Chapter 4

"Agasa-han, Agasa-han!"

The loud banging on the door and the continuous yelling in front of their house, reaching through the basement, startled the young chemist awake through her sleep.

The teenage Osakan detective felt standing history long since every second felt like hours and the nervousness runs through the mind of his. Sweat falls at every direction sliding throughout his cheeks into thinking that the old man is outside or into convention or something.

Damn, time is running; maybe he isn't home today

Once again, shouting at the top of his lung, he called the professor hoping that he might be doing some crazy , as they say, experiments and the noises in the background covers the deafening shout he is releasing at the moment.

'But he isn't the type of person who will do some sort of stuffs if someone dearest to him gone' He thought taking a break at his shouting while gazing at the door.

Deducing the situation currently he is now, his eyes widen, pupils expanded, focusing at the possibility that entered his mind.

Then that only means

Banging the door loud enough to echo through the neighborhood, Heiji shouted the name of the owner once again to disprove the thought that lingers through his mind.

"AGASA-HAN, AGASA!"

Panic and fear were introduced as the silence answered him. Shocked at the result, he instinctively grab the knob and shook it violently taking chances that it will open.

There's only one way to prove his deduction, to force his way in. He took couple steps behind, braced his left shoulder from his right hand, and aimed at the door with a charging position.

Many gore and abominable images played his mind while securing his position but closed his eyes tightly hoping the images will also vanish within the light. Then he took his plan into action.

Behind the drum-like-door, Haibara was on her way on the door infuriated by the constant banging and shouting made by the guest in front of the door.

Many slow-painful sadistic plans played in her mind to serve whoever poor nuisance soul waiting through the only barrier that is waiting to be opened.

Suddenly, the ear piercing shouts and booming bangs stopped leaving the young chemist wondering a few steps to the door. 'Prank has to be' but to make sure, she silently crept towards the door and sneakily open the door wide-open just to make sure.

Expecting to see a trail of dust leading through the gate, she was shocked to see a dark teen in a charging position, closed eye, aiming through the door she was holding. Then the teen started to charge.

She instinctively avoided the teen charging towards her by side stepping out of the line of the teen going through.

The Osakan teen started to charge towards the door putting all his weight, expecting to hit a hard, solid door at his wake, but only space, a lot of space, hit him knocking him off balance due to the imbalance distribution throughout his body.

'What the hell is this guy doing?' she thought while staring at the figure lying like a ragdoll on the floor helplessly.

The teen started to look around examining the surroundings while in a prone position facing the floor. He suddenly stands up carefully suppressing any noise to avoid attention and lessen the chances of detection.

"What do you think you're doing?" she asked throwing dagger of glares at the back of the detective teen.

He shuddered at the voice and the murderous glares being thrown at the back of him. He robotically turned his head nervously taking a glimpse of the source of the familiar voice. He froze facing the shrunken chemist, not because of the glares being shot but the murderous aura enveloping her.

Silence grew thick as the expressionless eyes of the owner locks within the petrified visitor's eyes making the two uncomfortable until ones broke the growing silence.

"Are you deaf or what?" she disguised her raging tone to a nonchalant one "What do you think you're doing?"

Still shocked at the current situation, he stood there mouth half opened like a fish out in the ocean. Fear and panic still circulating in his blood, he just couldn't believe what he was seeing; they were safe, safe and sound. A sigh of relief came out involuntary out of his mouth.

"I see you're deaf and also probably mute" closing the door using her non-dominant hand then turned heading for the living room "It can't be helped; police are out of budget at time like this"

The Osakan teen detective falls to earth away from his unconscious mind, slamming really hard onto the ground of reality. His brows furrowed , veins popping out, hearing every word she said, played on his now conscious mind.

"Oi, oi!" he tried to back fire but can't say of anything.

"Oh what a miracle" she said waving her hand up into the air without looking back at the teen "the dumb has spoken"

The short tempered Osakan detective fumed hearing another sarcastic comment. Seriously, how did Kudo kept up with this little masked devil?

"So?" turning back to face the guest "what did you come here for?"

Seeing the young chemist tone turned to sarcastic into serious, he pushed every bits of sarcastic comeback he thought to answer her.

"Oh, as you remind me. Where's Agasa-han?"

"He's not here" shrugging her shoulders "he went to market"

"That answers why there was no immediate response" he commented putting his fingers into his thumb trying to act innocent.

"Is that's the reason you tried to break the door?" staring him with a bore expression.

"Gomen, gomen" laughing nervously with a hand brushing the back of his head "I panicked so… He-hehe"

Haibara took a last glance at the detective before starting to walk ahead leaving him to think about on what he'd done.

