A young boy with black hair and big glasses walked out of Teitan Elementary School while playing with a football. Close behind him some other kids, two girls and two boys.
"Conan, do you think the professor will take us camping this weekend?", asked the two boys.
"Perhaps, but why do you ask me? If you guys want to go camping, shouldn't you just ask him yourself?" the boy with the glasses answered.
"Yeah we should but the professor always do as you and Haibara-kun says. So we thought that if we made one of you ask the professor, then he would most likely take us camping", Ayumi-chan said worriedly, before continuing.
"Haibara-kun says she doesn't want to ask, so we decided that you should ask for us", she finished in a rush.
Conan decided that if Haibara-kun said that she didn't want to go camping, there was definetly something going on, but then again he couldn't just turn down those kids either, so he ended up saying that he would ask the professor, before he and Haibara-kun continued towards the professors house, and the other three kids continued the other way.
Once Conan had made sure that he and Haibara-kun was alone on the road, he stopped her from walking any further.
"What ?" she asked annoyed.
"I know that you are hiding something, and that is why you didn't want to tell the kids that you'd ask the professor. Because most likely we won't be going on a camping this weekend, right?".
She decided to answer after finding out that Conan wouldn't release her hand before answering him. So she reculantly began to tell him.
"You see ... I ... I ... I ...".
"Just tell it already"Conan said impatiently.
"Okay, it is not my fail if you are shocked, alright?"
Conan nodde vigorusly, and Haibara-kun continued.
"You know the poison that made you shrink into this size, the APTX-4897, I believe I have found an antidote for it".
Conan was silent for a while, before he dragged Haibara –kun with him towards the professor's house. Only there did he show his reaction.
"What", he yelled.
"Well, why is it so surprising? I have worked on finding an antidote to that poison ever since I met you.I have had like almost a year to just research it. That is more than enough time to figure out the antidote to one mere poison" she said calmly.
"Well, why haven't you given it to me yet, I need to meet Ran and Inspector Megure and all the others".
"I can't give it to you", she answered flatly.
"What! But you just you finished it"
"well, yeah ... I said it since I had finished it, but that you couldn't have it"
"Why not ?"
"Because the Black Organisation isn't defeated yet! If I give you the antidote now, you will just run to your girlfriend and propose to her or something equally ridiculous and stupid."
"She isn't my girlfriend! And I never do stupid and ridiculous things"
"Yeah right, says the one who stuck his nose into the Black Organization's business, by his own free will"
"Okay OK I get it. I am a fool alright? Can you now tell me why you can't give me the antidote, please?"
"yeesh, fine. I'll tell you. If you turn into your regular self, there will be a high possibility that Gin and Vodka will find you cause I am sure that you won't drop your detective business that easily, right? Then everything will go back to the way it is right now, you hiding in order to protect the Mouri-girl and you just disappearing", Ai said, as she turned around and opened the door to professor Agasa's house.
Conan on the other hand seemed to have been sent into some kind of shock modus, since he was just standing outside the house, and trying to process the fact that he could never return to his true self, before he had taken care of an organization, which seemed to have connections everywhere, which made them close to invincible. Suddenly he darted forward into the house and run down to Ai's room, where she was relaxing. He barged right into the room, almost throwing the door out of its' hinges, which startled Ai so much that she almost fell of the chair she was sitting on.
"What the hell, hap-", Ai began, before Conan grabbed her hand and ran out of the professors house, not even bothering to lock the door, and ran into Shinchi's house.
Once both of them entered his house, Ai pulled her arm, which made Conan loose the grip he had on her arm.
"What the hell? Why did you just drag me out of my room?", she asked him angry.
"Well, you said I couldn't change back unless the Organization was defeated right? Well the main reason to why we can't defeat them is because we never know where they are, right? So if we made a trap, we could easily make the Jodie-sensei and her colleagues ambush and arrest them!" he exclaimed happily. Ai just looked at him, as if he was mad or something, before dryly saying:
"And just exactly how is this trap supposed to work?". That washed the happy grin off Conan's face.
"And exactly why do you think a clever guy like Gin will fall in a trap, that you make?", Conan's face turned glum, and as if her point wasn't driven completely through she made a last comment, which shouldn't have done.
"And what exactly are you going to tempt them with, that will make them leave their hiding, which they have kept, since The Organization was formed?". Conan's face suddenly lit up again, as if somebody had just turned on the light switch for his face.
"You!" he exclaimed happily.
"What!", Ai asked, not grasping the situation.
"You! You can be the decoy that will lead Gin and the others out of hiding. He is always reckless, when it come's to you", he exclaimed. It seemed like it now was Ai's turn to go into shock modus, as she was just perfectly still, not moving a single muscle. If Conan hadn't seen the slight movement in her chest, he would have thought she was one of the unfortunate corpses he always seemed to encounter. After a few minutes, she got the ability to speak back, and used it for all it was worth, when she screamed into his face:
"What the fuck is wrong with you?! Haven't you grasped a single thing I have told you after I met you? They will kill me on sight! No way in hell, am I going to let myself get killed just so you can get back to your boring life! I thought you were stupid, but you have just put up another bottom level for stupidity, you BAKA!".
