Undeniably Unbelievable

by Kiamii

Chapter Two "Living a Lie"

"What!?!?" Inspector Megure Juzo exclaimed as he heard what could have been the most unbelievable sentence of all time. Satou getting drugged and being violated before having a kid and giving the boy up to her friends for a few years... That did NOT sound like the Satou Miwako he had come to know. Megure eyed her with disbelief. Miwako shrugged at him, slightly unsure if he really accepted her excuse. In the end he sighed and looked at her again.

"So you had a little boy and you never saw fit to tell anyone?" Inspector Megure asked skeptically.

"Well," She laughed (nervously), "I didn't want anyone to know what happened and then Conan told his guardians he wanted to see me." She explained. Conan took that as his cue and clung to her waist from his seat next to her.

"I love my mom!" Conan chirped, vaguely wondering what his birth mother was up to. Inspector Megure looked at her with wonder before sighing and shaking his head. He looked at the little boy with a puzzled manner upon his face. Conan looked back at him and Megure Juzo hesitated before weakly smiling at the 6-year-old. Conan looked at him almost shyly as Miwako watched this exchange. A loud shout of childish yells came from around and Conan's head turned to find three elementary students running into the restaurant with excitement. One boy was a rather large one versus the skinny boy and very small girl about Conan's size. Conan watched them with a strange expression upon his face.

"Genta-kun! You're always hungry," the other boy droned out. The larger boy grinned at him and patted his stomach in response while the girl giggled before noticing Conan's staring. She looked at him curiously and waved. Conan blushed and waved back slightly. The two adults watched this in amusement.

"Hey Hey Mitsuhiko-kun, did you see the police cars outside?" Genta said happily as he received his plate and ate at a table next to Conan's. Megure began to ask Miwako something and the two talked while Conan continued to study the three children who were now his physical age. He had seen them before... At the amusement park case yesterday. Had it really only been yesterday?

"Yeah, but I think they're not for a crime. The lights were off." Mitsuhiko said with an arched eyebrow. Conan turned back to hear Inspector and his new mother discussing a case all of a sudden.

"Well," Inspector began, "I have to leave early. Sorry about this Satou."

"No problem Inspector Megure," She laughed as she stood up as well, "I have to go enroll Conan in Teitan Elementary School anyways."

"Why don't you take the day off to do all this so he can be at school tomorrow?" Inspector suggested and Miwako reluctantly agreed. She said her goodbye to her superior and picked up Conan and swung him on her hip easily, to his embarassment.

"Relax Conan-kun," She laughed as she adjusted him on her hip. Conan grabbed a fistful of her shirt with his hand to steady himself. Her arms stayed around him.

"It's embarrassing," Conan argued with a frown upon his small childish face. Miwako smiled at him and simply slipped him into the passenger's seat before going around and sitting in the driver's seat. Conan looked out the window to see the three kids staring at Conan with wondrous eyes. Conan laughed nervously a little and turned back to Miwako as she started the engine and drove them to the mall to buy clothes and other necessities. Conan felt his head spin during the next two and a half hours as he tried on clothes for her. He left the clothing store with jeans, shirts, hoodies, and converse as well as sport shoes. She had also bought him shorts and swim trunks to his embarrassment. Most of his old clothes looked somewhat nerdy, so she was the one switching up his fashion. Miwako had him change in the changing room into a pair of jeans with a brown shirt that had a soccer ball on it before she left with him to buy toiletries, school items, and a few toys. Conan ended up begging her for a soccer ball and she agreed. Conan considered buying glasses to hide his identity, but Miwako strongly told him that someone would catch onto the fact that he could see without them eventually. Conan sighed as he sat in the passenger's seat as she drove him to the elementary school to register him.

"Good afternoon. How may I help you?" The lady at the front asked as she smiled at Conan.

"I'm here to register my son." Miwako said with a small smile upon her lips. The woman nodded and began to ask her for certain papers which she handed over. After this she told Miwako to simply bring Conan back tomorrow morning to start classes and Miwako bid her goodbye before Conan followed her back to the car. As they drove back to the house, Conan thought about Ran and what she must be thinking. He suddenly had an idea and looked nervously at Miwako who noticed.

"Are you alright?" She asked him in concern as she stopped at a red light. Conan nodded slightly before thinking he should suggest his idea to her. Maybe she'd allow him to.

"Can we stop at someone's house real quick?" Conan asked and she thought about it and nodded. As she drove him to the house, she thought how lonely Conan must feel being in the body of a child and having his friends think him missing. She vowed silenty to make sure Conan made friends and to be a good mother for him considering he was in the body of a seven-year-old now. They arrived in front of the house and Miwako got out with Conan. As she rang the doorbell, she looked at the bizzarre house until she heard an explosion.

