So I' going to pretend Kid did something after the mystery train. He didn't actually do this but I thought it would be a cool addition to my story. This chapter is also going to have something a bit like one of my dealing with a substitute chapters so sorry if that bothers you.
"Kuroba Kaito… you wouldn't happen to be the son of Kuroba Toichi, would you?" the child who introduced himself as Kudo Shinichi asked.
"I am, how did you know?"
"My mom was taught the art of disguise by him early in her acting career." Kaito hummed at that explanation, vaguely remembering two people being taught that by his dad when he was a child.
"Right, I think I remember two people learning that from dad." Shinichi glared for a second, before shaking his head and covering it up with a figurative mask. It was so quick that he only noticed because of how much he knew the body language of his rival. Worried by his odd reaction, Kaito decided he wanted more information if it had to do with his personal life. Having made his choice, he asked, "What's wrong with that? Does it have something to do with the organization."
Shinichi looked up, slightly startled due to there not being many people who could call him out when he let his mask slip. Kids help was valuable. Valuable enough to answer that question, at least partly. "Sharon Vineyard, the second woman you're talking about, was part of the organization. She's the reason that they have people able to use the same masks as you in the organization."
"What? Who?" Kaito, horrified that his father had an even indirect hand in helping an organization, wanted to stop them immediately so they could not use his dad's skills anymore.
"Sorry, if I told you that I'm pretty sure you would go run off and do something reckless and get yourself killed. I'm not letting you get involved unless I think it would directly save more lives."
"... Alright. I guess you might be right. Anyways, are you working on taking down this organization of your's alone?"
"No, actually I'm sure there are other people working on it but I directly work with the FBI, CIA and Japan's secret police."
"You mean you lead them around while pointing out evidence like a child?" Shinichi blushed and glared at him, then decided to answer the question.
"Obviously not. I can do that for some of them but some of them are really good. I might be better and being a detective but three of them have skills, connections and mindsets I don't or can't have, especially in this body."
"Makes a lot of sense now though. It's nice to know that the only people to have ever beaten me to be the same person."
"What are you talking about?"
"Earlier in my carrier I was almost completely beaten by someone working behind the scenes from a helicopter near a clock tower, Shinichi Kudo."
Shinichi was silent for a moment, trying to remember what event the thief was talking about. "Oh, you're the one who was at the clock tower heist?"
"Right in one."
"I see. So, can I ask you some questions now?" Shinichi's smirk remained strong as he got off the bench chair and started to walk. He motioned for Kaito to follow him.
"Alright Kid, first question. Does your organization use code names for higher ranking members?"
"I've only met one but he was called snake by the people working under him."
"Snake, huh. My high ranking members are called alcohol names."
"Oh, is that why the person on the mystery train introduced themselves as Bourbon?"
"Yup."
"Speaking of which, why did he hold a gun to my head on the mystery train?"
"The person I had you pretend to be was a traitor of their organization. She used to work for them but when they killed her sister she refused to continue working for them. She was put in a prison, but in an attempt to kill herself she found a way to escape. The organization had been looking for her ever since then."
"Wow, alright. But then shouldn't that Bourbon guy be bad?" Conan looked up at the thief with an expression that clearly was asking him how he knew information he should not know. "After the mystery train thing I sort of put a camera in poirot to make sure you were ok when you lived next to someone who wanted to kill you. It was on a security camera so when he noticed it he probably just thought it was a security feature. One day you were at each other's throats and then the next you came in and it completely changed. The day you came in and said, 'liar. And then, Like you're one to talk.'"
"That isn't my secret to share. Sorry, but I can tell you that you can trust him when he is with me. Though be careful if he isn't, he might be doing something to show other people what he wants them to see."
Sigh, "If you say so."
"We should probably split up now. Ran will want to know where I am soon and you have your heist to prepare for."
"Right, later."
Two days later Conan walked up the street to the Mouri detective agency after going out to grab something before school. Then he saw there were reporters outside the building that were not here in the really early morning. Kogoro had taken him out on a case yesterday night because Ran was gone and he had gotten a total of three hours of sleep. Guessing(hoping) that they were only there for what happened on the island with Kogoro or what happened with Shinichi Conan thought he would be able to just walk past them. That was not the case.
"Edogawa Conan, could you please tell us why Kaito Kid kidnapped you?"
"Edogawa, maybe you could explain what happened after you were taken by kid?
"Conan, would you please tell us if your views on the thief have changed at all as the result of being kidnapped by him?"
Taking a deep breath, Conan decided to give a short explanation in an attempt to keep the press off him for a while. Even if he was exhausted he knew that if he refused to say anything they would just try harder and harder to get his side of the story.
"Kid took me because one of his friends was hurt by the people at the island. He told me to ask Uncle to look into those guys. He didn't give us any clues but he did tell me they exist."
"Oh, I see. And Conan, could you-"
"Sorry, I have stuff to do. Later." Running inside, Conan angrily thought. 'What a wonderful mess you've put me in Kid. You won't get away from this.'
