A/N) Well, that review came up quickly :DThank you, Aurameres and dragonkeeper1 !
It's been raining here non-stop so my insp is pretty low ... Aand I've holed up in my room for a day now because of that :/
Well, I'll try my best to write another good chappy, because a promise is a promise :3
It was already dark. The clock had struck 9.30pm a few minutes ago and it had started raining.
The atmosphere inside the apartment was dull and pressing. Except for those few kids who ran around trying to find clues to solve the case in
Two small children were in the corner of the tidy living room, the boy leaning to the wall and the girl standing near him.
"So, what's with that grim look?" Ai whispered to Conan who was deep in his thoughts.
"I know who the culprit is, but I totally lack a reasonable motive", the boy mumbled back. The teen-detective walked to the two and bent down a bit.
"So who do you think is the culprit?" Masumi asked.
Conan answered, stating a name and both of the girls eyes widened. The smaller staying silent, but the other stating back:
"But that's impossible! There's no way person would've done this!"
The boy looked up and calmly said with his serious voice:
"It's possible, I figured out the way for it, but what I lack is the motive." Masumi stared at him, going through the situation in her head. She straightened up and finally answered.
"Well, yeah ... I guess I'll go with that, but are you sure?" the shrunken detective nodded and stated:
"I even have a proof for you about that", Conan left for a bit, ignoring the questioning look of the female teen-detective, and walked straight to the other teen in the apartment who was sitting on the ugly red sofa. Which looked like even uglier against her own bright hair color.
"Hey, nee-chan, could you tell Sera-neechan what you found from the top of the shelf?" the shrunken teenager asked with a childish tone and faking slight puppy-eyes. Blaze winked twice going through names in her head.
"Who is 'Sera-neechan'?" the confused teen asked soon. First looking at the stunned boy and then her new classmate who had walked behind the boy.
"Hey, hey, you don't remember me anymore?" Masumi asked with a nervous smile, pointing at her own face.
"Masumi?" she took a pause to recall her full name, "Oh right! Sorry, I only remembered your given name!", the redhead apologised quickly, "but what's with that shelf? I mean, it was dirty and dusty, but partly cleaned from the top?" the girl continued going through the sentence too in her head. She came to a quick conclusion in her head, but shook the thought away even quicker.
The look on Masumis' face had changed to a serious, but mischievous smirk when she too realised the proof, the smaller detective had stated her earlier. Now it all made sense in her intelligent mind. The short-haired teen looked at the younger boy with a smile and nodded.
' I'll take care of the motive, you try to find more fool-proof evidence ', she messaged with her eyes. Hoping to get through the other detective.
Luckily, the boy nodded back, understanding the un-spoken message, then turning to the other teen.
"Nee-chan, could you come to search the house with me?" he said with his well-known child-like voice.
"I'm afraid I can't, little boy. I'm one of the suspects, so I think I should stay put since my situation right now isn't the best possible", Blaze answered to the now pouting youngster, not noticing how the older girl snuck away to listen to the police a bit.
"I guess you're right. But you don't have a motive right? So you should be all right, no?"
"True, but I don't have an alibi either. And I think that the lack of alibi is a bigger thing to affect your suspiciousness than the lack of motive."
"Yeah, but ... ", Conan tried to argue, but couldn't really say anything to win the argument. Especially after the foreign stranger whose name he barely remembered gave him a glare saying to drop the topic.
The boy sighed, cursing how he never won an argument with a girl.
"Fine. I'll go by myself" he mumbled to himself until he remembered who else were there with him. He hurried to the other Detective Boys, who had a minute earlier been joined by Takagi-keiji and Ai.
"Shouldn't you children be heading home already? It's already past nine!" the young officer scolded the energetic children.
"But Takagi-keiji, we already called our parents and told them that we would be staying at Agase-hakases' place tonight!" the children argued back.
"That's no good! Have you asked Agase-hakase already?" he asked with a sigh.
"Uhh ... " the three children looked at each other and soon Genta said :
"Well, Mitsuhiko said that he'd do it... " everyone turned to look at the freckled boy.
"But I thought that Ayumi-chan said she'd do that", Mitsuhiko turned to look at the girl with the yellow hairband.
"But Ai-chan told Ayumi that she'd do it!" Ayumi said back with a sad face. The small first grader hated accusing, but she hated being accused more.
Ai looked at everyone staring at her and sighed. She flipped out her red phone from the side pocket of her skirt and tapped something. Genta tried to peek at her screen, but stopped when Ai gave him her death glare. After a while of swiping, tapping and staring, Ai finally put on a recorded conversation.
