Cornered Famous Detective!
After listening to his mother talking about his father having an affair with her (His parents knew about his two selves at this point, knowing that it was dangerous to contact the older Shinichi his parents prefered to talk to the younger one.), and then coming home to hear Mouri-san having a fight with his wife, Conan thought to himself, "Hey kids, today's word is dysfunctional!" as he went to sleep on the sofa, leaving a Kamen Yaiba manga on his face.
When Ran came home she asked her father where Conan was, and he pointed to the couch where Conan rested. Ran walked over and took the manga off her young charge's face. As she did the young boy's glasses slid off and his true face was revealed for the first time. Ran was shocked, and as Conan woke up, he yawned, "Ran-neechan? You're back? What's for dinner? Huh? My glasses! Where are they?"
After quickly grabbing his glasses and turning away from Ran, she said, "I don't think I've ever seen you without your glasses before. As far as I can remember they've never come off, now have they?"
"I have Retinitis Pigmentosa! It's a hereditary eye disease." Conan lied, "I know they're not the coolest things, but without these glasses I'm practically blind! It's a curse! Heheheh"
Before Ran could interrogate him further a new client came in. She talked about how her husband supposedly committed suicide. She said he was poisoned with Aconite. Conan went into a thorough explanation of it, and then when Ran said, "Spoken like a professional," Conan lied about how it was used in Kamen Yaiba, though Ran found it odd how they would explain it in such detail. Before Ran could press on it more, she was interrupted by the client. Ran had apparently gone to see the victim (A world famous magician) before, and went to look in her scrap book. But what she saw was not only the magician, but a picture of a young Shinichi… that looked identical to Conan without glasses.
"Did you find the picture?" Conan asked.
"Nope, must have been wrong about that." Ran lied.
The client explained further about the case, Conan and Mouri asked various questions such as whether or not he could have been tricked or forced into drinking the poison, who else was there, and such, she said that that wasn't the case and she also showed them some clue and told them why she came. The clue was two cards glued together. The reason she came was that she couldn't believe her husband would commit suicide only a little while before his daughter's birthday.
"Hey, how about we investigate at your house?" Conan suggested.
"You have a nasty habit of speaking in the plural kid. I'm going alone." Mouri snapped.
"Hey, why not? You take him everywhere else you go. You know Conan, he has a knack for discovering clues. He might be of some help." Ran suggested.
"Ehh? I'm not so sure…" Mouri said for a second.
"C'mon Detective Conan." Ran said.
"Uhm… sure." Conan said, though a little nervous.
Later after Conan figured out how the victim was bound and what the two cards glued together meant he pressed the redial button…
"Hey, brat, what are you doing.? 1… 2… 6… 8… 7…" Mouri read.
"Shhh, he's thinking!" Ran scolded her father.
"Who he?" Mouri asked confused as Ran watch Conan with an interested glare.
After his pencil broke, Conan asked someone for a pencil, but Mouri wasn't convinced of the code's importance. Because of this, before Conan could press someone to give him a pencil he had to convince everyone of the code's importance. After doing so he asked for a pencil again. Ran gave him her pencil, and said innocently, "Well Conan, you've obviously thought of something clever? How about you share it with me and we'll both be ace detectives."
Conan then went ahead and tricked Mouri into thinking he had solved the code when it was actually Conan. Afterwards Ran went over to Conan and whispered 'Thanks', then said normally, "Wow, now that's my Dad!"
After theorizing about the first part of the message, thanks to a musical clue by Ran they figured out that it meant repeat. This meant that the murderer will strike again.
After confronting the murderer, Mako Miyoshi, Conan and the others went home to eat dinner. But Ran claimed to have forgotten to buy groceries and said that Conan and she would go buy some.
When they were supposedly going to the grocery store Conan said, "I don't recognize this street! Is this even on the way to the grocery store?"
"Well, here we are now, home sweet home… Shinichi's little brother."
"Heh? What?" Conan said, genuinely confused, "Oh is this Shinichi's house? I didn't recognize it in the dark. Wait, Shinichi has a brother?"
"Heh, your acting just got better Conan Kudo-kun! You're actually Yusaku and Yukiko Kudo's child aren't you! They decided to keep it hidden from the press and everyone else they knew. Aren't I right? I mean, you look like Shinichi as a child, you act like Shinichi does, you know about things no ordinary seven year old should know, and you're nearly as intelligent as he is! Also, if Shinichi really did teach you everything you know, he would need the time to do it. I doubt he would have enough time to teach you all that unless you lived with him!" Ran accused.
"B-but you've met my mom! Fumiyo Edogawa and Yukiko Kudo look nothing alike!" Conan said nervously.
"Oh? How do I know that that wasn't just some actor friend of Yukiko's?" Ran asked.
"Sheesh, I wish I had proof that I wasn't, but I don't, it isn't like I can just show you my birth certificate as proof whenever you want." Conan said, chuckling a little at his friend's wild deduction.
"Ran-chan! Is something wrong?" A familiar voice yelled.
