There were bodies found in the mansion and it would take time to be able to identify all of them and say who they were. But none of them were female much to his relief but her blood was found there and he was told it was a lot of it. And sadly that there was little chance that she was still alive and that there was a good chance that she was dead and her body was destroyed in the blaze of the fire in the room that left little but nothing left. Where the fire had started was where they had found Shinichi's blood or what remained of it anyway.
Hakuba Saguru had been one of the people that had been confirmed dead first. His body had already been found and identified by D.N.A. which was discomforting because the body was so badly burned that they could not identify him by dental record or his clothing. But they were only able to identify him because he was the longest and he was tortured while everyone else was just shot in the head. And it was considered a merciful death by all accounts.
Kudo Shinichi was a missing person but she was later confirmed dead by the police and they had now considered it a closed case and that she was dead. Of course they were grief stricken and wanted to keep it open but they were getting pressure from the higher above and they had to close it and put an end to it and just move on.
The 'Motive' for killing them all was that the two noisy teen detectives had got involved with a case that they should not have involved the mafia or something like. They had gotten too close, and this was the way of the Boss showing what would happen if you got in his way because they put his sons in prison for life. She he gave them a life sentence in death and he was satisfied with this ending but he was found out and before they could arrest him, he died of a heart attack. And he died with a smile on his face, a twisted smile and when the police found is rotting corpse they could not feel but afraid of him and what could happen to them. Even in death he would haunt them, and this was a warning to all of them and especially noisy kids that they do not know what they are getting themselves into. It seemed like a scary story to everyone and a tale at the same time but everyone seemed to believe it and they all wanted to find the now haunted house.
And everyone, the public had quickly moved on from the murders all thinking that they had deserved and had just put it down to dumb misfortune. And others thought of it as a love story gone wrong and a lot of people where thinking that there was a conspiracy behind it all and the police where hiding the truth from them all.
Some people were saying that Hakuba had kidnapped Shinichi, and it was like Beauty and the Beast but without the whole love story part where she did not have Stockholm syndrome and fall for him. She was not that kind of girl to fall for him and that she was in love with Kaitou Kid, who had also disappeared that night. There was a fight between the two gentlemen for the girl, and Kaitou Kid was trying to rescue her but failed miserably and died by the detectives hands. And who started the fire? People were saying that the Detective girl went mad when she saw the dead body of her lover and went mad. Burning down the mansion with her and everyone else in a sort of Romeo and Juliet way. But some thought that Hakuba started the fire knowing that he could never win the heart of the girl, especially after doing this and tied her up. And set fire to the house as he watched her die and he died last watching the flames erupt around them as he laughed and cried at the same time. And when bystanders swore that they heard laughter coming from the house, more of them believed this to be true.
Everyone was also thinking that it was all a cover up for the sake of Hakuba's father because he was Superintendent General Hakuba and he was a very important person. They did not want a disgrace to the family name, and they did not want to make the police department look bad or in this case worse.
It was just gossip and nothing more because the police did not know what truly happened because it was took over and then quickly closed without being fully told what happened. If they were really told anything just that they had caught the source responsible for it and that it was now being dealt with.
And when people wanted a Funeral or answers from Shinichi parents they refused point blank to both of them and then soon disappeared like they always did. And some people thought they killed their daughter out of jealously or something like that and that they were both psychopaths and did not even care that their daughter had died.
Hakuba's parents did mourn for their son, but they did it in private in the comfort of their own family behind closed doors in England where they would now stay and never come back to Japan because they had no reason to. No one had thought they were directly responsible for the deaths but they really should have paid more attention to their son and if they did they could have stopped the whole thing from happening.
It had now been a couple of months since that had all happened and he had been on the run for that long as well ever since they truly found out who he was he knew that they would becoming for him next and he would just have a bullet in his head. And the moment he had found out, Ran and Kazuha had nearly been killed that night and had only managed to get out and barely because they were pretending to be him, being Kaitou Kid. And it was all thanks to Hattori that they were able to get out alive and away from Them and safe for all of it without anyone knowing what truly happened that night at that Heist.
He did not want to think of that night ever again because it just made make water with his eyes, he did not want to cry again. Because it was not tears of anger but tears, red-hot tears of anger and hatred that ran down his face making him want to kill them and he hated himself for thinking like this. For thinking like one of them and that was the last thing that he wanted to be like one of them and he knew that it was not something that Shinichi would not want ever, especially done in her name.
He had spent the night on a park bench in the freezing cold until it started to rain then he had to let himself into an office so that he could get out of the cold and hopefully get rid of his cold that was getting worse. He would be meeting the evil scientist in the morning, and he wanted to do that with a clear head and he wanted to do it feeling well and enough energy. He had not seen her since she was at his house staying there and he had some words that he wanted to say to her.
