So… like I said in my other fics that I haven't updated for a while, sorry for not updating soon! It's not that I don't want to continue this, I just don't have much time for it. :P Well, at least I have now since we're half day today. Though let me just me update my schedule… tomorrow's PROM DAY! I'm a bit excited and anxious and I hope I have a fun time tomorrow. So anyway, enough about me! Let's start this chapter!

As three parties were on their way to different places in the world, they grew farther apart, yet reached their destinations eventually. And the plane to the American region stopped after at least three days, then, Heiji, Kazuha and Shiho finally reached their first destination, Canada.

They went out all confused since the only ones in the airplane were them and the pilot that the Black Organization threatened. They tried questioning him before, but all he said was 'I can't tell, I can't tell. They'll kill me!'. He actually just repeated those words over and over.

Anyway, as they went down the stairs of the airplane and sought the area, they saw mysterious characters nearby.

"They must be part of the BO," Heiji whispered to Kazuha. This made Kazuha to break a sweat. Though, little Heiji noticed this and decided to make her feel better by holding her hand. "Don't worry Neechan. I'm here. And besides, they won't kill us if we cooperate. If we do, then I'm sure we can get through it. That's what Heiji… I mean… cousin Heiji always tell me that whenever we're in trouble. And I tell you, that happens a lot," he continued to talk.

Kazuha laid a smile on him. "Thanks Manford."

"Come on, let's get out of here. They're just here to spy on us," Shiho remarked all cool, calm and collected.

"Uh… okay," Kazuha nodded as she spoke.


They did as Shiho said and left the area. Soon, they saw where they were exactly in Canada, near the Niagara Falls at Ontario. Actually, it was so near, that it was in plain sight.

Kazuha looked thrilled to see the view. She circled round and round as she breathed in the cold autumn air. "Wow! This place is beautiful!" she remarked.

"We're in Ontario, at the Niagara Falls," Heiji explained.

"Eh? You've been here, Manford?" she questioned, since Heiji sounded so normal with being there, as if he knew a lot about it, or just visited it a lot.

"No… uh… you see, I've always wanted to come here! Wow!" he tried to cover up.

Shiho just chuckled, which caused Heiji to shot her a look.

"Hey, anyway, we shouldn't be here to enjoy. We should find Pandora as soon as we can," Kazuha said to regain focus.

Heiji continued, "And it doesn't mean that even though we have three months, that we should relax. Pandora hasn't been found by Kid for more than a year, and we should be aware of that."

"Then maybe we should get a hotel and spend the night there. We could start our search there as well," Shiho explained.

"That's great idea."


The three went to the nearest hotel. And afterwards went up to their room.

"Wow, how did we afford this?" Kazuha asked as they entered.

"The Black Organization wants us to find Pandora, don't they? So whatever we need, they'll grant it," Shiho explained, stepping in as well.

Kazuha started to admire their room. "But this is way too much. A Deluxe room? With chandeliers, wine area, a beautiful view of the falls-"

"And only one bed," Heiji pointed out, twitching his eye out.

"Oh, well that's okay. We three can sleep in one bed. It's a king size bed anyway. And besides, we're only two girls and a kid," Kazuha said, blissfully making a smile.

Though, that didn't help Heiji one bit. That was completely awkward. Even though he was a kid. "Sleeping in the same bed with…KAZUHA? OO"

Shiho saw this reaction of this and laughed again. Heiji of course glared at her. "What? I'll be sleeping at that bed as well," she stated, yet in a voice Heiji only heard.

Heiji whispered all annoyed, "Yeah… I know. But…"

"So, let's do this! I'll search the internet, while Manford, you collect all the newspapers you can get from the hotel to find the latest news here. Shiho, you-"

"I'll walk the city and search around," she cut-off Kazuha.

This led her to just nod. She was as if a mind reader.

"Well, I'm off," Shiho said, by the door side and left quietly.

"So, I'll go get the newspapers as well," Heiji said and left for a while.


After an hour or so, he came back to report to Kazuha. First he knocked on the door, and Kazuha opened it. Next, he sat by the bed inside, and began to play with his feet. "Uh… Kazuha-neechan. There's a few gems to be unraveled in Canada, right here at Ontario. It seems that they want to do it near the falls. It wasn't said where, but…"

"I've found some information as well. The Niagara falls-"

Grumble

"You sound hungry, Neechan. Let's go eat something downstairs. It's all alcohol here. We can't eat those," Heij explained, trying to sound like a real kid.

"Sure."


They went down to the restaurants and Heiji picked the best one. It was expensive, but he knew the BO would pay for it anyway since they would want them to find Pandora anyway. Besides, the more convenient they were, the easier they would find it. Very smart kid.

