Chapter 8: The Moonlight Magician Part One

I know, I know. This author's probably dead you're thinking, but I'm not. I just lost my encouragement to write this story for three years... But now it's back, since I re-read it and I remember how I wanted it to end, so I decided I should continue writing it.

I have become a waaayyyyy better writer, just saying. I was a sixth grader back then, now I'm in ninth grade I have improved a lot. So, yeah. Enjoy.

"Hey Fuji, pass me the apple and the avocado that I put there," Shirushi said dripping blue liquid into a flask with red liquid.

Fuji rolled his eyes as he was screwing off a nail from one of his inventions, "Get it yourself."

Shirushi snorted, "Such brother you are."

Fuji scoffed, smiling and picking up a chip and attaching it to a device, "Please, I'm the best brother ever."

"Yeah, yeah," Shirushi said as she completed the part of her liquid mixing and set up the apparatus.

She got the apple and the avocado and she connected one tube to the apple and the other tube to the avocado.

The tubes both went into the flask which was getting heated. They were also connected to each other through a tube.

"Now, the wait." She said, sitting down on her office chair and watching the flask.

"If you're going to wait then go and get some food, please. And we have some work to do pretty soon," Fuji said.

Shirushi looked in her watch and said, "Yeah, it's tomorrow. I can't wait actually. It's so exciting!"

Fuji smiled through his work at his sister's happiness in this situation, "Yeah, me too. I mean seeing Kaito KID flustered will be so funny. That will be a sight to see, since he always has his poker face on."

Shirushi laughed as she stood up to go to the kitchen.

As she was looking through the fridge, she heard the door bell ring.

DING-DONG

"Who would want us at a time like this?" Shirushi muttered under her breath as she heard Fuji yell from the basement, "Shirushi, could you get that?"

Shirushi put leftover spaghetti from the night before in the microwave and started the timer. The bell rang again, two more times.

"I'm comin', I'm comin'..." Shirushi walked over to the door and looked into a small screen on the door and looked to see who was out.

Conan? Okay then.

She opened the door and popped her head out, "What's up, Conan?"

He had something in his hand.

He put on a serious face and help up the newspaper he was holding, "Did you know about this?"

Shirushi blinked, reading the headlines and inviting him in. She closed the door and looked through the newspaper.

Attention Kaito Kid, I challange you.

I've put priceless artifact Blue Wonder in my museum in the city.

Come and take it if you can.

Suzuki Corporation Advisor, Suzuki Kirokichi

Shirushi led Conan downstairs with the food and the newspaper, after getting the spaghetti out from the microwave.

"Of course I know about this," She answered his question simply.

"Well, then tell me about what he does. Do you know what his real identity is?" Conan asked seriously.

Shirushi set the bowl of Fuji's share beside him and gave a small bowl to Conan and sat down on her office chair with her bowl.

Conan stood in front of the chair blocking Shirushi's view of her experiment.

"Well, here's the deal, Conan. We know things that you don't know. We know your future- but its limited, mind you. But we can't just go telling you his identity because that will mess up the way this world works. And if we start telling you who the murderer is before hand, which I doubt I'd remember since there are way too many episodes to keep track of, then we will be stopping the deaths that are in reality inevitable because that was supposed to happen. We cannot stop any deaths, sorry."

Shirushi explained.

Conan nodded, "I understand. But if you are so intent on not changing anything then why did you visit this world?"

Shirushi grinned, "Because I wanted to meet you."

"Come on. I know there's more reason to it than that."

Shirushi's grin faltered, "There is. We... have something important we need from this world. But, we've calculated to everything that will happen with the actions we take and right now, it's nothing earth destructive. So, don't worry about it. It's like we are in an interact-able movie, we don't really affect anything right now."

Then Fuji spoke up, "And if it does, we have a back up plan."

Conan raised one of his eyebrow, "Which is...?"

Shirushi pouted, "But I don't like the back-up plan... It's to erase all traces that we were in this world. Basically removing everyone's memory of us from this world ."

Conan made an undecipherable expression, "Oh..."

