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Shiroi Mi.

2 weeks after the Kid heist, Conan was walking back to Mouri tantei agency from sulking. Well, the boy himself would never admit it, but he was sulking alright. He had played the part of the fool in the last KID heist without knowing that he played it, making him more of the fool than ever. The stupid kiss, the crowd, the so stupidly simple strategy that is so stupidly unorthodox and so stupidly…. (blah blah blah blah) But all in all, summing it up with 1 word is: SULKING.

"Mou. Conan-kun are you even listening?" Mitsuhiko asked in a high-pitched tone, irritated.

Conan halted in his mindless walk with a slight startle. "Huh? Eh? Er? Yes." Which totally mean DUH-I-WAS-NOT-LISTENING.

The shounen tantei-dan gave a unison sigh.

"Conan kun you seem really out of it these days." Ayumi asked in a concerned voice. "Are you not feeling well?"

"well, Of course Edogawa-kun is not feeling well, he hasn't recovered since the last KID heist." Ai added with a smirk, earning herself a glare from Conan which did not bother her at all.

"Oh." Ayumi said with a sad, full of pity smile. "That must have been traumatizing. " ayumi murmured with slumped shoulders and a heavy sigh. For one, Ayumi wasn't particularly happy at having her Conan kun stolen by a thief, even if it was a thief she fancied.

Seeing that the direction of the conversation was going in the wrong direction, Conan put both hands in front of him in a STOP sign. "hey. Hey. Let's not go into that. Sorry Mitsuhiko, where were you just now?"

Mitsuhiko seemed more than happy to pick back the previous conversation. "As I was saying Conan-kun, there is going to be a limited time sale for Secrets of the Abyss Game 2 of the series. It is going to be on tomorrow at the Haido City Mall."

"Oh. Sure, let's go to the Haido City Mall tomorrow and get it." Conan said with feigned excitement. He would do almost anything to get the conversation off that KID topic. Haibara gave him a knowing look before passing him and walking more towards the front, joining Ayumi at the head of the shounen tantei-dan. Conan scowled at Haibara's back.

Once again, Conan found himself in a shopping mall. A place he didn't particularly like especially with all the noise and crowd. And worst of all, he found himself in the game section of a VCD shop looking at computer games which he utterly had no interest in. Haibara had accompanied Hakase to his medical checkup and escaped from this. The Shinichi inside gave a big sigh.

Conan stood by the shelf that screamed "DISCOUNTS! COMPUTER GAMES" and fingered lightly the various boxes of games on the shelf. His eyes, although glancing over everything, weren't seeing anything. "Conan-kun, are you buying that?" Ayumi asked as she and the tantei-dan walked up behind him.

Conan was startled slightly (again) by her voice and glanced to see the package which he had subconsciously been holding for a good 10 mins (or maybe more)? "Oh, Bunny Hunt! That's one of my favourites!" Ayumi exclaimed in delight. Conan secretly choked at the name - BUNNY HUNT? What kind of silly game was it?

"I didn't know Conan was into this kind of games…." Genta said with a small frown.

Conan glanced at the cover box design. It was pink all over with many many bunnies on the cover, as appropriate of BUNNY HUNT. Quite embarrassed, he clumsily shoved the box back into the shelf among the many other copies of BUNNY HUNT and gave a feeble excuse as he did so. One that he didn't even remember what he said exactly himself.

As they finally finalized their game choice, Mitsuhiko and Genta bought the Abyss game and Ayumi bought some other game with fishes as its cover. The shounen tantei-dan headed to queue for the cashier to pay it.

"oh look. The final boss of Secrets of the Abyss 2 looks realllll cool!" Genta said, waving his game box high above his head and walked backwards to face the rest of the group. As he did so, he didn't realize he was about to bump into another tall male who was standing in front of them in the cashier line.

"AH!" Conan was about to warn Genta but was stopped short when Genta quite forcefully crashed into the taller male, sending the two of them scrambling in a tangle of limbs on the floor.

'Ouch…" The two of them lay on the floor, temporarily confused.

A younger girl who had been standing by the side of the male, talking to his just moments before, bent over them and asked, "Daijoubu?" in a concerned voice.

The tall male blinked a few times, trying to his bearings straight again and gave a feeble nod. "Still alive." He said.

