His Heist was about to begin he was so excited only if he could get everyone to stop calling him Kaitou Kid and actually call him by the name he had chosen for himself Phantom Gentleman, then everything would be perfect.
He was standing in the crowd like he always did and was forcibly holding an anti-KID sign yet again by Aoko who still hated his guts and refusing to call him by the man that he had chosen for himself.
Then all he could see was a triangle shaped hair coming towards him like it was a shark coming for him and he was terrified that something was about to happen, until he realized that it was Ran.
"Oh Ran what are you doing here?" he said curiously as he put the sign down.
He was Anti-KID after all because there was no KID, there was only Phantom Gentleman and there was no one else that he wanted to be.
"hmph did you see the news?" said Ran nervously.
He shook his head confused for a second not understanding what was going on or what was happening.
But before he could answer he was pulled away.
"We must need to borrow the clown for a moment" said Sonoko.
He was surprised he had not seen her and she was now pushing him away far away from the crowd with Ran pulling him away also against his will. He could swear that this must look like a kidnapping because it was starting to feel like one.
"Make sure the idiot does not give you too much trouble" shouted Aoko.
'Traitor' he thought.
Ran's grip was really strong, and it felt like she was not going to let go anytime soon and his hand was starting to get numb and was slowly starting to change colour.
Right now they were just a just enough away from the busy crowd and the Heist for him to be able to get there on time. But also so that they had enough privacy so that no one could hear what they were saying and this was starting to feel like an interrogation on his behalf and he was with a crazy fan that was enough for him to run away.
But Ran's grip was far too strong, was stronger than ever and he could tell that he was not going anywhere just yet. He just new that he should have worn his fake hands before he left the house because they always come in handy( the pun intended.) and he was regretting that he did not have them right now.
Sonoko was glaring at him as if he had stolen her favourite toy and broken it.
"You know the Heist is about to begin, and I really do not want to miss a thing" said Kaito.
Sonoko tutted at him "Why you can wait a few more minutes, you would not want to be late would you" she said as she winked at him and poking him the chest.
He pouted as he realizsed what she was saying.
"You told her" said Kaito pouting as he crossed his arms.
"Hmph, I had to since Shinichi is going to be here on TV live tonight after you Heist and I thought maybe you two were working together again. So I need, we needed to see her again because the last time I saw her was...Kaito how is she?" said Ran crying.
It took him a couple of seconds to take it all in.
"You were not supposed to tell anyone, especially to someone that cannot keep a secret and just how much did you tell her because she knows who I am and she knows about Shin-Chan. Who by the way does not want anyone to know the truth and you know the reasons you she does not want anyone to know the truth because she is scared and still is" said Kaito.
"I know that, but I had to tell someone because Sonoko is my friend and she misses Shinichi and Shirley just as much as I do and maybe even more" said Ran.
Sonoko did not like that they were talking as if she was not there.
"I am right here and I want to see Shinichi right now with my own eyes so I can believe all this to be true and not something that this maniac might have made up all my himself to fool everyone in some cruel twisted trick of his" said Sonoko.
He was mad now.
"Shinichi is not here and the Interview is not Live so there is worries she is perfectly safe and it is all one big trap. So if you let go me ahead and do my part like she had it all planned out everything can be worked out for the better and just maybe she can finally be free from Them all and everything can be done. But if you excuse me Ladies, I have a show to do and a girlfriend to win back if she will let me that is" said Kaito.
He quickly pushed past the two of them rubbing his sore wrist and was ready for the Show to begin.
"That rude idiot I cannot believe that I was actually a fan of his and that Shinichi actually dated that fool and only went on the one date with Hakuba. And that he is still alive and this is like a complete soap opera that it is just me a headache and this would make one hell of a novel that maybe Shinichi's day will write when this is all over. Or maybe Shinichi ca write it all instead but she needs to tell me everything right away before she tells anyone else because I have been kept out of the loop long enough to know there is far more to the story that we know of right now. Shinichi is alive and I cannot be freaking believe it but still I know that Detective Geek could not be dead because she would be the last person on earth. And you know how she just like Sherlock Holmes and how she would go on about how he managed to fool everyone and fake his death and that is what has happened and now the curtain is going to be pulled open again" said Sonoko.
