#Edogawa Fumiyo

[krourou2]

Detective Conan + Tumblr text posts

Are these funny, am I funny yet (I blame @cookies-super-secret-blog for that last one. Alternate versions of some of these under the cut.)

[kugisakiss]

as promised, the spy x fam parody AU

I had some fun thinking about this like 2 years ago and only made a couple of sketches at the time.. but then I started cleaning them up last month and before I knew it, it spiraled out of control to become this monstrosity. I can't help it, as you can all tell by now, I love coming up with scenarios to get all my little guys interacting with each other

some details i didn't put in:

the Kudou parents are absent like in the show

whatever is happening on Haibara's end is probably super messed up but I haven't thought of any of the details

Akai gets fancy tech stuff, like the voice changer, from Agasa. Agasa comes to help babysit Conan sometimes and he gives him all his little gadgets. Akai hasn't said anything about it but figures he could use it considering the amount of crime he comes across

the facility shinichi was in is like in the original story, it exists to research esp to create super soldiers which is why he knows everything he knows

Conan regularly eavesdrops on Akai and Rei's top secret phone calls which is how he learns their real names. He can't help it, he has really good hearing

Conan and Subaru have different last names because Conan thinks "Okiya" is lame and wants to keep the one he made up on the spot. Their story is that when Subaru and Conan's mother (Edogawa Fumiyo) married, they both kept their own last names and Conan was given Edogawa when he was born. They've kept it this way to "remember Conan's dead mother"

[phantoms-lair]

FNAF Conan thing Part 1

Take the basic premise of Security Breech. Freddy Fazbear's Pizzaplex opens up. People start going missing. Add two addendums. 1) This takes place in Beika and 2) the Pizzaplex is smaller, with only one star animatronic, Freddy. The Shounen Tantei get involved when a classmate hires them to look into the disappearance of a friend who was going to sneak into the Pizzaplex. The kids go to investigate and are quickly distracted by the Pizzaplex itself. Conan digs enough to find out there is something very wrong here. He calls Agasa to pick up the kids, but asks him to have something in the car that would take up an entire seat - an excuse for the kids to leave without him, on the understanding that Agasa will pick him up after they're dropped off. That is very much not the plan. Conan starts sneaking around, and while in the maintenance room, hides in Freddy's stomach hatch. This leads to him meeting Freddy the same way Gregory does in the game. Freddy agrees to help him, and together they discover the owner of this particular franchise is dressing up like a rabbit mascot to kidnap children who either enter unattended or to lure children inside for him to take. And along the way Conan realizes Freddy's too...aware to be just a robot. When he has an existential crisis about identity from seeing some endo skeletons Conan comes to the conclusion that Freddy is basically an awakened AI who hasn't quite realized that fact.

They find the children still alive, but in rough shape. Freddy is in the process of freeing them when he hears someone coming. He instinctively shoves Conan inside his cake storage unit. It's the owner. Freddy confronts him about the children and the condition they were in. The manager states that 'their suffering was ripe enough to be harvested' and tries to shut Freddy down. Freddy resists, knocking him out. Freddy and Conan get the kids out of there and call the police. Conan asks what will happen to Freddy and Freddy says if he's not taken in as evidence he will probably have his memory wiped and installed at a different location. And at this point Conan can't let that happen. As an emergent AI he's aware. And letting him get wiped feels like killing him. Freddy points out that without the Fazbear recharge stations he'll run out of power, but Conan says that it's okay - he knows a guy. Conan convinces the other kids involved to hide that Freddy was there so he won't get taken away, Knowing Freddy saved then, they eagerly agree. Police and medical crews come to pick up the kids. But when the police try to enter the Pizzaplex it explodes. No one was hurt, aside from the owner still inside. Agasa is used to Shinichi pulling shenanigans on him, but trying to hide and retrofit a theme restaurant animatronic is a bit of an odd task, even for him. But as he talks with Freddy he, like Conan, realizes the animatronic is truly sapient. He can easily fix the power source issue, but not so much making it so Freddy can walk around in public. But it's okay - he knows a guy. A little while later the Mouri's are introduced to Conan's father - Edogawa Fred. Fred is much taller and more built than and average person. But because they're not springing this on Conan it goes a lot better than Fumiyo's introduction - with Conan actually recognizing his 'father' and being happy to see him. (Unplanned for, but this starts a train of thought about how Conan acts around each of his parents, it's a marked difference) Fred explains to Kogoro that the reason he hasn't been around was two fold. The first was that he was a lot more injured in the accident than Fumiyo and required more surgery and physical therapy and the second was at the time of the accident he and Fumiyo had been at the start of a very bitter divorce, and had made the joint decision to leave Conan where he was safe and wouldn't have to witness it or worry about being caught in the middle. ((This actually wins Kogoro over. He saw what the separation between him and his wife did to Ran, and can't blame this man for trying to spare his son that.) So Edogawa Fred (or Fredogawa as he becomes known) stays around. He gets a job as a performer and manages to afford a small apartment for himself. Conan still stays with the Mouri's but Fred is playing the role of Dad to a hilt and makes sure he's always available to Conan, sometimes picking him up at school or taking him and the other kids on outings. Now the Kudo's were informed someone needed a new identity and would be playing the role of Conan's father. That's fine. What they didn't expect was the person to stick around and act like a father any more than Fumiyo acted like a mother. So now they're curious and want to meet this person. They arrange a flight for the two (private to get around the passport issue) but the plane encounters problems and has to land in California. It's going to take a few days to repair, so Conan and Freddy decide to find something to occupy their time. It turns out this town has it's very own PizzaPlex, with an even bigger cast. So why not check it out? Freddy is curious about what his life would have been like if his manager had not been an insane killer. And really, it's not like such a thing could happen twice?

[animethings]

And Ran-san, please take good care of him. He really loves you, you know !

Fumiyo Edogawa ( Yukiko Yuko )

[shinidogawa]

HEADCANONS BASED ON IF CONAN AND SHINICHI WERE SEPARATE PEOPLE

Firstly, Shinichi wouldn’t have to deal with the Black Organization and getting shrunk by their drug. He’s able to live life as a regular high schooler with his friends.

