SailorStar9: With Chapter 50 uploaded, this is Chapter 51 of this fic. (Sighs) Guys and girls, is it too hard for you to leave a review, instead of just putting this fic up on your favorited list and story alerts?
Pairings: Established!Furuya Rei (Amuro Tooru)/Mizuno Ami
Disclaimers: I own absolutely nothing, except this plot and pairing.
Chapter 51: Conan Disappears Over a Cliff, Part One
Time passes...
"It's so wonderful!" Ayumi gushed, the Detective Boys running into the lawn of a two-story mansion.
"Staying here makes me feel like a celebrity." Mitsuhiko agreed.
"I bet they serve the best eel." Genta bragged.
"I'm not sure about that." Conan remarked.
"Unfortunately, we have to cook for ourselves, here, Koijma-kun." Haibara pointed out.
"Your connections never fail to impress, Professor." Fumio gawked. "I can't believe you know this villa's owner."
Ayumi ran towards the fence facing the sea, taking in the sea breeze. Turning, she took a step back in shock. "What?"
"What's wrong, Ayumi-chan?" Conan asked, the others hurrying over upon hearing Ayumi's frightened scream.
"Who is he?" Genta blinked, taking in the gravely wounded Isehara Yuji who was lying behind the bush hedge.
"He's alive." Conan noticed Isehara's deep breaths.
"He's seriously hurt, but he's still breathing." Fumio confirmed, putting pressure on Isehara's wound to stem the bleeding.
"Haibara, call an ambulance." Conan instructed.
"That was a surprise." Mitsuhiko noted, seeing the ambulance take Isehara off. "Who was he and what happened to him? Is it some kind of case?"
"He's probably just a thief." Genta guessed. "Maybe he made a mistake while breaking in and hurt himself."
"It's not impossible if he can shoot himself in the arm with a crossbow." Haibara deathpanned.
"Wait, a crossbow?" Fumio echoed. "Wasn't yesterday's..."
"Where's Conan-kun?" Ayumi inquired.
"He was here a minute ago." Professor Agasa noted.
He must've left this behind. Conan returned to the crime scene and picked up a photograph. What's this? He flipped the photo to the back and saw two rows of numbers and alphabet letters.
"Probably either usernames or passwords." Fumio peered over the group leader's shoulder. "They're totally different. Are you returning it back to him?"
"I guess." Conan replied. "Make up some excuse to tell the others, okay?"
Some time after Isehara was taken to hospital...
"Inspector Megure?" Ami took the call when the call was put through by the Bureau's operator. "Isehara Yuji? Yes... I understand. Ikari-buchō." she knocked on her superior's door and entered.
"What?" Takagi blinked, seeing Conan in the Misakihama Clinic where Isehara had been taken.
"A suspicious man fled through the window." Conan reported, having averted Isehara's assassination attempt earlier. "Check the rear entrance."
"It's no use." Chiba returned with an abandoned doctor coat. "He escaped. We found this in the garbage out back."
"Was that injured man part of the Zorro robbery group?" Conan guessed.
"Actually, the group hires its members." Takagi corrected. "Isehara Yuji, twenty-eight years old. He's a skilled hacker the Public Security Bureau's Cyber-Security division was pursuing, too. He hacks and manipulates the target's security information. We heard through the Kanagawa Police that they had a likely suspect in their custody, so we came here."
" Public Security Bureau's Cyber-Security division?" Conan echoed. "Does that mean Mizuno-san..."
"Inspector Megure had already informed Mizuno-fukubuchō about Isehara Yuji." Takagi stated, emphasizing on Ami's title. "She should be joining us once she received the go-ahead."
"That should be enough for the report to Kogoro-ojisan." Conan noted.
"Isehara's missing too?" Chiba exclaimed after a nurse informed him.
"Find them!" Inspector Megure instructed his subordinates, upon finding Isehara's bed empty. "Mizuno-fukubuchō, we have a problem." he placed a call to the female vice department head.
Later that day...
"That's not fair, Conan." Mitsuhiko complained, the rest of the Detective Boys having trailed Conan. "You've should've told us if something was up."
"The Detective Boys are a team." Ayumi agreed.
"Where did Conan go?" Genta wondered, the group having lost track of Conan deeper into the forest.
"That's odd." Mitsuhiko noted. "We could see him until a while ago."
"It's starting to get dark." Ayumi pointed out. "Will Conan-kun be okay?"
"Don't you mean will we be okay?" Fumio corrected. "It looks like we're lost." he looked around.
"Since the sun is setting that way, the ocean's this way." Haibara turned. "We can still identify directions for now, so we can go back if we need to. So let's go a little farther."
After night fell...
"Conan!" Genta spotted the cornered Isehara and Conan on a nearby cliff.
The Detective Boys watched on in horror as both Isehara and Conan fell into the ocean below.
SailorStar9: Any OOC-ness is regretted, by the way. *Sighs* Don't you just hate plot bunnies sometimes? Read and review.