The Shadows Over A Cliff

[Fenris]

The Shadows Over A Cliff
(Prelude)

The room was dark and cold, being conditioned a bit under comfort. The only hope for freedom from the shadows cast across the room was the flash of a camera and a very dull light source. Blue latex gloves held a piece of simple chewing gun under a zoom-lens camera, turning it before it went back up. A few more pictures were taken in this dark room before finally the man in a white lab coat backed away. He took a small device from one of his large pockets, pressing one of the few buttons on it as light flooded the room.

His icy cold expression went to his lap top as the pictures began processing, checking any and all databases for signs of the finger prints. Every living person in Tokyo on that day was being searching through, the fingerprint on the photographs being compared to the records.

The door opened in the lab, footsteps slowly echoing through the room as a man in black, smelling sweet of cigarettes, aproached the scientist. "It's been a day now." The man in black said, shoving his left hand in his pocket.

"The fingerprints are being processed. I will have a response from the search within the hour." The scientist responded.

The man in blacks eyes narrowed a bit coldly as he looked to the screen as it flipped through the images of people. He took a long moment to think before looking back to the scientist. "Check and see if the fingerprints belong to anyone in the Mouri household first."

"The Mouri household...?" The scientist blinked, but did not hesitate too much. He turned to his lap top and stopped the search before searching the last name 'Mouri'. The computer searched through the whole living Mouri family within a second before coming up with nothing. "No luck."

The man in black took out a cigarette and sighed before placing it between his lips. "Tell me when you finish then." His mind was riddled with thoughts now as he left the room. If it was not the Mouri's, then who could have down such a thing? It could not have been those kids... those... kids... He looked back to the computer as he reached the door, watching as faces flipped across the screen. With a scoff, he turned away from the fact. It was not possible for a child to do be that intelligent. Throwing the thought away, the golden haired man with a black hat flipped open a zippo lighter, pressed the flame to the end of the cigarette, and left the room.

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The bell of the Grade School run loud as children left their classrooms and flooded outside. The school day was over for the weekend.

A few students stayed behind in a small classroom. Three of them, a pudgy taller boy by the man of Genta, a skinner paler boy by the name of Mitsuhiko, and the shortest of the three, a girl with short hair in a dress.

"So what are you guys going to do over vacation?" Ayumi asked with a small grin, her eyes soon trailing to Conan.

"My mom is taking be to see a movie tomorrow!" Mitsuhiko grinned, holding the straps of his backpack out a bit. "We're going to go see the opening of the new Masked Yaiba movie!"

"Ah! No way!" Genta and Ayumi chimed together. "I'm so jealous of you, Mitsuhiko..." Ayumi finished.

"What I would do to get some theater food! Popcorn and candy...!" Genta grinned, patting his belly happily.

"I heard they're adding more nutritious items to the theater selection..." Haibara added in a dull monotone. Genta blinked and looked to her. "Neh? Like what?"

"Carrots and celery..." Ayumi said before grinning as she watched Genta's expression change. "Ah, no! My mom will have me eat those instead of candy!"

"It would be better for you." Conan said with an exasperated expression. Haibara added in, "Eating candy and unhealthy snack food all of the time will end up giving you a stomach ache and rotting your teeth out."

Genta made a strange expression to Haibara at what she said, then chuckled and reached a hand behind his head nervously. "I-Is that so?"

As Conan finished packing his books in his bag, he got up and slung it over his shoulders comfortably. "We had better be heading off."

The detective boys agreed before heading out of the classroom and down the winding school halls. "Ah! What is everyone else doing over the weekend?" Mitsuhiko asked.

"My mommy is taking me to the mall today to go shopping! She's getting me a new sun dress before we go on vacation!" Genta and Mitsuhiko looked to Ayumi surprised. "Vacation? Where?"

"We're going to Osaka for a few days! She was going because of a business trip, but since I have the whole week off, we're going to tour there for a few days!"

