Hi again! Welcome to chapter four where everything gets even more heated…well in the case that is~! Will they find Ran? Will there be more victims? Will we ever find out who killed those three poor nameless people?

Well we'll see!

Disclaimer: This story has been inspired by Dragon-sama's chatty punnies. I do not own Detective Conan or Magical Kaito. Ran probably would be in a mental hospital if I did…heh.

Warnings: More victims, gore. The norm.

-(Chapter Start)-

Aquarium Switch

Chapter Four

In the Shadows (Part Two)

-(Police Headquarters; Noon)-

Hattori was actually surprised by the police force for once. Not only did they have suspects from nearly nothing, they did it without Kudou's help. He looked over the three case files that were in front of him. According to Megure, these were the only people that fit the profile of the murder and was registered under the 'Kudou Shinichi' fan club. He still couldn't believe that Kudou had a fan club, he never said anything to him. He bet that that guy didn't even know of the existence of an actual fan club. It was ligit! Had a login on line and everything! He briefly wondered if he had one. Note to self: get online and look it up! Then join Kudou's club too; it apparently has tons of info… He smirked as he opened the first file:

It had a picture of a middle aged male, with dark hair and green/brown eyes. The man in the picture was wearing a doctor's uniform.

Name: Ichigo Higurashi

Sex: Male

Age: 41

Occupation: Surgeon at Belika Memorial Hospital

Background Information:

Father was a former General in the Secret Services.

-Was a part of the bomb division as well

Pyromaniac tendencies as a teenager

Great knowledge of bomb assembling

Seems interested in Kudou's intelligence demonstrated at crime scenes

Hattori opened the next file and looked through it. He picked up the picture of an attractive middle-aged female with bright red hair and dark blue eyes. Though she was attractive, she had a mean look to her as she stared at the camera. This picture was a mug shot obviously for some form of assault. He looked down at the information that was located in the manila folder.

Name: Kagome Tetra

Sex: Female

Age: 35

Occupation: Ex-Military; Bomb's division. Currently a Freelance writer

Background Information:

Discharged dishonorable for assault among peers and superior officers.

Has been arrested several times for assaults at bars and other store customers.

Bloged the most on the Kudou Shinichi Fan service site

-Mostly commenting the uselessness of the police force around Kudou

Hattori pressed his lips together to keep himself from chuckling in the precinct around the other officers. The lady did have a point. He was kind of surprised that such a violent female was a fan of Kudou's. He closed the folder and opened the last one on the table. This time it was a picture of a meek young male with black hair and brown eyes. He seemed to be smiling nervously at the camera. He had an officer's uniform on.

Name: Kazuya Koroshi

Sex: Male

Age: 24

Occupation: Bomb Squad officer, Division 1.

Background Information:

Oldest registered member of the fan club

According to blogs, he idolized Kudou since the boy helped out with a case involving the bomb squid and District 5

Father was a known firefighter

He looked over at Megure and waved him over. "So why is this guy a suspect? There's nothing here like the other two." Megure looked over the file and nodded, "yeah, I know the boy too, but he is one of the few that have bomb experiences among the many officers that is registered on the fan club. He is also one of the only among Division 1 that is on that fan site." Hattori looked through the notes again, the killer could possibly be one of the three that had Neechan. He barely noticed as someone entered the building to caught up in his thoughts and possible theories.

"Inspector Megure. May I have a minute?" A polite voice said trying to get the older detective's notice. The older man turned to talk to the blonde teenager who stood there and introduced himself as Hakuba Saguru. His father was an inspector as well it seemed, Megure gave a bright smile. "I see, your another one of Kudou-kun's friends. So, Have you heard about Ran-kun then?" The blonde boy looked surprised then instantly put things together.

"Was she a victim?" He answered back.

"Oh, No. We'll find her before that, I promise. It seems that the killer might have taken Ran-kun sometime late last night on her way home from the local 24 hour grocery store. There was also another victim in the area that Ran-kun had disappeared from."

"Inspector would you mind if I joined in on the investigation?" He watched as the inspector frowned briefly then sigh. "Might as well, I'm trying my best to keep Kudou out of the case, but as you see, Hattori-kun is already here looking through the cases." Hakuba felt like twitching that hot-blooded useless detective was here as well it seemed. "Yes, I know Hattori-san, I find him rather reckless when it comes to cases, Inspector, I'll be glad to keep him in line for you." That seemed to cheer up the inspector at his reassurance. "Thank you, Hakuba-kun, I trust that you'll keep as much as possible away from Kudou-kun?"

"Yes, sir." Hakuba smirked and went over to the table that Hattori was sitting at, to busy to bother with the blonde teen. "Hattori-san." He greeted stiffly as the darker teen finally looked up at him. "Oh great it's ya." Hattori hissed as he spotted the overly dressed blonde teen that was glaring down at him and then reluctantly sat next to him. "Does your keepers know you're here?"

Hattori laughed sarcastically at Hakuba. "Very funny. For ya's information; Kudou had stormed out and left me here."

"Kuroba asked me to help. He's worried about Kudou-kun. That and I was interested in the case when it first landed in Kuroba's lap. It's just a shame that I have to work with someone as careless as you."

Hattori almost growled at the other teen as the Megure rushed by again. "There's been another body!" He shouted towards Satou and Takagi. Both teens stood up quickly and followed the adults out of the building.

