I'll sometimes call a chapter after an opening or ending from Detective Conan if it fits that chapter. I'll also say which opening/ending it's from in case you don't know since I'll be using the English name of it.
Chapter 3:- Impulse - "Shoudou"
Chapter 7:- Ties - "Kizuna"
I also decided to change the time-skips in this from just simply "VM" to something a little detailed. In some of my other fics I sometimes have the time, date and place as a time-skip (like in my Persona fics since dates are important in them) while here I thought times and places would be important for Detective Conan. I hope you don't mind this little change.
Also Professor Agasa is mentioned and appears in this chapter, but doesn't speak, so I'm not putting him down as "appeared" yet until he's actually had a speaking appearance which means he's actually with the characters and has a speaking role like all the others before him.
P.S. A scene here may be reminiscence of Detective Conan episode 188-193 'A Wounded Great Detective'. I mean, I didn't expect to do that, but then my fingers just wrote it and I liked how it came out. I may do more stuff like that in future; who knows.
Hope you enjoy!
Chapter 7
Ties
Previously
"Kuroba, what Hakuba said about 'crows coming after the dove'?"
"It's got to be about the snipers after me ... they wear black after all..."
'There's no way that he's also got the Organisation after him too. It'd be too much of a coincidence...'
"What does it say?"
"It says: 'The dove will fall, the crows will rise and pigeons will scatter...'. It basically means that innocent civilians will be sent running, the snipers will rise to power and I ... will die, but I don't know when..."
~~~ 8:25pm - Beika District - Haido City Museum ~~~
It had been two days since Kaito received the paper and warning from Hakuba from their other classmate; Koizumi Akako. The magician always found her predictions odd, but also to be very wary of them since most of the time they came true.
He had to be cautious at his next heist.
Who knew what could possibly happen.
That's why both Hattori and Edogawa were coming along to help the police, but if something went wrong on Kaito's end they were currently on standby for him. The thief had an enemy just like Conan did and if it turned out both of those enemies were linked ... they needed to cooperate and make sure the magician didn't get himself killed before they could get answers out of him.
It was currently the night of the heist; Ran, Heiji and Conan were in the room with the police as they waited for the specific time for the famed thief to show up. The girl gripped the fabric of her skirt in anticipation; her head hung low and staring at the floor.
She couldn't help but worry for her new classmate.
She may not know him that well, but she still saw him as a friend like she did Sonoko, Heiji, Kazuha and especially Shinichi.
She didn't want the boy to get in over his head like a certain detective she knew did so often...
'I hope ... Kaito-kun, will be alright...'
As the time came and went for when KID was meant to appear; it caused the worry in Ran to circulate more. She noticed out of the corner of her eye how Hattori and Conan seemed slightly agitated and kept glancing around the room; trying to find where the thief was hiding.
As it neared midnight; the time for the heist having long gone, the three finally decided to leave. They walked out of the museum's doors, hearing the angry shouting of Nakamori and how KID hadn't shown up to his own heist. They didn't worry about the Inspector's rant, right now ... they wanted to know where exactly said thief was.
Hattori took out a piece of paper, eyeing it closely. "The heis' was sche'uled for 8:30pm tonigh' at t'is 'ere museum tah steal the "Lucky Moon'rop", bu' 'e never showed..."
Conan looked down at his watch, a frown creasing his childish features. "It's now 11:45pm. Two hours and fifteen minutes after the scheduled time of arrival." He bit his bottom lip, looking at the other detective; who had a similar expression on his face. "You don't think...?"
Heiji shook his head, letting a frustrated sigh escape his lips before putting the paper away in his pants pocket. "W'atever the case we gotta fin' 'im..."
Conan nodded in agreement as they ran off to try and find the thief; completely forgetting about Ran standing behind them, watching them with an irritated look before sighing to herself and going off on her own little search.
The teenage Osakan and teen-turned-child ran down the street near the museum; both of them taking a path on each side of the street to try and find the thief. The magician was good at keeping himself at low-profile, but anything can go wrong when you're in the wrong place at the wrong time.
And considering the thief never showed up to the heist ... it worried them...
Conan bit his bottom lip, coming to an alleyway just down the street from the heist site and looking down it; trying his best to find any hints of white and hopefully ... no blood.
He continued to walk down the alleyway; examining every little detail around him.
His foot came into contact with a liquid substance, making him freeze.
His eyes moved towards the wall near a dumpster; right next to it was the magician. He wasn't in costume yet. His right arm was bent the wrong way and Conan noticed his left arm was holding his stomach. The boy's eyes skimmed to where the hand was and noticed that's where the blood was coming from.
'Shit!' He hurried over to the magician-thief, noticing how glazed over the teen's eyes were. 'He's still awake! That's good. If only we'd left sooner...'
"Oi, Kudou! Wha's takin' so long?!" the agitated voice of a certain Kansai-ben teenager rumbled as he entered the alleyway as well; seeing the scene that Conan had found and stood frozen to the spot.
