Identity
Chapter 1 - The Birthday Present
By: ConanKudo
Konnichiwa! This is actually my second DCFF, not as good as all the others that you've read (probably), but it's a lot better than my first fanfic. This story is based on the five movies. But believe me, it is different. I apologize for all the grammar, spelling, and any other errors I made in this story, I really don't have that much time to revise my story and stuff. Well, I hope you enjoy! Send all your comments/questions to detective_kudo@hotmail.com Thanks! --- ConanKudo
*Parenthese = thoughts
DISCLAIMER! I did not creat or own Detective Conan, all rights belongs to Gosho Aoyama, the creater of Detective Conan!!!
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As Conan stepped into the classroom, he heard "Happy birthday Edogawa Conan!..." "Eh?" Before he could figure out what's happening in the classroom, all of his classmates surrounded him.
"Happy birthday Conan!" Ayumi said, as if she was representing the whole class. Then, a bunch of beautiful flowers, childish toys and school supplies appeared in front of his face.
"Here's some presents we bought for you, hope you'll like it!" Conan looked at all the presents that his classmates were holding again.
"Cool! Arigato, but before I accept them, can one of you tell me how you know it's my birthday?" He suddenly remembered that neither him nor the teacher had ever told the class that his birthday was today. "Oh, Ai told us." They all pointed at Haibara Ai, who was sitting in her chair, reading her favorite magazine. "Oh..." (Dr. Agasa probably told her that...)
"So Conan, are you going to let us holding the presents in our hand for the rest of the day?" Genta start to get a little anxious and annoy for no response from Conan about the presents.
"Hun? Oh, about the presents..." (I guess if i don't accept those, they're probably not going to let me go that easy...)
"Um... thanks everybody, I guess I'll have put it there by the window for now, or else I won't be able to use my desk for the whole day. And thanks everyone!"
The crowd slowly scattered as they all walked toward the wall by the window to put dowm the presents for Conan.
When he returned to his own desk, he found a little box, with a little note on top of it. After unpacked his backpack and prepared for the first period class, he started to unfold the note, there he read:
"Happy birthday Kudo Shinichi, you are now 18 years old, or 8. Don't get too excitied, because the older you get the dangerous situation you will get into. Beware of Ran. Anyways, happy birthday, in the box is the present you always wanted. Make good use of it, don't waste it like the last time you did. DO NOT OPEN THAT BOX UNLESS THERE'S AN EMERGENCY!"
And on the bottom of the paper was a signature of the sender, "Haibara Ai" conan then realized that Ai was staring at him while he was reading the note.
"Arigato!" He whispered to Ai.
----- In the hall way at school -----
The pile of papers in their fell as the two teachers bumped into each other. The papers mixed as they fell down to the floor.
"Oh, I'm so sorry, are you alright?" One teacher asked.
"I'm fine. you are the teacher from sixth grade right?"
"Yeah, this is my first year here, sorry about that, I'm still a little confused about the floors and stuff. As you can see, I have a bad sense of directions."
"Don't worry, you'll get use to it." She start to picking up the papers that fell down. But unfortunatly, they didn't notice that it was already mixed. After picking up all the papers from the floor, they brushed off all the dusts on their cloth.
"Well, we better get going, the class's going to start in less then five minutes."
"Oh my, you're right, well, I'll see you around!" Then, they start to walk toward their classroom, one of them stepped in B-1, Conan's classroom.
----- Everyond in the classroom were in a rowdy -----
"Ahem..." The teacher knocked on the door. Everybody went silent and ran back to their seats.
"Ohayo! We're going to have the final exam today to see what you've learned so far and how well you learned. This includes Language Art, Essay, Mathmatic, Science and Social Science. This test will count as your 80 percent grade, so make sure you check your answers after you finish them. There is a time limit. Does anybody not understand what we're doing?" She scanned around the classroom to see if there's any hands up.
"WE UNDERSTAND!" The class cried out.
"Very well, then let's begin." She hand the pile of papers to a student in front of her, and asked her to pass it out to everybody in the class.
"You may start on the test as soon as you get it. Remember to put your name on top of the paper!"
Conan rest his head in his right hand, waiting fot the test to pass down to him. Unlike all the other students in the class (except for Ai), he never complained about the homework he gets or the test that they took. He aced them all! (CK: but think about it, how hard could it be for a high school genius to be a first grade genius?)
For the first time ever, Conan's brain did not get bored when he saw the test. It was not THE test. He can tell, because the teacher had never taught them algebras, and the first graders can never understand algebras. He looked at Ai, obviously, she got the same test he got by coincedence.
Before they can say a word about it, the teacher's voice interrupted the silence. "Does everybody here have a test? Raise your hand if you don't have one! Anyone?"
Ai and Conan looked at each other for a moment, and decide not to return the paper, since the teacher only asked if they have a test, and it's much better than doing 2+4 or 10-7, or filling in the boubles and stuff.
Soon, the whole class went back into silence, all of them were busy with the test.
And as usual, Conan and Ai were the first one to finsh, they went up to the teacher's desk and hand in their test, like the teacher told them to. And returned to their seat without a word. The teacher looked at their test, and looked at them, Ai was reading the magazine again, and Conan was reading Sherlock Holmes's novel.
Then, she left the classroom. About 15 minutes later, she returned with another teacher, who was also the one that she had bumped into. Their jaws dropped open at once after they saw Conan and Ai's test.
