Disclaimer: Since I'm only a year older then the anime itself, I can't possibly own Detective Conan/Case Closed. I only own the OC.

The Tsuruki Curse – The Murder.

An old, lonely road. In the middle of the forest. A white car was driving on this same road, with 3 passengers: A black-haired, Hitler-style mustache man, a 17 year old long haired brunette and a small 7 year old boy. The man was right now smoking his last cigarette of his 2nd package.

"Otou-san! Can you stop it?" The girl yelled at her father, after not being able to hold out any longer. The man looked at her: "I can't help it Ran, you know I'm a heavy smoker."

'As well a heavy drinker and a crazy perv.' The boy thought.

"At least stop for now." Ran yelled out.

"How do you expect me to stop? I'm the Great Mouri Kogoro!" The man, Mouri, exclaimed, "And I need my cigarettes, besides you said, that I can't drink before going to the Tsuruki estate."

"Well, you can't drive, if you're drunk!" Ran yelled.

"Ran-nee-chan?" The boy called.

"Huh? What is it Conan-kun?" Ran asked the boy, Conan (who was really Kudo Shinichi, just shrunken, but not that she knew that)

"Who is Tsuruki anyway?" Conan asked.

"Tsuruki Tsubasa is a millionaire owner of the Tsuruki Real Estate Agency. He sold and bought the best houses all across Japan. He is famous for giving houses to everyone, even the ones who aren't really rich by low price." Ran explained.

"That is why he is rich. Everyone tries to buy a house from him. He knows how to drive a good bargain." Mouri added. Conan looked at him: "But then why did he call you? Is he in trouble?"

"He called and told me that he will have a party and wants the most famous people there, like me, Mouri Kogoro." And laughs ludly.

'You're only famous because I helped you.' Conan thought in annoyance and looked threw the window to see a big old style Japanese house.

"Is that the Tsuruki house?" Conan asked and pointed. Both Mouri and Ran looked at where he's pointing.

"Why yes it is. We're not far from it now." Mouri said and speeded up.

After finally getting to the estate, finding out that is a lot bigger then they thought, they walked to the door and knocked on it. The door was opened by a round lady, with brown hair tied in a bun, greenish eyes and in a pinkish kimono on, in her early 50's.

"Ooh, you must be Mouri-san. And who are these dears?" The woman asked, "Oh, silly me, I forgot to introduce myself, I am Tsuruki Yumi, Tsubasus wife."

"Lovely meeting you Yumi-san. Yes, I am Mouri Kogoro and this is my daughter," "Mouri Ran," "And the kid is a freeloader we're taking care of," "Edogowa Conan," "Is Tsubasu-san here?" Mouri asked.

"Ah, the Sleeping Kogoro! Honor to meet you! I am Tsuruki Tsubasu. I see you met my wife, Yumi." Tsuruki introduced himself. He was an old man in his late 60's, with some gray hair, in his black, quite skinny, blackish eyes, with a black beard and dressed in a black business suite.

"Ah, Tsuruki-san, good to see you. The house is actually quite big, that we saw it." Mouri said. The old man laughed: "I guess so, but I like this house, it has been in my family for generations and I intend to keep it that way. I'm missing only one guest. The other 2 are here, you can meet with them in the living room. Can you take them, Yumi-chan?" Tsuruki asked. Yumi bowed lightly: "Hai, follow me."

Yumi took them threw the house, after changing their shoes, to the living room. The inside of the house was colored light milky brown and there were a lot of old style decorations and pictures. Even some of the furniture they saw was made in old style.

"This is the living room," Yumi said and opened the door, "Meet the other 2 guests."

Mouri, Ran and Conan looked inside of the living room, to see 2 teens watching TV on the couch. Both of them turned to reveal: Heiji and Kazuha!

"Eh!" Mouri exclaimed.

"Heiji-kun and Kazuha-chan?" Ran asked.

'I thought I knew that back of the head.' Conan thought.

"Oy, You got invited too?" Heiji asked. Kazuha looked at him: "Well duh, or else they wouldn't be here."

"Oh, so you know each other. Good, I won't have to introduce you," Yumi said, "I'll get my sons to take your luggage, Mouri-san, to your rooms."

"Eh, thank you Yumi-san." Mouri said. Yumi bowed and left to get her sons to help her with the luggage.

"So you got invited too?" Ran asked the two Osaka teens.

"Yeah, the old man Tsuruki called and invited me and a friend, of my choice, to his house." Heiji explained.

"Eh, Tou-san got a call too." Ran said.

"Tsuruki-oji-san said he is missing one more guest. Do you know who it is?" Conan asked Heiji.

"No, he didn't even mention how many he invited," Heiji told him, "Or that he even invited other detectives."