He had a lot of words that he wanted to say to her because he blamed her for this happening because it seemed that she was the only one with the happy ending. And with everyone else suffering and living with the consequences of the Organisation and the actions that they took thinking it was for the best and she had suffered the least. She had gotten the life that she had wanted and a new face and identity to go along with it all. And it was all thanks to the work of plastic surgery and a new haircut. She was a great help to catching them that is what the law had thought and he did not because his girlfriend would be at his side right now.
'And she would be still alive?' he thought whispering it inside his head as it continued to echo inside his head as he fell asleep.
He was awoken by the sound of the keys going through the keyhole door and he immediately jumped to his feet grabbing all of his belongings with him in one go and hid in the bathroom.
As he hid in the bathroom waiting and watching as people arrived he began to realize that it was morning and he had slept in.
"Achoo" he sneezed quietly as he covered his mouth.
He had a bad cold for several weeks and his fever was getting worse and if he did not seek any professional help soon he knew that he would just get sicker than he already was. He knew deep down that he was not doing so well and he was trying to cope with what was happening and IF Shinichi was really dead then she would not want him to be like this. But it was his way of grieving for her and he knew that he was not taking care of himself properly like he should and she would want him to take proper care of himself. But he did not care about that because if she was dead then what she thought did not matter anymore because she was dead and there was nothing he could do about that.
He would take care of himself and soon but he just wanted to be alone for a while and that is all he wanted. But he was forced to go to a meeting with an evil scientist when his doves portrayed him and made contact with his mother because they were worried about him. It was sweet of them to do so but he felt like they had snitched on him and they were not supposed to do that because he had trained them to keep his secrets from everyone. And that had included his mother, who was also now in hiding, like almost everyone else that was in hiding trying to save their lives in witness protection. And he had refused to this because he did not want it. He did not want to go by another name, not again because he had gone through so many that he had lost count when he was Kaitou Kid. And he did not want to pretend to be another person ever again...because he did not even know who he was without her and did not want to be that person he was without her. He was not himself without her, and he did not want to go back to being Kuroba Kaito because Kuroba Kaito was a target for the Organisation and was one of them main reasons that his Shin-Chan was dead.
He managed to sneak out of the office unseen by anyone as he covered himself in a blanket and his back bent like he was an elderly man. The office he had slept in was for insurance and things like that, so something like this would be great camouflage.
His meeting was five minutes ago, and he was running late and if he did not make it soon then he would not find out what she knew.
She looked around and he did not show but she was already suspecting this because everyone knew that he had fallen apart and he had run away from everything the moment that they had found her blood.
She had been here for almost an hour and it were already ten minutes past their waiting time and she was starting to get impatient and she was starting to get paranoid at the same time. She felt like all eyes were all on her and she wanted to get out of the public eye as quickly as possible. Without Kudo here she did not feel safe in a public area or really anywhere and that was why she carried a gun around with her at all times and had the major changes made.
Then she smelt something awful as she covered her nose like several other people did when they all saw a homeless man walk by. And she felt shameful for making the face that she did but the smell was so bad that she just had to cover her mouth and noise to get the taste of the smell out.
Then she saw them, her old friends that she had not seen in a very long they were speaking to the homeless guy. 'The Junior Detective League', she watched smiling as they handed him a sandwich and some soup. They looked cheerful and hopeful as they did this, like they always did and she was just hoping that they would not get into trouble for what they were doing now. She knew that they had been in serious trouble since Kudo had left and she was the one that had to get them out of it and then when she was gone they were still in trouble. But a lot less of it because before she left she made sure that Takagi and Sato kept an eye on them every day so that they would not get in trouble.
But they were nice children and they had only come across one dead body since herself and Kudo had left and it looked like that just maybe that they were moving on from being detectives after all,. And she was hoping more than anything that they would because that is not a good career for them because it would just get them killed and she did not want that.
Then she got a closer look at the homeless man.
His eyes and sizes, and the messy hair were a dead giveaway. It was Kuroba Kaito, and he was the homeless man and he was undeniable he was a mess and given his appearance he did not care about this. He was grieving in his own way, and he was not taking care of himself and what was worse she was going to have to talk to him in public. And by the end of the end of the day she would have his stink on her and she had nothing good to tell him at all. But she was going to have to help him because it was the right thing to do and it was what Kudo would have done. And she blamed herself for his appearance because she was one of the ones responsible for what had happened and she could do nothing to help. And what was worse she got the life she wanted and Kudo never got hers back and that was all she ever wanted.
He walked over as she covered her mouth as the children ran away happily chasing after the doves as a clear distraction on the thief's part.
"Kuroba!" she said as he turned around and looked her in the eye identifying her.
She could see this was the start of a difficult relationship that she did not want to be in, but she felt that she needed to be in because she had to do something and helping him would be the right thing.