Conan is Shinichi’s cousin and is the son of Yukiko’s sister, Fumiyo Fujimine (now Fumiyo Edogawa after being married to Conan’s father). The only reason why they’ve never met is because Yukiko and Fumiyo’s relationship had grown sour due to Fumiyo’s jealousy of her older sister’s success and eventually broke contact with her when Shinichi was 7, so the Kudou family wouldn’t be able to meet Conan when he was born.

Conan only heard about his Shinichi-niichan in the news due to the amazing amount of cases he was able to solve and decided he wanted to be just like him. He begged his mother to help style his hair like his Shinichi-niichan and Fumiyo took it as Conan wanting to be better than Shinichi, so she agreed.

Conan spends every hour of his day reading mystery novels so he could become as good of a detective as Shinichi. Because of how much he strains his eyes, though, he ends up needing prescription glasses.

The only reason Conan ends up staying with the Kudou family is because his mother and father end up in a car accident and end up hospitalized. 

Shinichi notices how shy Conan is and immediately takes him under his wing when they first meet. He knows what its like to be alone at his age and doesn’t want the same to happen to Conan.

Conan eventually comes out of his shell the more he spends time with Shinichi and starts mimicking his actions, even getting into soccer so he could have something else to bond with Shinichi about.

Shinichi affectionately calls Conan his “Squirt”.

Shinichi will curl up in bed with Conan at his side and read him whatever book he was interested at that time until he fell asleep.

Shinichi taking Conan out to the amusement park whenever they’re both out of school and treating him to dessert and whatever sweets the boy desired at that moment.

Shinichi is way too protective of a big brother, so he ABSOLUTELY does not let Conan near any dead bodies or crime scenes under any circumstances. Shinichi had to deal with seeing corpses at a young age and he doesn’t want Conan to deal with the same thing.

Shinichi would let Conan go to one of KID’s heists, though. And if Nakamori-keibu or any other police officer tried to shoo the boy off, Shinichi would defend him and tell them that Conan had the right to be there, seeing as he’s the one who helped solve KID’s heist notice.

Consequently, KID would have to deal with tantei-kun AND meitantei at the same time, so sucks for him lmao. At least Conan won’t be as aggressive with his soccer balls as canon!Conan is.

Conan is more intrigued by his tricks and performances and actually looks up to KID (not that he would tell Shinichi-niichan that or he’d get jealous). So he isn’t as serious about catching KID as Shinichi is.

Conan probably has a huge crush on his Ran-neechan after meeting her because of how kind and caring she is. Instead of getting mad at him about it, Shinichi probably teases Conan about it to his dismay.

[scritch-scratches]

Hi! If it's not too much trouble, could you clarify what the characters of Dominoes's powers are established to be as of now? (I understand you wouldn't want to spoil). I really love the story, but have a hard time keeping straight who can specifically do what.

It’s no trouble at all! Here’s some of my (partially redacted) notes of characters that have appeared so far. I might make a blog page or something for the updated version of this in the future...

Kudo Shinichi 

REDACTED.

Class: S

Base Power Set: 

- Empathy/Psychometry

Range: 1-10 meters

Absorbs memories and feelings from people and objects. Good for reading the atmosphere. Visceral memories tend to last well in abandoned places, but are easily overrun by more mundane memories in public areas. Repeated actions tied with particular objects or places, like typing in passwords, remain the best, imprinted over and over again. Needs physical contact for best results. Difficult to turn off. Can pick up muscle memory or subconscious actions, but only in those ways; if the original person can fold a crane with muscle memory but struggles to teach others fold-by-fold, absorbed memory will also be unable to recall each fold. 

- REDACTED

Hawk / Hakuba Saguru

A capable and level-headed young hero with a bright mind and brighter future.

Class: D

Base Power Set:

- Enhanced Senses

All five senses significantly more powerful than those of an average person. Can see extremely clearly over long distances, identify people by scent, and hear heartbeats. 

- Danger Sense

Range: ~100 meters

Semi-precognitive sense for threats in the environment, but relatively unreliable and unspecific.

Angel / Mouri Ran

The daughter of an ex-vigilante and a ISHA lawyer, an incompatible pair with remarkably compatible powers.

Class: S

Base Power Set:

- Increased strength, speed, durability, and flight

Nearly invulnerable. Extremely fast, but must limit her movement/flight speed to what she’s capable of processing. Extremely strong, limits unknown. Use of any of these abilities consumes immense amounts of energy. Reverts to an ordinary human being when energy stores are depleted. Use of abilities produces faint light. 

- Solar Energy Absorption

Absorbs sunlight and directly converts it into energy which she can use freely. 

Heliopause / Hattori Heiji

A legacy hero that must live up to the legend of his ancestor, the “first” superhero. 

Class: S

Base Power Set:

-Solar Generation

-Solar Attacks

-Flight

-Increased density and durability

-Energy Production

Extremely powerful but poorly understood due to the rarity of his abilities, the likes of which haven’t been seen since his direct ancestor. Understood to be essentially a human star; producing immense amounts of energy that can be shot at opponents in the form of blasts or beams. Generates extreme amounts of heat and light. Dense enough to have his own gravity. 

Banshee / Toyama Kazuha

An unexpected addition with big dreams, high hopes, and the lungs to match.

Class: A

- Sonic Scream

Range: ~50 meters.

Emits a powerful scream of a high amplitude that can incapacitate opponents. 

- Impact Manipulation

Range: Direct Contact

Can absorb and redirect some, but not all, kinetic energy, manipulating the strength of impacts and allowing her to bounce off surfaces without sustaining any damage. Can be used to deflect bullets and physical attacks.

Tsuyu

A volatile newbie with a brave heart, a rocky start, and some questionable priorities.

Class: A

- Hydrokinesis

Can control, shape, and manipulate a limited amount of water with her mind, and even detect water within structures. 

Night Baron / Kudo Yuusaku

Though his career started as a joke, the existence of the Night Baron has long-since stopped being funny.

