Detective Conan Blind AU

By: FunahoMisaki

(A/N: I own nothing and read last chapter)

"You're okay!" Yukiko squealed as she got to the police station at a call from Sato and immediately grabbed her son from where he was standing beside Rena and Gin.

"Wha-?" Conan was surprised at the sudden grab and it wasn't helped that she was holding him tightly, putting pressure on his leg by accident, and what really didn't help was the fact that Ran and Sonoko and Kogoro and several others quickly surrounded him and were talking all at once.

Conan's breathing became shallow and fast and he started trembling as he tried to move his hands to cover his ears but he couldn't. His mother was pinning them down with her hug and there was too much noise and-

"That's enough! You're scaring him!" That was Rena's voice and Rena's hands were grabbing him and pulling him away from his mother's near suffocating hug and the loud din of noise. Her arms wrapped gently around him so that she didn't hurt his leg nor restrict his hands and she held him close and he heard a 'thump thump' sound in his ear. Her heartbeat.

"Shh. It's okay Conan-kun. They didn't mean to scare you. They were just so happy to see that you were okay. Shhh. It's okay. Just like before. Listen to my heart and breathing and match it okay?" Rena said her voice soft and soothing as she held him close and hummed something in her throat. Conan listened to her as her heartbeat thudded in his ear and the hummed song vibrated from her throat and through her body into his as her hand rubbed his back.

"What was with that!? You crowd him and talk over one another and don't even tell him what you're doing or give him an option! Were you trying to send him into a panic attack cause if so then you did it and I am not impressed or happy with you for it!" Gin was ripping into the group of people angrily as he stood protectively in front of Rena and Conan both.

"Calm down before you scare him more. He's just starting to calm back down." Rena said reaching one hand forward and placing it on Gin's arm, causing him to relax and spin around to pull and Conan both close.

"Are you okay little detective?" Gin asked one of his hands on Conan's back and he looked worriedly to the little boy that was being held to Rena's chest.

"I'm fine." Conan said automatically earning a snort from Gin.

"I'm calling bullshit-OW!" Gin said before yelping when Rena smacked him again. Conan began giggling at that as Rena chewed Gin out for cursing around Conan again.

"Hey it made him laugh at least." Gin said grinning at Rena who paused mid word and stared at him for a moment.

"You idiot. Making him laugh by making me mad at you. Stop teaching him curse words goofball." Rena said smiling softly at him when she realized that he was making her smack him just to make Conan laugh.

"No promises." Gin said and he earned a roll of the eyes from Rena who kept humming for a moment longer before Conan poked her in the arm three times, signaling that he wanted to be put down again.

"This time stay holding my hand or Gin's hand okay? If they try to snatch you like that and send you into sensory overload again then I'll have to hurt them." Rena said gently setting him down and keeping a firm grasp on his hand as she shot a glare at Yukiko and the others.

"I'm okay! It was only because they were talking all at once and my leg was hurting again." Conan said trying to reassure Rena that he was okay and making Yukiko wince as she realized she must have hurt his leg when she grabbed him like she had.

"Even still we don't want to send you into another one. One a day is more than enough thank you very much." Rena said making Gin nod rapidly in agreement and spare a glare towards the group again. He hated it when Conan went into sensory overload and it lead to panic attacks because he felt so helpless during them despite having calmed the little boy down more than once.

"I don't like them much either…but it's nice to see…er…hear you all again though." Conan said looking towards the group and changing his words. They all winced at the acknowledgement that he couldn't see anymore.

"Let me see your eyes. What led to your blindness?" Haibara demanded as she stepped over to Conan to examine his eyes, ignoring her fear of Gin since he was acting more like a worried and protective dad hovering over his son at the moment.

"Some chemicals spilled into my eyes at the clinic when there was that fire and the explosions. Some doctors have already checked and they say there's no way to restore my vision." Conan said although he was inwardly panicking at Haibara being so close when Gin was right fucking there.

"Looks like you have to find a new career path Conan-kun. You can't be a detective without your eyes." Yukiko said and she sounded torn on whether to be happy or upset at this. Happy because now her baby would need to pick a different, safer, path and upset because her son had wanted to be a detective so badly and had been a damn good one.

"Why can't he?" Gin demanded glaring at the woman since he heard the happy tone in her voice and he didn't like how she seemed happy about him being maimed and having a hard time to do what he loved.

"Detectives rely on their eyes and since he can't use his anymore then he can't be a detective. There's no use in him even trying." Yusaku said and his voice was calm and cold as if he were merely stating a fact and everyone watched how Conan seemed to wilt in on himself at this. Haibara herself turned and glared darkly at the Kudo parents for this. Couldn't they tell that this was not the time nor place and that they weren't helping matters any?

