OCTOBER SECRETS

A request from Aniki-XVI : Dark Conan kidnapping with a couple of interesting turns that you'll see later on.

Named for the beginning of a musical piece 'October' that is very ominous at the beginning, written by Eric Whitacre and a really dramatic piece overall. This is going to feature character death and other adult themes, if you are opposed to reading such things please exit stage X now. As for the rest of you, enjoy your morbid requested character death. Oh, and this is not a one shot...

The break lines represent changes in point of view. This is my first total angst/tragedy fic, so let me know what you think.

KIDNAPPER-1


He watched from the rooftop across the school, a predatory smile crossing his features. He had nothing to lose from this, his plan for revenge against Mouri for his clients. He also had no problems with taking a child against their will, all he needed was the opportunity. Which judging from the pale expression of the Edogawa boy, it would be coming rather soon… Not that he had anything against the boy, but a job was a job, and his bosses paid well enough to get what they wanted.

Mouri Meitantei had coupled quite a few enemies over the past few months, and of those enemies a lot of them despised the child known as Edogawa Conan. He used his regular job to determine just when Mouri had gone from being a mediocre laughing stock of a detective into a rather impressive detective that the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department relied on. It coincided with two rather interesting facts if he recalled correctly, three if you counted the boy's appearance.

The first was the disappearance of the famous high school detective (Koukou Meitantei) Kudou Shinichi, it was about four days before Mouri's reputation took off. The second was the appearance of Edogawa Conan, the boy had appeared on the scene the day of Kudou Shinichi's disappearance. The third and most interesting was that Edogawa looked similar enough to Kudou that he could have been his clone, the only major difference was Edogawa was a primary school student and Kudou had been a sophomore before his disappearance.

People didn't just age ten years, either direction, in a fortnight let alone an hour. In a true interesting fashion it was Mouri's daughter that had reported the teen missing, and it was this same girl who introduced Edogawa Conan to her father. He however did not care about those facts, what he was asked to take care of took precedence over what might or might not be fact. They wanted Mouri to pay for his interference in their organizations.

The daughter was more protected, and given the circumstances it seemed that kid might in fact be the brains behind the whole problem. The child was suspicious, and had no records preceding his sudden appearance into the Mouri's lives. So the child would be the bait to lure the great detective out…

SHINICHI-1


Shinichi could feel the eyes on him from the moment he stepped onto the grounds of Teitan Elementary, as he was waving goodbye to Ran and joining up with the Shonen Tantei it intensified. He looked to Haibara, if she was even slightly in discomfort that would at least give him a logical explanation for this immense feeling of dread. When she gave him a 'what are you looking at' stare back he knew he was the only one feeling that looming presence.

He tried to focus on his class but the feeling of being watch lingered in the back of his mind. Was it someone with a grudge talking about him or was it actually someone watching him? His uneasiness only grew as the day continued in relatively normal terms. When his stomach started rolling he knew that staying in kiddie class any longer was not an option. As he walked down to the seemingly endless hall to the health suite, his mind was working in overdrive trying to figure out what was going on.

He almost passed out from stress on the walk there alone, let alone when he got there. Shinichi was out the second his head hit the pillow, which was after he emptied his stomach into a nearby garbage can. In his dreams he re-expreienced the fiasco that was Tropical Land over and over again. Blond hair and black clothes kept crossing over his vision, money floating down around him with bullet holes in each bill. Shinichi tossed and turned, he tried thinking of Ran to relieve some miniscule part of it, it only it hadn't brought every failure he had in that aspect.

KIDNAPPER-2


As Edogawa walked down to what appeared to be the health suite he decided that was all the opportunity he needed. As he slid down the fire escape he thought out a plan of action, if he could cripple Mouri's business and prevent the self dubbed 'Shonen' Tantei from ever making it to the big leagues it would be all the better. He'd leave the innocent women alone, there wasn't much he could do with them anyways, the boys on the other hand… he could think of plenty of reasons to hang on to the three. Particularly Edogawa Conan whom he was just about to check out of Primary School .

"Can I help you sir?" one of the secretaries asked as he stepped into the office, he flashed his badge and walked up to the counter. "Inspector, is there something wrong?" He nodded his head in an official looking matter.

"I will need to see the Shonen Tantei immediately, they witnessed a crime the other day and three of their interviews were lost somehow," he lied smoothly, "the leader of these should be Edogawa Conan, his is essential to the case, the other two are Tsuburaya Mitsuhiko and Kojima Genta. Their parents have already been notified seeing as this is an odd occurrence." The secretary nodded, and wrote something down on a piece of paper, sending one of the others to drop off the notice.

"They'll be here shortly, as for Edogawa he is currently resting in the health suite down the hall there," the secretary pointed over with a smile, "he wasn't feeling well according to the B-1 substitute. The nurse next door should be able to tell you more." The inspector faked a smile back, walking towards the health suite, this was too easy… The two students that he requested could be heard making their way towards him, and the one he really needed sat before him out could tossing in place.

He looked over the boy, it appeared he was suffering from high anxiety at the moment. It wouldn't be difficult to wake them, and he already had that device in place so this would be simple. He then realized that the young man didn't normally have an anxiety issue, so the boy could tell he was being watched? The crooked inspector smiled, this would be even more simple than he had previously thought .

