Hello! As mentioned in the summary, I have adopted this story from conan44ed. I haven't taken it over or anything. I'm just posting it and helping write it. So if you want the beginning of the story, I suggest you read his conan44ed's "Ran's New Life".

Chapter 2: Shopping for Conan:

Amaya rubbed her half-closed eyes as she peeked out of her room. As they adjusted to the bright sunlight shining through the windows of Detective Mouri's office, she noticed that Conan was on her father's desk. As she moved closer, she noticed that he was going through Detective Mouri's files on yet-to-be-solved mysteries.

"Conan-kun, what are you doing?" Amaya asked.

"Oh, Amaya, you're up!" Conan almost looked like he was caught red-handed, but quickly recovered and added, "I'm, uh, just trying to figure these things out."

"Conan! You can't do that! Ojisan will get mad if he sees you going through his stuff!" Then she added, "And Obasan is gonna be coming soon, so you need to clean up your room!"

"Yeah, yeah," Conan said as he hopped down from the chair and headed toward his room, muttering to himself, "It's your room now too, you know."

While Conan was cleaning up, Amaya started working on making breakfast. Conan, after finishing up his room, was drawn out when he smelled what Amaya was making.

"I didn't know you could cook," he said.

However, before Amaya could respond, Eri burst into the kitchen and, when she saw Amaya cooking, completely ignored Conan and grabbed the girl up into a bear hug. "Oh, I'm so glad you're alright!" the lawyer exclaimed. "I wasn't sure that it was true, but now that I see that it was . . ." her voice trailed off as she squeezed Amaya once again, making her cough slightly at the lack of air.

"You can . . . let me go now," Amaya managed to say.

Conan, feeling a bit awkward at interrupting their apparent reunion, said, "Huh? You know each other?"

"Y-yeah," Eri replied. She quickly thought of a makeshift story and said, "It's just that Amaya here hasn't visited us in so long, I was starting to worry."

"Oh," Conan said. Then he realized something. "Wait a minute, why are you here anyway? I thought you and Ojisan were living separate." Amaya had told Conan that Eri would be living here now last night, but he was trying to get some sleep and so wasn't paying very close attention at the time.

"Obasan had a change of heart," Amaya said quickly, going along with their idea from yesterday.

"Really?" Conan said skeptically. Amaya nodded her head.

A loud yawn interrupted the conversation and everyone looked up to see Detective Mouri Kogoro standing in the doorway. "Oh, hey Eri," he said before going immediately toward Amaya to see what she was cooking.

"Is that anyway to greet your wife after not seeing her for so long?" Eri asked.

"Yeah, yeah," he replied, getting out dishes for the four people for breakfast.

"Hmph, I'll never get that man," Eri muttered to herself.

As the family ate breakfast, Eri, Kogoro and Amaya described their made-up story on what brought Amaya here in the first place. But Conan was a little more interesting on why Ran had left without saying anything in the first place. Wouldn't she at least call and tell Shinichi that she was going to study abroad? He shook his head; it wasn't the time to worry about that now. Mouri was just finishing up the story by saying, "And that's where I called you to ask for those clothes."

"I see," Conan replied.

After breakfast, while Eri doted on Amaya, Conan started getting ready for school. After a few minutes, he warned Amaya that she had better start getting ready as well so that she wouldn't be late for school. She pulled herself away from Eri and got ready.

Amaya and Conan walked out of the door of the Mouri Detective Agency, both hoping that the parents would be able to get along okay without them. The two shrunken teens continued their way to Teitan Elementary School without saying much, until Conan ran ahead of Amaya. When they arrived, Conan told the teacher about the girl and went to his seat, where the Detective Boys were waiting.

"Ne, Conan-kun," Ayumi asked, "what were you talking to Kobayashi-sensei about?"

"There's a new girl that's gonna be living at my house now. Apparently, she's Ran-nee-chan's cousin."

"Really? Cool!" Ayumi replied.

