Here's the next chapter to this…hope you all like this. If you want a disclaimer…go find it in the first chapter.
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Act Four: The Confession
"I see, so these are the recent blueprints? It doesn't seem like much for a mansion." Heiji said frowning. Shuichi gave a nod at that as well as Conan. Three had managed to stay far enough from the others as they worked.
"I say they're not complete." Conan said as he carefully peered at the plans.
"Interesting, I never thought that the Reaper was interested in Classic era." Shuichi mused.
"Be serious." Conan said as he traced some of the prints.
"I am."
"We know that it wasn't a closed room murder. Thirty minutes is a lot of time for anyone to commit a simple murder. Not only that, we still to figure out which one is the next target." Heiji said tiredly. Conan stared at Shuichi who was still looking at the prints. Somehow, something was not right. He just could not figure out what was wrong.
"The two of you were together when we heard the scream. I was with my band mates at that time. I'm pretty sure that K was with Yuki and my bosses. Hino seems to be the type who would stick with someone and that would be Mills." Shuichi said frowning.
"That means everyone here is innocent." Conan said softly, still watching Shuichi.
"You're forgetting about, Magami." Heiji argued. Shuichi shook his head.
"Magami is innocent. I know that for a fact. I've seen the Reaper before, Magami is not him." Shuichi said firmly. Conan blinked at that. His brain was going around in circles. He could actually begin to understand everything, but he lacked only a couple connections.
"Hey! Aren't you going to share what you're discussing about with the rest of us?" Kazuha asked frowning. The three blinked and looked at the others. They were discussing to themselves that they did not noticed the looks the others were giving them. Shuichi gave a laugh and grinned.
"So far we're saying that no one here is the murderer. That means that there's someone in this house. Our best bet would be sticking together in groups. We should stick everyone in twos. However, I doubt Hino-san will be pleased with that. Hino-san, Mills-san, Yuki-san, K-san, Seguchi-san, Sanoko, and Magmi are one group." Shuichi said smiling.
"But Mills isn't part of the list of targets." Heiji said frowning.
"He'll be the one who can come out of this alive and tell us any details." Shuichi answered quietly. Heiji gave him a weird look but nodded.
"The Doc stays with the kids, which include you as well." Shuichi said as he looked down at Conan who rolled his eyes.
"We should have Ran and Kazuha stay with Hiro and Suguru. That leaves you, me, and Neko-san." Shuichi said turning to Heiji. "Oh and you Mouri-san…you might want to stay with the target group as well. They could use a detective around just in case."
Yuki could feel that something was not right. He would like to protest except someone beat him to it.
"Shuichi, why are you grouping us this way?" Hiro asked. Shuichi turned and gave a smile at him.
"Just want to protect my friends. I want to catch this guy before he hurts more people. Come on, Hattori, Neko-san. I need to take you back to your bedroom. I want you to describe as much as you can before you were drugged." Shuichi said as he dragged Heiji and Mei.
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Conan frowned as he studied everyone that was in the room with the exception of the trio that had left them. He knew that there was something that did not fit everything he had seen, heard, and remembered. He closed his eyes trying to remember.
FLASHBACK
"Shu-chan! What are you doing?" a ten year old Shinichi asked frowning. Shuichi gave a smile as he turned to face his cousin.
"I'm off to finish off a case, Shin-chan!"
"Is it the one you been working on for the longest time?" Shinichi asked excited for cousin. Shuichi gave a nod.
"Hai! I'll give you all the details whenever the police let me!" Shuichi said as he walked away.
FLASHBACK
But Shuichi never did give him any details. That was the problem with this. Ever since Shuichi returned, he had not given any details. He had just smiled and told him that it was nothing and that it had ended. That was Shuichi, smiling and getting people off track. Including himself.
