Author's notes are in bold:

Welcome to my amazing story!

Kay, a couple of things:

I want everyone to understand that I began writing this approximately three years ago! So the beginning sucks :P Also I wrote a lot of the Author's Notes while I was writing, not afterward.

Story time!

Blind Date

The meeting of the twins was fate. They were running, and knocked into each other. Nakamori Aoko and Mouri Ran both went flying back in opposite directions and fell onto their butts.

Stupid gravity, thought one harshly. Then Aoko looked up at the person she had collided with. The girl looked almost exactly like Aoko herself, the biggest difference being that her hairstyle was different. Was she trying to resemble a unicorn? Oh, that was too harsh. Don't judge someone you don't even know! Aoko scolded herself.

Ran was as shocked as Aoko to realize that they were almost identical. It wouldn't actually hurt to brush her hair a bit, would it? She thought. Oh, what am I doing, laying on the ground like a fool? Ran heaved herself to a stand, brushing her skirt off; she noticed the other girl do the same.

They both turned their heads to look at each other. "I'm sorry!" both said at the same time. Pause. Blink. How awkward.

"I'm Mouri Ran," Ran introduced herself, to ease the awkward.

Aoko smiled tentatively. "Nakamori Aoko."

"Nakamori? Like the police inspector?" Ran asked, mildly surprised. Aoko didn't look like him at all…and she didn't seem to have his extreme anger issues either.

"Yes! He's my dad." Aoko started ranting about how he would catch that Kaitou Kid…eventually. But Ran had a hard time listening because she had just remembered that she was searching for something, or, more appropriately, someone.

"Uhh, Nakamori-san? I'm sorry, but I'm kind of looking for someone, so…"

"Oh, right. Dammit, Kaito! I'll find you!" Aoko started glaring at the surrounding area of the park they were in, contemplating where to explore next. Ran made a mental note that maybe this Aoko really did inherit her father's angry demeanor, and Aoko looked at Ran again. "I'm looking for my friend, he ran off somewhere to hide when he saw…something he's foolishly afraid of."

Ran wondered what that person was afraid of, idly, but was also thinking about the similarities. "My friend ran off, too. He's about this tall-" she raised her hand slightly over her head for emphasis "-with brown hair and blue eyes…"

"Okay, I'll look out for him. My friend looks about the same as you described, and he probably is so scared he's paralyzed. Oh, and his magic is usually harmless, so don't worry! I do have a feeling he's avoiding me on purpose, so you're more likely to see him first!"

The two girls went their separate ways, keeping in mind that they were looking for two teen boys with similar features.

Aoko was lucky first. She walked toward a small circular area with a bench, surrounded by trees. On the bench sat a teenager, calmly reading a thick book which had a spooky-looking cover. Why would Kaito be here reading? And he didn't look at all scared.

As Aoko walked closer, she noticed that Kaito's clothes were different and that he wasn't moving or looking up when she came closer. "Kaito?" she called. He didn't even flinch!

Aoko finally stopped directly in front of the teen, and he looked up from his book boredly. Then a flicker of, what was it, surprise, flashed across his face, before being replaced by slight curiosity. "Can I help you?" He certainly sounded like Kaito, but Kaito wasn't such a good actor, right? And now that Aoko was close up, she could see that his eyes were lighter and his hair was slightly less messy.

"Uh…" she stuttered, and then something clicked in her mind. "OH! Do you know a Mouri Ran-san?"

"Yes…"

"She's looking for you."

The teen sighed and snapped his book shut—no bookmark, no glance at the page number, or anything. Then he stood up and put his hand out. "I'm Kudou Shinichi."

Kudou Shinichi…That name was familiar. Kaito had said something about him once. What was it? Meitantei, Aoko heard Kaito's voice say in her head. He's gotten as close to outwitting Kid as Hakuba has! "Are you…a detective?" Aoko asked, just to be sure, while shaking Shinichi's hand. When Shinichi nodded, Aoko slightly frowned, and then her smile returned. "I'm Nakamori Aoko."

"Ahh. Your dad is the head of the Kid task force, haha…" His laugh was such an obvious fake, he definitely wasn't trying. "He hates me. He thinks I'm just a lucky kid."

"Well, you have gotten closer to catching Kid than he has. I know it's humiliating for him. But don't take it personally; he doesn't like many people anyway."

"Right. Well, I'm sorry that Ran asked someone to help her look for me." Shinichi rolled his eyes. "This book I've been wanting was just released, and Ran wanted to hang out. I couldn't be away from this thing for too long." He smiled and patted his book almost lovingly. Wow. He needed some major re-assortment of his priorities and, perhaps, his life.

"So, where did Ran go?" Shinichi asked.

