Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Detective Conan or Kaitou Kid characters. Don't sue me. I'm just a high school boy with plenty of time to burn and too little cash to go with it.

He ran towards the crosswalk while keeping an eye on the man dressed in black. He sweated in stress as the man in black started to blend into the crowd and disappear from his sight. He cursed his own incompetent size for the twentieth time that day.

'Not again!' Conan thought as he ran across the street once the pedestrian light turned green, 'I won't let you escape this time!' He smirked a confident grin as he pulled out his tracking bug from his school backpack and turned it on. He hardly noticed the truck that ran the red light. A screech of tires was the last thing Conan heard before the darkness…

Conan woke up in the hospital with a gigantic, royal headache. He sat up and held his head with a grimace; he could feel layers upon layers of bandage wrapped around his head. He looked around the room and saw the clock on the wall, which read 5:46. Conan glanced out the window and could see the sun setting as cars were jammed everywhere on the streets with their drivers intent on getting home.

'Crap, Ran is going to have a fit when she hears about this.' Conan contemplated his predicament sullenly and painfully, 'And to top it all off, I lost track of the guy. This is just not my day.' He looked around the empty room, the two beds beside his were clean and without signs of recent occupants. He slowly got off of his bed and reached for his glasses on the small table, but to his surprise, he found nothing. 'Probably got destroyed when I got ran over, I'll have to ask Dr. Agasa for another one. Hope he doesn't mind.' He sighed and checked his other equipment, and surprise soon turned to panic as his eyes darted back and forth between himself and the room. In his hospital gown, he frantically searched the dressers and desks found in the room. 'What? Where's my tranquilizer watch, and by soccer ball belt? And I don't see my voice changer or my power shoes anywhere! Did the hospital staff take all my stuff? Not very likely, they have no reason to. Or have all my gadgets been destroyed? Wait… If they have been destroyed, then that must mean there was enough force in the impact to cause several other serious injuries to me as well, but how come only my head was hurt?' Conan checked over his body once again and saw no visible wounds. 'Impossible… A truck hits me and all I got was a cracked skull? This makes no sense at all!' He quickly ran to his medical chart at the bottom of his bed, which read:

Patient No. 254579

Name: N/A

Age: N/A

Height: 110cm

Weight: 26kg

Blood Type: B negative

Allergies: N/A

Medical History: N/A

Condition: Blunt trauma to the head, stable

…

'Okay, this is officially getting bizarre. How can they not know who I am? I was carrying my school backpack with my name and address in it! No matter how damaged my things were, they could've still found out some things about me. And why in hell is that television so loud?' Conan glared irritably at the television that was making his headache worse. Ordinarily he wouldn't have minded it, but somehow the sound of it kept on pounding into his ears, and each boom caused him to replay in his head his unfortunate meeting with the truck.

"In other news, the missing high school detective Kudo Shinichi has not been found yet. As the police continue on with the desperate search, friends and family of Kudo Shinichi are still supporting each other in the third day of this ordeal and hoping for the return of the prodigal son and loyal friend…" Conan tuned out the rest of the reporter's words as he stood still in shock. He looked at the screen and saw the worried faces of Dr. Agasa, Ran, his parents, and his high school friends.

'But why…why would Dr. Agasa and my parents look for Kudo Shinichi and not Edogawa Conan? Shinichi is on a "case" right now and it not unusual for him to not contact anyone for weeks on end, not that it is a good thing… And Conan's the one who should be home right after school because of the banquet thing with Kogoro-san and that politician, Miyakana. Wait a minute! The reporter said it's the third day, just how long have I been out?' Conan looked at the date on the TV screen just below the side-scrolling news messages. He let out a gasp as all his hair stood on end. 'This is a dream…this must be! Going back in time in a medical sense I can handle, but there is no way I could have really gone back in time, back to when this all started…!' The date on the screen was exactly three days after the Roller-Coaster Murder incident.

The wind billowed through his white cape as he smiled with grim satisfaction. He held the perfectly round gem up in the dim light of a starry sky. The gem was held in place by a gold ring, which was attached to a silk ribbon and formed a simple necklace. The gem appeared dull and gray, without anything special that would indicate that it was actually a gem other than the gold it was wrapped in. The young man waited patiently for the moon to appear from behind the few clouds that drifted through the night sky.

