Case of the Paranoid Star-- A Detective Conan / Case Closed fanfiction

Hi all! This is my first real mystery case that I've written, but the idea came to me awhile back. This is the first of three cases I've planned, so read on! yay! This is part one of a two-shot!

Disclaimer: I don't own Detective Conan or any of the characters.

Whenever Conan / Shinichi thinks, it's Shinichi, whenever he talks, it's Conan (since that's the way the voices work)

"Like, I'm so glad you decided to come with me, Ran!" Sonoko said cheerily as she slid out of the limo seat tugging up her strapless neon green dress, "You too, Mr. Mouri! Jonoko will feel totally safe with you around!"

Kogoro grinned and cockily straightened his tie as he stepped out, helping Ran out after him,
"Why thank you. I am, after all, a professional!" He said. He glared at Conan, who was struggling to get out of the limo on account of his stubby little legs, "But did we really have to bring the squirt? I shouldn't need to babysit him at an adult party."

'Oi, oi,' Shinichi thought to himself, 'You wouldn't have been invited if I hadn't made you famous.'

"Don't worry, Dad," Ran said as she leaned over and straightened Conan's new black jacket, "I'll look after him. Right, Conan?"

'Yeah, whatever.' Shinichi thought sarcastically while Conan said,.
"Yeah that'll be great!" Conan said enthusiastically as he forced a sweet smile at Kogoro..

Sonoko had come to the Mouri Detective Agency a few days before with a request for her best friend's 'old man'. Her cousin Jonoko Suzuki, a famous pop artist, was having a party to celebrate the release of her new album and would like protection. Of course, Kogoro would "Never turn down a beauty in distress!"

"Strange place to have a party." Kogoro said as he looked up at the gray, windowless building. It was a large convention center that was in the middle of a business mall.

"Yeah!" Conan said, his detective mind suspicious, "Don't stars usually have parties in big mansions or something?"

"Conan, don't be rude... I'm sure the manager knows exactly what's he's doing." Ran said, delicately adjusting her burgundy knee-length dress.

Sonoko grinned,
"Oh my gosh, that's the genius of it! Like, Jonoko's manager and her boyfriend decided to have it at this convention center! Totally retro, huh!? Her manager, Manny, said it was the perfect place! And her boyfriend, Boi said it would be, like, totally safe!"

"Manny the mamager and her boyfriend Boi?" Conan and Ran asked simultaneously, raising an eyebrow.

"Yeah!" Sonoko said with a grin, "Boi's hilarious! He's got this amazing hairstyle and great clothes-- you'll just have to wait and see for yourself!"

"Boyfriend..." Kogorou muttered as he slumped down, "I knew it was too good to be true."

"Oh, and Manny's a kinda greasy-looking guy who's overweight, wears coloured glasses and an ascot." Sonoko added, ignoring the depressed. so-called detective.

"They're all weirdos in show business." Kogoro grumbled as he tipped the limo driver and the company entered the seemingly-quiet convention center. Multicoloured lights and loud music sprang out at them as scantily-clad stars posed cheesily for newspaper pictures.

Kogoro combed his hair quickly, popped two breath mints into his mouth and strutted inside, excited to meet the ladies. Conan eyed the punchbowl suspiciously as Sonoko loudly introduced Ran to some acquaintances.

Kogoro had just waltzed up to a busty blonde woman with obviously whitened teeth when Sonoko made a delighted squeal and dragged Ran, Kogoro, and Conan back to the door where a crowd was beginning to gather.

"They're here!" Someone cried giddily as cries of "Jonoko! Jonoko!" grew loud.

'I hate being so small!" Shinichi thought to himself as Conan strained to catch a glimpse of the star. Soon, a spiky-haired brunette woman dressed in black with neon highlights and accessories entered in the arms of a tough looking man, dressed in skulls with a large green mohawk and plentiful facial piercings.

The couple, accompanied by a large bodyguard, weaved their way to Sonoko

"Jonoko! It's so wonderful to see you!" Sonoko cried as she waved and latched onto the nervous-looking girl.

"This way, please." The bodyguard said as he hurriedly escorted them to a private room where an overweight man was waiting and munching on horsderves.

