No, I don't and never will own Detective Conan, some of the OC belong to me and few others belong to GemYin, my new compadre. Move onto the next question.
The next chapter. Let's see how will they deal with a town that literally means twins.
"Are we there yet?" The annoying question that sounds threw out the entire trip was asked by Genta, dressed in a green sweater, blue shorts and brown shoes. Someone was growling in frustration: "If you ask that question one more time, I will personally make sure you will only eat soup for the rest of your life threw a straw!" That was Sandra, dressed in a light blue top, black jean jacket and matching black jeans, and white sneakers, seems that being short also shortens ones patience. Genta cringed away as far as he can in a small bus, to avoid her hands if they'll come after her.
This group, consisting of Mouri, Ran, Conan, Agasa, Haibara, Ayumi, Mitsuhiko, Genta, Sandra and Rick, was driving on a trip to the mountains in a small grey bus, Kogoro rented. They were sitting like this:
Conan (Passenger seat) and Mouri (driver seat);
Ran and Ayumi;
Haibara and Agasa;
Genta and Mitsuhiko;
Sandra and Rick;
"See what you get for asking that kind of a question all the time? Just sit back and enjoy the trip. We don't get such views of nature in San Diego." Rick, wearing a dark blue turtle neck sweater, khaki colored pants and mountain black boots, commented, as he then looked out the window to see the passing by nature. The nature was a big, green forest, the road was a ground one and there was fog around, also the skies are totally clouded, so it is a chilly day, but at least the forecast predicated that there won't be any rain for the weekend. Sadly they couldn't also tell what time it was by the sun, since it was hidden. Good thing the clock is working and showing: 17:49.
"Demo, shouldn't you be saying something to Sandra, not to talk like that?" Mouri wondered, as he finished smoking his cigarette.
"Well, I'm only really a guardian, I don't have that much saying in her life, but I might try to have a little bit of a talk." Rick said and rubbed Sandra's head so that her hair was now a mess.
"Then let's hope it won't end up like that time you tried giving me The Talk." Sandra quietly commented as she fixed her hair, while Rick remembered how embarrassing that was when he tried doing it. Sandra smirked, then she went onto doing something on her phone.
"Ran-onee-san! Where exactly are we going?" Ayumi asked a different question from Genta's.
"Mt. Futa-Go. There's a lot of great spots to enjoy nature and have real fun activities." Ran read the brochure she has about the place and what it has to offer.
'That is great, but why drag me along? I didn't ask for this trip.' Conan thought annoyed; as he turned his gaze threw the window. He saw only trees for a while, till he saw something weird: 2 young figures, weird green skin, red eyes and black messy hair. But it was only for a split second, so he can't even be sure that was not an optical illusion.
'Maybe all these trees are messing up my eyes.' Conan rubbed his eyes tiredly and then started looking threw the window again.
Two dark shadowy figures leaned out of the woods and looked as the bus disappeared in the fog that is surrounding the mountain. They looked at each other, nodded and disappeared into the woods.
A while later, it was starting to get dark. Looks like they won't get to that mountain today. They need to find a place to stay the night. Mouri noticed a sign that said: Village – 10 km away. There seemed to be another word after village, but it was covered with mud and other dirt, so it was hard to say what the village was called. Taking the turn they drove down a while before ending up in an old style village, with only few people outside.
"Excuse me!" Mouri opened the window and called out for the old man sitting on the rock next to a small pond, this old man was dressed in some old style kimono brown robe, with grey hair and a long grey beard, with small black eyes, "Can you please tell where an inn is?"
"The only inn here is the village elders house. It's the big one right in the middle of the village." The man pointed at a big old building in the middle of the village. It had lights on, so it looks like everyone is still up.
Conan went to the door, when they got out of the mini buss and knocked on the door. The ones who opened it were identical looking, old, bit skeleton with skin like maids in dark red maid's clothes. They both have their brown hair tied in tight buns, pale skin and black bit biddy eyes. To be honest, these two gave the group a bit of a scare, okay not Haibara, but for the rest they were creepy.
"Welcome to the Ito household, home of Ito Yuuta, elder and leader of this village the Gemini Village. Why have you come?" They both asked simultaneously in creepy, cold voices.
"Ano, we're kind of in a need for an inn for the night. Can we stay?" Agasa asked sheepishly. The both maids shared a look: "Can we know your names?"
"I'm Mouri Ran, this my dad – Mouri Kogoro, this little boy is Edogawa Conan-kun, those are Kojima Genta-kun, Yoshida Ayumi-chan, Tsuburaya Mitsuhiko-kun, Agasa Hiroshi-hakase, Haibara Ai-chan, Danton Rick-san and Blackstone Sandra-chan." Ran did the introduction.
