Might change the summary later but thats all I could come up with for now... Title is supposed to be 4869 + Ran but this site wont let me use the +

Oops forgot to put the Disclaimer.

Hallow does not own Detective Conan nor will she ever. If she did own Detective Conan, Ran would kick more butt and Satou and Takagi would have gotten together a LOT soon...

As Shinichi and Ran walked through Tropical Land heading to the exit, Ran thought about how their 'first date' went even though neither of them really considered it a date.

It had gone surprisingly well, other than the poor man getting his head cut off during the roller coaster ride but unfortunately things like that were normal around High School Detective Kudou Shinichi. As the childhood friend of said detective, and having been around him on numerous cases, she was getting used to dead bodies almost literally falling at their feet. Though the mere fact that she was getting used to it did disturb her but it was inevitable when her father was a detective as well.

They were almost to the exit when Ran, out of habit, started to fiddle with the bracelet that Shinichi had given her for her birthday a few months ago. Or at least she would have, if it was actually on her wrist were it was supposed to be.

At her gasp, Shinichi turned around to look at her.

"What's wrong, Ran?"

"My bracelet! It must have fallen off on the roller coaster because I know it was there before we got on! I am going to go look for it! You can go on home!" She yelled over her shoulder as she took off down an alley between some booths that were set up.

Shinichi was just about to run after her when Megure came up behind him and started congratulating him on solving the case from earlier. Though he tried to get him to hurry up, so he could go help Ran, he didn't want to be rude to the Chief Inspector so he could only stand there and listen to him until decided that he needed to get back to the office.

As soon as Megure had left Shinichi took off in the direction that Ran went but he had spent almost ten minutes talking to the Inspector and Ran was nowhere to be found.

Shinichi spent another five minutes looking for Ran but didn't find her so he just assumed she had gone home and left for home himself, intending to call her as soon as he got back since he had left his cell phone at home.

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It had taken Ran about five minutes to find her bracelet, but thankfully it had landed safely in the grass. She picked it up and headed back the way she assumed the exit was.

Just as she was about to turn a corner around one of the buildings she heard voices talking on the other side. Assuming that it was security guards or someone that worked there she was going to go ask them how to get out of there but then she realized what they were saying.

"Look! I came by myself just as you said!"

"I know you did. I checked from the top of the coaster."

"Come on! Give me the thing!"

"Show me the money first."

'What in the world are they talking about?' Ran thought to herself carefully leaning around the side of the building just enough so that she could see.

There was a very nervous looking business man holding a briefcase open, showing the large man clothed in black the large amount of money inside. She recognized the man in black as one of the ones who were on the roller coaster with her and Shinichi.

"You have your money! Now please give me the film!"

"Alright, Alright here is the film of your company smuggling guns."

'Gun smuggling!? What should I do? Think! Think! What would Shinichi do? Shinichi would…take pictures! Evidence!' Feeling rather proud of herself for realizing that, it took her a few seconds to realize that she didn't actually have a camera with her.

Deciding that she couldn't really do anything she tried to listen to more of their conversation only to hear footsteps coming from behind her.

She tried to turn around quickly, hoping to land a nice kick to whoever was trying to sneak up on her, but the metal pipe was quicker as it came crashing down on the back of her skull with a loud metallic sounding thud.

As she lay on the cool grass she could hear people talking above her but was only able to catch some of what they were saying.

"No! No guns…stupid pigs are…around…use….new poison… guinea pig…Aniki…"

Abruptly Ran was pulled off the ground and a pill was put her mouth along with some water. Not wanting to choke on it she swallowed it without thinking even though she had no idea what she had just swallowed.

She was dropped back on the ground but didn't mind it much as the cool grass felt good against her body that seemed as if it was on fire. As if her bones themselves were on fire inside her body. Thankfully that was the last thought she had as she slipped into unconsciousness.

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"Hey! We got a dead body over here!"

"What?"

"Wait! She's still breathing! Hurry call an ambulance!"

'Uhhhn… wha? I'm alive? But I thought they gave me some kind of poison? Guess it didn't work…'

Ran slowly opened her eyes and the first thing she saw was police officers shining their lights right into her eyes. She closed her eyes and tried to turn over to get away from the light but it felt like there was something holding her down.

