Takato: Well guys, it's another chapter!

With another unplanned character!

Why? Because! It hit me while reading 'Wheatabix' by Azremodehar.

So.. This Hakuba chapter is due to Az'!

And… I'm currently listening to Joy Electric, The White Songbook. Legacy Volume One.

I love this album. O.o It seems to have really caught my loving interest. Anyways, I hope you enjoy this chapter! Oh, yes, I must also say, I'm unsure of how I'm going to to Eri or Kogoro, and I may even slip Sonoko in this along with Ran's chapter… but yeah

Anyways, Kaito's gonna appear sort of in this chapter. Well, at least be mentioned repetitively XD

Disclaimer: Takato-kun doesn't own Detective Conan, and she never will. The only things of Detective Conan she can say she owns are A) Her fan arts, and B) other miscellaneous stuffs you can order offline. Also, Buy Mae's CD, the Everglow, where the main song inspiration for this fic, The Sun and the Moon, is.

Final Author Note: Don't make me rant at you to review. I'm glad more people did, and I may start with Author replies, but, crimany! This fic's almost gotten as many hits as my most-reviewed-fic, Still Alone! WTH? And I only have 8 reviews? O.o Please people, I take anonymous reviews, I don't mind e-mails (though AOL might block them if I don't catch 'em . 0) and just.. Yeah!

I feel like one of those random un-loved authors XD

Whatever. I'll stop whining.

Inuyasha: 'bout damn time!

Shippou: Shut up Inuyasha, you're just pissed off 'cause she's writing about Hakuba and not Kaitou. ..That and she's not using her time to play Inuyasha and the Cursed Mask (whatever it is)

Inuyasha: -grumble grumble stupid Kappei-

ohh...
painted skys.
i've seen so many that cannot compare,
to your ocean eyes.

Hakuba

He sat down silently in class waiting for it to start, and of course, to watch the morning scuffle between Kaito and Nakamori-san.

Kaito currently was reading the newspaper in an interestingly silent, and perhaps, even arrested manner.

There had been some murder recently. A rather brutal one, and a group of kids (Of which seemed to be pretty well known to the police) had stumbled upon the body.

Along with the criminal.

He hadn't been able to get too many other details, except one of the smarter of the children had gotten pretty badly hurt- Not critically, but enough to cause plenty of chaos for the police.

Hakuba got up, and went of by Kaito, looking over the article, "I didn't think of you as one interested in the gory details of murder cases."

Kaito twitched for a second, seemingly startled before looking up to him and grinning sardonically, "Well 'Kuba, there's a first for everything, neh?"

Kaito then went back to the article, plaintively ignoring him. Hakuba rolled his eyes, and decided to look over the paper as well with more attention.

The boy hurt seemed to go by the name Edogawa Conan…

Wait.

That kid.

Hakuba shifted, reading the article with as much interest at Kaito.

He had decided, a long time ago, to see if this kid was in the newspapers more than once, since Kaito had seemed to be interested in the boy's escapades.

Hakuba's personal interest was peeked when he met the boy himself, during the 40 year old case incident with Dusk Hall.

The kid, Conan, personally made his detective senses scream 'Suspect!'

It wasn't that this Conan was a bad kid or anything.

In fact, the kid was far too… Mature.

During the dusk hall incident, he had watched the boy examine the body, pick apart the clues, and had even listened to his vocal tones as he deduced what had happened in each situation they were in.

The kid was no slouch in deduction.

He knew what he was doing.

This made him even more interested, and thus, he organized his file on Edogawa-kun, and had religiously kept up information on the boy along with his Kid files.

Yet, he couldn't understand why Kaito of all people, was interested in the boy.

Even without his suspicions of Kaito being Kid, why would either of them have such an interest in the boy?

If there was anything Hakuba knew, it was that both Kaito and Kid both had favorites.

It was a strange system he had, but they seemed to oddly keep track of certain individuals. In turn, this makes the police, or, at least himself, keep a closer eye on them.

That's why Hakuba was suspicious of the boy.

Conan Edogawa was non-existant.

And that was why he suspected him.

He was hiding something.

Big.

The boy also had deep connections running through the police, and even in some places in America.

It was strange for files to come out of no-where like that.

So, Hakuba would just watch out for any and all information on the kid.

Why?

Because.

The boy was a mystery needing to be unraveled.

And that was why he would keep suspecting him and looking for his leads that pointed to being, or at least, closely knowing a missing detective who went by the name…

Kudo Shinichi

Takato: Sorry about the long rant at the beginning X.x0

I may update again tonight, or tomorrow. Don't know.

Anyways, I hope you enjoyed this chapter, and see you the next!

Also

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Shinjitsu wa Itsumo Hitotsu!

There is Only One Truth!