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]

Although it took a while, Haru regained most of his memories of his second life. Thinking back, it was rather terrifying to remember everything except his own existence. His relationship with Shukichi had returned to normal and though Haru had forgiven Shukichi, the latter still felt guilty over how he had reacted. Within a few days, Haru was discharged from the hospital. He was able to return to work though Amuro and Azusa did the bulk of the work since they didn't want to overwork him or aggravate his injury.

A few weeks later, Amuro didn't show up for work for a few days due to being hired for a case. Haru didn't think much of it since the man had to keep all three faces up: café waiter/private eye Amuro Tooru, murderous crow Bourbon, and NPA Officer Furuya Rei.

One day, Haru was met with the surprise visit of Kudo Yusaku. "Yusaku-san? Don't you have to be at the Macademy Awards tonight?"

"Yukiko will be disguised as me," The author informed. "I'll be disguised as Okiya Subaru for a bit,"

"Okay…" Haru drawled. 'Yusaku's gonna be disguised as Subaru so…' His memories were still a bit of a jumbled mess so he had to take time to sort through them. 'This is the Scarlet Return. Man, to think that it's already this point in the series,'

"That Amuro guy from the café will be dropping by to have a conversation with Okiya Subaru," Yusaku added. "Your brother will be out this afternoon until probably early tomorrow morning,"

"Right," Haru nodded. 'He'll be sneaking into the car Jodie and Camel are in. How do they not notice someone in the back seat though? Aren't they supposed to be FBI Agents?'

XXX

The day went on as normal and just as the Macademy Awards was starting, the doorbell rang. Haru glanced out of the corner of his window and saw Amuro Tooru and several police officers from the NPA and the PSB outside the gate. Amuro was let inside the house, claiming that he was a deliveryman despite not having any package with him. Subaru served some tea and the two started chatting. Haru walked over to where Conan sat in front of several monitors.

Haru's stomach started growling and he made his way downstairs to head to the kitchen. When he passed by the living room, he saw Amuro pulled Subaru's collar forward, exposing his neck and parts of his chest. "Oh my god, I am so sorry! I didn't mean to interrupt!" 'It actually does kinda look like they're in a compromising situation. I can't let this opportunity pass,' "Please pretend that I'm not even here!"

"Haru-san?" Amuro gave him a slightly puzzled expression. "What are you—"

Subaru seemed to have understood what Haru was doing and decided to go along with it. He put his mask back on and coughed a bit. "We barely know each other and you're already attempting to strip me?"

Amuro released Subaru's shirt upon realizing what they were thinking. "It's not what it looks like!"

"Then why are you peering down into my shirt at my chest?" Subaru teased.

"That was quite inappropriate though," Haru nodded. "You should ask for consent before stripping someone. He might just sue you for harassment," 'I wonder…would we actually get away with it? How much money would we get?'

Fortunately, Amuro's phone decided to ring and he quickly took a few steps away from the two men to answer it. "What happened? You're la—Akai!?"

'Geez, you'd think that he'd be quieter since he's near two normal citizens,' Haru thought. 'Why would he go around yelling Akai's name?'

Amuro suddenly heard the sound of several cars hitting each other. "Oi? What's happening? What's the situation? Answer me!"

Subaru and Haru decided to watch the rest of the Macademy Awards. The disguised Yusaku sweat-dropped at the way his wife was acting while disguised as him. Subaru even face-palmed himself at some points.

"Please withdraw. I'll explain everything that happened to the higher-ups," Amuro then ended his call. "Ah, I do apologize. There seems to have been a misunderstanding on my part,"

"You came here as a deliveryman but you actually wanted to seduce Chewy," Haru held up a quick drawing of Amuro attempting to kiss Subaru. "I already made fanart,"

"No!" Amuro denied. "I do not see him that way! I was trying to see if he was wearing the voice changing choker! Anyway, I'll see myself out,"

"Mrow!" Cora meowed in a laughing manner. "Mrow! Mrow!"

"Ruff!" Bepo barked happily.

"He was so uncomfortable!" Haru added. "I never thought that he, an NPA Officer infiltrating the organization, could be caught off guard by a ship,"

"Oi…" Conan sweat-dropped at the four's behavior.

XXX

Yusaku was gone by the time Akai, Jodie, and Camel arrived at the Kudo Residence. Akai stared at Haru who had a cheeky grin. "What did you do?"

