Ok. So, I've re-written the Author's note since.. Well, it was a waste of about 2 pages of frustrated ranting towards Southpaw (and perhaps anyone else). Following it had been a rant about the whole BS going on about review replies- Which, I SHALL give my 2 cents about that.

Author review replies help reader's know that A) The author cares, wants to talk with them, and maybe, feels generous enough to throw a few upcoming plot points out there if they like you enough. B) Let's the reader know that the author gives a crap, thus making it so authors don't have to stylishly persue their reviewer's in e-mails. XD

That's my minimized 2 cents.

And.. As for anyone's who's annoyed with my review 'begging,' look up at part A/B of above paragraph.

So… in turn, I guess, if any of you would like to have a conversation with me (since I don't mind people Iming me or sending me stuff, so long as it's not FWD's, or, in the area of IM's, they immediately tell me how the HFIL they got my SN) my AIM screen name is BokuraXtremeHope and my e-mail is my s/n plus at aol. Com

As I've said, just put in your first message (email or AIM) 'Sun and Moon' and I won't flip out and give you a 'How the hell did you get my sn….?' cold shoulder. (I randomly get freak im's and it's like 'Who the heck are you..? I don't know you!' XD)

Ok… Uh.. What else… uhm, if you'd like to talk to me simply to rant with/at someone about the review thing, go right ahead :D I'm totally game for it. It reminds me of the NC-17 ban thing… -sighs- ah.. The wonderful memories of ff net's strange way of saying free writing, yet taking away our rights that we have in our own constitution XD (-currently can't think of correct verbage she wants, and isn't going to attempt it-)

Moogle Plushie (Yes, I own one XD): -pokes Takato- Can we get on with it?

Takato: …Yeah. Anyways. Takato doesn't own Detective Conan, nor does she own Mae or Emery's songs.

On to the reading! (Yeah, I finally updated, after the story flailed screaming 'FINISH ME FOOL!' for like.. 2 weeks. But whatever, I'm all registered for college, and I have Friday's off! XD yays!)

Extra author note: Sorry for slight ooc-ness in this first part.

let's take these lines and
draw ourselves out of here
this shipwreck
from set-sail

The Files, and The Question

Ai walked into the police HQ as if she was meant to be there, and belonged. She walked with confidence, and even a small all-knowing smile on her face. When she got to the 'rec room' of the HQ, she finaly spotted one of her targets.

Takagi-keibu.

Her smile grew a little, knowing that the poor guy was afraid of her, and was a perfect target of sarcasm. Yet, she usually had to steel herself and keep them to a minimum, but even so, that didn't mean she sort of enjoyed his nervousness.

Moving all of this aside, she calmly walked over to him, and tugged on his suit jacket, "Takagi-keibu."

Suddenly Takagi jolted, half spilling his coffee on the floor, his hand/arm, or spitting it out of his mouth before he looked to her like a deer caught in headlights, "Ha-Ha-Haibara-san! What are you doing here!"

Ai smiled innocently, enjoying his reaction, "I wanted to talk to Megure-keibu!"

Takagi shifted, slowly recollecting himself, "R-right, uh… C..Come this way." Takagi than started laughing nervously as he left with Ai following, the other officer's watching in odd amusement.

After some walking, they found Satou, who immediately noticed Ai, "Haibara-san… What are you doing here…?"

Ai shifted to face her, "Looking for Megure-keibu."

Satou blinked, "Why?"

"I had some questions to ask him."

Satou sighed, shifting, "What kind of questions?"

Ai smiled, "Questions about some files concerning Edogawa-kun and myself…"

Satou blinked and moved over taking her hand, "Sure, I'll bring you to the inspector now."

Takagi started, following, "S-s-s-Satou-san! What-?"

Satou looked to him and winked, placing a finger over her lips to silence him before looking down to Ai, "Haibara-san, would you like a drink?"

Ai mentally sighed, knowing kids never decline these things, so she brightened up, pulling her own little version of what she liked to call a Conan-ism, "Sure!"

