I am so sorry. I have no excuse of making this update so late, okay maybe i do have a few but it doesn't change the fact that i didn't finish the chapter. I was stuck and i couldn't think of a trick but i woke up this morning and i thought of one so i finished it right away. I know i say this in a lot of my notes lately well... ages ago but yes I AM SORRY. but im hoping you would forgive after reading this chapter, i know its not amazing, but it will definitely be better now that i'm not stuck anymore. Sorry again, and hope you enjoy this chapter. xxx

Recap:

His eyes were focused on the man walking down the pathway, all dressed in black. She knew what was going through his mind; she had the exact same thought.

Shinichi gently tugged on the car door handle and crouched down as he got off and landed on the freshly cut grass. Haibara got off at the same door and copied the exact same actions. There was a line of well maintained bushes which help hided their presences from other people on the sidewalk. They crept along the bushes, Haibara stopped at the bush right opposite her mother.

"You stay here, I'm going to go over to the other side" Shinichi said

"How are you getting across?" Haibara whispered

"Tug and roll?" he replied as if it was a question

"You do know that you don't have Harry Potter's cape of invisibility right?" she stated and pointed out several other men dressed in black nearby.

"Damn it," he cursed quietly "I forgot about that,"

"So… what are we going to do detective?" she questioned calmly while watching the man in black approach her mother. "We don't necessarily have to cross over, as long as we hear the conversation"

"Hearing…device… we can use the listening device Professor gave me," Shinichi exclaimed quietly. His hands searched both his suit pocket roughly and finally dug out a white, small, round but flat object. "If I could just toss it anywhere close to them…"

"Don't toss it!" Haibara hissed, causing Shinichi to almost drop and lose it "You're rubbish at throwing,"

"Then what should we do?" he asked measuring the distant with his eyes between the man coming towards to the bench where Haibara's mother was sat.

"You're a detective, aren't there some cool tricks you can think of to get it over?" Haibara asked, examining the device thinking of a trick herself

"We could…er…glue it to a leave then make a pile of leaves fall onto the beach, the device will be hidden will all the other leaves," Shinichi said proudly.

"Good thing you're good at deducting, because you will suck as a murderer," Haibara insulted. "But… hiding a leaf in a forest…that's not a bad idea," she murmured

"What's wrong with that idea anyway? I can get a cat and it can rattle the tree, then I drop the leaf while… what are you doing?" He watched as Haibara took out her jar of experimented on drugs.

"Hiding a leaf in a forest, if this jar breaks and all these different types of shaped pills will all scatter around, they won't realize that one of them is a hearing device, since it looks similar to some of the pills I've experimented on,"

"But… you spent a lot of time experimenting on them," Shinichi stated

"It doesn't matter, we've got a time machine now, I can turn myself back in no time, I just want to save my family first," She explained.

Before the men in black got too close, she took her chance and darted out of the bushes, it looked like too much of an accident even Shinichi thought she tripped. The jar of pills scattered all around the sidewalk as predicted, the hearing device landed right below the bench. Shinichi channeled with the device and heard the conversation between Haibara and her mother.

"Are you okay?" her mom asked worriedly.

Haibara didn't reply, she simply nodded and stood back up on her own with no scratches

"What were you doing with so much medicine?" her mother questioned her

"It's...It's my mom's… my dad wanted me to give it to her so I was running," Haibara said innocently

"Let me help you pick them up, it'll be bad if your mom don't get the medicine right?" she offered

"NO!" Haibara yelled. "I mean… I need to go, mommy is probably waiting for me, I'll get her new medicine, bye nice lady" she said cutely and ran off. The act Haibara put up delayed the man in black's arrival. He stood by a tree pretending to examine it trying to blend in while watching the conversation between the two. Haibara took a long detour and return to the car.

"Did you actually trip?" Shinichi asked when Haibara returned.

"No…" she denied and blushed. The man in black began walking toward Haibara's mother again, this time in a quicker speed. He casually sat down next her and laid down his briefcase on the free space between them.

"I've brought the money," he mumbled barely moving his lips

"What are you talking about?" Haibara's mother turned to look at him

"Where's the information?" he asked her looking straight forward

"Who are you?" she asked scared. "I don't know what you're talking about, please excuse me" she said and hurriedly left the bench and started fast walking towards the exit. The man in black hides his face to the side to listen into his communication device.

"…she's not the one? What should I do about her? If she tells…" he whispered.

"We have to save her," Shinichi turned to Haibara, she gave him a nod in response. They followed her along the bushes and out the park, Shinichi looks back regularly to check whether the man in black had taken his actions. Haibara's mother took many turns and it lead them to an alleyway, when Shinichi turned back one last time to check their safety, he saw a glimpse of the black shadow suddenly inches away from the three of them.

"Haibara, take your mom and run I'll take care of him," Shinichi ordered. "Hey kid, I'm gonna borrow this," he took the football, a young boy was kicking at. Haibara ran over and took the hands of her mom and started pulling her at a certain direction when she turned back to signal, she paused at her tracks.

"Kudo kun! DON'T!" she yelled "That's my dad!" But the warning was given too late, the soccer ball went flying at a burning high speed finding its way to its target and aimed for bulls eye. The ball greeted the man in black with such strong force it made him lose balance and flew backwards, his head hit the cold hard concrete floor. He lay there, unconscious.

Hope you all enjoy that chapter, the next chapter is coming up soon. I've already written half of it, so until then... xxx