I know I have a LOT of stories, but I couldn't help it with this one. This storyline's main plot actually came from an idea that was meant to be in 'Violent Moonstone', but I thought putting it in would be a bit much as in it'd be putting too much clutter into the story. So, I decided to take it out, but I also REALLY wanted to do a fic on this thus this story came to be. It's an idea done quite often in the Detective Conan fandom only mine is tweaked just a bit to suit what I want in the story. It'll have differences to what other people have done and it'll also have similarities.

"Speech" - (Talking)

"Speech" - (Phone calls and previous chapters or flashback sequences)

'Speech' - (Thoughts)

[Speech] - (Text messages)

But I hope you can enjoy it anyways.

Chapter 1

Ishikawa Lee

~~~ ? - Beika District - ? ~~~

"Boy, please, give me your name."

"I already told you my name..."

"I highly doubt your name is Lee. I saw what happened to you and that isn't normal now tell me who you are!"

"You'll be in danger if I tell you, Keiji-san..."

"I'm a police officer, so try me."

~~~ 9:45pm - Beika District - Haido City Museum ~~~

A certain white-caped crusader stood atop the museum; holding his stolen treasure up to the full moon sky to get a glimpse to see what was hidden inside.

He eyed the jewel carefully, making sure to see he didn't miss anything when it happened.

A sigh broke out from his lips when nothing did. "Another failure..." He pocketed the gem and jumped down into the alleyway next to the museum which housed a bunch of apartment complexes. The magician-thief looked at his watch from behind his sleeve and winced. "It's nearly ten. I better head home."

He took out his cell phone; ready to call up his assistant when the sound of footsteps caught his attention. He looked in the direction he had heard them come from, frowning when he saw nothing.

'I must be paranoid with all these snipers after me...'

He turned his attention back to his cell; when he definitely heard the sound of shuffling coming from behind him. He turned around, sharply, ready to dodge whoever it was at any moment when the back end of a rifle was hit of the back of his head. He staggered back, dazed, grabbing the wall for support.

He looked up at his attacker, eyeing them up and down, scanning their appearance and locking it away in his brain. 'He's wearing black, a large man with sunglasses. Wait ... black...?'

The man seemed to notice the thief taking in his appearance, grabbing him by his dress shirt while he was still dazed and threw him on the ground. "He's dazed, but he saw me. What should we do with him, Aniki?"

The thief could only turn his head slightly when he heard the large man's voice, but froze at the cold and sinister-like voice of the man with him. "Our orders were to kill him since Branch 2 can't." The sound of more shuffling and loud footsteps as one of the men approached the teen. "We'll use the drug on him like we did with that Kudou brat."

This caused the magician's eyes to widen. 'N...No way. These are the guys ... who made Tantei-kun like he is now...?'

The teenager tried to get up, but it seemed he was still slightly disoriented from the hit to the head. The two seemed to notice his movement as one them approached the thief, grabbing him by his messy, chocolate brown hair and forcing his mouth open to force a strange pill into his mouth. The other man gave him a tube of water which allowed the pill to go down his throat without a problem.

KID could now get a good look at who was giving him the pill.

It wasn't the snipers he knew and ran from.

It was someone else.

It was someone with long silver hair and a terrifying gaze that chilled the teenager to the bone.

Once the man was certain that the teen had taken the drug they picked up their things and ran off. The thief looked up in relief that they were gone, but couldn't celebrate for long when a sudden pain in his chest burned within him. He collapsed back onto the ground, grabbing the fabric of his suit where his heart was, breathing harshly.

He felt as if his bones were melting.

It was such an intense pain.

He bit his bottom lip trying not to scream.

His Poker-face was holding up, but the pain was harsh.

He drew in a deep breath, eyes wide when he realised ... that he was going to die...

He screamed, letting out the pain that he had been keeping in since it had started.