"And now… The moment of truth." Kaitou Kid spoke as if there was an audience around him, but only the wind whistled through the rooftops as sirens blared mutedly in the distance. As the light of the moon slowly shone through, the gem started to glow and become transparent. Brilliant streaks of gold branched out from its center as blue and red spots glowed and swirled around inside just like the lights on top of the police cars that he had become so familiar with. "I've finally found you, the destroyer of innocence, the starter of all plagues. I've found you, Pandora…"

"I never knew you could be so poetic."

"I'm an artist, how can I not be poetic?" Kaitou Kid smiled a crooked grin as he turned around to face a woman dressed in revealing black, "And how may I be of service to you today, Koizumi-san?"

"I'm just here to warn you not to destroy that relic in your hand just yet." Her hair flowed beautifully in the wind as every inch of her body sang the dangerous song of seduction. Kaitou Kid did not notice this and politely showed his doubt.

"And why not, may I ask?"

"Someone whose fate is closely connected with yours is now dying, and he doesn't have much time." Koizumi Akako stated darkly as she kept her eyes on the thief.

"Oh? It's a 'he'? Are you talking about Nakamori-san, or Saguru-san perhaps?" Kaitou Kid raised an eyebrow as he tucked the Pandora Gem securely into his pocket.

"He is the one who can truly oppose you, one who is the light to your darkness, the yin to your yang. He is the only one in this universe who can counter you with equal power, and yet be in perfect harmony with you at the same time."

"I have no idea who you're talking about, please stop talking nonsense." Kaitou Kid turned away from Koizumi Akako and started to walk towards the edge of the roof.

"Hmm. And here I thought you liked riddles. How about this, then? He is the one who can help you achieve your goal, and you his. You can either destroy each other, or help each other prevail. And… I think that you know this." Akako smiled amusedly as Kaitou Kid turned his head and narrowed his eyes in suspicion, "Don't worry, I'm not reading your mind. I know that you have been monitoring his activities, and it is the Kaitou Kid's way to look out for things that would either threaten or help him, is it not?" Kaitou Kid relaxed the tension in his shoulders as his poker face set back in place after the small interruption to his features.

"You said that he can help achieve my goal, but I've already reached my goal. The Gem is in my hand right now."

"Do you truly believe that? Is a little gem what the great thief Kaitou Kid is really after? If that's the case, then I've seriously misjudged your character, Kuroba-san."

"I'm not Kuroba." Kaitou Kid rebutted in his smooth voice, "Okay, let's say you're right, which I doubt. Let's say that this man or boy you speak of is in danger, and that he is the one who can help me in my time of need. How do I know the sincerity of your intentions? How do I know that you are not one of those people who would want to take the Pandora Gem for their own purposes?"

"Have I ever lied to you or put you in danger, Kuroba-san?" Akako smiled playfully and cast her red eyes on the thief in white, "Besides, I don't need a silly gem to keep my youth and beauty." She laughed melodiously as she disappeared into the darkness.

Kaitou Kid stared at the spot Akako was in expressionlessly, and then he jumped off the roof and activated his hang glider. A few minutes later he arrived at the Mouri Detective Agency and found the lights and television on with no signs of people. 'So they left in a hurry. Wonder what happened?' The TV was set on a news channel, and commercials had just finished.

"A small boy was hit by a drunk driver today in the Beika district," the reporter started, "The boy's name is Edogawa Conan, aged 7. Witnesses say that as he crossed the street, a blue truck ran a red light and hit him head on. The boy is in critical condition at the Beika District Hospital. Friends and family…" The sound of Kaitou Kid's fluttering cape flew out the window, and the building was once again abandoned.

A/N: Fade out… And… Cue the movie opening! (Hums to the addictive opening theme as character introductions are made.) Ah! Cliffhangers! Gotta love them! They're simply the best friends of evil authors. But even evil authors need reviews… (Looks on with teary puppy eyes.)