Chapter Fifteen
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Conan smiled at the puzzle that Katio had dropped off for him the day before. He couldn't believe that he'd been stuck in the place long enough to finish two puzzle books. This is just what he needed, one of Kaito's ridiculous puzzles and no hints. He'd been completely nerding over it as someone entered his hospital room.
"Yo, Kudou, whatcha doing?" He looked up in shock and then glared at his visitor.
"Hattori, it's Conan or Mouri, not Kudou." The seemingly younger of the two growled and sat up to pay some attention to his visitor. "So what are you doing here?"
"Oh, Don'cha know? I found out about the shootin' of the Kid's heist in the newspaper, and find out that ya're the one that got shot, so don't ya think I'd show up sooner or later? Not to mention some of ya'r nurses told me about the attack the other night?" Oh, Hattori wasn't a happy camper, not at all. Conan blinked as if to say, 'So? That explains what?' and continued to look at the paper in his hands with more interest then his best friend from Osaka. "Oi," Hattori could swear up and down that Kudou ignored him on purpose sometimes; he took a seat next to the boy's bed and glared at him until Kudou cracked a grin, finally turning to him.
"Fine, How's life treating you, Heiji?" Shinichi asked setting the paper with the code on the table next to him. The Oaskan gave him a grin, and leaned back into the chair, he always managed to get Kudou to warm up to him eventually. "Still with Toyama-san?"
"Yup, the baby's due in three months or so's, it's our second. So Kudou, have ya found someone yet?" Hattori asked, might as well get the hello's before Kudou would even let him in on what's going on.
"Maybe…" Shinichi smiled at his dark-skinned friend. "Maybe not…Let's just say he has a thing for magic, and leave it at that." Hattori hated it when Kudou pulled one of his mind games on him, but he should have expected it. Kudou tended to get evil when he was forced to stay in a hospital for more then three days.
Kaito was happy to get out of the hellhole called school as he rushed out the door. He wanted to get to the hospital to see if Co-chan had figured out his little note he left him. Kaito barely noticed as Aoko called after him, with Hakuba following behind her like a puppy. Ugh, those two were worse then he and Co-chan. Hm, maybe he had to fix that soon, if only he could get Co-chan to follow him around like Aoko and Hakuba. He had put on his outside shoes as Aoko caught up with him, "Going to visit Mouri-kun?" Aoko asked with a knowing smile.
"Of course, I can't let those nurses get to chummy with my Co-chan." Kaito answered throwing the white school shoes in the locker. Aoko and Hakuba quickly did the same and quickly followed their usually mischievous friend. He just knew Hakuba wanted to accuse him of feeling guilty and what not since it was a Kid's heist that had gotten Conan targeted by some weird psychopath. He just had to thank Aoko for some blessings when it came to the rock of a detective.
"Are you guys going to follow me all the way there?" Kaito asked, turning and walking backwards to look at his friends. He turned back round when they nodded and sighed; he had hope for more alone time with his Co-chan until Mouri-san got off of work. Looked like he was completely out of luck.
Kaito had managed to get Aoko and Hakuba to leave with much convincing and promises, as he walked down the hallway leading to Conan's room, he heard Conan laughing at something a visitor in the room said. Kaito blinked, wondering who could be visiting Conan for Conan to let his guard down that far.
"Seriously, Kudou, don'cha understand my problem at all?" A deep Okasan voice said, with mocked pouting. It was obviously someone who knew Conan's secret. He slowly opened the door and peeked in to see a dark-skinned man in his late 20's waving his hands around as he talked to Conan. Conan sat there with a smirk on his face, and something that he hadn't seen in his eyes before, wariness as he talked completely freely. Even more freely then Kaito seen Conan talking with him and that kind of hurt him.
"Seriously, Heiji, you should just do everything she says for now. I bet you pissed her off by just coming here, right?" Shinichi said before glancing at the door and smiled at Kaito, who was just standing unsure by the door. "Kaito, come on in, this is Hattori Heiji, I met him around the time I shank." Kaito blinked and walked to get a better look at the slightly shocked Hattori. "Heiji, this is Kuroba Kaito." Kaito sat on the other side of Conan, who just smiled at him.
"Ya mean that someone else figured ya out?" Hattori said in disbelief, making Kaito smirk proudly of himself and Shinichi shrugged.
"He's a son of a friend," Shinichi blushed, "He had more information then most." Shinichi scratched his cheek and watched Kaito; he wanted to make sure that the other was comfortable with the strange interruption in route. Kaito gave him a smile and turned to Hattori, he didn't really know much about Hattori, but what Conan had said about him being an annoying high school detective that had practically stalked him. He also knew that Hattori was the first out of the ring of family and friends that had figured Conan out to be Kudou Shinichi. Kaito settled down and lean foreword in the chair, smirking at the look on the older man's face.
"Ya's look so much alike!" was the first thing Hattori managed to say after the introductions. Way to go, Hattori, just state out the obvious. Shinichi thought, still watching Kaito. He really wanted to answer the other's note and tell him that he had figured out the puzzle, but with Hattori here, he wasn't going to risk Kaito's identity as Kaitou Kid to the hotheaded Detective. "Damn it, Kudou, ya distracted me again! The assault, that's what I want ta know about."
Here Shinichi though he had lucked out, and Kaito just looked slightly amused by the banter of the once high school detectives.
Wanatanaki Hiro growled as he looked around his rather messy room. He could just tell that someone was here, but who? Nothing seemed to be going right for the middle-aged man at all. It hasn't since the Organization had been taken down in his youth. He'd been one of the few to escape, but that might have been because he wasn't high enough in the Org, to get a code name, he had just started a few months before the take down by the FBI. Rummaged through the papers on his desk. The pictures had littered his room were torn and ripped and now littering the floor around him.
Wanatanaki was more then a little mad at his failure. He had failed to kill a teenaged boy and Kid not once, but twice. He loved Mouri Conan, and it was such a shame such a hot young teen had to die. Kid was the reason his little Conan-kun had to die; he had to finish the first and last mission that he was given by the Org. That was the mission of Pandora. Kid could easily lead him to it, and if he kept the thief out of the hands of the detectives, that was fine. No matter how many he had to kill. He'd make sure that Kid found Pandora for him.
After all, who wouldn't want the promise of immortality? He opened his closet and pulled out his bag that held the sniper rifle. He picked up the rifle and examined it; well it looked fine. He set it back down in the back and zipped it up. Not noticing the white card of a note in the bag that slipped deeper into the bag. Unknown revenge laid in wait for the evil man, just begging to be used.
-End of Chapter Fifteen-
Anon. Review Responses:
Mystery-san!
Hiya and welcome back! I'm so happy that you've enjoyed the story, and I look foreword to you figuring out the puzzle at the top. Don't worry, Wanatanaki-san will get his just deserts. I love reading fics were you can tell Kogoro cares for Conan as his son. There's not enough of those!
Well till next time…
Anie-san,
I think I am going to up the rating, after I commented to your review, someone else mentioned it, so I will. But I doubt that it's going to get anymore graphic then it already is. XD I love over protective Kaito, especially when he gets jealous of the nurses. Okay going to up the rating…
And finally
Shinigami-san!
Your completely right, but I want you to read very carefull in the next two chapters, you'll notice something that will just make you sigh…So don't worry about the phobia. Like I said, it's in his head, it can sure get out of there somehow.
Shi-chan
Author note: You'll notice that this chapter is REALLY shorter then all the other chapters, that's because I want to wait and see if anyone can get the note at the top. If you want a hint just PM me, and I'll give you the hint. See you next chapter!