"Conan."
"Amuro-niisan, what are you doing here?" With Kogoro and Ran still likely being close he was forced to add the niisan whenever talked to.
"Actually…" Furuya knelt down to talk to Conan more privately, "the FBI, CIA and PSB want you to wear a camera just so that we can make sure the organization and Kaito Kid didn't do anything to you mentally."
"Why would you want to do that?"
"Not us as in me or Akai, us as in our superiors who have never met you before."
"Oooohhh." Conan nodded, then yawned. "Would it be at all possible to arrange that only you, Akai and Hidemi watch, I was out really really late on a case yesterday and if I might not be up to my best abilities today. I trust the three of you the most and you could probably play it off as me not wanting anyone I don't know to see my personal life."
"Alright, that should be fine, Hidemi got the day off and the organization probably isn't going to contact her. Just let me attach it to your glasses." He reached down to grab the glasses Conan held out to him and attach the small camera. "Thanks for letting me do this Conan."
"No problem."
School was starting. The first thing he did when he got his glasses was be glad that Haibara had stopped calling him Kudo even in private after he faked his death. According to her it might cause him to slip up and forget that Kudo Shinichi was dead.
When Kobayashi-sensei came into the classroom she looked like she had run the entire way.
"Sorry, everyone. I ran into one of the 8th grade teachers (his school might not have 8th grade but just pretend she came for a visit or something) on the way here and our papers got mixed up." The class laughed at her and she wore a goofy smile on her face.
Conan yawned again. "Your turning into me." Haibara whispered.
"Shut up." He tried to stifle another yawn but it still came out, much to Haibara's entertainment.
Kobayashi-sensei passed out the addition tests for the class, still frantic from running everywhere.
Akai (without a mask), Furuya and Hidemi were sitting in a room all watching a first grader at school through a camera on his glasses. They saw him go to school, see his friends and then start a test. An 8th grader accelerated math program test.
"The teacher must have mixed up the tests." Furuya commented when he saw the one on Conan's desk. He smirked when he saw Conan start to answer the problems. "And it looks like Conan's too tired to notice." (This probably is impossible but I think it would be cute)
Conan started answering the questions with about the same speed as the first graders were answering the addition questions so no one noticed anything odd. Even more unfortunately, despite it being a 8th grade test due to being part of the accelerated program it had problems at the end that were supposed to challenge the students and the last questions were meant to be impossible. At the beginning there were some 8th grade questions, then most of the test was 9th grade, then at the end there were challenge questions from 10th, 11th and one from 12th grade. Even teachers might have a hard time with some of these questions.
"Uh-oh. Wonder what sort of excuse he's going to pull together for being able to solve these problems." Akai was enjoying himself, it was rare to see some of the actual Conan, so these times were always entertaining.
"I'm really not even surprised anymore." Hidemi Hondou had completely given up trying to understand the limits of the kid, having instead learned to accept that he could probably do anything.
The kid continued answering questions and was able to finish the test without even being the last one done.
"I'm surprised, what took you so long?"
"I'm really tired for one."
"I guess that makes sense."
The class moved to art projects while the teacher graded tests until the end of school.
*DING, DING*
The bell rang, telling the kids they could all go home. All except one.
"Conan, I'm sorry but could you stay for a little while?" Waving goodbye to the others Conan remained in the classroom as per his teacher's request. "Conan, I wanted to talk to you about the test you just took-"
"Oh, sorry. I'm really tired today because Uncle took me out on a case last night so I wasn't really paying attention to my answers."
"No they were all correct. That's the problem." Conan looked up at his teacher in confusion, clearly not understanding the conversation. Kobayashi handed his test over to him and Conan's eyes widened in terror.
Questions that no 1st grader or even a high school junior should know the answers to were perfectly answered on his page. Furuya and Akai both had serious expressions on their faces, wondering how Conan would be able to get out of this mess.
"Do you know the answers to these questions Conan?" Kobayashi asked him, hoping for an honest answer.
Conan remained silent for a moment, thinking of what he could do to get out of this. He took a deep breath. "No, I didn't answer any of these."
"Two."
"Well, yeah. All thm already had answers on them so I just traced over those. The answers were pretty light in the first place."
"B-but it took you so long. Besides didn't you say that you thought you might have gotten something wrong?"
"I'm a bit tired today so I was writing slowly, and for the second thing… there are a lot of small lines that don't seem to be important but are on the page. Did I fill those out right?"
"Yes, sorry Conan. Can you retake the test tomorrow?"
"OK!"
Hidemi blinked, "Why didn't he want to take credit for doing a good job?"
Furuya answered her almost rhetorical question, "He didn't want to lose the main advantage that he has over the organization. If they know that there is a child who is a genius then they might start being more suspicious of children or try to recruit him. It's too risky."
"The last thing you could compare him mentally to is a normal child." Akai agreed. "Well, we'll get to watch him at a Kaitou Kid heist now, so that will be fun. I can't wait to see how they act around each other when Kid seems to be another person who 'works' for Conan."
