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]

"Nishitamashi Twin Towers?" Haru asked as he brushed his teeth. "What's so special about it?"

"What do you mean what's so special about it?" Sonoko huffed. "They're the tallest buildings in Japan!"

"Why do you want me to go?" Haru spat out globs of toothpaste and rinsed his mouth with water.

"You didn't go camping with the Detective Boys so we thought that you might feel left out," Ran said.

"Well, I didn't go with them this time since the last time I went camping, I got shot thrice and had a chunk of calcite smash my skull," Haru reminded. "But since I have nothing better to do," He looked down at his cat. "Are you going to just hang around Taii?"

"Mrow,"

"Alright, I'll go," Haru agreed. "But I'm taking my motorcycle,"

XXX

The taxi Ran, Sonoko, and Kogoro had taken dropped the three off in front of the entrance. Haru parked his bike on the side. "Hi guys!" He waved to the Detective Boys who were across the street.

"You!" Kogoro pointed accusingly at the kids as they crossed the road. "What are you guys doing here!?"

"We decided to come here after camping," Conan answered, not at all bothered by Kogoro's tone. "What about you?"

"The owner of these Twin Tower Buildings is Tokiwa Mio-kun," Kogoro bragged. "She's an old college friend of mine. She invited me to visit a week before the opening,"

"Excuse me," A woman approached them. "Would you be Mouri Kogoro-sama?"

"Yes," Kogoro turned to her. "Any you are?"

"I am the president's secretary, Sawaguchi Chinami," She introduced. "The president is busy with her clients so please follow me to the showroom," She led them inside of one of the towers. "This is Tower A. All floors above the thirty first belong to the Tokiwa Corporation. The showroom spans from the second to the third floor,"

"Hey, what does Tokiwa Corporation do?" Ayumi asked.

"They primarily deal with computer software but they're usually involved in everything for computers," Mitsuhiko answered.

"Then they must make video games so this will be awesome!" Genta added.

They reached a floor with several machines. "There's a lot of interesting things here," Professor Agasa commented.

"Hello everyone," A man in a brown suit joined them. "I'm Hara Yoshiaki, the lead programmer,"

"What's this?" The three actual kids were inspecting one of the machines. "Is it a video game machine?"

"Would you like to try it?" Hara offered. "This computer will show you your face in ten years,"

'Ah shit,' Haru mentally groaned. 'I didn't realize it sooner since I watched Countdown to Heaven in English Dub. In fact, I watched the episodes and the first six movies in English Dub before switching to watching the series in English Sub. But now that I know that there's a machine that ages a photo of you by ten years, I know that it's definitely Movie 5,'

The Detective Boys as well as Ran and Sonoko all tried it. When Haibara and Conan attempted, however, the machine's screen said error. They took the VIP elevator to one of the upper floors. The Detective Boys watched in awe as they climbed higher and higher.

'Let's see, what do I remember about Countdown to Heaven?' Haru thought. 'I know that the computer room of the tower we're in will explode. And towards the end, there were bombs in the party room that helped propel the car forward. It's not like I can just randomly tell them that there's bombs here. I'll have to wait until the actual party and probably just drop my phone for an excuse to go under the table. Then when I discover the bomb, I'll panic and alert everyone else,'

They finally reached the seventy fifth floor and they all exited the elevator. "This room is still being prepared for the opening party. I apologize for the mess,"

"Mouri-senpai!" Tokiwa and Kogoro shook hands.

"Tokiwa-kun, we meet again," Kogoro said.

"And you've brought guests," Tokiwa noted.

