Note:
The poem I used in this fanfiction is created by Mrs. Creeves and I won't take any credits for the poem.
Chapter four: Sherry Empanadas
Shiho woke up from the piercing sunlight and nature's melody – a calming sensation kissed the young girl's skin as she swiftly walked to the kitchen for coffee.
She flipped through the newspaper looking for interesting news and enjoyed her coffee in peace and quiet. Today should be the last day of the antidote effect so she should not leave the house before she is shrunken again.
The strawberry haired teen let out a deep sigh as she cleaned her dirty coffee cup and thought of what happened with the two older males yesterday with red tint on her cheeks. She was 100% convinced that they were just teasing her on a whole new level – they were just experienced adult males having fun with a young girl.
She knew that she didn't have bad look or taste in fashion but she still couldn't understand why the two local hot males would interact with her that way.
When she broke away from the thought – she notice a message from Amuro Tooru that read, 'we should lock the door next time. (ŐωŐ人).'
Shiho stared at the message for a few seconds and send him a message that said, 'in your dreams, pervert.'
Shinichi opened the front door and went inside the house and saw the young teen at the kitchen counter with a blush adorned on her face – she was looking at what appeared to be a message on her phone.
"What are you looking at Haibara?" he spoke and sat beside her at the counter. When she didn't respond to his question he looked at the screen and saw a message from Amuro Tooru, 'my heart and soul belong to you, my baby girl…'
The shrunken detective hissed at the teen and took her phone away then replied to the older male on the phone with a picture of him nuzzled against her, 'just leave her alone, old man.'
"Where were your usual sarcastic remarks? Did you lose your edge or something?" he mumbled and looked at the teen that was still stunned because for the first time in her life – someone confessed to her.
Shinichi shook her several times before she would revert to a normal state of mind. Seeing her like that pissed him off – especially when he already warned Tooru to back off yesterday.
"Haibara… We are partners, right?" he whispered.
Surprised at his question – Shiho turned herself to face the shrunken detective with a smirk, "Of course. Didn't you say that yourself, stupid detective."
They intensely stared at each other before the small detective parted his lips and blurted out, "I will risk everything… If it's for you."
Shiho's eyes widened by his sudden comment but somehow she managed to misinterpret what he just said.
"You better be, Kudo-kun." She giggled at the baffled shrunken teen that was struck with a lightning of realization – she thought it was a statement as a partnership instead of a heartfelt love confession.
"For a young genius biochemist – you're pretty stupid." He heavily sighed in disappointment and walked to the sofa and turned on Professor's enormous TV.
The strawberry blonde stood up and threw a pillow at the unsuspecting shrunken teen, "I don't want to hear that from you, Kudo Shinichi-kun."
"Well, I'm going to take a shower. Be right back." Shiho said and left the shrunken teen on the sofa alone with his thoughts.
Flashback: Last night.
"Could it be that you're jealous?" Tooru asked the younger detective who was giving him all sorts of angry looks.
"So what if I am? She is my partner. I can't have you steal her away from me." Shinichi hissed at the giggling older male on the bed.
Tooru had a hunch that Shiho was having a small crush on the shrunken detective but he didn't expect that Shinichi also felt the same. His chest suddenly felt like he just swallowed a thousand needles and breathed in hell's boiling hot atmosphere.
"To be honest with you – I also prefer if you don't interfere." The dark skinned detective said with a hint of irritation in his tone and took all his belongings before leaving the shrunken detective alone.
Shinichi looked at his feet and felt uneasy with one person on his mind as he walked home, 'Shiho…'
Present at Professor's living room.
Twenty minutes had passed since the strawberry blonde teen went to shower – he was so deep in his thought that he forgot the time. How could he not be? He thought his relationship with her was purely partnership but it all changed when two big obstacles appeared out of nowhere.
"Shiho…" he whispered.
"What?" Shiho sneered at the shrunken detective making him jolt in shock – she smirked at his funny reaction and ruffled his hair.
"D-Don't scare me like that!" he yelled and shuffled through the TV channels for something interesting. Suddenly a commercial of a onetime show at the Tropical Land: Magic Show with Mystery Kaito.
"Why don't we go watch the show?" Shinichi spoke.
"Yeah, let's invite the kids with us." Shiho smiled and sat down beside the shrunken teen with her phone so she could ask the kids' parents for permission.
"No… I mean…" Shinichi spoke and brought the attention of the strawberry blonde. She sighed and took a sip of the newly brewed coffee she brought with her.
"Then what do you mean?" she muttered.
"I mean… J-Just two of us." The shrunken teen said with a tint of red on his cheeks. Shiho leaned close to him and placed her forehead against his. Lost for words Shinichi could only blush like a tomato as his heart throbbed like crazy.
"Do you have fever or something? You're saying weird stuff out of nowhere." She paused and stepped away from the shrunken teen then tossed him a pack of medicines.
"Take it before it gets worse. We'll meet in front of tropical land at 8 PM." She smiled at the shrunken detective who was still blushing and went to her lab to prepare the new mixture of antidote.
After her figure had disappeared from Shinichi's line of sight – he opened the pack of medicine and found the old antidote pill that would only last for 8 hours. Shinichi hid the pill in his pocket and closed the medicine pack.
Tropical Land 8 PM.
Shinichi took the antidote and reverted to his former self – he was looking forward to the date all day.
