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 X
Sisters
Warnings: I STIL CAN'T WRITE ROMANCE

At thirty two years old, Absinthe was going to be transferred back to Japan. This horrified Senichi but he didn't let it show. He called Jodie out to the park and when they arrived, she could tell that something was wrong. "Because of my job, I will be moving to Japan,"

"Oh,"

"It won't be fair to you if we continue this relationship," Senichi sighed sadly. "Let's break up,"

"What?" Jodie asked. "We can just have a long distance relationship?"

Senichi shook his head. "My job is very time consuming. I can't quit due…due to a contract. If I break the contract, I'll be sent to prison," 'If I try to leave the organization, I will be killed,' "I'm sorry Jodie. I didn't mean to break your heart like your ex did. I'm so sorry. But I don't regret the time I spent with you. I really do love you but we have to break up. I'm sorry,"

Once he got home, he tore off his mask and burned the disguise. He would never again be using it. He kept a single physical photograph of him and Jodie in his wallet. The rest, he also destroyed. He hid all of the photos of their time together in an SD card. The one other thing he kept was the necklace she had gotten him. It held so much sentimental value of both Jodie and Sable. He couldn't throw it away nor could he destroy it. Their romance had lasted a little under two years.

XXX

'I am thirty two years old,' Leo thought after he had been in Japan for a few weeks. 'That means Akai is thirty two years old. That is the age he was during the start of the series. I haven't seen Kudo Shinichi's name in the papers for a while, so this is most likely after the Big Shrink. I need to act fast. Akemi dies near the start of the series and I still don't know if we're following the anime or the manga, or even if we're following the canon timeline at all. It's never been revealed that Gin and Curacao are related and it's never been confirmed that Gin and Sherry were in a romantic relationship,'

'I can't do this myself. I want to do it myself, but I can't. The FBI are still in the US. They probably won't make it in time,' Leo took out his cell phone and clicked on a NOC's name. 'I want to save Akemi,'

XXX

Leo stood in the warehouse, near the entrance. "You're late,"

"I just came back from a mission," Bourbon claimed. "I'm surprised you're not in your Absinthe getup,"

"I called you here because I need your help," Leo informed.

"Help?" Bourbon raised a brow. "It's not everyday someone of your caliber asks for help,"

"I don't need Bourbon's help," Leo said. "I need National Police Agency Security Bureau Officer Furuya Rei's help. Not for me, for Akemi. Her life is on the line,"

"If you knew where my true allegiance lies, then why didn't you turn me in to the boss?" Rei asked. 'After some research about the nicknames he gave, I found out that Nalabaga meant red (Akai), Banuar meant hero (Hiro), and Awan meant zero (Rei) in Ilocano. He knew from the beginning, yet never sold us out. What exactly is his aim?'

"Because I want you to help fake Akemi's death," Leo answered. "She was given the task of robbing a bank of a billion yen. Gin lied to her saying, that if she does so, she and Shiho would be able to leave the organization,"

"Did Gin tell you this?" Rei inquired, trying to find out who he had to work with.

"No, I found out through other sources," Leo stated. 'Since Curacao, a movie-canon character, exists, then I'm going to assume that we are following the anime storyline,' "She's using the alias Hirota Masami and is currently an employee at Beika City Bank. In a few weeks she will commit the robbery,"

"Why should I help you?" Rei asked.

"First of all, I am holding the fact that you're a NOC hostage," Leo listed. "Secondly, I can shoot you in the head right now. Thirdly, I'll let you talk to Morofushi Hiromitsu,"

Rei tensed up but still continued his act. "I don't know who Morofushi Hiromitsu is," 'Hiro is dead! It's that bastard's Rye fault!'

"Do you know who Hamura Sai is?" Leo questioned.

"No,"

"Good," Leo took out his cell phone and dialed a number. "Because if you did, then I'd be pissed at Morofushi. It was a lot of hard work and planning to fake his death," He set the call on speakerphone.

"Hello, this is Hamura Sai speaking,"

"Good to know that you're still alive, Morofushi," Leo said. "The boss wants to eliminate Miyano Akemi. I want to fake her death. Help me convince Furuya to assist,"

"Zero?"

Rei's poker face had cracked and his eyes were wide. He quickly shook his head. "You may have mimicked his voice but there's no way that you're Hiro,"

"Zero, it is me. I'm alive,"

"I saw Hiro's corpse!" Rei snapped, breaking character. He would not stand for someone posing as his deceased best friend.

"That wasn't my corpse. It was another guy's corpse that Absinthe disguised as me. I was going to commit suicide but Rye stopped me and revealed that he was an FBI Agent. That's when Absinthe showed up dragging a corpse with him. He pulled me aside and had Rye shoot the corpse just as you arrived,"

"Tell me something that only the real Hiro would know," Rei demanded.

"The reason you became a police officer was because you wanted to find Miyano Elena who had suddenly disappeared,"

"Absinthe could've told you that," Rei scoffed. "He's seen me around the Miyano's before their passing,"

"We were part of the Onizuka Class with Matsuda, Wataru, and Hagiwara,"

"Anyone could find that out by looking through files far back enough," Rei said.

