This story is kind of like one of those future AU's where the DCMK cast have gotten older, gotten married and had kids. That type of AU. Basically in this one it's about Shinichi finding out his daughter has a possible crush on a boy at school and so he goes to meet the boy to make sure he's a suitable friend; only to also meet the boy's Father; you can only guess who that is.

I also thought that since quite a few people have given Shinichi and Ran's kid the name 'Conan' (if it were a boy) that I didn't want to continue that. It also felt strange. I could see that after Shinichi gets the antidote that he and Ran wouldn't want to remember that part of their lives and naming their child after that moment would make it worse for them.

Just a heads up. Here's the names of the kids in the story. I went with meanings that more correspond with the parent to make it a little easier to get a name. You can probably tell why.

Kaito & Aoko Kuroba's Children - Tsuki (moon) and Kounna/Koun'na (lucky)

Shinichi & Ran Kudou's Child - Unmei (destiny/fate)

Story 4: Fateful Lucky Moon

"Unmei?" The small girl before the detective turned to face him with a curious look on her face; blue eyes blinking in confusion. "Where'd you get that rose?"

A grin plastered across her face causing the man to frown slightly.

He knew that look.

He remembered it quite fondly as the one his wife would give him when they were kids.

Did his daughter meet someone at school that she liked?

'Oh no, I'm becoming an overprotective parent. I shouldn't have these thoughts until after I've met the boy.'

"Didn't she tell you, Shinichi?" The man turned around to face his wife; who was holding some laundry in her arms. "She said she got it from a boy at school. She said his name was Tsuki Kuroba and that he is an aspiring magician just like his Father."

The woman continued to walk down the hall as the frown stayed plastered on his face. 'Tsuki? That means 'Moon'. Then his last name ... 'Kuroba' also stands for 'Clover'. He's also aspiring to be a magician. I may be reading too much into this, but didn't a certain Phantom Thief that retired a few years ago have a clover on his monocle?'

"You should meet him, Daddy!" Shinichi looked down at his daughter with surprise on his face only to see her smiling up at him. "He tells me that his Dad picks him and his sister up from school every afternoon because he wants to make sure they're both safe. He also said his sister has a condition which is another reason his Dad comes to get them."

Shinichi blinked; staring at his daughter in shock. He didn't think of coming to the school to meet the boy, but if the parent was going to be there too he might as well. He smiled at his daughter, putting a hand on her short, dark auburn hair. "Sure, why not. I might speak with the boy's Father while I'm there too."

A small, "Yay!" was his response as she rushed off to get a glass for her rose.

The detective smiled after his daughter before putting a hand to his chin and letting a frown cross his features once more. 'Going will help me make sure if it's truly him...'

ACM

It was the day after Shinichi had his little talk with his daughter about the boy that gave her the rose and had decided to pick her up from Teitan Elementary to meet both the parent and the boy. He was curious yet also nervous at the same time. He had a theory it was possibly who he always wanted to meet and befriend outside the cape and monocle yet it also scared him that his theory may be wrong.

It was just a theory after all and theories can be wrong.

As Shinichi walked down the halls of the school, searching for his daughter's classroom. He knew she would be in one of the higher grades. She was going to be ten in a month which meant she'd be in grade 3-4.

He just took his first step into the building for the higher grade students when he heard the sounds of an explosion. He turned his body around to face the direction the sound came from; every muscle in his body told him to check it out, but the intelligent part of his brain that grew up with Professor Agasa told him it wasn't serious at all.

However he wondered over to the classroom anyways; hovering by the door, noticing the classroom was 3-A. He took a peek inside and saw a boy trying to hold in his laughter as a man with messy brown hair bowed towards the teacher as if apologizing for the boy. He also noticed his daughter standing off to the side, staring at the boy with quiet laughter.

Shinichi frowned at this. 'Don't tell me she's fallen for a troublemaker?' His attention was then caught by the parent of said boy.

"I'm so sorry about him. It must be a Kuroba male thing to cause mischief!" The man laughed it off as if it were funny however he only received a glare in response from the teacher.

