Okay, I felt really bad about not being able to update for a while so I started this mere hours after I posted chapter 6. I felt that it would be better to give you guys a bigger bite of the plot before I left so you guys could try and guess what is coming Katreal, no telling anyone XP

So, without further ado… chapter 7

Chapter 7

A buxom black haired young woman smirked down at Nagamori as she tossed a diamond in one of her hands. Her eyes twinkled in delight as the man fumed and yelled at her, telling her to "return the diamond immediately or face the consequences."

Like he hadn't heard that one before.

The woman waved her hand before she let a smoke bomb drop discretely from her unoccupied hand onto the floor, creating a barrier of smog that allowed her to get out of her outfit and well on his way to the roof. This heist really was easy since it was being held at a beauty pageant and only beautiful young women could enter. It didn't take much to make him into the most stunning woman anyone had ever scene and it was even easier getting passed Nagamori's goons. The tricky part was making sure that he won and was able to get a hold of the crown that held the diamond in it.

Well, he somehow managed to pull it off and now stood on the roof as he tossed the precious jewel up and down in his gloved hand.

Up.

Down.

Up.

Down.

Up.

Down.

The thief stopped and looked around the rooftop again for the pint sized detective that usually would show up by now, or even a bit earlier, and try, and fail, to capture him. However, for the past three heists the little detective hadn't shown up even when he was roughly in the same area as where he lived. He had checked the "Missing Persons" and found that he wasn't missing and like wise the Paper hadn't said anything about the return of one Kudo Shinichi.

'Maybe he's just gotten bored of me,' he thought as he started to toss the diamond in his hand again. 'It's not that hard to do now that I think of it. He always loses and since he knows that he always will loose he probably just gave up…'

"We've found him!"

Kaito looked over to where the voice came from and was disappointed to find a police officer standing there with a flashlight and a walkie-talkie. 'Well,' he thought as he turned and ran towards the edge of the building. 'I guess to make sure I'll have to do a heist closer to him so that he won't have any other choice but to turn up.' KID smiled to himself as he jumped off the building and fell towards the crowd of people below him. A flick of his wrist and a moment later he was soaring above them on his hang glider, the diamond safely tucked away in his jacket.

He looked down at the crowd which was nothing more than a big blob of colors and tried in vain to spot a tiny shape that he knew wasn't there. 'Why hasn't he shown…' the sound of whirling blades behind made Kaito remember that he was still in the middle of a heist and that he had to carry it out or his reputation would be ruined. 'And it might discourage him even more,' he thought as he turned his glider to the right and flew between two buildings that were pretty close together. He listened and heard the chopper take another route since it wouldn't be able to fit through the tiny opening and KID made his move.

Kaito quickly put away his glider and fell harmlessly to the ground and donned his normal clothes before he started to make his way down the street again. Police passed him several times in their attempt to find kid and he just smiled and put his hands in his pockets. Another successful night and one step closer to avenging his Father…

… And maybe even bringing himself some much needed peace and quiet.

He passed by a store and looked in the window and saw his reflection staring back at him. He flinched for a moment as the reflection shifted to that of Kudo Shinichi and then back to him before he turned away and started to walk back to the car where he had left it and Jii.

"Why can't I get you out of my mind," he thought as he shook his head. "Shinichi… you'd better come to my next heist or I will be coming to you."

-

"…A few days later the police received a letter from Kaito Kid proclaiming that he was going to be stealing a very important jewel in a weeks time. The case was immediately handed over to Nagamori who looked it over carefully and decided that if he really wanted to catch Kid then he would have to call in reinforcements. That is how Heiji, the detective of the West, was also brought onto the case…"

Kaito looked over the report that Jii had gotten for him and looked for any information that would tell him whether or not Conan would be showing up there because of Mori. He looked through the file three more times before he concluded that there were no mentions of Mori anywhere in the piece and that the Sleeping detective most likely would not be making an appearance on the night of the heist.

He put the file on his night stand before he began to think about what he was going to do the night of the heist. Not only did he have Nagamori that he was going to be dealing with, but Heiji and probably Conan too. "This isn't going to be an easy one," he concluded before he walked over to his dresser and pulled out a box from under it. It was going to take everything he had to make sure that he got out of the building with both the jewel and himself in tact, and he was going to do the best he could to make sure that happened.

He placed the box on his bed and then looked out his window and nodded his head. "Mom," he called as he walked out of his room and down the stairs. "I'm going to go out for a bit."

"Alright," his mother said as she came out of the kitchen and smiled at him. "Make sure your home by supper, alright?"

"Got it," he said as he put on his shoes and walked out of the door. Kaito smiled to himself as he skipped down the stairs and made his way toward the park so he could think and be by himself for a bit without the looming thought of his Father watching over him. While it was comforting to think that he was there were some times where the boy just needed some reasureance that he was really by himself.

