Chapter 3

Conan was laying on his bed staring at the ceiling of his newly acquired apartment. It's been about a week since he met his twin brother Shinichi.

Conan smirked, "That guy was pretty shocked to see me, I mean it is the very first time we met so I can't blame him for the reaction."

Conan got out of bed and decided to eat breakfast, he opened the door to his fridge and signed.

"Damn it I'm almost out of food"

Conan then just casually grabbed the carton of milk, he saw that it was almost empty. "Eh, what the hell" he shrugged. Conan then chugged the rest of the carton of milk, finishing it in an instance.

"Looks like I need to get more food," Conan said, the young man grabbed his coat and hat and left the apartment and headed to the store.

Conan walked through the crowd of people in the street making sure to hide his face. Once he arrived at the market he started to pick for items he was looking for, as he was shopping, however.

"Um Conan-San," a female voice said.

Conan looked up and saw that he was face to face with Mouri Ran.

"Oh you're Mouri Ran-San correct" Conan asked her.

Ran nodded "Yes, are you shopping"

Conan nodded "Yeah I'm almost out of food at my apartment"

Ran smiled "I see"

Conan saw that Ran was being hesitant about something "Are you going to ask me about my brother"

Ran looked at him "Huh"

Conan smirked "You're going to ask me why I don't spend time with my brother and try to reconnect with my family"

Ran was surprised he just as perceptive as Shinichi "Yeah" she nodded "Why don't you want to know your family it's been 17 years since you've been missing"

Conan signed as they left the store "Like I told my brother it's the only way to keep them safe"

"From what?" Ran asked, but Conan refused to answer her. "Don't you want to know them, know your family". Those words made Conan stop, it was like he heard those words before.

"Don't you want to know your family"

The words played back to him, something he heard a long time ago. Conan quickly shook off the thought and continue to walk "No"

"Why not" Ran ran up to him.

"Because I don't want to," Conan told her and walked away.

"What?" Ran said.

"I don't know them, and they don't know me. So there's no point in talking to them" Conan looked away from her.

"Then why did you come to see Shinichi?" Ran asked. "If you don't want them involved why did you decide to go see Shinichi"

Conan was silent at this, refusing to answer the girl and just walked away "Why do you always pry into others business? Why don't you just leave me alone"

Ran frowned "You're Shinichi's brother, if you're important to him, you're important to me" she placed her hand on his shoulder.

Conan brushed her off her shoulder and continued to walk away, leaving Ran just standing there seeing him leave.

Ran signed "He's just as stubborn as Shinichi" it was then something Conan said earlier that surprised her.

"Why do you always pry into others business"

Ran stroked her chin "why did he say that, this is the first time we actually talked, do I remind of him someone"

Conan was walking back to his apartment still a bit rattled with his encounter with Ran. "Why are you two so much alike". As Conan was heading back to his apartment however, he saw that two police cars blaring their sirens drove past him.

"Hmm" Conan looked as the cars "Something happened"

…

Conan arrives at the Beika City Riverbank, and he sees Kudo Shinichi along with Megure and his subordinates standing over the body of a deceased woman.

"I never would have thought she of all people would die," Sato said sadly looking at the body.

Takagi nodded "Yes I'm shocked as well"

Shinichi who had just arrived at the scene raised an eyebrow "You know her"

Megure nodded "She's a detective in our division Detective Sayo Fujimura, one of my subordinates"

Shinichi had sympathetic look "I'm sorry"

Conan watched from a short distance as Shinichi tried to solve this. Conan could only smirk as he saw his brother. When he saw that his brother was struggling a little to solve it he decided to himself he will step in.

Megure had solemn look "its okay, for now, we have to find her killer, has forensics determined the time of death yet"

"She died yesterday morning," Conan said.

Megure, Shinichi, Takagi, and Sato turned to the direction of the voice and saw that a young man in a brown trench coat was looking over the body.

Shinichi eyes widen at who it was recognizing the man "Why are you here"

Takagi looked at Shinichi with a surprised look "You know him"

Shinichi nodded "Yeah he's.." the man stood up and came face to face with Megure and the others and his eyes went wide.

"Eh he looks just like Kudo-Kun," Sato said.

Takagi nodded "No way"

Megure then quickly regained his composure "Who are you"

Conan smirked "I'm Conan"

"Conan?" Megure blinked.

