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Chapter Summary: Bored, Hakuba attends a party with his father and meets other officers throughout the various regions, including Hattori Heizo and his son Heiji.

I really wish Detective Conan and Magic Kaito belonged to me, sadly they do not.


Chapter 11: Hush Little Baby

He was bored.

Usually, if he didn't have any cases, there were no Kid heists, and school was dull at the moment, then he would be in his library reading. Only he wasn't in the mood to read, nor did he feel inclined to talk with anyone but that choice was taken from him the moment his father called.

Apparently, there was to be a social gathering of all heads of police from Beika, Ekoda, and a few stations in the Osaka region. His father wanted him to come and meet his fellow policeman even though Hakuba was pretty sure his father wasn't close with any of the others like he pretended to be.

Scowling at his reflection, Hakuba supposed at least now he had something to do.

The train ride to the restaurant took 16 minutes and 32 seconds, and it took 5 minutes for them to approve for Hakuba to enter since he did not arrive with his father. Which led to him being a minute late, others didn't seem to notice but Hakuba certainly did.

"Oh! Here comes my son,"

Hakuba followed the voice and saw his father waving him over to a table off to the side. There were two other people standing near him but Hakuba couldn't see who they were from where he was.

Sighing, Hakuba forced a smile on his face as he calmly walked over to his father.

"Saguru I want you to meet Hattori Heizo-san and this is his son, Heiji-kun."

Hakuba looked over at the duo and while Heizo-san seemed indifferent towards him, his son, on the other hand, looked like he'd been forced to drink sour milk.

Hakuba bowed and said, "It's nice to meet you, Sir." Looking over at Hattori's reddening face, Hakuba added, "You as well Hattori-kun."

Hattori shot him a confused look but Hakuba didn't pay him any attention as his father seemed to be finishing up any conversation with Heizo-san and was already guiding Hakuba away to meet other officers.

It wasn't until hours later when Hakuba had hurried out to a balcony to have just a moment away from the party that he'd run into Hattori again. Seeing the hot-blooded Kansai Detective already out on the balcony was enough to tempt him to go back inside but Hakuba didn't want to go back to the party just yet.

He walked to the other end of the balcony and stood there, they stayed in silence for barely a few seconds before Hattori turned towards him.

"What's wrong wit' ya?" Hattori asked bluntly causing Hakuba to blink at him.

"Pardon me?"

Hattori scowled at him and crossed his arms over his chest, "Why're ya actin' so weird?!"

Hakuba gave Hattori a deadpan stare, "Nice to know you're weirded out by me. If you don't mind I came out here for some peace and quiet."

Hakuba watched in small amusement as Hattori started muttering under his breath about "idiots" and "stupid Brit." before he scratched the back of his neck and look him in the eye.

"I was wonderin' why ya...why are ya wearing a mask in front of everyone 'ere?" Hattori raised an eyebrow, "It was like a different person in there then da annoying Detective I met before."

Hakuba leaned against the railing and calmly said with a smile, "How do you know this is a mask and not who you seem to think I am?"

"Wh-"

Hakuba threw himself at Hattori and tackled him to the ground just as a bullet shattered the glass door where Hattori was standing just moments before, people began screaming inside.

"Oi!" Hattori yelled pushing at Hakuba's chest.

Hakuba was already on his feet, racing back inside and out the front doors, ignoring all the others, and heading towards the only possible building that the shot could've come from.

The building itself was long since abandoned, the doors weren't even properly locked so Hakuba was able to easily get inside. He was somewhat worried that he may run into the sniper coming down as he went up, but he dismissed the thought. A quick glance up the stairwells showed no one else on them and he doubted the sniper would risk injury taking the elevator of a poorly maintained building.

By the time he made it up seven flights of stairs, Hakuba was panting loudly and out of breath. He was generally a good runner but even he had his limits. From what he saw from the balcony, the sniper should be somewhere on this floor.

Shutting his mouth and breathing only through his nose, Hakuba slowly crept down the hallway and checked one room after another before he finally stopped at the last door for a room facing the restaurant Hattori and he was on the balcony of.

The door was already open, broken off its hinges due to rust if the state of the metal had any say in the matter. Hakuba quietly eased himself into the room, there were tarps hanging up all over the room, most from cables across the ceiling which kept him from seeing most of the room unless he moved the tarps.

Not liking the position this put him in, Hakuba stuck to the outline of the room and inched his way through the room, it was as he neared the windows and a women's voice sounded throughout the room that he froze.

