Chapter Twenty-Seven:
Takedown Part 1
SHINARA POV
Shinara smiled in relief when she saw Kaito re-enter the conference room. They had just decided to take a break and allow everyone a moment to stretch and get some coffee when he had decided to rejoin the meeting.
"You alright?" she asked, noticing his eyes were slightly redder than they had been.
He didn't look at her, but he gave a nod and she sighed in relief before wrapping a gentle arm around his waist and pulled him against her. She kissed his cheek and nuzzled his neck as he gave in and wrapped his arms around her, enjoying the feeling of her breath against his skin.
"I'm sorry I left like I did", he muttered, glancing around to make sure no one was seeing them like this. He didn't need the cops to doubt Shinara because of him.
"It's alright. All of us understand that telling them that was hard on you", she said reaching up and brushing his bangs out of his eyes beneath the white top hat, "If it makes you feel any better, they all agreed to work with you. They understand why you decided to take up the cape, even if they don't all agree with it."
Kaito sighed in relief, glad to hear his talk had worked. Shinara smiled against his chest. The others had already asked her not to tell Kaito that they had spoken up on his behalf. They knew he wouldn't have wanted them putting themselves in such a tight spot for him. After all, can you ever truly trust a detective who shows sentiment to a criminals actions? Some could and some couldn't, but it was their decision to make, not his, even if he wanted to think differently on the matter.
Shinara reluctantly pulled away from his warm embrace when she noticed the shadows of some people moving closer towards the door of the conference room. Kaito let her go, also seeing them and moved stealthily to the back corner where he decided he would watch the rest of the proceedings.
JODIE POV
It was easy to see the connection between the four teens in the back of the room quite easily if you looked for it. However if you saw them merely as Detectives and thief, one would easily miss the way they looked at one another or touched one another without anyone noticing the movement. She especially noticed the closeness between Kaitou Kid and Shinara Kudo. As an FBI agent, perhaps she should have found the relationship disturbing, but as a woman who had once been a girl in love herself, she found it rather endearing. Still, she could see from their looks that they all meant business and that personal feelings wouldn't come into play during the operation. For this reason alone, did she decide not to call them out on that relationship. Of course, she wouldn't have done it in public as it would have permanently branded Kudo-chan, but she would have had a long talk with the both of them in private.
"We will have seven different teams in this operation. The set up will be like this: Team One will be led by Shinara Kudo, consisting of Harley Hattori, Saguru Hakuba, Ai Haibara, Richard Mouri, and Hiroshi Agasa. Team Two will consist of Kaitou Kid and his assistants. Team Three will consist of myself and the rest of the FBI. Team Four will consist of Chief Megure and his police force of Tokyo. Team Five will consist of Chief Kazuha and his police force. Team Six will consist of Nakamori-san and his task force and Team Seven will consist of Bourbon who is our inside contact and the secret police and CIA who will be moving in at his command. Does everyone understand who they are with? Good! Now let's move people, our operation commences in twelve hundred hours!"
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Note* for those who don't know military time (like me) twelve hundred hours literally means 12 hours
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BOURBON POV
Rei stood in the back corner of the room in the shadows as his boss and some of the other agents, including Korn and Chianti went over things. He knew they were discussing the boss's plans of assassination. Chianti wanted Sherry, badly, but Bourbon would be dead before he would ever let that happen. Not that they needed to know his feelings relating to that topic. Korn wanted Shinara Kudo. Not so much that he had a bone to pick with her, but more like he wanted to win over the boss' favor and to do so in the easiest way possible was to kill the thorn in the boss' side.
"You don't look very happy, Bourbon", commented Vermouth who had just walked up beside him.
He glanced at the woman and then shook his head. He was a member of the secret police and while he wanted to take everyone who is part of BO down, Vermouth was an exception that if left to him, he would overlook. She had her hand in plenty of illegal acts, but she had done so while working with him from the inside and supplying him invaluable information. Information such as the exact location of their new headquarters that even he had been blind folded on before being driven here.
"I'm all kittens and roses, Vermouth", he commented sarcastically with a smirk. Vermouth just smiled back, bemused by his current attitude.
"What's the matter handsome?" she mock pouted as she wrapped her arms around his neck, "you seem a bit too uptight. Don't tell me you're getting cold feet about tonight's plans?"
"Of course not and you should be more quiet", Bourbon whispered as he glanced at the boss and other agents who were chatting over the open files, "Last thing I need is for something to go wrong before we even start the operation."
"Aw, you scared?" she questioned, an amused glint in her eye that made him somewhat nervous.
"Course not", he muttered turning his head away.
Vermouth just grinned.
"Sure baby, sure", she whispered with a laugh as she walked towards the table, sending a wink his way before wrapping her arms around the boss who leaned back against her.
Bourbon would never understand what truly goes through her mind, but he did know one thing…if it was something she desired, she was as trustworthy as anyone could be, because that woman always got what she wanted, no matter what.
SHINARA POV
Shinara watched through the binoculars for any movement around the building they were currently surrounding. Her team was waiting behind her, ready to move as soon as the word was given. Considering most of them were targets of the Organization, it made sense that they would be one of the last to move in, but Shinara wasn't going to let the boss get away again, even if she had to go after him personally.
"Meitantei-chan~" Came the sing song voice of Kaitou Kid.