"Wait!" he exclaimed

She turned around wondering what does this detective wants behind her uninterested mask cemented on her face.

"Do you have those spare tracking glasses?" he asked drawing the image of the glasses in the air "You know, like the ones on Kudo?"

"What for?" she asked still keeping her cool in the face of her mask.

"You know... to search"

He swore he saw a flinch well hidden behind that impenetrable mask. It took an eye-of-an-eagle sight of a detective to notice that invisible reaction well hidden to the unknowingly ignorant people.

She turned her back to the teen and started heading through the living room acting she didn't heard anything, but sensing the detective determination made her think twice.

"They're on the basement" she answered in her nonchalant tone to hide the swelling emotions erupting inside her "2nd drawer to the left near bed, you'll see the glasses inside a case" then started to continue her melancholic march away hoping to escape from the growing pain.

'Let's see, uhmm'

'2nd drawer near the bed'

'drawer... drawer... there it is!'

Pulling the drawer carelessly over the excitement, a piece of folded paper falls out of the view below the pulled drawer.

'Case... there's lots of case here; which one?' scanning through the neat pile of container of different chemicals and pills, one at the very back of the drawer, hidden through the pile of more container contains the glasses in the oval shaped container.

He took the oval shape container then opened it containing a similar glasses to Conan's.

Holding the prize above like a trophy, he then press the button near the hinges erecting an antenna and lighting the right side of the lenses. Widening the range, he presses the same button to widen the search signal.

'With this, I can find him in no time' he thought then placing the glasses in place. Unfortunately, the glasses search signal isn't that strong enough to reach the Conan's glasses signal.

Damn, just where the hell are you Kudo?

Like a dog chasing its tail, he swung his head in every direction hoping to find a blinking dot in the radar. Instead, a piece of paper lying beneath the drawer caught his eye.

"Miyano Shiho" he whispered reading the words engraved on it 'who the hell is that?'

He bent down to pick the paper, scooping it in its sides using his finger. He felt the layers of paper from his finger and quickly deduced that it was a letter and something written inside.

He looked at his sides swinging his head sneakily, looking for whoever watching him then proceed to read it in his mind.

Dear Haibara/Shiho

I hope you had a good time with me. I want to spend more time with you but I can't. My presence brings danger to the people close to me, especially you. I may not come back anymore or may have a chance of coming back alive. But..

Don't wait on me anymore like Ran did because I don't want to raise your hopes on me on coming back. Live your life, be happy without me...

Remember I always love you.

-Shinichi

Flabbergasted by the new discovery, he didn't notice his surroundings. There standing Haibara besides the door watching the teen in amusement.

Craving for more information, he flipped the paper vigorously in every angle taking chances of finding more words. Like finding the needle in a haystack, searching every place patiently but knowing that there will be no needle.

"Find something interesting?"

He swung his head to the direction of the source of the voice seeing the young chemist leaning on the door, arms crossed, and wearing her signature smirk.

Gazing at the young chemist speechless, not because he got caught red handed but because of endless train of questions running through his mind that want to be answered. His eye departed away from the girl and to the paper he is holding, gaining courage to interrogate the girl.

"Is this letter written by Kudo?" he asked not bothering to remove his gaze on the letter.

"Did you read the name written below?" she replied raising her brows.

A trigger seems to have set off as he swung his head, abandoning the staring-contest look at the letter, looking at her.

"Then who is 'Miyano Shiho'?

Questions being deflected by the mask she is wearing, she simply shrugged her shoulders.

"That is for you to find out"

"Then what is this thing doing here?!" clamored the detective losing his temper.

She closed her eyes, a longer than a normal blink. As she lifted her eyelids, a dark gaze met the detective eyes. Like a new person emerges at the same body with different personality, like a split personality.

"What do you think?" she answered in a serious tone "That will probably answer both of your question".

"You are 'Miyano Shiho'" he replied without any evidence of being shocked or surprised " Aren't ya?"

Silence was the reply, satisfying the detective on the answer. Even though she didn't answer, it is obvious that the detective already expected that 'Haibara Ai' was 'Miyano Shiho' and taken the saying 'Silence means 'yes'' into thought.

Seeing that the answer was already given but in another form, the silence thickens waiting for each other to break it.

"So, where's 'that' place?"

"What place?" she asked innocently.

"'That' place"

"What exactly 'that' place are you referring to?"

"The place where Kudo gone to!" he growled completely out of patient.

Surrendering on the game of acting-innocently, she then proceeds to tell everything. Everything to the place where he gone to, the mission he's going to do and the things she remember.

"Where is this warehouse is?" he asked curiously, calmed down when the answers were given.