"Wonderful!" Mitsuhiko chimed with a grin! "I had forgotten we had vacation in a week!" Genta looked to Mitsuhiko with a look of dumbfound, "How could you forget? We have a whole week off!"

"Eh-heh... well..." Mitsuhiko shrunk a bit nervously before looking up to Ayumi whom was giggling at the two. They both smiled at Ayumi, watching her a bit before looking at each other and giving a nervous chuckle.

Conan barely paid any attention to the children in front of him and Haibara. He sighed softly, closing his eyes for a moment. Today dragged on far too long. Class always lasted so very long... he knew all of the subjects they taught by heart; basic math, geography, Japanese...

"Conan-kun?" Ayumi looked back at her friend with a curious expression. "You're falling behind! Common!" Conan perked up to look at Ayumi, then let out a nervous chuckle. He let out an obedient 'Ah.' before catching up to the group. Their conversation had quickly spurred from vacation to simple murder cases that had been released in the newspaper.

"Speaking of news, I heard that some little kid claimed her had been shrunk!" Mitsuhiko brought up, putting a finger to his chin. Both Ai's and Conan's attention was caught. Conan had yet to see the newspaper that the hopeless detective Mouri enjoyed hording every morning. "Sh-shrunk...?"

"Yeah! He said he was a big shot owner of a company and that he had been forced to take some weird drug. When he woke up, he was just a little kid!" At this bit of information, both Conan and Ai halted and looked to each other with worried expressions.

"Eh...? Conan-kun? Ai-chan? What's wrong?" Ayumi asked, approaching the two. Conan ignored them as he walked closer to Haibara whom was shaking in fear. Conan felt the fear as well, the icy cold feeling as if a metal vice was closing in on him; as if he were at the very edge of a cliff, about to leap and greet the pointy rocks below. Shivers ran up his spine as he suddenly grabbed for his cell phone and typed in Jodie's number. "Haibara has been feeling sick lately. We're going to take a short cut from here so she can rest." Conan said before taking Haibara's hand and near dragging her into the shadows of an alley way.

Ayumi blinked, surprised at the sudden happenings before looking to Genta and Mitsuhiko. "I hope Haibara will be okay..." the two boys nodded. The group hesitated, then began heading off home.

Conan stopped at a nearby news stand with Haibara. He sighed, looking to her shaken up form. "It should be alright... it is only a claim right now, there are no solid facts."

"That's enough to get them to investigate it!" Haibara said, not daring to said any details in public. She could feel her self falling apart, a chimerical sweat smell filling her senses. Her gun wounds from that night on top of the hotel where Gin and Vodka faced off with her throbbing suddenly. It felt so real...

Conan felt fear as well, but not for just him. He hesitated, then took his glasses off, handing them to Haibara. He let her wear them as he searched the newspaper for sign of this article. There... there is was... "Hiroshi Mizashi, inherited owner of a string of banks had been reported missing yesterday. In the same day, a young grade scholar resembling Hiroshi went to the police and confessed having made deals with a gang of men in black. He said that when he finally could not take it any more, he decided to quit. The organization knocked him out, and as he was catching his last glimpse pf them, they forced him to take a poison. When he woke, he found his clothes to be much to big, and that he had indeed shrunken to the size of a Grade Scholar." Conan stopped the article there as he placed the newspaper back in the stack.

"W-we're dead... that was enough to convince them... to lead them to the truth..." Haibara said before chuckling. "I-... I'm sure if you offer me over, they will let you free though, Kudo."

Conan looked to Haibara before sighing and lowering his head. the familiar hand gesture to his chin came into play as the sunlight hit his glasses, covering sight of his eyes. "Idiot. I have told you before. I am not going to do that."

"Then what!?" Haibara panicked before placing her hands over her mouth to quiet her. A few people looked to the children curiously after the girl screamed, but after a moments silence between the two, the other occupants of the area shrugged off their presence.

