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"Okay so ..." The familiar Osakan detective is holding a portable EMF meter up to the walls of the mansion. "Energy readings are off the scale. I don't even know what half those lights mean ... and the K-2 meter is going nuts. Which means ..." Heiji sighs, ignoring the beeping of the K-2 meter as he reasons aloud. "Either the fall really messed up

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Kazuha HAD been thinking on how best to deal with Heiji so he didn't bother the ghosts. Of course she'd always support Heiji in the end, but he didn't know ghosts. SHE knew ghosts, whether she wanted too or not.

It was just better...if he didn't get too deeply involved.

Of course, after all this pondering, she'd missed the meal hour and decided to take in a late dinner in the dining hall.

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"Don't do that!" Kazuha said quickly. Too quickly.

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"And why not?"

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"Because...because.....because that's NOT WHAT YOU DO!" Kazuha shouted.

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"Well talking to my BEST FRIEND isn't working, an' he is the only person involved in this I haven't talked to," Hattori shot back. "Makes sense to me."

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"That's not what I meant!" Kazuha snapped, standing up and slamming her hands on the table. "That's not WHAT YOU DO with ghosts. YOU solve their murders. YOU solve their cases. YOU make them GO AWAY AND MOVE ON! You do not FOLLOW them! You do not go and talk to them! That's just....YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE THE SANE ONE!"

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Wow. That was -- not the reaction he was expecting. "Kazuha?"

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"Didn't you think for a MINUTE that despite the fact I SEE ghosts, there was a REASON I kept telling you to stop going after them?!" Kazuha demanded. "Don't you think there was a REASON I didn't tell you I did?! It's because I know what happens when you start talking about ghosts to people who don't know and I just...I didn't WANT that for you, you AHOU!"

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"Well OF COURSE I did!" Hattori was getting into the swing of the argument. "Why'd you think I came to you if not to get your side of things? Baka! And in case you hadn't noticed, I've been getting a hell of a lot of the weird looks an' wise-cracks too -- you really think I care about that?"

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"Ahou! AHOU! AHOU! AHOU! You don't even get it! Sure, you get wise cracks, but soon it'll get worse! Soon people will think there's actually WRONG with you! Especially if you found something. Even if you say something that only the ghost would know, all it will do is get people to think you're also snooping to try and make your delusion real and then they start to think you're messed up in the head! That on TOP of seeing all the ways how those people died....as they try to get your help because they find out you SEE them...you AHOU! You don't have the first clue what it's like!" Kazuha shouted. Damn Kuroba. She wanted it to be a secret, but Heiji knew and he was going to get the truth one way or another or just piss off a bunch of ghost and....

Well, it was no surprise she had started yelling. She'd do it for less.

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"An' I take it you do?" Hattori's not sure what he feels. To have what the ghost Kaito told him confirmed is -- well, he should be angrier. Kazuha's his best friend, she knows how he feels about the ghost thing. For her to have lied all this time -- he should be pretty angry, right? "That's what it's been like for you?"

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"Yes!" Kazuha snapped. "That is EXACTLY what I've been through and more! My parents thought I was sick in the head because I'd describe what murder victims look like."

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Heiji could picture that all too clearly -- it was too similar to his own father's reactions to his son's other extracurricular activities. Letting Hattori run off in pursuit of a serial killer? Didn't blink an eye. But when it was a ghost--

It'd been hard. He'd been forced to question his own sanity, his own memory. From his parents it'd been bad enough ... but from his best friend?

"An' you thought I'd do the same thing -- so you did it to me?"

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"Heiji...I have been denying what I've seen for years. Ever since I was a CHILD. I was inclined to think I WAS nuts until I came here...." Kazuha said, looking down at the table. "And...I didn't want you to be too...you always made it go away, so for you to start chasing them..."

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"Bit late for that don't you think?" Hattori said, pushing his chair back as he stood.

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"...here...was the first time a ghost spoke to me first. Specifically to me..." Kazuha said and slumped down in her seat. "I thought....either I really was completely mad or it WAS real...but I didn't want it to be. I didn't..."

She paused, clenching her fists. "I...I wanted it to stop. I didn't want to be crazy. I wanted you...I wanted you to be the detective. I wanted to see you work, that look on your face when you solve a case and the relief that what might just be delusions went away, but you never did and I didn't know what to do..."