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What's Tantei-kun going on about? Promised what? Hm? That's quite strange, the number in his eye changed. KID thought to himself. Behind him, he hears a splashing sound. And again. Slowly KID manoeuvres himself, side stepping so he can see what the source of the noise is, whilst still being able to see Mukuro. Mukruo is standing still, simply smiling dangerously at KID. KID looks to his right, towards the noise.
Behind him is a tank, filled with water. And in that tank are his worst nightmare: Fish. One jumps out of the water, creating another splash. KID freezes, not breathing, only staring at the sight infront of him. Poker face lost, he gapes, eyes wide, body shaking. One particularly large fish jumps out of the water, and flies directly towards KID.
"AAAAAAHHHHHHAAHHHHH" KID screams, running in the direction of the door. "F-F-F-FISH!" still running, he aims his gun behind him, shooting in the animals direction. He runs out of the room, and straight into the forest beyond. Blindly running full pelt, he gasps in harshly, body forcing itself to get away from the 'threat'.
Oh god, KID. Since he's part of Kaito, he's scared to fish too. What can I do? I need to stop him. But he's KID at the moment, what could trigger KID to return from shock? What's important enough to stop his fear of fish?
Coming up with a few ideas, he picks up his bow-tie and changes it back to his voice. "KID, KID, calm down. Can you hear me?" KID whimpers in reply, telling Conan that he can be heard, at least unconsciously.
"Okay here goes. KID, watch out Snake is in the woods with his sniper rifle!" Conan shouts, hoping that would work. He doesn't get a reply, only a chocked sob comes down the line.
"Okay, next. KID Snake is about to take Pandora!" again no definite change in the thief. What else, what else will work. What does KID care about more than Kaito? Hell, what do they both care about? Kaito likes Aoko, but KID doesn't, maybe Nakamori-keibu?
Changing the bowtie again, he roars "Come on men, capture KID! Follow him!" Still no reaction, but Conan can here KID mumbling about fish chasing him under his breath. Ah, Come on Shinichi, think! That's it!
He sets the bow tie up correctly, takes a deep breath, and screams in pain "GAHHH! KID help me OWW!" Changing to Shinichi's voice, he continues "AAAHHH. AHHHH. Kaito, Kaito!"
"Tantei-kun, Shin-chan" Comes the returning shout. Fear for the two people dear to them has forced KID to shake off the shock. He stops in his tracks, hand to his ear, pushing on the receiver, wishing to hear more. "Oy, Tantei-kun, Tantei-kun. Are you okay?"
Heaving a sigh of relief, Conan answers "Your back, I'm so glad, I didn't have any other ideas. "
"Hm, what do you mean, why did you scream like that? I was worried nearly half to death." Shouts KID, concerned over the welfare of his favourite critic.
"You were in shock over what you saw in the illusion, fis- um finned creatures, if I guessed correctly." Explains Conan, nearly slipping on the word fish.
KID shivers at the vague memory before answering Conan "Yeah, I saw a fish tank, and one flew out of the tank straight at me, and then I ran, and ran, and ran."
"KID snap out of it. Someone is running towards you, from the south-west." Cautions Conan, finally looking back at the map.
KID jumps into the trees, jumping from branch to branch effortlessly.
Tap. Tap. Tap tap.
Oh great just what I need, rain. I'd better watch out the branches will get slippery.
Carefully, KID jumps to another branch and his foot slips. As he's falling, he grabs the branch with both hands and uses his momentum to swing around the branch like a pole, and land back on top of it. Like that.
He winces slightly as static fills the communicator between him and Tantei-kun. He quietens his breathing, and stands stock still, trying to listen to the noises around him. Apart from the rain, he can't hear a thing. He keeps on moving, and starts to think about the communicator.
Damn, what's with this communicator? Although it doesn't sound like static. It sounds more like a Chipmunk on helium and caffeine.
Assuming that he's gone in a different direction than the target, he flips back to the ground, landing in a clearing with a small stream running through it.
A flash catches his eye, and reflexively he raises his card gun to protect his head. Another clang of metal on metal can be heard. A new flash from the opposite side, and he aims and shoots. In a blur the object moves and the card lands off in the distance. Above him is a constant blue flash, so he aims at that and shoots another card towards the sky. This card just scrapes the flash, at which point it dives towards the blur on the ground. Dodging another swing, KID backflips, jumping again once he lands to avoid another hit.