"Maybe he wanted to make a surprise." Kazuha guessed. Heiji looked at the Osaka brunette: "Then why not at least tell about more guests, before we come here?" Kazuha just shrugged.

"Oh, the Detective of the East and the Sleeping Kogoro!" A voice came from the door. They all turned to see a woman. She was a slim brunette (tied in a pony tail), in her 20's, with few freckles around her nose, bluish-green eyes and dressed in a light green summer dress.

"I am Yukiko, 2nd daughter of the Tsuruki family. Nice to meet the two Great Detectives of Japan." Yukiko introduced herself.

"Ah, nice to meet you too, Yukiko-chan." Mouri said and went closer to the girl. He had hearts in his eyes. Conan and Heiji exchanged glances, while Ran was pulling her dad away from the Tsuruki girl.

"Ah, I see you met my daughter Yukiko." Tsuruki walked in the room, along with another girl behind him. This girl was strange, since she didn't look Japanese at all.

"Ano…Who is that?" Ran asked and pointed at the girl.

"Ahh, this is Blackson Stacy, she is from America, so her name is Stacy Blackson, but she is more known as Stacy Static, Teen Detective." Tsuruki introduced the American girl. Stacy bowed and in a heavy American accent: "Pleasure to meet the Great Detective of the East and the Sleeping Kogoro. Many in America idolize you. Forgive my heavy accent and some mistakes, I just recently learned Japanese."

The guests observed Stacy: she had mid back, midnight black hair, with some white streaks, like lightning; static blue eyes; nicely tanned flawless skin and bleached jean pants and jacket; black top with a lightning bolt on it and a holster on her belt.

(AN: Not a gun holster)

"How old are you anyway?" Mouri asked, unimpressed about the girl. Stacy looked at him and gave a small smile: "I turned 16 last week."

"You're not an adult." Mouri plainly said.

"Then I wouldn't be a Teen Detective, Mouri-sama." Stacy frowned a bit. Kazuha looked at the girl and had a feeling she saw her somewhere, but couldn't recall where. Mouri grumbled a bit: "True. So, Tsuruki-sama, why did you call all of us here?"

"Ah, the reason, yes. I called all of my favorite detectives for a small party I'm having. My family and friends are coming as well and I decided to call some people I admire, which happen to be you 3." Tsuruki explained.

"Eh? Party? Won't we be intruding?" Mouri asked.

"Nonsense! You will be just what the party needs. Some good real life detective stories from the detectives themselves: from their point of view. That is what the party will need. Now why don't you go and unpack yourselves? The girls will be sharing the room on the east side hall left, while the men will be sharing the east side hall right." Tsuruki instructed the detectives and their friends.

"I can take them to their rooms, Otou-san." A young boy in his teen years (brown hair short, black eyes, no freckles, average black shirt and blue jeans).

"Ah, Daisuke. That would be nice. Meet my 2nd son: Daisuke, he will show you your rooms, so that you don't get lost." Tsuruki said and showed them to follow Daisuke.

They followed the 2nd son to the east side of the house. This house felt bigger on the inside.

"This house feels like a big museum," Stacy commented in her heavy accent, "So many things from previous generations."

"Ah, yeah. Otou-san really loves this house, so he keeps everything how it was when he got it from his parents. Sometimes I get lost in this house myself." Daisuke confessed.

"Then how do you find your way back out of this labyrinth?" Mouri asked.

"My grandma once said: Go ahead and you will find a way out, which I do and always find the way to get to my room. Maybe that is a riddle to this house." Daisuke guessed.

"Hey Daisuke! Where was my room again?" A man asked (In his mid 40's, black hair, brown eyes, tan skin, normal black shirt and black jeans).

"Ah Makoto-san. It's next to my Tou-san in the north side; you're in the east side." Daisuke answered.

"Not again." Makoto face palmed himself.

"Ano…who is this guy?" Conan asked. Daisuke looked at him: "This is Tachibana Makoto, the family doctor. Tou-san has a weak heart, so Kaa-san called him to the party, just incase he had a heart attack."

"That is a good idea." Mouri said and took out a cigarette. Makoto walked by them all: "I'll go to my room now." Kazuha looked at the retreated Makoto: "He isn't too friendly."

"Maybe just not used to so many strangers at once." Ran guessed.

After 3 hallways, Daisuke got them to their rooms: "Girls to the right and boys to the left. And no funny business."

"What do you think he meant by that Kudo?" Heiji whispered to Conan.

"Probably meant by not doing anything dumb with the girls." Conan guessed. Heiji was still clueless: "Like what?" Conan just rolled his eyes and walked in the room.

-With the girls-

They were putting their clothes in the wardrobe and placing the bags next to it.

