Phantom Memory

Hello…and welcome to my crossover fic which, for the first time, will involved a popular detective manga, and later an anime series that ran from 1997 to 2000, Kindaichi Case Files (a.k.a.) Kindaichi Shōnen no Jikenbo. While this manga is written by the one who made Detective School Q, and recently, Bloody Monday, I'm surprised that there isn't one in the anime/manga category in , so I decided to make one to start a base where other fans of this manga can make fics here.

This fic is inspired from a chapter I've written in Parasite Eve II fic in Detective School Q (see Parasite Eve II: Armegeddon), where in Hajime Kindaichi makes a cameo appearance, and a thought hit me as I decided to try this out to see how the reception goes since I'm quite intrigued after reading the manga online.

I will be placing this on the crossover category, as aside from Kindaichi, I'll be putting other anime characters in as support and there'll be tons of suspense and that the villain that will be featured here will be no pushover which Kindaichi himself will be needing help.

And to make this interesting, I decided to bring in three lead detective characters to pose a "threat" to Kindaichi himself...

So here it is…

Disclaimer:

Kindaichi Case Files, Detective School Q, and Bloody Monday are owned by Seimaru Amagi

Majin Tantei Nogami Neuro is owned by Yūsei Matsui

Hiroshima High School.

The time now is 22:00, and the scene takes place inside the school's auditorium where several students belong to the Drama Club are working on putting the props to its proper place and are hurrying as they have up to next morning to prepare for the highly-anticipated stage play in their school, which posters are posted on the school gates titled "Phantom Of The Opera", and this became the school's trump card for the annual festival, and many are looking forward to see it with ticket are sold and are ready to be used for the day's admission.

The students involved are getting ready for the next day's performance and after placing the props, they decided to retire for the night as they are now tired and wanted to rest so they all head for their respected dorms. They look forward to tomorrow's play and hope that their play, The Phantom of The Opera, would be a huge success due to the casts, as long as the main casts are being played by a popular high school boy and a high school girl, both considered to be the school's idols. However, as the lights went off, a shadow looms and is getting closer to a certain room and a silhouette shows it slowly opened the door, and silence enveloped that area before the scene faded.

The next day, the student body and the club members are already there and it is already 10 am, and they all wondered why two of its fellow students, the mains casts, haven't arrived yet, as it is time for the final rehearsal after finally putting the props in place inside the auditorium. They became a bit peeved at the two students' apparent tardiness and sent two of its members to go fetch the two.

"Geez…I know those two…getting jitters is not their styles…"

"What do you suppose you think they're doing?"

"I bet they're making out…"

"At a time like this…?"

"Well…they're a couple…"

We got dorms for separate boys and girls…so how can he or she managed to sneak into a guy ir girl's "room of they do intend to do that…come on…that's not their style…they should wait until the play is over…after that they can do the kissy-kissy poo for all we care…as long as the play is successful…"

They soon arrived at the boy's room and knocked on the door but no one is answering, and they decided to call his name, but after five minutes no one is answering, slowly making the student worry and decided to tell his fellow student to get the keys. As the student got the keys to the boys' dorm room, they opened it and saw the blanket-covered bed with someone on it and as they removed the blanket, the student shrieked at the sight and ran out towards the open field and this alerted the rest of the students at hearing it.

Another shriek is heard and the second student came out, crying and screaming and told them they found two corpses on the bed of the students who didn't show up at the rehearsal, and as the student council president went to check it out, he was horrified and told one of the students to call the police and within 15 minutes the police arrived and are on the scene of the crime to look into the matter.

Inside the Shinkansen, two teenagers are bickering among themselves despite the eyes' of fellow passengers glancing at them as their bickering got a little louder due to a petty quarrel, though the other passengers opted to leave them alone seeing that it wasn't that much of a disturbance guessing that it is common for teenage couples to bicker among themselves.

"Really, Hajime…you're so slovenly…I told you that you arrive at about 7 am…now we're here at 9 am…"

"Geez, Miyuki…what's the rush…? You got constipation or LBM?"

KA-PLAG!

"Ow! Hey…!"

"You moron! I already told you…! There's a play today at Hiroshima High School and the play is very interesting to see…not to mention that it's part of our assignment! So arrival time is important! The play starts by 11 am and I want to get some seats without standing…!"

