Detective Conan and Magic Kaito characters, settings, and ideas do not belong to me but to Aoyama Gōshō.
TMPD Antics
By Taliya
XLIV: Hakuba and Kudou
"Kudou-kun, a word please."
Shinichi glanced over his shoulder to find Saguru standing several paces back. The two detectives were working on yet another fraud case that had turned up a body. Shinichi had been looking over the crime scene with diligent eyes, while Saguru had been rifling through the victim's expense reports.
The blond held up several of the printed reports. "Based on what I have read through so far, our victim was assuredly money laundering. However, I'm not sure the amounts were enough to produce such a consequence," he explained, nodding his head in the direction of the corpse regarding the latter statement.
The homicide detective peered at the columns and rows of numbers and names, eyes searching for some pattern. "Hakuba," he murmured. "Why does his guy's name keep showing up?"
"Loan shark," the fraud detective replied. "That's what a quick search on the name returned, at least. Why?"
"That guy is actually on the wanted list. He picks out his victims by their financials," Shinichi muttered, eyes distant as his mind churned. "He's always on the run, and therefore has been able to evade arrest."
"Is he your man then?" queried the half-Briton.
Shinichi nodded. "Likely. I'll have to run a search to see where he likes to hunker down—see if I can determine a pattern in order to guess where he'll hide next. Thanks."
Saguru shuffled the papers into a neat stack. "No problem. And just a heads up, Kudou-kun, I saw Hattori-kun and Kuroba-kun scheming in the hallway."
"Duly noted," Shinichi answered, mentally shuddering at the idea of what sort of havoc those two would generate.
Author's Note: So… Eh. Sorry if this wasn't all that great. Honestly, I'm a little out of ideas for this particular pairing, but… I hope you enjoyed it.
Completed: 15.11.2015