Characters Copyright, Gosho Aoyama

It was more or less culminating. Everything was getting back on the right track; the syndicate was officially gone, Hondou Eisuke was almost out of Shinichi's hair, the FBI bid a farewell to Edogawa Conan, and the replica "Edogawa Conan" was to be no more, and in his place would soon be the authentic Kudo Shinichi.

"Conan" knew what he had to do before truly becoming Shinichi again. His first step was, of course, to fully wipe out Edogawa Conan from the picture.

"Yes, that's right!" He said, in his most cheery and the sweetly sugared of his still young child voice to Mouri Ran. "I'm going back home to my parents!" Finally, thought Mouri "Sleeping" Kogoro.

Ran gave him a sad, but slightly relieved, smile. She wiped a small tear that was about to fall down her cheek and nodded. He had already packed while Ran was at a spur-of-the-moment date with Suziki Sonoko and Hondou Eisuke at the mall, and Kogoro had been in a drink-induced slumber.

"Well, see you, I guess." Said Kogoro diffidently. Although he would never admit it, the old man had a soft spot for the little "leech". "Goodbye, Conan-kun." Ran said, squeezing the boy tightly, finally letting her tears go. He felt bad for deceiving her the whole time, but he knew it was what he had to do.

He boarded Agasa's car and waved goodbye. He sighed happily and fiddled through his pocket, remembering the conversation he had had with "Haibara Ai" that same morning in Agasa's house.

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"Drink with water, in privacy, mind you. You should feel a bit of pain-who am I fooling?- a lot of pain, and poof! You should be Kudo Shinichi, once more." "Hai, hai! I know, I know!" said an impatient Conan, "I've done it before, remember? Now give me, give me!" Haibara snickered at his reaction to the news of her breakthrough. "What?" he asked. "Nothing," she said, shrugging, and heading for the door, "One more thing; they'll want to know where 'Conan-kun' will disappeared to."

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He grinned as he took the case with the pill she had given him out of his pocket. Almost there! Almost perfect! He thought excitedly, failing to notice that the car passed a young man who looked uncannily similar to him, the soon-to-be Kudo Shinichi.

Let's see, let's see. Thought the teenager, Kuroba Kaito, as he flipped through the newspaper. I don't see it anywhere! The teen, now angered, threw the newspaper away. He had been looking through the paper about the recent thief he was planning for the following night, but instead, all he saw was a lot of jazz about some "Organization" and the FBI: things that seemed like they had nothing to do with Kaitou KID.

What are you going to do? He shrugged to himself. Even though the dreaded organization was gone, he still had to find that damned gem. Just because one organization was down, doesn't mean so are the others that are hiding in the darkness who possibly also knew about the Pandora Gem. He promised he'd find it. Regardless.

"Kaito!" said a voice from behind. It was his friend, Nakamori Aoko. "Where do you think you're going? This," she said pointing to the sign next to her, "is the place we said we were going to meet, remember?"

He looked down, "The 'Café Royal?'" I guess, if it will get my mind off of the paper, but why would this girl want to come to Tokyo, anyway? He thought suspiciously, as he walked in with Aoko.

Finally, after a nerve wracking ride back to his own home, Conan jumped out, leaving his luggage in the car.

"Arigatou!" He yelled out, running to his door.

"But, Shinichi-kun, what about your bag?" Agasa called out, but got is answer in the form of the house door being slammed. "Sayonara, Conan-kun." He said quietly, as he put his car back into gear, and drove into his drive way.

Kudo ran, taking off his shoes, headed for the kitchen for a glass of water, and then to his old bedroom. This is it, he thought, looking in the mirror, seeing Conan grinning back at him.

Slowly, (and dramatically, I might add) he took off the glasses and held his breath. "Sayonara, Edogawa Conan," he took a swig of water, and swallowed the pill, "and konnichiwa, Kudo Shinichi."

Before he could fall to the ground, he ran to the bed and got under the covers.

"Sayonara…" he said once more, sleepily, and prepared for the pain.