12Summary: What if Kid is someone else?
Disclaimer: I don't own Detective Conan or Magic Kaito.
AN: I have not decided whether this story will be gen or yaoi. But for the time being, it's gen.
Chapter 1 A Dangerous Encounter
"KAITOU KID! I WILL CATCH YOU!"
Kid flashed Inspector Nakamori a suave grin as he glided through the night sky. When he had escaped far enough and had made sure no helicopters were following him, Kid took out the gem he had stolen and inspected it through the moonlight. There was a flash of light... Kid held his breath... but it disappeared almost immediately. Sighing, Kid put the gem back into his pocket and groaned, "I'll have to return it soon."
Smoothly controlling the hang glider, Kid flew for about twenty minutes until he reached a dark alleyway. Landing quietly, and after making sure no one was around, Kid changed back into his casual clothing in a flash, his hair smooth and flat.
He then stepped into the light and to the mansion in which he lived alone. After putting aside all his gadgets and clothes into the secret room, Kid took a quick bath and collapsed onto his bed. He fell asleep in almost an instant.
It was Friday. Normal students love Fridays because of the incoming two-day weekend, but Kuroba Kaito wasn't one of them, or shall I say, he doesn't like this particular Friday.
"Hey Kaito! Did you attend the heist last night?" Nakamori Aoko, his childhood friend asked from the seat behind of him.
"Of course I did! Being the number one fan of Kaitou Kid, I, Kuroba Kaito, would never miss a heist!" Kaito exclaimed while pointing a thumb at himself.
"I can't believe he got away!" Aoko said, frustrated. "Again! But that doesn't matter. Because my dad will catch him for sure on his heist this Saturday!"
"Your dad will never catch him, cuz Kaitou Kid is untouchable!"
At that moment, two girls entered the classroom, just in time to hear the conversation. One of the girls immediately went on Kid's defense.
"Kaito is right! Kid-sama is a magician. A mere layman like your old geezer will never be able to lay a hand on my Kid-sama!"
"What did you say!?"
"Hey hey, calm down, Sonoko, Aoko," the other girl, Ran, said hurriedly, a sweatdrop forming on her head. "You two should seriously stop fighting, honestly!"
"Hmph!" Both girls huffed and turned away from each others. After a moment of awkward silence, Sonoko turned to Kaito and smirked, "by the way, I am Kid-sama's number one fan. Not you. How many times do I have to tell you that?"
"I know him better than you do!" Kaito retorted it.
"No, I do! He had told me everything about him in my dream!" Seeing three unbelieving faces, Sonoko explained, "it's true! He told me that he is actually the guardian of jewels and he couldn't stand seeing gems getting tainted by human's dirty hands anymore. So he disguised as a human and came down to earth. Under the alias, Kaitou Kid, he steals jewels so he can clean them, make sure they are away from dirty souls, and return them after the taints were removed!"
"..."
A very long awkward silence later, Kaito sighed, "alright you win. You're the number one female fan. I'm the number one male fan. How's that?"
"Fine," Sonoko grudgingly agreed.
"...by the way, where is Shinichi?" Ran questioned worriedly, "he's usually not this late."
"Maybe he's too tired," Kaito said with a yawn, tired from staying up till midnight last night, attending Kid's heist.
Suddenly, the door was slammed open. Every single gaze immediately landed on the weary figure by the door. Kudo Shinichi lifted his head, half-lidded eyes scanning the room. "What's with this silence?"
"Shinichi!" Ran dashed towards him, concern shown all over her face. "Are you alright? You looked so tired. Maybe you should stay home today."
"I'm alright, Ran," Shinichi flashed her a tired grin and trudged to his seat, which was beside Kaito.
"You really should slow down a little, Kaito Kid-san," Kaito whispered in his ears. Before Shinichi could deny him, Kaito continued, "you'd just had an extremely difficult heist last night. You really shouldn't have another one this soon."
"I've already told you. I'm not Kid."
"Whatever you say, Shinichi," Kaito chuckled. "But don't forget who your best friend is. I've known you since you were a baby. You honestly think you can fool me?"
Shinichi kept silent.
"I'm worried about you, Shinichi. Everyday I have to watch you coming to school all worn out and brain dead. And look at that," Kaito pinched the skin under Shinichi's eyes, as the latter quickly swapped his hand away in annoyance. "If you continue like this, I'll have to start buying you bamboo sticks as presents for your birthdays."
"No matter how many times you ask, I'm not going to be Kaitou Kid. I'm Kudo Shinichi, high school detective, sixteen years old. Not Kaitou Kid, international wanted criminal, and most likely over thirty years old."
"Whatever you say. Whatever you say," Kaito ended the conversation when he noticed the girls' suspicious gazes.
"You two are always mouthing words to each other," Aoko began, "are you two..."
"Together?" Aoko and Sonoko said at the same time, then they immediately glared at each other. Ran could only smile forcefully.
"Class is starting! Back to your seats everyone!"
-Saturday-
"KAITOU KID! I WILL CATCH YOU!" Inspector Nakamori roared as he held onto the gem Shinichi had returned, attached to it was a Kid heist note, saying that another heist would be held next Sunday.
Same line every time.
Shinichi sighed ruefully.
When will I be able to find Pandora and avenge my dad's death?
It has been eight years since Kudo Yusaku, a mystery fiction writer and a magician, had died in an accident during one of his shows. It was also eight years ago when Kaitou Kid disappeared from this world. Shinichi hadn't had any interest in Kaitou Kid until he discovered his father's secret room three months ago. There, he found out his father's real identity, the truth behind his death, and Kaitou Kid's reasons to steal. Determined to find his father's murderer, Shinichi dressed up as Kaitou Kid and began to steal.
