Okaay... This is number 9, everyone! And I'm starting running out at ideas, so now I'll end the story...
ShonaiulaRose: Yeah! It was fun to write. Ai and Shiro did it in an act of... Uhh... Devilish? I think... thinks for a while… Yeah. Something like that. And yes, it was to punish Gin. Oh, he is SO going to get punished in this chapter to, believe me. In this chapter he is hardly going to get anything else but punished, shocked and angry. The last just because I felt like it. And annoyed of course! Ohh... Who said a raven-haired detective was going to take it? I never said that, did I? evil laughter
Narumi Rhen: Here it comes. The last and double-so-long chapter. I like long chapters. It is fun to write. But this became the longest I ever wrote... Please, I have to get a life, seriously. To write a chapter this long first at Swedish and then translate it to English is just a serious proof at you got no life. I'm not joking. But I glad you liked the chapter. That chapter got a bit plot in it to difference to the chapters before it. And this chapter... Well, I planned it when I wrote chapter 8.
gundamzbd36: Oh, you are so going to find out if they tell him in this chapter. But I promise you, this chapter will not become a so fun chapter. Probably a bit tragic. Geez. I wrote until it was midnight yesterday because I almost forgot to write the chapter. And once-a-week-updating will not hold itself if I forget to write a chapter, right? Have so 'fun' reading this chapter. The reason for the name "Sayonara" is going to show up. Later. Somewhere.
Sennie: So good you liked it. Hope you like this one too. It is a double chapter. Good that the grammar and spelling was gone. ShonaiulaRose beta'ed it to me. Write what you think about this chapter too, please. It is my last chapter before the epilogue, so it may be a little tragic in this chapter. But other then that I think it is quite all right. I'm quite bad at saying what others are going to think about it though... Feel free to criticize this chapter. I like your comments.
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Disclaimer: Detective Conan and all the characters does not belong to me but Aoyama Gosho-sama, except Tonic or Kirihana Shiro that is one of the main characters and my OC. If I owned Detective Conan Kaitou KID would show up more often.
Chapter 9: Sayonara
Conan looked at Ayumi, Genta and Mitsuhiko as they walked on their way to a boy's home. The boy had lost a really rare Kamen Yaiba-card at his home so he had given the Shonen Tantei a little mission: To find the card. The three kids had agreed in less then a second. There was just one that hadn't said anything - Conan was quiet. He wanted to go and ask Haibara and Kirihana about the car as fast as possible, because he wanted to make sure they didn't do it. But it looked like he had to wait. He sighed.
Ai and Shiro had woken up some minutes ago and Shiro blinked and yawned as Ai tried to fall asleep again. Shiro dropped her pencil and looked at the clock with tired eyes as she yawned for the third time. They had been asleep the whole day, and nobody did wake them up! She looked at Ai and then she smiled.
"Haibara... I got an idea how we can catch them but it could become dangerous for the person that gets the leading role in the plan..." the girl said as she looked at Ai.
The still tired Haibara Ai looked at her friend and colleague. They looked at each other without a word. Ai had a feeling that it would become more then dangerous for that person, but she didn't say anything. She just nodded.
"Let's hear it."
Then the black-haired girl told the other girl about her plan.
Conan sighed again as he called Ran from his cellphone. The Kamen Yaiba-card had been underneath the bed, and now the other kids wanted to follow him to Agasa's house and he couldn't shake them off him. It didn't look good. He had to tell Ran where he was heading. He loved Ran, and he wasn't able to stop thinking about her.
"Mouri's Detective Agency", Ran answered.
"Hi, Ran-neechan!" Conan chipped in the phone. "I'll go to Agasa-hakase's now! Is that okay?"
"Yeah, it is fine as long you're home before sundown. Be careful, Conan-kun," Ran answered.
It was easy. Conan hanged up. Now he just had one more thing to do. Ask Kirihana and Haibara about it when the other three left them alone for a while. Now they were standing in front of Agasa's home. They walked inside and were greeted by a tired Haibara and Agasa. Conan blinked.
"Where did Kirihana go?" he asked.
"Are you looking for someone?" a familiar voice answered and an young woman came out to them.
The woman was quite tall with messy, black hair and green eyes. Conan looked at the woman as he recognized her as Shiro, no, Tonic. The only time he saw her as an adult was when she was running away from Gin and Vodka, running for her life. Ayumi, Genta and Mitsuhiko looked at her.
"Who are you? Why do you look so much like Shiro-chan?" Ayumi asked.
"I am Kondou Sachiyo, Shiro's cousin", she answered.
Conan stared at her. So that was her real name? He blinked. It was not like Kirihana Shiro beside the fact that the letters in Shiro all existed in her real name except for R.
