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 IV
Chapter VI
Scotch
Warnings: None

Senichi was at a bar during one of his day offs. Today was the anniversary of Sable's death and he wanted to drown himself in alcohol to make the pain go away, even if it was just for one night. He had thrown on the bare minimum of a disguise to avoid being immediately recognized in public. He was already a bit drunk.

"Hey there pretty lady, what are you doing here all by yourself?"

Senichi glanced to a few seats away from him to see a woman who had been approached by a man. "Screw off!" She snapped angrily at the man hitting on her. She seemed to also be slightly drunk.

"Ooh, feisty," The man grinned.

Senichi chugged down his glass of alcohol and threw the cup at the man. "Bugger off. She obviously doesn't want you,"

"Get out of my bar," The bartender said to the man. "I won't tolerate you harassing this woman or anybody else,"

The man let out a slur of expletives before storming out while giving Senichi a death glare. Senichi promptly flipped him off before turning his attention to the woman. "You alright?"

"Yeah," She mumbled. "I could've handled him," She was a few years younger than him and had short, blonde hair, blue eyes, and glasses. She also looked like a foreigner, most likely an American.

"I know, but that guy was being too noisy so I wanted him out of here," Senichi thanked the bartender as he received another glass of bourbon whiskey. "Life sucks,"

"Yep," The woman nodded. "My boyfriend recently dumped me for another woman. You?"

"Today's the anniversary of my dog's death," He replied. "He was murdered,"

"That's terrible," The woman frowned.

"Mmhm," Senichi nodded.

The two met up several nights after their initial meeting. Senichi spoke about Sable when he was alive. The woman shared bits and pieces of her own life. They helped each other heal, yet they never exchanged names. Why didn't they exchange names? It was simply because they kept forgetting to ask each other. And they tended to drink a lot during their meetings. Due to getting drunk during all their meetings, Senichi only recalled the woman's face as a blur.

XXX

Scotch's cover had been blown. Rye had confronted him on the rooftop of a building and they engaged in a struggle. It seemed like Rye had the upper hand but Scotch managed to grab the man's gun. Rye held his hands up in a surrendering fashion. "Pretending to be beaten by me and taken the chance to steal my gun…I won't be begging you for my life but before you shoot, would you listen to what I have to say?"

"You're wrong. I didn't steal your gun to shoot you," He pointed the gun at his own chest. "I stole it to do this!"

Akai grabbed the cylinder in time. "If a gun's cylinder is tightly held, the trigger cannot be pulled,"

"Morofushi Hiromitsu,"

Hiro's eyes widened and his blood ran cold. 'They know my real name! They'll find Taka'aki-niisan's connection to me and kill him too! They'll also go after all my friends!"

"You better not kill yourself because it took me a while to prepare a corpse to take your spot," Absinthe dragged a corpse as he walked over to them. "Do you know how hard it was for me to manipulate the time of death? I literally had to also warm up this body to a normal human temperature before dragging it up here!"

"What?" Hiro didn't know how to react. He didn't fully understand what was going on either.

Absinthe tossed the corpse and leaned it against the wall. To Hiro's horror, it looked exactly like him. Absinthe then grabbed Hiro and stole his phone, tucking it into the jacket pocket of the corpse. He then pulled Hiro out of sight as Bourbon's approaching footsteps were heard. As the bullet pierced the phone and the already dead body, blood packs and detonators caused a large blood splatter. Bourbon stared in horror at the bloody Rye and dead "Hiro." "Traitors should be punished accordingly, right?" Rye asked calmly.

While they stayed out of sight, Absinthe started applying a quick disguise to Hiro who was silent, shocked, and confused. Since his life had been spared, he knew that Absinthe and Rye weren't loyal organization members. "We'll talk later after Bourbon leaves. Do not fuck this up or I will personally kill you myself," Absinthe threatened.

XXX

"Who are you guys?" Hiro asked.

"FBI Agent Akai Shuichi," Akai introduced.

"Akai Senichi," Senichi added. 'I don't have any cool job or title to add to it,'

"How can the two of you be related?" Hiro inquired. "Absinthe, I heard that you were part of the organization since you were a child,"

"It's a long story and frankly, none of your business," Senichi responded. "Here's an envelope of all the stuff you'll need to live a new life. Do not get caught, Hamura Sai!"

"Hamura Sai?"

"That's your new name so get used to it," Senichi said. "You'll also be moving to the US. No complaining. No grabbing your stuff from your apartment. No telling Furuya. Just get to the damn airport without any of the other crows killing or capturing you,"

"Why are you helping me?" Sai questioned. "Why go through all this hassle just to save my life? Wouldn't it have been simpler letting me die?"

