Catboys von abgemeldet ================================================================================ Kapitel 1: Yet another change! ------------------------------ Catboys Chapter One: Yet another change! by and thanks to hallow777 for beta-reading Conan and Kaito got kidnapped by mad scientists. After they escape, they notice weird thing happening with them. _________________________________________________________________________ He was on his way home from school when Kaito suddenly felt a sharp pain in the back of his head and moments later, his face met the ground. He was aware that someone picked him up, but then his vision went black and he lost consciousness. The man looked pleased at the unconsciousness boy in the back of the van, after he put said boy in the van. He was lucky that the street was this empty and that the boy hadn't paid any attention either, or it could have become difficult. He sat down in the passenger seat and nodded shortly to the driver. Moments later, the van was nowhere to be seen in the street and on its way to their secret laboratory in the woods near Tokyo. Conan was just on his way back to the Agency when he felt suddenly a pain in his neck and fell to the ground. He lost consciousness while he felt someone picking him up. A man carried him into another van and drove him to the same laboratory where Kaito was. When Kaito regained consciousness, he was strapped to some kind of operating table. He blinked hazily up at the very white ceiling and deducted that they had given him some kind of sedative. That could be the only reason, why he was still so calm about everything and didn't really want to move at all. A few men in white lab coats came into his line of vision and talked a few sentences while looking at him. They did something with his hand and put a mask on his face. He realized that it was some sort of tranquilizer, but was once again clouded in darkness after that. The same happened to Conan. He woke up and blinked in confusion because he noticed that he was strapped on some kind of operation table and couldn't really move. First he thought it was someone from the Black Organization but before he could continue thinking about it, some men in white lab coats appeared and also put something on his mouth and he blacked out again. He also didn't know that his rival, Kaitou Kid, was right in the next room. The third time Kaito woke up, he was more aware of his surroundings, which suggested that they hadn't had him under anymore drugs. He felt that something was off, but couldn't put his finger on what it was. He also didn't notice any differences. What he noticed was, that he was still bound to the bed, but not one person was currently with him. Getting out of restrains like that was already too easy for him, but the dear doctors wouldn't have any idea, that they had kidnapped an escape artist. He briefly wondered if he had some letter pinned to his back, saying 'I'm good to try some experiments on, please kidnap me.' He really wondered what they did with him after he blacked out the second time. He freed himself easily enough and got out of the bed. The first thing that he noticed was that he had somehow more balance, even when he was still slightly disoriented. What annoyed him was that he was in the typical hospital gown, that was to say...very open. He would have to get something better quickly. He slipped out of the room and into a long hallway with a lot of doors. He was really curious of what was in there, but the need for clothes and freedom was larger. He opened one of the many windows in the hallway and noticed the little space he had to put his toes onto before he would have a free fall from two stories up. As he was outside of the window, he looked into the window below him and noticed quite a few of the white coats hanging from clothes racks. Unfortunately, they weren't the only ones in the room. There was a small group of people and it looked as if one person has teaching them something about human anatomy. 'How weird...', he thought. 'I hope they didn't do anything weird to me.' He positioned himself so that they wouldn't be able to see him and let himself into the room. He quickly changed his clothes and was happy to wear anything at all. One of the persons in the room must have noticed something moving, because they all stood up pretty quickly. Without much thinking other than 'Shit, shit, shit! Get away, get away, get away!', Kaito went straight back to the window and jumped out of it, forgetting he was still one story up off the ground, but he just wanted to get the hell away from there. He landed in a smooth crouch on the ground, completely unharmed and ready to flee. Which he did immediately without giving much thought about what had just happened. He could hear voices in the distance, but he was already too far away from them to have any chance of catching up on him. When Conan finally woke up again he felt better than the second time he woke up. He felt a little odd but didn't really notice any difference besides that and decided to tried try and figure out a way to get out of there. While he was looking around he noticed that there was no one else in here, he also wondered what exactly they did to him and who it was. If it was the BO they probably would have killed him already so he asked himself who else it could be. But right now he just wanted to get away from this place. Somehow Conan managed to get free and when he stood up he also felt more balanced. But now he just wanted to get outta there and after noticing that all doors were locked from inside he tried to use the ventilation shaft. He got forward pretty fast and silently and no one noticed any sounds. He was kinda curious about that but now he searched for his clothes and found them after a while. He opened the shaft and jumped out and wondered that he landed so smooth. 