The Hope in Darkness

Awakening

AN: Welp, this is when Shinichi wakes up and his reaction and loss of voice. This is the outfit Yoru changed him into, ignore the necklace, and remember that it's an outfit for both genders. Anyway, let's start!

Just to remind you:

"Hi!"= Talking in English

"Hi!"= Talking in Japanese

"Hi!"= Words on signs in English

"Hi!"= Words on signs in Japanese

Hi! = Narrator

Hi! = Flashback

'Hi!' = Thoughts

"Hi!" = Talking in flashback

"Hi!" = Talking on the phone

Hi! = Words on paper (unless it's at the beginning or end of the chapter /it had pov written beside it)

(Hi!) = Author-chan talking

That's all. Now enjoy reading!~

Disclaimer: I don't own DCMK it belongs to the great Aoyama-sensei~ I only own the story and my OC~

Narrator Pov. With Shinichi~

After a few more hours, Shinichi started to stir 'Am I... Dead?' he slowly opened his eyes and he noticed a ceiling which made him realize 'Wait... So I lived?' he felt relieved about that for a second before his vision cleared completely and he realized that he doesn't recognize the ceiling he was looking at.

He sat up in confusion and looked around before he winced as his wound started to act up so he held his head which is when he realized his clothes were different, but also that his hands seemed smaller than they should be 'Probably just seeing things because of my injury.' he thought until he looked down and noticed that he was laying on a bed.

This bed seemed as big as his own bed... So why was he only taking out less than half of it? He should be taking the whole bed...

He noticed a mirror and, deciding to check his injury, went toward it to take a look.

Only to freeze as he saw a reflection of himself he shouldn't be seeing, not anymore.

His first-grader reflection wearing a t-shirt and pants that are child-sized.

He slammed a hand against the glass in shock 'What-? How the-? I shrunk?! But-'

"Farewell... Meitantei." He froze and shivered as he heard those words echo in his head.

His eyes... He's seeing that man's cold-blooded and hateful stare again, it's invading his vision, he's even seeing the silver-haired man's reflection instead of his, glaring back at him with that look...

He paled as he started sweating and stepped back away from the hallucination as his hand instinctively went to his throat as he remembered...

That man forced his mouth open and made him drink a pill...

That man drugged him...

Suddenly feeling like the scared vulnerable kid he now seems to be in his moment of confusion and fear, he went to scream but then the man's reflection suddenly moved and lunged forward out of the glass and covered his mouth, as he now was eye-to-eye with the man, trembling as he couldn't even fathom in his state how it's just a hallucination.

"Don't even dare to speak and get the police... Or I will make sure to actually finish you off." He heard the man say as he saw the man's mouth moving, the cold-blooded grin making it obvious he wasn't just threatening.

'No no no no don't-' Shinichi desperately thought in his state of overwhelming confused fear as he closed his eyes so he won't see the man's cold ones anymore, 'Just get away from me!' 

He felt his lungs tighten as he suddenly couldn't breathe as if the man's hold on his mouth was tightening, and then his knees gave out as he fell to the ground.

Meanwhile, with Yoru in the kitchen, she was smiling and humming as she cooked, surprised at herself since she never felt so happy while cooking since it reminded her of her father, especially in this certain time of the year, and yet she was doing it so naturally just because she knows about her guest she was looking for.

'It's like that boy being here just lit up my mood...' she thought with her smile widening as she just put the food on the stove and turned it on.

When she heard a thud from the guest room upstairs 'Must be the boy... That thud sounded so loud though, did something happen?' worried, she left the food, turned off the stove and placed her apron on the table before she started going upstairs.

Back with Shinichi, he panted heavily and gasped as he realized he could suddenly breathe again and opened his eyes to see no sign of the man anywhere, just that same reflection of his kid body...

He sighed in relief "Just a hallucination..." he wanted to say out loud but he paused as he realized that he heard no sound come out of his mouth although he sure felt it moving, 'What? Why can't I-' he tried again to say something, let out some noises, anything but...

Nothing, not one single sound was coming out of his mouth.

He paled even more as he realized what that hallucination did.

He was mute.

Before he could think about it more, he heard footsteps coming over and so he lifted his head nervously, wondering what kind of person brought a seemingly little kid like him here and if they were actually one of the men in black's partners that was sent back to make sure he was dead.

He gulped as he watched the door handle turn then open slowly with bated breath.

AN: Done! Wow, two chapters in one day. Now if only TH was that easy to update- XD

Well, anyway, I know some of you are gonna say that Shinichi wouldn't react like that but let's remember that he woke up somewhere he doesn't know and, unlike canon, he wasn't with anyone he could rely on to tell what happened like the police, he didn't even see anyone yet, and it's not like I made him cry, just gave him a more fearful reaction so...

Also, it's an AU, so he's only different in that aspect but he'll be normal after calming down, deal with it. U^U

Hope you still enjoyed it despite that though!

That's all. See you next chapter!

Stay sweet my fellow anime lovers!~

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