A/N: Yay, thanks for the five reviews! Here's chapter 1! :D

Remember Me, Jimmy Kudo

Chapter 1: The E-mail

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Conan sighed, and let a small smile come onto his face. One truth prevails.

He had solved yet another case earlier today, using Richard Moore to do it, of course. Because of his work, Richard had become an international sensation, while Jimmy Kudo, just seemed to disappear off the face of the earth, except in one person's eyes.

Rachel.

The girl who was taking care of whom she thought was just a little kid genius. She had her suspicions at the beginning, but then, who wouldn't? He and Jimmy looked exactly alike, putting the glasses aside, and the age difference. But then, Rachel pushed the thought away while telling herself she was even too crazy to think that Jimmy could have...

"Conan, are you on the computer?" asked Rachel as she approached his room. She didn't find him anywhere else, but then he wasn't a boy who usually sat down on the couch and watch tv, unless it was the news. Shaking her head, she peeked in.

He saw him staring at something, his eyes slightly wide. "Conan?" she called to him again, thinking he hadn't heard her.

He jumped, and quickly closed the page which Rachel had now realized was his email. Wasn't he kind of young to have an e-mail address? She frowned, she'd have to check the history later...

"I was calling to tell you dinner's on the table, Conan," Rachel smiled sweetly at him, walking over as she gently ruffled the hair on his head, making him groan, which caused her to giggle. He was just too cute!

"Come out before it gets cold, alright?"

Conan merely nodded before his gaze flickered back to the computer screen. Rachel sighed and closed the door silently behind him. Conan sighed shortly after, his heart pounding.

''Why?" Conan whispers as he opens up his e-mail again. "Why after all these years, suddenly write to me again?"

He didn't know what had compelled him to check his e-mail today. He knew the dangers of checking Jimmy Kudo's e-mail at his current residence, but something just..told him to do it. He had done so right when he got home, and the message at the top left him in complete shock, his heart pounding.

'Remember Me, Jimmy Kudo?'

That was the subject of the e-mail. As his eyes moved over to check the name it was...

Kagome Higurashi

It said her name and e-mail and everything, but he was too nervous to look at it. Why, after all these years, suddenly right to him again? Had she heard about his sudden disappearance and was worried?

Hesitantly, his hand almost shaking, he moved the mouse up to the e-mail, and clicked on it once to open it up. It popped up almost immediately.

Jimmy,

Well, I guess best friends do lose touch, huh? I'm real sorry I haven't written to you in any form since years now, but I got caught up in a bit of mess that I caused and I'm trying to fix now. It's too much to explain in an e-mail.

Anyway, I'm on a break for a while now, I'm not expected to go back for a week, I'm surprised I got that much time off from it. I made plans to go and see you, isn't that great?! But, then I heard from Mama that... you seeem to have disappeared. Nobody's heard from you in months now.

Please, Jimmy, if you're okay...if you got this e-mail... reply back. I'm worried.

Love, Kagome 3'

He stared at the last two words, shaking his head. So she had heard of his little disappearing act...he wondered if she knew about-

"Conan!!" came another hollar from the kitchen. "It's getting cold already!"

"Coming, Rachel!" He quickly closed out of the e-mail, and shut the computer down, his heart pounding as he went out to the kitchen to eat his dinner.

Rachel noticed the boy being extremely quiet over dinner, which was odd. Usually he was at least chatting to her about something, it didn't matter what. It made her wonder what he had been looking at on the computer earlier.

"So, Conan, are you hanging out with your friends later?" she asked with a small smile, after swallowing a mouthful of food.

"Huh? Oh...'' Right, his friends, Amy Mitch, and George. He had almost forgotten, they were going to meet at Amy's later and watch a movie. "Yeah, we're all going to Amy's house soon," he said, trying to act excited. Any other day he might have been, but that e-mail was distracting him.

Rachel could tell he didn't look too... excited about the idea, but smiled anyway. "That sounds fun, what are you going to see?"

Conan shrugged. "I don't know, we usually let Amy pick."

"At least she's just a kid, so she'd probably pick something you'd all like. If it were someone my age, they'd probably pick a romance movie," Rachel said, offering him a smile.

He looked up at her, and smiled back a bit. "That's true." He was just about finised his dinner, when he took a glance at the clock. "Uh oh, I have to be there in half-an-hour."

"Then you better finish up eating here, and get ready," Rachel smiled as she took her own finished plate. "Don't worry, I'll clean up."

Conan nodded and did so. Within the next ten or fifteen minutes, Conan was out the door.

"See ya later, Rachel!"

When the door was closed and Rachel saw Conan running down the street, she made her way over to his room.

Time to check that e-mail.