"I did nothing wrong," Haru claimed in an overly innocent tone. "I didn't break any laws. I didn't get kidnapped. I didn't get hurt,"

"He caught Amuro-san off guard," Conan revealed. "By making him very uncomfortable,"

"How did you achieve that?" Camel inquired. "He's not easy to rile up,"

"When he was searching for the choker and pulled Yusaku-san's collar forward, he was able to see down his shirt and look at his bare chest so…" Haru unfolded his sketch. "I jokingly started shipping them and Yusaku-san went along with it,"

Akai stared at it owlishly before taking the paper and setting it on fire, allowing it to turn to ashes. "I'm going to apply my disguise and hopefully never see that image ever again,"

"Haru-chan, I brought some snacks from America!" Yukiko called once she arrived. "Huh? Where's Shui-chan?"

"He's putting on his disguise," Haru informed. "Thanks for the snacks. Did Yusaku-san tell you what I did to Amuro-san?"

"Yep!" Yukiko smiled. "You'd think someone like him would keep his composure,"

A couple minutes later, Akai had reprised his role as Okiya Subaru. "This is my first time doing it completely without your help so I'm unsure if I messed anything up,"

"No, it's actually a really great one for such a short amount of time," Yukiko assured him. "You should be fine even without me dropping by every week to check the disguise,"

"Are you really Akai-san?" Camel questioned.

"He's like a completely different person," Jodie commented.

"The voice is still the same, right?" He clicked the on button of the choker. "However when I use this voice-changer in the form of a choker, I turn into Okiya Subaru. It's all thanks to Professor Agasa who created this device, along with the disguising skills of Yukiko-san, the wife of Kudo Yusaku-san, who owns this house, and this boy here who thought of the plan, Edogawa Conan-kun,"

"But what relation do you have to Shuu?" Jodie asked Yukiko. "If I recall correctly, you're a former actress, right?"

"Shui-chan and Haru-chan's mother is a friend of mine," Yukiko answered. "When Haru-chan told me that his brother's apartment burnt down, of course I allowed him to stay here,"

"But isn't this where Kudo Shinichi, a second-year Teitan High School student, lives?" Jodie recalled. "It seems like he's not here right now due to being involved in some sort of case, but if he comes home to find a stranger living in his house, won't it be quite surprising?"

"I already told Shin-kun," Haru interrupted. "He'll be away for a while so as long as Chewy doesn't mess with his room and stuff, then he doesn't mind,"

Subaru looked down at his watch. "Yukiko-san, shouldn't you be on your way? It's almost time for your return flight,"

"Oh no!" Yukiko quickly kissed Conan on the cheek and brought both Haru and Subaru into a hug before heading for the door. "Take care, Shin—Conan-kun, Haru-chan, Shui-chan!"

"But I was quite surprised that James knew about all this," Camel brought up.

"I had no intention of telling him but he noticed that I had coated my fingers with glue," Subaru replied.

"In that case, why didn't you tell us as well?" Jodie asked.

"I've told you before, haven't I? Fool your friends to fool your enemies," He opened his left eye. "And, in fact, they did go and check on you all. If I had told you that I was still alive, it would have come out when you encountered that guy dressed up as me,"

Haru took out a black eyepatch and placed it over Subaru's right eye. "Why are you only opening one eye? Use both your eyes. It's not like anyone's here,"

Subaru simply took the eyepatch off. "Well, we took a risky gamble with that guy in order to win him over. Thinking of what's to come, we don't want him as an enemy. On the Bell Tree Express, I removed my disguise and faced him through the smoke. I was sure that guy, being who he is, would come alone to meet me. But to think that he would actually bring his associates along too, just like that boy said. It would seem his grudge against me is more deeply rooted than I had thought,"

"But at least he doesn't think Okiya and Akai are the same person," Haru said. "We managed to fool him,"

The doorbell rang and the Detective Boys claimed that they wanted Subaru and Haru to solve a mystery. There were four stainless steel mugs full of hot black tea. On three out of four paper coasters, the professor used an erasable pen to draw a skull. He flipped the four coasters over and added lemon juice to the cup on the coaster without a skull and put vinegar in the remaining cups. The cups were shifted around without him seeing and he happily drank the cup that had a blank coaster.

The adults moved to the kitchen for some freshly brewed coffee while Conan explained the trick to the kids. Haru explained the trick to Jodie and Camel. Subaru revealed that he had received a text message from Kir with the letters RUM, the second-in-command of the organization.

Every time Subaru does that thing where he only fully opens one of his eyes, Haru always puts a black eye patch over the closed eye.