So here's chapter 9 and Part 2 of Stolen

To inform you before you begin this chapter… I'm doing it from Kazuha's perspective for the first time and I'm also going to make-up a fictional flashback… So this didn't actually happen in the series and it doesn't really pertain to this story that much, but I thought it would be cute to add ^_^ (I like HeiKazu =D )

Also, I hope you're anticipating what Akako has to say about the Gosho Boy's deaths… I know I'm craving to know your answers! XD But this chapter gives them anyways so…

Enjoy Min'na (and Chelsea)

(Disclaimer: Original Idea-created by Chelseaj500)


A wall of memories suddenly towered over Kazuha as she remembered her past within her dream.

Kazuha barely remembered what it was about, but in her dream she could always remember sitting alone on the park bench by herself.

Heiji's not coming for me, She would cry softly as tears soaked her sleeves and the sun would set without any noise. Only Kazuha could hear herself hiccup soft sobs.

"You promised you'd come to get me, HEIJI!" She yelled out to the empty park, she was so young that her feet dangled from the park bench and she suddenly opened her eyes as she heard a voice calling.

"-HA! –ZUHA! KAZUHA!" She finally recognized the voice and her head snapped up as she saw Heiji's childhood form running closer to her, waving.

"Heiji," She whispered. Not realizing her eyes stopped watering and a slight smile came over her for a moment, but it fell down as her eyebrows furrowed into each other, "HEIJI! WHERE WERE YA?" She exclaimed jumping down from the bench with her arms crossed.

Heiji finally caught his breath as he stood in front of Kazuha and grinned, "Ya got the wrong park, AHOU! I had to search everywhere, I was worried about ya!"

Kazuha's face flushed a bright pink and turned away embarrassed, "Ahou," She muttered under her breath.

Heiji expression tensed and he looked at her flustered, "What was that?" He exclaimed.

"AHOU!" Kazuha stuck out her tongue and Heiji chased after her as she ran. Kazuha laughed, she laughed like Heiji would never stop being there for her. She laughed thinking about how silly she was for thinking Heiji wouldn't come in the first place. She laughed because she'd realized she'd found herself liking the one and only ahou, Hattori Heiji.

"Kazuha-chan," A voice called from the darkness of her mind, "wake up," it nudged her and her eyes flickered open to light and she had to squint and groggily make herself awaken fully.

Kazuha saw Ran staring at her worriedly and she forced a smile when she woke, "I'm sorry to wake you Kazuha-chan. Are you feeling okay?"

She was about to rely with a clean, simple answer when her eyes suddenly latched onto something she didn't want to see a second time, "Heiji," her voice immediately broke and tears flooded the creases of her eyes. He was lying on cot now with lifeless eyes and nonmoving limbs.

Kazuha sat up in the chair she was leaned back in. The other dead bodies of Conan and two other strange boys filled a few other cots and their expressions all looked the same. Kazuha had to cover her mouth as she felt the urge to cry out with the pain that seemed to shot up from her heart.

"Heiji's Dead," she looked away closing her eyes, but another pair of arms latched around Kazuha into a hug.

"It's okay, Kazuha-chan! We'll get them back! We'll do whatever we have to do!" Ran was hugging her tightly, but the words that she was trying to comfort Kazuha with, seemed impossible to believe.

"What are you talking about?" Kazuha shoved Ran away a bit and curled into her chair, "They're dead! They're gone! There's no getting them back, even I know that!" Kazuha looked at Ran with such sadness it almost looked like fury, "You've been around deaths too, Ran-chan! You should know that it's impossible to bring a life back!"

"But that's where your wrong," A girl with long purple hair and an odd looking outfit stepped into Kazuha's range of vision and she stole her attention completely.

"What do you mean?" Kazuha called in a harsh raspy tone.

There was silence for only a second when Ran turned to Kazuha again, "Kazuha-chan, what do you remember last; when we stepped outside of the mansion?"

"How could I forget? You saw it too, right? The huge monster and that creepy looking girl that looked like her," Kazuha pointed to the girl with purple hair again.

She knew what she was talking about. The girl that tried to kill them had black hair and a different wardrobe. She also seemed to have a much bigger killing type of aura and Kazuha knew one when she felt one after all the cases she'd been on with Heiji.

Aoko stepped in and looked at the purple haired girl with a long gaze, as if she was asking for permission to say something. The girl only nodded and Aoko stared at Kazuha, "Well, they're actually witches," Aoko stated simply, but she looked at Kazuha like she might not actually believe that very questionable statement.

Kazuha had to admit that after all the things she'd heard in her life, nothing had been more unrealistic than this one, "Witches?" -was all she could choke out. After processing it; it was really the only thing she could think that would make it possible, besides her crazy thought that it was actually aliens when they were first attacked.

"I didn't really want to believe in it at first too, but-" Aoko looked back at Heiji and the others lying on the cots in the large room, "Akako said that that witch with black hair is the one that made them like this and the only way to reverse it is through a spell."

Akako? Kazuha thought, remembering the photograph in the bedroom with the family and the two girls. Some pieces started to connect in Kazuha's mind as she looked up, "So it's really possible? We can save them from the dead?"

"They're not dead yet," Akako said as she walked briskly to the other side of Kazuha as she suddenly realized what she'd been sitting next to this whole time.

