Disclaimer: Alright, so Detective Conan and Magic Kaito doesn't belong to me, although it would be awesome if they did! ^^ Too bad I'm not Gosho Aoyama... *sigh* Darn....`~`
~Alrighty....ok, my last chapter was sort of rushed because of my hw load and tests....but please review!!!!! Also, the last chapter was in Kaito's POV, if you haven't noticed, but anyway, I just felt like changing it for that chapter, so the rest of the story as is the first chapter, will be in third person form, kk? Ok, thanks, REVIEW!!! (Also, yes Conan has returned to being Shinichi, don't ask why or how because I'll explain in the story later, kk? ^^)
If I Knew
By: mysteriousangelgirl
Chapter 3: Capture
"You...."
The figure smiled. "Yes me." The figure fired, and the man dropped to the ground, lifeless. The figure frowned. "What a waste, he was such useful information. Too bad he's dead now." The figure opened the door and hurried inside. From the light, you could tell it was an brown-haired woman.
Ring Ring.
The figure yanked the cell phone out of his pocket and hissed a low, "What?"
"Where's your spot?"
"Door."
"Gotcha, be right there."
"Ok."
The connection was cut off as another figure tapped the figure on the shoulder. He turned and got up from his crouched position, stretching his aching legs.
"Now what?"
"Follow the plan, let's go."
The figures nodded at each other and then followed each other silently up the stairs leading to the secret meeting room. As the neared the door, they heard a lot of talking. Both leaned slightly against the door to listen when to burst in.
"You think it's going to work out?" one figure asked.
"You don't trust me?" the other answered, taking something out of his pocket.
"No, I do. I'm just...worried, okay?" Even in the dark, you could see the determined look in his eyes.
"Fine, I expected that, but you know what we are risking, right?" Kaito tossed a gun to Shinichi, who caught it and with a swift jerk of his hand, stuffed it into his left inner jacket pocket.
Kaito looked in amusement. "Now where did ya learn that trick?"
Shinichi grinned. "From you."
Kaito raised an eyebrow. "Is that meant to be a good thing or bad thing?"
Shinichi shrugged and then pointed to the door, almost invisible in the darkness except for the small rays of light coming out of the cracks between the door frame and door. "You sure they can't hear us?"
"If they could, they would have gotten us by now."
"Okay, ready?"
"Hang on," Kaito looked at his watch, not digital, and smiled. "Perfect timing."
"Ehh??"
"Remember I said that at exactly 9, the meeting would be fully in session?"
"Yeah..."
"That would be perfect time for the plan."
"Your kidding, everyone's there and the police and FBI aren't here yet."
"No, it's the best time to catch them off guard. As for police and FBI, they're all outside now. The FBI should be coming in soon, I told them about this place AND I had thirty of so of them disguise themselves and slip into the gang in there," Kaito jerked a finger to the door.
"No wonder....I knew you'd be prepared. Well, isn't time to go in?"
"Yup, be careful, Kudo."
"I know."
"Okay, let's go." Both boys waited for the voice of one of the disguised men to say, "Okay, I have a little surprise for all of you...."
Kaito and Shinichi yanked open the door and fired their gun at whatever they could hit. As Kaito continued to fire, hitting a few of the black men, Shinichi stood in awe at what he saw.
They were at least 100 men seated in the room. There was a long rectangular table at the end of the room, with 5 men sitting there. They were obviously the leaders of the entire organization. All the other men had whipped their heads around when Kaito and Shinichi burst in. What surprised Shinichi wasn't the people, their expressions, the weapons all over the room, or the computer with all the organization's information. It was who was sitting at the leaders' table. It wasn't Haibara or Jodie or Shuichi as he had expected, but it was Chris Vineyard, no, Sharon Vineyard, that famous actress from America that had died in an accident. He knew she would be there, but seeing her there was different than knowing it.
"What are you staring at, Kudo-kun?" she said as she stood up, snatching a gun from a nearby table and holding it out so that it was level with Shinichi's head.
"You, you, AHHH, DAMN YOU!! YOU WERE MY MOTHER'S FRIEND!!!" Shinichi fired his gun twice, neither bullets hit Vineyard, but instead hit some guys by wall.
Chris smiled. "What are you talking about?"
Kaito had stopped firing, as he had run out of bullets, but he had hit at least seven people. He dropped the empty gun. Now he looked at Shinichi. "What?"
Chris seemed to ignoring everyone else, but her expression told them not to interfere. She unlocked the safety on her gun, shifted and asked again, "What are you talking about, tantei san? Answer me or your friend here will die."