"You once dressed up as a girl for an entire day because you lost a bet with me and Hagiwara constantly flirted with you, not knowing that it was actually you in disguise,"

"Alright, I'm convinced," Rei tried his best to remain calm despite that secret being revealed about him.

"So you'll help me fake Akemi's death?" Leo questioned as he ended the call.

"Yes," Rei agreed. "In return, I want to know who you really are. You've been part of the organization since you were a child, but I know that you're not actually Vermouth's son,"

"Hey, I helped fake Morofushi's death," Leo reminded. "And I let you speak with him. I owe you nothing,"

"I didn't ask you to do those things," Rei pointed out. "Besides, how will you fake Akemi's death without my help?"

"My real name doesn't matter for I have been forced to throw it away years ago," Leo answered truthfully, referring to his original life. "I doubt I am in any databases anymore, no matter which country's you check. If you must know, my real name is Michael Field," He showed no signs of lying because everything he had just said was the truth.

XXX

"Where are you?" Akemi entered the warehouse. "Come out!"

"Good job Hirota Masami," Gin and Vodka stood at the entrance. "No…Miyano Akemi,"

"Can I ask you something?" Akemi glared at them. "Why did you kill those two?"

"That's our way of doing things," Gin claimed. "Now, hand over the money,"

"It's not here," Akemi told them. "I stored it somewhere,"

"What!?" Vodka exclaimed.

"Before that, my little sister," Akemi ordered. "Bring out my little sister like you promised. After I completed this job, you'd let me and my little sister leave the organization,"

"Hmph, I can't do that," Gin refused. "She is still of use to the organization. Unlike you, your little sister is an important person in the organization,"

"Then, you never intended it from the start!" Akemi yelled.

Gin aimed his Beretta M9 at her. "Now, this is your last chance. Tell me where the money is,"

"You're too late," Akemi pointed her own handgun at the silver haired man, even though it was no use since she was outnumbered and they were more skilled than her. "If you kill me, you'll never know,"

"The naïve one is you. I know that you've brought a coin locker key or something with you. Besides…I told you that it was your last chance," He pulled the trigger and shot her stomach.

Akemi collapsed and Vodka searched through her pockets, finding a coin locker key. Gin grinned. "Let's go,"

After the two men left, the officers from both the Public Security Bureau and the National Police Agency Security Bureau rushed inside. They had managed to secretly convince Akemi to wear a bulletproof vest lined with blood packets along the abdomen. They swiftly swapped her out with the body of a woman with a similar build to her, wearing the same attire, and disguised to look identical to her. They then left the scene.

When Conan arrived, he was horrified that he was too late. "Masami-san! Masami-san!" He desperately tried to rouse her, not knowing that it wasn't the real Hirota Masami. But he didn't receive a response and solemnly called Inspector Megure.

XXX

Leo was in his apartment and watching some anime when he received a knock at his door. "Leo Vineyard's not home," He called in a different voice, not wanting to be interrupted.

"Open the door," It was Gin's voice.

Leo sighed and opened the door. "What is it? I'm busy watching anime,"

Gin didn't immediately answer and entered, shutting the door close behind him. "Miyano Akemi is dead,"

"What?" Leo turned off the TV. "No seriously, I couldn't hear you. What did you say?"

"I was given the order to kill Akemi due to the risk of her still contacting the traitor Akai Shuichi," Gin said. "I never fail missions,"

"And?" Leo was glad that his acting skills helped him keep a straight face. "How did Sherry react?"

"She was angry as expected," Gin answered. "I was told to not tell her the reason of Akemi's execution. She refused to continue her research until she received an answer. As a result, she is currently locked up in a chamber,"

"I see," Leo hummed. "Sacrifices have to be made. Shiho should understand that,"

"You seem to be taking this well," Gin noted.

"The organization saved us," Leo pointed out. "They took us away from that hellhole when the world had abandoned us. We owe our lives to the organization. Akemi was never an important member. I have engraved that into my mind. Though she is, or rather was, my friend, her living was deemed a liability and thus had to be removed. But still, a promise is a promise even if her death was an order," Without any warning, he punched Gin in the face. "You hurt Shiho so I broke your nose,"

XXX

They first treated Gin's broken nose before arriving at the laboratory building where Miyano Shiho worked and was held. However, the chamber was empty except for the handcuffs still attached to the pipe and her shoes. "How!?" Gin exclaimed. "How could she have escaped!?" He turned to Leo. "Track her down!"

"Eh?" Leo raised a brow.

"Bears have the best sense of smell of any animal on earth," Gin pointed out. "Track down her scent trail,"

"No," Leo refused. "You do it. A wolf still has a pretty good sense of smell too,"

"I refuse to rely on the abilities that those bastards gave us!" Gin snapped. "Besides, even if I wanted to, you broke my nose and I haven't used my wolf abilities for years now,"

"Then don't go on and rely on me or Curacao to track Sherry down," Leo told him. "You're a high ranking operative. Track her down using the organization's methods," 'I never took into account on how to prevent Gin from finding Shiho through her scent. Thankfully he's adamant against using his wolf traits,' "Or are you not good enough of an operative to find the traitor?"

