Time and Space 'Verse: Time and Space and a Heist
The first in the Heiji-centric arc.
Title: Time and Space and a Heist
Fandoms: Doctor Who, Detective Conan, Magic Kaito
Rating: T
Genre: Action/Adventure
Characters: Hakuba Saguru, Hattori Heiji, Edogawa Conan, Kuroba Kaito, Tenth Doctor
Summary: There's a heist in Osaka, Heiji's got a headache, Conan is along for the ride, and the Doctor just happens to have an errand to run in the area. Lots of people are hung upside down in storage closets, and Kid is interrogated by a time traveler. Or, in general, everyone except Kid has a bad day, which is about par for the course.
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Saguru hated ropes.
And ever since he met Kaito Kid, he hated them even more.
Since meeting the Doctor, he was coming close to declaring them his mortal enemy.
And since this particular rope was the result of both of them (the Doctor not showing up when he said he would, Kaito Kid showing up instead), he was this close to attempting to make the rope disappear out of shame of the profanities it was producing. To make matters worse, the Swiss army knife he had taken to storing in his boot was out of reach.
Right about then was when his pocket watch slipped out of his pocket and started dangling somewhere around his mid-torso. He glared at the knife on the floor, it having also slipped out of its storage spot.
Blood rushing to his head, he couldn't help but hate the world.
~~~~~~~~~~
Hattori Heiji was having a very bad day. And it had started out so well too.
To start out with, there was a heist in Osaka. This was nice, because there were practically never any heists in Osaka, and he wasn't allowed to specially miss school to go to a heist in Tokyo. Heists were nice. Heists were fun, because nobody ever died. Usually. It was like Kaito Kid had a negative effect on the bodies-dropping-out-of-the-sky syndrome he usually got whenever Kudo was around.
Heiji briefly wondered if that said something about the thief, then decided it was just coincidence.
Then Kudo himself had shown up, with Ran-chan and unfortunately Detective Mouri in tow. That was when it started to go downhill.
First Heiji developed a killer headache. Ran-chan offered him some aspirin she had in her bag, but he had unfortunately had to decline as he was allergic to it. He said as much, and Ran-chan sent him a pitying look. Undoubtedly her head produced many aches between worrying about Kudo, looking after her dad, and taking care of Conan.
Then, almost as if the headache was prophetic, not too long after that Heiji's least-favorite detective showed up. Considering that he had heard a rumor that Hakuba Saguru had been reported missing, this was just not fair. So, cutting his losses, he had grabbed Kudo and split, hoping to plot ways to catch Kid without the British detective hovering nearby.
This had not worked nearly as well as he'd thought it would. First off, it turned out it was harder to lose Hakuba than he'd previously thought possible. The other detective was always right around the corner listening to everything they were saying, and then vanishing whenever he looked. He had definitely become sneakier as of late. So when Heiji whispered his idea in Kudo's ear, Kudo had verified it for him: Hakuba had indeed been reported missing. The two of them had a 'are you thinking what I'm thinking of?' moment and then pounced on Hakuba.
Unfortunately, the Hakuba/Kid theory did not follow through. At all. Kudo had had the gall to suggest that they work with Hakuba since he knew the most about Kid, but Heiji shot him down on that. This was Osaka, and so they were going to do this his way. He could have sworn he heard Kudo sigh the sigh of the long-sufferer, but he ignored it. They continued to try and stay away from Hakuba, without much luck. If Heiji didn't know better, he would think that Kid himself had been teaching Hakuba to sneak around.
And then there was reason number two that sneaking off wasn't working as well as he'd thought it would. His killer headache was so bad that he could hardly pay attention to what Kudo was saying, let alone help him plot. The crowning moment of glory had to be when he sat down on the floor and leaned against the pedestal atop which the Loup le Lapis sat, wishing that his headache would just go away while Kaito Kid sauntered past and took the jewel. Then Inspector Nakamori, noticing said lack of gemstone while Heiji was completely clueless, decided that Heiji must be Kid and thus pounced on him.
Heiji sometimes wondered why Kid always got away. Not now. Now he just wanted to go home and forget today ever happened.
