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fourleafclover44-
Thank you! Well I actually live in Korea and ours and Japanese are similar so I think that's why it's easier for me to name my characters. There are many names that sounds like Japanese with a little touch! Thanks a lot for your kind review!
Kaitou Kid San-
Well, that's actually a good idea! I don't think I've read the one that Kaito is a girl except when he is disguised as one! But I can't think of anything with that.. maybe let me know if you have some ideas? Thank you!
Disclaimer: Man, I always forget this! ME NO OWN! SO NO SUE! DX
There he stood, daring and proud in front of the final door that held what he yearned for all these years. Too get there, he had been through a lot. Then the 10 steps were the only thing that stood between him and his desire.
When he stepped onto the first, the stairs opened to swallow him. But he was quick on his feet as he escaped to the second. He smiled a confident grin and moved onto the third. His instinct took over as he ducked the arrow aiming for his head and when he moved toward the fourth, he jumped immediately at the sight of the sword, letting it slice only an empty air. He threw a mocking grin at the trap and moved on. He ran all the way up without stopping for breath and ignored the low rumble the steps were giving him and finally reached the last step. His eyes widened when a huge axe swung from the side setting a domino effect for other axes to fall from the wall. He stepped back down to the ninth in surprise and clinched shut his eyes waiting for the axes to fall loudly on the floor, ripping the stairs away. But that never happened. The axe stood hanging from the ceiling and there was about a foot of space between the axe and the floor. He sighed in relief when the rumble erupted from the stairs and it started to shake making the giant axes to swing. He pulled up a determined grin as he stepped onto the tenth step. When the axes swung to the side out of his way, he rolled, jumped, tumbled pass the row of the deadly swinging weapons and paused letting another axe to swing by and struggling to stay upright as the step continued to shake before repeating the action one more time.
He had finally made it as he escaped the moving axes. There stood the entrance to what he had worked so hard for. He was drenched in sweat but it was worth it.
"This will do. This will be where I shall stay."
Chapter 4: The Story from His Memory
Soft wind drummed against the window. Yaksokura Hinami was peacefully reading 'The Sign of Four' in the Kudo Mansion library when she (Shinichi got over the he or she thing) froze as she caught a movement out of the corner of her eyes. She could've sworn it was white.
She frowned and knew immediately that it was Kaitou Kid. She shivered at the scent the thief had carelessly left behind and sighed, knowing the thief had already left.
What did Kaitou Kid want from her house anyway? Did he notice?
~.~.~.~
Another scream, another yell, another swing, and another laugh... It was a perfectly fine day in Ekoda High.
"KAITOO!"
Well, in Kaito's opinion, that is.
Putting on an innocent face, he glanced up at his childhood friend and answered, "Yeah?"
"What is the meaningof this?" She growled in low and dangerous voice.
Aoko was colored in neon pink. And when I said colored, it means pinkfrom head to toe and skin was no exception. The whole class raised their eyebrows at her although they should've expected that Kaito was going to prank someone sooner or later for he always had for half of this school year already but the magician never failed to surprise them.
"What? I let you have a center of attention once in a while and you are trying to killme!" Kaito whined playfully as he ducked one of Aoko's deadly swings again.
Although Kaito seemed as cheery as ever, a question lingered in his mind.
When he went to the Kudo Mansion, he had not spotted Kudo Shinichi but Yaksokura Hinami.
What was she doing in there? That was a question to an answer that he may never get.
"Teacher's coming!" A student yelled and the whole class scrambled to their seats and in a blink of an eye, all students was seated and silent.
Teacher came in with a sigh. Then she froze as she noticed the stillness in the classroom. She had a right to be nervous for she had Kuroba Kaito in her class. He could never keep still that long.
"A-anyway, we have a new student from America!" Teacher announced and the students gave some bored applause. "Yaksokura-san, please come in."
