((I do not own Detective Conan, Magic Kaito, or Inuyasha))

"I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate."

Arthur Wing Pinero, The Second Mrs. Tanqueray, 1893

Conan tapped his fingers on the table in a bored fashion. He hated these weekly meetings. Nothing ever happened, so why shouldn't he hate them. He had introduced Kagome to the group, explaining she was a new member and his partner. A BIG mistake on his part, Ayumi was immediately jealous. He hadn't known how else to introduce her though, if he just said she was a new member She'd be attacked with questions, and Kagome didn't need to be interrogated with meaningless questions.

Meetings were routine, the Shounen Tantei dan, which had expanded to every elementary school in Tokyo met in the back room the library had so graciously given them. Genta would get up and talk about the lack of cases, Conan would step in and suggest that people don't need a detective for everything in their lives. This speech led to Genta's rant about needing to put their name out there, and that normally landed them with some form of community service.

This weeks was simple enough, clean the park. Shinichi was fine with that, he liked helping to keep the park clean, Kagome didn't seem to mind either, and he kept a watchful eye on her though, just in case. Shinichi wasn't sure how this was going to get the name of the, already famous, Shounen tantei dan out in the public. Everyone in Tokyo knew that shounen tantei dan met on Wednesday, there was a notice on the library door, along with that note (on bright hot pink paper) was a list of founders. Yoshida Ayumi, Koijima Genta, Tsuburaya Mitsuhiko, Haibara Ai, and Edogawa Conan. Which, generally, led to problems. Today was one of those said problems.

"Excuse me, are you Edogawa Conan?" A man had walked up to him. Shinichi looked up at the man, he was young, had a thin face, oval shaped, brown eyes, and a long hooked nose. His hair was a shade of light brown and shaggy as it truly looked like someone had stuck a mop on his head, except his hair was clean. He was wearing a dark, forest green shirt, and dark brown jacket. His jeans were faded and a hole rested in the right knee of the pant legs.

"Hai." Conan responded as he raked up a few leaves into his pile. The young man smiled and offered his hand to shake. Shinichi raised an eyebrow but shook hands with the man anyways. There was only one reason anyone would hunt him down intentionally to talk to him and that reason was-"Kaitou Kido." Conan stated. The man blinked before Conan went on. "That's the reason you want to talk to me, right?"

"That's… sort of right. Have a minute?" He asked. Shinichi set his rake down and turned to Kagome, silently asking if she would mind if he went off to talk with the man. Kagome didn't know if she quite thought that to be a good idea but nodded. She didn't want to force him to stick with her at all times. At her agreement he stuffed his hands in his primary school uniform's pockets and walked off with the man, heading in the direction of a café the man was leading him too.

"Alright." Conan said as soon as they were settled in a booth. "What's this about?" The young man fidgeted and sifted through his breast coat pocket, pulling a white piece, tri-folded paper from it. He careful unfolded the sheet and handed it over to Conan. Shinichi glanced at it.

On Hallow's original eve I will appear to steal

The diadem of fate.

-Kaitou Kid

Shinichi raised an eyebrow at the incredible vagueness of the letter. Some of it was obvious, but the rest was a mystery, it wasn't there. It wasn't hidden, it flat out wasn't there. It looked like someone had attempted to see if they could write in Kaitou Kid's cryptic riddling fashion and failed horribly. Which could only mean one thing-

"It's a fake." He stated dismissively. The man blinked and Shinichi was forced to go on. "Kid likes to state what he's stealing, when he's stealing it, and most importantly how he's going to steal it. This notice only says when and what." He explained, taking a sip of his orange juice. The man nodded in understanding.

"That's why I said it was sort of Kid related, I know it's fake. I think someone is after the Kid's life." He stated. "You know how that last heist went don't you?" Conan's eyes had narrowed in suspicion.

"That's an awfully bold assumption, murder." He said calmly. "And who exactly are you?" The man faltered.

"I Know, it seems bold but after the last heist-"

"Kid's had people after his life before." Conan interrupted him. "He's more then capable of fending for himself. But that leaves my question unanswered, who are you?" The man took the letter back and stored it back in his pocket and then toyed with his chopsticks a little, deciding on an answer.

"I'm Noda Kenji. President of the Kaitou Kid fan club." He finally admitted a little quietly. Shinichi blinked. The president? He'd always thought that would be some teenaged girl with every available picture of the thief plastered on her bedroom walls possibly covered in lipstick marks.

"The president." He sipped his orange juice again as he thought it over. Any Kid fan would proudly state that's who they were. He also found it odd this guy was worried about Kid. No one ever was, Kid was intangible, or so his enigma stated. No ever worried about kid, especially not their fans because the reason they went to the heists was to watch him defy the laws and 'ooh and awe' when fireworks were added into the concoction. No one ever thought about the possibility that, that night's heist could be the thief's last. They all had it in their head the thief would be around for years and years to come, and nothing would ever stop him, why, because he knew how to handle the obstacles in his way. Kid could dodge cops, insult and tease detectives, steal jewels and return them within the hour, slip into the night while being clad in white, disappear and reappear with in twenty seconds, but most of all the thief was more then capable of throwing a few snipers off as he dodged several bullets and stayed in the air. "Then why are you here?" Shinichi asked finally. The president looked stunned.

"Because I'm-"

"No." Conan cut him off again, impatient. "You are not worried. No one is. Even when a letter is faked and an obvious trap, no one would worry, because Kaitou Kid is anything but stupid, he would know to be on guard and he would know how to get out of the trap laid out for him. And that." He referred to the notice. "Is such an obvious fake no one would even question the idea. Kaitou Kid wouldn't need to worry about that fake because no one would be fooled by it. It'd just be an empty threat. Because it is an obvious fake, that brings me to a new question."

"And that is?"

"Why did you write this?" Conan left him no room to object, his voice was final and his past speech cut down any arguments the man could have made. He stared, in complete shock the boy could discover him so easily. Finally, as Conan took the last sip of orange juice, he leaned back in the booth's seat.

"I had my reasons." He said quietly, so no one would overhear. Conan was about to press farther questions, his patience had been spent, he had opened his mouth, a glare clear on his face and then his head dropped onto the table. The man took a sip of his coffee as he stared at the now conked out Edogawa Conan. "This…"

-

Kagome waited at the park for Shinichi, even after the park was good and clean and they were all dismissed. Genta had asked about Conan's whereabouts and Kagome had explained about the man coming up and asking Conan for a minute of his time. This apparently got Shinichi into some form of trouble with his plans. They started complaining about how Conan always went off and did things for himself.

