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Yeah! I'm glad you love it! Sorry for the late update! School just LOVE to ruin teenager's life... haha jk
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Chapter 11: Bathe in Moonlight
It was Kid's heist night.
As the shrunken detective predicted, Ran was dragged to the Kid's heist by Sonoko. She was very tense though, never relaxing more than a minute. She took a quick look around the heist place. They (Ran, Kazuha and Sonoko) stood in front of the building, where it had been thoughtfully reserved by the gentleman thief. They've earned some death glare from many of Kid's crazed fan girls but the gaze soon was swallowed by Sonoko's undefeatable glare back.
"I knew Kid-sama would fall for me one day! He even reserved the best spot for us!"
"I'm not much of a Kid fan but I like it," Kazuha commented. "Except Heji... He's..." She trailed off, staring at the building in front of her, buzzing with cops.
"Hai, hai. You want to be with your boyfriend, right?"
Kazuha blushed furiously and slowly nodded. "But it's okay. I'll only get in his way..."
"That's nonsense! Why would- Oh, Ran help me out here!"
"What?" She asked feeling lost. She was busy searching for someone... Possibly some THING but she didn't know. She felt THEM. Although she didn't know who them is. She looked around once more, searching for anything-anything at all. "Sorry, Sonoko... Just feeling a little jumpy."
Sonoko checked her watch in impatience. "There's still thirty minutes left until the heist starts. And with so many people in one place in middle of summer, it sure is hot," she complained, fanning herself.
"Too bad that jewel is not your uncle's collection, ne? Then we would be in the building, most likely, than frying outside," Kazuha commented to Sonoko who nodded and pouted.
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Few miles away from the heist building in the local park, a little girl with light brown hair and piercing blue eyes wearing a short skirt that reached only up to her mid thigh, showing off her smooth athletic legs and layers of tank tops with a light jacket with rolled sleeves over it, waited by the fountains. It was already dark and it's been long since the stars began to show.
She waited and waited, checking her watch every once in a while. Until a white figure in a hang glider landed gently near her.
Smirking Kaitou Kid said to the girl as he handed a white rose that magically appeared in his hand, "You look beautiful, Tantei-kun. You should dress like that more often."
The girl/boy frowned at him itching to kick something at him but held it down, thinking back to his skirt that was WAY too short for his taste. "I still can't believe she managed to persuade me to wear this. Even Kaa-san couldn't make me," the shrunken highschooler grumbled.
Kaitou Kid laughed. "Well, we've got to go." Holding on to the little girl/boy's hand, he went inside the nearest tall building around. When he reached the roof, he warned to his little critic, "Hold on tight!" And he jumped, holding the detective with his strong grip and activating the hang glider.
"Ahh!" A scream escaped the 17-year-old-now-7-year-old boy. His face beet red he yelled at the Phantom thief, "Baro! I'm wearing a freaking skirt! You never said anything about flying!"
"Well then, Tantei-kun? What did you expect?"
Conan groaned. "So what's the plan?"
"Nothing complicated, I assure you..."
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At the strike of ten fifty, Kid appeared with a fancy pink smoke and a little girl about seven next to him.
"Ladies and gentlemen!" Kid exclaimed, with a booming voice. "I thank you all for this lovely gift." Hakuba was in the corner of the room, and gave a quick look at the thief and then turned his attention away to the surrounding. Must be because of the last heist with snipers. Kaito thought silently behind his poker face.
"Kid!" Nakamouri exclaimed. "What's with that girl next to you?"
That got Hakuba's attention. Kid brought a girl to the heist?
"Oh, she is my special guest tonight. I was thinking of doing this with Mouri-san but I figured little Ojo-san here would like it better." Conan shot him a glare but said nothing. "So my little maiden, how did you like it?" Handing the kid a small white rose, he smiled.
Conan narrowed his eyes. I still got the rose from before, baro. But with his best imitation of a girl he replied with a giggle, "Arigato, Kid-san."
Kid gave the tantei an amused look before turning back to the inspector. "I thank you for the entertainment, keibu-san, but I most go if you don't mind..."
"Kid, when I catch you, you'll be charged with kidnapping too!"
The Phantom Thief tsked. "That's if you catch me, keibu-san. And her mother wouldn't mind. I'm her baby-sitter for tonight. Not that her mom knows but do not fret my dear keibu. I always give back what I stole..." Then the jewel he was holding glowed red in the moonlight. How is that possible? Didn't I find Pandora a month ago? And I thought it was a pearl and this is a sapphire!
Nakamouri caught Kid's shocked look. "What's wrong Kid?" Hakuba saw it too. It wasn't like him that he would show his shock.
He barely caught the thief saying, "Maybe not always..."
Nakamouri's eyes widened, realizing what Kid had meant. "You ain't keeping that gem! Dog pile!"
Kid's head snapped up and dodged the police officers easily, grabbing the girl and disappeared with a pink smoke.
