Detective Conan and Magic Kaito characters, settings, and ideas do not belong to me but to Aoyama Gōshō.
Warnings: Language, minor violence
TMPD Antics
By Taliya
XXXIV: Kudou and Hattori
"I can't believe you…" Shinichi grumbled after Heiji and Kaito had had their laughs and the Hakubas and Kaito had gone their separate ways.
"I should have recorded the look on your face when I walked out with Hakuba-keisou! Priceless!" chortled Heiji.
"Yeah yeah, laugh it up," the other homicide detective grunted sourly. "I still can't believe he invited her to help out…"
Heiji blinked. "Who, your mother?"
Shinichi shook his head. "No, I meant Vermouth."
The Osakan reared back in surprise and shock as he swiftly connected the dots. "Wait a minute! You mean that foreign actress woman—Chris—she's Vermouth?!" he yelped. Other officers in the hallway stared at the pair, but as the assassin's name had never been openly spoken about by Shinichi or Heiji in the years after the Organization's downfall, none of the policemen recognized the alias.
"Probably the most deadly woman you'll ever meet," Shinichi reaffirmed, his brain struggling to find some sort of relationship between the two. The only feasible relationship—if it could be termed as such—linked them through their shared ability to disguise so completely—a trait Vermouth also shared with his mother. Who had learned the skill from Kuroba Touichi. Who had been Kaito's father.
Shinichi was an idiot.
"How does Kuroba know her then?" Heiji hissed.
"Through his father," Shinichi replied distantly, mentally banging his head on a wall as he grinned self-deprecatingly, as though aware of some inside joke. "Kuroba Touichi taught Kaa-san how to disguise, after all."
Author's Note: Prank aftermath! I really don't have much else to say besides I feel sorry for Shinichi… I hope you enjoyed it.
Completed: 14.10.2015