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If I Knew

By: mysteriousangelgirl

Chapter 2: Danger

"Kudo....." I called softly.

The young boy buried in the sleeping bag flipped over onto his stomach. "Just one more minute, Ran....." he mumbled.

I chuckled softly. He thinks I'm Mouri-san....how cute though, especially with that small body he's in now and when he's sleeping. "Oi! Kudo, it's ten o' clock!" I called again, but louder.

"Alright, alright, jeezs....." the young boy said as he said up, yawned and reached for his glassed on the nightstand against next to him. He stretched, yawning again and stood up. He grabbed his blue jacket from the back of my chair, where it had been hanging along with his red voice-changing bow tie.

I stood in my room, folding up the sleeping bags that Kudo and Mouri-san had slept in last night. Just as I was stuffing them into my closet, Mouri-san came back into the room with a towel around her neck and looking much more refreshed after a good-night's sleep and a hot shower.

"Good morning, Kaito-kun," she said cheerfully, smiling slightly, as she grabbed a comb from her backpack and left again to brush out her long chocolate brown hair.

I smiled. It was about 10:30 in the morning and I wasn't surprised that Mouri-san was an early riser. I had heard that she was always hurrying Kudo-kun. I yawned. I had gotten up at 6 to finish making a few updates to my plan. I'm so tired, but even Kudo looked like he had only an hour of sleep....But you can't blame Kudo for being sleepy. We did go to sleep at one last night, explaining the plan and all that. I looked at my watch, 10:35. Not too bad, but we had better get down for breakfast. Just as I was about to head out of the room, Kudo, in his small form, looking much better and less cranky, came back in.

He pulled me aside and said, in a very low voice, "Oi, did you tell Ran about our death letters?"

I shook my head. "No. Why?" Although she may have figured it out yesterday when we mentioned it.....Didn't seem like it as she was so cheerfully....but then again....

He sighed of relief. "That's good."

"Why?" I asked again. I squatted down so that I could look straight into his face.

"Because...now that she's a part of this....still don't understand how....I'll worry about that later, I know that, knowing Ran, she isn't going to back out, even by force. I just don't want her to be worried for me so she can concentrate about herself. I just....don't want to have her get hurt," Kudo sighed again. He had turned away from me when he was talking and now he turned back to face me. He smiled, "You must think I'm very babyish, ne?"

I smiled, truly this time. "No, it's fine. I know you care for her, but don't worry. I'm not telling. I'm not getting Aoko worked up about this either. It's already a risk bringing her into it, but I know there's no way I can come up with an excuse this time." This time it was a grin. "She's still a bit mad about me being the Kid, but she says she'll wait to yell at me or swing a mop at me."

I thought I saw Kudo sweat drop, but I couldn't be sure because just then, Mouri-san walked in with Aoko.

"Aoko! What are you doing here?"

"What do you mean 'what am I doing here'? You called me over. It's already 10:40, you dummy!!!" Aoko said, slapping me over the head.

Before I could answer, Mouri-san said, "I was brushing my hair when I heard the doorbell. I thought you would have gotten it, Kaito-kun, but when you did, I went instead." She giggled. "Then I found myself face to face with my twin!"

"Yeah yeah I forgot," I said, rubbing my bruised head. How come I didn't hear the doorbell? Neither did Kudo....oh right. We were talking about Mouri-san then. "Okay so let's have breakfast first or did you already? Still, I'm hungry and I don't work on an empty stomach!" I grinned my trademark grin and bounced out of the room happily with Kudo following slowly behind, both eyebrows raised. Then he just shook his head and mumbled something I heard as 'weirdo'. I could tell Aoko was glaring at me, but Mouri-san was calming her down. It's weird how girls get along so quickly, even if they looked so much alike. It's just the same with me and Kudo, but let's not go there now.

I gobbled up my breakfast within a minute, as did the kid, Kudo. Just as Mouri-san was yelling at Kudo to don't eat so fast, and Aoko holding the broom out to hit me, the doorbell rang again. We all glanced toward the door, wondering if it was the enemy or a friend. Just as Aoko was saying softly not to open it, a voice quite familiar to Kudo boomed, "OI!! IS THERE ANYONE IN THERE?" followed by a loud slap.

Within seconds, Kudo was at the door and had opened it, revealing the owner of the loud voice. There stood Hattori Heiji, looking quite tired with a gigantic red handprint on his left cheek. To his left was Toyama Kazuha, her hand still held up from slapping the detective next to her. She was glaring at Heiji with the expression 'don't be rude', scaring Kudo into backing up a few steps. Then she smiled at Kudo and all of us behind him.

"Hi everyone!" she said cheerfully.

"Come in," I said, holding the door open for the two teenagers and then locking it firmly behind them.