The girl's eyes grew large and hissed to the thief, "We need to lose them. I saw Gin. It was far away but I saw him just across the building! Now all the hell is about to break lose. Get the Task Force out of the building, now!"
"Damn, already? Oh, crap! Did they saw the stone glow red?"
"I don't know... Anyway, we've got our own work to do now!"
"Oh, yeah... Here!" Kid tossed the gem at the stunned tantei.
"What?"
"I said it in the note, didn't I? It said: 'It shall be stolen the way it fits its name.' And to prove my point I even call you "little maiden." The way to steal the Maiden's Heart would be stealing the maiden who has the heart, ne?"
Conan was struck with realization. "You! You convinced Maccully to dress me up like this? Just so I could be your "maiden" in your stupid heist?"
The thief pulled a fake hurt look. "You wound me, Tantei-kun. You know as well as I do that my heist is far from stupid."
"Yeah, it's insane," Conan grumbled. "You will pay for this, after we take care of few things..." Conan slightly lifted his skirt revealing a gun holder strapped on to his thigh. He slipped the gem with the gun that Maccully had given him, and then followed the damn thief that made him wear girl's clothes.
As expected, the Task Force caught up to the thief with a little help from Hakuba when a single shot was fired at Kid which he dodged with his experience and luck.
"What the-!" Kaito cursed. "Out of the building, now! All of you!"
"No way, Kid," Nakamouri growled. "No one randomly just shoot in my town! Team Alpha, we go after the shooter! The rest, go after Kid!" With that said he went toward where the bullet has come from while the rest stood there, frozen, confused with what was happening right now. But they got themselves together and while the Team Alpha followed Nakamouri, the rest continued to pursue the thief. Hakuba stood there, hesitating then making up his mind he followed Team Alpha.
Crap, crap, crap... Kaitou Kid cursed to himself.
"Kid, let go of me!" Chibi tantei screamed.
"But-"
"I cannot live, knowing that I cost those people their lives!"
"That'll be the same for me!" Kid pressed with his eyes hard with concern.
"I'll be back. I promise."
There was a long uncomfortable silence before the thief sighed in defeat. "You better, because if you don't I might shoot you myself."
"I thought you were non-violent," Conan countered.
"Yeah, so don't make me change that." The Phantom Thief's grip loosened letting the girl/boy drop. For a second, the remaining Task Force hesitated, whether to follow the girl or Kid when the girl ran toward the place where the bullet was fired.
Snapping out of panic, one of the officers picked up his walkie-talkie and reported, "The little girl is headed your way, Nakamouri-keibu!"
"What?" The voice of the loud mouthed keibu was heard through the machine. "Shit, I knew from the start that the girl will eventually cause trouble. Team Beta, follow the girl-" The machine was sliced in to two by the metal projectiles from Kid's card gun.
"Heh. I thought you guys were chasing me? Never mind then..." Other officers tried to search for their own walkie-talkie when Kid interrupted, "If you're looking for the walkie-talkie, I pick-pocketed from you guys a long time ago. Well, ja ne!"
That got the men's attention to the thief. Without thinking too hard about it the men chased the thief.
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Breathing hard, Conan barely caught up to the cops. He didn't know how he did it. He, a child of an age 7, caught up to highly trained and physically fit cops. Maybe the occasional bullets did it only grazing few of the officers. Thankfully no one was dead. Conan stood in front of the cops with his arms spread out, signaling them to stop which surprisingly worked. He/she put a finger to her lips and the men calmed down and prepared themselves with their guns, all ready and loaded. Only Hakuba stood there, unarmed.
"You know how to fire?" Conan asked, still imitating a girl's voice. He found it surprising that he was actually good at it.
Hakuba nodded. Conan sighed and slipped his hand under the skirt and pulled out a revolver. Throwing the gun at him, Conan said coolly, "Here." Hakuba stared at the gun. Before he could even ask the child why she was even carrying a gun she said, "Don't ask."
"Do you know Kid, personally?"
Conan stared at the blond detective with tired eyes no seven year olds should have. "And if I do?"
Hakuba raised his eyebrows. 'She knows Kuroba?' Clearing his throat, the half Brit asked, "You do know that you are in a way helping the criminal?"
Conan smirked. "I know. I may not look like it but I am a detective too. A good one at that and you can count on it. But I think that sometimes Kid poses so little threat compared to others. And sometimes and lately a lot of times I work with the dark side of law in order to catch a bigger fish than others who would cause little threat to the public. It seems that YOU know who Kid really is," Conan eyed the blond detective with a sharp eye.
Hakuba shrugged, "Didn't have any solid evidence to prove them. I will soon though." The disguised boy just nodded. You have a bright mind, Ojo-san! But crime is still a crime."
"So it is..." The girl/boy said with a distant look in her/his eyes. "That's what I thought at first too." Then he stiffened. He could feel Them. He could feel Gin... Conan instantly turned around, in full alert. Startled by the child's sudden reaction, Hakuba held his gun up.