"Edogawa Conan and Haibara Ai, may I see you two up here please." Their teacher called them up. With the expression on her face, Conan and Ai knew that they were in a deep trouble. Preparing for what they should say when the teacher ask them questions, they quietly walked up to the teacher's desk, the whole class glanced at them. The teacher layed the paper in front of them as they stopped by the desk.
"Edogawa, Haibara, here's a math problem for you. Square X plus square y minus 4x plus 2y plus c equals 0, and x is across point of A and B. The center point of the circle is o, then AOB=120 degrees. In this case, c equals what?"
"C equals 1" They answered together without thinking.
"When and who wrote 'The Tale Of Genji'?"
"Murasaki Shikibu wrote it in 1000 A.D.."
"Translate 'Issho-ni ie o demashita ga, tochu de yoji o omoidashimashita' into english"
And again, without a hesitate, they answered at once. "We left home together, but half way there I noticed I forgot something."
"{start talking in English}Do you understand english?"
"yes."
"What is better tasting? Vodka or Sherry?"
"I don't know, children under 21 years old are not allowed to drink wines.{end English speaking}" Conan answered, but it was a lie, since he did drunk it last time as an experiment for the antidote.
The two teachers looked at each other, couldn't find a word to say. And the students, who were watching those two genius answering every question that they don't even know what it means, starred at the teacher and Conan, Ai. Wondering what will happen next.
"Oh my goodness! As you can see, none of us had ever taught you guys that, and I garantee that none of the students in this classroom except for you two understands English that well. And, take a look at your test, you both got the sixth grader's test, but you still got 100 percent correct, and your writing skill are higher then sixth grader's. I can't blame you for cheating because Conan got test form A and Ai you got test form B. Plus, the questions we just asked you are for high schoolers, but you got them all right without thinking. How can you explain this?" She pointed at the test, which already has an "A" and a "100%" on top of that paper.
"Well....um....." Both of them looked down at their toes, but can't find any right words to respond their teacher.
"Well, I guess we are just like the superman in the cartoon. We have superbrain!" Conan answered, pretending to be an innocent little child. Then, he made the pose which the superman in the cartoon show made.
"Eh?" Ai gave Conan a hard look, as if she wasn't satisified with the lie he came up with. But soon, she start to act with Conan.
"Whatever, I'll have to call your parents right now. And, would you please go to the office for a minute? I think you two need to take a test. I'll be in the office with you in a minute." And then, she stood up, facing the whole class, who were facing her as well.
"Don't you guys think you should be working on your test? you only have about 30 minute left to finish your test!"
"AHHHH!!!" The whole class yelled when they heard the last part of their teacher's sentence. In about fifteen second, the whole class went back to silent again.
Out there in the corridor of the school, Ai asked Conan, "I guess we made the wrong decision of taking that test and aced it, hun?"
"You are telling me that? I'm in a deeper trouble then you are in, if Ran figures out this, then I'm dead!" Already regreting about the test.
"Well, I wish you good luck, and remember, you still have the present I gave you. Use it wisely."
"Oh yeah, that just reminds me, what is in that box?"
"I already told you, it should be the best present you ever got after your shrunk."
"...... It can't be... is it?" A surprise thought dash accrosed his mind. Ai didn't say anything, a slight nod was all she need to do.
"Domo arigato!" Conan start to get excite, it was the best present after all.
As they arrived the office. The door was wide open, all the school staffs were sitting in chairs, waiting for their arrival...
------------- Two hours later ---------------
The test result finally came out. Conan got 99.8% and Ai got 100%. At the same moment, Ran and Dr. Agasa arrived, one of the teacher took them to one side of the room and told them something.
During the conversation, both of the parents' jaws dropped open, just like Conan's teacher. Conan gulped hard, he can almost hear his own heart beat, getting faster every second. But next to Conan, Ai seemed to be relaxed, since she doesn't have to worry about having her real identity revealed by someone.
"Edogawa Conan, Haibara Ai, would you please come over here." The principal called them.
As they walked toward the table, Ai whispered to Conan, "pst, Kudo, no matter what happens, I'll try to protect your identity, after all, the whole thing was my fault."
"Arigato." He whispered back.
After they were all seated, the principal started the conversation. "Let's see. Ah of course, we shall start with the test. Ms. Mouri, Dr. Agasa, as you can see, these two kids are absolutly geniuses. The test that they just took are actually the final exam test for high schoolers. And they both aced them, which means they have already completed their 12 years education. But it's still unbelievable how a first grader can do that! And if you would look at their essay, there's hardly any mistake at all, and if it was for the university essay test, I believe that they could have gotten an A too. It's definetly can't be done by some sort of practice. What I'm trying to say is, your child is so talented, I don't think that it's necessary for them to come to elementary school at all. They are both ready for university, I can recommend them to a university, if you want me to. This is the highest record in the whole Nippon!"
Ran starred at Conan for a moment with suspecious. "Conan? university?" (He's just like shinichi, only Shinichi could have aced that test... I remember all the time I tried to force him into telling me his true identity, he came up with a question that I can't answer. That kind of deduction skill, and everytime Conan disappears is the only time Shinichi shows up... is this... all just a coincidence?)
She faced the principal, and said, "I think I would like to talk to Conan first, is it ok if we gave you our response tomorrow?"
Dr. Agasa hurried and followed, "Oh yes, we would like to talk it over too." The principal nodded for agreement, it was an important decision, after all.
"Certainly! come here tomorrow and tell me your answer, I look forward to our next meeting!"
A nice handshake was the last thing they did. Then, they left the school together.
