A/N: Ah, I rewrote this once... Then I accidentally rewrote this agian and now is the version of both of them combined here. And it's a bit longer now too! Don't question my logic here, please...

Chapter 6.

Tsukiko had fallen asleep. She could deduce it from the fact she'd also woken up. Thankfully so since the chair she'd been dozing on hadn't been the most comfortable one. Scratch that, it was awful. In any case, when the blonde had woken up, she'd noticed something extra in the hospital room she was occupying. Someone who definitely didn't belong in there. It was tantei-chan, Edogawa Conan. The boy was sitting on the floor near the door and leaning against the wall. The boy was deep asleep and his legs were sticking straight ahead. It was quite cute sight actually. The boy for once looked like his physical age. Tsukiko smirked at the sight and quietly, she rose up from the chair. She slowly approached the shrunken detective. She crouched in front of him and gave him a fillip right in the middle of his forehead. The action woke him up immediately and effectively.

"Ouch! Why did you do that?" The boy demanded immediately, a hand flying to cover that hurting spot on his forehead. Impressive, he wasn't even bleary-eyed for having just woken up.

"What are you doing here?" Tsukiko asked calmly despite the angry frown on her forehead. "Keeping an eye on me? Or just taking a nap before catching Kusuda Rikumichi?"

"Hmm… yeah…" He mumbled, thoughts elsewhere. Maybe his brains were still half-asleep…

"Which one of those two opinions?"

"Both... Hey! How do you know about Kusuda?" So now he's alert then. Slow…

"It doesn't really matter now, does it? But time is running now. You should hurry. Otherwise the conflict might start without you."

"…" Crumbling something inaudible under his breath, Conan got on his feet and left the room in a mild hurry.

"Tch, no need to thank me at all for waking you up… I'm sure you would have woken up on your own just fine…" The sandy-blonde girl muttered sarcastically as the door closed. She turned around to walk to the only window of the room and moved the curtain aside a bit. After a moment or two, she could see two pairs of car headlights driving past and vanishing into the darkness.

"Tomorrow…"

For the rest of the night, Tsukiko couldn't sleep. The situation was far too interesting and exciting… And scary. It wasn't every day that one woke up in a fictional world. It wasn't every day that you ended up somewhere where you could potentially die just because you were at wrong place at wrong time. Okay, it could happen in the real world too but in this one the frequency and risk was much greater. So Tsukiko just sat next to the window and played Backgammon with her cell phone in order to waste time. She was feeling skittish. She needed to do something.

And for hours she did just that until someone knocked to the door and opened it. It was Jodie.

"Come." The woman said simply. Tsukiko blinked once but ended the game and followed the agent. But before leaving the room though she took my calendar with her; she definitely didn't want to leave it alone anymore. She didn't need any strangers asking difficult and awkward questions from her. At least not any more than they already threatened to do.

After following Jodie through the corridors, the duo entered to the room the FBI was using as a planning room. Their pseudo headquarters. Once there, Tsukiko opened her mouth to ask 'why?' – a question that had plagued her mind since leaving – but the female agent beat her to a punch and began explaining. Well, 'explaining' was an exaggeration. She only told the situation with once sentence.

"You'll stay here that we can keep an eye on you."

Tsukiko blinked and looked away from everyone whose attention was on her anyways. "How… risky. This way I'll hear all of your plans." She muttered but let the others hear it too. She tried her best not to show how interested and happy she actually was about the situation. It wasn't easy but she managed.

"While that's true we can't make the same mistake than we did with Kusuda." Black told her. Oh, he was in the room too. Tsukiko glanced at the older man sideways and gave a thoughtful nod to his direction.

"I suppose that makes sense though I'm not privy to the background of that particular sentiment." She stated and produced her cell phone from the pocket of her slightly faded jeans. "Am I correct to assume that I have to give my cell phone away too?"

"That's right." The old man replied and nodded to Jodie to take the phone. The woman moved to take it but the girl just dodged her hand a sidestepped with a little twirl to stand by Akai's side, promptly ignoring the curious glances around. When she offered the phone to Akai, he frowned briefly but took the phone anyways.

"Take a good care of it, okay? I just got high scores in Backgammon." Tsukiko grinned and pocketed her hands into her now-empty jeans' pockets. She then proceeded walking through the room, once again ignoring the glances. By the opposite wall from the door, Tsukiko leaned casually against the windowpane and gazed outside. She let the agents' voices wash over her as their conversation continued.

Time to time the girl received some curious glances but she tried her best to ignore them. Tsukiko listened the agents' conversation but didn't really concentrate in it. After all, she already knew what they were going to do in the end.

After a while Akai left the room 'to plan' and Jodie mentioned his 'happy' attitude towards the prospect of the Organization possibly attacking the hospital. Black assumed it was due the fact the younger man having now the chance to take revenge on the murder of his (ex-)girlfriend. Assumption which caught Conan's interest. After some more questions and answers about the topic, the boy finally asked the woman's name. And Tsukiko spoke without thinking.

"Tantei-chan…" She sighed without looking at the present company in the room. "You already know her."

