Project Arachne

by katiesparks

Base is being abandoned. I am being looked at closely for accounts of treason. We are leaving Arachne here, though I desperately wish to take her with us. She is merely a child. I’m leaving behind this notebook; please, someone, find her- SxR Massive AU

10. Disappearing Act

"Okay, Ran, are you ready?" Shinichi asked and she nodded and pulled the blanket around her shoulders up over her head like a hood. "I'll go out first and then I'll come back for you."

Shinichi slipped out the front door and was blinded with camera flashes. Multiple reports called out rounds of "Kudo-san, Kudo-san!" and buoyed for his attention.

"Quiet! Ran and I are about to go somewhere and if anyone takes a picture of her, we will be suing them, do you understand? News stations will be sued, webmasters will be sued, anyone who shows up with a picture will be punished to the fullest extent of the law!" Shinichi called out and the crowd roared in displeasure.

Shinichi slipped back in, putting his arm around Ran's thin shoulders and leading her cloaked form out of the house. "Are you okay?"

"I'll be okay." She said and they started down the walk. The crowd parted before them like the red sea, the police's warning had only kept them at bay for so long. Ran held on tightly to her cover and she felt the hands that brushed at it, tugging slightly as she passed in hopes she'd lose her grip and show them her true face, unblurred by a low quality cell phone camera's resolution.

"The next hand that pulls at the blanket is getting cut off." Shinichi growled and the pulling stopped almost immediately. Suddenly, a nondescript car pulled up at the road, the driver and passenger both wearing ski masks, though they were only glimpsed for a second through the windshield, as all the other windows were darkly tinted. Shinichi and Ran got in and the car drove off immediantely.

The driver and passenger pulled off their masks, revealing a scowling Aoko as she drover the car, glancing out the windows every couple of seconds, obviously aware that she wasn't old enough to drive, and a grinning Kaito, who climbed over the front seat and into the back with Shinichi and Ran, bringing with him a couple of masks and a ton of makeup.

"Now then," Kaito said with a grin border lining maniac, "time for one of my favorite magic tricks, the Disappearing Act."