A/N: A darker story than most of my others. I'm not sure how long this will be, but enjoy! Also, this is my first try at using Jap names and terms in a multi-chapter fic, 'kay? So be nice! I've seen around 200 episodes or so, and all the movies aside from 14, so I hope its at least decent. Also, forgive if Gin is a little OOC in the prologue, I'm not the best at writing him.

Summary: After ten long years, the Black Organization is still at large, and they have a new member. Another crow...and her mission? Finding out what happened to her childhood friend, Kudou Shinichi.

Disclaimer: Detective Conan / Case Closed is owned by Gosho Aoyama, who is not me.

Angel of Darkness

Prologue: Gin

~10 Years Ago~

It was been raining that night. Ran had just gotten out of Sonoko's house saying she had to make dinner for her father and young Conan. Sonoko sighed and reluctantly let her friend go, and Ran had rushed through the rain, pausing only when she saw a strange black car parked near her father's detective agency.

A man stood beside the car, which she recognized as a Porsche, smoking a cigarette. He was dressed in all black from head to toe, so she was slightly surprised by his silver hair. When he turned to look at her, feeling his eyes on her, she was surprised and stood very still. Those eyes were so cold, like ice.

It took her only a few moments to recognize where she'd remembered him from. The roller coaster murder at Tropical Land when she was with Shinichi! The last time...she had seen Shinichi... She remembered him following a guy dressed in black, that was similar to what this guy was wearing, but taller. Her eyes narrowed, and he simply turned.

This guy had something to do with Shinichi's disappearance. She knew it. Something was telling her.

"You!" she shouted, pointing an accusing finger his way. He glanced at her with little interest. "Where's Shinichi? What have you done with him?"

"Shinichi...?" the man dressed in black questioned. "I'm quite afraid you are mistaken. I know no Shinichi."

"Don't lie to me!" Ran said, now standing in front of him. She was angry, that much he knew. But karate champion or not, she would be dead soon if she carried on with what she was doing. "Where is Kudou Shinichi? What have you done with him?"

The man took a final puff of his cigarette before throwing it down on the ground, stepping on it with his foot. "Ah, that young famous detective. That Shinichi." As her anger seemed to grow, he could feel it, he turned to her. "Didn't you know? He's been dead for a year now."

Ran stood completely still, watching him. She was frozen. Shinichi...dead? No, but he'd called her the other day! Unless it was someone pretending? Or maybe this guy just thought he was dead, but whatever he had done to Shinichi, or tried to do, he'd escaped from it.

The man opened the door to his car. "If you'd like some answers to your friend's death, which I'm sure you do, come to this address." He handed her a piece of paper, before getting in the car, and not too soon after, taking off.

"Wait, I-!" Ran sighed. Too late, he was long gone. Looking down at the paper, she saw an address written on it along with what she assumed was his name.

"Ran-neechan!" she heard a familiar voice call and get her out of her thoughts. She turned and saw little Conan at the entrance. He was panting slightly. Had he run all the way down from the top of the building? He'd probably seen the man in black talking to her and had gotten scared for her safety. He was so sweet sometimes.

"Oh, C-Conan-kun..." She smiled a little, though her lower lip was trembling. The boy frowned as her knees soon gave way. "Ran...neechan?"

"...He's dead, Conan-kun," she said softly, tears starting to fall from her eyes. "Shinichi's dead."

Conan's face went white. As the piece of paper fell from her hands, Conan picked it up before it got too wet. The address looked all too familiar, for it was the house he used to live in as Kudou Shinichi, and the name...

Gin.

TBC

A/N: Uh oh, Ran meets Gin! Next chapter is the actual start of the story, set ten years after their meeting. Conan would be seventeen again, and Ran twenty-seven. I'm not exactly sure if they give an exact age to Kogoro and the others...especially Gin, but he looks pretty young when the series first starts, don't you think?

Also, I couldn't think of a better name for this story! If you have one let me know in a review! And, while we're on names, any alcohol names that would suit Ran?