Yours and Mine
Summary: Life can be unpredictable, even if you fall for someone in seven days and confess to them. Especially if it means the one that's doing the falling happens to be the mysterious-and-coming-back-from-being-missing Kudo Shinichi.
Extended Summary: An eventual ShinFemKai story with some ShinRan, one-sided genderbent!AoKai, and eventual MaleAoRan pairing mixed into this story. It's also somewhat au canon verse. Life can be unpredictable, even if you fall for someone in seven days and confess to them. Especially if it means the one that's doing the falling happens to be the mysterious-and-coming-back-from-the-being-missing Kudo Shinichi.
Note: This is post Black Org taken down, Shinichi got his body back and well the organization after Kid is still gunning after her and Pandora. Also from the way the anime/manga canon verse is going, the time from when Shinichi shrunk to the current present, it's possible to go with 2 years and a half to 3 years, and even then, emotional attachment and betrayal is still going to be messy to those that are connected. It depends on the person in how to forgive, excluding those that already know that Conan being Shinichi and vice versa, that list is way too long, not to mention getting on a female's wrath. Hell hath no fury of a woman scorn. Ganbatte canon Kudo Shinichi in surviving Ran's wrath if he gets around to tell her. Also ganbatte to canon Kuroba Kaito with Kaitou Kid to Aoko's wrath. That would hurt.
Extra-Note: Oh yeah, canon verse, Kid/Kaito has yet to know who Conan is, and by canon verse, I meant the anime/manga verse, which is excluding movies and ovas as well.
Extra-Extra-Note: And before you ask? I've actually never intended to make an actual story of this. This is the result of a story that's has chapters being made back and forth, and me trying to connect it by threads and plots, getting rid of some plot holes, in the course of six or seven months. Hell, this story idea has been sitting in my phone notes and laptop, and refuses to take a hike.
Extra-Extra-Extra-Note: Sometimes the chapters are short, and not, but each chapter are linked together.
Character(s)/Pairing(s): Eventual ShinFem!Kai, ShinRan, one-sided genderbent!AoKai, Eventual Male!AoiRan.
Disclaimer: Detective Conan and Magic Kaitou are both owned by Aoyama. If I did own it, the plot would be beyond recognizable.
Prologue
3 Months Ago
A sixteen year-old girl blinked at the envelope she held in her hands. The fine emblem of Tokyo University was printed on the top left corner. (A/N: I've honestly have no idea of the actual envelope and the emblem of the university in Tokyo, so feel free to correct me wrong. I only remember those that I have from Canada where for the college that I studied in and trying to apply to a university, they always have their emblem on the top left corner.)
Although, curious enough, the letter was addressed to her. While she already have offers, this letter, she could barely recalled as to why it was sent to her in the first place. Her eyes widen slightly, and she tear it open slightly with the letter opener, carefully not to damage the contents, and out came a letter and a brown coin envelope. The letter, as it says:
To the chosen participant,
Congratulations, you are one of the high school students in Japan we have chosen to take this extra curricular assignment. This assignment is optional, you have the option to not to partake it if it makes you uncomfortable. We, the staff of the Social Psychology Department of Tokyo University, will like for you to participate in this pen pal assignment. Enclose with this envelope, you are given your pen pal's email address and sms id to chat with for these four months. Each partner will take the time to observe the relationship you have with your partner. From then on, you can either choose to remain anonymous or acquaintance, whether it's going well or not, or whether your pen pal, with their consent, feels like they have some personal problems and would like to speak to an unbiased stranger. However we will like to hear a reflection report of your observations. A reflection report, no longer than three to five pages is required, along with a printed copy of notes you have taken while through these observations. A table of 10 to 15 sessions of this assignment is left with you behind this letter. If you would like to more sessions, feel free to do so and make an additional table. You are also allowed to guess who your pen pal is, whether they are in Japan or another country. Additional sign ups will be posted on the message boards of your school, the sign ups will end by this month. Remember, to have fun and try to get to know your pen pal before jumping to conclusion. The pair up of these pen pals, such as yours with your pen pal, is by random.
If by chance if something feels off with your pen pal, please contact the number below. You have the choice of wanting to change your pen pal, but the risk of the change is slight, if not sometimes, hard to connect. How we match these pairings is by matching your backgrounds, age and intelligence similar to your pen pals, which could also mean you might be even matched to someone in your school as well. We won't stress enough to say this, but this assignment is part of our study to. We won't be watching your progress because we will be busy doing ours from our circle of friends and random strangers we have already picked for our selves.
In case of wanting to back out while during the assignment, please contact the next number below the first one. Remember though, this extra assignment might be counted as part of your entry to your post-graduation school.
Enclose in a small envelope behind this letter is your pen pal's email address and sms id no.
Contact Numbers:
Something Feel's off, please contact: +81-7028-9910
If you want to leave, please contact: +81-9025-1174
Sincerely,
Shirotaka Himiko,
Social Psychology Professor at Tokyo University.
Phd Of Human Behaviors
Office Contact No.: +81-03-5481-2250
Work Contact No.: +81-6772-5691
The teenager eyes widen again, she carefully opened the coin envelope with scissors and out came two straps of paper. One strip of paper contained a type email address, another with the sms id number.
