The basement under Uruhara's shop

"What is this place?" Heiji wondered aloud. "How can there be such a huge area underneath the shop?"

"Who are you people? And what have you done with Conan-kun?" Ran demanded angrily, spinning around to face the giant man and the two small kids flanking him. The girl peered at her shyly from behind the huge man while the boy stared at Ayumi with a look of total bliss on his face. Genta and Mitsuhiko glared at him.

"Don't worry. Just stay here." The huge man, Tessai said. He leapt back up the ladder and dissapeared.

"Great. He just left us here. In the middle of a huge wasteland with sands and rocks." Heiji mused to himself.

"So, my name is Ururu Tsumugiya." The girl said shyly.

"My name is Jinta Hanakari and you can call me Jinta, your Highness." The boy bowed low before Ayumi, making her blush. The two boys glared.

"Ururu and Jinta, can any of you tell us what's going on?" Ran pleaded.

Ururu looked at her. "We could, but then we'd have to kill you."

"She's right." Jinta confirmed, still gawking at Ayumi.

Soul Society

"I don't know what Shinichi's thinking but he better have a brilliant plan." Rukia said as she rushed back to the infirmary with Renji in tow. "Everything's so weird."

"I don't get it, Rukia." Renji said. "Why has everything revolved around that Shinichi person?"

"He's supposedly the one who can solve the case." Rukia replied. "That's what the General Captain said."

"Don't we have our own detectives?" Renji asked again. "Why do we have to ask a human to do it for us?"

"Ichigo is a human…"

"And look what happened when we involved a human. Soul Society was nearly torn apart by his little group of human friends." He paused. "He single-handedly defeated the captains and subcaptains. And cause a revolt."

"C'mon, Renji." Rukia said softly. "If he didn't do that, I would not have lived." She paused. "Plus, if I remember correctly, you were one of the people to revolt as well.'

"I guess so…I mean, WHAT?! I did that to save you!"

"So anyways, I'm sure Shinichi or Conan can help us. He won't do anything against Soul Society."

She flung open the infirmary door. "Now we need to know who the culprit is, Shinichi." She looked around. The room was empty.

"Maybe first, we need to find Shinichi…" Renji mumbled.

Uruhara's shop

"Yoruichi, how are you holding up?" Uruhara panted as he parried off another blow by the arrancar.

"I haven't had so much fun in a long time." Yoruichi replied, flitting around with her flash steps. The arrancar was desperately trying to slash at her.

"But I don't think the third one is happy to be left out." Uruhara said as he parried a double blow from the arrancar attacking him. "Uh-oh." The third arrancar attacked him from his side. He braced himself for the impact. It never came.

Suddenly, the arrancar's blow was parried by a huge zanpakutō.

"I think I can be of service then." Ichigo frowned at Uruhara. "I'll entertain him for you."

"Ichigo, what the hell are you doing here?" Uruhara asked. "Where's Kudo-san?"

"Rukia and Renji are taking care of him. Relax." Ichigo slashed out at the arrancar, who leapt back and roared at him.

"You idiot." Yoruichi said. "You're supposed to be protecting him."

"Two of the captains are the culprits." Uruhara added. "So I guess we lost Kudo then. His girlfriend's not going to like that."

"What?! His girlfriend is here? That otaku has a girlfriend?" Ichigo slashed out and hit blade connected at the arrancar's skull. It dematerialized into thin air.

"Stop babbling, Ichigo." Uruhara said. With one swift move, he dispatched of the arrancar. Yoruichi used her flash steps to run circles around her arrancar before slashing its head. Yoruichi and Uruhara lowered their blades stared at Ichigo. He stared back.

"You guys could have thrashed those arrancar." Ichigo marveled.

"You're an idiot Ichigo." Uruhara shook his head. "What the hell are you still doing here?! Go back to Soul Society now!"

"Right…sheesh. Relax." Ichigo bounded off.

"The enemy has actually planned our every single move." Uruhara sighed. "Who the hell could it be?"

Soul Society

"KUDO!!" Rukia yelled, looking all around the room. "KUDO! Where the hell are you?!"

"Yelling won't help. I'll go ask the other shinigamis to help search." Renji said, as calmly as he could.

"No. We have to look for him ourselves. If word gets out and everyone is searching for him, Shinichi's life will be in danger."

"Good point. But where do we start to look?" Renji held his zanpakutō in his hands nervously.

"We need help. But someone who is subtle and is really good at sensing people's soul powers. Who do we know that has that kind of power?"

Renji thought for a while. Suddenly, his head snapped up and he stared at Rukia. She had the same look on her face.

"Ishida!"

On the way to Soul Society

'Damn it.' Ichigo thought to himself. 'Why are we even stuck with such a matter? And why must it be Shinichi?' He leapt from building to building, as he made his way back to Soul Society.

He was so engrossed in his thoughts that he did not notice a huge white paraglider flying towards him. There was someone hanging under the paraglider. And he had a huge cheeky smile on his face.

"Kaito Kid strikes again!"