Chapter 4

Teitan Elementary:

Kaito whistles merrily as he waits for his de-aged cousin outside the school gates, even his childhood friend Nakamori Aoko couldn't fault him for wanting to get to the elementary school early in order to pick his darling cousin up. He wasn't surprised to see Prongs the Nekomata waiting on top of the wall surrounding the school for his mistress. He is surprised to get tackle hugged by his little cousin, " Kaito-itoko. "

Kaito chuckles and swings her up into his arms, introducing himself to Jimmy's little apprentices, " I'm sorry to say you all have to go home now, Jimmy got called in for a case and asked me to pick up my recently discovered cousin here. It's like third or fourth cousins, something like that. "

The other three children sigh sadly, but head for home. Shariin curls up in her currently much older cousin's arms, " Rough day, itoko? "

" Long day, dull, boring, dronish monotonic substitute teacher. The guy is worse the the HoM teacher at my old school. " Shariin states.

" I can't have heard that right. " Kaito says, his voice incredulous.

" You did, I was forced to stay awake while everyone else fell asleep. " Shariin whimpers, that had been a horrible class.

" To make up for that we'll go do something really fun, what would you like to do, itoko? You get to pick. "

It saddened him to see her look so shocked at the mere thought of picking where she wanted to go and what she wanted to do. The little redhead blinks, " Botanical gardens. "

Kaito grins, from Jimmy he knew his dear cousin loved plants. She apparently also loved cooking as well, even if she had been slave labor for her maternal relatives. Whistling he walks off with his cousin, Prongs joining them immediately. The nekomata would not leave his currently young mistress without his protection if he could help it. Kaito takes them to one of the yokai run botanical gardens so Prongs could join them as well. Shariin smiles happily as she takes in all the greenery around her. She did happen to have a garden at the Kudo home that Fred looked after for her. Kaito sits her down and lets her act like a child, he shakes his head when asked to rein her in.

" My darling itoko hasn't really ever been afforded the chance to act like a child until now. I promised I would let her have fun outings. She was treated like a slave by her maternal family, we're related paternally, third or fourth cousins, something like that. " Kaito explains to the affronted older women.

The older witches look horrified at this information, " I see, why here? "

" First, she has a pet Nekomata, second she asked to go to some botanical gardens. Her godmother is Kudo Yukiko so she's staying with Jimmy Kudo. He asked me to make her childhood memorable. Oh, I am willing to put on mundane magic shows for children, I'm Kuroba Kaito. "

Prongs takes his bigger form while scooping up his young mistress. The older witches blink as the nekomata takes her around the garden, " I can see why you chose a yokai run botanical garden, he's protective of her, isn't he? "

" She just got him not that long ago. Prongs, named in honor of her father, he was a Stag animagus, is a direct blood descendant of Kirara(Kilala). " Kaito states.

" Oh my, I thought Kirara's line had died out ages ago. " the one witch says.

" Apparently they were just waiting for proper partners. " Kaito says, shrugging.

Shariin giggles as Prongs takes her through the garden, letting her smell and examine the plants, she even asked timid questions of one of the gardeners. Her years with the Dursleys were slowly being treated with her being child sized. Kaito leaves his conversation with the older women, he had told them the truth without revealing too much about his dear little cousin. Once she was done at the gardens, buying some seeds to send to her godbrother, and some new plants to place at the Potter home and the Kudo home he takes her to Ekoda. Shariin was once again curled up in his arms, shocking the blonde Saguru Hakuba, " This is your distant cousin then, Kuroba-san. "

" Yes, this is Ebansu Shariin, my dear little cousin and god sister to the Heisei Holmes. " Kaito says and is pleasantly surprised when Shariin takes several pictures of the gobsmacked look upon Hakuba's face.

" She's Kudo Jimmy's godsister? "

Shariin giggles at the incredulity in his voice, " She is, now excuse us, Hakuba-san, but I have an adorable little cousin to entertain. "

" I think I'll come with you, such an interesting name once translated, your cousin has. "

Kaito draws his wand, a steely look in his eyes, " You endanger her by spreading your suspicions about I will end you, Hakuba-san. "

Hakuba's brown eyes take in the wand pointed at him, and then the deadly intent in Kuroba Kaito's eyes, " Explain things to me then. "

Shariin frowns and texts Jimmy, she wanted his opinion on the annoyance before he would be filled in. " Not my call to make, you'll have to prove yourself to Kudo. " Kaito states.