Class: REDACTED

Base Power Set:

- Telepathy, Mind Control, Memory Manipulation

Can receive and transmit information mentally, including reading thoughts or interacting with consciousnesses. Can absorb, erase or alter memories, control thoughts, and insert suggestions within the target’s mind that are difficult to resist. Can take information from target’s mind. Searching a target’s mind takes time and requires physical contact for best results; effects can be resisted at a distance, or information can be concealed if target does not think about it. 

“Edogawa Fumiyo” / Kudo Yuukiko

Class: A

Base Power Set:

-Emotional Manipulation

Range: 5-200 kilometers, varies

Radial effect, completely indiscriminate and passive. Cannot be turned off, but may take prolonged exposure to take effect depending on emotional state and personality of the affected. Amplifies positive emotions and productive impulses, leads to a decrease in tension and messes with the chemical balance of the brain. Possibly affects the cerebral cortex. Does not create desire or joy or love where there was none previously, but makes affected more relaxed and relieves stress. 

Kaitou KID / Kuroba Kaito

An unpredictable and successful thief renown for his public heists, varied targets, and clear grudge towards ISHA.

Class: REDACTED.

Base Power Set:

-REDACTED.

Jii

Class: B

Base Power Set:

-Cyborg?

Tequila

A heavy-hitting juggernaut responsible for the kidnapping of runaways throughout Tokyo. 

Class: B

Base Power Set:

-Enhanced strength and durability

-Explosion Inducement

Can turn non-incendiary objects he interacts with into explosives of varying strength. 

Override / Matsuda Jinpei

A specialist that nullifies forces, particularly explosions. He’s very bad at taking orders.

Class: B

Base Power Set:

-Physical Force Negation

Coming Soon:

Shriek, Rebound, Sherry, Bourbon, Vermouth, and the Undertakers

[risingmoonyue]

An Unconventional Relationship!AU

I uh... I made a thing.

Basically, I read Lucid Dreams on FF.Net, and their cover story spawned this monster of a plunny. Expect stuff in the future, cause I have a fic in the works and at least one presentable piece of fan art (btw it’s fem!Shin)

[EDIT: this was very obviously made before movie 27 was a thing lmao. For the sake of this post pretend it doesn't exist.]

xxxx

Long story short, Yukiko, Yuusaku and Chikage got waaaaaay too drunk

I mean, it wasn’t like what happened was originally their idea

It just sorta

Happened??

After way too many shots of way too strong alcohol??

So like

After they’re all drunk, they have a thought

Together they’ve got a son (Kaito) and a daughter (Shinichi)

They’ve both got secret identities

They’ve both got a particular dislike for the color black

And one’s a detective and the other’s a magician-thief

What’s more romantic than that??

And clearly they would make amazing beautiful detective-magician-thief grandchildren

So obviously they need to get married

So right after this, they all go on a mega wedding dress/suit shopping trip

Which basically means they spent millions on outfits they were gonna wear once

And probably no one was gonna see if the actual people in question had any say in it

Which

Let’s be real

They probably don’t

Then they go ambush their kids, like, three hours before school starts

And proceed to kickstart one of the most unconventional relationships known to mankind

Purely out of a fit of drunken madness

So, on Shinichi’s side—

Look, she’s had a long day, and it was barely five AM

She was up till three in the morning reading detective novels Ran definitely would never let her read in any normal circumstances considering she’s kinda still seven right now

Got probably less than two hours of sleep

And then she woke up to Edogawa Fumiyo stumbling into their house

Slurring a random excuse

And just

Leaving

Without her coffee

She only got one cup a month now because “it’s bad for kids to drink coffee, Conan-chan!”

And now she’s being dragged off

Without her coffee

And her parents aren’t giving her any answers (as usual)

They’re kidnapping her instead of talking to her like normal people (as usual)

And they decided to include her in their drunken, fanciful whims (as usual)

Really, she’s not sure why she’s surprised anymore

So, after getting no answers and being dragged off into a car ride that miraculously didn’t end in any collateral damage, she’s shoved into a building so fast she can’t even tell where she is

And finds out, hey, they apparently got a temporary antidote from Haibara—and were shoving it down her throat giggling gleefully she wants to run away now why would Haibara betray her like this???

And shoved into a big, poofy wedding gown

And suddenly, she is so, so suspicious

About where she is

And what they are doing

And very much hoping she is wrong

Because mom, dad, what the f***

(And this sounded way too much like them for her liking—)

She still didn’t have her coffee da** it!!!!

And on Kaito’s side—

To be fair, he’s had a better morning

Of sorts

If only because this isn’t the first time she’s been so drunk shenanigans happened

That usually ended in traumatized people

And I mean, he’s already a mind breaking, rule of physics ignoring magician-thief

He breaks minds everyday at school

Just look at Hakuba!

What’s the worst that could happen?

Well, apparently, the worst was her taking away ALL his supplies

ATTACKING his hair

GRAPPLING him into a suit

And waging PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE on him

Saying things like “you’ll absolutely definitely positively love this idea!

And “this is the best idea we’ve ever had!” (Who is the “we” in this equation???)

Really, all he wanted was to prank people a little. Maybe look up Aoko’s skirt. Avoid a witch that kept trying to seduce him. Destroy a jewel of immortality. Simultaneously catch the people that murdered his father.

Was that so much to ask?

Well, MOM, apparently it WAS

Seriously, where were they and why was she shoving him into a suit and where are they going now???

Kaito had a feeling he wasn’t gonna like this any more than all the other times Chikage went three sheets to the wind

And finally, the moment of truth—

So like, they are all finally in the same room

And Shin-chan and Kaito finally see each other

And are like—

“Please don’t tell me this is what I think it is”

And their parents are like���

“Oh honey, it’s exactly what you think it is”

Just……. very drunkenly

With gosh darn tears in their eyes, sniffling while daintily dabbing said eyes and whispering about how this was the happiest days of their lives

Shinichi and Kaito take a moment to share commiserating looks for having to deal with parents like this, because what the f***????

