[E-mail accidentally posted to his journal.]

[unknownrival]

To: kaitoukidforever@mail.yahoo.co.jp
From: ryudoji@mail.yahoo.co.jp
Subject: Photographs

Dear Kaitou Kid Fanclub:

I should have expected this, what with the way misinformation travels around here, but I was hoping you still had some sense.

First of all, those pictures you have in your possession. Notice the hair color? Notice how it isn't Kid's hair color? It's a costume party. Unless Kid would be one to have such a shoddy costume as merely a different hair color, you have to accept that it's someone else dressed up as him. I should know, because it's me.

This means that you do not have pictures of Kid fraternizing with Hakuba and Shirogane. You have pictures of a fan in costume fraternizing with the detectives. Therefore, stop claiming to have proof of - of relations between them. Kid wasn't even there! And I don't have relations with them either, and I was the one actually in those photographs!

In conclusion, the next person who says Kid did anything remotely resembling romantic at that party is wrong on so many levels, and I will find them and hunt them down. It's the least I can do for contributing to this mess.

-Ryudo Issei

((Of course the Gossip Girl story and the photos get back to the fanclub. Of course.))

Comments

[stripping.livejournal.com]

If this ends up contributing to their education, perhaps it'll be worth it.

[truthinfortune.livejournal.com]

Still, I'm a bit surprised that they know about me. Even after getting injured in Ekoda...

I suppose girls often go for the "mysterious" type, no matter what world you come from.

[stripping.livejournal.com]

Never underestimate the power of a fan to follow anyone who's been seen with their idol.

[truthinfortune.livejournal.com]

...now I'm morbidly curious as to how they explained my "sudden appearance" on the taskforce. I really did just show up out of nowhere one day.

[stripping.livejournal.com]

Well, you could have been transferred from another city and just didn't mention it...

[truthinfortune.livejournal.com]

Probably. The blue hair and eyes might throw them off as to my origins. A foreigner, perhaps? I know for a fact I'm not full-blooded Japanese to begin with...

[stripping.livejournal.com]

Is it really that uncommon? I mean, I know it's rare to see that color in my world, but I've never been suspected of being foreign... well, my family might have something to do with that.

[truthinfortune.livejournal.com]

Well, the blue eyes certainly are, I think. But the blue hair runs in the male side of the Shirogane line. I suspect that's where Minato gets his hair and eye color from, as well.

[stripping.livejournal.com]

You're related?

[truthinfortune.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes! We're distant cousins, actually! My grandfather's father's sister married into the Arisato line, so that's how we're related.

[stripping.livejournal.com]

Huh. I can see some resemblance, now.

[truthinfortune.livejournal.com]

It's a bit uncanny, to be honest. When Hakuba was in the hospital, I wore Minato-kun's school uniform, and we tried to see how long it would take before Hakuba could tell us apart.

[stripping.livejournal.com]

How long did it end up taking?

[truthinfortune.livejournal.com]

About five and a half minutes. I lost the bet with Minato-kun. Even while on painkillers, Hakuba's powers of observation are rather sharp, after all.

[stripping.livejournal.com]

Oh, well. I'm sure it was amusing, even if you lost the bet.

[truthinfortune.livejournal.com]

It was. He was thoroughly entertained.

[stripping.livejournal.com]

Good! If he was in the hospital, he must have appreciated it.