'Think about that later...' He thought and quickly changed into his own clothes. After that he looked around. He was really curious about what kind of building this was but he couldn't do anything alone so he thought about escaping first. 'I'll find out more about that building later...' and got back in the ventilation shaft to look for an exit or something like that. After a little while he saw some light at the end of the shaft and was glad to get out of there. But when he opened it he noticed that he's really high up, maybe first or second floor. "Geez..it's impossible to get safely out with being this high up..." he whispered quietly to himself and sighed. Just when he wanted to turn around and search for another exit he suddenly heard some loud noise in the shaft and got so shocked that he accidentally fell out. He shut his eyes and realized he would hit the hard ground but when he opened them he already was on the ground without any injuries at all. He blinked, because when he looked up he could see the vent opening far above his head, he was pretty confused and shocked. But after he heard some people talking he just skipped thinking about it and ran away and looked for the next bus stop or something, because he still didn't know where he was exactly. When Kaito reached to the first few houses, he recognized his surroundings and was happy, that he had only to take a few shortcuts and he would be home. After what felt like a little eternity, he was home again and changed into his own clothes. Now that he had time to think, he wondered just what they had done to him. When his mother came home from work, she fuzzed over him and told him how worried she was, that he hadn't come home that last day at all. Telling the truth was a little awkward, so he told her that he was doing some research with Jii. He did have a heist coming up in the next few days. Her look told him that she didn't believe him one bit, but she sighed and let him go. He finally realized that he was tired, so he went to bed quite early. After a while, Conan found out that he wasn't that far away from Beika and got back to the agency. Where Ran yelled at him, because she was really worried, but he just told her that he was playing at Agasa-hakase's house and forgot the time. She finally accepted it and he could go to bed...he was really tired. But still he wondered who those guys were and what they did to him. After a while he just fell asleep and the next morning Ran had a little trouble waking him up because this morning he was more than just tired. But in the end he had to get up and get ready for school. While he was eating breakfast and went to school he yawned a lot, and at school he almost fell asleep during the lessons. During the day he often felt pretty tired but he got used to it after a while. At the end of the day they had sports and had to do some athletics. Conan was more a fan of soccer but when it was his turn he wondered since when he could move that fast and smoothly. His classmates were almost clapping when he did all exercises perfectly. But he was happy when the sports lesson was over and school ended soon, too. But he was still a little curious about what had happened. The next day at school, Kaito was greeted by a worried, yet furious Aoko Nakamori. Of course, that was because he had been absent that last day without any excuse. So one part of the mop wielding girl was worried about her best friend’s health and the other part was highly annoyed, that he most likely just skipped school that day. When the magician flipped her skirt, the first reason was quickly forgotten and the wild chase began once again. Kaito dodged her mop of doom several times quite easily and seemed to fly over the several heads of their schoolmates. Not that this act was so strange coming from him, but the easiness of these moves alone brought him back enough to the last day, that Aoko had the chance of hitting him with the cleaning utensil onto his head. Which was quite painful by the way. As his revenge, he colored her hair blue and Hakuba's green. He found out long ago that changing the witch's hair was either painfully embarrassing or embarrassingly painful. He didn't like both of the possibilities, so he let her off the hook. Now, he got chased by the detective as well, which was also fun. The detective made the funniest faces when he was pissed off. Having enough of his antics, Aoko reached for her ultimate weapon: The fish she bought before school for the meal her father wanted to prepare this afternoon. It had the desired effect. The magician yelped and took cover in one of the corners in the classroom, on the ceiling. What was new, however, were the ears, that were visible on his head and the tail which twitched around at his back. He noticed it after his two friends, gave another yelp and disappeared in a cloud of smoke. Hakuba looked disbelieving at the spot where his rival had been moments ago. "What the...?", he asked the world in general, before deciding that this was definitely not his day and he just walked back to his seat ignoring what had just happened. On one of the rooftops near the school, a distressed Kaito Kuroba was sitting at one of the edges, inspecting his new tail. He also noticed how his ears would move in one direction or another, which was quite fun and good for his hearing, but quite unnerving after a while. His tail twitched in agreement. He wondered just what deity he had pissed off to deserve something like this. Now he knew just what those people did to him, but wasn't sure if he wanted to know just 'how' they did it. 