Bumper Sticker #8
"OMG! OMG! OMG! … wait… I forgot…"

Characters/Pairings: Hattori Heiji, Edogawa Conan (Kudo Shinichi), Kuroba Kaito (KID), Hakuba Saguru, Nakamori Ginzo, Toyama Kazuha, Mouri Ran. Implied HeijiKazuha and Shin(Con)Ran.

Other Inspirations: My friends made this rule for me that I can't ask them if they are still alive until a complete minute has passed in complete silence. Oh and I can always tell when Kaito is impersonating someone (Am I insane or are his impersonations obvious?); granted, I never have any proof, but that's what Conan's for! XP Also a bit too much energy and I watched an episode of Law and Order a few nights ago and all the two suspects did for like ten minutes was contradict each other *sweatdrop*; ended up that the guy had hired a hit man to kill himself. Laaaaame.

Warnings: Maybe some OOC, but on purpose. Oh and also a randomly appearing choir. If random singing people that you can hear but not see disturb you, bug you, cause you mental anguish, bring back painful childhood memories for you, make you want to drive a flaming truck off a tall cliff, make you wish you had ice cream, scare you, please you, make you hate the world, make you need a barf bag, cause you to worship them, inspire fits of random dancing in you, make you wish you could chop your computer into bite-sized pieces, burn the pieces and then throw them out the window, make you laugh, make you go insane, make you wish you could sing that well, make you swear loudly, make you believe they are the greatest thing since sliced bread or feel anything good or bad… deal with it. *motions to buff bodyguards with evil-looking bazookas*

Dedications/Shout-Outs: Props (I will avoid saying "kudos" for the sake of bad puns) to Diamond Gryphon and Katty 008 for figuring out the code! Told ya it wasn't that hard! Also, Diamond Gryphon, you have fed part of this plot bunny so feel special! XD

A/n: So, I just really wanted to see Conan say that. He he… *sheepish smile*

Word Count: 1053

"Kuuuddooo…" Hattori Heiji, the illustrious Detective of the West, sat cross-legged on the floor as to reach a certain Kudo's eyelevel, and debated with himself about poking his friend in the head multiple times to get his attention. "Are you still alive in there?"

It had been a minute; he had the right to ask. It had been a very long minute indeed for in what it took for those sixty seconds to pass, Nakamori-keibu had come back in with several police officers to see what the commotion was about - what were they expecting? An ambush? About five of them had had their guns out - and had escorted the girls out under the pretense that Heiji and Conan were busy at the moment. It may have helped that Heiji was making wild movements behind Kazuha's head trying to indicate that they needed the girls out of there, but who's judging?

"Yes, Hattori, I'm still alive." deadpanned Conan, looking at Heiji like he had five heads.

"Again with the mocking of my sanity!" cried Heiji, "It was an honest question!"

"OMG! OMG! OMG!" exclaimed Conan, jumping around in circles. And we mock Heiji's sanity…

"What?!" asked Heiji, half-excited, half-disturbed, "Did you figure it out?"

"…wait…"

Heiji waited.

The clock ticked.

Heiji waited.

The suspense thickened.

Heiji waited.

The readers just want to know what Conan's going to say already.

Heiji waited.

Granted, this is all happening in about five seconds.

"…I forgot." said Conan innocently.

Heiji - who had gotten up amidst the waiting - collapsed to the floor in despair.

"…wait…" said Conan again, a small light bulb reappearing above his carefully coiffed head.

Heiji waited.

The clock tick-

Heiji got so sick of waiting he just yelled, "SPIT IT OUT ALREADY!!"

"I got it!" announced Conan. Somewhere in the background a random choir angelically sang "Alleluia!", some reader drove off a tall cliff in a flaming truck, Hakuba Saguru investigated, caught the choir and asked them why they had done it; they replied that they had been hired to sing randomly in the background and were let off with a warning.

Heiji and Conan sweatdropped at the background story and thanked whoever was up there that Gosho Aoyama didn't write stuff like that before returning to the main story at hand.

Conan grabbed a piece of paper and the Periodic Table of Elements, and went to work.

"He," It was understood that Conan was talking about none other than KID, "deliberately put that 1412 at the beginning to indicate that we do the opposite for the rest of the letter. As they say, 'codes are made to be broken'. Anyway, we weren't supposed to use the atomic numbers, but the abbreviations; that's why the rest of the message wrote out the names of the elements."

