Crash.
Bang!
Shatter.
"Marry!" Came a quickly approaching yell from the other room, "Are you alright?!" Seto appeared at the door and came upon the sight of the soaking wet girl having fallen to her knees, "Marry! What happened?" His eyes drifted to the cracked, transparent pieces of glass laid out in front of her on the floor, "Oh, you...!"
"Goldfish...!"
"Wait there for a second, Marry! I'll be right back!"
Marry looked on at the currently suffocating small fish lying in front of her. She had to do something! She couldn't just let the poor animal die!
Scooping up the tiny creature, she noticed a vase on the table in front of her. It was perfect! She quickly pulled out the already wilting tulips and dropped the fish into the water. Tentatively, she peeked over the edge. He'd be alright wouldn't he...? What had Seto said his name was? Kyu?
"Hang in there, Kyu! You'll...you'll get better! I'm very, very sorry!" Marry pleaded with the floating orange animal, tears welling in her eyes.
"Marry! Here, I have some water!" Seto came rushing back in, only to find that the goldfish had since disappeared, "Oh! Well done, Marry! He should be fine in there. Don't cry, it'll be okay!"
Marry nodded at him, and looked back into the vase at the fish, "Oh! He...he moved! Kyu, are you o-okay?! I'm sorry! I'm very s-sorry! I didn't mean to drop you, I-"
Damn brat! Can't she get my name right?! You told her my name is Kyo! And dropping me on the floor like that! Hey, you! Tell her off for me, would ya?! You have a duty to me, I almost died because of-
"Ah, Marry, he says his name is Kyo, not Kyu..." Seto corrected her kindly.
Marry nodded, "I-I'm really very sorry, Kyo. I won't do it again!"
Seto heard the fish sigh grumpily, She'd better never do it again! That damn clumsy brat can't do nothin' right. I saw her drop three mugs on a tray the other day: three! That's a lot of mugs, you know!
Seto nodded warily at the fish and set down the glass of water he'd hoped would be sufficient as a temporary home for it, "Come on, Marry. I think we should go buy Kyo a new fish bowl as an apology. Maybe we should get a plastic tank this time..."
"O-okay!" Marry agreed and headed off towards what Seto assumed would be the door, giving a small smile as she left.
"Better get this cleaned up first..." he mumbled to himself as he assessed the damage on the floor. Luckily, none of the glass pieces had reached the rug, so all he would need would be a cloth and a dustpan. Leaving the fish in the vase, he headed back to the kitchen, calling out to Marry as he went and saying he'd be a few minutes.
Once he heard her small "Okay!" as a reply, he fetched the things he needed and started picking up the pieces. And all the while, the fish in the vase kept on yelling at him to lecture Marry. He didn't really mind though. It seemed to have gotten a lot quieter since Kano left a few days ago, so the noise wasn't really the problem, though he did wonder where he'd gone off to. It had been three days, and Kido, as much as she'd hate to admit it, was getting worried. She'd even gotten Momo to come along with her this morning, who by extension dragged out her brother. Ene, Konoha and Hibiya had gone too, leaving just him and Marry in the house on his day off. Well...he supposed someone had to find Kano, though he had a slight suspicion that his disappearance had something to do with how one of the Kaitou Kid's doves had pointed out the thief's civilian persona to him the other week and he, knowing Kano's interest in the guy's heists, had in turn pointed him out to his brother.
He didn't know whether that had been a good idea.
Sighing, he got up and tossed the glass shards into the rubbish. "I'm ready to go now, Marry!" Turning back to Kyo, he grinned, "We'll get you a nice big tank for you now. Bye!"
You'd better get me a good tank! Make sure this one is shatter resistant next time, would ya?! That nasty brat will drop me again, I know it!
With a small laugh back at the fish, he led Marry out of the house. For some reason this impromptu shopping trip gave him slight deja vu...
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"Would someone care to explain why I'm seeing double?" The shrunk detective shot a glare at the impersonating thief, "No, sorry: triple."
A very unimpressed Edogawa Conan finally stood in the door. It had been quite a while, a few hours to be exact, and it was now way past midday. Kaito had drunk his way through two hot chocolates and participated in a game of UNO with the chibi scientist and the professor when they got bored of waiting. Even the squirt joined in eventually, since Kaito felt kind of bad leaving him out, even if he was of the appearance of the annoying detective.
"Kudo-kun, glad you finally showed up." Haibara sounded even less impressed than Conan, "I had to beat Kid down several times whilst we waited."
"Ah, that's 'cause Ayumi, Genta and Mitsuhiko had me stuck playing football with them, then Ran brought us back to the agency for lunch..." Conan looked at her, confused, "You...beat him...?"
"Argh! She means she beat me at UNO!" Kaito glared at the now grinning girl.
"Haibara, you played UNO with-?"
"Anyway, Kudo-kun. Kid-san here wanted you to find out who this delightful youngster is." Haibara cut him off without missing a beat.