"Alright I'll explain! You were Sharon Vineyard, a famous actress in America. Then, somehow you got involved with the organization, got your hands on APTX4869, so you faked a death. Then you reappeared as Chris Vineyard, the supposed daughter of Sharon, even if you are the same people. When I was in America, I hadn't suspected anything until after what your organization did to me and that Sharon Vineyard did just before Chris made an appearance. That would be why you have a fake birth certificate and that no one's seen you grow up except your supposed mother, which would be yourself." Shinichi crossed his arms. "Am I correct?"
Chris laughed. "You are pretty smart, tantei san. Too bad, now that you have come here, instead of letting me find you and killing you, I'll just get rid of you here. But not before I get your friend first!!" She fired before the disguised FBI could react or even Kaito as the bullet flew at Kaito. Shinichi had been ready though. He rammed his elbow into Kaito, shoving him aside at the last moment. However, the bullet flew straight through his stomach, causing him to fall on his knees, grasping at his bleeding stomach and panting.
"I see you want to die first," Chris said, firing again, but this time directed at Shinichi. This time it went through the left shoulder. Shinichi fell to floor, unconscious. Kaito kneeled down next to him, yelling "Kudo Kudo!"
Chris grinned. "Now it's your turn, boy...." Just as she fired, Kaito whipped out his card gun and fired at Chris's hand, and managed to dodge the bullet at right moment. The card struck Chris's hand, whipping the gun out from her hand and leaving a thin line of red on her hand. As all members was staring at the only person able to rip a gun out of their top leader, Chris was glaring at Kaito, holding her bleeding hand.
"Who are you?"
"Doesn't matter now, Chris, you are under arrest," one of disguised FBI said, finally realizing it was time for them to stop this whole thing. All FBI in the room were wrestling the members, and most of them were knocked out due to the reason of being attacked when off guard. Gin and Vodka dodged the few FBI agents compared the hundreds of organization members, and hurried over to Kaito kneeling over Shinichi.
"Kudo, Kudo, wake up!" Just as he was flipping his fellow friend over, Gin kicked Kaito in the stomach, throwing him backwards. Kaito clutched his stomach, standing up slowly. He could taste blood in his mouth.
Gin yanked the unconscious Shinichi by his injured arm and put him in a head lock, pointing a gun at his head. "Don't any of you move, of this detective's going to be history!"
Kaito gritted his teeth. Now what? Kudo's unconscious and been taken hostage. There's no way these FBI are going to win...there's just too many of the black men....What do I do? What do I do???
Just as Kaito was worried about what to do, the single door that led to the secret headquarters of the organization burst open. There was a flash of color and then the thee members closest to the door fell with bloody noses to the floor. The blurs of colors continued to knocked members down and out of the their way, when Kaito finally realized that backup had arrived and the girls were knocking out everyone with their martial arts. Heiji then entered the room, with a sword in hand, he clobbered other guys as the FBI and almost all the police from Japan came rushing in, snapping handcuffs on those unconscious and occasionally knocking others out. They hauled many of them out and in minutes, only half of the organization remained.
Kaito watched man after man were knocked out, handcuffed and carried out of the room. The black organization was going down. He still held onto his stomach, glancing at Gin still holding the injured and unconscious Shinichi in a headlock. He also saw that the organization were losing, had no where to escape, so he just held onto Shinichi. As one of the girls, looked like Ran, but then again Ran and Aoko looked alike. Kaito waited for the right moment, when Ran had knocked out Vodka with a roundhouse kick, directing Gin's attention away from him for a split second, Kaito whipped out the stun wrist watch that Shinichi had given to him and shot it at Gin. Gin paused for a moment, allowing Kaito to whip out his own darts and shoot a few at the assassin. Kaito watched as the man swayed a bit, loosening his grip on the gun, then finally fell to the floor. He had not noticed it, but he had been holding his breath. Now he exhaling in relief and looked down at his hurt friend.
Surprisingly, Shinichi's eyes were open and he was grinning. "Didn't think you would think of using my gadget...." He coughed, spitting out blood.
Kaito grinned back but then said, "Oi, don't talk, you're just hurting yourself more. Let's get you to a hospital." Kaito made sure to take Shinichi right arm, not the left and then helped him to his feet. He slung Shinichi's right arm over his shoulder and looped his arm under Shinichi's left arm. "You okay?"
"Yeah, just kind of tired and dizzy...."
"Just make it out of here first, ok?" Kaito paused as a man fell from one of the girls' deadly attack and landed on the floor in front of them.
Shinichi's eyebrows raised and tilted his head to look at Kaito. "You sure it's safe to move now?" He nodded toward Chris Vineyard, or Vermouth, who was fighting with Ran. Ran had managed to land a hard kick on her cheek, so there was an ugly purple bruise starting to form. Vermouth looked very angry and was kicking at Ran, who dodged all the kicks effortlessly.
