Mikau: Hello and welcome! Thanks for taking a moment to check out my work! "Shinkai/Kaishin" means "Sea Depths" in Japanese, so that's where the title came from. This is basically where I'm going to dump all of my short KaiShin stuff. Whenever I get writer's block, I try writing exercises, like writing from prompts. These shorties are the result. That being said, these are things I've written when I'm not at my best, so please don't be too harsh on them. I was just going to let them sit around, but a friend encouraged me to publish them, and you guys are always so supportive and seem to genuinely enjoy my stories, so I hope you like these as well. Thanks, and on with the show!

Disclaimer: Really, I just like to pretend that this is all mine. I mean, I wish I owned these boys. Sadly, that is not the case; however, the law allows me to take them out to play occasionally.

Commercially Live

Sleeping Kogoro had been scouted to do a commercial for dish soap, and so on this joyous occasion Conan found himself at the TV studio with Ran, the Professor, the kids plus Haibara, and Kaito and his entourage all to commemorate this historical event.

The kids and Kaito seemed to be having a gay ole time of it, and Ran, Aoko-san, the Professor, and Haibara were all chitchatting pleasantly, but Conan and Hakuba were not amused.

"I honestly couldn't tell you why I'm here," the Englishman sighed. "Kuroba just showed up at my house this morning and dragged me away from that cold case I was just about to make some headway on. And my caretaker did nothing to stop my kidnapping. She encouraged it even! Said I needed to get out and have some fun. I was having fun. I had an entire day of relaxing research planned."

Conan raised an eyebrow. "No offense, but, you work on cold cases for fun?"

Hakuba frowned. "Yes?"

"Seriously?" Conan's brow furrowed. "That's weird."

"Says the gradeschooler who chases thieves in tuxedos and leaves dead bodies in his wake," Saguru pouted with a snort.

"It's not that bad." Conan tried to defend himself.

"Kuroba says you can't go anywhere without a dead body showing up," the blonde sleuth retorted.

Conan was just about to protest when someone screamed.

Hakuba just smirked, not needing to say "I told you so."

Conan stuck out his tongue before rushing in the direction of the commotion.

The Detective Boys were close on his heels, followed by Mouri and the rest of the gang.

Conan quickly analyzed the body before Mouri could get there and hit him on the head. It looked like poison, mostly likely introduced into his system via his lunch.

"You should probably do what you usually do, Ran-san," Kaito sighed.

"Right. Ambulance and police." The karate champ ran off to find a phone since her cell wasn't getting any reception.

"A-Aoko will go with her!" Aoko reported before running off after Ran. The sight of the corpse obviously made her uncomfortable.

"I'll take the children," Professor Agasa offered.

The Detective Boys protested, but after much convincing were taken to tour the set where they were filming the Kamen Yaiba live action drama.

"Take this one too," Mouri snorted, scooping Conan up by the back of his neck and holding him out to the Professor.

"Let's let Edogawa-kun stay," Hakuba suggested, taking Conan and setting him back down. "He always makes such interesting observations."

"Because he's got a better view," Kaito offered as an explanation. "It must be easier to notice the small stuff when you're small yourself…. Or were you somehow suggesting that Tantei-kun's a better detective than you?"

"Hardly," Hakuba sneered. "Mouri-san, why don't you start getting the witnesses together and come up with a list of suspects while we wait for the police. Your seasoned detective instincts should be better equipped to detect the suspicious ones than us amateurs. We'll stay here and make sure no one touches the body."

Mouri beamed with pride as Hakuba stroked his enormous ego. "Ahem. You can leave it to me. I'll have the culprit before the police even get here and show you detective wannabes how a real sleuth does it."

"We'll look forward to your spectacular reasoning show." Hakuba smiled complaisantly.

The agreeable smile dropped from his lips as soon as the senior detective was gone. "Now that the buffoon is out of the way, what has the real Sleeping Kogoro deduced so far?"

Conan and Kaito paled.

"W-What do you mean, Hakuba-niichan?" Conan chuckled awkwardly.

"Yeah," Kaito stepped in, picking Conan up, as if that would protect the young sleuth from the other detective. "Mouri-ojichan just left."

"Him." Hakuba pointed at Conan.

Kaito laughed heartily, and Conan joined him as best as he could.

"You mean Conan?! Yeah right. Tantei-kun might be exceptionally bright, but he's just a kid training under Old Man Mouri," Kaito scoffed.

Hakuba shook his head. "No, Kuroba. Edogawa-kun is the one really solving the cases. He knocks Mouri out with a tranquilizer dart shot from his watch and then uses a voice changer to solve the case as Mouri."

Kaito stared blankly at his classmate. "Do you know how stupid that sounds? How's a little kid solve complicated murders on a daily basis? That's just ridiculous, Hakuba. You've been reading too many sci-fi novels."

"Kuroba, Edogawa-kun is not a child. He's Kudo Shinichi."

The two brunettes looked at each other, paused, and then laughed.

"Seriously? Him? Shin-chan? Ha!" Kaito snickered. "Hakuba, now you're just making a fool of yourself. They're going to lock you up in the crazy house, if you're not careful."

"It's the truth! Look at him! He looks exactly like Kudo Shinichi in pictures of when he was a child. I researched it! Sleeping Kogoro appeared shortly after Edogawa-kun started living with him, and that coincides with the disappearance of Kudo Shinichi," Hakuba insisted.

"Hakuba, that's ridiculous. How can an adult shrink to the size of a child?"

The detective frowned. "I don't know, but that doesn't mean it's not true."

Kaito rolled his eyes. "He's not Kudo Shinichi."

"Just like you're not the Kaitou Kid," Hakuba snorted.

"Yeah. Exactly like how I'm not Kid," Kaito sighed. "We're going to check out the set of Kamen Yaiba. You have fun playing with the dead stuff."

"Kuroba, why are you covering for him?"

Kaito paused and turned to glare over his shoulder at the blonde. "Look, Hakuba. Stop investigating. Kudo Shinichi is involved in some deep fecal matter right now. There are some very bad guys trying to kill him, and if you go around saying that this kid is Shin-chan, they'll kill him, the Mouris, the Professor and Haibara, the kids, and quite possibly even me, so stop it. This is Edogawa Conan. I'm Kuroba Kaito. If you insist that we're anybody else, you're going to get us and everyone we love killed. Is that kind of body count worth being right?"

"…They're the men in trench-coats that shoot at you," Hakuba gasped softly as Kaito walked away. "Wait! We could team up and catch these guys!"

Conan laughed. "We've already teamed up, and you're not invited. You're looking for a left-handed person who's lived in Australia and bites their nails, by the way."

Mikau: I was kind of mean to Hakuba, wasn't I? Poor baby. Anyway, thanks again for reading, guys. I hope you enjoyed it. Please let me know what you thought, and have a safe and fun New Year's! As for me, I plan on finding a site where I can watch the Kohaku Song Battle and eating some tangerines. Then I'm hitting up the gym. -.- I just know it's gonna be crowded. Sigh. Take care, guys!