“You too, huh?”

“Yeah.”

So they end up being forced to sign the marriage contract

Because they both know their own respective parent(s)

And they knew they weren’t going anywhere until it was signed

And Shinichi was kinda on a time limit

And would like to know at least what kind of husband she was stuck with (what was her life???)

So they sign the contract to get on with their lives

And go out for coffee and hot chocolate

Because she STILL hasn’t had coffee

Kaito wanted to drown his woes

And they both needed to sit down and talk about what the frick they were gonna do now

Because marriage

And of course Shinichi “Corpse Magnet” Kudo strikes again cutting their talk short

And Kaito learns very quickly what the rest of his life is gonna be like

By the end of it, her time is up, and she’s running off while shoving Kaito her number like—

“Here’s my number gottagohavefunbyeeeeee—”

And Kaito’s just standing there gaping like a fish finny thing thinking “wat dafudge???”

Que months of nervous step-toeing around secret identities—

“Hey, I saw this seven year old that reminds me of you!” “O-oh really? That must be Conan-chan! Great kid, that girl, wish I could see her but I’m not here! At all! Definitely not!” “Uhhh…. okay?”

“Hey, you’re a magician right? Do you do stuff like Kaito KID?” “Yeah, KID-sama’s my idol—” “And Hakuba keeps saying you’re KID??” “I HAVE LIKE THREE ALIBIS I SWEAR SHIN-CHAN HAKUBA’S JUST A STUPID MEANIE HEAD DON’T LISTEN TO HIM—”

Trying to secretly protect each other from suspiciously similar super secret organizations—

“Oh hey, look at that black fedora guy, he has cool hair—” “OH LOOK A COFFEE SHOP I WANT COFFEE LET'S GET COFFEE!”

“At KID’s heist Conan-chan tells me there was a guy with a handlebar mustache, do you know—?” “HA HA FUNNY GUY I THINK THAT WAS JUST AN INTERESTING FAN I’VE SEEN HIM AROUND HE’S A JERK THOUGH YOU BOTH STAY AWAY FROM THAT MEANIE—”

And learning to read each other waaaaay too well

“So today I played a great prank—!” “You put Hakuba into a dress, dyed his hair red, pink, and green, then taped him to the ceiling. Later, you flipped Aoko’s skirt, replaced all the furniture with origami replicas, and screamed like a little girl after Aoko made fish for dinner when you guys got home.” “.....Shin-chan, are you stalking me~? I knew I was amazing but—” “Don’t push it.”

“Oh, I went on a walk today, it was gorgeous!” “Three bodies, two in a river one from the sky.” “......... Kaito. If you sent your stupid birds after me I swear—” “IM NOT STALKING YOU SHIN-CHAN HONEST—”

[tsarisfanfiction]

Freeloader

Fandom: Detective Conan Rating: Gen Genre: Family Characters: Korogo

Kogoro muses on the exact nature of his newest family member.

It was amazing, Kogoro thought to himself as he chugged another pint of bitter alcohol, laughing along with the drunks in the bar as though one of them when in reality his tolerance was far higher and he wasn't even tipsy yet. It was amazing how neither Ran or Conan had ever called him out on his lie whenever he introduced the brat as a 'freeloader'. After all, his parents had paid him, and paid handsomely for his upkeep. Technically that made him a 'lodger', and both children knew it.

So why did he lie? Why did he claim he was putting up with the kid for free and sound so ungrateful for the financial aid his parents had paid? The answer was simple, he knew as he demanded another serving loudly and uncouthly, as though he really were as drunk as his bar-mates.

Mouri Kogoro was no fool.

He wasn't a genius; he'd grown up with genii and he knew what they were and they weren't him. But that didn't make him stupid. Cases may have dwindled over the years (until the introduction of Sleeping Kogoro and wasn't that a whole other kettle of fish), but he made enough for himself and Ran to get by. You had to have some competence in the line of work to stay open that long, after all.

So why freeloader? Well, ironically it all started with the cheque. For starters, it wasn't signed from anyone with the name Edogawa, and yet he'd clearly heard the woman proclaim she was the brat's mother, Edogawa Fumiyo. That was suspicious enough, but then he saw the name it was actually signed under.

Kudo Yusaku and Kudo Yukiko.

Of course, he mused as the barmaid brought over the next drink and he flirted with her until she blushed but never meant a word of it, he'd heard that the brat was related to the other brat – the one that made Ran laugh and cry more than anyone else and he still didn't know what he thought of that – so his parents paying for Conan's upkeep wasn't too far outside the realms of possibility.

But a detective is a detective to the core, and he did some digging. The Kudo-brat had disappeared on one of his trips (not a date, dammit) with his daughter to Tropical Land, and Conan had appeared the same evening, out of nothing. No matter how hard Kogoro had looked, he hadn't found a single trace of the kid's existence until that moment. He hadn't gone so far as to take it to the police, despite how much he itched to get the two brats' fingerprints compared, because what he'd found didn't sound safe.

He wasn't a fool. He didn't know the hows or the whys of it but Edogawa Conan and Kudo Shinichi were one and the same and the latter was in hiding. In Kogoro's humble opinion he was doing an awful job at it (Sleeping Kogoro? The anaesthetic dart had stopped working on him months ago and he shared a room with the brat. He knew that bow tie and watch weren't as innocent as they looked) but that didn't change the fact that the brat was in hiding and while he'd dearly love to give him a good pounding for making Ran cry so much, nights when he came back tipsy but masquerading as blind drunk to find (and purposefully ignore) the brat hiding his tears in his pillow gave him the patience to wait until he was back to himself before letting him have it, although he couldn't deny the minor satisfaction he got from mistreating the kid at the scene.

Not, he admitted as he drained the next pint and felt the beginnings of the fuzzy sensation trying to settle in his brain, that he did that for the sole purpose of getting back at the brat for making Ran cry. He was a lot of things, but he wasn't an abuser. To start with, before the cheque, before he knew, it had been his way of trying to keep an innocent child away from the worst sights humanity could create. Now it was to keep him out of the photos, out of the limelight as best he could. It was a losing battle, of course, but at least he could feel like he was doing something to help.

