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Chapter 17 Hollows bane
It was a normal night for superintendent Shiro Katsu. He made his way to the apartment complex he lived in and made his way to his apartment room. He opened the door, entered his room, threw off his shoe and places his keys in an glass tray. He enters the living room and sees the Kaitou Kid just standing there. "KID!" Shiro yelled, shocked at who was in front of him, then he smiled. This was his chance to push his career higher then before. "You're under arrest!" He charged at Kid and punched him. But the Kid before him disappeared and turned into a joker card.
"You missed." A voice taunted Shiro. The superintendent pulled out his gun, only to have the knocked out of his hands by a two of clubs. "Now that you don't have that dangerous weapon on you, I want to talk." The Kaitou puts away his card gun.
"I have nothing to say to you criminal scum!" Shiro glared at the Phantom thief. Kaitou sighed and shook his head.
"You're just making this harder Katsu-keishi. Just tell me about this man." Kaitou shows Shiro Snakes record. Shiro's eyes widen and he glares at the theif.
"I don't know that man at all, now leave!" Shiro reaches for the record but he misses.
"How about I ask you this, do you know Toichi Kuroba?" This made the man flinch. "This man had something to do with his death, did you know that?" Shiro nods and grins creepliy.
"That failure of a magician? He died in an accident, but I think he killed himself." Shiro laughed. "Too much stress for him, so he decided to end it all!" Kaitou felt the urge to punch Shiro many times.
"You were their that day. Tell me everything... Now..." Kaitou pulled out his card gun and shot a five of clubs at the wall. The card made a small hole the wall. Shiro glared at the thief and snorted.
"Fine! If you must know I was working in arson, and I was getting nowhere in my career. I was really low on cash and I needed to pay bills. My prayer were answered when someone apporched me and told me to make sure that the murder of Toichi was covered up. I kept Kudo-san, Kuroba Chikage and everyone but my unit off the scene and give that guy's friends time to remove the evidence. After that, it was labeled an accident and they helped me pay off my bills." Shiro explained. "After that, I was transfered to the MPD and made my raise through the ranks."
"So you took a bribe..." Kaitou glared at Shiro.
"Yeah I did take the bribe, I told you that right. Or were you not listening." Shiro glared at Kaitou Kid then tried to tackle him. But the thief threw down a smoke bomb and disappeared. "DAMNIT! Well... It's not like he can tell anyone will beleive him." Shiro went to his room and laid down, little did he know, Kaitou Kid had a recording from Shiro. He glided to the metropolitan police department with Shiro's recording.
"Hopefully this works..." Kaitou makes his way to the building and lands. He puts away his glider and breaks into the police station. The Kaitou makes his way to the office of Kiyonaga Matsumoto, hopefully he wasn't in his office this late at night. Kaitou made his to his office and opened the door and found no one there was in the office. The Kaitou planted the tape recorder on the table.
"Something I can help you with Kid-san?" Kaitou turned to sees Kiyonaga Matsumoto just standing there, and sizing up Kid, waiting to strike.
"Just dropping off something that will catch your interest." Kid explained.
"My interest, and how would you know my interest?" He asked. Kid picked up the tape recorder and played the recording. Kiyonaga listens to the recording. "That's Katsu's voice, he took a bribe?" Kiyonaga was shocked that a superintendent took a bribe.
"That's right, he took a bribe from this man." Kid showed him Snakes record. "This man calls himself Snake and he's the one that killed Toichi Kuroba." Snake hands Kiyonaga the file.
"Is this why you steal, to lure out this jewel thief?" Kiyonaga asked.
"Nothing pisses off a robber more then Kaitou Kid. You know I steal jewels right?" Kaitou replied. The superintendet nodded. "Then I return them, what happens afterwards?"
"...The security is doubled..." Kiyonaga realized. Another reason why the people love Kaitou Kid so much. He returns what he steals and no one gets hurt. But the Kid is an enemy of the police and is hated in the criminal underworld, this means one thing. "You have no allies, almost no one shares your ideals." Kid nodded. "There has to be a better way then this."
