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Chapter 28

Shinichi slowly raised his head noting how his feet where now past the end of the bed. He sighed and licked his dry lips and was alarmed at the copper taste of his own blood. He slowly sat up and reached up for his mouth then pulled his hand away and held it in front of him. His nails had melted into his hand and had become long talon like fingers.

He quickly stood up and looked around. His eyes seemed sharper, he could clearly see the details of everything outside the window like looking through a powerful set of binoculars.

"…An' then ya thread the fishing wire through tha' victims pocket with tha' needle…" Shinichi frowned and glanced around, and then he noticed that the voices weren't coming from this room, but he was hearing them clearly from a room at the opposite end of the hall.

Quickly, hearing Ran pouring a glass of water and remembering what was going on, Shinchi ran over to the rooms owners wardrobe and pulled out a plain white shirt and some pants 'Regardless of what's going on, clothes come first,' He thought wrapping his wings tightly around himself and pulling on the shirt over them. He then rummaged though 'Conan's' pockets and pulled out his charm, quickly placing it back on his neck.

"Fess up, old man"
"You're right, I did it…"
'Uh-ho,' Shinichi thought speeding to the crime scene 'Better fix this guys mistake quickly!'

Heiji smirked proudly as Megure walked up to the old man 'I won!'
"No, that deduction is wrong," Heiji spun around to the door. Stood in the doorway was Shinchi Kudo, sweating slightly and taking deep breathes as if he had just ran for miles. He looked around the room, his eyes seemed to have an unnatural sharpness to them as he took in everything around him in those first few seconds. Heiji smirked at him 'Found ya''

Heiji then dropped the smile and frowned at the 'intruder to his crime scene' "An' just what's wrong with ma reasonin' Kudo?

Shinchi stumbled slightly into the room and was about to start speaking until the door burst open, Ran stood there her face filled with worry "Has anyone seen Conan-kun he just disapp…eared," Ran slowly looked to the bookshelves which Shinichi was leaning on, still breathing deeply "S-Shinichi?"
Shinchi looked up at her and smiled softly at her "Ran, I'm sorry I took so long,"

He then looked back to Heiji and smirked confidently "And as to your reasoning, Heiji Hattori of Osaka, I find everything wrong with it."
Heiji glared darkly "And how would you know this!"

Shinchi looked at the corpse "then how about I tell you the one truth

(AN I didn't want to just write up the trick because I'm guessing you all know it and if not episode 49)

Shinchi licked his lips, which still tasted of his blood where his laonger than normal fangs had cut them, as Megure led the wife out of the room. He then began coughing as his dehydrated throat began to seize up. In a second Heiji and Ran where next to him
"Shinichi!"
"Kudo, ya' ok?"

The coughing subsided and Shinchi stood up and leaned on the bookshelves again "Its just some cold," He muttered more to himself then them,
Heiji frowned at him "is tha' really all it is?"

Shinichi looked up and glared at Heiji, something about him just wouldn't stop bugging him. It was like he knew something but it couldn't be him being Conan and he didn't see a charm on him so he couldn't see he was a vampire.

Shinichi was pulled out of his thoughts by a cool hand on his boiling forehead. He looked at Ran, her concerned eyes where looking over him "Your burning up, hang on." She went towards the door "I have some cold towels I was getting ready for Conan-kun,"

Shinichi begun to breath deeper as Ran left the room. Heiji then glanced around and when he decided it was safe he smirked at Shinichi and leaned on the desk "Lookin' at ya' now it's a wonder ya've kept ya self hidden so long, or ya' young'un'"

Shinichi looked up, confused by the Kansai Detectives words, He then fell on his knees as another coughing fit went through him, this one much worse than the last
"Oi Kudo, is it really just a cold!" Heiji asked kneeling down to him.

Shinichi's body tensed again as he felt that familiar horrid pain shoot through him, his wings trying to flare out from under his shirt. 'Crap, not this soon,' Shinichi thought desperately ignoring Heiji's shouts and making for the hall.

Ignoring the pain as much as he could he focus on everyone's positions. He could hear Kogoro and Megure in the hall, so the front door was out. The back door was too far away to risk and Ran was in the room where he was Conan so the other end of the hall was out too. He then fell into the room next to him, a small bathroom and locked the door.