"The room is small, but the house is big. Why is that?" Kazuha asked as she looked around the room.

"This could be only smaller rooms," Ran said and opened the door next to her, "See? There is another room here. With a piano." It was a black stage concert like piano.

"Eh? It looks brand new." Kazuha said. Stacy checked the piano: "It is. Judging from the smell, shine and strings, it was bought either earlier this weak or in the last weak straight from the company."

"Really?" Ran asked.

"Judging by the style, I say this was made on order." Stacy explained and sat down to try it out.

"Should you touch it?" Kazuha didn't look sure.

"Daisuke didn't say anything about touching the piano is forbidden, so I guess we can." Stacy began to play a piano cover of Miley Cyrus 'See You Again'.

-With the boys-

"Yeesh, I could use some beer right now." Mouri said and laid down on the futon.

"Uncle drinking is bad for you." Heiji said, as he unpacked his clothes.

"Baka. Why would it be bad?" Mouri asked.

"You could die from poisoning, if you drink too much." Conan smiled at Mouri.

"Baka." Mouri hit Conan on the head with his foot, who screamed: "Itte!"

Then they heard piano. It was a song, that none of them had heard, so they walked to the girls room. Once they walked inside, they saw Stacy playing a piano and Ran and Kazuha were watching her.

"Oy, what's going on here?" Heiji asked.

"Stacy-chan is playing some American song." Kazuha told the Osaka detective. Conan looked at her hands. They were playing the piano fast, moving smoothly and perfect.

"What song did you play?" Ran asked, once Stacy stopped playing the song. Stacy turned to face her: "'See You Again' by Miley Cyrus - Piano Cover. I have a hobby of playing different songs on the piano, when I get bored. I just listen and play them."

"By ear?" Kazuha asked Stacy, who just nodded.

"Never knew that was possible." Mouri said.

'You need to have ears first.' Conan thought and asked: "Stacy-nee-chan is it hard to play songs like that?"

"Depends on how fast you can play and hear," Stacy explained, "Want to try some?"

"Eh? I can?" Conan asked.

"Sure. Just follow my hand and listen to the song." Stacy turned on her player on 'See You Again' and began to follow the song. Conan tried, to find out, that is not as easy as it looks. Stacy turned off once she saw that Conan can't do it like she can: "How about we try by little parts?" Conan nodded.

"Gomenasai, Tou-san said, that you should come to the living room in 30 minutes, when party will start." Daisuke interrupted her.

"Alright. Come on you gaki." Mouri said and went to his room with Heiji and Conan.

The party was live, since there are a lot of people: Yumiko, the eldest daughter (mid 20's; shoulder length black hair; pale skin, green eyes; dressed in a blue kimono); Akio, the eldest son and eldest child (late 20's; brown spiky hair; light tanned skin; black eyes; dressed in a party black kimono); Ayaka, the fiancée of Akio (early 20's; mid back light brown hair; slight tanned skin; blue eyes; dressed in a light blue kimono); Fumiko, the grandma (late 80's, long grey hair, pale skin, short in height, dressed in a red kimono); Daisuke; Yukiko; Makoto; Yumi, Tsubasu and, of course, the detectives.

Mouri was drinking with Akio and Tsubasu beer. Good thing, Tsuriki thought about the kids and got some drinks from America for them and gives the American tantei something she is familiar with.

"So, you drink this back home?" Heiji eyed the cola he was given.

"Relax, that stuff isn't poisoned. If you want something else then take this." Stacy offers him some Sprite instead, which he gladly accepts. Conan was trying out some Fanta: "Tastes like orange juice."

"'Cause it is orange juice." Stacy explains to the little kid.

"How about you tell us some of your cases Mouri-san?" Daisuke asked.

"How about I tell you the one about my friends?" Mouri asked.

"You already told us about that. Maybe the one were you solved about the Night Baron?" Yumi asked.

"Maybe Hattori-kun wishes to tell a case?" Ayaka asked.

"Ne, ne why not let Stacy-chan tell us one of her cases." Yumiko asked.

"Great idea. Blackson-san?" Tsuruki looked at the American, "How about you tell us the case where you discovered a murder and the culprit just by the victims hand and one witness?" Stacy looked at him: "If you wish. It was an average day in San Diego, when a nearby car blew up. The witness stated that he was waiting for a bus, with some man that came from the nearby ally, where after 2 minutes something blew up. Both of them went to see what blew up, when saw a car in flames and a human, already burned up, inside of it. Police came as soon as they could and, since I was with a friend's father there, followed them as well. The victim was a man, who had his car full of explosives, maybe to rob a bank or to kidnap someone and threaten then the family, but the victim wasn't going to use the explosives. He was killed not by accident, but on purpose."

"How can you tell?" Conan wanted to know.

