Authors Note: This fan-fiction is a lot different than the other fics I've had on this account. It started from a dream I had, after watching a movie about an unsolved case it really lingered in my heart how things like these go unsolved. But I knew somehow that if the Detectives of DC were to solve all these cases, they would be able to solve them. It's quite sad, and I'm sure Shinichi feels the same when he thinks about all the cases he isn't able to solve, being local or overseas. I put a lot of hard work into this, so I hope my readers enjoy it :)
Disclaimer: I do not own Detective Kaito nor Magic Kaito/Magic Kaito 1412 or anything else originally created by Aoyama Gosho. This is completely noncanon and fanmade.
Akemi Nakashima had put herself in a situation she could not understand. She had carefully thought out everything for justice, she had used up the most of the courage she thought she had.
But she was wrong.
There is no justice.
She never had any courage.
She was only prey.
She clutched her knees, in fear that something would touch her in the dark space she seemed to be in. All she heard was mere silence, and the sounds over water splashing in the distance. She cowered herself into the imaginary focal point she located in her stomach. She was shaking, and she was cold and she felt her lips go numb.
"Gah!"
Akemi's world stopped at that moment, as she tried to assess what she just heard, that echoed for a whille. The sound of a ghost? Or? She shook more as she couldn't figured out what was going on at all!
"Ba-" She heard it again.
"Gaba!"
Is that a baby? She thought.
She felt her years of experience in an orphanage, suddenly come back to her, and she felt her sudden courage push towards the sounds of a poor baby.
She trudged through the cold rancid water, attempting to ignore the uncomfortable feeling of fish and debree grazing her as she crawled towards the light. She finally reached where she saw a tiny hand dangling from the ceiling, and she stood up with the water at her thighs.
That's when she saw him for the first time. The moment that would change her sad pitiful life that intended towards a poor ending.
And the determination in the eyes of a small hero.
A while earlier...
"Conan-kun! Get dressed!"
Ran's shouts echoed throughout the self-pronounce Great Detective Kogoro's office, and through the household, as she vigorously attempted to clean everything top to bottom, and even managing to cook in the process. Shoving the vacuum under Kogoro's feet whom which created a smelly bridge between the couch and the table.
"Honestly!" She pouted as she pinched her father's nose, awakening the hangover Sleeping Kogoro from his drunken hibernation.
He shouts as if he had been attacked by a menacing threat, kicking the bag of recycled beer cans that Ran had just attempted to clean up into the air and recreating the messy home.
"Dad, are you serious!" She shouted, continuing to pick them back up, all in the meanwhile vacuuming with her foot something of a skilled Karate champion. "Conan-kun!"
"HAI, HAI!" Conan shouted annoyed from the bathroom, as he was attempting to brush his teeth peacefully. Even his mother wasn't this annoying, but this kind of beats living alone in that large house anymore.
That's right, he had been Conan Edogawa for this long, very seldom is he referred to as Shinichi Kudo, and even Agasa tries to keep it on the downlow with calling him Shinichi.
Even that Haibara girl had some sense, but she repeatedly makes puns that somehow rhymes with Kudo only to get him riled up. Thank god it was a weekend today. No more Detective Boys, atleast he had to hope they didn't show up to play.
The phone rang, and Conan noticed an exasperated Ran sigh in defeat that she can't do 5 things at a time without spontaneously combusting. "I'll get it!" He scurried quickly to the phone.
"Mouri Detective Agency."
The first four seconds were pure silence but Conan sensed there was someone on the other line.
"Hello?"
After a while he heard a female breathing or a kid? Before the phone mysteriously hung up.
"Who was that?" Ran asked after successfully finishing the first 3 tasks she attempted to combine together.
"Must have been a prank call.." He giggled innocently, and successfully Ran's attention. This had happened the first time this week, in which he heard children in the background. This time with pure silence, it had really struck him as odd. He'll have to ask Agasa if he can get him a location for the phone-line.
"What are you doing?"
Akemi Saitou immediately shoved the cell phone she used to call the Detective Agency in her back pocket. "J-just checking for more t-toys.."
"There are no toys here! This is a tool shed, the kids are forbidden here anyway! Get out before anyone else sees you." The old lady shouted.
The shy Akemi quickly shuffled with her head down out the shed, getting slapped on the shoulder by the old lady in the process.
Akemi quickly walked through the eerie halls as quickly as possible until she finally reached the closest bathroom, and sighing desperately in the nearest stall. She felt the tears roll down her cheeks, before quickly wiping them away, and exiting the bathroom.
"Saitou-san."
Ren the security guard called her as she exited the bathroom. "How are you today?"
"G-good.." She said trying to smile.
"Ah, so soft-spoken you won't get a boyfriend like that!" He said jokingly. "Ah, that's right, you rarely leave the campus?"