"There isn't, because some of them are overprivileged upper class baka's. Some of them even had the jewels stolen, so I return them to their rightful owner. I also love teaching them that their security is horrible." Kaitou chuckled. Kiyonaga glares at him sternly.
"This isn't a game Kid, you could die!" Kiyonaga glared sternly. "I request that you turn yourself in to the police and tell us the whole story, I know there's more to what you have to say." The superintendet requested diplomatically.
"Another time Keishi-san. When the day the worlds treasures are safe, I will continue to exist. Even if I die." Kaitou throws down a smoke bomb and disappears. Hours later, Kaito made his way to Aoko's house and landed on the roof of the house with a loud thump. He laid down on the roof and looked up to the stars.
"Kaito...!" There was a whisper on the ground. Kaito looked and saw Aoko on the ground. "Can you help me up?" She reached and Kaito grabbed her hand and pulled her up to the roof. "What are you doing here?" Aoko asked. The Kaitou blushed at the sight of Aoko in a thin light blue nightie.
"I just got back from Beika after I confronted Katsu, I went to Matsumoto-keishi and talked to him about Snake and told him about what I do and why I do it. I also turned over a recording of Katsu-san telling me about how he took a bribe." Kaito explained. He took off his cape and wrapped it around Aoko.
"Thanks..." Aoko sat down with Kaito. "So is it almost over, will Snake be caught soon?" She asked hopefully.
"Yeah, he'll be caught and brought to justice..." Kaito said silently. "Soon my Oyaji's murderer will be caught. All I have to do is guide the police in the right direction and make sure Snake doesn't get away." Kaito held Aoko tight as the two looked up to the stars.
"Aww~ That is so cute!" The two teens turn and see Rangiku Matsumoto in her human form. The two blush when she said that what they were doing was cute. "Are you two gazing at the moon?" She asked. Kaito shurgs.
"Kinda, we're just stargazing, talking and-"
"Kissing under the moonllight~?" Rangiku teased. Aoko blushed when the shinigami said that. "It has been awhile since I had a moon viewing party, all we need is a few more people and some sake!" Rangiku cheered. Aoko glared at Rangiku sternly.
"But you're- oh what, nevermind." Aoko remembers that Rangiku was old enough to be Aoko's grandma five times over. "But your a student at Ekoda high school, if they find out about you drinking they might expel you!" Aoko scolded.
"I know, god it's been ages since I had a drink..." Rangiku groaned. "Well I got to go. I need my beauty sleep!" Rangiku jumps off the one story house and walked down the block. Kaito returns his attention to Aoko.
"I think it's time for me to go." Kaito helps her down from the roof and takes his cape back, then he puts his moncle on hat back on. "I'll see you tomorrow." Kaitou disappeared out from her window.
A day later on sunday (4:40PM)
Corrupt superintendent revealed by Kaitou Kid
Saguru Hakuba looks the title of the newspaper article. The article was about Shiro Katsu, a well known and cruel superintendent who was arrested for taking a bribe. Kaitou Kid broke into his home and talked him into telling him about the investagation of Toichi Kuroba's death while recoding it. The article goes on about how he was paid to have everyone expect his arson squad off the crime scene. "Very troubling..." Saguru said to himself.
"It is troubling." His nanny said while carrying a plate with a tea kettle on it. "Some tea?"
"Thank you baaya." The elderly woman pours him a cup of tea.
"I feel for that young man, Kaito-kun. because of one man, everyone thought that his tou-san died in a accident..." The woman said sadly.
"Yes, and according to this. They can't investagate and find the murderer. Shiro's accomplices destroyed all of the physical evidence..." Saguru puts down the news paper.
"So there's no way to find those vile villians!" Saguru's guardian yelled.
"Right now they are interrogating Katsu. They just have to find out who bribed him, but he's not talking." Saguru explained.
"I see... Bocchama, I want you to have this." His housekeeper gave him wristband with a silver cross on it. "This has been in your family for many generations, it has protected the owner from many disasters.
"I don't think a charm can do that." Saguru held the wristband.
