Mitsuharu Shorts and What-Ifs

Title: Mitsuharu Shorts and What-Ifs
Rating: T
Fandom: Detective Conan
Summary: This is a collection of stories that revolves around my main fanfiction, Mitsuharu. It will contain shorts that are canon to the Mitsuharu storyline as well as What-Ifs.

What if Haru was kidnapped by Vermouth and raised to become a crow?
Part II

The days went by. When Shukichi dropped by Masumi and Mary's place for a visit, he was interested in this boy that his little sister referred to as "Tris-nii." Masumi invited Tris over to her house. "I…I can't," Tris nervously refused. 'They'll recognize me. I want to go see them, to tell them who I truly am, but I can't. I can't go home until the organization has fallen,'

"I'm sure Kichi-nii and Mama would be happy to meet you," Masumi said. "You're a great friend and it's not like you were a bad influence on me,"

"Uh…I have to get my parents' permission!" Tris brought up. "I'm not sure if they'll let me go,"

Unfortunately, Masumi managed to snatch Tris' phone and texted to the contact labeled Mom: Can I spend the night at a friend's house? To Tris' horror, Vermouth agreed to let him go. Tris silently groaned. 'The one time I wish Vermouth was overprotective and refused!' "I'll pack some stuff for the sleepover then,"

XXX

Mary and Shukichi were cautious people. They had lost Kohji, Tsutomu, and Haru. They didn't want to lose Masumi. When Masumi started seeing one of her friends as a brother figure, they wanted to make sure that Tristan Vineyard was not a bad person and not someone who would lead her down a dark path. They refused to let the family break apart even more.

There was a knock at the door and Mary opened it. "Hello," Tristan greeted nervously. "I'm Tristan Vineyard," 'Please don't notice the similarities between me and Akai! I've obscured my face as best as possible!'

"Tris-nii!" Masumi rushed to the door. "This is my mom,"

"Pleased to meet you, Sera-san," Tristan bowed respectfully. "Thank you for having me over,"

Masumi grabbed Tris' arm and pulled him inside. "I'll introduce you to my brother,"

"Hello Haneda-san," Tris greeted the shogi player. He was glad that his years of training helped him maintain a poker face, though inwardly he flinched at the scrutinizing glares Mary and Shukichi were giving him. "My name is Tristan Vineyard,"

Masumi and Tris surfed the internet and watched hilarious videos. They attempted to recreate some scenes, of course making the voices overdramatic and exaggerated. When Mary started preparing dinner, Tristan offered to help. Mary was reluctant to let him, under the guise of him being a guest, but eventually caved in when Masumi also wanted to pitch in.

They decided to make homemade pizza. They used premade dough so they didn't have to wait for it to rise. Once everything was rolled out, they poured on the marinara sauce and sprinkled cheese. Typically, mozzarella cheese would've been used. But both Tris and Masumi preferred orange cheese and sprinkled a bunch of shredded cheddar onto the sauce. For the toppings they had pepperoni, bacon, Italian sausages, and ham.

The pizza cooked relatively fast and all four of them began to eat. "So Tristan," Mary began. "Masumi said that your mother is the famous actress Sharon Vineyard? And your sister is Chris Vineyard?"

"Yeah," Tris forced himself to say. "My biological father…he's missing. Mom met another guy and he became my father figure. Although he doesn't share the same DNA as me, he's my dad," The same was with Vermouth. They were both his parents, whether he wanted them or not. The time they had spent raising him, outside of organization business of course, was filled with happy memories.

"Your step-dad sounds nice," Masumi commented.

"Yeah, nice," Tris restrained himself from laughing out loud. 'I never thought there'd be a day where someone would call Gin, the cold blooded murderer of the organization, a nice guy,' "It must be nice having an older brother," 'I'm jealous of you, Masumi. Though I had two years of time spent with both Akai and Shukichi, you had twelve years of time spent with Shukichi. Sure, I had Akemi who was like an older sister to me, but I miss Pierrot-nii and Taiko Meijin-nii,'

"I have three brothers," The twelve year old claimed.

