Hello guys!. Before you start to read, i want to say some things first:
- This is my first fic, so any review is grateful!.
- English is not my native language, so probably this text will have a lot of errors. Feel free to say me about those errors. I really want to make english stories.
- Spoilers: Probably it have some spoilers. If you actually read the last manga or last chapter of the anime, so don't worry.
- This characters belongs to Aoyama.
-Thanks to Smiley-Nami for corrections! Thanks you :3.
Conan's POV
Finally it's over.
After almost two years of searching, investigations and some problems finally we have achieved dismantle the organization. There are a few injured, on both sides but we were able to capture the most important members in the organization.
Unfortunately I couldn't help to much because the FBI commanded the operation and they don't let me participate inside the operation in terrain, but at least they allow me to stay in the operation base (at least in presence) . The operative was carefully designed and didn't want civilians in this and is comprehensible: I'm a kid yet.
It wasn't easy to stay here. To convince Jodie to spoke with James I had reveal my identity: that I'm Kudo Shinichi. I told her, with no details, what happened to me and I revealed Haibara's true identity, but this was know by the FBI. Finally, they agreed leave me to be present in the operation, because they know that this is important to me, that I have to get my old life.
I looked through the screens that monitored the current status of the operation and I saw how the FBI arrested different members of the organization. I saw how Gin and Korn was taken at gunpoint to an unknown place. I could not help but smile for all this, for a lot of time I waited for this moment and my face expressed all my emotions, because finally it's over. I looked to Haibara to see the same happiness as me because the shadows that want to hunt her were gone and we could get important information about how to get back our old bodies, but what I saw surprised me. She was not happy like me, her face express an other kind of emotions. I could not to say if it was sadness or an other thing, but I felt that something was wrong. I thought it was good idea to talk with her, but in that moment Akai-san entered the room.
General POV
"It's done. Finally it's over. All this dogs are immobilized. We have some guys looking for computers to find some useful information" Akai said.
"Perfect. Send more people to help" James said.
"By the way, the people of the CIA and intelligence services of the Japan are looking for you. They want to discuss what to do with this fuckers. All they want to take care of them to interrogations, and maybe, as trophies too".
"Ok, so I need to go there. I supposed that something like this will happen". And then, James started to walk to the door.
Conan process the information for a while and then he focus on the phrase "...computers to find some useful information... information … ¡APTX!. He quickly walked and started to say.
"Wait!, I need to ask you something".
"What is it, cook kid?".
"Can you send me the information of that computers?. Maybe they have some important information about the APTX and that is very important to me, as you could imagine."
"Sorry boy, but that is confidential information. Maybe the Japanese agency don't want us to see the information. After all, we are under his territory" Akai said.
"Perhaps we can create the antidote" added Jodie.
"No, Haibara is the creator of the APTX and she knows better the drug. It's better that she work on that. I trust in you, but I have more confidence in her"
When Haibara heard her name, she looked at Conan and open her eyes. She didn't showed this but Conan's words produced a little smile on her face.
" Ok boy. You really helped us a lot, more than I could imagine. Thanks to you, Akai-san is alive. I think this will be the better way to thank you. I don't promise you nothing, but I will use all my authority to get that information or at least, get the information that you need. I will tell you if I get something" James said before walking to the exit.
"Thank you very much" Conan said.
"In that case, it will be better if they notify to me. Don't forget that the one that will use that information it's me, so I hope to be the first to get news" Haibara said. Conan noticed clearly that Haibara was upset because we don't include her in the conversation.
"It's OK for me. James-san, please give it the information to Haibara when you get something". Conan said finally. Nothing could ruin his day, not even a upset girl.
"Ok, no problem. Now, I need you to leave here. We have a lot of work to do, the most important part was done but we have some work. Jodie, please take the kids to their homes" said James before get out if the room.
So Jodie got out from the room too with Conan and Haibara to her car. Conan and Haibara are in the back of the car. Jodie saw how Haibara looked sideways to Conan. She knew about Haibara's feelings to Conan and she knew too that Conan's heart belongs to Mouri, but Jodie always thought too that exist an spark between both kids. Well, this are destiny's things, so she stopped thinking about that and she entered the car.