As soon as he got in, he pulled the charm off again praying that it didn't send too big a warning to the kids or Kaito. Shinchi then collapsed as he pulled the shirt of and the wings flared again, cramped in the small space of the room. Biting his lip hard, making his large fangs draw blood as his bones started to shrink, he swallowed his pain until it over powered him and he cried out.

His yell was childlike, the poison already reforming him back into the defenceless body of Conan Edogawa. He fell to his knees as the pain stopped growing, his smaller wings falling limply to the floor next to him. Shakily he begun to stand, looking up at the door lock that was now above his head as he pulled back on the shirt 'This just plain sucks' Conan thought as he reached up with a shaking hand to turn the lock.

Almost the instant the door was unlocked it was torn open by Ran who looked down worriedly at Conan as he pulled the charm back on "Conan-kun, what are you wearing!"
"Ah, my wings came out and they hurt under my shirt so I got a larger one they wouldn't bunch under," He said quickly once sure everyone was out of earshot

Ran looked down the hall, her eyes still filled with worry, "Shinichi isn't well either…"
"Ah, if you're looking for Shinichi-niisan I heard him running down the hall saying something before he left through the back door!"
Ran looked down at Conan "saying something?"

Conan nodded, starting to feel tired "Yeah, I think he knew I would hear him. He said he wanted us to make sure that it didn't get out that…he was…here…" Conan then fell down, the events of the past few hours taking its toll on his small child's body. One of the last things he heard before completely loosing consciousness was Ran calling out his name.


-Earlier that day in Edoka-

"Kaito, Kaito! Oi, Bakaito!" Aoko looked down at her childhood friend worried. Since just before the start of lunch he had just been sat there, his face frozen in shock and his eyes had an odd foggy look in them.

Aoko quickly looked up as the classroom door opened and Hakuba walked in "Hakuba!"
Hakuba looked up at Aoko concerned with the worry in her voice "What's wrong Nakamori?"
Aoko turned back to Kaito "I don't know, he's just been sat there since the start of lunch!"

Hakuba frowned before walking over to Kaito. He looked at his eyes; Kaito didn't even seem to acknowledge that he was in front of him. Carefully he reached under Kaito's Gakuran collar and his fingers brushed a tope like cord around his neck.

His frown deepening he gently pulled the rope up, ignoring Aoko's look of confusion, and gently spun it until he found the charm at the end of it. The symbol on the front was different to a concealment charm, this was a linking charm. Gently Hakuba reached out with his index finger and gently touched the purple symbol. At once he felt something in his chest, a sort of shooting pain. It wasn't strong, like a very numbed pain that would be gone in less than a second.

Suddenly the feeling stopped and Kaito's head dropped down. He hung his head and began taking in deep breaths as a small sweat broke out on his forehead

"Hakuba, what…" Kaito looked up at Aoko who had just spoken, then to Hakuba who still had hold of the charm.
Kaito frowned at Hakuba, not an angry one but one of concern "Hakuba, what was that?" He whispered, his voice serious with no playfulness

Hakuba glanced around him, most of the class where gone for lunch and the ones there apart from Aoko weren't paying them much attention
Hakuba leaned in to Kaito "I assume that whoever this charm is linked to just went through the pain that I felt a numbed sense of." He explained in a low whisper "But for some reason you mush have felt the full effect of it. It's only meant to be a mere echo of the pain but for you it was enough to put you in some sort of trance for several minutes."

Kaito blinked, worry filling his for once Poker-faceless expression "S-So he's in trouble?"
"That's a possibility, but if my assumption is correct and it is Kudo-san that that charm is linked with I think he is more than capable of protecting himself."

That sentence had the opposite effect on Kaito than Hakuba intended. Instead of calming him with the knowledge that the Vampire Prince was not a defenceless child, it just filled his face with further dread.

Before either Hakuba or Aoko could do anything more, Kaito jumped out of his seat and looked around like a panicked rabbit. He then bolted out the door and ran as fast as he could, not even adding to his escape with a flashy smoke bomb as he normally did.

As Kaito bolted out of the front door, ignoring the calls of the teachers and fellow students, only one thought was running through his panicking mind
'Shinichi, please be safe!'What's that you say, why are Conan Ran and Heiji not in school but Kaito Aoko and Hakuba are? Errr…Study Saturday for Edoka High? (My sister does that for her school, I have to take over her work shifts in Mum's shop on Saturdays now ^^;)