"So," continued Heiji, "we get…"

1412

[(Cd - C) (Ne - N) (As - S) Re S (Ti - I)] [Ta N Te I S],

"[(Tc - C) H (He - H)] [Ti (Mn - N) (Se - S)] [I S] [N O W], [(Tc - C) H (Fe - F)] [F I F Th] [Mo N (Ti - I) H] [W He N] [Th (Be - B)] [(Ru - U) (Ac - C) I N] [F (Na - N) 2(Li - I) S]."

Kaitou KID

Conan looked at the page doubtfully, but Heiji struck up an "AHA!" face and pointed to the second set of brackets on the first line.

"'T-A-N-T-E-I-S'. Look familiar?" laughed Heiji.

"We're on the right track." confirmed Conan and they continued, subtracting all the letters.

1412

[D E A Re S T] [Ta N Te I S],

"[T H E] [Ti M e] [I S] [N O W], [T H e] [F I F Th] [Mo N T H] [W He N] [Th e] [R A I N] [F A 2L S]."

Kaitou KID

"And now the two 'L's."

1412

[D E A Re S T] [Ta N Te I S],

"[T H E] [Ti M e] [I S] [N O W], [T H e] [F I F Th] [Mo N T H] [W He N] [Th e] [R A I N] [F A LL S]."

Kaitou KID

"The time is now, the fifth month when the rain falls." read Nakamori-keibu slowly as Conan and Heiji grinned ear to ear in victory.

"And it only took," Heiji looked at the clock, "fifteen minutes."

Nakamori glanced at the grinning Heiji with narrowed eyes before harrumphing and asking, "Alright. What does it mean?"

'That's as far as I got.' thought Conan.

Suddenly, as though appearing out of nowhere, Kazuha answered, "Well, 'the fifth month' would be the fifth month of the year, right? May!"

"Where did you come from?!" asked Heiji, bewildered by his friend's sudden appearance.

"Well, most people refer to it as a door…"

Heiji grimaced at her in a "Shut up." sort of way before saying, "Unfortunately, May kind of already happened, didn't it? We're in June."

'Great, they're just going to try proving each other wrong…' thought Conan, somewhat annoyed.

"Couldn't it mean next May?"

Nakamori cut in, "It's not KID's way to send these things that early… even if he assumed we wouldn't be able to figure it out until next May."

Conan piped up, all child-and-innocent-like, "Aren't there quotes around that sentence? That's bound to mean something."

"Kudo, do you know something I don't?" whisper-asked Heiji, letting Kazuha, Ran and Nakamori distract each other.

"No. I'm just trying to figure this out like everyone else is." replied Conan, before knocking his sneaker against Heiji's shin lightly, "And don't call me 'Kudo' with Ran right here. She could overhear." Conan then cursed inwardly at himself when he saw Heiji grin smugly at him; his face getting hotter wasn't just some weird illusion.

"Don't worry, Tantei-kun." replied a whisper.

Heiji and Conan did instant double-takes and 360s, scanning the entire room that was supposedly filled only with the policemen of the Kaitou KID Taskforce.

"And now he's messing with our minds…" said Conan begrudgingly. He and Heiji both knew that the only person to ever call Conan "Tantei-kun" was the one and only Kaitou KID.

"And probably having a blast at how he's making us run around in circles with his stupid note." added Heiji.

"Tch, probably."

A/n: Well, not much progress, but it'll do for now. You all know that Kaito's not really into sitting still for long so he just ran out of my head and decided to show up in the story. Anyway, next problem to solve for any ambitious readers: "The time is now, the fifth month when the rain falls." As for me, I gotta go pick out a jewel for KID to steal (I knew I had forgotten something *sweatdrop*). Alrighty! Please review and you can have one of the choir members!!!!!! That or Hakuba who wasn't supposed to show up in this chapter either… *takes off shoe and chucks it at Hakuba's head*

Hakuba: WHAT GIVES??? Why didn't you throw a shoe at Kaito? He randomly showed up too!!

Kaito: I'm just cooler than you. Admit it.

Yolapeoples: That and I can't find my other shoe…

Hakuba, Heiji and Conan: *anime-style fall*

Kaito: *sweatdrop* Anyway, sorry for the delay; Yola had to hold it because she couldn't figure out the next Conan's Hint.

Yolapeoples: Hey! They are Conan's Hints. Therefore, it is Conan's fault.

Conan: ?!

Kaito: Please review!! The next chapter will be out really soon!

Next Conan's Hint: Katana.