|| The Disappearances || Kaito Momota x Kokichi Ouma

Chapter Two

That man. Shuichi scanned through Kaito's book about the disappearances in 5th grade. He didn't like snooping through his friend's stuff but this was important. This was important. If Shuichi could figure out who was behind the kidnappings lives could be saved.

Everyone seemed to ignore the strangely dressed man at the park. It was as though they'd seen him several times. Was it always with the same kid? Unlikely, but possible. If he was there often then that would mean that's his regular place to kidnap. Right smack in the middle of a park. Not even hiding. No wonder everyone looked him over. That was just plain suicide if you were planning on kidnapping someone like that.

Even then, that person had to have had a purpose to going out into the open like that. Not everyone is someone familiar with that park. Shuichi sure wasn't. Unless-!

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"Where's your boyfriend?"

"I've told you this before, Shuichi's not my boyfriend!" Kaito nearly shouted. Umi just giggled. It was a strange noise, it sounded more like a horse whinny then a human laugh. Kaito recognized it from somewhere.

"Well whatever, I still think you two would make a cute couple!" Umi declared, giving the person who was staring at her a thumbs up. Kaito sighed.

"Can you just give me my food?" Kaito asked, tired.

"Nope!" Kaito's tired expression morphed into one of surprise and anger. "Not until you pay!" Kaito slouched back down, still holding anger in his expression.

"Well yeah, I would have done that." Umi raised an eyebrow, smirk on her face, but didn't make anymore childish comments.

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Have to.....tell....Kaito....

Phone.

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Kaito walked back to his apartment, it wasn't very far from Kozue, the restaurant he'd unluckily got Umi as a waiter for again. That girl just couldn't shut her mouth. At least, not around Kaito and Shuichi she couldn't. He had noticed Umi was much more chatty with them then then the other customers. Maybe because we were so easy to tease.

Umi had commented on how they were boring though. Kaito still didn't understand how that managed to upset him. It wasn't because of the meaning behind the words, it was simply because of the words themselves. It was weird.

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Can't.....reach..

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As Kaito walked up the stairs to his apartment he noticed something felt off. As he continued up, he passed someone wearing a dark hoodie, covering most of their face. They had red eyes. Kaito stopped and watched them as they walked down the street. They started out slow before slowly picking up speed when they figured they were no longer being watched. Kaito noticed they were wearing a skirt as the figure passed the street lamps.

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It's...gone.....I..can't...tell Kaito....I'm...sorry...

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Kaito opened the door to his apartment slowly, his mind still focused on who he'd seen earlier. As he stepped inside and looked around he grew even more anxious. Where was Shuichi?

He looked down. Someone screamed. There was so much blood. The knife was lodged directly in his back. His hand was reached out as though he had been trying to grab something in his last living moments. Dragging his eyes off of the corpse of Shuichi Saihara, Kaito looked to where the scream had come from. The nice old lady next door was staring at Shuichi. As she turned to look at Kaito, he saw pure fear in her eyes. Fear? Of him?

"Wait!" Kaito found his voice. The sound of it caused the woman to go running in the opposite direction. Then it hit Kaito. The cops would be here soon. And it would look like he did it. Losing his footing slightly, he ran outside of his apartment to find the woman already in hers.

"Run," The voice said.

Kaito listened to the voice. He ran behind the apartments and to an area that only cops searching murder grounds would find. The place that the cops would eventually find him at. Kaito was done for. The fact that he had ran away too was beyond suspicious.

Great going Kaito. Great going. Why did you have to be so unimportant? Stupid. Boring. Kokichi had been right. Kaito was boring.

"C'mon Kaito, lighten up a bit. Jeez you're so predictable it's boring." Umi had said that. But..that was Kokichi's thing..? Kaito's thoughts were pushed away by the darkness that clouded Kaito's vision. "Great going Kaito."

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"Great going Kaito." Umi murmured from her couch as she watched the news. Now everyone would think that idiot had done it. Why would he run? He had a freaking alibi. She could have backed it up too. Besides, the moment Kaito opened his big mouth the police would know he wasn't smart enough to commit a crime like that.

So the real question was who did it. And who did? Kaito might have an idea. Hid dead boyfriend probably did. That might even be the reason why he's dead now. His killer was probably the same person behind the kidnappings. Which, as everyone else seems to have overlooked, could have very well been a child 12 years ago. Probably in the class Umi had figured out Kaito was in.

Standing up, Umi grabbed the copy of hers about the dissapearances in 5th grade. She stared at her class photo. Her eyes narrowed at the sight of a girl with brown hair in ponytails, and a black skirt, her main color theme being red. That girl was suspicious. She always had been. Umi suspected her, if she was the one who killed Kaito's boyfriend tonight, Umi would have her head. No one messes with Umi's ships.

(A/N : If you can't take the last lines seriously...don't worry I couldn't either when I edited this chapter. Ok, so I know it's short it's just the next chapter will be where the Oumota will start so I kind of want that whole introduction to be a separate chapter from Shuichi's death)