"Well, I was going to come alone—"

"I'm his daughter Ran. My mother sends her regards," Ran interrupted. "I'll introduce you. This is my classmate, Suzuki Sonoko. These two are our friends Field Haru and Professor Agasa. Then the kids are Edogawa Conan-kun, Haibara Ai-chan, Yoshida Ayumi-chan, Tsuburaya Mitsuhiko-kun, and Kojima Genta-kun,"

"Hello everyone, I'm Tokiwa Mio," Tokiwa introduced. "Allow me to introduce my associates. This is my art instructor, Kisaragi Hosui,"

'His name was the same in both the English Dubbed and the English Subbed,' Haru noted. 'He's the murderer. He murders Tokiwa by giving her a necklace attached to a piano wire, thus hanging her. I know that there was a previous murder before her, but I can't remember who. And then there was Hara in between, shot by Gin. The silver knife he held up as he died was his dying message,'

"I know you all too well!" Oki Iwamatsu jabbed a finger to Kogoro's chest. "You're that detective Sleeping-Bug Kogoro, right?"

"I'm Sleeping Kogoro," Kogoro corrected.

'He smells like alcohol,' Conan pinched his nose at the stench of booze.

"This is Nishitamashi Councilman, Oki Iwamatsu," Tokiwa continued the introductions. "He has supported me since I began this project," She turned to the man behind her. "And this person is the designer and architect of the building, Kazama Hidehiko-san,"

"I believe I know Field-san and Mouri-san very well," Kazama said. "I'm a former student of Moriya Teiji,"

"That crazy bastard that almost killed me!?" Haru exclaimed, recalling how he narrowly escaped the cat carrier's explosion.

"Oh, there's no need to worry," Kazama assured them. "Unlike Moriya, I won't attempt to destroy these buildings,"

'You won't but the organization will,' When he had been watching Countdown to Heaven in the Real World before he had died, Haru hadn't realized that there was a reference to the first movie's antagonist.

XXX

"Wow that was such a rare car. What was it?"

"It's a Porsche 356A,"

'What!?' Conan ran up to the two employees. "What color and where!?"

"It was parked in front of this building and it was black,"

"What's gotten into that brat?" Kogoro asked.

"Conan-kun and I love classic cars!" Haru lied and rushed to the elevator with Conan. "We're gonna try to get a glimpse of it!"

'Come on!' Conan peered outside the observation glass. 'Can't this elevator go any faster!?'

"You know that we won't make it in time," Haru told him. "Even if you did catch up to them, what's the point? You can't get them arrested without evidence and if they learn that you know about them, they'll kill you and everyone you care about,"

"But why were they here?" Conan frowned.

"The organization has several divisions, not just assassinations and science stuff," Haru reminded. "I'm pretty sure they have a division for software engineering or architecture or whatever and there's definitely someone here that's part of it,"

XXX

"Haibara was on the phone last night?" Haru asked when Professor Agasa had informed him. "She could just be calling Akemi,"

"It sounded like a one-sided conversation," Professor Agasa said. "Genta-kun said she did the same thing during the camping trip. I don't think she's calling her sister. I already told Shinichi about this,"

"She's calling her sister's former apartment," Haru said. "She wants to hear her voice again,"

"But why doesn't she just call Akemi-kun?" Professor Agasa questioned.

A sad expression fell onto Haru's face. "The organization is still hunting her down. She's afraid that she'll end up leading them to Akemi and Michael. That's why she didn't make an attempt to flee the bus when the bomb was about to blow. Look, I'll sleep over at your place tonight. When she makes a call, wake me up,"

"Are you heading out right now?" The inventor inquired.

"Yeah, I said that I'd accompany the kids to Hara's place," Haru told him. "I was disappointed in them when I heard that they went to Kazama's and Kisaragi's place by themselves. One of these people could be a murderer and they're going to interrogate them? Seriously, it's a miracle they're still alive. Hara invited them to his place and he may have had an alibi but you never know,"

"Y-You have a point…"

"See ya," Haru waved as he left.

He met up with the Detective Boys a bit later than the meeting time. "Haru-niichan you're late!"

"I'm used to taking my bike so my timing was a bit off," Haru apologized. "Sorry,"

They reached Apartment 407 and rang the doorbell. Haru walked up to the slightly opened door. "Hara-san?" He called even though he knew that Gin had already killed him. He opened the door all the way and caught sight of Hara's corpse. He took several deep breaths to calm himself down. "Call the police!"

