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]

'My head hurts so much…' Haru groaned as he sat up. 'I'm on a couch? Wait, this isn't my house!' As he put a hand to his head, he felt messily wrapped bandages. 'That's right, I was hit in the head by that third fake officer. Is he planning on using me for ransom instead? Maybe he'll order the police to release his companions like those hijackers did to free their boss?'

"Greetings," That one word echoed in Haru's ears, the voice terrifying the young man.

Haru reached into his pocket to draw his gun but found it empty. 'What!? Where did my gun go!? It's the only weapon I have!'

"I'm not an idiot," Cognac walked into view. "You're acquainted with Akai Shuichi, meaning you must know that I'm a member of the organization. You'd probably shoot me on sight. I can't have that now, can I?"

'Acquainted? He doesn't know that I'm Akai's younger brother?' Haru finally took in the scene. He was in a dimly lit room and judging by the boarded up windows it was in an abandoned building. There was a single light that shone above, illuminating a small space around him and the couch. Haru wasn't bound by any ropes or chains.

"I see that you're confused," Cognac walked over to the armchair across from Haru. "Think of you being untied as an assurance that I mean you no harm. I even patched up your head wound, but I apologize for the clumsiness. I don't tend to other people's wounds that often. However, such a dangerous weapon as a gun shouldn't be with those who have never truly used it,"

'He's trying to lower my guard,' Haru deduced. 'He took my gun so that I wouldn't be able to use it against him. Since he's a crow, I need to be careful if I want to escape. Given the fact that his specialty is torture means that if I manage to last long enough, I will be able to find a way out,'

"You're from another world," Cognac said.

"So are you," Haru kept his face as neutral as possible, trying not to show panic. "Otherwise you wouldn't have known that I was never supposed to exist,"

"At first, I thought that I was the only one," Cognac's voice, although it lacked hostility and aggression, still invoked fear. "I don't know too much about this world. I was never really that big of a fan. It was all rinse and repeat; someone dies and the detective solves it,"

"But you probably know enough that the info will be useful," Haru pointed out. "Why don't you use it to your advantage?" 'And why are you telling me this?'

"Why don't I tell the boss that Gin failed to kill Kudo Shinichi? Why don't I tell him that Kudo shrunk and is using the alias Edogawa Conan?" Cognac shook his head. "Vermouth found out that I knew about Cool Guy's predicament, though fortunately not how I know. I very much would like to live,"

"She's protective of him and Ran," Haru recalled. "She'd kill you before you utter a word, claiming that you were a traitor. Since she's the boss' favorite, she'd get away with it. She put her life on the line back on the bus. What do you want with me?" 'Is he trying to break me psychologically first?'

"It's just nice having someone to talk to this about," Cognac claimed. 'I don't want to hurt you,'

"So you kidnapped me just to talk?" 'Liar!'

"I'll admit, my ways were a bit crude," Cognac said. "But could you really blame me? Police were swarming the bomb site and you had fainted. Your hospital room would be filled with visitors. If we were to talk about dimensional travel, it'd have to be one on one without any eavesdroppers," 'I don't want to be your enemy,'

"I felt someone following us on the way to the arcade," Haru told him. "Was that you?"

"Yes," Cognac nodded. "I merely took a photo of you because you looked like a Martini lovechild,"

Now that caught Haru by surprised. "What the hell!? Martini lovechild!?"

"Hair the same color as Vermouth's and long like Gin's," Cognac listed. "Blue eyes like Vermouth's. You're also a bit on the taller side like Gin,"

"I got my hair color from my mom and my eyes from my dad!" Haru exclaimed. 'How could anyone in the right mind think that I'm the son of Vermouth and Gin!?'

"Anyway, I was hoping that we could become friends," Cognac held his hand out.

"Friends?" Haru scoffed. "You're a criminal, a member of the organization!"

"So were Miyano Akemi and Miyano Shiho," Cognac pointed out.

"They were part of it against their will!" Haru defended. "Atsushi and Elena joined when Akemi was a child and before Shiho was born!"

Haru could've sworn that he saw a flicker of hurt flash across the man's face but he refused to acknowledge it. "You're acting like they're the only ones in the entire organization that didn't join of their own free will," Cognac covered his nose and mouth with a gas mask and threw down a sleeping gas bomb.

"Shit!" Haru attempted to cover his mouth and nose but it was too late.

XXX

Akai received a shared location alert from his brother's phone and immediately rushed to his little brother's location. Mitsuharu was found in an alleyway, with his belongings, including his gun, lying beside him. Akai knelt down while James scouted the area for any signs of Cognac or other organization members. James returned a few minutes later. "The surrounding area is clear. How is Haru-kun?"

"The wound needs to be cleaned and properly treated," Akai picked his brother up. "The bandages were clumsily wrapped. I don't see any other wounds except for a few scrapes from presumable when he hit the ground,"

"Pierrot?" Haru groggily leaned his head against Akai's chest.

"It's alright now," Akai whispered. "I'm here now,"

"I don't want to go to the hospital again," Haru mumbled. He had been there enough times already. Besides, it was so suffocating and boring to stay in his hospital room.

"I'll treat you at your place. Your wound doesn't seem too bad despite being hit with a pipe, but I'm still calling the police," Akai told him. "What's your address?"

"221B Beika Street," Haru answered and started to nod off again, Cognac's last words to him echoing in his head.

"You're acting like they're the only ones in the entire organization that didn't join of their own free will,"

XXX

Cognac had returned to his apartment. He entered his bathroom and shed his clothes, entering the showers. Hot water cascaded down his back, flowing across the scars of various sizes from many different occasions. "I just wanted one friend,"

"Friends? You're a criminal, a member of the organization!"

"I thought since we were both from another world, since we both shared something in common, that we could be friends,"

'I guess he only sees me as a murderer, as a monster,'

"I don't want any riches nor fame. I just want one friend…"

Cognac's kinda socially awkward. He doesn't really know how to interact with Haru at the moment. Someone should tell him to make a note that kidnapping someone is not how you get a friend.

I made an animation about Cognac but after I finished making it…I realized that it contains spoilers for future chapters. So…spoiler warning.
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Fun Facts:
-I was debating between Mitsuharu and Masutora (accidentally combining the names Masatora and Masutaro) for the MC's name. Mitsuharu was chosen because it means "he who triumphs."
-Haru was originally going to be Masumi's twin (hence why his name starts with M) but I wanted him to spend time with Tsutomu so I had him be two years older.
-Another concept was Haru actually having a twin but their names would be Sherlock & Sherrinford.
-A third concept was Haru actually being named Sherlock Holmes Akai because thirteen year old Shuu edited the birth certificate form while everyone was focused on the newborn baby. I'm serious.
-Another concept idea was this story being slightly crack-like with Haru breaking into FBI HQ so many times that it eventually becomes a regular occurrence and the rest of the FBI just let him chill with them because they did not want to deal with an angry overprotective brother.

Oh and to answer your question, Guest-san, I do know that the Miyano Siblings and the Akai Siblings are cousins. Haru knows too but he's like "Meh, Akemi and Pierrot seem happy together and love their son. I'm not gonna make it awkward for them by revealing that we're cousins but I wonder if Mom will recognize the surname Miyano when she does meet them,"