There will be time jumps throughout the story, nothing too drastic but just so not everything is happening one after another.

Chapter Summary: It was during the "Detective Koshien" that Hakuba met Edogawa Conan and Hattori Heiji. It was there that he also met one of the many ghosts that seemed to haunt the two of them.

There's a month difference between the first chapter and this one.

I sincerely wish I was able to own Detective Conan or Magic Kaito.

Chapter 2: Miyano Akemi

When Hakuba regained consciousness he was laying in his bed, stripped off his shirt and in a pair of loose sweats with a thick wad of gauze and bandages on his shoulder and hip. Hakuba blinked down at them, wondering where they came from before the events of last night all came rushing back to him.

He wanted to know what painkillers he was on since he could barely feel any pain at all.

"You don't know how lucky you are kid."

Hakuba rolled his eyes, "Yes, I'm well aware of how close I could've been to dying Kuroba-san, I don't need you telling me about it."

When only silence answered him, Hakuba actually sat up, a painful task, and looked for Kuroba-san only to see him standing by his window, gaping at him. Hakuba made a disgusted noise as he noticed how some of Kuroba-san's teeth were missing and any leftover ones were in various transitions of decay.

"Please close your mouth Kuroba-san."

"W-Why can you see me?!"

Hakuba wanted to smack himself when he realized what he'd just done. Kuroba-san apparently thought his talking to him was just because he was injured not because he could actually see ghosts and now he'd just thrown that available excuse away.

"Oi!"

Hakuba jerked away from Kuroba-san when he grabbed his shoulders and the sudden movement put a strain on his still injured body causing him to yelp.

"Don't move, Hakuba-kun are you alright?"

"Please don't just suddenly touch me Kuroba-san and I'm fine." Hakuba hissed shifting around on the mattress to get comfortable as he leaned back against the headboard. He knew the upcoming conversation was bound to give him a headache.

"So…" Hakuba started, " You want to know why I can see you correct?" Kuroba-san nodded eagerly, and Hakuba wanted to laugh at how alike he was to his son, "I can see you because I can see ghosts."

Kuroba-san roared, "...There has to be more to it than that! It can't be so simple!"

"Why not?" Hakuba smirked.

"You-!"

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Hakuba didn't even know why he was attending this meeting of various Detectives. It wasn't something he'd usually do, but ever since revealing to Kuroba-san that he could see him, for the past month the ghost has been talking to him non-stop, and he needed a break.

Most of the time he just talked about how cute Kaito was growing up, other times he'd lecture him about trying to arrest his son but in moments when it was just the two of them Kuroba-san would question what his true motives were.

That was something not even Hakuba knew.

It took him almost an entire week to convince Kuroba-san not to follow him to this gathering and in the end, he only agreed because Kaitou Kid had scheduled another heist and Kuroba-san wanted to be able to watch over his son.

The boat ride to the gathering was suspicious alone not adding the shady people behind the said gathering, what bothered him the most was the fact that he was asked to replace the actual Detective of the East; Kudo Shinichi.

He's heard a lot about Kudo Shinichi but has never had the pleasure of meeting the Detective, he didn't want to trespass on another's territory. It took almost three hours before everyone else arrived, it'd given him more than enough time to do a little bit of recon and come to the conclusion that he really did not like this place.

"Then," The Nichiuri TV Producer; Tsuchio Hiroo began, "Now that all the Detectives from the East, West, South, and North are gathered...Let's introduce ourselves!"

Hakuba tuned them all out as they introduced themselves, he didn't care too much for knowing the South and North representative's names, he already knew Edogawa Conan and it was thanks to his research he knew who Hattori Heiji was. Hakuba instead focused on the ghost that was following Conan around, it wasn't rare to see ghosts around children but for Hakuba, it was rare since Conan appeared to have as many random ghosts as Hattori did.

Usually when ghosts who did not have a connection to anyone but stayed with someone regardless, then they were no longer ghosts with a form but a sphere of fire instead. Police officers, firefighters, medical staff and people of the military were the ones who had the most sphere's around them, it was those who had seen a lot of death.

It unnerved Hakuba to realize how much death Conan must've seen in his lifetime. As a high school Detective, it made a bit more sense for Hattori to have them, but Hakuba wondered why the other two high school Detectives didn't.

There was one ghost that had a form and followed Conan around at that moment. Ghosts came and went whenever they pleased so Hakuba couldn't use that as a measure of when the ghost had died but Hakuba glanced at the ghost crouched next to Conan and frowned when he saw the bullet hole in her chest.

It was a woman, possible twenty-four to twenty-five, she had long chocolate brown hair, bangs, a semi-pale complexion and a warm, inviting personality about her despite being dead.

"They're over 1000 so, I can't count them one by one!"

Hakuba looked back over at Hattori Heiji just as he finished introducing himself causing Hakuba to smirk as he heard Hattori telling Conan how he included solving missing cat cases.

"I see, so you're Hattori Heiji," Hakuba said calmly, "I've heard much about you from my father. He said you're a quick-witted Detective."

"What...What does your Daddy know about me?!" Hattori said leaning into Hakuba's personal space.

"So that's why Heiji-niichan's alike!" Conan exclaimed suddenly cutting into the conversation.

"Alike?" Hattori muttered shoving his hands into his pockets and glancing down at Conan.

"Isn't that so, Hakuba-niichan?" Conan asked looking up at Hakuba.

"Yeah," Hakuba said staring at Conan, "My father's a police Superintendent." Hakuba turned and addressed Hattori, "Your father's Director of the Osaka Police Department, I have a surprising amount in common with you."

"Ho-"

"By the way, the number of cases you have solved?"

Hakuba looked over at the Detective of the South, somewhat annoyed by his interruption, "The number would be roughly 500, I believe…"

"What, that's half my number!"

Hakuba felt his annoyance grow at the high and mighty tone Hattori used with him, "Yeah. But then, I'm just talking about the cases that happened in Japan."

Hattori scowled at Hakuba, "What?"

Hakuba glanced once more at the ghost hovering by Conan's side, she seemed oddly amused by the situation and Hakuba risked a glance at Conan before realizing Conan was staring at him with a panicked look on his face. Startled, Hakuba looked back at Hattori and explained his living in England and his Baaya accepting cases from Japan for him.

This was the start of a very interesting trip.

I hope you guys all enjoyed chapter two! I'm sitting here with two hours to kill before I have a four-hour lecture so I'm hoping to finish posting everything then start working on the next few chapters.