A/N: I wanna write a shrunken Heiji story since I love them and I can never seem to find them!! D:
Don't worry, don't worry, don't worry, I'm still writing chapters for Copy-Copy Kaizoku but I just had to type this up after I finished writing this. :D
Detective Conan and all the characters are copyrighted to Gosho Aoyama.
**By the way, I'm not gonna be all Wapanese with my writing with this, all English, baby cakes! But I will leave the honourifics intact for the sake of continuity.
"Oi, Kudo!" shouted Heiji Hattori in his thick Kansai dialect. "Hurry up! I can keep your girl here busy for long!" He snapped his cell phone shut for emphasis.
"Just shut up for a second, Hattori!" Shinichi's still-shrunken voice shot back through the door "Haibara can't get up here without Agasa's help and he's—"
"I'll go get that girl then!" Heiji shouted out of exasperation. He ran down the staircase in the Kudo's once-empty home and through the front door to see Ai standing outside looking unimpressed.
Heiji blinked "Uhm, K-Kudo wanted me to, uhm—" his frantic stammering was cut short by Ai pushing past him and walking leisurely up the stairs. "I take it Edogawa-kun is upstairs." Ai stated bluntly.
Heiji nodded "But, Kudo's girl! She—" "Is still a block away;" Ai interrupted "But I'd better give this to Edogawa—no, Kudo-kun, now."
"Tch, little girl knows everything, doesn't she?" Heiji thought out loud.
"Who are you talking about, Hattori-kun?" Ran asked as she walked into the Kudo house, slipping off her shoes and into house slippers as she got closer to him.
"Uhm, I just…" Heiji stammered. Ran's face fell. "Oh," she said "I see… you were going to disguise yourself as Shinichi like that time to make me feel better since I haven't seen him in months and—"
(A/N: 'that time' refers to when Heiji went to Ran's play in volume 25/26 as Shinichi (even though he's done it since then). The last time Ran saw Shinichi is still during that highway murder in volume 62/63)
"Actually, uhm, Kudo is here but he's, uhm, g-getting ready and, uh, I'll tell him you're here." Heiji dashed up the stairs. 'C'mon, Kudo, don't leave her like this!'
"Kudo!" Heiji slammed the door of Shinichi's bedroom open "I—" Heiji stopped and wheezed, a hand went up to his throat as he coughed to get whatever had landed in his throat out, he shuddered for oxygen as whatever-it-was quietly slipped down his esophagus and out of his airway.
Heiji swallowed, and sighed with relief, it almost felt like the time he was crunching on ice cubes as a kid and one had accidently slipped down his throat and slowly went down.
Just when Heiji believed his trauma-of-the-day to be over a wave of pain rushed through his body, he squeezed his eyes shut tight and fell to his knees. His chest pounded as his heartbeat thudded in his ears, agony swept through him as he struggled to gasp for air. After what felt like hours his body went limp as he faded into unconsciousness.
Heiji's eyes struggled to open as he shot up "What the hell is going on here!" he demanded, on look at Shinichi's very empty, very dusty bedroom served no answers.
He slumped back into Shinichi's bed and tried to figure out the interworking of his rival's mind by his possessions.
He was still no closer to terms with Shinichi's mind when a light knock sounded at the door. "Come in," Heiji called, but his voice came out in an almost sopranic whisper, he cleared his throat and called again "Come in," he said with his voice dropping a few octaves.
The door opened to reveal the full-sized Shinichi Kudo; he looked down to make sure Ai was in the room before shutting the door.
"Ran's gone home." Shinichi said as he sat on the foot of his bed.
There was a long pause.
"Uhm, Hattori," he started "Haibara managed to, uhm; make the antidote to Apotoxin 4869 after she successfully reproduced the drug…"
Shinichi trailed off as if he was unable to continue. Ai sighed and took up the reigns of the conversation.