"You have a sharp instinct, kid..." A cold voice echoed in the hallway. Task Force slightly drew back, and so did Hakuba but Conan stare down at the blond. A smirk appeared as the blond murderer pointed a gun them. "Now hand over the girl."
Gin, Conan mouthed hatefully. Conan frowned; did he know that I had the jewel? How did Gin know about that? He figured out what the heist note meant? He even bothered to look at the heist note?
"Why would you want the girl?" Hakuba asked cautiously.
"Well she should know. She has the jewel. Be a nice kid and hand over the jewel and I might let you live."
Conan's icy blue eyes now burned in hate. "Liar, you'll kill them and me no matter what I do."
"Heh, smart kid. That's right. I guess I'll just kill you all and take it."
Conan tried to hide his fear when his eyes widened and smirked. Hakuba obviously noticed the child's smirk. Before anyone could do anything, the blond killer collapsed as a gun connected to his head, taking in a pretty hard blow.
"Maccully," Conan greeted her. "Didn't know you had it in you."
"Hmm, is that so? And I thought I told you to take care of yourself."
"Well, turns out it's easier said than done."
Maccully nodded in understanding. Finally noticing the stares from the officers, she answered for them, showing her fake-but-real-looking-badge, "My name is Christen Delia, a FBI agent." Some of the Task Force nodded in understanding when Hakuba and Nakamouri frowned.
"What the hell is FBI doing here? And you know her?" Nakamouri asked Conan.
"She's my cousin from America! She said she came here to work!" Conan replied cheerfully.
"You still need Japan Police's permission to get involved like this."
"But I saved your butt, didn't I?"
"But..."
"What us going on here? Why were you here in the first place with a gun?" Nakamouri yelled at her. But Maccully completely ignored him.
"Speaking of guns..." She eyed the gun that the blond detective was gripping and back to the girl.
Noticing her glares Conan replied shrugging, "I thought he needed it."
"Hmm. Fine. But I need it back." With a quick movement, the gun was in her hands. Hakuba stared at her, stunned.
"Are you...Kid?" Hakuba asked.
"Don't be ridiculous," Maccully scoffed. "I really dare the thief to disguise as me. But…he wouldn't." Then she smiled wickedly at Hakuba's frown. Inside, she thought to herself, there are too many people here and Vermouth is taking care of Snake's gang. She glanced up in the sky looking at the bright full moon. I'll have to take my chance with the moon.
Behind her blue contacts lens, her blood red iris changed colors. Men froze, staring into her gaze. Only Conan wasn't affected by it but felt a slight chill down his back. Something wasn't supposed to happen. It was…unnatural…
"Get out of the building, now." Maccully commanded in a hypnotizing voice. The next happened pretty fast. With Nakamouri and Hakuba leading, the men hurriedly ran out if the building.
"You have al lot of explaining to do." Conan growled.
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Kid stepped into the empty hallway. With the Task Force chasing the dummy outside of the building. Only one was left... Not including Tantei-kun's worth of the cops and Hakuba. He reached the closet and unlocked it. When he opened it, Hattori Heji was there gagged and glaring at him with his intelligent emerald eyes.
Kid removed the gag and winced as Hattori shouted in such loud voice that would've almost put Nakamouri's in same.
"WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON? WHY DID YOU TIE ME UP? DAMMIT!"
"We have to talk," Kid managed to say with his ears still ringing.
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"Damn," the disguised teen said as she slumped to the floor, breathing hard.
"Oi, you okay?" Conan said in concern.
"F-fine," she answered.
She's stammering... A girl who has perfected the "poker face" is stammering. She is absolutely NOT fine!
"Get me t-to the roof," she said.
"Okay, but I'm just going to warn you that I am at the moment, seven years old."
She groaned in frustration. "Well, I can help with that." Maccully's head snapped up only to see the famous thief grinning at her. "Something got you exhausted so much you can't keep a straight poker face. So what happened?"
"Eh, let's just say she has a lot of explaining to do." Conan answered in her place while the girl looked away. He helped her on to the back of the thief and started running toward the roof.
Then she tensed and whispered, "Hakuba Saguru..."
"What?"
"He's..." Damn, she was seeing spots. Second by second, she was feeling more tired. I can't lose consciousness now... Come on! But the sky didn't answer to her prayers as she was plunged into the darkness.
"O-oi!" Kid yelled. "Is she okay?"
"Yeah," the chibi tantei answered. "Just lost consciousness. Whatever her reason is, we have to get to the roof."
"Already here," the thief announced as he opened the door to the roof. Bright silky moonlight bathed them as hot humid summer air joined. Putting the girl down, he asked, "Now what?"
"Hello, Kid." The Phantom Thief froze at the voice.
He growled back, "Snake." The shrunken teen was beside the thief with his hands over the wrist watch, ready to aim.
As moonlight poured on to the unconscious girl, they did not notice that behind her dark clothing, there was a glow of red in her chest...
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