On Conan and Ran's way back to Mouri's Detective Agency, nobody made a sound, Ran was still surprised by that test score, even herself couldn't have gotten that high score, but then, how could Conan? he's only a seven years old boy, or... is he?
She looked down at Conan, but couldn't see his face since he was facing down too, all she can see was conan's left hand was holding up his chin, two fingers making the check symbol right accross his cheek. Then, Ran noticed that Conan's hand was all wet, (that... that's just like Shinichi when he's thinking or working on a case. but... this isn't a magical world where you can shrunk people that easily. What's going on?...)
Her wild imagination began to fill in her brain, "Eh!" she punched herself, (Ha, what am I thinking? That can't happen! Eh, if I don't quit imagining, I'll probably crush into a truck on the road or something... Haha)
"Ran, Watch out!" Conan jumped onto her and pushed her away from the road.
"Ah!!!! Conan?" Before she know it, they were laying on the ground, next to the sidewalk.
"Ran nee chan, you almost walked into that huge truck there! What were you thinking? You can't hurt yourself like that!" Brushing off the dust on his shirt, and helped Ran stand up.
"Sorry, Conankun, I was thinking... Thanks for saving me... OW!" Ran suddenly collapsed.
"Ran...nee chan? Daijobu?" Conan bend down, tried to pull her up again, but she was way to heavy for him to pull up.
Then, he realized that Ran was holding her left leg tightly in her hands, "My leg... they... I think the bones are...broken" She said a painful tune. And yet, her face was sweating, she shut her mouth tight, biting her lips, afrid that if she let go of her lip, she would scream loudly in pain.
"What? But how? Uh... here, I must help you walk to the chair over there, it's too dangerous for you to just sit in the middle of the street. Here, you can lean on me, I'll take you there. Then I will call for help." He used all of his strength to help Ran stand up, but at this moment, Ran was so powerless, the most she can do was not to cry out. They slowly walked to the bench on the sidewalk.
Only ten step seemed so long at that time. With each step they took, Conan can almost feel Ran's pain. As soon as they reached the bench, Ran was already half fainted, her paled face and heavy breath made Conan's mind messed up again.
"Hang on Ran-nee-chan! I'll be right back." He ran to the telephone booth, which was about fifty feet away from the bench.
And there, he called the ambulance and Ai.
Five minutes later, the ambulance arrived, but at the same time, Ran fainted. The doctors helped Ran into the ambulance, and Conan followed.
The next thing they knew was riding in the ambulance with the speed of 70 miles per hour, and headed straight to the Beika Hospital. With the method of the Ambulance's alarm sound, and the doctor's questions. All Conan could think of was Ran's safety.
------------ One and half hours later... -------------
"Ding" The light of the operation room went off at last. A doctor came out of the room, and walked toward Conan.
"Is Ran-nee-chan ok?"
"Don't worry about her, she's fine. Her bones aren't broken, there are many reasons that caused her collapse, damaging her leg is part of it, and the next important part is because of her tireness. Her body is not strong enough. She needs more rest, or else she'll just grow weaker everyday. By then, you can never tell what can happen. But don't you worry, she's going to be just fine. All she needs is some rest and some medicine, I think she should be okay in about two weeks or so, but these days she will be in a painful condition."
"So, can I see her right now?"
"Of couse you can, she'll be in room 201 in about fifteen minutes, you can wait there."
"Domo arigato gozaimasu!" He finally signed in relief.
"Do-itashimashite." Then, the doctor walked away.
Since there's still a fifteen minutes waiting, Conan ran down to a flower shop and bought some Ran's favorite flowers, and attached a little get well note alone with it, on that note, he wrote:
"Ran, I heard that your leg is injuried. This flower is for you, since I can't wait 'till you wake up, you have to be more careful and take better care of yourself! Get well soon! Shinichi."
As soon as he came back to Beika Hospital, Ran was already sleeping in room 201, and Chlorofoam was still working in her body.
Conan made his way to the chair next to Ran's bed, and put the flower on the table. Then, he gently put Ran's hand into the comfort, so her hands won't be freezing cold when she wakes up.
(Ran, I know you've been staying up late worrying about me. I wanted to do something, but I can't... The me in front of your eyes everyday is powerless, those cruel organization's testing drug shrunk me. I tried to tell you the truth before, but I just couldn't open my mouth and say it out loud, because if I do, then you will get into a grave danger with me, and I don't want you go suffer with me, I don't want to embroil you or your family. I can't dream of seeing you getting hurt. Please understand the situation I'm in, I promise I'll tell you EVERYTHING as soon as the whole thing is over.)
Conan slowly brushed away the hairs on Ran's face.
(I promise, one day, I'll tell you about my true identity as my true self, and I'll tell you how I really feel about you. I promise.)
Ran's hand moved a little as her watery eyes smoothly opened in dizziness. The first thing came to her sight was Conan's face. His eyes behind the huge glasses was exactly like Shinichi's.
"Oh Conankun, I..."
"You want to sit up? Here, let me help." He released Ran's warm hand, and helped Ran sit up. When she was sitting in her bed with two pillows behind her, she noticed the flower on the table next to her.
Before she can open her mouth to ask about it, Conan read her mind. "This flowers are from Shinichi-nii-chan he said he couldn't stay here with you until you wake up because he still have lots of mystery case waiting for him to solve. And for the note, he said it will explain everything to you."
"Shinichi was here? he bought that beautiful flower for me?"