Hakuba winces, if his suspicions were correct, everyone knew how protective of Cassie Black Kudo Jimmy happened to be. Jimmy would put him through the wringer before even deigning to let him in on the secret, possibly going as far as to have him Obliviated. " If I swear an Unbreakable Vow to not reveal the secrets of Kudo Jimmy and Ebansu Shariin? "

" You still have to deal with Kudo. You wait right there for him, my dear little cousin doesn't need to be here for him clearing you for certain knowledge. Oh, dearest Hakuba, you stumbled into something you should have stayed out of. " Kaito states and walks off.

Beika Art Museum/Ekoda:

Jimmy frowns heavily and George looks at him, " What? "

" I need to go interrogate Saguru Hakuba. He's too damned smart for his own good. We need to wrap this up, George. "

" I've got this, Jimmy, you go deal with your fellow teen detective. " George states and steps forward as everyone gathers together. While George handles the 'Here's What Happened' or summation of the moving armor case Jimmy apparates to a apparition point in Ekoda and comes upon Saguru Hakuba. Jimmy's eyes narrow as he takes in his fellow detective.

" You need to come with with me, Saguru-san. " Jimmy states firmly.

Hakuba resigns himself to his fate, wincing when he realizes Kudo had enough pull to borrow a room at Gringotts, " It's not me that has the pull, I'm considered Cassiopeia Charlene Potter's consort by this point. "

" I see. "

What followed was an interrogation that left the blonde teen detective mentally exhausted, then he was forced to swear an Unbreakable Vow to not reveal the Secrets of the Potter, Peverell, Gryffindor, Slytherin, and Black families along with the Kudo family. This meant he couldn't bust Kuroba Kaito as he happened to be Heir Potter. " May I ask why you are so quick to protect Kuroba Kaito? "

" Cassie doesn't have much in the way of decent family. She was treated like a slave by her maternal relatives. Being with Kaito is helping her far more than her Mind Healer would have thought possible. " Jimmy states flatly.

" I see, he's allowing her to actually experience the joys of childhood while also being fully capable of defending her as well, am I correct, Kudo-san? " Hakuba asks him.

" You are, my girlfriend got de-aged, Saguru-san, a girlfriend I can only show sibling affection for right now. Do you know how aggravating that is. Yes, the Japanese Department of Mysteries is working around the clock to find an antidote, her issues, physical and psychological can be fully treated now, but considering we had consummated said relationship…" Jimmy snaps.

Hakuba winces as he processes this statement of fact, " You want that antidote found, don't you? "

" Hell, yes! " Jimmy states, so he might be a little out of sorts what with his lover chibi at the moment.

Hogwarts:

Luna Lovegood smirks quite unpleasantly as she looks over the information that had been gathered by their spymaster. If they could trust the Merlin be damned older generations to get the job done then they'd gladly sit back. However, what happened with Cassie just went to show that the older generations couldn't be trusted to fix the current problems. She and Neville had taken it upon themselves to make a stand, they had galvanized their fellow students. Hufflepuff House were there spymasters with Susan Bones as the spymaster in chief. Only herself, Neville, and Lily Moon knew what had really gone down. It needed to stay that way for the sanity of Cassie Potter. Ravenclaw House would analyze the intelligence that Hufflepuff House gathered while those in Gryffindor House that could be trusted worked on Potion and Spell Creation. This included those that had graduated within the last six years.

Luna herself would be transferring after she took her O.W.L's. She knew where Cassie happened to be, though she would make sure to take the roundabout way to her destination. She had already trained her successor while Neville was handing the reins to Colin Creevy in Gryffindor. They had made damned certain they couldn't be betrayed. Of course, Granger, Ron and Ginny Weasley, just didn't understand that they were being fed false information. Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. The same could be said for the children of known Death Eaters as well. Neville had already destroyed the Vanishing Cabinet in the Room of Requirements, grabbed the Diadem before they used the audio English to Parseltongue dictionary that Cassie had worked her ass off on creating, there was also a written one as well, in order to get into the Chamber of Secrets, Myrtle was all too glad to act as a look out for them, so they could destroy the Horcrux.