"Didn't you see the news?" she replied "I know the place is where warehouses are but I can't pin point the exact location"

"Damn't" he growled loudly enough to be heard by the chemist.

"You better start looking than doing nothing here" she suggested before taking off upstairs and into the light.

Heiji caught a glimpse of the face of the young chemist taking a full view as she went upstairs. Tears? No , Trail of dried tears. All anger to her dissipated like a bubble popping as he thought of the girl 'Even how thick her mask is she can't hide the fact in her mask that Kudo is gone.'

He then took off the house like a rocket starting his search without seeing the young chemist that is standing in the shadows.

~RIIIING

The cacophonous sound of the telephone filled the room, thus breaking the train of thoughts running through the brain of the shrunken chemist. At time like this, it is wise not to annoy 'the evil-eyed yawny girl' as they say, or else your life will be numbered, the length will be based on her mood.

Whoever this one calling may have just damn important reason to call

She picked the phone grumpily, locking it in her ears.

"Oh, Ai-kun" said the old man on the other line of the phone.

Her attitude reduced to irritated to relieved dramatically.

"Hakase, what is it?"

"Since I'm already here, can you tell me what needs to be bought?"

"Don't worry about that Hakase. I'll just come there. Give me 15 mins"

"No no no, I can do this; just tell me what needs to be bought so you don't have to go here"

"I need some fresh air to breath in, so just wait wherever you are" then the phone dropped avoiding any resistance to be thrown in.

'I guess she needs some space to breathe in'.

"Takagi-kun! Over here!" Satou shouted, waving both of her arms like a madman.

Both men noticed the beckoning made by his partner in a distance. They hurriedly marched reducing the distance between them dramatically. Close enough to notice unusual things going on, he couldn't help but ask due to curiosity's command.

"Uhm Sato-san where' your car? And Megure-keibu?" he blurted out unable to bottle his questions.

She too has some questions in her mind but decided to answer his first.

"I parked the car at that alley" raising her hand, pointing towards the car " and Megure-keibu is securing the perimeter".

"Hattori-kun, what are you doing here?" she asked glaring at his companion.

~Beep beep beep

"What's that?" asked Satou

Takagi shrugged his shoulders then looked at Heiji only seeing his hand on the glasses and his narrowed eyes.

"Hattori-kun ..." he stopped seeing a finger rose bespeaking that silence is a must.

"The signal is coming..." Heiji announced swinging his head towards the location "at the warehouse"

"Wait .. you mean?"

"Yeah"

"whoa whoa whoa" Sato interjected "What signal? What's going on here?"

He was about to explain the situation but interrupted by a deafening shout.

"SATO-SAN!"

It was Megure shouting across while standing beside the suspicious warehouse.

"WHAT?" she replied in a loud voice with a hint of irritation.

"Where are the others?"

"I don't know. I called them 5 minutes ago"

"They're taking too long" Megure muttered irritably looking at this watch "were going in" he finally announced.

Each of them, including Hattori, nodded in unison then started to dash to Megure.

All of them except Hattori and Takagi, had their guns on their hands while Takagi undid the chain that kept the dark secret hidden behind the deceiving double door.

The door was finally free from the chains; all they had to do was slide the door to open the double door. Everyone was anxious; no one dared to open the door for whatever lies behind that door might change their lives.

Until one dared to.

For some things are better left unsaid...

After finishing her normal routine, which consist of taking a bath, girly stuffs, and many painstaking time consuming stuffs that I wont mention, she checked the house from top to bottom before leaving the house. Everything passed her inspection from living room, kitchen, bedroom and lab; and was left with basement before taking off.

She opened the door, light gushing inside and flooding the room, and everything seems to be in place, except for the paper lying on the floor. She followed her motherly instinct saying pick the paper. As she picked the paper, her face turned emotionless. The motionless environment and the silent atmosphere created a illusion of time stopping while reading the contents of the letter.

She then smiled

Then she stood up, folding the paper in the process then placed the paper inside her drawer gently. She then swung her body in the direction of the door then proceeded to walk. She stopped in the middle of her walk and looked over her shoulder.

'Thanks for everything, for every moments you gave me, and from your unconditional love even though I destroyed everything you had. But I'll still wait even though you said you might not comeback. But still you also said there might be a very small chance, and that's enough reason for me. They say there is always a second chance for everything, but a third chance might not be bad, right? '

She then proceed to walk heading for the door.

'As your Watson, you have my faith on you'

'Shinichi'

Closing the door, cutting the light source ,and leaving everything in utter darkness and silence.

End

Sorry for the slow update. The test is near so i need to focus a little bit on school.. so yeah.

I'll update as soon as I can because I'm not satisfied on this chapter