At that moment, Conan thought the voice sounded familiar and he had a sinking feeling he knew who it was. He peered over mitsuhiko's shoulders at the two figures on the floor. As he suspected, it was KID or actually Kuroba Kaito at the moment. Genta was still lying on the floor with stars dancing around his eyes and below him was the tall Shinichi doppelganger.

"MOU KAITO! How long do you plan to stay lying there?" The tall girl said, disapprovingly. Conan's eyes were drawn towards the source of the voice. The face looked familiar. But Conan couldn't put his finger into it. Who was she?

Then the girl changed to a much friendlier and caring voice, bent down low and asked, "Boy-ya, you ok?" Then she offered a hand to Genta which Genta took gratefully. "Ar…arigatou Oneechan." Genta said slightly shy.

"Well, be careful when you walk. Keep you eyes in front." She said with a bright smile that said no-harm-done.

"Aren't you going to give me a hand up too?" Kaito who was still on the floor asked the girl.

"Hmph. No way in hell. Get up yourself." The girl said curtly, looking away. Conan could see her slight blush though. Suddenly Conan remembered, it was the girl he had met at the train platform all those months ago. Her name was… Aoko! He remembered.

"Chey." Kaito said with mock disappointment. He stood up and dusted himself. It was only then that he saw Conan. The two pairs of eyes met. KID gave Conan a smirking grin which Conan returned with a scowl. Wordless conversation took place.

Kaito: Oh fancy seeing you here.

Conan: Hmph. Likewise here.

Kaito: Still sulking after the last heist? Hey that was 2 weeks ago.

Conan: Damn you for reminding me. Next time you do that, I'm gonna make mincemeat out of you.

Kaito: Oi oi! Coming from you, its not funny (grins)

Outwardly, the two expressed no change in emotion and pretended that they did not know each other. Just two strangers on the street.

"Oi Genta. Say sorry to the nii-chan you knocked down." Ayumi nudged Genta reprimanding.

"ahh. Ahh. Gomenaisai…." Genta said softly, eyes downcast and his voice low, trailing off.

"Ah. It's ok. It's ok. Don't worry about it." Kaito gave a cheery grin as he broke off contact with Conan, looking at Genta. Then squatting down, he pooffed with a little magic and gave Genta a sweet. At that, Ayumi and Mitsuhiko were wide with surprised and pleased. "SUGOI!" Ayumi exclaimed first, stepping closer to his.

"are you a magician?" She asked.

"yep. And here's a rose for you milady." Kaito said with a showman's charisma and magically pulled a rose from his palm, handing it over to bright-eyed Ayumi.

"I'm Kuroba Kaito. Pleased to meet you." Kaito said with a smile.

"I'm Ayumi! Pleased to meet you to Kuroba-niichan!" Ayumi returned.

"And I'm Mitsuhiko." "Genta" The boys introduced themselves one after another. Conan wasn't particularly interested in introducing himself so he didn't join in the tempo. However at the sudden silence after Genta, the three of them turned to look at him with daggers in their eyes.

"I got it. I got it. I'm Conan." He said in a bored tone.

"Together, we are the shounen tantei-dan!" The three of them exclaimed in unison, forming their pose.

"Heh? Tantei-dan? That's cool." Aoko, the tall female, said with a smile. "I'm Aoko. Pleased to meet you all too."

"Where are you guys from?" Aoko asked.

"We are from teitan-elementary." Mitsuhiko explained.

"Oh. We're from Ekoda High. Hey you all, we are going to have a school festival soon. Wanna come?" aoko asked. "There gonna be stalls with food, drinks and lots of games. Well, high school may be kindda far away for you all, but if you're interested do come down!"

"Nng! We will definitely go!." ayumi said on behalf of all of them, still entranced by Kaito's magic.

"Ja. Here's the poster for it." Aoko said handing them a copy of the poster which she took from her bag. She gave it to Mitsuhiko.

"Then see you all soon! My number is on it. Come with your parents! I'll bring you around. Call me on that day!." She said as the two of them walked off.

Heehee! There IS are reason for them to go to Ekoda High's festival. I'm sure most of you would be able to guess... no? Than wait for the next update! :D

ARGH I so wanna give spoilers now. Patience patience. ARGHH!

Shiroi Mi.