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Word count: 1,822
Chapter 7
- Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense -
I tell you with this little rhyme,
Give me your golden heart at the twelfth chime.
When the bird flies away on white wings,
The invisible orbs will twinkle as he brings
The beauty of the world to its sight.
I'll be waiting for you tonight.
(KID doodle)
Rubbing his temples, Nakamori-keibu listened to the nervous officer give a report on their analysis of the heist note. The time wasn't that hard, nor was the date. KID would host his heist tonight at midnight. The only problem was the target. It was obvious that the target was the 'golden heart,' but there was no gem displayed in Japan with any connection to that name. On top of that, they also had no idea what the third, fourth, and fifth sentences meant.
Shinichi watched with his hands over his ears as the keibu started scolding the officer on their lousy progress and how it was bad for their reputation—which was already horrible. He sighed. He—unlike the task force—understood a little about the three sentences. The bird on white wings obviously referred to Kaitou KID himself and the invisible orbs were probably supposed to be Shinichi's eyes. The fifth sentence was the only thing he couldn't figure out, though he could guess that KID was going to do something during their rooftop meeting.
Maybe KID wanted to cheer him up, since he had walked away last time with a sad reply… He probably shouldn't have said that he hated stars. It was just that he really did. After all, it was the cause of all his current sorrow.
Smiling, he banished the thoughts from his head. He would get the answer tonight, so it was no use thinking about it now. It would be better if he spent time figuring out how to tell Nakamori-keibu what the target was so they could prepare for the heist. A folder or picture would be useful, but he didn't see any on the keibu's desk…
If he could get Nakamori-keibu out of his office, then he might be able to write a note explaining it. Leaning comfortably against the wall, Shinichi watched as the man drove the officer out of the room. Shutting the door with a bang and a harsh 'don't you dare come back before you find something useful!', he strode back to the desk where he sat down in the chair. A tired sigh escaped his lips.
"There has to be a way to capture that guy…" the man muttered, and for a second, Shinichi felt sorry for him. It probably wasn't easy to chase a phantom—or at least a phantom-like human—without success for so many years. Then he remembered the eight years that he had spent obsessively waiting for KID to reappear and the fact that he still wasn't any closer while Shinichi already knew so much after only following the thief for a little while—yeah, he kind of cheated, but come on! Someone should've noticed the shootings! Besides, falling for a dummy every heist was just…
Shaking his head slightly, he focused on the task at hand. How could he get Nakamori out of his office? Maybe he could act like the Phantom of Justice in order to give him the answer. Walking to the door, he looked at it and calculated the distance from it to the desk. It would take five seconds, meaning it would take ten seconds for the keibu to walk to the door and back to the desk. If he opened the door for no reason, Nakamori-keibu would definitely want to see who it was, so he would look outside, giving him another five to ten seconds. He just hoped that would be enough for him to write an explanation. He could probably write a note in ten seconds.
That would do it.
Putting his ear to the door, he tried to hear if there was someone walking in the corridor outside. If he did that… He waited until he heard a pair of shoes walking through the corridor. It was a five minute wait, but when those minutes finally passed and the clicks of high heels could be heard in the corridor, he took a step back. Taking a deep breath, he readied himself before kicking the door open with as much force as possible. Looking back on it, it might have been a little too much since the poor piece of wood slammed against the wall with a loud bang and was almost thrown off its hinges.
"What the—!" Nakamori jumped at the sound and stared at the open door for a second before taking off and looking for the perpetrator. Shinichi ran towards the desk and sat down in the chair. He grabbed a post-it note from the stack next to a pencil box. He scribbled out a note with a stray marker explaining his deduction, all the while watching the door. Not a second after he put the marker back and jumped off the chair did Nakamori-keibu return to the room, shouting at the unfortunate woman outside and grumbling about weird doors opening all of a sudden.
Shinichi walked back to the spot where he'd been before, adopting the same comfortable pose as he watched the man sit down in his chair. Eyes widened as they looked at the memo lying on top of his desk. Snatching the memo quickly, Nakamori-keibu frantically read it again and again. "Mamoto-kun! Get here right now! Search for any information you can find about the Sunset Diamond!" Smiling, Shinichi walked away, knowing that everything would be alright.
Good luck, keibu.
