Aha! It's is here! The sequel to 'A Wish Upon a Star'! The updates would be slower 'cause I'm busy lately, but rest assured, it will be finished sooner or later! If you have ideas for this, please PM me, because I only have the roughest of rough drafts for what happens next.

Disclaimer: I do not own DC

Chapter one

"Remember me, Ai?"

Shiho just stared.

"It's not nice to just disappear without notice, you know." Shinichi said with a grin, leaning towards her playfully.

"Wha-" Unused to such close proximity, Shiho took a step back hesitantly, lost her balance, and crashed painfully against the luggage carousel behind her.

"Gomen!" Shinichi reached for her hand, to pull her up, but Shiho shrank away from him instinctively. Almost immediately she regretted doing so, seeing confusion and hurt in his eyes.

Shiho tried to stand and failed, wincing.

Who was this person before her? He looked so familiar, but...

Watching them from behind a nearby pillar, Akemi sighed. So she still couldn't remember...This is going to much harder than I expected. She thought.

Deciding that she probably needed to step in, she revealed herself from her hiding place. "Hi, Shiho-chan." She smiled, helping her sister up.

"Nee-chan." Shiho greeted, seeing her suitcase now and bending over to retrieve it. "Who is this?"

Akemi smiled. "Lets go back to my apartment, I'll explain there."


Shiho studied Shinichi's face over the rim of her cup of coffee. "Kudo... Shinichi..." She said lightly, weighing each syllable on her tongue. Shinichi... the name brought vague, flashing memories to her mind, but each time she tries to hold on to them, to see more clearly, they slip away from her, like a mirage in the desert, appearing and disappearing, always out of reach. "I knew you once... I think. But I don't know how. Or why."

"It took us a long time to figure it all out as well." Akemi said with a small smile. They proceeded to tell her everything, from the beginning.

"We only know bits to it." Akemi said after they've finished. "Shinichi-kun overheard your conversation with Agasa Hakase, he only knew that once a certain syndicate is destroyed, Haibara Ai would disappear. I knew about the organization, and Ai-chan disappeared at the same time Shiho is freed from them. Then Hakase told us about what you said about the wish, and the future, and the drug that can turn people into kids. So we can guess this much."

"But if... Ai... doesn't exist anymore, why do you still remember her... or is it me?"

"That's the part we don't understand." Shinichi said, standing up to reach the bookshelf. He pulled a photo album from it's place there and sat back down.

"Look. These are all places we've been together, but you're not in the photos. No one seems to notice you disappeared. I checked the school files, and no one by the name of Haibara Ai has ever erolled there. The only people who remembered your existence... is me, Hakase, and Akemi-neesan."

"..." Shiho stayed silent, trying to comprehend all this information spinning inside her head.

"I do have one photo of you though." Shinichi said suddenly, pulling out a slightly crumpled photograph. Even though it looked worn, as if he had taken it out often, Shiho could also tell that he obviously treasured it. Shinichi smoothed it out carefully.

Shiho's breath stopped. "This is..."

It was the amusement park from her dreams. Tropical Land. A little strawberry blonde girl, looking very awkward in her pink sundress, smiled reluctantly for the camera.

"I found it on your desk after you... well..."

Shiho nodded, her eyes not leaving the photograph. It looks so...

"Ai-chan! Let's ride the roller coaster!" The little boy whined, pulling the strawberry blonde girl's arm.

"No. I don't think so." said the strawberry blonde girl.

"Pleeeease? It won't be fun if I go alone!"

"Not in my lifetime."

"But Ai-chan…"

"You really don't understand the meaning of the word 'no', do you?"

"Come on, Ai-chan! ...Unless you're scared?" the boy challenged.

"Am not!"

"Prove it, then!"

"Fine!"


"Shiho-chan?" Akemi called, concerned as she waved a hand in front of her sister's face.

"I remembered... us at Tropical Land... fighting about whether we should get on the roller coaster ride..."

"And?" Shinichi asked eagerly, sitting up.

"...I don't know..." Shiho murmured. Her head is spinning from both the flashbacks and fatigue.

"I think you should get some sleep for now, Shiho-chan. Shinichi will show you around tomorrow, and take you to meet Hakase again."

Shiho tried to protest, saying that really, all she needed is a cup a coffee, but Akemi would have none of that. In the end, Shiho nodded wearily and allowed her sister to show her the guest bedroom.

Kudo Shinichi... I wish I could remember him...

A/N: This is hard!! I've got ideas but they are very hard to put into words. Thanks a million to Miyano Ran for her ideas and beta reading!! Hug you!!