"It must be..." She snarled out, snapping her folder shut and walking of the room; not even noticing Shinichi was there and trudging off down the halls. The action surprised Shinichi. It definitely confirmed his theory of the boy being a troublemaker if the teacher reacted like that even to the parent.

"Daddy!" The voice of his daughter caught Shinichi off guard, causing him to look over to her. She ran over to him and hugged him, tightly around the waist. She let go of him soon after and turned around to face her friend. "See, Tsuki, I told you he'd come!"

The boy scrunched up his nose as if not interested at all in the girl's attitude. His hair was more a reddish-brown that parted in the fringe; nothing like the man standing next to him, but he did have the same bright blue eyes. He scoffed and folded his arms across his chest. "Detectives aren't even cool. It's Magicians who are cool!" He exclaimed, giving her a smirk as if he'd won the argument in that instant.

The girl looked as if she was conflicted with the idea of choosing between both magicians and detectives. "Both are really cool..."

"Don't think too hard on it, Unmei," Shinichi told his daughter; who nodded stiffly.

Shinichi noticed the man lean over and whisper something to his son; causing the boy to frown and glare at him. "Do I have to?" The man gave him a pointed look before the boy groaned, shoving his hands in his pockets. "Fine. Mei, let's go get Kou. Adults gotta talk."

The two walked out of the room; Unmei looked back into the room, unsure as she followed her friend into the hallway and towards the first grader block where the boy's sister would be located.

Shinichi felt his eyebrow twitch when the boy gave his daughter a nickname.

Was this how Kogoro always felt towards him with Ran?

Now he greatly understood how the man felt and pitied him.

He turned his attention back to the man before him; who was leaning against the window and seemed to be looking rather relaxed ... almost as if he wasn't facing a detective, but just another parent. Or it was like he was facing a certain theif again. The mannerisms were different, but from how relaxed the man was around him it was like he had been around him before yet they had never met. His features were also very similar to his own a part from the fact that his hair was messy instead of combed a lighter shade of brown. His face was more angular than his own, truly showing his age yet also his youth.

"So, you wanted to meet Tsuki?" The man raised a brow at Shinichi with a quiet smirk playing at his lips.

"Yes. I wanted to be sure he was a suitable playmate for her," Shinichi replied, noticing the gaze the other was giving him and frowned. "Excuse me, but I never caught your name."

A familiar grin spread across the other's face as he bowed at Shinichi, waving a hand about as if he were about to do a performance. "Kuroba Kaito; part-time magician among others."

This caused Shinichi to lift a brow. "What other things?"

"My wife is the daughter of Nakamori-Keibu, so she forced me join the Police Force since she works there too." Kaito rubbed behind his head as though embarrassed before smirking again. "Though kind of annoying to be bossed around by your wife both at work and at home."

Shinichi snorted at hearing that.

It was almost as though he was hearing a punishment of some kind that was meant for a certain thief and instead of jail time he has to work in the Force instead and use his skills to help. Then he also has to be bossed around by a wife who's the daughter of the Inspector who was on his case.

Yep, not suspicious at all.

"I have a question for you, Kuroba-san." Shinichi said, narrowing his gaze at the man before him; who seemed to be looking innocently at Shinichi with a smile on his face. "Are you ... Kaitou KID?"

Kaito didn't move. Though his expression did change to more like he was reliving a fond memory. It instantly changed to a smug smile that Shinichi was so used to seeing on the thief's face. "He retired, remember?"

Shinichi blinked at hearing this before trying a different approach. "Were you ... Kaitou KID, Kuroba-san?"

Shinichi recognised the expression that crossed Kaito's face instantly; it was guilt and regret. "Yes, I was. However I was only the second KID."

Shinichi thought about asking about that after. He was curious. He wanted to know if the thief he had been chasing had found what he was searching for. He had always stolen for a reason; held the gems up to the moonlight and then with a dissatisfied look he'd give it back. It made him wonder what the thief was really searching for among all the jewels he stole. "Did you find what you were looking for?" A shake of the head was his answer. "Is that why you retired?"

A sigh left Kaito's lips as he leaned against the windows, seeming more tired than relaxed now. "In some ways ... yes, I did. I retired because of the gem I was searching for yet I haven't found it. You got your body back around the same time and took down the Organisation, so I saw no need to continue."

