He had sat there, not having moved at since she had sat down.
The smirk on his face that she had seen many years ago it could be said that was the exact same but to her it was not this smile was sinister.
Two could play at this game.
So she sat down, not saying a word or moving a single muscle.
The time dragged in with each passing second feeling like a minute and a minute feeling like an hour she felt trapped and like she had been there for so long that she had forgotten how to breathe.
This shell of a man was not her Husband he was barely a reflection of him just a dark and exact reflection of the man that she had once knew.
She had loved only man in her life, and that man was now gone.
But here was a man that was him but at the same time she could feel it was not him because he felt so cold physically and cold hearted to her. He was soulless and his eyes were dead and so that only meant one thing that he was dead inside and she was finished here and had nothing more to do with this.
She tapped her fingers on the table repeatedly over and over also clicking her nails at the same time, making a clicking sound and she could see that it was starting to irate him so she was going to move onto the next anteing thing. She started making loud clicking sounds with her tongue and she could see that his eardrum was pulsing.
She smiled, and she immediately stood up going to leave from the room and she was never going to come back.
"I will talk to our Boy and of course I am willing to talk completely when Shinichi returns from her grand adventure of coming back from the grave. The three or four of us can have tea together and all those happy memories that we can all have a nice chat about" said Rum.
She heard all of this the moment she had her hand on the handle exactly when she was opening the door.
"This is not Alice and Wonderland. You are not the Mad Hatter and this is game over and you have lost" said Chikage.
She left the room immediately knowing that she got what she needed but also what she had done was much harder than child birth.
"Mad Hatter is quite the character indeed, if you do not mind me saying so I will take that has a complete and you will always be Alice to Kuroba Toichi" said Rum.
Rum was talking to the mirror while he tipped his hat and winked at it as well.
His mother had stepped out and had not said a single word to him but smiled at him as she gently put her hand on her shoulder and nodded at him tearfully as she looked him in the eye.
She was telling him exactly what he was thinking.
But first he was going to have a little private chat with Rum or his Father he was still not sure which one to call him.
His Mum would be doing a little distraction just enough so that they would have a private word but not enough so that there could be a potential escape there was no way he was going to let that happen.
The man was going to stay put whenever he liked it or not he was staying where he could be watched and so that he could stay.
Even if he did not want to see him ever again once this was all over him would want to know exactly where the man that had a part in ruining Shinichi's life and he wanted him to pay for that by spending the rest of his existence in a jail cell rotting.
TAP
He heard the tap on the mirror indicating that he had the go ahead that he was free and clear to go in.
He took a deep breath in, and he stepped in the room nodding at the guard who happened to be the ex-member that was not really a real member at all but was undercover the whole time.
Another thing that Shinichi had not completely told him about after he pleaded with her and he got it was not her secret to tell but he did which that she shared more with him than he did with her.
Well, that was in the past, and he never really fully understood why she could not just tell him the truth but now looking at it he could see why she did not or rather could not tell anyone the complete truth.
It was the hardest thing to do, and he was in the same position right now.
He had completely avoided Aoko and her Dad the whole time and he was avoiding everyone because Aoko had questions that she needed answered. As well as the police that wanted to question, he and he had to avoid them at all times.
Hiding secrets like this was much harder than the one that he had been hiding for years and so was the one that he was faced with for the last couple of days.
He did have feelings for the Miyano girl they were almost romantic but once he had found out that Shinichi was alive all of those feelings he had for the Miyano girl had evaporated into nothingness.
And to his surprise and complete shock Mouri Ran had turned up at his doorstep in the middle of the night after that the world had found Shinichi was alive. Ran was crying on his doorstep in the pouring rain and he was not sure why she was there in the middle of the night. So he had invited her in and before he even knows it she was already confessing her feelings for him and that she knew that he was still in love with Shinichi and that she wanted them to be together. And that she was happy for them but she thought that he deserved the truth and that he needed to be told so he could be happy and that nothing could hold him back and she still wanted to be his friend. She still wanted Shinichi to be her friend, and she needed his hep because she did not know how Shinichi would feel about it or how she would reaction to all of it.
She did not want to hurt her anymore than she had already been hurt and she did not want to lose her friend no again. He liked Ran, but he did not like her like that especially after he found that Shinichi was alive and the thing that he could see in his future was Shinichi and for her to be his bride even if he had to force her down the aisle.
Never look them in the eye.
"So ...!" said Kaito whistling it as he sat on the seat nervously.
He might be sitting on the seat opposite of the man, and he faced in the direction that he would be facing him and his face was directed towards him but he was not looking at him at all because he was just staring at his own nose and nothing else.