"It's fine, no one stands a chance against the girls, most of them are knocked out or in process of being," Kaito nodded to Kazuha, who had somehow managed to throw three guys over her shoulder all at once, "so the real problem is Vermouth, who you shouldn't be worried about." Kaito turned to look at his friend was stunned that his friend had lost consciousness again.
"Damn, he's losing too much blood!" Kaito half dragged, half led Shinichi to the door, where two people in white with a stretcher were waiting. He laid his friend down slowly and then yelled at the men to get him to hospital ASAP. The two men rushed off, and Kaito turned to watch as the amount of black organization members in the room decrease from about 200 to 125 to 100 to 50 to 20 to 10 down to three. The only three remaining were Vermouth, a boy with blue clothing instead of black, and an old man with a cane.
The old man was watching Kazuha's movements and when she tried to grab his arm with her hands, he stuck out hand and caught her left arm before she could grab him. Just as he was twisting her arm, Heiji showed up behind him and conked him on the head with the back of his sword and kicked the guy's stomach, knocking the man half way across the room.
"Are you okay, Kazuha?" Heiji asked, putting his sword back into his case.
"Yeah, thanks." Kazuha blushed, rubbing her arm.
"No problem. How's your arm, let me see." Heiji took Kazuha's arm and looked at it for a moment. Then he glared at the old man being hauled out of the room with disgust. "I should have kicked him even harder."
Kazuha took her arm back, blushing even more and said, "It's okay, I'm okay."
"Let's go help the others, okay?"
Heiji and Kazuha walked over to Aoko who was just glaring at the boy wearing blue. Suddenly she ran forward, and attempted to punch him in the stomach. The boy dodged easily, but Aoko smirked and kicked his shins. The boy yelped in pain, but managed to keep from falling. Aoko was just going to land another blow on his cheek when he reached down, grabbed her arm and swung her over his shoulder. Aoko managed to land her feet, but was now about 20 feet away from the boy and her ankles were hurting. The boy was walking toward her now, and just as he was going to touch her, his fell face-first in front of her.
"Ehh?"
"Don't forget Aoko, that I have sleeping gas when I go on heists," Kaito said, holding an orange egg in his hand.
"Orange egg?"
"What, you don't like my taste?" Kaito grinned and moved aside as a few officers snapped handcuffs on him, and dragged him out the door.
Aoko stuck her tongue out and said, "Remind me to get a mop when I get home."
"Oh, I will. I've got to get fit again. Losing my touch."
"Oh yeah, this time I'm going to get you!"
"Oh yeah, go ahead and try!"
Magician and girl stuck their tongues at each other and then burst out laughing.
Kaito finally stopped and became serious again. "Let's go help Mouri-san defeat Vermouth."
Aoko nodded and two moved cautiously behind the dangerous leader of the Black Organization. Kaito armed himself with a metal bar that was lying on the ground, and Aoko picked up a wooden stick by the door. Kazuha grabbed a broken leg of a swivel chair and Heiji held his sword out. Ran stood like a tiger ready to pounce with her fist raised.
"Make your move, Vermouth," she hissed.
Vermouth grinned. "She moved with lightning speed and threw a punch at Ran's cheek. Ran leaned backwards, dodging the hit, and then using her left leg, swept out and hit Vermouth's ankles, knocking the American woman off her feet. As Vermouth stumbled, trying to catch her balance, Kazuha hit her stomach hard with the swivel chair leg and Aoko slammed her stick down on the actress's shoulder. Kaito threw his metal rod at Vermouth, hitting her right shin, and Heiji used the back of his sword to hit Vermouth's right shin. The actress fell, bloody and unconscious to the floor as everyone sighed and smiling. A swarm of police officers and FBI came rushing over, handcuffed the women about 20 times, and hauled her away too.
Everyone sighed as they dropped their weapons, except Heiji who just put the sword back into its cover, and relaxed their muscles. An officer came over to them, asking them to come to the Osaka Department tomorrow, if they could. All said they'd be there and then the teenagers filed out of the room, and back into the hallways of Koiko's Furniture and Co.
Just as they were leaving the building, an officer stopped them and told them that a dead man had been found in the secret passage. It was just a young man, but he had many connections and he had been giving the organization information. Heiji nodded and then asked for the hospital in which Kudo was at. The officer's expression became very grave but told them that he was at the Hospital of Beika.
When asked of his expression change, the officer lowered his voice and said, "I heard the detective was in critical condition. A bullet just scared his heart so no one knows if he's going to live. I hope he does. He's smart and we'll need a guy like him. Tell him that." He nodded and then excused himself to finish his duties.
Ran was in tears all the way to the hospital. While the teens waited for their detective friend to come out of the surgery room, Ran keep thinking.