He made his way down the street and passed by several children who were taking turns kicking a soccer ball at one another. He chuckled as he remembered how Conan used to kick high powered soccer balls at him during his heists… The Phantom Thief smacked himself on the forehead for thinking of Conan in the past tense like that. 'He's probably just been really busy with something else,' he thought as he crossed the street and entered the park, immediately finding a tree to sit under. 'I mean, he must be pretty busy with wanting to get back to his normal size and all… and he probably has a coupld of girls who are after him… or maybe he just couldn't figure out a way out of the house without the girl and Mori finding out?'

Kaito leaned back against the tree and let out a sigh. There were too many "What if's" when it came to Conan and most of them weren't very good. "Some of them even involve the Black Organization," he said as he re-opened his eyes. That was a personal nightmare of his… the Black Org finding out who he was and taking those he cares for hostage.

Among them would be Conan of course.

"I have to stop worrying about him," he said to himself as he looked up at the tree leaves. "I'll find out on Saturday whether or not something is up and if I make it out and he's not there then I'll decide what to do from there." 'And if he is I'll drill him for information while running away from Heiji and Nagamori… shouldn't be too hard, at least the Nagamori part. Heiji might be a different story…'

Kaito felt someone bump into his stretched out legs and found himself with a lapful of someone. He managed to catch their shoulders and lifted them a bit and found himself looking into dark eyes that were strangely familiar.

Way too familiar for this liking…

"Sorry," Akako said as she flipped her hair over her shoulder and rolled off of Kaito's lap. She looked over at him and her eyes narrowed a bit. "What a coincidence," she smiled slyly and sat up so she could look straight at him. "What brings you here on such a lovely day, Kaito-kun?"

'Who did I offend to have to go through this,' he thought as he forced a smile. "I just wanted some fresh air and thought that the park was the perfect place to go and think. What about you? It's unusual to see you in a place like this…"

"I'm meeting up with some… friends," she said as she shrugged. "We gather here once in a while and share ideas and such."

Kaito nodded and then looked up at the sky and then back at Akako who was staring at him. "What is it? Do I have something on my face?"

The young witch shook her head, "I just wanted you to know that if you ever need to talk about anything that you can come to me…" Kaito stared at her like she was crazy and she chuckled. "You've been down the past two weeks or so and it's getting a bit annoying… so if you ever have any kind of problems, Kaito or Kid alike you can come and talk them out with me. I've been told that I'm a pretty good listener."

Kaito laughed a little and nodded his head a bit. "I'll have to take you up on the offer sometime," he said before he stood up and looked down at her. "I have to go and-"

"Prepare for the heist this Saturday?"

"…"

"It happens when you're famous and you're on the news every time you do something," she said as she stood up as well. "You should know that by now. Anyways, I hope you get what you want and you find the answers you seek."

"Thanks…" Kaito paused and then looked back at Akako, but she was already walking away. "How did you know that I wanted answers?"

"A little birdie told me," she called back before a man ran up to her and held out his hand. She took it and they began to walk towards a group of people in strange clothing.

"At least she's on my side and won't tell," he said as he left quickly incase she changed her mind. "But that's really weird… how did she know that I wanted answers? Oh well, it's probably more of her black magic voodoo or something."

He made his way back to his house, deciding that it was probably a bit to dangerous to be out anymore that day and was surprised to see Heiji walking down the street. 'Great,' he thought as he continued on his way. 'Just what I need, more trouble…'

"Oi! Kudo!"

Kaito turned around at the familiar yet foreign name and found none other than Heiji looking at him. He stared at Kaito for a few moments before he frowned.

"You're not Kudo, are you…"

"Afraid not," Kaito said as he laughed a little. "Although I have been told that I look a lot like him though. I don't know how many times someone has stopped me and has told me that I look exactly like him and thought that I was him. It's kinda hard with people thinking that you're some genius detective even though your not."

"The resemblance is uncanny," the detective said as he continued to examine Kaito. "Are you is brother?"

"Nope."

"Cousin?"

"Nope"

"Uncle?"

"Nope."

"Are you related to him at all?"

"Nope."

The detective scratched his neck a little before he looked more closely at Kaito. "Alright, sorry for bothering you…"

"It's Kaito," he said as he extended his hand. "Kuroba Kaito."

"Nice to meet you, I'm Heiji," he said as he shook his hand. "And I have to go now, I need to go and meet some friends at some Museum, see ya around." Heiji smiled and nodded his head before he stepped to the side and ran down the side walk, yelling about how late he was and how Nagamori was going to have his head for sure this time.

