It was the middle of November and it the day of Kudo Shinichi's Funeral.
For the past couple of weeks it had been nothing but cold winds and rain, there was even a time where the streets were almost flooded because of too much rain had filled the drains up. It was said to have been one of the most unusual weather events of the year and some people even thought of it as supernatural or there was a curse on the town of Beika. Especially now that their detective was gone and had been murdered in cold blood and the police had basically helped it have happened, they were all now cursed with death.
They had not been a day that had passed that there a murder that had went up unsolved with crime escalading in the town.
But today the weather was different than it had been for the past several weeks.
The sun was now in the sky, shining bright with no cloud in the sky and no sign that there had ever been one in the first place. The streets were dry and there was no puddles as the heat coming from the sun was so hot that it had dried it all up within hours. The heat was undeniable and was officially the hottest day of the year and the hottest it had been in a decade.
The Funeral was a private one, with the best security that he had ever seen, and he was amazed and scared at the same time. He was sad thinking this but he was jealous that the police never tried to go this hard at one of his Heist and he was ad at himself for thinking this and feeling guilty at the same time. He kicked himself in the ass for thinking this, and he even sent his shoe flying, making it hit himself on the head.
He was late, and he had missed the service, but he was not going to miss this part, he was not going to miss her coffin being put in the grave and her lain to rest.
He looked around as he wore his disguise as a minister, as disguise that was good and one he was regretting putting on at the same time. He felt disrespectful in it and there was the fact that he was not religious but did respect religion and this was no way in respecting it by using it. But he needed to and was the only sure-fire way that he would get in and out without only glancing in his direction twice, because no one would really want to look at him in the first place.
He was bald, well almost bald as he used his air for bald parts.
And no he did not shave his head, thankfully he had a shower cap and he made it into a bald cap that he could use, and it had saved his hair thankfully. He scratched at his head just thinking about the fact that he might actually be bald right now if he never bought that. And doing this he was making his hair fall out and onto the ground and on his shoulder, he was making himself bald just standing there.
He looked at everyone who was there and there was a lot of people there, more than he thought there would be and it was a private funeral. There was at least a hundred people there and he did not recognize a lot of them, but he could see quite clearly see that her parents were not there and this made him feel sick to his stomach. They had blown off her funeral and even though she was so not dead, they should be here and should support her when she turns up wanting there help.
He saw his mother and Jii there in disguises and they saw him, but they did not look at each other to know that the other was there and this made him happy to know that he could still count on his family.
He then saw Mouri Ran and Suzuki Sonoko at the front, Sonoko was crying and she looked mad at the same time. Ran he looked at her closely he could see that she had barely shed a tear which meant one thing to him, that she was thinking like him and he was delighted by this. She was also thinking that Shinichi was not dead and was in fact alive because there was just no way that she could be not in a million years, ever !
He was then shocked to see a rather silent and pale Hattori Heiji, who looked like he was going to crack at any moment over the loss of his best friend. He was the last of three of the teen legendary detectives and by the looks of the guards and the protective detail that was on him, it was not long before he would be dead. He was holding his best friends/girlfriends hand and the other one was shaking, it was clear that he was scared and that he was not ready to say goodbye. Maybe the news of Shinichi`s death had hit him the hardest and the most because one look in his eyes and he could see that all hope was lost. And so was the spark that was once there that was for being a detective and was gone and was possibly forever because the person who made the light bigger was gone and was blown out by her disappearance.
Kudo Shinichi was not dead!
No matter what the headstone had said.
Click
And then he felt the gun to his head and he knew that moment as he closed his eyes that he would be joining Shinichi in the big blue sky.
" Keep moving " said the voice.
He did as the masked voice that just sounded like his father and that sent a shiver down his spine making him shiver and hate this person at the same time because he knew that this person was not his father, because he was dead. And he was guessing that he too would be dead soon anyway, but killing him at his own girlfriends funeral that was cold. He was very a cold known that this was their plan from the very beginning and was the same reason that evil scientist never told him about it in the first place because it was all a trap.
He continued to walk leaving no sound of footsteps behind and the same could be said for the person that was behind him pointing the gun. But one thing he did know for sure was the sound that was not there and the sound off the leaves being crunched by the persons foot. The person that was pointing the gun at him was female and was roughly about the same height as him in the heels that she was wearing.
Then he remembered the person that Shinichi had taken one look at a photo of and that she was scared of this person and everything that she had said about this person as well. This person, that knew his childhood and this same person well, that pretended to be a friend, a family friend and had taken advantage of his Dad. Used everything that she had learned from him and used it for unspeakable evil instead of what it was supposed to be used for. Entertainment and bring joy to everyone's heart, instead she was using it to bring darkness and fear to everyone's hearts.
"Let me guess, Vermouth right!" he said chuckling and ripping the disguise off.
There was no point in pretending anymore she knew the truth, and he was going to go out as himself like always planned to and just aye someone might see him and know what was happening.
"My, my it seems that Shin-Chan has taught you a few things after all and just maybe in her absence you could become a detective to" said Vermouth.
He frowned at this.
She used the nickname that he loved to call her and use it playfully as if they were friends and loved ones. She had no right, no right to call her that and it was disrespectful more than anything. She hated that name and there was only two people in the world that was allowed to call her that. And that was her mother and him, and just maybe his mother because she did call her it a lot and got away with it. So there were three people that were allowed to call her that and he was not going to let this bitch be one of them. There was no way in hell that he was going to let her call her by that name, no way in hell.