Kaito's and Aoko's head snapped up at the familiar name. A girl walked in shyly—no, embarrassed would be more accurate. Boys' head snapped up instantly as the transferee walked gracefully despite the slight redness her face was showing and gave a small whistle. Nobody noticed that the new girl was trying desperately to keep her skirt as low as possible exception of Kaito of course. The class prankster chuckled when he saw Akako frown.
He teased, "Scared that you have a competition?"
Akako scowled at him but said nothing. It was true the boys were gaping and most were actually drooling at the model-like transfer student. But that wasn't the reason that she was frowning at the girl. She felt...somethig. Magic of some kind but it was too faint to tell.
"You know her?" She asked the magician.
He just shrugged and replied, "Just met her once..." Kaito stopped when he heard the sound of chair dragging next to him and when he turned, he saw the girl take an empty seat next to him and gave an enigmatic grin toward the class magician.
"Welcome to the class, Hinami-san." Kaito said to the girl and produced a pink rose. Her eyes widened before blushing and taking the flower. Kaito chuckled at the reaction. 'I guess even the new girl fell for my charm.'
"Kuroba-kun, it's a surprise to see you here again," she smiled. Kaito noticed it was a just a mask. It was a goodmask but since having to use so many times, he could tell it was forced.
"Come on, cheer up!" Kaito exclaimed as he unnoticeably placed the trap inside the new girl's desk."
Normally I don't prank girls but...she can be an exception. This is for scaring a crap out of me when we first met.
Like Kaito predicted, Hinami did not notice the trap under her desk. But what the magician did not know that she also had a...helper.
"There's trap under desk,"the voice warned making Hinami stop her nervous laughs.
"W-what?"
But soon enough, there was a burst of green and pink smoke and Hinami acted on instinct and escaped from the mischievous-looking smoke.
Kaito's eyebrows rise as all the students in their class have become the victim of the evil hair dye prank except for himself (of course) and the new girl.
His lips curled into a smile and beamed at her in challenge.
This could get interesting...
~.~.~.~
Hinami-Shinichi-sighed and looked out the window. The school was easy in Ekoda too. She basically knew everything and it was harder to keep herself awake in class than understanding what the class is working on. But Kuroba had helped her stay awake and she was on full alert for he almost caught her in one of his pranks. She sighed as she dodged another tricks from the magician and looked at the clock. Since so far it takes Kuroba about 10 minutes to set up his trap and 5 minutes in minimum, she had time to relax for a bit. So she slowly looked around and was slightly surprised to find one more familiar person in the room. There was detective, Hakuba Saguru.
So in conclusion, if her deduction is correct, then Kaitou Kid is practically spending his everyday life with the daughter of an inspector who swore to put Kid in jail and a high school detective who is as good as Kudo Shinichi himself.
"Interesting..." The voice inside Hinami's head said in amusement. "This might be easier than I thought."
"I doubt it," Hinami scoffed at the voice inside her head. As Hinami rolled her eyes in exasperation she continued, "Looks like our English detective have a clue of who Kaitou Kid is."
"But with no evidence,"the voice pointed out sharply.
"But I'm not Kid." Hinami growled in a low tone under her breath. "I've never done this and heck I never even dreamed that this would happen!"
Hinami looked up when the last bell rang and she almost screamed in joy.
Her bag wad already packed and waiting patiently for the teacher to arrive and dismiss them.
~.~.~.~
"Hinami-san!"
Hinami turned her head to the Ran-look-alike and smiled. "Yes, Aoko-san?"
"Well, I was going to talk to you during the break time but..." Aoko trailed off, glaring at Kaito.
The other girl just chuckled (no, she did not giggle!) and said, "It's alright. It was...fun to watch you chase Kuroba-kun with the mop."
The girls laughed out loud as Kaito scowled beside them rubbing his new bump on his head at the memory.
"So where do you live?" Aoko asked.
"Not too far away from the train station," Hinami replied. "My parents travel a lot so when I moved from America, they told me to pick where to live. And when I finally found where I wanted to live, I saw you in the station."