'I guess it's probably better that I don’t know.' he decided. After a while, he stood up and went home while running across the rooftops. Not that he did it as the Kid often enough, but now that the ears and the tail were there, he really felt the balance of a cat and it would be a lie to say that he didn't enjoy it. He soon reached home and the first thing he did was look into the mirror in his bathroom. He really had two black cat ears on his head. Seeing this, he sighed, went to his room and let himself drop on the bed. After the excitement vanished however, he felt the ears and the tail disappearing. 'Huh? So they will not be there the whole time...that’s good at least..', he thought relieved. 'I just wonder why they came out earlier?' After a while Conan was finally home and really hungry. He put his school bag down somewhere and went to the kitchen and wondered what Ran was cooking because it smelled really good. He looked around the corner in the kitchen and saw how Ran was cooking some fish. He got more hungry and stared at the fish and didn't notice the fact that he had suddenly cat-ears and also a tail. Ran noticed Conan and blushed a little. "Aww, Conan-kun! What a cute costume!", she said smiling. "Huh? Costume?", he said surprised and noticed that he had a tail and blinked. 'What the ...!?', was all he could think while staring at his tail until he remembered that Ran was still there and looked at her. "Ah, yes, it's for a party.", he said with a little smile, "I still have some homework so...", he said quickly and ran off to the bathroom. Conan locked the bathroom door and hope that Ran wouldn't ask why. He looked at the tail again and got a little more shocked when he could move it and also noticed that something was wrong with his ears because they felt quite fuzzy. 'Oh.. great...', he thought when he looked into the mirror and saw how his ears moved and he couldn't control it. Conan sat down and while he looked at his tail twitching he was thinking what exactly happened. 'So now I'm not only a shrunken High School-Detective.. I have also a tail and big cat ears...', he thought and sighed. 'Ran thought this is a costume but if I keep showing up like that with moving tail and ears she'll figure out that they're real...', he was thinking and while he was considering how it'll disappear he also noticed that his hearing was better, even though... he didn't really wanted to hear Kogoro's singing to Yoko Okino. When Ran knocked at the door and asked if everything's okay, he looked up to the door and noticed that the ears and the tail disappeared. 'So they disappear after a while...', he thought and unlocked the door and smiled to Ran. "Yes, everything's okay." "Hm.. okay, then come on.", she said smiling and went back to the kitchen, "Lunch will be ready in 5 minutes. I made fish.", she said and while he already smelt it again his ears popped out again just when she said fish. He hid his ears with his hands and knew why they came out before. After a short while he tried to relax himself a little and the ears disappeared again, and for him it was probably the best idea to just pass the lunch but somehow he really wanted to eat some fish. "Uhm.. Ran-neechan? Can I eat in my room? I have still a lot of homework...", he said with an innocent smile and while Ran watched at him she nodded with a sighed and gave him some food on a plate. "Yes, you can. But bring the dishes back when you're done.", she said. "Thanks a lot Ran-neechan!", she said and went in his room with the food and while he really enjoyed eating the fish his ears popped out again and also his tail was twitching around. Conan sweat-dropped a little when he saw how his tail was twitching while he was enjoying the fish. 'I guess that's even weirder than being shrunk...', he thought and finished eating, his tail and the ears disappeared again. He brought the dishes back and searched for Ran. "Thanks again for letting me eat in my room.", he said smiling. 'I hope I won't have to do this to often… but it's probably only with fish... at breakfast everything was normal...', he thought. "No problem.", Ran said and smiled. "Glad that you like the food.". Conan was nodding with a kind smile. "Well, I'm going upstairs and do the rest of my homework, okay?", he said and was already going to the door. "Okay, have fun.", she called after him and giggled shortly, before she went back to cleaning the dishes. Kaito pondered quite a while about the reason they popped out back then, but came to no real conclusion. 