Chapter one
A normal day for the MPD in Tokyo. well, as normal as it could be, after all life is not normal for a police officer without the occasional murder case, or a bomber appearing out of nowhere. And for the police in Tokyo, it is not normal if a week passes by without them stumbling upon a little kid in glasses, sniffing around a crime scene. And of course it`s not normal unless someone makes a weird sound that doesn't match any animal sound they've ever heard, and that someone suddenly turns into a very observant detective, and solves the case.
Anyway, the day was a normal day. Shiratori caught a murderer with the help of the small sleuth. The child and his followers, had once again stumbled upon a crime scene while visiting a friend who was apparently absent from school. The victim was the neighbor of said friend, and after further investigation, the victim's fingerprints matched the ones they'd found after a break-in case from 5 years ago.
The old case files stated that the break-in was done by a couple of amateur robbers, trying to rob a small apartment. They thought no one was inside, only to be surprised by the small girl inside the house. the girl was deaf and her parents didn't like her enough to have her outside the house a lot. Thus, the robbers had no idea she even lived there. After the girl saw them, and fearing what she could say to the police after they leave, the couple slit her throat and ended her life.
After they'd found the corpse of the robber, they found evidence in her diary pointing towards her former partner in crime. Apparently, they were having a feud. The woman was suffering from nightmares, and as time went by, she wanted to go to the police and confess. However, her partner didn't like the idea and so he killed her.
Easy as it was, Shiratori found it hard to believe how the young child found out where the culprit had hidden his weapon. After cornering the guy, he had admitted he did kill the deaf girl five years ago. However, since they had no evidence that he killed his partner, he`d insisted that he was angry at her but he never killed her. Only after Conan showed Shiratori where he could have hidden the weapon, did the guy finally admit his crimes. The guy`d slit his partner`s throat using a measuring tape. He pulled the thing around her throat then pressed the edges as far as he could. After he made sure his partner was dead, he cleaned the blood and actually placed the murder weapon in his partner`s drawer. After all, the police normally checks everything others have but not the victims`.
And so after apprehending the culprit, Shiratori drove the children to Agasa's house, since they apparently lied to their parents again and said they will spend the night there. Shiratori found himself wondering if the kids' parents never question them about where they really go. Especially, since in more than one occasion, the kids got involved in dangerous situations and had to come to the station. If so, then their parents must know they get involved with the police once in a while, if not all the time. He found himself wondering if their parents were really oblivious enough to not know, or if the kids were that good in lying, a trait he wouldn't want them to have, after all they are good kids. Then again their parents might know, but since the kids were even called a couple of times to get prizes and stuff, they might actually be proud of them, or they might not understand the amount of danger the kids usually put themselves into.
Feeling a headache on its way, Shiratori decided to ignore the issue and focused on the amount of paperwork he had to deal with once he reaches the station, and the fact that he for once had a night shift that he hated so much. Though he might not like to admit it, but he loves the idea of sleeping on his comfortable bed at night, not the back breaking chairs in the station.
Finally arriving at the station, he cautiously entered and looked around monitoring the very few detectives remaining inside the room, most of them were actually doing paperwork for the cases they`d worked on, while others were snoring on their desks. He recognized the ones snoring as the people who were stuck on the night shift with him. Ignoring the too calm atmosphere and the lack of enthusiasm that is usually the trade mark of night shifts, he cleared his throat, grabbed his mobile and went to a corner dialing Kobayashi Sumiko`s number for the first time that day, hoping and wishing she wasn`t asleep.
"Moshi Moshi" He heard her voice and sighed in relief, now he can actually spend some quality time and his night might not be as boring as he thought it would be.
"Kobayashi-sensei, how are you today?" He asked.
"Shiratori-keibu, I am fine. How was your day?" She asked.
Realizing she wanted to know what type of cases he had today, Shiratori started recounting the events of his day carefully omitting anything he thought was too cruel for her ears, and only telling her what he thought was good for her to hear.
Of course, after telling her about the involvement of her little students, he could hear her clearly excited voice, as she started stating how proud she is of them, and how she thinks they are really intelligent for their age.
Hearing the proud tone in her voice Shiratori couldn`t help the smile that crept onto his face. She quietly asked him to explain the case in details and he started explaining as much as he could. By the end of the call, Shiratori noticed it was already too late, and decided it was better if he stops speaking. As he was sure his girlfriend will never admit to him that she is tired, and he knew she has work in the morning.
"Shiratori-keibu..." He heard her say in the middle of their usual goodbye routine.
"hai, kobayashi-sensei ..."He heard her cough, and found himself easily imagining her red face. He wondered what she`s so nervous about.
"Tomorrow, " she started "you won`t need a boxed lunch, right?" She asked.
" yeah," He answered, not exactly sure where this was going.
"Then,..."She paused again and swallowed hard trying to gather her courage.
"Do you mind if I pass by the station in the morning, to give you breakfast," she asked " I doubt u will have the energy to prepare anything after spending the hole night working."