"Oh ye of little faith..." She shook her head. "So you won't wear it?"
"I will wear it, thank you baaya." He puts the charm on. "I'm going to take a walk." Saguru gets up from his chair, puts on his shoes and goes outside. As he walked, he thought about what was going on. 'Mysterous explosions in Beika and Ekoda, corrupt superintendent, assassinations on the streets.' Saguru recalled all of the events that have so far unfolded. 'what's next, demons?' Saguru chuckled. there are no such things as demons.
"A-Ai-chan... I think we *hiccup* lost it... Will that monster find us?" A little brown haired girl began to cry.
"It's okay Yoshida-san. let's just ask for help." The girl named Ai-chan said. The strawberry blond girl sounded fine but was shaking. The girls was also hurt, she had a burns up her arms. The burns were also bleeding, and the girl was turning pale.
"But strangers are bad..." Ayumi said meekly.
"Do you young girls need help?" Saguru walked over with a friendly smile. Ayumi quickly hides behind Ai. "I won't hurt you."
"I'm sorry about my friend. We just ran into some... scary people." Ai explained. "My name is Ai Haibara, this is Ayumi Yoshida." The girl introduced herself and her friend.
"I am Saguru Hakauba, I'm a detective and I can help you." Saguru gave a reassuring smile.
"Y-you can't h-help us with t-this." Ai started to stumble.
"No, Ai-chan! You need help-" Ayumi was cut off when they heard a low sounding roar. "It's here, we need to run!" Ayumi was crying even more. Saguru stared in horror as the sound of stomping comes closer, and the sight of a monster with a white mask becomes clear. The monster looked like a goat slash man monster. But something was wrong with it. It's greenish skin was blistering and the blisters were bursting, oozing blood and turning black.
"Kill... Kill... Kill... KILL!" The hollow stumbled as a blister on it leg exploded. "ARGHHH!" The hollow was in great pain.
'Demons not existing huh...? Damn you irony...' Saguru stared at the monster before snapping into action. "We have to run!" He picks up Ai and he bend down and lets Ayumi hop up on his back. The girl wraps her arms around his neck. "Don't let go." Saguru stood up and ran as fast as he can.
"That girl... I'll kill her!" The hollow chased after them. The three ran into a empty clearing near a small clearing. Saguru finds a place to hide the girls and turns to the monster. The hollow was joined by a elephant type hollow. "W...Where is... She!" The goat man hollow roared.
"I'm not about to tell you." Saguru said calmly and bravely.
"THEN DIE! Kill him!" The elephant goes to stomp on Saguru but it misses. Then something hits the elephant hollow on it's skin. It was blood from Ai Haibara.
Ai-Kun! What are you doing?!" Saguru yelled.
"My body and blood does something to those monsters..." Ai and Saguru watched in wonder and horror as the skin starts to pulse, bubble, turn black and bleed. The elehpant hollow was dying from a very painful and slow death.
"Good god..." Saguru paled. It was a horrific sight as it's skin was boiling and bubbling. The hollow fell down and started to whine in pain.
"Looks like I'll have to kill you myself-" An energy blast pierced the head of the hollow. The creature falls to the ground dead.
"Not going to happen." The three of them look to see the one, the only, Kudo Shinichi. Saguru looked at the detective and wondered how did he do that. The meitantei of the east shot an energy blast that killed the hollow. Ai stared at the detective in disbelief and Ayumi's eyes waters as she realized that they are safe from the monsters and Shinichi would protect them. She ran over to the detective and hugged his legs, not wanting to let go.
"Shinichi-oniisan!" Ayumi cried. "I thought we were all going to die!" The little girl hugged tighter.
"Hey, nothing to worry about Ayumi. The bad monster is dead, it's okay." Shinichi soothed the little girl. He looked over at Ai with a serious face. "Will you be alright Ai?" He asked.
"I need some help..." Ai held her wound on her left arm. "After that, you're going to tell me why and how you are here."
"How about you..."
"Saguru Hakuba." The detective introduce himself.
"Do you need first aid?" He asked.