And that all cycled around to the reason behind freeloader, he determined, deciding that he'd pushed his limits far enough now and began the show of acting as drunk as possible on the way home to his daughter and freeloader. Money left a trail. Anyone wondering into Edogawa Conan would latch onto the money his parents were paying and hunt down the trail, just like he did. The trail was hard to follow, true, but it was there and he knew the brat's parents were counting on him to protect their son. So he would proclaim loudly and distastefully that the brat was a freeloader to anyone that would listen, hiding the trail from unfriendly eyes.

If Ran noticed that sometimes their bank balance went up more than the payment from the latest client should have been, she said nothing and he wondered if she, too, knew more than she let on.

It was well past midnight when he stumbled back with far less carelessness than it looked. All the lights were out – it was a school day the next day so of course the kids were in bed – and he crashed up the stairs to his bedroom, now shared with the brat.

He wished he was surprised at the tearstained pillow, and hurriedly evened out breathing as the brat pretended to be asleep. He wished he could treat him like his actual son, reassure him that everything was okay, that they were safe and that he could sleep, but that was too much attachment for a freeloader he claimed to barely put up with.

If the front wasn't up all the time it wasn't as effective, so he buried the resurfacing paternal instincts and slumped into his bed, whimpering about Okino Yoko-chan as he listened to the brat settle down and actually sleep.

Yusaku and Yukiko owed him big time for this, but he'd keep their son safe.

[sternentinte]

Emogust - 14.08.|In which character A. protects character B. from danger

He gets the box.

Heiji is in an appropriate state of panic—Kudou disappeared, was taken away by his mother that doesn’t exist (read: Edogawa Fumiyo) and Neechan doesn’t even know it yet. She’ll know soon though, as soon as she realizes that what she just perceives as a weeklong break in between her boyfriend’s more or less regular phone calls, is in fact a perhaps permanent stop.

Heiji dreads this happening, but he knows it’s coming. What he doesn’t know is what the hell is actually going on, and no matter what he tries he can’t figure out where Kudou is and for what reason he doesn’t know.

What he knows is that a) the little neechan from the professor’s house is missing, too, and b) said professor doesn’t know what happened either. It is strange because Heiji knows that the professor is Kudou’s number one confidant. More important than Heiji (even though that hurts a little) and more important than Neechan (but that’s because he insists on not telling her things to protect her. Ridiculous, in Heiji’s opinion. If there’s one girl that can defend herself it’s Neechan. Except for Kazuha, of course, he amends. Kazuha might be even better at it, if only because she’s not as nice.)

He still decides to go to Tokyo though, because there is no way he is going to give up on his friend, on his best friend, and that is where he gets the box.

“I was debating on whether I should show you this”, Professor Agasa says, his face tired and years older than the last time Heiji saw him. It’s scary in a way.

“What is it?”, he asks, eager for information, for any information on what happened. He wants to do something, dammit.

“This.”, Agasa says, and puts a box on the table. It’s made from cardboard and not exactly tiny, but also not huge. It seems like something that would contain old CDs or maybe letters. The more interesting part of it is how it’s covered all over in duct tape. And the little note on top of the cover.

Professor, give this to Hattori-kun ONLY if my or Haibara’s body is found.

“I probably shouldn’t be giving this to you”, he says, and the guilt is obvious in his every motion.

“But surely, this also counts?”, he mumbles, more to himself than to Heiji, “They disappeared, and the Black Organisation is after them… I can’t even track Shinichi-kun’s glasses.”

So maybe whoever took them knew about the glasses, Heiji’s brain suggests, making the deduction near automatically, or he left them behind purposefully.

“You don’t have to take it.”, the professor says, “maybe you shouldn’t open it until-” His voice almost breaks. “-until the conditions are met. It seems so serious, but-”

“I’ll take it.”, Heiji says. This is what he needs. He needs some way to make this right.

-

He opens the box as soon as he is home. Some of the contents he understands immediately, others not so much. But either way, he knows what this is. Evidence. Evidence, little signs and theories, names, and information. It’s a lot, but it also isn’t because surely there must be more information that Kudou could compile about this organisation in almost a year, but there isn’t. So maybe he didn’t. It’s a terrifying thought, because Kudou is brilliant, maybe the best detective Heiji knows—probably better than himself, even though he never would have said that out loud. Not before for sure.  

This is a treasure, he decides, because he has a hunch that this might be more than anyone else knew about this organisation, ever, without being a part of it. This is a treasure and he will make sure he will use it to his best capacity. And if it’s the last thing he does.

“Heiji!”, Kazuha calls from the hall and Heiji hurries to hide the box and its contents before she enters the room.

“Did you just get home?”, she asks, looking at the jacket he’s still wearing. He didn’t even notice he forgot to take it off.

“Seriously, where were you?”, Kazuha asks, “I went looking for you.”

“I was just looking into a case.”, Heiji lies and that’s how it starts.

-

The more Heiji looks into the material, the more he realises he can’t do this the way Kudou did it. He can’t be a teen detective going over his head. He feels the deadliness of his secrets and it haunts him in his sleep. He can’t get himself killed, or disappeared, or whatever, because then he can’t find Kudou.

He needs to find Kudou.

(He feels guilty every time he has to tell Neechan he’s trying. She still looks so hopeful.)

He can’t do this on his own—but he can’t pull anyone else into this. He needs to be better.

-

Kazuha confesses to him a couple of weeks before they graduate high school. It’s almost been a year now and Heiji hasn’t made a lot of progress—not enough. It’s right after the Gosho Girl’s first concert—at Ran’s school—and it was a huge success. Heiji is so happy for them, not only because they have found something for themselves but because Neechan looks happier than he has seen her in a long time.

Then Kazuha says it. They are in the small room that constitutes backstage and somehow, they are the only ones there—Heiji doesn’t quite understand how, but it’s not what’s important there.

“Heiji”, she says, so carefully and quietly, as if they are the most important words in the world. Maybe they are.