Then Amaya came in saying, "Geez, Conan-kun, leaving me behind like that!" Then she thought to herself, At least I knew where I was going.

Then Kobayashi-sensei gestured Amaya over and addressed the entire class, saying, "Good morning, everyone! This is Mouri Amaya. She's going to be in your class from now on."

"C-cute," Ayumi, Mitsuhiko and Genta said.

"Why don't you take a seat over there, next to Conan-kun?" the teacher said. Ayumi nodded and went over. Then Kobayashi-sensei started the lesson.

Sometime during the lesson, Amaya thought to herself, This is so easy, I've already learned it all. Bored, she looked around to see how the others were doing. Ayumi, Genta and Mitsuhiko were all paying attention, while Conan and Haibara seemed zoned out.

After school let out, Ayumi immediately went over to the new girl and asked, "Amaya-chan, do you want to join the Detective Boys?"

"Eh?" she asked.

"We're the Detective Boys," Genta explained, gesturing to the other four, "We solve cases around the school when people come to us for help."

"And we have gadgets too!" Mitsuhiko added, showing Amaya his detective badge and flashlight watch.

"So, do you want to join?" Ayumi asked.

Amaya looked at the hopefully faces of the three kid and replied, "I guess." Hopefully there wouldn't be any murders though. She shivered a bit at the thought of the ones she had seen.

"Yay!" the three children exclaimed.

"Looks like we have another member," Haibara said to Conan.

"Guess so," Conan replied. The Detective Boys quickly checked to see if anyone had asked for them to solve a case - nobody had - and then they went their separate ways.

When Conan and Amaya got home, they heard yelling coming from inside. They both sighed and "sweat-dropped". They climbed up the stairs and opened the door where they heard the yelling coming from. Amaya sighed when she saw that the two were arguing over how often Mouri watches Okino Yoko. The two noticed that the "kids" had come home and stopped arguing immediately.

"I'm home," Amaya said.

"Welcome back," Eri replied, turning her attention away from her husband.

"I wish you guys would stop arguing."

"We've been trying, Amaya. It's just not that easy."

Amaya sighed and headed to her room to work on her homework, which she knew would go by in a flash. Conan watched the interesting exchange between the two. He guessed that Amaya had seen the two argue a lot. Then he followed Amaya to their room and starting working on his homework as well.

The two soon finished their homework very quickly and went on to do their own things. Amaya went to talk to her parents about her "first day of school" at Teitan Elementary while Conan stayed in his room to read his Sherlock Holmes again.

When Amaya came back into her room, she looked around and saw Conan on the bed reading. He looked rather bored, as if he had already read the book several times over.

"Ne, Conan," she asked, "Why are you reading all the time?"

"I don't know," he replied in a bored voice that seemed somehow different from his normal voice, "there's not really much to do besides watching TV and reading, and I don't want to watch TV all the time."

"Oh," Amaya replied. She looked around at the room. Then she walked out and searched the agency a bit. Now that she thought about it, there wasn't really anything here for the 7-year-old to play with. No wonder he jumped at any chance there was a case. Those cases provided excitement for him. And if he's always reading detective books and watching detective movies and hanging out around crime scenes when her dad was solving them, then it's no wonder that he's always so smart and helps her dad with cases every once in awhile. No, not every once in awhile. Almost every time by noticing strange things that often lead to the solving of the case.

Eri noticed Ran's looking around the detective agency and asked her, "Ran, what's wrong?"

"Shh," Amaya replied. "Mom, don't call me that when there's a chance of someone else hearing you." She glanced toward her room, where Conan was reading.

"Okay then, Amaya," Eri amended, "why are you looking around like that?"

"Mom," Amaya ventured, "I think we need to get Conan-kun some toys. I've searched this place through and haven't found one regular toy that he could play with. He's had to resort to watching TV and re-reading his books."

"Really?" Eri asked, surprised. Then she looked over at where Kogorou was listening to horse racing with a very serious look on his face. "Well, it looks like THAT PERSON hasn't been paying much attention to the boy's needs."

