So in this fanfiction I'm going to just pretend somethings happened so Akai knows who Mary is. I'm also going to pretend that Mary and Conan have met for a full conversation. For Shinichi and Sera I think I like it about as much as Ai and Conan. I know it's not going to happen, find it cute when there are moments about it, but don't make stories about it either. I think there might be some connection between Shiho and Mary, but won't include it. Also, I want Amuro to be in this so he and Akai talked about what actually happened to Scotch. This is going to be almost exactly like the real explanation.

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"I don't suppose you would care to explain what's going on, Kudo-kun?" Mary Sera asked with an annoyed expression and a raised eyebrow. The walk was taking even longer under the depressing, cloudy sky that was above them.

"Oh, come on mama. We didn't have anything to do anyway." Masumi Sera, the current physically oldest, gave a smile and continued on in her unusually girly clothes. Dressed in a striped skirt, she spun a 180 and turned to Conan, "But what did you want to talk to us about anyways?"

Conan responded with a smile, "It's a project I was working on for a while. I asked someone to protect Haibara, or Miyano Shiho as you know her, and that person and I agree that it might be time for you to find out." He wanted to tell them who was protecting her, but they most likely would not believe him without proof.

They walked up to the Kudo mansion, the other two making note of the house as they walked in, "Wait," Sera said, "Doesn't someone live here right now?" That seemed to be a flaw in the plan, and upon hearing that Mary turned to glare at Conan, who flinched under her aura.

"He has something to do with what we're going to be talking about, so just wait a while, he's going to explain everything." They walked inside and Conan led them to the living room.

"Ni-san?!" Sera said seeing Shukichi, her second brother, with a shocked expression on her face.

"Hi, Haneda Meijin," Conan turned to Sera and another one of Mary's death glares, "Well, he has to do with this secret to, so it's easier to tell you all at once."

"Masumi? Who's this with you?" he asked, "Mamma?"

"Yes, Shukichi, now silent. We can explain to you the full story later, but I was poisoned and instead of killing me I was shrunk. Now," she said turning to Conan, "What is it you want us to see so badly?"

A door opened and Subaru Okiya came in, followed shortly by Amuro Tooru. "I can answer that," the former said, "I asked the kid to bring you here for an explanation." Then Conan's phone beeped.

"Ah, sorry, I need to check on something. Can you handle the explanation without me?" Seeing their nod, Conan ran out the door and locked it, before hopping on his skateboard and zipping away.

"So, I suppose we should start with introductions for those who don't know us. I'm Amuro Tooru, an apprentice of Mouri-san's and a part time worker at Poirot. This is Subaru Okiya, a graduate student who currently resides in this house." He said, pointing at himself then to Subaru. Subaru then sat down and waited and Amuro continued his explanation, "I'm sure you were all at least told that this had to do with protecting the girl who lives next door?" Seeing their nods, he continued, "Well then, let's have a mystery, it all starts with a simple body exchange trick."

That soon got the attention of the audience, as all three loved mysteries. "A man gets shot in the head at Raiha pass then is burned in his car. The fingerprints from that man's right hand, which had narrowly missed being burned, matched the prints on a cell phone belonging to a certain boy which the man previously held. Thus, it was concluded that the person who had died was indeed that man." All three felt their eyes widen at the description of the death or their brother or son, but failed to see what the point of this conversation was.

"But," Subaru inserted in, having Amuro step to the side and motion for him to continue, "It's strange. The person who was burned was left handed, but the prints on the phone were from his right hand. Of course, there is a chance that the man's other hand was occupied at the time, but there is also a chance that he had no choice but to hold the phone with his other hand… because another man had picked up the phone before he did was right handed."

"Now then," Amuro continued, much to Mary's annoyance "a little quiz. Which of the three men picked the phone up? A fat greasy man? A thin man with a cast for his neck? Or an old man with a pacemaker?"

The three family members looked at each other before simultaneously saying, "The second man?"

"Wonderful job," Amuro falsely applauded them, stopping when he felt Mary's glare grow sharper.

