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 III

Shukichi was glad that Masumi was at school at the moment. Currently, he was preventing Mary from rushing out the door and to the middle school. "Kaa-san, you can't just sudden burst into the school and start calling Tristan your son!"

"But he is my son!" Mary snapped. "The test results confirmed it! You were the one who started to suspect that he was Haru! Why don't you want to bring him home!?" Her behavior was out of character but she didn't care that her poker face had broken. It's been years and she finally found her missing boy.

"I do want to bring him home!" Shukichi shouted. "But we can't act recklessly! Think logically, Kaa-san. Haru's a minor meaning someone has guardianship over him. Sharon Vineyard has guardianship over him. If we bring her to court, she'll claim our documents are fake. She'll end up paying some other doctor to conduct a maternity test and fake the results,"

Mary stopped struggling against Shukichi's hold. "You're right, Shukichi, but it's painful. He's called someone else his mother right in front of me. I want to hold him close. I want to tell him that his real mother loves him,"

"He only knows us as the mother and brother of his friend," Shukichi reminded. "If we thrust the truth onto him like this, he might be in denial and refuse to be near us. For now, we should just be grateful that Haru's been raised with love and care and that he's happy and healthy,"

"I don't think we should tell Masumi just yet," Mary said. "She might slip up. Maybe in a few years we'll tell her. And I'm sure Shuichi is busy. He can't afford any distractions during his mission,"

They'll get Mitsuharu back, no matter how long it takes.

XXX

"So, we'll finally meet this mystery boyfriend of yours," Jonah teasingly twirled a knife in his hand.

"Please don't scare him away," Akemi groaned. "You said you were just going to run a background check on him,"

"Since you don't have any older siblings, we'll take the roll of giving your boyfriend the threat talk," Jonah chuckled. "What? It's a tradition in every family!"

Haru smiled. 'All of our threats are empty either way. Although Akai is using you to get close to Shiho initially, he will eventually fall in love with you,'

There was a knock at the door and Akemi opened it. "Hi Dai-kun. Please, come in," She opened the door wider to allow him inside her apartment. "The two boys are my friends, Jonah and Tristan,"

"So you're Moroboshi Dai?" Jonah continued to twirl the knife. "Let's get things straight. If you hurt Akemi in any way, I'll hunt you down and torture you,"

Dai stared at Jonah for a moment before turning to Akemi. "He's not holding you hostage, is he?"

"No, he's just being overprotective," Akemi snatched the knife out of Jonah's hand.

"I'm serious about the torturing part," Jonah partially let his Cognac side show and he drew another knife from his pocket.

"Please tell me you didn't bring your entire knife set with you," Akemi muttered.

Tris decided to take the normal route. "Ignore Jonah. I'm Tristan," The fourteen year old offered a handshake. "Akemi's like an older sister to me so please take good care of her,"

'I need to be wary of that Jonah guy,' Dai thought. 'He's most likely a member of the organization. This Tristan boy is young, but Sherry was born into the organization too. He might just be acting like a normal person,'

"So," There was no way Tris would take the "normal" route. After all, he had been raised by Vermouth. "What are your intentions with Akemi? It better not be a relationship built solely on sex or I swear—"

"TRISTAN VINEYARD!" Akemi's face was beet red.

Even Dai hadn't expected that sort of question and was slightly blushing. 'I-I need to get on their good side if I'm to join the organization! Akemi would hate it if I had a strained relationship with her friends,'

"Can we please just have a normal lunch?" Akemi sighed. 'And this is my life outside of the organization…'

"Fine," The two agreed.

"Jonah, give me all of your knives," Akemi was passed the knife Jonah was twirling. "I said all of them,"

"Tsk," Jonah handed ten more knives to her.

XXX

"I think everything went well," Jonah said as he drove Tris to his and Vermouth's shared apartment. "We asked a lot of questions that tested if his fake backstory had any holes,"

"I'm glad you're not using your knowledge of future events for evil," Tris commented. "You'd be one hell of an adversary if you were evil,"

"That sounds like a fanfiction idea," Jonah laughed. "Someone should really write that one. All dimensional traveling fics I've read have the outliers be the good guys. What if there was an outlier who decided to be evil?"

"Isn't that sort of us though?" Tris pointed out. "We're part of the organization,"

"But we're not using our knowledge to expose Akai, threaten his family, reveal that APTX 4869 has the ability to shrink, etc." Jonah listed. "I meant someone who was truly evil and wanted the protagonist to lose everything,"

XXX

It took Dai five months until he became a member of the organization. Tris and Jonah could see the hurt in Akemi's eyes when she learned of it. She tried to smile and continue as if life were normal, but the two, along with Shiho, knew that it was a façade. It took him six months until he gained the codename Rye. Rye had not interacted with Cognac and Fallen Angel nor was he aware of their appearances yet.

