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KID:

Steal The Dead

Task: Death

There was something about this group that seemed to simply adore sticking its nose into danger.

Ai was highly inclined to believe it was Kudo's influence.

Twelve thirty in the morning and these kids wanted to investigate a haunted house.

'Most seven year olds don't have this sort of stamina.'

She blamed it on Kudo's influence once more; she was pretty sure if they'd never met the bespectacled shrunken detective they would not be used to late night adventures.

Ai sighed; it was no use attempting to talk them out of it so the least she could do was come with so they didn't land themselves into too much trouble.

"Isn't that Ran-neechan?"

Ran didn't notice the kids as she got in the taxi; in fact it took her a few city blocks before she took notice of the Shonen Tantei next to her.

Needless to say she let out a surprised yelp.

--

Hakuba Saguru was well known as a very precise young man, he was someone that wasn't known to accept the illogical easily.

Koizumi Akako never made it easy.

It had only taken a few weeks of attending Ekoda High before Saguru was assured that Akako was not normal…

…incredibly attractive and charming, but less than normal.

He'd admit if he had the time of day he'd likely be one of her many admirers but as it was he knew better than to attempt to get her attention, he spent so much time overseas that it would never work.

So instead of spending time working out ways to grasp her interest he was left with just observing from afar.

As it would turn out this was exactly what was needed to realize two things.

She knew Kuroba was KID.

She had her own secrets.

Of course, being as entranced with her as he was the first thing he'd noted hadn't been this but instead 'What the hell does she see in Kuroba?!'

It hadn't taken him too long to realize she had an abnormal charm to her after he started paying enough attention.

There was a limit to how much a cute girl should be able to enchant the male populace.

The mere fact that despite all she'd done to control the males around her should have had her at least disliked by the female regime…

It wasn't so.

The boys loved her and the girls admired her.

In fact, the only one who didn't seem effected by her bewitching nature was Kuroba.

Saguru was never one to be satisfied with unanswered questions but the one and only time he'd questioned Kuroba about it the other student had shot him a pitying and amused look while shaking his head.

"You don't want know."

And Saguru had decided he really didn't want to get involved.

But he was left with the impression that Koizumi Akako was not a force to be trifled with(this was solidified with his suspicion that Kuroba had, of course, already done some trifling).

So now the detective was left staring at his cell phone.

Conan looked up from his map to see that Hakuba had yet to put the device into use.

"Either call them or not, we don't have time for you to spend forever in indecision." The two were headed to Osaka where they planned to meet up with Heiji(Saguru hadn't been to happy about that) and Hakuba had spent the entire time staring at his phone like it was threatening him.

Conan wasn't sure whether to be annoyed or amused.

Hakuba sighed and sunk in his seat, and of course taking mental note that the train seemed to have sped up a little a moment ago, before tossing Conan a indecisive glance.

"To gamble or to play it safe?"

Conan furrowed his brows, "Aren't we already gambling?"

Habuba pressed the call button.

--

Kaito was frozen.

It was unlike the hyperactive boy to hesitate even more so for the confident thief, but regardless of his character he was left motionless just outside the shed.

There was something more than 'Pain' in there.

He knew he could run now, he wouldn't have to face… whatever it was. There was other 'Pain'; he didn't need to find one that had such a… force?

What was it?

"Sixty-nine hours…"

He didn't have time to dawdle.

Kaito moved his hand to open the sliding door, the thing on the other side was waiting patiently, Kaito was sure, so he would need to make an entrance.

Kaitou KID never disappoints.

A shiver went down his spine when he touched the doors handle. There were some things the thief would preferred not to mess with and he was quite sure whatever was on the other side of the door was not only one of them but definitely in the higher ranks.

KID opened the door.

Visibly there was no one else there.

But Kaito knew there was someone standing only a few yards in front him.

He knew there was Pain in the room but where intimidated him farther than ever before was the presence of whatever it is was much, much stronger.

Considering Pain was the absolute most incredible(in a painful way) thing he had ever experienced…

"…you must meet Death twice…"

Kaito involuntarily shivered.

The air in front of him shimmered.

"Kaitou KID…"

The voice jolted Kaito straight and he automatically set poker-face. There was still no one in front of him…

…except for a floating candle.

"…what are you doing here?"

Kaito hadn't expected that question, he'd expected a lot of things to come from this conversation(most involving his untimely demise) but he hadn't anticipated such a seemingly simple question.

'It's not simple…'

The first time he'd opened his mouth to reply his voice had frozen and he realized he was too terrified to speak.

Kaito didn't let fear stop him the second time.

"To find 'True Pain'."

A harsh wind blew from behind him and he had to fight not to stumble.

Kaito couldn't begin to read what it was thinking.

"…very well…"

The candle flickered.

And Kaito felt fear; pure undiluted fear.

He couldn't breathe, he couldn't think, his muscles itched to move and a strange voice screamed at him to run… and he knew it wasn't just to escape possible death.

Whoever this thing was, it certainly knew better ways of punishment than simple death.

'Run…!'

Kaito didn't dare twitch; it could provoke what was in front of him.

He was terrified.

He saw another shimmer and he immediately wondered what his last regrets would be, after all with such a powerful force as his opponent he didn't stand a chance.

It was over.

Kaito's fingers shook.

'…Aoko…'

His eyes snapped open and he jumped back, the ground he had been on left in shambles.

The candle flickered again and Kaito felt the fear all over again… but…

Kaitou KID pasted on his trademark smirk.


((Ending Notes: I know, it's shorter than usual, but finals are coming up -.-;;

I really hope you liked it! I, once again, was rather nervous about this chapter -.-'

Oh! And once again, if you spot any plot holes please point them out to me!

Thank you very much for reading!

-Muse-chan should be working on her research paper.))