"The switch that activated the explosives was in the victim right hand, but the victim had a bone disease that made his right hand almost immobile. Plus the explosives had a time-bomb tied to them, even if he turned it on by accident, the victim could have escaped, but didn't. Meaning: the victim was out-cold, when the bomb was activated." Stacy explained.

"Then who killed the man?" Akio asked.

"The man that came out of the ally." Heiji guessed.

"Wrong. The witness himself." Stacy announced. Everyone went: "Eh?"

"Right. The man from the ally came out of the ally, after seeing a black car with shaded windows. But before someone got out of the car and ran away as quick as possible. Besides the witness, from the bus stop, said he came to the bus stop and waited for the bus at 2 o'clock and didn't go into the ally. There is a problem in that, because the bus doesn't go there from 1 – 3 o'clock and how did he know it was a black car that blew up, if he didn't enter the ally." Stacy explained.

"I see it, without going in the ally; he shouldn't have known that is a black car." Heiji said.

"Exactly. Turned out, the victim owned him money and wasn't paying back. He decided to kill to get his life insurance. What a lame motive." Stacy said and ate some sushi.

"I never understand people who kill." Mouri said and drank some beer. Then he returned back to his drunken state and wanted some more beer.

"We should stay quite for the next few minutes." Fumiko said.

"Why?" Ran and Kazuha asked.

"Because the curse said that everyone must be silent at midnight." Fumiko answered in a bit scary tone. Kazuha and Ran got scared and grabbed Heiji's hand and Conan.

"Curse?" Mouri looked at the head of the Tsuruki family. Tsubasu just waved his hand: "Relax, that is just some old mambo-jumbo."

"That is not a lie. The curse said: 'he, who sounds, at midnight sounds, will perish under the wrath of the spirit of Tsuruki Daiki.' So stay quite." And the clock sounded midnight, but Tsubasu didn't stay quite: "This superstition has gone long enough; I think we shouldn't do this in the middle of this party." The clock ended sounding midnight.

"You got the curse on you. In midnight the spirit rises and attacks the one, who didn't obey it." Fumiko said, making Ran hold Conan tighter. Tsubasu just snorted: "Old superstition, now where we're we?" And the party re-began.

It was now 1 A.M. and some of the guests were already asleep.

"I think we should go to bed, or we all sleep here?" Akio asked.

"Bed." Heiji said and went to his, followed by a sleepy Conan, very Drunk Mouri (Ran had to carry him), sleepy Kazuha and a tired Stacy. Good thing Daisuke still has enough energy to take them to their rooms. Once in bed, they all fell asleep.

-3 A.M.-

Steps sounded in the east hallway, waking up Ran. Still sleepy, she sat up and went to the door. She opened the door a bit and looked out, to see someone standing in the hallway. The person looked like some zombie/ghost like samurai, dressed in ancient armor, with the Tsuruki family symbol on the armor. The thing took out its sword and tried to strike Ran. She, in utter horror, fell back and screamed, waking everyone up.

"Ran!" Conan yelled and ran outside of his room, along with Heiji and Mouri.

Kazuha woke up and saw the samurai thing with the sword out and screamed as well. Stacy kicked the thing in its stomach and hit the leg, just as Conan and Heiji got out of their room. The samurai thing ran away, while limping, to the north hallway.

"Get back here!" Conan yelled and followed the thing in the north hallway. Heiji followed him: "Oy Kudo! Wait up!"

Both detectives followed it, until it vanished into thin air!

"That's not possible." Conan said.

"Where did it go?" Heiji looked around the hallway, but found no secret entrance, no hidden door.

"People just can't disappear." Conan said and checked some doors.

"Oy, oy Kudo, you don't think it really was a ghost." Heiji got alarmed.

"No, a human, but who…" A scream sounded from Yumi's and Tsubasu's room.

"Hurry!" Conan said and ran towards the scream.

Yumi walked out of her room in utter horror and fell on the floor. The cup of coffee, she was holding, broke.

"Yumi-san!" Heiji yelled and got to the woman's side, "What's wrong?" Yumi just pointed at in her room, with a shaky hand. Conan entered the room and his face turned to shock. Tsubasa was stabbed with 12 katana in his body from his feet to his head. Everyone else from the house ran to the room and saw the display.

"Tsuruki-san!" Mouri exclaimed.

"Tou-san!" Yumiko, Akio, Daisuke and Yukiko exclaimed.

"Kazuha! Call the ambulance!" Heiji yelled at her. The said girl looked at him: "Hai."

"While you're at it, call the police. It's too late." Stacy announced, as she checked the body. Everyone's face turned to horror and some broke into tears.

'Who? Who killed him? And how they got pass without anyone seeing him?' Conan thought.