Conan confronts Kid in this chapter! I tried to make everything interesting, and there's some humor, too.

Note: Due to the fact I'm not very creative, I will hereby abstain from writing disclaimers, except on the first chapter of my stories.


Chapter Eight

Kid had already decided to separate them from everyone to escape, but Conan had a firm grip, and wouldn't let go. He knew he couldn't do anything under the guise of the police, or they'd lock the doors again. Therefore, disguised as Shiho, he asked, "Kudo-kun, shouldn't we go look for Kid? He's probably long gone, but it won't hurt to check, and it'll get us away from all this tension."

"Sure, Shiho-neechan." Conan was eyeing Ran, who had been watching the whole interaction, though she was just on the edge of earshot and could only catch bits and pieces of what they were saying.

With that, they left to go out on deck. There was a beautiful full moon, but neither of them could enjoy it knowing that their greatest rival was right beside them. Conan then decided to catch Kid off guard.

"Say, Haibara, when I asked you your age a while ago, you said you were 84, but that's obviously not true. You're really 17 like me, right? You look it." Conan knew that Shiho was actually 18, but decided not to bring that up in order to see if he could corner Kid.

"Yeah, I'm actually going on 18 this February." Shiho looked 17, and Kid weirdly hadn't thought to check, and assumed Conan was telling the truth.

"I thought so, Kid-niichan!" exclaimed Conan childishly. Kid knew immediately he'd been had.

Kid replied, "Suspecting me now, Kudo-kun? I guess all the encounters with Them have made you as paranoid as me. I guess that's why you're such an interesting test subject. You can always surprise me." He still used Shiho's voice to keep up the charade. By now, they'd reached the uppermost deck and they'd stopped walking.

Kid let go of Conan, faced him, and said, "If you really think I'm Kid, and not your friend Haibara Ai, then you'd better show some proof. Otherwise I'll be inclined to think you're a nutcase, and I'll have to confine you to house arrest. Besides, Nakamori-keibu already proved I'm not Kid when he checked all of us."

Conan just smirked. "As to how you disguised as Haibara, it was very simple. First you researched her adult persona, probably through her personal computer, since if you'd hacked into Their network, you wouldn't be here now, and neither would your family and friends. Then you disguised as Sonoko to find out if my friends and I were coming, since our coming was vital to your plan, since Haibara would only come if the kids came too. After finding out we were coming, you purposely exposed yourself to make Ran mad. You knew I'd ask about what happened, she'd tell me you didn't want my friends there, and then she'd ensure all five of us came in revenge for tricking her."

"Tonight, you slipped something into Haibara's food or drink to upset her stomach and make her go to the restroom, where you promptly knocked her out, hid her, and took her place, by claiming you'd taken a temporary antidote, though your cover story to everyone else was that you were my partner and I'd sent you in my place. This, of course, was done after you'd faked the phone call from Megure-keibu where you told Nakamori-keibu someone would be helping out. You purposely didn't say who it was because you knew I'd see through your disguise immediately if I asked Haibara and she said she had no plans of appearing as Miyano Shiho. You then stayed by my side the rest of the night to keep an eye on me."

"As for taking the gem, first you danced with me (which I hate you for, pedophile), so we could end up near the case without raising my suspicions. Then at midnight, you killed the lights and spread a smokescreen. In the confusion, you released the weight concealed in the chandelier, which dropped and smashed the case. You then switched the jewel with one you'd concealed on your person and left the note. You then planned to make your way out with it once the commotion had died down and the doors were opened."

Kid had listened to Conan's accurate explanation and then decided to see if he knew his final trick. "So, assuming you're right, how would Kid, a guy, disguise as me, a girl, with no mask at all?"