"Well, that's it. Now step aside and ask me questions, I have to keep an eye on this apparatus," Conan stepped aside and looked at what Shirushi had been doing. He saw and apple and an avocado and shook his head in trying to understand what this girl wanted to do with these.

Then, he walked over to Fuji's area and looked at what he was doing.

"Hey, Fuji? Would you mind answering a question?" Conan asked.

"I don't mind. You can ask any questions. Ask away!" Fuji smiled but continued to hammer something on his device.

"Do I know the real identity of Kaito KID?" Conan asked, curious if it was someone he knew.

Fuji stopped for two seconds and then went back to hammering, "Sorry, I can't answer that."

Conan sighed, "That's fine. I'm guessing he's not even that bad of a guy, since he always returns whatever he steals..."

Then Fuji chuckled thinking Nope. In fact, he is Shirushi's favorite. But that would give everything away.

"Hey, look! I did it! It's ready, Fuji!" Shirushi's voice boomed in the huge room of the basement.

"Good for you Shirushi, I'm not done yet. It'll take a minute. I only have to add in the part to hold the fruits.

Conan was curious (as always) to see what Shirushi had made. He walked back over to where she was working and looked at her looking inside of the apple and avocado.

The apple had something greed in it and the avocado had something yellow in it.

"I switched the components of the apple to the avocado. So if you bite into the apple, it's an avocado and if you cut open the avocado, it's an apple!" Shirushi explained excitedly.

Conan was baffled that that was even possible, but he's seen things stranger in the past two weeks so he wasn't really going to complain now.

"Shirushi, come over here. Bring the liquid, as well as the other fruits."

Conan followed Shirushi to Fuji. She put in the tubes of where they were supposed to be and put in the liquid and the fruits in each side of the device that held the fruits.

Oh, cool. Conan thought as Fuji switch on the heat and he could see the feel of the fruits were changing.

After about two minutes Fuji turned it off and took out the fruits.

Fuji pried open the avocado and Shirushi bit into the apple.

After a second, you could hear Shirushi trying to spit out the thing she'd consumed.

"It's a," She coughed in disgust, "success."

"You shouldn't have bitten it," Said Fuji, putting the apple filled avocado and avocado filled apple on a desk.

"I really shouldn't have... And Conan, Tomorrow's when the exhibit's happening, right? For Kaito Kid?" Shirushi asked she took the empty bowls of the spaghetti and made their way up the stairs into the ground floor.

"Yep, Saturday. The newspaper came out yesterday, but I couldn't say I was going to the professors because he wasn't here yesterday, but he's here today so I can say that as an excuse..."

"And let me guess, Kaito KID said OK to this challange, right? He's walking, or something of that sort" Shirushi said, not giving too much away so that Conan won't look too deep into it.

Fuji rolled his eyes and said, "Well yeah, since you've watched this episode like five times."

Shirushi sweat-dropped and said, "Like you haven't either... Anyways, let's not talk about us watching. You're going right, Conan?"

"Of course I am! I want to know if he's being serious with the 'walking', he could get caught so easily. He must have something up his sleeve," He said with a serious look.

"Well, lets say Kaito KID is very clever" Shirushi said, chuckling.

Then it was Conan's turn to sweat-drop. That literally gave away nothing.

"I can still read your expression, you know. Even when I haven't drank the mind reading potion," Shirushi deadpanned at Conan.

"Well, I have to go anyway. There is something I need from professor and I have to be on my way back to the agency." Conan made his way towards the door.

"See you at the Kaito KID thingy, tomorrow," Shirushi waved.

"See ya, Conan. Have fun snooping around," Fuji said, smirking.

Conan rolled his eyes and left after saying, "Bye."

Then, Shirushi immediately turned to Fuji.

"Well Fu-chan, I guess we have to start the plan," Shirushi was full on grinning.

"Can't wait to meet Kaito, eh?" Fuji said.

"Hey! He's my favorite!"

"I know. I know. But you're still my sister. I won't let any boys get near you, whether they are fictional or not."

"Dan!"

"No excuses."