Kaishin Oneshots

#12 - Confessions

Shinichi was finally home from the hospital exactly a week since the Black Organisation got dismantled bits by bits. He had gotten severely injured but at least he survived. Everyone berated him for his stupidity that almost got himself killed but at least he got his hands on the APTX4869 and finally got his body back too, permanently.

The cowlick haired sighed, feeling himself relaxed and calm as he sat on his favourite chair (his father's chair actually) in the library, opening his A Study In Scarlet book to see something fell from the pages.

Eh? A letter? Shinichi thought curiously, picking it up from the floor. He turned it to look at the sender and his eyes widened just a little in surprised.

Kaitou KID.

Shinichi would have never thought that the moonlight magician would ever send him a letter. He bit his lips as he opened it up to read, a little nervous to see the content.

Every word of the letter made his heart pound so hard in his chest.

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Dear Meitantei,

Hi. Pfft, this is so awkward and weird like I don't even know what to write. So, I know that this wasn't what you expected when you received this letter from me. You probably thought it was the next riddle for my next heist, isn't it? Sorry if this was not something you expected.

I just wanted to say that today April 1st on April Fools, I'm putting my mantle down which means I'm retiring (I'm not joking. I'm really retiring as the world renowned Kaitou KID). I found what I was searching for so I'm saying goodbye.

I personally invited you to my last heist but I overheard from that old man Suzuki talking to Nakamori keibu and Tantei-san that the KID Killer went back to America with his parents so I assumed you're turning back to being Kudo Shinichi. Since you're back permanently, I'm also assuming you're gonna take the Black Organisation down.

I know confessing why I did what I did over a letter is a little anticlimatic but I'll be too focused on my civilian life to personally deliver the reason- okay nevermind. That's a lie. I'm actually scared of what you'll think of me if I'm being honest. I just don't know what reaction you would have if I'm right there in front of you now, explaining all this. No one knew the reason I was Kaitou KID except for my mother, butler or personal assistant and Hakuba Saguru. Though, I think your parents knew too since they are friends with my own parents. Your actress mom was tou-san's student back then.

You'll be the fourth person to know from me myself and I just wanted you to know that you're someone special to me for me to trust you this much. I don't care anymore and I just don't want to lie anymore either. If someone would understand me more than others does, it'd be you, Meitantei. Because you're just amazing like that. So, the story goes like this;

I was just a 8 year old boy when my father died while he was running his magic shows. The police said it was accidental but I knew it wasn't. I watched him practice his tricks everyday to perfect it and I knew my father wouldn't make a mistake like that. Call it pride but my father was a perfectionist. Just like I am.

One day, 8 years later, I was 16 years old. It was on my birthday that I found out about Kaitou KID lair by coincidence. I looked around and found out that my father was the first Kaitou KID. Then, my assistant found me there and I demanded him to tell me everything.