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Entry tags:	detective conan, magic kaito

[Detective Conan/Magic Kaito] Double the Pleasure, Double the Fun
Title: Double the Pleasure, Double the Fun
Author: Icka! M. Chif
Word Count: 900
Rating: General
Author Notes: 'Nother plunnie from talking with Ellen Brand. BLAME! BLAME!
Summary: ”Aniki…” Vodka whimpered, raising his head from the alley floor. “I thought he was into -soccer-.”

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Gin was starting to wonder if he was going crazy.

Well, crazier.

“There he is!” Vodka pointed to a shadow on the wall with a familiar hairstyle. Said shadow startled, tossing up a small ball and smacking it with a bat they pulled out of somewhere. Both Gin and Vodka ducked as the baseball whizzed through where their heads had been mere seconds before, impacting against the wall half a block away and burying itself in the bricks.

”Aniki…” Vodka whimpered, raising his head from the alley floor. “I thought he was into -soccer-.”

”So did I.” Gin growled. He had killed Kudo Shin’ichi. He didn’t remember killing Kudo Shin’ichi, he never remembered the people he killed, but the records stated he killed Kudo Shin’ichi and Vodka remembered him killing Kudo Shin’ichi, so therefore he must have killed Kudo Shin’ichi.

Except the damn bastard wasn’t dead.

Obviously, this was not an acceptable state of affairs and he was attempting to rectify the situation.

Which was not as easy to fix as he’d thought when he’d set out to do so. For one thing, the prick wouldn’t stay in one place. There were reports of him in Beika, Ekoda, Osaka, Kyoto, and every place in between. He’d finally tracked him down in Shibuya, drinking some overpriced hot beverage and gormlessly walking down the street.

And then promptly disappeared.

They’d been playing a frustrating everlasting game of hide and go seek ever since. Gin was getting rather tired of it. If it weren’t for orders to at least maintain the -appearance- of a low profile, he would have simply blown the past five blocks to bits.

A shadow flickered out of the corner of his eye and he threw himself backwards, barely avoiding being struck with a metal pipe. Vodka wasn’t quite so lucky, his gun getting knocked out of his hand. Gin made a mental note to scold him about that later. Much late.r

”Aw.” Kudo drawled. “I missed.”

He quickly back-pedalled and disappeared back down the alley as Gin, who had not lost his gun, took a shot.

And then got his gun knocked out of his hand as Kudo re-appeared -behind- them, hitting Gin’s wrist with that damnable pipe, making his hand numb. He lashed out with a foot, sending Kudo flying back down the alley. With a grin, Kudo vanished again.

”Aniki…” Vodka scowled as he recovered his previously lost weapon. “It’s almost as if there’s two of them.”

”Ah, ah, ah!” Kudo’s voice taunted above them. “No thinking from the peanut gallery please.”

Vodka spun and fired, Kudo doing an acrobatic spin and flip up to the rooftop above the fire escape he’d been sitting on and vanishing with a warbled ”Allons-y~!”

Gin sensed more than saw something heading his way and dodged to the side, a soccer ball impacting against Vodka’s stomach and throwing him a couple of metres. Vodka landed on the ground and didn’t move.

”There Is Only One-“ A smug voice drawled from the other end of the alley again. Gun spun, finding his prey silhouetted in the alley way. “-Kudo Shin’ichi.”

And then that damn metal pipe made a reappearance, this time against his skull and he knew no more.

+++

”So that’s the guy?” ‘Kudo Shin’ichi’ inquired, a baseball bat resting comfortably over one shoulder. “We got him?”

”We got him.” The tallest ‘Kudo Shin’ichi’ said, his metal pipe resting to the side as he handcuffed the silver-haired assassin. “Thanks, Nagashima.”

The baseball player shrugged. “Was kinda interesting. Not something I want to do often, but glad to help.”

”Still, I owe ya one.” The tallest Kudo grinned at him.

”Ya owe me several, Hattori.” The other pipe wielder grumbled, pulling his ponytail out of the collar of his shirt.

”Keep yer shirt on, Okita.” Hattori smirked back, wiping some of the pale makeup covering his dark skin off his face with the back of a sleeve. “Sparrin’ match tomorrow mornin’. Kudo can referee.”

”Oh, goodie.” The soccer player stepped forward, looking the complete antithesis of excited. The expression shifted to something softer. “Still, Thank You.” The real Kudo said sincerely.

Upon being returned to his normal body, he’d found himself stuck with a quandary. While he was gleeful to be not Conan anymore, it meant that the mysterious men who shrunk in him the first place would eventually notice his re-appearance and track him down.

Hattori had been the one to notice the similarities in appearance and got his sparring rival, Okita, and a Kansai local baseball player, Nagashima, to help him out on the plan he’d concocted. Kudo had been hesitant, but he had to admit, it worked.

Nagashima and Okita shrugged it off. “Hey, where’s the other guy?” Okita asked, looking around.

Kudo and Hattori blinked, looking at the swordsman with a blank expression. “What other guy?”

”Y’know.” Okita made a swirling gesture with his hand. “The gymnast guy. Kept distractin’ those two from the rooftops.”

Nagashima nodded in agreement. “Yeah. Saved me a couple of times, gave me a chance to duck away.”

Kudo and Hattori looked at each other with blank looks that slowly turned into worried expressions. “What?”

+++

Not too far away, the Kaitou Kid cackled happily to himself.

It wasn’t every day that he got to prank -both- sides of the law.

Much less both at the same time.

-fin-

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Nagashima Shigeo is the main character from one of Gosho's earlier series, Yoban Saado.
Okita Soushi is the 6th Generation Descendant of the original Okita from the Shinsengumi. He shows up in the final volume of Yaiba and Detective Conan Volume 34, Heiji's first stand alone case.

Was chatting with Ellen about the 'Shin'ichi Clones', (which should be 'Kaito Clones', as Kaito was the first character, but the majority of fandom meets Shin'ichi before they meet Kaito, hence the name) that pop up as Gosho really only seems to know how to draw one kind of 'pretty boy', so there's quite a few characters that pop up who all look the same, save for different hair styles.

And there you have it. ^___^