I thank Tim Kudo for helping me with my translation ! I rewrote the first chapters, hoping it'll be better now :3 Please tell me ^^

Otherwise: I'm letting this story on a stand for now, I'll focus on my french story, and then I'll get back to the translation :) Sorry to make you wait !

Thanks Detective Cat for your review, I'll try to rearrange my formatting to make it look like better ^o^

Midnightkiss56, I'm sorry if I write too hard, it may be because I translate from what I wrote, so I can make a bad translation I guess. I'll try not to drop my story, I also have french readers for my french version, so a lot of people ask me to keep going ^w^ Yeah, it seems like the "favorite" or "follow" buttons are not too much clicked on hehe '^^

Mystery0028, oh, and has "to bawl up" a different meaning ? Cause I wanted to say that Heiji was upset against Conan and annoys him, like he ruffles his hair or something :3 (I think I'll put "ruffled his hair", so I'm sure it is what I meant ^^)

But thanks to you all for your reviews it made me happy :)

The two boys threw a sceptical glance at Haibara.

"They're looking for people who got great intellectual capacities since their younger age for their experiences. In whatever country, whatever region. They'll find what they're looking for."

"So you think... the lost children are recruits from the BO?"

"It's possible. And they made us come here, so they can kill two birds with one stone."

Heiji and Conan wore a thoughtful face. They were almost as brothers, same face, same glimmer in the eyes. Haibara, with her usual gaze, seemed as thoughtful as the two boys. Her face soothed when she saw the two girls coming among them, and made the detectives know before smiling to the girls.

"He thought that we could get to the skating rink tomorrow" Ran started joyfully. "You're up to?"

"Even if they're not, they'll still come!" Kazuha said, laughing.

"But I suck* at ice skatin'*!" Heiji complained.

"So do I..."

"It's OK for me" Haibara said in a monotone voice.

"So it's set up! By the way, where's your dad, Ran-chan?"

"Huh? He's still sleeping I guess"

"Again? It's been a long time, now" Conan said, a slight worried.

"I'll go get him, I think we'll eat soon"

Ran walked toward the room they were renting and vanished in the corridor. Kazuha, who looked as she went, finally sat down next to Heiji on the couch while Haibara discreetly threw an annoyed glance at her: after all, she interrupted their conversation, even if she weren't aware about that. But she gave up on this inconvenience and let her gaze go through the hall's ornaments. Conan looked at her, next at Kazuha, and then at Heiji. Everyone seemed lost in their thoughts and wore a unfocused gaze. The young boy then turned his eyes toward the counter where he saw Pierre, still concentrated on the computer. He then saw Marie who was busy in the room beside, maybe was she getting dinner ready.

Ran came back a while later with his father, Kogoro, who seemed well awake. Did he really sleep all afternoon?

"Konnichiwa*, Mouri-san!" Kazuha cheered.

"Konnichiwa" he answered emotionlessly. Then he saw the two Oosaka people and opened annoyed eyes. "But what are you two doing here?"

"Huh... Travel?" she tried.

"And why just here? It'll just come up with trouble." he mumbled.

"Anyway, trouble's already here" Conan thought with a blasé face.

Looking at Heiji's expression, he thought exactly the same thing as Conan. Kazuha had, for a small time, a surprised face, but Ran intervened with an angry look.

"Oto-san! You cannot say that!"

"Aren't they already there? Trouble, I mean" Haibara said, as blasé as usual.

"What're you talking about?" Kogoro rumbled.

"Oy oy, Haibara!" Conan thought while threwing a threatening glance at the scientist. "You can't say things like that to Oji-san, he'll take it the wrong way!" But still, she thought just like him.

As if she read his mind, Haibara looked at Conan and shrugged, impassive. He sighed and let go of his try to reason her for this time. The group stayed a while here, discussing... or not, until Marie kindly asked them to take place in the dinner room. They were the first there, but other consumer quickly arrived. A young woman, who seemed a bit older than Marie, helped her to serve the consumers. They looked alike a lot, so they could assume that they were sisters.

Once the dinner eaten, the Japanese stayed in the hall for a while, to keep discussing. But Kogoro, as grumpy as usual, didn't seem to stay and get back to the room to watch the TV. Ran sighed in despair and complained about her father: when not on a case, all he did was sleeping and watching 'Yoko-chan' on TV... when he wasn't drinking. This comment made everyone laugh, even Haibara -well, she smiled, it was something-; but more Heiji and Conan, who already knew how much it was true. The subject then changed on the skating rink trip tomorrow, trip that Heiji and Conan didn't want to attend to. But, Kazuha and Ran insisted so much that they couldn't do anything else than accept... Even if they can't stand on ice skates, they could still enjoy it... maybe.

"What'll we do after ice skating?" Kazuha asked.

"After? I don't know, I guess it'll depend on the time" Ran answered while putting her index on her chin.

"If I can help you" Marie took part as she passed by, "the Christmas market will be on the main place, starting tomorrow"

"Really?"

"Hmm!" she nodded. "I guess they'll start to prepare on the morning, so you can wander on the early afternoon. But the best is in the evening, with the beautiful lights."

"We'll get out on the evening then! We'll ice skate after noon, then go to the market!"

"Great idea!" Kazuha agreed. "OK for you?"

"Yea yea, I don'care." Heiji answered, waving his hand in a desinteressed way. "And ya?"

"Yeah, seems great!" Conan said in his child voice, getting an annoyed glance from Haibara.

"So it's set up! Thank you, Marie-san!"

"You're welcome" she smiled.

She got away from them while humming a happy melody, and joined his father at the counter. Soon after, he left her daughter alone. Ran and Kazuha, glad to have found the next day's schedule, joyfully babbled as boys listened with a discreet ear. Haibara seemed still lost in thoughts, but in reality, she was listening every little noise she could hear. A bad feeling, maybe.

Around 8p.m, the main gate opened wide, letting a cold wind inside that made the two young women shiver. A man entered, wearing a long black coat, his head hooded. Conan, Heiji and Haibara immediately noticed him, of course, and stared at him heavily. A man in black should not be seen often, even in France, right? The head full of questions about him, they threw suspicious gazes at the man as he walked to the counter. Did he has anyhting to do with the BO? Why was he in this hotel? Did he know Conan and Haibara were there? Did he have any accomplice in the hotel? Did he took part in the kidnappings? Or is the main color a simple coincidence...?

* I changed the expression "God-awful" (well, I found it on the Internet so I supposed it was OK.. apparently not, sorry !^^) cause it seemed it was wrong 'o'

*The same, is "ice skating" correct ? 'o'

*Konnichiwa: Hello, but you're already aware of that, right ?^^

Sooo... I let more space in the story, is it better ? Plus, I'm changing the formatting a little: I'll bold the french discussions, and put in italic the thoughts so it'll be easier to understand what is what ^^