~~~~~~~~~~
Edogawa Conan really just wanted to talk to Hakuba Saguru, alone. However, as par the course, Fate had something different in mind.
Ever since that chance meeting in the park (which Conan didn't want to think too hard about, lest the worldly laws as he knew them be shattered into a million pieces), he had been eager to corner the blond and interrogate him on what he knew about the Black Organization. That chance overheard comment had left him scrambling for information on Hakuba's whereabouts, but he was quick to dismay when he found out that the British detective was tentatively labeled missing. On questioning, Inspector Nakamori had revealed a wealth of places Hakuba could be, from the mundane and familiar ("He probably got a call for an interesting case and went gallivanting off without telling anyone") to the drastic and distressingly familiar ("Of course, there's always the possibility that he ended up on the wrong side of someone and they kidnapped him or something"). In the end Inspector Nakamori had admitted to having no clue where Hakuba Saguru was, and Conan was back at square one.
Running into Hakuba Saguru at that heist in Osaka had been one of the best things that had happened to him all week. Unfortunately this was ruined by Hattori, whose headache was making his already tense relations with the British detective even worse. 'Testy' was not a word Conan would usually use to describe Hattori, but it certainly seemed to fit now. Conan found himself guiltily pleased when Hattori pleaded off thinking in favor of sitting down somewhere. Unfortunately by that time Hakuba had vanished off to places unknown, and Conan was left looking all over the museum.
He had thought his big break had come when a security guard had told him that if he was looking for Hakuba, he could be found hanging upside down in a storage closet. Preoccupied, he had almost thanked the guard before he realized what was going on. Unfortunately by the time he got his head on straight, it was back off as Kid the guard had thrown down a sleeping gas pellet.
When Conan came to, he was dangling upside down in what appeared to be a storage closet. Unfortunately, it seemed to be a different one than Hakuba's.
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He really did feel sort of bad doing that to poor Hattori. The Osakan detective hadn't looked like he was doing too well. But he was there, and it was the perfect setup, and he had always wanted to try just walking by and palming the target of the night. He was still giddy about getting away with it so cleanly.
He was also giddy about Nakamori taking so long to accost Hattori's cheeks that it was a rather leisurely walk up the stairs to the roof. And since Hakuba had been there, he wasn't particularly surprised that the strange man who called himself the Doctor was waiting there for him. "Beautiful night, isn't it?"
The Doctor turned his head to look at him, a grin on his face. "Oh yes, isn't it? But what you should really see is the night sky on Cassifly 4. The atmosphere gives the night sky a deep purple hue, and the stars are so dense they're like glitter."
Kid shrugged, smiling that all-knowing smile of his and joining the Doctor on the edge of the building. "I'm not even going to try to ask you to explain that."
The Doctor nodded. "Good choice. Explanations take the magic out of everything."
A large lapis lazuli pendant in the shape of a wolf appeared in Kid's hand, and was held to the moonlight. "And how many moons does this place you're talking about have?"
"Seven," the Doctor answered. "The locals plan their calendar by it. Once a month the moons align to form their own little constellation, and they have a festival."
"I'd love to see it," Kid commented. "Not you," he muttered as the stone failed to glow red. It was slipped back into his pocket.
"So what is the name of this heist anyway?"
"Loup le Lapis. It's French. The guy who named it probably thought he was being clever. Or maybe curses just need silly names. Some people certainly think it's cursed. Good people gain possession of it, and all of a sudden they're embezzling politicians or head of the mafia. The common belief is that the stone turns them to evil." The pendant appeared again so that the carving could be admired. "This is one bad wolf."
Beside him, the Doctor froze. "What did you just say?"
Poker Face didn't slip, although Kid was curious. "That this stone is a bad wolf?"
The Doctor spun towards him suddenly, an arm grabbing Kid's shoulder and a crazed look in the time traveler's eyes. "Why did you just say that?"
Kid shrugged, wondering why this information could possibly be so important. "Some people just call it that. I guess because it's in the shape of a wolf and is rumored to tempt people to evil."
"That's it? Nothing else? You know absolutely nothing else about it?"
