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Shinichi woke up the next morning at exactly three in the morning. And if that wasn't a sign, Pandora didn't know what was. Sneezing racked the detectives small frame, her shoulders shaking from shivering. Bringing her blanket in closer, she scowled. She had been taking care of her body because of her weak immune system and she still ended up with a cold.

'I need to get better. There's so much to do.' She told Pandora, the gem being the only person- or, you get it- she could rant to at the moment. 'Heist note, heist, Org threat, Vermouth, Discovery. There's no time for colds!' Pandora the helpful little thing she is, sighed helplessly.

'And here I thought fools couldn't catch colds.' Was the only thing heard out of the jewels imaginary mouth, followed up by some horribly concealed laughter. 'Shinichi, I can take your cold away, but I need to charge up a bit. I'm really rusty at healing.' Another sneeze made her laugh. 'It's also entertaining to see you like this.'

'I'm-' Another sneeze. 'Not your personal TV!'

'So ungrateful.' Chided the gem playfully. 'And here I offered to heal you.' Shinichi let out an exasperated breath and rolled her eyes before another sneeze and shiver reminded her of her miserable situation.

"Going back to bed.." She mumbled unhappily, her actually speech slurred with sleep unlike her thoughts, albeit hazy. Pandora only agreed by going to sleep herself since she knew it wasn't a good idea to mess with the young detective at the moment.

The next time the detective woke up, a concerned expression was hovering over her and a cold hand was placed on her head. It was somewhere around nine in the morning she decided by the shadows and the placement of the sun. She turned back to the face, her vision clear but her head swimming.

"Subaru-san?" She asked, quietly as she shifted to a sitting position. He nodded, relief seeking into his usually stoic face. "What's wrong?"

"It would appear you have a fever Kudo-kun." He stated in slight concern. The detective nodded dumbly, already suspecting as much with the hazy feeling in her head. But that was fine she supposed as she shrugged and stood up. She'd dealt with worse. "You shouldn't be getting up." He warned.

"M' fine." She mumbled. "Thank you for your concern though." She said distractedly as she looked at her desk sadly, seeing the flower hairclip but no heist note. Something must have held Kaito up, her mind decided before she walked out, Subaru resigning himself to just following after.

"Kudo-kun, the Kuruba boy is in the kitchen." The elder man stated as the stubborn detective stumbled down the steps. Subaru noted in amusement at how the girl brightened at the revelation. "He came by a couple minutes ago so I went to wake you but It appears you somehow caught something overnight." To prove a point, a sneeze racked the poor girls frame as she left behind the last of the stairs.

'Yay~ Kaito's here.' Pandora cheered happily. Shinichi mentally sighed before walking into the kitchen probably looking ridiculous with her over large white T-shirt, striped blue sleeping pants and disheveled hair.

Kaito, of course thought otherwise. She was simply so adorable! Even Pandora would admit, however she never brought up the topic because it was useless to even talk about looks to the completely oblivious detective. It was a bit hazy to the gem, but she remembered how both Shinichi's parents looked and acted. And the detective herself got the best out of both of them.

"Morning Shin-chan~" Kaito greeted happily despite the warning not to call her that. The detective nodded with a slight smile before heading over to the coffee maker. Kaito eyed her weirdly for a second before turning to re-greet a rather concerned Subaru. "Subaru-san." He said, grinning as he gave a formal bow. The man nodded his acknowledgment before returning to observing the detective who happened to be sipping coffee contently.

"Subaru-san?" Shinichi mumbled over her cup. "Is there something on my face?"

"So stubborn. Kuroba-kun, I'm leaving her in your care for the day, don't let her do anything rash." And like that, the pale-haired man left the house, claiming he had things to do. The magician shrugged before placing all of his attention towards the sniffling detective.

"Are you okay?" He asked, a frown appearing once he noticed Shinichi was more pale than usual and shivering as if cold. Walking over to her, he brought his hand to her forehead before she could protest, only to retreat back from the sudden heat. "Shinichi," He gasped. "You're burning up! You should be lying down."

Shinichi rolled her eyes as she sent a mental plea to her snickering jewel friend.

'Are you done watching me suffer?' She asked sarcastically and Pandora outright laughed. 'We both have many things to do.'

