Number of words including author's note: 2299

Chapter One

In just a normal morning, where everyone is busy working in the small village in a town, noises of the villagers can be heard everywhere. It's normal for everyone and can be counted as a stressful day but not for a strange lady in this town.

A lady with brunette hair that can almost reach her waist, the brightness in her azure eyes can be seen, that matches her fair porcelain skin. She's wearing a white long dress that has a black tie that is tied to her waist as it shows her waist curve. A mischievous smile can be seen in some of children's faces as they watch her, looking at her curiously and excited. She looks at them as she chuckles and waves at them; she went to a place, a quiet and relaxing place. Some children were looking at her in confusion. She looks at them and gave them a soft smile as she calls them to come.

At first, the children look at her, some of them went towards to where she is and some of them didn't because they don't know her still. With a smile on her face, she sits on the grass and lean on the tree's trunk and asked the excited children,

"Do you believe in magic?"

Meanwhile, a young gentleman with pale skin and a dark brunette cowlick hair arrived in the village wearing his black breech pants and black waistcoat that has a cotton white neck length long sleeve shirt underneath. People are greeting him with a wide smile and congratulated him for successfully solving another case.

His sharp cerulean eyes wandered around the village to find his usual relaxing spot on where he can rest peacefully after another stressful chase with a culprit. He arrived to his usual place but he stop walking when he heard children's cheerful giggles, he peek into the place and found a girl with long brunette hair, he was stunned as he saw her smile brightly, she moves elegantly showing her little audience magical and colourful illusions.

"Marvellous." he unconsciously whispered to himself as he stare at the girl laugh together with the children as she handed each of them pink roses that came out of nowhere together with the doves that fly around the whole area.

The girl continues playing her trick making her doves appear on her hand as she let one of the children hold it. Their eyes are beaming in amusement. She laughs on their reaction as she snaps her finger letting the different colour of roses' petals fall down in the air. She took some of it and put it in her hand as she closes it tightly and opens which shows up a beautiful blue butterfly. Her blue eyes are shining brightly as she gained a lot of confidence by her little audiences' sweet smiles and laughter.

While she's playing her trick, her eyes caught someone staring at her with amused blue eyes. She looks at him as she noticed he was observing her trick. A smirk forms on her lips when a bright idea appears on her mind. She stops playing her tricks as she looks at the children again.

"I have a last trick that I'm going to show but this time I need an assistant" the children starts to raise their hands volunteering to be her assistant. She laughs on their reaction as she looks at them. "Sorry guys but I already found a good assistant for this little show of mine..."she said as she cleared her throat as she speaks louder "I'm inviting the man that is wearing a black waistcoat and pants with a white long sleeves. The one that has sharp looking blue eyes" she said as she slightly glances at the guy hoping he hears her.

Looking at her while still not making a move, his eyes widens a little when he heard her describe him. He remain standing to where he is for a second, he saw her glance at him with her bright little smile, without any reason, his heart skip a beat as he just look at her until he comes back to his senses. He cleared his throat and stands up properly, he walked toward to where the lady is with his gentleman posture while wearing a small grin on his face.

"Well since it is rude to decline an elegant and lovely lady's invitation," he paused as he bows to her and holds her hand, "I am honoured to be your assistant for your today's show, mademoiselle." he said as he kissed the back of her hand. He looks at her with a smile as he heard her little audience squeal in joy.

A smile form on the lady's lips and let out a soft chuckle, she stands up and bows down slightly to return his formal approach.

"Well thank you monsieur, for accepting my invitation to make you as my assistant for my little show today."

She looks at them— her little audience as a small grin form on her lip.

She gets the top hat as she shows it to her audience.

"As you can see this top hat is empty, right?"

She shows her top hat to everyone especially to the man who's standing next her. The gentleman with a cowlick hair stares at the top hat as and inspect it carefully, memorizing every inch of details of the hat that he needs.

He looks at the lady and mentally smirked as gave her a nod. She holds the top hat upside down as she looks on it then to her audience. She put her hand inside the top hat with a wide smile as she pulls out a magic wand that came from her hair and tap it to the top hat.

She looks at the audience with a wide smile,

"In a count of three something everyone loves will show up, but it won't show up if I count alone. So let's count together, okay?"

Her audience's eyes brighten up in excitement. Soft giggles escaped from her mouth when she heard her little audience count, she glance at the detective who's slightly shows a smirk while staring at the top hat.

"Three"

"Two"

"One..."

"...Zero"

In a blink of an eye, she pulled out a white fury animal from the top hat that she's holding, the children squeal in joy when the realised that is it a cute bunny rabbit.

The children quickly run towards the magician, hopping in joy with a huge smile on their faces.

"That's great Ms. Magician!"

"How did you do that?"

"Teach us please!"

"She's holding a real Bunny!"

The curious children started praising her and ask her different questions. She can't help but to chuckle softly until she noticed something, her assistant is quiet while looking at the top hat and the bunny.

She smirks slightly as she looks at the detective,

"My my... Cat got your tongue, Mr. Famous Detective? Did my magic amuse you?"

Flashing her with a challenging smirk, he crossed his arms up to his chest and clears his throat.

