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And thanks to HopeGrace1290, Luckystar4869, JigokuAi, FragMenteDmind and others for reviewing the first chapter. And special thanks to JigokuAi for putting this in favorites and alerts.

And, I am really sorry to FragMenteDmind, about my offending Review Reply to you. I really didn't mean to be rude. I'm VERY sorry, I hope I'm forgiven. Sorry also to gemininus, xxBakaAkki, Claude le noctambule for my mixed Japanese-English… I have to admit that I put a little bit too much of the Japanese there, I promise I will lessen it. I will only stick to the basics like 'Hai' or '-chan, -san" and "Otousan, Okaasan' and 'Arigatou'. I apologized if you were disturbed by this kind of writing style, but still, I thank you for telling the truth and giving criticism for this.

Chapter 2: The Truth

Ai stepped out of the shower room with her bare feet while gently drying her dripping wet hair with a blue towel. She was wearing a cute violet pajama set that hakase bought for her. She found her house slippers and wore them while her hands pushed against the wall to gain balance.

After that relaxing shower, she grinned.

Eyes Too Tired To See the World

It's time, she thought.

- - - - - - -

"Shinichi-kun…" Agasa whispered softly to Conan through the telephone. "Pssstt."

"What?" Conan said while eating a piece of toasted bread and butter, his legs raised on the couch which was opposite from the wooden chair where he sat comfortably. "Why are you whispering?"

"Ai-kun… she went back to her room…" Agasa whispered again, then, Conan became alert.

"It's 8pm hakase…" Conan told him. "Did she eat dinner already?"

Agasa said. "Well, she just ate a little vegetable salad then said "can I be excused" then she ran up to her room and then when I asked her what she was doing, she said that it was nothing interesting, then, she slammed the door shut."

"Okay!" Conan said. "I'll be right there! I'll just climb up her window or something…"

"Well…uh, there's a tall tree beside her room, you could climb up there and enter inconspicuously." Agasa suggested.

"Yokai! (roger) That's a wonderful idea!" Conan grinned while standing up from the wooden armchair. "I'll be right there!"

"Mm." Agasa nodded. "Thank you, Shinichi-kun."

Then, they both hang up.

Conan abruptly stopped eating his toast and said 'good-bye!' to Ran-neechan (with an excuse, of course) before scurrying out of the Mouri Detective Agency towards Agasa hakase's house.

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"I'm sick of this world…" She sobbed. "I want to die…"

"No honey…! Please… I love you!" The man embraced her. "I'll die without you!"

"Oh…sweetheart…!" The girl gasped.

"Oh… darling…" The man whispered.

With all the lights closed, Ai sat down on the edge of her bed and cried softly. A box of unused tissue was on her left side while a trash can filled with wet tissue paper was on her right side. Her legs were crossed and she was wearing her comfortable pajamas. Her eyes were watery and she sniffed and sniffed while blowing her nose on the tissue.

"This is so beautiful…" Ai murmured.

BANG!

"Ah…" The girl gasped, clutching onto the shirt of the man.

"Honey, NOOO!!!" The man yelled, embracing her and carrying her to the hospital.

"Oh wow… their love is so sweet…" She whispered while sniffing. Her eyes were red now.

"Doc! Doc! Is she gonna survive??!" The man asked frantically while crying.

Ai's eyes turned to half moon shapes and she sighed.

"Oh please… of course, she'll live… she was just shot in the stomach… it's not like she was shot in the lungs or chest… and they brought her to the hospital right after her shot… of course, nut head, she'll survive…"

Ai smiled softly while wiping her tears. "It is so romantic…" Ai whispered while daydreaming, cupping her chin with her palms.

- - - - - - -

Conan slowly opened the window and quietly entered her domain with the help of the tall tree right beside hakase's house. It was good that he could fit in that window with a child's body. Haibara seemed to be cutting onions again… Conan thought when he heard the 'thud'…'thud'… sounds of the knife cutting through the onions and then hitting the chopping board. And she was crying again… Conan knew for he heard soft sniffs from her. She seemed to be too preoccupied with something. The television was on, but he didn't seem to care and just simply ignored it. He was already tiptoeing few steps nearer to her but she didn't seem to notice because the TV was rather loud… and it seemed to be a drama/romance film, too.

