Bonus chapter: Deleted Scenes

Note: Scenes that didn't work out because either 1, I couldn't fit them in or because 2, I wasn't sure how to continue the story after such a scene.

At first I was considering putting in either the black org or the organization after KID as the main villians, but I wasn't sure how much I could handle canon villains without making it too serious. I wanted to keep this true to the genre of humor after all.

Additionally, regarding the crystal ball in the last chapter, it is just a part of my cheap reference to a recent Fire Emblem game, 'Fates' where there are three paths: the light path (easy mode), the dark path (hard mode), and the invisible path. (Canon mode, the title is 'revelations' and one of the two main characters resolves the secret they couldn't in the other two modes, and it involves going into a different world accessible through a lake)

All 3 paths lead to some ending but only the last one resolves everything.

Ch. 1

Hospital scene – actually waking up to someone there. Take 1

(Vermouth mistakes him as Shinichi lol)

The boy groggily forced himself to sit up, but was met with a sharp pain in his head again. Well, at least it seemed his hands were in working order, he noted faintly as he examined his hands. Kaito slowly looked around the room as he tried to assess his situation. He froze as his blood turned cold at who he saw sitting by his bed, smiling innocently as if she belonged there.

"Oh, you're finally awake."

A sweet, but barely familiar voice spoke. Kaito had met this woman as KID before, but never as himself, or so he thinks. Either way, this was way too unnatural. Besides, being a master of disguises himself, he could tell this woman was a fake. Unnatural twice, so to speak; things looked bad up in here.

Flinching in discomfort at the movement but being unable to help himself due to fear, Kaito backed away as much as he could from the woman. "Who are you?"

Yukiko Kudo, or at least the woman with her face stopped smiling. "You don't know me?" She then put a finger to her chin as if to ponder something, before showing the barrel of a gun under her sleeve with her other hand. "Interesting. Then I guess you weren't who I feared you were."

Hospital scene – actually waking up to someone there. Take 2 (Conan forces his way in)

The boy groggily forced himself to sit up, but was met with a sharp pain in his head again. Well, at least it seemed his hands were in working order, he noted faintly as he examined his hands. Kaito slowly looked around the room as he tried to assess his situation. A casual sweep around the room let him know that there was no one around. Yet, strangely enough, he felt a presence other than his own. Call it instinct if you will. Maybe a ghost? Kaito joked to himself, before chuckling.

"What's so funny?" Kaito almost jumped out of his skin as he heard a voice that he never wanted to hear unawares, and never wanted to hear directed to him as his civilian self. Looking over to where the voice had originated, he saw a mop of brown hair with that dreaded cowlick and a pair of glinting glasses facing him. It seems Conan had been sitting on the ground next to the hospital bed, waiting for him to wake up.

Swallowing the million questions he should have asked first, Kaito couldn't help but start with a snarky comment. "It's unsanitary to sit on the hospital floor, you know."

Scene where Conan realizes he's been outsmarted – begins suspecting Kaito to be KID

Conan was…bewildered. Had he just been outsmarted and then shown mercy? What the hell was that guy?! And to top it all off, it turned out that the teen had known this entire time that Conan had been the one to have found the teen being attacked. Which meant… he had known Conan had been lying from the moment they met each other in that alleyway? Dear god this teen was turning out to be way slippier than Conan would have ever imagined.

What was this guy? Not to mention the way he refused to leave evidence like fingerprints and writings behind had not gone unnoticed by the detective. Conan frowned as these minute details rang something familiar in his mind. Slippery, intelligent, not personally heavily involved with the police, looks like his teenage self, unnaturally careful even around a child like Conan… seriously… could he be?

It would make sense but… really? He couldn't jump to conclusions like that. Perhaps he was just hoping that teen to be as harmless and as capable as his gut feeling was telling him.

"Hey brat!" Conan was snapped out of his mini shock as Sonoko yelled into his ear.

Ch.5

Planning out Heiji's prank

"Well you did say our type becomes the best kind of audience once impressed." Conan countered cheekily, "This is good rehearsal, don't you think?"

"I can help execute them; but you have to come up with the ideas though." Kaito responded. He wasn't going to risk this Hattori recognizing the style of the pranks being too KID-like and having him complaining to Conan about it, observations and all.

Conan seemed to ponder for a moment before his face lit up. Kaito instinctively backed up in his seat, a little alarmed at the expression on his companion's face.

"Hey what… are you thinking about?" Kaito prodded, a little afraid to ask.

"How to have fun with Heiji-niichan of course." Conan said, blinking. He then smiled innocently, before he leaned over eagerly, "So Heiji-niichan likes Ellery Queen…"

"Wait…" Kaito gasped out after hearing the details from Conan. That's your idea of a PRANK? "are you really friends with this guy?"

Ch.8

Scene where Conan finds out Hakuba is Kaito's classmate – what he thinks

Conan gaped. "Hakuba? As in Saguru Hakuba the high school detective?"

"Yes! He's so cool and handsome and smart!" the girl sighed, "If only Kaito would get along with him."

Knowing that the Saguru Hakuba was a classmate of Kaito's threw a whole new wrench into the mix. Conan wasn't sure if he should be happy about a possible new resource, or be wary of another party that could potentially blow his own cover.