"Edogawa kun, wake up. We need to go now," the inspector shook his shoulders just enough to drag the child out of his drowsiness. The boy looked up at him with foggy eyes for a moment before reaching for the glasses that lay to one side of him.

SHINICHI- 2


The small detective hadn't been expecting to see the inspector as he woke up from his stress nap. As he placed his glasses on he could vaguely feel something nagging in the back of his mind. Something that he should remember, he shook it off feeling much more at ease with Shiratori Keibu standing next to him. He was glad the inspector was there, he wasn't sure whether or not to report the malicious presence to the inspector or quietly use the inspector to catch the criminal off guard.

"Nee… Shiratori Keibu… what are you doing here?" he finally decided on asking, the inspector raised his eyebrow.

"In that last case where you and the Shonen Tantei helped us out we took turns interviewing each of you, remember?" Shiratori settled just across from him glancing about suspiciously for a moment, "those interviews and most of the case file went missing last night. In order to protect you and your friends Megure keibu and I agreed that you should be put temporarily in police custody." Shinichi cringed, the Shonen Tantei weren't the only ones involved in that case. Ran, Sonoko, Kazuha, and even Hattori been involved. Mostly Hattori and the himself, but the fact was they were all involved no matter how small the role they played was…

"That explains why keep feeling like I being followed," the small detective rubbed his arms, the feeling was still there. It just wasn't quite so overwhelming now that someone else was here. "Are you taking the others as well?" He let out a soft yawn, feeling the shivers work their way down his back like little needles. The inspector nodded, holding out a hand to help him off the bed.

"There's a squad car sitting out front, I'll take you to it. Then I'll come back and sign out the others..." the inspector informed him. It was a short trip to the squad car, and Shiratori handed him the keys, "that way you can lock the doors if you need to with the alarm." Shinichi let a small smile out and nodded his head compliantly, "just sit tight for a moment Edogawa kun." That he could certainly manage with the officer around lightening his worries. He stared out the window for a couple of minutes before he succumbed to sweet slumber, he was so tired he barely noticed the faint strange smell that littered the squad car he was sitting in…

KIDNAPPER- 3


The inspector was surprised that the child hadn't noticed the chloroform smell drifting from under the seat when he moved the supposed paperwork for this venture. Then again he was feeling at ease with his supposed ally coming to his rescue in a time of need. Shiratori smirked running a hand through his hair, he hadn't even given the kid a real set of keys! The trust of children was so easily manipulated he thought with a small smirk. Tsuburaya and Kojima would be the easier pair, Edogawa undoubtedly the brains behind the group. With him out of the way the others would fall like the pawns they were.

"Inspector Shiratori san, is everything alright? We saw you taking Conan to car," Tsuburaya would be the first to die he decided. He had to fight the urge to rub his temples, his voice was very irritating… How did Sato and Takagi put up with these children so often? He smiled as best he could, trying to hide the fact his eardrums felt like bleeding out.

"He's not under arrest for something is he?" the plump boy asked. Shiratori shook his head in amusement, he could still remember reading the reports about Kojima almost being killed over a video game with a message hidden on it. Too bad that plot had been thwarted by the brat sitting in his car.

"No, Megure keibu and I would like your assistance again though," he leaned down to the boys level, "the interviews you gave last week were stolen along with a massive piece of the case file. So in order to continue on the case we have to recompile our evidence and redo some of the testimonies. Hopefully we can find the people responsible for taking the records after we establish the facts." The two boys nodded joyfully and headed straight for the squad car where Edogawa was out cold. He opened the other door moved a police bag, (that happened to contain more chloroform in a bit stronger doseage) towards the middle allowing the children to get in before himself.

He pressed the speed dial on a burner phone he had picked up, calling his police issue phone. Making it seem like it was a semi important call he waited until the two boys slumped to each door more or less like Edogawa had in the front seat. He continued to pretend talking just long enough to ensure they were all out cold before opening his door. He pulled down his notebook and jolted down some meaningless scribbles of answers while he waited for the rest of the chloroform to drift out lest he be affected by it as well.

He snapped the phone shut and held his breath as he closed the two chloroform containers before driving off in the general direction of the police headquarters. As soon as he knew he was far enough from the school he took a hard turn towards the highway. Pleased with himself he pulled over in a well covered area that he knew to be empty. He knew all three were at least somewhat familiar in criminal territory and he had seen enough of Edogawa Conan in action that he stripped all three down to their boxers.

Placing all of their clothing into a duffle bag in the back, Shiratori grinned wickedly as he covered their mouths with duct tape, following the same with their hands and feet. He buckled the two grunt children into the back seat mummified with two thick blankets restricting their movement further. It was at this point that Edogawa started to awaken. Since the other two had a much stronger dose of chloroform and were locked in the vehicle Shiratori wasn't worried. Heck he had even taken the kid's glasses so he was sure that there was no way the child could interfere.

He pulled the tape slowly off of Edogawa's face with the most evil look he could muster. The look that crossed Edogawa Conan's face made every ounce of preparation worth it. The smallest boy started tugging at his bonds, and only managed to give himself friction burns as the inspector leered down at him. "It's pointless, you're not going anywhere… Kudou Shinichi."