"Then... we make a plan to fight before they find us." Conan said smoothly before taking out his cellphone. "I'll call a few people while we make our way to the Professor's." He gave Haibara a serious look as she returned her frightened one.

As the two headed off, Conan brought the cell phone to his ear.

"Hello?"

"Jodie. We have a problem."

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Author's Notes: First Fan Fic; It's crap-tasitcal! I hope you enjoy the story as I bring things together into a dramatic ending. Muahahah!

Kay. <3

[Fenris]

The Shadows Over A Cliff
(Gathering)

Conan's mind was running a mile a minute as he, Haibara, Agent Jodie, and Agent Black all sat within a simple coffee shop, out of sight of the window, and away from any group of persons.

Haibara stayed shaking next to Conan, holding his hand tightly. She kept his glasses on for the time being, trying to stay hunched over and unnoticed.

Jodie sighed, crossing her arms on the table. "I have one of the agents searching for Hiroshi right now. He should call when he finds him."

Conan looked up to Jodie, then nodded. "I'm thinking one of the best ways to stay unnoticed is to ask my parents for help." He said, placing the signature check mark gesture with his hand to his chin.

"Eh, why is that?" Jodie asked, leaning a bit closer.

"My mother was taught in the art of disguise. She can probably dress me and Haibara up as different kids..." Conan started before Haibara interrupted quietly. "That will not work, Edogawa-kun. What of school? If we suddenly disappear, everyone will notice..."

"Not unless we were to disappear during vacation." He said, looking to Haibara for a moment before looking back to Jodie. "But that means there will be a whole week in which we will be in danger."

Agent black nodded before looking to Jodie. "In that case, we should watch them until that week comes." Conan shook his head, sighing softly. "I'm not too sure on that. If I have the F.B.I. following me around suddenly, then they will know for sure that everything they suspect is true."

"Then what?" Asked Jodie before she brought her mug to her lips to take a sip of coffee. Haibara lifted her head slightly, forcing a smile. "Just make a deal with them... give them their precious Sherry and they will let you all go..."

"I am not doing anything of the such. Even so, if we were to do so, then they would still kill us. After all, we are connected to you, and I, too, know too much."

Jodie sighed, lowering her mug. "Fine. But promise me, Cool kid... promise me that if you are being tailed, you will call me immediately." Conan looked down into his mug of coffee with a smile. "Of course, Jodie-sensei. Why wouldn't I?"

Jodie let a smile come to her face for a moment before she quickly lost it. She sighed, leaning back in her chair. "My, oh my... is there any other way they could figure it was you exactly?"

Conan thought for a moment before something struck him. "Mizunashi Rena..." Jodie and James looked up suddenly, perplexed. "They had thought that uncle had been investigating them when in reality it was me. I suddenly jumped in that day with an innocent act, but happened to save him... The fact that I was there that day may lead them to believe that I am really..."

James sighed heavily, closing his eyes for a moment. "This is all very troubling..." Jodie bit her lip, then sighed as well. "Hey, Cool kid... did that gum have your fingerprints on it...?"

Haibara glanced over at Conan nervously and he blinked. "Uh... oh... it might have. I was not expecting it to fall from the wall then to her shoe, so by the time they got a hold of it, the fingerprints might have been too damaged to figure it was mine."

Jodie nodded, then brought the mug to her lips again. Soon her cell phone rang. As if one cue, the waitress came so they could pay their bill. Jodie picked up her phone and smiled.

"Yes, yes... I see. Thank you. We will meet you there soon." She closed the phone and pocketed before looking to Conan and Haibara. "Get your things." She winked before getting up and finishing her coffee.

Conan hopped out of his seat, then looked back to Haibara. She did not look like she was willing to move any time soon. "Hey. Haibara. Are you coming or what?"

"I'll stay..." Haibara said softly, lowering her head. "I'll find them... I'll beg them to save your lives..."