"Hurry and call an ambulance for him, Hattori!" Conan exclaimed, putting his small hands on the wound that Kaito had tried to put pressure on. "We need to get him treated!" The Osakan shook off his shock and nodded, taking out his phone and calling an ambulance as Conan tried his best to keep pressure on Kaito's wound along with keeping the magician awake. "Kuroba, stay with me! Alright!?"
Kaito could hear Conan's voice, but it sounded so distant at the same time.
His glazed over eyes managed to lay upon the detective for a moment.
"T...Tantei-kun...?"
~~~ 12:20pm - Beika District - Beika General Hospital ~~~
The ambulance had arrived twenty minutes later; when the paramedics saw the condition of the magician they hurried him into the vehicle and to the hospital with the two detectives in the back since they knew who the teen was. It had taken another twenty minutes for them to reach the hospital and cart the thief away to have surgery as a nurse asked the two boys to go to the waiting room.
That's where they currently were.
Hoping that they hadn't gotten to Kaito too late...
Heiji took out his phone and text Ran to tell her that they had found Kaito, but he was injured and had to be taken to the hospital. She had responded almost instantly, saying she'd get her Father to drive her there.
After Hattori had text Ran; the shrunken detective sitting beside him had noticed that his phone had started to vibrate, taking it out he answered it. "What is it, Haibara?" he answered with a slightly strained and tired voice.
"I saw the news." The girl replied almost instantly, causing the boy to cringe and Hattori to glance at him. "KID didn't show up. What happened, Kudou-kun?"
A sigh left Conan's mouth as he shook his head as her question. "We waited for him to turn up, but he never did. We went out to look for him a little while ago..." His eyes narrowed at the floor. "I found him in an alley; his right arm had been dislocated from the socket and he was bleeding immensely from the stomach."
"Someone attacked him?" She asked, sounding surprised.
"It's possible. It could be the snipers after him." He looked back up at Heiji; who just gave him a shrug. "We'll have to ask him."
"If he comes out of this..."
"Oi, don't talk like that. He may be an idiot, but he has a huge amount of luck on his side."
A soft sigh came from the other end, possibly meaning the girl was slightly irritated by that statement. "I'll ask Hakase to pick you and Hattori-kun up tomorrow. You two probably want to stay the night, don't you?" Conan gave a small noise not realising it made the girl on the other end understand. "I'll come by too to see how he's doing as well."
"Alright, thanks, Haibara..." He hung up and shoved the phone back into his pocket just as a nurse came out.
"Are you with the boy called..." She looked down at her papers. "...Kuroba Kaito; who came in for surgery a little while ago?" The two nodded, standing up. "We're sorry to say, but we can't finish up. He's lost a lot of blood and we don't have enough of the required blood he needs."
"What's his blood type!?" Both Heiji and Conan exclaimed, desperate to save the thief.
The nurse looked taken aback by the question until she realised what they were asking. "If you have the same type as him then you can donate." The two smiled to each other; happy they could at least do something for the thief while waiting. "His blood type is ... B..."
Conan's eyes widened at hearing this. 'He's got the same blood type as Ran and I...' He took in a deep breath before swallowing. "I've got B type blood!"
The nurse looked down at Conan, seeing the determined look in his eyes yet she was hesitant to let a child donate blood to a teenager. He'd need at least a pint or more from how much he lost.
"I've got B type too!" The two turned around to see Ran standing behind them, looking just as determined as Conan had. "Kaito-kun is my friend and classmate, so please!"
The nurse looked between Conan and Ran before finally giving in to Ran's demand and letting her blood be donated to the thief. Kogoro watched his daughter be taken down the hall to have her blood donated to another boy ... again. He glanced down at Conan; who was staring down the hall along with Heiji.
"I hope her blood is enough..."
~~~ 10:00am - Beika District - Beika General Hospital ~~~
His eyes opened; trying to adjust to the brightness of the light in the room he was in. He turned his head, but closed his eyes, letting out a groan when a ache banged against the side of his head.
"The surgery went well thanks to the blood your friend donated. He should be able to leave by the afternoon, but his right arm was badly injured, so he'll need to have it in a sling for a few weeks," A mature, friendly voice spoke.
"We'll make sure t'e idio' does it, righ', Conan-kun?" A voice with a certain Osaka-ben he recognised spoke up.
"Yea, Kaito-niichan was lucky we found him!" another voice he recognised only this one sounded childish.
"Alright, I'll leave you with him then." The sound of a door closing was all Kaito heard before he finally decided to open his eyes again. He blinked them, allowing them to readjust to the lighting in the room before turning his gaze to where the voices had been.
He blinked when he saw Conan sitting by his bed with Heiji standing by the door, arms folded. However he wasn't expecting the little girl he had met the other day to be here as well as the Professor. 'Their names were ... Ai-chan and Agasa Hakase if I'm not mistaken...'
"So, you're awake..." Kaito turned his attention back to where Conan sat, noticing the frown plastered across his face. "...your lucky Ran had the same blood type as you..." A sigh left the boy's lips as he fiddled with the glasses in his hands. "Then again, so do I..."
