After a long break from writing, I am finally back with my seventh chapter!

Oh, and just in case you're interested, Heiji Hattori is still banging his head on anything solid he can find, trying to figure out what the heck that date was about!


"How is he?" Conan asked as Haibara stepped out of Kaito's room.

Mitsuhiko, Genta, and Ayumi were sitting downstairs in the living room.

"He's fine. He's in bed right now. I just gave him a sleeping pill."

"Hey, can I ask you something Haibara?"

Haibara didn't answer.

"What happened ten years ago?"

She looked down as she bit her lip.

"What happened ten years ago?" Conan repeated.

"There's no need for you to know, Kudo- kun." Her voice rose. Haibara opened her mouth again, paused, shook her head as she turned around, and started down the stairs.

"Wait! Why won't he tell me? How could he not know what happened to himself?"

She ignored him, and continued down the stairs. There's definitely no need for you to know. He himself said that knowing the truth will only hurt you, Kudo- kun.


The next day, Kaito, feeling much better, visited Eri Kisaki. Shiho had, believing that it would be too much for one day, decided not to tell him about Koume Kuriyama, whoever it was.

"Hello Kisaki- sensei," Kaito said, walking into her office.

"Oh hello, Kaito- kun. I wasn't expecting you so early today," Eri asked.

"Sorry, but I just have something to do this evening." Sighing, he sat down on a chair, while Goro leapt up onto his shoulders. "It's already been ten years, and I still can't get over the fact that…" Kaito's voice faltered.

"You mean her being forced to be the test subject?"

Kaito nodded.

"You can't help it Kaito. That's what the organization did."

"But I don't understand why it ended up being me and her," Kaito said.

Eri Kisaki stayed silent for a moment. Then, she looked up. "You said you have something to do this evening. We'd better hurry up."

"Alright," Kaito said, pulling out a syringe, a packaged cloth with disinfectant, and two capped test tubes from his pocket. He proceeded to roll up his left sleeve up over his shoulder. Kaito wiped his shoulder, where the texture of his skin had changed from repeated shots, and poked the needle into his flesh.

"Your arm must be pretty sore, doing this once a month," Eri remarked.

"I've gotten pretty used to it after ten years," Kaito replied. He drew the syringe from his shoulder, and deposited a few drops into one test tube, and put the rest of the blood into the other. "But it's amazing that we've been able to continue this for so long and not have her notice," he said, picking up the two caps and screwing them onto the glass vials.

"Well, it's really thanks to Agasa- hakase, for making that special wristwatch shaped dart- shooter."

Kaito opened his mouth to say that it was pretty much the same thing as what Conan had, but remembered that Kisaki- sensei didn't know about Aniki, and instead told her goodbye as he picked up the half filled (or at least, what Kaito would call "half full")test tube and left the other on the desk.


Meanwhile, Genta, Mitsuhiko, Ayumi, Haibara, and Conan were at the library, doing some research for a group project at school. The five of them were looking through a few books, when Conan suddenly said, "Hey guys. There's something I want to research for a while. I'm pretty sure you guys can do this yourself."

Mitsuhiko eyed him suspiciously. "You're not planning to investigate some new case that you got involved in by yourself are you?"

Conan laughed nervously. "Uh, j-just want to take a look at something, nothing that really concerns the Detective Boys." He jogged off in the direction of the newspaper archives.

Ayumi leaned over, and said, "It still sounds suspicious to me…"

Haibara narrowed her eyes, and told the remaining three that she wanted to ask Edogawa- kun something, and walked off after Conan.


Kaito arrived at the Ekoda station, and pulled out a large manila envelope from inside his custom made jacket after much rummaging through his many specially designed pockets where he kept much of his miscellaneous, obscure things that wouldn't fit into his normal pockets, shoes, sleeves, hood, or couldn't keep strapped to his ankles without anyone noticing. He carefully pulled the test tube out of his interior breast pocket, the place where he kept the most valuable of all the things he carried, and dropped it into the envelope.

He headed over to the coin lockers, and turned to locker number 87. Looking around, Kaito pulled out a simple lock pick from his right shoe, and poked it into the keyhole. He wriggled it around for a few seconds, and tugged at the locker handle. Then, Kaito placed the envelope inside, closed the door, withdrew the lock pick, and stuffed it back into his shoe.

Looking around one last time, Kaito hurried away.


"Edogawa- kun."

Conan, startled, looked up to see Haibara, with a cold, stern look on her face.

"Edogawa- kun, why do you want to know so much about… the incident ten years ago?" she said, eyeing the ten year old news articles.

Conan sighed, and asked, "Why then, does he not want me to know?"

"Because…" Haibara paused for a moment. "Because he knows that there will absolutely be no benefit from you finding out. And you would act recklessly if you found out." There was silence for a few moments. "Kudo- kun," she said. "Please, promise me just this once that you will keep in your curiosity, and…"

Conan shut his eyes. "Alright, I won't look into this any further. But if something happens, then you'd better tell me."


