~*~Crossroad in the Ancient Capital~*~

DISCLAIMERS: All the Detective Conan characters are belonged to Aoyama Gosho, YTV, and Shonen Sunday.

Day One. Destination --- Kyoto

In Tokyo, inside certain temple

There were three weird men held a secret meeting, all of a sudden, a dark shadow appeared in front of them. He was wearing a mask of an old man, with a Japanese sword in his hand. He struck down his sword to the man nearest him. The other two men escaped immediately, "Help! Murder!" The man with the mask got his bow and arrow ready, and aimed his arrow to the escaping men.

In Tokyo Police Headquarters

Mouri Kogoro, Mouri Ran, Edogowa Conan and Suzuki Sonoko were at Megure's office, discussing the recent murder case. "There're two other murder cases in Osaka and Kyoto! These were the fourth and fifth victims already," said Megure to Mouri Kogoro.

"This is a successive murder case," said Shiratori seriously.

"All the victims are from the same organisation --- the Kei Organisation, it was a famous theft organisation," said Megure.

"Is this the organisation that aims at Buddhist statues, and antiques?" asked Conan. "what is this book? The book of Yoshitsune. Why did every victims have a book with them?"

"Yes, the book was a proof as a member of the organisation," answered Shiratori, "but how did you know it?"

Conan was sweating immediately, "I...I get it from Kogoro-jisan."

'How can he tell such things to a kid?' thought Megure. "Mouri, we need your help. Actually there was a Buddhist Statue missing, and there was only a note left in the temple." Megure showed the note to Kogoro, it was a note with only two lines.

"This is a challenge from the murderer!" said Kogoro.

"Go to KYOTO! Go to Sannoh Temple where the statue originally was."

'it's going to be interesting,' thought Conan.

~*~*~*~*~*~ In Osaka, at Hattori's house

"Konnichi wa, Kazuha-chan. Are you coming for Heiji?" Shizuka was welcoming Kazuha to her house. "I think Heiji is staying at his room. Go and find him yourself. Do you want any thing to drink?"

"Arigatoo, Obansan. Orange juice please. I'll go find Heiji myself." To Kazuha, the Hattori's house was almost her second home. She spent lots of her time here, just to be near Heiji.

"Heiji! What're you doing here? Can I come in?" Kazuha was outside Heiji's room, "eh! No one is here. Where does he go?" The door was opened and Kazuha entered. It might be not too good to enter someone's room without their permission, but Heiji never stopped her into his room.

Kazuha loved to stay at Heiji's room, not only because Heiji was here, but also it was very comfortable. Beautiful cherry blossoms could be seen from his room with the door opened. There was a hi-fi and television set at one side of the room, and the bed on the other side. A Japanese-style table in the middle, which Heiji always loved to work there. A study desk was by his bedside, though he seldom used it. There were also some photos with her and Heiji on the desk, though some of them were put by her.

While she was looking at the pictures, someone pull her ponytail. "Ouch! That hurts," Kazuha turned around trying to find who was there, "Heiji!"

"What're you doing in my room? How dare you enter my room without my permission?" Heiji was just pretended to be angry of course, "I just go out to hear a phone call, and then I find you in my room."

"You don't close your door first! Anyway you don't need privacy. I just like to stay at your room to look at the cherry blossoms." Kazuha was trying to find an excuse for entering his room.

They were both sitting on the floor, "ne, Heiji, you've got another puzzles to solve," asked Kazuha. Heiji was putting his hand on his head, trying to think the different ways to solve it. "Yes. It was the recent cases of murder involving the Kei organization."

"I heard otoosan said that a Buddhist statue was stolen in Kyoto," said Kazuha, she always tried to get information from her father, so that she could help Heiji.

"That what I've just heard from the phone call," said Heiji. "More information will be needed, maybe we need to go to Kyoto."

"We?" asked Kazuha. "you and I?"

"Of course you and I, is there anyone in this room?" said Heiji, "or you can't come."

"I can come," Kazuha answered immediately, "I have not been to Kyoto a long time. It's such a beautiful city."

"Aho! We're not going for a vacation!"

The next day, Kazuha came to meet Heiji at his house. "you're late! I told you to come by ten in the morning, it's half past ten now! And what's in that bag, isn't it a bit too large?"

"I need to pack my stuff, it is too rush. You just told me yesterday we're going to Kyoto, and I don't know how long would we stay there," complained Kazuha, she was carrying a large shoulder bag, "let's go to the train station now."

"Train station? We're not going there by train. We'll ride on my motorcycle to there." Kazuha finally noticed that Heiji was already on his motorcycle, waiting for her. "Can I change my clothes first?" Kazuha was wearing a short skirt, which was very obvious that it was not suitable to ride on a motorcycle.

"Aho! You don't have time. Get on!"

To be continued......

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That's it for this chapter. Tell me what you think. Please R & R. Next Chapter --- Kazuha found out that Heiji had a first love...Ran, Conan met with Heiji, Kazuha...