XXX

"Haru, any thoughts on the criminal?" Conan asked as the two walked out of earshot of the kids.

"There's no blood on the sake cup meaning it was put there after his death," Haru whispered. "The knife is silver. Silver is 銀 and phonetically is G-I-N, which with a slightly different sound can mean the alcohol gin,"

"Are you sure?" Conan looked towards the crime scene.

"It could just be a coincidence," Haru shrugged. "Maybe he just used the knife for self-defense like we all are thinking? I mean, we did see that the crows have some sort of connection to this place. The one who killed that Oki guy probably came to kill Hara next but found him dead. They added a sake cup to make it seem like a serial killer so that he could provide an alibi at the time of Hara's death,"

XXX

"Haru-kun," Professor Agasa gently woke the nineteen year old from his slumber. "Ai-kun's calling someone again. Shinichi followed her,"

"Got it," Haru took out his phone and dialed Akemi's number. "Hey Akemi, are you busy?"

"No, why?"

"It's Shiho. She's calling that old apartment the impostor used. The answering machine still has the recording you made two years ago,"

"Why is she calling that place? She could talk to me,"

"I sorta have an idea on the reason but I'm just going to give the phone to her," Haru entered the basement and passed his cell phone to her.

"Shiho?"

"Oneechan…"

"Shiho, you could always call me. You don't have to listen to my old answering machine. I'm alive and the organization has no idea where I am,"

"But still…" Tears began to form. "There's always a chance…that they'll track me down…that they'll track you down…"

"Alright boys," Haru ushered Professor Agasa and Conan out, closing the door. "Let's let the girls have a much needed talk," 'Haibara, you're not alone this time. Akemi's alive now. She's willing to listen to you so please don't push her away. Don't lock yourself in that lonely void,'

XXX

"So much food!" Haru's mouth watered at the sight. 'I think the only times I've ever seen this much expensive food is at Sonoko's birthday parties! I'll eat some food before warning them about the bombs,'

"Everyone, allow me to welcome you to the Tokiwa Corporation's Twin Tower Buildings' Opening Party. As for entertainment, I have prepared a little game for all of us to play. This is a game I inherited from my father, Tokiwa Kaneari. And for the 30th anniversary of the Tokiwa Corporation, we'll play the thirty second game,"

When a man with a basket came up to Haru to collect his watch, he shook his head. "I think I'll just eat and watch rather than play," After the timer was up and the winner was revealed, Haru nearly choked on his food. 'I still can't believe Kogoro won! He has such luck! I wonder if I ever had a chance if I had decided to enter,'

After a few more minutes, Haru noticed that people were starting to head to the stage. He snuck past the others and managed to follow Tokiwa. As the curtains started parted and the projector screen came down, Tokiwa's necklace was pulled up. Haru rushed to the controls and brought Tokiwa back down.

"Field-san, what are you doing!?" Sawaguchi exclaimed.

"Don't touch anything!" Haru rushed to Tokiwa's side and quickly removed her necklace. "Tokiwa-san, are you alright?"

"Hey what's going on?" Kazama demanded.

"S-Someone tried to kill me!" Tokiwa shouted loud enough for the audience to hear.

Kogoro and Conan ran to the stage. "Tokiwa-san!"

"Tokiwa-kun, what happened!?" Kogoro asked.

"I-I felt my necklace being pulled up and I couldn't breathe," Tokiwa stuttered. "My, my feet were being raised above the stage but suddenly I was lowered,"

"Field-san was the one who brought the projector screen back up!" Sawaguchi informed. "He must've realized that you were being hanged and lowered you down!"

Inspector Megure and the rest of the police arrived. Tokiwa repeated he recount of events to them. "Haru-kun, why were you on the stage?"

