Hello a quick AN (cause I hate AN)! Sorry I kept you waiting for a pretty long time, I had everything in mind and it was actually complicated to write it down. Also I have a summer job but no excuses there... Your reviews helped me a lot and gave me that little kick of motivation, I don't know yet when I'll upload the next one but in the meantime I hope you'll enjoy that one.

"It was in the middle of the night, I woke up because I simply needed to go to the toilet and I heard steps. I got out of my room, I saw their flashlight, they were checking each room. I guess they were looking for something in particular."

"How many were there?" asked Kogoro.

"Two, I'd say a boy and a girl."

"That's an important detail."

"I tried to catch them but the girl threw her flashlight at me and they ran away." Yusaku lent the flashlight to Kogoro while continuing his story. "Of course I tried to go after them but they were faster than me."

"Did they take anything important or precious?" Eri joined the conversation.

"Nothing, I interrupted them before they had the chance."

Kogoro stood up and put his hands in his pockets 'I see... Well it seems to be a pretty simple case, I'll solve it in no time, in the memory of good old times."

Suddenly Emiko entered the agency "I am with Charlie so if you...", everybody stopped in the room to look at the teenage girl, she froze in a blink looking at Yusaku who couldn't take his eyes off her feeling totally hypnotised. After a few seconds she turned her back on them and got herself ready to escape but Kogoro grabbed her wrist.

"Shibata! Emiko what are you doing?" He tried to hold her back but failed, she ran out passing a blond guy who after a few seconds ran after her.

A moment of silent later, Yukiko coughed before breaking the silence "Wow your granddaughter looks just like Ran" pointed out the woman with an enthusiastic tone.

"She sure does..." Agreed Eri in a sigh

"We need to go after her."

"Don't worry anata, I'm pretty sure that I know where she's going. We will catch her up later." She then turned to her guests "Would you like some tea?"

Yusaku looked like he was about to accept the invitation but at the last second he felt his wife's hand grabbing his wrist. "No thank you, actually we have to go. Make sure to keep us informed!" Yukiko winked as she said this while dragging her husband out and all the way to the car. She didn't say a word until Yusaku sat on the driver's seat, she suddenly asked "Did you see her?"

Yusaku took a few seconds before answering "Mouri-san's granddaughter... Yes I did "he sighed.

"How old do you think she is?"

"Like... I don't know maybe 15 or something."

"Should we tell him?"

Yusaku looked away and sighed. "We'd better not... Not yet."

Emiko continued to run as fast as possible, she couldn't think about directions, the only thing she knew was that she should better stay away from the agency for a little while. Charlie tried to follow the teenager in vain since she was rather fast and knew the place much better than he would ever do. He lost track on her in the middle of the crowd, the timing was definitely wrong, Emiko wasn't really up for it anyway. She finally stopped completely out of breath, the girl rested her hands on her knees trying to catch some air. The British girl looked up around her and noticed that she had almost reached Haido. Just where to go... To think that I've ran away so suddenly the Kudos might think that I lost my mind and my grandparents are probably worried sick. What did I get myself into? She held her head with both hands. What a mess!

Kogoro was perambulating in the house, fuming, grunting and mumbling. He was so disturbed that Eri started to worry for him more than for her dear Emiko. They were interrupted by someone who knocked at the door, Eri was pretty hopefull that it was Emiko who was done with her little walk, disappointment was all over her face as she discovered a foreigner behind the door. Charlie looked pretty embarrassed as he walked in, he lent his hand to the former lawyer and intended to introduce himself "My name is Charlie and I'm..." but he was cut by an annoyed Kogoro who seemed to have lost any sense of English and asked in Japanese who the hell was the British man. Charlie did his best to ignore it and lent his hand towards him "I'm Ran's boyfriend". At these words Kogoro turned pale for a second before pushing the man off his way, still in Japanese he said "I am going to get her" he waved goodbye with his back turned at them. Just like that he left them alone making the situation even weirder as a results Eri couldn't help but sigh.