And so Kagome found herself sitting on a park bench waiting for Conan to get back. Even if the man had said a minute, cases could take some time, but she had an odd feeling about all this. It was starting to get late, the sun was starting to glow orange and sink down over the horizon, painting an angelic pink tint on to the skies above. Conan had been gone for about an hour. Pastel pink faded into a light purple which turned into a midnight purple from there an inky black. Conan was officially missing, to her anyways. It had been over two hours and she had no clue as to where he was, if found out he would be gone this long, wouldn't he call her? Maybe he gotten too wrapped in the case he forgot to call. She pulled out the phone who let her borrow and found his number in the contacts list. She was greatly discouraged when the answering machine had picked up immediately. Something was wrong.

"There you are!" A voice sounded behind her. Kagome wheeled around to stare up at the boy who was probably late to school yesterday morning. He was grinning, a wide grin that was kind of un-nerving. "Aoko's been worried sick, sent me after you." He explained. Kagome moved away from him, scooting closer to Genta.

"I'm not leaving. Conan-kun's not back yet." The smile on Kaito's face faltered almost immediately at her words.

"He's not with you guys?" He looked around. "Well, where did he go?"

"I don't know." Kagome admitted. "He went to talk to someone about something and he hasn't come back." Kaito looked thoughtful for several minutes and then grinned down at the kids.

"I'm sure he's fine, probably just went home." He tried. Shounen Tantei dan were reassured but Kagome wasn't. Would Shinichi just ditch her like that? She hoped he would at least tell her he was leaving. Kaito watched as the three children left and turned back to Kagome. "Yumi-chan, come on. I have to take you home." Kagome shook her head.

"I'm not moving." She said stubbornly. Kaito let out a sigh and lifted her up, tossing her easily over his shoulder and headed back to Aoko's. Aoko was all too happy to see Yumi and hugged her tightly explaining how worried she was and telling the girl to never scare her like that again. After she had sent Yumi to bed Kaito had taken it upon himself to borrow her phone. She put her hands on her hips but froze when she noticed his frantic tone of voice.

"Hakuba-kun! Did Conan ever make it home today?" He asked, hoping against hope that he had.

"No." Hakuba admitted. "I was just about to go out and look for him, if he just went off somewhere and forgot to call he's going to be in big trouble." He stated.

"I don't think that's the case." Kaito admitted. "Yumi and the other children were waiting for Conan when I found them, Yumi said he went off to talk to someone for a minute and never returned." Hakuba froze. Kaito could tell he had just forced worry onto the new father. "Should we meet up someplace?"

"Yes, meet me at the park." Hakuba hung up and turned to Ran, who currently had Jake in her arms as she burped him, gently patting the baby's back. "He-Conan, we don't know where he is." He told his wife. Ran bit her lip and stopped her gentle pats on her son's back.

"He…?" She questioned. Hakuba went over and kissed her forehead and touched the back of Jake's head fondly.

"Don't worry, I'll find him." He promised. "You two just stay here, where it's safe. I'll be back later." He grabbed his coat and slipped it on. "I'll call you when I find something." Ran nodded and watched her husband slip out of the apartment. Hakuba headed straight to the park and didn't stop for detours. He checked his watch as he reached the park. Ten fifteen. It had taken about twelve minutes to get there. Kaito was already leaning casually against a bench and stood up straight as Hakuba came into sight. He didn't offer a smile because a missing child, even if he wasn't really a child, was serious business.

"Where should we start?" Kaito questioned. Hakuba had his phone out.

"First, we tell the police to be on the look out for him." He explained, dialing in the number to Megure's office. The police agreed to be on the look out as Hakuba knew it wouldn't be an official case until tomorrow, he hated that. The longer Conan was missing the more likely it was that he died. Now he didn't know what to do. Try and find the man that Yumi had told Kaito about? It was impossible he'd still be there. It would be a start, and where did Conan go when he left with that man? Hakuba was going to have to press the 'don't talk to strangers' rule. Which Conan obviously didn't pay any attention to. Kaito looked at Hakuba for instructions. "We're gonna have to search tomorrow, we don't have enough leads to do anything just yet." He explained. Kaito nodded gravely. The detective was right, without anything to go on there was nothing that could be done, except wait. They'd just have to wait and talk to Kagome tomorrow.

-

Conan woke up several hours later, his hands were bound tightly behind his back, he was sitting in a basement of some kind, possibly an attic. Several questions presented themselves in his mind. Where was he, why was he here, where was his kidnapper? Obviously the orange juice had been drugged, but when had he drugged it? Conan didn't take his eyes off the man during the entire meeting, had he paid someone to slip the drug into the cup? That made the most sense.

If the man had wanted him dead he would have killed him already, so he was needed for something, but what? Had that man really been the president of Kid's fanclub? Probably. Logic answered for him. He had been reluctant to give his name, he hadn't wanted to be overheard. So this had something to do with kid. What, he wasn't quite sure yet. He highly doubted if Kid would ask his fanclub members to kidnap someone. If he wanted him out of the picture Kid could just kidnap Conan on his own. He'd probably done a better job this guy. Of course, this guy's technique had worked. So he deserved a little credit. But that heist notice. Did he really expect Conan to think it was authentic?

"I hope you don't think too bad of me." The kidnapper's voice sounded. "It's just that, well, you can't go to the next kid heist." Conan was intrigued this guy seemed almost concerned.

"And why is that?" He asked. The president shifted uneasily and sat down in front of Conan.

"Kaitou Kid likes you." He stated. "Not in a creepy way, but he does like you, he'd be upset if something were to happen to you and might not continue what he's so good at." Conan snorted he couldn't help it. This guy was reaching.

"Look, Kaitou Kid and I understand each other in one sense; we're both geniuses. He knows I can get out of a tight spot just as I know he can do the same." Conan explained. "What you've told me allows me to guess someone is after my life." He stated. Kenji nodded, impressed by Conan's reasoning.

"I overheard a guy talking on a walkie-talkie at the last heist, he said they would kill you at the next one, to make kid squirm." He reported, watching Conan carefully. "You understand then, right? Why I can't let you leave."

"Bull shit." Conan said bluntly. The man blinked.

"I don't-"

"I said Bull Shit. I'm perfectly capable of handling myself, if anyone was after Kid's life and switched targets to me, they wouldn't discus that sort of thing within earshot of another person unless they tried to kill them later, and besides that, Kid wouldn't let anyone shoot at me, and not just me, anyone. He doesn't want other people to get hurt. He's annoying as hell but he's not a bad person. Finally. If you were worried someone was after my life, why not go to the police about it? I'll tell you why, because whatever you want with me can't be legal." The man was shocked again at how fast Conan could see right through his ploy.

"You're right, So what do you think it is, little detective?"

"It can't be to kill me, you'd have already done that, ransom?" The man snorted.

"I don't know how you got to be such an annoying know-it-all, but you're right, it is ransom, I need a certain jewel, and you're going to help me get it." Kenji stated. "Kid won't like that I've kidnapped you, we both know it. He'll do as I ask and then I'll let you go, promise." Conan watched him, could he trust this guy wouldn't kill him once he got what he wanted? He didn't seem like that bad of a person, especially since he was so hesitant about everything in the café.