"Masumi," Mary warned.

"You don't have to talk about the rest of your family if you don't want to," Tris told her, sensing the atmospheric shift. 'Of course they don't want to talk about Akai since they'll be used as leverage against him if they find out about their connection to him. And they wouldn't want to stir up the trauma of my kidnapping. Masumi's only twelve so I don't think she fully understands the importance of this secrecy yet,'

"Do you have any hobbies?" Shukichi attempted to change the topic as to not spoil the mood.

"I like drawing," Tris smiled. "I also sometimes get paid to edit the movies that my mom and sister are in,"

"Hey, why don't you show them your art skills?" Masumi suggested. "Tris-nii is really good at drawing!"

"I still need to improve," Tris mumbled. "I haven't really figured out how to shade correctly and my coloring is pretty flat. I can't even draw the wrinkles in clothes yet,"

"I'd like to see some of your drawings," Shukichi said.

Once they finished eating, Tris gave in and took out his sketchbook. It was one he had recently bought so only a few pages were filled in. The drawings were mostly of animals as well as anime characters. "Can you draw a celebrity from memory?" Masumi requested. "You probably saw a lot of celebrities whenever you were with your mom and sister,"

"Let me use a random celebrity generator real quick," Tris took out his phone and went to a website. After a single click, a name popped up. 'Of all the celebrities it could have picked, it chose Haneda Kohji,' "Guess I'm drawing Kohji then," He drew the structure lines lightly in pencil and then added the face, neck, torso, arms, and legs. 'Hmm, what clothes should I draw him in? Perhaps a yukata or kimono? I know he had one that had foxes all over. I really liked that one,'

After a couple more minutes, the line work was finished as he started to add flat colors. He then did a pattern of shogi pieces for the background. Out of habit, he signed the bottom right corner and then handed the finished piece to Masumi. "It's amazing!"

"Why don't you kids pick out a movie to watch and we'll make some hot cocoa?" Mary's suggested.

Tris was a bit confused at the sudden change in tone but shrugged and started to search through the movie list with Masumi. In the kitchen, Shukichi and Mary were staring at the drawing. "That yukata…Haru and I picked it out for Kohji as a Christmas present. It was custom made and only our family and Kohji's parents saw him wearing it. That's the exact yukata that Tristan drew,"

"It could just be a coincidence," Mary responded. She didn't want any false hopes, despite the fact that she desperately wanted to find her baby boy. "Masumi's friend loves to draw animals,"

"I want to be sure," Shukichi said. "Mom, can you do a maternity test?"

"I doubt he'd agree," Mary looked in the direction of the living room.

"We just need a buccal swab from him," Shukichi reminded. "It can be when he's asleep,"

"If it'll confirm or deny your suspicions, then we can do a maternity test," Mary sighed.

They poured two mugs of hot cocoa, Shukichi secretly spiking Tristan's with sleeping pills. Once Tris was out cold and Masumi had also fallen asleep, Shukichi took a buccal sample from Tris. He sent Mary's and Tristan's DNA samples to a lab to be tested.

The next morning, Tristan was picked up by Jonah. During the car ride home, Tristan started sobbing. "I was so happy. It was like I had finally returned home. We were only missing Papa and Shuichi and then we'd be a whole family again!"

Jonah patted his friend's shoulder. "Be patient, Haru. The organization will eventually fall,"

Tristan nodded. "I can't return to them just yet. The organization will either kill me or drag me back. My family will be murdered. I can't risk that,"

XXX

Two days later, the results came in. Mary read the papers once, twice, and a third time. She didn't want to be mistaken. She fell to her knees, and clutched the papers close to her chest. "Tristan Vineyard is Akai Mitsuharu…"

Yeah, it's kinda lame how they started suspecting Tris was Haru. I couldn't really think of anything else.