"No, I'm good. But can you tell me what's going on and why are you wearing that outfit. Saguru pointed at Shinichi's fullbring outfit.
"I'll tell you later, let's get Ai some help." Shinichi pulls out his cell phone and calls Orihime. Two minutes later, Ichigo arrived by using shunpo and carrying Orihime. After a minute later Ai's wounds were gone. Leave Saguru and Ayumi shocked.
"Now let's get to a safe place." Shinichi led them all to Beika street and to the professors house. Agasa was shocked to see Shinichi.
"Shinichi-kun! How- wait- what!" Agasa stammered.
"I'll explain with the help of Kurosaki and Inoue-san." The three of them explain everything to everyone, but Shinichi leaves out the part about him being Conan and Pandora. They also didn't tell them about Kaito being Kid, Ran and Heiji having powers and the battle with Akako. They would tell them later.
"So you left to master your fullbring powers?" Ayumi asked.
"That's right, I've been training to fight the hollows. Now that my training is complete, I can protect Tokyo from the hollows." Ayumi's eyes widen greatly.
"WOW! You're a superhero! That is so cool, I wish I had super powers too!" Ayumi exclaimed. "I need to go home. Bye Ai-chan."
"I'll walk her home." Saguru said, the two of them walk out of the house. When they were gone, Ai glared at Shinichi.
"I guess I'm going to hide the antidotes better from now on-"
"Wait hold on a second..." Shinichi transforms back into Conan. The two scientist were shocked. What Shinichi or Conan did was impossible. "My power is known as fullbring. I call it the Tamashī no henka. I can turn back into my original form, in my true form I'm much more powerful and I'm able to unleash energy attacks that are fueled by reiatsu." Conan explained. It took a few mintues to absorb the information.
"Death gods, fullbrings, hollow, and ghost. That's just impossible." Agasa shook his head.
"Believe it old man, it's real." Ichigo scowled at Agasa. "You saw Kudo transform back into Conan, and you're still not going to believe him."
"But that could have been the antidote-"
"The antidote doesn't make Kudo glow and shift back and forth..." Ai rubbed the her left temple. "This is just... Unbelievable... Shinigami, hollows, fullbrings, and worst. You told them about your secret without consulting us!" Ai yelled. "You're going to break your little pact with the shinigami and never use that power ever again!" Ai yelled.
"That not-" Orihime was interupped by Ai.
"I don't care if it's fair! If the organization finds out you're still alive then everyone dies!" Ai yelled.
"Then we hide them! Is that so hard!" Ichigo yelled at Ai.
"There is no place safe from THEM!" Ai glared at Ichigo. "Your family, friends, and everyone around you will die!"
"You don't think I know that! I know the people who we're up against are dangerous, that blonde woman threaten my family and friends!" This shocked Ai.
"V-vermouth..."
"Yeah, her... There is no way that we can't let them roam around free, They have to be stopped!"
"You can't stop them!" Ai argued.
"Why are you so scared of them?" Ichigo walked over and bent down to meet her at eye level. "Is it because of what they did to your sister?" This caused Ai to turn pale.
"Y-you...!" She glared at Ichigo.
"You can't let that fear control you. If you do then they'll win."
"I'm not scared!" Ai shouted defensively.
"You think hiding is better? All that Gin guy has to do is see you once and I'm sure he'll put the pieces together." Ichigo was right. The truth was that Ai was really a mini Shiho. If Gin saw her once then everything will be all over.
"...I know... I know that hiding won't help, but we can't be careless." Ai looked down. "One wrong move and everyone dies."
"Then we'll be careful. If things get bad, then we'll hide you and everyone. I know a safe place." Ichigo said.
"What would you do... If they kill your family?" Ai asked.
"I would make sure they pay, but I won't kill them... I'll stop them if it's the last thing I do!" Ichigo clenched his fists.
"Ran said that you were tense yesterday. What's wrong?" Conan asked. Ichigo looked down and sighed.
"I met with another member of the black organization. He called himself Whiskey." This caused all of them to gasp.
