Ch2.

Merlot

Haibara looked up and spoke still quivering from the name, "Yes, I know. He is the…"

"He is the…" Conan asked with his usual sharp eyes

"Never mind, that's not important."

"I figured you knew him cause its another wine name. Anyways, they said something about killing another target at 8:00pm tonight in the Beika Hall."

"No, you can not go!" Haibara bursted out with agitation.

"Don't you learn Haibara? You know no matter what you say or do I will go. I told you because I need you to do something for me."

"No I won't, not this time! You don't know this man. You don't know him. You don't.." She looks right up then left downward, as if to avoid eye contact.

"So, you do know something" Conan grins.

"Huh, no. I mean I know of his name and I sent him a few messages but that's about.."

"Don't deny it. I can tell, its written all over your face."

"NO!"

"You looked to your right upper side, that indicates you were remembering something of the past. Then you looked to your bottom left, this usually occurs to most people when they go into denial or tell a sudden lie."

Haibara's eyes opened wide.

"and from that, I can tell that I was right." Conan smiles gently at her, "It doesn't matter who he is to me. The fact that I know is that he is a member, and if you don't want to tell mea bout him then you don't have to."

"He was the leader of our assassination crew. Shinichi-kun, I can not go with you tonight into the city hall, but I can tell you this. He has a small scar on the bottom side of his chin and he is an excellent demolitionist. Even the boss himself fears him for if he turned against the organization then he holds the potential to do devastating damage to them. His a left handed man who smokes a lot."

"Hey wait a minute, how do you know so much about him?"

"He was… my guardian from when I was in America."

"What!…" Conan blasted in surprise.

"He was almost like a father to me when I didn't know anything about the secret organization, this maybe the one man who knows more about me then anyone else in the world right now. He is a genius when it comes to changing his appearance so I don't think that telling you what he looked like had made any difference as to how you may find him I suppose. But anyways, what is it that you want me to do?"

"I need you to go to the professor's house and get me the usual things and call Hattori over here and meet me in front of the city hall at exactly 7:45, this time I will need his help." Hattori, for the new readers, is the only other person other than the professor and Haibara that knows about conan's true identity and is also a high school detective."

"What about you?"

"I still have my own business to take care off. Don't mind me, just do what I told you."

"…"

Hey, I promise you, if things get bad I'll protect ya!"

"…Fine"

"Also, tell the professor to give Ran a call too. Tell her that I'll be staying over at his house today or something."

Once Conan finished this he dropped his skateboard and headed away.

Haibara turned around and mumbled, "Reckless fool.", smiled, and started walking home.