'Was it because of the f-...scaly thing?', he wondered. Had to be, right? So, he had to avoid them. It's not like he already did that as much as he could. Maybe he could get Aoko and his mom to stop scaring him with them like this. As if approving his new theory, the doorbell rang and startled him. He went down and saw a worried Aoko in front of him. "Ne...are you okay?", she asked him and looked at his head and behind him for any signs of strange ears and tail. When she wasn't able to find anything, she was even more confused. "Why don't you just come in?", he offered and let her in his house. She brought his school bag with her and put it on the kitchen table. They sat around the table in silence until Aoko searched for his cat-ears again. "Say, Kaito...what exactly was that at school?", she wondered and pointed a finger at his head. He sighed and wondered for a brief second if he could talk his way out of this, but guessed he couldn't. The ears might pop out again, if she was trying to scare him with the scaly evil things again. "Well, I was at some sort of laboratory, yesterday. They kidnapped me off the street and did something strange with me. That was the reason I wasn't at school. I just noticed what it was in school, like you did as well. Still don't know what it is exactly, but the things you were looking for just now did exist.", he explained and waited for her response. She pondered over what he said and suddenly, there was a smug smile on her lips. He inched away from her with a bad feeling and before he could get further away from the evil girl, she held the same fish in front of his face again. He yelped and did a jump backwards off of the chair he was sitting in, but landing on all fours with the ears and tail out again. The fish was put hastily away and Aoko hurried to him, pulling at his ears and feeling them. "Whaaa~ kawaii!", she squealed, while he was too perplexed to do anything else than gape at her. Aoko was still touching his ears the whole time and totally loved them. "Aww, they're so soft. Never imagined that you could be so cute~!", she said smiling. She kept staring at them and giggled when they moved. "Will they always pop out when I scare you with some fish?", she said with a grin on her face. Kaito gulped down the fear and took a look at her. She really didn't seem to mind them, in fact, she seemed to really like them, which seemed weird to him. ‘But then again this whole day has been weird.', he thought. "I dunno...they did two times, but...Aoko?", he asked hesitantly. "If you want them to pop out...can we try to find a better method, please?" "Hm?". She looked at him and giggled. "Hm... if you're nice to me.", she said with a grin. "What else could I do...", she said while she looked thoughtful up. "Ah, maybe I can pat you like a cat!", she said smiling and patted him already and giggled. He just looked so cute. He sweat dropped and couldn’t really do anything against it. When she brushed against his ears, a pleasant shudder ran along his spine and he moaned a little, closed his eyes and leaned forward without thinking into her hand. When she saw that she giggled a little and kept patting. "Kawaii~", she said quietly, watching him. "Right now you really just look like a big cat, you know Kaito?", she said and grinned at him. He muttered something incomprehensible, already too far away to really notice what she was saying. His head slowly dropped into her lap and he curled up against her just like a cat would do. She smiled and giggled when she saw how much he enjoyed it. After a while she stopped and smiled. "And how do they disappear again?", she asked and was still touching his ears. It took a while for the question to register, but when it did, he snapped out of his reverie and bolted upright again, face flushed in a bright red. "I-I think when I relax again and calm down...but I am not sure.” She giggled again when she saw his red face. "I see~ like when you see fish and get panic and the ears pop out and when you calm down from that again they're disappearing?", she asked with a little grin. He shrugged, the blush in his face fading. "I guess so...what are you aiming at?", he asked uneasily, his tail twitching in irritation. She looked at his tail and giggled. "Nothing special~", she said in an innocent voice which seemed rather suspicious. "Uh huh...", he said disbelieving, itching further away from her. "Since it's nothing special you can just refrain from doing whatever evil plan is forming in your head right now.", he insisted, but had little hope. "I don't know what you're talking about~", she said innocently and looked at him again. "Aww, you just look like a big kitty~", she said again and touched his ears. He rolled his eyes and sighed. A little of the feeling from earlier returned and he was definitely not going into that mood again. She looked around and then to Kaito. "Does your mom know about this?", she asked and looked at the tail again. He shook his head. "Not yet, no...", he said and sighed. He didn't really look forward to that. "But you're gonna tell her, right? I mean.. it'd be hard to hide something like that from her...", she said and watched to his tail and the ears. "I guess I have to, huh?", he asked, grinning slightly. She nodded and grinned a little. "But you won't go out at night and chase mice, will you?", she asked and giggled a little. "What about Hakuba-kun and Akako-chan?", she asked curiously. He shook his head. "No, definitely not." He shuddered at the thought alone. "And I'm pretty sure, that Koizumi has already some guess...she's weird like that.", he said and sighed. "And it would probably break Hakuba's mind anyway. But if they ask, I tell them, alright?" "Hm... okay, if you think so", she said an smiled again. "I'll try to keep the fish away from you for awhile.. But only if you're nice to me." He glared at her, but he knew that he really didn’t have a choice right now. And he didn't like it. She grinned devilishly and stood up again. "Well, I guess my dad is already wondering where I am. I promised I would cook dinner tonight.", she said and looked at her watch. "See you tomorrow!", she said smiling and giggled a little while she patting him once more. He snarled a little, but brought her to the door anyway. "See you tomorrow!", he said and was happy, when his ears and tail finally