"Then where were you staying before that?" Kaito asked with a clean poker face.
Hinami was about to say "hotel" when she suddenly remembered that Kaitou Kid had saw her in Kudo Mansion.
"You know Kudo Shinichi?" Hinami asked her companions.
"You mean the famous high school detective?" Hakuba finally spoke up after being so silent.
"Yeah, him. Well, my parents are really close friend with his so he let me stay for awhile." Hinami said with a smile and looked at Kaito challengingly.
Then the smug grin was interrupted by a ringtone.
"Ah, excuse me," Hinami said to the others and she answered the phone. "Hello?"
"Kudo-kun."Hinami stiffened. It was Haibara.
"Yes, what do you want?"
"I've finished. Well, I just helped Agase with safety and the effect."
Hinami's eyebrows rose and asked, "Are you sure it's safebecause I know you wouldn't care."
Oh, she could just hear the shrunken scientist rolling her eyes...or smirking in agreement.
"True, but I don't want to kill off my only test subject," Haibara answered in a chilling voice.
"Ha-ha."
"Anyway, I'll see you at eight, tonight." Then she paused before saying, "Oh, and your parents are here too."
Hinami felt her eyes widen and started, "But—" The line went dead."Hinami-san, are you alright?" Aoko asked.
She sighed and replied, "Yeah, just my friendhung up on me!" Kaito noticed that the word "friend" was a little forced. "Well, I have to go now. My parents are visiting Japan today so I need to get ready!"
"Oh, okay... See you later then!" Aoko exclaimed. Hinami smiled at the girl and headed to the direction of Ekoda Station while the others headed the opposite direction.
But Kaito couldn't shake off the feeling that something was wrong with the new girl.
~.~.~.~
Hinami opened the door to her new home. Her parents have bought them long time ago but after they moved to America, they were going to sell it however they couldn't bring themselves to. So now, here she is. No wonder her parents managed to find a house in this district so fast.
But the faster the better. She had work to do. She made her way to her bedroom on the first floor and removed the two books from the shelf and pushed the wall next to it. The small door cleverly hidden appeared and Hinami entered it.
The house lookslike it only has one floor but they were wrong. There was a second floor too and the only entrance to there was in her room. She figured it out because the outside looked taller than the inside that made her guess that there was a second floor. And also because her mom told her about it… It took her awhile to find the way up but she managed to find one so far. But it was enough.
As soon as she entered through the secret door, she started to take turn here then a turn there and finally a staircase was found.
Her mom alsomentioned that her dad rigged traps on the stairs or something...
As soon as she thought about it, a huge steel ball with spikes was falling toward her and she froze in shock.
"Wake up and move!"The voice yelled making her wince but thanks to that, she was able to break free from her trance and move away before the scary ball managed to hit her.
"Whew, that was close!" Hinami managed to say. "Thanks." Then she scowled, "This seems like one of the traps from classic treasure hunter movies."
"Yeah, let's get this over with."
Hinami was more cautious this time. Who knows what kind of other traps her dad placed. Although she was quite shocked that it still worked well after so many years.
She took a deep breath, and took one step on the stairs when she heard a click and she knew what she had triggered. She yelped as the trap door opened and jumped onto the second and sighed in relief that the second one wasn't rigged in traps.
Hinami frowned as it seemed a bit familiar.
There he stood, daring and proud in front of the final door that held what he yearned for all these years...
She paused. "What was that?"
"What was what"The voice inside her head asked.
"I...I thought I heard something..."
"If I couldn't hear it, then it could only mean...your own memory."
"What, you can read my mind but you can't read my past?" Hinami asked sarcastically.
"There are some things I can and cannot do. If there was even a thing that could do anything, the world would've ended long ago."But the girl only rolled her eyes at the comment.
Too get there, he had been through a lot. Then the 10 steps were the only thing that stood between him and his desire...