"Damn!... Yeah, I missed. That teen with him pushed him out of the way….got it….Oh, shut the hell up...Come to pick me up already, Korn."

Hearing the name Hakuba's mind immediately went back to her explanation too how she died and how she had worked for an organization with alcohol code names. It could've just been a coincidence that the person on the line was named Korn but Hakuba didn't believe that one bit.

What truly worried him was the sniper in front of him, he couldn't help but wonder why they wanted to kill Hattori of all people and if they were as dangerous as Akemi-san said, then he was in trouble.

Not wanting to take the risk, Hakuba took a step back but he didn't see the pole laying on the ground beside him and ended up tripping over it. He fell to the ground with a loud bang, he froze where he was as silence engulfed the room.

Something whizzed past his head, stinging his cheek.

Hakuba could feel the blood running down his cheek and quickly dropped down to the ground just as bullets impacted the concrete wall behind him. Once the barrage of bullets paused, Hakuba ran to the room's entrance and took off down the stairs, three steps at a time. It was just as he was running down the fifth level stairwell that he happened to look up and see the sniper woman leaning over the railing to point her rifle down at him.

Cursing under his breath, Hakuba continued running as fast as he could until he made it to the first level stairwell at which point he leaped over the railing onto the ground level and took off running out the back way of the building. He didn't want to risk running into whoever this Korn person was. As he was running outside and away from the building, he saw a black car pull up in front of the building and the woman sniper running out to the car. It was too dark for him to see the make and model but he was able to see some of the woman's features at least.

Hiding in an alleyway two blocks away, Hakuba watched them drive off and how minutes later guests of the party all came rushing outside and into their cars. Hakuba assumed this meant the officers at the party noticed the assassination attempt or Hattori managed to convince them all to leave, it may have been the first one as the latter didn't explain the guests screams earlier. Unless Hattori wasn't the only intended target.

Worried that someone may have been killed, Hakuba made his way back to the restaurant. He barely made it past the entrance before someone grabbed a hold of his bicep and pulled him off to the side down an unoccupied hallway.

"You Idiot! Where did ya go?!"

Hattori grabbed Hakuba's other arm as well and forcibly turned him to face him, the reaction was immediate. Hattori's voice trailed off and his eyes focused on Hakuba's face, he seemed to pale slightly as he saw the blood.

"What the…"

"Could you let go of me." Hakuba tried to shrug Hattori off irritably. He was sweaty, still slightly out of breath, his suit was no doubt dirted and his body was sore.

Hattori didn't let go, instead, his grip tightened, "Ya got shot?"

"It's just a graze," Hakuba sighed knowing Hattori wouldn't let up on the matter until he knew what he needed to know, "I ran after the sniper and she shot at me."

"WHAT?!"

"Stop yelling!" Hakuba snapped, "I don't see why you're so shocked, Snipers shoot, I was shot. That's all. Now will you please be quiet and let me finish telling you what happened?"

When Hattori didn't respond Hakuba nodded at him, "Wasn't so hard now was it? Anyway, the sniper was a woman, although I don't know why an assassin would be after you of all people. I found her in the last room facing the restaurant on the seventh level at exactly 10:23:04 PM. She didn't see me but she heard me which is why she only managed to graze me."

Hakuba leaned towards a grim looking Hattori and whispered, "She was on the phone with her partner, Korn."

Just that one word and Hattori closed off any to all emotions but he couldn't control the way his body reacted as he paled drastically, his eyes widened in fear and his hands clenched into fists. Hakuba watched all of this intently before softly stating, "You know who they are."

"Nah," Hattori looked away and turned his cap around on his head so it was facing backward, "I don' know who they are."

"You're lying." Hakuba declared and ignored the pissed off to the point of pleading glare Hattori was giving him, "...Fine. I'll mind my own business for now."

Turning around Hakuba threw of his shoulder, "But make sure you and Edogawa-kun are careful. Especially if it's the crows after you."

Hakuba almost lost his balance as Hattori jerked on his arm and forced him to look at him once again, "Da hell do ya mean by that!"

Remembering an old nursery rhyme he'd heard growing up, Hakuba sang under his breath the crow counting rhyme, startling Hattori badly enough that he'd let go to stare at Hakuba with an unreadable expression, and once he was finished, Hakuba rushed off.

"One for sorrow

Two for mirth

Three for a wedding

And Four for a birth

Five for silver

Six for gold

And Seven for a secret never to be told,"


This the crow counting rhyme is real and I found it on Pinterest so it though it suited the situation/story well enough.