Oh yes, they knew what was going on since they, the Twins, Lily, and Cassie all had notebooks charmed to keep in touch with each other with no paper trails. Cassie had bought them all mokeskin school bags as well, which meant no one could rifle through their things, this was especially important for Neville and Lily since they shared dorms with Hermione and Ron. All told the current generation was fed up with their elders. They were going to bring Magical Britain out of the Dark Ages though Luna couldn't wait to meet her Magician in the Moonlight after all.

Ekoda, Kuroba Home:

Kaito's surprised to actually see his mother is at home when he arrives with Shariin and Prongs, " Kaa-san(mom), I didn't expect you home yet. "

" Kaito, whom is this adorable little girl? " Kuroba Chikage asks as she comes into sight.

Shariin buries her face in Kaito's neck, causing the teen to sigh, " Lady Potter-Peverell-Gryffindor-Slytherin, Heiress Black. "

Chikage's eyes widen, " What in the name of Houdini happened? "

" Experimental poison that de-aged her. Story is that she's Kudo Jimmy's god sister, since her healer did prove we're related I can pick her up from school. Jimmy wants me to handle the fun childhood outings while she's like this. Itoko, this is my mother, Kuroba Chikage. " Kaito states.

Shariin refuses to move from her new position so Kaito gets her set up watching some anime so he can talk to his mother more freely. Prongs jumps up on his mistress' lap while Kaito makes a fern, white heather, and a yellow rose appear. He was offering her confidence and shelter, protection, and friendship, the fern was the confidence and shelter, the white heather protection, and the yellow rose meant friendship. Shariin nods to show she understands his silent message to her. Kaito heads into the kitchen and Chikage follows him, " Why is she so shy? "

" She only trusts very few adults, her magically bound godfather, her werewolf honorary uncle, and Rubeus Hagrid. Her maternal relatives abused her horribly, and just about every other adult has manipulated her, deceived her, or outright ignored her since she was younger. I've seen all of her memories, kaa-san. She named me her heir because it'll be a damn sight harder manipulating me than someone else. Oh, don't be surprised if the Heisei Holmes shows up, he'll likely be by to reclaim his chibified girlfriend after he's done with Hakuba-san. " Kaito states, " In other news the Japanese Ministry of Magic will grant me full immunity since I'm trying to keep Pandora out of the wrong hands. "

Chikage blinks as she assimilates all of this information from her only son, her blue eyes moving rapidly, " At least you have good luck. "

" How the hell did that happen? " Shariin calls out, she was curious about that.

Chikage blinks, " Oh, right, the Potter family luck is abhorrent, forgot about that. I believe Kaito's paternal grandfather received an actual good luck blessing for him and all of his descendants. "

" Itoko, that is sooooo not fair. I had to kill a bloody basilisk when I was twelve! Deal with Dementors at thirteen, and you get a nice happy, safe, loving childhood?! "

Kaito keeps his mom in the kitchen, " I suppose this means you don't want to go to the Quidditch game I got tickets to? "

Stone cold silence is heard for several long seconds, " What teams? "

" Tutshill Tornadoes against the Japanese Flying Dragons. " Kaito states.

The sixteen year old turned six year old assimilates this information before a whoop of pure undiluted joy is heard just as Jimmy walks in, Kaito had an open door policy with him, " Only Quidditch gets that reaction out of her. "

" I got tickets to a Tutshill Tornadoes and Japanese Flying Dragons game. " Kaito tells his law abiding counterpart.

" That would do it, she loves the Tornadoes. Cass-ai, ready to go home? "

Shariin practically apparates to him, " Thanks for picking her up today, Kaito, I wasn't expecting yet another case to crop up. "

" Will Hakuba-san be a problem, I'm not above pranking the unholy hell out of him. "

" No, I got him to swear an Unbreakable vow to not give up the secrets of the Potter, Peverell, Gryffindor, Slytherin, Black, and Kudo families. Since you are now Heir Potter…"

Kaito cackles, " Nice, now he can't bust me. "

" Won't stop him from making your heists more difficult though. "

" I'd be insulted if he didn't. Inspector Nakamori just makes things soooo booooring. " Kaito says dramatically.

Once Jimmy apparates out with Shariin and Prongs Chikage sighs, " Tell me everything, son. "

That was how Kaito ended up spending his evening, telling his mother everything that had happened since he became Heir Potter.

Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter, Detective Conan/Cased Closed, or Magic Kaito.