As the door clicked closed, the teenage idol looked around herself nervously,
"Boi, Manny, Sonoko, who are these people? Are they to be trusted?" She asked, gripping the man with the green mohawk's hand and pointing a shaky finger as Ran, Kogoro and Conan.

"Oh, this is my bestest friend, Ran Mouri, her old man, Kogoro" "Hey!" "And the little boy's Conan Edogawa--" "A freeloader!" Richard interrupted.

"Like I was saying, Mr. Mouri's the detective-- you know, the protection you wanted." Sonoko said cheerily.

"Oh good!" Jonoko said, nodding vigourously as she turned back to the door and locked it.

'Why did she do that?' Shinichi asked himself as the star turned back the the company.

"Ah!" The manager, taking Kogoro's hand and shaking it excessively, "Nice to meet you, sir! I'm Manny-- Jonoko's manager. So you're the famous detective, eh!? I'm a big fan of your work!" Richard's head began to swell comically as he laughed conceitedly,
"Yes, I am amazing, aren't I?"

"You better be pretty amazing." The man with the tall green mohawk said stiffly, "And nothing bad better happen to Jonoko."

"What do you mean, 'nothing bad'?" Kogoro asked suspiciously.

Shinichi noticed that both Manny and Boi looked uneasy at the question. The Gothic man was the first to speak. He bent over and smiled a bit at Conan,
"Kid, would ya mind taking Jonoko over to that table over there and getting some punch?" he asked, motioning to a table at the other side of the room. Conan raised his eyebrow but grinned childishly after a moment,
"Sure thing, sir!"

Conan took the glamorous woman by the hand,
"This way, Ma'am!" he said sweetly. The woman glanced over at Boi.

"It'll be fine sweetie. Go on." Boi said reassuringly as Conan took Jonoko over to the refreshment table.

AS soon as they were out of hearing range, Boi turned back to the company,
"Sorry about that. Jo' is just a little... Well... she's slightly..."

"She's completely paranoid!" Manny interrupted, "She terrified at first of anyone she doesn't know and even locks every door in sight-- it's really starting to tamper with our success."

Conan narrowed his eyes from across the room as he strained to hear.
'Our success?' Shinichi thought to himself as Jonoko poured three four glasses of punch and handed him two.

"To make matters worse," Boi said, "Jonoko's been targeted lately."

"That's terrible!" Ran said softly.

"Unfortunate." Kogoro said scratching his mustache, "Any idea by who?"

Manny dabbed his brow with a red handkerchiefs,
"No idea whatsoever. There's been no clues. Whoever the perp is, he's good."

Jonoko and Conan returned to the group. Conan handed a cup to Ran and Sonoko handed her second cup to Boi.

"Thank's sweets." Boi said as he down his glass. Ran polietly sipped hers and smiled,
"Thank you Conan." she said sweetly. Inside, Shinichi's face was ablaze and Conan scuffed his toe on the floor as she ruffled his hair.

"Oh! I almost forgot!" Manny said suddenly, picking up a bag off of a nearby chair, "In order to thank Mr. Mouri and guests for their help, Boi wanted to give you all a free CD."

The sweaty manager proceeded in handing Sonoko, Ran, Kogoro and Conan a signed CD. As Manny stuffed the extra discs back into the bag, a damp blue handkerchief fell to the floor. Manny didn't seem to notice and he continued talking to the guests.

Conan quietly picked up the cloth and brought it to his nose. After a second, he inconspicuously dropped it to the ground,
"Hey mister!" He said childishly as he picked up the hanky and waved it in the air, "You dropped your handkerchief--"

Before he could finish, the manager snatched the damp cloth from Conan's small hand and smiled,
"Why thank you, my lad!" He said as he stuffed the hanky in his pocket, "That's the only one I brought today! I get mighty sweaty when I'm nervous about big appearances-- especially with such a famous celebrity!"

Conan slightly narrowed his eyes but said nothing.

"Boi!" Jonoko whispered sharply. All eyes shot to the star, who blushed and clung to the man's arm, "Sorry, I just need to go to the bathroom..."

"Okay, hon. Go put your purse down so it doesn't get taken and Sonoko and Ran will take you."