'Fine, fine. But you can't just magically heal. That'd be suspicious, listen to Kai-chan and lay down~' Pandora hummed happily.

'K-kai-chan?' She blinked out.

'Pet names Shin-chan. Pet names.' Pandora snickered happily, a mental cheshire-grin appearing in the sick detective's mind. It reminded her of the KID grin and she had to catch herself from smiling fondly. It was weird after all. The grin was no longer directed to her after a chase, but instead, she dare say, partner in 'crime'. In a totally legal way of course.

'Whatever.' The detective finally scoffed before turning her attention back to an overly concerned jewel thief.

"Mou! Stop spacing out. You need to go rest Shinichi." He scolded. Shinichi only blinked, slightly amused by the whole situation in general. Normally criminals were trying to kill her, not the other way around. "If you don't lay down, I'll rip up the notice I brought for you!" He finally threatened and the female glared.

"I'll lay down." She conceded with a curt nod. "But only," Kaito let out a long suffering sigh. Shinichi cleared her throat. "Only if you give me the note now." The thief, however unhappily, gave her the note she bargained for.

Much like the prize, there are two children present. Twins of Grins and Masks, identities covert.

Right can only be explained as Sapphire Serene and Left as Indigo shaded mischief. But none shall see under glinting glass and shaded hats.

Straight down the middle is where the hands stop. Tick tock, tick tock. Even a broken clock is right twice a day. But we are creature of night, oh broken clock. One time is right, the others are wrong. Mischief only wants to play and Serene only wants to help.

Dear Keibu, twins are worse than one. Double trouble for when black crows flock. Only the glass dome will host us on the upcoming month when the clock is wrong but also right. First place marks the winners.

~Kaito KID

"Are you trying to give it away easily?" Shinichi asked, raising an unimpressed brow while Kaito led her up the stairs. He deflated slightly at the comment and a pout graced his face. "It's also a bit longer than usual."

"I had to dumb it down for Keibu-san~" He explained, pushing Shinichi down in bed before stalking off. It was no surprise when he came back, med kit in hand and cold rag.

"I'm not even going to ask why you knew where to look." She muttered, snuggling into the covers to hide her blush at Pandora's horrible fangirling over 'Doctor' Kaito.

"Just stay still." He muttered as he put the cold rag on her forehead. "Now, say aah."

'Yeah, Shin-chan. Say aah.' Pandora teased and giggles echoed through her head. The detective scoffed and glared at Kaito. However, even though her glares rivaled Gin's, it did not deter Kaito from accomplishing his task.

"Stop being stubborn." The young magician glowered halfheartedly. "Open your mouth- Thank you Shinichi~" He grinned when she finally relented. He took a seat at the edge of the bed, waiting for the little beep to come from the thermometer. When it did, he did not like what he saw.

"What?" Shinichi asked grumpily. She so wanted to just get out of bed already.

"102 fahrenheit." (38.9c) He muttered unhappily. "Shin-chan, have you been taking care of your body?" He scolded seriously and Shinichi was becoming a bit overwhelmed at all the questions.

"Kaito," She said sternly and the thief stopped his rant mid-way. "If you want me to get better, let me rest. I'll be down in an hour to go help Nakamori solve the note. I also have other matters to attend to that you're most likely to tag along to no matter what I do." He grinned before leaving.

'I will be better in an hour won't I?' She asked Pandora with a suspicious brow raised. It was likely, that because the gem was fawning over Kaito taking care of her, she'd not want to heal her. Thankfully, Pandora resigned, muttering an incoherent fine.

'I just had an idea Shin-chan.' Pandora hummed as she started to spread her presence within the girl, trying to search for the source of the sickness and eliminate it. Shinichi never felt warmer. Not a bad kind of warm though. It was oddly.. comforting.

'And what would that be?' She asked her small red friend, her voice curious and easy.

'What if.. what if Kaito really could help with the B.O? I was thinking about Vermouth's warning and.. We need help. You have me yes. But you need someone you can physically lean on and can sympathize with. I just.. I-' She cut herself off, not being able to continue her train of thought at the dreading feeling Shinichi had begun to ammit.