"Kurosaki-kun, are you alright?" Orihime asked. worried about the young man.
"Yeah... I'm fine. He said that he wants to experiment on me and find out how a Shinigami works..." This made everyone gasp again.
"WHAT!" Ai shouted.
"Experiment on you!?" Agasa looked disgusted.
"Oh no... Kurosaki-kun..." Orihime looked worried.
"...Well, what else did he say?" Conan asked.
"He said I had three days to make my choice, and my friends and family are being watched..." Ichigo said nonchalantly.
"Why aren't you worried!" Ai yelled.
"I told Urahara-san after school yesterday. He said that he would have everyone moved." Ichigo explained.
"Thank goodness..." Orihime sighed.
"Wait, won't they find out?" Ai asked, worried sick.
"Nothing to worry about, we managed to smuggle them out of Karakura town late last night." Everyone turns to see Kisuke Urahara. "Sorry I didn't knock, But I think that we have some important things to talk about." The oddly dressed man explained.
"Like Haibara's power?" Conan asked.
"It's not a power. She has Hollows bane." Kisuke explained.
"Hollows bane, what's that?" Orihime asked.
"There are some people in the world of the that are born with blood and reitsu that are highly poisonous to hollows. These people are extremely rare, almost non-existant. The last person with Hollows bane died five hundred years ago." Kisuke explained the effects of Hollows bane.
"So Ai is that last person in the world to had Hollows bane?" Ichigo asked.
"That's right, she must have been related to the last person with Hollows bane." Kisuke commented.
"So it's like a recessive gene." Ai said as Kisuke nodded.
"That's right, it's very rare. You won't be hunted by the hollows. The hollows will even became horriblely sick if they even smell you." Kisuke grinned.
"Alright, so we won't have to worry about Ai getting attacked by the hollows." Ichigo said. Kisuke nodded again.
"That's right!" Kisuke smile. "She will be very safe."
"That's good... Now about my family-" There was a knock at the door. "I got it..." Ichigo walked up to the door and opened it. Only to be kicked in the face by Isshin Kurosaki.
"HELLO ICHIGO!" The teenage shingami fell to the ground.
"You bastard! You're being watched by a dangerous organization and you kick me in the face!" Ichigo yelled at his father.
"Someone has to keep to ready for anything!" Isshin shouted and the two of them began to fight.
"Well... I thought Mouri-san had a dysfunctional family." Ai commented. Conan nodded. The fighting continued for a few minutes until it Agasa broke them up.
"Oyaji, how is everyone...?" Ichigo asked in a worried tone.
"Your sisters and friends are perfectly safe. We got out of Karakura pretty easily Thanks to the Gotei 13. It was late at night when Renji broke down the door. He told us that we had to pack everything and get to Urahara's shop. We saw all of your friends there and we learned that you were involved in a investigation. Kisuke also built an underground tunnel that linked his underground training grounds with the one in Haido city." Isshin explained.
I see..." Ichigo took a deep breath. "I'm going to see Yuzu and Karin..." Ichigo left. He made his way to Haido city and into the warehouse fifteen. Only to be hugged tightly by Yuzu.
"Onii-chan! I missed you so much!" Yuzu cried and hugged him tighter.
"Hey Yuzu, c'mon. You're in middle school now. In a few years you'll be grown up." Ichigo smiled as he pats his sister's head.
"B-but I'm s-s-so scared!" Yuzu shook in fear.
"Don't worry Yuzu... I will protect everyone." Ichigo said determined. He'll make the black organization pay for threatening his friend and family, nothing will stop him from protecting his friends and family.
To be continued...
A/N- I came home for the weekend and decided to finish this chapter I've been working on. I'm going to a school now and update will be very, very slow.
New universe returns- I might have her Masumi appear later, but that will be awhile.
ichigo-lover-1412- Snake is going to get beatdown badly. There will also be more KaitoxAoko.
Athina Dark-Angel of death- Yeah, Ran is going to be treating Conan like a teddy bear for awhile.
Beebrat- I'll trying and write more. I can't make any promises.