"Quite. You almost got me there but, let me show you the tricks under your sleeve, beautiful mademoiselle. Is that alright with you, Miss Famous Magician?" he said, looking at the lady beside him with an obvious confident tone on his voice.

The magician raised her eyebrow and gave the detective a daring gaze, curious on what he's about to reveal.

"Alright, let's hear it out, Great Detective."

He move closer to her and lean to the lady's ear, "Since I don't want to spoil this one since the children are obviously enjoying the trick that you've done, I'll just whisper it out for you." he whispered to her ear.

The magician waited for him to continue with a curious expression,

"That top hat trick can be easily done when you have a table with you, many magicians have already done that trick, I've already figured that one out, they use secret compartments on the table where the bunny is located and pull it out, or use a cloth to wrap the bunny with a dark cloth and hang it on the hook on the back of the table"

He paused again,

She looks at the detective, raising an eyebrow as she cross her arms.

"But as you can see, I'm not using any table to do the trick, monsieur—"

The detective pulls her closer gently, leaning to her ear and whispered something that made her eyes widens in surprise and disbelief,

"H-how?!" she exclaimed that made the children turn their gaze to her

He just smirked while looking at her. The lady turn her gaze to the children and gave them a sweet smile,

"I apologise children but I think that you should go back to your parents, I'll come visit you guys again soon, okay?"

The children whine and beg her to show them more magic tricks. After convincing the children to go back to their parents, the detective and the magician are now alone; she turns her gaze to him, pouting her lips with a frowning face

"Now, mind telling me how you figured that out?"

The detective felt his cheek burn with the expression she made. He shook his head and cleared his throat as he looks at her again.

He took the top hat the is placed on the grass, "Well I just eliminated the impossible, the fact that you didn't use any table for your trick, then..." he paused as he showed her the top hat, sliding down the black thick inside, showing more space on where the bunny can fit.

"You created your own trick, by creating a secret compartment inside the top hat. That's why that top hat is a quite larger the usual one and I got suspicious when you were carefully turning the hat upside-down earlier so that the bunny won't hit on the walls of the hat so that it won't make any noises, a simple and elegant hand movements made it more convincing."

Grinning widely with his accurate deduction, the detective handed her the top hat.

The magician looks at the top hat and pouts, "As expected, detectives like you are no fun at all!" whined the lady with a childish tone that made him laugh softly.

The azure eyed leaned her back on the trunk of the tree as she looks at him, "Anyway, I was wondering. Why are you watching us earlier if you already knew the tricks that I used?" she asked while raising an eyebrow, waiting for the detective to answer her question.

The detective flashed her a gentle smile before he speak, "This place is where I usually take a rest after solving cases," he put both of his hands inside the pocket of his coat and gaze at the lady in in front of him, "The moment I arrived here, I heard giggles and claps that came from the children. There I saw a magician─ no scratch that, a lady magician showing those innocent children predictable magic tricks" he continued his explanation, letting out a deep chuckle.

'Predictable magic tricks?' she thought to herself. The lady's eyebrows met because what he said. But she still nodded as a sign that she understands the explanation that he gave her.

"So you're an aspiring magician? It's pretty odd for a lady that wants to be a magician." The girl frowns from what he said, "Is there a problem with that, fella?" she asked while looking at him, "It was a great way to entertain everyone" she continued as she turn her gaze to those people near them, the detective predicted that she will continue talking so he kept quiet to give her time to talk, "Seeing people smile─ make them happy on my own way. I...I don't know why but it makes me really happy"

Listening to her makes the detective became speechless, he wasn't even are that she's already finished talking and that he has been staring at her for quite a while already, "Well aren't that too kind of you, mademoisselle? For wanting to make people smile without asking for anything in return..." he paused while looking at her, both of their eyes met, he gave her a smile before he continue,

"I'm right, you are not an average girl." her cheeks flushed after hearing those compliments from him.

"I-it's not like that. Every magicians like me wants that, it is part of our goal" she said while still looking at the gentleman in front of her, "Are you getting curious or something?" she said while still looking at him, watching the expressions on his face.

"Well it's─" the detective was about to explain when a lady with a chocolate coloured and blue sapphire eyes hair cut him off, "Hey there! Geez, you left me again! We should return back to work, Mr. McGuire is already looking for us."

The lady magician looks at the girl who arrived and gave her an apologetic smile, "Sorry, I was just taking a rest and I accidentally lost track of time." she turn her gaze back to the detective and bowed down gracefully, "I'm sorry Mister Great Detective but I need to go now, break time is over."

"No need to worry about it, mademoiselle." the gentleman said and bows down in a respectful manner.

The lady runs towards her friend after bidding their goodbyes to each other. He watched them leave when he suddenly realised something,

"I forgot to ask her name!" he exclaimed and face palmed while staring at the place where she left,

'I will definitely ask her if I've got a chance to meet her again.'

NOTE: I repeat, Kaito Kuroba is a girl in this story. The authors doesn't own Detective Conan and Magic Kaito, big credits to Mr. Gosho Aoyama to the character that inspires us to make this fan fiction.

P.S. Two authors did a collaboration to write this story, we will use different codenames to interact with everyone.

-Dark Knight