Harry lied on his back on the bed. He paid no attention to anything other than the ceiling. Hedwig was out of her cage. She sat down right beside his head, as she groomed his hair in a way to ask what was wrong. The teenager turned over to rest on his side. His eyes looked at the owl with conflict.
"I don't know what to do, Hedwig, now that we are here."
The female owl hooted in confusion.
"I mean, I need to find where the Kudo family live and then what? If they don't know about the magical world, how can I explain to them about being their missing son?" He frowned. "I can't exactly show them the parchment. The hospital wouldn't be a good idea either, because I don't know where I was born. Plus, I can't exactly ask them to make a blood test or whatever it is called without an explanation. It'll even look suspicious for a foreigner to walk around asking each hospital about if Tamotsu Kudo was born there."
Harry groaned with frustration as a headache started to form. With frustration came anxiety which in turn became panic. He voiced out without thinking:
"What if they don't remember me? I-I mean it has been- what, 14 years since I've been here? If they do remember me, what if they don't want me? They have a son, f-for all I know he could be enough for them to handle. Also the magic could freak them out. A-And- ow!"
Harry cried out when Hedwig pegged his head hard a couple of times. He grabbed the spot in pain, wincing louder when his headache grew dramatically. He didn't notice the owl flew over to map of Tokyo and grabbed it with her claws. She flew back and dropped it on the teenager's lap. The wizard opened his eyes and grabbed the map in confusion. He stared at it for a long few moments of silence before he finally understood what his friend tried to tell him. He grinned:
"I should shut up and look for them first. Then I'll worry, when the time comes."
Hedwig nodded and hooted, proud that he understood.
"But first, I'll need to go shopping. I definitely need to check out the Wizarding shopping center and find a dictionary from the muggle side to help me read." He sighed at the thought, "Maybe during that time I can find somebody that would direct me to their house."
-ooOOoo-
"Mouri, if you're screwing with me here-"
Inspector Megure began in a warning tone, while he stared at his former co-worker. The tall detective sighed, ignoring all the looks of confusion around them by the other officers.
"I'm not, Inspector Megure. Do you really think I would pull this off, especially when I'm bringing Eri into this?"
The short Inspector didn't say anything, but his look of skepticism said it all.
"Look, Inspector, if we don't find him within a couple of days, the Kudo's will arrive. If and when they'll find out that their youngest son may be alive, they'll start to push their noses into dangerous places. It'd be best if we find out if this is a false alarm or not. Just imagine if we don't get it done."
Kogoro asked with a raised eyebrow while both his hands were in his pockets. Megure almost flinched at the thought and memory of the couple. The last thing that he wanted was for those two to do something that would end with dire consequences. He sighed and looked at his friend in the eye:
"I'll have to pull a lot of strings for this search to take place. If this is really a false alarm, it'll be on your head."
Kogoro almost wanted to gulp at the thought. He really didn't want to get into trouble with the Tokyo police, but if it was true… that old man better not be pulling our legs, he thought with a grumble.
"Understood"
"Very well, what do you know about the kid?"
The private detective's shoulders heaved down. He would never believe me, he thought knowingly. His father just loved to make things difficult for him. He should have never pushed his father into retirement. It had caused nothing but trouble for the son.
"Kudo's kid became a lord in the UK."
The Inspector's eyebrows rose so high that they hid beneath his brown hat. He gave the man a look of disbelief:
"You expect me to believe that?"
"That's what my dad said."
Megure shook his head at the answer. He pinched the bridge of his nose, as he didn't know what to do or say next. He knew his friend's parents, specifically his father. He also knew what he was like nowadays. Yet, what if it was true? What if, somehow, the kid got to the UK, became a son of some rich people and became a lord in the end? That, in itself, rose many more questions. He finally stated in defeat:
"I don't even want to ask how he got to the UK and became a lord at a young age. Anything else?"
"Dad said that the kid has a ring that showed he was a lord. He also mentioned something about his past, and that he had found out in the worst time possible." Megure sent a look of surprise to Kogoro at that last part. What the heck happened for the last decade and a half for the kid? Still, the black headed private detective continued. "He's also staying at one of the popular hotels here."
"Hm…" The shorter man pondered. He finally barked. "Tagaki-kun!"
A tall, thin man almost tripped from his place in the crowd. He quickly ran over and exclaimed:
"Yes Inspector?"
"Get me a map of Tokyo. Make sure that hotels and other commercial related businesses are on the map."
"Yes Inspector!"
With that, the slight tanned man ran off to get the map with a confused but yet determined look. A young woman stepped forward once he was gone and asked in curiosity:
"Inspector Megure, what is going on?"
The Inspector humed as he looked at the woman. It was then that he finally noticed that they had a crowd practically surrounding them. It appeared that Kogoro realized it too, since he stared at the group of people with wide eyes. The famous Sleeping Kogoro turned to look at the female cop and asked with clear disbelief:
"You don't know about the case of the missing Kudo kid?"