"Wait here please." The maids closed the door and 5 minutes later they opened the door again.
"Master Yuuta has allowed you to stay. Follow us." They fully opened the door and let them inside.
The house was big and completely made from wood, save few places with some [plastic and metal for the lights. The walls were light brown, even though they are old, same for the floor, but it has a thick red rug almost everywhere, but the stairs, the walls are decorated with old scrolls and hand drawn pictures, some of the small tables are made form dark thick oak wood and the windows are with dark red curtains, waiting to be used to shut them for the night.
When they got to a big room, a old style dining type of a room, with bash yellow carpet, small light wood tables, green pillows for them to sit on, few small tables, a lamp and a little TV, the alls are light brown, there was a bunch of people sitting around a big old style table on the green pillows.
An elderly man with pale skin, deep brown eyes and thin dark brown hair, his figure is like it seemed to be once muscular, but now not that much, wearing a dark green kimono, an elderly woman with pure black hair, peach skin and brown eyes, her body is thin, wearing a purple and russet leaves of the Japanese maple patterns, another man that looks like the one wearing a grey kimono, and an identical looking woman to that one also in a white and her Kimono can have Mongolian Oak leaves patterns and has blue eyes. Then there are 4 girls: two of them have light peach skin with shoulder length black wavy hair, although one has her hair in a pony tail while other in a braid, and brown eyes, and the other two have porcelain skin with shoulder length long straight brown hair and blue eyes. The first two girls are wearing a red and orange komono's, while the other two white ones with red stars. There are also two other men at the table present. One of them has black hair and brown eyes and pale skin, in a blue kimono, while the other two are wearing cyan and yellow ones.
"Ahh, these are the guests that will be staying here?" The man in white and black asked.
"Hai." The maids bowed and showed them to sit down. Each sat down where they could around the table.
"I am Ito Yuuta, village elder," The brown eyed and brown haired man said, "This is my wife, Ito Sora," He gestures to the elderly woman in a purple and russet leaves of the Japanese maple patterns, "My son, Ito Hideaki and his daughters, Ayako and Ayame," Yuuta gestures at the black haired, brown eyed man and the peach skinned twins.
"I'm Ito Yuuto, Yuuta-onii-sans younger brother," The identical man in said, "This is my wife, Ito Kei and our son Ito Tamotsu," He gestures at the identical woman with blue eyes and porcelain skinned brown haired man with blue eyes in Mongolian Oak leaved patterned kimono
"And his daughters, Haruka and Haruna," Yuuto ends by gesturing at the porcelain skinned girls.
"We welcome you in our humble village, Gemini." Yuuta said.
'That's a lot of names to take in at one time.' Conan thought and looked over them, 'Twins? Gemini means that…masaka…this entire village has twins?'
"So, Mouri Kogoro, am I right?" Yuuta looks at Rick.
"No, no. I'm Danton Rick. This is Mouri Kogoro." The American corrects and points at the famous detective across the table.
"Oh forgive me for my mistake. Why have you come to our humble village?" Yuuta sheepishly apologizes and asked.
"Well, we kind of needed a place to stay and…" Mouri began, but gets interrupted.
"Well yer lucky, cuz soon this place will be gone." They all turn to see a man standing in the door, wearing a dark blue business suit, with a red tie and a white shirt, dark blond hair that seem to have a lot of hair gel in them just to tame them down, tanned skin and smog like green eyes. He rudely sits down, pushing Ayumi out of her spot. Genta and Mitsuhiko immediately went to protest against this.
"Shut up, gaki." He said and lighted a cigarette.
"This is Watanaba Rikuto, he is a business man that has come for an offer in our village. And my answer is still no, Watanabe-san! We will not sell you the land for your business." Yuuta said, with his family nodding.
"Sorry, but I already have few folks that are ready to sign the contract. When enough has signed, you will have to sell the rest to me." The man smirked when he said that. The village elder and his brother frowned at that, as the maids started brining in dinner.
"You will stay for some dinner, right?" Sora asked, as the dishes were getting set.
"Well, we could." Mouri said as his plate got set. That's when Ran noticed that there is another seat being set ready.
'Looks like someone else will be joining us.' She thought as footsteps sounded from the hallway. When the door opened, Sandra quickly turned her head away, so that her face isn't seen. In the door there stood a woman that seemed to be an American, she has her brown haired tied in a braid pale woman, pale blue eyes and slight tanned skin. She has a slim body. She is wearing a white long sleeved shirt, pale blue jeans and a white vest.