"But shouldn't your mystery man's fingerprints also be there?" Mary said, leaning one shoulder on the couch. She knew who he was implying as the mystery man, but chose not to admit any connection.

Haneda Meijin joined in, "Yeah, especially if he took the phone after, why would it matter if someone else touched it?"

"Well," Amuro continued, "What if the 'mystery man' as you call him laced his fingers with glue? Escaping with the woman who shot him and staying out of sight of the two people who were watching them from afar?"

"You mean he's alive!?" Masumi jumped out of her seat and had a hopeful look in her eyes.

"Masumi, sit down." Mary commanded, not wanting to play any hand they had with these two people who they did not know, even if she was just as hopeful. "You may continue."

"The men who were watching from a distance were completely fooled from the blood coming out of the man's head," Subaru said, then continued seeing their confused expressions with, "the man always wore a black knit hat. There is a professor in the neighborhood who can invent all sorts of gadgets, including something that spouts fake blood. So the men were fooled because they asked the woman to shoot the mystery man in the head, because that was how the man always ended people's lives. To check even, certain members of their organization disguised as him and appeared in front of his associates or family members."

The who family knew that Shuu was the 'mystery man' as soon as they heard the words black knit cap, but remained silent to see where this was going. If it was just a theory with no evidence then it was just a waste of time. "Oh," Mary continued, "Sounds like your 'mystery man' is quite the person."

"Yes, but he is not the one who came up with the plan. No, that can be proven with his final words. 'Who would have thought it would come to this?' and the woman's response of, 'I know. I'm surprised as well.' At first, this seems like someone lamenting on his bad luck, but if you add in a few missing pieces the meaning changes drastically." Amuro paused, then continued, "Who besides him, would have thought it would come to this. Then he really becomes rather easy to find. All you need to do is find anyone who mysteriously appeared around the boy."

"Yes," Subaru continued for him, "People like Amuro for example. People like both of you. And," he stopped and pulled down his turtleneck to show the voice changer. Taking off his glasses, he then ripped the mask off the show the person known as Okiya Subaru switch to Akai Shuichi. Switching the voice changer off he coughed and continued in a different face and voice, "People like me."

""Shuu-nii!"" Masumi and Haneda Meijin cried, with Mary's eyes widening as she gasped in shock and covered her mouth. Masumi jumped over the coffee table and squeezed her arm around Akai's neck laughing and crying all at once. "Is it really you? Not someone else like on the bell tree express, Shuu-nii?"

"Of course Masumi." He said as he wrapped his arms around his sister and held on to her, then looked up at his other family members. Haneda Meijin was crying and stood shocked in disbelief, while Mary kept switching between shocked and suspicious by the second.

"Wait," She said, "You still haven't answered some of my questions." She made eye contact and tried to keep a calm mask on even seeing her supposedly dead son in front of her. She pointed to Amuro, "First who are you?"

He gave a smirk and answered, "Furuya Rei, member of Japan's secret police at your service. I am a current double agent in the organization, so I was also disguised as Akai for a while under their orders."

"Uh-but," Mary stuttered, still feeling like this was all a wonderful dream she was going to wake up from soon. She looked into the eyes of the man who claimed to be her son with her daughter wrapped around him in a full hug and said, "And then, who was the person in the phrase 'who besides him would have thought it would come to this?"

"Well now," Akai said, "You seem to know him quite well since he is the one who contacted all of you without any help from me."

"You can't mean-" Masumi started.

"Sorry guys, I'm back," came through the house as they heard the door open and close. As soon as he was within sight Mary lept of Akai and started suffocating Conan.

"THANK YOU, GOD THANK YOU SO MUCH! I KNEW YOU WERE AMAZING, THANK YOU FOR SAVING HIM!" She cried, not noticing his attempts to escape and get some air.

"Masumi, your smothering him," Haneda Meijin said, wiping the recent tears from his eyes.

"Thank you, so much." Masumi whispered in one heartfelt sentence.