"Kudo-kun wanted the antidote as soon as I told him of the breakthrough, I brought along a newly remade version of the original batch of Apotoxin 4869 to explain how the antidote works to him, but," she looked sharply at Heiji "You decided to barge in and…" she sighed "You accidently because the most recent victim of APTX 4869, returning yourself to a child-like state, stupid."
Heiji blinked twice and laughed in Ai's face "What kind of fumes have you breathed in while in that professor's lab, girl? You—" He interrupted himself with another bout of laughter "You really think I'm a," He raised his hand to gesture to himself and stopped.
His hand was a quarter of its normal size; he brought it closer to his face to make sure it wasn't a trick of the light or something. Flexing his fingers proved that it was not. He threw back the quilt on Shinichi's bed that had been covering him and pushed past Ai to get to the mirror on Shinichi's dresser, only to find he couldn't reach.
Shinichi walked over and grabbed the scruff of Heiji's sweater, lifting him up so he could stand on the dresser in front of the mirror.
Heiji looked at his reflection in disbelief. He was practically Conan-sized, save the fact that he prided himself at having 2 inches of height over Shinichi; he was wearing the same blue sweater Shinichi-as-Conan had worn earlier today, along with the beige kakis that had adorned Conan's body earlier.
(If you can't picture it, find the picture of Heiji in 3rd grade in movie 7, and the clothes Conan wore right after the highway murder case)
Heiji reached up and touched his face, the kid in the mirror did the same.
"Shit, I've gotta get the antidote before someone else sees me." He looked over to where AI was still standing looking bored with the whole situation.
Ai sighed and walked towards Heiji's perch. When she was near enough Shinichi quickly picked her up so she could talk to the both of them on the same level.
"There is no other permanent antidote," Ai explained "I was able to create a single antidote for Kudo-kun simply because I recreated the original Apotoxin 4869. Fortunately," She smiled at Shinichi who looked as confused as Heiji felt "I did write down the formula in case I wished to one day return to Shiho Miyano, so I simply have to go back to the professor's and make another. "
Heiji sighed in relief as Ai left to gather her notes and create an antidote, he looked at Shinichi bemusedly, his hands stretched out in front of him, showing how much smaller Shinichi had been compared to Heiji. "Looks like I'm still taller than you, Kudo."
Heiji laughed causing himself to lose balance on the dresser and fall to the floor.
Shinichi laughed "Instant karma, Hattori." Then his eyes turned sombre as he looked out the window.
Heiji followed his gaze and saw he was looking in the direction of Ran's house.
Heiji cleared his throat "You were going to tell her, right?" he asked the vacant-eyed Shinichi "About you being Conan, I mean."
Shinichi nodded, le covered his face with his right hand and sighed before answering Heiji "She thought I was joking at first, but then I explained the Syndicate and how I had to take them down and…" he trailed off.
"She wanted more proof." Heiji realized, Shinichi nodded.
"Proof I didn't have, she was about to send me to an institute but I brought out this," he took out the voice-changing bowtie "And explained 'Sleeping Kogoro' to her, but she… she…" Shinichi paused, Heiji stayed quiet without prompting him this time.
"She knows you had your reasons, Shinichi." Heiji and Shinichi wheeled around to look at the person who had spoken from the doorway and saw Ran Mouri standing there.
"Ran," Shinichi started towards her but Ran held up her hand "Just... just stay there, Shinichi, I—" she paused for a moment and brought a hand to her face, the town detectives noticed she was crying "I really want to believe you… but—" she stopped and looked at Heiji, he eyes widened "H-Hattori-kun?"
Heiji waved awkwardly "Uhm, we're gonna fix this, so… don't tell Kazuha, okay?" He pleaded
Ran blinked a couple of times at Heiji before looking back at Shinichi "I, uhm," she sniffed "I went home to tell Conan-kun about how stupid you were being, but he…"
"But I wasn't there." Shinichi finished for her.
A/N: First ever Detective Conan fanfiction from me!
Can you believe this was all written on paper in Science 10? :D
Don't worry. Don't worry there'll be more! I picked a pretty lame spot to end a chapter but I decided to NOT make this a super long one shot! Ain't it great? :D