Shiro, no, Sachiyo, smiled at Conan and Ai and then she winked at them to follow her. The two seven-but-seventeen years old followed the older-but-not-at-all-older girl obediently and they walked down to the lab. Then Ai and Sachiyo explained the plan, and Conan reacted in the second.
"Are you two crazy!? It is too dangerous!" he said.
"Actually, it was Sachiyo that created the plan," Ai pointed out.
"I may be crazy, but that way we can put an end at the Organization. I'm going to be hunted down my whole life, and Ai too by the way, if we don't put an end at them", the woman answered. "Ai. In my note book I wrote down my theories. In case I die, look at them."
Conan shakes his head.
"I'm not going to let you die, Kondou. What ever you say-"
"You don't have a choice, Edogawa-kun. I already took the antidote", she grinned. "It is too late for me to retire from the plan."
Conan sighed, he knew that she was right. So she stood up at looked at the two children.
"I'm going to the town now. And you two are going with me, in case they spot me," she said and left the room.
Conan and Ai followed her out.
Gin sat in his car. It was starting to become dark, and he was waiting for Vodka who was inside that damned store. Then he saw something he never thought he would see. That woman stood a fair bit away from the car, across the way. The traitor, Tonic. Her short, black hair didn't make it easy to tell her apart from the crowd, neither did the black clothes, but her green, cold eyes was unmistakable, even in this crowd. He opened the cars door and strode out locking the door. Now Vodka came. Gin just gestured to his partner towards the traitor's direction and Vodka stared in surprise when he saw her.
"The traitor? She is out in the open?" he asked, confused.
"Yes, it is almost as if she wanted us to find her", Gin answered the question and started to walk towards the woman.
She turned around and saw them, and Gin would have sworn that he saw her smile, then she turned around and started to run away from them. The two men followed her unaware of the two children that stalked them. She was faster then usual. But they all three had quite a hard time to run in the crowd. It was the biggest reason that the children were able to follow them. Gin looked at the traitor's back. Why had she shown up like that in front of him, almost intentionally? As if she wanted to die. But he didn't need to complain. He wanted to send her to the other world himself.
Sachiyo had a hard time running through the crowd, but she moved fast. She smiled all the time. They followed her, and they probably would not notice Conan and Ai when most children were already was asleep and you would never think that two of them stalked you when you hunted another person. She knew that she had done two more pills of the antidote that she gave to Ai. They were able to go to the police as teenagers and tell them about this, get the two men arrested. If it went as planned.
Conan didn't like this plan, but it wasn't a single thing he was able to do to stop it, especially as she had already taken the antidote and as she had gotten Gin and Vodka to follow her now. He looked at her, unable to help as he didn't want to mess up the plan through showing himself, and she had convinced him that he shouldn't help her or protect her no matter what, if he did do that her plan wouldn't work. Conan wondered why she chose to do that herself, and didn't let anyone else do it.
Gin started to slowly get the traitor where he wanted her to be, a place there it weren't any witnesses that would be able to tell anyone who shot the woman. He put a silencer on his handgun, but made sure that none saw that, and looked at the woman's back when she ran, once again tried to escape him. It wasn't worth it. He almost got her now.
Sachiyo didn't stop before she wasn't able to run anymore. She turned so she stood with her back against the wall and looked at the two men in black that came in inside the ally where she had stopped. She looked frightened, even though she smiled inside. Now she was able to execute the plan. She was able to get them in jail. At last. Gin pointed his handgun at her.
"Where is Sherry, Tonic?" he asked with an ice-cold voice.
She looked at him, and laughed within herself even if she didn't show it. Yeah, Sherry. Gin didn't know that Sherry, or Haibara Ai that she was known as now, was sitting and watching them along with his third prey, Kudo Shinichi. But it was better to not tell him that. Where was she? Yeah... She knew where Ai was hiding, but Sherry? No, that depended how you looked at it.
"I don't know, Gin," she answered, with an ice-cold voice as well.
Gin's irritation was clear. Maybe she lied now. But maybe she didn't lie and she didn't know where Sherry was hiding. Whatever it was it made her useless. He raised his handgun so that it pointed at her head. Then she smiled, to Gin's big surprise. She smiled.
"I can still win," she said shortly.
"Oh, really? How?" he answered. "You got nothing left."
"Yes, I have. I still have something you want."
"And what should that be?"
Sachiyo, Shiro or Tonic smiled a really nice, and real, smile while she pulled out her gun from behind her back. It was now or never, and she should do it. The thing that Conan feared she would have to do, and both she herself and Ai knew that she had to do it if this should work. She looked at Gin who still pointed his handgun against her head.
"If I am going to die now, Gin," she began, "I can do it at my own terms."
So she raised her gun to her own temple with a smile and pulled the trigger, before Gin was able to understand the meaning of her words. As she pulled the trigger she whispered, hardly audible:
"Sayonara, Kudo-kun, Sherry..."
