Mitsuharu

Title: Mitsuharu
Rating: T
Fandom: Detective Conan
Summary: There were only three kids of the Akai Family, right? There was no way that Masumi had a third older brother. So why the hell were these people calling him Akai Mitsuharu? More importantly, how the hell was he even alive!? [OC Insert as Akai Sibling]

"You guys are here rather early," Haru commented as he ate his own breakfast. "It's Golden Week so I thought you guys would be sleeping in," He had forgotten that today was his day off so he ended up coming early. When Azusa had reminded him, he decided to buy some breakfast since he was already there.

"We have to catch a boat to Tsukikage Island because of this letter," Kogoro grumpily handed the letter over to Haru.

Haru unfolded the paper. "On the next full moon, the shadows of Tsukikage Island will once again begin to vanish. Your investigation is required. Asou Keiji." 'Wasn't Asou Keiji some popular pianist or something? Shukichi dragged me to one of his concerts when I was younger,' "Why are they using magazine clippings? It's rather suspicious if you ask me,"

"They also called two days ago," Kogoro said. "They reminded me that there were two more days until the full moon and that they already paid the fee,"

"Did you get the person's name?" Haru inquired.

"Asou Keiji from Tsukikage Island," Kogoro answered.

'I feel like there's something about Asou that I know but can't remember,' Haru handed back the letter. "Mind if I tag along? I've never been to Tsukikage Island before. Don't worry; I'll pay for my own boat fare,"

"If you want to waste your vacation then feel free to do so," Kogoro mumbled, taking another bite of his breakfast.

XXX

The four arrived at Tsukikage Island and headed to the town hall. "I'm looking for an Asou Keiji?"

The receptionist scrolled through the list of names. "Asou Keiji? There's no such person on this island,"

"What? Please look again!" Kogoro held up the envelope. "I've just gotten a letter from him,"

"But he's not in the directory and I only came here last month so I don't know all the locals," The receptionist told him.

"He's a world-renowned pianist," Haru spoke up. "Surely someone here knows him, right?"

"What's wrong?" Another man walked over to them.

"We're looking for the pianist Asou Keiji," Haru answered. "Do you know where we can find him?"

"A-ASOU KEIJI!?" Everyone in the room was shocked.

"That's impossible because he died twelve years ago!" The man informed. "He was born on the island and became a famous pianist. On a full moon night twelve years ago, after holding a public concert at the community center, he suddenly locked himself and his family inside their house and set it ablaze. According to the people who went to save them, he had stabbed his wife and daughter to death and then repeated played Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata over and over again!"

'Moonlight Sonata!?' Haru paled. 'T-This is the Moonlight Sonata Murder Case!? Wait, then Asoh has a son, right? I believe that the son came to this island and disguised himself as a woman. But what was the name of that woman again?' "Hey, what happened to Asou's son?"

"Seiji-kun was hospitalized in Tokyo at the time of the fire," The man informed. "He was adopted by a family friend,"

XXX

"A letter from a dead guy," Kogoro said as they walked. "What a horrible prank,"

"If it was a prank then they wouldn't have paid you," Conan told him. "I bet someone on this island wants you to find out something about this Asou Keiji guy!"

"They want you to unravel the truth about his murder," Haru revealed. 'That's why he killed those three people. Those bastards murdered his family. I don't blame him; I'd do the same if anyone killed mine,'

"M-Murder!?" The three exclaimed.

"Oh come on, wasn't that story obviously bizarre?" Haru pointed out. "Asou Keiji was a loving husband and father. He wasn't in any debt and made enough money from his concerts for his family to live comfortably. Why would he kill them?"

"But that case happened twelve years ago," Kogoro reminded. "There's probably no leads for me to follow. Anyway, let's try to find who sent this letter,"

"Why don't we ask the mayor?" Ran suggested. "They said that he was a friend of Asou-san so he might know something,"

"They said that he was at the community center, right?" Kogoro started flipping through the map book.

"Make sure you're nice and warm when you go to sleep, Kenta-kun," A female doctor told a young boy.

"Okay," Kenta nodded before running off to play with his friends.

"Um, excuse me?" Ran approached the doctor. "Where is the community center?"

"Oh, it's right around that corner," She pointed in the direction.

'Could Seiji be this woman?' Haru wondered while the doctor, Asai Narumi, explained each of the candidates running for mayor. 'Gah, it's been nineteen years! Some of the cases are fuzzy in my memories! I mostly remember the ones with the Black Organization since I was constantly rewatching them as well as some of the movies. Anyway, I can't go up to every woman we encounter on this case and ask if they're Seiji. They'd obviously deny it and it'd be kinda creepy of me,'

"If you're going to the community center, you might see the three who I just mentioned," Narumi informed. "Tonight's the anniversary of the previous mayor's death, Kameyama Isamu-san,"

"The previous mayor's death anniversary?"

XXX

"Geez, how long are they going to keep us waiting here?" Kogoro complained as he smoked a cigarette.

