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"So there should be a key." Conan left the room to cross the hall. "You said the room across from yours was occupied?" he said, not waiting for confirmation as he tried the door. "This one isn't locked either."

Crap. Ran realized a second too late what his friend was doing, and hurried after him, letting the door bang half-shut behind them on its open deadbolt.

"Oi, Shinichi-!"

Conan let go of the door handle, the door swinging open before him. "Don't worry," he told Ran, giving the room a cursory glance. "No one's home."

"That doesn't mean you can just barge into people's rooms!" Ran protested, grabbing Conan by the back of his shirt and hoisting him up without a second's hesitation. Hopefully he hadn't seen the shrine -- or at least not the name on the funerary tablet. "It's not like we're looking for evidence!"

"Ran! Put me down!" The room was instantly forgotten as Conan squirmed to free himself -- he hated when Ran did this. "And as a matter of fact, I was!"

Bingo. With Conan sufficiently distracted, Ran took the opportunity to kick the door to ghost Shinichi's study closed, still letting his friend dangle mid-air as he gave him an unimpressed look. "Evidence of what?"

"Evidence to collaborate your stories of alternates," Conan said sullenly, having come to the conclusion that he was going nowhere.

"If you want proof that badly we should go find someone instead of rummaging through their room," Ran retorted, lowering his arm and letting Conan drop to the ground. "Jeez..."

"What do you think I was trying to do?" Conan complained, dusting himself off as he walked back into Ran's room. "Besides ascertaining that whoever lives there hasn't found the keys either."

As Conan disappeared, the door behind Ran opened with a creak right out of an episode of the Addams Family.

"So what, you're just going to try each door we come across?" Ran asked skeptically as he followed. "That's a lot of do--"

creaaaaak

The sentence ended with a bitten-off yelp as Ran jumped about half a foot in the air, whipping around to face the door behind him. It was open. After he'd very firmly closed it.

It looked like ghost Shinichi was around after all -- though Ran's heart had yet to get the message, seeing that it was still trying to jump out of his chest. He was probably staying invisible, too, the jerk. The karateka scowled at the door, resisting the urge to make a rude gesture.

Shinichi faded into view to scowl back, looking like whatever the paranormal equivalent of sleep-tousled was. "It's rest-in-peace for a reason," he grumbled, muffling a yawn. "Do you mind?"

"Blame yourself for being such a mystery geek," Ran shot back in a low voice, hoping his Shinichi wouldn't overhear the conversation. "Just go back to sleep. Or-- whatever."

Shinichi looked very much like he wanted to argue that, but another yawn decided him against that. He shut the door with a quiet click -- just as the door on the other side of Ran was pulled open.

"Ran-niisan? Who are you -- there's no one here."

"Nothing!" Ran said hurriedly. "Are you done yet? We should check the dining room."

Conan weighed the trouble bringing Ran the bento had caused against the possibility of substantiating his friend's story with further information.

As always the mystery won. "Let's go."

Sighing in relief, Ran led the way back down the winding staircase to the main floor, sneakers muffled by the rich carpet. "One of the Conans said there's a theatre here, too," he commented idly. "I haven't been able to find it yet."

Conan bites down the urge to contest that 'one of the Conans' -- really? He is that unremarkable? "A theatre?" He smirks as Ran says he hasn't found it yet. "That's no surprise."

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Styx is trying to enable me to try adult!Heiji instead of adult!Shinichi. Save me!

Totally willing to save you! ShinichiShinichiShinichiShinichi also Styx owes me tags I think.

alkfha if we get any more in the DR he's going to have enough for his own soccer team. And she does.

All the more reason to app an adult Shinichi -- they'll need a coach.

You're a terrible person. :|

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You're an enabling enabler.

C'mon. Shinichi as a soccer-mom, it'll be awesome.

...Or a catastrophe. And yet both are tempting. lakfhalf STOP THAT

:D :D :D speaking of catastrophes 1. Heiji is using logic and 2. Ghost has a new friend!

1. Best logic ever and 2. actress!Aoko?

1. Very Heiji. Who needs to meet Ran. 2. Yes, that's the one!

1. Should I threadjack or pounce him elsewhere? 2. Aww~ ...he's getting all the girls.

1. I'm up for either! 2. Too bad none of these girls like ghosts.

1. /makes a note to ping Hydok 2. At least one IS a ghost?

1./o/ 2. Point well made!

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