She smiled as she fell to the ground and the life left her, and Gin and Vodka just stood there unable to do anything. Gin growled in anger and shot the already dead body in his anger. That woman had killed herself, suicide. A last spit in Gin's eye. She had taken away his pleasure to kill her himself, fire the gun and watch her life escape her by his hand. Not like this! That woman always defied him. She had defied him till the last, she never shook with fear and never kneeled in front of his gun. Never.
"Come, Vodka," he said at last.
He turned his back to the dead woman and started to walk away from the crime scene. He had won, but she had gotten the last laugh. He should have been the one to kill her. It was an empty victory He wasn't aware of that one Edogawa Conan AKA Kudo Shinichi had called the police and while using Shinichi's voice explained exactly what happened in the ally with a sad expression on his face. Ai tried not to cry beside him.
When Gin came back to his car, one more big surprise awaited him in the shape of the police. The police waited there for him and Vodka. He walked over to them and the police, that stayed impolitely close to them, made a ring around them and just looked at them. Just as Gin was going to ask what was going on one of them said:
"Gin. Vodka. You two are arrested for the forced suicide of Kondou Sachiyo."
Gin felt how his wrists became put in handcuffs and he saw how Vodka shared his fate. But still, he was in shock. How was it that the police were able to know their code names now? And what did he mean by forced suicide? She had shot herself. And if the police found her body, even at this short time, they would just think it was suicide. And even if they figured out that she wouldn't shoot herself at a place like that so was it impossible for them to say that he had been in contact with her. It was impossible for her to survive that and there weren't any witnesses, how did they then success in figuring it out? Then he saw the two kids. Edogawa Conan and his friend. The girl was crying while the boy just looked incredible sad. Then it hit him.
It must have been the boy that somehow figured out their code names and then seen how they forced Tonic into the ally and then had seen her, without any options left, shoot herself in the head with those words. And the boy seemed much smarter then a child should be allowed to be. There was something that wasn't right about that young boy, but what exactly was it? He had to more or less follow the police now, and the children followed them, to get a ride home.
Conan looked at the two men in black that had destroyed his life. And now they had also taken a good friend and ally away from him too. He had thought he should have more time to become an even better friend with Kondou Sachiyo AKA Tonic AKA Kirihana Shiro. He missed the intelligent look in the cold, green eyes and the small talk between him, her and Haibara. They had just known each other for a couple of days and now she was dead. He hated his cursed luck. He was followed by dead bodies. Couldn't it stop for once in his life? This time it got one that had been close to him...
Ai tried to keep her tears to herself, even if she just wanted to lie down on the ground and cry till the tears ended, even if it took the whole night. She and the other girl had become really good friends in the few days they really knew each other. She was dead now. Stupid Kudo-kun. He was such a body-magnet that it couldn't be true. And now she was dead. Ai made a fist and then she looked at Gin with a really dark look. He had killed her sister, Akemi, and now it was Sachiyo. To not speak of everything else they done, lives they've destroyed and people they've killed... It was now they would bring down the Organization. Once and for all.
The trial went unexpectedly well. Ai and Conan took the antidote the two girls had made and witness in court as Kudo Shinichi and Miyano Shiho. Shinichi told an unbelievable story, from the Roller coaster-murder: How he had been forced to take a drug, the bomb at the train, Akemi's death, how he had hidden himself and not dared to show himself but helped Mouri Kogoro to become a great detective... Though he refused to tell anyone exactly where he hid himself. Shinichi's story took a whole day. Then it was Shiho's turn. She told them about the drug she had been creating, her sister's death and how she took her own drug to die but survived, about her fear to be discovered and that 'Kudo-kun' had been the one that made her life more safe, the attempted murder at her on the roof... Everything. Gin and Vodka ended up in jail.
Gin glared at the other prisoner in the cell across the corridor that was laughing. He was very annoyed. Tonic hadn't just got the last laugh when she took away his joy of killing her by dying at her own terms, suicide but she also took his empty victory away from him. He was sure at she had done some deal with Kudo Shinichi and Sherry. He was sure of that. He looked at Vodka, who now wasn't his partner but his cellmate. They both had got their handguns taken away from them, and he sure wasn't happy about it.
If she hadn't done a deal with those two, then it should have been impossible for the police to figure out that the suicide was a forced suicide, and then it should also have been impossible for the two teenagers to have seen it. He wasn't happy. Then he remembered what the woman said as her last words.
Sayonara, Kudo-kun, Sherry.
She had definitely something to do with them, but how had they been able to come in contact with each other when the Organization wasn't able to find out anything about them? Now they probably were going to draw out the Black Organization from the shadows and put them in jail with him. He cursed.
Nothing fun left. Now it is just the epilogue left. See ya!
Thank you ShonaiulaRose that beta'ed this chapter to.