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.


Michael the Prankster
April Fool's Day Special

Akai Michael was a prankster. Even at two years old, he loved to pull pranks. His favorite target? His daddy. Sometimes when he needed help from an adult for his pranks, he would get his mother to assist him. Akemi would gladly help. After all, it's not every day that someone like Akai Shuichi, the FBI's Silver Bullet, gets pranked.

Today happened to be April 1st, also known as April Fool's Day. That meant that Michael was going to rain hell over his father. He had called his Uncle Haru the day before for some prank ideas. Haru was ecstatic and gave him an entire list. Michael was sure that Haru just searched it up and read it out loud to him.

Michael finished his preparations for the first prank the night before. He had cut out a large cockroach shape from some black construction paper and stuck it to the inside of the cover of the lamp next to his daddy's bed. He had also moved his father's cigarette from its usual spot on the nightstand so his dad would have to turn on the lamp to look for it.

At five in the morning, Akai woke up with an urge to smoke a cigarette. He had tried his best to quit when he had learned that Akemi was pregnant with Michael, but it was a tough habit to break, especially with a stress-filled job that he had. He felt around the top of his nightstand and frowned when he felt no rectangular box. Thinking he had dropped it on the floor, he turned on the lamp.

When he saw the silhouette of a cockroach, he didn't scream. Instead, he threw it across the room and it shattered loudly against the wall. Akemi was immediately woken up by the sound. "Shuichi-kun, what's wrong!?"

"Nothing, don't worry about it," Akai smiled as he reached under the bed and took out a metal baseball bat. "It's just a bug,"

"A bug?" Akemi frowned. "Shuichi-kun…are you afraid of bugs?"

"I'm not afraid of them," Akai claimed. "I just find them annoying. I need to ensure it's dead. What if it crawls into Michael's room? I don't want Michael to get scared or bitten,"

"So you're first reaction to seeing a bug is to throw the lamp against the wall?" Akemi questioned.

"The roach was on the lamp cover," Akai said as he carefully walked to the light switch and flicked it on. "There it is!" He slammed the baseball bat onto the lamp cover multiple times. "Okay, I think it's dead now,"

Akemi flipped the piece of lamp cover. "It's a construction paper cut out,"

"O-Oh," Akai grabbed a broom and a dustpan and started to sweep up the mess. "I'll replace the lamp later…"

XXX

Later that morning, Michael offered Akai a caramel apple that he and Akemi had just made. Akai gladly accepted it and he immediately wanted to spit it out. It was actually an onion covered in caramel. The caramel sauce had a lot of malic acid and hot sauce added to it. But upon seeing his son's hopeful expression, he forced himself to smile.

"It tastes delicious,"

"Yay," Michael cheered. "Now you can eat the eight more that Mommy and I made just for you! The red ones are for you, the green ones are for me, and the pink ones are for Mommy,"

'Do it for Michael!'

XXX

When Akai opened his office door, he was met with a loud airhorn and immediately jumped back. He had not expected himself to get startled in his own home like that. He quietly removed the airhorn and threw it into the trash.

XXX

Akai knew something was off when he took a shower. The water coming from the showerhead was a slightly pale brown color. When he unscrewed the showerhead, he found a partially dissolved bouillon block. He grabbed the chunk and threw it into the trash. Once he ensured that the showerhead was clean of any remaining bouillon particles, he continued his shower.

The soap wouldn't lather. No matter how much he scrubbed, the soap would not lather. It wouldn't even leave much soap on him. He frowned and applied more pressure. Rather than throwing it away and wasting an entire bar of soap, he took out a knife and skinned the outer layer. He tried scrubbing again and this time the soap lathered. The pieces covered in clear nail polish were thrown into the trash.

XXX

"Michael really loved pranking you today," Akemi said as they were preparing to sleep.

"I bet it was Haru's influence," Akai chuckled. "Then again, Michael might've gotten it from my father. I heard from my mother that Dad was a prankster when he was younger,"

"You still have to eat all of the caramel onions though," Akemi told him. "Or else it would be a waste of food,"

Akai smiled. "Alright, but you have to help me. It was more of the sour that bothered me than the spice,"

"We did dump several cups of malic acid into the caramel sauce,"


I completely forgot about April Fool's so this story was a bit late. Well, it's still April 1st in my time zone at the time I'm posting the chapter.