Shinichi sheepishly laughed and walked up to Conan "Yeah he's my…"

"Distance relative" Conan finished shaking Shinichi's hand off of him.

Megure nodded "Oh I see and do you have the last name"

Conan nodded "Yeah its Edogawa"

"Edogawa Conan what a strange name," Takagi said only to get hit by Sato for his rudeness.

"Anyway Edogawa-Kun, why do you think Fujimura was killed yesterday morning," Sato asked him.

"It's the condition of the body, it's still rather fresh and in good condition, so that means she died rather recently, don't you think," Conan told her and the officer nodded seeing the condition of the body.

As they talked another officer appeared "Megure-Keibu forensics have determined that Fujimura-san died around yesterday morning"

Shinichi and the officers were shocked seeing that Conan was right on the mark.

Megure nodded "I see thank you Takeshi-Kun"

Conan then puts a hand under his chin "Now who would want to murder her"

Takagi looked at Sato "If I remember correctly Fujimura-san was working a political corruption case wasn't she"

Sato nodded "Yeah she mentioned she had a breakthrough in the case, she said this politician may have had a connection to mobsters and Yakuza"

"Maybe it had something to do with that," Takagi suggested.

"No I don't think so" Conan interjected "Most cases of mobsters executing traitors involve them crushing the spy's jaw and shooting them three times in the chest, but the body was only shot three times. So the murderer wanted to cover something up"

"Cover something up," Shinichi said thinking.

"To think they shot her two more times just to cover up their deeds," Takashi said. This statement made Conan wide eyes a little, and smirk.

Shinichi seeing the smirk was rather surprised "Eh he figured it out already"

Megure turned towards his subordinates "Okay we'll head back to the station and try to find anything Fujimura-Kun was investigating"

"That won't be necessary Megure-Keibu" Conan stopped him "Because the murderer is standing right here among us"

Megure, Takagi, and Sato went wide-eyed in shock.

"Eh, what do you mean Edogawa-Kun?" Megure asked.

Shinichi nodded "Yeah what do you mean"

Conan smirked "Like I said the killer is right here" Conan then pointed his finger at the culprit "The killer is you right Takeshi-Keiji"

Takeshi wide-eyed "Eh"

"The Killer is Takeshi-Kun," Takagi said, shocked.

"What?" Sato said, shocked as well.

Takeshi was sweating "What do you mean I'm the killer"

"Like I said it's you," Conan said "That's why you want to stay close to the case"

Sato then placed her hand on Conan "Wait you can't just waltz in and just accuse an officer of killing another"

Conan smirked "Well he did kill her and I have the evidence to prove it" Conan then looked at Takeshi "Hey lend me your gun"

Takeshi went a little white "Are you kidding why would I hand my gun to a civilian"

Megure scoffed "I thought you might have something but you're just spouting nonsense"

Conan kept his smirk "If we investigate his gun, and come up empty then I'm wrong"

Megure frowned "I had enough of this Takeshi-Kun show us your gun"

Takeshi did not answer his sweat was dropping "But sir"

"If we prove him wrong he'll leave now, show us your gun" Megure ordered, but Takeshi did nothing.

"Oi Takeshi-Kun," Takagi said.

Sato gave him a kind smile "Just show us we'll prove you're innocent"

Conan still had his playful smirk "in this city it's hard for an amateur to get bullets, especially if they're government-issued and on short notice" This made a statement made Shinichi realize the truth as well.

"Oi Takeshi-Kun" Megure shouted.

"He's probably thinking how am I going to explain the three missing bullets right?" Conan looked at Takeshi.

"Oi Takeshi show us your gun, prove to us you didn't do it" Megure yelled at the officer.

Takeshi then silently began to reach for his gun, which made Sato and Takagi have small looks of relief seeing he was cooperating, but to their shock, Takeshi took out his gun and pointed it directly at Conan.

Megure, Takagi, and Sato were shocked.

"Takeshi stop," Megure shouted.

Takeshi was about to pull the trigger, but to his shock, Conan knocked the gun out of his hand and pinned him to the ground"

"Ah" Takeshi grunted in pain.