That was three months ago. Since then, Shinichi had been gradually doing better and better at his night job. After all, he had been taught magic tricks by Yusaku before he died, so using some simple tricks to trick the police wasn't that hard. Using the hang glider was easy too, since he had been taught how to handle it at Hawaii before. But the hard part was all the acrobatic moves he sometimes had to perform. Jumping from building to building, climbing up a wall by using opposite walls as stepping stones, flipping down from second floor to first floor...etc. The first time he dressed up as Kaitou Kid, Shinichi had almost gotten himself caught if not for his smart use of sleeping gas at the right time. Since then, he had taken gymnastic classes, like parkour, and they had been a great help on his night job.
Back to the present. As he closed in to his mansion, Shinichi glanced around to make sure no one was around before he would make a landing. He quickly halted his move when his eyes caught two suspicious figures in black in the corner of a building. Quickly and swiftly, Shinichi landed behind the building adjacent to it and changed back into his normal clothes. He cautiously poked his head around the corner as the two men talked in a hushed tone. One of them was holding out a metal box full of money.
A money exchange?
Alarm rang in Shinichi's head, but he decided to ignore it. Being a detective, it's his duty to catch criminals. He wouldn't let any one escape.
He was so focused on the scene that he didn't notice another men dressed in black creeping up to him from behind. A metal bar suddenly smashed the back of his head. Immediately, Shinichi fell in a loud thud. The men offering the money hurriedly escaped while the other men, the one with silver hair, walked up to Shinichi calmly.
"This brat saw everything!" The man behind Shinichi cursed, kicking his head. Shinichi watched dazedly as the two men closed in on him. He wanted to move, to escape, but his head felt so heavy he could barely lift it up. "Aniki, should we kill him!?" The men said, holding out his gun.
"Idiot! Your gun doesn't have a silencer! Anyone can hear a shooting sound in the middle of the night!" Shinichi sighed in relief, but not for long, because the man with silver hair had taken out a drug of some sort. It was the size of an ordinary pill; one half is red and the other half is white. "We should use this. This is a new drug invented by Sherry. It's absolutely impossible to be detected from a corpse. This could be a perfect crime! But this drug hadn't been test yet. I believe it's still a trial product, so I guess you'll be out first subject, little boy."
In a state of dizziness and confusion, Shinichi barely heard what the men were saying before he felt something slip through his lips, then something wet, water, entered his mouth. He was forced to swallow it.
"Goodbye, little boy." This and hurried footsteps were the last things Shinichi heard before a sudden wave of pain washed through his body. It was so intense that he fainted right away.
When he woke up, the first thing he noticed was the thinness of his limbs. Slowly raising a hand to his face, Shinichi let out a small yelp as he registered the small hand. A second later, he realized: his body had shrunk. It didn't take him long to deduce that this was the cause of that incomplete drug.
Shinichi sighed.
Shrinking was much better than dying.
But that's not the point! He had shrunk! What should he do now?! How should he turn back?!
Professor Agasa.
That's the first name that entered his mind. Professor Agasa, who lived right next to Shinichi, had been a friend of his parents who knew of his father's identity. When he found out that Shinichi had decided to search for Pandora in place of Yusaku, he immediately agreed to help the boy with his gadgets and tools. To Shinichi, Professor Agasa was someone he could trust and find help from. So in a situation like this, he immediately thought of the chubby old man.
The place where he fainted wasn't that far from Professor Agasa house. Grabbing the huge, heavy pile of clothes (lots of them), gadgets, hang glider...etc, Shinichi moved as quickly as he could towards Professor Agasa's house. When he reached the gate, he realized that he couldn't reach the handle due to his height. So, with one hand, he carried his stuff as securely as he could, and with his other hand, he grabbed his grappling hook gun and shot it towards a tree branch. Thanks to his light weight, Shinichi easily made it over the gate.
But, when he reached the door, Shinichi almost cursed out loud when he realized that the doorbell was too high for him to reach. So, instead, he punched and kicked the door until it was opened by an alarmed Professor Agasa.
"You are..."
"It's me! Kudo Shinichi! Can you not recognize me!?"
"Oh! You're a relative of Kudo Shinichi! No wonder you looked like him..."
"No!" Shinichi panicked. He need to get Professor Agasa to believe him. "I am Kudo Shinichi! A student of Teitan High School and..."
After a long time, Professor Agasa finally believed Shinichi. Minutes later, they were seated on a comfortable sofa with two cups of water placed in front of them.
"The only way I can think of is to tell my situation to the police, and let the police help me investigate this matter. These people must be a part of some sort of organization in order for them to create a drug this incredible," Shinichi said after taking a large gulp of water. His throat was dry after talking for so long.
"You mustn't do that!" Shinichi jumped at the sudden, looming, big face. "If they find out you're still alive, they'll come after you and possibly kill anyone who had close connections to you! Therefore," Professor Agasa's grip tightened on Shinichi's skinny arms, almost making him scream out in pain, "you must not tell anyone about your real identity! Of course, including Kuroba Kaito!"
"But then how should I change back!? I have a heist to attend next Sunday! You're a professor! Can't you come up with an antidote for this drug?!"
"I can't make an antidote without knowing the composition of this drug you'd taken."
"Dammit!" Shinichi punched the sofa in frustration. He had never missed, or delay a heist before, and if possible, he doesn't want to do that.
"I'll see what I can do about this. For the time being, you can live here since it's more convenient than you living alone in your small body."
Leaving with no choice, Shinichi agreed.
AN: I won't be able to update this constantly, because I'm focusing solely on my Naruto fic "Looping, oh the fun!" Feel free check it out! It's a very different take on the usual time loop story...
Please leave a review to tell me what you think of this plot bunny that had suddenly popped into my mind in the middle of the night.
