"So, when do we go?"
"I say today, Conan is busy tonight so he won't be able to steal our glory!"
Right, then our newest assignment has been decided on, Detective boys, move out!"
"Yeah!"
"What are you guys doing?" The three children jumped up from the desk they were whispering over to look at the boy who just spoke. He looked at them with a bored gaze over his too-large glasses.
"N-Nothing, Conan-kun" Ayumi said holding up her hands in defence.
"Yeah, we were just talking!" "Why do you have to be so suspicious?" Genta and Mitsuhiko moved between Ayumi and Conan.
Conan just sighed and walked over to his desk and sat down, pulling out a well worn copy of Arthur Conan Doyle's "Sign of Four"
"Hey Genta, Mitsuhiko, don't you think we should at least tell Conan-kun about it, he might feel left out?" She asked, looking sadly at the boy.
"But last time he got really upset when Ran-san told him off. He sat on the sofa really red for ages Mitsuhiko said "I don't think Conan's used to being told off like that, maybe we'll be best leaving him."
"Right!" said Genta, raising his fist "Then after school we'll all meet outside the "Eto" house!"
Later, the three young detectives stood in font of the homes large gates looming over them, blocking the way to a wild garden. The grass was overgrown, spilling out onto the once clear path, and what once where clean beautiful flowerbeds had grown over, weeds twisting and trapping the bright flowers. They couldn't help but gulp at the sight.
"Well, let's go," Mitsuhiko said reaching up for the gates handle, failing to hide the faint shiver in his voice. The gate silently swung open, and the sea of dead leaves picked up in the wind, as if fleeing from the gardens invaders.
The children begun to move down the path walking all around the house, keeping close together, searching for a way in. "Ah!" Mitsuhiko suddenly cried, startling the other two "That window over there, its open!" He pointed to one of the windows near the back, just barely open.
One moved trash can and gentle prying later, the children climbed as silently as they could through the window. Ayumi went in first, she kept tight hold of the edges of the frame as she attempted to find something solid to put her foot on. She felt something metal, and put force on it only for it to suddenly move making her fall, the sound of running water rushed to her ears.
"Ayumi!" Genta and Mitsuhiko yelled, clambering on top of the bin to look in "Are you OK?"
"Yeah," she stood up and looked around "I stood on the tap and it turned." She reached up to the counter and turned the tap off. As she did, Genta and Mitsuhiko came through the window and jumped down next to her, Genta looked around the room while Mitsuhiko went to the sink. Genta opened a cupboard and pulled out a pan covered in dust "This place must have been abandoned for ages."
"No, I don't think so" Said Mitsuhiko "Remember that abandoned house we went to a while ago?"
"The one where the scary woman locked her son up in the cellar?" Ayumi asked
"Yeah well, didn't Conan say how is it's an abandoned house,"
"Then why did it have running water!" Genta shouted
"Right, so, is the waters still paid for, but the cooking stuff isn't used," Mitsuhiko turned to the door leading to the rest of the abandoned house "someone is secretly visiting this house."
Right, so this is likely to be a random pile of one shots all about different things they find in the house that I will write up when I think about it, and will likely happen in different verse's. And sorry that there's no Ai, but I find her hard to "act right"
Constructive criticism please, no flames