"What's taking those three so long?" Hino grumbled. Conan blinked as he looked up and noticed how much time had passed. The three should have been back by now, or at least sent someone to tell them what was going on. Conan sighed as he stared at the white ceiling. White unblemished ceiling. White.
"Kuso!" he yelled as he ran for the door. Everyone else blinked and gasped at the little boy who ran out of the room.
"Conan!" Ran called out as she ran out to find the boy. Conan ignored her as he ran through the facts in his head. Why did he not figure it out sooner? Why did not Shuichi tell him? There were so many whys.
"Where the hell is that brat going?" Yuki snarled as he ran with everyone else.
"Probably to Shindo-san." Tohma said as he concentrated on his running as well.
Conan activated his sneakers and kicked the door open. His face turned grim as he saw Heiji on the floor and no sign of Shuichi or Mei. A winced as he heard a scream. It was either Kazuha or Ran.
"What happened? Heiji! Heiji!" Kazuha cried as she tried to wake up the teenage detective. Ran began to calm the other girl down. From the way Heiji's chest was moving, he was alive. Conan quickly glanced around. Where could they be? He turned to his memory for any clue, any clue at all.
"It seems like Hino was right from the beginning." K said coldly as he began to load his gun.
"You mean about…" Hiro asked gasping.
"Yeah, looks like our real killer is Neko-san." K said. "We need to stick in pairs. Kids stay out of this and…"
However Conan already was racing out the door. He had to find his cousin first. He could only make a stab at where Shuichi was at and he was going to go with it.
"I better be right about this." He grumbled.
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Conan gasped as he finally reached the gardens. He looked and then hid behind a hedge as he saw Shuichi and Mei facing each other.
"How long were you going to pretend?" Mei asked quietly. Shuichi said nothing as she played with his yo-yo. Conan peeked to see the angry face that was showing on Mei's face. "Quit acting like a fool! I hated it whenever I saw you acting like that on TV."
Shuichi stopped and stared at her sadly.
"I see. How long did it take you to find me?" Shuichi asked softly. Mei gave a laugh at that.
"Not too long. Ever since I saw you I hated you."
"You do know that you're not the first person to hate me."
"I know, but I will be the last one." Mei said coldly as she held up a gun that she had hid in her purse. She had it calmly and it was aimed at Shuichi's chest. Shuichi just stared at it sadly.
"I see." Shuichi said quietly. Mei gave an insane laugh.
"You don't see. I could just kill you here and no one will figure out who the real murderer is. You were the only who knew and you purposely lead everyone in a merry chase." Mei said smiling.
"What are you planning to do afterwards? Kill the others?"
"Maybe…I'll kill those annoying friends of yours. Maybe even your lover. How do you think?"
Shuichi gave a smile and chuckled.
"Do you honestly think that I'm the only one who knows that you're the real killer? Hattori will know as well as Mouri. Too bad you messed up your alibi at bit." Shuichi said calmly. Conan gave a smirk as he heard that. So Shuichi knew that he was going to figure out.
"Hey kid, what's going on?"
Conan turned to see everyone else was watching and K was fingering the trigger to his gun. He could see that Hattori was groggy but awake and trying to listen in the soon to be confession.
"Shindo is about to make her confess her crime, we need to be quiet about this." Heiji whispered.
"Nani? What do you mean by that?" Mei asked coldly. Shuichi gave a smirk and shook his head.
"You are naive. The cloth that was supposed to drug you, it was clean. If your body guard really had drugged you, the pressure that it takes to hold the cloth against your mouth and face would be enough to make the cloth colored with your make up." Shuichi said smiling. Mei's eyes widen at that. "I've noticed that you wore a good amount of makeup when we first met."
"Damn you! What makes you think they'll figure out?"
"I don't think they would, only one person will. I'm counting on him to find you before you kill anyone else." Shuichi said as he began to play with the yo-yo once again.
"How can you stay calm? Aren't you scared that you're going to die? Aren't you?" Mei demanded. Shuichi looked at her.