"Yep! Isn't he the best?" Ran didn't respond, she blushed instead, and then a little slight nod.
Conan's acting was getting better everyday, which had almost covered up his always-only-one-truth-habit.
A detective who always wants nothing but the truth have to fool other people like that.
He's already sick of being in Conan's body, sick of being so little, sick of being so close to someone who he care the most, but couldn't tell her about how he really felt about her.
For how many times he sneaked into Ran's room in the night, and saw her sitting by the window, looking at the bright moon, and sometimes tears dropping down to the floor. But the best thing he can do to comfort her was to make another lie.
Sometimes Conan think for himself that even death could be better then stuck inside that small body. If it wasn't because of Ran, he would probably be in the heaven right now.
"Humph, case..." Ran refold the note when she finished reading it.
"Um...uh...Are you mad at Shinichi-nii-san Ran-nee-chan?"
"Mad? Why would I be mad? I already got used to his 'I still have a case to solve' excuse."
"Then why are you humphing?" Conan said, still wouldn't drop the subject.
"I'm just... disappointed that I can't see Shinichi in real person. And... His long disappearance's only excuse is 'I have some other case to solve'. Even dummies would know that it's only a fake, useless excuse! Or...... Does it mean Shinichi doesn't care about me anymore, he hate me so he doesn't want to come back?" Her eyes start to get unclear as her nose began to feel sore.
"Of course he cares about you! It's just that...that...... he can't see you. And the flower proofed that he cares about you, why would someone who doesn't care about someone and still gave that person presents?" He looked at his toes, afrid to see Ran's face at that moment.
"I..." without letting Ran finish, Conan continued, "Do you remember? That time Shinichi-nii-chan said he have something important to tell you at the Beika Hotel sightseeing resturant? What can be important enough for him to invite you to that high quality, expensive resturant? Think about it, what can be that important?" He finally looked up at Ran, two lines of tears were already on her cheek. He gently wiped it away with his small fingers.
(What can be that important? What can be that important?!!!) The answer was obvious, "......I remember, and I understand..."
"Never mind Shinichi, Conankun, you still owe me an explaination for the test, remember?"
"E? Well, I... um.... it was because of...." Conan suddenly became so anxious, that he can't even sit still.
By coincidence, a doctor knocked on the door.
"Phew..." Conan signed, (Thank goodness the doctor is here), "come in!" Ran said.
A mid-aged man walked toward Ran's bed, in his left hand was a pile of papers which was already stapled together into one big pile. And on top of the paper, Ran's name was written in a black pen.
"Are you feeling better miss Mouri?"
"Yes, I've been better." She cleaned her face as fast as she can.
"That's good, I came here to tell you that it's not necessary for you to stay in the hospital at all! You can go back home and rest. Just make sure you take your medicine on time, have enough rest. But of course, you may stay here if you want to. What do you wish to do?" He looked through Ran's operation report again.
"Oh, I think I'll go home." Conan smiled too, (that's great! Ran's condition is better than I thought!)
"That's what I thought. Should I call your parents to pick you up?"
"Oh no, it's alright, I can go home with Conan."
"Okay. you may go at anytime you wish. I'm not going to disturb you now, just remember to stop by my office to pick up the medicine. I'll be there." He closed the door behind him.
"Well, I guess it's time to go home Conan-kun." She tried to stand up, but then sit back down again.
"You can't stand up yet Ran-nee-chan! here, sit in the wheelchair, and I'll push you. You have to take care of yourself!" Conan pushed the wheelchair next to Ran's bed, so it would be easier for Ran to get in.
"Conankun, you... You look awfully like Shinichi, and why do you always start to act weird and nervous everytime i talk about Shinichi?" Ran asked as Conan helped her stand up in one foot and sit down in the wheelchair.
"Of course I look like him, I am his distant relative! Here, make yourself comfortable, and I'll pack up things for ya."
He fold Ran's cloth and put it into a bag, "Well, anything else I need to pack?"
"Nothing else. That's it. Here, have a cup of water before we leave, you are already out of breath." Ran hand over a cup of water to Conan, who was still trying to catch his breath after the fast packing.
He doesn't really do that sort of things, when he's living by himself, Kudo usually just throw everything in one corner. And everytime he wants to wear something, he had to search for half an hour and make a huge mess in his room.
But after he moved to Ran's house, Ran forced him to fold his cloth nicely before he goes to sleep, and always tidy up after himeself. It seems like the training was working.
After Conan finished the last drop of water in the cup, he hand the bag to Ran, so Ran can hold it. And he pushed the wheelchair out the door, and made their way to the doctor's office.
On their way back home, Conan carefully pushed Ran, afrid that the bumpy road would hurt Ran's leg. For many times Ran asked Conan about the test, but everytime Conan came up with a new excuse, or meet someone they knew by coincidence.
Climbing the stair in the Mouri's Detective Agency was the hardest, since little Conan have to hold up Ran and keep his own balance.
After thirty minutes of hard trying, they finally made it. but stupid them suddenly remembered that they could've just called Ran's dad for help! They faced each other, let out a little weak laugh.
Then, they heard someone yelling inside the room, "I already told you, I'm not here for your daughter! I'm here for a case! A CASE!" that voice was familier to all of them, conan pushed open the door, "Heiji-nii-chan?"
