Chapter 1

Sherry heard snoring on her left side, and beeping sound of her phone coming from the bedside table on her right side. She grunted. That night had been so good, and this stupid phone had to remind her about the world outside. A man next to her stirred, while he slept. Sherry smiled as she watched the man's muscled chest. He must sense her observing him as he opened his eyes.

"Good morning, Gin." Sherry put her lips on his.

"Mmm, good morning, Sherry." They gave themselves small kisses.

They had always been calling themselves by their code-names. Sherry had asked once Gin about his real name, but he had responded that he liked his code-name. He even liked it more when Sherry called him that.

It was a policy in the syndicate, where both Gin and Sherry had been working in, to call others by their code-names. You would have to be pretty close to a member of the syndicate to know his real name. However, it wasn't enough in Gin's case.

Gin and Sherry had been together for five months already. They had been growing very close to each other, but it didn't include trust. Sherry shouldn't hold it against Gin, since she didn't trust him, too. That what she had been taught. Trust no one. She wasn't surprised. After all, the syndicate had had two moles: Rye and Scotch.

Scotch had been killed before the syndicate could learn who Scotch had been working for; and Rye had managed to escape. Gin had been pursuing him ever since that day. He hated traitors. However, his obsession over Rye wasn't as bad as Bourbon's. He had kept telling that he was the only person who could kill Rye. Fortunately, Gin hadn't made a big fuss about it. He didn't care who would kill Rye, as long as he would end up dead.

Sherry had met Bourbon few times. He called her by her real name, Miyano Shiho, during their first meeting. Sherry had reminded him that it was against the syndicate's policy to call others by their real names.

I just wanted to hear how it sounds.

Bourbon's gaze on her had been penetrating. He had explained that he had been impressed by Shiho being so smart at such young age. She knew he was lying, and there was a different reason that Bourbon didn't want to share with her.

Sherry grabbed her phone and saw the message from Rum.

"Who is it?" Gin asked.

"Rum, he's asking why am I not in the lab, and that we must talk."

"Well, you're kind of late," Gin noticed.

"I'm in the charge of the drug development. I'm never late."

"Well, it doesn't change the fact, Rum is the boss' right hand."

Sherry grunted. "You're right. I better go." She kissed him. She felt butterflies in her stomach.


Mika stood in the doorway. She observed her older brother sleeping with his mouth half-open. He had to wake up for a work. Mika was very excited to come to the work considering her recent promotion.

She glanced at her brother and a brilliant plan of waking him up came to her mind.

Mika tiptoed towards his bed. She took a deep breath, before she shouted.

"The police force are going to interrogate you regarding your date with Miwako!"

Mika's brother leapt off his bed. "What? When? Where?" He noticed Mika next to his bed rolled down on the floor, laughing. "Mika-chan, stop with the jokes, and it wasn't a date. It was a stake out."

"Well, if you like to call it this way." She grinned at him. "Come on, get out of the bed. It's time for work, Wataru-kun."

Takagi scrambled out of the bed. "Fine. Hey, isn't your first day as a police sergeant?"

"Yes, it is." Mika smiled.

Mika and Wataru had wanted to become police men since they had been children. They had always played cops and criminals. Her adoptive parents had been against her to become a police woman.

Fortunately, Mika had gotten her way. Her parents had been always treating her like a little girl who couldn't take care of herself. Mika had decided to prove them wrong by working for the police. So far she loved it, especially now when she had gotten higher in ranking.

Her parents invited her and Wataru for tonight's dinner to celebrate her promotion. Even though, they had been against her work, at first.

Mika loved her parent very much, but she sometimes wondered about her real parents. She had been told that she was adopted through a close adoption, therefore there weren't any information regarding her parents. Mika didn't want to think bad of them that's why she had always came up with excuses, why her parents had given her away, such as: they had been too poor to take care of her, or they had already too many kids. She loved come up with the different scenarios.

However, Mika loved her life, and she was thankful to be adopted into Takagi's family. She had great parents, awesome brother and friends, and an amazing boyfriend. All she could ask for.


Sherry listened to Rum who didn't express happiness that she was late. Rum was very strict about everything. The timing wasn't an exception. Sherry bowed her head and apologized for her behaviour. She was lower rank than him, so there was no point to argue with him. Rum was a highest member of the syndicate, and only few members had seen him in person; however, everyone knew about his artificial left eye. Sherry might be one of fewer people who knew how Rum had damaged his eye.

"The boss has assigned you a mission that you need to complete." Rum informed her.

"A mission? With all due respect, I'm afraid I don't have any time for a mission. I must work on the development of the drug."

"You're the only member who can do it, and the boss expects you to complete this mission with a success. Do you understand?" Rum asked, serious.

"Yes, I understand. So, what is the mission?"

One most important thing that Sherry had learnt in the syndicate was never to oppose the boss. Everyone who had, had ended badly.

"Bourbon found out few useful information about Rye. We know his true name, Akai Shuichi, and that he's working for FBI."

Bourbon had boasted about it. He had even killed Rye's mother who visited Tokyo. He used Sherry's unfinished drug.

"He also found out that Rye is an older cousin of Kudo Shinichi."

"Kudo? You mean that high school detective whom media talk about?" Sherry asked, surprised.

"Yes, him. So, what the boss wants you to do is to make friends with him, get his trust, and get to Akai through Kudo."

The boss couldn't be serious. She was ordered to waste her time on a detective who was full of himself.

"Why don't you just kidnap that Kudo guy and use him as a bait?"

"It's too risky. We kidnap him and we will have whole FBI and maybe even police on our backs."

"Then kidnap him and get information out of him about Rye." Sherry must come up with some excuse to avoid doing this mission.

"We don't know how much Kudo knows about his cousin, that's why you are going to be sent to find out, and then you will use him to get to Akai."

Sherry grunted inwardly. When Rum was talking with this kind of voice, there was no way to say no.

Rum took some papers out of the desk. "Here are the information you need. I already enrol you into the high school where Kudo Shinichi is attending to. Your alias name will be Haibara Ai."

Sherry took the papers from Rum and sighed. "All right, I'll do it.

"Perfect." A sly smile appeared on Rum's face.


"I understand, thank you, Kir." Jodie put down her phone. "It seems our problems are increasing."

"What is is?" James asked, concerned.

"Kir eavesdrop the conversation between Gin and Sherry, and it seems Sherry got a mission to use your cousin to get to you." Jodie glanced at Akai, worried.

A girl with light hair who was sitting in the corner, smiled slightly and said, "Lucky for us, we already took precautions."

"Indeed." Akai agreed.


A/N: Re-edited on 24th March 2016.

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