Heiji mumbled something that only I caught. He said, "First you call me at one in the morning, disturbing my sleep, now you don't answer the door when I get here, and then I get slapped by Kazuha for calling to see if there's anyone inside...." he rambled on but I ignored him, grinning a bit at the cranky Osaka detective. At least he's not as serious looking as Kudo....I looked at the small boy, who looked like he was watching someone die....that painful expression of bringing Mouri-san into any danger.

"Yo, Kudo, get them settled in while I get something," I said, nodding my head at the young boy who just blinked at me, but did as told.

As the teens and young child got settled in the living room, I headed upstairs for my weapon of defense. When I arrived back downstairs, I found Mouri-san, Toyama-san and Aoko deep in conversation on the left sofa, obviously about us, the boys, by looking at the blush in their cheeks. Kudo and Hattori, seated on the right sofa directly across from the girls with a coffee table between the two sofas, were talking about something quite serious by the grave look on the young boy's face and the thoughtful look on Hattori's.

"Hey guys, sorry for the delay. So, what's up?" I plopped down next Kudo and ruffled his hair, something he hated and still did when I saw him glare at me from behind those oversized glasses, but didn't say anything.

I looked at Kudo carefully. He looked like he was thinking about something but in reality he was in pain, physical pain. It was very difficult to tell, but he had been hurt recently. There was slight bruise, so faded that you couldn't see it unless you were looking for it, on his left cheek. Judging from his small movements with his left arm, it seemed that something had happened to it. How come I hadn't noticed it earlier? Kudo's hardly showing any pain at all, but now that I see this, it's noticeable.

"Kudo, what happened?"

Conan looked up at me, "You noticed, huh?" He rubbed his left shoulder while saying. "Nothing much, just a slight fall and landed flat on my face."

Hattori poked him in the ribs. "Yeah right. If you had fallen, the bruise wouldn't have been on your left cheek, would have been on your nose! Come on, you told me you'd tell me after Kaito got here and now he's here. What happened?"

Hattori said all that I would have said so I remained silent as Kudo sighed. He looked over at the girls, smiling slightly knowing that they were talking about something else. I think it was underwear, but that doesn't concern me ^^

"I did fall, that true, but it was because....." Conan sighed again. "Let me start from the beginning. Okay, I got the letter yesterday, you know that, ne, Kaito?" Receiving a slight nod from me, he continued, "I was running over to Hagase's to talk about this and ask about Haibara because I didn't think she would ever rejoin them. When I got there, Haibara wasn't there, but Gin and Vodka was. Hagase was no where in sight. They told me that to get Hagase back, I had to find Sherry. In the letter it said that Haibara had rejoined them so I was very confused. Then Gin grabbed me by the collar and growled in my face that that letter was sent by someone else. It was sent by a different organization member as they thought when told that Kudo Shinichi was found, that they had found Haibara, so they sent the 'death notice' to the victim." Conan put his arms behind his head and leaned against the sofa. "All I remember afterwards was that Gin threw me to the floor, damn he has a strong arm....and then I lost consciousness. When I woke up, I was lying on the floor, bruised shoulder and bruised cheek. There still isn't any sign of Hagase, and I have no idea where to start looking for him."

"What about Ai?" Hattori asked.

"What about her?"

"Aren't you going to find her?"

Kudo shook his head. "She'll long gone from here. I bet you she left when she saw the letter. Where she went, I have no idea, but all I care about is finding Hagase and bringing those men down. That's why I was so worried. I didn't know who to ask for help, but thankfully, I have you guys." Kudo smiled.

I grinned. "Okay, I get it now. Then let's get down to business, okay?" Kaito waved a hand at the girls who looked at him. "We're going to go over the plan, now listen up. So first of all......................"

~7:59pm, Koiko's Furniture and Co, secret room between fifth floor and sixth~

Beep Beep.

"Yeah?" a voice whispered on the cell phone.

"All clear?"

"Yeah."

"Get ready."

"Alright."

"Follow the plan, meet at the room."

"Ok."

The connection was cut as abruptly as it had been put through.

The figure tiptoed along the shadows, when it got to the closet, it pulled out key from his pocket, silently stuck it into the keyhole, opened the door and disappeared inside. Inside, the figure, took another key out, stuffed the previous back into his pocket and opened a trapdoor behind the brooms and mops. As he closed the door behind him, he sighed. Then he stuffed the key into the same pocket, stuck his hands in his pocket and waited a bit for his eyes to adjust to the dark. Then he began walking forward in the narrow staircase. As he neared the top and the door to the secret room, he felt someone inside with him. Just as he turned, a hard object dug pressed against his back and a gruff voice said, "Don't move."

The figure slowly raised his arms, and froze in his position. "But...."

"Shut up. Now turn around so I can shook your face."

What? The figure turned around slowly and gasped as he saw the face of his enemy. "You......"

~to be continued~

I'm sorry it took so long....I've been busy lately. I don't have much to say and not much time either, so I'll just say PLEASE REVIEW!!!! And I hope you liked it so far. I'll see you in the next chapter!!

~mysteriousangelgirl~