As she slowly crossed the room and set her bag on a chair, Boi turend to the two,
"She's a bit paranoid about these things, you know... she's got something like a bathroom ritual. No one can go into the restroom or the stalls with her and you gotta stay with your back to the door until she comes out. Make sure no one's in there when she goes in and no one else goes in afterward."

"Ok." Sonoko and Ran said quietly as Jonoko came back and linked arms with both of them.

"There's a bathroom right across the main room." Manny said as he opened the private room door and motioned outside.

"We'll watch from here." Kogoro said in response to the anxious look that Jonoko gave him.

Conan tugged on Ran's skirt as she and Sonoko began to usher the pop sensation out of the room, Shinichi's mind suspicious,
"Ran-neechan, Ran-neechan, I have to go too!" he whined childishly."

"Ok, come on." Ran said with a smile as she took him by the hand and led him out into the bustling party as Shinichi thought,
'Man, this is humiliating... if Dr. Agasa and Haibara hear about this, they'll never let me live it down.'

Conan kept his eye on the star, carefully cataloging every moment she came in contact with anything.

Ran went into he bathroom first to make sure it was empty and emerged a few moments later,
"All clear." she said as she turned the handle and opened the door wide for Jonoko.

"A-Are you sure it's safe?" The spiky-haired brunette asked as Sonoko pushed her inside,
"Like, don't even worry about it! We'll be right here!" the Suzuki girl said with a toothy grin. Conan watched as the door closed behind the girl and Ran and Sonoko stood with their backs to it, then he darted inside the adjacent Men's Room.

He quickly surveyed his surroundings, making sure there was no one inside and then pressed his ear against the wall between the two bathrooms. After a moment, he heart a loud click, then footsteps, followed by the stall door swinging open and closed and then locking.

'What was the click?' Shinichi wondered to himself, 'She hadn't taken anything into the bathroom to put down, like a purse, did she? No... she left that on the chair...'

The toilet flushed but everything seemed normal. He could hear her heels echoing across the floor and the water at the sink turning on then off. He heard Jonoko pull a paper towel from the dispenser and then heard her footsteps walk across the floor.

Something clicked again and then he heard her at the door. Conan quickly ran into a stall, flushed the toiled, turned off and on the faucet and ran out to the girls.

Halfway back to the door, Boi met them, holding a large platter of tiny pastries,
"Hors' dervs?" He asked with a grin.

"Sure!" Sonoko said as she grabbed a handful. Ran smiled politely and took a small one and Jonoko shyly also took one.

"You too, kid?" Boi asked, bending down. Conan forced a fake laugh and took one. Boi took one also and they all began to eat them as Kogoro and Manny approached them from the room.

Conan was about to ask Kogoro if anything strange had happened yet when there was a loud thump from behind him, followed by a shriek. Conan whipped around and found the star on the floor, holding her neck. Conan quickly knelt down, felt her pulse-- it was still there, but weak and her throat had become swollen.

"Jonoko's been poisoned! Call an ambulance! Hurry! Someone! Jonoko needs medical attention!" Conan shouted. Soon, commotion filled the room and the roaring of an ambulance filled the air.

"Jonoko! Jonoko!" Sonoko sobbed as she held her cousin's head off the floor, "Hang on!" Ran covered her mouth with her hand and her ankles wobbled as the paramedics rushed in and took Jonoko out to an ambulance. and police men entered

"It must be the pastry that she ate!" Manny cried with his finger in the air, "There must have been poison in it!" All eyes turned to Boi, who had offered the treat.

"Officers," Kogoro shouted, "Arrest Boi for poisoning Jonoko!"

With a shout, two heavy officers tackled the man with the green mohawk and handcuffed him.

'No...' Shinichi thought to himself, 'I don't think it was Boi... there's something much deeper to this mystery than simple poisoning... After all, everyone took one and we're all fine... Even if there were only a few poisoned and he knew which Jonoko would take, Sonoko took a whole handful...'

He shook his head again, 'No... I know who the poisoner is... but how did he do it and why?'

So, was the first chapter good? I hope you like it! I can't wait to write the next chapter! This is definately going to be a two-shot now, so please check back soon for the conclusion! Thanks!

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