"J-just for occasional errands.." She said as she avoided looking him in the eyes.
"Well, you are 16 now! You're old enough to leave campus..be a good girl." He said, awkwardly patting her head in a trusting manner, and then leaving soon after that.
"Akemi-san!"
Akemi jumped at the voice of the head mistress that she feared the most from everyone else on campus. Her name was Koizawa Hiromi. She was the most powerful authority at the orphanage.
"Y-yes, ma'am."
"Head out to buy some comics for my son," She said as she handed the coins straight onto Akemi's palms. "Make it back quick, you know the rules."
"Y-ye-" Akemi bowed way too quickly in response before finishing her response.
She heard one of the teachers follow her, witnessing their encounter. "Why do you so constantly insist on her buying those erotic magazines. Do you know how old she is?"
"I don't know how she gets them for me, but it's either her or my son's reputation." She chuckled.
Akemi clutched the money. There was no way possible she could buy those comics, but she almost shook at the thought of her of not doing what the headmistress told her. There might be a nice man who could buy it for her like those other times. She nodded to herself, yes. Keep her hopes up.
She felt a tiny hand creep on her shoulder.
"D-Daiki!" She said, forming her hands in a form of surprise, and moving them in translation. "You surprised me."
He moved his hands asking if she was okay.
"I-I'm fine.." She moved him to a corner next to the door he came out of. "Tonight is the night." She said as she spoke in sign language simultaneously.
He asked where they are going.
"Be prepared." She said, and hugged him tightly.
"You what?!"
Agasa's experiment exploded to the beat of his surprise, and he desperately tried to clean it up. "They found you?"
Ai Haibara sat on the stool in front of Agasa, seemingly as nonchalant as ever. "They only tracked a delivery with my name to this house. I needed supplies in order to practice for a more definite antidote. I had to use my actual name in order to purchase with my current bank account. Of course, they emptied it out long ago, but I had to put some money in it, and they must have gotten suspicious from there."
"But Ai-chan! It is not like you to be so careless!" Agasa replied. "They contacted you? What did they say?"
"They are asking for all the data I have." Ai replied. "If I don't give it up, they'll most likely come here themselves, and finish me once and for all."
Agasa's face became worried. "What ever happens, Shinichi must not know! We can't risk to fight the Black Organization at our current state, we still haven't fixed Shinichi's state!"
"And without the data, I can't create that antidote." Ai closed her eyes. "I've already managed to recreate the poison, and with that, we were only steps closer to the antidote..."
"Is there anything we can do?" Agasa asked.
Ai hopped off the stool, her tiny body making a small sound. "I'm going to give them what they want."
"But you can't! That's assisting the enemy! If Shinichi finds out!"
"If I find out what?" Conan walked in through the front, catching Agasa mentioning his name.
Ai quickly walked out without mentioning anything.
"What is going on?" Conan asked.
Agasa laughed. "Nothing wrong!"
"Agasa..."Conan gave him a suspicious look.
Ai Haibara casually strolled into the convenience store, seemingly undetected, as she stood next to the magazines.
It was a risky, leave and go situation, and Haibara was ready to take the risk.
She scanned with her eyes for any signs of hooded figures, and continued to pretend she was reading a comic.
"Ah! Akemi-san!"
Ai's eyes desperately turned to the location to which she heard the name, piercing through her ears like a needle.
Sister?!
"How many times have I told you it's illegal for me to sell you these magazines! Have you no shame?! A woman your age.."
Akemi gripped her hands together as she bowed with shame, and shook in fear of having to experience this embarrassment once again. "B-but.."
"Is someone putting you up to this?! Honestly! There's no way I'll sell a high schooler this shmuck! Now scram!"
Akemi dropped to her knees. "Please!"
Ai couldn't believe what she was seeing. It wasn't her sister as her heart had yearned, but someone else. Having heard that name after so long pained her deeply. It's been a long time since her sister had died, months, it hurt her to hear her name, and to not see her alive to respond. Ai reverted her attention immediately, whatever this other person was going through it wasn't her concern.
"Ah!" A man scurried over to her location and grabbed the magazines on the counter. "I was looking for this issue! Lucky!"
"Hah? Are you a twerp as well!" Shouted the shopkeeper.
"I may look young to you, but it's quite rude to judge someone by appearance sir!" He chanted.
"I would like these! Accept my patronage!"
Akemi looked up to see the man who just appeared. She has seen him before! He is a student at her school, though she attends rarely, she would see him often in the halls, and in middle school she saw him prefer a trick or two.
"Such annoyance! Don't let your mother see these mags, kids these days, "He muttered under his breath as he purchased the magazines.
"See ya!" He chanted as he hopped out the store.
Ai waited patiently, if she made the wrong move it would be game over, her legs shook in fear of the thought of crossing paths with these men. Their scent made her quiver, just thinking that she would cross paths with them, made her feel like she woud soon meet her death.