The woman blinked at him a few times with a look of confusion. Her eyebrows knitted at what she heard.
"Mouri-san, the Kudo's has only one kid."
Kogoro tched then he sighed. He looked around them and took note that a few of the male officers had a look of realization but the rest were clueless and shocked. He turned his head back to the duo and corrected the only officer woman of the first division:
"Detective Sato, they have two kids. Kudo Shinichi has a younger brother by the name of Kudo Tamotsu. He was missing before he was even a day old because of some crazy doctor."
Megure rolled his eyes at the description of the doctor. He explained further to Sato:
"The doctor had a grudge against Yusaku-kun for putting his son, who committed three murders, into jail. All we got out from him was that he took the baby and hired someone to take the kid and dump him somewhere to die. We found his partner and after getting the name of the location searched, but we never found the boy." He looked at Kogoro. "That is why I'm having a hard time believing he's alive. We declared him dead after a few months of nothing but search."
Sato felt anger boil inside of her at what she heard about the doctor. She saw a lot of things throughout her career, which ranged from kidnapping to suicide and murder. She also saw a hurricane of emotions which ranged from sadness to satisfaction from either the families of the deceased or the one behind the crime. Yet, she never heard or saw of such a case where an innocent child was pulled in the middle of it all. She roared:
"You're telling me that a doctor planned to get an innocent newborn killed for that?!"
All the men in the room flinched. Just at that moment, the tall man returned with a fairly big map. He looked startled at the direction of his girlfriend, whom turned to him and exclaimed with her arms thrown into the air:
"Tagaki-kun, you wouldn't believe this!"
For once, the herds of men were glad that they didn't have the female officer as a girlfriend or more. They looked at Tagaki with a look of pity, who could only slowly walk around the woman and hand over the map to a rather amused Inspector.
"Um… Sato-san, you need to calm down."
"How can I calm down after what I was just told?"
Sato growled. Her fingers itched to curl around that doctor's neck and maim him. Not even the criminals that she met had ever thought of doing something like that to a newborn. The brown headed boyfriend gently grabbed her and told her:
"How about we talk over it over some tea? Excuse us."
Tagaki sent the latter part to the detective and Inspector before he pulled Sato out of the room. Megure shook his head at the duo, as he knew that they'd be fine. He pushed aside a bunch of papers and unrolled the giant map while he murmured:
"So the kid is in a popular hotel."
"Damn, there's too many of them."
Kogoro almost growled the thought out loud as he stared at the map.
"Inspector Megure, if I may give a suggestion."
One of the men voiced out as he stepped out of the crowd. The Inspector and private detective looked up from the map to stare at the man. Megure waved his hand for him to continue. The curly headed man looked at Kogoro and pointed out:
"You said that the kid is from the UK and that he just found out about being adopted. Japanese is rather easy to speak if a foreigner knows where to look, but reading and writing is another matter, especially with a limited of time. For any foreigner like him, it'd best if he went to one of the hotels that were built for foreigners rather than stay in one where he can't communicate in well."
Kogoro stared at the map in deep thought. Megure smiled a bit and exclaimed:
"Good thinking there, Shiratori-kun."
"That would cross out most of the hotels." The tall detective spoke out as he took a pencil and begun to circle a few places. "That would leave us with three hotels."
The shorter man looked at the map and said with skepticism:
"These are rather expensive hotels, too. The cheapest is the closest to Downtown. Still, if it is true then he's a lord, so we can't cross anything out." He looked at Kogoro. "Did you find out his name?"
The black headed man sighed and shook his head. He stated with scratching the back of his head:
"Dad wouldn't say anything about the name, not even a hint other than he was raised in the UK. This means that he could use either his real name or his birth name to sign in. With these being foreigner populated hotels it'll be harder to pick him out. The most we can do is look at these hotels and keep a close eye on the Kudo residence. Dad said that the kid wanted to find his family on his own, but he may ask around anyway."
Megure thought for a brief moment over the information before he decided that it sounded right. He turned to the large group of people and barked:
"Half of you will stay here in case a murder takes place, which means that you will have to stay behind Shiratori-kun." He sent a pointed look at the other Inspector. "The rest of you I want to split into two groups. One of them is to go to the Kudo resident undercover and keep an eye out for a kid in his mid-adolescence. Everyone else, I want you to look at the map, remember the name of the hotels, go there and ask around for a Scottish, British, Irish or a Welsh kid around that age who came alone. The kid should look the same as he did at his birth, which is black hair and pale skin. He should also be wearing a ring, specifically on the index finger if he really is a lord. Is that understood? Good! We have a few days to find him, so move out!"
With a loud 'yes sir' 4 men went to the map while the other 6 left to get ready for their undercover mission.
