~Birds of a Feather~

An owl hooted softly outside Shiho Miyano's room. Kaito Kid tried to silence it by putting a finger to his lips, but it just ignored him and carried on with its raucous hoots.

Some kind of innate knowledge led me, the infamous Kid, here – to the window of the beautiful Owl-owner,he thought, ignoring the bird. Maybe the knowledge came from the Vulture?

Luckily for Kid and the owl, Shiho Miyano was soundly sleeping and oblivious to any movements going on outside her window.

The thief finally prised the window open and slid in like a shadow. Then, as quickly as he came, he left – with only one Turquoise Owl left behind to tell that he had even been there.

/

Shiho was startled awake by a banging on the door. Sneaking downstairs, she found out that Gin and a few lackeys, including Vodka, had been let in by her parents.

"We don't have the Owl!" Elena told them, almost at breaking point.

"So then why did the Owl go missing and turn up at the Tokyo Museum the next day? You were the ones who last had it for observation." This must have been true, because Elena became even more shocked. Atsushi, however, was calm.

"A cleaner asked permission to open the Owl's case after we looked at it," he replied.

This was followed by a long silence.

"Find out who that cleaner was and get! Him! Killed!" Gin demanded, his voice rising with every exclamation. "That Owl was meant to be giving me power. Power I'd never even managed to dream of! And yet it escapes thanks to a lowly cleaner!" Gin's mouth was a straight line and his voice was booming with fury.

Suddenly, he stopped and gave a sly smirk at Vodka. "Don't you remember? The Kaito Kid heist! We completely forgot about that thief and his heist!"

Shiho snuck back up and glanced at her bedside table. The Owl was there...She had to do something about the situation – something that would lead to Gin never getting the Owl again.

/

Luckily, she knew how to open the safe in her parents' room. "4 left-8 right-6 left-9 right," she recited as she turned the knob. Gin strode out of the Miyano residence, lackeys scurrying behind him silently while the strawberry-blonde teen deposited the Turquoise Owl in the safe.

/

As she stared at herself in the bathroom mirror, she wondered whether storing the Owl was the right thing to do. Wait, no, he forgets about things very easily – let time take its course and soon everything will be alright. That was her final decision about the Owl.

She snatched up a comb and proceeded to drag it through her hair, but when she'd finished, she noticed that the mirror was covered in frost.

What's happened to the mirror? she asked herself.

She removed some of it … and that's when she spotted the glittering particles of ice drifting around her.

What's happened to me?

...Was it the Owl?! Gin said the Owl would give him unimaginable power!

/

At the next Kaito Kid heist, there were more Organisation people around than usual, including one Shiho Miyano.

It was close to the end of the heist, and everything was ordinary – as ordinary as it could be for a Kid heist, anyway. But as the thief showed off his acrobatics, he zapped the security cameras with a bolt of electricity from his finger. That's exactly what I came here to find out, Shiho thought as she ran up the stairs to the balcony and to him.

"I'm the one with the powers of the Owl!" she called out.

Kid froze for a second, gem poised in front of his monocled face. "No wonder you looked familiar - I spotted you in the crowd and couldn't place where I'd seen you before. Come join me sometime!" he told her, shooting a calling card at the wall behind her and placing one at his feet. He then stashed the gem snugly in his right pocket.

"Police!" came a yell from the door. Kid was already gliding by then, though.

While the inspector cursed his usual string of profanity, she yanked the card out of the wall. It read:

You are like Jack Frost, I can tell -

cold, miserable about the circumstances you are in.

But like the frost, you can erase your sorrow,

if you come to this address tomorrow at noon.

Kaito Kid (KID doodle with lightning bolt in background)

The address of the place later known as the Artemis Kuroshi School followed the message.

Whoa…this ended up much better than I thought. Do you agree? Please read and review!