Disclaimer: I don't own any of Gosho Aoyama characters (but I want to! ^^), so don't sue me! I only own mine characters.

Authors notes: Hello. This is my first fic here, so please, don't flame me. Forgive me my bad or really bad ^^ English. I hope I won't make a lot of mistakes, but I don't know grammar that much... I also hope you will enjoy this story. I don't know how many chapters it will have, but maybe about ten. I won't update fast, because I have now much work at school, so please understand. One more thing, don't ask me to write a Shiho/Shinichi fic or Ai/Conan as you prefer. I don't support that couple .

"Forgetting how to live"

Chapter one: A haunted house?

Friday. It was a really busy day in Beika. It was the end of the week. A lot of cars were occupying the streets, a lot of people were walking down the sidewalks. One of them fast, one of them slowly. Children and teenagers were happy, because that was the last day of school in the week. No more exams, no more rude teachers and friends. In a quite big elementary school called Teitan Elementary, kids were "jumping" out of their place of education. Only four of them stayed at one of the classrooms. They were talking happily about something. One of them was not sharing the excitement of the others. He preferred to sit alone in his desk. His name was Conan Edogawa. He knew that he didn't belong to those children, he was a detective. A seventeen year old detective called Shinichi Kudo, but they didn't know it. He picked up a pencil and started to write something on a blank sheet of paper. He was bored. He wasn't interested in someone called Yaiba and his adventures. He didn't watch that stuff. A brown haired girl turned to him and saw that he was not interested what she was talking about with her friends. Mitsuhiko and Genta. It was Ayumi Yoshida. She thought of something to say to Conan and she finally got it.

"Hey Conan!? Maybe ... maybe, you know what is with Ai today?" – certainly a honey blond girl wasn't here at school today. They didn't know that she was at "her" home finding a cure to a poison called APTX.

"What ... oh, you mean Haibara, she is ... sick." - Conan quickly made up a lie.

"Nothing new. I can't get it why Ai-chan is so often sick and when we get to professors house she looks well." – Mitsuhiko was a quite clever kid.

"Maybe she has a headache! And it's gone when the school ends! – but Genta wasn't as clever as him.

"Maybe Ai just has some health problems. Oh! Did you guys heard about the haunted house in Kyoto?" – Ayumi wanted to change the subject and she memorized something that her mom told her yesterday.

'Not again, when they once dragged me to a "haunted" house it was a murder and a woman hold her son there in a jail. Then they thought that my house is haunted. Besides I don't believe in ghosts.' – thought Conan, still drawing something with the pencil that he hold in his hand.

"What!? A haunted house!? What details do you know about it Ayumi?" – Genta looked at the girl curiously, he really liked all kind of ghost stories.

"Genta, Genta, ghosts do not exist. It's just a story and it's stupid. I don't believe in such things."- Conan looked at him and stopped drawing. Somehow he was also a little curious, but just a little.

"Hey guys! Listen to me! It's not just a story, but many people hear something from that house and in the area of it many of them even saw something. I don't know the whole story, but my grandma lives pretty near to that house. Once there was a small, luxurious hotel. It was maybe a... I can't remember well, but it was about a hundred years ago. One day there came a rich couple to take a wedding. As my great grandma said to my grandma the man wasn't friendly. He was rude. The girl was a quiet person. They never took that wedding. The night before it the bride was brutally killed and the groom disappeared. Some people said that he killed her, but he was rich and the police never suspected him. But they had a child, it was born a month before the wedding and his dad just left him. I think he was a terrible man! To live his only child and kill, sorry "maybe" kill his future bride! Anyway, the police suspected one of the girls friend. He wasn't rich, so they just thrown him into the jail and a month later hanged him, because they thought he was jealous of her and killed her. From the date of the death of this guy, people say that once in a month when is a full moon, the girl is appearing beside the house. Sometimes they here someone playing on a violin. The house it's now empty. No one wants to buy it, because everyone thinks it's haunted. The reason why I'm telling you this story it's because tomorrow I'm going to my grandma and I want really to see a haunted house. And I thought that maybe ... maybe ... you could all come with me." - Ayumi finished her story and looked at Mitsuhiko, Genta and Conan. They were interested. Even Conan, who said before he didn't believe in ghosts.

"Wow! Cool! Of course, we are coming with you Ayumi! Right guys!? – Genta boomed and jumped of the desk that he was sitting on.

"Well, I have to ask my parents, I will call you in the evening, okay Ayumi, oh look it's getting late, I must go home! – Mitsuhiko got his backpack.

"Wait guys! What about ... what about ... Ayumis grandma!?" – Conan, maybe was curious, but he really didn't want to go anywhere this weekend with those kids.

"Oh, don't worry Conan, I already asked her. And she agreed, you know my grandma wants to stay at this haunted house for the weekend. She is remounting it. And she said we could bring more people with us if we want to." – said Ayumi a little shy. She didn't knew what could be their reaction, to that, that they will be living in "this" house.

"How cool! So we will be living in "that" house! – Genta was almost at the door as he heard this, he was already late for dinner and he was really hungry.

"Um ... yes. So Conan, are you coming?" – Ayumi looked at him with those pleading eyes.

He knew that he wouldn't resist, and finally he would agree, of course he didn't believe in ghosts, but those eyes, were as they would cry if he said "no". But he was also curious about this murder. It was somehow mysterious. Who killed this girl and why? And if there are really ghosts, why is she haunting that house. But it was nonsense. Ghosts didn't exist. And he was a 17 year old detective, that should not believe in such stories. But if ghosts existed? Nonsense.

"So, Conan, can we count on you?" – Mitsuhiko was already out of the classroom and he and Genta planned to go over to his house.

"Um ... yes ..." – He agreed and he saw happiness in Ayumis eyes.

It was mysterious and he would find the murderer, ever if he is not alive. Of course ghosts didn't exist. Did they?

To be continued.

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