Conan just grinned and said, "You knew you could get in if Nakamori thought you weren't in disguise. You couldn't come as yourself or as me, because both Ran and I would see through you. You couldn't wear a mask either, if you planned to be in the know about what was going on. The only thing Nakamori ever checks for is masks, so if you could get around that, you could disguise as anybody. What you did was simple. You outfitted yourself in female attire as normal, adjusted your body shape, and then you put on the strawberry blonde wig and added contacts to fix your eye color. You then dyed your eyebrows and completely shaved off all facial hair and put makeup over it to hide your masculinity. Over that, you added makeup to alter your skin tone. That's what I know you did, but the rest is an educated guess. You probably, to alter your face, injected Botox or something similar into your skin to puff up your face in various places. In this way, you could change your appearance and make yourself look like a woman. It's probably something temporary and organic that'll wear off and be absorbed into the skin with no ill effects after a certain amount of time. I found out about this by asking Nakamori-keibu if someone's face felt swollen or not, though didn't look it. He confirmed that the only one whose face felt real, but weird, was yours, and it felt, to him, puffed up and swollen, though it was completely unnoticeable by just looking, and so he disregarded it. That's the only drawback to this plan, it looks normal, and it's your real face, but it doesn't feel normal, and the makeup didn't help either, though as a woman, no one would care if you were wearing makeup or not."

Kid grinned internally, knowing he'd been found out, and using his Kid voice, said, "So you found me out, hmm, tantei-kun?" He took the jewel out and held in towards the full moon so that light could pass through it. "What tipped you off?"

"Your act as Haibara was practically flawless, actually. You probably know I didn't suspect you before you took the jewel." Kid grinned again, lowering the jewel and remembering the dance, "I found out afterwards by reexamining that line. The white dove was you, of course, so that meant the white vine was who you were disguising as. I realized that you were probably close by the whole time, which narrowed down your identity to the seven adults who were in the room where the plans were made. White meant kindness, so that knocked out Occhan, Nakamori-keibu, Suzuki-san and Sonoko. Of the three left, Hakase, Ran, and you, only you had anything to do with a vine. Grapes grow on vines, and are used to make wine. A type of wine is Sherry, which clued me in on you, since Haibara's codename in the Organization was Sherry. I knew it wasn't some other member of the Organization you'd impersonated because Haibara would've freaked upon entering the party room and sensing them. After all, members of the Organization travel in pairs mostly to back each other up, so even if you impersonated one, she'd still sense the other. The only member or former member there that fit all requirements and knew details of the heist was you."

"As expected of you, tantei-kun." Kid lowered the jewel and let out another smoke bomb. When it cleared, Kid in full costume was there, prompting shouts from the cops that Conan had asked Nakamori to hide nearby to make a beeline for him. "Your little friend is asleep in the restroom, though I made her comfortable, so this incident shouldn't increase her paranoia of those you're after. I explained myself completely to her before I knocked her out, and I left her an easy escape for when she woke up."

"Why? You don't normally explain yourself. You disguise and go."

"The Kaito Kid is a gentleman, as well a thief. It was only proper to be a gentleman to a beautiful young woman, even more so if she's been through hard times."

Conan reached down and adjusted the dial on his shoe, in preparation for kicking a soccer ball at Kid. "Now I've answered your questions and you've answered mine, so it's game over, Kid." He popped a soccer ball out of his belt and kicked it at Kid.

Kid had seen him reach for his shoe, and as Conan let the ball out, he let out another smoke bomb (pink this time), and Kid made his escape. He sailed off in his hang glider towards the shore, leaving the jewel behind, along with a note claiming that he no longer had any interest in it, and to return it to its rightful owner.


Kid never gets caught, so I let him get away this time, too. The way he disguised without a mask with Botox is something that I don't know could actually be done, so that's why I said 'Botox or something similar'. You're free to do research and correct me, since I don't really know myself, and it's an educated guess that Kid could actually do that.

I know it's OOC for Kid to not know Shiho's age, but I needed a question that Conan could ask Kid that Kid wouldn't know, so I decided on that one.

You all probably already knew how Kid did the heist, in its entirety, but Conan one-upping Kid back in payback for the dance and for fooling him all night was a good way to distract from the boring stuff, if you thought it was boring.

Next chapter will likely be short, and will conclude the heist, and will include Conan finding Haibara.