"What is it you want?" He asked.

"My girlfriend, she's sick and I don't have the money to pay for the surgery, and she's running out of time, so I got desperate. You'll be able to forgive me, won't you?" He asked. Conan watched him.

"Why didn't you just ask him?" Shinichi questioned. "I'm sure Kid would help you, if your intentions really are as honest as that." He shook his head. "I can forgive you, but I don't really like being tied down." Kenji nodded and moved to sever the bonds but stopped.

"You'll just leave. And you're my trump card, besides, you might stop Kid from his heist." Kenji sat back. "I'm sorry, but you have to stay here." He informed the detective. "But I'll let you go as soon as I can." He stood up and left down the ladder, allowing Conan to confirm he was in an attic.

-

"Damn it!" Hakuba swore. "How could he be gone? No one's seen anything?" He had officially filed the missing person's case he had hoped he wouldn't have to file. He had taken a brief interview with Yumi to get any and all information he could. So far all he had to go on was his appearance; Light brown shaggy hair, long hooked nose, brown oval shaped eyes. Unfortunately that was not enough to get him anywhere he was also aware that what ever the reason for Conan's kidnapping, was Kid related.

Ran was a mess, she was worried about Conan and she had to take care of Jake, who was only a few months old. Hakuba promised her in the morning when he went out that morning that he would find Conan and he would bring the boy back alive. He picked Yumi up from Aoko's and took her to the park they had been at the day before to see if she could point out which way Conan and the man had walked off in. She had been watching as they walked away, but that told him nothing, because he didn't know where they had gone next.

Already in a foul mood, Hakuba found himself even more annoyed when his phone rang and he was able to recognize the caller's name and number. Saguru was sure this person knew about what happened and was surely going to blame it all on him, as he often did when anything went wrong in Conan's life.

"Hai?" Hakuba forced his voice to be calm, hiding the bitterness he held for Hattori Heiji.

"Ahou!" The angry Kansai teen shouted. "What's this about Edogawa Conan missing? You better find him!" Hakuba sighed.

"Please be reasonable Hattori-kun, I am doing the best I can."

"Your best ain't good enough!" Hakuba ran a hand down his face in annoyed manner.

"My best. You realize I have no real leads at this point?"

"Kudo could do it." Hattori stated. "And so could I."

"Kudo could? Then why doesn't he get down here and find his own damn son?" Hattori winced.

"H-he… he can't." He started. Hakuba bit his tongue.

"Some father he is." He took a calming breath. "What time are you going to be in?"

"Eh?"

"You're coming down aren't you? What time will your train be here?" Hakuba asked.

"About four hours." Hattori hung up. Hakuba shut his phone and sighed. It was an eight hour drive to Osaka and about a six hour train ride, Hattori was already on his way when he called. He flipped his phone open again and dialed in Kaito's number, he was not going to meet the Kansai detective, he had work to do.

"Kuroba-kun, go pick up Hattori-kun at the station at nine o'clock tonight." He hung up, leaving Kaito no time to protest.

"…Thanks for giving me a choice…" The thief said bitterly as he tucked his phone away. He didn't have a heist tonight so it would be-shit! He did.

-

Four hours later Kaito was on edge. He had to perform a heist at eleven, he had two hours to get Hattori to the police station, or to Hakuba's, that was on the way to the museum so would work better and then get to the museum to set up. He really hated Karma.

Hattori, upon arriving at the station had been, to say the least, irritated. Kudo wasn't answering his phone (of course; it was never that easy) and it unnerved him that this would have something to do with Kaitou Kid or rather, that it was completely out of character from what he'd looked up about this character. Not to mention that Kudo was getting sloppy. He was his best friend but sloppiness was coming around a lot more than it felt like it had before.

"Oi. The jerk didn't tell me enough about what's going on with Conan,' he announced.

Kaito looked up and sighed, it was just like Hakuba to send him to get Hattori, probably because he was depending on the hope they would annoy each other. Just out of spite Kaito decided he'd be as amiable as possible.

"Y-yeah… he doesn't like you…" Kaito stated. "I can tell you what I know, which is close to what Hakuba knows, and a bit of my own research, Hakuba doesn't like to tell me things… think's I'm Kaitou kid."

"Hmm," Hattori looked over him. "Well if you are I know it wasn't you, or at least I'm pretty sure. So what do you know? (I have to start somewhere)." Hattori looked at him levelly.

Kaito nodded, pleased he'd be able to help, if only a little.

"Right, my friend Aoko sent me to go look for the kids, when I found them Yumi said Conan hadn't come back from a meeting with someone yet." He stated. "Yumi said Conan knew it was Kid related and the man said it was sort of kid related." He went on. "After Hakuba filed the case and officially kicked me out of the case, all I got from Yumi was the appearance of the man. I did little digging and was able to find the café the kidnapping happened at. No, I did not tell Hakuba." It was pay back for not letting him help.

"Didn't tell Hakuba…"Muttered Hattori. Suddenly his gaze shifted and he looked furious. "He said he didn't have any leads! There's a kid's life at stake and you didn't tell the leading detective where the kidnapping took place!?!" He looked positively murderous. "Where is it and what is it called?"

Kaito winced. So maybe it wasn't possible for him to be amiable, oh well.

"Alright, Alright." He went back to being normal Kaito. "I thought I could figure it out before Hakuba, the two of us are top in our class, while detective work isn't my profession, I –can- do it." He took a breath. "the café, it was the ramen hut just about a quarter of a mile from Tokyo's main park."

"Hn. Thank you." Hattori left quickly.

Kaito blinked.

"Oi wait!" He called out, hurrying behind the detective. Wait! What was he doing? He had a heist in, he checked his watch, an hour and forty-eight minutes.

-

Kaito followed Hattori to the café, mentally cursing himself as he was losing time. Conan was going to be the reason Nakamori caught him… little brat. He raised an eyebrow as Hattori pounded on the door and casually shoved it open. Sure the door had been locked but locks meant nothing to him.

Hattori looked at Kaito for a second, raised an eyebrow and walked inside.

Kaito grinned cheerily and stepped inside as well.

"Eh? Customers?" The lady who had been in charge of closing the store. "I thought I locked the door, I'm sorry but we're closed for the night."

"I know." Kaito chirped.

"I just wanted to ask you some questions regarding the potential kidnapping case," said Hattori quickly.

The lady blinked and then nodded.

"Yes?" Kaito looked at Hattori and then realized the Osakan detective didn't know the appearance of the man.

"Did a fairly tall man with shaggy light brown hair, long hooked nose, and almond shaped eyes come in here with a little boy, about six or seven, looked like a much younger me?" The lady blinked.

"I-when?"

"Oh yeah… forgot that part, yesterday around five or six." The lady thought about it.

