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File 4. Angel
Shinichi was in the middle of nowhere; he looked around and found a girl. "Who are you?" asked Shinichi. The girl did not answered, and started to walk away.
"Hey! Wait!" A feather had fallen onto Shinichi's face, and the girl flew way. "An angel?"
Shinichi had his arm stretched, and then found himself lying on his bed, "A dream? It's so weird," said Shinichi, his hand was scratching his head, "but that girl looks familiar."
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"Sonoko, why do you suddenly ask me to come to the art gallery today?" asked Ran. Sonoko had invited Ran to go to the Suzuki Art Gallery, "because I want to have a look at that masterpiece," she then led Ran to the beautifully drawn art.
There was a girl praying in the drawing, Ran read the description of it, "A maiden's prayer, a masterpiece drawn in the twentieth century, it's about a girl was praying for her lover to come back safely," said Ran. "It's beautiful, the girl looks like an angel."
"I think that she looks like you," said Sonoko. "Waiting patiently for your Shinichi to come back."
"Sonoko!" Ran wanted to protest herself, but a crowd of policemen suddenly came into their way.
"Get off! Get off! Don't block the way!" said Inspector Nakamori. "Everyone move back, this drawing is a known target of Kaito Kid, don't block the police!"
"Inspector Nakamori, this area is clear."
"Okay, let's go as planned," said Nakamori. "I could definitely catch that Kaito Kid this time."
"Sonoko, let's go!" Ran was trying to push Sonoko to the exit.
"It's a good chance to see Kaito Kid, face-to-face!" said Sonoko, "let's stay here for a while." Sonoko's phone was ringing, "Hello, Makoto!" Sonoko was so surprised to receive a call from Makoto, "aren't you still staying at the America?"
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"Hey! You're not allowed to be here!" Ran looked at what had happened, she found out that the police was kicking a suspicious teenager away, Shinichi was there.
"I've got permission from Inspector Megure," said Shinichi. "I come here to help to catch Kaito Kid!"
"I'm the person in charge here," said Inspector Nakmori, "we don't need any help from Megure. Go away!"
"Shinichi! What're you doing here?" Ran asked Shinichi.
"I've found out that Kaito Kid would come here, so I asked permission from Inspector Megure to come here," said Shinichi, quite surprised to see Ran here. "What're you doing here?"
"I've come here with Sonoko," said Ran, her finger pointing at Sonoko who had just finished talking on the phone with Makoto.
"Shinichi, that's great you're here," said Sonoko. "You can be Ran's companion. I need to go for a date with Makoto now, he's been back to Japan, see you later. Bye-bye." Sonoko then left Ran with Shinichi at the gallery.
"Wait, Sonoko." But Sonoko had already disappeared in front of their sight, Ran and Shinichi were looking at each other, not knowing what to do next.
"There're so many cops around here, maybe we should come here again the other time," said Shinichi.
"Sure! It's better coming here next time," said Ran.
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"It's almost time, that Kaito Kid would be here at any time," said Inspector Nakamori, "go as planned! Catch that filthy thief!"
"YES!" Every one answered.
"What're you doing here, Shinichi?" Ran found out that Shinichi was sneaking around the gallery, "I know that you'll not give up so easily!"
"Shhh! They might hear us," Shinichi whispered to Ran. "I just want to catch that Kaito Kid, they're no match to him."
"KAITO KID!"
"Inspector Nakamori, long time no see," said Kaito Kid. "thank you for the portrait."
"Ran, come here!" Shinichi led Ran to another exhibition room.
"Ha! Ha! That Kaito Kid had escaped to that room just as we'd planned," said Inspector Nakamori in satisfaction. "he'll just like a bird in the cage! No way he can escape this time." The next moment, all the doors leading to the room were locked.
"I can escape almost immediately," said Kaito Kid, in his usual cool voice. "There's an unexpected guest here."
"Kaito Kid, you can't escape!" Shinichi and Ran appeared in front of Kaito Kid.
"Don't you forget that I'm the Phantom Thief!" said Kaito Kid, "no one can catch me!" Kaito Kid stepped up onto the window, and opened his glider, "sayonara, Mr Detective and his girlfriend. Have a nice sleep!" He then dropped a smoking bomb into the room, and both Shinichi and Ran fell to sleep immediately.
"Inspector Nakamori! Kaito Kid had escaped outside the building!"
"Let's go and catch him!" all the police rushed out of the building, try to catch a glimpse of the Phantom Thief.
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"What'd happened?" Shinichi had his hand caressing his hand, "it's that Kaito Kid." Shinichi then noticed that Ran's head was leaning against his shoulder, sleeping soundly. He tried to move himself to sit in a more comfortable position, but Ran's head was closer to his now. They were just centimetres away, Shinichi's face blushed slightly. Shinichi looked at Ran's sleeping face, he had a strange feeling that he could not explained to himself. "She's just look like an angel," said Shinichi to himself. He remembered the dream he just had, maybe Ran was the one in his dream.
"Eh? Shinichi," said Ran, she then found herself leaning against Shinichi, her face blushed immediately, "sorry, where're we now?"
"We're still at the art gallery, we'd better go back now, it gonna be late."
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That night, Shinichi flipped over the album that Sonoko had given him. He found there was a large brown envelope inside the album, there were lots of photos of Ran and him since their childhood. Shinichi looked at these photos in confusion, he found out that Ran was smiling so happily with him next to her.
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Sorry for the late update, quite busy these few days _ Please Read and Reviews!! Next Chapter --- Heiji and Kazuha came to Tokyo…a double date for them?! Shinichi and Ran a big step closer??!!