"There's more to it than that."

Kaito looked to the detective and smirked. "There is. Around then was the time I figured I could settle down seeing as you had take down a chunk of the Organisation down." The ex-thief's eyes narrowed, arms folded across his chest as his eyes glared at the floor. "However since I told my wife the truth she'd always get worried about me after a heist, especially after I told her why. When I came home one night ... barely able to stand due to being shot in my leg and another had grazed my stomach. She begged me to stop or else I'll be killed and so ... I retired. I didn't want to put her through that pain. Hell, not even putting my kids through that same pain I went through."

Kaito looked up to Shinichi to see the gears turning in the detective's head before he saw it finally click behind his eyes. "You said you were the second KID. Then the first one was your Father and he was..." Shinichi covered his mouth, shock covering his face at realising the true goal of Kaitou KID.

It wasn't for selfishness or greed.

It wasn't even for revenge.

It was a teenager who wanted to see his Father's murderers brought to justice ... and they were, so what was the point of him dying when he now had a family of his own?

"Yes. I was planning on finding that jewel and destroying it so no one else suffers because of the greed the Organisation was overpowered with, but realising that maybe staying alive for my family is more important than destroying a gem ... I didn't," Kaito explained to the detective with a sombre tone.

"I see," Shinichi said, almost feeling awkward with the sudden change in atmosphere. "So, is your working at the precinct with your wife really a punishment?"

'Is this really my idea of a conversation starter?'

Kaito snorted and smiled, half-heartedly. "Believe me, it is. She knows I was trying to get real bad guys in jail, but also knows I wasn't doing it the right way. So she's trying to get me to."

"So you should."

"Hey..."

Shinichi smiled and shook his head. Oh, how he missed this. Just being able to have idle chat with someone a part from Heiji. It was nice. "I'm a detective and if you work at the Police Station part-time; who knows ... we might run into each other again."

"I'd rather run into you, Meitantei, than that British bastard..." The magician growled out, sounding annoyed.

"You sound like Hattori with the way you talk about Hakuba-kun," Shinichi snickered at the other.

"You didn't go to high school with the annoying bastard..." Kaito grumbled out. His mood suddenly changed back to cheery again. "But he got what he deserved in the end."

Shinichi blinked, letting out a groan and sigh pass through his lips. "I won't even ask with it coming from the former Kaitou KID..."

A small chuckle escaped Kaito's lips at that response.

The sound of footsteps caused the two adults to look to the doorway as the children came back. Tsuki was holding the small hand of a girl slightly shorter than him with brown hair in pig-tails and purplish blue eyes. Unmei followed behind them and looked to Shinichi with a bright smile before looking back to the sibling pair.

Shinichi's eyes had wondered to the two the moment they stepped through the door and headed over to Kaito. He had noticed something in the girl's ear as she walked by him. It looked like a hearing aid, but that would mean that ... his eyes widened as he watched Kaito bend down to the girl's level and gave her a smile. He noticed the hand movements the magician was doing; he was asking how her day was and if she made any new friends. He just got a shy shrug in response.

He pat her head to reassure her before standing back to his full height. "Well, we should probably go or else Aoko will have my head." Kaito turned his attention to Shinichi and gave him a smile. "It was good to see you again, Kudou."

Shinichi was caught off guard by what the other man said, nodding and smiled back. "It was nice to see you again too, Kuroba..."

As Kaito walked by with his kids in the lead; the magician pat the detective on the shoulder causing him to look at the other man. "I saw the way you looked at my son. You're awfully protective of your girl. He's a good kid. Just takes a lot after me." He pat the shoulder once more. "Remember, I have a daughter too, so I know how you feel. See ya, Meitantei."

Shinichi watched Kaito leave with his two kids, frowning when he realised it wasn't normal for someone to pat a shoulder twice before his hand went to his jacket pocket. A flat look crossed his face as a sigh escaped his lips. "He never does anything normal..."

In his hands was a piece of paper with an address and phone number on it for himself and Unmei if they ever wanted to reach either Kaito or Tsuki.