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]
Jonah practically lived with Haru and Subaru now, though the latter made sure that the ex-crow would be sleeping on the couch and didn't sneak into Haru's bedroom. They were currently all eating breakfast at the dining table. "Hey Jonah," Haru broke the silence. "What was your former name? When you said Jake was your first name, I interpreted it as your original name. Was I wrong?"
"No, you're right," Jonah replied. "My original name was Jake Smith,"
"Jake Smith!?" Haru's spoon fell from his hand and luckily landed into his bowl of cereal. "You died in a fire! Nobody knows what the cause of the fire was but they found strange markings on the floor!"
"You seem to know a lot about my death," Jonah commented and jokingly added, "Should I be flattered?"
Haru returned to eating. "A classmate of mine mentioned it during a get to know each other activity. She said her goal was to find out the cause of the fire,"
Jonah's eyes widened. "What was her name?"
"Her name was Hannah," Haru recalled. "Or at least something similar sounding,"
"Hana Smith," Jonah corrected, his voice soft. He didn't realize that he had begun to cry. "So my sister survived. That's good," 'How many years has it been in that world? Does she still have nightmares?'
Haru tried to recall the very few moments he had shared with Hana Smith. "She's…living with a cop,"
"Probably our Uncle Eddie," Jonah said. "He's a police detective," He wiped away his tears.
'Before he was a criminal, he was just an innocent boy hurt by those that were supposed to care about him,' Subaru thought. 'He cares about his sister just like me and my brothers care about Masumi,'
"So what's your former name?" Jonah inquired. "Is it Leo?"
"That's actually my middle name," Haru replied. "My full name was Michael Leo Field,"
"Michael?" Subaru questioned. "Is that why you suggested that name for my son?"
"In my defense, I never had to give a baby a name before," Haru defended. "And Akemi liked it so it's fine,"
"Who was your favorite character?" Jonah asked. "I already told you mine and I'm curious as to who you admired in the past life,"
"Oh look at the time," Haru looked down to his watch. "I should head to work!"
"We both have the day off," Jonah reminded. "Stop trying to change the subject. It's not like your favorite character was Gin, right?"
Haru whistled while avoiding eye contact. A tense silence fell over the three men. "Mitsuharu," Subaru began. "You didn't deny it,"
"How could Gin of all people be your favorite character!?" Jonah grabbed his boyfriend by the shoulders.
"Well," Haru looked the other way before mumbling, "I saw a bunch of fanart of him and…he was really hot. It was a fanart of him shirtless and he had a bunch of muscles and well defined abs and—" He started to slightly drool at the memories.
Subaru's eyes were wide open and filled with horror. Jonah shared a similar expression. They both looked to each other. "Gin's going to die!"
"Didn't you guys already declare that multiple times already?" Haru pointed out. "And besides, that was in my previous life. Michael Leo Field was attracted to Gin. I, Field Haru, am attracted to Gubat Jonah now," He chugged down the rest of his orange juice. "Now I have a very important issue to address: the timeline,"
"What about it?" Jonah tilted his head. "There haven't been major changes except for Akemi surviving and having a child. I mean, my presence is kinda major since they'll be hunting me down just like Sherry so we have to be a bit more careful,"
"That's not what I was talking about," Haru sighed. "I'm talking about the fact that no matter how much time passes, it never becomes the next year. I've been nineteen years old for how many months already?"
"I haven't noticed this occurrence," Subaru inputted. "But then again, you might have noticed since you were originally from another world,"
"I noticed too," Jonah said. "At first I was curious but then gave up after like three seconds of pondering it. Honestly, does it matter? We can't even figure out how or why the hell we were reborn into Detective Conan. What makes you think we'll be able to understand the timeline?"
"You do have a point," Haru tossed the file full of evidence he had logged down into the trashcan. It was months of hard work that was essentially useless since nobody was motivated to actually try to understand the timeline. 'Since he exposed my favorite character back from when I was living in the real world…' Haru flashed a grin to Jonah. "Hey Chewy, wanna know who Jake's favorite character was?"
"Don't you dare!" Jonah tried to cover Haru's mouth.
Haru pushed his arms away. "His favorite character was—"
"Kudo Shinichi!" Jonah lied. "He's super smart so I-I admired him and—"
"He's lying!" Haru managed to blurt out. "You were his favorite character! He originally wanted to be an FBI Agent when he was older!"
'Me? I was his favorite character?' Subaru was silent for a moment, trying to figure out what to do with the information. 'Maybe I can use it to my advantage,' "I'm your idol, right? Why don't you stay away from Haru and just hang around me?"
"Nice try Red," Jonah rested an arm on Haru's shoulder. "You were my favorite character. My current favorite person is Haru,"
Suddenly, Haru's phone rang and he answered it. "Hello?"