She started to walk again towards the residential district, from small traditional houses to low apartment complexes she wandered around for about an hour until it finally hit her. All these places looked familiar which was logical since she had already been there, indeed she walked there the night just before. Kioshi! Her steps got faster and her stride got longer as she was nearly running yet again. She put her hand on the wall just under the characters plate and decoded Kioshi's first name at once which was quite an achievement. She looked up at the house, it was a nice modern two floors house with a nice traditional touch.

Emiko stood in front of the doorbell, she hesitated for a few minutes till her fingers pushed the button before her eyes. She instantly got an answer from what sounded like an angry young Japanese woman, on the other hand the British girl gabbled some excuses while scratching the back of her head. Weirdly enough right after she introduced herself she heard the door unlocking automatically, she walked in a bit unsure of what happened. A tornado girl grabbed her wrist, dragged her in the living room where some tea had just been prepared. The Japanese girl looked to be around 20, she looked really excited to see Emiko who started to wonder what this girl knew about her.

"Errrm sorry, I wanted to see Kioshi. Is he there?" she asked pointing at the stairs

"Forget about him, tell me about you instead I want to know everything!" The girl was really enthusiastic as she lent her a cup of tea with a wide smile.

Emiko froze there, embarrassed, she had no other choice than taking the cup. Still the teenager had no idea of what to answer and no idea of how to act either. The only sound she could produce was a "Errrm". Then the sound of a door getting opened and closed or rather smashed was heard from upstairs, quickly followed by heavy steps.

"Oy Ayumi! What are you making a fuss about? Geez I am trying to focus here!" shouted the very much annoyed Kioshi. When he spotted the girl sitting next to his sister he almost tripped on one of the stairs. "What is she doing here?" He questioned a bit panicked while pointing at Emiko.

Although she didn't understand everything he said she could tell that her timing was off again. "Gomene" she looked away while scratching the back of her head. Before she could turn her head back she suddenly felt her sleeve being pulled. Kioshi was indeed offering the escape she had wished for, he took her to his room away from his too talkative sister.

The Japanese boy directly threw himself on his bed, resting his head on his crossed arms, he watched his friend going in his room. Emiko wandered in the room for a few minutes exactly like Kioshi did the first time he came over to help her with the homework. The walls were navy blue, the decoration was minimalist that was if a back view in action poster of the Tokyo spirits number 10 could be considered as decoration. A simple desk, a chair, a bed, a few book shelves full of mangas and that was it. How boyish is that... She turned back to him and noticed that his eyes had been on her for a while, she nearly forgot what she wanted to tell him in the first place.

"What were you so busy with before I got here?"

"Huh?"

"Didn't you just said that you were trying to focus or something?"

"Your Japanese is truly improving. Well I was trying to prepare for the math exam..."

"Damn it! Damn it!" She swore as she repeatedly hit herself though it wasn't exactly what concerned her the most.

Emiko pushed his knees slightly towards the wall and he made room for her on the bed. "Kioshi about yesterday..." Emiko started not looking at her friend, on the other end of the bed Kioshi sat up straight quietly waiting for her to continue. She was a bit lost in her thoughts, the words were hard to find, she put her right hand to her forehead and sighed while passing it in her hair. Damn it...

The boy sat closer and after hesitating a while he put his hand on her shoulder stroking it gently which she didn't really notice at first. "What's going on?" he asked swiftly.

"The man from yesterday, it was my grandfather, I mean it's the father of Shinichi and... He hired my grandfather, Kogoro Mouri to find who broke in his house."

At this moment Kioshi turned pale as he realized how far they were into trouble, the second after that his heart raced as she huddled against his chest, out of instinct he responded holding her tightly in that position. "My life is such a mess."

"You'll be alright Emiko and besides that I'm here" He kissed the top of her head without even realizing it. Oups...