Ignoring the urge to tell her he usually had a cook preparing his meals as he was sure she knew, Shiratori easily picked up on the fact that she wanted to see him, he also knew that he missed her too. Thanks to their jobs, both of them have been extremely busy recently, and they were only able to meet when she gave him his lunch box, and so when she suggested breakfast he was happy since that means he will see her first thing in the morning.
"I will be really happy, if you do." He finally said.
"I will prepare breakfast and pass by before work then." Satisfied Shiratori couldn`t help the grin he knew was spreading on his face, and so after saying goodbye, he quickly went back to his paperwork, looking forward to his small meeting with his girlfriend in the morning.
Half way through the night, there was a call to the station, The woman on the other side of the phone was crying and Shiratori could only understand a couple of words from her. Thus, he tried to calm her down a bit before asking her what was really wrong.
"Ma`am, you need to calm down so I could help you." He said, Hearing a sniff on the other side but no more crying he went on with his questions.
"Can I ask what is wrong?" He asked.
"I saw my neighbor just now," she sniffed again trying to control her tears " From the window ... He was hitting his child a lot... He had a Baseball bat." a Baseball bat... That`s not something you hit anyone with, let alone a child.
Quickly understanding the situation, Shiratori asked the woman for the address and quickly called some names to accompany him to the scene.
Once in front of the house, He rang the bell and got answered by nothing.
"Nishina-san, this is the police. Open the door." Again no answer.
Shiratori decided to enter the house, even though he has no evidence anything happened inside, he had a bad feeling about the whole thing, and so he followed his instinct and motioned for his two partners to move towards the door.
Pushing the door open with their leg, the first thing the officers noticed was the amount of destruction inside the house. The hole house looked as though a typhoon passed by it, furniture broken and bits and pieces of glass everywhere. Moving along the halls and up to the bedrooms Shiratori heard a gasp from one of his partners, quickening his pace to where his partner was, in front of the last bedroom, he looked inside the room and couldn`t help a gasp himself.
There inside the room was a woman and a child, both covered in blood. Shiratori quickly stepped inside the room and moved to check the pulse of both of them. he felt his heart ache when he couldn`t find pulse from the little child. However, the woman had a pulse, a weak one, but she was alive. Quickly ordering his friends to call an ambulance, he looked over at her injuries and checked if it was possible to move her. Deciding it better if she is not moved, he stood inside the room examining everything in the room, waiting till the ambulance arrived.
Once the ambulance had taken the woman. He closed off the room, as it was now a crime scene and waited patiently for the forensics to arrive and check the scene.
Halfway through the investigation the neighbor who called actually stopped by demanding she speaks to the inspector.
The woman was in her mid twentieth, Black hair, Brown eyes. Although she seemed shocked once she knew the child was dead, she seemed ready to answer all the questions they had.
"So, you are saying you saw the husband hitting his wife and child through your window on the 2nd floor?" Shiratori asked
"yeah, I knew the guy usually gets angry easily, I saw him shouting at her a couple of times but today was the first time I see him hitting her, and his child also."
Shiratori had gotten word from the hospital that there were old bruises on the victim's body and the forensics mentioned that the bedroom they found the bodies in was sound proof.
Thus, he concluded that this was not the first time the guy had abused his family, it was just lucky that he forgot to close the curtains this time.
After further investigation, the officer and his colleagues had found enough evidence that the husband had been mentally unstable since a while and his wife was helping him at first, till he started getting violent at her.
The victim's diary had information about the husband suffering from depression, and going to a psychiatrist for help. After calling his psychiatrist, Shiratori knew the husband had more issues than just depression, he was angry and stressed. He felt the world was hating him, and he held grudges against a lot of people, even his wife whom he said was very friendly to men around her. The doctor mentioned that the last time he`d seen his patient, he seemed really unstable, and he cursed his wife and his child in front of him. he said he didn`t want to let the guy go , but he seemed calmer after their session and actually apologized for his behavior.
Shiratori thanked the doctor and quickly issued an order, that the guy must be arrested, hoping the guy was not unstable enough to attack people in random.
Two hours later the officers guarding the house came to Shiratori carrying a guy who is apparently the culprit. The guy seemed shaken as he spoke to Shiratori. He was shaking and his words were unstable. Shiratori didn`t need to question him. the guy started shouting at him once he got asked about his wife. His eyes wild and accusing, the guy tried to attack the young detective only to get tackled to the ground and handcuffed.
"Nishina-san, you are under arrest for attempt murder and murder" said Shiratori, telling the guy his rights even though it was obvious the guy was not in the right mind to understand whatever he was saying.
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Author Note: Shiratori is not exactly a character fully developed in the Manga, writing about him is actually really enjoyable. I hope the chapter was good as a beginning and I wanted to clarify that this story will focus on the MPD police mainly Shiratori and Kobayashi, though it won`t exactly be mushy romance, also there will be a bit of RanxShin and TakagixSato.