"Wow! So much guests! When did they come?" The woman asked in such broken Japanese that makes Jodie-sensei's broken Japanese, when she was pretending to be an English teacher, very bearable.
"They just came. Please sit down, Blackson-san and dinner will be served." Yuuto invites her.
"Blackson?" Mouri, Ran, Agasa, Haibara and Conan asked.
"Jennifer 'Jenny' Blackson, to be precise." The women corrected and sat down next to Ran. Agasa, Haibara and Conan turned their eyes towards Sandra, who hid her face away from the woman.
'Oi, oi, oi. Don't tell me that's her…mom.' Conan thought and looked at the woman again. When he looked hard enough he saw the physical resemblance between the two. Yep, this definitely is Sandra's, or precisely Stacy's mom.
"Rick! What are you doing here?" Jenny finally noticed the American man.
"You see, Jen, I'm a guardian to a young girl at the moment and am tagging along for the trip here." Rick nervously replied. One of the things he's bad at is lying on spot under pressure .
"Oh! And who is this girl?" Jenny asked. Rick pointed at Sandra: "Sandra Blackstone." Jenny over looked the young girl who barely showed her face. Conan and Haibara, held their breaths for a moment.
"My! Are you a cute girl!" Jenny exclaims, as she smiled widely.
'She didn't…' Haibara began.
'Recognize her own daughter?' Conan continued.
'What kind of a mother does that?' They both ended.
'Well that was expected.' Sandra thought, but still hid her face, in case her mom did suddenly see some resemblance.
The Ito's asked some questions, like the Yuuta and Yuuto about Mouri's cases, Ayako and Ayama asked the girls ton of girl questions, while Haruka and Haruno pretty much stayed silent, Rikuto was simply eating saying a harsh comment once in a while, Sandra was still keeping her face from full view, which made not Jenny suspicious, but Ran. The karate captain wondered why Sandra is hiding her face like that ever since Jennifer came in.
'There must be a reason. Why would…masaka…could she really be…no…then Jennifer-san would've recognized her,' Ran looked at the older woman and saw the way she acted was a total airhead type, 'Or maybe she wouldn't recognize Stacy-chan.' Ran once again looked at Sandra and imagined both Sandra's and Stacy's face next to each other. They looked practically identical.
'But if Sandra-chan is Stacy-chan, then…Conan-kun could be…Shinichi…' Ran turned her gaze towards Conan and tried to comprehend it.
'Demo, then how can Shinichi and Conan be in the same room or while Conan was with me, how did Shinichi answered threw the phone?' Ran tried to be logical, before deciding, 'I'll find out if Sandra-chan and Conan-kun are Stacy-chan and Shinichi, otherwise, they will make me loose this suspicions. Now that I think of it, I told Conan-kun about my still doubtful ideas at first. He could've warned her and now they will be careful. Then I have to catch them when they least expected.' She didn't notice Haibara looking at her also with suspicions.
'Kudo-kun and Blackson-chan will be having troubles if she doesn't loose her suspicions soon.' Haibara thinks and then looks at the two, before returning to her dinner.
"So, our specialty, besides having the entire village twins, is meat. We might not seem like some meat packed village, but we know the right recipes to make such delicious meat that will simply feel like it is melting in your mouth. We also have other things to be known for, like our tales. We have a lot of ghost and horror stories." Yuuta said, as he ate some of the melting in mouth meat.
"Like that legend of the Demon Twins?" Ayame asked, suddenly.
"Demon Twins?" Agasa asked, as Haibara took some of that probably high cholesterol meat away from him.
"Oh, that is an old legend. Some call it a curse, but it was so many decades ago, it was even before our time." Yuuto explained.
"It tells about twin girls: Ani and Aku, they were believed to be devils spawns, as a lot of bad things happened around them. So, when something bad happened in the village, everyone said it was the Demon Twin fault. They had freaky dark skin, unruly red hair and deep black eyes, that told of pain and horror they can do. Everyone feared them, until one day a man came forward and built a shrine at the end of the forest, in which he locked the twins. Then he did some incantation and only two horrible statues are now there. People started to bring some offerings for the twins for them to stay in the shrine, but some do believe that they still roam the village, causing mayhem. Well, it's only a tale, in which people want to believe or not." Kei explained, as she poured some tea for herself.
'Story's like that shouldn't be taken seriously.' Conan adds in his thoughts.
"Stop telling idiotic tales, you old folks. That isn't interesting. Especially, if a good part of this place will disappear." Rikuto said and started smoking again.