Rye was assigned to a mission with Fallen Angel and Cognac. They were to kidnap a company president's son. Normally, Cognac wouldn't be going on recon missions since he was a torturer, but he had been complaining about not have new victims, which was of course an act because he hated torturing people. Vermouth and Gin didn't want their son to be with a newbie by himself so to shut everyone up, Karasuma assigned Cognac to the mission.

"I don't trust Rye," Gin told his son as he was getting ready. "Something's off about him,"

"Yep," Fallen Angel nodded. "Don't worry Dad, I'll be on the lookout,"

When Fallen Angel and Cognac met up with Rye at the meeting point, Rye was slightly shocked. "I had a feeling that the two of you were also members of the organization, but I didn't think Tristan would already have a codename,"

"Codenames are given based on skills, not age," Fallen Angel responded.

The mission went smoothly. The kidnapping was successfully and once the money was transferred, the company president and his son were both terminated. Fallen Angel tried to pretend he didn't notice the several glances that Rye had sent his way. He just hoped that Rye was just cautious of him and Cognac.

XXX

Tristan was fifteen and Masumi was thirteen when Masumi had seen Rye at the train station. After Rye had finished his mission that day, he immediately called his mother. "Where's Masumi?"

"Shuichi? She's upstairs doing her homework. Why? Is something wrong?"

"She called out to me at the train station when two of my coworkers were with me," Akai informed. "I don't know if they'll try to dig up more information or track you guys down, but you need to leave Japan right away. Shukichi's safe since he doesn't look like me much and the fact that if a rising shogi player suddenly left, it would be even more suspicious,"

"We can't,"

"Why not?" Akai asked.

"Because…"

"Are you being held hostage?" His mother had never been hesitant to move when it came to their safety.

"No. It's just…Masumi's friend lives here. They're really close and Masumi thinks of him as an older brother figure,"

"Shukichi and I had to leave our friends behind in England," Akai pointed out. "She'll understand that it's for her own safety,"

XXX

"You actually came to see us off," Mary stared at Tristan as Shukichi led him over to her and Masumi.

"I…may or may not have gotten lost," Tris admitted. "Also I don't have a driver's license and Jonah's busy at work,"

"Tris-nii, I'll miss you!" Masumi hugged him tightly. "We can call and text. That way even though we're miles away, we can still be friends,"

"I'll miss you too, little sister," Tris gently ruffled her hair. "The same goes for you, Mary-san,"

Mary couldn't restrain herself and also brought Tris into a hug. "If you're in trouble, you can call me,"

"I know," Tris whispered so only she could hear. "I know…Mama…"

"You—"

"Looks like your plane's gonna leave soon!" Tris suddenly said. "Have a safe trip you two!"

"Bye Tris-nii! By Kichi-nii!" Masumi waved as the two were soon out of sight.

Tris then turned to Shukichi with a serious expression. "How'd you and Mama find out my true identity?"

"Wait, you also knew!?" Shukichi exclaimed.

"Shh, not so loud," Tris shushed. "Why don't we head over to your place to discuss this?"

XXX

"Do you really remember us?" Shukichi asked hopefully. "Do you remember your real family?"

"Pierrot-nii became the Silver Bullet of the FBI," Tris said. "And you're on your way to being the holder of all seven titles, Taiko Meijin-nii,"

"How were you able to tell that we knew who you were?" Shukichi inquired.

"The way you were treating me was too different from when you and Mama first met me," Tris explained. "I saw your expression change when I finished my drawing of Kohji,"

"It was the yukata," Shukichi informed. "He never wore that in public but he did own one with the exact type of fox pattern. You and I picked it out for him. We…slipped sleeping pills into your hot cocoa and took a buccal sample from you,"

Tris glared at him. "That was a stupid move,"

"Stupid?" Shukichi frowned. "We needed to know if you were really Mitsuharu!"

"Were you trying to get what's left of our family killed!?" Tris snapped. "Look, I get it. I know what it's like to miss family. I missed you guys too but I can't return. Do you know why Shuichi wanted Mama and Masumi to leave Japan? Oh, I bugged the living room by the way. I'll probably have to remove it when the house gets sold. Shuichi's infiltrating a criminal organization that spreads across the globe. The second in command of that organization was the one who killed Kohji. My mother is the boss' favorite and my father is a high ranking agent. I—"

Shukichi wrapped his arms around him. "It's going to be okay, Mitsuharu,"

"I don't want anyone to die…" Tristan finally broke down. "Ever since I was three years old, I was trained to kill. I have killed. I'm a murderer,"

"You killed for your own survival," Shukichi reminded. "If they hadn't taken you away, then you wouldn't be like this. It's not your fault. You're a victim,"

'I shouldn't have gotten him involved,' Tristan thought. 'I shouldn't have told him about the organization,' "If you see me in public, don't approach me unless I initiate the conversation first. That's the mistake Masumi made,"

Shukichi nodded. "Alright,"

Mary probably told Masumi the entire story when they were safely in England.