While they were traveling to Hakase's house, because they agreed to first let off Haibara in her house, Conan and the girl were in silence, looking through the car's window. Nobody said no word. This was the situation for a couple of minutes, before that Conan sighed and said:
"Finally today we have taken off a load. Finally this is close to the end."
"Yes", was the only word from the girl.
"Now, just one step more and we can finally end this curse and get back to our old lives." Conan said before to look to his partner. He was surprised when he noted Haibara's expression. He felt some … sadness in her expression. If it was sadness, that only lasted a couple of seconds and then she returned to her old expression.. She said while she was looking through the mirror:
"Speak for yourself, Edogawa-kun. Not everybody thinks like you".
"What? What the hell are you talking about?" Conan said very confused.
"Maybe for you this is a curse, maybe you can go back to your old life but you must know that not everybody think the same as you. Not everybody are in the same situation as you. Maybe you will recover something, you will recover your friends, your family, your status, you will return to … her, but other people just lose things" Haibara said. She said "her" with a painful voice, but Conan didn't noticed this because he was thinking in other things.
"Lose? Lose what?"
Haibara looked at Conan's eyes for a second and now Conan could distinguish the sadness and painful look in her eyes, a sadness that he could not explain in the moment, he could not explain why she felt like this.
"Baka ..." Haiabara said before to look to other side.
"Hey, I'm talking with ..." Conan said, but he was interrupted by Jodie.
"Here we are, the professor's house" Jodie interrupted to calm down the situation. The true is that they had reached the professor's house a while ago, but Jodie was listening to the conversation until she saw that the discussion started to take a bad turn, so she prefered stop the conversation.
"Ok, thank you Jodie-san. Good bye Edogawa-kun. Don't forget about school tomorrow" and then Haibara opened the door to go out of the car.
"Hey, wait!". He couldn't continue because Haibara was out of the car and she was walking to her house.
"Tssk" claimed Conan when she was away from the car. Conan looked at Jodie and noted a sneer face on her. "What?" Conan said annoyed. Jodie just smile to him and then started to move the car.
Haibara was looking from window how the car moves away and sighed. "Baka ..." she said while she was touching her chest with her hands. She smiled sadly, she rubbed his eyes with her hand to avoid spill any tears and started to walk to her room until she hear a voice.
"Ai-kun, are you alright?".
Haibara heard it and stopped to walk. She hoped he didn't see her while she was in the window. She answers the question without turning back her head.
"Of course Hakase, why would I not be?"
"I felt like if you were sad ..."
"Don't be stupid Hakase" … he saw me …
"Well, I guess you are right … by the way, how was the operation? You defeat it? You have some information about the antidote or the drug?" Hakase ask. He closed his eyes a little when he saw Haiabara's reaction to the antidote word.
"Good I guess. They captured a lot of people of the organization but nobody know what will happen with that people. About the information, we don't know nothing. They have to find some useful information and when they find something, they will notify to us about that, so take it easy" Haibara said while she was walking to her room.
"Alright, but are you ok with that? I mean … about the antidote … maybe it will be finished soon ..."
Haibara stopped quickly, nervously she asked "What do you mean?"
"Emm … I mean that maybe you don't want to finish the antidote ..."
Haibara was shocked by these words, opening her eyes "...could be that he knows about that … no … it's impossible ...". Finally she said "Of course I'm ok with this Hakase. Finally Kudo-kun will be happy. Now let me go to sleep, I'm really tired".
"Ok .." Hakase said looking with worried eyes at how Haibara was walking to her room.
Meanwhile, Conan was already in the Detective's agency.
"Thanks Jodie-sensei, if you have any information, please let me know."
"Ok, no problem".
"So, I see you later Jodie-sensei!" Conan said. He was opening the car's door when Jodie say::
"Wait!".
"What?".
Jodie thought for a moment and then said: "You know what going on with the girl?".