In the back of his mind, he notices that the rain has stopped.
From his left the blur attacks, and KID swings out of the way, before prancing backwards and placing some distance between them. Far enough away, he loads a special card into the gun and fires it. It embeds itself in the ground infront of the blur, before releasing a cloud of smoke. A moment later the blur appears out of the left side of the cloud. KID notices that the blur is more in focus now, and is moving slightly slower than previously. Maybe they are getting tired? I'd expect moving that fast would tire you out.
The blur rushes at him again, and KID jumps into a tree to escape the attack. The blur takes another swing, aiming for the branch he is on. As soon as KID realises their intended target, he jumps off the branch- just in time too, since almost immediately, the branch is falling towards the ground. KID takes a few capsules out of his pocket, and chucks one towards his attacker, placing special glasses on at the same time. The capsule hits the ground and releases a blinding flash, giving KID time to jump a few more branches away.
Hmm? That flash didn't last as long as usual. Maybe it's old, or just not very well made. But usually they are fine.
He turns and looks at his attacker. They are standing there hand rubbing their eyes, sword held by their side. KID realises that his attacker is Yamamoto. Blinking to clear his eyes, Yamamoto turns towards KID and charges again, so this time KID jumps back into the clearing, noticing that Yamamoto is running at 'normal' speed now.
"Hey, are you getting tired? You've slowed down. I would have thought that a sportsman would have had a lot more stamina." Chides KID, hand on hip, wagging his finger.
Yamamoto laughs before rubbing the back of his hand. "Don't worry, I'm in perfect shape. It's just that the effect of my attack has worn off. Technically, you've sped up... or should I say returned to normal. As you know, my flames have the tranquillity attribute. Well, my ring animal Kojirou, has the power to create rain made of these flames. This rain shower causes those it touches to become more tranquil and slow down. However you aimed at him earlier and clipped one of his wings, he lost concentration and the rain stopped. It took a few minutes for your body to remove the flames and return to normal. Cool right?" he lifts his sword and places it across his shoulders, grinning stupidly.
"Well, that is a nice technique. I didn't think anyone could be that fast." Replies KID, walking around the clearing. "so, shall we continue?" without waiting for an answer, KID pulls out a large capsule and throws it to the middle of the clearing.
Yamamoto coughs, and covers him mouth, whilst squinting his eyes. Experimentally, he swings his sword in a circle, but it hits nothing, just moving the smoke slightly. An idea forms in his head.
"Shigure Soen Ryu, 7th defensive form: Shibuki ame." (Splashing rain)
Holding the sword backwards, Yamamoto starts to spin his sword, creating a fan like movement. This moves the smoke around him, and quickly it dissipates. But when it does, all he can see are multiple Kaitou KID's, standing tall, hands on hips, chins raised superiorly. Putting on his famous grin, they extend an arm to the sky and bow.
"Welcome to Copycat Clearing! We hope that you enjoy your stay!" KID declares. Finally looking up from his bow, he grins like a Cheshire Cat and steps to the side, and out of sight. Yamamoto takes a step forwards, only to retract his foot to avoid a magic card. Seeing KID appear on his right, he swings his sword in that direction. He's sure that he should have touched KID, yet the resistance didn't feel right. Looking back, KID is still standing there, waving at him. He thrusts his sword at KID who has now appeared behind him. KID grabs his chest where he was stabbed, screams and falls to his knees. His lowers his head to the floor, and is silent for a moment.
Raising his head he shouts "Fooled Ya!" before another grin explodes onto his face. As he rises his body back up, he brings his gun straight out, aims directly forwards, towards Yamamoto and fires the gun. A magic card flies directly at Yamamoto, cutting a scratch along his cheek. He takes another step to the side and disappears from view again.
Yamamoto wipes the blood off of his cheek and lowers himself into a position from which he can easily attack or defend. What's going on here? There are so many KID's. These can't be illusions; I don't feel any flames about me. Nor did I feel mist flames when I calmed KID down earlier.
"Oy, Yakyuu-baka, what on earth are you doing there like that? You look like a real idiot you know. You should be helping Juudaime catch KID, not standing in the middle of this clearing spacing out!" roars Gokudera, appearing on his right.
"Yeah that's right. We should be helping to the EXTREME! He's not easy to catch, but I will EXTREMELY do it." Yells Ryohei, appearing next to Gokudera.
"Gyahahah! Yamamoto, play with me. I'm bored." Orders Lambo, standing on Gokudera's other side.