Opening her eyes again she saw that they had thankfully moved the flashlights a little ways away from her eyes and now one of them was holding a hand out to her.

"Are you alright? Can you stand up? Don't worry little girl we will get you home."

'Little girl? Are they blind or something? There is no way they can think I am a little girl.'

Thinking that maybe it was the police officer that had gotten hit on the head instead of her, she sat up but realized she couldn't move her arms.

Thinking that they had done something to her arms while she was knocked out she quickly looked down but was relieved to see that she was only sitting on her sleeves.

'Wait… since when are my sleeves that long?'

"Looks like you hurt your head pretty bad there, little girl, why don't you let me take a look at it?"

'Again with the little girl?' As she looked at the officer who was now crouched down in front of her, her reply was stuck in her throat as she caught sight of her pants that seemed to be about five sizes too big for her.

'What in the world-' Her thoughts were cut off as the police officer decided that she wasn't going to answer him so he picked her up, while another officer started talking into his radio.

"We have found a small girl around the age of 5-7 who seems to have suffered a blow to the head…"

Before she had a chance to recover from the shock, they hauled her off to get her wound taken care of. After the doctors assured them that she was fine they started in with the questions.

Five minutes later she had all of the police officers laughing their heads off at her.

They wouldn't believe her when she told them what really happened. They only said that she had been watching too much tv.

Irritated and still confused by what was going on she walked around the small medical room they had taken her too, stopping when she got to a full length mirror. She only intended to see how bad the wound looked but that's when it really hit her.

She had shrunk.

"Alright we heard from the higher ups they want us to take her to the main station and they will decide what to do with her from there. Probably put her in an orphanage for now."

'Orphanage? No freaking way.'

By the time they were ready to leave, Ran was already long gone, having ran out the door the minute she heard their plans for her.

Ran made it out of tropical land and into the residential area before she had to stop and take a break, out of breathe and sweating like crazy.

'There is no way I can be tired after just going that far! I guess I really do have a kids body now…'

She continued walking along not really knowing where she was going. She was too busy thinking about all that had happened and what she was going to do about it… Her first thought was to just go home but she knew by now that her father would be completely drunk and there was no way he would realize that it was her and that would just make it worse when he sobered up in the morning.

Suddenly there was an explosion right in front of her, and an elderly man came tumbling out of the nice new hole in the wall.

A quick look around told her that she had somehow ended up in front of Shinichi's house and the elderly man was his inventor/scientist neighbor Agasa Hakase.

"Ah! I am sorry did I scare you? You know little girls shouldn't be out this late at night alone its really dangerous!" Ran stared blankly at him, having had enough of people treating her like a little kid.

"Hakase… Its me, Ran."

"Oh! You know Ran-kun? You look just like her when she was your age! But that still doesn't explain why you are out here all alone."

'How am I going to make him believe me? Oh!'

"You're Agasa Hiroshi age 52 you invent really odd gadgets that usually end in you blowing up something. You also have a hair sticking out of a mole on your butt, Shinichi told me that."

"That Shinichi! He's been telling my secrets! Still lets go inside and you can call your parents alright?"

Agasa walked back through the hole he made in the wall, then turned to look at Ran, wondering why she was just standing there with an angry look on her face.

"When Shinichi and I were still in elementary school, one time you were working on some weird chair thing that was supposed to move by itself or something like that but you wouldn't let us play with it so we took out some screws and wires from it. When you went to turn it on it zoomed around the room until it exploded. There is still a burn mark in the middle of your living room that you covered up with a couch."

He just stared at her for a few minutes in shock. No one knew about the burn mark in his living room except for Shinichi and Ran, and of course himself. That was the one time that he had really gotten angry at the two of them but quickly forgave them if they kept quiet about it. Could it really be possible that this little girl really was Ran?

"But…but if you really are Ran how? Why? Why are you so short?"

"Um can we not talk about this out here?"

With a nod the two of them went into the house and she told him about what had happened. The professor stayed silent and listened as she told him about the pill and how she woke up as a little kid.

"This still seems like some weird dream but if this really isn't a dream why did you decide to come to me?"

At that she looked down at the cup of tea in her hands, absently noticed that the cup seemed huge in her little hands.

"I don't really know… I was just wondering around trying to decide what to do when you suddenly blasted a hole in the wall in front of me. Then I figured you might be able to help me, being an inventor and all."