"So… what have you found out about the Niagara falls?" Heiji asked, as he finished his soup.

"Well, it's divided into the Horseshoe Falls and the American Falls. The Horseshoe Falls drop is bigger. The cities of Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada and Niagara Falls, New York, USA are connected by three bridges: the Rainbow Bridge, just downriver from the Falls, which affords the closest view of the Falls and is open to non-commercial vehicle traffic and pedestrians; the Whirlpool Rapids Bridge, one mile (1.5 km) down from the Rainbow bridge and the oldest bridge over the Niagara river. The newest bridge, the Lewiston-Queenston Bridge, is located near the escarpment," she explained seriously.

"So it must mean that it may happen in one of those bridges. Hmm… what else did you find out?"

"Not much, that just some people tried to jump over the falls. Some survived, though, they were found in really far places from where they jumped. Others just… drowned and died. It actually depended on their position and state when they jumped in."

"That explains why one of the three gems are called, 'Life after Death,'" Heiji commented, acting as if a harbinger was about to come. As if something bad would happen.

"What are the names of the other gems?" Kazuha asked.

"Blue Whirlpool and Misty Gold Diamond."

"Any of those can be Pandora! When's the date that they'll be unraveled?"

"All on the same date, actually. Which is tomorrow. It's pretty weird, isn't it? I don't think that's a coincidence."

"Maybe because the decadent government would like to get their hands on it," Kazuha acted all annoyed. Heiji understood this though. She always hated corrupt politicians. More than anyone else did.

"Why don't we just enjoy for now. We can't do anything but wait for Shiho anyway. So… uh, tell me, Kazuha-neechan. Did you really… mean what you said about… cousin Heiji? That you… love him?" he started to change the topic, blushing madly.

Kazuha looked down, and hid her face with her bangs. "Yeah… I guess I do love him. He may be a really annoying, obnoxious and mystery geek, but… ever since I've met him, I've slowly gone from liking him to loving him," she smiled yet her eyes had an allusion of sadness. "I wish I could see him soon. He's always in detrimental happenings, and I have a bad feeling now. I hope nothing has happened to him, or happens to him."

Heiji stared at her caringly. The look wasn't as noncommittal like he usually does. He cared, and was so sorry for leaving her that way. Such a pang was inside his heart. The thought 'I shouldn't have left her this way' was kept in his mind. He couldn't take it away.

Abruptly, Shiho came from nowhere and just suddenly appeared. "Guys, I just found out, that the gems would be unraveled tonight, at midnight!"

"But it said it would be tomorrow, twelve noon," Heiji explained, his eyes widened, and him all shocked. Things never turn out the way he plans.

"Well, I just found out as I was spying by the people, that the ceremony tomorrow will be a fake. The real one's tonight! Only important people know about it. By important, I mean politicians," she said.

Kazuha stood up, obviously, with that changing her mood. "We have to prepare! I'll go get us spy outfits to steal it. We have no choice. They won't hand it to us."

"Kazuha, do you think that's the right thing to do?" Shiho asked.

"As I said, we have no choice," she repeated and went out the hotel and off to the nearest department store.

"What now, Hattori?" Shiho asked the kid just beside her.

Heiji shrugged as he sighed as well. "I need to become Heiji again. Can you do anything?" he asked.

"I'm sorry. I don't have the capsules for the temporary cure for the Apoptoxin. But… if you really want to, then… there's one method you can do that Kudo had already done. It'll probably work with you too."

"Anything!" he sounded determined.

Shiho suddenly left him and went to their room. Heiji just followed, curious and clueless on what Shiho was about to do.


They entered the room and Shiho went to the area with a lot of alcoholic beverages. She took two enormous glasses and put a specific kind of alcohol in one of two. She next gave it to Heiji. "Drink this."

Heiji did as said, yet didn't drink it immediately. He observed it for quite a while. "What will this do?" he asked.

"You'll become you again for a while if you drink it. Hurry, it's almost midnight, I don't really know how long it lasts, but you have to drink it now," Shiho explained.

Heiji gulped it down, drinking the whole glass. He didn't feel anything for the first few seconds, and was about to urge to say something about it. But when he was about to do so, the drink finally took effect and he felt such twinge in his heart. He held his chest in pain, in agony, and then knelt downward as he was about to change. Shiho just turned around and took the other glass and filled it with another kind of alcohol. She drank it as well in one gulp, and then closed her eyes and covered her ears after she did so. She couldn't bear the horror that was about to happen. Heiji was about to change, yes, but it wasn't as easy as it looked.