Satou smiled and looked to Takagi and gave him some change, "Please get her a warm drink, Takagi-kun."

Takagi double blinked, still confused, yet understanding, "S-sure Satou-san." With that he parted from them.

Ai looked to Satou, "Is Megure-keibu busy?"

Satou sighed, "Somewhat, but I think he could take you."

Ai looked ahead, "I'll be as brief as possible."

Satou blinked, raising an eyebrow. It was still rather strange to hear such words come from a child, even though she had begun to simply ignore these sorts of things. Still, it was unnerving.

Soon, Satou and Ai were at Megure-keibu's office, and were soon let in.

Megure at first was somewhat surprised, but then squared his shoulders and pushed it aside, looking her in the eyes, "What do I owe the pleasure, Ai-kun?"

Ai smiled as she usually did, and sat down in a chair that was near Megure's desk, "I came to ask about mine and Conan-kun's files."

Megure cleared his throat, "What about them?"

"You verified them, even though you knew they were false. I've come to ask why."

Satou shifted somewhat, when Takagi knocked and came in, closing the door behind him, "I got you coffee… if you don't mind, Haibara-san…"

Ai turned slightly and followed him as Takagi came over and handed her the drink, "Not at all." She closed eyes and took a sip before turning back to Megure, "So?"

Megure shifted, leaning back into his chair, "Well, we pondered it a while, and decided it best to verify them- you two must have your reasons for having false files, yes?"

Ai smirked, "Of course."

Megure gave her a hard look, "Can you tell me the reason?"

Ai sighed, Takagi slowly coming to a better understanding of the situation, realizing what was being spoken about- heck, he'd noticed the fake file thing himself. "No, but I can tell you it's to protect your most precious man."

All three officer's blinked, giving her confused and somewhat curious looks. Satou moved a piece of hair that was irritating her, "Our most precious man? Who would you be talking about…?"

Megure blinked, something clicking, "You're not talking about.. About Kudo-kun.. Are you?"

Ai smirked a bit more, all knowingly, and took a bit more of her coffee, "Perhaps. But…. That's for you to figure out. As for myself, it's best you don't ask questions. Conan-kin and I have… similar circumstances, and it's best for you to know as little as possible." She then slid off the chair she was sitting on, and finished her drink, "Oh, and Megure-keibu..?"

"Hn?"

"Don't tell Conan-kun I was here."

With that, she dropped her empty cup into the wastebasket, and left, leaving silence behind her.

Ai smirked, 'Hm…That went well.'

we'll map the stars
tonight they help to find a way
when all is said
words can breathe more life than death

Nakamori-keibu

Nakamori grumbled darkly as he chewed on his cigarette, looking over his KID files, like he did every day, and after every heist.

Over time though, another anomaly had shown up and tried to take KID out.

If that hadn't been frustrating enough, the kid, Edogawa Conan, who randomly appeared in some of the most bizarre of places, added to his daily frustrations.

There was something seriously wrong with that kid, facing the Kaitou as if there were no differences between them, and trying to catch him whenever given the chance.

Conan, in his opinion, was nuts.

Nakamori, as an adult, was still edgy with KID, even if the number one rule was No one gets hurt, Conan kicked things up a level it seemed. KID loved playing with this boy, perhaps, even more than himself.

Not only that, but Conan was also able to get into places the police couldn't, and seemed to be able to pick KID out at an increasing speed each time they met.

The last time Nakamori had seen the two in action, it had been nerve-wracking.

The Kaitou KID, driving the elder Suzuki's motorcycle, grinning like a mad man, along with Conan in the passenger part of it, grinning just as maniacally while pointing his stun-gun at him.

Of course, things went awry as KID unlatched the passenger carrier, and let Conan-kun go spinning- literally.

The surprising thing was how quickly he'd gotten himself back together, and had managed to get the cart under control before sparking a fire that led towards the thief.

Seeing the Motorcycle go Kablooey while the thief was still riding it, not only was scary, but was absolutely hilarious.

