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]

The Detective Boys were playing soccer at the park. Conan dribbled the soccer ball and kicked it, scoring a goal. "Yes!" Ayumi cheered. "Our fourth point! Conan-kun is so cool!"

"Hey, that didn't seem fair to me!" Genta complained.

"Maybe there's a problem with the rules," Mitsuhiko whined.

"What problem? This is a three-on-two where your team has more palyers!" Conan pointed out. "And I only kicked using my left foot,"

"In that case, we'll have to seal away your left foot too!" Haibara told him.

"Which means I can only use my head?" Conan said. "Why are you all even so serious? We're only playing to aid our digestion and get ready for the cake when it arrives at the Professor's,"

"Why don't we get Haru-niichan to play on our team?" Genta suggested.

"He's still at work, remember?" Conan pointed out.

During the next game, Haibara was about to kick the ball. "Here I come! Higo-san's signature no-spin sho—" She purposefull avoided kicking the ball and fell backwards. "Taii?" She picked him up.

"Mrow," Taii meowed before suddenly scurrying off, a loose thread caught in his claw.

The Detective Boys followed Taii into a frozen delivery truck. The two deliverymen hadn't noticed the kids and closed the freezer door. Haibara's hand-knit sweater fell apart and she was only in her underwear. In order to prevent her from freezing, Mitsuhiko gave his jacket to Haibara. It wasn't long until Conan came across the corpse of a man stuffed into a box.

XXX

"Mrow?" Cora looked around Café Poirot. "Mrow?"

"Is something wrong, Cora?" Haru asked. "Hey, aren't you usually with Taii at around this time? Where is that kitten anyway?" His phone rang and he answered it. "Hello?"

"Haru, it's me! Jot down everything I'm about to tell you!"

"Haru-san, you're not supposed to be on your phone during work hours," Azusa scolded, taking the phone and ending the call. "You've worked here for years now so you should know that already,"

"Sorry," Haru apologized. "But I think it was something urgent. Conan seemed desperate. Weird thing is that he was calling using Mitsuhiko-kun's phone,"

"That's not too weird if he left his phone charging," Amuro spoke up.

"Those kids get into a lot of trouble though," Haru recalled.

A few minutes later, Taii arrived and Azusa set up a bowl of cat milk for him. Cora tugged at the crumpled piece of paper, freeing it from Taii's collar. Haru took the paper from her and opened it. 'It's cold…' His eyes widened once he saw the word corpse. 'Taii was a bit late today and since his collar's cold, he was in some sort of frozen delivery truck. Given that there's the word corpse on the receipt, the kids came across one in the back of the truck,' "Azusa-san, Amuro-san, please tell the master that I'm feeling ill so I had to go home early. I don't need to be paid for today's work,"

"Haru-san, is something wrong?" Amuro asked and caught a glimpse of the word corpse on the receipt.

"I'm heading home," It wasn't a lie. Haru was heading to the Kudo House.

XXX

Haru arrived at his house and waited at the gates. Subaru came out of the house. "Shouldn't you be at work?"

"There's a delivery truck coming here, right?" Haru asked.

"Professor Agasa is expecting a cake to be delivered," Subaru informed.

"In the back of the truck is a corpse along with the Detective Boys," Haru revealed.

Subaru promptly flicked Haru in the forehead. "And you're not letting the cops handle it…why?"

"If they saw police, the deliverymen might do something that would result in the kids getting injured," Haru argued. "I don't want them to get hurt. Besides, I'm plenty strong already. You've been training me,"

"I'll just stay here in case things get out of hand," Subaru sighed in defeat.

It wasn't long until the delivery truck arrived. "Um, are you Kudo-sama?"

"That would be me, Kudo Haru," Haru took the package and handed it to Subaru. Without warning, he attacked the deliverymen, knocking them unconscious with swift hits. He then opened the freezer door. "Why don't you kids get warmed up while I call the cops?"

"Haru-niichan, you're amazing!" Mitsuhiko commented. "You saw the code on the receipt and came here, didn't you?"

"The only thing I understood was the word corpse," Haru replied. "I knew that a refrigerated delivery truck would be coming this way. It was just a lucky guess that you all were inside of this specific one,"

"But the license plate was written at the bottom," Conan pointed out.

"Eh?" Haru took out the receipt and looked at the bottom. "Oh, that's what those weird numbers mean. I thought it was just an old receipt and some of the printed text was faded away,"

"I think this cake is a mess," Subaru, noticing the dents on the bottom of the box, removed the lid. "It's a shame. It seemed like you all would've enjoyed this cake,"

"Aww," The kids whined.

"We went through all that and the cake's been all messed up!" Genta pouted.

"Hey, but it'll still taste good," Haru pointed out. "I can whip up a cake in a couple minutes. It won't be as great as this one but it'll still be delicious,"

XXX

Subaru was helping Haru with the cake. "Haru, do you think there are more outliers like you and Jonah?"

"Honestly, in all the fanfiction I've read about traveling into an anime world, it was mostly only one person, the main character," Haru responded. "I was really surprised that Jonah was also from the Real World. It's not impossible for there to be others. The question is if they have knowledge about this world. Not everyone reads and watches Detective Conan,"

"Do you think Michael's an outlier?"

Haru poured the cake batter into the pan and placed it into the oven. "He doesn't really seem like one. He acts like an actual child and in all the times I've interacted with him, he never once had a slip up of being someone older than he was. When I was growing up as Akai Mitsuharu, sometimes I accidentally wrote Michael Leo Field as my name instead of Haru. It was tough for me to get used to a whole new name. What makes you think he's an outlier?"

"You said Akai Mitsuharu never existed in the original timeline," Subaru recalled. "You also said that Akemi died in that timeline too. However, she's alive now. Akai Michael didn't exist in the original timeline, yet he exists in ours,"

"It could be a coincidence," Haru claimed. "But even if he is an outlier, don't pressure him into revealing himself. Let him tell you at his own pace,"

"He…he can't really tell me since he believes I'm dead…" Subaru reminded.

"Oh…right…"

Do you think Michael's just a normal baby born due to Haru altering the timeline, or that he's actually an outlier?