Traces to Nowhere ~Collaboration of @nekomatchatea and @HONEYBUTTERCHIPS2002

Chapter 1

"Seriously?! More murders?!" complained Kogoro Mori. Conan ignored the detective. His eyes were fixed on the two corpses washed up on the beach. The blood had stained the pure, white sand around the bodies and had dyed the sea water a murky brown. The stench of the bodies made him wrinkle his nose in disgust.
 

"An old woman found the bodies when she was jogging by the beach," continued Kogoro, who looked like he was going to vomit. " Not a pretty sight, eh?" Conan thought his description didn't do those corpses justice. The corpses were brutally mutilated, the eyes being already pecked out by birds, leaving the sockets empty. A deep slash across the stomach of the corpses gave bystanders a clear view of the organs within. Limbs were severed, too. "Whoever did this was one sick bastard," swore the detective. For once, Conan actually agreed with what he said.

 Taking a few steps back, Conan started thinking about clues to take his mind off the grotesque discovery. His mind started to rewind to the previous murder of another teenager, which occurred few weeks ago in the same town.

-Flashback few weeks ago-                                                                                                                                              

Drops of water began falling from the sky. The grey clouds gathered to cover the blue sky. The chirping of birds faded as they went to find shelter. Men and women ran to their homes from the heavy shower. The lighting started to flash in the grey sky as a teenager looked outside the window. The teenager, Akio Kagawa was now cutting manila card as quiet footsteps walked behind him.

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-Few days ago-

"Jan-Ken-Pon!" Hachi shouted as Joker lost the match again, as it was also the 100th attempt.

"Why..." Joker was crying as Hachi was dancing with happiness.

"Joker-san, our next stop shall be Japan!" Hachi annouced as Joker thought of the news.

We now found this rare painting called 'Crane in The Cleared Mist' found  in the town of Iwatobi and by ???, and it is currently under his care, as he is not willing to give it to the museum for inspection and it costs 100,00,00,000 yen. The painting was thought to be...

The news of UNN rewound in Joker's mind as he stood up, also later walking to Hachi.

"Where's our next stop Hachi?" Joker asked as Hachi was flipping through the pages of a magazine. Suddenly he stopped at the page concerning information of the town of Iwatobi.

"There! I heard that there were some good hot springs." Hachi pointed to the picture as Joker's eyes were glimmering with hope. Joker joined Hachi's happy dance, a gesture that made Hachi suspicious. Hachi promptly waved off his suspicion and assured himself that Joker was just happy to go to Japan.

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-Back to few weeks ago-

The sound of police cars echoed through the night town of Iwatobi, where Inspector Oniyama stepped out of a police car and walked towards the two teenagers

"We are the anti-phantom thief police force, Inspector Oniyama, Momo and Ginko." Inspector Oniyama introduced as he looked at Akio and hs friend, Kisumi. "May I come in to check the house?" He asked as Kisumi nodded, walking into the house with the inspector and his two assistants following behind him. They then stopped at the living room, where the painting 'Crane in the Cleared Mist' hung.

"I think it's going to be fine." Kisumi spoke as the inspector looked at him.

"Why so?"

"It's because I placed dummy fire and bullet proof cameras. Even if Joker tries to destroy them, he also can't since it also can't be bombed." Kisumi explained.

"Bravo. Did you make the cameras by yourself? It looks very nice." Inspector Oniyama asked as Kisumi nodded. Akio grinned, happy that Kisumi was receiving praise.

"Thanks." Akio answered as he yawned. "It's almost time to sleep. I also think that Joker wouldn't steal it today."

"Eh? Why?"

"There's going to be a thunderstorm during midnight, and I bet only idiots would only send notices about stealing at midnight."Akio yawned as he walked to the bedroom.

"Well then, oyasumi." Kisumi bowed as he followed after Akio.

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The sound of water raining from the sky and glass shattering was heard as Joker quietly crashed into the house. The sound was quiet enough, at least to not let the police outside hear.

"Looks like they thought that I wouldn't come." Joker smirked as he tilted his hat and shook bits and pieces of glass off his cloak.

"Joker-san! You told me that we were going to have  a short break!"Hachi complained and climbed into the house. Joker silently tip-toed to the living room.

"Well, we can steal it then take the break later." Joker stopped and leaned against the wall, also using his Joker Vision. Who's there? Joker thought as he looked at the moving figure with the help of his thermograhy programmed mask.

"Hello Joker, do you miss me?" Spade asked as Queen and Roko was behind him.

"Spade!" Joker half shouted and half whispered at Spade."What did you guys come here for?!"

"Well duh, the painting." Queen pointed to the painting.

"Hey Joker." Akai suddenly greeted, scaring the wits out of Joker.

"Akai Tsubasa!" Joker half screamed half whispered as he saw the red-head with Hoshi.

"Why are you here too?"

"Well, I also need the painting." Akai explained as Hoshi jumped to Hachi. Then the rain stopped.

That means... Realization suddenly hit Joker.

"I'm going to get it first!" Joker silently and slowly tiptoed to the painting. He tripped over something soft and squishy. Startled, he shone his torch to the "something", which was actually "someone". Joker choked back a scream as he realised he was standing above the corpse of Akio. He looked around and found the murder weapon, a knife, embedded in the abdomen of the corpse. The mouth of Akio was opened in a silent scream. That was the last straw for Joker, who had never been in such intimate contact with a corpse before. He promptly lost the last ounce of his self-control and wet his pants. Luckily, the others were too shocked to notice.

Suddenly yawning was heard when Joker picked the knife up to inspect it. Joker didn't hear the sound of footsteps until it was too late. Suddenly, a shrill cry of terror shattered the fragile silence of the night.

"AKIOOOOO-SAAAN!!!"

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Hachi saw everything in slow motion. Joker's discovery of the corpse, Joker wetting his pants, the arrival of a certain pink-haired teenager... The look on everyone's face was a look of utter terror and shock. Joker was frozen, staring at the murder weapon, when coincidentally, the teen arrived. NO NO NO, Hachi screamed inwardly. The teen obviously thought Joker was the murderer! Just when things couldn't get worse, the inspector arrived.

Hachi gritted his teeth. They had no choice but to escape. Hachi grabbed Joker, who was still dazed by his discovery and made for the exit. "Minna-san, let's GO!" he yelled. Everyone was jolted from their reverie and dashed out too. As they flew away into the night, Hachi wondered how a vacation turned into a huge misunderstanding with Joker as the victim.

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"Akio-san! Akio-san!" Kisumi shook the corpse as though he was trying to wake a sleeping person. But Akio wasn't sleeping. Kisumi enveloped his childhood friend and companion and cried, weeping for Akio's loss.

Inspector Oniyama couldn't believe his eyes. However, he made no attempt to comfort the grief-stricken boy. He raced outside and yelled "JOKERRR!!!".

He wouldn't kill someone...right?