"No. Sorry I can't help you. Why is it so important? What's so special about a stone called Bad Wolf?"
"It's not the stone," the Doctor responded darkly. "It's the name. Bad Wolf is the name of a god-like being who likes to leave its name lying around in important places. In essence it's a message… a message to me, warning of something to come. I thought it…" His voice caught, causing him to pause. "I thought she was gone for good."
Kid held out the stone. "Do you want it, just in case it's significant?"
The Doctor shook his head, but pulled out his sonic screwdriver. "Nah, I'll just check it to make sure it's just a lapis lazuli wolf carving, as currently believed." Silently, Kid handed him the pendant. The sonic screwdriver buzzed, and the Doctor handed it back. "It's clean. Completely curseless. Safe to give back to Inspector Nakamori, or whoever really."
Kid nodded. "Good."
"Well, I'd best get going then," the Doctor said, turning to leave.
"Wait."
The Doctor stopped.
"You said that 'Bad Wolf' is a warning. Now I don't know what sort of trouble we're talking about, but warnings do usually mean trouble. And I'm not so bold as to call Hakuba a friend, but he is mine. You'd better keep him safe for me."
The Doctor smiled. "Of course. I'll be seeing you around."
"You'd better be. Oh, by the way, Hakuba is in a storage closet in the left wing of the third floor. He may be a little miffed when you let him out."
"Should I tell him how much you care about him?"
"Nah. Then he might start getting conflicting ideas about justice, and that would probably break his brain. Best not to. We wouldn't want him pulling an Inspector Javert now would we?"
"No. We most certainly do not."
The sound of boots thumping up the stairwell reached their ears. A hang-glider popped from Kid's cape as he prepared to take off. "Well, I'm afraid our conversation is over. Farewell, mon compatriot."
"Your compatriot in what exactly?"
"Trouble?" Kid offered. "I don't know, you tell me."
A jump and a whoosh, and he was gone.
The Doctor smiled and waved at the retreating white shape as Inspector Nakamori and Company barged on to the rooftop. Kid would be all right. And maybe when this was all over, he could take Kaito to Cassifly 4.
Title: Time and Space and a Heist
Fandoms: Doctor Who, Detective Conan, Magic Kaito
Rating: T
Genre: Action/Adventure
Characters: Hakuba Saguru, Hattori Heiji, Edogawa Conan, Kuroba Kaito, Tenth Doctor
Summary: There's a heist in Osaka, Heiji's got a headache, Conan is along for the ride, and the Doctor just happens to have an errand to run in the area. Lots of people are hung upside down in storage closets, and Kid is interrogated by a time traveler. Or, in general, everyone except Kid has a bad day, which is about par for the course.
~~~~~~~~~~
Saguru hated ropes.
And ever since he met Kaito Kid, he hated them even more.
Since meeting the Doctor, he was coming close to declaring them his mortal enemy.
And since this particular rope was the result of both of them (the Doctor not showing up when he said he would, Kaito Kid showing up instead), he was this close to attempting to make the rope disappear out of shame of the profanities it was producing. To make matters worse, the Swiss army knife he had taken to storing in his boot was out of reach.
Right about then was when his pocket watch slipped out of his pocket and started dangling somewhere around his mid-torso. He glared at the knife on the floor, it having also slipped out of its storage spot.
Blood rushing to his head, he couldn't help but hate the world.
~~~~~~~~~~
Hattori Heiji was having a very bad day. And it had started out so well too.
To start out with, there was a heist in Osaka. This was nice, because there were practically never any heists in Osaka, and he wasn't allowed to specially miss school to go to a heist in Tokyo. Heists were nice. Heists were fun, because nobody ever died. Usually. It was like Kaito Kid had a negative effect on the bodies-dropping-out-of-the-sky syndrome he usually got whenever Kudo was around.
Heiji briefly wondered if that said something about the thief, then decided it was just coincidence.
Then Kudo himself had shown up, with Ran-chan and unfortunately Detective Mouri in tow. That was when it started to go downhill.
