Disclaimers: All the Detective Conan characters are belonged to Aoyama Gosho.
Chapter Five. Still For Your Love
"Wake up!" Genta and Mitsuhiko tried to wake Shinichi, Heiji and Takagi up.
"Wow! I'm still so sleepy, go to Kaito's place right?" Shinichi said sleepily. "Heiji, Takagi! Wake up!"
"They're missing! The Princess, Kazuha-neechan and Sato-neechan had left early this morning." Genta told the three detectives.
"What?" Heiji and Takagi woke up immediately.
"We need to go to Kaito's to discuss this with him." Mitsuhiko said. "He can help us."
"That's a good idea, maybe we can get some clothes to disguise ourselves, especially you, Prince Shinichi." Heiji agreed with Mitsuhiko to go to Kaito's house.
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Prince Shinichi and the others came to Kaito's farmhouse. "Welcome all of you. Um…I bet you need my help." Kaito drew a conclusion already after seeing Shinichi, Heiji and Takagi had turned back to their own self.
"He needs some clothes to disguise himself, every one at Mouri Kingdom know him well!" Heiji pointed at Shinichi.
"What? You guys want to go to Mouri Kingdom. I know that it's quite dangerous to be there now. There're men in black robes everywhere, and there're rumours that Gin and Vodka had controlled King Kogoro already."
"But I need to save Ran! She must be in danger right now. She could come here all along to Mouri Kingdom to find me, why can't I go to save her now. She…she's important to me." Prince Shinichi told Kaito.
"Okay! I'll help you, as you might help me with my plan also. I don't like those men with black robe either. Moreover, I'm quite interested with the magic mirror you'd talked about." Kaito was leading them to a huge room, and then to some secret passageway, "here it is. My secret place, Aoko knows nothing about this." There was a mischievous grin on Kaito's face; he was quite satisfied to keep a secret from Aoko.
This was a room with lots of stuffs for different magic tricks. "Wow! Are you a magician?" Asked Takagi.
"More than a magician." Kaito answered curiously.
"Actually Aoko found this out a long time ago, she just pretends she knows nothing about his secret place," Ayumi whispered to the other, "she even helps him to clean and tidy his 'secret' place. She just wants to make him happy."
"There're only a few clothes that I can borrow you," Kaito pointing into the closet. There were only a white tuxedo and a black coloured knight-style clothes, "you can't have the white one, that's my favourites."
Prince Shinichi changed himself to a black knight, with a helmet on his head. Kaito also changed himself to a magician with the white tuxedo on. Suddenly, Prince Shinichi noticed a familiar person, "I've already thought that you're suspicious. You're Kaito Kid --- the Phantom Thief."
"Shh…don't speak so loud, Aoko may hear it. Anyway, you need my help."
"What're you doing?" Heiji was looking at Ayumi, Mitsuhiko and Genta curiously. They were changing their clothes, some clothes that were similar to Kaito's.
"we're Kaito's assistants of course. We'll help you also. Ai, changes your clothes also. We're all Kaito Boys!"
"Let's go to Mouri Kingdom now!" When they were ready to leave, they met Aoko at the exit, "Kaito, where're you all going to?"
"We need to perform some magic show today at Mouri Kingdom. We'll back few days later. Take care yourself! Bye!"
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"First, we should go to marketplace to get some clues what had happened recently. Let's separate into groups to save time! Um…I would go with Mitsuhiko, Shinichi and Genta, to the castle to look around. Takagi with Ai, Heiji with Ayumi would search around the marketplace. We'll meet each other an hour later." Kaito suggested.
"We could meet later at a hut just miles away from the castle. I used to go there before." Shinichi said.
"Okay." The Kaito boys replied.
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"Where're the girls gone? Kazuha that idiot! I've told her not to come here, it's danger." Heiji was complaining the girls with Ayumi. "If Kazuha was more quiet and gentle like you, I'll have more peaceful time."
"But Heiji-niisan, you seem worried about Kazuha-neechan. Are you two going out?" Heiji blushed slightly to Ayumi's question.
"Of course not!"
"But I saw you both kissing last night!" Heiji's face flushed more deeply as he found out that Ayumi saw him kissing with Kazuha last night. "That's not good for a little girl to see this secretly."