"I think so… I saw someone matching that description talking to Koshin-kun out side…"

"And did you know what they were talking about-hold on." Kaito answered his phone which interrupted the conversation with its cheery tune of something one would hear at a circus.

"Yes?" He asked then paled as the girl on the other end sounded frantic. "Aoko, calm down I-Quit yelling!"

"I WILL NOT CALM DOWN! AND DON'T YOU TELL ME WHAT TO DO KUROBA KAITO! YOU FIND YUMI-CHAN RIGHT NOW!" The line went dead. Kaito was left staring at his phone.

"….A word of advice? Don't tell a girl to quit yelling…"

Hattori deadpanned, "I do it all the time." He turned back to the lady, "You were saying?"

Kaito blinked, amazed at how Hattori was still alive. The lady blinked at Kaito's phone and shook her head before turning back to Heiji.

"I didn't hear much of the conversation, just one part, the guy said something about 'make sure you give him the right glass." She explained.

Hattori's eyes widened, "Did you see when he left the building with Conan?- I mean, the boy?"

"Eh? No… I went on break just as I saw the conversation, when I got back the man was already gone."

"Hm." Hattori turned to the door. "Is there anyone else we can talk to about this? Anyone whose shift it was?"

The lady shook her head.

"N-no, we were all on break then, except for Koshin-kun, he's the supervisor… he'll be in tomorrow morning at eight though, you can talk to him then."

"Does he have a card here?"

"A-ah… hai.." She fished a card out of her pocket. "It's on all the hotel staff's cards."

Heiji took it from her. "Thank you." He left, pondering.

Kaito bid the lady goodbye and headed out. He twitched as Aoko's ringtone met his ears again.

"Can I help you?"

"KAITO!" Aoko shouted through the phone. "YOU GO LOOK FOR YUMI-CHAN RIGHT NOW!"

"How do you know I'm not?"

"BECAUSE YOU'RE AN IDIOT!" Kaito blinked at his phone.

"Oi… calm down."

"DON'T YOU TELL ME TO CALM DOWN BAKA! YOU FIND HER THIS INSTANT!"

"Because I can find a five year old in three seconds, even though, you know, I DON'T KNOW WHERE TO START LOOKING!"

"DON'T YOU YELL AT ME!"

"YOU'RE YELLING AT ME!" Kaito shouted back.

"YOU'RE WASTING TIME! BAKA! YOU FIND YUMI-CHAN RIGHT NOW!" Kaito sighed, hadn't they covered this already?

"Aoko, listen, I'll find her as soon as I can, just relax and-"

"I'M NOT GOING TO RELAX! WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU!? SHE'S FIVE AND OUT THERE ALL ALONE AND PROBABLY SCARED!"

"SHUT UP WOMAN!" Kaito snapped. "I'LL HAVE YOU KNOW I'M KIND OF BUSY-Oi, what are you doing?"

"Crying you idiot. Yumi-chan's all alone and all you care about is being stupid." Kaito blinked, he was going to cancel his heist, there was just no way he could get it done.

"…Aoko, I'm sorry, listen, I'm going right now to find her, don't worry so much okay?"

"Okay…" she hiccupped.

Hattori gave him a flat look. "Ahou. Can we get moving? This Yumi kid is the one who saw Ku-Conan-kun walk off?"

Kaito sighed and turned his attention to Hattori.

"Yes, she is." He explained and then returned to the phone, his concern for the girl on the other end obvious. "You okay now Aoko? You should get some tea and I'll call you again soon."

"Five minutes." She told him. Kaito sighed.

"Five minutes, I promise."

When Kaito hung up Hattori looked placid. "So, your wife?"

Kaito turned bright red.

"No! Of course not! She's my childhood friend… that's all."

Heiji reflected on this for a moment, imagining Ran and Shinichi. "Ah, same thing."

Kaito's eye twitched.

"Is not… and besides, I have a runaway to find." He moved away.

"Someone who saw Conan-kun walk off with a complete stranger-" eye twitch "Might be useful. A little. I'll come too."

Kaito inwardly winced. He still had to cancel the heist, how the hell was he supposed to do it with a detective following him around?

"Well, you can take the east side of Tokyo I'll-no… I'll take the east side, you can take the west."

"Tryin to be funny? East and west," Hattori shook his head. "But fine. I'll go."

"That's not the intention but… okay." Kaito sighed, he could cancel. Suddenly he realized –why- Hakuba had wanted him to pick Hattori up. The heist. It was so obvious. He paled at the sound of a ringtone.

Hattori glanced down at his phone, pulling it out. He paused, seeming to think for a moment then spoke. "Ahou- I mean. Hello."

"You haven't let Kuroba-kun out of your sight have you? Kaitou Kid has a heist tonight-"

"I know you're bad at babysitting but I came to find the kid you lost, not to watch another. Bye." He hung up. "Ahou…"

Hakuba sighed. Now Kaito wouldn't get caught by that plan.

Kaito sighed in relief and headed off for the museum, leaving a simple note that he would perform the heist later and that he had an errand to run. Now.. about Yumi. He quickly changed to kid guise and headed for the place he suspected she had gone. The park.

-

He wasn't there. She knew he wouldn't be so she had gone to the second best place. And the most obvious place to go. The kid heist. It had taken some walking but she could already hear the roar of the crowd just at the edge of her sight. There were thousands of people. It may be impossible to find him there but it was the only thing she had to go on. Kid.

And there was plenty of that here. Signs, banners, t-shirts, plushies. It was kind of ridiculous. "Conan-kun!" she shouted as she approached. Once again, really obvious and no choice. Very few people looked up as her voice was drowned out in the screams of joy. Kagome thought briefly of firing an arrow like a flare to get Conan- Or rather, Shinichi's, attention but then she realized she didn't have a bow or an arrow and cameras would go straight to her area which would get her caught and taken back home. She didn't want that.

She had to find him. If he died then she would surely go insane and kill everyone. Which would be bad. A little. Sometimes. "Conan-kun!" she shouted again. "Move!" She pushed some hopeless fangirl to the side.

"Hey!" the girl objected before rolling her eyes and cheering again. Kagome didn't care. "Shinichi-kun!" she tried this time. She squeezed past a fat man and tried again. "Shinichi-kun!" Irritating boy. She would surely beat him within an inch of his life if he wasn't dead already. She swallowed. "Conan-kun!"

Kaitou returned to the heist, in a black hoodie and darkened jeans with a hole in one of the knees, a pair of converse shoes, and cap pulled over his eyes.

"We meet again, Ojousan." Kid greeted Kagome as he lightly tapped her shoulder.

"Con-Oh…" she looked up. "And you are?" She paused and looked all around. Recognition dawned. She pointed at one of the t-shirts. "Um?"

"Ah.. come with me, we need to talk." He explained, not really wanting to talk where all his fangirls could turn and jump him.

"You'll take me home. I'm not going home. And I can make you leave real easy here," she said shortly. "As soon as Conan-kun is home then I'll go home."