Then Hinami stopped as she remembered. "I got it! It's a story that Otou-san used to tell me! But what does it have to do with..." She trailed off, her eyes growing wider as she realized something.
"When he stepped onto the first, the stairs opened to swallow him. But he was quick on his feet as he escaped to the second. He smiled a confident grin and moved onto the third..." Hinami recited it under her breath. "The story tells us what traps are there in each steps and how to dodge them!" She said with a gasp. "So the third step is-"
His instinct took over as he ducked the arrow aiming for his head and when he moved toward the fourth, he jumped immediately at the sight of the sword, letting it slice only an empty air.
Hinami put on a wide grin as she stepped onto the next step and at the same time, ducked the flying arrows. Then jumped as high as she could manage after stepping over the fourth. She gasped in surprise as the sword almost reached her. She caught her breath and looked up to the rest of the 6 steps she has to take.
He ran all the way up without stopping for breath and ignored the low rumble the steps were giving him and finally reached the last step.
She ran all the way up and finally reached the tenth step. What was the next one again?' She thought as she stood on the last step. And just few meters away from her was the entrance to the second floor.
His eyes widened when a huge ax swung from the side setting a domino effect for other axes to fall from the wall. He stepped back down to the ninth in surprise and clinched shut his eyes waiting for the axes to fall loudly on the floor, ripping the stairs away. But that never happened. The ax stood hanging from the ceiling and there was about a foot of space between the ax and the floor.
Hinami yelped in surprise as the ax fell toward her and she stepped back down. There was a low rumble and the whole stairs began to shake.
"Crap!" Hinami cursed out loud, "How did Otou-san managed to make this stairs?"
"That," the voice replied in a sarcastic voice, "would be one of the mysteries that you may never solve, meitantei."Hinami scowled but half of her agreed.
"So what now?" Hinami sighed as she struggled to balance herself and glaring at the swinging axes.
He sighed in relief when the rumble erupted from the stairs and it started to shake making the giant axes to swing. He pulled up a determined grin as he stepped onto the tenth step. When the axes swung to the side out of his way, he rolled, jumped, tumbled pass the row of the deadly swinging weapons and paused letting another axe to swing by and struggling to stay upright as the step continued to shake before repeating the action one more time.
"I've never done any tumbling or gymnastics before!" The boy-turned-into-a-girl exclaimed in frustration. "I'm a soccer guy; I don't do flips in mid-air.
"I can help you with that." The voice replied.
"H-how?"
"Close your eyes and trust me..."
Hinami scowled, "Do you think that's easy?" But she did shut her eyes anyway.
"Consider this...as your training." The voice slowly drifted off and he could hear the voice's instruction and his body just automatically following it.
Crouch low, kick off with your feet, jump high, stretch your arms, and put your weight on it...
"Now, open your eyes."
Hinami followed and she gasped in shock. The axes retreated back to its wall and the shaking seemed to have stopped. And most of all, he was in front of the door to the second floor.
"How did you dothat?" Hinami asked in wonder.
"All I was doing was telling you the instruction. The real thing happens when we unite."
"Okay...so how do we "unite"? Do I have to close my eyes? Because to be honest, I don't trust you fully with your actions."
"Well, once you've mastered it, you would be able to see but it will take some time before you do."
She sighed in exhaustion and after trying to let the information from the voice sink in and muttered, "I wonder why Otou-san put up so many traps here." And with a click, the door opened and her mouth dropped at the sight.
"I think I know now..." The voice said as it chuckled. "Oh, the irony."
Hinami continued to gape and blink. But nothing more.
~.~.~.~.~
"You gave the Ekoda house to Shinichi?" Yusaku asked his wife in a surprised tone.
"Well, although I doubt Shin-chan would use the second floor, he deserves to know." Yukiko paused before saying, "Or is it shenow?"
Yusaku seem to be in thought before smiling and said, "We'll talk about it when he gets here, dear."
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