SailorStar9: For all those who are wondering where I disappeared to, no, I'm not dead, just waiting for the next relevant episode to air. With Chapter 69 uploaded, this is Chapter 70 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 70: A Woman Standing by the Window, Part One

Time passes...

"We're really going?" Conan echoed, Ayumi having gathered the Detective Boys and informed them of her intention.

"Don't you want to see her, too?" Mitsuhiko inquired.

"She's pretty and nice." Genta added.

"Why not?" Haibara shrugged. "Just imagine it's good for your eyes."

"Haibara-san..." Fumio sighed.

"You, too?" Conan leveled a glare at the snarky girl.

"That's Midorikawa Saki." Ayumi pointed to the apartment unit.

"She really is pretty." Mitsuhiko whispered.

"I heard she was good-natured and cheerful, but..." Haibara noted.

"She seems kind of lonely." Conan pointed out. "And what is she looking at?" he turned to the direction Midorikawa was staring.

"Come to think of it, she was looking yesterday, too." Ayumi recalled.

"You go to the gym?" Ayumi gushed, the children were accompanying Midorikawa out.

"For your beauty and health?" Mitsuhiko asked.

"No, my body's important for work." Midorikawa answered.

"What were you looking at from your window?" Conan piped in.

"Who knows?" Midorikawa shrugged. "This is my stop." she paused in front of the building. "See you later."

"Let's start looking for cases." Genta cheered.

"Since our long weekend starts today, I'd like to solve a big case." Mitsuhiko declared.

"You really think you'll find a big case just lying around?" Conan chided.

"Conan, you jinx..." Fumio muttered, the group then hearing and seeing a convertible van crash head-first into the building Midorikawa just walked into.

"What's wrong?" Haibara whispered, noticing Conan's keen eyes had immediately picked up on the three suspects in the crowd.

"They were glaring at the nice lady." Ayumi noted after the three suspects walked off together.

"I wonder what that was about." Haibara mused.

"Saki, have you done anything to make people resent you?" Conan turned back to Midorikawa.

"When you live twenty and some years..." Midorikawa pondered. "I'm kidding/" she teased. "I haven't done anything like that. I need to get to work." she took a look at her watch.

"Work?" Ayumi echoed. "I wonder what she does."

"Hey." Conan voiced, walking up to the thee suspects who were spying on Midorikawa behind a lamppost. "Did something happen to you and that lady?"

"No." Konno Michiyo blinked.

"I have no idea what you mean." Dojima Tatsuko also denied.

"All three of them were startled." Genta noted after the three suspects walked off.

"And they tried playing it off by smiling." Mitsuhiko added.

"Something must be up." Haibara concluded.

"But I don't see how anyone could hate the nice lady." Ayumi protested.

"It's possible she incurred their hatred without realizing it." Mitsuhiko surmised.

"Maybe she saw something she wasn't supposed to see." Fumio guessed.

"Let's check it out." Conan suggested.

"I wonder who they are." Haibara remarked, the children hurrying to the building the three suspects disappeared into.

"Seems like all three of them live here." Conan looked at the apartment building Midorikawa was living in.

"Of course." Conan breathed, running across the street to the building opposite of the apartment and turned to see Midorikawa's window. "Then naturally, from here..."

"You can see them." Mitsuhiko gawked, two of the three suspects' shadows were clearly visible.

"You can't see 1107, but you can see Rooms 102 and 302." Conan agreed.

"If we can see them here, then they must be visible from her apartment, too." Ayumi reasoned.

"Maybe Fumio is right." Haibara spoke. "Perhaps she was looking out her window and saw them doing something."

"Then, Saki herself probably hasn't realized what she saw." Mitsuhiko added.

"Or, maybe she does know but is playing dumb." Fumio pointed out.

"Why would she do that?" Ayumi protested.

"It's just a hypothesis..." Fumio took a small step back.

"That voice!" Haibara gasped, hearing Midorikawa's scream and the children hurried over to the scene.

"Saki, there's something we want to ask you." Conan voiced, after assuring Midorikawa was fine.

"Sorry, my heart is still pounding." Midorikawa beamed. "Ask me another time."

"She seems pretty shocked over nearly being in an accident." Haibara noted after Midorikawa went off.

"Then, let's ask them what she saw." Genta suggested.

"Hello." Mitsuhiko greeted the returning Konno. "We're actually the Detective Boys. That woman from this afternoon aw you doing something you shouldn't have, didn't she?"

"Like what?" Konno feigned ignorance.

"We're hoping you'll tell us." Genta piped in.

"Why would she have seen something like that?" Konno chuckled.

"You were glaring at her, right?" Conan inquired.

"That's because she seemed like a pretty, cheerful person." Konno explained. "I was jealous. I'm not pretty and I'm gloomy..."

"So that's the reason?" Fumio gawked.

"I definitely glared at her." Dojima retorted.

"Is it because she saw you doing something bad?" Ayumi asked.

"Because she looked like the cousin I've hated since I was a child." Dojima fired back.

"Yeah, she looked like her." Tachibana confessed. "The girl who rejected me amidst a flurry of falling leaves behind the school building one autumn day during my second year in middle school. It aches. The old wound aches. Like the falling maple leaves, so does my heart bleed. Farewell, children." he ran past and pressed the gate button. "I am..." the drunk man fell onto the floor.

"Adults are so confusing." Fumio sweatdropped.

The next morning...

Dojima, while searching for an item she had dropped on the pavement in front of the apartment building screamed in horror when Midorikawa's body fell from the building roof right in front of her. "She suddenly fell from up there!" she panicked to the crowd that had gathered.

"Was there an accident?" Genta asked, the Detective Boys had also arrived on the scene.

"Onee-san!" Ayumi gasped, seeing Midorikawa's body on the pavement.

SailorStar9: Any OOC-ness is regretted, by the way. *Sighs* Don't you just hate plot bunnies sometimes? Read and review.