"Well I am sure I probably could make an antidote but I would need a sample of the original poison first."

"Great… at this rate I'll never get back to normal… I don't even know anything about those guys!"

Agasa slowly sipped his tea, and noticed that Ran had to keep pushing up her too big sleeves so that she could actually see her hands. Then he remembered that he could help a little bit.

" Ah! Ran-kun! A long time ago I offered to store some of your family's stuff since I had extra room in my basement. I think some of your old clothes are in those boxes. They might be old but it will give you something to wear for now." She looked gratefully at him and they went down to the basement to dig out her old clothes.

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Ten minutes later she was clothed in clothes that actually fit her and they were back to sipping tea and trying to decide what to do in the living room.

Agasa had just gotten through saying that she probably shouldn't tell anyone about this when Shinichi walked into the living room.

"Hey Hakase can I use your phone? Mine isn't working again and I need to see if Ran made it home okay…"

He trailed off as he noticed the small child on the couch.

"Oh er sorry I didn't know you had company… Who is this?"

Agasa looked at Ran who was staring sort of fearfully at Shinichi, wondering what in the world they were going to tell him.

"Um…uh… She is my uh cousin's uncle's cousin's sister's brother's granddaughter… she is going to stay with me for a while."

Shinichi looked at Agasa with a confused look on his face.

"Wouldn't that make her your uncle's cousin's granddaughter?"

He was starting to fidget knowing that he had just made Shinichi suspicious. Why did he have to be a detective? Why couldn't he have been a High School Laywer or something?

"And if that's true, which I doubt, why wouldn't you just say that in the first place?"

He was just getting fully into interrogating mode when Ran lifted up her hand to push a strand of hair away that had fallen in front of her face.

The light glinted off the gold bracelet and before Shinichi even realized what he was doing he had grabbed her arm, looking at the bracelet, before turning a suspicious eye on her.

"Why do you have Ran's bracelet on?"

And now it was her turn to fidget under his suspicious stare. She was really starting to feel bad for all the criminals that he had used that same stare on.

She looked towards Agasa who just nodded his head slightly, then she looked up at Shinichi.

"Er well, I don't suppose you would believe that I am Ran would you?"

Ideally she really should have kept it from him but she also knew that it would have been impossible. Even if they had somehow managed to convince him that she was just some random person visiting, he would have found out sooner or later. You just can't hide things like this from a detective.

It took a lot more convincing to get him to believe that she really had shrunk but in the end he finally did. He also agreed that they shouldn't tell anyone else.

Of course that led to a slight problem when they decided to go home.

"Wait Ran, you can't tell your dad about this."

"And why not? How else am I supposed to go home? He is probably totally drunk right now but still in the morning he is going to want to know why I am suddenly so short…"

"Yeah I know, but think of it this way. What if your dad tries to find those guys and it turns out that there is a whole mob of those guys? Your dad, being the idiot he is, will probably get himself hurt or killed."

Ran paled a bit at that thought, ignoring the idiot comment, but she knew that Shinichi was probably right.

"Well Sherlock, what do you think I should do then?"

Ran would probably never forget the manic grin that spread across his face just then.

"You will just have to stay with me!"

As Ran reluctantly walked out Agasa Hakase's front door and across the yard into Shinichi's own front door, she knew nothing was ever going to be the same again.

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AN: Ahem soooooo... I decided not to try and reign in my creativity and focus on just a few stories, because that obviously does not work at all.

I really wish I could say that I knew how I came up with this but well... I was doing something on photoshop and randomly started thinking about how it would be if Ran and Haibara switched places then the next thing I knew I was thinking of this idea... Argued with myself for a few minutes but then it was clear that my brain was not going to let this go anytime soon so figured I would go ahead and write it down. I thought it would turn out to be like a paragraph or two but noooooooo it had to turn into a almost 3,000 word monster...

Like most of my stories, This was supposed to be a oneshot but will probably be turned into a multi-chapter story.

If any one is wondering No Ran is NOT going to turn into a detective just because she shrunk. Shinichi is still the main detective, Ran is just going to help him with the things that a child can do but Shinichi cant. Like get information and things like that.

Ran needs a new name!!! My brain thought up this whole elaborate idea but refuses to come up with a name for Ran! So please Suggestions are welcome! (and needed)