- TO BE CONTINUED
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CK: Like it? I know, I know, I should've concentrate on some case instead of all those non-sense? well...wait until chapter two, by then, don't hate me because I didn't put too much relationships in it! :)
Chapter 1 - The Birthday Present
By: ConanKudo
Konnichiwa! This is actually my second DCFF, not as good as all the others that you've read (probably), but it's a lot better than my first fanfic. This story is based on the five movies. But believe me, it is different. I apologize for all the grammar, spelling, and any other errors I made in this story, I really don't have that much time to revise my story and stuff. Well, I hope you enjoy! Send all your comments/questions to detective_kudo@hotmail.com Thanks! --- ConanKudo
*Parenthese = thoughts
DISCLAIMER! I did not creat or own Detective Conan, all rights belongs to Gosho Aoyama, the creater of Detective Conan!!!
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As Conan stepped into the classroom, he heard "Happy birthday Edogawa Conan!..." "Eh?" Before he could figure out what's happening in the classroom, all of his classmates surrounded him.
"Happy birthday Conan!" Ayumi said, as if she was representing the whole class. Then, a bunch of beautiful flowers, childish toys and school supplies appeared in front of his face.
"Here's some presents we bought for you, hope you'll like it!" Conan looked at all the presents that his classmates were holding again.
"Cool! Arigato, but before I accept them, can one of you tell me how you know it's my birthday?" He suddenly remembered that neither him nor the teacher had ever told the class that his birthday was today. "Oh, Ai told us." They all pointed at Haibara Ai, who was sitting in her chair, reading her favorite magazine. "Oh..." (Dr. Agasa probably told her that...)
"So Conan, are you going to let us holding the presents in our hand for the rest of the day?" Genta start to get a little anxious and annoy for no response from Conan about the presents.
"Hun? Oh, about the presents..." (I guess if i don't accept those, they're probably not going to let me go that easy...)
"Um... thanks everybody, I guess I'll have put it there by the window for now, or else I won't be able to use my desk for the whole day. And thanks everyone!"
The crowd slowly scattered as they all walked toward the wall by the window to put dowm the presents for Conan.
When he returned to his own desk, he found a little box, with a little note on top of it. After unpacked his backpack and prepared for the first period class, he started to unfold the note, there he read:
"Happy birthday Kudo Shinichi, you are now 18 years old, or 8. Don't get too excitied, because the older you get the dangerous situation you will get into. Beware of Ran. Anyways, happy birthday, in the box is the present you always wanted. Make good use of it, don't waste it like the last time you did. DO NOT OPEN THAT BOX UNLESS THERE'S AN EMERGENCY!"
And on the bottom of the paper was a signature of the sender, "Haibara Ai" conan then realized that Ai was staring at him while he was reading the note.
"Arigato!" He whispered to Ai.
----- In the hall way at school -----
The pile of papers in their fell as the two teachers bumped into each other. The papers mixed as they fell down to the floor.
"Oh, I'm so sorry, are you alright?" One teacher asked.
"I'm fine. you are the teacher from sixth grade right?"
"Yeah, this is my first year here, sorry about that, I'm still a little confused about the floors and stuff. As you can see, I have a bad sense of directions."
"Don't worry, you'll get use to it." She start to picking up the papers that fell down. But unfortunatly, they didn't notice that it was already mixed. After picking up all the papers from the floor, they brushed off all the dusts on their cloth.
"Well, we better get going, the class's going to start in less then five minutes."
"Oh my, you're right, well, I'll see you around!" Then, they start to walk toward their classroom, one of them stepped in B-1, Conan's classroom.
----- Everyond in the classroom were in a rowdy -----
"Ahem..." The teacher knocked on the door. Everybody went silent and ran back to their seats.
"Ohayo! We're going to have the final exam today to see what you've learned so far and how well you learned. This includes Language Art, Essay, Mathmatic, Science and Social Science. This test will count as your 80 percent grade, so make sure you check your answers after you finish them. There is a time limit. Does anybody not understand what we're doing?" She scanned around the classroom to see if there's any hands up.
"WE UNDERSTAND!" The class cried out.
"Very well, then let's begin." She hand the pile of papers to a student in front of her, and asked her to pass it out to everybody in the class.
"You may start on the test as soon as you get it. Remember to put your name on top of the paper!"
Conan rest his head in his right hand, waiting fot the test to pass down to him. Unlike all the other students in the class (except for Ai), he never complained about the homework he gets or the test that they took. He aced them all! (CK: but think about it, how hard could it be for a high school genius to be a first grade genius?)
For the first time ever, Conan's brain did not get bored when he saw the test. It was not THE test. He can tell, because the teacher had never taught them algebras, and the first graders can never understand algebras. He looked at Ai, obviously, she got the same test he got by coincedence.
Before they can say a word about it, the teacher's voice interrupted the silence. "Does everybody here have a test? Raise your hand if you don't have one! Anyone?"
Ai and Conan looked at each other for a moment, and decide not to return the paper, since the teacher only asked if they have a test, and it's much better than doing 2+4 or 10-7, or filling in the boubles and stuff.
Soon, the whole class went back into silence, all of them were busy with the test.
And as usual, Conan and Ai were the first one to finsh, they went up to the teacher's desk and hand in their test, like the teacher told them to. And returned to their seat without a word. The teacher looked at their test, and looked at them, Ai was reading the magazine again, and Conan was reading Sherlock Holmes's novel.
Then, she left the classroom. About 15 minutes later, she returned with another teacher, who was also the one that she had bumped into. Their jaws dropped open at once after they saw Conan and Ai's test.