"Of course I don't!. Haibara is really strange with her emotions. To be honest I don't understand her. She don't share her feelings to other". Conan said a bit discouraged. He tried to many times to get closer to her, but when he does it she closes more of her feelings. It's not like she is an ice block, with the pass of the time, she was now more sociably and friendly, but tere are still too many things that I doesn't understand of her.
"And the true is that you are really foolish. I can't believe it that with that intelligence you haven't noticed about her" Jodie said with a happy expresion.
"What?, What are you talking about? noticed about what?" Conan said very confused.
"Jaja never mind, some day you will realize" Jodie said to Conan, smiling. "Well, I see you later, cool kid!". Conan looked very confused, but he go out of the car anyway. A couple of second after, the car started to move again.
Jodie thought while she saw Conan through the mirror of the car "That girl has suffered too much, I hope everything go well".
Conan was looking the car, thinking "Tsssk, what the hell is talking about this woman?. Well, this was a great day. These things will not ruin this day", thought while he was walking through the stairs to his house. It was like the 00:20 hours, very late. "I hope that Ran is sleeping ...". "... Ran …, soon I will tell her all the true. I will have to wait to know how mucho time it will take to create the antidote, and then I will think about when to tell the true to Ran. I think she will have to wait a bit more".
Conan opened the door very slowly until he saw Ran. She was furious.
"Conan is very late!, where are you?!" Ran said very angry.
"I'm so sorry Ran-neechan!. I was in the professor's house playing a new game with Haibara and when I saw the time, it was too late!" Conan said with a childlike expression. This always work.
"With Ai-chan you say?" and in a second, Ran's expression was changed to an a happy face and a curious expression. "jiji, well, I guess you missed her so much and you couldn't wait tomorrow for school" Ran said with a really happy voice.
"What?! No no!, it's nothing like that!" Conan said, with a bit blushed face.
"Why not?. Ai-chan is really cute , and looks like both have a good relation. To be honest, I think both have a very strong connection."
"Maybe, but the fact that she is cute does not mean anything! … no no! Not cute! I mean … emm … you know, I'm very tired, so I'm going to sleep. Good night Ran-neechan!" Conan said quickly and he ran to his room.
"Jiji" Ran laughed happily while she went back to her room.
Conan closed himself in his room, he put his pijamas on and then he went to bed. "Tsssk, Don't you know that the girl that I like is you Ran.", though Conan. Then he remember what he say "Cute? Haibara? Jeje ..." Conan said in his mind with an funny expression. Thinking about Haibara, this reminded to Conan about what Jodie say. About that Jodie know and he should know. "Mmm … I will talk with Haibara in the week. Maybe is another of her strange reactions. Well, tomorrow I will think about that". With that, Conan could sleep peacefully. He doesn't remember the last time that he sleep pacefully, but now it's different: there Is no more organization.
Meanwhile, in the professor's house, Haibara was curled in her bed. "Kudo-kun … baka … why you make this so hard? ...". She knows that she can't hide her feelings forever, but she must try. He can't know about her, about what she feel, not now that she was closer to giving him back his old life, life that she took from him. "No Shiho, there is no chances for you. There is no hope for you. His heart belong to another one, someone who I can't compete … just focus on finish the antidote and make him happy ...". Haibara knows that this is the right thing. She really want to see him happy, she want to see his smile every day even if he is with another girl, but it hurts … hurts a lot … for a while she thought that maybe she has some chances, some oportunities, but with the pass of time she realized that it was a lost battle. "Someone like me could never defeat someone like Mouri … she was kind, cute, worried, friendly … while me ..." and Haibara couldn't resist anymore and she started to cry. Maybe this will free her for a while … she continues crying for a while until she fell asleep.
Meanwhhile, Hakase was watching how Haibara was crying in silence and this hurts him. Ai-kun … I don't believe that is a lost battle ..." Hakase thought. He didn't hear anything, because she didn't say any word, but he know her and know what she was thinking. "What I think is you have the same chances as Ran-kun to win ..." thought Hakase before closing the door carefully. There will be more instances to talk about this.