"Besides even if he tried then he'd be unable to protect himself if the killer tried to attack him or stop them if they flee. If he can't do that then there's no use in cornering them which will only drive them to suicide in several cases. A detective who can't stop the killer from killing themselves, a detective who corners and traps a killer with their logic and allows them to commit suicide is no better than a murderer himself." Yusaku said coldly and Conan flinched at this while everyone was glaring at the author or discreetly trying to get him to shut up. Yukiko was openly trying to get her husband to shut up and stop putting his foot in his mouth but he ignored them and stared at his shrunken blind son.

"Or have you forgotten about that case on the island with the pianist killing himself by fire while you only stood there and watc-" SLAP!

Everyone who had been trying to discreetly shut Yusaku up went silent and stared shocked at what had just happened.

"Shut. Your. Mouth. If you ever talk to my boy like that again then I'll do a lot worse than slap you." Rena hissed darkly at Yusaku who looked at her stunned but winced as he nursed his bright red cheek.

"He can be a detective if he works hard to overcome his blindness. If he needs to be able to 'see' the scene and those near him then there are plenty of people who wouldn't mind being his eyes and telling him every little detail he wants or needs to know. He was good enough at protecting himself and others from killers and all when he still had his eyesight and with a bit of training he could be just as good at doing it without his eyesight." Rena said glaring darkly at Yusaku who stared at her. She was a head shorter than him, at the least, and yet she nearly towered over him in her rage.

"And if you ever try to exploit something that obviously traumatized and haunted him again I will shoot you. He feels guilty enough about not being able to stop Simon from committing suicide, and yes I know about that incident, and he doesn't need you dragging it up around everyone and making him feel miserable!" Rena snarled at Yusaku before she turned and picked up Conan in her arms again, shooting glares around the room except for at Haibara.

"I don't even care what you all want right now. You let him try to mentally and emotionally manipulate and abuse Conan with barely a token effort of stopping him. I'm not staying in this room with you all another minute and I'm sure as hell not going to make Conan stay here and deal with this either. Come on baby detective. We promised to take you to the bookstore remember?" Rena said glaring around the room and sneering at them all before speaking softly to Conan as she held him close and moved to walk from the room.

"Wait-" Yusaku tried to reach out to stop them but he had no less than three cops and two FBI agents aiming their guns at him, Yukiko looking furious, Haibara kicking him in the ankles, and Gin and Rena both aiming their guns at his forehead.

"Don't you dare say another word or touch either of them." Gin hissed at Yusaku, his eyes furious as he glared down the shorter man.

"We didn't come here for Conan to be verbally and mentally and emotionally attacked. We sure as hell aren't staying for it. Our son doesn't have to take any of this from any of you. If this is how you're all going to act around him then we're keeping him far from all of you. The only one who isn't in our bad books at the moment is the little girl who wanted to check on him. The rest of you can rot in hell if you're going to treat a little kid like this or just stand by and watch it happen without interfering." Gin said glaring around the room and then putting away his gun as he grabbed Rena gently by the hand and pulled her from the room while she still held Conan who was suspiciously quiet and trembling slightly.

Why…? His own parents thought he couldn't be a detective anymore because he lost his eye sight…why did they sound so happy about it? Why couldn't they have just looked past his blindness?

Did…didn't they love him or want him anymore now that he was blind?

Conan buried his head in Rena's shoulder and felt his tears begin to fall. They didn't want him anymore. They didn't care about him anymore now that he couldn't be a detective and couldn't see.

His own parents didn't want him anymore now that he was blind.

Why?

"Shh. It's alright Conan. You don't need people like them in your life. We won't let them hurt you or stop you from being a detective. It's alright baby detective. Let it all out and then don't worry about it a second longer. We're right here. We're always going to be here for you baby boy." Rena was whispering softly to him and rubbing his back with her hand and he felt a larger more calloused but still gentle hand rest on his back as well. Gin's hand.

"It's alright son. You've got us now and we aren't going to leave you or stop you from doing what makes you happy." Gin's vice was deep but gentle and soothing as he and Rena tried to comfort Conan.

That's right. His parents didn't want him anymore…but Jun and Rena did. They wanted him and cared about him and had been helping him overcome his blindness so that he could still be a detective.

His parents didn't care about or want him anymore? That was fine…Jun and Rena had been acting like parents to him ever since he woke up blind.

They already adopted one child together…maybe if he was lucky they would adopt him too.