DC- The Critic and The Artist

Masks of Identity By- RedHerring1412 [link]

More fanart for Masks Of Identity. (One of my fav DC fanfics, read it!) Doesn't Conan-kun look good in Kaito's school uniform?

Kid's monocle and Conan's glassses are missing cause I didn't like the way they blocked their eyes. yeah... X.X

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Another scene from MoI

Tucking the Starlight Diamond into one of his many pockets, Kaitou Kid carefully made his way around a chimney. This mansion just had to be one of those places that has more slanted roofing then necessary. Not to mention having chimneys just for decoration. Is there even one place on this roof that has a flat spot? Oh well, it just means there won’t be many people crazy enough to chase me with such bad footing around.

Making his way around another chimney next to more bad footing, Kid didn’t notice the dark shape in front of him until it was too late. Feeling himself run into a warm body that was definitely not another chimney, Kid was distracted for the split second it took for his foot to not find any footing at all. Feeling things move in slow motion as he fell, Kid could only focus on the smiling white mask in front of him. However, everything was jerked to a halt as a firm hand gripped the front of his shirt and steadied him.

Kid was only able to take a quick breath before he was flung to where, surprisingly, there was a flat part on the roof. Taking control of his fall, Kid somersaults in the air and lands on his feet. Springing up onto one of the chimneys, he turns to face the shadowed person. “I would thank you for helping me there except for the fact that it was your fault in the first place that I was in such a situation.”

"That is usually how things are blamed." Stepping out of the shadows, the moon revealed the creepy masked man from before. “I have a message for you.”

“Really? Well, I’m sorry but I really can’t accept any fan mail at this time of night. Besides, I really must be going.”

Turning to leave, Kid is stopped by the man saying, “The note was there all along.”

Facing the man once again, Kid studies him with his poker face firmly in place. “Oh?”

“Underneath the diamond displayed on the velvet, there was another display. That one being the display of your note. Having some fine string attached to the top piece of velvet, all you needed to do was to blind everyone for a moment while you lifted it up from above.” Tilting his head to the side he says, “People have a habit of not looking up. If they did, I am sure they would have seen evidence of your presence on the chandelier above.”

Kid politely claps at the man’s deduction. “My, I never knew I had such a dedicated fan. Still I really must . . . ” He is cut off however when he catches a card flung at him.

Speaking, the man says, “The message is this: The critic no longer does such work, so please do not disturb him.”

“Oh?” Looking at the man shrewdly, Kid says, “I’m sorry, but which critic would you be speaking about? I have heard of so many people talking about me that you are going to have to be more specific than that.”

Nodding his head, the man explains. “The one who wanted the message delivered thought you might ask that, so that is why I gave you that card. It is the other part of the message.”

- - -

We’ve met before, Kaitou Kid-san, so it is insulting that you do not remember.

At times I wondered if fate brought us together back then, contrary to what I may believe.

‘0' then ‘XVIII’

‘I’ accompanies ‘XIII’

‘XIX’ sets on ‘XVI’

‘IV’ has ‘VII’

‘IX’ practice ‘XIV’

‘XX’ for ‘XXI’

Such is how our meetings went. Do you remember?

Though you shouldn’t look into meanings.

At times things are right in front of you.

So if by now you know not what I say, you are not the kaitou that I met.

Sorry about the message not being in the memorable style.

- - -

“. . .That’s the message?”

Shrugging his shoulders, the man responds. “That’s the message, so don’t ask me what it means. It is why I gave you a copy of it on the card. Though there is one interesting fact you may wish to know.”

“Which is?”

“The reason why the Starlight Diamond is named so is because when the moon is viewed through it, the jewel glitters like starlight.”

Kid could only stand there in silence as thoughts raced through his mind. Could it be that this man . . .

“Kid! Stop right there!” Nakamori-keibu and the policemen he brought with him came into view, carefully making their way along the precarious rooftop.

Distracted for a moment, Kid glances at them before facing the man once more. However, in the moment it took for him to notice the police, the man disappeared. Turning to the struggling policemen once more, Kid sees them having a much more difficult time with the roof then he himself did. Calling out to them he says, “I’m terrible sorry to disappoint you all, but I must take my leave.”With one last glance to the spot the creepy masked man once occupied, Kid activated his hang glider and flies off into the night.