Fade to Darkness

Title: Fade to Darkness
Rating: M
Fandom: Detective Conan
Summary: Reincarnation only existed in fanfiction, yet Michael Leo Field was reborn as Akai Senichi, the younger twin brother of Akai Shuichi. However, his new life takes a dark turn; at the age of ten he is kidnapped and at twelve, he is forced to join the organization. [OC Insert as Akai Sibling] [Family/Angst/Drama/Crime]

Arc III
Chapter V
Japan
Warnings: None

A year had passed. Senichi was now thirteen years old and Brendan and Harimanna were seven. They had quickly grown accustomed to the daily routine of the place that Senichi had dubbed Crow Academy. They had started to grow again but were still a bit shorter than those in their age groups due to the two years of malnutrition they suffered in Mad Dog Arena.

Early one morning, Jenever loudly knocked on their door and rudely awoke them from their slumber. Senichi jumped down and opened the door. "Jenever, it's not even five yet,"

"NFL, MLB, NBA, you three have exceeded the other kids here despite only being here for a year," Jenever announced. "You're going to be transferred to Japan,"

'Japan? That's a whole other country,' "We don't have passports," Senichi pointed out.

"Pfft, you've been here for a year already," Jenever scoffed. "You think the organization isn't capable of faking IDs and passports?"

'Says the guy who isn't capable of remembering our names and just calls us by the abbreviation of sport league abbreviations,' Senichi thought but held his tongue. "When are we leaving?"

"Right now," Jenever answered, tossing each of them a passport. "You don't need your stuff. You're even starting to outgrow the uniforms from last year. You'll be given new clothes once we get to the base in Japan. So let's get going,"

XXX

They were running late. There had been an accident in the route that they were taking and thus delaying their journey. "Who the hell gets into a traffic accident this early in the morning!?" Jenever groaned. "We're gonna miss our flight at this rate!"

The three kids' senses have been enhanced a bit due to the human experimentation they suffered. The loud sounds didn't bother their hearing due to them already being used to the raucous yells in Crow Academy, but their noses slightly wrinkled at the scents being emitted by the large amount of cars in one place. They need they'd eventual get used to it. After all, in Mad Dog Arena they suffered the disgusting smell of human excrement and piss being in a nearby bucket in their cell as well as the heavy scent of blood in the arena.

Once the car was parked, Jenever ushered all three of them inside and they hurried to the gate. They arrived just in time as the final boarding was called and showed their tickets to the woman at the gate. They filed inside and all four of them sat together at their assigned seats. "It'd have been a hell of a pain if we missed our flight," Jenever mumbled.

"Sir, would you or your children like anything from our menu?" A flight attendant asked.

"I'll have a Jack Daniels," Jenever ordered.

"And your children?" The attendant inquired.

"Uh," Jenever glanced at the menu. "Get them each a kid's snack box,"

All three kids were surprised by this and watched as the stewardess placed a snack box in front of each of them. She handed a bottle of whiskey to Jenever. Jenever passed her a credit card and paid. Once the transaction was complete, the flight attendant went on her way to the other passengers. Brendan looked at the snack boxes suspiciously and then at Jenever. "Can we really eat this?"

"Yeah," Jenever nodded. "I charged this on the organization's card. I don't want to hear you guys complaining that you're hungry. Besides, it'd look bad for me if I only order booze for myself while your guys' stomachs grumble,"

The kids opened their snack boxes. They each had a squeeze pouch of applesauce, a pack of fruit snacks, a beef stick, animal crackers, a candy bar, and a box of chocolate milk. Senichi first drank the applesauce. It was a bit sweeter than the applesauce serve at Crow Academy but he still enjoyed it. He then gnawed on the beef stick and munched on the animal crackers. The candy and chocolate milk seemed so foreign to them. Such things were not offered at Crow Academy.

As Senichi sipped his chocolate milk, he stared out at the window and watched the clouds fly by. 'We're really leaving England. I…I'm leaving my family behind,' The sweet chocolate milk tasted bitter in his mouth at the thought. 'Why am I so upset? It's already been three years since I last saw them. Being in Japan won't make any difference. They've probably already forgotten about me,'

XXX

Tsutomu, Mary, Shuichi, and Shukichi were visiting Senichi's grave. "Hey there Sen-chan," Tsutomu greeted sadly. "It's been a year since you…since you left us for good. We're still not over your death, but we're trying to move on,"

"He's not dead!" Shuichi yelled. "Stop acting like he's dead! That's an empty casket we buried!"