"What did you think I wanted to talk to you about? And I have no intention of taking you home, even after our chat. You live at Keibu's house, yes? His daughter would more then willingly beat me to a pulp, should I show up at her door."

Kagome narrowed her eyes at him then sighed. "Fine," she huffed, pushing past another fangirl who did the same routine as the first. Kaitou led them out of the maze of screaming kid fans and over to an area he could keep an eye on the sniper he had spotted and talk freely with Kagome.

"Tantei-kun has gone missing, rumor is that you saw the person he left with."

"I know that," she said coldly, then broke off, seeming to realize maybe he could help find Shinichi sooner, "He was kinda tall with shaggy light brown hair, a long hooked nose and almond shaped eyes. He got Shin-Conan-kun to leave when Conan said it was kid-related, he said sorta. They left the park and I haven't seen him since."

Kaitou nodded. "I see…" He said thoughtfully. "A resident of the city found the kidnapping location. The identity of the kidnapper is still unknown." He admitted. "And miss, I know who Conan-kun really is."

She blinked then said levelly. "I don't know what you're talking about. But I have to find him."

"Loyal?" He chuckled. "Will it ease you to know a detective has a lead? And a strong one at that."

"Strong one?" she thought about it. "No. It'll ease me when I see him okay."

"….you like him?"

"NANI?!" She burst.

Hattori, who happened to be in the area, looked up at the sound of someone shouting something in alarm and ran over to see what was going on.

"Baka! I just met him!" She was bright red. "And I barely know you, you can't just make assumptions like that!"

"Don't you know about love at first sight?" He questioned.

"He's seven! Er-Was! Er- is!" She exclaimed. "And I'm-"

"Fifteen?"

"Er-" she looked down at herself. She laughed nervously. "Well, I don't look like it but…"

"Oi. Don't you have a heist?" said Hattori as he approached.

Kaitou looked up and shook his head.

"Nope, it's postponed until further notice." He glanced back up at the sniper. "And my buddies who wear gray are pissed." He said cheerily.

Kagome looked up at Hattori. "Is this the detective you were talking about?"

"You were talking about me?!" burst Hattori in fury.

"I told the lady you had a strong lead." Kid responded conversationally, his eye still on the sniper.

"Hmph."

As Kagome looked up at him she was reminded so strongly of…"Inuyasha…" she whispered. He certainly didn't look like him but…The posture, the attitude…The comeback…

Oh no…Was this…? Love at first sight?

Kaitou watched the sniper for a good few more minutes.

"…Well if that's all, I'll be off… have a gem to steal, and a sniper to lure away…" The last part was muttered.

"Mm," agreed Kagome. " I have to go to." She quickly stood up.

"No, you can't leave yet," Hattori told Yumi. "It's late, you'll get lost and you won't find him. I'll take care of it." He called Kuroba's phone.

Kaitou tensed and shoved his hands in his pocket to shut his phone off before it would ring.

Kagome noticed. Hattori didn't. He frowned. "Hmm…" He looked at Kaitou. "Ahou."

Kid grinned cheekily at him.

"Yes?"

"I think my phone isn't working, can I borrow yours?"

Kaitou blinked.

"Would I carry a phone on me, to a heist? Honestly, you misjudge me Tantei-han, I'm wounded."

"You're not in kid guise right now, so why not?"

"Because I'm disguised, I'm about to go perform."

"I think you're already performing- and DON'T YOU RUN AWAY!" He grabbed Yumi's arm.

"I am, if nothing else, a showman." Kid admitted. "But I'm also a thief, who is smart enough to leave their phone at home."

"Unless you were in a rush…perhaps?"

Kid blinked.

"I'm never in a rush… except that one time… but that was months ago, so it doesn't count."

"But surely, emergency calls?"

"My assistant takes them." Kid shrugged. "He has my phone. And no, I'm not going to go get it."

"Maybe you just turn it off?"

"Should the incident occur that I drop it, Keibu-san would be at my doorstep in an instant, now wouldn't he?"

"Yes, but since you're such an amazing getaway artist then, speaking of…" Hattori was holding the sleeve of Kagome's jacket which was gone.

Kid smirked.

"Always be prepared, and it seems you have a child to chase after, as I have a heist to complete, lest my fans decide to riot."

Hattori hmphed and ran off.

"Ja ne!" Kaito saluted and went off to steal the gem and get the snipers away from his fans. Once he had them successfully off his back and chasing a dummy he went back to his normal civilian clothes and went to pretend to search the eastern side of Tokyo. He then pretended to notice he missed a call and dialed Hattori's number.

"Ahou. I don't know where she is now because you just watched as she slipped away distracting me with pretending you weren't Kid," said Hattori.

"Eh? But I've been at the eastern end of Tokyo, remember? You're searching the western end?"

"I can check that on video cameras," stated Hattori flatly. "But oh well, you don't have a choice in looking for her, I do."

Kaito twitched.

"I'm not Kid." He denied. "So you lost her again? Good going."

"The feeling's mutual," he said. "Do you know where she could be?"

"Well, no.. I don't know her very well, Conan-kun's the one who talked to her the most."

Hattori blinked, "They talked a lot?"

"Yeah, every time I'm around those two are, they're always talking, whispering about something."

Hattori's eyes widened. "And he didn't tell me..?" he muttered. He shook his head. He must be jumping to the wrong conclusion then. "Was there a case?" he asked.

"No… Hakuba doesn't let Conan near cases, I thought you knew that?"

"Like a shounen tantei dan case I mean," Hattori amended.

"No, not that I know of, of course, the kids don't really come tell me things, I listen to Aoko rant about them doing dangerous things."

"So is she Neechan's sister?"

"Aoko's? No, Aoko's an only child, but they're watching Yumi for now."

"Why?"

"Her parents are missionaries… or something, Aoko said Kid just left her on the door step and then she ranted about how Kid wasn't a good parent, like Kid would have kids…"

"Weird," said Heiji. "So where did she live before she went there?"

"I don't know, but I bet Kid does."

"Does she talk about her family?"

"Not that I've ever heard."

"Does she say really smart things occasionally? I mean- are her grades good?"

"How could you have a bad grade in Kindergarten?" Kaito asked. "But she doesn't talk like a normal five year old, knows the language really well."

"Hmm…"

Kaito sighed.

"She's not here, I'll meet up with you at the park." He hung up, using Hakuba's technique of getting people to do as he asked without protest. It worked.

-

As soon as Kaito got to the park he heard a phone ringing. His. Hakuba?

"I'm trying to find a-I told you! I'm not Kaitou Ki-what?" Kaito paled. "I-I… why are you telling me?"

"Kuroba-kun, Ran is in hysterics because she hasn't seen Conan since yesterday, now she knows about the threat on the boys life, don't. Mess with me."