"Edogawa Conan and Haibara Ai, may I see you two up here please." Their teacher called them up. With the expression on her face, Conan and Ai knew that they were in a deep trouble. Preparing for what they should say when the teacher ask them questions, they quietly walked up to the teacher's desk, the whole class glanced at them. The teacher layed the paper in front of them as they stopped by the desk.
"Edogawa, Haibara, here's a math problem for you. Square X plus square y minus 4x plus 2y plus c equals 0, and x is across point of A and B. The center point of the circle is o, then AOB=120 degrees. In this case, c equals what?"
"C equals 1" They answered together without thinking.
"When and who wrote 'The Tale Of Genji'?"
"Murasaki Shikibu wrote it in 1000 A.D.."
"Translate 'Issho-ni ie o demashita ga, tochu de yoji o omoidashimashita' into english"
And again, without a hesitate, they answered at once. "We left home together, but half way there I noticed I forgot something."
"{start talking in English}Do you understand english?"
"yes."
"What is better tasting? Vodka or Sherry?"
"I don't know, children under 21 years old are not allowed to drink wines.{end English speaking}" Conan answered, but it was a lie, since he did drunk it last time as an experiment for the antidote.
The two teachers looked at each other, couldn't find a word to say. And the students, who were watching those two genius answering every question that they don't even know what it means, starred at the teacher and Conan, Ai. Wondering what will happen next.
"Oh my goodness! As you can see, none of us had ever taught you guys that, and I garantee that none of the students in this classroom except for you two understands English that well. And, take a look at your test, you both got the sixth grader's test, but you still got 100 percent correct, and your writing skill are higher then sixth grader's. I can't blame you for cheating because Conan got test form A and Ai you got test form B. Plus, the questions we just asked you are for high schoolers, but you got them all right without thinking. How can you explain this?" She pointed at the test, which already has an "A" and a "100%" on top of that paper.
"Well....um....." Both of them looked down at their toes, but can't find any right words to respond their teacher.
"Well, I guess we are just like the superman in the cartoon. We have superbrain!" Conan answered, pretending to be an innocent little child. Then, he made the pose which the superman in the cartoon show made.
"Eh?" Ai gave Conan a hard look, as if she wasn't satisified with the lie he came up with. But soon, she start to act with Conan.
"Whatever, I'll have to call your parents right now. And, would you please go to the office for a minute? I think you two need to take a test. I'll be in the office with you in a minute." And then, she stood up, facing the whole class, who were facing her as well.
"Don't you guys think you should be working on your test? you only have about 30 minute left to finish your test!"
"AHHHH!!!" The whole class yelled when they heard the last part of their teacher's sentence. In about fifteen second, the whole class went back to silent again.
Out there in the corridor of the school, Ai asked Conan, "I guess we made the wrong decision of taking that test and aced it, hun?"
"You are telling me that? I'm in a deeper trouble then you are in, if Ran figures out this, then I'm dead!" Already regreting about the test.
"Well, I wish you good luck, and remember, you still have the present I gave you. Use it wisely."
"Oh yeah, that just reminds me, what is in that box?"
"I already told you, it should be the best present you ever got after your shrunk."
"...... It can't be... is it?" A surprise thought dash accrosed his mind. Ai didn't say anything, a slight nod was all she need to do.
"Domo arigato!" Conan start to get excite, it was the best present after all.
As they arrived the office. The door was wide open, all the school staffs were sitting in chairs, waiting for their arrival...
------------- Two hours later ---------------
The test result finally came out. Conan got 99.8% and Ai got 100%. At the same moment, Ran and Dr. Agasa arrived, one of the teacher took them to one side of the room and told them something.
During the conversation, both of the parents' jaws dropped open, just like Conan's teacher. Conan gulped hard, he can almost hear his own heart beat, getting faster every second. But next to Conan, Ai seemed to be relaxed, since she doesn't have to worry about having her real identity revealed by someone.
"Edogawa Conan, Haibara Ai, would you please come over here." The principal called them.
As they walked toward the table, Ai whispered to Conan, "pst, Kudo, no matter what happens, I'll try to protect your identity, after all, the whole thing was my fault."
"Arigato." He whispered back.
After they were all seated, the principal started the conversation. "Let's see. Ah of course, we shall start with the test. Ms. Mouri, Dr. Agasa, as you can see, these two kids are absolutly geniuses. The test that they just took are actually the final exam test for high schoolers. And they both aced them, which means they have already completed their 12 years education. But it's still unbelievable how a first grader can do that! And if you would look at their essay, there's hardly any mistake at all, and if it was for the university essay test, I believe that they could have gotten an A too. It's definetly can't be done by some sort of practice. What I'm trying to say is, your child is so talented, I don't think that it's necessary for them to come to elementary school at all. They are both ready for university, I can recommend them to a university, if you want me to. This is the highest record in the whole Nippon!"
Ran starred at Conan for a moment with suspecious. "Conan? university?" (He's just like shinichi, only Shinichi could have aced that test... I remember all the time I tried to force him into telling me his true identity, he came up with a question that I can't answer. That kind of deduction skill, and everytime Conan disappears is the only time Shinichi shows up... is this... all just a coincidence?)
She faced the principal, and said, "I think I would like to talk to Conan first, is it ok if we gave you our response tomorrow?"
Dr. Agasa hurried and followed, "Oh yes, we would like to talk it over too." The principal nodded for agreement, it was an important decision, after all.
"Certainly! come here tomorrow and tell me your answer, I look forward to our next meeting!"
A nice handshake was the last thing they did. Then, they left the school together.