"Weird guy," Kaito said as he crossed the street and found his way to his house rather quickly. He opened the door and removed his shoes before poking his head into the kitchen. "I'm back and I'll be in my room for a bit," he told his mother who nodded and went back to cooking their dinner. Kaito smiled for a moment before he made his way to his room and closed his door. He went over to his bed and flopped down on it and closed his eyes.

He had a lot to think about before Saturday night.

-

The week passed by fairly quickly for everyone and soon the night of the heist arrived. Kaito watched from one of the rooftops as Nagamori directed some of his men to stand at nearly every entrance known to man and told them to guard it with their life.

Knowing that man, their life probably was on the line with this one.

He quickly found Heiji and smiled as he watched the young detective make his rounds around the museum room where the jewel was being kept, probably making sure that everything was still in place.

Kaito turned his attention back to the rooftops and continued to search for a little blur of brown, blue, and white. He frowned a little when he didn't see anything on any of the neighboring rooftops but decided that he would wait a few more minutes for the kid to arrive.

Soon five minutes passed, then ten, then thirty and finally an hour and still no sign of Conan. Kaito realized that he was way passed his heist time and decided that he would just send an apology down there via dove and tell the detective that he would not be stealing that night.

He scribbled a quick KID note and attached it to a dove watched it fly off before he left and jumped off the building.

He needed to find Conan.

-

The phantom thief peered through the windows of the house, trying to find any source of life within. At first, he had just thought that all of the lights were off because it was night but now he could see it was because no one was home.

Not a single person.

Kaito cursed and slammed his fist against the window which caused it to shatter. He only had a split second to realize what he did before an ear splitting wail started from inside the house.

He sighed and quickly fled the scene, not wanting to get noticed and have someone think that Kaito Kid now robbed from petty detectives. "Not to mention but teenaged girls and little kids too," he said as he pictured the head line. "Now that would not be fun trying to clear."

He ran into an ally and changed his appearance into one of a police officer and then went back to the residence where a couple other officers were there already investigating what had happened. 'They're fast,' he thought as he walked up behind them and waited for them to open the door.

A noise from next door made Kaito and the other officers turn to find a young woman holding a key out to them.

"They're out of town right now," she said as one of the officers took the key and opened the door.

"I'll stay here and talk to this woman," Kaito said to the officers as they started into the house. "It might give us a clue as to who would do this." The other officers nodded and went inside to see if anything had been taken while Kaito turned to the woman and smiled. The young thief took out a pad and pencil that he had liberated from one of the officers when they weren't looking and nodded to the woman.

"Now then," he started as he gestured toward the house. "You said something about these people not being here at this time, do you have any idea where they are?" The woman thought for a moment and then pointed to her house.

"I recently got a letter from Ran, she's the daughter, that I could let you see if you need to."

Kaito thought for a moment and then nodded. After all, a letter could tell him a city and then finding Conan would just be a matter of when.

The woman disappeared into her home for a few minutes and then re-appeared with a letter in her hand. She handed it to Kaito with a smile. "Right now the Father and Daughter are in France… Paris I think…"

"May I read this," he asked as he flipped it over to the letter and waited for her response.

"Of course," she said as she nodded. "If you think it will help you…"

"It will," he said as he looked at the letter and began to read it.

Dear Ms. Koyashi,

Everything is going well on our vacation across the European countries and my Father and me are having a lot of fun. We are currently in France and it is a beautiful country. There is so much land, and I mean land, not land with buildings on them. It seems like a beautiful place to live or to even visit.

Conan is still in Ireland for the time being but we are going back shortly to pick him and take him home. The client asked us if he could stay because he say so much potential in Conan… while I don't know exactly what kind of potential he saw I think it has something to do with being able to notice important details in things.

Anyways, thanks once again for watching the house and I have a gift for you when we come home.

Ran

Kaito re-read the letter a few more times to make sure that he got everything before he handed it back to Ms. Koyashi. "Thank you very much," he said as she took the letter back cautiously. The Thief was confused by this action until he heard someone clear their throat behind him. He chuckled a bit as he rose his hands in the air and turned around to find several angry officers behind him with their guns drawn.

"Care to explain why you are impersonating an officer, sir," one of them asked as he glared at Kid.

"Why, what ever do you mean," Kaito asked in a shocked voice. "I am an officer."

"Four of us turned up at the scene," one of them said as he gestured to the other officers. "Yet including you there are five and we know that-"

"You people are no fun at all," Kid pouted as he sighed and hung his head. "It takes Nagamori a couple more minutes to figure out that something is wrong… Maybe you people should think about joining him in the Kaito Kid investigation! They could always use more officers to try and catch me," Kid said as he threw off his disguise and grinned.

