A Case of Curiousity: Chapter One
Okayy! So you have stumbled upon my very first three-shot fanfic. This is a Detective Conan / Death Note crossover. It's very short, and this first chapter I will admit is a little slow. Hopefully you find that the story picks up a bit as you read on.
If not, then atleast it's not too long (:
Disclaimer: Panda does not claim to own Death Note or Detective Conan. The only original characters in this story are Kiski Rina, Ueshima Hideaki, Ueshima Ryo, Sugiyama Daichi, and Fujiwara Kimiko. I made them up.
L sat on the couch of a random hotel in an undisclosed location, not even the country could be determined from the outward appearances of the nondescript building. L, like any other person would, was watching the news. Only, unlike the common tv owning citizen, L was not just watching one. No, L - the great Detective L, considered to be the number one detective of his time - was watching all of the news channels he could have broadcasted to his suite. There was no questioning how the man managed to have them each on their own screen of their own tv, nor how he had been able to get so many small televisions into his room, it simply was so.
L had had a lack of interesting cases to work on as of late, and he was quite bored. He was on the lookout for just about anything that could be of potential interest, and he was not leaving any corner of the world out of his range. Not much was going on that he could do anything about. There were segments on war, poverty, open-and-shut cases, and simple robberies - none of which warranted the man's attention.
He was currently holding the remote of, well, to be honest he didn't know which tv the remote belonged to. Instead, he relied on hitting the 'channel up' button and waiting to see which one would respond. He came to find that the remote belonged to the television broadcasting Japanese events, and he turned 85% of his attention towards it, leaving a little left over for the other channels in case something interesting happened. He didn't want to miss anything.
As he flipped to a new station on that particular television, he came to a stop on one broadcasting a report on one 'Mouri Kogoro'. L had indeed heard the name before. It was becoming increasingly more popular as the days went by. Mouri's fame seemed to materialize out of no where, and it bothered L rightly so. No one became such a success overnight, good deductive skills were not something you could just learn in your sleep. L continued to watch the program as it interviewed the man. L's conclusion: the man was a complete idiot. When the interviewer would ask him questions, he would babble about something off topic or steer the conversation in a new direction, other times he would get this large grin that was definitely one of gloating. Something just seemed off about him.
As if that weren't enough, it seemed as if death followed the man everywhere he went. L looked up his cases; hotels, restaurants, and sometimes just walking down the street, the man couldn't go anywhere without someone dying! It was rather fascinating to L, at the same time almost worrisome. How could one person be plagued by so much misfortune? L decided he would need to keep an eye on this Mouri Kogoro person.
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By the time L had finished watching every televised deduction Mouri Kogoro had ever made, only a day had passed. L had noted a few things while he watched. One was that Mouri Kogoro usually made false accusations and completely idiotic assumptions as the case went on. Second, after he was finished, a child of no more than ten years of age would 'accidently' give the investigators crucial clues to solving the puzzle, as if he were leading them around by their hands. Lastly, Mouri-san would do a sort of dance and mumble incoherently before falling conveniently in a chair, asleep. He would then proceed to give his famous deductions.
It was almost as if someone were putting him to sleep and making the deductions for him. As far as L could tell, Mouri-san was taking credit for things he couldn't even remember saying. This made L wonder; could someone be solving his cases for him? If so, does he know about it? L wanted to know, and he decided at that moment that he would just have to attend one of Mouri-san's cases in person.
L called up his trusty companion Watari, and told him of his decision. Watari was a bit shocked, it seems not even the man who knew L the longest of all could predict the young detective's moves. Watari agreed though, and began prepartions to leave for Japan immediately after.
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As soon as L was in Japan, he went straight to the Mouri residence to scope things out. As luck would have it, both of the younger ones were off to school, and by what L had heard as Mouri Ran was leaving, Mouri-san was asleep in a drunken stupor in his office. It left L with a window to plant cameras in the main areas of the home, leaving out the bathroom and the girl's bedroom in order to give her some privacy. He realized that perhaps he was taking things pretty far considering all he had was a basic assumption with no evidence supporting it, but this was just how L worked.
Watari hooked the cameras up to a feed in a hotel room he already had prepared before they arrived. Together, the two began their observations on the Mouri residence.
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Every morning, Mouri Ran and Edogawa Conan would go to school. They split halfway after meeting up with their friends, and went in seperate directions towards their respective schools. After school, the girl would either go out shopping with her friend Suzuki Sonoko, or go home. She also had karate practice. As for the boy, he would hang out with his four friends solving small mysteries around town and for their classmates. It was about all they talked about, other than Kamen Yaiba. L suspected they would grow to be great policemen or detectives someday. When he wasn't with his friends, he was at one Agasa hakase's home, along with Haibara Ai who was a part of his group of friends. L had done his research on the middle aged man. He was an inventor who was known for his crazy and unique creations that many times would backfire in development. He was also neighbor and friend of the Kudous. Kudou Yuusaku - a genius mystery writer, and his wife Kudou Yukiko - an ex-actress turned housewife. Their son, Kudou Shinichi, a highschool detective known for his brilliant deductive skills, was rumored to have been killed or something of the like, as he had been mysteriously absent for the past months. This raised L's interest another notch. As it seemed, even though Kudou was gone, no one seemed to be too worried and no one was looking for him.
As it is, the Kudou mansion stands completely devoid of people. No one was currently living in the large home, as the parents live in America, and the son "away on a serious case". Personally, L would like to know what case could be serious enough to keep a young detective away from home so long that L himself did not know about. It was worth looking into.
Today, about three days after L began his observations, the man decided to tail the youngest resident of the Mouri household. He was becoming increasingly more interesting to L, as he did not always act quite his age. In fact, sometimes L believed him to be an adult, despite his obviously child-like appearance. It was both suspicious, and curious. Quite curious, indeed.
Yep. So that is the first chapter.
I hope it wasn't as awful as I thought it was. Also, I apologize for any mistakes both in this chapter and the next ones. Seriously, editing your own crap is the most boring thing in the world. Hehe