"Idiot~" Conan chimed, turning his back to her. "That will not help us at all. That would only prove everything to be true at that. Not only that, but you would throw everyone over a cliff to their deaths." He sighed, then looked back at her. "But if you really enjoy killing off your friends, you're welcome to stay. You'll only keep slowing us down." He spat out the last part sarcastically before shoving his little hands into his pockets.

"Oh, and..." He reached one hand out, plucking the glasses from the bridge of Haibara's nose. "I will be needing these." He returned them to his face before looking to Jodie and smiling. "Shall we go then, Jodie-san?"

Jodie and James were shocked, watching Conan as he treated the little girl so poorly. As he looked to Jodie with an innocent face, she simply nodded, then looked to James. "Would you mind driving us again, James?"

He accepted, taking the keys from her. The two headed out, Conan lagging behind a bit. "Goodbye then, Haibara-chan~" He mused before heading off after the F.B.I. agents.

Haibara simply watched them all in shock. Right as Conan left the restuarant, she decided. Getting up, she ran after them out of the restaurant and onto the street. She found them quickly and caught up to Conan.

Conan looked over to her, giving her a sneaky smile. "I see you've decided to join us." Haibara scoffed, moving a piece of hair from her face. "You and your sarcasm. You truly do enjoy torturing people."

"Nah. I just make people think." Conan said matter-of-factly. He fixed his glasses on the bridge of his nose before looking up to Jodie and James whom were looking at both of them curiously from the car. "Are you both ready?" James asked. The two nodded and James smiled, getting into the driver side while Jodie got in the passenger. Haibara and Conan both hopped into the back seat.

"So, what is the plan, Mr. Great Detective?" Haibara asked as they headed off. "Eh?" Conan looked to Haibara and blinked a few times before smiling. "Found me out, huh?"

"You never had a good poker face." Haibara said while pretending to be snooty. "What have you planned to do about this whole mess?"

"Well, I was thinking of getting to Hiroshi first before they test to see if he is the real deal. If we can take control, we can check to see for ourselves quietly before sending in fake records that say he is not the real deal."

Jodie looked up, closing one hand into a fist to have her chin rest on. "That could work. Then when the fake record is accepted by the newspaper..."

"Yeah... the organization will believe what is said and we will be safe again." Conan said with a confident look. Haibara sighed, crossing her arms. "But it will still be dangerous. Even the thought of it being in their head is dangerous. They could somehow still find us out, Kudo-kun."

"Mh. Then we just have to be careful; at least for a week until we have a chance to go into hiding." He sighed, then looked up at the sky from the window.

"Well, then. How are we going to have them let us do the D.N.A. examination?" Haibara asked, trying to understand the situation. If anything, this could be the only flaw.

"Ah! Jodie-san; is Agent Camel free today?" Conan asked, looking up to the blond haired woman in front of him.

"Yes. He should be. Why?" Jodie asked, looking back to the two.

"Could you act like his wife once more, Jodie-san? I'm thinking that an F.B.I. Agent can probably go in and take over before any results come in. Then you can also stage as his wife, and us your children."

Jodie thought about it for a bit, then looked back to Conan. "Yes, but... the F.B.I. is not aloud to take over in Japanese Police affairs."

"Mmh..." Conan picked out him phone, looking at it. "Where is Hiroshi? You never told me, Jodie-san."

"Ah! The police station nearby. He refused to leave out of fear I heard.

Conan smiled, flicking his phone open and taking his bow tie out. "I think I can work with this."

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Author's Note: Meh, I hate double posting, but I doubt I'll get a lot of comments right off the bat. I hope you all are enjoying this fan fic. I try to keep the posts long, but not too lengthy so that you can have it in parts and not have to be forced to read everything at once.

Farewell until the next post! <3

[Fenris]

The Shadows Over A Cliff
(Interrogation)

"K-Kudo-kun! Y-you can't be serious?" Inspector Mequire spat into the phone. His face paled a bit at the thought. "You want the F.B.I. to take over the investigation of this little impostor?"

"Now, now, Inspector." Kudo's voice returned reassuringly. "I trust Agent Camel."