"You don't scare me. I stopped being scared of anything when I faced your father." Shuichi said softly. Mei began to laugh at that.
"Of course! You killed him! You killed my father and the police did nothing about it! It was exactly like this! You had a gun in your hands and you shot him point blank!" Mei snarled.
Everyone was quiet as they heard this. Conan closed his eyes and sighed softly. Everything was beginning to make sense once again. He was beginning to solve the puzzle that had bothered him for the longest time. However there was only one more piece to fit and he would be able to understand.
"Shuichi, I can't believe he would…" Hiro said shocked. K frowned to see all the people listening to this. He would have to make sure none of them would repeat this to the media.
"Yes, I did kill him. However, what makes you think that he would have lived if we just have caught him. In the United States, he would have gotten capitol punishment. What do you think the Japanese government would have let him live? Despite the fact that your father had killed off those who have threaten society more than once, did he even think about the families that were left behind? I doubt it. Besides he had a sick fascination with an eleven year old." Shuichi said, his voice just a little firm.
"Shut up. Shut up!" Mei screamed as the gun began to shake slightly.
"No, I won't. I think you do need to hear this. Your father is the Reaper. He killed over twenty people and screwed the police over it. Not only that, he started to play games with an eleven year old kid who managed to solve all of his riddles. Your father was a sick man, there's nothing you can gain by doing any of this." Shuichi said glaring at her.
"But you killed him…" Mei said as she managed to control herself and to hold the gun steady with both hands. Shuichi's eyes grew hard at that.
"Yes, I killed him. That's because I found who was his next target was going to be. I shot him because I didn't want him to kill any more. The police report didn't say much on what happened. Do you want to hear what really happened?" Shuichi asked softly.
Mei said nothing as she stared at him with a cold gaze. Shuichi took it as a yes.
"The target that your father picked was a banker who had embezzled some money from the bank that he was working with. The police and I got there early enough to chase your father down. However it was really just a trap for me since he barred the door as soon as I came onto the roof top. However, I had stolen a gun from of the officers earlier. The inspector wanted me to stay put, but the Reaper wanted to meet me in person for the first time. I was stupid at that time and a bit proud. I was the one who was solving all of the riddles. I was the one who could outthink the Reaper. I wanted to see him.
"Anyway, by the time he had the locked the door, I realized that it was a trap. I admit I was scared shitless. Your father had this sword on him. He kept on reciting poetry on how he would kill me. By this time, I think I was crying. The gun had fallen out of my hands and I think I was sitting on the floor by this time since I couldn't stand. Then your father said something that really ticked me off.
"Love of a kin is strong
Death of him would do you wrong
Blood shall spill after yours
The little child born on Athen's shores
"You have no idea how pissed off I was when I heard that. Your father was planning to kill my cousin Shinichi. So I took the gun and shot him point blank like you said. That's what really happened." Shuichi said calmly.
By now Mei was sitting on the ground, but the gun was still in her hands. Shuichi was still playing with the yo-yo as silence filled the area.
"Afterwards, I discovered that if I keep working on cases and forget caution, people I love would be in danger. After all, you purposely invited them. Even now, my actions from the past have caught up to me." Shuichi said with a sigh.
"Shut up. I still have a gun here. I can shoot you. No, I will shoot you!" Mei cried out as she pointed the gun and fired.
All at once, everyone emerged from the bushes. At the same time, the yo-yo that Shuichi was playing with shot out and knocked Mei in the head. Both the singer and the actor fell to the ground at the same time.
"Shu-chan!" Ran cried out as she and Yuki ran to the singer. Yuki paled as he noticed a small pool of blood was forming and that the singer was not responding to Ran's cries. He turned to the others and glared at them.
"He's been shot in the chest. Get an ambulance!"
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How did you guys like it? I think I have one more chapter before it's finished. Then it'll be the very first fanfic that I have ever finished! WAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! Review and tell me who you guys really thought the murderer was!
