- CASE CLOSED - Conan x OC

Chapter 5

"The murder happened in Yoko's room, shouldn't Yoko be the suspect. This is the first time I've been here so it's got nothing to do with me." Yuuko-san was brought in, "Then what's this?" Mouri holds up her earring, "Oh! I thought I lost it somewhere! So here it is!" She turns around, "That's not all, a security guard said he saw a person that looked just like you come in here before." Mouri looks at her, "A person that looks like me, but wasn't me. Sorry, let me use the toilet." Yuuko walks off, I felt Ku's grip tighten on my hand, "They both look exactly the same from behind and how'd she know where the toilet was when this is her first time here?" He saw her walk in, my eyes widen. "Ok, how many times have I told you. This is my first time here." She lights her cigarette, "Ku..." I watched her, "You've got it, you're catching on fast." He smiles, "Wow that's a peculiar lighter, onee-chan, if you haven't been here before how did you know this was a lighter?" Ku walks over and puts on an act like an interested kid that blurt stuff out, everyone flinched, "That's right, how'd you know?" Inspector Megure looks at her, "My friend has a similar one." She was obviously lying, "Then where's your friend?" Inspector asks, "Where is the toilet? This is my first time too so could you point it out? After all you just went," I smiled up at Yuuko, "That's right, you even knew where the toilet was. This means you Ikezawa Yuuko is the murderer! You wanted to frame Yoko-san so you killed that man in this room!" Mouri points at her, "No! No! I didn't kill him! That man suddenly attacked me, I just fought back. I did come here a few times I used the key from a break room and I wanted to start a scandal, but when I came here this afternoon that man followed me in. At that time I used all my strength against him and finally escaped," She explains, "And because of that you killed him," Mouri crosses his arms, "I didn't kill him!" She had tears in her eyes, "Inspector, the man has been identified," A police officer runs in, "Fujie Akiyoshi, 22 years old, graduated from Kounan high school, and worked in Kakubeni Industry." The police officer read out, "Kounan high school? Yoko-san also went to that high school," Mouri touches his chin, Yoko flinches, "I... I... know him! I don't only know that person, he was my boyfriend when I was in high school," She holds her mouth, "Really?!" We were all shocked, "Yoko!" Her manager seemed angry, "Sorry Yamagashi-san but I can't hide it anymore." She bows, "Would it be that you wanted to end your past relationship with him?" Inspector asks, "No! He was the one who wanted to break up with me." She looks down, "Then who is the murderer? Okino Yoko. Ikezawa Yuuko. Manager Yamagishi. Damn there seems to be a hole in my deductions. What is it, what's missing?" Ku was pacing back and forth as he waled around the traced outline of the corpse, "Huh, a dent on the floor?" I cocked my head, "A what?!" Ku ran over to me, "Now that you mention it, this room is very messy and this chair is standing upright. Also the temperature is way too high in this room. Around the corpse there were also watermarks there was hair in the corpse's hand. That's it! The puzzle is solved! You're a genius Yuki!" He lifts me up and was about to kiss me, "Conan-kun, what have I said about kissing Nao on the lips?" Ran bends down, "Oh.. haha, chu~!" He kisses my cheek.