"So then, can we get him something next time we go out?"

"Of course! Why wouldn't we? But let's make it a surprise for him."

Amaya smiled, "Thanks, Mom!"

Then next day, Eri left with Amaya to go shopping. Of course, they only told Conan that they would be getting food for dinner, when actually they'd make a couple other stops.

After getting the food, Eri took Amaya to a clothes shop close by. "Now that you've become smaller, we'll have to get you new clothes that actually fit. You've been wearing the clothes from your childhood for the past few days, and we don't want anybody to think you look to much like Mouri Ran that way."

"Okay!" Ran replied, wishing that perhaps Sonoko could come along, as they walked into the store. Eri immediately headed toward the "girls'" section and started picking out clothes for Amaya.

"How about this?" she asked, holding up a few dresses. One was frilly and pink with purple polka dots. Another had the characters of a little kids' show on it. The third was lavender with bright pink flowers scattered around it.

"Mom!" Amaya protested, "You know I'd rather not have these! It's too childish! These are for little kids!"

"Exactly!" Eri responded, "And now you're a little kid again, so it'd make more sense if you were to wear things like this!"

"Moooom . . ." Amaya sighed. However, she resigned and let her mother buy the clothes, along with many, many others like the three dresses. Amaya shook her head, sighing again, while they were checking out.

Afterwards, they went across the street to buy the toys for Conan. As they were crossing the street, a thought suddenly struck Amaya. "But Mom," she said, "What about when Conan sees us coming back with a whole bunch of bags and things?"

"What about it?" Eri replied.

"Well, wouldn't he question it?" Amaya explained. "After all, we just suddenly got a whole bunch of clothes. Wouldn't he think it strange?"

"Hm, you're right," Eri replied, looking up as she thought about it. "We could always sneak them in."

"Um, I don't think that'll work . . ."

"Well then, we could just say that we forgot to pick up your luggage. But in that case, we'd also need to get a suitcase to put them in . . ."

The mother and daughter walked into the toy store and searched around for things that a 7-year-old boy might like. Amaya went to look over at the Kamen Yaiba toys. As she picked a few out, she thought about the conversation she and Conan had had when she first came back as a child. How he was being contradictory about whether he liked the show or not. Confused, she decided to get the toys anyway, just in case. She looked around for some other things that he might like. She spotted a soccer ball in an isle nearby. Now that she thought about it, that boy really loved soccer, didn't he? And he didn't have a ball of his own either. She added the soccer ball to the Yaiba toys in the cart.

After Amaya and Eri had gotten many more toys that they thought Conan would like, they checked out and headed home. When they got back, Conan asked, as Amaya expected, "Whoa, you guys got a lot of things. Why so much?" He noticed that at least half of the bags were filled with clothes. "There's a lot of clothes, too," he added.

"Yeah, that's because we forgot to bring Amaya's luggage in," Eri quickly replied. Then she added, "Amaya, can you take these to the kitchen?" She handed her the bag of food.

"Okay!" Amaya replied.

"What's everything else, then?" Conan asked.

"That's for you!" Amaya replied, quickly coming back from the kitchen to see Conan's expression when he saw all the toys they had gotten for him. She emptied out the bags to show him.

"Wow!" Conan replied, seemingly very excited. "That's a lot! Thank you very much, Eri-san!"

"I'm glad you like them!" Eri replied. However, when she left, Conan's tone changed completely.

"Why'd she get me so much stuff?" he muttered, forgetting that Amaya was still there. "I don't even like these kinds of things. They're stupid, childish things for kids," he added, subconsciously dribbling the soccer ball as he walked back into his room to search it once again to see if there was some book he hadn't read yet.

"Eh?" Amaya asked herself when Conan had left. What was that about? she thought, It seems like he didn't care about anything besides his soccer ball. Was he lying again when he showed Mom that reaction? Hm, maybe she should tell her mom about that, and how he didn't really care about the toys they had gotten for him . . .

Hope you liked it!