Disclaimer: I do not own Detective Conan or Magic Kaito.
Oneshot Eight
Calling the Reaper
Saguru scowled as he browsed through the contacts list on Kaito's cellphone, searching for any incriminating evidence pointing to him being Kaitou KID as the text message conversations that were stored on the mobile device revealed nothing.
. . . It wasn't stealing if the obnoxious magician had dropped it when performing a magic trick for Aoko on their walk back home together and hadn't noticed its loss.
Unfortunately, Kaito's contacts yielded nothing but the usual.
Hold on. Saguru blinked in disbelief as he saw one of the entries. Death?
Now that was just ridiculous, probably just another example of Kaito's idea of a joke.
Still . . . his thumb hovered over the call button. Morbid curiosity to see who the thief would label with a name battled with a niggling doubt that perhaps he really shouldn't do this. A few moments later and the former won, and so came down the thumb.
The contact didn't take long to answer.
"Who is this and how did you get this number?" a disgruntled child's voice met Saguru, and it took him only a couple seconds to match it to Edogawa Conan's, that precocious child. Scratch that, disconcerting child. The encounters he had had with the boy had more than interested him enough to look up more information on the boy, and all of the murder cases and Conan's role in them were more than freaky. It didn't help that it was around the detective-in-the-making that Saguru had run into some of the most bizarre and convoluted homicides.
"Hello?"
Realizing that he was still connected, Saguru hung up and continued staring at the phone's screen for a few moments longer. Perhaps Death wasn't that far off from the truth.
Then, an epiphany: why would Kuroba Kaito have Conan's number? The latter had certainly had many run-ins with Kaitou KID, but not with "amateur high school magician" Kuroba Kaito to Saguru's knowledge. Now if only he could find something more solid to oust the phantom thief's identity.
Perhaps the boy detective would be interested in aiding him in such an endeavor?
Now there was an idea.
Then again . . . Saguru preferred keeping murders out of his daily life. He was really quite sane in that respect.
Perhaps a cup of tea would be conducive to weighing out the pros and cons of making a deal with the reaper. Yes, that sounded good.
AN: It would be so awesome to see Conan and Saguru team up and put pressure on Kaito. Shrunken teen (who is also a detective) and teen detective; together, they fight crime! *Is shot*