SailorStar9: With Chapter 53 uploaded, this is Chapter 54 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 54: A Pair of Crossing Fates

Time passes...

"You're right, you have a bump." Ayumi blinked, Genta showing the Detective Boys the head bump he had received when he was knocked over by a fleeing thief earlier. "It looks painful."

"I thought I could find that guy and turn him in to the police." Genta declared.

"Of course we'll help." Mitsuhiko stated. "So, why were you walking around Oku-Beika? That's pretty far from Beika City."

"We should find the robber first before he gets away." Ayumi reminded.

"You only saw from behind, right?" Conan asked.

"Yeah." Genta nodded. "He was wearing a red jacket and jeans."

"That isn't much to go on." Fumio mused.

"Let's start by splitting up and canvassing the area." Conan suggested.

"Wait a minute." Mitsuhiko voiced."'Violet man in a red jacket' is an inconvenient name. Let's give him our own name. I think Gonbei would be a nice name. After all, 'The Nameless Gonbei' is a term for an unknown man."

"Why don't we call him 'Gonta', since he was the Gonbei who pushed Genta?" Haibara joked.

"Nice!" Mitsuhiko beamed. "Impressive, Haibara-san. That's a fantastic name. Since he's the Gonbei who pushed Genta, he's Gonta. Fantastic."

"That sounds like one of Professor's lame puns." Fumio muttered.

"He's not making fun of me, is he?" Haibara sweatdropped.

"Probably not." Conan remarked.

"How did you guys do?" Conan asked, the group converging in front of the supermarket.

"Nothing." Ayumi replied.

"No one's seen him." Haibara added.

"We got nothing." Mitsuhiko answered for Fumio and himself.

"Damn it, where did that violet man go?" Genta whined.

"Hey, kids." Takagi called, arriving with Chiba in tow. "What are you doing here?"

"Have you seen a suspicious man?" Chiba asked.

"One wearing a red jacket and jeans." Takagi added.

"He's a robber who broke into the house of Koda-san who lives up there." Chiba pointed.

"He's a robber." Genta realized.

"'He'?" Takagi echoed.

"Have you seen him?" Chiba pressed.

"I didn't see his face." Genta admitted.

"He probably pushed Genta out of the way while he was fleeing." Conan reasoned.

"Understood." Chiba took the call. "Takagi-san, the security camera around the station didn't capture out suspect.

"Then, he could still be around here." Takagi noted.

"So he wasn't just a violent man." Mitsuhiko pointed out, once the two officers were out of earshot. "Gonta's a heinous criminal. We must do whatever we can to capture him."

"We found Gonta." Haibara placed a call to the boys when she and Ayumi heard and saw the police officer take off after the newly dubbed 'Gonta'.

"That's him!" Genta declared, the boys having joined the two girls for the chase. "That's Gonta."

"So the man pushed you and stole your bike?" Takagi was questioning yet another Gonta's victim.

"First a car, then a bike." Chiba noted.

"He's really a bad guy." Genta stated.

"If we search randomly, we'll never get anywhere." Mitsuhiko voiced.

"We might find something if we go to the house that was robbed." Genta reasoned.

"Looks like something's bothering you two." Haibara noticed Conan's and Fumio's pondering expressions.

"The cop said Gonta seems to be suffering from amnesia." Conan stated.

"We may be able to solve that mystery if we go to the crime scene." Mitsuhiko expressed.

"Was the thief really alone?" outside the Koda household, Inspector Megure was already questioning Koda Yoshi.

"That's right." Koda confirmed. "He suddenly hit me from behind. When I came to, he was stealing my spare museum souvenir coin."

"The crime scene shows that two men entered." Inspector Megure reported.

"Genta, you saw only one guy, right?" Conan asked, the group was standing outside the barricade tape.

"Yeah." Genta confirmed.

"The police must be confused." Mitsuhiko concluded.

"Detective Takagi." Conan blinked.

"I'm here to report to the Inspector." Takagi replied. "The old man?" he spotted Ujihara Masuzo on the other side of the condoned off crime scene.

"You know him?" Conan asked.

"Ujihara Masuzo." Takagi supplied. "He's a financier who works near the station. Rumor has it that he sends bad men after people who can't pay off their debts."

"He's the very picture of an evil man." Haibara agreed.

"Let's trace Gonta's steps." Conan led the group away from the crime scene.

"After knocking the old woman unconscious, he fled the house." Mitsuhiko started.

"He pushed me down here." Genta returned to the spot.

"And you lost sight of him here." Mitsuhiko added.

"This..." Fumio squatted down. "It looks like someone fell down this hill."

"I got it." Mitsuhiko beamed. "Gonta failed to make this turn and accidentally fell."

"Then, he hit his head and lost his memory." Conan followed the reasoning.

"Let's head down there." Mitsuhiko jumped over the rope fence.

"Looks like you're right." Conan confirmed, Fumio picking up the fallen ancient coin with a handkerchief.

"But there are two trails." Fumio pointed.

"In other words, two men fell." Conan reasoned.

"Someone else got involved." Mitsuhiko concluded. "When Gonta rounded the corner, he ran into someone and they fell together."

"But if that's true, then..." Conan voiced.

"The person who got involved would naturally go to the police." Haibara reminded.

