Detective Conan Hattori Shots
By: FunahoMisaki
(A/N: I own nothing and read last chapter)
"Heiji!" Shizuka immediately speed walked to her son and pulled him into a hug when she got to the hospital and found him in the waiting room, her husband on her heels and placing a hand on his sons shoulder.
"Ma…Dad." Heiji said and his arms wrapped around his mother who held him tightly.
"It's alright Heiji. We're here." Shizuka immediately began trying to sooth and comfort her son despite being a bit paler than normal herself and the worry in her eyes.
"What happened?" Heizo asked as he looked at the rest of the group gathered which included Inspector Otaki, Ran Mouri, Detective Mouri, and Kazuha-chan. All four of them had blood on their clothes and Heizo felt his chest squeeze knowing that the blood belonged to the young boy that his son and wife had all but adopted.
He had heard so much about the boy from his son and then when his wife met him and heard him call their son 'nii'…
His wife already loved him so much and gushed about him ever since she came back from Beika and she absolutely loved listening to Heiji talk about the boy for hours on end.
The two of them adored Conan so much already and Heizo was fond of the boy simply because his family loved the boy and were fond of him.
"We were trying to track down a serial killer, the wallet murderer as the news have started calling him. Hattori-kun had a lead and so he went to check it out while we who had followed Conan who had smuggled himself along for the ride were leaving with Inspector Otaki and were supposed to be heading to your place." Kogoro started and he looked more serious than most people ever saw him and he wasn't happy at all, his hands clenched into trembling fists at his sides and he was opening and closing a cigarette box but not taking any of them out.
"I got a lead on Numabuchi and couldn't let it pass by so had to take them with me. I thought that since Kazuha-chan is good at Akido and Mouri is not just a renowned detective but also known to have Judo training it'd be fine. We found Numabuchi thanks to the boy…when we got him out of the upper room and was taking him to a car he pretended to trip onto a pile of garbage and grabbed a large knife." Otaki said his head bowed and fully blaming himself for what happened to the boy. If only he had made sure the kid stayed in the car…if only he had told another officer to take them to the Hattori house.
"He swung it at the officers ta get some room then went runnin ta the door where Ran-chan was scolding Conan-kun fer wanderin off. He…the knife was originally meant fer Ran-chan but Conan-kun dived in front of it. When Numabuchi let go I managed to pin 'im but Conan-kun had already been…" Kazuha finished up the story while Ran buried her face in her hands. If only she had reacted better, faster…she was a black belt in Karate and a Karate champion! She shouldn't have frozen up…
If she hadn't frozen up then Conan-kun wouldn't be…
"We got him here as fast as we could but there was a lot of blood…" Kogoro said shaking his head in the negative. It didn't look good.
"He was wheeled inta surgery immediately. No one's…no one's come out ta tell us anythin' yet." Heiji said from where he was leaving his face buried into his mothers shoulder despite being a whole head taller than her.
"He'll be fine." Heizo said immediately as he gently squeezed his sons shoulder with one hand, his other arm wrapping around his wife to hold her as well.
"How can you know that? There was a lot of blood." Ran asked looking up at Heizo who tightened his grip on his son and wife.
"Shizu and Heiji both speak highly of him. He is a strong clever little boy…he will not be beaten by something like this…by someone like Numabuchi." Heizo said and Shizuka turned her head into his shoulder to hide her face as she slightly leaned into her husband.
"Otaki-san we will, however, be talking later about taking civilians to a crime scene. Mouri-san is one thing being a detective himself…Kazuha-chan, Ran-chan, and Conan-kun however are different." Heizo said to his inspector while Kazuha's father came barreling into the room and immediately pulling his daughter into a hug, not even asking about what had happened.
"I understand sir. I'll take whatever punishment you give me." Otaki said seriously as he glanced up at his superior and nodded his head. The group waited in tense silence for hours, Heiji eventually standing up from his mothers embrace and pacing the room while she relaxed into her husbands chest and clenched his suit tightly in her hands.
"Anyone here for Conan Edogawa?" A doctor eventually came into the waiting room and everyone immediately sprung to their feet.
"We all are!" Ran was immediately awake and on her feet as everyone crowded around the doctor, some a little calmer than others.
"Well the good news is that he's going to be perfectly fine and after a few weeks you'd never know he was stabbed." The doctor said and it seemed like everyone deflated with how much relief filled the room and how much tension drained out.
"You said that's the good news? Is there anything else?" Heizo was the one to ask as he kept his arms around his relieved wife.
"Ah he'll be kept under observation for a few days and bed ridden for at least a week or two just to be safe. Thankfully most of the damage was superficial. The knife hit his collar bone and broke off inside of him so we had to operate which means there will be a scar. Part of it did break off and was very close to his heart which made it difficult to extract without causing even more damage but we managed to do it and his internal organs were left intact and undamaged. Most of the damage was to the muscle and bone but that will heal." The doctor said smiling slightly since the 'bad' news wasn't even really bad in this case. The little boy got very lucky.
"I'm afraid there's something concerning however. We couldn't help but notice some scars on him…there's a more recent gunshot scar on his abdomen." The doctor said making the Osaka families look stunned and confused.
"Ah. He got that when exploring a cave with three of his friends. Some murderers had a gun and Conan got hit when they fired at the kids. He needed a blood transfusion from Ran." Kogoro said making the doctor nod his head slightly but not look happy about it.
"There are also some other scars on him we've found and…some of them are at least three or four years old." The doctor said making Ran and Kogoro exchange horrified looks while Heiji winced.
"But…but Conan's only…he's only six…" Ran whispered softly and Heiji winced again but hid it although no one else would have said anything. They all were wincing or looking horrified at hearing that.
"Do you have the contact information or any way to get ahold of whoever he was staying with at the time?" The doctor asked and Kogoro shook his head.
"No…his mother came to visit once but left for America again not a day later. There was no mention of his father and she just has a stipend for his care deposited in my bank account electronically once a month. We haven't gotten a single letter, email or phone call from her ever since that visit." Kogoro said and he didn't look happy now and in fact had such a dark dangerous look on his face that it scared Kazuha and Ran slightly.
"This…it…it explains his reaction when his mother first came to visit…I thought it was just because she said she looked different…but…now…" Ran trailed off looking upset and mad with herself and Kogoro put a hand on her shoulder in comfort and support.
"If you ever hear from or see his mother again then kindly take her into custody and have her arrested for at least Child Endangerment or Neglect if not outright Abuse." The doctor said sternly and making Kogoro nod once hard while Shizuka looked at her husband.
"Dear…can we…" Shizuka's voice was soft and quiet but Heizo looked into her eyes and immediately knew what she was asking.
"Ah. We can adopt him. He might prefer to stay with Mouri-san though since he is settled in with them and has friends at school."
"Thank you dear."
"Anything for you. We'll look into the paperwork tomorrow after making sure that he'll be okay."
"I'll prepare a room for him for when he's in Osaka. Heiji…help me with your little brothers room when we get home?"
"Sure mom."