He slid under her bed and hid there for a moment and observed her actions.

After a long time of cutting onions and crying at the same time, she finally finished the onion cutting and took the medicine bottle which lay on her desk. The TV was still on at this point. When she was about to squeeze a drop of the Olopatadine HCL Patanol on her left eye, Conan quickly got out of her bed in a panic and with a low angry voice, said.

"Don't, Haibara-san."

Ai flinched in surprise, then, put down the dropper on the desk. She turned around with angry eyes. She asked with a tone even lower than his while clenching her fists. It was scary since it was a girl who was talking in that deep angry voice.

"What are you doing here, Kudo?"

She looked him in the eyes angrily.

"How did you get in here?" She asked, pronouncing each word loudly.

Conan smirked and said. "It's a good thing I discovered what you were up to."

Haibara Ai crossed her arms across her chest and asked.

"So, if you're done, get OUT!" She ordered angrily. "And don't tell anyone about what you saw… or else…" She glared. "Why?! I have humane feelings, too!" Haibara screamed. "I don't know how long you've been here… But since this afternoon I could sense you know my little secret… you and hakase… but if you dare tease me about it I'm going to pound you…"

Conan interrupted her and asked innocently. "But… wasn't your plan to become blind?"

Haibara gasped at this, taken aback. Her eyes opened in shock as she scratched her head.

"Why would I want to make myself blind?" She asked. "What gave you that idea?"

Conan explained. "Well, it's because you're dropping that medicine thinggie… with those hard medical terms… and I saw HCL and I know that's hydrochloric acid or muriatic acid… and so… you would want to burn your eyes…"

Haibara blinked for a second then started laughing hard.

Conan blinked again. "So… uh… you're NOT making yourself blind?"

"No…" Haibara said in the middle of her soft laughs. "Of course not, baka! That idea never even crossed my mind! Probably I've thought of suicide sometime in my life but being blind…? No, of course not! What kind of idiot would do that? I'm quite enjoying my life now, actually…"

"But… how do you explain why you put so many onions in hakase's food and you always cut them? And how do you explain why you always lock yourself inside your room every night? What about the doctor that you were seeing? And why do you always say the phrase 'Eyes Too Tired o See the World', huh? It means you're tired of living, right? How do you explain that thing you're dropping in your eyes right now? And what does your notepad mean by 'wait for effect'? You're gonna wait for the effect that you are going to get blind, aren't you?! My reasoning must be correct… I mean… you've been doing a lot of weird stuff lately…"

Conan shifted his foot from left to right, embarrassed.

Haibara started to laugh a bit. "Hakase told you, didn't he?"

"Yeah!" Conan said. "And he was really worried… and I got worried, too… and…"

"You've got it all wrong…" Haibara said while laughing. "That's not it… Fine, I'll tell you, the truth is… My eyes have been itchy these past few days…"

"Itchy?" Conan asked.

"Yeah… you remember we went to that beach last week with the kids and hakase?"

Conan just nodded.

"Well, at that time, some of the sand got inside my eyes and they got really itchy… I tried washing my eyes with water but it was still reddish and it was irritating. So, I thought I had to do something."

"Which is?" Conan asked.

"I had to see a doctor, an ophthalmologist." She explained.

"Ah… ok! So that's what you were pertaining to! And that is also why you take such a long time grocery shopping, right? Because you were going to that doctor in secret without informing hakase about your itchy eyes as to not make him worry, right?" Conan smiled.

"Exactly." Haibara said, nodding.

"But what about the onions?"

"Ah… my doctor told me that I should shed some tears to release the dirt in my eyes… kinda like cleansing… for the treatment… so that's why… hakase has lots of onions in his food because I had too many excess onions… I had to cut lots of onions on purpose so that it will sting my eyes and make me cry, making my eyes… uh… how do I say this… purified… ah no… I mean… cleaner from the dust last Sunday…"

"Oh…" Conan said, nodding. "So that thing you're dropping…?"