"Do not say her name. You cold hearted bitch " said Kaito.
" Oh we are getting brave now" said Vermouth sounding amused.
"If you think that I am afraid of you then you are sadly mistaken, I am not scared of anyone especially someone as fake as a person as you are" said Kaito.
Vermouth was now playing with the gun in her hand amusing herself.
"Maybe...but your mother and that old man that follows you two around like a sheep I bet they are afraid of me. And your mother would be afraid of what I would do to her precious son and you would not want to start quite the commotion would you" said Vermouth.
He gritted his teeth angrily and silently not saying a word as he listened to her amusing threat.
"Oh! I Right just has to bury you alive and since there is an empty coffin just lying around taking up space, might as well use it and have you in it instead of the dead air" said Vermouth.
Now that sent a chill down his spine.
The thought of being buried alive and then dying there, in Shinichi's grave.
"Now move right there sweetie, you would not want to step on anyone's grave would you?" said Vermouth.
He changed his mind, and he did not want to talk to this woman anymore and he just continued to walk as he started to hear the funeral end and people crying as he left the cemetery. He had missed the whole thing, and he did not get to say his goodbyes and he was ready to die, ready for it to all end because there was nothing good that could possibly happen. And if he was to die now then everyone that he loved would be safer and they would not be happy, but they would get over his death and they could move on and be happy. He would leave it to the others, the people that Shinichi had helped rescue and leave it in their hands and do the work that they were meant to do.
It was all over and that was it, he was ready to die and he was not afraid anymore of anything as he was feeling light as a butterfly, free and almost happy at that moment.
WHAM
He looked behind his shoulder shocked to see Mouri Ran taking a deep breath in and out with a look of rage on her face and yet calm. Then he looked to the ground to see a woman almost unconscious and then he saw the gun at his feet, he immediately grabbed it and then pointed it at Vermouth.
But Vermouth just started to laugh at the both of them, sounding amused and almost victorious as if she had won and was an evil laugh that he could just not look away from her as she stood back up on to the ground. He looked at her as she wore a veil and a hat with her hair tied back. She was dressed all in black and if this was not a funeral she would have stuck out a mile away. He did not like thinking this but he could not help but think how attractive she was and just how creepy it was at the same time, it was almost hypnotizing.
"Now that I managed to get you two alone I thought that it would be best that we talk in private and to a friend of yours" said Vermouth.
Now the both of them were mad.
"No friend of yours is a friend of ours" said Ran.
He nodded in agreement.
"You would think that but both of you are wrong" said Vermouth.
"And what is that supposed to mean?" said Kaito.
"That you are not the only one with a few tricks up her sleeve" said Vermouth.
He glared at her, another thing that she had no right in talking about.
"Give me one reason why I should not kill you right here and now?" said Kaito.
Vermouth just smiled as the gun was pointed at her.
"Would she want you to do it?" said Vermouth.
"Kaito!" said Ran sounding scared.
But he was too angry to think straight.
"She is not here to...so what would be the point. I want you dead, and it is not because of what happened to her...but because of what you have done in my Dad's name and what you have done with everything that he had taught you. It is just unforgiveable" said Kaito.
"You cannot even say her name, can you" said Vermouth.
"Shut up, Just shut" said Ran as she began to cry.
They both looked at her, and he lowered the gun at the same time.
"Just stop" said Ran as she wiped the tears with her arm.
"Shinichi is not dead, she is not dead and everyone should just stop saying that she is dead because she is not" said Ran.
She looked defeat at that moment as she sank into the ground crying tears repeating this.
He tried comforting her putting his hand on her shoulder and comforting her, but she just looked up at him with tears in her eyes.
"If you had just left her alone...Then maybe she would be still alive...She was doing fine until you came along, and you just would not stop. Why could you just not leave her alone and just had to force your way into her life" said Ran.
"Ran...I..." said Kaito.
"You tricked her. You tricked her into falling in love with you " said Ran angrily.
He was defeated.
"Now, now" said Vermouth.
They both looked up and realized that she had the gun in her hand.
But they were both shocked of what was happening now.
"They were no bullets in it, so you could have not killed me anyway" said Vermouth.
"...?" said the both of them.
"Where is a detective when you need one?" said Vermouth sounding annoyed.
They both looked at her angrily.
"I need your help, and I know that you two are going to want my help" said Vermouth.
"WHAT?" they both said angrily.
Vermouth just threw the gun on the ground carelessly.
"Well it seems that I got myself in quite in a bind and I too am now on the run from that dreaded Organisation" said Vermouth.
They were both left speechless.
"And I need an Angel and a thief to help me" said Vermouth.
"I could never trust word that you say never" said Kaito.
Vermouth smiled at them.
"I will show you something that will make you believe that I am on your side and not theirs" said Vermouth.
He was about to say something.
But they were both speechless when they saw someone coming out the car that they were all standing beside and they had not even realized this.
He stood there in a blue stripped suit, looking smart with a hat and sun glasses on and hiding in the shade.
He stepped forward grinning.
He was dead.
He was supposed to be dead.
But here was and alive, in daylight.
Hakuba was alive.