A cot was laid out by the wall and there laid the girl with black hair in a motionless position. Her eyes were closed and she was unmoving. Kazuha jumped back in her chair a bit, "I-is she-?"

"Dead," Akako finished, "but those four's souls are still here." Akako gently put her hand over the girl's chest and closed her eyes a bit.

"You haven't told us much yet since we moved them inside, what do you mean by all of this, Akako-chan?" Aoko asked.

Akako deeply inhaled and exhaled, "This is my sister, if you didn't already know," She started, "I believe this whole summoning thing was one big scheme to kill me. I wouldn't blame her," Akako's voice dropped a bit, "But, as for the ritual she needed to feed on 4 brilliant souls in order to strengthen her power to summon Rimmon-the God of destruction and war." She paused, "That's where those 4 come in; she used them as a sacrifice."

"So… she… ate them?" Ran gasped and covered her mouth disgustedly.

"Their souls; yes," Akako turned to the Kazuha, Ran and Aoko with all seriousness, "But, as I've been saying," She paused, "their souls are all still alive within her."

Kazuha looked down at the girl's chest and an image of Heiji flashed through her mind as she thought about him being inside there.

"How do we save them then?" Aoko asked.

"That's just it," Akako said, "souls hardly ever come back after being devoured by witches," She looked at the girl's stomach with a horrified expression, "Once a soul is inside of a witch it begins to destroy itself and over a time span of 36 hours it is corrupted and the witch takes it as part of her own self for strength and power. That is when the life inside the soul truly dies."

The three of them waited in silence for a moment, thinking Akako would answer their question.

Kazuha would save Heiji if he was still in there, she would grab his soul into her hands and caress it and return it to him. She wouldn't stop at anything until he was safely returned to his old self; the Hattori Heiji she loved.

"If you are really willing to put your own life on the line for them, there is a way that only you can save them. I do not know their hearts as well as you three do, but I will help." Akako stated looking at every person in the room.

Kazuha heard Ran exhale deeply, "Akako-san, you have to understand that I'm not just willing to put my life on the line, but I'll live; I'll survive no matter what and I'll save Conan-kun," She stared with such determination it struck the courage inside Kazuha and Aoko.

"That's right," Aoko agreed and carried the same expression as Ran as she glanced back and forth from Kaito and Hakuba to Akako.

Akako's face was surprised, but after a moment she quickly hid her expression and smiled; she almost seemed to be encouraged by Ran herself.

"Fools will be fools," She smirked and she continued, "Well, let's see," She paced back to the bedside of her sister and touched her chest lightly, "To start off with a simple explanation, I'll have to pull each soul from her body and then I'll have then put them back into their original bodies."

Akako then pointed over to the boys and stared back intensely as she continued, "I'll have to connect only one person to each of their hearts through a spell and you'll be under a comma-like state, but once you have saved them, and their hearts have regained themselves and are stable you will wake up, so don't worry."

"But… Akako-san, what exactly will we be doing to save them?" Kazuha asked curiously.

Akako looked back at Kazuha and then glanced at Ran and Aoko who were also curious of the same question just by the expression on their faces, "Right now they are probably all trapped within their own nightmares, or actually-their souls are twisted into their worst fears. It will be your job to save them from themselves."

"But-how?" Ran asked worried.

"I do not know them as well as you might, but you have to have a strong heart in order to go up against them." Akako answered back with a slight worried expression on her own face.

"Akako-chan," Aoko called and walked straight up to her, "what do I do about Kaito and Hakuba?" She looked back at them, then to the girl with black hair, "I can't be connected to them at the same time, what should I do?"

Aoko was staring straight up into Akako's red eyes with a sadness that made Akako's expression look the same. Even Kazuha knew that there was something deep between their changes in expressions.

Akako sighed with a smile, looking away from Aoko for a moment, "I guess I'll have to take that kid-obsessed-detective-geek."

Aoko's face was very surprised, "but, don't you like Kaito? Why don't you-"

"OHOHOHO!" Akako cut in with her classic laugh, "PLEASE! That idiot isn't up to my standards, but-" Akako paused, "I know someone who is way more in love with him then I ever will be."

Aoko's face flushed and she stuttered a bit unable to speak, "I-I don't… I- just," Aoko's face was a very deep red now and she looked down at her feet as she stood in front of Akako, "T-Thank you," she finally stuttered and Kazuha and Ran both smiled. Akako smiled gently at Aoko and brushed her hair behind her ear.

"Consider this a one-time surrender-OHOHOHOHOHOHOHO!" Akako laughed and smirked a witchy smile. Kazuha, Aoko, and Ran felt a shiver run down their spines from Akako's wicked laugh.

"Well, I guess I'll take the Ahou," Kazuha changed the subject and stood from her chair.

"And Naturally I'll be with Conan-kun," Ran smiled and walked over to his bedside as she watched him unmoving. His hair was messy and his glasses were gone. She almost thought of Shinichi as a sleeping child when she watched him.

"Then I guess it's decided," Akako pulled out her staff from thin air, "Let's get started."


Are you curious? Did you like the HeiKazu flashback? Any Questions for me? Any hypothesis on what all this is going to lead to?

Ugh…. It's so hard to write people explaining things… Especially fictional things like witches and souls since none of that is actually considered possible in our society. =P

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Quote: I will also show you a sweet dream next night. –Vampire Knight