First Heiji developed a killer headache. Ran-chan offered him some aspirin she had in her bag, but he had unfortunately had to decline as he was allergic to it. He said as much, and Ran-chan sent him a pitying look. Undoubtedly her head produced many aches between worrying about Kudo, looking after her dad, and taking care of Conan.
Then, almost as if the headache was prophetic, not too long after that Heiji's least-favorite detective showed up. Considering that he had heard a rumor that Hakuba Saguru had been reported missing, this was just not fair. So, cutting his losses, he had grabbed Kudo and split, hoping to plot ways to catch Kid without the British detective hovering nearby.
This had not worked nearly as well as he'd thought it would. First off, it turned out it was harder to lose Hakuba than he'd previously thought possible. The other detective was always right around the corner listening to everything they were saying, and then vanishing whenever he looked. He had definitely become sneakier as of late. So when Heiji whispered his idea in Kudo's ear, Kudo had verified it for him: Hakuba had indeed been reported missing. The two of them had a 'are you thinking what I'm thinking of?' moment and then pounced on Hakuba.
Unfortunately, the Hakuba/Kid theory did not follow through. At all. Kudo had had the gall to suggest that they work with Hakuba since he knew the most about Kid, but Heiji shot him down on that. This was Osaka, and so they were going to do this his way. He could have sworn he heard Kudo sigh the sigh of the long-sufferer, but he ignored it. They continued to try and stay away from Hakuba, without much luck. If Heiji didn't know better, he would think that Kid himself had been teaching Hakuba to sneak around.
And then there was reason number two that sneaking off wasn't working as well as he'd thought it would. His killer headache was so bad that he could hardly pay attention to what Kudo was saying, let alone help him plot. The crowning moment of glory had to be when he sat down on the floor and leaned against the pedestal atop which the Loup le Lapis sat, wishing that his headache would just go away while Kaito Kid sauntered past and took the jewel. Then Inspector Nakamori, noticing said lack of gemstone while Heiji was completely clueless, decided that Heiji must be Kid and thus pounced on him.
Heiji sometimes wondered why Kid always got away. Not now. Now he just wanted to go home and forget today ever happened.
~~~~~~~~~~
Edogawa Conan really just wanted to talk to Hakuba Saguru, alone. However, as par the course, Fate had something different in mind.
Ever since that chance meeting in the park (which Conan didn't want to think too hard about, lest the worldly laws as he knew them be shattered into a million pieces), he had been eager to corner the blond and interrogate him on what he knew about the Black Organization. That chance overheard comment had left him scrambling for information on Hakuba's whereabouts, but he was quick to dismay when he found out that the British detective was tentatively labeled missing. On questioning, Inspector Nakamori had revealed a wealth of places Hakuba could be, from the mundane and familiar ("He probably got a call for an interesting case and went gallivanting off without telling anyone") to the drastic and distressingly familiar ("Of course, there's always the possibility that he ended up on the wrong side of someone and they kidnapped him or something"). In the end Inspector Nakamori had admitted to having no clue where Hakuba Saguru was, and Conan was back at square one.
Running into Hakuba Saguru at that heist in Osaka had been one of the best things that had happened to him all week. Unfortunately this was ruined by Hattori, whose headache was making his already tense relations with the British detective even worse. 'Testy' was not a word Conan would usually use to describe Hattori, but it certainly seemed to fit now. Conan found himself guiltily pleased when Hattori pleaded off thinking in favor of sitting down somewhere. Unfortunately by that time Hakuba had vanished off to places unknown, and Conan was left looking all over the museum.
He had thought his big break had come when a security guard had told him that if he was looking for Hakuba, he could be found hanging upside down in a storage closet. Preoccupied, he had almost thanked the guard before he realized what was going on. Unfortunately by the time he got his head on straight, it was back off as Kid the guard had thrown down a sleeping gas pellet.
When Conan came to, he was dangling upside down in what appeared to be a storage closet. Unfortunately, it seemed to be a different one than Hakuba's.
~~~~~~~~~~
He really did feel sort of bad doing that to poor Hattori. The Osakan detective hadn't looked like he was doing too well. But he was there, and it was the perfect setup, and he had always wanted to try just walking by and palming the target of the night. He was still giddy about getting away with it so cleanly.