"Oh no, what about our parents? I need to go to dinner now, but I don't want to leave the investigation now!" Gentas voice echoed from the phone.
"Yeah, me too. We should call our parents and tell them that we're spending the night at Agasa's", this time Mitsuhikos voice.
"I can call him", Ai stated with a bored tone.
"You don't have to, Haibara-san! I can do that for you!" Mitsuhiko said quickly.
"Ayumi wants to call Agasa!" Ayumi spoke up.
"You guys called him the last time! This time it's my turn!" Genta shouted and the record stopped there.
After the record stopped its message, everyone was staring at Genta. He was laughing nervously and scratching the back of his head while Ai yawned, pleased with her evidence.
But no one noticed the serious look on the face of the shortest boy with glasses standing right behind Ai.
Quickly the boy hurried away unnoticed to find the Inspector on scene. He soon found the inspector in his signature brim hat.
"Megure-keibu could I please look at the victims' phone?" he asked with his best puppy-eyes and his most innocent tone of voice.
The experienced inspector just looked at the boy and told him that he shouldn't try to interfere with the policemens' job.
The shrunken detective glared at him and decided to give up as Conan. But not as Kudou Shinichi.
Conan hid himself behind the corner and pulled out both his "Kudou" phone and voice changer from his jeans pocket.
He dialed the inspectors number after tuning the voice changer to the correct frequency of his own voice.
"Oh, Kudou-kun! Nice to hear from you!" Megure answered the call, happy to hear of his old friend.
"Thanks inspector, but Conan called me and told me all about the case. It was me who wished for that kid to check up on the victims phone, so if you would so that phone to him?" Conan, or at the moment, Shinichi explained his fake situation to the man in charge briefly.
He held his breath when he heard the inspector hesitate as of to what to do on the other side. The boy peaked a bit behind the corner, and stole a glance of Megure's troubled expression.
The elder man sighed and said with a certain voice:
"Okay. I'll go get the phone and then find Conan. But only if you call me of what you found, taking you found what you wanted", Megure negotiated with the stubborn teen-aged detective.
"Got it. Well, I've got to go, but Conan'll inform us both if he found what I was searching for", the shrunken detective answered quickly and hung up on the phone. He then got out of his hiding, wearing a knowing, but childish smile as he approached the inspector who was still stunned on how fast Shinichi had ended his call.
Sighing, he turned to Conan :
"I'll go get the phone." With that he went to the forensics in Moritakas bedroom, where they had put the victim after she had been brought back from the morgue. Of course, the room was even better sealed than the crime scene since they really didn't want certain little children to go and meddle with the corpse.
The inspector got the phone soon and handed it to the kid, who was waiting for it with his hands stretched out to receive the object. Though, he of course was wearing gloves, in order to not let any of his own fingerprints get on the phone.
"Don't meddle too much with it, Conan-kun", he ordered, but the child didn't hear him anymore.
Across the room, unbeknownst to the four-eyed boy and the hatted man, a flame-haired had glued her eyes on the two.
She saw how the inspector somewhat reluctantly gave the phone to the odd boy, who on the other hand, wore a look that most children only have on Christmas.
But this time the teen didn't miss the grin that appeared on the boys face as he shuffled through the black phone he had been handed.
She continued staring, or observing was the verb she herself preferred better, the boy as he dug some earphones from his pockets, plugged it in the phone and then put the other ends to his ears.
'Is he going to listen to music? Now?' she thought.
She shrugged the thought away when the mischievous grin on the boys face only widened when he listened to... whatever he was listening to. The inspector had been long gone and the boy was in a far corner where the view of him from his friends had been blocked by a wall. Apparently he thought that no one saw him. But unluckily to him, he had been seen by the one girl who, though she didn't like to show it, had a very curious personality. So curious, that she had had to move away from Britain.
[A/N] Sorryy! I know that I took long, but I guess I've got nothing to defend me...
Yes, I admit. I was lazy. Though, not many have been checking on this fanfic so it's okay, I guess?
Anyway, thanks for those two reviews I've gotten and as an answer to the latter, I can fend myself on that one.
Yes, Blaze is a boys name, BUT it is also a girls name. Trust me, I have a friend called Blaze (and she's a girl) and if you check on , you can find the name Blaze from the girls names under the letter B.
And yes, this chapter is a bit short, but I'll try to make it up to you in the next one! Don't hate me if I don't make every chapter a 2,000 word one D:
Thanks for reading, please review since it does boost my motivation pretty much ( unless it's negative) and uh, see you next chapter? I'll present you the solution in it too and if I can stuff it in, I guess I could unravel our MC's past a bit. c;
Maybe, who knows,
-Ranima-