"Shuichi," Mary knelt down and brought him into a hug. "They found many missing kids' corpses at Mad Dog Arena,"

"But Senichi's death was never confirmed!" The teenager snapped. "We never found his corpse! You just assumed he was one of the unidentifiable ones!"

"Shuichi," Shukichi sniffled. "If Sen is alive, where is he?"

"I…I don't know," Shuichi admitted. "But I refuse to believe he's dead. I'll look for him and when I find him, I'll bring him home,"

'There's a part of me that desperately clings onto the tiny hope that Senichi really is alive, but could he really survive such an ordeal?' Tsutomu thought as he placed daisy for innocence, a gladiola for strength of character, a pink carnation for gratitude, and a white carnation for remembrance in front of the grave. 'Senichi, you've already experienced death once at the young age of seventeen. And now…you've died once again, this time at an even younger age,'

"He's still alive…" Shuichi furiously wiped at the tears that were falling. 'I can feel it in my heart. I know he's still alive. Why am I the only one that believes in Senichi?'

XXX

The plane landed in Japan and Jenever lead the children into a car in the airport's parking lot. He then started driving. The kids silently watched the Japanese scenery as they drove by. 'I've always wanted to go to Japan,' Senichi thought. 'As Michael Leo Field, I wanted to visit Akihabara one day. I wanted to go to all the places mentioned in Detective Conan. Now, I'm in Japan. But not as Michael Leo Field, not as Senichi Akai, I'm here as Senichi Field. I'm not here as an otaku and weeaboo. I'm here as a scarlet crow,'

They were brought to the base and led into a room where two other people were. Senichi recognized the woman as Vermouth but could not pinpoint the identity of the man whose face was hidden by a mask, hat, and hood. "These two are Vermouth and Rum,"

Senichi somehow managed to keep his poker face and hide his shock. 'Rum!? But isn't he the Karasuma Renya's right hand man!? Why would he want to meet us!? Wait, calm down Sen. This is years before The Big Shrink. Rum might not be at that high of a position yet,'

"You three have exceeded expectations," Rum's true voice was not heard and instead a voice changer altered it. "You have no place among the other students, among those inferior brats,"

"What Rum here means is that each of you will train under one of us," Jenever revealed. "We'll personally train you guys and eventually you'll get a codename just like us,"

"Codename?" Harimanna questioned.

"What, did you think my name was actually Jenever?" The man chuckled. "Nope, we use alcoholic codenames for people that are good enough,"

"You said that we'd each train under one of you," Senichi realized. "You're separating us?"

"NFL, did you really think that you, MLB, and NBA would stay together forever?" Jenever rolled his eyes.

"Jenever, did you try to name kids after sports leagues again?" Rum groaned.

"What? No," Jenever lied. "NFL, you're working under Vermouth. NBA, you're working under Rum. MLB, you're working under me,"

The thought of being separated terrified them. They had always stuck with each other ever since Mad Dog Arena. Senichi wanted to speak up about his disapproval, but the words were stuck in his throat and unable to escape. 'I promised Ahren that I'd protect them. I can't protect them if I'm not with them!'

Brendan gritted his teeth and glared at the three adults. He wanted to lash out but he knew better than to attack them. He, Harimanna, and Senichi would all be used as leverage against each other. He refused to let them be punished for his outbursts.

"You all have new aliases," Vermouth informed. "If you hadn't noticed, it's in your passports,"

Senichi hadn't even thought about opening his passport but did so. 'Leo Vineyard. Apparently I'm Chris Vineyard's older brother and the eldest child of Sharon Vineyard. What a strange coincidence that my middle name would become the first name of an alias. How many identities do I have already? First is Michael Leo Field, my identity in the Real World. Next is Senichi Akai, my birth name in this world. After that is Senichi Field, my 'real name' that I was known by in Crow Academy. Now, I have a fourth one: Leo Vineyard,'

Senichi's alias is Leo Vineyard. Brendan's alias is Jin Kurosawa. Harimanna's alias is Aya Hayashi.

So all of the scenes in Japan will have Japanese dialogue unless otherwise stated.

Rum is already second-in-command in the organization but he thought mentoring a kid to become his right hand wasn't a bad idea. This is different from canon where Curacao became Rum's right hand when she was already an adult (or possibly late teens) and had accidentally memorized important information to the organization.

Guest:
Why would there be a Japanese class if they're in England?

Skai:
The boss of the organization is Japanese. Also, the main base is in Japan.