It was a little strange to have him calling her that again after such a long period of time getting to know each other personally. There was only a handful of people who knew who Kaitou Kid was and an even smaller number who knew that he and Shinara were dating.
"What's wrong Kid-San?" Asked agent Jodie over the headset.
"I wanted to tell Kudo that I have eyes on Bourbon. He is on the roof and I believe he knows where I am."
"He can see you?" Shinara asked, a bad feeling in her gut.
"I don't know, but he is peering this way. I don't think…th…he…kn…hea…me?"
"Kid-San, repeat?"
"…"
"Kid?" asked Shinara as only static came over the line.
"We have lost contact with the Kid Division. Can everyone else hear me?"
A barrage of yeses filtered through the channel as Shinara looked over at Kid's location. She couldn't see him, but something told her that his ruined communication might be planned. Still, she hoped he knew what he was doing.
KID POV
Kaito grinned as he dropped onto the roof beside Bourbon. The communications going down were actually not his doing, but he had a feeling he knew exactly who did it and why.
"You rang~?" sang Kaito as he appeared behind Bourbon.
Rei smiled as he turned to face the phantom thief.
"Forgive me if I cut you off from an important discussion, however I needed to talk to you before the operation commences."
"Isn't this rather a bold place to meet?" asked Kaito as he glanced around.
"I would say yes normally, however with the arrival of MKO, I was moved to temporary roof surveillance and won't be called back in until they finish their meeting. Before that, I wanted to ask you a question."
"Oh~", sang Kaito with a smile, hiding his trepidation, "What might that be, Bourban-san?"
"Toichi Kuroba", the man said and Kaito stiffened involuntarily, "That is really your father, right?"
"It was", Kaito admitted, knowing full well that Rei knew this fact, "What about him?"
"I was reading over the BO file on him and when I ran into snake, he had some…opinions about him that I found rather intriguing."
Kaito's eyes hardened as he steeled himself for whatever else Bourbon might say to him. He didn't take kindly to people badmouthing his father.
"Forgive me thief-san", said Bourbon shaking his head, "I did not mean to insinuate anything offensive. Merely, I wished to tell you something."
"So tell", Kaito snapped.
Rei grinned as he stepped forward and pulled a letter out of his back pocket.
"This, is a letter written by Toichi Kuroba to Vermouth a couple days before his death. I will give it to you, if you do one thing for me."
"Which is?" asked Kaito, eyeing the letter.
"I want you to kill Snake when you catch up to him. He can't be allowed to live."
"You want me to m-murder him?"
"And in exchange I will give you the final letter of your father, which possibly holds the location of Pandora."
"How do I even know that letter is real?"
"You don't thief-san, but I assume you will do what I ask?"
"When I finish it, you must hand it and whatever information you have on my father over to me."
Bourbon smiled and nodded.
"Very well. A deal?"
"A Deal", Kaito said as he turned and jumped from the rooftop.
SHINARA POV
"It's time people. We commence in 5…4…3…2…1…move in!"
Shinara, Hakuba, Harley, Ai, Agasa, and Richard Mouri didn't hesitate to move when the command was given. Mouri and Agasa stayed further in the back as they were running the communication channels to coordinate their team position with the other squads. Shinara, Harley, Hakuba, and Ai however knew where they were going. The time had come to finish what they had started and they weren't waiting around to see if it worked or not.
"Ai, with me! Hakuba and Harley, take left. Keep in contact!"
"Right!"
Shinara ran through the halls as shouts and gunfire filled the building with echoes of different confrontations. Outside, Shinara could just faintly hear the sound of the helicopters waiting overhead. Beside her, Ai was also running and she knew exactly who she was looking for. 'Chianti' Ai chanted in her head as she made her way to the main room.
The scene upon entering was exactly what Shinara had always imagined it would be. The table where the meeting had been commencing was filled with agents who looked dumbstruck by the arrival of the police. However Shinara noticed there were key members missing from the count: The boss, Chianti, Snake, Korn, Bourbon, and Vermouth.
"Not again", she growled and shot past the police and right past Jodie who had called out to her. She wasn't going to stop, not now, not when they were so close!
Shinara kept running down the hall, but what she had failed to notice was that the cameras were following her and in the security room, grinning and watching, was the boss.
"Chianti dear, take care of our unwanted little guest", he said pointing at Ai who was running behind Shinara, "And Korn, do not fail me again."
The two agents gave a bow as they took off out the door.
"Soon Detective, soon we shall meet."
"I have my own hunt to do", stated Snake as he walked out, he knew somewhere around here, Kaitou Kid was located and he would find him and stop him once and for all.
"Follow him Bourbon", said the boss as he watched Snake, he didn't like the man.
"Yes Boss", Rei replied with a grin that he hid until he stepped out of the room, "my lucky day."
He turned and walked towards the way Chianti had gone. He too, had his own hunt.
The boss of BO watched Bourbon leave the room before glancing at Vermouth who stood smirking over his shoulder. He narrowed his eyes at her.
"You know too much Vermouth", he replied as he stood up and stepped towards her. He grabbed her neck roughly as he kissed her on the mouth with passion. She didn't pull away, but she didn't lean into the motion either. He stopped and stared at her and she stared back, their faces unreadable until he smiled, "be careful to not get caught."
She smirked and gave a short nod before she followed him out of the room and towards their escape hatch.
"Better hurry Silver Bullet", she mentally thought as she walked, "Before it's too late."
