Alright, my second ConanXAi story is started! This story might seem similar to others, but I've added in some unique twists I've thought up. There also more suspense and angst than my last story.

WARNING: People reading this story should turn back now if they do not like the ConanXAi or ShinichiXShiho pairing. Otherwise you'll be forced to flame me, and I hate being flamed.

Disclaimer: If I owned DC, then there would be a change of pace from murders all the time, like a lot more theft or blackmail cases.


Chapter One

Five years. It'd been five years since all that had happened. She could still remember it vividly, too. She'd screwed up the life of a young man she'd never met, but was forced to meet later, as they had common enemies. While they'd worked together, she'd fallen in love with him. She didn't know the when, where or how, she just knew the what: she loved him. But he loved someone else, his friend from childhood. And she loved him back. They couldn't confess directly to each other, but he knew she loved him, and she had hoped so much that he loved her, too, that she'd waited for him for well over a year.

Finally, the antidote to his condition had been created by her, but she held off on telling him until their common enemies were defeated. Then, the day after, and everyone was bandaged up, she had left a note and the pill, the antidote. The note had said that her work was done, and she was moving away to find a job that would help people, and not hurt anybody anymore, as she'd hurt them while working for the evil organization.

The young woman sighed, and remembered all the times she'd had with him. Her name while she'd known him was Haibara Ai, while her real name was Miyano Shiho. The boy she'd loved had had a fake name, too, Edogawa Conan. His real name was Kudo Shinichi, the greatest teenage detective in Eastern Japan. Shiho had been forced by the evil Organization to create poisons, one of which had shrunk both her and Shinichi into Ai and Conan, and they looked for the entire world like seven year old kids. It was the small child with the mind of an adult she'd fallen in love with, and leaving him was the most painful decision she'd ever made.

She'd left when she'd given him the antidote to turn back into an adult because she knew he'd go back to his childhood friend Mouri Ran, and she knew they'd both love each other and live together, and as a jealous rival, she couldn't bring herself to stay around them. So she'd made the decision to leave. She'd left the pill and the note at Agasa-hakase's, and she'd taken the pill herself, gone to the airport, and left Japan. She hadn't been back since.

She went to America, changed her name, enrolled in her previous college, and got a teaching license, to teach middle-school chemistry. She'd then gone to Los Angeles, and that's where she found herself now. She had accepted a job at a local middle school, a public one, and now she was entering the school on her first day as middle-school teacher Miss Vi Graythorn.

She walked in and went to the classroom she'd been given. It was fairly large, and could hold around 25 students easily. There was also an adjoining chemistry lab, which she planned to use for practical demonstrations.

When school started, she had no class. It was homeroom, and as a new teacher, she hadn't been assigned one. Then she had to go to assembly. It was a welcome back to school speech from the principal, goals for the year, and other boring stuff no middle schooler could stand. Luckily for her, the principal had forgotten to go over the list of new staff, and the bell for the next period rang right when he was announcing it, and everyone quickly evacuated the auditorium and went to class. She hated large audiences and being the center of attention, so not being called out was fine by her.

Shiho, or Vi as we must call her now, only had eighth grade classes, and she got to know all the students very well. She knew she was being ogled by a lot of the boys, but she ignored them, and didn't ever dress provocatively. She'd changed her attitude after being freed from the organization, and her reputation throughout the school, was 'strict, smart, but kind and funny, too'.

That's how Shiho lived for most of the school year. She enjoyed helping young people learn, and she felt that she was doing many good deeds, and was completely repairing her soul from where it had been damaged by Them.

One day, her fellow science teacher from the seventh grade came and asked her if she'd be willing to teach one of his classes one day, when he was out at the doctor's. He'd noticed that she'd looked sad at the Valentine's Day dance, and since he liked her a lot, he hoped to cheer her up. Since she had planning for that period, and consequently no class of her own, she saw no reason not to.


You probably hate me for choosing Ai's English Dub name as her alias, but I figured that since she's living in America she should have an English name, and as anyone who's read The Timeless Murder knows, I suck at making new names. If you've watched the English Dub at all, then you'll recognize Shinichi's new name, too, but their two names are the only two I plan on changing, and I'm planning to use their real names at the end.

Next chapter starts off the story more, and introduces a mysterious character that everyone'll recognize. Oh, and both her and Shinichi will act a little OOC in this fic because of...troubles in their pasts, which I'll go into more detail about later as time passes. Review this chapter, and look forward to later installments!