He was hoping that he would celebrate Christmas with his girlfriend that year as it would be their first official Christmas together as a couple and he wanted to spend it together romantically. They were still by the fire roasting marshmallows as they drank their both individual drinks, Shinichi would drink coffee as she always did. And he would drink his special drink that he would only drink once a year chocolate eggnog his own special brand that he loves to make but he did not this year because he had nothing to celebrate.
That year she was supposed to spend her second Christmas with Shirley and open their presents, and it was the one day of the year that her father had promised that he would not drink a single beer or even take a sip of it. But they did not get to open their presents together because she was not even a real person but her best friend in disguise right under her nose the whole time and she found out at the last moment. She had been a complete fool and they all had. And that was the first Christmas that she had her first beer with her father as she drank another and another trying to forget that it was Christmas as she shed a tear trying to forget everything that had happened.
It was January and they still heard nothing from the evil bitch and her evil bastard of a sidekick, there was nothing. No news or anything and they were still just waiting by the phone, email, looking out the windows and doors. And even they began looking over their shoulders, a little paranoid and a little hopeful but they had not heard a single lingering word of it because there was just nothing to hear and maybe there would be nothing at all. It was just an evil trick of hope and happiness.
February there was still nothing that they heard of and the snow was starting to dry up as the air started to clear and the sun started to show in the sky as the sun got brighter and started to shine brightly in the sky. But in their minds it was nothing but darkness.
March they were starting their exams as they would be graduating soon and both just looking at an empty seat in their class and both wishing that she was there, but she was not. At this point they both broke their silence and both broke as they began to grief for Kudo Shinichi the person that they believed to be dead but did not realize that she was actually alive.
April, it was the worst month yet.
It was the day that he had officially met her and there he was standing on the rooftop the pouring rain looking around as he imagined their entire as he just saw two former ghosts of themselves. It even made him smile for a second as he could actually remember what she looked like and how he had been fooled so easily, by someone so small and did not know a single thing about him. And had not even heard about him and to that date it still bothered him that she did not hear of him and she was supposed to a detective and she was the greatest. But she was not here anymore and he just took a drink of beer as he tried to remember more as it was helping him and each and every drink always did.
And now he went for a swim in the freezing cold water like he did the previous year because he just wanted to and there was nothing else to do and he was joined by his friend Mouri Ran. She was the only one that truly truly understood how he was feeling right now and he did not want to talk to anyone else about her because they did not understand her, no one truly did. But the two of them were the closest to understanding her.
May 4th.
It was her birthday a day and day to celebrate that she always forgot about, he was told this and it just made him shake his head and smile at the same time. How can someone forget their own birthday? He would never know but he did get to spend her last birthday with her and when he thought about it, he did not like it? She was dying that year, and he did not know that she was dying until she was forced into it, like she always was forced into telling him her secrets and just about everything right now, he was just mad with her that she was not here with to celebrate her big day. Well, he was going to celebrate it many way and he was going to do it with a bottle of wine, white wine since he was no longer wearing white.
June they were all saying that he had a drinking problem and that they were starting to get worried about him, but there was no need to. He was doing fine in school as his grades were almost perfect and he attended school every single day, even if he was sleeping and had the few headaches that he had there was nothing to worry about.
But The Mouri girl dragged him to a place for people with drinking problems and what was worse she brought her father along with him, literally dragging the both of them down the street with her inhuman strength. She was a scary one and Aoko was on the other side of the streets with a mop in her hand threatening him if he ever crossed the street, so he was stuck going.
It was July now, and he sadly had to admit that he had a drinking problem because he was supposed to celebrate his eighteenth birthday and he decided that he would go to London to celebrate it with his mother. But the problem was when he got there, he saw nothing but Sherlock Holmes, he saw a statue, shops and even an actual place or rather shrine built to the place he would have stayed. If he was real, that would be.
It just reminded him of her again, every single place he went he was reminded of her because he knew that this was a place that she had been in and a place that she wanted to be in again.
And he was the legal age of drinking there so he drank and drank until he forgot everything, he just wanted to forget everything because he was eighteen and she was not and she never would be.