"Watanabe-san, I would be happy, if you would stop insulting our village, please." Yuuto said sternly.
"Well excuuuse me! But it is true, this village will e gone as soon, as a I have enough land to make my factory, which will make my business sky rocket itself." Rikuto smirked at them.
"Another one of those business creeps." Sandra mutters, with a piece of that meat n her mouth and somebody puts their index finger over her mouth.
"Don't talk with your mouth full. You could choke. I remember Stacy usually talks with her mouth full, if she is eating and if there is someone who she doesn't like is near. She is such a straight forward girl." Jenny remembers that, "Although, I haven't seen her in years."
'I am here, you know.' Sandra thinks annoyed and moves the finger away from her face, with a childish smile and nod.
"Watanabe-san, I would be very happy, if you would shut up now." Yuuta said.
"What? Don't want to loose this village for yer position, old man?" Rikuto laughs at him.
"What a nasty guy." Genta murmurs.
"Yeah, how did he become a business man anyway?" Ayumi wondered.
"He probably swindled money out of people." Mitsuhiko guessed.
"Oi! Shut up, you gaki's! You got no right to talk about me like that. Or got any understanding, what so ever." Rikuto yelled at them.
"Watanabe-san, I will ask you to stop yelling at the kids. It is rude." Yuuta was nearing his tempers end.
"I guess I can listen to you, for the while this place exists." Rikuto sits down and starts smoking again.
"Watanabe-san, please leave. All you have been doing was insult us and the village!" Yuuta exclaims. Rikuto simply smirks and exits the room.
"Won't matter if I leave or not, cuz this place is gone."
"This Blackson-sans room and for the night will also be Blackstone-chans room." The maid said and moved the doors open for them to get in. It was on old style room, with white walls, a light green floor few dark brown closets and tables and there were futons on one of the tables, waiting to be used for the night and there was another futon that wasn't properly fixed, with stuff like make-up, random clothing and magazines are scattered around the room, with big red traveling suitcases in one side of the room, wide open.
After what happened at dinner, everyone was given a room, which they have to share with someone, for the night.
"Thank you." Sandra said and walked in the room, going straight to the futons to get one for her ready for the night.
"Ummm…Sandra?" Jenny asked when she closed the sliding door to their room.
"What?" Sandra asked, as Jenny moved closer to her.
"You look so much like my little Stacy, when she was your age." Jenny said and grabbed the little girl for an embrace, "I missed a lot out of her life and you make me feel…warm…to say the least, like I get a chance or something." Sandra didn't move much or knew how to react. After all, when she was Stacy, having a real mom was one of the things she always lacked, no matter how her aunt tried to be her mom.
'If you weren't so wanting to experience life fully and a total airhead, maybe you wouldn't have missed anything at all.' Sandra thought, showing only surprise from the outside and some sadness from the inside. Just then a knock came from the door. It was Ran, who asked, if Sandra can come with her for a little talk. Jenny had no problem with that, thus Sandra was forced to go and have this talk with Ran. They walked to the hallway, where her room is located and Conan was sitting by the door, waiting. When he saw Sandra, his eyes said: Watch out! She's very onto us!
"So, how is it? How is it that t teens are hiding as kids?" Ran suddenly asked them, when she made Conan stand in front of her. Both of them tried to make a face that was wondering, while on the inside, the real them's, Shinichi and Stacy, were freaking out. They had no idea what to do to make her loose her suspicions or ask anyone's help for that.
"So, how about it? Is it true?" Ran asked, now waiting for an answer.
"Ran-nee-chan, how can we be Shinichi-nii-chan or Stacy-nee-chan? That doesn't make any sense." Conan tried to talk their way out of this, since he's like a veteran in this field. Sandra simply stood in her place, not knowing how to react to this: shock will mean she hit the top of the nail, but no reaction will also be suspicious and shock is the only thing she can do out of all her emotions.
'No…she can't have figured me and Sandra out now…What will I do to?' Conan thought in worry, when suddenly a chilling scream sounds from the outside. They all turn to the windows or the rest walk out of the rooms to see what happened, as Conan and Sandra rushed out to see what has happened. Conan and Sandra were first at the small shrine by the forest, where one of the twin maids was on the ground totally freaking out of her mind, and they stopped in their tracks shocked of what they saw. Watanabe Rikuto, was hanging by his neck, his face frozen in pure horror, while he was covered in blood, after he was brutally beaten to death.
Oh no! Who killed him? How will they get Ran of their case now? Will Jenny recognize her daughter after all? Who will come from the police to solve this case? Whooooo? Whaaaaaaat? See in next chapter.
Kyuubi No Tenshi