It turned Mouri needed to talk to someone about the crime problem in the city. It was just a local cop who ran the beat. The whole ordeal wasn't too exciting. The meeting took place in the conference of a random hotel. Luckily, the trio had run off to the right one. Mouri forced the two kids out of the room while he and the big people discussed business.

Conan was slightly irritated by this, but gradually shook it off. What the detective was doing wasn't entirely that exciting anyway. Ran and he were not sitting in the lobby idly with absolutely nothing to do. So with that thought, Conan resigned himself to people watching.

Conan surveyed all the people that happened to wander into the hotel. It was somewhat interesting. While Conan did this, Ran managed to find a magazine to entertain herself with. Time ticked away considerably slowly. Conan didn't think that detective Mouri would have to take this much time to talk to someone. It was almost 10 at night now.

A fairly large family walked into the building now. They appeared American in looks. They were slightly larger and taller than everyone else around them. Some baggages were the likes of two adolescent children that appeared to fighting each other excessively. The mother in this situation seemed to try to alleviate the situation, but was failing. The father began yelling at them as he attempted to check-in. mesmerizing… Conan said sarcastically in his mind.

In and out of the hotel, the people went. There were fat ones. There were skinny ones. There were ones that just fit right in-between. Being a hotel it also hosted a place for several different nationalities, like that possibly British guy Conan saw in the donut shop whom was currently passing right by him.

Wait…

Conan did a double take as he looked for the man that just crossed his path. There he was. It was the might be British man form the donut shop. That was a rather odd coincidence. Conan jotted this information down in his mind's inner-notebook. Who knew? The information might prove to be useful in the future.

More time passed by and Conan was becoming impatient. He decided that he should check up on Mouri, just to make sure he wasn't making too much of a fool of himself. Conan informed Ran that he'd be right back and then was off.

Conan made his way through the hall to the conference. Suddenly he stopped and stepped back behind the corner. He peeked his head to eye the elevator. The other suspicious man from earlier seemed to also be in this hotel. It was that Yagami fellow with that other man. Hmmm…

Conan stood in his spot and watched as every few minutes a pair of men would stop and get on the elevator. This was very very odd. Finally Conan decided he ought to be close enough to see what was up. When another pair of suspicious men came to the elevator he walked up with them. They were startled, but then tried to play it off cool. Conan wasn't fooled, but let them have the satisfaction they didn't slip up.

Conan noticed that the two had already selected the 12th floor. The tiny detective pushed the 5th floor button to keep appearances. However, it seemed that with him also on the elevator it was no good. The two men got off and left Conan alone as the doors shut. Conan suspected that they didn't want him to see where they were going. Too bad they already selected the floor…

Conan smirked triumphantly as he left the elevator pass the 5th and continue its way up. He would get to the bottom of this strange behavior. The elevator stopped at the 12th floor and Conan got off. He noticed that at the other end of the hall were a fairly decent sized group of men waiting outside a hotel door. Yagami was among them.

So that he would not be seen, Conan hid himself in the emergency staircase. Luckily, none of the men noticed him as the chatted quietly to each other. Conan heard the distinct ding of the elevator and watched as the men from his first attempt of an elevator ride, walked out and headed to the other men.

Yagami seemingly the leader of group took charge by knocking on the door. Conan strained to see through the tiny window on the door of the emergency staircases. He stood on his tip-toes and tried his best not to accidentally push the door open. He watched the group of men make their way into the room and the hotel door close shut. This was Conan's chance.

Conan quickly stepped through the hallway till he was in front of the door where the others had gone inside. He felt safe knowing that wouldn't be able to see him through the key-hole because of his short stature. Conan leaned his door against the ear so he could listen in. The sound was muffled at first, but then he heard something that threw him completely off.

"I am L?" he whispered to himself. Had he heard that right? Was it even possible? If this was true then Conan had possibly discovered the most interesting thing he could on this night. Conan continued to listen in as the group of men, apparently officers, each announced their names. Eventually the voices got quiet. Conan assumed they'd moved to another part of the hotel room.

Suddenly Conan heard footsteps heading to the door. In a panic Conan shot down the hallway and hid once more behind the door of the emergency stairs. He watched intently as the English man from the donut shop walked out of the same hotel room and shut the door.

They were working together!

This was almost too much for Conan to handle. He needed to think about all he'd just learn and possibly come back to this hotel on his own. Conan took this opportunity to walk down two flights of stairs and then get on the elevator. He would be less suspicious this way.

When Conan reached the Lobby again an angry Mouri was waiting for him. Ran seemed a bit concerned. Conan wondered how long he had been gone. He was certain Mouri tell him though. The man's face was so red in anger it was turning a slight purplish-tinge.

"WHERE WERE YOU!!?!??!"

WOOO! Over 1,000 words. I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter and I hope you got over your writer's block Mounkey. Till next time, this is James! Signing off.