He finally screamed so hard that even though Shiho covered her ears, the noise taunted her. A tear slipped to her cheek.

Heiji awoke after a few minutes, and saw that he was in his original body. He saw Shiho, standing in front of him, looking at the opposite direction with her hands still in her ears. He also saw that he was bare naked.

Heiji went to the bathroom and took a bathrobe. He then addressed to Shiho, "It's okay already, I'm dressed and I'm fine."

She sighed. "Good, that's good." She next turned around. "Anyway, I'll go get you some decent clothes, wait here for a while. After that, let's get going." She afterwards left him all alone in the room.


It took her ten to fifteen minutes until she came back, however, Heiji waited patiently. He got dressed and both of them went to meet with Kazuha.

Although, Heiji still found it weird to see Kazuha. He knew about her feelings, and didn't know how to act in front of her now. He stopped walking, as he caught sight of her. "You go ahead. I'll meet you two later. I have to do something. I can't face her now. I have to take a few minutes to do so," he suggested.

"Whatever. But promise me that, okay? Promise me you'll let her see you now," Shiho asked seriously.

Heiji sneered at her. "Touché huh? Yeah, yeah, I will. And don't worry. Your helping us out will pay off. Thanks. And don't worry about your current state. I'll find out how to help you with your love life someday. Though, it shouldn't be with Kudo, okay? He's Ran's already."

Shiho looked down, obviously hiding her blush. She did have feelings for Shinichi, and Heiji had finally proved it. "Just get going," she sounded exasperated.

Heiji waved a goodbye, and subsequently ran away.

Shiho just went to Kazuha and explained that Manford went somewhere to help with the whole deal they were there.


It was almost time for the unraveling of the gems and Kazuha and Shiho were at their stations, ready to steal the gems, to see if any of them had Pandora. However, they would return it anyway, if Pandora wasn't there.

And there was five more minutes left till midnight. A few more minutes to wait.

Suddenly, behind Kazuha's back, came a man dressed in a casual outfit, with his signature white cap. He patted her back, and did it with a smile. Because of this, Kazuha got ready in her aikido stance and was about to pin the guy to the ground. That is, until she saw him.

She knew the guy, and it surprised her a lot that he was there. "He… He… Heiji!? Heiji?!" she stammered.

Heiji smirked. "Missed me too much, aho?"

Kazuha unexpectedly hugged him. "Is the trip with Kudo done already? I'm thinking that he's with Ran right now," she said softly.

Heiji blushed in cherry red. "Uh…" He also couldn't find the words to say anything.

Kazuha finally broke the hug after a while. "I was worried about you. Because, you told me you would be gone for quite a while."

"Actually, the case isn't done yet. Kudo and I parted for a while, and uh… I just saw you here and decided to help you out," he explained, rubbing his forefinger to his nose. "So, what's your deal 'zuha?"

"It's a long story, but by midnight, we have to steal the three gems near the Niagara falls, and see if there's another gem inside it. If not, we'll give it back," she explained.

"You steal now huh? Always knew you'll end up a criminal," he joked.

Kazuha shot him a death defying glare. This of course made Heiji a bit scared. "I was joking?" he tried to say.

Luckily, Kazuha sighed, showing that she wasn't angry. She too was just joking. "Yeah, I know you were," she answered with a smile. "But, we really have to get that. All we need is a distraction within two minutes," she suddenly became dead serious.

Heiji beamed. "I'm your guy."

"And we also need to know how we could get the three gems which are in three different places. They're at the different bridges that connect the falls. Shiho's near one of them already, the newest bridge, the Lewiston-Queenston Bridge, which is located near the escarpment."

"Well we're at the Rainbow Bridge, just downriver from the Falls, which gives the closest view of the Falls. So left is the Whirlpool Rapids Bridge, about one mile down from here and is also the oldest bridge over the Niagara river, right? I'll have that handled."

"You can't make it there in more than a minute, aho!" Kazuha said with half-moon eyes.

"Don't worry. Did something already. I fixed a trap so that the gem would be hidden, and only I could get it."

"Why help me, Heiji? And how did you know what we were doing before I told you?"

"I heard it from Manford. He sounded really worried about you, and that's why I'm helping. I can't see my little cousin like that," Heiji lied, blushing madly, yet, rubbed his nose again to hide it.

Kazuha smiled. "You may be an aho, but who would have known you're a great and loving cousin?"

She started all frustrated. "Anyway, help me out now here. I have no idea how to get the gem. Shiho seemed to have one, but she wouldn't tell me." Then she paused and cooled down. "But I guess, she's a pretty complex being, I can't really read her. I'm clueless."