"Of course I won't let you die. I will tell Jodie-sensei to put up extra high security. I would never let anything happen to you. After all you are my most precious" he said slowly, before continuing,
"scientist", which shattered all of Ai's romantic thoughts of him. She didn't even bother to talk to his face, and just yelled over her shoulder as she left:
"I am NOT going to help you in your suicide mission! And I won't change my opinion on it, so leave me ALONE!". Conan heard the hard thump of the door being slammed into its hinges, before the entire house turned silent.
He had expected her to react somewhat similar to that, when he had voiced his opinion about her acting as a decoy, but he had never thought of her telling him to leave her alone. Why would she want to be alone? People tended to want to be left alone, when their feelings were hurt, but he hadn't said anything mean to her. He had even called her his precious scientist and promised her that he would protect her. That should have made her feel happy and not sad, right? He decided to sit in the library, and ponder over Haibara's weird reaction and until he found a solution to his problems with The Organization. However when he had sat there in three hours and he hadn't figured anything out, he decided it was time to head back to his temporary home at detective Mouri's residence. He locked the door to his home and walked over to the professor's house to tell Haibara goodbye. But when he came to the door he found it locked, and even though he knew Haibara was there, she wouldn't open the door. Not even after he had knocked on the door, rang the bell and called out to her for nearly five minutes. He couldn't understand what it was that had upset the sarcastic scientist this much, but as he couldn't stand and wait there any longer, he turned his back to the professor's house and walked away. People who passed him thought he looked like a lost puppy, and when he came back to his home, it seemed like Ran sensed his unhappiness, because she managed to keep Oji-san away from his back for the entire evening. However Oji-san didn't seem to get it, until Conan said he didn't want to go to a murder scene with the detective.
As Ran didn't want Conan to be by himself in the evening, she too decided to stay home with the boy, while her father went to his work. Since Conan didn't want to talk with Ran, she ended up calling Kazuha, out of pure boredom.
"Hi Ran, what's up?"
"Oh, nothing much. I just don't have anything to do, so I thought I might call you and just chat. Well that is unless you are busy or something", Ran said unsurely.
"Well I am not busy, that's for sure. I am just helping Heji pack his backpack for the detective tournament."
"The detective tournament? What is that?" Ran asked curiously, wondering if Shinchi might show up at it.
"Are you wondering whether or not your boyfriend might show up?" Kazuha asked slyly.
"What, no of course not! I was just curious!" Ran exclaimed indigently, while trying not to blush, which she failed completely at as Conan absentmindly noted, since her cheeks were showing a furious blush creeping up from her chin and all the way up to her ears and eyes.
"Ran-nee-chan, what is the detective tournament?" Conan asked curiously.
"Oh, Conan-kun, you want to know too? Well then I can put the phone on speaker, so Kazuha can explain it to the both of us at the same time." Ran told Conan, while she turned on the speaker on her cell.
"Hi, Conan-kun. How are you?" Kazuha asked, "Fine, but what is the detective tournament?" Conan asked curiously.
"Oh, it is not technically a detective tournament, it is more like a celebrity tournament for high school students. You see, Sakura TV (couldn't remember the name of the TV channel in the series, so I just made up mine own), had a poll over what kind of high school celebrity they liked the most, and the ones who won were the detectives and students who excelled in one of the subjects in school or in a sport. Later Sakura TV decided to make a show about a tournament where all the participants will be allowed to show off their talents in different events. The person with the most point in the end will be the winner and receive a surprise prize. What's more is that Sakura TV had another poll on who to invite to this tournament, and the winners of this poll has been sent a letter with info concerning this tournament. Moreover is the fact that each participants is allowed to take a friend or assistant with them to the tournament to help them out, but that could also pull down your overall score later. And it is this tournament that Heji is preparing for. It will by the way take place in two weeks, so Kudo-kun should also be able to participate if he wants to, as he is pretty famous." Kazuha finished.
"But Kazuha didn't you say that you and Heji would stay over at our place for the next month as all of us have summer holiday in the coming month?"
"Well of course, I am still gonna stay over at your place. It is just that Heji won't stay over for the entire month, and just for the first two weeks."
"But I thought you said that the participants could take a friend with them, and as you two are just friends I thought Heji would take you with him."
"What are you trying to imply? We are nothing more than friends!"
"What of course you aren't! But you still didn't answer to why you aren't going with him, aren't you pretty good in aikido."
"Thanks, but really I am not that good. And anyway Heji didn't want to lose points later, as you might if you have a partner, as the points will be divided, between both of the people."
"Oh, I see."
"When are you and Heji-nii-chan coming over then?"Conan asked.
"I suppose we will arrive in Beika tomorrow and can spend the holiday with you guys there until Heji has to leave, Conan-kun."Kazuha answered Conan warmly. As they weren't going to talk anymore about anything interesting, Conan decided to excuse himself and go to bed. However, he couldn't stop thinking about what he had said that had hurted Ai's feelings so much. But as time passed and he still couldn't find a solution, his eyes became heavier and heavier, until he slowly fell asleep.