Her phone vibrated with a text message.
Hello? Are you perhaps id.348746? I'm Blue Child. – Blue Child
She blinked again before smiling politely at the screen of her phone. She tried to think of a pen pal name she could easily remember.
Hello, you must id.259870 right? I'm Karate Girl, it's a pleasure to meet you Blue Child. I'm your partner for this extra curricular assignment. – Karate Girl
So what do you think of this assignment? I actually thought it was interesting. – Blue Child
So do I, although if my- The girl hesitated in texting, she wonders if calling her absent friend her significant other would be too personal…shaking her head slightly, she begins to type. best friend would find it a little… – Karate Girl
A little what? – Blue Child
I think the word would be dubious. – Karate Girl
*scoff* Ironically, your best friend is thinking the same thing as my best friend as well. – Blue Child
The teenager blinked three times before smiling wryly with a tad of suspicion.
This is a guess, but is your best friend a teenage high school detective? – Karate Girl.
No, she isn't. – Blue Child
The girl couldn't help but wonder at the slight relieved disappointment she begins to feel.
She is a magician and a fan of Kaitou Kid, but I do have a classmate who is a high school detective. – Blue Child
The girl blinked at this text, couldn't help but wonder at the odds and type in the next text in a hurry.
What's the detective's name? – Karate Girl
The next text surprises her with a tang of disappointment.
Hakuba Saguru – Blue Child
Present
'Of all days to be late! Aoi will surely have my head this time!' One teenage Ekoda resident magician thought as she race down the street, and fervently prayed that she'd make it! Turning around the corner, she crashed into another person, who also happens to be running late, and their foreheads collided.
"Ow. Sorry about that. Are you alright?" The teenage male asked. Kaiya didn't open her eyes and kept nursing the bump on her forehead.
"Yeah, I'm fine. Ow." Hearing this as she winced in pain, the male walked towards her.
"Here, let me see." At the sound of his voice being too close to her, she opened her eyes to see the other teen pulling her hand away from her forehead and she was stunned to meet bluest blue eyes with a face that she seen constantly from her own mirror, with a matching bruise to match. The only difference would be the hair and the gender. The cowlicks and the tuft of hair from the back of his neck looked somewhat familiar, but she couldn't remember when she met someone with a similar appearance.
"Hm, it looks like it might bruise." The teenage boy hummed at this, the cerulean blue eyes looked familiar to her. She absently wondered where she had seen those shades of blue before, and fought down a blush as she noticed how close the teen is and how attractive he is.
"What are you? My doctor?"
"Hey, I'm trying to help." The teen frowned at this, and in a second, he was pulling her by the hand and dragging her away from the path of destination she was aiming for. Her school.
"We will need to make a detour though. C'mon."
"Hey!" All protests from her were left unheard as he pulled her into a park, leading her to a fountain. It wasn't long, but soon she found herself and her companion using the cool water to lessen the bruising.
"My best friend will kill me for being late for school today." Kaiya commented offhandedly, while the blue-eyed teen male smiles at her wryly.
"You're not the only one. I've already missed enough school. Being punched through a wall is not something I would like to experience nor on my agenda." Kaiya blinks at this.
"Wait, your best friend punched you through a wall?"
"Girlfriend and best friend. She's a karate captain of our school team, what about your best friend? If you end up dead, I should at least know the murder weapon if I were to bring the culprit to justice." Kaiya isn't sure whether to be flattered or disturbed, but at least she got a clue on who he is, despite being in the same age group as she is and a high school student as well. So she settled with being slightly flattered.
"Hahaha, your a regular knight in shining armor, aren't you?" Kaiya frowns when she hears the word 'murder weapon'.
"Wait, are you a detective?"
"Oh, I haven't introduced myself have I? My name is Kudo Shinichi, tantei, it's a pleasure to meet you." Shinichi said with a polite smirk, and Kaiya, while outwardly returning back the same greeting, inwardly, she's, er, having a minor panic attack so to say. For this person, in front of her, is the famed Heisei Holmes. 'Kuso. Of all people, why did I have to bump into him?'
"If we're going with that order, then it's a pleasure to meet you Kudo-kun. My name is Kuroba Kaiya, amateur magician." She hopes she hadn't shown her nervousness when she clasps his hand with hers in a shake.
It was at this moment, the bell ranged. Both students rush and scrambled to collect their belongings.
"Ack! We're going to be late!" And accidentally block each other's way while echoing the other person's words.
"Sorry about that!" Again.
"I'm should go this way!" And again.
"You go ahead first!" And again.
"Are you doing this on purpose, Kuroba-san?" Shinichi asks jokingly bemused.
"Not really, I'm going this way. Ja ne." Kaiya calls out over her shoulder, running towards the direction of her school and the bell rang again, forcing Shinichi to remember that he has to attend his own school as well. It wasn't until he arrived to his classroom and a puzzled look from Ran, that he remembers that Kaiya never answered his question.
Kuso – Basically cursing, so in other words, 'shit' or 'damn' is most accurate.
Ja ne – See ya (casually or informally).
TBC