-(Mid-afternoon; Intersection between 4th and 5th street.)-

Shinichi ran fingers through his hair, a headache forming in the front of his head. Kaito was busy looking around and asking questions as Shinichi circled the scene like a vulture looking for it's next meal. Even though the scene was perfectly clean and the street was running normally now; maybe…just maybe there could be a message left for him. Something that he could grab on to find his childhood friend. It didn't help with the eyes of the police officers boring into his back as they watched him. They've been following him since this morning when he left his house to talk to Megure. He knew the older man only wanted to protect him as a friend or uncle, but he still felt bitter about being pushed away from the case. Especially since Ran was in danger because of him. He sighed rather loudly as he crouched down near the street and spaced out in thought.

Kaito looked over at Shinichi at the sigh and stretched. Detective work was defiantly not for him. Too much walking around and asking questions. Not enough body work so to speak. He looked over at the alley that was close by and connected to another street, the same street that police thought that Ran was abducted from. They were so close to where she was kidnapped. So close. He walked into the alley, leaving the spaced out Shinichi near the street, he looked around as he entered the alley. He noticed something by the edge of the wall.

-( Unknown )-

The shadow looked through the window watching it's victims talk to each other, both women both scared the seeking comfort from each other. They were chained to the wall in the basement of an wear down warehouse. It was so luck it found this place. It had brought great cheer, it was like from a classic horror movie. Like Saw or something. It sent shivers of pleasure at the thought of bring Kudou here. Trapping the oh so great detective to it's will.

Speaking of the Detective, It should get back to watching him, after all it just left another present for him. It really hoped that Kudou would appreciate all the hard work it did for him. After all it took a lot of time to come up with the bomb designs and surgery to insert the bomb into the body. Almost a year of planning went into these artistic murders that were just for Kudou…though others were invading into this case. Oh well, It could work around those pests. It could even get theses pests to be a part of the act.

Oh the fun It could have!

Better yet! They were all 'friends' with It's Shinichi! It couldn't wait for part two to start!

-(Back with Shinichi and Kaito)-

Shinichi looked up when he noticed that Kaito was no longer behind him. "Kaito?" He called out and looked around for the spunky teen. He eyed the 'hidden' detectives before walking towards the alley that he saw Kaito was looking around at. "Kaito, come on. What are you doing?" He spied the other teen hanging upside down on the fire escape looking at the wall very intently. He watched as the other tilts his head then flips over back onto the ground. "The murder was here, watching the police before he took Ran...well I think so…hheh.." Kaito scratched the back of his head. Shinichi looked at the wall and spotted fresh scratch marks. "I think your right." Shinichi smiled and hugged Kaito. "God, now I know why I love you!" Kaito gave a great big smile; quite proud of himself as Shinichi hugged him happily. "But I wonder if he left them here to say that he's watching everything."

The scratch marks looked like they were made by some sort of ID badge. Though it wasn't much, at least it was more then they had before. He just had to meet up with Hattori latter and see what the police had. Megure was an idiot for thinking that anyone could prevent him from solving this case. Though it was a 'nice' attempt to keep him 'safe'. He wasn't going to be feeling any safer until everyone was home where they belong. He looked over to Kaito and gave him a confident smirk.

-(Ran; Basement of some warehouse)-

Her blinked her eyes open to the dingy sight of moist brick wall; her mouth felt like it was filled with cotton as she moved her tounge around before taking in a deep breathe. She felt slightly nausous and a headache that was pounding in her temples.

"Shh…don't move to fast." A kind elderly voice said softly. Ran looked over as her vision cleared to see an elderly woman and slightly younger man both chained up against the wall. She tried to move her arms and found her in the same postion as the other two. They looked dirty, but only a little banged up. "What's happening?" Panic now filling her senses as the picture finally came to focus in her mind.

"That man has been keeping us here for a while now. Every once in a while he'll take someone and they don't come back." The man said in a harsh voice as if he hadn't had much to drink in a while. " That monster barely registers that we're human." He started coughing as if talking hurt. The elderly woman looked at the other with worried eyes. "Dearly, do you know what's going on at all? Out there I mean. I've been down in this hole for so long."

It seemed that they talked to keep their minds off of the fact that they were stuck in this horrible place, so she told them of recent news and about her life, but at the mention of her friend Kudou Shinichi; the two froze and stared.

"You know The Kudou Shinichi!" The elderly woman said excitedly. The elderly woman then went on and talked about the fan club that both her and the male was joined in together.

"Shinichi has a fan club? Well I knew he had one at school, I didn't know he had one online." Ran said; finally calming down and smiling wearily. Her stomach ached but she really didn't want to think of when she last ate.

"Oh, yes. There is over 20,000 members! Most are officers from different locations in Japan. We all make a pact to put up any pictures we manage to get; and facts of cases that he does. Things like that."

That's kinda creepy…I wonder if Shinichi knows about this…Ran nodded as the woman continued to talk about it and that there were even pictures that you could post. Ran was really starting to wonder if she could talk Shinichi out of being a detective. It seemed that Detectives get weirder fans than Kaitou Kid even did. She looked around, nodding her head every once and awhile to let the other woman know that she was listening. She spotted a window at the top of room that they were trapped in. It was tinted like a two-way mirror. "Hey…You think he watches us?" She asked and the elderly woman stopped talking.

"Yeah…If we say something bad about Kudou-chan, he comes and takes you away." She said sadly. Ran looked at the depressed look that now crossed both of their faces and she tried to smile brightly for the two others.

"Don't worry! I'm sure that Shinichi will come and rescue us!" I hope…She thought to herself as she continued to glare up at the glass. "So what are your names? I'm Mouri Ran!"

The elderly woman smiled meekly, "I'm Shigori Kekio"

The man licked his lips and then answered. "Bien Hiro"

-(Chapter End)-

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