"Shinichi's mom?" Ran said, surprised. This was perfect timing. Conan's face showed that he was very frightened by this unwelcome guest.
"What brings you here in the middle of the night?" She asked, then seeing Conan, she said, "Oh my, I could have stepped on you."
"Oh, Shinichi's Mom, I thought you were filming in Los Angeles?" Ran questioned.
"We wrapped up early, and besides, Shin-chan gave me some news and I just had to come." Yukiko answered,
"Mrs. Kudo, could you please verify something for me?" Ran asked.
"Hmm?" Shinichi's mom asked, pretending to be confused.
"This kid, Conan Edogawa, is actually your illegitimate son, isn't he!" Ran accused yet again. She then continued, "He acts like Shinichi, is interested in everything Shinichi is interested in, is nearly as smart as Shinichi, he looks like Shinichi did when he was 7, he knows things no seven year old should know, and he is barely phased by the sight of a corpse!"
"Hmm? I suppose they do look alike, they are both caucasian. Never noticed it before. But Conan isn't my illegitimate son, he is my distant relative. I wouldn't even know him if his parents didn't live a block away from my house in Los Angeles. I can even give you a photo to prove that Conan isn't my son!" Yukiko said. When Conan heard that he gawked.
"How did my mother get a photo that never existed…?" Conan asked himself.
"W-Why is it in black and white?" Ran asked.
"Oh, his father was a big fan of black-and-white photography." Conan's mother lied.
"Isn't this Yusaku?" Ran asked with a deadpan expression.
"Heh?" Yukiko's face looked blank at her trick being figured out, and said, "Anyways, why does it even matter if Conan-kun is our illegitimate child?"
Ran looked blank eyed for a moment, and then said, "I just want to know why and how he is like an exact copy of Shinichi."
"Well, I don't know, it is probably mostly a coincidence though. Also, given that his mother is a relative of mine and his father is a relative of Yusaku it isn't that improbable that he'd be similar. Especially the fact that Shinichi seems to have some popular genes. I once knew a child genius that was near identical to Shinichi except for his hair, and then there is Heiji Hattori who is intellectually identical and has a similar sympathy towards cases. Lastly there is Conan who is both physically and mentally identical but chronologically impaired, or in other words, younger than Shinichi."
Ran just looked blank eyed, then said, "I-I never thought of it that way." She then kneeled and looked at Conan, "Conan-kun, could you please forget this ever happened? Please…."
"S-sure." Conan said, "I'm gonna stay with Obasan-" Then he was hit in the head and corrected himself, "I mean Onesan!"
"S-sure. When you get back I'll cook you your favorite dinner as an apology!" Ran said, smiling.
"Hai!" Conan said, overplaying his excitement.
When his friend left, he asked, "Is Niisan here with you?"
"I still think you should call Shin-chan 'Otosan', you did come out of his stomach after all." His mother joked.
"Over my dead body… which now that I think about it is actually possible." Conan thought outloud.
"Yeah, so have you decided if you want him to be related to you or not?" Yukiko asked.
"Better for him not to. He'd look too much like m- ourself." Conan answered, "Let him choose his disguise though, I wouldn't want to give him something he doesn't want, though I suppose that is unlikely as he is me. Awaya, this is so confusing. Well, let's go, wouldn't want to leave him waiting. Oh, by the way, you didn't ditch Dad, did you?"
"Of course I did!"
"And it wasn't because of the lipstick?"
"Of course it was!"
"Ne, Ne. Doesn't you think you were overreacting… quite a bit?"
"Typical male reaction!"
"Oi, Oi!"
"Let's go Shin-chan… oh yeah, Conan-kun" His mother said, changing the subject.
"Hai, Hai!" Conan answered.
At Shinichi's new apartment…
"Ototo (Younger Brother)! Okasan!" Shinichi announced. Conan noticed that he was unusually gleeful.
"Oi, oi, what has you so happy? Care to explain?" Conan asked with a serious look on his face. He couldn't believe that he was with himself, but they acted so differently. Differences in circumstance he supposed.
"Well, Gomen, I've been on the run for more than a month and I finally get to stop moving around with a hood over my head. Sure, I still don't get to be myself, but at least I get to have a lifestyle similar to my old one again. And, don't forget, you're going to introduce me to Ran as an acquaintance, right?"
"Hai, hai. Here's the plan." Conan then went in detail on how they'd meet up.
Conan Edogawa & Shārokku Aran vs the Baron of Homicide
Who is Sharokku Aran?
Doesn't Sharokku Aran seem like a weird name?
How is Ran going to react to the disguised Shinichi?
How is Conan going to introduce the disguised Shinichi?
Who is the Baron of Homicide?
Is Conan going to be able to stand Shinichi flirting with Ran?
Please comment down below on what you think this story's second genre should be? (Besides mystery, I'm thinking humor or friendship, humor because of Ran's wild deductions, friendship because I plan on making Conan and Shinichi good friends.)