“Heiji, I am in love with you.”

Heiji’s heart soars and he is so happy, so, so happy, but at the same time his heart breaks.

“I wish you didn’t say that.”, he says, because it’s honest and he can’t bring himself to say, “I don’t feel the same way.” Because that’s a lie and Heiji’s still terrible at lying, especially to Kazuha.

“Why?”, Kazuha says and he can see the tears forming in her eyes and he hates himself.

He finds himself being honest again. “Because I can’t be your boyfriend.”

“Why?”, Kazuha says, her voice raising, half-angry, half-upset.

He shrugs unhappily, because he doesn’t know what to tell her. He’s given up on the idea, he doesn’t quite know when, it was a gradual process. He finally understands why Kudou lied to Neechan like that, it’s for the same reason. And Heiji can’t do that to Kazuha, he can’t bring himself to. Even if he can’t tell her the secrets, for her own good, he can’t make himself lie. And if he has made it his goal to do this, no matter what it takes, he can’t be her boyfriend. Because if he was, he fears, he won’t be able to make himself do it the way it needs to.

And he has to learn from Kudou’s mistakes. (He can’t disappear on his girlfriend because they are getting to close. He can’t get himself killed either.)

-

Heiji starts training for the PSIA immediately after graduation. It’s not what he wanted, originally, he had always wanted his own agency somewhere, be a detective on his own terms, but this is the way he needs to go if he wants to solve the secrets in the box. He needs to be smart about it, and this is the best way.

Kazuha forgives him even before they graduate.

“Why?”, he asks, because he honestly can’t fathom any reason he’d deserves it.

“Because you’d kill yourself on accident if I wasn’t there to look out for you.” She shrugs like it is the most obvious thing in the world.

He isn’t sure if it’s the real reason, but he is glad either way.

They move to Tokyo together, Heiji for his training, Kazuha for the band, and naturally, they share their apartment. Heiji’s so glad she is there, because without her, this awful city might kill him, even sooner than any idiocy on his part that Kazuha might like to cite. So maybe she is right, after all.

They are good as roommates because they are good as friends, always were, but sometimes it hurts, because Heiji knows it’s not quite what he wants. Still, he’s glad he has a familiar face to come back to at the end of the day and he knows Kazuha is happy—the band is doing so well—even if in the back of his head he wonders if she would be happier.

Heiji’s training is awful, especially at first. They take him in easily, he has a good track record with all the work he’s done as a high schooler, but at heart, he’s not the right kind of person to be an agent. He’s a terrible liar and a worse actor and he doesn’t do well at hiding his emotions at all.

“Are you sure you want to do this?”, his educator asks him at the end of the first week.

“You are a smart kid, I can tell, but maybe you’d be better off somewhere else. This kind of work rips good people apart all the time. There are other ways you can do good.”

Heiji looks at him and he knows the guy is right. He’s trying to do him a favour and he’s right because this is not what Heiji was made for. But it is what he will make himself be made for, because he has no choice.

“I have to do this.”, he says, and the educator nods, sadly, tiredly, like he’s heard it too many times before.

-

The next day, he gets a phone call from the professor.

The new envelope has a computer stick in it; the data heavily encrypted. But that’s not important—well it is—but not as much as the handwriting on it.

Add it to the box.

Kudou is still somewhere out there. And Heiji can’t disappoint him.

-

More envelopes come, sporadically as much as irregularly, over the years as Heiji rises in the ranks. They rarely put him out to do field work; somehow, he has come to be better at gathering data, trying to make sense of it. Maybe that’s because it’s what he’s been doing all the time. Trying to make sense. No matter what the others say, he still doesn’t feel like he’s very good at it.

While he tries to make himself be the person who can do this, Kazuha and the girls take off.

One concert becomes many and then they release their first album. Heiji is so proud of them. By now, he can almost smile at Neechan again.

After their album comes a Japan-wide tour and Heiji misses Kazuha terribly while she’s gone. When she comes back, he wants to kiss her, but he doesn’t, and they watch a silly movie together instead, and she tells him about all the places she went and the people she’s met. It’s not quite what he wants, but it’s still pretty good.

He tries not to be jealous when she goes on dates, but he’s pretty sure she notices anyway.

-

It’s been three and a half years when the pieces finally start coming together. It’s not only Kudou’s information by now, but a mixture of that and his own investigation, gathered information, small hunches, his people’s observation, suspicious news stories. It all comes together, and he starts seeing the enormous web he’s caught.

It’s only a matter of time now.

(Oh, how he hopes it is—he is so tired. He works with his old educator sometimes, and the man looks at him too knowingly. It’s the same look Kazuha gives him when he comes home and feels like he’s dead inside—no matter what he does he’s still not made for this job. But he can do it and he’s so close.)

It’s two months later when he finds them. The FBI finds them first, but that doesn’t matter—not really, anyway, but they’re alive and Heiji wants to stand on Tokyo Tower and yell it into the world, but that wouldn’t be a very good strategy, so he doesn’t.

He pulls a few strings (more like a thousand and his gut slowly out of his mouth, at least that’s what it feels like—the FBI is crazy protective) to organise a meet up.

Kudou looks tired. He looks different and weak, like he’s sick maybe, like he has been for a long time.

But then he looks up and his eyes are the same.

Heiji throws himself at him with a hug. They never were friends that hug, but does it matter now?

“Hattori.”, Kudou says, when he’s finally let go, “How?”

“I am the PSIA contact that has info on your organisation.”, Heiji explains, like it’s the natural thing.

He pulls out his folder, then the box.

Kudou looks at it, like it invokes mixed feelings.

“You weren’t supposed to get that-“

“Not unless I found yours or that little neechan’s dead body, I know. I have it anyway and I think I did a pretty good job with it.”

Kudou sighs.

Then he looks up. “You don’t figure you might have seen our cat, have you?”

-

It takes them about a month to compare notes. Technically it’s Heiji taking Kudou’s witness report, but they both know that’s garbage. Even though the critical part is not quite done yet, Heiji feels as if a weight has been lifted off his chest.

