Rum and the Rats: Episode three
The last school bell rang; the class suddenly became noisy with kids chattering or packing their things up getting ready to leave. The detective boys walked together, as always, talking about cases they've heard. Conan and Haibara walked behind.
"Spit it out." Haibara suddenly said.
"Huh?" Conan looked at her with a confused expression.
"What is it? The thing you want to ask."
"Ah nothing…" Conan whispered. Haibara gave him an irritated look, then Conan gave in, after all he was really curious about Rum.
"Have you ever heard of a member called Rum?" Conan asked. Haibara hummed softly.
"Really!" Conan semi shouted, the detective boys looked a him in surprise.
"What happened?" Ayumi asked.
"Another case?" Genta questioned
"Ah… no its nothing." Conan said while laughing sheepishly. The boys gave him 'we know there is something.' Look but then ignored him knowing that he won't tell them what is happening. He looked at Haibara again. "So tell me… what so know about him."
"He is the boss's right hand." Haiabara said calmly, Conan looked at her in shock.
"What else?" Conan asked again
"How did you know about him?" Haibara answered with a question.
"Kir sent a message to the FBI with three letters RUM." Conan explained.
"That's all?"
"Yes." He lied. Haibara hummed "Eavesdropping on the FBI I see?"
"Ah well…"
"You should stop being curious Kudo-kun." Haibara said seriously. Conan looked at her lazily, he hated it when she under estimates him. Like how many times does he need to prove he is totally capable of handling the organization, of corse with his allies help.
"Don't worry nothing is going to happen."
"Let me make this clear to you, kudo-kun… you are being way to curious."
"How many time are you going to say this, you said that when I asked you about the boss's number and nothing happened."
"Nothing happened doesn't mean that nothing is going to happen." With that Haiabara started moving faster passing the detective boys. They looked at each other then looked back at Conan who was violently scratching his scalp.
"They are fighting again." Ayumi whispered, the boys nodded glaring at Conan. Conan felt it, he looked at them "What! I didn't do anything!"
"Conan-kun!" Mitsuhiko shouted.
And as always Conan was the one to blame when Haibara gets moody.
Back at Mouri's residence the high school students were studying together. Sonoko laid her back on the floor and started complaining "Is it break time?"
"Mu Sonoko we just started." Ran said looking at her friend with annoyance.
"No we started at 2 now it's 3 o'clock!" Sonoko said
"We have midterms Sonoko-san, we wasted enough time, for once cant you be serious about your studies? No wonder your having a hard time getting high grades." Sera said
"Yah!" Sonoko shouted at Sera, Ran started cooling things between the girls then looked at Hiro apologetically. Hiro looked at her with a reassured smile that it was ok then his eyes started wondering around.
"Why don't we eat something, I'm getting hungry." Sera said
"That's a great idea!" Sonoko agreed, Ran and Hiro sweat dropped seeing the two teens on the same page when they were fighting moments ago. Sonoko dialed a number after agreeing on what to eat. Hiro's eyes started wondering again until it got fixed on a picture of two teens. Sonoko saw where his eyes were then smirked. As soon as Sonoko finished ordering she took a seat next to Hiro and said loudly "That's Ran's husband."
Ran looked at her best friend in disbelief "SONOKO!"
"And if you are wondering where he is now, he is busy solving complicated cases in the united states leaving his poor fiancé alone."
"MU SONOKO THAT'S ENOUGH." Ran shouted. The three teenagers blinked rapidly at Rans sudden out-burst, when Ran cooled down Sonoko apologized.
'I see.' Hiro thought.
"Ran-neechan I'm back."
"Conan-kun!" Ran said smilingly "Come here I want you to meet someone." Conan walked to Ran's room. He saw one unfamiliar figure, a young man with grayish-brown hair. Suddenly Conan felt electric shock hitting his body, he completely froze at the thought he had. ' Is that the boss's right hand?'
"Conan that's Hiro-san, Hiro-san that's the kid living with us."
"N n nn ice t eet y y ou." Hiro stuttered.
'Huh?' Conan looked at him blankly.
"Oi, Conan that's rude!" Ran scolded
"Ah! Nice to meet you too I'm Conan Edogawa." Conan introduced himself with the most childish voice.
"Conan!" Sera threw her arms around him giving him a tight hug,"
"Ah Sera-neechan I can't breathe." Conan yelped
"Ah gomen gomen Conan." Sera apologized.
"Yah brat did you eat?" Sonoko questioned the short boy.
"Ah yeah I ate at Hakase's." Conan answered
"Ah I see dinner at your girlfriend's house." Sonoko started teasing again. Conan looked at her annoyingly, he was about to ignore her but then Sera started throwing questions on him.
"Eh Haibara-san and Conan are dating? Aren't they young for this?" Sera asked in shock.
"My Sera-san you should know by now what Sonoko is, they aren't dating am I right Conan?" Ran looked at Conan. Conan nodded his head slightly.
" akase?" Hiro questioned.
"Yeah, he is Shinichi-kun's neighbor, we know him since we were little." Sonoko explained.
"Ahh…"
Conan wasn't really comfortable with that guy called Hiro. He can't help but suspect him. Conan that day stayed with at Ran's room observing Hiro. At ten everyone closed their books and started making their leave. Sera left earlier that day to her hotel therefore Hiro and Sonoko were left alone.
"W ww ich ww w way?" Hiro questioned Sonoko
"Ah no, I don't go walking to my house; I have a driver."
"Ah!"
"You can go." Sonoko said
"N n no." Hiro rejected. "I its late."
Sonoko would be lying if her heart didn't flutter. 'This boy really got charms..' Sonoko thought.
"Okay then." Sonoko finally said
"Is K K Kudo S Shinichi r r eally smart?" Hiro finally asked.
Sonoko let a smile and nodded. "He is, he is a Sherlock Holmes freak after all… do you believe even on his dates with Ran he's be talking about him."
"W w whe the ll l ast time you met him?" Hiro asked again
"Hmm…not sure he comes every now and then, but before that he disappeared for a very long time. He made Ran worry a lot about him."
With that Hiro didn't open his mouth until the driver came to pick up Sonoko he bid her a goodbye and headed home.
Hiro was going through his files.
Scotch
Rye
Sherry
He took Sherry's file and put it aside and started reading it, it was a list, it was of APTX victims. If someone burns this paper Hiro can recall every single victim. But this time instead of scanning the names of the victims Hiro's eyes were stuck on one name.
Kudo Shinichi
He opened the drawer on his left and pick an empty file and started writing on them, then he placed those empty files back to the drawer.