He was planning asking her if they wanted to move in together because he knew that she wanted to or secretly wanted to go to University in London, and he would gladly follow her without a second thought. The place was perfect for the both of them as because it was a place that she loved and he could do magic shows on the streets starting of his career ad before he knew it he would be famous. Well Kuroba Kaito would be famous because the other half of him that he was now ignoring was already famous and he wanted the other half to be just as much as famous. It had been his dream since he was a little boy but he had now given up that dream of being a world famous magician and he was now going to do something else. He was going to be an art consultant or something like that something that he could think of later.
He woke up three days later in the hospital with alcohol poisoning and he nearly died, he even had a drip attached to his arm. And given a lecture from his mother and then everyone came to London worried sick about him and they all brought a lecture along with them.
So he admitted that he had a problem, and this is not what his Shin-Chan would have wanted and he had to get his act together and he headed home to do that.
July he was the month that he sorted himself out.
August, he was feeling guilty because of what they did.
And she was feeling guilty too.
The two of them kissed.
It was just a quick but sweet kiss.
And they both had walked away without saying a word or even looking each other in the eyes.
November.
It was officially a year since the funeral and he had gone to visit her grave.
He was visiting in the middle of the night, in the pouring rain in the middle of the night as the full moon was still up for the second night in a row.
He had brought red roses to give to her.
He frowned as soon as he saw the black roses and he immediately burned them as he did not like the sight of them and thought of them as nothing but disrespectful and them showing off that they had won. And that he had lost and what was worse it was showing that she had lost and this is what happens when you deal with them.
Now he was angry and he wanted vengeance more than ever.
He laid down the roses and started to speak to her.
"Hello Shin-Chan"
He blinked and then put a fake smile on his face.
"Sorry I have not been visiting you...But...Things have been difficult...but I am doing much better now. And I might about do something stupid and you always call me a fool or an idiot and I thought it would be best if I came here to speak my mind to see if I could see what you would think to say to me"
He then smiled for real.
"I real am a fool. I still love you and I always will but you always told me and it really bothered me when me were together if anything would happen to you, you would want me to move on and find happiness. Not spend all my time being sad and just be happy be really happy and that is what I want to do but I am feeling guilty because the person I like is your best friend"
He bowed his head in shame.
"Or you could say that she is your worst enemy, that evil eyed yawn scientist that was on your side and you somehow managed to make human"
He smirked, remembering everything.
"But I do not think that she likes me and she would probably poison me if I actually told her how I felt, so maybe that is just a No to that"
He then kissed the tombstone.
"Goodbye sweetheart, Love You"
He said and then he started to walk away, and as he was not looking where he was going he accidentally bumped into someone.
"Ran!" he said shocked.
He had not seen her in months.
"Kaito" she said.
They both looked to the ground rubbing their feet into the dirt.
She was blushing, why did she have to blush.
"Oh why isn't it the two love birds?" said a female voice.
They were both shocked and immediately turned around shivering as they heard and recognised the voice.
"Vermouth" they both said at the same time.
"Well my, my isn't this quite cosy" said Vermouth happily.
She was just standing there with a smile on her face and a sexy pose which just wanted to make them kill her even more.
"It is time" she said.
"...?" they said with a puzzled expression on their face.
She smiled at them again.
"I was finally able to find my witness and it is now time the five of us get to work" said Vermouth.
She started to walk away.
"Are you coming or not?" she said and then continued to walk away.
They were both unsure and shocked of what was happening right now, not fully believing it to be true because they had both imagined this so many times in their dreams and in their nightmares.
But they both pinched themselves at the same time to make sure that it was real.
"Ouch" they said at the same time.
Thus confirming that this was real and that they were awake and this was really happening.
They both looked, and each other then nodded and started to walk forward.
Both getting in the back of the car where they were forced to sit with Hakuba, someone they did not want to speak to or ever see again and would rather actually work with the enemy than him right now. But they had to.
"So are you going to tell us who we are going to rescue?" said Kaito.
They started to drive off.
"Yes...when we get there" said Vermouth.