"I've got it! The murderer is Manager Yamagishi! If this thing was released into the public Yoko-san's reputation would be ruined so you thought of him as an enemy. At that time you bumped into him while he was trespassing and you killed him. The criminal is you. It can't be anyone else but you!" Mouri lights a cigarette, "Sorry uncle!" Ku kicks an ashtray, "Genta!" I cringed in pain as it hit his head, it rebounded off and hit Mouri's head, he stumbled back into a chair, "Well I guess it worked out," I shrug, I saw Ku run behind the arm chair, "The truth isn't that. Yamagishi-san, if you were the murderer and you wanted us to find the corpse. You would've asked me in investigate, then you'd prepare some evidence proving your innocence. Yoko-san same goes for you, this is because the first person to be suspected is the owner," I smiled, I knew that was Ku speaking with Mouri's voice programmed on the bowtie, "Then the murderer is... Ikezawa Yuuko!" Inspector Megure looks at her, "What!" She gasps, "No, it isn't her either. If the criminal killed someone by mistake she would've said she didn't know or met the man from before," Ku continues, "But what you said," Inspector looks at him, "Yes, this is only a psychological guess. There is no evidence proving that any of these people are the criminal, Yamagishi-san you pretended to fall and took the chance to take the hair from the corpse's hand, but it's not him. The person who was stabbed at the back was holding onto the murderer's hair, don't you find that suspicious? The criminal's plan was to make people believe she did it. It was to make Yoko-san seem guilty of the crime. That's right... the criminal is... Fujie-san himself!" Ku finished, "A suicide?!" Everyone took a step back, "Impossible! How can you stab a knife in your own back?" Inspector asks, "It's a simple trick, after setting the heater to a high temperature and taking some hair from Yoko-san's comb, he stands on a chair, he then aims his back at the knife that's embedded on an ice block on the floor, near the corpse there is a dent from the handle of the knife, the scattered pieces of ice will soon melt in high temperatures, but, isn't Fujie-san's plan a little bit too extreme?" Ku asks, "Are you talking about the of hair?" Inspector asks, "Yamagishi-san who found the hair thought Yoko-san killed him so he secretly hid it." Mouri was still unconscious, "But why did Fujie-san do such a thing?" Yoko gasps, "I guess, it was because he was still in love with you. Haven't you noticed? The two of you look very alike from the back, he mistook Yuuko-san for Yoko-san and approached, no, he wanted to talk to you but who he though was Yoko-san fought back so vigorously he was hoping he could win back her love. In the end he felt hopeless," Ku deduces, "But he left me! Why!" Yoko asks, "You're wrong Yoko. The truth is... I asked him to break up with you," Yamagishi-san looks down, "Inspector! We found the victim's diary!" A police officer ran in. Inside that diary he says that he's unhappy, after they'd split up he couldn't forget about Yoko. Even if he was going to ruin Yoko's career he wanted to have her back. Lastly he says, 'I need to at least clear up the misunderstanding or I won't be able to live' that was the last line of his diary. "So all because of a misunderstanding, a coincidence, it's lead to a sad ending," Inspector Megure snaps the diary shut, a part of Mouri's cigarette fell off and burnt his leg waking him back up, "Mouri-kun! It's just like your deduction! My opinion of you is starting to change Great Detective!" Inspector Megure runs over to him, "You were great! My Ku, the High School Detective strikes again," I leant my head on his shoulder, he wipes his brow and rests his head on mine.

Ku, Ran and I were walking through Dotonburi when we saw Yoko on one of the large screens, "She is really strong. After that kind of thing she could still brace herself up. If it was me, I couldn't, I can't be as strong as Yoko-san. Shinichi and Yuki haven't been anywhere and I can't go to sleep. I'm really useless," Ran cries, I held on her hand tighter, "Ran-neesan, I'm sure they're thinking of you, maybe when you get home you should call them and see how they are," I kicked Ku lightly to send him the message, he lit up and nodded, "I'm sure Shinichi and Yuki would love to hear from you!" He nods, we both grinned like idiots.

"Ran!" It was my turn first, I used Ku's bowtie and a telephone box outside the house, "Yuki! Is that you!" I heard her sniff, "Ne, Ran. Don't tell me you've gotten soft and that you're crying now?" I snickered, I heard her laugh, "I'd never, I'm the great karate captain Ran Mouri!" I heard her light up, I smiled, "That's it," I laughed, "Where are you anyway?" She asks, "I'm training, Australia, I saw Mama and Papa, they really missed me, I guess it was a good thing that I came here for a while but I miss you Ran. Ku too. I miss both of you, I need my best friends back." I didn't realise I was crying, "Yuki..." She muttered, "Well train hard, Shinichi and I will be waiting for you to come back, Shinichi too, he's gone away, who knows when he'll come back. I really miss both of you." I heard a beep from the phone, crap, I'm about hang up, "Ahhh! Ran! I've got to go, sorry, I've... got to go to the gym, I'll call you back later, promise!" I say quickly, "Oh... well see you soon Yuki, I'll be waiting and once you come back, I'm giving both you and Shinichi a big punch for leaving me alone," She laughs quietly, "Well I guess we deserve it," I smiled, "Bye..." We both hung up, "I miss her, I miss my best friend." I turned to Ku and hugged him, "Me too. Me too." I held him stroke my back and he kissed my neck.