"Haru-kun, could you pick up the Detective Boys from their fishing trip? I'm a bit preoccupied,"
"Sure," Haru agreed and ended the call. "Well, I gotta pick the kids up,"
'It sounds like he's picking up our kids,' A mischievous grin appeared on Jonah's face. "I'll go with you. After all, you don't have a car,"
'He's up to no good,' Subaru started emitting a dark aura again. "We'll take my car. Haru, you're riding shotgun,"
XXX
"We sure caught a lot!" Genta said.
"If we put all of our catch together, it's twenty fish in all!" Ayumi added.
"Dinner at the professor's house will be fish then!" Mitsuhiko declared.
"Though, there is a slight cause for worry since the chef is going to be the professor," Haibara commented.
"Then we can ask Haru-niichan and Jonah-niichan to cook them," Conan suggested. "The two of them work at Café Poirot so I'm sure the meal will turn out great,"
"It's about time to put away the tools and prepare to head back," The fisherman, Ejiri Futoshi, said. "It looks like the ship's here to pick you guys up,"
"That's not the professor," Genta said as the ship neared.
"That's Okiya Subaru-san, Haru-niichan's homework helper," Mitsuhiko said.
"Haru-niichan and Jonah-niichan are there too," Ayumi added.
"I wonder if something happened to the professor," Conan pondered out loud.
"Sorry kids but the professor's busy," Haru explained when the boat stopped. "The automated ham and egg making machines he invented malfunctioned and he's been getting a lot of complaints. He's currently still fixing them,"
Haibara was still weary of Subaru. "Is something wrong?" Conan asked her as they started boarding the boat.
"I feel it, that man…" Haibara whispered. "He reeks of the Black Organization,"
"Are you sure it isn't Jonah?" Conan questioned. "He was formerly Cognac, a feared torturer," As Conan and Haibara started to board, Haibara lost her footing and slipped.
"Be careful," Subaru caught her just in time. "That won't do. Watch where you're walking,"
As they started sailing, Jonah walked over to the Detective Boys and quietly offered, "I'll give you each a thousand yen if you call me 'Pops' and call Haru 'Papa'," Subaru and Haru were too far away to hear their conversation.
"Sure thing Pops!" The three real children agreed since it was a quick way to make some cash.
That was loud enough for the two brothers to hear. "What did you kids just call Jonah?"
"He's Pops!" They grinned innocently. "Haru-niichan is Papa!"
"P-P-Papa!" Haru stuttered.
"Aww, we're all one big happy family," Jonah draped his arm over Haru's shoulder. "Two fathers and their children. Oh, and there's also a grumpy uncle," He motioned towards Subaru who was surely glaring at the ex-crow and thinking about the number of ways to murder Jonah.
"I guess they could be practice for when we adopt kids," Haru blushed at the thought of being married to Jonah and raising all of the kids they would rescue from the organization. 'Actually, that would be a lot of kids. Who knows how many are involved in the organization? Some of them are probably orphans so they'd need someone to care for them,'
XXX
The ship was driven to Ikkaku Rock. Three divers were driving by their boat, looking for their missing friend but moved to look at a different location. The Detective Boys and their supervisors decided to explore Ikkaku Rock. "If you look at it closely, rather than a horn it just seems like a worn out rock with a lot of holes," Mitsuhiko noted.
"Yeah," Conan agreed. "It looks like it's been pretty much eroded by the seawater,"
"Look, the sunset!" Ayumi pointed in the distance. "Let's all take a picture before it sets!"
"Subaru, you can take the photo for them," Jonah said as he pulled Haru away and started to walk around to the other side. Once they were out of sight, they came across the corpse. "Since you're the Replacement Detective, you can explain the case's resolution,"
"Oh god, I should've used a different epithet," Haru groaned. "Replacement Detective sounds so bad,"
Subaru wanted to go after them but he didn't want to act suspicious, especially around Haibara. He agreed to take a photo of the Detective Boys but paused when he noted some characters carved into the rock beside the shrunken scientist. "Pacific mackerel, carp, sea bream, flounder?"
"Call the police!" Jonah shouted. "Some lady died!"
XXX
Inspector Yokomizo Jugo arrived promptly and began inspecting the corpse. "I can't say for sure before bringing her body back on land for further examination, but judging by the rigor mortis and the cloudy corneas, she's been dead for five to six hours. Since the inside of her mouth is already dry and the sky has lost its elasticity, the cause of death should be dehydration. She's been on Ikkaku Rock for at least three days without eating or drinking,"
"Her rubber suit and oxygen tank indicate that she's a diver," Haru added. "Since there's no lipstick on the regulator, then someone switched out her equipment with their own. It's definitely a murder case,"
Jugo gave Haru and Conan an unamused glance. "You both seem to get involved with cases. Did you already know that there was a corpse here before you arrived?"
"I am offended," Haru gasped. "The corpses are always around Conan not me! I'm just around to solve them. The kid's the corpse magnet," 'I'm technically telling the truth because whether I'm here or not, these cases would still happen,'
'Oi, oi,' Conan sweat-dropped.
"Then how did you know that there was someone here?" Jugo asked.
