Chapter 1: After Heist
Conan/Shinichi glared across the table, sipping his coffee, towards his new guest sleeping on a couch in the mansion of the professor's household. The guest was of course unwelcomed, but considering the situation at the last scene of the crime, he didn't have much of a choice. One reason why would be because this guest was none other than the notorious Kaito Kid. But that was the least of the problems.
"Oi, Kudo, is this really alright ta' bring that guy here?" the Osaka detective, Hattori Heiji, said staring at the thief wearing some of Conan's clothes. His head in hands leaning against the counter table in the kitchen area next to the boy.
Heiji looked down at the former high school student, Shinichi.
"Does it make sense to let him be picked up by a random stranger before knowing his current situation, Hattori?" Conan said simply glancing upwards, receiving only silence as the answer before they both turned towards the boy in front of them, "Doing this is the only way we can avoid having our identities exposed to the Black Organization; and keeping more victims at a minimum."
"Oh, but he's your opposite since you're a detective and he's a thief," Ai said entering the room with Professor Agasa, "Bringing him here would mean that you're taking responsibility on what to do with him."
Conan's face grimaced at that thought but kept silent.
"Ai-kun…" Agasa sighed before looking up again, "It's just fortunate that you two didn't run into those men in black when you were looking for him as he fell. However, I don't understand why they targeted him."
"That's what troubles me," Conan replied drinking the last of his coffee.
The heist, from last night, was due to Jirokichi Suzuki's usual schemes in defeating Kid, as well as getting his face back on the front page. Conan ended up finding out that Kid was within the crowd of guards and stole a gem from its place. Heiji was there to stop the thief's tricks from escaping, but ending up as a trampoline for the magician. So just when Kid was escaping, using his super sneakers and instant soccer ball inflator, he punched a hole into the thief's cape/hang-glider and dropping Kid into the alleyway. Somewhere between them finding him and his drop, Gin and Vodka found the unconscious thief and made him drink the same poison both Shinichi and Shiho took. They were long gone when Conan arrived at the scene with Heiji; finding the thief shrunken to that of an eight-year-old. They returned the gem, surprising Nakimori with an excuse that Kid escaped and got on the first taxi to their current location at Agasa's house.
"Pandora," Ai said calmly, her eyes scanning the boy's features, as all heads turned towards her in surprise.
"Wha…?" Heiji asked recovering first. The little girl only sighed at how slow the Detective of the West when it was something so easy to explain.
"Now everything fits together. If the organization has been targeting him because of that, then it all makes sense on why he was stealing only gems and returns them," she said then stared at the two detectives on the table, "It's a gem that the organization is looking for. A gem that gives immortality to those that uses it, Pandora. Another name for it is the Philosophers Stone. Though I don't know if it really exists or not."
"Then isn' he chasin' a wild goose chase?" Heiji said yawning sipping more coffee.
"He wouldn't be looking for gems now would he?" Conan plainly pointed receiving a glare from the other detective then back to the sleeping form. "But, really, how much longer do you think he's going to sleep for?"
"Ah~la, are you worried for your 'brother'?" Ai smiled as the contents in the boy's mouth spurted out.
"Shinichi, I just cleaned the carpet yesterday!" Agasa yelled trying to absorb the now brown speckled carpet with a towel.
"HOW IS HE MY BROTHER HAIBARA?" Conan yelled.
Heiji walked towards the sleeping boy and looked at the face more closely. He looked over his shoulders towards the glaring boy on the kitchen counter then back down. The Osaka detective took several looks again then broke out laughing, "She's right, Kudo, ya' two look like twins!" The laughing stopped once a power ball hit his face, courteously of Conan, leaving a twitching detective on the floor.
"I don't need you to point it out as well, Hattori!" the boy detective said angrily walking towards them, "I already knew the uncanny appearance we have, but I don't want to be considered a brother towards a Phantom Thief."
"Wait a minute, why am I the only one punished here!" Heiji yelled back but received another hit in the face.
"Sorry… didn't hear you…" Ai said hands outstretched.
"I'm bein' picked on by kids…" he said lying on the floor.
"Mmhhh…" all heads turned when the sleeping boy stirred.