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Act Four: The Confession
"I see, so these are the recent blueprints? It doesn't seem like much for a mansion." Heiji said frowning. Shuichi gave a nod at that as well as Conan. Three had managed to stay far enough from the others as they worked.
"I say they're not complete." Conan said as he carefully peered at the plans.
"Interesting, I never thought that the Reaper was interested in Classic era." Shuichi mused.
"Be serious." Conan said as he traced some of the prints.
"I am."
"We know that it wasn't a closed room murder. Thirty minutes is a lot of time for anyone to commit a simple murder. Not only that, we still to figure out which one is the next target." Heiji said tiredly. Conan stared at Shuichi who was still looking at the prints. Somehow, something was not right. He just could not figure out what was wrong.
"The two of you were together when we heard the scream. I was with my band mates at that time. I'm pretty sure that K was with Yuki and my bosses. Hino seems to be the type who would stick with someone and that would be Mills." Shuichi said frowning.
"That means everyone here is innocent." Conan said softly, still watching Shuichi.
"You're forgetting about, Magami." Heiji argued. Shuichi shook his head.
"Magami is innocent. I know that for a fact. I've seen the Reaper before, Magami is not him." Shuichi said firmly. Conan blinked at that. His brain was going around in circles. He could actually begin to understand everything, but he lacked only a couple connections.
"Hey! Aren't you going to share what you're discussing about with the rest of us?" Kazuha asked frowning. The three blinked and looked at the others. They were discussing to themselves that they did not noticed the looks the others were giving them. Shuichi gave a laugh and grinned.
"So far we're saying that no one here is the murderer. That means that there's someone in this house. Our best bet would be sticking together in groups. We should stick everyone in twos. However, I doubt Hino-san will be pleased with that. Hino-san, Mills-san, Yuki-san, K-san, Seguchi-san, Sanoko, and Magmi are one group." Shuichi said smiling.
"But Mills isn't part of the list of targets." Heiji said frowning.
"He'll be the one who can come out of this alive and tell us any details." Shuichi answered quietly. Heiji gave him a weird look but nodded.
"The Doc stays with the kids, which include you as well." Shuichi said as he looked down at Conan who rolled his eyes.
"We should have Ran and Kazuha stay with Hiro and Suguru. That leaves you, me, and Neko-san." Shuichi said turning to Heiji. "Oh and you Mouri-san…you might want to stay with the target group as well. They could use a detective around just in case."
Yuki could feel that something was not right. He would like to protest except someone beat him to it.
"Shuichi, why are you grouping us this way?" Hiro asked. Shuichi turned and gave a smile at him.
"Just want to protect my friends. I want to catch this guy before he hurts more people. Come on, Hattori, Neko-san. I need to take you back to your bedroom. I want you to describe as much as you can before you were drugged." Shuichi said as he dragged Heiji and Mei.
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Conan frowned as he studied everyone that was in the room with the exception of the trio that had left them. He knew that there was something that did not fit everything he had seen, heard, and remembered. He closed his eyes trying to remember.
FLASHBACK
"Shu-chan! What are you doing?" a ten year old Shinichi asked frowning. Shuichi gave a smile as he turned to face his cousin.
"I'm off to finish off a case, Shin-chan!"
"Is it the one you been working on for the longest time?" Shinichi asked excited for cousin. Shuichi gave a nod.
"Hai! I'll give you all the details whenever the police let me!" Shuichi said as he walked away.
FLASHBACK
But Shuichi never did give him any details. That was the problem with this. Ever since Shuichi returned, he had not given any details. He had just smiled and told him that it was nothing and that it had ended. That was Shuichi, smiling and getting people off track. Including himself.
"What's taking those three so long?" Hino grumbled. Conan blinked as he looked up and noticed how much time had passed. The three should have been back by now, or at least sent someone to tell them what was going on. Conan sighed as he stared at the white ceiling. White unblemished ceiling. White.