Was Shinichi going to be hurt by this meeting?
He knew that she would be guilty because of this.
But was be betraying her taking this meeting? Because it was already starting to feel like it was.
"Hello, my son" said Rum.
This time there was no denying it he felt the shiver go down his spine then moment he had heard his father's voice it was as if he was a child all over again and as if nothing had happened. He clapped his hands together silently trying to think of something to say but could not think of the right words as the silence filled the room.
"And to think that this would never have met if Kudo Shinichi never had to eat a piece of Rum Cake and to think of the irony of it. Or was it rather just fate just lying in wait for the name and something so sweet to find its way to me" said Rum.
He frowned.
"I will make it clear Shinichi is something that we will not being discussing tonight or something that we will ever speak of again because you that is not a subject that you are not to speak of. Do we have an understanding?" said Kaito.
He hit his fist hard against the table making it shake.
"So the boy finally becomes a man standing up for his Lady. Son we do have an understanding for now" said Rum.
He had so many questions that he wanted to ask, but he could not think of any of them right now at this point.
"There once had a horse that was said that it could not be tamed by the man that sold to the man that bought it. It was magnificent and a beauty that no force could control or that was what anyone thought at first because this man proved the others wrong. All because it was a simple job the horse just had to be broken before it could be fixed, though it did take longer than he thought it would the horse in the end was his and he was able to ride it if need because he was the owner and horse was, after all, just a horse that belonged to him" said Rum.
He did not know how to respond to this because there were many things that he could be referring to behind this veiled meaning but he had a feeling he exactly what it meant and there was more than one meaning to this little lesson of his.
"Why and how did you leave those recording for me to find?" said Kaito.
Rum smiled at him"I think you already know the reason why I did that" said Rum.
"Try for a second and amuse me by enlightening me with your answer" said Kaito.
Rum tapped his fingers on the table making a rhythm to the sound of a familiar magician music.
"It was left with a purpose, and I needed that purpose to be you because I needed certain people and items to be found. Certain information that needed to be required so that I knew that I was on the right path and I also wanted revenge on a certain someone and I also wanted a certain someone to do it" said Rum.
He was shocked.
"You wanted ME your own son to kill the man that had 'killed' you for what some kind of twisted revenge. This is not Hamlet and you are not some ghost" said Kaito.
"Well the man that killed your Father is now dead because Vermouth, that darling had killed him in a fire right there in the Kudo Mansion. That is what she is known for burning them and the entire place right to the ground and she did it all for the mentor that she had and also because his use had become no more" said Rum.
He was shock and devasted at the death of Snake, a death that he did not even know about and he did not even truly notice that Snake had disappeared for so long and he had barely even noticed.
"You're speechless and rather pale I thought that you would be happy that the man that murdered your Father was killed in flames in burning fury and made all to look like a mere accident. You should be happy after all this time you got what you wanted Justice or Revenge whatever you want to call it was delivered so you are free of the burden and now you are free to do as your heart desires" said Rum.
"So you are saying my Father is dead then what does that make you exactly?" said Kaito questioningly.
He pointed to his eye.
"Pandora" said Kaito shocked.
Rum nodded amused.
"So my Father's body is nothing more than a shell that is something that I just do not believe otherwise, why the interest in the Kuroba family?" said Kaito.
"Curiosity, but then again that did kill the cat and is probably the reason that I got caught" said Rum.
Then he just laughed at his own words.
"So this has what just been one big game until the Comet comes?" said Kaito.
"When there is something that one needs the best way to get that way is the easy way and the quickest way to that is through power and fear. Getting others to work for you instead of you having to do it yourself and getting your hands dirty with some unnecessary misdeeds is always complicate things" said Rum.
The man was speaking in riddles all of the time as if he wanted to tell him something or as if he was almost daring to because his was just a game to him it was all just for fun as if he was bored. Like was playing with them and playing with him.
"You cannot kill anyone, at least not with your own hands or something will go horribly wrong with all your plans that is ahead of you" said Kaito.
Rum pouted at this realization.
"Correct, if I kill in this body let's just say things will get complicated" said Rum.
Rum pulled at his vest pulling and straightening his tie.
"So you have not murdered anyone" said Kaito sounding relieved.
Time was ticking, and he knew that he did not have a lot of time left.
"You have your theories and some a very close to the truth but I will give the truth to only one person, one person only and I want her here alone with no one else to interfere" said Rum.
Kaito shook his head.
"Fine I suppose I will allow you to be her guard dog" said Rum.
Knock Knock
He and the knock on the window could feel who was knocking on the other side because he could feel her presence there because he always could.