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]

Cognac was running down the deserted streets, blood running down his arm from where a bullet had hit him. He had abandoned his gun minutes ago, having not a single bullet left. He had none of his throwing knives on him. Essentially, he was unarmed and most likely going to die in the next few minutes.

'Someone help me!' Cognac begged. 'I don't want to die!' "Haru! Kudo! Akai! Anyone!"

He turned into a corner and froze at the sight of the protagonists' corpses. Amongst them were Akai Shuichi, Jodie Starling, Andre Camel, James Black, Field Haru, Edogawa Conan, Haibara Ai, and Professor Agasa. He stumbled back and fell to the ground, eyes wide with fear. 'No…If even Akai was killed, then there's no hope for me!'

"All traitors will be hunted down and eliminated," Cognac didn't even have time to turn around as the trigger was pulled.

Cognac sat up, sweating buckets. "I'm alive…" He whispered, breathing heavily. "I'm alive…" He looked around. "That's right, I'm just staying over at Haru's place and chose to sleep on the couch. The organization is looking for me, but they have no leads. They don't know that I'm a traitor. They only know that I was captured by the FBI," Against his will, he started to cry. "Shit…I don't want to go back to that kind of life…"

Subaru had gone downstairs to get a glass of water when he had noticed Cognac's abrupt awakening. At the sight of the younger man's tears, Subaru's brotherly instincts kicked in. He wrapped his arms around the ex-crow and enveloped him in a hug. "You're not going back," He had originally wanted to somehow return Cognac into the organization so that the FBI would have yet another line along with Kir, but now he doubted that the man had the emotional stability for the role.

Cognac wanted to shove Subaru away, to yell that he wasn't weak and didn't need his pity. He didn't want to show weakness in front of anyone. In the organization, anyone and everyone will take advantage of any info they could get their hands on, including their coworkers' weaknesses. But right now, Cognac—no, he was no longer Cognac. He was Jonah. He didn't push Subaru away. He leaned into the warm hug.

XXX

Jonah and Haru were at Beika Mall, filming themselves shopping for their Lion and Dove channel. Jonah glanced around. "Hey, why are there a bunch of cops from different prefectures here?"

'Megure-keibu, Takagi-keiji, Sato-keiji, Shiratori-keiji, Chiba-keiji—dear lord, is that the Gunma guy!?' Haru cringed at the presence of Yamamura. 'That Yamato guy, Uehara-keiji, the Yokomizo twins,' "Are they here to capture someone?"

"Looks like they're stalking that woman," Jonah pointed at Risa Yoshii.

"Let's not get involved," Haru said. "Let's just continue our video," 'What case is this?'

The two did so, deciding that they would edit the conversation out of the final draft of the video. A few minutes later, the two targets were surrounded by cops. The bad news was that it happened right next to Haru and Jonah. Rather than Vermouth being taken hostage like in canon, Jonah was taken instead. "Stay away!" He held the knife to Jonah's throat.

While this was going on, Conan had followed Vermouth to the parking lot, noting that bulge near her ankle. Jonah glared at Fukase, contemplating what action to take. 'I could wait for the police to do something, or I could disarm him right now. The police are going to take forever and Kudo's not here to kick a soccer ball,'

Haru wasn't sure what to do. He wanted to act, to lunge forward and disarm Fukase with the Jeet Kune Do he had learned from Akai. But he was worried that if he was too slow or if he made a wrong move, Jonah would get hurt. He decided to take the safe action and step away from the scene. 'The police probably had their fair share of hostage situations. They're more experienced,'

'Okay, let's get this over with,' "Hey," Jonah put on his Cognac poker face. "Don't wield a knife if you don't know how to use it," He managed to steal the knife and was about to stab it into Fukase's shoulder, stopping just as the tip pierced it, allowing a tiny trickle of blood to flow. "Like I said, don't wield a knife if you don't know how to use it,"

Fukase whimpered under Cognac's glare. "S-S-Sorry…"

XXX

"Is it okay to walk away like that?" Conan asked Vermouth who was still in disguise. "Isn't there something you want from that guy? You were intending for him to take you hostage instead but Haru and Jonah derailed your plan, Vermouth,"

"There's nothing that can be done. Besides, isn't it better for you if I left like this?" Vermouth replied. "Not to mention, that man likely isn't the killer,"

"Yeah, that's true," Conan agreed.

