Chapter 1: Truth Revealed
Princess Sango
Ai, now 17, walked with her boyfriend, Genta home. When they walked inside, Ran and Shinichi were both discussing something, but they thought it was normal. While Ai's annoying brother, Conan, ran around the house, doing who knows what. Setting her back down, Ai walked into the study where her parents were and greeted them, and they stopped and turned to her, "Hello Ai-chan, how long have you been home?"
Ai shrugged, her blue eyes dull, "Just a few minutes."
"Oh, okay then, I'll go find your brother, your dad has something he wants to tell you," Ran said, looking at Shinichi sternly.
Shinichi gave ran a nervous smile as she exited the room, and left Shinichi to tell her what was so important. She just didn't know how important that was. "Ai, you knew we weren't your real parents right?"
Ai looked at her father confused, as she twirled her dirty blonde hair that was now waist length, "Hai, I knew that, I've always known that dad."
"Well, let's just say that you're really my age in a sense," Shinichi answered bluntly.
"What do you mean dad? I'm seventeen, not old," Ai asked her dad.
"Well, you see your other self didn't want to remember your old life. So she well, she took a pill that shrunk your body and then erased your former memory. Ai, you're not young, you're my age, but in a sense you are, since you forgot everything."
Ai's eyes went blank, her face confused, "Dad, why would I do that to myself?"
"You had a hard life before this, and I offered to take you in. Your other self knows me as an adult, but you wouldn't."
Ai sat down on the chair that was available, "Ai Haibara, that's me isn't it? That name the guy called me, it was because of me Uncle Heiji died isn't it?"
"No Ai, it was his own fault," Shinichi answered to her suspicions and watched as Genta, now as tall and thin as Shinichi was when he was in high school and had black hair, slip out of the room.
Ai started to cry, "Ai Haibara, is that me?"
"Yes, that's one of your names, you're also known as Shiho Miyano, and Akemi is the ghost that keeps coming. That's your real sister, she died along time ago," Shinichi answered, as he hugged Ai, who was trying to calm herself down.
"Dad, I have to remember my other self, didn't I leave a pill to reverse myself?"
Shinichi shook his head, "You didn't want to remember Ai-chan. Please don't hurt yourself."
Ai looked at the person who knew who she really was, "I'm sorry dad! I have to remember, because I need to know."
Shinichi sighed, "You were always like this, even with your other self. I'm telling you it'll end in tears Ai-chan, but if you insist, okay."
Ai wiped her eyes and whispered, "Thank-you dad, I'll be in my room for awhile."
Shinichi looked at who he believed was his daughter and looked up at the high ceiling before looking back at Ai, who was getting up to leave. Before he knew it she was out the door and Shinichi was worried, what effects would this be? Shinichi shook his head, and that's when Genta came back inside. "What did you tell her Shinichi-san?"
Shinichi looked at his friend, "I told Ai who she really is."
Genta ran his hands through his thick black hair before looking over at Shinichi, "Is she going to be okay?"
"I hope so, I think that's all we can do," Shinichi whispered as he turned back to his stack of papers and Genta decided to choose a book off of the bookshelf and sat down in the recliner which was on the far side of the corner.
Ai…
Ai was sitting on her white chair in front of the pearl white vanity table and stared at the mirror. Her face was stoic and now she looked dull, like the world had collapsed around her or something. Then she looked over at the pictures, the smiling ones and the one of Genta and her. If she was really how old she was, isn't her relationship with Genta a bad thing? After all there is a huge age gap, but Ai doesn't remember her past, is it still illegal? Looking back in the mirror Ai whispered, "What happened to me?"
She broke down crying, and looked over at her room, as pink and white as it may be, it was hers and her friends had taken her in. Hugging her, Ai started to scream, well almost, "What did I do to myself?"
Genta came inside then, and Ai looked up at him, gave him a sad smile, "I'm sorry Genta-kun, I'm not who you think I am."
In came Conan then, "What's wrong with sis?"
Genta looked over at the small boy who was the spitting image of Shinichi when he was Conan, except maybe taller and more child-like. "Nothing, why don't you go play for awhile? We'll be okay."
Conan only nodded and walked out of the Ai's room without a care in the world. Genta closed the door before kneeling down on the soft pink carpet next to Ai's chair, "I knew you from both lives too Ai, it's okay, I don't mind. Ai-chan, you're the greatest person in the world, I love you, and I'm okay with who you are."
Ai could only nod and hugged Genta and buried her face in his chest, "I'm sorry, you're stuck with me aren't you? I'm so sorry I'm not like everyone else."
"It's okay Ai-chan, I'll help you anyway I can, I promise," Genta answered her, rubbing her back and burying his nose into her long blonde hair, "Ai, you're my girlfriend, I love you, I'll help you as best as I can."
Ai looked up at Genta, her life long friend, and high school sweetheart, who she had loved forever, at least she hoped, "Thank-you." She didn't need to say anything else as Genta hugged her and she felt slightly better, for now at least.
TBC…