CRESCENT MOON

Disclaimer: Detective Conan and Magic Kaito belongs to Gosho Aoyama. I only have this idea.

In magical world of 21st century, where magic, science, culture, and corruption merged into one, a student/consultant detective named Kudo Shin'ichi was cursed with killing magic for witnessing an illegal transaction of forbidden magic artefacts. But the curse was neutralized by the magic power (also called manna) within her; instead of killing her, it cursed her into a small child of no older than five years old. She could only turn back into her original age when the moonlight poured onto her.

Now, the unfortunate detective tried to survive her new life of being an elementary school student by day and into hiding at night. She is struggling to hide her identity while searching for the counter spell for the curse. But even though she looked like a five year old child, she still has a mind as sharp as blade. Even while hiding her identity, she found that the illegal transaction was done by an organization filled with dark-magic-users with the purpose of immortality.

She hid herself under the pseudonym Conan, and lived together with her childhood friend, Ran and her father. Her father, Kogoro, was working as a private detective, even though he was very incompetent. Using her magic, Conan made Kogoro famous under the title Sleeping Kogoro. But every time the moon comes out, she hid herself with Professor Agasa; her previous caretaker and also the most knowledgeable man about magic; while searching the counter-spell for her curse. He also made many gadgets that could disguise her manna.

Meanwhile, Kuroba Kaito, the successor to Royal House of Clover, found out that his father was murdered by an organization filled with dark-magic-users. Through his own ways, he found that the organization hunted magical artefacts through illicit meanings—but not just any artefacts. They wanted a Pandora. Nobody knows what that was or what it looks like—just the fact that it would react to the moon and would grant their owner immortal life.

Kaito didn't know if this Pandora artefact was real or no, but his father had been killed because of it—so he needed to put a stop to it. And that's how he became the Phantom Thief KID by night who stole magical artefacts of dark pasts with strange myths right under the police's nose.

Federal Observance of Magic and Artefacts (FOMA) or the police equivalent of this magical world, views The Phantom Thief KID as a threat (Even though they work closely with Kaito in bright daylight), so they contacted the currently famous detective, Kogoro Mouri. His family, off course, tags along. And Conan conveniently forgets that that night is a full-moon when she excitedly chased the phantom thief to the roof.

That's how the cursed detective who could only come under the moon and the phantom thief who disguised himself in the night meet.

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"Shin'ichi! Quit looking at your phone. The class is over already!" Shin'ichi looks up at that familiar voice to Ran's exasperated face and Sonoko's bored one. "You really need to pay attention more to class, Shin'ichi. You do not have as much manna as Sonoko's." She scolds.

Shin'ichi heaves herself off her seat as Sonoko sneers teasingly, "That's the one thing I'm proud of having that she hasn't." Shin'ichi almost frowns. That almost offends her; Sonoko has everything that Shin'ichi doesn't, namely, a family. Sometimes, she gets the feeling that Sonoko secretly doesn't like her and only tolerated her presence because she likes Ran. She had told Ran this, but the innocent girl just brushed it off by saying that Sonoko is always like that and that Shin'ichi was just too sensitive.

Shin'ichi sighs inaudibly and follows them out of the class. They would never understand.

They are talking about girly things that Shin'ichi doesn't care about as they're walking in the school corridor. The juniors are looking at them with slightly awed eyes. She is a bit proud of that, but she reminds herself to not become a narcissist like Sonoko, and quenches the pride she feels bubbling up. It's not just her that the juniors were looking up to; Ran is a magic duel champion and she almost never lose in duel, while Sonoko is the heir to the Royal Family of Bells, which is automatically brings respect and prestige amongst students. As for Shin'ichi, well, she is…

Shin'ichi opens her locker to find hundreds of letters stuffed inside pouring out and fall on her feet. She was just blinking stupidly at all the letters when Ran sighs, "Fanmails?"

She just shrugs and pick up one of the letter. They were all pink, filled with hearts, and smells nice. These aren't fanmails—these are love letters. "I can't believe you have so many people pouring their hearts to you just because you solve a case or two." Sonoko sighs with exasperated face.

"I can't believe it either," Shin'ichi says in respond. Yes, Shin'ichi is a high school detective—a famous one at that. She has helped the police with countless cold cases and solved them as if they were child's play. The people called her The Young Marple, or The Detective of the East (since she lives eastern area of Crescentia). While the police called her, The Savior of Crescentian Federal Observance of Magic and Artefacts Force. Such a long title, isn't it?

Ran then tilts her head, "What are you going to do with these?" She asks pointed at the letters on her feet.

Shin'ichi stares at the small mountain of letters in despair. She doesn't want to bring these back home or read them, but she also doesn't want to break anyone's heart. It would trigger unsightly things that she usually seen in cases. Sure, she could use logic to solve cases, but there is no logic to human's heart.

Sonoko, finally feds up with her only staring desperately at the letters, strides up to Shin'ichi and scooped a whole bunch of letters into her arms and casts a teleporting spell. "There. That should help unload the letters to your house easily, doesn't it?" She throws a haughty look at a blinking Shin'ichi before sighing and turned around. "Come on. I'm hungry. Let's eat at Neo—I want their ice cream, my treat!"

Ran cheers at the mention of ice cream. "Come on, Shin'ichi. Let's teleport these letters to your house, then we'll eat some ice cream."

Shin'ichi silently nods and casts a simple teleporting spell to those letters until the last ones begins to fade away. She spares a glance at Sonoko. It's true that sometimes she feels that Sonoko only tolerating her presence, but sometimes it also feels like she genuinely regrets every hurtful comments she threw at Shin'ichi. She smiles. She will see this as an apology from Sonoko that has never came out from her lips.

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To be continued...

Author's Note:

I am sorry for the shortness. This is only a brief summary and a quick look of what my next story will be like. It will be up soon and I hope I will have to time to work on it. If you are interested, you can leave a feedback or questions by clicking the review button, or check on my profile to PM me.

This is inspired by Swan Lake, Harry Potter, Wizardess' Heart the otome game, Black Butler, Howl's Moving Castle, and lastly, a fanfiction titled A Study in Magic by SilvCyanide. I hope I am forgiven for stealing the name "manna" off their idea.