The thief didn't realise he'd garnered the attention of someone before passing out.

~~~ 10:20pm - Beika District - Metropolitan Police Department ~~~

He woke up, still slightly dizzy, but it didn't feel as bad as when he'd been hit. His eyes scanned the area he was in. He wasn't in the alleyway anymore which meant someone found him. His sapphire blue eyes blinked, taking in his surroundings more closely. He recognised what he was currently in.

"A...An interrogation room!?" He exclaimed, now realising he was in a police station. He widened his eyes at the sound of his voice, covering it in embarrassment.

It had sounded so high-pitched and childlike.

So unlike him.

A frown creased the magician's features as a thought came to his head. 'If those guys gave that same pill to Tantei-kun; who's actually Meitantei ... then...' He hopped off the seat he had been propped up on and looked around the room for a mirror of some sort.

He needed to check his ... appearance...

He turned back to the chair he had hopped down from, noticing how high it was along with the table.

He bit his bottom lip now realising the severity of his situation.

'Should I contact Meitantei...?' He shook his head. He shouldn't have to bother the shrunken detective with his current problem ... even though they were basically the same.

The sound of the door clicking caused the now shrunken-thief to look over with wide blue eyes to see who it was that'd be interrogating him. He blinked when it was a woman with dark brown hair, wearing a light blue jacket and jeans with a violet turtleneck underneath. She had lavender eyes that watched the boy closely as she walked over to the table and sat down.

She gestured across from her for the boy to take a seat across from her and he did so. "My name is Satou Miwako; a police detective for the Metropolitan Police Department." The magician swallowed, fidgeting in his seat. "It was just after a Kaitou KID heist when I was going to my car from shopping when I heard your scream. May I have your name before we proceed further?"

He noticed how she eyed him carefully, making him nervous and he hardly ever felt that way.

"My name is..." He had to think of something. How did Kudou think of his alias? Had it been in a similar situation as this? "...Lee!"

Her look didn't seem to falter in the slightest it only seemed to grow more agitated. "Boy, please, give me your name."

"I already told you my name is Lee!" The shrunken magician could feel himself cringing at how she wasn't falling for his act. Just how?

Her eyes narrowed at Kaito. "I highly doubt your name is Lee. I saw what happened to you and that isn't normal now tell me who you are!"

The boy flinched at her yell, causing sympathy to cross the detective's features for raising her voice at him. He lowered his head, hair shadowing his eyes as he had noticed his top hat and monocle had been removed before he arrived here. "You'll be in danger if I tell you, Keiji-san..."

A blink crossed the woman's features as she stared at the faux child before her. 'He reminds me a lot of Conan-kun, but why...?' She didn't continue her thoughts as she instead smiled at the boy before her, standing up and folding her arms, grabbing his attention. "I'm a police officer, so try me..."

The teen-turned-child stared at the detective for a moment, wondering whether or not he should truely trust this woman with his true identity and also tell her about what happened. A frown crossed his features as the realisation of what she said hit him. She said she had seen him, so did that mean she saw him in his KID outfit or she saw him ... shrink?

Neither was good.

He let out a short sigh and shrug. "Alright. My name is Kuroba Kaito." The name seemed to shock Satou, but Kaito held up his hand. "I don't know how much you saw, but all I know is I was given a pill of some sort."

"Do you know what it was meant to do?" She questioned him, raising an eyebrow.

"They didn't say, but I have a fairly good idea that it was meant to kill me."

This information caused Satou to narrow her eyes and put a finger to her chin. "Have you seen them before?"

"Never."

"Why did they target you then?"

This question caused Kaito to zip his mouth shut and look away. She may be trying to help him, but if she knew he was KID she'd send him straight to Nakamori.

"It's because you're Kaitou KID, correct?" The boy turned his attention back to her, shocked. "You were dressed as him right after a heist." She put a hand in her pocket, taking out what he'd stolen from the museum that night. "You also had this in your pocket." She put it back right after she showed it to him; at seeing the gem in her possession caused the thief to freeze. "Kuroba-kun, I won't hand you over..." This caused Kaito to blink, but also eye her in suspicion. "...it seems there are people out there worse than a small-time thief like you. They also have a reason for trying to kill you which I find is more important to go after someone like that."

Kaito blinked at Satou's sense of righteousness it reminded him a lot of a certain girl he knew and liked yet Satou's was different due to her experience in the force with murderers more often than thieves.

"So, I can guess you're the only victim to have survived this..." She gestured at him. "...drug-like poison."

"There's one other I know of..." She blinked at hearing this. "...but you must not mention it to anyone he knows or else they'll be in danger." She narrowed her eyes, nodding at him. She knew the risks when people were involved with criminals such as these. "You may know him ... Edogawa Conan and Kudou Shinichi ... are one and the same. The same thing happened to him."

Satou blinked, shocked for a moment before a thoughtful look crossed her face. "No wonder he seemed to know so much about detective work that a normal six-year old wouldn't. Not only that ... his personality shifts as well between mature and childlike."

"That's his act." She looked over to Kaito; who had a grin on his face. "He tries to make sure no one suspects him by being childish yet the only time he's himself is during crime scenes, heists and around those kids."

"I see. How do you know this?"

"I...I just know stuff..."

She eyed the boy suspiciously before letting out a sigh and sitting back down. "Well, you've given me quite a bit of information and because of how strange it is I can't make it into a report." She leaned back in the chair, looking thoughtful. "How suspicious would it be if you went home like that?"

"Very. I live alone in Ekoda."

A frustrated sigh left the detective as she pinched the bridge of her nose. "Alright. How about this ... because of your head injury you can't remember your last name since there haven't been any missing children reports it'd be suspicious. So I'll take you in so they don't send you off somewhere, put you into a school, etcetera."

The shrunken magician blinked, tilting his head to the side at what the detective was saying. She was saying she was going to take him in.

Him?

A thief?

What was going on here?

"Umm ... why are you helping me?" He questioned, sounding confused.

The question surprised the woman as she finally looked back over to the confused look on the child and gave him a smile. "I want to catch those criminals that did this to you and Kudou-kun." Her eyes narrowed at her next words. "Since that drug was meant to kill you ... they are people not meant to be toyed with."

Kaito turned his head away from her, nodding. "I know..."

The police woman was surprised at the response, but shook her head and smiled at him. "Anyway, you'll need an alias like how Kudou-kun's is Conan-kun."

Kaito turned his attention back to Satou and nodded at her. "Yea, I've been thinking it over during our conversation." She tilted her head, curious as to what it was. A large grin spread across his face in an instant. "Ishikawa Lee!"

A blink.

Miwako let out a soft sigh and shook her head at the thief before standing from her spot across him. "I'll go talk with Megure-keibu about this and see if it's alright. He's a very understanding person after all."

Kaito blinked, watching her leave the room.

He let out a sigh at having been interrogated like that, still unsure whether to trust her or not.

However it seemed to be his only choice now.