"Lambo, we are playing a game. It's a game of um... tag, with KID." Replies Tsuna, standing on the other side of the clearing than the others.
"Yama-chan, over here" giggles KID, standing between Tsuna and Ryohei, about a meter away from both. Yamamoto goes to thrust at KID, but KID moves, coming up behind Tsuna. To Yamamoto's surprise, none of the others have reacted to KID's appearance. In fact Tsuna doesn't even seem to realise that KID is lounging in his shoulder.
What on earth is going on here? How is KID doing this? He wonders, analysing the sight before him.
"Jirou, go check them out." He whispers, summoning Jirou in a ball of flame. Remaining as flame, rather than taking a physical form, Jirou takes a zigzagging path towards Gokudera and the others.
Hm? Why doesn't he go straight to them? There is nothing in the way. But that was a definite path and not just some odd rambling. What does this mean?
"You aren't going to get me with that rain again, you know" Taunts KID, having moved on from Tsuna to stand opposite from Gokudera.
Meanwhile, the flame Jirou has reached the others, and takes physical form.
"What is that, a dog?" asks KID.
Jirou sniffs at his master's friends, and then paws at Gokudera. It doesn't smell like storm flames. He scratches harder, and Gokudera goes POP!
Wah! Gokudera exploded! Screams Yamamoto internally.
KID seeing what has happened, flings another smoke bomb to the ground, and goes to collect the dummies he was using, his plan to toy with the swordsman foiled. In the cloud of smoke Yamamoto runs fearlessly towards where Jirou is. Along the way, he runs into something. It feels like cloth, as if he's run into a curtain. He grabs the fabric and keeps running forward. Once out of the smoke, he looks at the item in his hand. One side is blue, just like the inside of KID's cape, the other side is mirrored. Holding it up, he sees that it is indeed one of KID's capes.
So instead of flame illusions, it was the traditional magic smoke and mirrors type of illusion. He's turned the clearing into a house of mirrors by using his mirrored capes. Well two can play copycats! Thinks Yamamoto triumphantly.
He runs towards the stream, bringing down any mirror capes in his way. KID walks towards him, appearing and disappearing in the mirrors.
"Shigure Soen Ryu, 9th offensive form, Utsushi Ame (Duplicate Rain)" bringing his sword down towards the water, he forcefully pulls the sword through, creating a tidal wave around him, and landing in the midst of the mirrors.
"Let's end this" says KID, seeing that Yamamoto has landed one mirror to his left. He shoots a sleeping gas card through the cape to where Yamamoto should be. But the card keeps on going, eventually hitting a tree.
"Hyaa!" shouts Yamamoto, attacking KID from behind and above.
What, how did he get there? It's like he jumped out of the tidal wave. But I was sure that he landed over there. I know how the light refracts off of these, he should have been there!
With no time to dodge the attack, he instead blocks with his Card Gun, the clang resounding and reverberating around the clearing. Yamamoto jumps back and behind one of the capes. He steps back into the stream, and repeats the attack, landing in a different place. Both images of Yamamoto attack KID simultaneously, both bearing down from above.
KID grabs his gas mask again, and throws down a sleeping gas bomb. All three of them are enveloped. Eventually the smoke clears, and Yamamoto is laying fast asleep on the ground.
"Wow, that was close. He nearly had me with that. Who knew he could create copies of himself too. And that was the 9th form. I'd like to see the others." He reaches behind him grabbing a rope, and carries Yamamoto over to a tree, as far from the water as possible. Once tied to the tree, he takes the sword, (that has amazingly become a bamboo stick again) and ties it to the branch above Yamamoto- he'll be able to see it, but won't be able to reach it. He grabs Yamamoto's hand, preparing to take the ring off. Oh, he has two rings. I didn't think that the dog could fly, he didn't have wings. So I must have clipped the wings of a bird, which would be this ring here, and the dog attacked my dummies, which is this ring here. What a lucky guy, having two rings. With the two rings safely tucked in his breast pocket, he talks to Tantei-kun "Hey, I've just caught Yamamoto."
"What the hell do you think you were doing? You just walked straight at him, you didn't even answer me when I warned you. All I needed was an 'I want to play with him' and I would have been fine." Screams a pissed off Conan down the connection.
"Oh, so you were the chipmunk on helium and caffeine!" declares KID, remembering the funny static.
