DISCLAIMER: I WILL BE WRITING THAT I DO NOT OWN DC/MK ON EVERY CHAPTER

woe is me
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    Conan walked up to Heiji and tapped him on the back. "Barou." He whispered to the confused Osakan, who was still eying down the Shin-twin in front of him. "Pipe down or everyone's going to hear your idiotic ramblings." The Shin-twin sat there, sweat dropping while Heiji turned to Conan. "Wait. So dis guy has nothing ta do with ya?" Heiji asked, hoping that he hadn't just blabbed the shrunken detective's secret to a total stranger. "Obviously." "Uh... mind explaining what you're talking about?" The Shin-twin asked, putting on a confused poker-face.

    "NOTHIN' AT ALL." Heiji stated. "..... I'm not an idiot." The twin replied. "Ehhhhhhhhh...... can ya pretend dis conversation never happened?" "Why should I?" "Uh... " Conan just pushed Heiji to the side. "Anyways, who are you?" Conan asked the twin. He smirked, and pulled out a blue rose from out of nowhere. "Kaito Kuroba, magician extraordinare (HOW DO YOU SPELL THAT DORITO DARNNIT.) !" The twin exclaimed. "And who are you two?" Kaito asked in turn. Conan was nudged by Heiji, probably a gesture that asked the mini detective to go first. Conan glared at the Osakan, but started first anyway.

    "Conan Edogawa, detective." The small tantei stated. He put his hand out towards the magician in a friendly way. Kaito smirked, and shook his hand. Heiji then decided that now was an alright time to introduce himself too. "Heiji Hattori, also a detective." Heiji then patted a startled Kaito on the back. Conan sweat dropped. ' typical hot-headed Osakan behavior.' he snorted. "So you're both detectives? Wow, I've never seen a child detective, except in books and movies." Kaito put on a intrigued face. Conan glared at him. "Yah, well dat's his own choice ta make. Startin' out young gives ya an edge later on, some say." Heiji chirped.

    "Guess I could say the same for me. I became a magician when I was pretty young... although... I don't like thinking about those times..." The pain in the magician's voice was obvious to the two detectives standing before him. "... You don't have to talk about it if you don't want to." Conan decided. Kaito just looked off to the side. "Anyways, that spotlight hit you, right?  Were you able to see anything?" Conan asked. Kaito looked at Conan, his happy face returning. ,"Well, I didn't see anything too extravagant or significant. Although... " "Huh?! Tell me it, every detail counts!" "... One of the people standing behind the spotlight hand silver-y hair... another was really buff or fat, one of the two." Conan's eyes went wide. "Were they wearing black clothes?!" "Um.. no.." The magician looked on in confusion as Heiji and Conan's faces changed from shock to disappointment.

    Suddenly, almost as if she popped out of thin air, Ran appeared. "Conan! I told you to stop wandering off!" She scolded him. "H-heiji dragged me over here!" Conan stated the almost truth. Heiji glared at the small detective for using him in his excuse. Kaito just sat on the floor, presumably because if he got up he would have to face Aoko again and he did not want that. "Oh. What a surprise. It's you " the group heard an agitated voice said. "I always find you after a Kid heist just randomly inserted into the crowd. Not before. Not during. After." Kaito whipped his head around to find the source if the voice, only to sweatdrop while saying, "Oi, Hakubaka, stop calling me Kid."

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I am SO SORRY about the wait, it just took me longer than usual to think up more plot ^^;

My apologies come in the form of Hakuba appearing in the fan fiction.
Till the next illusion~