From the other bridge where Shiho was, she just sneezed because of being talked about.


Going back to the Rainbow bridge with Heiji and Kazuha…

"Do you have any string with you?" Heiji asked. "Tie this rock on it." He showed the said rock.

Kazuha got out a string from her pocket and took the rock. She tied the string on the rock. And by the time it was midnight, she laid the string down, which distracted everyone. A very stupid, simple idea, yet, it worked.

"Cool, Heiji! Who knew that would work? They're all distracted now!" Kazuha jeered.

"Good. Now, let's just pick the gem with a fishing pole," he started to say as he started to lay the fishing pole down.

After a few seconds, he got the gem from the hook of the fishing pole. He just had to reel it back.

"Good work, Heiji! Who knows, that may be what we're looking for and-oah!" Kazuha said, until she finally lost her balance. She was almost going to fall to the bottom of the bridge, or if not, to the strong falls. Luckily, Heiji gripped her, though dropping the fishing pole and gem. At least it wasn't what they were looking for, even if it broke. The gem immediately busted into pieces, unlike the real Pandora that was supposed to be really hard, to contain the other gem inside.

"Aho, don't you let go okay?!" Heiji called out to his bestfriend.

Kazuha started to cry like before. The whole 'cliff' incident at the Mermaid Case started to flash in front of her eyes. "But… I can't let us both fall!"

"Aho! Don't do this again! If you fall, then…" Heiji paused. He didn't want to say it, but it just came out. "If you fall then… I'll… I'll fall with you. I'll go after you, even if you die. I'll choose to die with you, aho!"

"Why?" Kazuha said, weak in tone and completely crying already.

"Why!? Aho! It's because I… I… I lo-"

Unexpectedly, Heiji's hand slipped from his grip to the top of the bridge and both of them fell. Not to the bottom of the bridge, but to the waves of the Niagara Falls…


People heard about the incident of the gem, and newscasters and media came right away. The government was screwed and was revealed of their dirty ways. Though, the important thing now, was to find the bodies of the two who tried to steal the gem.

Shiho in due course found out about what happened after a while as well, since she already proved that the gem she got wasn't Pandora. She searched for both Heiji and Kazuha, but had no luck. Then she heard about the boy and the girl that fell to the falls. "Could it be…THEM?"


From the shore, a bit far away, two bodies were discovered, though, not the two bodies they were searching for before. One was one of the two, it was Kazuha's. The other one was of a little kid's. Apparently, Heiji came back in being a boy at the drowning.

People surrounded them, and tried to get clear pictures of them, for the news or something, so that people could see their state in that happening, but as Kazuha woke up and saw them, the first thing that she had thought of was Heiji's safety. "Heiji-kun?!" she exclaimed, looking all around, seeing him not around.

Heiji woke up from the call of his name, and saw that he went back into being a child. He saw that Kazuha was saved as well. "Neechan, you're okay!" he said, hugging him. He found it weird, but it just felt like the right thing to do.

Kazuha looked seriously at the kid hugging her. "Where's Heiji!?" she cried out.

"He saved you. But uh… immediately left. He had to meet Kudo for their case already," he explained.

"That aho! Why did he have to leave me? And how did you get to the falls as well? You're soaked! And have his clothes! Even his cap again! What happened, Manford?" she questioned.

Heiji broke his hug to Kazuha and stepped back. "Why, huh? Uh… I was looking for you, Neechan, and Shiho-san as well. Demo… I fell. Fortunately for me… cousin Heiji rescued me too. Then he told me that he had to go, but left his clothes to warm me off from the cold water. Also, he told me that I should take care of you because you'll take care of me."

Kazuha cried even more. She then hugged the little Heiji that she thought really was his cousin Manford. "He's alive! He's alive! Thank God!" she said, though laughing happily.

Heiji was just left all surprised. She thought Kazuha would be angry. Instead, she's happy, even though he left her again. Now he knew what Ran felt and what Shinichi felt, based on the same experience.

By the corner, Shiho observed the two love birds. She made a very brief smile, then looked up to the stars in a sad emotion. "I guess history repeats itself, whatever may happen. Well, that is, in these detectives' lives."


After the whole incident. Heiji, Kazuha and Shiho went to look at the gem that was caught in Heiji's trap. They looked at it by the full moon, yet discovered that it wasn't Pandora as well. It wasn't in Canada. That means, they had to go somewhere else to find it.
A/N: So it's a crappy ending but… I especially love the chapter. Aw… HeijiXKazuha goodness! Next chap, what do you guys like? AokoKaito or ShinichiRan:D Please R&R guys! XD