Though, at the time he was in such a blind rage and cursing so much, he didn't notice.

It was only until later he laughed about it.

Of course, he'd noticed little Conan's strange quirks after noticing him during the Black Star incident, when he stayed completely calm, smirked, and explained how the KID was still in the room.

He had been unnerved.

After that, he had quickly gathered as much on the boy as possible, but only managed a few scraps of him with the Shounen Tantei, and a few miscellaneous kidnappings and murders.

The boy lived with the great Sleeping Detective, Mouri Kogoro, and his daughter, Mouri Ran, who'd happened to be Aoko's age.

There were times that he felt it would be good to have Mouri's daughter meet his own, but, he never remembered long enough, and thus, the chance was always lost.

Even so, he'd met Conan enough to know he was not normal.

There was also the time Kudo Shinichi had shown up to help investigate one of KID's heists for a star sapphire ring.

Conan had been shaken, before screaming that he was Kaitou KID himself.

When asked how he knew, his reply of, "Because I'm K-!" had tipped him off as something being very out of place.

Of course, he'd checked, and got nothing out of it.

Yet, when he was able, he got some people to check how similar Kaitou KID's anatomy and Kudo Shinichi's anatomy was to the other, and they ended up being very similar. Yet, there were discrepancies of course, even so, it was enough to show he could pull off being Kudo Shinichi without having to use any sort of make-up or disguise.

They were simply that much alike.

Nakamori sighed, and lent back in his chair, thinking things over again.

Conan was somehow linked to Kudo, who had disappeared as of late.

In the end, all the pieces didn't fit together, but still…

Kudo and Conan were also far too much alike, that it was oddly possible that they had something to do with the other.

How though… was beyond his grasp.

the inner sense that people share
touching on secrets and letting down hair

Aoko

Aoko scratched her head lightly, looking over her father's notes as she cleaned his office (his home one of course, he never tidied up) and caught onto some of his random scribblings.

Edogawa Conan.

The name was familiar- she'd seen a few paper scrappings in Kaito's room about this kid.

She sat down, and flipped through some of the pages, taking note of everything her father had put down, and comparing them to the very few slips Kaito had made on speaking of the boy.

Conan was an extraordinary boy, who puzzled her father, and a boy who peeked Kaito's absolute interest.

Other than Kaitou KID of course, since that was Kaito's number one obsession.

Aoko sighed, and decided to ask Kaito about it tomorrow, and continued with her cleaning, thoughts slowly formulating along with questions that simply needed answer's…

Takato: I shall STRONGLY apologize for having Aoko's part so SHORT! But, she's going to be in Kaitou's chapter (which is NEXT! THE FINAL CHAPTER! WEWT!) so… don't freak out just yet. I'm hoping to write it soon (Though I'm attempting to think of a KID note that will semi-piss off Conan, but hey, I have to think of how to formulate one.. So, if anyone would like to help me with it, please IM me on AIM from the address at the beginning. I have MSN, but I don't go on it hardly at all so… if you HAVE to use MSN, e-mail me with a time -I'm in central time zone- to be on there with it).

Also, for any Naruto Fan's, I've seemingly found who the dub voices will be (I don't know if this is official or not, but… it's what I've found at the moment)

Naruto: Kiba/Vash's VA (Don't whine, 'cause he could have gotten FAR FAR worse if you don't like this VA, just think of Dub Naruto with Lupe's -OnePiece, I don't know char's u.u0- VA.. And count your blessings)

Sakura: Misty/Jessie's VA

Sasuke: Heero Yuy's VA (Which, I find.. Almost unbelievable XD)

Gaara: Brock/James/Seto's VA

Kakashi: Steve Blum (I don't know who he is, or what roles XD I'm mainly a voice recognizer, and my e-mail source doesn't tell me who he is anime-wise)

I just had to let someone know so… you can comment on those in a review if you have the need XD otherwise, I hope to talk to you reader's (Without being able to do Review replies, I literally feel like ff. net has become a cold desolate place without community already XD it's horrible) soon.