A dark clothed figure lit a cigarette as he watched the seventeen year old magician leave the manila envelope, just like he did every month. The man pulled his cell phone out of his pocket, and dialed his partner's number.

"Yo Aniki. The kid came a little earlier than usual today. Well, it doesn't matter Gin. We got the test blood, so I'll send it in to the lab right away," he said, unlocking the metal box.

"Vodka. Make sure you do not lose that. Even though the observations seem to never change, this is crucial to the research of the 'unfinished detective'."

"Yes Aniki. Hmph, poor kid. Doesn't even know that all of this is going to end up killing everyone around him. Well, he's really got no choice."

"Be careful about this. If he finds out that the accident was a setup…"

"I know Gin. But you really planned it out well, this thing. I mean, we couldn't really trust that Kisaki lawyer, but you did real well in dragging her into this and forcing her to keep her mouth shut," Vodka said, walking out of the train station.

There was the sound of a lighter clicking on the other end. "Hurry up and get that test blood into the labs. Apparently they're going to test a new prototype, and they can't wait to see the blood cell and DNA test results."

"Sure thing Aniki."


"Hello Kaito- kun," a bright, cheery voice said.

"Hi Jodie- sensei," Kaito said, sitting down at the coffee shop table. He chuckled and said, "You know, you need to work on that 'foreign accent' of yours."

Jodie Starling just laughed, and said, "That may be true, but most people's ears aren't as sensitive to different voices as yours are." She pulled out a beige file folder from her bag. "Here are the required papers."

"Thank you, Jodie- sensei." Kaito took the folder and opened it.

"You know, that's really a genius idea, doing all of this to get her name changed legally."

"Well, as long as she is legally identified as 'Shiho Miyano,' I'd have to forge the birth certificates, passport papers, and all that other stuff, but by putting her into the Witness Protection Program temporarily, we can easily get her identity fully changed."

"Well, on the phone you told me that you can take care of the rest after getting the papers."

"Yeah. Everything will be fine. Just have to get you to sign some of the stuff, get it sent in to the FBI, and do the rest of the adoption papers." Kaito straitened out the stack and placed it back carefully into the folder.

"Be sure not to loose that," Jodie- sensei said.

"Don't worry. I'll try and get this paperwork done by next week."


Chris Vineyard stood outside of the Haido City Hotel main entrance. Her long, platinum blonde hair was bunched up underneath her tightly place black hat, and her large pair of sunglasses covered an area of what would be half of her face. The engagement party she had been invited to would be held next week. Well, she wasn't really invited, but she would go there.

Chris sighed, and walked into the hotel lobby. The party would be held on the nineteenth floor.

Perfect. She thought. Chris headed towards the elevators. She looked around, checking that nobody was trying to get on, and entered.

Once inside, she closed the door, and pressed the button for the top floor, 28. At the top, she opened the door, and placed a large piece of packaging tape over the "Open" button. Knowing that there were no surveillance cameras in the elevator, she pushed against the ceiling with her left hand. The square piece of large plastic lifted rather easily. Chris then pulled out a sealed envelope from her pocket.

That Person would kill me if he knew what I was doing, she thought. Chris tossed the aged envelope into the space between the plastic squares and the actual ceiling.

She removed her hand from underneath the smoky plastic, and taking the tape off of the "Open" button, Chris pressed the button labeled "Lobby".

She smiled to herself. She knew that it really was unsafe to be doing this, but she couldn't stand the thought of him being ignorant of it all. Just one more week, she told herself. Just one more week and you'll get to see him again.


"Really, are you totally sure that it's okay to keep this a secret from Kudo- kun?" Shiho asked Kaito on the phone that night.

"Shiho, how many times do I have to tell you. It's best for both her and Aniki that both of them don't know."

"But Kaito…"

He sighed. They weren't fighting, exactly. Shiho and Kaito never did. "Look, I hate it as much as you and Kisaki- sensei do about the fact that I come in contact with the black organization, and that I don't do anything against them, but there's nothing we can do about it while I am their main test subject."

"But if we explained…"

"Shiho, listen. I will not tell either of them about my condition. If I tell him now, he's likely to do something reckless on his own," he said sternly.

"Kaito, I understand that you want to protect him, but he's going to find out sooner or later. If we tell him about it later, it'll only hurt him because we kept it a secret for so long."

"No. I refuse to tell him."

"I'm telling you that it will only hurt him if…"

"You think that it would hurt if someone kept a secret from you? That may be so, but what would hurt even more is if we ended up getting half the town killed for this crime syndicate that's trying to find a way to immortality."

Shiho sighed. "Fine. Right now, I'll try to keep myself from stopping you, but please don't do anything unnecessary, or anything that will hurt anybody."

Kaito shut his eyes for a moment. "Alright. I promise not to do that, for the time being."


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