Gin the Zookeeper

Title: Gin the Zookeeper
Rating: T
Anime: Case Closed/Detective Conan
Timeline: N/A
Summary: The Organization members went to the zoo to study animal behavior one day. Gin had also received the mission but he wasn't with the group. But Gin does get the information. He just didn't have to pay a fee to get inside.

The Organization members were assigned a mission. They were at the zoo. But they still had paperwork. They had to observe animal behavior. They had brought papers and pens on a clipboard with them. The group consisted of Vermouth, Vodka, and Bourbon.

"We still had to pay the entry free with our own pocket money," Bourbon sighed. "We are not rich like Vermouth."

"The entry fee was only 1043 Yen," Vermouth said. "That is equal to $10 in the U.S. which isn't even that much."

"I'm missing my job at Café Poirot," Bourbon points out. "And I didn't get my car fixed. And I didn't get my pay check yet. And—"

"Okay I get it!" Vermouth said. "Stop your whining and let's get going to the exhibits!"

"Wasn't Aniki supposed to come?" Vodka asks.

"Maybe he is running late," Vermouth shrugs.

Vermouth, Vodka, and Bourbon headed to the bear exhibit. There were 2 big grizzly bears. It was feeding time so the group got ready to jot down notes. The zookeeper was a man with long silver hair and green eyes. He wore khaki shorts, work boots, and a zookeeper uniform.

The zookeeper had many buckets. He had a bucket of horsetails and berries; a bucket of water lilies; a bucket of squirrels and deer; and a bucket of moose and elk meat. He went to the food troughs and divided them equally. The bears ran to the food and started to eat. The zookeeper then left.

This left Vermouth, Vodka, and Bourbon astonished. They forgot about their notes and started to process of who they saw. "Was that…" Vodka started.

"I think…" Bourbon began.

"That was definitely Gin," Vermouth declares. "I think we now know why he didn't meet with us."

The group then followed Gin to his next location. They forgot all about the notes. They were at the tiger exhibit. There was a tigress, tiger, and 2 tiger cubs. Gin brought a pig carcass and a deer carcass. The tiger family went to the meat. The 2 tiger cubs went to the water. Gin was passing by the water and the cubs splashed at him. "Hey!"

When the cubs left to go eat with their parents, Gin was soaking wet. He had the same expression. He then left the tiger exhibit and headed to the next location. The Organization members were laughing. Vermouth had taken a video at the start of the splash attack. "He is going to be angry when he sees this!" They still weren't taking notes.

The final exhibit that Gin was in charge of was the pandas. Gin was in charge of doing a talk about them. He sat on a bench and held a panda cub. There was a bucket of bamboo nearby. All cameras (including Vermouth's) were facing them as he began to talk.

"Despite being classified being classified as a carnivoran, the panda is mainly herbivorous," Gin began. "The average panda eats as much as 9 to 14 kg each day. There are 25 bamboo species in the wild in which pandas can eat. Bamboo leaves contain the highest protein. The stems have less protein. The panda is still mainly herbivorous but will eat fish and eggs when available."

Then Gin's shift was over. He put the panda cub back into the exhibit. He headed to his Porsche. The Organization members met him at the Organization base. The 4 of them went into the boss' office at the same time. "What information have you gathered, Vermouth?"

"I uh," Vermouth had remembered that she didn't take notes. "None,"

"Have any of you taken notes on animal behavior?" The boss asked.

Gin handed a notebook to the boss. "I took all these notes,"

The boss skimmed through the notebook. "Hey Gin," The boss asked. "How long have you been a zookeeper?"

This caught Gin's attention. "What do you mean?"

"I know because of 3 things," The boss explains. "A) Vermouth sent me a video of you get attacked by tiger cubs. B) I was watching the animal channel and you were doing a talk about pandas. And C) You are still wearing your zookeeper uniform."

Gin looked at his clothing. Then he looked to Vermouth. "You took a video!?"

"What do you expect me to do?" Vermouth chuckles.

"So how long were you a zookeeper?" Bourbon asks.

"Many years," Gin muttered. "Which is how I got all those notes,"

Vermouth then sent the video of the splash attack to all the Organization operatives and posted it on the internet. "Maybe you can help me with taking care of my pet bird," She laughed.

Thanks to Le1lan1M112 for the suggestion