She stopped and took a breath as she folded her arms.
"Come lets go see if we can go and find her" said Sonoko pulling at Ran.
She was pulled off her feet faster than she had ever been moved.
"Sonoko!" she said out of breath already.
But she was being ignored and was continually being pulled away through the crowd through all of the crazed fans that were there and all she could see was a smile on Sonoko's face.
She could not help but as this was starting to feel like the good old days and like everything was going to be back to normal.
"Ladies and Gentleman it is I, Phantom Gentleman and I am here today to show that soul mates can be together even under the darkest days and worst of times and the best of times. That nothing will get in the way of true love"
That was all she could hear before she was pulled away in a blur of the motion.
"Detective Geek!" shouted Sonoko.
"Detective Geek!" shouted Sonoko.
"Detective Geek!" shouted Sonoko.
They were currently in the middle of nowhere with Sonoko shouting her head off.
"Detective Geek!" shouted Sonoko.
"Detective Geek!" shouted Sonoko.
"Detective Geek!" shouted Sonoko.
It looked like Sonoko was not going to stop anytime soon.
"Jeeze would you give a girl a chance to get here with yelling so much I heard you the first time and if you yell any louder everyone else will" said Shinichi.
She was currently leaning against the wall in the darkness, but they were just barely able to see her before she walked away again.
Sonoko stood frozen as she saw her and could not move all her muscles but enough so that she could smile.
"Detective Brat is here and going to do her job " said Sonoko supportively.
Ran stared at her mad.
"No need to be so loud about it all" said Ran.
"I am not Hattori" she said Sonoko mad.
She then froze and then started to realize something.
"Hattori he knew it and he even called her Kudo how could I not see this before I am the Great Deduction Queen Sonoko...Wait a minute!" said Sonoko.
Now she was mad as she was realizing the cases and every single time that it had happened and how it was just same with the old man had described his.
"That Detective Geek has not heard the last of this" screamed Sonoko.
Ran had to hold her back as she was saying this and for Ran to do this was actually feeling like a very hard job.
Meanwhile, Shinichi just watched her two best friends and could not help but smile at this. She knew it was only a matter of time before Ran had told Sonoko everything and she knew it was likely going to happen when she saw the news and she knew what they would do as well because she knew them and knew well them well.
That is why she just tranquilized them so that they would be unconscious so that she could get them out of the way.
"Two down, one more to go" said Shinichi to herself.
There would be still some time before the interview aired and she knew that They would either be here by now or would be on Their ways, so she had only a short window to do what she wanted to do.
She was able to see Megure and the rest of them before she had to go watching them carefully from a far away distance so that she could not be seen.
But she was convinced that Sato had seen her who had alerted Takagi to her location at the same time and she was just able to escape before she had been fully seen or even found.
"So close" said Shinichi.
She was able even to see 'The Junior Detective League' right in front and cheering while still trying to conduct up a plan to capture Kaito, that is if they were not being distracted at the same time and forgetting all about it just getting on with the show.
She never said goodbye and she did not want to because she knew that it would be too sad on both accounts. There would be a lot of tears and just maybe there would still be a tantrum in one or more of them.
She was shocked just looking at them of how big they had gotten.
Well, when she said big not all of them had actually gotten bigger because it Genta had lost a lot of weight and he had gotten an or two taller and was actually now the smallest out of all them because Ayumi was now actually the tallest.
She remembered when she was an actual child that she was the smallest out of her friends and then a few reasons down the road she ended up being the tallest and she still was the tallest out of them. But it looked like they had almost caught up with her in size but was still the tallest if you did not count on the bump in Ran's hair she was still the tallest.
No goodbyes to them it would be the best for everyone's sanity.
Now all she had to was the takedown Kaito once the show was over and so he could be protected along with the others.