I'm not sure where this idea came from. Anyways, chapters will be pretty short and the story won't be told chronologically, so yeah...
If there's some part that sounds really weird, please mention it to me. This is one of my older stories and while I did rewrite some parts that sounded really weird, I might not have caught all of them.
I suck at deciding what categories a story should be on, so if you disagree with me about that, then I don't mind at all. Then again, I don't know if many people check what categories a story has? I mean, I don't, but does anyone else do that?
But yeah, anyways, I hope you enjoy this!
Disclaimer: I do not own Detective Conan.
Chapter 1: Suspicious miracle
It was a miracle.
Haibara Ai, real name Miyano Shiho, code name Sherry, had no ideas as to how it had happened. One day she had been struggling with the antidote for APTX 4869, a permanent one, something that she hadn't really wanted to make just yet, but one certain detective was itching to get, and the very next day the data of the poison was on her computer. As said, it was a miracle, but it was suspicious, too.
Who could have gotten in to the house and delivered the data? Why would anyone have done that? Only those involved with the Black Organization knew about APTX 4869 and none of its members should know about her existence, excluding Vermouth. Not only that, but even if someone knew, they should not be willing to give her the data to make a permanent antidote, rather they should come and kill her instead. It just made no sense.
Of course, there were the undercover agents in BO, but even they shouldn't know of her existence. It was just ridiculous and most likely this was all a trap. However, as Ai looked at the data, it was correct to the point. So, how had it appeared to her computer and who had delivered it?
"Is something wrong?" Agasa came over to look. Ai turned around in her seat, her eyes widening as she did. Agasa had come in and she had heard that, but he wasn't the only one.
Edogawa Conan, real name Kudo Shinichi, had also walked in with unheard steps. His walking was so eerily quiet that it brought shivers to her.
"Ai?" Agasa asked. Conan only raised an eyebrow at her actions. "Haibara?"
"I don't know what has happened", Ai admitted, trying to ignore the odd feeling she got just now. "But whatever has happened, someone has been on my computer since last night. Whoever it was, knows of APTX 4869."
"What?!" Agasa shouted. Conan's eyes widened. "How do you know?"
"The data of APTX 4869 is here", Ai stated. Agasa frowned. "Isn't that a bit... suspicious?"
"Someone has been in here", Conan looked around the room. There were no signs of forced entry, which there should have been had the culprit not had the key to the house.
Ai bit her lip and tried to decide whether she should use the data to create the permanent antidote or not. She hardly tried to ignore how Conan was wearing only red and black. It was not like that alone meant he was deeper than he let on, right?
Conan only glanced at Ai's distrusting expression. He had to hold down a smirk. She really is sharp.
"Should we use the data?" Agasa asked. "We could create a permanent antidote..."
"But we would be dancing on their palms", Ai pointed out.
"Whoever did this was intelligent enough to realize we wouldn't use the data just like that", Conan said, in his thinking position. "If anything, they wanted us to be distrusting and not use the data, rather being on guard for a long time and make us stress out. If anything, to not dance on their palms, we need to use the data to create the antidote."
Ai blinked. Then, she raged. "Are you crazy?!"
"I'm just stating the facts", Conan said. "If they were able to get into the house so easily without leaving any signs of their arrival, they must be intelligent enough to realize that giving the data would be useless. Unless they wanted us to be on guard and stress ourselves."
"That actually makes sense..." Agasa nodded. Ai frowned at him before glaring at Conan. "If you're wrong, you pay the price."
"Of course", Conan smiled. "Will you create the antidote?"
"I still think this is a trap", Ai sighed. "But fine. You better be right about this one."
"I promise I'm right", Conan said. "Once I'm around as Kudo Shinichi, no one will come to you, Haibara."
"You better keep that promise of yours", Ai huffed as she started her work. "Both the one that no one will come to me and that this is no trap."
Oh, I will, Conan thought with an evil glint in his eye. After all, I gave you that data to create the antidote.