Conan wandered off into the next room and Haru followed. Ran followed suit. "This is a piano room," Haru said as he, Conan, and Ran walked over to the grand piano.

"It's so dirty!" Ran frowned. "It wouldn't hurt them to clean it a little," She was about to open the keyboard cover.

"Don't touch that piano!" Hirata Kazuaki shouted, rushing to stop them. "That's the cursed piano Asou-san played in the concert he held on the day of his death! It's not only that, but something similar happened to the previous mayor!"

"Huh? You mean Kameyama Isamu-san, whose ceremony is tonight?" Kogoro asked.

"Yes," Hirata nodded. "Two years ago I passed by here and heard someone playing the piano. I called out to see who was playing but the music stopped immediately. When I entered the room, Kameyama-san was lying face down, dead, on the keyboard. The cause of death was a heart attack but the terrifying thing was the song he played until his death. It was the same song Asou-san played as his house burned around him, the Moonlight Sonata! Ever since then, the townspeople have been afraid to touch it and called it the 'Cursed Piano,'"

Haru opened the cover and started playing Für Elise. "It's not cursed," 'I believe there was a compartment somewhere within the piano. I can't inspect it right now since I'm in the vipers' pit. As much as it sounds cruel, I'll have to wait for the first death so that Inspector Megure will be here. I don't trust the police officer on this island,'

'The piano's tuned perfectly,' Conan noted.

Hirata ushered them out of the piano room. "A-Anyways, could you wait in the lobby until the ceremony is over?" He then left them to continue his agenda.

"You're still here?" Narumi and a man were both in the hallway.

"Narumi-san, are you attending the service?" Ran questioned.

"Yes. Kameyama-san was my first patient on the island. I figured it's the least I could do," Narumi claimed. "Oh, this man here is Shimizu-san, one of the mayoral candidates I told you about,"

"Nice to meet you," He introduced himself. "I'm Shimizu,"

As the ceremony started, Conan, Ran, Kogoro, and Haru waited outside at the entrance. "Hey Haru," Conan whispered. "That piano was tuned perfectly so someone must've been tuning it in secret. What do you think the sentences in the letter mean?"

"People will be killed," Haru answered. "People have shadows. In the letter it said 'that shadows of Tsukikage Island will once again begin to vanish.' It said 'again' meaning that there was another incident where shadows, or in this case people, vanished or died. They're probably referring to Asou Keiji's death,"

"People aren't the only ones with shadows," Kogoro pointed out. "And if they were going to murder someone, why would they call me here to investigate?"

"Maybe they want you to stop them?" Haru shrugged.

They started to hear a piano being played. "Moonlight Sonata!?" Conan and Haru both rushed to the piano room. Conan threw the door open, revealing Kawashima Hideo, soaking wet and dead, in the same position as the previous mayor had been.

Kogoro checked Kawashima's pulse. "It's no good. He's dead. Ran, call the local police station!"

"Right!" Ran rushed out to find the police officer.

"Everyone else, stay here!" Kogoro ordered. "Narumi-sensei, please examine the body!"

"Y-Yes!" Narumi stuttered as she went right into inspecting the corpse.

"Haru," Conan said. "You were right. 'Shadow's vanish' mean to be enveloped in light which is referring to Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata,"

"It's the curse!" Hirata exclaimed. "It's the piano's curse!"

"Oh shut up about the curse!" Haru snapped. "It's obviously a murder! He was drowned and then dragged to the piano room!"

"The spring brat's right," Kogoro held up a tape recorder. "That means these last two murders have been planned by someone!"

"Hey, cut the crap bigshot," Murasawa Shuichi said. "Who the hell do you think you are?"

"Me? I'm from Tokyo," Kogoro answered. "I'm the Great Detective…Mouri Kogoro!"

"Mouri? Oh yeah, the astronaut,"

"No, no, it's the one in all those mystery novels!"

"That's Akechi you fool!"

"Then, who is he?"

Conan knelt down and tasted the water. 'It's saltwater,' He walked over to the window where he saw that there were stairs leading to the sea.

"Based on the discoloring and the extent of rigor mortis, we can assume he died thirty minutes to an hour ago," Narumi reported. "The petechia in his eyes suggest the cause of death was suffocation but there was no swelling of the face, no marks on his neck, and slight traces of foam were discovered in his mouth and nose. That, along with the fact that he's soaking wet, tells me that Kawashima-san was drowned. We won't know for sure until an autopsy is done though,"

"Narumi-sensei's right," Haru pointed out the window. "That jacket must be Kawashima-san's. The killer probably drowned him there and then brought him inside,"

"Since the door and all the windows are locked from the inside and the first several minutes of the Moonlight Sonata tape is blank, the killer probably took Kawashima-san to the shore and drowned him in the middle of the ceremony," Conan speculated. "He then dragged the body in here, pressed play on the tape, and then walked into the hallway. Right, Haru-niichan? That's what you were mumbling to yourself earlier, right?"

