CHAPTER 2: Kei Suzume

Conan was in the dark office. Looking at file after file for anything on Kei Suzume. The name seemed to be running through his head, but he had no recollection of the girl.

The others had already went to bed, so they knew nothing about his sudden investigation.

"Why can't I find her?" he muttered.

Conan's pocket started to vibrate. He reached into his pocket and pulled out his cell phone. He opened the phone and the first thing he heard was, "Hey, Kudo!" He knew it was Hattori Heiji, but he didn't know the reason behind the sudden call. "How ya doin'?"

"What is it, Hattori?" Conan said, bitterly.

"Well," Heiji said, "you probable forgot I'm visiting Tokyo tomorrow." Conan actually did forget, his mind was so focused on finding who Kei Suzume is, he didn't think about anything else. "I'll take the silence as ya forgot. But oh well, ya are busy with finding that Organization of yer's and changin' yourself back along with that little girl."

Conan listened to Heiji as he kept rambling on. But when he was finally silent, Conan decided to ask him about the person. "Hey, Hattori," he said, "have you heard of a girl named Kei Suzume?"

Heiji seemed shocked at the question Conan just asked. "Yeah, I know her… But not all that much, all I know is that she's in the paper a lot. Why, ya gonna look for trouble?"

Conan grinned. "I guess you could say that," he said, lifting up the paper he had.

Heiji grinned. "Then ya can count me in," he said.

"I knew you were going to say that…"

The two then hung up the phone. Conan looked at the paper that he held in his hand. 'Rise of a New Friend? Or an Enemy to Detectives?' was the title of the article. In the article was a picture of Kei Suzume, looking over her shoulder as if she was suspicious about something.

Heiji, who was sitting in his room, put his feet on his desk and sat back. Kei Suzume…. he thought. Wonder why Kudo wanted to know about her…? He put his hands behind his head and looked out the window at the night sky. The only things he knew about Kei Suzume is what he's read in the papers, which didn't suit her well. But what was the real deal behind her?

The next day, Conan met Heiji at the station. The two then walked through Tokyo, trying to find information on Kei Suzume. The two asked every person they came to, but still no one knew who she was.

It was evening and the sun was setting, the two were walking down the hall of a apartment complex.

"We asked everyone," Heiji said, hands behind his head, "but still nothin'!"

Conan sighed, his hands in his pockets and he was looking at the ground. "Every one said they didn't know her and if they did know her, it was only from the papers."

"So, no one actually has ever spoke to Kei Suzume…"

The two were walking to the front door of the apartment complex, when they heard a scream.

At first instinct the two ran over to where they heard the scream, which was from outside. When they got there, they saw a man lying in a pool of blood. A women was standing there, shaking at the sight of the body that had just fallen in front of her.

Heiji and Conan ran over to the body, checking a pulse. "Dead," Heiji said. The two boys looked up and saw the curtains blowing out of a room. Heiji looked at the women, who was still shaking. "What happened?" he said.

"H-He just fell!" she said.

Conan was investigating the body, making sure he wasn't leaving finger prints. He looked at the neck and saw rope marks. "Hattori," he said, looking at Heiji.

Heiji looked down and saw the marks.

"Was it suicide?" the women asked.

Heiji opened his mouth and was about to say something, when a voice interrupted him. "No," a female voice said.

Heiji and Conan jumped to their feet and turned around. Standing there was a girl in a long trench coat and a hat on her short black hair, shutting her cell-phone. She had piercing's in her ear and one on her lip. She wore black boots and had glasses over her eyes.

"We're looking at murder," she said walking to the body and sanding next to the women. She looked at the body and then the two boys.

"Who are you?" Conan said, giving a suspicious look.

"Oh, sorry," she said. She took off the glasses and hat, showing her blue eyes. "Kei Suzume," she said, smiling, "high-school detective."

Conan and Heiji glanced at each other, both suspicious of her telling the truth. They're read the papers and everything they read didn't lead her to be a detective.