XxX
Sighing, Kaito let his hand fall down from holding the Sunset Diamond up to the moon to see if it was Pandora. It wasn't. He took a look around the roof. Shinichi didn't seem to be here yet; he didn't notice his presence or his eyes burning into his back. Should he wait? Usually he was always on the roof before Kaito himself. He'd probably just waited there every time instead of chasing him at the heist.
It wasn't like he wasn't going to come. Otherwise, he wouldn't' have helped Nakamori-keibu, right? Kaito thought back to earlier events that night.
"But Aoko! I have to go now to prepare for KID's heist!" Kaito couldn't help but laugh at Nakamori-keibu's whining as he walked into the house. Toning down his grin, he headed for the kitchen where he could now hear Aoko scolding her dad.
"You have to eat! You can't work on an empty stomach! It won't help if you faint in the middle of the heist." The father grumbled something in response, but it was too soft for the magician to hear.
"Yo, Aoko! Guess you're not ready to go yet." Kaito grinned as he walked inside the kitchen. Nakamori was eating the food Aoko had made for him, sulking like a little child. Aoko turned around at the sound of his voice. Smiling apologetically, she shook her head.
"Actually I am, but Dad wanted to go without eating, so I had to stay here and make him." She said the last part with a glare towards her father, who slumped further in his seat, but didn't stop eating. Only a poker face kept Kaito from laughing at the scene. He smiled at his childhood friend as she kept glaring.
He remembered the fight they had had a few weeks ago. Luckily, they'd been able to talk it out. Aoko had told him that yes, she would take his warning in mind if the magician agreed not to act so overprotective and at least meet her boyfriend before making assumptions. He still hadn't met him, since he had skillfully avoided him. Why? He didn't exactly know. Maybe because he still kind of liked Aoko or maybe because he was a little bit ashamed of his behavior towards her.
"So, Nakamori-keibu," Kaito said conversationally, "pretty smart of you to figure out such a difficult heist note, and without help! I heard you didn't even contact Hakuba." Kaito said, grinning. The man stilled, looking at his food with a frown. The two teenagers looked at him confusedly as one of his hands disappeared in his pocket.
"Actually…I didn't. Listen…this might sound weird, but you've got to believe me." The two childhood friends looked at each other then back at the keibu, nodding. "See, I was in my office trying to figure out the note when suddenly the door slammed open. I went to see who did it, but the police officer walking through the hallway at the time said that she hadn't seen anyone. When I came back, this lay on my desk." The keibu handed them a yellow memo. Kaito looked at it.
Golden heart = sun = heart of solar system = golden during sunset = Sunset Diamond.
It was a simple and quickly written note, but the message was clear. "I have no idea who or what it was, but that was how I knew the answer."
Looking over the rooftop again, Kaito sighed. It was still empty. There could've only been one explanation; Shinichi had been the one to leave the note. No one else could be smart enough to decipher that note—possibly excluding Hakuba—and no one would have been able to give the answer without being seen. Kaito had suggested the idea that the Phantom of Justice had done it. Nakamori had nodded noncommittally to that. "Maybe," he had said.
Kaito knew it wasn't maybe. It had been Shinichi, so why wasn't he here? Why wasn't he at the heist? Why wasn't he showing himself if he went through all of the trouble of helping Nakamori-keibu? He looked down at the cheers coming from the crowd as a large smoke bomb erupted inside the building. They probably thought he was still playing with the task force.
Suddenly, he was pushed onto the ground, but as he looked up at the perpetrator, drops of a warm liquid landed on his face. Staring in shock at the empty air above him, he heard something that sounded like a soft thud before the sound of a gun firing reached his ears. Reflexively, he spun around, narrowly avoiding a bullet that would have pierced his chest. Running as quickly as he could, he cleared the distance between himself and the other side of the roof, bullets imbedding themselves where his feet had been only a moment ago. Jumping off the roof, he just barely managed to grab his top hat as the force of a bullet knocked it off his head.
What had happened? Why had he suddenly been pushed onto the ground? He hadn't seen anyone! Looking down at himself, his breath caught in his throat.
Blood had been sprayed all over him.
Hey everyone ^^ I guess I've got to apologise, right? Sorry about not uploading anything last week -.- I have holidays right now, so I'm lazy as hell and my beta-reader was being bugged by school... bad school, very bad school... Anyway, I'll be away tomorrow, so I won't have time to upload the next chapter. You can expect the next chapter next week on wednesday ^^
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