"Y-Yeah," Haru lied, slightly caught off guard that Conan was using him as a scapegoat instead of Kogoro. 'I guess Kogoro's ego must be bothering him,'

"If the door to this room was locked and we were at the entrance to the community center for the past hour, it's likely that the killer walked back into the ceremony and took his or her seat," Kogoro deduced.

"W-Wait a moment!" Kuroiwa Reiko exclaimed. "You mean the killer could still be among us!?"

'She's another woman but she's not Seiji,' Haru thought. 'She's Kuroiwa Tatsuji's daughter, not Asou Keiji's. There's also no white powder near the piano so there isn't anything in the hidden compartment yet so I can't report the drugs just yet. Also, Inspector Megure isn't here either; he'll be arriving tomorrow,'

"Hey, there's a music sheet on top of the cover," Kogoro picked it up. "It wasn't here this afternoon,"

Nishimoto Ken frantically ran out of the room. "That's Nishimoto-san," Hirata informed. "He was once quite rich and surrounded himself with women, alcohol, and gambling when he was younger. But ever since the mayor's death two years ago, he seemed to have become afraid of something and rarely leaves his house,"

"Otou-san, I brought a policeman!" Ran panted tiredly. "I couldn't get through on the phone so I had to ask direction and run down to get him!"

XXX

"Haru-kun, are you a detective as well?" Narumi asked as they left the community center.

"No but I guess Shin-kun's skills rubbed off onto me a bit," Haru said. 'I think Narumi-sensei is definitely Seiji. Should I confront him? He has to have some physical strength since he fought off Kawashima and dragged his corpse into the piano room. But then again, I have Ran here and she's a karate champion. But do I have evidence? Sure he left during the timeframe but so did the other suspects. Damn, this is harder than I thought. If I just tell the police without evidence they won't believe me,'

"Haru you deduced that someone was going to die based on just the letter," Ran recalled after they separated from Narumi.

"No, not someone," Haru froze. "The song is Moonlight Sonata. There are three movements meaning there will be three victims!"

"You guys go back to the inn!" Kogoro ordered. "I'm going back to the community center and the piano! All three cases so far have happened near pianos so another murder could occur there!"

"We can call the inn later," Conan said to Ran. "Let's go to the center too,"

XXX

"I think something's wrong with you if you want to sleep overnight with a corpse, especially since you have a kid with you," The police officer commented.

"Who moved the body without my permission?" Kogoro asked.

"Oh, I couldn't stand to see the deceased like that," The officer claimed.

"Please don't move things around sir. We haven't done a formal crime scene inspection yet," Kogoro told him.

'This officer's rather incompetent,' Haru sweat dropped. 'You're not supposed to alter a crime scene,'

Conan stood on the seat and pulled the cover down a bit. "The music sheet's gone!"

"What!?" Kogoro exclaimed. "That's an important piece of evidence!"

"Oh, I took it for safekeeping," The officer passed the paper to him.

'Please tell me he's retiring soon,' Haru's eye twitched in annoyance. 'The behavior's got to be from old age, right? Otherwise how would he have become a police officer? Then again, there's that Yamamura guy who somehow became an inspector by the time Raven Chaser occurred,'

"This is the music sheet for Moonlight Sonata," Ran recognized and started to play it on the piano. It sounded fine for a few seconds until she reached the fourth bar. "Something's wrong with the fourth bar!"

'It's a code but how did it go again?' Haru snapped a picture of it on his phone so he could look at it. 'It's piano sheet music but the keys only go from A to G. A piano has eighty eight keys, fifty two of them are white and thirty six are black. That's large enough to hold an alphabet and it starts from an A key,' He took out a small notebook and roughly sketched out a piano with eighty eight keys. He looked in between the code and the piano keys.

"Haru, did you find something?" Ran asked.

"Pardon me," Narumi interrupted. "When I called at the inn, they told me you were here. I brought some dinner. Am I in the way?"

They all sat down and started to eat. Haru stared intently at Narumi, drowning out the conversation. 'How did you kill him without getting your clothes wet? They didn't show in the anime or manga. Maybe you hid some spare clothes here? Or was that jacket actually yours and not Kawashima's?'

"Haru-san, is there something on my face?" Narumi's question directed at him snapped him out of his thoughts.

"Ah sorry," Haru apologized. "You just look like someone I know,"

"Anyway, the window that was left open was this one," Narumi pulled the curtain open.

"Who's there!?" Kogoro and Conan ran out the window to chase after the mysterious figure they had seen.

'Who's that guy supposed to be again?' Haru leaned against the wall. 'He's probably someone who was making sure nobody found out about the drugs. Damn, I hate politics. All politicians are corrupted,'

Once the two returned, Kogoro declared that they'd be having a sleepless watch at the community center.

Remember that Haru's last contact with the Detective Conan anime and manga series was before his rebirth nineteen years ago. There's only so much a guy can remember. The Moonlight Sonata case kinda stuck out to him since it was a longer episode.

This was going to be every Thursday updates but I kinda got impatient and decided to make it ever Sunday updates.