Kazuha notices, too.

“You’re doing better.”, she says one night, when Heiji almost falls asleep watching the News the third time this week.

“Eh?”, he asks. Him being crazily tired from work usually doesn’t count as him doing better in her books.

“You’re smiling.”, she says, matter-of-factly, but she’s smiling, too.

“Oh.”, he says. “Work is going well.”

She nods and doesn’t ask further. Heiji tells himself he’s not lying to her, just omitting the truth. It’s been his policy this far, or maybe always—don’t lie to Kazuha, keep your secrets if you must. He’s sure she knows there’s more to it, but she won’t ask him about work. She’s not cruel enough to.

“You know”, Kazuha says, and snuggles into his side as they sit next to each other on the couch, “I feel like things are changing, for all of us.”

“What do you mean?”, he asks, even if he feels like he already knows, but those are things Kazuha can’t know, never could guess.

“’M not sure.”, she says, yawning, “For all of us though. You, me, Ran-chan, Aoko-chan, Sonoko-chan. Something’s changing.”

“Think it’ll be good?”

She looks at him, and she’s so close, and Heiji wants to kiss her, but he doesn’t.

“I hope so.”, she says.

“Me too.”

-------- @mintchocolateleaves, @sup-poki

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In the Rubble (3/6)

Blurb: After a bomb collapses a building on both Conan and Kogoro, Conan is faced with a difficult decision regarding the Famous Sleeping Detective.

Story: Detective Conan Characters: Edogawa Conan/Kudo Shinichi, Mouri Kogoro TW: Claustrophobia/Trapped

Kogoro went still. Anger gone in a flash. Surprise did that to people. The brat actually thought? But...

"Can you stand?" Shinichi asked in the awkward silence, rubbing the back of his neck as he dropped his piercing look. "You should be able to put some weight on that left leg for a second so I can lift you onto my back. I think it's just fractured."

"Fractured is still broken, brat." He retorted reflexively, trying to get his brain back in gear. Shinichi couldn't have meant that. He couldn't have. And then the brat was offering to carry him? The old Shinichi wouldn't have done that. What had happened to...could being Conan really have changed his opinion of him so much?

"Do you want to drag yourself through the building then, Oji-Mouri-san?" Shinichi raised an eyebrow, offering a hand to him. "Because I definitely can't lift you on my own from there."

For some reason, hearing Shinichi refraining from calling him Ojisan now felt wrong. Especially after the boy had just stated he valued Kogoro's life, the Mouri Kogoro, the man Shinichi hadn't liked at all, over his parents.

Kogoro frowned and shook his head. "You're injured too, Shinichi-kun. You can't carry me with that shoulder." He may not know how badly it was injured, but with how Shinichi flinched whenever he had grabbed the arm connected to said shoulder, it had to be painful. Not to mention the boy's other cuts and scrapes that the jacket now mostly hid. They both shouldn't be moving until help arrived. But he doubted those injuries would stop the boy. Shinichi had a familiar stubborn glint in his eyes that Kogoro knew all too well. Conan had had it often whenever he'd tried to kick the boy out from crime scenes. So despite his misgivings, he lifted his hand for Shinichi to grab.

"It's no big deal, Mouri-san." Shinichi said, failing to hide a wince as he twinged the shoulder in question while grabbing Kogoro's hand.

Kogoro raised a skeptical eyebrow. Fine huh?

"I can still walk," he added defensively. "You can't."

Sure. Walk barefooted. Over broken glass, concrete, metal, and who knew what else, plus carry Kogoro's own weight? "You still need your own treat-" Kogoro yelped as Shinichi pulled him to his feet. He reached out to grip Shinichi's arms with the intention of never letting go as he put his full weight on his legs. He couldn't catch is breath from the radiating agony coming from his limbs. Quickly he lifted the right one off the ground to get some relief from the exploding volcano trying to take up residence there, while the left only felt slightly better as a ball of liquid fire.

Shinichi didn't let him stand for long. "I'll get treatment when I shrink again." He said, somehow removing Kogoro's vice-like grip on his arms as he pulled him into a fireman's carry, giving Kogoro blessed relief from standing.

Even though he was reeling in his own agony, Kogoro caught Shinichi's muffled cry of pain as his weight settled on the boy's injured shoulder. "A-any bandages I put on now will only fall off then."

"Sh-Shinichi-kun," Kogoro managed to say as the fire in his legs died down, unable to keep the concern out of his voice as he tried to get back off. The boy was going to hurt himself worse. It was amazing he could stay standing, the boy shouldn't be able to carry him as is. He shouldn't be strong enough. Shinichi'd said temporary strength. Not everlasting strength. "We can wait here."

Shinichi tightened his grip on Kogoro, preventing him from moving. "I'm fine. It's not-"

"Not safe to wait." Kogoro grumbled, full of misgivings for not trying harder to get off the boy. But...he didn't want to face standing on his legs again, nor did he think Shinichi would allow him to get off without fighting to keep him on. So he held still instead to prevent himself from jostling the boy.

Kogoro glanced upwards, not missing the creaking of the ceiling above them with the occasional pitter-patter of falling debris. Was Shinichi always this fool-hardy-yes, yes he was. He remembered the boy getting shot in the stomach, as well as kidnapped, and trapped in other buildings with bombs and fires. "I got it the first time." He muttered as he did his best to avoid putting too much weight on the boy's injured shoulder.

Shinichi nodded, relaxing when Kogoro went still. "Good. Let's get out of here."

Kogoro couldn't help but hold his breath as Shinichi wobbled, convinced he was going to collapse before the boy began walking them through the rubble. Surprisingly Shincihi didn't struggle as much as Kogoro expected him to. Only Shinichi's fingers tightening and releasing on Kogoro's limbs indicated how often the boy stepped on something sharp.

Did the boy really care so much for him? Mouri Kogoro? To risk further injury to get him out of this place? Ran he could see if she were here, but him? Kogoro stayed silent only for another minute before he stated "You can't mean that."

"Mean what?" Shinichi huffed.