"The other way, looking for you." Aoko pointed toward the trees in the direction opposite of the way she had come.

"Okay then," Shinichi replied, turning to leave.

"Wait…" Aoko called. "Have you seen a boy who looks exactly like you, only with a different hairstyle?"

Shinichi paused for a short moment, thinking, scrunching his eyebrows together, and then shook his head. "Nope, sorry."

Aoko sighed. "Well, I've been looking for him, and that's when I met Mouri-san. Since we were both searching anyway, we decided to do it together-ish."

"Well, let's meet up with Ran and then we can help you look for your friend…Kaito-san, was it? Isn't that who you were calling out to before you saw me?"

"Oh." Aoko's face turned pink from embarrassment. "Well, no, I thought you were him for a moment."

Shinichi laughed and allowed Aoko to lead him toward where Ran had gone.

Meanwhile, said teen girl was hunting near the park's fountain, which was spraying out water that feathered out in a fine mist around the base. Would Shinichi be near here? Would Aoko's friend?

"Shinichi?" Ran called. There weren't many people; it wasn't likely that he'd gotten lost, really. She was simply miffed that he had run off without her. While she was looking toward her right, she stumbled over a pebble that was not-so-tiny. "Eek!" She flailed her arms to keep balanced and steadied herself on the fountain's edge. She sighed and sat down.

"Are you okay, Oujo-san?" A voice asked, humor evident in it.

"Shinichi!" Ran said, looking up at the person standing before her. But it wasn't really Shinichi: this boy looked very much like him (so alike it was a bit eerie) but he had slight differences in his appearance. "O-Oh, sorry. I thought you were someone else…"

"I thought the same about you for a moment, too," the guy replied, snickering. "Are you related to Nakamori Aoko?"

Ran stood up triumphantly. "AHA! It's you, you're Nakamori-san's friend! We've been looking for you."

"Ahhh. Have you?" Kaito backed slightly away from her. "Anyway, I'm Kuroba Kaito." He pulled out a red rose from the mysterious depths of…his sleeve. (Shh, don't tell!) Ran was flattered and amazed. She took the rose, blushing.

"So…" Ran started, but her cell phone chose that moment to ring. "Oh, excuse me." She took it out of her pocket and looked at the caller ID. She didn't recognize the number, but it could be something important…

"Hello?" she said into the phone.

"Mouri-san? It's Aoko!"

"Hey. How did you get my phone number?"

"I got it from your boyfriend. He-"

Ran blushed deeply and yelled, "He is not my boyfriend!" She earned another chuckle from Kaito. He was a bit too cheerful.

"Haha. Okay, okay. Well there was some kind of case, he said, and he was about to run off but I asked if he had your number. So he gave it to me and then he left."

"Oh, okay. I'm sorry for the trouble. Oh, but I found your friend!" she added, glancing at the magician, who was now juggling balls that would every once in a while burst out pink smoke.

Aoko sighed, and Ran heard through the phone light thumps, like footsteps. Perhaps she was walking toward them. "I'm sorry for whatever crazy thing he does or says. Anyway, where are you?"

"We're at the fountain."

"Okay! See ya there; program my number into your phone and I'll do the same. Bye!" The line went dead and Ran programmed the most recent call, Aoko, into her phone.

"Well, Nakamori-san will be here in a minute to get you, Kuroba-san," she said to Kaito. He looked up, surprised, and his balls disappeared.

"You can call me Kaito, Miss…?" He smiled and it occurred to Ran that she hadn't had the chance to tell him her name.

"Mouri Ran." Kaito nodded and they stood in silence for a few moments.

"Mouri-san!" a voice called. Ran looked up and saw Aoko waving and walking toward them, smiling. When she was a few feet away, she glared at Kaito and went into a rant about his runaway. "Honestly, Kaito! You need to get over your fear! They're not that-"

"Sorry, Aoko. Honestly, I was just having a little fun." Kaito smiled through the whole thing.

Aoko turned to Ran. "It seems that you have to live with a totally different sort of torture."

Ran blinked in confusion. What was she talking about? "Um…what?"

Aoko laughed. "Your Kudou-kun was hiding from you so he could read a book. I'd say he's as bad as Kaito, only in a different way."

Ran blushed. "Oh, it's not that bad, usually!"

Aoko pursed her lips, and then she got a strange expression on her face. She smiled thoughtfully and stepped closer to Ran, leaning in, and started whispering…

More a/n:

Thanks for reading :) Be prepared for the next chapter and yes they get better.

Sorry if it was a bit boring, but it was an intro. Soon there will be a ton of KaiShinniness (new word!) and whatnot!

This has been the first chaptery story I've written in a long time, haha. Bye!