The Clothes Make The Man
(Or The Not-Boy)
By Shyro Foxfeather
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Conan stared blankly at the man. "What?" He sputtered in a startled manner.
The man frowned, his beard scrunching up a bit. "Your uniform is out of date." He retorted before a short pause. "Where did you get that from? We haven't had a dress code for the last five years!"
Shinichi guised in the body of the young Edogawa froze. "But, this is what I wear almost all the time anyway!" He pleaded.
The man—Kishou-san—slouched wearily in his seat, as he was the Principal. "I don't care of you wear it all the time. Where did you get it?"
"Ah-well…" Conan paused and looked solemn from his place in the small guest's chair. "Shinichi-nii-san let me have it when I first got here. My clothes… were all dirty and we needed to wash them and I liked these better so he let me keep them." The not-boy feigned a laugh, sporting a boyish grin.
Kishou-san's frown deepened a bit. "Kudo Shinichi?"
Conan stared at the man. "Yeah…"
There was a very strained silence in which it seemed that Kishou-san was trying unconsciously to intimidate Conan…it didn't work.
"Then I guess that's all right then!" Laughed the man surprisingly warm manner. "But seriously you won't have the luxury of wearing whatever you want to school when you're older so you should have fun with that now!"
"Hai!" Chirped Conan and thanked the stars he wasn't in trouble for any of this. He had never stopped to consider the fact that the school might've changed their dress codes…and he liked suits.
Kishou-san pushed Conan out the door still chuckling over their talk. With a click the door was shut and the man slumped back into his chair. "Thank god…" He muttered. "I thought that was Kudo at first. That boy has no idea how much he looks like that little scrapper…"
He paused and snickered a bit. "I don't think I'll be able to keep this job if he turns out to be like a mini-Kudo!"
He laughs because he's relieved. We laugh because of what he doesn't know.
Moral: Research is your friend!
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Disclaimer: I don't own Meitantei Conan and I probably wouldn't want to.
I noticed when watching an episode that shows him at school that he wears a uniform and nobody else does. Wouldn't someone in the series notice::Boggles:
I mean…he states in the first episode—the Japanese one anyway—that it was his Primary School Uniform.