"A man who can't even raise his right arm to use a knife can't be the killer," Jonah and Haru had snuck away to join Conan in case things turned sour, though it was unlikely seeing as Vermouth was protective of Conan. "That is, if he didn't injure his shoulder after committing the crime,"

"I'm curious," Vermouth said. "How did you guys know it was me?"

"Gun on your ankle and your reaction to seeing me," Jonah spoke up.

"It takes more than a hair color and hairstyle change and removing your contacts to fool me," Vermouth told him. "I've had years of experience in disguising,"

"Are you going to tell the rest of the crows?" Haru asked. 'Although I won't be able to kill her, I might be able to injure her if she says yes. It will draw a commotion since I don't have a silencer,'

"No," Vermouth tore off her mask. 'If they start investigating Cognac, they'll eventually be led to Lucifer and then to Cool Guy and Angel. I'm not endangering them,' "I am surprised that Cognac here is walking around freely like this,"

"Don't change the topic," Conan demanded. "Why is your organization following this serial murder case?"

"NOC," Vermouth answered.

"NOC?" Conan questioned. "Non-official cover? A member of yours working undercover as a civilian became one of the victims?"

"Right," Vermouth took out a cigarette and lit the end of it. "That NOC, perhaps seeking some sort of insurance, carried a memory card containing our entire NOC list,"

"That's not an insurance," Jonah commented. "That's a death sentence. He just painted a target on his own back,"

"The organization did plan to get rid of him but he ended up getting killed by someone else first," Vermouth continued. "And now that memory card is unknowingly with the killer,"

"It'd be bad for you should the police catch the killer and look into that database," Conan noted. "Wait, the fact that you're here means the NOC was at the conference. No, one of your partners was disguised as an officer. You infiltrated the conference to ensure that your partner's disguise was still airtight!"

"Conference?" Haru inquired. "Hey, why wasn't I invited? If Ojisan got invited, shouldn't they have invited me too?"

"Our conversation has come to an end," Vermouth got into her car. "Their codename is Irish," She drove off.

"We need to go after her!" Conan cursed.

"Conan, she has a car and you have a skateboard," Haru pointed out. "She also has a gun. And she's a trained murderer. And we have no evidence against her. Do you want us to be charged with harassment?"

XXX

"The Raven Chaser," Haru said as they were driving back to the Kudo Residence. "This is Movie 13: The Raven Chaser,"

"The big guy with the scarred face is Irish," Jonah recalled.

"You said that you were not much of a fan of Detective Conan," Haru noted. "Yet you know a lot,"

"Do you want the honest truth?" Jonah glanced at him. "I lied. I am a big fan of Detective Conan, okay?"

Haru frowned at the tone. "It's nothing to be embarrassed about. But why did you lie?"

"Akai Shuichi's my favorite character," Jonah mumbled. "It must sound stupid to you that I, someone who was a member of the organization for years, admired Akai. Back in the real world, I thought that once I was old enough and had enough money, I'd take my sister and leave that shithole where we suffered. My dream was to become an FBI Agent just like Akai,"

"How did you come to join the organization?" Haru inquired. 'There's no way he joined it willingly, especially if his past life's dream was to become an FBI Agent,'

"Stuck with another abusive drunken bastard for a father," Jonah growled, clenching the steering wheel tightly. "He was a corrupted cop. Thankfully I didn't have a younger sibling to protect," 'A younger sibling that I'd be forced to watch suffer alongside me,' "I finally snapped and managed to grab his gun and shot him dead. Turns out he was Vermouth's target that night and when she found me standing over his corpse, she saw potential in me. It was either join the organization or be killed. I didn't want to die,"

"Oh," Haru looked out the window, avoiding looking in Jonah's direction. 'Not everyone who is reborn into a fictional world gets a happy life. This isn't like all those fanfiction I've read. I'm such an idiot for thinking that all dimensional travelers would be like me. Then again, my new life isn't completely happy. Kohji died and Tsutomu's missing,'

I was originally going to have Haru have a dream sequence like in the beginning of Raven Chaser, but I wanted to torture Cognac and have Shuubaru Akaiya have a comforting moment with him.