The Kaito Went Down to Georgia Part 1

I have decided to rename "The Heisei Hoods" as "The Kaito Went Down to Georgia (He Was Looking for a Jewel to Steal)". I still plan to work in a line about the Duke boys are known as the "modern-day Robin Hoods" similar to how Kid is known as the "modern-day Arsène Lupin".        

(On the off-chance that you don't get the reference: )

Every summer I do a long-term writing or art project of some sort and this was the one for this summer. Between finalizing revisions on Le Bonhomme du Minuit, my practicum editing and formatting a newspaper, and my summer job working on a website, I didn't have as much time to work on this story as I hoped, but I still have it mostly plotted out, and I have seven parts written as of uploading this.
 
    Earlier this summer I was thinking about how when Kaito Kid does one of his thefts, it's usually in a city. This got me thinking, "What would happen if one of his targets was in the middle of nowhere?" I thought more about where the story would be set, and began going about brainstorming a setting and characters. Shortly after, a better idea came to me. A place in the country where bizarre crimes are the order of the day: Hazzard County.

    Hence how you get this really strange idea. I decided I wanted to write a few parts of this and see how it turned out. I have six other chapters written at the point of uploading this (8/31/14) but though they’re written out, there are details in them that I haven’t filled in. Either way, this was a fun (if bizarre) summer project, and I hope to upload the other chapters relatively soon.

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    The bold indicates the Balladeer’s dialogue. I knew from the start that I wanted to have the balladeer add in bits of narration in this fanfic. It’s just not the same without his humorous, occasionally snarky commentary and exposition. This should only get funnier as Kaito arrives in Hazzard and the plot really picks up.

    I’ve decided that language barriers shouldn’t be an issue; either Kaito (and other characters who may appear later) speaks English fluently or this is some alternate timeline where Japan took over the U.S. during WWII and everyone speaks Japanese. Take your pick. Language barriers (almost) never come up in Case Closed/Detective Conan; periodically characters appear from all over the world and yet practically all of them speak perfect Japanese.


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