"Then use stilts…"

KA-PLAG!

"Ow! Hey…!"

The two students, Hajime Kindaichi and Miyuki Nanase, are childhood friends, and while many see them as a potential couple, their personalities contradict each other, such as Miyuki being responsible while Kindaichi is laid back, lazy and a bit lecherous. But underneath those "bad qualities", Hajime is gifted with great intelligence and deductive prowess by his 180 IQ, possibly inherited from his grandfather, private detective Kosuke Kindaichi. The bickering goes on until the train conductor came to tell the two that they must behave as it causes discomfort to the other passengers.

"Miss…please tell your friend to behave…it's causing a commotion to the passengers…"

Embarrassed, Miyuki did so and so did Kindaichi, though he continue to pick his nose much to her chagrin.

At the other seat near the two, two persons are quite silent save for a girl who is eating piggishly while her seatmate was quite annoyed. She is Yako Katsarugi and Neuro Nogami, and they are happened to be traveling after solving an early dawn case and are heading to Hiroshima to see Yako's friend. Since solving a mystery, Nogami is getting "energized" for solving a very difficult case but Nogami sees no problem to it.

"Geez…you sure eat like a pig…I wonder why I chose you to be my partner…"

"Hey…munch-munch…you did that on your own…and without me…you won't get energy to return to the Makai world…munch-munch…want some…?"

"Ugh…with your drool dripping…no thanks…"

Nearby, another teenager is sitting near the seat of the two "detectives", and he appeared to be 16 years old and is holding a laptop, and the scene zooms in on the laptop's screen where a "falcon" is shown as a screensaver. He is Fujimaru Takagi, and he is a secret hacker working for Third-I. He had just hacked a porn site to download some bold videos when the train's radio played and mentioned the news report of a murder at Hiroshima High which caused Miyuki to become alarmed.

"That's…that where the stage play is going to be held…"

"Okay…play's cancelled, let's go back…"

"But…but…"

Miyuki was starting to get teary-eyed and Kindaichi sighed at this but overheard Nogami stating that "this is one mystery we can't afford to miss and this would surely replenish my demonic energy…" comment, and this made him a little edgy. Demonic energy? Either he sees this Nogami as a wierdo or something feels like a supernatural thing. Nevertheless, he felt challenged and opted to go on to Hiroshima to see about this murder case.

Meanwhile, Fujimaru also heard of this and realized that though this is out of his league, he opted to go there as he happened to know that a "partner" of his is within that area, and is a renowned student of Dan Detective School, and he decided to go help him whenever he needed. Aside from being a hacker, Fujimaru acquired an ability he recently got after an "incident" a few months prior.

Fujimaru: "Kyuu…can you hear me…?"

At Hiroshima, Dan Detective School student Kyuu Renjou is a few blocks near Hiroshima High School and he happened to share a telepathic link with Fujimaru and heard his mental call and answered him telepathically.

Kyuu: "What's up, Fuji?"

Fujimaru: "I heard about a murder in Hiroshima High School…see if you can get inside…check out the case…you got your DDS badge?"

Kyuu: "Always with me…"

Fujimaru: "Good."

Kyuu: "Got your Memory Driver? I brought it with me…"

Fujimaru: "Always…after all…"

Kyuu: "…we're "two detectives in one"…"

And so Kyuu Renjou, a student of the famous detective school, heads off to Hiroshima High to check out the scene of the crime and hope to see what lies ahead. The scene shifts inside his bag where a memory driver device is hidden, and is shaped like a letter "W" with three USB flashdisk sticks there, and the scene shifts to Fujimaru, as he hides his laptop inside his bag and it also shows that he too has a memory driver device is hidden, and is shaped like a letter "W" with three USB flashdisk sticks there, and now the "detectives" are closing in on the crime scene, and a three-way investigation is about to commence.

To Be Continued…

Hope you like the opening here...

While the investigation hasn't started yet, I'm sure it is enough to gauge your curiosity.

Preview:

A three-way investigation takes place once the three detectives arrrive, and "chaos" ensues as the trio meets for the first time and it will be a question on whther to join forces or become rival getting the first to crack this case...