Conan nodded slowly, "You mean the kid, I'm guessing." His eyes drifted to the radiant thing on the bed. He cringed, "Don't tell me that's what I look like when I..." he trailed off, realising it was exactly what he looked like when reporting things to the police, and decided to stop thinking about it. Argh...the things I do for cases. He walked over to his doppelganger, hands firmly in his trouser pockets and began inspecting it for discrepancies, but the only thing that seemed to be different was their clothing: he being in a shirt, jacket and trousers, and the copy being in his usual, more iconic outfit of a blazer, bow tie and shorts.
Kid watched him carefully, "You got anything, Meitantei? I checked him over when I first saw him, but I couldn't see anything wrong..."
"Ah! This is my jacket and my bow tie!" Conan suddenly yelled, immediately taking the items off of his double, who immediately started wrestling him for the jacket.
"That's mine!" The kid reclaimed the jacket and slid it back on his shoulders.
Conan frowned, "No, it's... Nevermind that, where'd you get this?" He fiddled with the dials on the bow tie and tested it. Finding it worked, he turned to the professor "Oi, Hakase! Did you make an extra voice-changer bow tie? Now there's two." He pulled a second bow tie, his normal bow tie, from his pocket.
"Well...I always have a spare, but it should be..." Agasa moved over to his desk and began opening drawers. It took about four before he produced a third bow tie, "Its right here!"
"Ooo~! You have a voice-changing bow tie? So that's what it does. I thought it was weirdly mechanical! That's so cool!" Kaito could almost imagine emoticons appearing next to the kid's face. This particular emotion he imagined would be something like ヽ(^o^)丿.
"Are you sure there weren't any other copies of the tie?" Conan asked.
Agasa shook his head. Haibara sighed, "Usually even you aren't so dumb to break two in one day. A third isn't needed."
Conan gave a small grumble before going back to his inspection, "Oi, oi... This guy's got my belt too! Where'd you get all this, kid?"
"Huh~? Aren't you a kid as well?" The kid asked Σ(-᷅_-᷄๑)-ly.
"Yes, of course I am, so where'd you get this stuff?" Conan dismissed the comment and moved on in his inquiries.
The doppelganger shrugged, "I dunno! I just have them. Ne, ne! What does the belt do? It's gotta be something cool, right?"
Bzzt bzzt. Bzzt bzzt.
Conan immediately grabbed the ringing mobile from the kid's pocket before he could react. As he futilely protested whilst being held back by Kaito who'd grabbed onto him to keep him in place, Conan gave the thief a grin and accepted the call.
"Hello?"
He had to hold the phone back away from his head as the phone erupted with noise, "KANO! WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN? We've been looking for ages, and Danchou is so worried! I mean, I know she hasn't said much, but it's really obvious, you know? Where are you? We've looked at the park, in town, the school...ne, Kano, you've not gone out of town have you? You didn't go somewhere really far off, did you? Seto said you might've gone looking for the Kaitou Kid since he told you what he looked like... It's been-"
Suddenly the highly energetic voice was cut off and replaced by a faint argument. From what he could tell, there was someone else who had wrestled the phone off of the girl and taken responsibility for it, thank god. But what was that about Kaitou Kid...?
"Hello? Kano? Could you just tell us where you are? I've got something I wanted to record-"
Another girl's voice cut in with perfect clarity. It was as if she wasn't on the other side of the phone line at all... "Oh ho ho~! You don't mean that do you, master?" The smug tone almost made Conan shiver. The girl sounded like she was impersonating a maid from some really bad maid cafe...
"Ene! What're you doing on Onee-chan's-"
"Well, obviously she's more fun than you'll ever be! Plus, I get to listen in on phone calls. So, Kano, can you just tell us where you are? It's been quite boring searching for you."
Finally, there was a break in the speech. Conan hadn't been able to fit a word in at all...
"Ah...this isn't Kano, but we'd like you to come and pick him up please..."
"Sure thing!" The girl with the uncanny ability to bypass the phone connection's interference, Ene he presumed, told him happily.
"Right..." Conan sighed. This girl seemed to be way too accepting of circumstances, "We're in Beika. District 2, Block 22."
"Okay! Did you hear that, master?"
"Yes, I heard! We'll get there as soon as we can. Thanks, uhh..."
"I'm Edogawa Conan."
"Well, thanks I guess, Edogawa-kun."
"Alright, I'll see you later then."
"Right."
Shintaro pressed the end call button. "Kano found the 'Kid Killer'." He informed the people surrounding him.
"What?!" Momo yelled, "Do you think he found Kid?"
"He probably tried...I'm very sorry." Seto apologised for the fourth time. He was carrying a fairly large box with a fish tank label, having run into Shintaro and Momo on Marry and his way back from the shops. Marry was currently examining the orange fish displayed on the side of the box.
"We'd better ring Danchou!" Momo grabbed her phone from Shintaro's hands and went to the contact page before stopping in surprise. "Oh. Ene's gone..."
Shintaro sighed, "I hope she hasn't planned on doing anything bad..."
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Hey guys who're reading this! Just a short note from me to say that I've made this into a three-shot, since the ideas I had for the rest of the story kinda took up too much space... But yeah, expect another chapter at some point! And, to Teal96ko, I hope Shintaro was to your liking :D.
Thanks for reading!
Naomi xxx
