Disclaimer: This is a fanfic. It has not been made to make any profit whatsoever, and as long as I abide to that and the fact that I state right here that I do not own Detective Conan or its characters, I should be fine.

By the way, in case you didn't read the summary, this is an alternate version of , where Rachel follows Jimmy instead of tripping over her shoe.

Kids We Shall Be

By Ashadu/Kaz

Chapter One: The Shoe That Never Fell

Note: words in italics are thoughts

Jimmy eyed the man in black as he disappeared into the dark alley. Looks suspicious. Better go check it out.

"I'll be with you in a sec, Rachel," Jimmy said as he sprinted along into the darkness after the man in black.

"Hold on Jimmy!" she called after him, running towards him. She almost tripped on her shoelace, but she quickly recovered before she fell. Funny, why does it seem as if I should have tripped back there? Something funny's going on here. This doesn't feel right, as if my life is about to change forever! "W-Wait for me Jimmy!" she yelled, finally catching up with him. Jimmy turned his head and gasped.

"Rachel," he whispered, "You weren't supposed to follow me. It's dangerous."

"So? I'm the captain of the judo team. I can take care of myself," she told him proudly, then added, "Besides, I couldn't let you go by yourself."

"Grrr," Jimmy grumbled, "Just stay low and be quite then."

She nodded her head in agreement and watched as the scene unfolded. One of the men in black gave an old man a film containing pictures in exchange for money. They were obviously blackmailing him. Then a thought came to Rachel. Where's the other guy? "Okay, enough spying, you two," a man behind them said coldly. Before either of them could react, he had hit them on the head with a metal pipe, knocking them onto the grass.

"You let them follow you?!" the man that hit them said to the other one.

"Hey, wasn't my fault!" he argued, and upholstered his gun, "Besides, I always clean up my messes."

"Hold on. We don't want a bullet trail," the other man stopped him, and took out a case filled with red/white pills, "The latest from our good company. It's supposed to leave no traces in an autopsy. We'll let these two have the honor of being the first human test subjects."

He then proceeded to feed one pill each to both Jimmy and Rachel. "Enjoy," he said, chuckling as he and his partner left.

Rachel, I'm sorry. I shouldn't have gotten you into this. If we ever get out of this, I promise I'll...

Then he felt the pain. The agonizing pain that surged through his entire body. Rachel was feeling it as well, but neither of them could let out a single scream. My heart...feels like it's on...fire! What's happening to me?! My bones...feel like...melting...I'm dying! We're dying! Rachel...RACHEL! Those were Jimmy's last thoughts before he finally closed his eyes and succumbed to the agonizing sleep that awaited him.

On the next Case Closed: Hi, Jimmy here. Well, were not dead as I had thought! But now Rachel and I have turned into seven-year-old kids! With few people to turn to for help and Rachel's fists a-flying, I wonder if I was right and I won't make it out of this alive after all! But before Rachel can pound me, the restaurant we stopped at turns into a crime scene right before our eyes, and I have to solve my first case as a kid! This should be interesting.

Next Conan's hint: wet marks

A/N: sorry to leave you guys hanging, but that's the way the show did it, and I'm sticking to it! Just imagine the scene before they got poisoned. Well, it's my first time writing a case for lil' Conan, I mean Jimmy, so bear with me here. See if you can solve it before he does! I hope it's good enough.

[Conan reads the case info] "What is this crap?! Rachel's old man could write a better crime scene than this!

Ummmm...[whispers] shut up Conan.

P.S. Hey it's me the beta. I hope you all like the idea for this. I was watching the first one and saw what happened. So I got in contact with my friend here knowing I could never write a really good story with out. So I talked to him and he said he would try and then asked me to Beta so here you go. I hope you liked this story and if you review there will be more to come. This will be updated tomorrow.