"Agent Camel...? Where have I heard that name before...?" The inspector asked, pulling on his mustache.

Takagi looked over to the Inspector, then remembered right off the bat. "He's that F.B.I. Agent that was exercising in the stairwell of a Hotel." He said, placing a finger to his chin in thought. "He had a lot of bandages on his face at the time, remember?"

"Ohhh! That man? I'm sorry, Kudo-kun, but how can you trust someone like that? And for that fact, why an F.B.I.? Why are they so interested in this boy?"

"It seems that they have been tailing a man that has been kidnapping people and having kids pretend to be the person, but well... shrunk. This had been happening a lot in America, so when I brought up this article to Jodie-san, she told Agent Camel and he took interest immediately. Since they have more experience in the matter, I thought that it would be better if they filed the report for you and interrogated this kid."

The Inspector hummed over the phone, his hand continuing to stroke and pulling at his mustache. "You have been acting weird lately, Kudo-kun. But... it seems we owe you in some way for all of the cases you've solved for us. I will, under the condition that you come and supervise them along with Takagi-kun and Satou-san."

"Wh-what!?" He seemed a bit panicked at that comment. Conan blinked as everyone in the car looked at him. "But Inspector, I'm very busy..."

"Then no deal." The Inspector said stubbornly. "I am not going to let the F.B.I. study on Japanese matters alone without people I trust. And if I leave Takagi-kun and Satou-san alone with them, they may find some way to sneak out."

Conan hesitated before sighing and responding. "Fine. I'll be there. I have to go now, Inspector. Please set up an interrogation room and a lab for us. Thank you." He hung up, then sighed heavily. "We need to stop at Professor Agasa's first." He said to James. "Take a right here."

James blinked, looking back at Conan for a moment before looking ahead. "Eh? Why? Is there something you forgot?" Haibara scowled at Conan, crossing his arms. "If you think I am going to let you have the antidote..."

"If we want the chance to send fake records, I have to go as Kudo Shinichi; not Edogawa Conan." He said bluntly. Inspector Meguire will only let Camel and Jodie take over if myself, Satou and Takagi are witness.

"That would make things difficult..." James said, turning right down the street and stopping in front of the Professor's home. "Indeed..." Jodie said with a sigh. "I will call Camel while you... re-age yourself."

Conan nodded, the sighed, looking to Haibara. "I will just grab the pill and clothes. It would look strange is a boy walked into a house and a shockingly similar High Scholar appeared out of no where." With that, he hopped out of the car and ran off with his backpack. After ringing the doorbell and letting the Professor know he was there, he entered the household quickly.

After a few minutes, he had finished emptying the contents of his bag and filling it with useful things such as clothing that fit the body of a High Scholar, and the pill! With this, he slung the bag onto his back once more before saying farewell to the Professor and dashing back out and into the car.

Haibara looked to him and smiled. "The effects will take a while to work. I suggest you take the pill now so that when you get to the police station, you can run to one of their bathrooms."

Conan looked to Haibara, then nodded. He grabbed one of the pills and a vial of water he had also snagged. Taking the pill, the corked the vial and replaced it in his bag.

"Ehh... I've never seen the real Kudo Shinichi." Jodie said with a playful grin.

"I'd be wary of your words here, Jodie-san." Conan started before suddenly grabbed at his heart and wincing. "The person in my house right now is one of them, I believe..."

Jodie blinked, going wide eyed. "Y-you mean...?"

"Yeah... I let a man use my house for the time being because his place burned down. You told me they had a new member... One day Ran decided to see which of us was the better Detective and well... he's very good." Conan said before gritting his teeth and wincing again. "Can we head off, Agent James?"

"Oh! Yes!" He said before starting the car up again and driving off once more.