Conan was a bit surprised though; if Kaito spent so much time with the meticulous detective and still hadn't been 'caught' as KID, then maybe the suspicious boy really wasn't the thief. He didn't really want to gain more support for his strange theory that Kaito was, in fact, really close to the thief instead of being him, but things were starting to look bad already.

Conan decided he could think about the details later when they (or if they even) ran into the detective on their "research" trip today. Besides, he needed to explain more of the situation to Haibara, considering the amount of evil eye she was giving him at the moment.

Ch.9

Nonexistent scene – Kaito and Conan are trapped somewhere and they think they're doomed (Kind of like that scene with Takagi and Conan in that one special where they almost die in that elevator) and Conan still thinks Kaito and KID are lovers

"Don't worry about it Tantei-kun" Kaito whispered, a wistful but gentle smile gracing his features. "He'll know, and he'll understand."

"Bu-" Kaito placed a finger elegantly on the boy's lips.

"Conan-kun" Kaito said the name with a hint of sadness. "I wish we could have…"

"-been honest." Conan finished. He didn't know why he said that, but the déjà vu he felt from the uncharacteristic, yet somehow fitting act from Kaito making him do so. They both shared a moment of silence with one another, only one party knowing the entire story.

"Maybe some other time." Kaito said, grinning with a new gleam in his eye, as he seemed to have noticed something new.

Nonexistent scene – Kaito and Conan have some deep discussion that I can't write and doesn't work with their characters while they are trapped in that room.

"What is the most important thing to you?" Kaito started up a conversation nonchalantly. They were trapped in this stupid room until who knows when, so he might as well try to get to know the detective better. Who knows, he might even be slightly honest if the questions were vague enough.

Conan frowned, a bit puzzled at the question. "Where did that come from?"

"The truth?" Kaito pressed on. He knew he was treading on dangerous ground by provoking him, but it was too funny to pass up. "No… it can't be, is it?"

"What do you mean by that?" Conan asked, sounding a bit annoyed. Although he knew Kaito shouldn't know that Conan lived a lie, it still sounded like a personal jab at him. "How about you? Justice or something?"

Kaito laughed, "Maybe. What is justice anyway?"

Conan pondered the question for a moment. He couldn't believe he was having this type of conversation as a 7 year old with some teenager he hadn't known for even a month. "The safety of the life and happiness of loved ones?"

"That involves your own… life and happiness." Kaito responded, and then stopped himself. For some odd reason he felt dirty saying that. He was used to lying, but the extreme hypocrisy of what he just said bothered him a smidgeon.

Conan had given him a guilty look too. "Then what?"

Ch.3 and Ch. 10

car scenes: Conan gets another word in.

With Nakamori in the car on the way to the train station

"I won't let Tantei-kun here die." Kaito promised, getting a bad feeling about the case already.

Conan blinked at the statement. Although he knew the overly dramatic promise was mostly likely a joke considering the circumstances, it somehow felt like it was said with 100% seriousness. And so, Conan was not one to be outdone. "I won't let you die either." He said back, meeting his seatmate square in the eye, giving him his trademark piercing detective look.

Conan had meant the dramatic response to be a joke, but for some reason Kaito had responded by physically backing up and an expression of pure fear.

"What's wrong with you?" Conan asked, before laughing. Although weird, the response had been way too funny to not laugh at. "You look like I threatened to murder you or something."

Kaito, for one, felt like he had been stabbed in the heart the moment the kid had turned that dreaded knowing look at him. Far from keeping him safe, that detective was going to be the death of him. I seriously, SERIOUSLY hate you.

With kidnappers in the car on the way to who knows where

Kaito sighed once again. "Ok, so what jewel do you want? Spit it out. I'm not going to let Tantei-kun here die."

"'Tantei-kun?'" The man asked, rightfully a little confused at the nickname.

"Just a nickname, don't worry about it. Come on, just let me know what you want."

It was surreal. The new knowledge was making everything so surreal. 'I'm not going to let Tantei-kun here die' This was the second time the teen had spoken that in a sarcastic tone while in a car with him. However, now Conan knew that 'sarcastic' line was heavier than it seemed. The teen next to him really had gone out of his way several times to make sure that Conan did not die. Additionally, he had thought that nickname, 'Tantei-kun', was just because he seemed to be a kid playing detective, but this was also heavier than he had initially thought. Kaito had meant it. He had always seen him as a real detective.

"Kaito-niichan." Conan said softly, "Remember, that goes both ways. I won't let you die either."

Kaito looked over at his companion, meeting his eyes as he did so. The last time Conan had said this, he had scared him to no end by giving him that dreaded detective look. However, this time the little boy's look was determined and set. For some odd reason, Kaito felt more fear than last time seeing this quiet look, but he also felt mixed in with it a sort of… comfort. For all the time he had spent with him for the past few weeks, Kaito still couldn't get a good read on what Conan was thinking at these crucial moments. What are you thinking about? Gods I hate you.

000

Thanks for reading.

I'm done with this for real now.

A sequel is in the works, but it will be way sillier than "Externalities", which was already pretty lighthearted.