The officers stared for a moment before they charged at the Thief who merely smiled. He tipped his hat to Ms. Koyashi and then threw a smoke bomb and ran as fast as he could down the street with the officers hot on his trail. Revealing himself hadn't really been on his things to do list, but he figured that it might be a good idea to get some publicity around the area incase Conan decided to check up on what was going on at home.

"Well," he said as he hid in ally way and watched as the cops ran past. "Since you're obviously not in Japan, I think I really need to rethink my plan… Hey! That rhymed," he said as he removed his KID outfit and walked out of the alley as Kuroba Kaito. He checked his watch and saw that it was roughly four in the morning and yawned. "Might as well go home and re-think my "Get Tantei-kun back" strategy," he said to himself as he took out his cell phone and called Jii. "Hey, it's me, I'm going to be at the corner of 4th and 5th so meet me there… alright I'll see you in ten." He hung up the phone and started to walk to the desired meeting place as a thousand plans started circulating through his mind.

'How in Hell am I going to get to Ireland?!'

-

Kaito looked over at his alarm clock and closed his eyes to try and get a few more minutes of sleep. It was already 9 and he was still in bed, not a very Kaito-ish thing but it was a special day. After all, Kaito was exhausted and wanted a little more sleep after last night's excitement.

"And I didn't even steal anything," he said with a yawn as he turned over in his bed so that he was facing the wall now. "I hope that sorry letter was enough for Nagamori… although knowing him he's still waiting for me to show up."

"Kaito? Are you up yet?" Kaito looked up a little and saw his mother standing in the door way holding a magazine and looking at him worriedly.

"I'm not feeling all that well," Kaito lied as he snuggled deeper into the blankets. "I'm just gonna sleep a bit more…"

"Alright," his mother said before she walked over to his nightstand and left the magazine. "A girl from your school dropped that off and said that you would be interested in it. She also said that she hoped that her talk helped you…"

Kaito sat up and watched his mother leave the room before he picked up the magazine and looked at it. He flipped through the pages and found photos of magicians and magic items that people could purchase and he rolled his eyes. It was just another wanna be magic magazine, nothing interesting about it.

"What's this," he said as he stopped at a page that had a lot of colors and sparkles on it. His eyes widened and he felt himself beginning to chuckle a bit. There was an ad in the magazine that someone had circled several times in red ink and had several arrows and other miscellaneous items pointing to it. There was even a note for Kaito stating "if you miss this you are an idiot."

"I can only guess who gave me this," he said as he saw another line stating that he would become her slave. "But why would she give me this and make me look at some information about a magic convention in," he looked at the location and his eyes got large. "Ireland?!"

He stared in shock at the page for a few minutes before he bolted down stairs.

"MOM! There's this REALLY cool convention I want to go to!!"

-

Conan looked down at the box that Butler put in his room and grinned to himself. The package that Agasa had sent had finally come after only a week and a half and this made the little detective very happy. He had been bored out of his mind the past week because Artemis had refused to come within 10 feet of him, which considering the size of his house wasn't that hard to do. So, to entertain himself, Conan explored and hung around with Butler when the man servant wasn't babysitting Artemis.

But it was all worth it for this box, even if Butler had to carry it to his room because he wasn't strong enough…

Conan shook his head and opened the box and was about to start taking out the files and other things when someone knocked on his door. He quickly closed the box, "come in."

Butler opened the door and placed another box in Conan's room. "This one just arrived and I thought it was for you. It doesn't have a return address and the only thing it has on it is the Fowl Residence and it's address. Also, it's from Japan and you're the only one here who has any connection to Japan."

Conan nodded, "thanks Butler! I guess my Grandfather didn't have enough room in this box to put all my things in!"

Butler nodded and then left the room while Conan when over to the other box and opened it. "I don't think Agasa would actually…" he stopped short as he pulled out one of the objects in the box, his blue eyes widening in disbelief. He began stuttering and dropped the object to the ground before he himself fell as well.

After all, how was he supposed to act after he just pulled out Kaito Kid's hat?

-

"Thank you for choosing the Baltimore/Washington International airport and we hope you enjoy your final flight to Ireland." Kaito yawned and looked out his window and then closed his eyes. It had been such a pain to take connecting flights just to get to Ireland, but it would all be worth it.

"And I am so happy that Jii shipped out my stuff overnight on the express plane so it will be there when I get there," he said as he yawned again.

"I'm coming, Tantei-kun."

-

The end of chapter 7. Be nice to me please v I finished this up and I am pretty happy with it anyways, before you say anything:

BWI does exist, I should know I will be using it soon .

You will find out how Kaito got to go to Ireland next chapter

no he doesn't know where Conan

That's about it Remember, Reviews are nice and thanks to those who reviewed last chapter XD

Shiko