The POV switches from Ran's to KID's after the ~K~

Ran watched in surprise as the Ryoma exhibition was soaked by fire sprinklers, and several people pushed past her and Sonoko to get out of the spray. When the sprinklers turned off, KID had vanished from the display case.

"Ran-neechan, hurry!" She blinked in surprise as Conan grabbed her hand and tugged her away from the Ryoma exhibition.

"Where are we going, Conan-kun? Don't you want to know why KID set off the fire sprinklers?"

"It's because he hid the notice of where he returned the fake items, remember Sonoko-neechan got paint on her sleeve? The sprinklers will wash the paint off KID's clues, and clean up the exhibition like in his note."

"Eh? KID was returning fakes? But…" Ran trailed off as she realized what Conan meant. The exhibition organizer must have been displaying fakes, and planning to blame KID for stealing the 'originals'.

"I'm going to find KID, I know who he's disguised as," Conan continued, and Ran blinked at the determined look on his face. "Ran-neechan, you wanted to talk to him, right? This way you can follow and catch him after he leaves!"

Well, thought Ran, I suppose KID isn't all bad if he's exposing those shady men as frauds. But that doesn't mean I'm about to forgive him for what he did to Conan-kun.

Conan swiftly pulled her towards the museum exit, pointing out a large-looking man as he walked through the exhibit security check. Seeing her confused look, he quietly explained the clues he'd noticed that gave away KID's disguise.

As the man left the exhibition Ran followed, planning how to get him to talk to her. She found her opportunity as he turned into an alley, and she hurried to catch up to him.

"Wait, oji-san! I think you dropped this!" Ran called out as she got close enough, relieved that her plan worked as he stopped, and she quickly closed the distance between them.

The man turned to face her and frowned at the pen she held out to him, "I'm afraid you have the wrong person, ojou-san, it isn't mine."

Just as he turned away her right hand shot out and punched the wall inches in front of his face.

"Kaitou KID," she said darkly, "If you try to leave, the next one won't miss."

~K~

KID couldn't prevent his eyes from widening slightly as he heard a crunching sound from the wall. Out of the corner of his eye, he could see dust puffing out from around her fist. He quickly arranged his face in a mixture of nervousness and confusion as he asked, "Kaitou KID? You mean that mysterious jewel thief? Why would you think I'm him?"

Ran's eyes narrowed as she responded flatly, "Conan-kun pointed you out. And speaking of Conan-kun," Kaito felt himself pale under the latex mask as the karate champion's glare became even more deadly as she continued, "what were you thinking, using a stun-gun on a seven-year-old?!"

He took a cautious step back and raised his hands in a (hopefully) placating gesture, "I made sure to modify it so that it would be safe to use on a child."

"That may be true," Ran responded, but before KID could defend himself she continued, "but that doesn't account for the fact that Conan-kun has a weak heart."

Kaito froze, shocked by the horrifying implication. Oh, God, is that why he was out for so long? I could have killed Tantei-kun. Is he still hurt? Is that why he didn't try to stop me today?

"Tantei-kun...is he…"

Ran huffed in annoyance, "He's mostly recovered. He has to be more careful not to run around, but the doctor apparently said it shouldn't be life-threatening unless something happens again."

She glared at him again and Kaito attempted to deflect her wrath somewhat, "I swear I'll never even think of repeating it. If I'd known…" seeing her glare intensify, he hastily changed tracks, "not that it should have made a difference, and in the future I'll definitely take any potential medical conditions into account to ensure nothing will hurt him." Kaito hesitated, but continued, "That is, if he's still planning to attend my heists?"

"You," she said sternly, "are lucky Conan-kun is even thinking about it." Kaito started to relax slightly after hearing Conan (probably) wasn't holding a grudge, before Ran continued. "Even if he does decide to forgive you, if you ever hurt a single hair on his head I will break your hands myself."

Kaito could barely suppress the shudder as his mind presented an image of the bones in his poor hands being crushed to dust like what the karate champion had done to the wall earlier, and hastily nodded his agreement.

"Good," Ran said with a look of satisfaction, and walked away, leaving Kaito to recover his composure before beginning to make his way home.

I'd better start planning my apology note to Tantei-kun, Kaito thought as he walked toward the public restroom where he'd planned to drop his disguise. Considering Tantei-kun's probability of holding a grudge, he revised his plan, Probably several notes.

It occurred to him as he was changing out of his disguise that Tantei-kun had been at the heist and sent his Neechan after Kaito without even a warning, and had possibly attended the heist for the sole purpose of pointing out Kid's disguise and sending the karate champion after him.

Make that several dozen apologies.

A/N: This chapter just refused to be written for a while...hopefully y'all enjoyed the way it turned out.