The magician-thief blinked his eyes; surprised at this new piece of information.
He hadn't been expecting that, but then again ... the girl had saved his life.
'I should thank her later...' His eyes gazed around the room; eyeing the Professor, to Haibara then Hattori and finally Edogawa. A sigh left Kaito's lips, realizing why all of them were gathered here in his hospital room. "I'm guessing you want to know what happened last night?"
The shrunken teen narrowed his eyes; putting his glasses back on and nodding at the teenage magician. "If you please."
Kaito only gave him a slight shrug in response. "There's not much to tell." This caused the shrunken teens and also teenage detective to lift a brow at him. "I was on my way to the heist when someone came up behind me and hit me over the head. They then grabbed my arm and..." Kaito gestured to said arm. "...well, you saw it when you found me. They then kept muttering 'How are you alive?' while I asked them 'what do you mean?'."
Conan's expression turned grim, darkening as he listened to what the thief was saying.
He had a bad feeling about this.
He saw Ai's expression from the corner of his eye; who looked just as grim as he did.
"My student ID must've fallen from my pocket during the struggle, because they then realised their mistake before deciding to kill me anyway to..." Kaito looked away from the group in his room; a distant look in his eyes ... an expression Haibara knew too well. "...'get revenge on Kaitou KID's true identity'."
"Did you happen to see your attacker, Kuroba?" Conan asked, sounding anxious yet also determined to help the thief.
Kaito turned back to the boy, shaking his head. "No. However it was a voice I'm not familiar with." The thief looked down for a moment, thinking before recognition flashed across his face. "Wait ... I remember trying to turn my head to at least get a glimpse of someone and I remember ... long, white-blond hair that almost touched the floor."
The two not-children stared at the thief in horror at what he just said.
Kaito stared between the two; wondering what their problem was.
"Did I say something wrong?" he asked, tilting his head to the side, frowning slightly.
The two faux children shook their heads at the question; Haibara approaching the hospital bed as Kaito continued to eye the two. "No, you said enough." This caused the teen to blink before narrowing his eyes at the two. "We had suspected that you were involved in the Organizations affairs, but we didn't think it was like this."
Kaito lifted a brow at what the mini-scientist stated. "So basically you were getting me to spill information to see if who attacked me is connected to what happened to you?"
"Exactly." She replied, as-matter-of-factly. "We didn't have much to go on other than..." She narrowed her eyes at the teen, causing him to flinch back and grab at his injured and plaster-encased arm. "...what we heard you say while under a fever-induced sleep."
"What'd I say?" Kaito asked, having an idea of what it was.
"It was strange." It was Conan who seemed to speak up this time. "You said things like, 'I'm sorry, Oyaji' or 'I can't find it' or even 'they'll kill me before I do'." The boy narrowed his eyes at the magician; who just looked away, hair covering his eyes. "What does this mean, Kuroba?"
The teenager stayed silent.
His blue eyes staring at the sheets of his bed, hands grasping them tightly.
"What are you after that those men want as well?" Conan asked Kaito, causing the teen to turn his head away more to the side as if he were looking out the window. The shrunken detective growled in annoyance; the thief was being very secretive. He didn't like it. The magician may think he's doing the right thing, but whatever information he had it could be useful for him and Haibara. "KUROBA, WHAT COULD THEY WANT SO MUCH THEY'D KILL YOU FOR IT?!"
"Kudou-kun..." He aimed his angered gaze at Ai; who shook her head at him. "If he doesn't want to talk then lets let him be."
"It's not just me..." The two looked up; surprised at Kaito's voice, but even more so by how tired he sounded. "...I don't know if the people after me are the same as the ones your after." He turned his head slightly to meet Conan's gaze. "Don't try and get involved with these kinds of people, Tantei-kun. They're dangerous."
The shrunken detective narrowed his gaze at the thief; he was doing it again. He was avoiding the question. "Then why are you?"
A deep breath escaped the thief's lips; his eyes staring at the sheets of the bed he was sitting on however the two shrunken teenagers noticed the anger hidden within those blue orbs. "They ... took someone away from me." He lowered his head, gripping the sheets, tighter. "Someone I can never get back..." Kaito lifted his head to look at the mini-detective with a new determination in his eyes along with a new mask on. "So, don't do something you'll regret by running head-long into danger."
Conan stared at the teen before him, surprised, but also ashamed he had made the teen come out with those words. "You're an idiot." The magician blinked at what the mini-detective said with a retort on the edge of his tongue, but held off when Conan continued. "The reason we were asking you these questions wasn't just for information, but..." The boy stuck his hand out to the thief; who looked like a gaping fish at seeing the hand. "...I want us to team up. If the people I'm after and the ones after you are indeed connected then I say let's take them down ... together."
The teenage magician-thief kept his eyes on the detective's hand, still quite shocked at being asked this. He shook it off before letting a grin appear on his face and grasp the boy's hand, shaking it. "We're going to be the death of each other, but why not give it a try?"
