Disclaimer: I do not own the characters from 'Meitantei Conan or Detective Conan or Case Closed.' It is rightfully belonged to Aoyama Gosho. I do not making money from writing this story.

Summary: What would have been happened if Kudo Shinichi had never known that she was indeed Miyano Shiho until the very late time?Can something have been changed between them?

Author's Note: The first part of the chapter is based on the fan-translated of File 06: the New Studentof Meitantei Conan Vol.18 by Aoyama Gosho

The Changing Point

Detective Conan Fanfiction

By: furin-a

File 01: The New Student

+ Teitan Elementary School +

"Did you hear that? There'll be a new student in our class today!" Yoshida Ayumi, a member of Detective Boys, said happily with her two closed friends and also members of Detective Boys gang; Tsuburaya Mitsuhiko and Kochima Genta.

"Really," Genta looked up with interesting.

"Yeah! That's what Kobayashi-sensei said in the cafeteria!"

"The last time, it was Conan!" Mitsuhiko smiled. They did not look at their other closed friend. However, if someone did too, he or she could tell that the short boy with glasses looked really without any enthusiasm to the news.

Likes normal students, they started guessing about this new student. Ayumi said wondering, "I wonder how he looks like?"

Genta too said dreamily, "It would be cool if it was a pretty girl…"

"Yeah, but if she is bad-tempered…" Mitsuhiko nodded.

Ayumi turned to her no-interested black-haired boy. She asked excitedly; sure, she would like to know his opinion about this, "What do you think, Conan?"

"Huh?" Edogawa Conan, the last member of Detective Boys, looked up from his schoolbag. In the group to everyone, he was also the cleverest one. He snickered, "It…could be anything? Maybe a book-wormed boy with glasses"

"You didn't see her in the cafeteria, right, Ayumi?" Genta looked at her.

"Sadly no," she shook her head. "I only know what the name is…"

+ At the corridor +

Two figures were walking to the classroom. One was a small girl with the newly polished shoe and another was a middle-aged woman with short black hair and glasses. She slightly pushed the back of the girl to the classroom.

The girl's shoe had a name on it; Haibara.

+ Back into the classroom +

Genta quirked, "Huh, Haibara?"

Ayumi nodded eagerly, "Yeah! It is written with two characters: 'Hai,' which means grey, and 'Hara' means a plain…"

"It's not a common name."

"But I think that it is better than 'Conan,'" Genta rolled his eyes to Conan who looked a bit annoyed and his face told the boy to just shut up.

"Ah," Genta grinned when he saw a tall figure of their teacher at the door.

"She's here!"

Kobayashi-sensei opened the door. Beside her, there was the said new girl they were talking about. She had a shoulder-length strawberry blonde hair and her grey eyes that showed no emotion or, should be called, cold. She wore dark purple turtle-necked shirt with no sleeve and jean-like shorts. The girl's eyes scanned around the room and did not forget to pay extra attention to the boy with glasses.

He stared back at her, thinking of being a brat.

Her eyes glinted with mystery.

"Waouh!" Genta gasped.

"What a cutie!" Mitsuhiko agreed.

"Everyone, meet your new friend: Haibara Ai!" Kobayashi-sensei spoke. "Be nice with her!...Where will you be sitting, Haibara? Oh, near Edogawa-kun then." She pointed at the vacant place beside him. As she knew he was a responsive one, he could take care of a new girl.

Haibara walked to her new seat and sat down. She rarely looked around and said with her monotone voice, "Hi."

"Oh…Huh…"

Genta and his friends looked at their weird conversation. He scolded, "What is it with her? She is very cold."

Ayumi had some sorry for a girl, "She is just shy, that's all!"

Kobayashi-sensei clapped her hands and said, "Everyone, let's begin!"

"Yeah!"

+ After class +

"Hey, Haibara, let's go home together," Ayumi asked.

Haibara looked up at her for a moment and, then, she silently turned away from her, walking alone along the corridor.

Genta frowned and said, clearly annoyed, "Don't bother! She's weird!"

Mitsuhiko moved to the blonde haired girl's side and tried to encourage some conversation with her, "Where do you live? Did you move away?"

"Don't be shy with us! We're going to walk you home!" Ayumi did the same.

Haibara, being silent for a long time, finally decided to open her mouth for the first time after having her classroom encounter with Edogawa Conan. She said, "Number 22, 2nd block in Beika – that's where I live now."

Conan or, in reality, Kudo Shinichi suddenly looked up, 'Weird…That address is near my home…However, there is neither apartment nearby nor somebody called; Haibara.'

Unknown to him, the girl smirked to herself.

+ Genta's Locker +

"We got a mail!" He screamed and waved the said letter in the air.

Everyone, except Haibara who rarely paid attention to them and Conan who always acted so calm, turned around in shock. Who would think that the detective boys would get a mail of case today since mostly there was none.

"Let's go and meet our client!"

+ To be continued +

Author's Note: Well, should I continue or that it sounds so boring to you?