AN: The words Akai and Mizu translate into Red and water, so the name of the restaurant is Red water. Also Okami means wolf.

Chapter Three

Murder on the Menu

Kira had once been a great fan of school. This was of course until she found herself in a real public school. As a child first time round she had been home schooled. Now she found herself surrounded by squealing girls and boys who thought it was funny to find the grossest of things to throw at the girls. She had spent the time outside until the boys began to single her out and so she retreated back inside where she saw what felt like an eternity watching 'My Little Pony' in the worst quality she had ever seen.

But what really irritated her was what Ran had made her wear. Stomping down the sidewalk towards Teitan Elementry School, she silently screamed in her mind as a set of elderly women cooed her over how 'cute' she was. Her hair had been braided into pigtails and the flurry pink dress danced about her heels as her sneakers squeaked continuously. Of all the pink dresses Ran could have pulled up it just had to be the most distasteful pink of them all... fluorescent pink. Muttering to herself about wounded pride, she never saw Conan run over to her until his shadow was slightly over her.

"Hey," Conan greeted only to be met with an angry scowl. "Bad day?"

"Don't even go there," She growled as they walked away. "Seriously are all kids really that dumb or..." She stopped in mid sentence as it occurred to her she was preaching to the wrong person. "Never mind. Kimi-sama(God) give me strength,"

Not knowing the way, Kira followed quietly behind Conan, lost in her own thoughts. Conan however was thinking of a way to ask Kira what happened in the States without sounding too nosy. Because of this, neither payed attention to their surroundings, so they didn't see the walk light turn red nor the car heading towards them. However someone did as they both found themselves grabbed ruffly by the collars of their clothes and pulled back. The car managed to clip Conan's shoulder, and in surprise over being grabbed, Kira screeched, their first thoughts was it was the Men in Black. However when they came face to face with the 'capturers' they saw a young man in a gray business suit and a girl dressed in a colleague uniform instead.

"Dai go bu( Are you okay)?" The girl asked. She was very small, fragile built, her face long a bony. Her eyes were dark just like her hair which was also wiry. Looking at her uniform, she went to the Private Colleague of Tokyo.

"Bakayaro(Moron)!" The man yelled after the speeding car. He was the opposite of his female friend, very strong built with bright blue eyes and rich blond hair.

"Hai(Yes)," They both answered in a slight daze when Conan recognized them. "AH! Aren't you Kyomaru Okami and Iaiyo Okami, the heirs of Okami Inc.?"

"Ho-how did you know?" Iaiyo asked surprised.

"Co-oneechan's a dork," Kira teased in a five year old voice. " He reads everything in the newspaper that he can. He thinks it's cool,"

"Shut up!" Conan muttered as the Okami's began to laugh.

"Oi! Kyomaru!" A grumbled voice yelled. A Rather large man, bald as an egg with a grizzly black beard, looked at them in disgust. "Get back to work! And Iaiyo! Get inside and do something about your face, if that's even possible," With that he walked away laughing to himself.

"That son of a..." Kyomaru started but did finish he fixed his jacket roughly and walked away, his sister in tow whom seemed very sad and flustered. He never noticed the piece of paper that fell out of his pocket.

"Oneechan!" Kira yelled at she picked it up and waved in his direction. "You dropped this!"

"Don't bother," Conan sighed. "They're gone. What is it?"

"A photo," Kira looked at it. It showed a woman with her two children, which she guessed was Mrs. Okami. However something was wrong with the picture. The woman seemed to smile very sad in the picture. The smile one gave when nothing really mattered anymore.

"SHIMATTA!" Conan yelled as he grabbed Kira' hand. "Ran's gonna kill us!"

"Huh?!" Kira felt Conan grab her hand and then run down the street. 'Oh yeah the dinner plan!'

After running the last half a mile, Conan and Kira reached the Mouri's office and dropped dead onto the floor, completely out of breath. Ran was busy convincing her dad to take them to a new restaurant called 'Akai Mizu'. Of course the mention of good sake for cheap was all she needed to say which made Conan and Kira groan at the stupidity. With some nagging on Ran's half for everyone to dress nicely, they hopped into the taxi when Ran handed Kira a floppy stuffed dog.

"Agasa-sense said you left this at his place yesterday," Ran smiled as Kira grabbed the toy tightly. "Said it's your favorite. What's it's name?"

"Eh?" Kira blinked as she quickly thought of her husky back home. "Shiro desu!"

"'White'?" Ran blinked in surprise wail Conan elbowed Kira. The toy was completely black. 'Oh well, girls will be girls,'

Mean wail Conan and Kira shared to same thought. 'Baka,'

'Akai Mizu' was a nice looking place very fancy in Western settings. The tables were covered with white lace cloths giving the place a French look to it. It made everyone happy over Ran's nagging. Once seated Kira and Conan looked around taking in the atmosphere. The beauty of it all didn't last long when a familiar voice roared out in rage.

"WHAT IS THIS CRAP!" Everyone turned to see the fat man from before. His name was Hattori Okami. "Is this place trying to give me food poisoning?!"

"Father please," Iaiyo tried from her seat next to him when he snarled at her.

"SHUT UP! This fish is the most disgusting thing I've had in my life. I wouldn't even feed my dog this!"

"Father, please just sit down," Kyomaru muttered when Hattori shoved him t the ground.

"Keh!" Hattori loosened his tie a bit and walked away. "I'm gonna go to the bathroom. Maybe I can vomit this crap up,"

"How rude," Ran whispered when Kira hoped over to them, Conan in tow. " Ah Conan-kun! Kira-chan! Da me(don't),"

"Oneechan!" Kira called smiling as she ignored Ran's call and handed Kyomaru the photo. "You dropped this before,"

"Ah! Arigato(Thank you)," He took the picture and looked sadly at it.