"A Chipmunk on h-helium and what? Did you get hit on the head or something?" questions Conan, fully believing that KID has finally jumped over the edge of the Crazy Building without his glider.
"What, no. Yamamoto used his tranquil Rain flames to slow down my senses. I was acting and feeling in slow motion, so all I heard was you at high speed. Yamamoto seemed so fast that he was just a blur. It was an ability of one of his ring animals. So let's review. So far we have:
1 Hibari under electric therapy, bound and ring removed
1 Gokudera, gassed, tied and hidden under the floor, ring removed
1 Ryohei, gassed, secured and under a bed, ring removed
1 Lambo, passed out from fright and fastened to a table leg, ring removed.
1 Yamamoto, gassed and strapped to a tree, ring removed
So that leaves Tsuna and Mukuro. Where are they?" KID counts them off on his fingers, still alert and listening to the forest around him.
"Well, we know that Mukuro was the one on the left side of the building, when you went right. He later went downstairs, just before you frightened Lambo. So I'm assuming that Tsuna was the one outside who went to check on the hole that Ryohei made with his Maximum Canon. Once he heard Lambo scream, he went rushing in your direction. By the time Yamamoto found you, he was with Lambo and Mukuro. Since then he has made his way to your location. He's still far away, but I'd start running north-west if I were you. That's the direction of the closest gate. He'll be on your position in approximately 45 seconds." Assesses Conan, looking at the moving target on his screen.
KID takes Conan's advice, and runs in the given direction. After about 20 seconds, Conan is shouting worryingly in his ear. "Shit KID, he's just picked up speed. Dramatically. He must be flying, so look out for him above. He can fly a lot faster than your glider can. He's like a bullet train. Fuck, KID look out."
A roaring sound can be heard above him, and he looks up to see a comet diving towards him. Still running he loads another special card into the Card Gun, and fires. This time after a few seconds, a net opens up and entraps Tsuna. Not expecting this, he crashes into the ground, unable to move his hands for a controlled landing.
KID keeps on running, the fence in sight. Tsuna burns through the ropes and gives chase, flames boosting him along the forest. However, having to steer around trees and watching out for fallen branches or vines means that it takes a lot more concentration and Tsuna can't go as fast as he usually can. He uses a small burst of flames to cut down the last few trees in his way.
Remembering that the task was to capture KID, he places his hands at an angle to one another, one facing him, the other facing KID, a diamond formed in between the two. Taking a breath, he closes his eyes, and his flame begins to pulse
"Zero Point Breakthrough: First Edition"
He reaches out and touches KID's foot freezing him to the ground. Tsuna looks up and sees that KID has a hold of the metal wire of the fence.
With a shocked look on his face, Tsuna lets the flame fizzle out, and he blinks at KID.
"So who won?" he asks, looking openly confused.
"Kufufufu. It was a draw Tsunayoshi-kun. Although if you want to get really technical, then KID won. Have you seen what he has done to the others? He could have just grabbed the jewel, and used his glider to escape. Yet he stayed and fought each one of them. Well not me, he ran from me. But what did you do? Run around outside, looked at a hole, checked on Lambo, and then gave chase for 200 meters. So in all honesty, I think that Conan and KID have won this. Now, it is really getting late, can you let him out and we'll go find the others. Although, I don't mind leaving them here. Especially Hibari, he can stay under the influence of the electricity for all I care. Kufufu, yes, why don't we just go home without them?"
"Heeii, we can't do that. We've got to take them home." Shrieks Tsuna, shaking his head and making wild hand gestures
"I'd suggest that you call for back up. Nearly all of them are asleep and won't be waking up for around another hour. But can you let me out? I'm not in the best position here; I can't exactly stand up straight, nor take my hands off of this fence. If I did, then I'd just hit the floor face first."
"Oh, yeah, sure. One second." Replies Tsuna. He goes back into hyper dying will mode, and melts the frozen flames.
"Come on then, you'll need me to find them all. I've hidden Ryohei under a bed and Gokudera under the floor." Informs KID, stiffly walking back in the direction of the building
"You what?" screams Tsuna "You put Gokudera under the floor. Oh, I hope he's okay." Tsuna races after KID, pulling out his phone and calling in for a back-up team.
Kufufufu. Who would think that a man who can outwit them all is afraid of fish? I'll have to look over the camera footage and see what he did. Shinichi, you sure have found yourself a great friend, even if he was once a rival. But then again, who am I to talk