This story takes place in one of those AU's where something different occurs in each AU than in the original story. I could do a different AU every so often, so it doesn't get boring😂. This one is where Shinichi and Kaito meet due to Kaito getting shrunk on just trying to get Aoko's groceries.
Story 2: Luck Abandonment
"Geez, I can't believe she made me come all the way to Beika..."
A teen groaned in annoyance as he looked down at a piece of paper in his hand. His sapphire blue eyes frowning at the piece of parchment as he tsked. His bird-nest of a mess brown hair blew in the wind, making it seem more unkempt.
He shoved the paper back into his white shorts pockets and looked around the street he was currently on. "How am I supposed to buy this stuff and get it back before she freaks out at me?" He ran a hand through his hair and groaned. "I don't even know where to start looking."
He let out a short sigh, deciding to head down a side street; keeping an eye on the people around him. He wasn't a detective yet he always felt like he had to watch his back, especially when a certain British detective always stalked him home.
How could he not be paranoid?
Then there were the witch's warnings he got in class...
Talk about foreboding and cryptic...
Last week she had said, "Lady Luck will abandon the white knight on a day there is no moon."
The thing the teenager could make out of it was that she was talking about a new moon, but what did that have to do with his luck?
The teen was pulled out of his thoughts when he heard a gunshot sound, freezing, just as he had been about to round the corner onto the back parts of the streets ... he'd come across a murder.
Why?
He never came across a murder.
He didn't have that type of luck!
His eyes were wide, glued to the seen before him as the man with long silver hair looked to the boy with cold piercing eyes. "It looks like I have a witness to my failed transaction." He lifted the gun to point at the teen; who stiffened. "Huh. I thought you were dead."
'What? Dead?' The teen blinked his shock away, trying to keep up the poker face his Dad had taught him. 'What the hell am I doing? I should pull out my card gun, shoot and run!' Kaito shut his eyes closed and took a breath, putting a hand in his jacket pocket for his gun. 'But ... I'm a witness to a murder, so running is a bad thing.'
Kaito was about to take his weapon out when a bullet rammed into his body; made contact with his right shoulder blade, causing him to cringe and grab it. The man approached the teen; who had now dropped to his knees.
Cold eyes glaring into his determined blue ones as the man picked up a nearby pipe and brought it down onto Kaito's head; causing the teen's eyes to widen. He fell over as soon as the pipe made contact with his skull, his mind going blank.
ACM
Two hours later and Kaito woke up, lifting his head up and clutching it in pain as a migraine came on. The pipe had obviously done more damage than good. He looked at his surroundings, realising that he was still in the back alley; his eyes went to what lay near him and fell back in shock ... it was the dead body.
How had no one found them yet from the gunshots?
The teen stood to his feet; shaking his head.
He couldn't deal with this.
He couldn't look at the body.
He needed to get home and rest.
A nice glass of chocolate milk would calm him down along with ice-cream.
As he tried to walk he tripped over his pants and fell flat on his face with a grunt. He pulled himself back up with a groan and looked at his clothes in confusion.
'Why are my clothes so big on me?'
"Hey, is anyone down there!" A shout from down the alley caught Kaito's attention, causing him to jump to his feet in an instant.
'Shit! I gotta get out of here!'
He heard the footsteps of the curious person and quickly as he could in an oversized shirt, shorts and sneakers made his way out of the alley and onto the Main Street. He scratched his head in confusion, looking down at his oversized clothes. He looked at the area he had ran to which seemed to be a street of sorts.
"Okay, now I'm lost..." He grumbled to himself, even more annoyed.
"You sure about that?" A deep voice questioned him that sounded neither childish nor like it belonged to an adult.
Kaito looked over in the direction of the voice to see a boy around six or seven with combed brown hair with a cow's lick. His large black glasses framing his face and ocean blue eyes narrowed at the other in concern yet also suspicion.
A hint of recognition crossed Kaito's eyes before it disappeared. 'T...Tantei-kun...'
"Well?"
"What do you mean?" Kaito questioned him, sounding confused and irritated. He just saw a murder. Some guy tried to kill him and now he was lost in oversized clothes. He just wanted to go home and sleep this terrible night off.
At least he hadn't come across any fish...
The boy seemed to sigh to himself; pinching the bridge of his nose. "Do you notice a height difference right now?"
Kaito finally realised what his favourite critic said. He was eye level with the other boy. Eye-level. He was eye-level with a grade-schooler! Did he get shorter! Did he shrink?! What had that guy with the cold gaze done to him?!
"I'll explain it to you. Come inside," the boy pointed towards the large, round white house he stood in front of. He followed the other boy inside the house and into the large lounge area; sitting down on the couch as the other boy sat down on the one across from him.
Kaito could feel the atmosphere turning and didn't like it at all.
The boy had a stern gaze aimed at him that he'd seen too often on the young boy. 'This kid needs to loosen up...'
"Now, you may know me as Edogawa Conan from the media..." The boy explained to Kaito which in turn made him nod. "...but in fact I'm just like you, except I've been like this for over more than four months now."
"What exactly ... is this?" Kaito asked, pointing at himself in the process.
Conan waved his hand as if he didn't really care about it much, annoying Kaito further. "I'll get to that later. How about we start with introductions. We're in the same situation, so we have to trust each other..." The boy narrowed his eyes at the other recently shrunk one. "...right?"
Kaito was taken aback by the question and blinked. He swallowed before nodding his head at the detective before him.
Conan gave a ghost of a smile. "Good. My real identity is Kudou Shinichi."
This reveal caused Kaito's eyes to widen. 'If he's really Kudou then ... that guy ... no way...'
"Shit." Kaito looked up, noticing that the other boy had finally noticed his injury. His oversized shirt was soaked through with blood, causing it to cling to him. "You didn't say you'd been hurt."
"I've been shot at before..." Kaito shrugged his shoulder, wincing at his injury.
This caused Conan to frown, only slightly before recognition crossed his own face. "You can't be..." Kaito looked at him with a dumb look. "It makes sense. You look like me." Kaito tried not to flinch at the comment, but somehow he did. "One of Them must've thought you were me; believing that I had escaped death and used the pill again. It's the only conclusion I can come up with as the only one I know that bears such a striking resemblance to me ... is Kaitou KID."
Conan's eyes stayed on Kaito's form before the shrunken teen gave in; putting his hands up in defence. "Stop giving me that look. I already have one annoying detective hounding me in my civilian life. I don't need another."
This caused a smirk to cross Conan's as he pointed at the bloodied shirt, "So, are we going to get that looked at, KID-san?"
Kaito huffed, looking at his shoulder for a moment before finally resting his gaze on Conan. "I guess so. Also when I'm not KID ... my name is Kuroba Kaito."
"A pleasure, Kuroba-kun, though I wonder what it'll be like to live with a shrunken thief, eh?" Conan asked, trying to make a joke out of the situation.
A knowing smirk spread across Kaito's lips as a familiar KID-like grin made its way across his face. "Oh, believe me, Meitantei-san, I can be more trouble than I'm worth."
Yes, in this I did make Kaito not know that Conan was Shinichi and what the drug did to make the meeting a little more dramatic. I'm ALL for the dramatics😋 Anyways, I hope you enjoyed.
