Disclaimer: As usual, I don't own DC or MK. This chapter is a response to a request from an author whose story I follow. She wanted to know what Hakuba found on the roof during Case 2, Part 2 (which is Chapter 5 of "The Hattori-Kudo Files"). At the time I didn't have anything planned, but her comment put the idea into my head… what would a crafty kaitou have left for his delightful Tantei-san?

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His pride was still stinging from the blue hair and confetti, but what really got him was the fact that Kaitou Kid had somehow known that Saguru was back in the country and had left him a personal message. "Damn magician." Saguru hadn't even told anyone from school he was returning for fear it would get back to Kaito before the heist. It was absolutely ludicrous. I've been in Japan for all of FOUR EFFING HOURS and he already had my "welcome party" set up. Where does he get his information? I only booked the flight six days, eight hours, forty minutes, and thirty-two seconds ago.

A ding signaled the opening of the elevator door, at which point his moment of contemplation was cut off. Two razor-sharp cards embedded in the elevator wall on either side of Saguru, prompting him to jump out and duck under the line of fire. When his eyes adjusted to the dark, he saw that there were two small contraptions designed like Kid's card gun. Every 5.01 seconds – did Kid offset the timer by a fraction just to annoy him? – they fired at the door, bouncing haphazardly off metal once the door had shut.

Saguru felt sticky where he'd connected with the ground, and looked down in horror to find he'd landed in a sea of peanut butter. He hated peanut butter. "What if I'd been allergic?" he shouted to absent thief. "What does your no-one-gets-hurt-policy say about that?" In his haste to stand up, he tripped a wire, which dumped craft beads from a container set atop the elevator shaft's enclosure. They stuck to the peanut butter. Great. Now he looked like a kindergarten project gone wildly wrong.

A shrieking sound prompted Saguru to risk the peanut butter again. There was a moment of relief when the speeding paint-filled balloon previously destined for his chest went soaring past. Saguru tried to press the elevator button again – Kid clearly wasn't up here – but more of the magician's traps sprang, driving him further onto the roof and separating him from the only way back into the building.

Two of the many unfortunately placed mirrors caused him to run into a metal something-or-other that stuck up from the ground. Saguru swore loudly. That one wasn't fair. He jumped onto the aforementioned protrusion when a net came zipping across the roof, and he felt a slight breeze as it passed inches in front of his nose. "Where do you manage to hide all this stuff, Kid? And how long does it take you to set up?"

Kid seemed to think that Saguru was as stupid as the taskforce and planned traps accordingly. The detective counted sixteen traps that he managed to avoid, only setting off one minor glitter bomb before reaching the lip of the roof and safety. He leaned against the railing, panting. Kid wouldn't put traps so close to the edge, where someone might fall. At least for the moment, he was safe. The roof was much larger than Saguru had taken it for, a miscalculation that he regretted. I should have stayed by the elevator. Now, of course, he had to go back through it all again when he was recovered and had spotted all of the subtler traps.

His heart stopped as the first explosion went off on the far side of the building. Then he saw the colored lights. Oh. Just fireworks. They were Kid's, no doubt. Another set went off about thirty meters from the building. He's coming out on this side then. Nakamori-keibu would be fooled and follow the trail set for him and Kid would undoubtedly escape while the helicopters were busy elsewhere. In fact, he heard whirring now and the aircraft quickly passed over the roof.

Saguru peered over the edge of the building where he'd been leaning. On cue, a window on the floor below him opened and a white shape hurdled out, the glider catching air and keeping the thief aloft as he soared away again. When Saguru straightened up, he found a note stuck to his hand. There was a Kid caricature at the bottom, and Saguru sighed.

"I knew you wouldn't go and get sleep, you silly tantei! You'll need it for my next heist, when I won't hold back and things will get REALLY fun! Don't forget to say hi to that number one fan of mine, okay? Cheerfully, Kaitou Kid."

_l~~l_
\(Q_o)

He scrutinized all the traps between him and the elevator. "Damn magician," Saguru growled again, but even with blue hair, glitter, confetti, gravel, peanut butter, and beads, this time there was a hint of a smile.

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From Meri: I decided that Kid would have spent more time on the ground-floor tricks and therefore made his rooftop shenanigans mostly harmless – especially since there's not much to hide things behind. Also, I still adore the cute Kid caricature.

Hope you liked it! I don't know if there will be more extras here. I don't have any planned currently.