"Yes, it's my medicine the doctor gave me." Haibara said.

"But I thought Hydrochloric acid will…"

Haibara laughed. "It just contains really minimal amounts… this drug is really for patients who have itchy eyes… it won't do any harm."

"Oh… ok… but that still doesn't explain everything now, does it?"

"Ok… the reason why I locked myself up every night was because I was watching my favorite show… and I didn't want to be disturbed." She reasoned.

"Oh… but, why did hakase see you cry and have red eyes every morning?"

"Well… the movie was touching… and you know I'm just human." Haibara said. "That's exactly why I locked my room and didn't tell anyone about the romance film I am watching daily because you might find out that I cry and you'll ridicule me and my pride will be lowered down… Well, now you know, Kudo-kun."

"R—Romance?!" Conan screeched. "So the one you were watching…"

"Yeah, I was watching that episode a while ago… it was so beautiful... it was about two lovers who--"

Holding his hand up, Conan said. "Never mind. Now that I know, I don't need to know the story of the film you're watching… Jeez you're just like Ran… I didn't think it was possible for you to like such a sappy film."

"It is not sappy! It is tragic, beautiful and sentimental… I love it." Haibara protested. "And, I'm a girl… I'm just human… Of course I didn't show you my real self…"

"Ok… but why do you always say the phrase 'Eyes Too Tired to See the World'?" Conan asked.

"I told you… I'm addicted to that show." She explained again.

"And so…?" Conan asked, not understanding the obvious connection.

Haibara's eyes drooped as she told him. "You're really dense, Kudo…" She sighed when he looked at her with questioning eyes. "The title of that Romance Film is 'Eyes Too Tired to See the World'. It's about a girl, who has given up on life because of her eyesight, but then a man loved her and she got back all hope when she also fell in love with him. But sadly, the girl's enemy fired a gun at her and--"

"Oh…" Conan smiled cheekily. "How stupid of me… my reasoning was completely wrong from the start… So… you were referring to the film… and that was the reason why you always cried… and what you meant by 'wait for effect' was waiting for the effect of the medicine to reduce the itchiness… right?"

"That's 100% correct, Kudo." Haibara said. "Now, if you don't mind, how did you get in?"

"Through that window… up that tree…" Conan grinned.

"My, my, I guess I have to lock that next time…" Haibara said, shaking her head.

"Anyway, I'm sorry…" Conan apologized. "… for barging in."

A smile formed on Haibara's lips. "Still, I have to thank you. Thanks to you and hakase… for the concern…"

"Well, you're important to us, Haibara." Conan reminded her, patting her shoulder. "To all of us…"

"Now, if you don't mind… if you have nothing else to say, please leave the room NOW…" Haibara ordered.

Conan flinched and nodded slowly, headed for the window.

"Oh, and, I'd prefer if you went out through that door." Haibara said while pointing towards her bed room door. "I wouldn't want any detective getting an accident by falling off a tree. It's much safer to climb down a tree than just to go down the stairs." She said sarcastically.

Conan smiled again while scratching his head. "Oh alright." Opening the door, he looked back and said. "Have a good sleep, Haibara-san."

Haibara smiled back a little. "You too, Kudo-kun"

Conan eventually closed the door and went downstairs, telling hakase all about the mysterious actions of Haibara Ai.

Ai walked towards her window and opened it. She saw the full moon outside and seeing that breathtaking beauty of nature, she whispered with a rare smile on her face.

"Thank you, Kudo, have a good sleep."

(END)

Started this chapter 2: 10:45 am Sunday January 4, 2009

Unfortunately, I forgot when I wrote this whole story… It was sometime either duringSeptember, October or November…yeah, somewhere in the near end of 2008! Thanks for reading! Anyway, this thing was ended:

6:57 pm of Monday March 23, 2009

PS: If you are wondering, I learned Olopatadine HCL Patanol from my mom who is a doctor.