"I had a bad feeling," Haru answered. "Since the cops were all waiting in the parking lot, I took it upon myself to ensure Tokiwa-san's safety. I saw the glint of the piano wire and heard Tokiwa-san's struggling so I sprang into action,"

"Do you have any idea on who the killer is?" Takagi inquired.

"Kisaragi," Haru pointed at the old man. "Inside your cane is Tokiwa-san's original necklace, now broken and in pieces,"

"I had an alibi for Hara's murder," Kisaragi reminded.

"He had a different killer, most likely someone else who had a grudge against him," Haru claimed. "The sake cup was placed there by you, hence why the blood was dry and didn't stain the broken shards,"

"Inspector, are you honestly going to believe this man?" Kisaragi asked.

"Haru-kun has solved cases before. I could even say that by now, he might be on par with Kudo-kun," Inspector Megure pointed out. "And if you aren't the killer, open up your cane,"

Haru kicked the cane out of Kisaragi's grasp and unscrewed the top, dumping out the broken necklace. "There's the evidence," One of the pearls rolled underneath the tablecloth. 'Good. Now I don't have to drop my phone or glasses,' He crawled under the table and screamed. "Bomb!"

"A bomb? You must be joking," Kogoro lifted the tablecloth and jumped back in surprise. "Holy crap! There really is a bomb!"

Both Haru and Conan started lifting the other tablecloths. "They're under each of the tables!"

"But where's the timer?" Professor Agasa asked.

Haru ran to the bar and hopped over the counter, shoving some bottles out of his way. "Here!" He pointed at the countdown. "I thought I heard faint ticking when I passed the bar but brushed it off as nothing. We couldn't really hear it due to the party,"

Everyone was evacuated while a bomb squad defused the bombs in the party room. The bombs in the power generator room and the computer room of Tower A still exploded since Haru didn't remember the exact location that the organization had placed the bombs, but the bomb squad managed to safely flee. There were no casualties.

"It looks like Kudo-kun really did influence you," Inspector Megure commented.

"I guess you can call me Replacement Shin-kun, Kudo Haru," Haru joked. "That sounded much better in my head. Forget I ever said anything,"

Unfortunately, in the news he was given the title the Replacement Detective of the East.

XXX

Haru took out his cell phone and called Akai. "Hey Shuichi,"

"I heard that the Nishitamashi Twin Towers were bombed,"

"Why are you telling me that?"

"Because of course you had something to do with it,"

"It was the crows,"

"What was their aim?"

"To destroy Hara's computers. Yoshiaki Hara was one of their members in the computer science department,"

"The news says that his killer was probably someone with a grudge against him or a robber,"

"I can't tell them that it was Gin now can I?"

"How are you sure that it's Gin?"

"Hara held up a silver knife. Silver phonetically is G-I-N which with a different pronunciation is the alcohol gin,"

"The silver knife could have been for self-defense,"

"It wasn't,"

"And I trust your deductions. Mitsuharu, why were you terrified when that blue haired man sat by you on the bus? Do you know him?"

Haru tightened his grip on his phone. "I don't know him but he had a dangerous aura. Who was he? A crow?"

"Yes and a very dangerous one. His codename is Cognac and he specializes in torture,"

"Cognac?" Haru bit his lower lip. 'He's not a canon character. He was never in the manga nor in the anime. I…I don't know anything about him!'

"Mitsuharu, if you're ever in danger, contact me right away. Don't confront them. Shove your pride aside and just run away,"

"Yeah," Fear had laced that single word of affirmation.

"I'm worried about where you're getting your information from. It might come back to bite you,"

'There's no way that would be possible,' "Okay,"

"Stay safe,"

"You too,"

If the police trusting Haru's revelation doesn't seem convincing to you, remember that this is the same police force that, in the canon timeline, deemed Akemi's death a suicide despite the fact that she was shot in the stomach.

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I assure you that Akai is reacting very badly to that scene. He's either having a heart attack, attempting to snipe someone, or possibly both at the same time.