"That you care for us more than your parents. They're your parents Shinichi-kun." It bothered him to hear that. It wasn't like Kogoro had been the most...welcoming of the freeloader in his house.

Shinichi chuckled and shook his head. "You know...I actually forgot to tell them. My parents." Shinichi admitted. He glanced to Kogoro before he returned his focus to the rubble around them. "I've been on my own for so long, it never occurred to me to give them an update on my...condition. We don't keep in constant contact since Dad's always traveling to avoid his editors." He twisted, sidling them sideways through a narrow gap, doing his best to avoid jarring Kogoro's legs. "So I was as surprised as you were when Edogawa Fumiyo showed up. I hadn't known she was my mother."

Kogoro tensed, both in disbelief and because his right leg had just been jarred by an outcropping of pipes. "You went off with a stranger?!" He exclaimed half-strangled. This boy was more than foolhardy! Hadn't he just said he couldn't let those people find him?

"Yes. Because I couldn't risk you and Ran getting hurt, Mouri-san." Shinichi replied like it was the most obvious thing in the world. "If that woman was with the people who poisoned me...my only hope was to convince them that you had no idea who I really was so that they would leave you two alone."

Kogoro couldn't help himself. He thunked the boy on the head, causing him to yelp and stagger, nearly sending them both tumbling into a pile of broken concrete. Kogoro jerked his hands up, hitting the concrete with them before their faces could. He pushed them away from the pile as Shinichi regained his balance.

"What was that for!"

"You're an idiot, that's what that's for." Kogoro stated. "Go off with a complete stranger! Someone who could have killed you." He glared at the boy. "And not even tell us that you were in trouble. What if you had died!" It made him feel sick just to think about. He was supposed to be watching this brat.

"Then you wouldn't have known, Mouri-san." Shinichi replied, adjusting his grip on Kogoro. "You both thought I'd gone off with my mother. And I couldn't tell you she wasn't her. If she was a part of Them, she would have killed you on the spot." A tremor ran through the boy's body. "Besides, why would you question if I never made contact again? I'm a freeloader am I not? I would no longer be a burden to you." He glanced to Kogoro and then away, "You'll be glad to see the last of me when Conan finally 'returns to America' to live with his parents."

Kogoro huffed. Truthfully, he hadn't questioned it. He'd been glad for the brat to leave then, but that was over a year and a half ago when they'd first met Edogawa Fumiyo. "Well...that's hardly...true...now." Kogoro couldn't picture it actually. Conan had become such a part of their lives after two years that the thought of him leaving brought a pang to his chest.

Shinichi paused, wincing as his foot hit a jagged copper wire. "It's not?" he asked raising his eyebrows as he looked to Kogoro, disbelief clear on his face.

Kogoro looked away as the boy began cautiously moving once more. Well, it had seemed like the freeloader would be living with them for forever and even if he grumbled about it constantly...he no longer minded it. The boy had his helpful moments. "You're not...so bad...when you're not meddling in my investigations."

Shinichi chuckled quietly as he paused at a partially collapsed wall. "Well...I can't really help myself with that."

"No, no you really can't." Kogoro agreed ruffling the boy's hair with a fond smile. He really couldn't.

Shinichi made a small noise of protest, moving his head to try and dislodge Kogoro's hand.

It made so much more sense now why Conan was so acute at crime scenes. Why a six, well now nearly eight, year old could face death so calmly. Why he was so knowledgeable. His information didn't just come from 'something he saw on TV.' Shinichi already had known it from personal experience, from years of studying crime scenes with his father and through books.

"Do you think you can crawl, Mouri-san?" Shinichi asked drawing Kogoro from his thoughts, only now realizing that the boy hadn't moved away from the wall. "The wall's covered most of the doorway, I can't carry you through it."

Kogoro looked up to see that indeed the remaining wall was leaning dangerously over them, covering their potential exit. It took him a moment to locate the doorway in question, and narrowed his eyes when he did. A tiny hole at the base of the rubble. It hardly looked like they would be able to crawl through the narrow opening, let alone know if it would have an exit on the other side. It seemed more like they'd be wriggling through that tiny space instead of crawling.

"I can manage." He said finally, wondering how Shinichi could be sure it was a tunnel. Regardless, he'd already dragged his broken legs once today, he could do it again, especially if that meant giving the boy a break from lugging his weight around. Besides what other option was there? Who knew if there would be a second exit even available if they looked.

"Good." Shinichi bent over, letting Kogoro's feet touch the ground. Kogoro couldn't help but let out a cry of pain as once more he put weight on his legs, his hands gripping Shinichi's shoulders hard enough to bruise them as he fought to keep his vision from tunneling.

Shinichi winced, biting back his own yelp. "Easy, old man." He gritted out as he helped to lower Kogoro to the ground, getting the weight off his legs as quickly as possible. He pulled away from him once Kogoro was stable, massaging his shoulder with a grimace before the hand drifted down to grip at his chest. "I'll go first to make sure the path is clear for you to come through." He said wiping fresh sweat from his brow.

Kogoro narrowed his eyes not liking that idea, but the boy was in better condition. If only by the tiniest of margins. Just because Shinichi had working legs didn't mean that the rest of him would be alright. He was after all, just wearing Kogoro's jacket, that would hardly be any defense against whatever he might encounter in that crawlspace. "Be careful, boy," Kogoro said instead of arguing. They'd both have to go through the tunnel, might as well be the boy first.

"As careful as I can be, Mouri-san." Shinichi said flashing him his confident smile.

Kogoro tensed and grabbed the boy's arm before he could move. Making an impulsive decision. "You can call me Ojisan still, Shinichi-kun." He said, squeezing lightly. He kept eye contact as he fought to keep the frown of concern off his face. Shinichi felt...warmer than he had two minutes ago. "I don't mind." He really didn't. It was bugging him to hear the boy being so formal with him.

Shinichi blinked, his eyes softening before he turned away. "Alright...Ojisan." He pulled free of Kogoro's grip. "I'll holler when I'm on the other side." He said getting down on his belly and wiggled through the small hole, quickly disappearing from view.

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