"Kuso!" he yelled as he ran for the door. Everyone else blinked and gasped at the little boy who ran out of the room.
"Conan!" Ran called out as she ran out to find the boy. Conan ignored her as he ran through the facts in his head. Why did he not figure it out sooner? Why did not Shuichi tell him? There were so many whys.
"Where the hell is that brat going?" Yuki snarled as he ran with everyone else.
"Probably to Shindo-san." Tohma said as he concentrated on his running as well.
Conan activated his sneakers and kicked the door open. His face turned grim as he saw Heiji on the floor and no sign of Shuichi or Mei. A winced as he heard a scream. It was either Kazuha or Ran.
"What happened? Heiji! Heiji!" Kazuha cried as she tried to wake up the teenage detective. Ran began to calm the other girl down. From the way Heiji's chest was moving, he was alive. Conan quickly glanced around. Where could they be? He turned to his memory for any clue, any clue at all.
"It seems like Hino was right from the beginning." K said coldly as he began to load his gun.
"You mean about…" Hiro asked gasping.
"Yeah, looks like our real killer is Neko-san." K said. "We need to stick in pairs. Kids stay out of this and…"
However Conan already was racing out the door. He had to find his cousin first. He could only make a stab at where Shuichi was at and he was going to go with it.
"I better be right about this." He grumbled.
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Conan gasped as he finally reached the gardens. He looked and then hid behind a hedge as he saw Shuichi and Mei facing each other.
"How long were you going to pretend?" Mei asked quietly. Shuichi said nothing as she played with his yo-yo. Conan peeked to see the angry face that was showing on Mei's face. "Quit acting like a fool! I hated it whenever I saw you acting like that on TV."
Shuichi stopped and stared at her sadly.
"I see. How long did it take you to find me?" Shuichi asked softly. Mei gave a laugh at that.
"Not too long. Ever since I saw you I hated you."
"You do know that you're not the first person to hate me."
"I know, but I will be the last one." Mei said coldly as she held up a gun that she had hid in her purse. She had it calmly and it was aimed at Shuichi's chest. Shuichi just stared at it sadly.
"I see." Shuichi said quietly. Mei gave an insane laugh.
"You don't see. I could just kill you here and no one will figure out who the real murderer is. You were the only who knew and you purposely lead everyone in a merry chase." Mei said smiling.
"What are you planning to do afterwards? Kill the others?"
"Maybe…I'll kill those annoying friends of yours. Maybe even your lover. How do you think?"
Shuichi gave a smile and chuckled.
"Do you honestly think that I'm the only one who knows that you're the real killer? Hattori will know as well as Mouri. Too bad you messed up your alibi at bit." Shuichi said calmly. Conan gave a smirk as he heard that. So Shuichi knew that he was going to figure out.
"Hey kid, what's going on?"
Conan turned to see everyone else was watching and K was fingering the trigger to his gun. He could see that Hattori was groggy but awake and trying to listen in the soon to be confession.
"Shindo is about to make her confess her crime, we need to be quiet about this." Heiji whispered.
"Nani? What do you mean by that?" Mei asked coldly. Shuichi gave a smirk and shook his head.
"You are naive. The cloth that was supposed to drug you, it was clean. If your body guard really had drugged you, the pressure that it takes to hold the cloth against your mouth and face would be enough to make the cloth colored with your make up." Shuichi said smiling. Mei's eyes widen at that. "I've noticed that you wore a good amount of makeup when we first met."
"Damn you! What makes you think they'll figure out?"
"I don't think they would, only one person will. I'm counting on him to find you before you kill anyone else." Shuichi said as he began to play with the yo-yo once again.
"How can you stay calm? Aren't you scared that you're going to die? Aren't you?" Mei demanded. Shuichi looked at her.