~~~ 8:55am - Beika District - Teitan Elementary ~~~

He never thought he'd have to go back to elementary school again so soon, especially not when the person looking after him knew his identity. Now he was going to feel the same pain that Kudou felt day-in and day-out of being treated like a child when you're not.

What a joy...

He had just gone to the teacher's lounge as he was instructed by the Principal when he came the day before with a disguised Satou. Why she had needed a disguise he didn't know, but he guessed it was so no one recognised her and it was to play a role as his guardian. He was told his teacher was Sumiko Kobayashi; a young woman with short black hair, wore plain clothes and wore glasses.

His classroom was class 1-B ... and coincidentally the same as Kudou's.

He was going to have fun with this.

As long as he didn't draw too much attention to himself then he was fine.

The teacher entered the rowdy classroom causing the shrunken teen to forget how loud elementary kids were before class started.

Then again he and Aoko were no different and they were high-schoolers.

"Alright, settle down!" Kobayashi exclaimed over the loud voices of the children. They all settled and turned their attention to her. "We have a new student joining us today. I hope you all get along with him." She looked towards Kaito and gestured for him to come in.

He looked in, eyeing each individual kid before spotting Kudou or 'Conan' as he's known as an alias. He swallowed, walking in and approaching the board to grab a piece of chalk and write his name. He was told by Satou to not use magic outside to avoid garnering attention to himself as not all kids his age know magic to his level.

That would be right.

It would be suspicious, but he usually can't go a day without pranking ... or magic...

So what could he do?

He was told that if he couldn't handle not doing magic to try and befriend Conan and his group of friends. He thought it'd be easier to outright tell the shrunken detective who he was, but Satou told him that 'it wouldn't be fun if he didn't figure it out for himself'.

This fact made Kaito excited for when his rival figured it out.

He just couldn't wait.

After he wrote his name on the board he turned around and smiled at the class of kids. "I'm Ishikawa Lee! I hope we can get along!" A spark of mischief played in his blue eyes and Kaito saw that Conan was eyeing him like he would a case and the thief was loving every second of it.

Kaito's given name he chose comes from the beginning of 'LeBlanc' from 'Maurice LeBlanc' the author of the 'Arsene Lupin Series' while his surname comes from 'Ishikawa Goemon' a famous phantom thief who stole from the rich and gave to the poor. If you played Persona 5 you'd get more history on the those two along with other real-life phantom thieves or rather pirates like 'William Kidd' and so on. I was planning on Kaito's chosen given name actually be 'William' at first from 'William Kidd' for the whole Kaitou KID thing, but decided against it in the end since 'William Kidd' is a pirate not a phantom thief.

LdR OUT