Hi again! Wow, the story is coming to an end. Yay to everyone that read this far!! I've already started working on a one shot, but I'm not sure if I'll post it. About that later…
Disclaimer: Detective Conan is not mine.
Chapter 10
"Listen up! At Inspector Megure's request, Kudo Shinichi will join our investigations." Ginzo Nakamori said, glaring at the high school detective. "And also my daughter's friend Kuroba Kaito, who insists on coming along."
Kuroba resembled Shinichi so much that one might confuse them to be related, or even twins, the only difference is in their hairstyles, but other than that, they are practically identical.
Shinichi nodded a greeting.
"This time, we must catch Kaitou Kid!!" Inspector Nakamori is now saying dramatically. "Today will be the day when we finally triumph over that so called phantom thief!"
The two police officers standing behind him rolled their eyes, as if saying "Here we go again"
"Now," finally coming down to earth, the Inspector said. "Any idea what the note means?"
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"It's Kuroba, right?" Shinichi asked. They were waiting according to the note the phantom thief sent, it's riddle saying that in an hour, the infamous thief would come for the Mermaid's Tears, a priceless pearl necklace belonging to the Suzuki Company. Inspector Nakamori was on his coffee break, and Kaito was about to sneak out of the room. "Or should I say… Kaitou Kid?"
"What are you talking about? Didn't Nakamori check all of us for disguises?" Kaito asked, wincing inwardly at the memory of the inspector pulling at everyone's faces. Although at some extent, he knew the game is up.
"You wouldn't need a disguise to be yourself, would you?"
Bingo. Kaito grinned. "How did you know?"
"I'm a detective. Besides, Kaitou Kid seems to know a lot about the police force, but I never thought you'd be friends with the inspector's daughter." Shinichi said. "…How did you know about the Black Organization?"
"What?"
"You were that shopkeeper, and the old man down at Haido City, weren't you? How'd you find out about them?"
"A magician never reveals his tricks." Kaito said simply. "So… you going to rat?"
"No, I owe you one."
"Good, now if you'll excuse me, I have those pearls to deal with." Kaito said. "Though I take it you're still going to stop me, or try to?"
"Yeah," Shinichi replied, a hand on the tranquilizer watch he reclaimed from Agasa the day before.
But in a swirl of black fumes and sleeping gas, Kaito disappeared, and by the time the policemen woke, the necklace is gone, and Kuroba Kaito is sitting among them, with no hint of who he really is, and what had happened.
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The next day, Shinichi went to visit Shiho, who had gotten out the hospital that morning. She sat on the front porch, flipping through a magazine.
"How're you feeling?"
"Considering how I didn't expect to be alive now, great." She said, smiling. "Hakase's out with the three of them, if you're looking for him. I promised I wouldn't leave without telling him."
"You're not still leaving, are you? The organization's defeated and all."
"Yeah, and you have the antidote. I have nothing to stay for."
"Sure there is, Hakase, the Detective Boys…me." He added as an afterthought.
"They never knew Miyano Shiho. As far as they're concerned, Haibara Ai, moved away to America, they have no reason to like Miyano Shiho."
He knew that she missed them, the three kids, the first people with whom she felt she belonged. Her friends.
"Hey, I missed them too." Shinichi said gently. "We could still, you know, go camping and everything with Hakase and them, and help them with the cases they get stuck on, I mean, what'll they do without Ai and Conan?"
"Yeah, when you're not too busy making up for the time you've been away from her." She said with a wry smile.
"I would never just forget about you guys." Shinichi said indignantly.
"Hakase's moving to America, you know." She said quietly.
"What?"
"He just found out. He's going to tell the three of them today. Some company owner is going to invest in his inventions."
"… You know he'll visit, besides, where would you go if you're not staying with your friends?"
"Anywhere…away." Shiho didn't know herself where she would go, or rather, could go. But an answer came to her as soon as he asked the question. "I think I'd like to go to England. See the place where my mom grew up."
"But—."
"Look, I'm done with the antidote, the organization's finished, as you said yourself, so you can solve cases under your own name without worrying about them, and you can be with her now. There's nothing left for me here." She said fiercely, but for a split second, before she quickly looked away, he saw her, really saw her, behind the shield of indifference, the truth in her eyes. "Unless there's another favor you want now?"
"There is." He said. "Stay." And he kissed her.
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Epilogue
A week later, Miyano Shiho is introduced as the new student in Teitan High. On their next school vacation, Yukiko took her and Shinichi to England, where they met a friend of Miyano Elena; she is also Shiho and Akemi's godmother.
Professor Agasa's tranquilizer watch became popularly used by the police force. Although they didn't find the soccer ball so useful for some reason.
Kuroba Kaito became friends with the two detectives. He kept at being Kid, and eventually Aoko found out. She never told, and he was never caught.
Heiji recovered and is discharged from the hospital soon after. He and Kazuha are still going steady, to the teasing of Shinichi and Kaito.
The Detective Boys became almost as famous as Shinichi, although they didn't know that many clues are actually secretly pointed out to them by Shiho and Shinichi.
Satou and Takagi's wedding took place two month after the whole episode. Takagi was promoted to inspector a year later.
Jodie sensei woke a few days later, and the FBI gave her a few weeks off, which she used to teach at Teitan.
Vermouth resumed her acting career under a different identity. She won a shelf full of Oscars and Emmys others would envy.
Ran eventually got over Shinichi, and is going out with someone, not naming who…
And all ends well, pretty much.
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Yay! I'm done!! XD (skips around the room singing the Sesame Street theme.) Hope you like this story, and I promise I'll write others, and I'll get better, really! Review please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!