'Pandora, we both know that'd be putting him a lot of danger. I couldn't live with myself if someone got hurt because of me.' She reminded her magical friend softly, hesitant though forced calmness. Pandora wasn't fooled though, she knew Shinichi wanted too. But the detective was also right, it could harm him.

Harming Kaito was something neither of them wanted to do. Ever. And so, for the hour she promised, Pandora eliminated the cold from her system over all, recoiling when she found traces of the APTX4869. Throughout that whole hour, Shinichi laid there, thinking silently of reasons why she couldn't selfishly let Kaito help her with her problems.

"Shinichi~" The magician exclaimed gleefully when the detective walked downstairs, clad in semi-professional clothing for their trip to the inspector's office. Kaito decided that dark jeans, a button up white shirt, and a dark blue jacket looked amazing on her. Even with the out of place black gloves she's taken to wearing.

"Let's go." She said simply, already heading for the door making Kaito frown.

"Are you okay?" He asked her gently. "Do you still have a fever?"

"No, I'm fine. Just need to check the mail." She replied and Pandora sighed. Great, her bringing up her thoughts resulted in the overprotective detective avoiding the boy completely.

Pandora was drawn out of her thoughts when she felt a strong sense of terror takes over her guardian. 'No.' There sitting in the mail box were two bullets, pure silver with a note, carelessly laid under. 'Ara ara, it would appear there are two silver bullets needing to hide. But only if the other gets caught. You won't let him get caught, will you Shin-chan~? -V'

Shinichi kneaded her hand gently over her heart as Pandora reminded her to breath. Stumbling backwards when both bullets fell out of the box, she was surprised to feel warm hands helping her stay steady.

"Who," kaito practically growled, his eyes on the note. "Is V?" Shinichi's eyes widened and she clenched the hand holding the note, quickly crumbling up the paper so he could no longer read it. Although she was already too late when Kaito snached it up quicker than she could say Pandora's name.

"Stop Kaito, this isn't your problem to deal with. It's mine." She said as she weakly tried to struggle out of his grasp to no avail. "Let me go.." Her voice cracked and she had to hold in the tears. She didn't want him getting involved, but he was anyways. And it broke her to know what they would do if they found out.

'Shinichi..'

"Shinichi." Kaito's eyes widened when he felt her go limp in his tight grip, only for her to face him with the most heart broken face he'd ever seen. "Shinichi," He repeated again, this time with even less confidence as he hugged her awkwardly. "It's going to be okay.."

When the detective hesitantly wrapped her own arms around Kaito mid back, he smiled and ran a hand through her hair. Whatever was frightening her so should better run, or Kaito would show them just how creative he could get with glitter and a spoon alone.

"I'm sorry, come on." She mumbled out, already out of his arms and walking down the road before Kaito even realized what was happening. Before she could turn the corner though, he placed himself by her side, smiling contently when she inched closer to him without even realising it.

"Two detective brats? Two?" Nakamori had shouted when Shinichi and Kaito walked in to see the inspector, his daughter, and Hakuba Saguru. Kaito grinned, and Shinichi bowed.

"Nakamori-san~" Kaito said happily and Shinichi eyed him curiously when the inspector actually greeted him happily. And then his daughter, who looked a lot like Ran, practically killed him with a mop when he showered her with confetti. Over the period of time as papers drifted and birds flew in the somewhat-epic-order-line-strange showdown, Nakamori was glaring at the two detectives and both detective were eyeing Kaito with two different levels of suspicion.

'I honestly don't know why we're surprised..' Pandora finally said once she got over how the Phantom thief, personally knew the entire squad that was after him and was best friends with the strongest anti-KIDhater in the world. 'It's not like it's impossible.'

'No,' Shinichi agreed. 'Just highly unlikely.'

"And who might you be?" Hakuba asked curiously, a little hint of recognition glinting in his eyes. Shinichi turned to face him and smiled politely as she held out her hand. She's been to both America and England, and knew the customs well.

"Kudo Shinichi, and you must be Hakuba Saguru." She greeted and the half-brit detective shook her hand.

"It's nice to meet you Kudo-san, and may I ask how you know my name?"

