Tricks for the Mind

A/N: Yes, I'm a liar. Mock me all you want. Tell me "Liar, liar, idiot on fire!" if you want! Doesn't change the fact that writing really isn't my thing. I mean, I like to write stories that just come to my mind, I'm just not focused enough to actually continue it. Continue on ONE storyline. So, to solve the problem, I've decided to write drabbles and oneshots instead. They aren't along just ONE storyline and I can be as random as I feel! It solves EVERYTHING. Don't yell, please review, you don't really have to though. I'm going to continue this even if no one reads and/or reviews. It's just my freedom of writing. Okay, first one.

Trick 1: Logic

Synopsis: Who says everything is logical?

"You want me to do what?!?" Conan shouted for the whole neighborhood to hear. He had recently gotten into an argument with Ai and they decided to settle things with actions instead. They had no choice, the things they were saying wasn't getting them anywhere.

"I already told you. Prove to me that you can solve mysteries without your perceptive mind. Then I'll be satisfied." Conan was dumbfounded. How the argument got there didn't occur to him, but they had made a bet to settle everything. But then, being a detective was ALWAYS about 1)Having a perceptive mind and 2) Being able to notice your surroundings and piecing it with the evidence. To solve something without a perceptive mind is like having to solve a rubiks cube without the cube.

"That's not possible! I'm never wrong when it comes to the principles of solving mysteries and being a detective. Always be on your feet, be able to survey your surroundings, and ALWAYS have a perceptive mind! Sherlock Holmes couldn't even solve mysteries without HIS perceptiveness." That's when Ai threw something cubical towards him. He just barely caught it and noticed that it was a puzzle. It looked like a rubiks cube, but with numbers on it.

"That's a Sudoku Cube(1) ." Ai said calmly. Conan just looked at her weirdly.

"A what?"

"A Sudoku Cube. It's a cube that is similar to a rubiks cube, except that instead of matching colors, you move the sides to place numbers in their correct spots. It's just Sudoku plus a rubiks cube. The challenge is: Solve that Sudoku Cube without using your brain. If you can, then I lose. I highly doubt you can though." Conan stared at the evil square thing in his hand and blankly stared up at the evil witch who gave it to him.

"And how exactly do I do this without using my brain? Everyone thinks all the time! Plus, I can't even solve a stupid rubiks cube!" Conan argued back. Once again, it got them nowhere.

"That's your problem, Kudo-kun. You're the detective, remember?" And then Ai plopped herself down onto the chair to watch his attempt to solve the almost impossible square puzzle in his hands. Conan looked up at the ceiling and closed his eyes, trying to go to his happy place. Once he got there, he couldn't feel anything around him for a moment. When he reopened his eyes from the spaced out time portal he had supposedly taken, he found the Sudoku Cube in his hands, completely solved. The two children-not children stared at each other for a second and then Ai finally broke the silence.

"What did you do?"

"I don't know! Honest! I just went to a place of thought somewhere else and suddenly, I couldn't feel anything, just light-headed. Then, when I came to from the spaceyness, I found this puzzle completely solved in my hands!"

"It explains the goofy smile on your face, but your hands were moving on their own. Like they had their own soul..." The silence soon returned. After a moment, Conan finally had the energy to say something.

"So...I guess that means..."

"...Not everything is logical..."

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Later that Day...

"I wonder if it works with a rubiks cube?" Conan grabbed a mildly jumbled rubiks cube for beginners and closed his eyes, mimicing what he had done earlier. When felt the light-headedness disappear, he saw that the rubiks cube in his hands was even more jumbled than it had previously been.

"...creepy."

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A/N: Not so random! That actually happened to me once. Not the spaced out-ness, but I closed my eyes one time with this rubiks cube that was not even halfway solved and I started to move my hands over it. When I opened my eyes, it was totally solved! Which kinda creeped me out a bit.

(1) A Sudoku Cube is exactly how Ai described it. Take the colors on a rubiks cube and change them to numbers from 1-9, having only one of each number in every square. The only difference between a Sudoku Cube and regular Sudoku, is that for the cube, every number has to have been in each of the 9 spots 1 time and no more. In reality, I created the Sudoku Cube and I solved it ONCE. After that, my brain went dead and I couldn't solve it anymore, so I threw it somewhere and now have no idea where it is. Just know that the game is REALLY REALLY HARD and could take several months to solve. Lucky for me, it was jumbled only mildy, so it took me about a week to solve it. It's a great time waster, though.

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