"I'd rather save as many lives that I can than let everyone perish," Senichi answered, recalling the memories of the time he spent with Elena and Atsushi. "Especially since you're a valuable ally that can help us in the future,"

"Bourbon is an NPA officer," Sai said. "Why can't he know about this?"

"Listen here Morofushi," Absinthe grabbed him by his shirt and pulled him closer so he was glaring right into his eyes. "Your life isn't the only one at stake. If you are discovered alive, you will be killed. Rye will be killed. I will be killed. And it won't stop at just us. Our family and friends will also be killed. I will not risk Furuya Rei potentially fucking this entire plan up by slipping up in his act!"

"Zero won't—"

"I can kill you right here and now!" Absinthe growled. "Or you can live a quiet life as Hamura Sai until we call upon you. Which will it be?"

XXX

Bourbon hated Rye with a burning passion. Honestly, there were times that Rye thought the blonde would burn a hole through his head with just his glare. Rye didn't let it get to him. He knew that Bourbon's hatred stemmed from the fact that he had been the one to kill Scotch. It wasn't like the man knew the truth that Scotch was still alive.

Many months passed. "Did you know that Gin is dating Sherry?" Rye asked Absinthe when he encountered the latter in the hallway.

"What!?" Absinthe stared at him as if he had grown another head.

"I saw them kissing on my way out of the lab yesterday," Rye informed. "You didn't know?"

"What the hell!?" Absinthe stormed over to Gin's apartment and kicked the door open.

Gin was laying on the couch with his shirt unbuttoned while Sherry was on top of him, still fully clothed. "It's a common courtesy to knock first,"

"Brendan Klein, you have a lot of explaining to do!" Senichi slammed the door shut. "What the hell are you doing to Shiho!?"

"We were making out," Shiho answered for her boyfriend.

"Shiho, you're sixteen!" He then turned to the silver haired man. "Brendan, you're twenty four! Shiho is eight years younger than you!"

"Age is only a number," Brendan replied.

"And a prison cell is only a room," Senichi scoffed. "Shiho is a minor!"

"You're acting like that this is the worst thing I've done," Brendan pointed out. "I've killed and tortured people before,"

"This is Shiho!" Senichi snapped. "She isn't just some random girl! She's my friend! Akemi's sister! Elena and Atsushi's daughter!"

"I'm also one of the youngest codenamed agents," Shiho responded calmly. "If I am capable of writing research papers and reports on topics that many people decades older than me are unable to do, then I am fully capable of choosing my own boyfriend. Besides, Leo, you've known Brendan for most of your life,"

"I just want to protect you," Senichi sighed. "I know Brendan will respect your boundaries but the moment he hurts you, I'm breaking his nose,"

XXX

"Rye is an FBI Agent," Gin told Absinthe. "He was supposed to meet me at a warehouse to work under me. I sent someone to scout ahead because I had a gut feeling that it wouldn't turn out well. It turned out that the warehouse was full of FBI Agents. Akemi and Shiho have been moved to new apartments,"

"I see," Absinthe hummed. "The organization has rats. Thankfully you managed to sniff out Rye,"

"There's one thing that's been bothering me," Gin said. "His real name is Akai Shuichi. The name Akai sounds familiar, like I've heard it before, but I can't recall where or when,"

'It's been so many years and his mind's full of more important things like info regarding the organization and his missions,' Absinthe noted. 'He calls me Senichi from time to time, but he probably remembers my name as Senichi Field, which I used at Crow Academy,' "Don't think too hard about it. If you forgot then it means that it wasn't important,"

Do not ask where Absinthe stored the corpse. It's a secret of Absinthe's that not even I know.

The woman in the beginning…a potential ship? I kinda made her identity a bit obvious.

Yose Hyuann:
Fanfiction inside fanfiction. And I cried after reading it.
I've been reading view of your stories but I'm still wondering: Why I like it?
Like seriously, I'm not much of a fan for OC's but yours…it's addicting. Most of the chapters (As much as I read on DC fandom in your profile XD) are short but you sent your message very clearly. And like I said, it's very addicting.
I don't know what to say anymore, so I will just continue reading. And thank you for reading this.

Skai:
I'm glad you enjoy my stories enough to continue reading. Some of my OCs can be…cringey such as Kaishi Daichi from one of my old stories, Trapped in the DC World. Over the years, I've done my best to improve my OCs such as giving them more emotions and some scenes outside of the plot.