily.

"Saguru!"

"Saguru!"

"Saguru!"

Saguru groan as he was shaken awake disappointed because he was just about to bite his delicious looking blueberry scone with just the right bit of sugar for his taste. Slowly he looked up to see Aoko, the real Aoko, standing over him with Kaito behind her looking annoyed.

"… Huh?"

"You left you too quickly! The class had a huge party planned and everything!" Aoko whined, looking irate. "Kaito and I came to get you. Get up sleepy head!" she demanded.

Saguru blinked slowly and got up with some help from Kaito.

Aoko smiled and took his hand. "Come on!"

Saguru blinked again looked down to see Kaito grab his other hand then looked up at the magician's face that held a grin. "You heard her, come on!"

With that the two pulled him along, making Saguru feel a strange sense of déjà vu.

That was, indeed, a very strange dream.

END~

And so I start out with a Saguru centric onesy. He's not my favorite character, far from it actually. However my friend just got the job she's been praying for and she deserved a little something of her absolute favorite guy and it doesn't hurt to sharpen my skills on a character I'm not familiar with. If he was out of character at all, I apologize, I'm still learning how to write these characters.