Looking at the boy he could not believe just how much he looked like her one of the finest Detectives that he had happened to come across and had the fortune to ever come across her. He had the pleasure of meeting her when she solved her first case and was a witness to it as well as he had the sole pleasure to welcome her to the Task Force and she had become his 'Consulting Detective'.
Even though she had dropped the word 'Consulting' and just went with Detective, she did not want people to think of her as Sherlock Holmes clone even though he a fictional character was her idol. People did end up calling her the Heisei Holmes and he was angry at first when she was called it but he was also proud when she was called ' The Saviour of the Police Force'. Many names she was named and all of them were for her greatness as a Detective.
If he was ever to have a daughter, he would want her to exactly like her because she was the closest thing he had to a child in his life because all of the Detectives that he worked with were family but not like she was.
There were clues that she was in trouble the many clues that had been there and the many times that he was worried about her when those cases popped up. She had become so secretive and did not tell him and this had always been over the phone that this was done.
She had become so distant and did not want the credit for the cases that she had earned and deserved. He could never get rid of her or ever get her out of the spotlight when she had solved the case knowing that she had loved the attention that was given to her because of it.
He sadly did not notice that she disappeared before his own eyes and that she had been replaced by the other Detective that was now always appearing in his homicidal cases like a cold always coming.
He missed her and most of all he had failed her for not seeing the truth that she was in trouble until it was too late to do anything about it because she was dead. She had become one of their cases something that he had never thought that she would have become and worst of all he was not able to solve it.
His entire department was not allowed to work on it because they were too close to one of the victims to close to them. He was furious every single one of them were furious because of this and they all tried to work on the case in secret but it was quickly closed and they were not allowed to even look at the file.
He was suspicious of what they had found and what had actually happened inside that Mansion after it was burnt to the ground and was condemned they were still not allowed anywhere near it.
Not even the Hakuba family that lived there were allowed near it and he knew that face had suffered enough because of that fire having their son taken away from with people that Superintendent General Hakuba with.
It was his biggest failure in life.
Looking at the young adult that was lying in the bed was the closest thing that he would ever get to seeing her again.
The Young adult was named Kuroba Kaito he had been stabbed in the stomach and he had been found drowning in a pond. He had been resuscitated on the scene by a witness just before the ambulance had arrived and then taken.
Statements had been taken.
It was clear that the young man knew his attacker.
The only witness was sat down immediately with a sketch artist and within a couple of hours it was done and they had a suspect.
But when he took one look at the picture, he could not believe it because the witness had to be wrong. She could have simply gotten the attacker and witness mixed up because of it was a traumatic moment, that was what he had thought.
But those annoying kids that called themselves 'The Junior Detective League' had also sat down with the sketch artist and described the same person after seeing the attacker run from the park.
There were bloody finger prints on the knife, but it would take some time to run them through aphis because of the damage done to the evidence. Somehow the boy was able to keep the blood on the knife good enough so that they would be able to get those finger prints they needed.
But with the knife still in the boy at the scene because if it was taken out he would have been more than likely to bleed to death.
They had to wait hours until they could get the knife and then days for the evidence to be checked and cleared. He hated procedure the amount of time it took someone else could have been killed by this maniac.
There had been spotting of the same person before that looked like Kudo Shinichi thought to be ghost murdering people that knew her and wanted to talk to her the moment they had saw her. But these were just myths and delusional that had been created on the internet that has been until now and all these attacking were now being inspected.
He wished that she was alive part of him always thought that she would never die but when he went to her funeral, he just knew that it was over and that she was dead.
The boy was out of surgery for a couple of hours but was still asleep, and he was waiting to take his statement. But his shift would be over soon and someone else would have to take over and he was not comfort with that.
"Inspector Megure" said Takagi.
He looked up immediately.
He was handed the results to him.
"Who do they belong to?" said Megure
"Huh? Right they belong to a person called Makoto Okuda" said Takagi.
He opened his file to see two picture one of them resembling someone that he knew and it was as if he was looking at a ghost.
"The suspect look exactly like Kudo is this accidental or on purpose?" said Megure.
He picked the picture up that resembled Kudo perfectly it was just the eyes that were off.
"Right! Apparently those two have history with a case that she umhmph that Kudo worked on, it is all in the file" said Takagi. nervously.
He did not want to read it because it would be a waste of time he wanted his description on it so they could begin their next case because he knew that there would be another target.
"Kudo she umph solved the case of his parents murder it was a murder-suicide and umph..." went on a nervous Takagi.
It would be quicker to read the file instead.
"You are dismissed" said Megure.
Takagi stood straight and saluted " Right" said Takagi.
"Takagi!" said Sato.
'Marriage drama' he thought.
These two got married soon after the Funeral because they wanted to live life and it was the kind of shock happens and you see things differently, view things differently. You make changes in your life, and everyone was making changes in their life, so many people had made changes in their life because of that horror that they all induced.
He and his wife were planning on having a baby.
His job had already put a hold in having a family enough, and he did not want to hold him back any longer so he had taken some time off and promoted others in his division.
His wife was soon and already pregnant but they were not suspecting the surprise that they were having because they were having quadruplets. All of them were boys and they only wanted one boy, now they were having four of them. He and four of his boys thought running a Task Force was hard now four boys, four screaming male infants that will not stop screaming and whaling for a very long time.
And his wife wanted a girl as well and he would not admit it as well but he did want a girl instead of a boy and she wanted a girl in the next five years because her biological clock was ticking. He could end up with entire soccer team as a family that including the two dogs and two cats that he had just gotten for his children. His life for at the least twenty-one years was going to be a living nightmare that he could never escape or awake from because it would soon become a reality.
Reading the file he could see that Kudo had gotten herself into a lot of trouble on this case and the case that it created all because of a white lie that was told for everyone else's sake. And the one person that was not police that was not told that the truth had gone psycho all because he had gone into shock and did not even believe it until he found out by Hattori turns it seemed like he was out for revenge again he was nothing more than a fanatic crazed and delusional fan.
He was early and put on parole due to overcrowding and due to the fact that he did not actually kill anyone and the star witness to it all was no longer able to say anything.
If Kudo was here right now she would that he was out for revenge or there was some other reason behind it all that he would never able to see or notice the little clue.
Only two Detectives were able to find those little clues and both of them were gone. One was dead and one had disappeared like smoke and he never got the chance to say goodbye to either of them or was able to get in contact with either of them.
He had a case, and he was going to make sure that this criminal was going away for a long time.