AnuAngel
The name is really still not together yet....
Shinichi Kudo was never one for art, other than using them as victims of mystery book crimes or fakely swooning over them, his parents didn't either. So why was there more and more art showing up in his home?
Well the answer was fairly simple, some aquaintences didn't really like his parents or were just being an ass, and trying to get the idiots into trouble. A Ms Vineyard and a Mister Kuroba.
Not that Shinichi knew yet.
One night, Shinichi had awoken to voices in the LARGE, which was an understatement, kitchen. He'd snuck quietly, it was his house, he knew how to sneak out of it, he just rarely did, to just outside the OPEN door.
Who would leave it open? Oh right, some stupid burgular that needed to escape quickly if they got caught. Well, too bad. That wasn't going to happen.
These two didn't seem to be stealing anything from the Kudo house though.
"Mine's here." The taller, definitely male, not-burgular said, a grin evident in his voice. "Is your's ready to put in?" he asked his possible companion.
"Of course," the second figure, female, chirped. "Yuki-chan is going to be so surprised. When she gets accused of taking this!" she said sickly sweetly, motioning to what Shinichi could see was ANOTHER piece of stupid art.
He'd recognised the two by now. The first was Touichi Kuroba, a of rival of Shinichi's Dad, they liked butting each other's heads together on a regular basis and seeing who got caught. Kind of like his son and Shinichi did.
The second, was Sharon Vineyard. A some-what friend/actress rival of his mother. She just liked being a pain. Shinichi swore she had a vendetta or something against his family. She's learnt costume with Yukiko Kudo under the direction of Mr. Kuroba.
There was a question, why weren't they wearing a disguise or at least something to make them less recognisable? A beanie would have been enough. Or gloves. You could see Touichi's burns from an accident on his hands.
Shinichi rolled his eyes, however. It was pointless trying to pin stealing stuff like that on his parents. For starters, they weren't in the country and these were magically appearing every night, much to Shinichi's displeasure. And everyone knew that any crime committed within a 5 block radius of him was solved down to a T. His parents, and these two, weren't that stupid. They were cruel, but not stupid.
Deciding that this could wait a night or two, Shinchi went back to bed. They'd been bringing stuff for a week. They probably had a lot more. If Shinichi was right they were doing this for kicks.
The following night, Shinichi didn't bother getting out of bed. He'd planted a very well hidden baby radio, he was resourceful, in the kitchen. He'd heard them say it had the most free space, so it was a good place to plant them.
'What's this?' Touichi said, probably motioning the note he'd written to Sharon. He wasn't there, so he wasn't sure.
' 'I know.' ' The woman read. 'Oh darn, Shin-chan knows. He's such an angel to tell us.' she laughed. It sounded hollow.
Touichi had picked up on that. It worried him. 'Well, we're done here. Let's go and bring the rest tommorrow.' he'd tried, to the woman, who was prone to very strange actions.
She'd nodded, at least Shinichi guessed. He heard them heading in different directions. But both still leaving.
Not that he was scared, no, Shinichi wasn't scared. He'd planted a radio so he wouldn't get caught, two against one wasn't fair, even if the one could kick and scream like hell until somebody came to help.
But he didn't get back to sleep the rest of the night, he thought something was watching him. When his mind finally fell into slumber, it was already bright outside, probably noon, but hey he hadn't had any sleep, and it was a weekend, who cared?
Late in the afternoon, just before dusk. A woman crept into the house, after picking the locks.
She crept up to the teenager's room. Now, wouldn't a teen, even if introverted, be awake then? Well, normally yes. But she knew he hadn't slept. She'd watched him for most the night and he probably hadn't slept since the night before when he'd heard them. She'd figured he'd be asleep. He'd try to catch them at night.
'Oh, Shin-chan. You shouldn't have told me. I'm not about to let myself get caught on this side of the law.' She laughed quietly, telling the unconicious boy,'This is a new poison, not even tested on humans. You're the first, lucky you.', as she slipped a capsule down his throat and following it with water to force him to swallow. Then she planted more art in the house. Just so she didn't have to show up when Touichi came and possibly discovered the most likely dead by then boy.
The poison took a while to enter Shinichi's system, it was almost midnight before it started acting. He woke screaming in pain, as the burning sensation reached every part of his being.
Touichi Kuroba was concerned about two people.