"Stop calling me 'Tantei-chan'…" Conan frowned in irritation but Jodie interrupted him, grasping on the first slip up the girl had made that day. The information about the cars didn't count.

"What makes you think so, Okiya-san?" The female agent asked. "You barely even know what we are talking about."

"I…" How was possible that every time… Every single time Tsukiko managed to say something worthwhile, it would be something that would raise suspicions and cause problems for her. She sighed mentally before offering an explanation. "I noticed it from a newspaper."

"Newspaper?" Jodie echoed.

"Hai. At least I think the woman in the photo was the same than you are talking about now… Tantei-chan was in that photo too. Besides, it was pretty big headline when the last robber from the one billion yen robbery was caught. If I hadn't noticed it I would have been blind or something." The blonde girl explained in a manner that seemed calm but inside she was anything but. "Moreover… What are the odds that some other bank robbery of that scale would've happened in the timespan you just laid out. Unless it would have happened during the time I was in coma… But in any case this is no mystery novel where bodies and crimes are dropping from the sky." If only… Don't lough, Tsukiko. Don't you dare to laugh and blow this up now…

"Okiya-neechan…you are rather talkative, you know…" The little nerd with glasses remarked.

"Eh? I really am not. Only when I need to explain things to kids." His eye twitched. It was quite hard to hide one's real thoughts and at the same time take care that no one would suspect one… while giving an impression that one wasn't a complete pushover or idiot. Time for topic change. "But… now that we are talking about the article… something in that headline is bothering me…"

"Really? What is it then?" Jodie asked with interest. Tsukiko could hear from her voice how curious the woman was. Was this an interrogation now?

"Well… you said it was a murder and I guess it is true since you are from the FBI and probably know this case and the modus operandi of these guys you were talking about much better than I do… But that news' headline said that the 'One billion yen robbery perpetrator committed suicide'. I wonder why that is so…"

"Because the gun was left there pretty close to her with her prints on it and there were no signs of anyone else having been there. And Japan Police Forces doesn't know about this organization we are chasing." Conan gave the answer with a bored tone in his voice and the best deadpan look he could muster.

"Oh, I see." A fist hit an open palm in fake realization. In her mind she couldn't help adding though why FBI was aware of the organization then. Was Vermouth the only reason? But in the end the aim of her question was reached: the discussion had come to the end for Tsukiko part. Finally the attention of Jodie, Conan and others' in the room was turned off the girl. She sighed quietly. She really should be much, much, more careful with what she was about to say. Especially when everything was in the beginning for her.

Hours passed. Conan left the room to go to the roof with an intention of talking with Akai. The FBI agents left too, scattering about the hospital or alternatively to catch some sleep. Tsukiko was left alone in the meeting room. She yawned.

"Geez, they said they'll keep an eye on me. How is that possible if they leave me alone without bothering to even lock the door…?" The girl shrugged and tore a page from the calendar with her. One of the few pages that had only one side drawn. But the drawing could serve its purpose too… Tsukiko wrote a short note of three sentences and left the page on the table there. Hopefully the right person would pick it up. Oh well… If anyone else picked it up, only thing it would do was messing their heads if they were to find the 'hidden' message of it.

'So tired. Gotta sleep. I'm at mah room.
-Tsukiko'

Tsukiko wasn't sure how long she'd slept when she woke up again. But what had woken up the girl was something she could hear from the corridor. Voices. How brilliant soundproofing this hospital had… Those voices were coming closer though before finally stopping right behind the door of her room. When the door opened and the girl gulped inaudibly.

"It seems this room is empty. You'll wait here." A man's voice said. Obviously he didn't notice her… Tsukiko was hugging her knees and otherwise tightly curled up underneath the comforter. Moreover the room was extremely dark at night time. So the man (whose identity the girl could guess) naturally didn't notice the slight bump on the bed or the blonde hair on the pillow. Tsukiko wasn't sure if it was a good thing or a bad thing though… Maybe a good thing since Camel (that's who the man was) couldn't afford losing minutes and Eisuke needed to be pushed out of way. Or then bad thing since Eisuke was being left in the girl's room and apparently the agent's observational skills needed work as he didn't notice the name tag outside the door being filled by now..

"Eh? Wait! I wanna talk with my sister." Another voice argued back. "Hey! Don't!"

Yeah, the identities were pretty much confirmed now. Tsukiko didn't bother turning her head to double check. The door closed with a little 'click'.

"Great… It's locked…" Tsukiko thought with a heavy sigh which didn't alert Eisuke of her presence quite yet. The boy tried to open the door but after a while he gave up and sat down on the edge of the hospital bed.

"Geez, I finally found Hidemi-neesan and now I can't even talk to her…" The teen sighed, shoulders slumping. Tsukiko decided now to inform him that he wasn't alone in the room.

"Well, would it have been better if you hadn't found her at all?" She asked, causing him jump up in alarm and then trip on the floor. Once on his feet again though, Eisuke dashed to the door and flicked the light switch next to it. The room became illuminated and forced Tsukiko to blink a couple of times. When she had the focus of her eyes in control again, she heard Eisuke speaking again, asking one simple question.

"Who are you?"