"What's wrong?" Conan asked. Ran had gotten up to get them by now.

"Oh, it's just this is the last picture of my mother before she died?" He said when he shock his head angrily. "No was murdered,"

'Murdered?' Conan thought.

"KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!" A woman screamed. Running over Kogorou, Ran, Conan, and Kira came face to face with Hattori Okami laying on the tile floor. His face was pale blue and his hands about his throat. His face was frozen in extreme pain and his dark eyes red like the blood that was slowly slipping out of his mouth.

"No one enters!" Kogorou yelled. "this is a crime scene... eh?"

He looked to see Kira and Conan leaning over the body.

"Ne, Conan?" Kira asked calmly. "what do you think?"

"Most have..." A dark shadow fell over the two and a hand bopped them both on the head. "OWE!"

"Get out!" Kogorou yelled as he threw them out.

"Jerk," They whispered as walked over the Okami's.

"Oneechan," Kira asked. Kyomaru looked at her. "you don't seem very upset,"

"No one has gotten along with our father, not even us so it's not a huge lose," He answered. " Still it's a horrible death he had,"

While Kyomaru talked to Kira, Conan sat new to Iaiyo where Mr. Okami had sat before. His last meal had been salmon with red cabbage salad and some white gravy. Not unusual as it was a popular dish for the upper classes so it didn't interest him very much until he noticed the blue liquid where the salmon and cabbage juice touched. Where had it come from. Before he knew it Kira was next to him.

"What did you find?" She whispered.

"Kira you like chemistry, right?" Conan asked getting a weird look from her along with a nodded. "What can kill someone and turn blue in red cabbage juice,"

"Easy a base substance," She answered when she noticed it to. "Hand on a second. Let me get a sample of this,"

She gave the toy dog, in her arms, a pull on the tongue and it came loose and was replaced by a new one. Whipping it against the surface of the salmon she pulled it in a slot hidden by the collar. Conan watched in surprise as a piece of paper printed from the mouth, it was only a slip really but Kira read it and crumbled it up.

"What the?"

"I asked Agasa-sense if he could make me a cytochemistry set I could use. You really de-rate the guy Shini, he's pretty good," she smiled and then looked seriously. "The base is really high,"

"How high?"

"12 pH," She answered. " Bases are poisonous to humans. We can take high acidity but not base,"

"What happens with high bases," Conan asked as he noted the seriousness in her voice.

"Let's just say you esophagus and trachea melt shut, so you can't breath or swallow. It happens slowly so it's really painful," She sat for a moment. "Conan I think I know who killed him, but I need to use your bow tie,"

"Huh?"

Kogorou was busy blaming it over food poisoning or allergies when Conan kicked him in the back of the leg. Enraged he ran after the kid wen they reached a calm place where Kira shot him with the watch. Muttering about how she owed him, Conan posed Kogorou so that Kira could do her case. Placing the mic discreetly on him, Conan left to get the others.

"Mina(Everyone) oji-chan (Uncle) wants to tell us something!" Conan yelled as everyone gathered quickly. Kira did one last check on the voice. "what is it Oji-chan?"

"I know who the murder is, how they did it and why," Kira stated. Everyone looked at him. "First I'll tell you how. Conan-kun,"

"Hai,"

"Take some of the cabbage juice from Hattori-san's plate into a glass," He did as he was told. "Now pour it onto the salmon,"

"AH! SUGOYI(COOL)!" Conan cried as the juice instantly turned blue.

"Nani?" Kyomaru asked. " What does this prove?"

"That Hattori-san was murdered," Kira replied. "Not by a poison like cyanide but but a base. A very strong base, likely a bathroom cleaner of some kind. Once it was inside of him, Hattori-san's windpipe was slowly melted shut, chocking him slowly. A most painful death. But you knew this already Iaiyo-san,"

"Nani!" Hattori cried. "Tante-san (Mr. Detective) Don't accuse my sister of murdered!"

"But she did it. Kira told me what you told her about your mother, how his verbal abuse lead to her committing suicide that day in the house,"

"She..." Hattori gasped the pain clear in his eyes. "That has nothing to do with it! Why would Iaiyo kill our father!"

"It was her birthday wasn't it?" Kira stated making everyone draw a strained breath. "Scars from the childhood go deeper then they seem. The sight of her mother hanging from a tree planted dark seeds in her heart. And the fact your father never cared has only feed them,"

"No, I killed him!" Kyomaru cried when Iaiyo placed her hand on his shoulder. "Nee... neechan,"

"Iyo (it's okay), it doesn't matter," Iaiyo stated. "It's like he said. I hate him beyond life itself for what he did against mother... against my brother and me,"

"So you decided to kill him," Kira stated. "Murder does not right a wrong in the past and it will never heal the wounds of the past,"

"But I feel better now then before," She smiled coldly. "A man like... no he wasn't even human, just a hollow demon,"

"Never the less," Kira said as the police took her away, Kyomaru following her to the car. "You have become what you hate the most,"

As the cars drove away Ran congratulated her sleeping father. Mean while Kira whipped her brow and handed Conan back the bow.

"What did you mean?" Conan asked. "The last part?"

"She hated her father so much that she would kill him, just as her father hated her mother and killed her," Kira answered. "So she repeated the endless cycle of hate," She watched the cars disappear. "Kawaii so ne(Sad isn't it),"

Next Chapter: While on a ski resort Conan and Co find themselves staying again with another group. But when several people drop dead it's up to Conan to solve that case, but to raise the stakes Kira suddenly goes missing. What's list, Kira's slipper and it has blood on it!

Conan Hint: Old photo graph