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Secrets Revealed
By: MoonlightKagomeHimeko
"Ran!"
The dark-haired girl steps out of the kitchen in her pink apron covered in splotches of food. "Yes, Dad?"
The relatively old man extends his arm out to her, a letter in hand. Ran receives the letter and quickly removes her apron to sit on the couch.
"This letter came here, but it's addressed to your annoying friend."
"Shinichi?" her heart leaps as she reads the name on the card and frantically opens it. "Is he here? He hasn't called in days…"
The letter is written on a piece of ripped-out notebook paper. Ran's eyes widen as she reads through the letter, then passes it to Kogorou. He skims it quickly and his eyes widen as well.
"What's that piece of paper?"
Ran and Kogorou both jump at the sound of the voice of the little boy who suddenly appeared from behind the couch. Conan stood there staring up at Kogorou, waiting for an answer to his question. "Can I see?" he asks, reaching up for the piece of paper.
Kogorou shoves the paper into his pocket and smacks Conan on the head. "This is not for you, you can't be reading someone else's mail, you brat!"
"But uncle! You read it and it's not yours either!"
The man kneels down towards the boy and presses down on his head. "Then who's is it?"
"It's Shinichi's. You said so yourself."
Ran stands up and takes the paper from her dad's pocket. "Just let him see it. He's not going to understand anyways." She sais, handing Conan the paper. Conan takes it and sit's at the couch.
He reads in his head:
"Shinichi Kudo,
I will wait for you at the Mio Tower in the middle of the city at the highest hour on the day of the "Great Green". I will have my eyes set on the 'jewel' and will be awaiting a match between the two of us. We must settle this dispute then.
Kaitou Kid"
Conan's eyes narrow as he re-reads the note to himself once more. He turns around to face Ran and Kogorou who are discussing the note amongst themselves. "Highest hour eh?" sais Kogorou, "Obviously meaning the middle of the night, unless he means noon. Whatever, it's not like it's an invitation for us, right? We'll let your boyfriend do his own thing."
"Uncle. How would Shinichi know about this if he hasn't gotten it yet?" sais Conan in a squeaky voice, "Besides, it came here, meaning we must go take it to him. And I also think it would be a great idea to go too. I mean, don't you want to be better than him, uncle?"
Kogorou stares at the boy intently and then breaks into an annoying laugh, "Yeah! I'll beat him to it!"
"But first we need to figure out when to be there." sais Ran. "I also want to go and yell at that jerk for never being here!"
The boy laughs nervously and returns to look at the paper. "This code is very easy to figure out. 'I will wait for you at the Mio Tower in the middle of the city at the highest hour on the day of the "Great Green."' The location is obvious and there just so happens to be a display of the Royal Emerald that was discovered a few days ago at the Mio Tower. The display happens from 8 to 12 pm. So the highest hour is midnight. 'I will have my eyes set on the 'jewel.'' is saying that he's going to steal the Royal Emerald. Pretty easy to figure out if you ask me."
Conan is rewarded with another smack on the head by Kogorou. "And just how do you know these things, little brat?"
The boy picks up the newspaper sitting on the table before him and holds it up for Kogorou to see. "The main page on this paper says something about the Royal Emerald being at the Mio Tower tomorrow night."
Ran's eyes glisten as she stares at the picture of the jewel on the cover of the paper. "It's so pretty!"
Kogorou takes the paper from Conan and quickly scans the article on the jewel. "Well then. We'll go tomorrow night to the Mio Tower…and I'll finally be better than Shinichi! Although I already am!" he laughs.
Conan eyes the letter.
'We'll settle this once and for all, Kid.'
Moonlight: This is my first Detective Conan fic. I hopt it's okay so far.