On Conan and Ran's way back to Mouri's Detective Agency, nobody made a sound, Ran was still surprised by that test score, even herself couldn't have gotten that high score, but then, how could Conan? he's only a seven years old boy, or... is he?
She looked down at Conan, but couldn't see his face since he was facing down too, all she can see was conan's left hand was holding up his chin, two fingers making the check symbol right accross his cheek. Then, Ran noticed that Conan's hand was all wet, (that... that's just like Shinichi when he's thinking or working on a case. but... this isn't a magical world where you can shrunk people that easily. What's going on?...)
Her wild imagination began to fill in her brain, "Eh!" she punched herself, (Ha, what am I thinking? That can't happen! Eh, if I don't quit imagining, I'll probably crush into a truck on the road or something... Haha)
"Ran, Watch out!" Conan jumped onto her and pushed her away from the road.
"Ah!!!! Conan?" Before she know it, they were laying on the ground, next to the sidewalk.
"Ran nee chan, you almost walked into that huge truck there! What were you thinking? You can't hurt yourself like that!" Brushing off the dust on his shirt, and helped Ran stand up.
"Sorry, Conankun, I was thinking... Thanks for saving me... OW!" Ran suddenly collapsed.
"Ran...nee chan? Daijobu?" Conan bend down, tried to pull her up again, but she was way to heavy for him to pull up.
Then, he realized that Ran was holding her left leg tightly in her hands, "My leg... they... I think the bones are...broken" She said a painful tune. And yet, her face was sweating, she shut her mouth tight, biting her lips, afrid that if she let go of her lip, she would scream loudly in pain.
"What? But how? Uh... here, I must help you walk to the chair over there, it's too dangerous for you to just sit in the middle of the street. Here, you can lean on me, I'll take you there. Then I will call for help." He used all of his strength to help Ran stand up, but at this moment, Ran was so powerless, the most she can do was not to cry out. They slowly walked to the bench on the sidewalk.
Only ten step seemed so long at that time. With each step they took, Conan can almost feel Ran's pain. As soon as they reached the bench, Ran was already half fainted, her paled face and heavy breath made Conan's mind messed up again.
"Hang on Ran-nee-chan! I'll be right back." He ran to the telephone booth, which was about fifty feet away from the bench.
And there, he called the ambulance and Ai.
Five minutes later, the ambulance arrived, but at the same time, Ran fainted. The doctors helped Ran into the ambulance, and Conan followed.
The next thing they knew was riding in the ambulance with the speed of 70 miles per hour, and headed straight to the Beika Hospital. With the method of the Ambulance's alarm sound, and the doctor's questions. All Conan could think of was Ran's safety.
------------ One and half hours later... -------------
"Ding" The light of the operation room went off at last. A doctor came out of the room, and walked toward Conan.
"Is Ran-nee-chan ok?"
"Don't worry about her, she's fine. Her bones aren't broken, there are many reasons that caused her collapse, damaging her leg is part of it, and the next important part is because of her tireness. Her body is not strong enough. She needs more rest, or else she'll just grow weaker everyday. By then, you can never tell what can happen. But don't you worry, she's going to be just fine. All she needs is some rest and some medicine, I think she should be okay in about two weeks or so, but these days she will be in a painful condition."
"So, can I see her right now?"
"Of couse you can, she'll be in room 201 in about fifteen minutes, you can wait there."
"Domo arigato gozaimasu!" He finally signed in relief.
"Do-itashimashite." Then, the doctor walked away.
Since there's still a fifteen minutes waiting, Conan ran down to a flower shop and bought some Ran's favorite flowers, and attached a little get well note alone with it, on that note, he wrote:
"Ran, I heard that your leg is injuried. This flower is for you, since I can't wait 'till you wake up, you have to be more careful and take better care of yourself! Get well soon! Shinichi."
As soon as he came back to Beika Hospital, Ran was already sleeping in room 201, and Chlorofoam was still working in her body.
Conan made his way to the chair next to Ran's bed, and put the flower on the table. Then, he gently put Ran's hand into the comfort, so her hands won't be freezing cold when she wakes up.
(Ran, I know you've been staying up late worrying about me. I wanted to do something, but I can't... The me in front of your eyes everyday is powerless, those cruel organization's testing drug shrunk me. I tried to tell you the truth before, but I just couldn't open my mouth and say it out loud, because if I do, then you will get into a grave danger with me, and I don't want you go suffer with me, I don't want to embroil you or your family. I can't dream of seeing you getting hurt. Please understand the situation I'm in, I promise I'll tell you EVERYTHING as soon as the whole thing is over.)
Conan slowly brushed away the hairs on Ran's face.
(I promise, one day, I'll tell you about my true identity as my true self, and I'll tell you how I really feel about you. I promise.)
Ran's hand moved a little as her watery eyes smoothly opened in dizziness. The first thing came to her sight was Conan's face. His eyes behind the huge glasses was exactly like Shinichi's.
"Oh Conankun, I..."
"You want to sit up? Here, let me help." He released Ran's warm hand, and helped Ran sit up. When she was sitting in her bed with two pillows behind her, she noticed the flower on the table next to her.
Before she can open her mouth to ask about it, Conan read her mind. "This flowers are from Shinichi-nii-chan he said he couldn't stay here with you until you wake up because he still have lots of mystery case waiting for him to solve. And for the note, he said it will explain everything to you."
"Shinichi was here? he bought that beautiful flower for me?"