"W-What!?" She exclaimed and watched as Conan followed the noise. Going after him, she stopped as she spotted an old man in white coughing.

"Professor Agasa!" Conan called out and the man stood up and looked at Conan with a confused expression, "It's me! Shinichi!"

"Shinichi? Oh! Are you looking for Shinichi?" The man asked dumbly. Conan groaned and shook his head and what followed was Miwako witnessing a vey impressive deduction of Professor Agasa. The man blinked and finally accepted the truth with wonder before ushering the two into his house... or was it a lab? Miwako looked around the room with a stunned expression.

"Now, who is this?" Professor Agasa asked.

"Conan-kun's mother." Miwako easily said with a straight face, making the old man choke. She walked over to a shelf of old inventions and studied the weird looking bird contraption warily. Was he an inventor?

"She is my guardian as Conan." Conan said after more persuasion from the professor. Hearing her name, Miwako boldly went over to him and stuck her hand out.

"Satou Miwako. Please to meet you," she said and he took her hand before warming up to her. She smiled pleasantly pleased and he returned the smile before sitting on the couch opposite Conan who was idly watching the exchange.

"Pleasure as well." He replied before turning to Shinichi, "Ran-san stopped by this morning and was really worried about you. I told her I hadn't seen you." Conan looked a little depressed at hearing this and Miwako figure that this Ran person was very close to him. She sat down next to him on the sofa and put her hand on his shoulder. Conan looked up at her and smiled a little back. Professor Agasa watched this in interest.

"So Satou-kun, what do you do for a job?" Agasa asked casually as he brought out drinks. Juice for Conan and a bit of a stronger drink for the two of them.

"Please, call me Miwako-san. I'm a police officer and I thought I could help Shinichi more with my job considering those men in black are still on the loose," She said with a tight-lipped look. Conan sipped his juice quietly, in thought, and absent-mindedly leaned against Miwako tiredly. He didn't sleep all that well last night and now he was paying the price for it. Miwako looked at Conan before seeing Agasa's sad smile as Conan drifted off to sleep.

"What can you tell me about Conan's real parents?" Miwako questioned as she put an arm around the sleeping boy to steady him.

"His mother is an actress and his father is a famous novelist. He wrote the Baron series. They're in America for awhile." He replied.

"They left their 17-year-old son here by himself?" She asked after recalling how old Shinichi was and not Conan. She absently placed a hand on Conan's face, thumbing his cheek softly. She did not notice Agasa's smile at her motherly antic. Conan looked so different asleep. He looked more ignorant and innocent... She wished she could see that look on him more often now that she had seen it.

"Originally he was about 14 I believe when they first left." He answered. Miwako shook her head in disbelief. She sighed and gathered Conan into her arms. She bid Agasa a goodbye (who promised to tell his parents for her and she gave him the address of her house) and settled Conan in the car. Buckling his seat belt, she slid in the driver's seat and drove for the house. The ride was quiet and she parked at her home. She first unloaded the car before picking up Conan and bringing him up to his new room. She struggled a bit but managed to dress Conan in his pajamas before tucking him into bed. Conan shuffled a little under the covers and rolled to a side facing Miwako. She looked at him for a moment, kneeling beside his bed and running a hand gently through his hair. Conan leaned into the touch, a small smile upon his childish face. Miwako wondered about him. He was a mystery for sure and just a little boy right now. Of course he had been a teenage detective, but now he was small again and defenseless. Miwako never in her life dreamed she'd be taking care of a kid, especially a shrunken high-school detective. Miwako idly mused what she'd do if a case came up. She'd probably have to call someone up to either pick him up from school if she couldn't at that time. She looked at the nightstand to make sure Conan's new phone was there and peaking in the drawer she saw Shinichi's phone. The whole two different mindsets in one body was a bit confusing. Miwako shook her head and kissed Conan's forehead before leaving the room. As she was turning off the lights, she heard a faint muffled sentence from the boy and this brought a smile to her face as she got ready for bed herself.

Tomorrow would bring a whole new set of emotional events, that she was sure of.

Author's Note: Changes were made to Chapter One about the whole Miwako and Satou deal. Sorry about that! Considering Japanese first and last names confused me horribly, forgive me when I mix them up. I'm going to keep trying to keep it peaced together though. Anyways I hope you liked this chapter! I'm having fun with it and hope it's to your if its short, I wanted to update today.