Emiko instantly broke the embrace, her eyes were still red from the tears that dropped, the girl tried to dry them with her hands. "Kioshi, there's something I don't understand... Why were you following me last night?" She looked up at him directly in his eyes.

"Well I-I was kind of worried..." Started Kioshi a bit intimidated

She interrupted him "Ok following your friend at night is a thing but breaking in a house that's completely different. Why did you do that?"

He grabbed her hand "It's because I care... I care about you Emiko." As if they had switched places Emiko was the intimidated one, as Kioshi moved his hand to her cheek she felt herself paralyzed. Slowly he bent down and tilted his head moving closer than ever.

"Hey where are you going? I've never said you could go in!" Ayumi's voice came from downstairs, right after it a couple of heavy steps in the stairs were heard. Kogoro entered the boy's room in a split second and stopped on the doorstep with the knob still in his hand. "Give it more distance young people!" The teenagers jumped off the bed and stood like stone statues both looking at their feet. Kogoro grabbed his granddaughter wrist and took her away sending death glares to Kioshi. In a blink the British girl was taken away from her friend's arms to her grandfather's car, Kioshi could only watch them go.

Once they arrived at the agency, Emiko was surprised to see that Kogoro wasn't taking her to his study to give her the lecture of a lifetime, no instead they sat at a table in the Café Poirot and ordered coffee. The detective tried to look at her in the eyes but she would always find some other place to look at. "Emiko if you think that we will not have this conversation just because you are not looking then you are wrong." She complied so he could go on "Charlie is up at the agency I don't really want him to hear it and that's why I brought you here. I know that it was you and this boy who broke in the Kudos mansion, also I know what you were looking for. I beg you Emiko stop looking for Shinichi Kudo, you will not find him there and you will not find him anywhere else. He is dead."

Emiko's heart stopped in shock. Did he just said that my father was dead? "I don't understand... What happened?"

"I don't know..." He sighed, earning some time to think. "When your mother left I did not know that she was pregnant, I just thought that something had happen between Ran and Shinichi making her leave. I wanted him to bring her back, I searched months and I never found him."

"No it can't be true, there's no way it can be true, no way! You're a detective, you should have proof right?" Emiko felt a mix of pain and anger taking over her body.

"It wasn't me it was the police... They found a huge amount of his blood in a drug hideout along with his burned belongings. The forensics said no one could have survived such a blood loss. I assume that he stuck his nose into the wrong person's business. I am sorry Emiko..." He put his hand over her fist trying to ease her. "But whether or not he is your father I don't know."

The Mouri detective agency, it hasn't changed much... Conan was walking in the street of his childhood and decided to pass by the agency. Lately the thought of her had come back, regrets torturing him, he couldn't remember when these thoughts entered his mind. Was it before Ai mentioned her name? Anyway he was standing on the opposite sidewalk, looking at the building. Ai is right... What if she comes back? What would I do? What would that change? He took off his legendary glasses to clean it. If I were Shinichi things would be different, right? He was interrupted in his thought by a couple of kids who wanted to take a picture with him, he gently put his glasses in jacket pocket knowing that most people knows his non glasses face and posed. Always smile for the camera. Before leaving the kids thanked him and said perfectly synchronized "Do your best!" he watched them go with a grin on his face. Doing my best, I just hope that's enough. Conan hadn't shaved for a few days which made him look just a bit older than what he officially was, also his hair had grown longer and he was even more in shape than in his before life which was the consequences of his new occupation. The former detective checked his phone but Ai still had not answered any of his texts, he didn't even notice the furious Emiko rushing through the people to get in the agency.

The girl ran in the stairs and directly headed to her room not giving a chance to Eri or Charlie to see her. She smashed, closed, locked and blocked the door with a chair. I'm staying here! Her face was totally red and wet from the tears, anger and extreme sadness were blending in her heart, she would have wanted to kick something and break it to tiny pieces. However she also felt empty, the girl instead let herself fall on the bed and cried all her tears and she ended up falling asleep there exhausted.