"I'm telling you I'm not-"

"Just shut up and listen. I'm going to the Kid heist location. You had better be there in ten minutes."

"But I'm twenty-"

"Ten minutes." Hakuba hung up.

It was only a few seconds later that a grouching Kensai detective could be heard approaching the park. When he saw Kaito he frowned. "You are a pain. Do you know that? You and that girl. I came to save-get Conan-kun not go on some wild goose chase around town. Conan-kun, got that?"

"I have to get to the museum in ten minutes." Kaito responded and groaned when Aoko's ringtone met his ears.

"I'm sorry!"

"YOU DIDN'T CALL BACK! I WAS SO WORRIED YOU COULD HAVE DIED! AND YUMI-CHAN WOULD HAVE TRULY BEEN LEFT ALL ALONE AND NO ONE WOULD BE LOOKI-"

"…You weren't worried I could have died? It was that Yumi-chan would out there with no one looking for her? Why don't you go look for her Aoko!?"

"BECAUSE IDIOT! I CAN'T LEAVE THE HOUSE!" Kaito blinked.

"Why not? Keibu won't be home for hours, you know how kid heists are."

"I WENT TO CHECK ON YUMI-CHAN AND THEN WHEN SHE WAS GONE I RAN TO GO LOOK FOR HER AND FELL DOWN THE STUPID STAIRS! I SPRAINED MY STUPID ANKLE AND NOW YOU CAN'T EVEN DO ONE STUPID THING FOR ME! I HATE YOU KUROBA KAITO!" She hung up. Kaito blinked.

"She's injured?" He shook his head. "DAMN IT AOKO!" He cursed. He didn't have time to deal with all this, what was he supposed to do? Look for Yumi or go talk to Hakuba? Of course, he had to protect Kid's name but Aoko… and then now…

Hattori frowned. "Alright. I'll go look for the girl? Or see the jerk?"

"No, I have to go, If I don't kid will show up and Hakuba will be convinced…"

"So I'll go find the sneaky girl…I think I know who to see…"

"Thanks. I owe you one." Kaito nodded and ran off to meet up with Hakuba. "Actually…" He stopped. "You should come with me, what ever Hakuba has to say, has something to do with Conan-kun, I'll just face Aoko's wrath later, how much can she do with a sprained ankle, right?"

"Yah but she's still a five year old, right? And we already have one kidnapped kid, we don't need another," said Heiji.

"Well then, you go meet with Hakuba, I'll take my chances with Hakuba's anger, he's not an angry mop wielder."

"Ahou, make up your mind."

"You go see Hakuba, I just realized, even with a sprained ankle Aoko's temper is more dangerous, she'll throw things if she can't hit me."

"Ah."

-

Kaito left the area in a hurry and went off to find Yumi, wondering where would be a good place to look now that the heist was over. Unless, maybe she was following Hakuba? Unlikely.

"Tantei-san, Tantei-han." He appeared in the same outfit he had been in as Kid earlier.

"Oi! Shouldn't you be looking for Yumi?"

Kaitou blinked.

"I thought that was your job." Hakuba rolled his eyes.

"What ever, listen Kid, the kidnapper wants you to steal something and hand it over or else Conan will be in pieces." He stated firmly. "So work with me on this one okay?" Kaitou frowned.

"…Why did you think I was here?"

Hattori's expression had become grave upon hearing what the kidnapper had said, "We need to get to the bottom of this ahou! Quit chit chatting!"

Hakuba nodded and turned back to the thief.

"Send a notice. And tonight. Let that creep know you're going to meet his demands." Kaitou nodded.

"But… what am I stealing?"

"It's a jewel."

"That tells me a lot." Kid said sarcastically.

"The Golden crush."

"Oh, that was my next target anyway. Goodnight detectives, I'll make sure Conan-kun is returned in one piece." He promised just before disappearing in a puff of pink smoke.

Hattori blinked. "Pink?"

"He does it to be annoying." Hakuba stated. "I'm going home." He headed off.

Hattori called Kuroba's cell phone.

"Yes?" He asked, hoping the ringtone hadn't carried over from where he was leaning against a wall several feet away.

Hattori thought he heard something, he blinked and smirked. "HAVE YOU FOUND YUMI-CHAN YET?!!!" He waited and listened.

Kaito paled and quickly lowered the volume on his phone.

"N-no, why are you shouting?"

Hattori frowned, it could have been an echo. He couldn't be sure. "Pink smoke is very annoying. I'm certain there's some kind of psychological…thing about it," he said casually. "And you didn't mention the whole…Conan in PIECES! Thing."
Kaito blinked, sure there was a trap in there somewhere.

"Pink smoke?" He questioned and then shook his head. "…I told you it was about Conan-kun."

"The pink smoke was just referring to your recent information that you didn't share with me. And telling about Conan-kun and saying someone may cut him up into little pieces if a certain phantom doesn't get a jewel and give it to the crazy person AND that's assuming that the crazy person doesn't just KILL him ANYWAY is called INADEQUETE DISCLOSURE!! THAT is why I am SHOUTING! Prick."

Kaito blinked, happy the volume was on low.

"W-what are you going on about? ….I'm NOT KAITOU KID! How many times do I have to tell you that?!"

" I REALLY DON'T GIVE A FUCK WHETHER YOU ARE KAITOU KID OR NOT! I'M JUST SAYING THAT SOMEONE BETTER NOT FAIL AT THIS! I need all the information and I need it NOW!" Hattori paused taking a breath, he was losing his cool and he knew it. He couldn't just force it out of him but this was about Kudo's life. He'd already saved it too many times for him to have to go through this again.

"You have all the information I do!" Kaito pointed out. "But that card you got, why don't we just pay the supervisor a visit now?"

"Exactly what I was thinking." Hattori hung up.

Kaito blinked. Should he assume he knew where Hattori was? Or call back and ask? And then there was Yumi… or Kagome as her real name was. She had to be around somewhere. He shed the hoodie and looked down at his green polo shirt. Where had she gone? The best place to look for a kid fan was a kid heist, it was highly possible the kidnapper was still around, which would mean it was highly possible Kagome was around too. He shook his head and shoved his hands in his pockets, heading over to where Hattori was standing. Praying Hattori didn't realize he had never told Kaito where he was.

Hattori blinked as he heard footsteps, he looked up and noted in semi-surprise that it was Kaito. Semi because he didn't realize Kaito would make such a stupid move. "Oi. I didn't tell you I was here."

"Yeah, but I knew where you were meeting Hakuba, he told me to come here first after all." Kaito shrugged.

'Hmm…Nice cover up…' "How'd you get here so fast?"

"Because I happened to be nearby, Yumi-chan's probably looking for Conan-kun right? What better place to find a kid fan, then at a kid heist location?"

"Ah, so no luck in the east side then, huh?"

"Nope."