disappeared shortly after she left. After that, Conan thought about what he could do and decided to go to Agasa's place. "I'm going to Agasa-hakase’s!", he said and went down the stairs. After a short while he already was there and rang the bell of his house. The professor opened the door and wasn't much surprised to find the shrunken detective in front of his door. "Oh, Shinichi! Nice that you dropped by. I have a new game you might want to test with the others." "Sorry, but right now I don't have time for this...", he said and sighed. "Yesterday I got kidnapped and since then really weird stuff is happening...", he explained. "Can I come in?", he asked because he didn't want to explain everything in front of the house. The professor raised his eyebrows and stepped aside to let him in. He wondered just what this weird stuff could be. Conan went in and looked to the professor. After he closed the door he continued explaining. "Well... yesterday some kind of scientist I guess kidnapped me and while I was out they did something to me. After a while I woke up and could escape from there and when I was at the agency everything was fine, except the fact that I was really tired. But then strange stuff happened. I can hear better and move more smoothly. And today when I got home after school Ran cooked some fish and just because I smelled it I got cat ears and even a tail! The professor looked dumb at him, not believing what the teenager just told him. "Now, come on, Shinichi...", he said. "This is not the time for jokes and on top of that, the shrinking thing was bad enough." The boy looked at him and muttered. "I'm telling the truth, really!", he said a little annoyed because the Professor didn't believe him. 'Well… it really sounds like some crazy story that would never happen...', he thought, but it was true. "Fine, I'll show you then!", he said and went into the kitchen. Curious, he followed Conan into the kitchen and wondered what he was up to now. He guessed he wanted to find the fish he was just talking about. He went to the fridge to search for some fish. Just when he spotted some and took it, his ears appeared again, just like the tail. He noticed that immediately and put the fish back and looked to the professor. "Do you believe me now?" He looked up to the professor and waited for his reaction. The professor stared at him. "That...that...", he spluttered before falling silent and observing the boy. "I guess I need some coffee...or tea. Tea would be better, yeah.", he said, suddenly turning around and searching for his teapot. After he brewed the tea, he sat down in the kitchen chair and stared at Conan again, processing just what he was seeing. He sighed and gave in. "Alright, I don't know how they did that, but I guess this is not something, that can be overcome easily." Conan sighed in relief. "Finally...", he muttered and noticed the look of the professor, who was probably still staring at his ears or the tail, that was twitching behind him. "I guess you don't know what to do about this, right?", he said and looked at him again. The professor shook his head. "Maybe if I knew how they did that, but otherwise...no, I don't think so.", he said and looked at him again. "You really do have the strangest things happen to you, you know that Kudo?", came a young female voice from the door. "Should I be glad that this time, I'm definitely not responsible for it?", Ai Haibara asked and watched the twitching of his tail in amusement. He sighed, but he knew that the answer was something like that. When he heard Ai he looked at her and sweat-dropped. "It's not like I want these things to happen to me.", he said a little annoyed, still twitching his tail. "I'm happy that you don't have to do anything with this...", he said, "but you probably don't know anything about this either, right?", he said while raising his eyebrow. She raised her eyebrows and looked at his tail again. "No, but I can try to find some things out. Not that I have much hope...", she trailed off. "Great...", he sighed. He wondered why this experimenting stuff is always happening to him. Wasn't it already enough to get shrunk? "I think I have to tell Ran about this... She'll notice it soon anyways..", he said, moving his tail more slowly while he was thinking. She raised her eyebrows shortly and observed him for a while. "It's not like your or her life depends on it, right? Most likely anyway. So it would be better like that. Are you going to tell her father as well?" He nodded and looked in her direction. "I'm not sure... I'll tell Ran first and ask her if it'd be better if he knows or not..", he said and the ears and the tail disappeared again. "Hm.. i wonder if this happens only when I get near fish...", , he asked himself. "Well, that's your choice.", she told him and shrugged her shoulders. "I can't tell...but I guess you will find soon enough.", she asked with a devilish smile and disappeared from the door to go back into her lab. "Probably...", he said and looked at her. 'Even though it's not her fault she's acting like she knows better...', he thought and sighed, 'Scary.'. He looked to the professor again and also went to the door. "Well… I think it's the best if I'll tell her soon as possible." The professor looked at him again and nodded. "I guess that's better, Shinichi. Good luck!", he smiled faintly. "Thanks hakase..", he said not very happy, "See ya.", and he went off back to the agency. When he was back he first checked if Kogoro was around but it seemed like he was off to see a client. Hosted by Animexx e.V. (http://www.animexx.de)