"Running is meaningless," Conan told him "The murder happened at the warehouse that's about 140 meters there, there the police will find all the evidence you clumsily left behind"

Takeshi was pale. "How do you know that? No one is supposed to know"

Megure had a solemn look "we'll hear all of it at the station" he then took out his handcuffs "Now let's go" Takeshi was escorted to the patrol car in cuffs and was driven off to the station.

Takagi was still pretty shocked "I never would have thought it was Takeshi-Kun"

Sato nodded "Yeah out of everyone in the station he had the strongest passion as an officer"

"He was probably paid off to kill her" Conan suggested.

"Huh," Takagi and Sato said.

"He was a mole for that corrupt politician she was investigating and ordered him to silence her," Shinichi told them.

Sato nodded "I see"

Shinichi then looked at Conan. "So how did you figure out"

Takagi nodded "Yes how did you figure it out so fast"

Conan signed "it's what he said earlier"

"Huh" Shinichi, Sato, and Takagi blinked.

"He said that the killer shot her two more times," Conan told them, Shinichi's eyebrows raised in realization "now if a victim was killed by a gun anyone would assume the killer shot three times, but somehow Takeshi knew she was killed by the first bullet. The only one who would know that.."

"Would be the killer" Shinichi finished and Conan nodded.

'That's how I knew," Conan said and looked at Shinichi "seriously how did you not notice that"

Shinichi laughed sheepishly "Sorry I was too lost in thought, and if you don't my mind me asking why did you come here"

"I was nearby, it was a pure coincidence" Conan answered simply. "Anyway I'm heading home" and he then started to walk away.

"Wait I'll go with you," Shinichi said as he went to catch up with him.

Conan signed "Do what you want"

As the two were heading to Conan's apartment there was an awkward silence between the two. Conan saw Shinichi was rather nervous and he felt he wanted to ask him something. So Conan decided to break the silence.

"I ran into your girlfriend earlier," Conan said.

Shinichi blushed "eh Ran she's not my girlfriend"

"Eh is that so," Conan teased.

"Yeah" Shinichi blushed "well not yet anyway"

Conan smirked at his embarrassment. The two finally arrived at the apartment and Shinichi was rather surprised at how nice it was.

"How can you afford this if you're in hiding?" Shinichi asked.

Conan smirked "A friend or associate of mine gave it to me for exchange for information"

Shinichi nodded "I see"

Conan then sees once again Shinichi was rather sad about something, Ran's words played back in his mind.

Conan signed "Hey hand me your phone," he asked his brother holding his hand out.

Shinichi nodded "Um okay" Shinichi took out his phone and handed it to Conan. He then saw Conan type something into his after a few seconds Conan handed his phone back to Shinichi. Then Shinichi's eyes widened at what he saw "is this.."

"It's my number" Conan finished "Call me if you want, and remember what I said earlier, for now, I'm Conan Edogawa for safety"

Shinichi smiled and nodded "Yeah thank you, Conan"

Conan smiled back at him "No problem Aniki"

"Eh," Shinichi said.

Conan smirked "Well you are technically the oldest"

Shinichi smiled "Yeah I guess" he then looked at the time "Oh I should go home see ya Conan"

Shinichi ran off back to his house, and Conan smiled as he did. Conan walked back up to his apartment. He entered the apartment and was greeted with an empty home as usual.

He signed and went to his kitchen and grabbed a drink from the fridge. Conan then walked over to his laptop. Conan just scrolled through the internet for anything, and when he was done he pulled up an old photo he had saved.

Conan looked at the photo and smiled, the picture he was looking at had four people in it. One of them was him alongside two women and another man. One of the women had long dark hair and she was locking arms with the other man who had shart green eyes, a beanie and long dark hair. The other woman had short light brown hair and she was sporting a lab coat with a red sweater. His mind then flashed back to when the picture was taken.

"Hey come on let's go Dazai-Kun," the dark-haired woman said.

Conan smiled thinking about it "Shiho, Akemi-San"

A.N.

Here is Chapter 3 for this one it is mainly Conan's perspective just a short chapter. You know him meeting Ran officially, who obviously reminds him of someone you can already guess who. For this case portion its something I just came up with when watching Bungou Stray Dogs. I have difficulty writing mysteries so I'll more than likely stick with the Canon with some key differences. So what do you all think to be sure to review and I will see you guys next time.