If I knew it would be the last time
that I'd see you fall asleep,
I would tuck you in more tightly
and pray the Lord, your soul to keep.
If I knew it would be the last time
that I see you walk out the door,
I would give you a hug and kiss
and call you back for one more.
If I knew it would be the last time
I'd hear your voice lifted up in praise,
I would video tape each action and word,
so I could play them back day after day.
If I knew it would be the last time,
I could spare an extra minute
to stop and say "I love you,"
instead of assuming you would KNOW I do.
Why did I come earlier so Shinichi wouldn't have to get hurt? Why?? It's all my fault. Shinichi risked everything to bring those man down and to keep innocent people like us from getting hurt. Why couldn't I have arrive earlier and did my part?
"Stop blaming yourself, Mouri-san."
"Ehh?" Ran looked up at Kaito who at spoken. He looked very angry.
"It wasn't your fault no matter how you think of it. Kudo took the bullet for me. I deserve the blame. If he doesn't survive this, I.................I don't know what I'll do."
"But...how did you know that I was thinking that?" Ran sniffled.
"Everyone would be thinking that, and that's just who you are Mouri-san. But we know that Kudo is strong. He'll pull through, right?" Kaito managed a slight smile. Little did they know that their hope would soon decrease even more.
Ran nodded and turned with everyone as the doctor came out of the surgery room.
Questions like 'how is he?' 'is he living?' bombarded the doctor all at once as Kudo Shinichi's worried friends crowded around the doctor.
"Whoa....slow down. As of right now, Kudo Shinichi is alive, but in critical condition and unconscious. It looks like, and I don't mean to say this, but it's true, that it looks like he won't make it. There's always a chance he'll pull through, but it's.....slight."
Ran started sobbing again and everyone took a step back, as reality finally hit them, hard. Not just their friend, but like a brother, someone you could talk to and would understand without laughing or judging.
If I knew it would be the last time
I would be there to share your day,
Well I'm sure you'll have so many more,
so I can let just this one slip away.
For surely there's always tomorrow
to make up for an oversight,
and we always get a second chance
to make everything just right.
There will always be another day
to say "I love you,"
And certainly there's another chance
to say our "Anything I can do?"
Ran continued to cry as she thought about all the happy times that she and Shinichi had together. She hated herself for not taking the chance and telling Shinichi her true feelings.
But just in case I might be wrong,
and today is all I get,
I'd like to say how much I love you
and I hope we never forget.
Tomorrow is not promised to anyone,
young or old alike,
and today may be the last chance
you get to hold your loved one tight.
So if you're waiting for tomorrow,
why not do it today?
For if tomorrow never comes,
you'll surely regret the day,
I do regret it....Why didn't I grab Shinichi's arm and not let him go? Ran shook her head. I'm so stupid.....
That you didn't take that extra time
for a smile, a hug, or a kiss
and you were too busy to grant someone,
what turned out to be their one last wish
"Shinichi," Ran whispered. "Can I go see Shinichi?" she asked, louder.
The nurse nodded, and pointed to a room down the hall. Ran got up slowly. She knew that everyone had stayed behind so that she could talk to Shinichi, even if he couldn't hear her.
As Ran opened the door, she saw a pale, lifeless Shinichi lying on the hospital bed. Tears streamed down her face as she closed the door, and walked up beside his bed. She knelt down and took his hand.
"Shinichi, I love you." Ran's voice was shaking, but she swallowed and continued, just in case Shinichi could hear her. "I'm sorry that I never told you. I know you think I'm upset at you for not telling me the truth, but I don't care. I just want you to come back to me, Shinichi. Everyone does. Please, for my sake, for everyone's sake, please don't die....." Ran buried her head in the white blankets of Shinichi's bed and cried.
So hold your loved ones close today,
and whisper in their ear,
Tell them how much you love them
and that you'll always hold them dear
Take time to say "I'm sorry,"
"Please forgive me," "Thank you," or "It's okay."
And if tomorrow never comes,
you'll have no regrets about today.
I love you Shinichi.......Ran fell asleep on the bed and when she did wake up, it was because someone was moving in the room. Ran sat up and listening. It was pitch black, probably because Ran was so tired and had slept until 3 in the morning, when the sun wasn't up yet.
Is it Shinichi? Or is it just someone like a nurse moving around?
"Ran......" a voice said.
~to be continued~
I hope you liked the story so far and sorry this chapter took so long. I had a gigantic project that I'm still not done with, but finished a big chunk. It may be a while for the next update but I want reviews!!!! If you don't review I think that no one read my story so PLEASE REVIEW!!!!! Thanks. Also, I know that my fighting part is sort of corny, but I'm not real good at writing that kind of stuff. I still hoped that you liked and I'll see ya all in the next chapter!!
~mysteriousangelgirl~