"My boyfriend and I decided to watch the sunset together since it was such a romantic scene," Jonah claimed. "We didn't want to get too lovey-dovey and kiss in front of our kids, so we left their uncle to take their photo,"
"There were also four fish names carved into the rock," Mitsuhiko informed. "Mackerel, carp, sea bream, and flounder,"
"I found this lady's watch while searching around," Conan held up the heavily scratched accessory. "She was the one to carve the fishes as a dying message,"
"According to Ida-san, this lady's the only daughter of Akamine-san, the chairman of a finance company who recently moved to Kanagawa," Haru continued. "Her name was Akamine Hikari,"
At that moment, the three men from earlier came by again, this time seeing Hikari's corpse and realizing that their friend had died. They explained their story to the police. The four of them had been diving three days ago and waited for her to arrive but she instead sent a message saying to take care of the rest. A similar incident had happened and she returned two days later, having spent the time with a cute guy on a passing boat. When she had been reporting missing last time, she scolded them hence why they didn't report her this time.
'It'll soon be night,' Haru noted. 'Now is the time to reveal the culprit since they all mentioned their names,' "The culprit is Aosato Shuhei-san,"
"H-Hey," Aosato stuttered. "Stop saying weird things! I'm not the culprit!"
"Boy," Kaita asked. "How do you know Shuhei's full name? We only mentioned our family names,"
"Akamine-san engraved the culprit's full name onto Ikkaku Rock," Haru claimed. "The full name, Aosato Shuhei,"
"But Papa, the only thing engraved into the rock were the four fish names," Ayumi pointed out.
Conan had finally caught on. "The scratched off word on her watch was fish. The lady wanted us to delete the sakana radical from the fish names written in kanji. The kanji for mackerel is the fish radical added to ao. The kanji for carp is the fish radical added to sato. For sea bream it's the fish radical added to shu. And for flounder, it's the fish radical added to hei. If you remove the sakana…"
"Ao!"
"Sato!"
"Shu!"
"Hei,"
"Aosato Shuhei!" The Detective Boys pointed accusingly at the culprit.
"If you want more evidence," Haru smirked. "Remove that band aid on your chin. It's not acne, it's her lipstick,"
Jugo tore the band aid off, revealing the evidential lipstick mark. "I see, after going back to the ship and wiping your mouth, you noticed this lipstick. You hid it with a bandage since lipstick can't be removed easily by wiping it by hand!"
"But she's a strange diver," Ida commented. "Regardless of being a novice, how can a diver who has gotten used to diving put on lipstick?"
"It was on purpose," Kaita informed. "When she first started diving, I used her regulator by mistake and got her lipstick on me,"
"Even now, she continued to put on lipstick before dives," Oto added.
"Well, thanks to that I found out that she left Yoshiro to die," Aosato went on to explain Yoshiro's death and how Yoshiro's regulator had Hikari's lipstick on it. "That's why I left that woman on this Ikkaku Rock," He suddenly grabbed Ayumi and held a knife to her throat. "I'll let you guys experience the same!"
A murderous aura surrounded Jonah. No, not Jonah. The aura was surrounding Cognac. Someone was threatening his boyfriend and their children and there was no way he'd sit back and let it happen. He took a couple steps towards Aosato. "Go ahead," His voice was calm and higher pitched, as if a crazy person's voice was echoing in an asylum's hallway.
"W-What?" Aosato was startled by the words.
A sadistic grin made its way to Cognac's face. "I said go ahead. You plan on ditching us here to die. What difference does it make if you kill her right now?" He took another step closer. "Ania ti problema?"
"Shut up!" Aosato yelled. "I'll kill you!"
"Kasta met kenka," Cognac responded. "Mabutengmo?" Aosato lunged forward with the knife. Cognac yanked the knife out of his hand, grabbed Ayumi, and set her down. He then slammed Aosato's face into the rock horn. "Perhaps I shall take out an eye as compensation for threatening my boyfriend and our kids? Nah, I think I'll kill you instead!"
Before Cognac could stab Aosato, Haru hugged him from behind. "J-Jonah, you're scaring the kids," 'And me,' "Please…that's enough…" 'I don't want to see this side of you! You purposely held back when I fought you during Head-to-Head Match so I never saw your truly murderous side. I don't want you to murder him!'
Cognac let Aosato slump to the ground. "Nakapsot," The murderous aura dissipated and Jonah handed the knife to Jugo.
Haibara was also shaken up. 'T-That was Cognac's aura! C-Could it actually be that I was actually feeling his aura instead of Okiya-san's?'
"I'm sorry if I scared you kids," Jonah apologized, looking genuinely remorseful when he saw the terrified expressions on the younglings' faces.
Ayumi hugged Jonah. "Thank you for saving me Pops,"
"Y-Yeah," Mitsuhiko nodded. "If it weren't for you, we'd have been stranded here,"
Subaru observed Jonah's honest emotions. 'He really does consider the Detective Boys as his kids,'
Ania ti problema: What's the problem?
Kasta met kenka: Same to you
Mabutengmo: Are you scared?
Nakapsot: Weak