A few yards away Kagome tugged on the skirt of a Kid fan. "Neh, Onesan have you seen my friend Conan-kun? He's real close to Kiddo-sama and I need to find him or else Kiddo-sama will be so sad…Can you please please help me find him? Onegai???"

The fangirl looked down. That kinda sounded bad…

"I'll help you find him!" She said happily, still wondering about Kid.

Kaito blinked and looked over in Kagome's direction.

"Aha!" He started towards her. "You come with me, Aoko's worried sick and ended up tripping and falling down the stairs. I don't have time to take you back home just yet, so you're going to have to come with me somewhere." He grabbed her arm. "Hattori-kun has a solid lead, or so we think, at finding Conan-kun, this guy we're going to see, he might know something."

Kagome sighed in resignation, "Haaaai….."

"Hey it's the trouble maker," said Hattori blatantly.

"Don't call her that, she was just looking for Conan-kun, ne Yumi-chan?"

"Mm!" Kagome agreed quickly.

"I was talking about you," said Hattori, his eyes flat. Kaito blinked.

"A-ah…"

-

"Oi!" Bang bang bang! "Oiiii!" More pounding on the door. The door was yanked open a raven haired man stood in the door way, he wasn't wearing a shirt and he didn't look like he'd been sleeping.

"Do you know what time it is?"

"But… you don't look like you were… wait… were we interrupting an evening with your girlfriend?"

"Not a girl." Kaito blinked, thrown off guard.

"W-well…"

Kagome turned red up to her ears and ducked behind Hattori. Hattori faultered. "U-Umm. CONAN!" He seemed to have woken himself up. "You!" He gestured at him. "Where's the little boy!?"

The man blinked. Kaito paled as he realized what Hattori was thinking.

"…what?" The man asked.

"You talked to a man with shaggy light brown hair yesterday, we need to know what was said, everything you know about that man, everything," said Hattori, bludgeoning through the awkwardness.

"Kenji-kun? He's an old friend of mine, he came by yesterday about something, needed me to loan him money."

"What about the boy you had to 'be sure to give the right drink to?'" continued Hattori.

"The boy?"

"Look, where is your old pal Kenji now?" he demanded.

"Probably at his house, it's kinda late." Kaito shook off the shock, he had to ask.

"Kenji-san… he's not… is he?"

The man blinked.

"Not what?"

"You know… um… not…. straight?"

"No, he's not."

Hattori glared. "Moving. On. Where is his house?"

"I don't know, he moved and hasn't given me his address yet."

"Why did he need the money?"

"Make the final rent payment on his old apartment." Kaito wanted to know if the apartment Kenji used to live in, was this one, but didn't dare ask.

"…Is Conan-kun safe?"

"What?"

"Kenji-san has him, that's obvious, but if you two are both… not… straight… is he safe?"

The man blinked. Not really sure what to think about that question.

"Probably."

"Probably?!!" Hattori objected. "He's a seven year old boy and you say-" he mimicked his voice "-Probably?" Hattori took a deep breath. "I'm not sure if you're aware of this but he's threatening to cut up a little kid into pieces and if you helped in any way you are an accomplice to the murder of an innocent! They have tapes up at the Ramen hut so we'll see him leave with Conan and we have reasonable doubt to think you helped in this! You do not. Have. A choice!"

The man took a step back. Kaito watched him. The answer 'probably' was less then reassuring.

"I told you, I don't know where Kenji-san lives."

"But you must have his number?" Kaito offered. The man looked uncomfortable.

"Yeah… of course."

"Then we can get the address from the phone company, now can't we?" Kaito was a little too cheerful. The man took another step backwards.

"I… I'll go look for the number." He headed in. Kaito raised an eyebrow.

"Isn't it programmed in your phone? I know all my close friends are in mine…speaking of close friends…" He rejected a call from Aoko, he'd pay for it later, but this was far more important. The man shook his head.

"I lost my phone earlier, I have all the numbers written in a book though, so if you just hold on."

"Well hurry up then," muttered Hattori, appearing deep in thought. Kagome looked up at him and let out a sigh of relief. The last person she had met like that had wanted to cut off Inuyasha's ears because 'they were so cute.' It wouldn't have bothered her so much if it weren't for that thought that just blew up in her brain and made her hide behind….What's his face. Inuyasha.

The man sighed and headed into the living room to find the book of numbers.

"You know this was a joint effort, why else would he give the workers all a break at the same time." Kaito told Hattori. "And also… that 'probably' doesn't sit well with me."

"Relax, if Kenji-kun was going to do that to him, he would have already done it."

"Oh that's good, then we can't save him, ahou!"

"Besides, didn't you say you didn't-wait. You know he hasn't done anything, don't you?"

"I don't think Kenji would." The man needed to think up something to put them into panic mode. "Although, he did have some form of record with the police." Kaito paled. Poker face failed.

"Wh-what?"

"What's his last name!" Heiji demanded.

"I…Noda." The man realized he had to tell.

Heiji dialed Hakuba.

Hakuba picked up his phone and cursed as Jake was now awake, and crying. Loudly.

"Yes?"

"I need you to look up something about Conan's possible kidnapper. His name is Noda Kenji" said Hattori quickly.

Hakuba made sure Ran was taking care of Jake and headed over to his computer, logging onto police access files and typing in the name.

"What did you want to know?"

"If he has a criminal record and where he lives."

"Well, if he doesn't have a record, his address wouldn't be recorded." Hakuba stated. "It's loading."

Hattori scowled, waiting.

"Oh, it's finished…" Hakuba stated, scrolling through the files. "What kind of criminal record, he's got two, tickets and…" Hakuba paled as he realized this was a suspect for Conan's kidnapper. "Sex offender…" He shook his head and quickly gave them the address.

Hattori pulled out a pad of paper and a pencil and wrote down the address. "Ookini." Click. He turned to the others. "We have to go. Now." He turned and glared at the man. "You better not leave your house," said Hattori shortly and promptly called a taxi.

Kaito wasn't feeling all that well, one of his fans kidnapped Conan and he was a registered sex offender.

-

Conan was slowly working through the information he had from his kidnapper, something wasn't right. He had been drugged, which meant someone had slipped him something, and it wasn't Kenji, this was a joint effort.

"Kid nearly didn't show." Kenji stated, coming up the ladder. Conan glared.

"I care because?"

"You're life depends on him, luckily I could get an ad in the paper, but if he hasn't responded by tomorrow, you're dead."

"I knew it." Conan smirked. "So where is your accomplice?"

"Off with his boyfriend." There was just the slightest tone of jealousy in the man's voice.

"You're not… are you?" Conan asked. Kenji just smirked.

"You'll find out soon enough." He left back down the ladder. Shinichi sat in shock, realizing how bad being kidnapped was. Before it had just been annoying, now his life depended on Kid, and he could be scarred for life during his stay. The man seemed completely different though, in the last times he'd talked to the man, he had seemed so nice. He shook his head to clear it as he heard the sound of pounding on a door just before the attic was closed up and no more sound could get through.