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Conan let out a cry of pain suddenly as they stopped in a parking garage. He cringed in pain, the familiar and unmistakable sensation of his bone melting coming back to him. His heart raced as he quickly grabbed his larger clothes from his bag. He fit the shirt, boxers, and pants on over the child's clothes before slipping the small school uniform off. She placed it to the side just in time before the pain ran through his entire body once more. Every nerve seemed to be screaming as he let out a cry of pain. Quickly, his body grew to its normal size as he went limp for a moment against the back of the front seat.

Haibara flinched at his creams only, but tried to keep her sights off of him out of respect. She knew from personal experience that this transformation was torturous. Jodie and James on the other hand, found it too amazing too not watch. As the boy grew to that of the famous sherlock of the nineteenth century; Kudo Shinichi.

"Welcome back..." Haibara mused as he fit the rest of his outfit on. He wiped the sweat from his brow before nodding to Haibara.

"Are you okay now?" Jodie asked worriedly, before looking around.

"Yeah. Once the transformation is done with, I should be fine. Plus, Haibara wanted to test this advancement in the antidote on me anyways. I guess we will see how smoothly this will go." He gave Jodie a confident look before pocketing his bow tie and glasses and fixing his watch and belt back on. "Alright then. Shall we head off?"

Jodie sighed, stepping out of her seat. James handed Kudo a pair of sunglasses and sighed. "These won't help much, but since we are being wary of the organization, I ask that you at least wear these outside."

Shinichi blinked, then took the black sunglasses, fitting them onto the bridge of his nose. "Heh! Now I feel like James Bond!" He grinned before stepping out of the car as well. "And I feel like a walking target next to you." Haibara said bluntly, giving him a serious look. "I ask that you try and at least stay away from doing anything rash, Kudo-kun." Haibara and James followed out of the car as Shinichi sighed, looking down to Haibara. "Yeah. I know."

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Kudo was the first to walk into the station. He looked around until he saw Agent Camel waiting on one of the chairs. He took his sunglasses off and grinned to the F.B.I. agent. "Hey, Camel-kun! How have you been?" Kudo asked, walking up to him in a friendly manner. He winked to the confused Agent Camel before looking back to Jodie. "Your wife brought me all the way down here. So, shall be get started?"

Agent Camel blinked, then grinned to Kudo, his eyes showing pure amazement. This is what the great Kudo Shinichi really looked like? "K-kudo-kun! Long time no se! Th-thank you hun!" He said as he looked to Jodie with a smile, getting up from his seat.

Shinichi stood tall once more, looking over as the Inspector ran over with Takagi and Satou to greet the young detective. "Kudo-kun! Long time no see! Knowing you lately, I would have thought you'd find a way not to show up!"

Shinichi chuckled nervously, then leaned closer to the Inspector. "Of course, you will keep this meeting a secret again, correct, Inspector?"

"Ah... yes. But I still do not see the harm in giving you credit." The Inspector said before looking to everyone. He noticed James and was caught a bit off guard. "Err... who is this man?"

"Ah! This is Jodie-sans uncle!" Kudo quickly explained. He's always wanted to come to Japan so they brought him back as well!"

"James Black." The gray haired man said with a smile, reaching forward to shaking the Inspector's hand.

The Inspector sighed, then looked to Kudo Shinichi again. "You look worn out, Kudo-kun."

Shinichi chuckled nervously, bringing a hand behind his head. "W-well you caught me off guard there! I had to run most of the way just to get here at this time, Inspector! A-anyways. Do you have the rooms I requested?"

"Ah, yes. The boy is ready in the interrogation room. Takagi and Satou will show you down there."

Kudo smiled, then bowed to the Inspector. "Thank you for cooperating, Inspector. I knew I could count on you."

"Don't get used to it." The Inspector said with a grumpy smile. He liked Kudo, he was a good boy; just like his father. But this was right out of the blue!

Takagi blinked, then looked to The Inspector. "O-oh... yes. The room is this way!" Takagi announced before heading off. Satou smiled and followed after Takagi. She had nothing to say for the time being.

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Author's Notes: Ermm... I'm having much too much fun with this. x3