"I'm not alone, Genta, Mitsuhiko and Ai were with me also!" Ayumi thought that it was so much fun to tease him.
"How dare you guys spying at me!"
"Wait! Did you here some noises out there?" Heiji suddenly noticed that they were at some chaos places with lots of typical bad guys there.
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At certain deserted street
"Where're you going? What're you doing here? Can we help you?"
A panic Kazuha was all alone and surrounded by several bad guys.
"Excuse me, I want to leave now." Kazuha was trying to find her way out.
"Not to leave too early." A certain bad guy came and grabbed both of her hands. "Until you have entertain us, you can go."
"HELP!!!"
"It would be no use. No one would come to rescue you!"
"HEIJI!"
"OUCH!" All the bad guys were suddenly fallen to the ground. "Get your dirty hands off her now!" A familiar voice entered Kazuha's ears; it was Heiji that came to rescue her.
"Heiji!" Kazuha threw herself to Heiji's arms immediately.
"Kazuha, it was okay now. I've taught them a lesson already." Heiji stroked her back gently while Kazuha was sobbing silently in his arms. His eyes became pinpointed size as he noticed Ayumi was looking at him with half-mooned eyes.
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"Kazuha, why're you here all alone? It's dangerous!" Heiji asked Kazuha after she had calmed down.
"Princess Ran was being taken to the castle by Gin. They then sent us back to the Kingdom of West. Sato wanted to find some clues about them. So I just waited for her, and then I found myself being surrounded by them."
"Ayumi would told this to Takagi, and he'll find Sato soon. Let's wait for Shinichi to see if he got any hints where the Princess was."
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"Sato, I find you finally. Did you find any hints where the Princess was? Kazuha was being surrounded by a group of bad guys before." Takagi found Sato was quarrelling with the guards at the entrance of the castle.
"What? Is she okay?"
"She's fine. Heiji just came in time to safe her." Takagi suddenly noticed a sign of guilty on Sato's face. "That's not your fault."
"These are all my faults. If I insist to stay with Princess Ran, at least I can protect her now. If I don't leave Kazuha alone, she would not be in danger."
"That's not like you. Since they'd already happened, you should make them up. Go and find Princess Ran!"
"Thank you."
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"Thank you." Kaito was stroking his pigeons after they flied back to him.
"It's not time to play with your pets. We need to go to the castle now to save Ran." Shinichi told Kaito.
"These are not ordinary pigeons, they help me to spy the castle. Princess Ran is imprisoned at the East Tower. You need to tell her that we're going to save her tomorrow night."
"We still need to wait for tomorrow? How can I tell her now?"
"Just follow me."
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At the castle entrance
"You're not allowed to enter! Go away." The guards told Kaito and the others to go away.
"I'm a magician, I want to perform a fabulous magic trick to celebrate the King birthday tomorrow night. Could you please tell the King that I want to enter the castle, so that I can prepare my magic show?"
"You wait here. We'll ask the King first."
Minutes later, Kaito, Shinichi, Genta and Mitsuhiko were allowed to meet the King. "Ha…ha…ha thank you for your present. I'm looking forward to it. You can go whenever you want."
"who is that black knight?" Gin asked suspiciously.
"Oh! He's just my assistant for the coming magic show. I hope that you all would never forget it."
"Shinichi, you only have ten minutes to meet the Princess, go quickly to the East Tower now. I'll meet you there." Kaito whispered to Shinichi. "okay. Let's prepared for our magic show."
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Prince Shinichi went to the East Tower immediately. There were only one guard there, it was Makoto, a friend of Shinichi.
"You can't enter here. You're not allowed."
"It's me. Prince Shinichi. I want to see Princess Ran."
"oh! You're the Prince! You're still alive." Makoto immediately put his hands on his mouth. "okay. You can go and see her, but not too long."
Shinichi finally entered the room where Ran was. "Who's coming?" Ran came to see who was there, and then a black knight suddenly appeared. The Black Knight embraced her tight in his arms.
"Who are you?" Ran was puzzled by this mysterious Black Knight.
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Chapter Five is finally finished. Sorry for waiting SO LONG (I want to finish the other fanfic first). Please tell me what do you think? Please R & R. I think that all Conan fans must know the last scene is from manga vol.26. There'll be more Shinichi / Ran in the next chapter. The next one would be the final chapter.