"Finally some time with her all alone," he giggled happily.
He already told her that he was going to take the antidote even if she was against the idea. She gave him an hour-long lecture about the use of antidote – his ears are numb from her constant nagging.
Obviously he couldn't just wander around without a disguise – he is someone that the organisation had marked as dead. If they find out that he is alive everyone and him is going to be killed.
He had a black cap, his 'Conan' glasses and navy blue wig that he had styled to look like usual hairstyle – having an actress mom with high level of disguise was a plus.
Shinichi looked at his tranquilizer watch and wondered if Shiho would be there soon. He was getting really anxious.
"Sorry, did you wait long?" a voice spoke. The young detective turned around and saw Shiho with long waist length blonde wig, black choker, skin-tight bright yellow long arm crop top, high waist jeans shorts, and black platform leather shoes. And to top it off she was wearing natural look make up – pink plump lips, black mascara and light orange blush.
She was beyond stunning – out of this world beautiful in his eyes. He gulped down his saliva and reach out to take her hand however instead of her hand – he grabbed something small.
It was Ayumi's head – she was standing beside Shiho with Genta, Mitsuhiko and Subaru.
"I thought it was supposed to be just us." Shinichi hissed at the young biochemist and looked at the kids and Subaru.
"I met them on the way out of Professor's house. So we asked Subaru-san to join us and drive us here." She smiled and petted Ayumi.
"I never thought Ai-chan has a big sister! You two look a lot like each other… Will you be Ayumi's big sister too?" Ayumi giggled and took Shiho's left hand. The strawberry blonde looked pleased and beamed with happiness.
"I feel more like your mother more than a sister though, Ayumi-chan." Shiho said softly.
"Then I wouldn't mind being the father." Subaru blurted out and took her right hand then gave her a kiss on her forehead. The biochemist blushed like a strawberry and pushed the older male away from her.
"Stop flirting. This isn't afternoon soap-opera." Shinichi angrily commented on Subaru's action and stepped in between the two.
"Who are you? You look awfully lot like Conan-kun." Mitsuhiko spoke and made the high school detective panicked then he began to look around for names. Shinichi then laid eyes on a floating dragon balloon.
"J-Just call me Ryuu-niichan. I'm Conan's cousin." He nervously giggled.
"Enough about that! Let's go watch Mystery Kaito! We will miss it!" Genta yelled and started running towards the show hall.
Ayumi and Mitsuhiko took Shiho's hands and ran after Genta full of excitement – leaving Shinichi and Subaru behind.
"Akai-san. I know you look after her and all but… You don't have to pull that kind of stunt." Young detective whispered and gave the older male a glare. Subaru adjusted his glasses and gave Shinichi a playful smirk.
Tropical Land Show Hall.
Shiho and the kids had bought a lot of snacks for the show and were on their way to their seats when she saw Shinichi and Subaru angrily staring at each other at the entrance of the hall.
The kids ran to seats with Shiho not far behind but before she could sit beside Ayumi – Shinichi took the seat so she had to sit between him and Subaru.
'Wait a minute. Didn't this happened before?' she thought.
The young biochemist poked Shinichi with her index finger and leaned closer to his ear and whisper, "Can you switch seats with me?"
However she was interrupted by the sudden smoke bomb on the stage.
"Ladies and Gentlemen! I'm your host, Mystery Kaito! Welcome to my magic show!" A male sprung out of the smoke – he looked like he was in a high school age like Shinichi.
He was wearing a white mask that covered the right side of his face, a black top hat and black tuxedo and for some reason he looked a lot like Kudo Shinichi.
"It seems like we found your doppelganger, Kudo-kun." Shiho sarcastically smirked and earned a small annoyed exhale from the detective.
After 19 minutes of what seemed to be miraculous magic tricks the end of the show had come.
"To end tonight's show – I would like to invite a lady on stage to participate with my last magic spell!" the host spoke and the females watchers screamed for attention – hoping to be the one lady to come up to the handsome host.
The young magician darted through the crowd and laid his eyes on Shiho who was sitting uncomfortably between two males. It looked like both males are fighting internal wars to get the girl.
He pointed at Shiho and three spotlights immediately focused on her.
"You will be the lucky lady tonight!" the host spoke and watched her slowly walked to the stage where he had prepared a chair. Shiho quietly sat down and watch him talked to the audience in trance – she was captured by his charming aura.
He turned around and took her hand – quickly gave her hand a kiss and secretly gave her a card with a smile.
"I hope to see you around, my lady." He hummed and white dopes started flying out of his tuxedo then he disappeared with the birds like thin air.
Shiho looked at the card and saw a poem:
"A million stars up in the sky.
One shines brighter – I can't deny.
A love so precious, a love so true,
a love that comes from me to you."
When she flips the card she was surprised – the back of the card had the infamous Kaito Kid's sign.
Tropical Land dining area.
"EHHH! That super cool magician was Kaito Kid!?" the kids screamed in unison when Shiho showed them the card she had gotten from the host.
"It could be a prank he pulled. No need to be so surprised." She softly smiled and petted Ayumi.
Shinichi now more irritated than ever took the card from Ayumi's hand and carefully looked at the card. It looked pretty real to him.
"It seems like we have another rival… A hard one to catch too." Subaru smiled as he took a sip of hot black coffee with his eyes fixed on the card.
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