Konbanwa! Sapphire Nightshade here! Sorry for the late update, but the next chapter has been written! I've been working on a couple different fanfics at once, but this one's next chapter is finally done. And if you're curious about the change name of the chapter title (saying Satsujin Jiken instead of Murder Case), I just switched the English with Japanese. It still says the same thing.

Good job FanficEater for guessing it right ;)

I tried some dragon fruit today . . . it tastes weird . . .

Anyway . . . next chapter!

Chapter 10: Conan Suspected Satsujin Jiken, Part 2:

"Please," Detective Takagi for the second time, "Can you tell us what you were doing during the time of the crime?"

Mitsudari-san was the first one who spoke up, "Listen," he said, "I have absolutely nothing to do with this case, alright? But I'll tell you anyway. Let's see . . . Around ten, I was in that convenience store around the corner. My wife had asked me to buy some onigiri for today's lunch and I wanted to get there early so I could work on my new book."

"I see," Detective Takagi replied, writing in his notebook.

Yamasuki-san answered next. "Around ten I had just come back from the other side of town. I was on my way home when you guys brought me here."

"Is there anyone who can testify to that?" Detective Satou asked.

Yamasuki-san thought about it. "Well, I did buy a pineapple. The foreign foods shop employee could testify to that."

"A pineapple?"

"Well, yeah. I went to buy some foreign foods for an exotic dinner for a surprise party that I was planning for my friend. None of my other friends know yet, though. I was planning on telling them soon."

"Someone check that," Inspector Megure said to a bystanding officer. He ran off to do what the inspector had asked.

"What about you?" Detective Takagi asked the last remaining person: Ryunosuke Futami-san.

She sniffed, finally able to contain her tears, and replied, "How could you suspect me as well as those two?" she asked sadly. "I'm his girlfriend!"

It's been done before, Conan thought, thinking about the roller coaster case at Tropical Island, the day he had been attacked by Gin and turned into Conan.

However, Ryunosuke-san still answered the question. "I . . . I was out eating breakfast with Chitose," she managed to say through her tear-stained voice, "We were spending the day out, and afterwards were going to watch a movie. But right after we finished breakfast at a restaurant, Chitose said he had to do something really quickly and that it would only take a couple minutes. He told me to wait outside until he had come back." Her voice cracked and she broke down into tears once again.

"I see," Detective Mouri said, looking thoughtful. "I think I've got it." Detective Takagi, Detective Satou, and Inspector Megure looked at him expectantly, gesturing him to continue. Heiji and Conan sighed, getting ready for another deduction that was most likely far from the truth. "The culprit is . . . you!" he said, pointing at Ryunosuke-san.

Ryunosuke looked up, startled. "H-how could you think it was me?" she sniffed sadly.

"It's obvious," he replied, "You're the only one without a secure alibi. You were spending the day with Chitose, who has now passed away and cannot affirm your alibi."

"But Ojisan!" Conan said in his little kid voice, "Wouldn't one of the people in the restaurant have seen her waiting outside?"

"Baka!" he replied, "Why would one of the employees keep an eye on someone who wasn't even in the restaurant?!"

"Oh!" Ryunosuke-san said suddenly, "I remember now. The waitress who was at our table called me back inside, because Chitose and I had forgotten to pay the bill."

"Taku," Detective Mouri replied irritably, "How could you forget such an important detail?"

"So then," Inspector Megure said almost to himself, "We could have missed the actual murder, who might be long gone by now."

No, Conan thought, The culprit has to be one of these people. Which means, one of their alibis are fake.

After the alibi questioning, Conan left the crime scene for a few minutes, Heiji following, and went around the corner. "Okay," Conan asked the "child", crossing his arms, "What are you doing here?"

Raiden shrugged, "I was bored. He," he pointed to Heiji, "started running after the police cars and so I followed him." Conan glanced up at Heiji.

"Hey, I didn't know the kid was following me," Heiji defended himself. "I thought he had come with Mouri-san. They showed up around the same time." Raiden decided to tolerate the fact that Heiji had called him a kid, even if that was his nickname.

"Well, anyway," Conan said, "You should go back home. You'll just get in the way here."

Raiden crossed his arms defiantly. "No, I won't. I'll stay back here." Maybe he could also keep an eye on the little detective just in case they got out of this situation and Conan was chasing him down again.

Conan looked at him suspiciously, but said, "Fine, just don't get in the way."

When Conan and Heiji walked back to the crime scene, they found that forensics had reported while they were talking to Raiden. Sawamura-san had indeed died from bleeding to death. However, there were two types of blood found on the body, one having a much smaller quantity than the other. Yet another clue. The murderer must have somehow gotten his or her own blood onto the corpse.

Conan and Heiji pondered this for a while. The first person that came to mind was Yamasuki-san because of the scratches on his hands. So far, his alibi hadn't been confirmed yet, but that didn't mean that it wasn't true.

As Conan had that thought, he noticed that one of the police officers had come back. The officer briskly walked over to Inspector Megure, Detective Mouri, Detective Takagi and Detective Satou, who were grouped together talking about possible culprits and whether it was done by someone else that they hadn't found or not. The officer whispered something to the inspector and showed him a few pieces of paper. Curious, Conan followed.

As he came closer, he realized that the pieces of paper were actually pictures. Ah, so this must have been the officer that left to confirm Yamasuki's alibi. He had been so distracted with the case (and Raiden) that he had forgotten about that.

He peeked over and was able to see the pictures enough to confirm that Yamasuki-san's alibi was indeed confirmed before that annoying excuse for a detective bent down to him and said, "What are you doing?"

"Heh heh," Conan said in his childish voice. Then he walked away, rubbing the top of his head where Mouri had hit him. Taku, he thought, I wish he would stop doing that. After regaining his composure, he thought, Well, so far everybody's alibi has been confirmed. So then, what's the trick? Was this murder really done by one of those three?

Don't ask about the random pineapple. I don't really know why I did that. I first just put it in as a joke-like thing and was gonna erase it, but then decided to keep it in. I mean, I've gotta have some sort of weird thing in each of my stories. I had to put the pineapple in there. I don't even know if there actually are stores that sell exotic fruits like pineapples, coconuts and dragon fruit in Japan or not. Probably.

Conan is getting confused, but he needs to solve the case! There is only one truth! There is always one truth! One truth prevails! Shinjitsu wa itsumo hitotsu! (Was that too much?) Oh yeah, he also needs to find that mysterious person that made Haibara feel like someone from the Black Organization was near. That person wasn't even mentioned in this chapter, was s/he? Oh well.

Ja ne!