"You don't scare me. I stopped being scared of anything when I faced your father." Shuichi said softly. Mei began to laugh at that.
"Of course! You killed him! You killed my father and the police did nothing about it! It was exactly like this! You had a gun in your hands and you shot him point blank!" Mei snarled.
Everyone was quiet as they heard this. Conan closed his eyes and sighed softly. Everything was beginning to make sense once again. He was beginning to solve the puzzle that had bothered him for the longest time. However there was only one more piece to fit and he would be able to understand.
"Shuichi, I can't believe he would…" Hiro said shocked. K frowned to see all the people listening to this. He would have to make sure none of them would repeat this to the media.
"Yes, I did kill him. However, what makes you think that he would have lived if we just have caught him. In the United States, he would have gotten capitol punishment. What do you think the Japanese government would have let him live? Despite the fact that your father had killed off those who have threaten society more than once, did he even think about the families that were left behind? I doubt it. Besides he had a sick fascination with an eleven year old." Shuichi said, his voice just a little firm.
"Shut up. Shut up!" Mei screamed as the gun began to shake slightly.
"No, I won't. I think you do need to hear this. Your father is the Reaper. He killed over twenty people and screwed the police over it. Not only that, he started to play games with an eleven year old kid who managed to solve all of his riddles. Your father was a sick man, there's nothing you can gain by doing any of this." Shuichi said glaring at her.
"But you killed him…" Mei said as she managed to control herself and to hold the gun steady with both hands. Shuichi's eyes grew hard at that.
"Yes, I killed him. That's because I found who was his next target was going to be. I shot him because I didn't want him to kill any more. The police report didn't say much on what happened. Do you want to hear what really happened?" Shuichi asked softly.
Mei said nothing as she stared at him with a cold gaze. Shuichi took it as a yes.
"The target that your father picked was a banker who had embezzled some money from the bank that he was working with. The police and I got there early enough to chase your father down. However it was really just a trap for me since he barred the door as soon as I came onto the roof top. However, I had stolen a gun from of the officers earlier. The inspector wanted me to stay put, but the Reaper wanted to meet me in person for the first time. I was stupid at that time and a bit proud. I was the one who was solving all of the riddles. I was the one who could outthink the Reaper. I wanted to see him.
"Anyway, by the time he had the locked the door, I realized that it was a trap. I admit I was scared shitless. Your father had this sword on him. He kept on reciting poetry on how he would kill me. By this time, I think I was crying. The gun had fallen out of my hands and I think I was sitting on the floor by this time since I couldn't stand. Then your father said something that really ticked me off.
"Love of a kin is strong
Death of him would do you wrong
Blood shall spill after yours
The little child born on Athen's shores
"You have no idea how pissed off I was when I heard that. Your father was planning to kill my cousin Shinichi. So I took the gun and shot him point blank like you said. That's what really happened." Shuichi said calmly.
By now Mei was sitting on the ground, but the gun was still in her hands. Shuichi was still playing with the yo-yo as silence filled the area.
"Afterwards, I discovered that if I keep working on cases and forget caution, people I love would be in danger. After all, you purposely invited them. Even now, my actions from the past have caught up to me." Shuichi said with a sigh.
"Shut up. I still have a gun here. I can shoot you. No, I will shoot you!" Mei cried out as she pointed the gun and fired.
All at once, everyone emerged from the bushes. At the same time, the yo-yo that Shuichi was playing with shot out and knocked Mei in the head. Both the singer and the actor fell to the ground at the same time.
"Shu-chan!" Ran cried out as she and Yuki ran to the singer. Yuki paled as he noticed a small pool of blood was forming and that the singer was not responding to Ran's cries. He turned to the others and glared at them.
"He's been shot in the chest. Get an ambulance!"
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How did you guys like it? I think I have one more chapter before it's finished. Then it'll be the very first fanfic that I have ever finished! WAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! Review and tell me who you guys really thought the murderer was!