"Well then.." She whispered under her breath. It's better off this way, there's no way she would be able to leave the organization alive. She couldn't involve Shinichi and co any longer, she didn't dream of dragging them down with her.
She took a step, and looked for a good place. She quickly spotted a trashcan, and before it was too late she scurried down the path, as fast as she could only to bump into someone and dropping the case she held, the flasks of her prototype Apotoxin, rolling on the ground.
"Ow.." Akemi coughed, having bumped into a little girl. She quickly realized the contents of her sweater pockets had escaped onto the ground, flasks bumping into one another.
"I- I'm so sorry!" Akemi quickly picked up her two flasks, and rushed out the convenience store.
Ai grabbed her toxins quickly and dumped them into the trash cans in fear that they had already arrived. She quickly scurried away, hooding herself with her sweater as she accompanied a stranger and her child.
Akemi sat down on a bench, having regained her breath after running off. There's no way she could make it back to the Orphanage as usual. She knew she'd be beat for not bringing the magazines, and having all her strength taken away before she can..
A white bird landed onto her lap. She stared at it startled, only to have it fly left of her and landing on the trash can near her.
"H-hungry?"She managed to say, as she followed it to find the magazines that the boy had purchased earlier.
Akemi regained her senses realizing the baby was attempting to plop the pothole open.
"I-it's no use.."Akemi said in a meek voice. "Stand back!"
She picked up a broken pipe, she knew there's no way the pothole could open, but the least she could do!
She began to bang the metal repeatedly, until she was finally able to bend the metal enough for the baby to slip through.
"H-here! Little one!"
He crawled over without hesitation, and climbed through quickly entrusting Akemi to catch his fall.
The child was completely naked..
She quickly hugged it. "You poor thing! It must have been cold!" She quickly wrapped him in her jacket and crouched to assess the situation.
Where did this baby come from? Was it one from the orphanage? There was no way, she would have recognized him. He seemed around 2 years, but still very small, despite that she could tell he had motor skills much older. A normal 2-year-old is distracted easily, and wouldn't have realized she was in here, he also quickly reacted to her plan. She had expected to lull him..
"Gah! Ba ga ou a he a!" She heard him babble as he tried move around in his wrap.
"W-wha.." She tried to lull him. "Are you hungry need to pee?"
"Ga ga!" He slipped his hand, and formed his tiny fingers into a point, pointing to their left.
"Ah, there?" She looked to see a dark path, away from how she got here.
But how did the baby know there was another path?
He started to struggle around in the wrap.
"O-okay!" She said, worried he'd fall into the water.
She stood up on her trembling knees, fearing where she'd go. But she now had another life in her arms. Back in the orphanage, she felt she had the responsibility of all those kids, as she was the oldest of them.
She took a long blink and huge gulp, as she began trudging away.
Before Akemi knew it, they had reach the end of a long pathway, the baby beginning to wiggle each time she took a wrong turn. She heard the sounds of water falling, until she had realized there must be a river connected! She trudged towards it, light coming closer as they reached the end of the pipe, the water reaching her thighs, only to lower, as she reached where the pipe was spilling out to. A river bed.
"Trust me okay!" She quickly closed her eyes, and covered the baby's nose, as she hopping into the river.
The river had reached up to her chest, she quickly lifted the baby above her as she hopped onto the grass of the river bed. Both of them gasping for air as she held him on her chest.
It took her a moment to realize reality, she had made it out of that pothole alive. She had escaped from injustice. She was alive. She came to her senses and quickly uncovered the baby that began to shake with fever. "O-oh no!"
She had found the baby without clothes, and they had both swam in dirty cold water. For a baby, things like this is dangerous for them!
She quickly hugged him tightly in her arms despite that the soaked clothes were cold exposed to the air. She had to think fast. She had nowhere to go, she didn't know who this baby belonged to.
"g-g-g-g-a...!"The baby gasped. "t-t-t-t...t-a!"
She listened carefully. He was trying to tell her something. "m-m-m-m-m-mo..."
Mo?
"o-o..."
O?
"uuuu..."
U?!
"r-r-r-riiii!" He gasped exhausted.
"Mo..?U...Mou..." She whispered. She gasped, "Mouri?!"
The baby nodded feverishly.
The baby had finally said something understandable! Could he really mean Mouri? Mouri? Was it what she really thinks? Mouri..Detective Agency?! No way!
"mou...ri..." It whispered again, more understandable.
"Mouri detective Agency..?!" She spout outloud.
She had secretly attempted to call for a while, she had hoped the great Detective Kogoro would be able to help her somehow...somehow...from that orphanage.
She thought about what would happen next, as she trudged up the hill, hugging the child close to her chest, as she tried to desperately offer him warmth.
End of chapter 1
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