"I'll find Sherry and I'll kill her myself!"

Gin full on refuses to use his wolf abilities since he wants to be completely human. Curacao rarely uses her tiger abilities but will use them if it's convenient or necessary for her missions. Absinthe will use it whenever it is of use to him.
The reason why Gin was assigned to track down Sherry is because she escaped while in his custody, therefore the responsibility lies with him. And you know, if you make a big mistake in the organization, you…are eliminated…Well, Gin would most likely be tortured and punishment rather than eliminated since he's a valuable asset.
Akemi's alias is Katsuki Sakiko, a combination of the names of her two Japanese voice actors, Tamagawa Sakiko and Katsuki Masako.

Velgamidragon: (I hope you don't mind me summarizing your review instead of putting the whole thing here)
I finally nailed down what it is about this story that makes me feel it's not compelling as it could be.
You are working with a situation where you've included another character into the cast, among a pivotal group of characters, but nothing significant is changing. For example, I can't really see a reason for why Bourbon needs to continue to think his best friend is dead except that it happened in the canon and it affects later events, but that's not a good in-universe reason for it to happen.
You never showed Gin's development from the point they started in the story with your OC to the adults they later become, and I think that's a shame because Senichi is supposed to be close to these two and as an adult, Gin is a lot different from his childhood self. If you're following canon, Gin reaches a point in his adulthood where he's willing to kill even his own sister when she betrays the organization by running away, but this emotional/mental transition is never addressed.
Your OC is so faithful to the fictional story that they're not even trying to fix or alter things like that which may help bring down the Organization quicker. It could be a huge turning point for Senichi's character and create some very interesting storytelling if he stops treating this world as a fictional one.

Skai:
You do not have to apologize for anything. I love long reviews, especially when they tell me how to improve my writing.
I have no defense when you say nothing significant is changing. My only explanation is I don't know how to write the story without some sort of plot timeline to lean against. Actually, there is one major difference that hasn't appeared in the yet . It's a bit of a spoiler so I'll put it at the end.
The only reason why I had Bourbon believe that Scotch is dead is because I was following one of Akai's quotes: "To fool your enemies, you must first fool your friends." But you do have a point. I might change it in the revamped version.
I was thinking of writing some missions with the trio together and Senichi noticing Gin killing his targets without hesitation, but I didn't want to drag the story on. Also, as seen in Chapter 24, I am terrible at writing missions. I felt that I dragged it on long enough with Arc III and was worried that if I continued to drag it on, people would lose interest.
I have no real defense when you say that Sen's too faithful to the fictional story that he's not even trying to fix anything. I was originally going to make him lose his humanity and have Absinthe be a cruel, ruthless person like Gin, which can be seen in Chapter 22 when I wrote "He no longer held a neutral expression during missions but instead had a mad grin. He couldn't help but slightly enjoy the sight of the crimson staining the floors and walls. The thuds of corpses falling to the floor were music to his ears. He had grown so used to killing that it was a bit enjoyable now." My flimsy and probably invalid defense of why he's faithful to the canon timeline is because it's a trait of Michael Leo Field, as shown in my other story where canon practically drags on and on: Mitsuharu. Both Senichi and Mitsuharu are reincarnates of Michael Leo Field so I wanted them to have at least one similarity in terms of personality, though they had drastically different upbringings so the rest of their personalities are different. (Thinking back, I probably just should've created an entirely new character in the Real World instead of using a pre-existing one.)
Thank you for the criticism. I actually have all of the story prewritten. I plan on writing a revamped version since I am not satisfied with some parts of the story.
SPOILER ALERT
I'm planning on the timeline being shorter, meaning the organization will fall earlier. This story will have a total of forty-six chapters. Senichi starts plotting after Darkest Nightmare.
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SLIGHTLY UNRELATED SPOILER AHEAD
I'm actually starting to get out of my comfort zone while writing Mitsuharu (Revamped) by having the timeline actually move forward and giving more character growth to Cognac. I think when I write Fade to Darkness (Revamped) I'll also have the timeline move forward instead of being stagnant like the canon world, I don't think it will impact Senichi much. I'll also do my best to apply the advice you have given me to the RevampVerse.
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GabrielRavier:
Tbh I'm kind of troubled by the fact that Mary just casually accepted in seconds the fact that her son is literally a reincarnated dimensional traveler (like, usually in other fanfictions of this genre, or at least in the ones I've read, the traveler will either have to spend a long time getting the other people to accept it or avoid the issue with technically true statements like "I've seen the future" or "it's like if I'd read about it in a book" (usually the part where they reveal they're literally not from the same world comes sometime after, when the others are more ready to accept it or when they have more time to explain things), but usually they don't just straight up say it like that and get instantly accepted) but otherwise I like this chapter.

Skai:
I'm gonna be completely honest, I literally had no idea how to write Mary's reaction. The only two reactions I thought out were Tsutomu's and Kohji's reactions. I know that's not a reason for this bad writing, but I'll do my best to improve it in the revamped version. Thank you for the criticism.