Day 6/Prompt: Genius

Summary:Shiho has always had an interest in true crime and sometimes eager to provide her own thoughts and theories to cases Shinichi has yet to solve.

Little 5-month old Kudo Aiko extended her chubby arms and gurgled happily, a mush of baby food drooling from her mouth. The cause of her excitement was her 21-year old mother, Miyano Shiho, who was making silly faces at her as a way to get her to eat her breakfast. Unfortunately, her mother had failed to remember about the mess each feeding session left and she clucked, reaching out for a tissue.

"Sweetie, you're supposed to eat the carrots, not spit them out.", the strawberry-blonde woman groaned, wiping away the orange baby food from her daughter's face.

Aiko giggled, more food mixed with her saliva drooling down her chin. Her mother sighed, smiling warmly at her as she grabbed a rag and began to clean up the small table of her highchair, which was heavily coated with orange mush. As she did this, she heard the door of the house opening and closing, a suitcase settled on the floor, and the sound of footsteps making their way into the kitchen. She turned around to greet the person who had just walked in, her husband.

"Hello, how was work?" She asked, setting the rag on the dinner table and standing up so she can undo his red tie.

Shinichi groaned, rolling his eyes.

"That bad?" Shiho asked, faking her surprise.

"I wouldn't say bad," he explained, walking over to their daughter and planting a kiss on her head before sitting down beside her, "Just tiresome since they assigned me another case! Shortly after I finished with the previous one after a whole month…..Anyway, enough about me, how's our little pumpkin been doing today." He reached out caressed one of Aiko's chubby cheeks, causing the baby to giggle lightly.

Shiho smiled, taking her seat. "Great. She got herself all messy during her feeding time, no matter how much I try, she still insists on a spitting out her carrots."

Her husband gasped and looked at Aiko. "Not eating your carrots?" He asked. "Now missy, if you don't eat your carrots you won't have great eyesight or grow up big and strong! Hey, you know what–if you eat your carrots, I'll get you a big chocolate cake, how does that sound?"

The little baby smiled, turquoise eyes gleaming.

Shiho frowned playfully and began to scold Shinichi over bribing their daughter like that. Her husband shrugged, laughing. After he finished, she asked what was on her mind.

"What's the new case about? If you tell me, I might be able to help."

He looked at her and smiled. "Want to brainstorm some theories, huh?" He teased.

Coming up with theories on unsolved murders was a new habit that Shiho picked up. Who could blame her though, her husband's a detective, solving any murder he crosses paths with, and before she got pregnant with their daughter, she was on her third year as a coroner for the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. Shinichi really enjoyed her smart assumptions and was impressed every time, sometimes he'd even go to her for help when stumped on a case and review what she said.

So, he began to detail her on what today's case was about: a couple was found slaughtered in a nearby park just last night. The coroner's report stated the despite the fact both of their bodies were covered in multiple stab wounds, the cause of death was aconite poisoning. Police officers closed up the park to start their investigation, but at this point they have yet to find a clue as to what happened.

Shiho listened intently, taking in every little detail even as she grabbed their daughter out of her chair and began breastfeeding her. "The murderer must've stabbed them hoping that the police would think that was the COD, they must've not known they do autopsy on the victims, or the stabbings may have been done with emotions, say anger.", Shiho silently stated after he finished giving her the gist of the whole thing. "Do you remember how many wounds they had?"

"Forty-eight on the husband and at least thirty on the wife."

"That's a lot," she said, surprised, "If I was a killer who just killed a couple in a public place, even if it was at night, I wouldn't dare stay behind to stab them just to sugarcoat their true cause of death. Considering how many wounds were left, I say this person must've harbored hatred towards those two and spilled it all out when they stabbed them."

Shinichi smiled warmly at her, nodding to let her know he agreed. He proceeded to ask her this question, "Do you think it was an accidental murder or planned?"

A "are you serious" look was thrown at him. "It was definitely planned, Shinichi," she said, frowning at him, "After all, who in their right mind would carry aconite around. Speaking about that, was Tomoko able to figure out where exactly the aconite came from? Any food in their system that was laced with it?"

He shook his head. "There was no food in their system at all. They must've not eaten anything in the last few hours before they died. Tomoko came to the conclusion that the killer may have spiked a drink with the poison or heck, forced them to drink the liquid from the bottle."

Shiho looked down, deep in thought. "Have you guys made any attempts to locate the knife used?"

She heard him scoff at her question. "Of course, Shiho. We've looked all around the area and have found nothing. This killer did their homework and cleaned up pretty goddamn good."

"True, but there's always something they slip up on. You guys aren't looking hard enough and it's hard to think up anything else with this small limited amount of information. I have to know these people's names, their background, and almost everything to even come up with an idea of what happened. At this point, I'm positive the person who killed them was somebody they must've known.", she stated firmly.

Amusement flashed in her husband's eyes as he laughed, leaning back against his chair. He crossed his arms and eyed her. "Are you sure?" He asked her.

She gave him a curt nod, all while patting their daughter's back. Aiko let out a small burp and went back to sleep when her mother cradled her in her arms once more. Shiho looked down at her firstborn and back up at her husband. "The moment she begins preschool, I'm heading back to work.", she quietly said.

"I'm surprised you even took up a job as a coroner, Shiho.", Shinichi began, "I'd always imagine after everything that happened, you'd go and be a chemistry professor at a university or something, not doing autopsies on dead people."

She looked up at him. Focusing more on biochemistry was something Shiho intended on doing after the whole syndicate fiasco died down. She wanted to continued working on the field she excelled the most in and possibly make her own cures and creations that wouldn't harm anyone. That was going to happen until she decided to accompany Shinichi to one of his criminology classes when he was attending college. Back in her high school years in America, she had taken a criminology class for fun and excelled it. Taking that class was the reason why she took up reading crime books in her spare time when she wasn't doing homework or getting ahead in her studies. When she was enrolled in college at the tender age of 14, she managed to convince the syndicate to put the class in her schedule under the requirement that she wouldn't get distracted by it and fail her biochemistry course; she was able to pass both of them with no trouble.

She realized at that point, sitting beside him and listening to the professor teaching a lesson she already learned about, that she didn't want to continue doing what she was trained to do. As much as she loved biochemistry, she wanted to try something new for a change and this time, the syndicate wasn't there to dictate her on what she could or not do. So, that's how she took up the job as a forensics coroner, helping look for clues on the corpses of the murdered victims, clues that could help unveil what exactly happened and who done it.

Shiho stood up, with their daughter still sound asleep in her arms. "I wanted to try something new," she said, "Inform me if when you get any new info concerning this murder case." She proceeded to walk out of the kitchen.

Froodyie's Afternote: When I wrote this I rushed it a bit my apologies if it wasn't that good). Also another Shiho-centric fic and another one with ShinShi babies (I'm sorry lol).

Some facts that aren't really that important: Aiko's name is writtened as 愛子 "love child". Shiho making silly faces at her daughter while feeding her is a reference to "The Incredibles" 2004 movie, where Helen Parr is doing the exact same thing when feeding Jack-Jack.