"But Detective Takagi didn't mention anything like that." Ayumi pointed out.

"Then, why didn't they report it?" Fumio pondered.

"That's it." Conan realized. "He doesn't know what happened to him because he lost his memory."

"You're wrong, Conan-kun." Ayumi reminded.

"It wasn't the bystander who got involved who lost his memory." Mitsuhiko pointed out.

"Edogawa-kun, do you mean..." Haibara realized the same thing.

"Yeah." Conan nodded. "Come to think of it, I thought something seems strange. His clothes were strangely baggy. Genta, are you sure the man who pushed you was that Gonta?"

"Now that you mention it..." Genta recalled. "I have a feeling he was a little bigger."

"Looks like this settles it." Fumio grinned at their leader. "They switched places after falling here by changing clothes."

"In other words, the Gonta we've been chasing..." Mitsuhiko concluded.

"Wasn't the robber that pushed me." Genta noted.

"But the bystander that got involved." Haibara finished.

"But he believes he's the robber and is running from the police." Mitsuhiko reminded.

"Even though he hadn't done anything wrong." Ayumi sighed. "But he's been doing bad things to get away."

"Then, let's go back to Beika City." Fumio voiced.

"To see Ujihara, right?" Haibara smirked.

"If he sent the actual thief to rob the house, then it explains why he appeared at the crime scene." Conan explained.

"To see how it went." Haibara added.

"Or if he's exposed as the mastermind." Conan proposed a second reason. "If we question him, we'll be able to find the real culprit."

"Conan-kun?" Takagi blinked, seeing the Detective Boys inside the Ujihara Financier building. "What are you kids doing here?"

"What are you doing?" Conan returned the question.

"I'm here to talk to Ujihara Masuzo." Takagi whispered. "I'm going to show him this police sketch." he flashed the pencil drawing of Gonta.

"Actually..." Ayumi started.

"That man..." Mitsuhiko added.

"He's not the robber." Ayumi informed Takagi who was heading towards the staircase.

"You know this man, don't you, Ujihara-san?" Takagi showed the financier the drawing.

"I don't know him." Ujihara scoffed, schooling in his shocked expression.

"But the moment you saw this drawing, you..." Takagi pressed.

"Wait a minute." Mitsuhiko pulled Takagi off with Genta's help. "Something's not right." he pointed to the drawing, once they were outside the corridor. "This man is an innocent bystander who got caught up in the robbery."

"But Ujihara reacted to his police sketch." Haibara pointed out. "It doesn't make sense."

"Wait a minute, didn't Inspector Megure..." Fumio frowned.

"So that's how it is!" Conan gasped.

"I'd like to talk to you about the robbery in Oku-Beika." Takagi flashed his police badge to Torimaru Shinya.

"Looks like it was him." Mitsuhiko stated.

"You remember me, don't you?" Genta stepped forward. "You're not getting away!" he shouted as Torimaru tried to escape.

"Stop!" Takagi gave chase, flipping Torimaru over his shoulder.

"How dare you push me!" Genta jumped onto the fallen Torimaru's stomach and sat on him.

"Takagi-san, we've captured the suspect." Chiba informed.

"This is the robber I saw." Koda identified the thief. "He was wearing that red jacket and jeans."

"Actually, that's not him." Takagi corrected. "Torimaru Shinya-kun." he turned his attention to the other suspect.

"I happened to hear about Ujihara the moneylender yesterday." Ujihara snorted. "I thought it sounded good, so I broke into this house. But the old woman was unconscious and the whole house had been searched. But while I was conducing my own search..." he related how Oda had awoken and he had knocked the old lady and made his escape. Fleeing from the house, he knocked Genta aside. Turning the corner, he was too late to stop himself from knocking 'Gonta' over and causing both men to fall over the cliff. "I thought I'd gotten away with it by framing him."

"So I was knocked unconscious by two different robbers?" Koda gasped.

"So, even though I hadn't robbed anyone, I committed one crime after another while trying to get away?" Gonta gasped.

"Torimaru-san, was this the voice you heard at Ujihara Finance yesterday?" Conan asked.

"That's right." Torimaru pointed at the distressed Gonta. "He's the one who Ujihara was threatening yesterday."

"Conan-kun, looks like you were right." Takagi remarked.

"If Ujihara hadn't put him up to it, he wouldn't have reacted like that." Conan explained. "He broke into the house with the intention of robbing it and knocked Koda-san unconscious. He was searching the house when you broke in, and ran. While he was nursing the ankle he twisted while running, you ran into him."

"So, that's what happened." Torimaru gaped.

"That explains everything." Chiba noted.

"All that's let is to arrest Ujihara Masuzo for incitement." Takagi concluded.

"Gonta-san must've felt like he had to after being threatened." Ayumi looked at Mitsuhiko and Genta.

"My name's Gonta?" Gonta pointed to himself.

"That's just the name we gave you." Mitsuhiko explained.

"That's it." Gonta beamed. "I'm Gonta: Gonna Taro. People have called me Gonta since I was a kid. I remember everything now. I was in despair after the company I was working at for shut down. But yesterday..."

"Take those two away!" Inspector Megure ordered.

"I am utterly speechless." Fumio shook his head, after hearing Gonna brag about finding new purpose by becoming a thief.

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