A new chapter yay ^^

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Hattori flopped onto his bed, both hands covering his face in wary. That nee-chan is catching onto somethin. He thought. I guess it's my own fault. I was basically screamin Kudo. Hattori sighed heavily. Kudo ya ahou… Why'd ya have to go and die like that? It was a complex case but didn't we figure it out? Why'd ya have to die just when we were about to catch the culprit? He sighed again, and slowly, while his memories were whirling around in his mind, he drifted off to sleep.

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"Kudo, it oughta be Tanaka-san. He was the only one who had an opportunity to perform the trick." I reasoned. We stood looking up at the balcony where Haruka-san was killed.

"But if it was Tanaka-san then it wouldn't fit together with the murder of Erika-san. In that case Tanaka-san had a solid alibi." Kudo said, thinking hard.

"But if ya say it like that it seems like all of them have different murderers! But evidently these aren't like that." I said, agitated.

"How can you be so sure?" Kudo asked "Yes, the way the culprit carried out the murders were extremely similar but what if it was made to seem like it? If you think about it that way then everything fits."

"But there're no motive for Tanaka-san to kill Junko-san." I said, getting pissed. But I knew that I was getting pissed because Kudo was making sense and was getting the right answer. I seemed to always be placed second.

"There is. Remember the album we saw in Junko-san's room." Something clicked in my mind and a stone of disappointment dropped in my stomach. Again. Kudo is going to get it right again.

"Argh! Kudo you're so sneaky!" I flopped down onto the grass and gripped my hair. "I hate how ya get it right all the time." I groaned.

"Hattori, you don't have to get so upset." Kudo said, sitting down next to me.

"It seems like I'll always be in second to ya, huh?" I smiled slightly at Kudo. He smiled back at me.

"Anyways, we need some evidence." I said, standing up again. "Evidence that the culprit is Tanaka-san."

"Yea—wait no Hattori it's Ageda-san!" Kudo stood up quickly.

"I'm just teasing ya Kudo." I laughed while he muttered under his breath. We went our own separate ways, Kudo going to the first crime scene and me to the third. There should be plenty of evidence at both sites to pinpoint Ageda-san as the culprit. As I watched his back as he left, I felt something weird stir in me. I couldn't identify it, but it was almost like he was leaving. Leaving…for somewhere far away. I shook my head and continued on my way.

I arrived at the site in the forest and knelt down to inspect the dirt. As expected, I saw a shining piece of glass and smiled. I took out a handkerchief and picked it up, wrapping it up nicely then pocketing it. I shuffled around more for a while then decided to leave. As I made my way out the forest, a column of smoke caught my eye and I froze for a while, thinking that it may be a campfire. But then I saw where the fire was stemming from, and I realized in shock that it was the house where Erika-san was murdered. The house where the first crime scene happened.

I ran, heart pounding with anxiety as I slowly neared the house. Kudo is in there! But maybe he got out... I still ran anyways, wanting to make sure. And with a fire that big it got me worried. Along the way, I saw Ohtaki-han and told him the situation. We rushed to the scene in his car, discussing a little about the case.

When we arrived, I yelled out his name multiple times, but I couldn't find him anywhere. It was then that I realized Kudo must be in the house and I ran towards it, hoping that there is still a way to get him out of there. Ohtaki-han grabbed my hand, telling me that it's too dangerous, but I didn't want to give up. I didn't want to wait for the firefighters. It's going to be too late then.

"Kudo!" I shouted at the surrounding area. "If you're there, answer me! If you're inside the house, then get outta there!" I saw, out of the corner of my eye, another car coming and I realized that it was that nee-san with the lousy detective. But with my mind focused on getting Kudo outta there I didn't care.

"KUDO!" I yelled, screamed, cried. Ohtaki-han just wouldn't leggo of me. I tried to push him aside, claw his hands off my wrist, but nothing worked. I was about to punch him in desperation. "LEGGO OF ME! I GOTTA GO SAVE KUDO!"

"You can't! You'll burn down with the house! It'll collapse any ti-" Ohtaki-han was cut off by an explosion, and the house then collapsed into itself, as though it were a person, and like the nee-chan that had fallen to her knees. 'NO…..this is happening!' My heart felt like it was gonna burst with disbelief, and my head pounded with horror.

"NO!" I cried, while that nee-chan's cries echoed in the background "KUDO!"

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Hattori jerked open his eyes in horror, heart still pounding and head still hurting.

"Ku…do…" he felt something sting his eyes, and growled at himself. "I shouldn't be feelin like this. Kudo might still be alive…the firefighters never found a body…" but deep down he knew that they found his burned children clothes, his shoes, and all the other things he had. Strangely, the only thing that was missing was his glasses. But maybe they melted because they were made of plastic. Hattori thought. But wait…if those melted why didn't that melt…? Slowly, he discovered more and more strange points, and, in realization, sat up in bed. If it's like that…then… he lept up and burst out of his room, grabbing his hat along the way.

"Ah!" he crashed into Kazuha, who was standing outside. "H-Heiji! Where are ya going?" he picked up his hat, which fell onto the floor.

"To Tokyo." he answered, putting it back on his head. "To Mouri detective agency!"

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So now you kinda know how things happened, but not why yet… and it's in Hattori's point of view so it's something a little bit different^^ Anyways hope you liked it!