okay really niche question (and tbh you're the only person i know who knows both): how do you think a meeting between sara shelly futaba and conan/shinichi would go down?
(typing from mobile so what is formatting?? or readmores??)
ok so before i go on, an important psa @ all detco fans: WATCH MISS SHERLOCK Y'ALL. i promise you will not be disappointed (except by the continual lack of a season 2). here’s the link to all eight episodes, you can thank me later
alright, moving on though lbr here the first thing that would happen is me supersonic yelling from offscreen
so of course they could meet on a case, whether that means working the same case or something else – shinichi investigating sara shelly sherlock for whatever reason, or that old standby aka tokyo mpd fundraiser gala.
which is popcorn-worthy if for nothing but the concept of inspectors megure and reimon taking the opportunity to show off their consulting detectives at each other. (despite both being in division one – albeit different wards of tokyo – said inspectors do not work together or even get along to start with. megure disagrees with reimon’s lackadaisical lulz. reimon just mostly thinks he should Chill. said consulting detectives are not impressed. sherlock is specifically unimpressed with the food, and she’s maybe only here because shibata emotionally blackmailed her into turning up after some pr wreck she only had 99.5% responsibility in causing.)
(on the other hand satou and the rest have probably helped shibata out at one point at least, seeing as the poor man is probably overworked 24/7.)
(and on a mysterious third hand i just thought of how sherlock would react to sleeping kogoro and honestly? more popcorn potential right there.)
but even better concept: what if they met at some entirely non-detective related event? and i am absolutely going with conan instead of shinichi here, just for the additional comic factor of sherlock going “???? child?? how, small, what do i do with this” and picking him up for closer inspection at some point.
maybe it’s some world-famous string quartet’s concert that conan snuck into – i mean yes he did buy a ticket online under shinichi’s name, he’s not breaking any laws, he was brought up in a house of the arts for heaven’s sakes, but little kids really aren’t supposed to be attending such classy events without a guardian? and for obvious reasons he can’t ask ran along.
so here you have one lone conan, tux included: he got into the concert hall just fine with the age-old “my parents are already inside” adage, but at some point during the intermission someone realises that hey there’s a really little boya here seemingly without an attached adult, and conan (pity be on him?? he just wanted to listen to some music??) points unsuspiciously at the first unaccompanied grown person he spots in the not-very-crowded crowd and hurries off something about my music teacher is over there!! i’m just gonna– before further hurrying off in that direction.
…alas for him, while said adult is in fact unaccompanied and doesn’t mind being his alibi for now, she would also very much like to know how he figured out that tidbit. or how he deduced that she doesn’t just listen to music but also plays the viola.
(“cello!” conan corrects automatically, and promptly dies inside.
“oh really,” says sherlock, over conan’s babbling that he just guessed because well see onee-san there are three instruments in a quartet aren’t there!! which – nice try, tiny human, but sherlock knows what guessing looks like and this isn’t it.
hm. maybe she’ll have to re-evaluate her opinion of children – or at least the possibility of actually-intelligent children belonging to other people – after all.
…not before she thoroughly interrogates this one first, though.)