He was also giddy about Nakamori taking so long to accost Hattori's cheeks that it was a rather leisurely walk up the stairs to the roof. And since Hakuba had been there, he wasn't particularly surprised that the strange man who called himself the Doctor was waiting there for him. "Beautiful night, isn't it?"
The Doctor turned his head to look at him, a grin on his face. "Oh yes, isn't it? But what you should really see is the night sky on Cassifly 4. The atmosphere gives the night sky a deep purple hue, and the stars are so dense they're like glitter."
Kid shrugged, smiling that all-knowing smile of his and joining the Doctor on the edge of the building. "I'm not even going to try to ask you to explain that."
The Doctor nodded. "Good choice. Explanations take the magic out of everything."
A large lapis lazuli pendant in the shape of a wolf appeared in Kid's hand, and was held to the moonlight. "And how many moons does this place you're talking about have?"
"Seven," the Doctor answered. "The locals plan their calendar by it. Once a month the moons align to form their own little constellation, and they have a festival."
"I'd love to see it," Kid commented. "Not you," he muttered as the stone failed to glow red. It was slipped back into his pocket.
"So what is the name of this heist anyway?"
"Loup le Lapis. It's French. The guy who named it probably thought he was being clever. Or maybe curses just need silly names. Some people certainly think it's cursed. Good people gain possession of it, and all of a sudden they're embezzling politicians or head of the mafia. The common belief is that the stone turns them to evil." The pendant appeared again so that the carving could be admired. "This is one bad wolf."
Beside him, the Doctor froze. "What did you just say?"
Poker Face didn't slip, although Kid was curious. "That this stone is a bad wolf?"
The Doctor spun towards him suddenly, an arm grabbing Kid's shoulder and a crazed look in the time traveler's eyes. "Why did you just say that?"
Kid shrugged, wondering why this information could possibly be so important. "Some people just call it that. I guess because it's in the shape of a wolf and is rumored to tempt people to evil."
"That's it? Nothing else? You know absolutely nothing else about it?"
"No. Sorry I can't help you. Why is it so important? What's so special about a stone called Bad Wolf?"
"It's not the stone," the Doctor responded darkly. "It's the name. Bad Wolf is the name of a god-like being who likes to leave its name lying around in important places. In essence it's a message… a message to me, warning of something to come. I thought it…" His voice caught, causing him to pause. "I thought she was gone for good."
Kid held out the stone. "Do you want it, just in case it's significant?"
The Doctor shook his head, but pulled out his sonic screwdriver. "Nah, I'll just check it to make sure it's just a lapis lazuli wolf carving, as currently believed." Silently, Kid handed him the pendant. The sonic screwdriver buzzed, and the Doctor handed it back. "It's clean. Completely curseless. Safe to give back to Inspector Nakamori, or whoever really."
Kid nodded. "Good."
"Well, I'd best get going then," the Doctor said, turning to leave.
"Wait."
The Doctor stopped.
"You said that 'Bad Wolf' is a warning. Now I don't know what sort of trouble we're talking about, but warnings do usually mean trouble. And I'm not so bold as to call Hakuba a friend, but he is mine. You'd better keep him safe for me."
The Doctor smiled. "Of course. I'll be seeing you around."
"You'd better be. Oh, by the way, Hakuba is in a storage closet in the left wing of the third floor. He may be a little miffed when you let him out."
"Should I tell him how much you care about him?"
"Nah. Then he might start getting conflicting ideas about justice, and that would probably break his brain. Best not to. We wouldn't want him pulling an Inspector Javert now would we?"
"No. We most certainly do not."
The sound of boots thumping up the stairwell reached their ears. A hang-glider popped from Kid's cape as he prepared to take off. "Well, I'm afraid our conversation is over. Farewell, mon compatriot."
"Your compatriot in what exactly?"
"Trouble?" Kid offered. "I don't know, you tell me."
A jump and a whoosh, and he was gone.
The Doctor smiled and waved at the retreating white shape as Inspector Nakamori and Company barged on to the rooftop. Kid would be all right. And maybe when this was all over, he could take Kaito to Cassifly 4.