The teenaged detective looked slightly deranged as he beat the door within an inch of it's…wood. "Oi! Open up!"

Kaito stood to the side, watching wearily.

The door was yanked open and Kenji blinked staring at the people at his doorstep.

"Yeah? It's kind of late, what do you want?"

"To talk. Now." The deranged look hadn't quite left his face.

"Talk?" Kenji asked, a little apprehensive.

"Yes, is anyone else here?" asked Hattori, barging in. The man blinked and shook his head, shutting the door as Kaito stepped in, pulling Yumi with him, and keeping her close by.

"No, why do you ask?"

"Do you have any cats even?" Hattori laughed but it sounded incredibly fake. Kenji shook his head.

"No." Kaito looked around, Conan would make some form of noise, wouldn't he?

"Oh good, just wanted to know, for background information. We're looking for a boy who was last seen with you, right?" he asked Yumi for confirmation. She nodded quickly and hid behind Kaito.

"Oh yes, Conan-kun, I talked to him at the Ramen hut and we parted ways a little while later, he wasn't interested in what I had to say."

"Not interested in something Kid related? Or sorta kid related?" Kaito raised an eyebrow. "That doesn't sound Like Conan, kid heist's are the only cases he's allowed to go with Hakuba to."

Kagome watched him from behind Kaito. "Ne Ne, Ojiisan where's your bathroom???" She piped up. Hattori blinked.

"Oh no, you're not, don't even think about it." Kaito, grabbed her hand.

"It's no trouble, the bathroom is just over there." Kenji pointed to it.

"That's okay, she can wait. And if not, there's gas station at the end of the street, I'll take her there."

Yumi glared sourly, "Mooooou." She looked down at the carpet continuing to think.

"Mind if we take a look around your house, just to be safe?" asked Hattori. Kenji blinked and then nodded.

"If you think you'll find something." The attic was pretty well hidden, and Conan was tied down well enough, he couldn't make enough noise to get noticed.

"Alright. Do you have an attic or something? It's the most suspicious place," said Hattori casually.

Kenji blinked.

"A cellar, in the garage."

Hattori walked over and checked the basement and was disappointed to find it empty. Kaito was scanning the room for something out of place, the piece of string taped to the ceiling looked pretty odd to him.

"Do you collect bits of string?"

"What? What kind of question is-" Kenji's eyes fell on the place Kaito's were. "Oh.."

"Ha!" Hattori ran up to it, jumping up and pulling it down. "An attic, hm?" he climbed up. "Conan!" He saw him tied up on the floor. "You better not have hurt him amayo…"

Yumi ran up.

Kenji sighed and sat down, Kaito glared at him.

"Hattori?" Conan blinked and then noticed Kagome was there too. "Kagome-san?"

"Ah. Ahou." Hattori pulled out his cellphone and dialed the police.

"Daijobu ka?" asked Kagome.

"Daijobu… hungry, but I'm okay." Conan assured.

"You didn't feed him!?" Kaito exploded. "What the hell is wrong with you?!"

"He never said he was hungry." Kenji defended himself.

"Baka!" Kagome wished she had her faithful yellow backpack with her. She ran down the ladder. "Do you have food in your kitchen?"

"Don't ask the crazy guy anything!" objected Hattori.

"Baka, I'm just asking if he has food, I can always just look," said Kagome, rolling her eyes. Hattori blinked as he realized Kudo had called her Kagome earlier. Her name was Yumi.

"You have some explaining to do," Hattori muttered to him. Conan's eyes were flat.

"Maybe, after I get a nice meal and you untie me. Preferably in reverse order."

"Oi! You can't go off with out an adult… a sane one." Kaito grabbed her arm.

"You're not an adult," said Kagome, trying to shrug him off.

"I'm close enough."

Kagome looked at him blankly before dropping to the ground limply. Kaito sighed, keeping his hold on her and pulling her closer so she couldn't wiggle away.

"No." He said flatly.

"Haiiiiii…." She tried to wiggle anyway.

Hattori untied the ropes. "Better, ahou? But no food yet so you have to explain."

Conan sighed, enjoying the feeling of being free.

"Can I eat while I explain?"

"We have to wait for the crazy to be shipped away," said Hattori. Shinichi glared, his temper snapping.

"I haven't eaten anything in over twenty-four hours, someone had better get me some damn food!"

"See?" said Kagome from her place face down on the carpet. Kaito sighed and pulled out his chocolate bar, tossing it up the attic.

"Eat that!" Conan looked at it and sighed, he supposed now wasn't the time to be picky, he'd just brush his teeth twice to make sure he got them all clean. He grimaced, he hadn't taken a shower in a day, nor had he brushed his teeth.

Hattori seemed to have noticed it to. "You smell good Conan-kun," he smirked.

"Cram it." Conan unwrapped the chocolate bar and took a bite.

"Okay, I'll wait for you to finish then you can tell me about your little friend Yumi-chan then, huh?" suggested Hattori. Conan finished the chocolate bar and sighed, still really hungry.

"I'll tell you later, you know, when there aren't people around to overhear."

"Okay then, if you don't want to get embarrassed," he said, winking at Yumi, who wasn't looking.

"What?" Conan blinked. "I meant Kuroba and Noda."

"Oh, so you don't want them to know about the two of you, I get it," Hattori smirked.

"Hattori… you're lucky I'm too weak from hunger to kick you."

"Yup."

Conan sighed and let it go. He was relieved at the sound of sirens.

-

In the next few hours Conan was taken back home where he was fed and then scolded about walking off with a stranger and then hugged and kissed by Ran and then sent to bed. He still had not told Hattori about Kagome but he could do that later, because Hattori was staying with them, Ran had insisted, much to Hakuba's displeasure.

"So…Conan-kun….and Yumi-chanYumi…Edogawa….." muttered Hattori. "Yep. Cute. Hair colors match. Matching, pretty cute, should be in a magazine peanut butter and jelly, butter and toast, Conan and death-"

"Alright. That's enough." Conan interrupted. "I'll have you know, death doesn't follow me everywhere I go, it hasn't for awhile, ever since the transplant, and secondly no." He yawned. "Besides, her name's not Yumi-chan, it's Higurashi Kagome-san."

Hattori's eyes widened. "She shrunk?"

"Yeah." Conan confirmed. "Kid brought her to Agasa's and Haibara, he, and I decided she would go stay with Nakamori. So her alias is Nakamora Yumi-chan." He explained.

"But didn't you tell me all the Apotoxin was gone?"

"That's what we thought, and it's highly possible this was a different version of the poison."

"Mm. But why?" he asked. "Why did they use it on her?"

"I'm still working that part out." Shinichi admitted.

"Hm. Weird…So she's fifteen?" he asked.

"Yeah." He confirmed. "Now, can I sleep? I haven't gotten any since I was drugged."

"Yeah."

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