"Yep! Isn't he the best?" Ran didn't respond, she blushed instead, and then a little slight nod.
Conan's acting was getting better everyday, which had almost covered up his always-only-one-truth-habit.
A detective who always wants nothing but the truth have to fool other people like that.
He's already sick of being in Conan's body, sick of being so little, sick of being so close to someone who he care the most, but couldn't tell her about how he really felt about her.
For how many times he sneaked into Ran's room in the night, and saw her sitting by the window, looking at the bright moon, and sometimes tears dropping down to the floor. But the best thing he can do to comfort her was to make another lie.
Sometimes Conan think for himself that even death could be better then stuck inside that small body. If it wasn't because of Ran, he would probably be in the heaven right now.
"Humph, case..." Ran refold the note when she finished reading it.
"Um...uh...Are you mad at Shinichi-nii-san Ran-nee-chan?"
"Mad? Why would I be mad? I already got used to his 'I still have a case to solve' excuse."
"Then why are you humphing?" Conan said, still wouldn't drop the subject.
"I'm just... disappointed that I can't see Shinichi in real person. And... His long disappearance's only excuse is 'I have some other case to solve'. Even dummies would know that it's only a fake, useless excuse! Or...... Does it mean Shinichi doesn't care about me anymore, he hate me so he doesn't want to come back?" Her eyes start to get unclear as her nose began to feel sore.
"Of course he cares about you! It's just that...that...... he can't see you. And the flower proofed that he cares about you, why would someone who doesn't care about someone and still gave that person presents?" He looked at his toes, afrid to see Ran's face at that moment.
"I..." without letting Ran finish, Conan continued, "Do you remember? That time Shinichi-nii-chan said he have something important to tell you at the Beika Hotel sightseeing resturant? What can be important enough for him to invite you to that high quality, expensive resturant? Think about it, what can be that important?" He finally looked up at Ran, two lines of tears were already on her cheek. He gently wiped it away with his small fingers.
(What can be that important? What can be that important?!!!) The answer was obvious, "......I remember, and I understand..."
"Never mind Shinichi, Conankun, you still owe me an explaination for the test, remember?"
"E? Well, I... um.... it was because of...." Conan suddenly became so anxious, that he can't even sit still.
By coincidence, a doctor knocked on the door.
"Phew..." Conan signed, (Thank goodness the doctor is here), "come in!" Ran said.
A mid-aged man walked toward Ran's bed, in his left hand was a pile of papers which was already stapled together into one big pile. And on top of the paper, Ran's name was written in a black pen.
"Are you feeling better miss Mouri?"
"Yes, I've been better." She cleaned her face as fast as she can.
"That's good, I came here to tell you that it's not necessary for you to stay in the hospital at all! You can go back home and rest. Just make sure you take your medicine on time, have enough rest. But of course, you may stay here if you want to. What do you wish to do?" He looked through Ran's operation report again.
"Oh, I think I'll go home." Conan smiled too, (that's great! Ran's condition is better than I thought!)
"That's what I thought. Should I call your parents to pick you up?"
"Oh no, it's alright, I can go home with Conan."
"Okay. you may go at anytime you wish. I'm not going to disturb you now, just remember to stop by my office to pick up the medicine. I'll be there." He closed the door behind him.
"Well, I guess it's time to go home Conan-kun." She tried to stand up, but then sit back down again.
"You can't stand up yet Ran-nee-chan! here, sit in the wheelchair, and I'll push you. You have to take care of yourself!" Conan pushed the wheelchair next to Ran's bed, so it would be easier for Ran to get in.
"Conankun, you... You look awfully like Shinichi, and why do you always start to act weird and nervous everytime i talk about Shinichi?" Ran asked as Conan helped her stand up in one foot and sit down in the wheelchair.
"Of course I look like him, I am his distant relative! Here, make yourself comfortable, and I'll pack up things for ya."
He fold Ran's cloth and put it into a bag, "Well, anything else I need to pack?"
"Nothing else. That's it. Here, have a cup of water before we leave, you are already out of breath." Ran hand over a cup of water to Conan, who was still trying to catch his breath after the fast packing.
He doesn't really do that sort of things, when he's living by himself, Kudo usually just throw everything in one corner. And everytime he wants to wear something, he had to search for half an hour and make a huge mess in his room.
But after he moved to Ran's house, Ran forced him to fold his cloth nicely before he goes to sleep, and always tidy up after himeself. It seems like the training was working.
After Conan finished the last drop of water in the cup, he hand the bag to Ran, so Ran can hold it. And he pushed the wheelchair out the door, and made their way to the doctor's office.
On their way back home, Conan carefully pushed Ran, afrid that the bumpy road would hurt Ran's leg. For many times Ran asked Conan about the test, but everytime Conan came up with a new excuse, or meet someone they knew by coincidence.
Climbing the stair in the Mouri's Detective Agency was the hardest, since little Conan have to hold up Ran and keep his own balance.
After thirty minutes of hard trying, they finally made it. but stupid them suddenly remembered that they could've just called Ran's dad for help! They faced each other, let out a little weak laugh.
Then, they heard someone yelling inside the room, "I already told you, I'm not here for your daughter! I'm here for a case! A CASE!" that voice was familier to all of them, conan pushed open the door, "Heiji-nii-chan?"
- TO BE CONTINUED
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CK: Like it? I know, I know, I should've concentrate on some case instead of all those non-sense? well...wait until chapter two, by then, don't hate me because I didn't put too much relationships in it! :)