When Heiji had first seen the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, he'd been in awe. They had all the latest computers, software, and testing/analysis tools to help with their work. He hadn't been surprised to hear that it was all because of the Kudo Family. He'd made the mistake of saying compared to them the Osaka police department was practically ancient.

When his father called and told him one Kudo Shinichi had made a large donation for them to upgrade, he had spent the next hour trying to explain to his father why his friend had done that. The worse part was that even after his father had met with Shinichi to let him know it was appreciated but unneeded, Shinichi had proceeded to explain his reasoning in a way that neither of the Hattori's could find fault with.

So they had wound up accepting it.

Heiji was always careful about what he said after that.

Even with all the high tech computers and equipment the police department had, Heiji enjoyed being there and working on cases with Shinichi. It was the one time he could forget that his friend was probably one of the richest people in the world and didn't make Heiji want to strangle him for not knowing the value of money. They were just two high school detectives working to put a murderer behind bars.

They had just solved their latest case and finished up the paperwork to go along with it when Shinichi's phone rang. Heiji ignored it as he stretched his arms above his head. He probably should get going soon – he'd promised his mother he'd be back by this evening and he didn't want to get caught in traffic. He probably should have just flown, but every once in a while Heiji enjoyed the long ride to Tokyo on his motorcycle. It gave him time to prepare for whatever sentence or action Shinichi might do on that visit.

His ears perked up when he heard Shinichi ask, "How much did they take?" He turned towards his friend, but Shinichi's back was to him so all he could do was listen to Shinichi's side of the conversation. "I see. Yeah, they're in Siberia right now. Kaa-san went off on another of her dramatic tantrums that Tou-san was cheating on her. I'll let them know about it, don't worry. Thanks for letting me know."

"Everything okay?" Saguru asked, he and Kaito having come earlier after finishing some of their own paperwork for some theft or another and spotting them.

Shinichi turned and seemed annoyed by whatever he'd been told. "Yeah."

Kaito shuffled one of his ever present deck of cards and asked, "What happened?"

Shinichi was dialing another number into his phone as he answered. "Someone broke in and cleaned out one of our bank accounts."

Heiji wondered who was stupid enough to try and rob the Kudo Family when both father and son had a very impressive record of helping solve cases. Not to mention all the money at their disposal to catch whoever did it. With how indebted the police were to the Kudo Family; it wasn't a surprise that word spread quickly and most everyone present had come to help by the time Shinichi got ahold of whoever he was calling.

"Tou-san, did you catch up to Kaa-san yet? She must be really pissed at you this time. I know you didn't, but you know how Kaa-san is. Rome? Why are you in Rome? Kaa-san went to Siberia. Because she told me not to tell you. Tell that to her, not me. Ah, sou, sou. Miyanaka-san called me because he couldn't reach you or Kaa-san. No. No. Yes. I told him. She's your wife, shouldn't you know how to track her down by now?

"He wanted to tell us someone cleaned out our account earlier. No, not that one. Yup. I know. I know. No, I called you first. Because Kaa-san would assume it was a ruse to get her to come back so you can find her. She did last time. If I did then next time she does this she'd drag me with her. It's not a vacation when you leave your son stranded in the middle of nowhere in a foreign country where he doesn't speak the language. Yes. Five times. Why do you think I stopped going with you? Yeah, after I called you. No it wasn't funny. I was in Japan the night before. Yes, that's called kidnapping. I don't care if you are my parents, it's still kidnapping.

"Yes. Yes. Fine, I won't. Megure-keibu isn't in charge of theft. Fine, I'll let him know. Tell Kaa-san to bring me back some coffee beans. Bye."

It was always rather amusing to watch Shinichi talk on the phone with his parents. His facial expressions were more animated than usual and made for quite the show. "Should we be worried about that kidnapping part?" Kaito whispered to him and Saguru.

"At this point I think it's best to ignore it," Saguru whispered back.

Shinichi raised an eyebrow at all the cops that had appeared while he'd been on the phone and asked, "What?"

"We heard someone robbed your family," Sato said, "We're here to help find them. Did this Miyanaka-san have any information about what happened?"

Shinichi waved a hand dismissively. "It's fine. Tou-san said to let them have it and not waste police resources hunting them down since they didn't take that much."

Heiji knew he was going to regret asking, but he couldn't stop himself from asking, "How much did dey take?"

Shinichi was back to flipping through an old case file, no longer interested in the theft. "Just under 300,000,000."

Heiji dropped his head in his hands and heard more than a few people choking on air. "3-3-3-300,000,000?!" Takagi yelled, looking pale. Shinichi nodded absently. "T-That's a lot of money Kudo-kun!"

"Sou? It's the smallest account he had open. I think Kaa-san set it aside for her makeup or something."

Heiji heard almost hysterical laughter from somewhere in the crowd of officers. He sympathized with them. A small part of him had hoped Shinichi's parents had a better grasp on the value of money than their son did. All hopes had been dashed with this conversation and Heiji wanted to beat the value of it into each of their heads.

Slamming his hands onto the desk, he stood up and grabbed the back of Shinichi's collar, dragging him towards the door. "We're findin' da guy who took yer money, den when yer parents get back we're gonna have a long talk 'bout the value of money."

He ignored the protesting from Shinichi and the looks others were giving them as he bodily dragged his friend down to the bank. He heard Megure bark orders for others to help find the money and coordinate with the theft division as they left.

One way or another, Heiji would make this stupid rich family understand that you don't just let someone take 300,000,000 yen from you and brush it off without a care.

Do I think the Kudo Family would normally react this way even if they were crazy rich? No. Does it make for a hilarious story? Yes.