"You pop up in the papers quite a bit." She offered as an explanation since she was aware that Hakuba didn't exactly know she was Conan before and they had met because she was said person.

"You used to also," He muttered, finally understanding why he thought she was familiar. He gasped in awe when he took another look at her. She was a bit younger than her but her detective record was better than any others he's met. More impressive than his actually. It made him feel slightly inferior. More so than he cared to admit.

"Shin-chan! Look out." Kaito shouted, breaking him out of his thoughts long enough to see the suspected KID running straight at her unable to stop. Before he could step in and intervene, Shinichi on reflex, flipped Kaito over shoulder and he went limp with one touch. "Ow.."

"Oh! I'm so sorry Kaito, hold still." The detective apologised as the onlookers looked at the scene in awe and fright. They would not be crossing her anytime soon. Aoko smiled when Kaito started whimpering and both Hakuba and Nakamori-keibu winced every time Shinichi started pressing pressure points. "There, you'll be a bit sore but you can move again."

"I forgot you could do that." He muttered unhappily from his position on the floor as he glared at the now snickering Hakuba and Aoko. "Mou! Ahoko, this is your fault!" It only resulted in louder laughter before Aoko's dad started to clear his throat.

"Can we get back to why you came here?" He asked, glaring pointedly at both Hakuba and Shinichi. Hakuba cleared his throat and Shinichi took it as a sign he was going to speak first.

"Since I've finally gotten back from England, I had come here to check on the Heist files from all the heists I've missed. It would appear Kudo-san had taken my place throughout those heist's though." He raised an eyebrow in her direction and a suspicious look was soon thrown at Kaito who just grinned. "It would also appear you got another heist note, I would like to help solve it." That's where Shinichi interrupted.

"I've already solved it Hakuba-san, Nakamori-san." She stated calmly and Nakamori's eye twitched. Aoko clapped happily, and Hakuba looked between the inspector and Shinichi with a grin. It would appear she really has been helping them out since his trip to England. And the inspector obviously didn't like getting shown up.

"Fine," The older man grumbled. "Let's go to my office."

'Someone's not happy.' Pandora giggled and Shinichi scoffed slightly as she looked at Nakamori's face. After helping Kaito up, they all crammed into the inspector's office.

"Before you explain, how did you get the note?" Nakamori asked, his hands twitching as he refrained himself from pulling on her cheeks to make sure it wasn't KID trying to mock him. Shinichi saw this, sighed, and pulled on her cheeks to show him it was her. Everyone else followed. Kaito did so we a ironic smile.

"It was in my mail box." She lied with ease. It was easier because there was in fact a note found in her mail box. She felt Kaito tense beside her.

'Not that kind of note.' Pandora said darkly in her head, her arms mentally crossed and a scowl on her face.

"Do you have it with you?" Hakuba asked and she fished it out of her pocket, her hands brushing over the flower clip that she put in there purely on instinct.

"I do, and I can safely tell you the Heist will be located at Beika museum in the recently added dome building addiction. The target is the twin gems known as Gemini's crater. Both gems, are the same in everything but color and for some reason when found, they were attached. The date is on June 1st in three days time at 6:30pm. Rather early for his heists but not unheard of."

"What about that.. warning thing at the bottom?" The inspector asked and Hakuba looked over the note.

"I believe he is going to pull of his stunt with an accomplice disguised as himself. Basically, you'll be dealing with two thieves in one night." She smiled. Aoko blinked and Hakuba groaned as he imagined two KIDs running around dying his hair and many other scaring things.

"Two..?" The inspector cringed.

"Yes," Shinichi nodded and Pandora laughed. "Two." And then she left and Kaito disappeared right after, leaving some unexplained answers for Hakuba as he gazed over the note and a very frustrated inspector.

"Wait, does that mean Aoko will have to make two Anti-KID posters?" She asked no one in particular.

We are literally so near the action now! I hope you're excited! Drop me a review please, it helps me write fast. Anyways, I'm sorry this chapter is rather crappy, I'm just.. yeah you know what, I'm not going to give you my list of excuses. I really hope you enjoyed this chapter, I know I didn't. But the action is coming soon, so I hope to feel it'll be easier writing it since I can't wait to get to it myself.

-Neonkoi