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CHAPTER 2

Ayumi looked grief stricken as she dropped the phone down to the receiver, her mouth opening and shutting continuously. What---did she just hear? She shook herself lightly. She shouldn't be this stupid and irrational. Conan loved her. He loved her, right? She bit her lip as she looked at a photograph at her and the rest of the Detective Boys and frowned.

But it was true that Haibara was much closer to Conan than many other people, but that was just because she let her defenses down on her by a bit, but that was because she was her friend. She was her friend right? She looked at the clock with a small glare. It was nine.

There was about thirty minutes to bedtime. All she had time for was a short bath, a short read of her favourite book, and then it was straight to bed. She sighed. At least there was school the next day. She was sure there was a logical explanation for his actions. Maybe it was April's fool or something.

She kissed her photo of Conan and went to get ready for her shower.

Little did she knew that April's Fool did not take place in July.

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Conan yawned and got to his feet. " Well," he said. " I'm going back to Ran's before she gets worried or something."

" No." Haibara said firmly.

So firmly that he turned, surprised.

" What?" he asked.

" We're going to have to go to school together, or else Ayumi wouldn't get the full impact. If I don't get it wrong, I am pretty sure that she would be waiting outside our house tomorrow, hoping to see if I would come alone or with you. But she wouldn't show herself, that's for sure."

Conan was taken aback.

She sure did know her stuff.

" Are you sure it isn't for something else?" he asked, a cocky grin on his face.

She looked surprised for a moment, before showing a bashful smile, walking over to him. Conan's eyebrows raised, and it widened as he felt Haibara's breath on his face, barely nose apart.

" Why else do you think I agreed to act as your girl-friend?" she whispered, a hand on his thigh.

He gasped out loud and the Professor's mouth opened in shock.

" If you don't mind," she continued on, her tongue coming out of her mouth to lick her dry lips. " I would gladly share my bed with you."

" I---er---," he sputtered.

She pulled away, smirking.

" Just kidding," she grinned, rearranging her skirt.

The Professor started to laugh as Conan's blushing face turned quickly to embarrassment to anger. " Haibara---," he growled. She turned, smirking. " Yes, Kudo?" she said.

He felt his anger ebb away as he sighed.

" Nothing. Professor---can you lend me your phone?"

" No problem, Casanova." He said, amused.

Haibara smirked as she watched Conan walk away.

' You think I've shown all my tricks, Kudo-kun?' she thought.

' I'm just getting started.'

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Conan woke up the next morning with an aching back.

He sat up straight, looking sideways at the clock. It was six in the morning. There were still two whole more hours to go, but he got out of bed, looking sideways at the two sleeping people beside him. The Professor lent him a mattress to sleep on, and he slept not far away from Haibara.

He smiled softly at her sleeping figure.

To think that such a cute-looking child could be one of the most notorious plan-makers he had ever known scared him. But that was one of the reasons that made her adorable, he guessed. He started to change in the dark, and with some difficulty, got changed. His dressing style changed totally, no more wearing that ridiculous bow tie followed by a tuxedo-like dressing, and it was lucky that he did, because there were come massive bullies in the school.

There was the sound of someone stirring, and he put on his glasses uncertainly. He had to wear them every time, because of the extreme similarity of him and his old-self, he was afraid that someone might notice. Maybe Haibara was right. Maybe he DID have to move into the Professor's house.

" Kudo?" she asked, rubbing her eye sleepily.

" Yeah?" he asked.

She didn't say anymore, but get up groggily to her feet, kicking the blankets off her body. " What are you doing up so early?" she asked with a yawn. " Don't we usually have to throw a rock at you before you get up?"

" Not all the time," he said defensively.

She smirked.

" So what do you plan to do today?" he asked cautiously. " I don't want you to take this too far. She still is a girl, and is much younger than we are, so I don't want you playing real or anything."

" Aww, that's so sweet of you." She said, grinning.

He blushed.

" But relax," she said, shrugging her shoulders. " I was thinking about the exact same thing. I haven't even scratched the surface to hurting her, but I don't think she will be that nice to me. I'm glad you approached me instead of any other girl, or she is in for it. Deep."

He nodded seriously.

" The Ayumi team is rather strong, I must say. If I was the age I was when I was younger, I don't know if I can fend her off by myself. I think we might have to get some help by some of your other friends. There are roughly two boys and two girls, all ready to hurt and shove. But they all are human, and thus have their weaknesses and strengths. We must move to their weaknesses, and try to avoid them when they all attack as one. If they attack at once, I don't think I can fend them off, and you'll have to come in to help."

He nodded.

" There's altogether Ayumi, Genta, Mitsuhiko and this girl called Sumiko." She said seriously, counting them off with her fingers. " Ayumi might be the toughest one, because she has the brain in tactics. Not the kind of strategy as me, but she is famous of doing bad things to her enemies behind their backs, and that means I must watch myself at all times. But her weakness is you, and I already have an idea for that inside my head. Next is Genta. He's strong that's for sure, but he's stupid, so a simple diversion would work flawlessly. Mitsuhiko is smart, which could spell trouble for us, but it's all in his mind and doesn't usually speak his mind, and would usually listen to Ayumi's orders, and thus he isn't that big of a problem. Sumiko is easy. Taking her out would be easy. Questions?"

" Yeah." He said uneasily. " How do you think this would end?"

" Ayumi may not seem it, but she is extremely weak-willed. We just have to date for at most two weeks, and I think you'll have her out of your hair."

He nodded.

" Sounds good."

They dressed, and got ready for school.

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Sure enough, they could see a tiny shadow prodding out from behind a pillar outside their house, and he let a smile escape his mouth. Haibara was good. She was very good. Haibara had suddenly changed personality completely and held his hand, looking away, blushing furiously.

Conan looked at her, surprised.

She looked at him.

And winked.

They walked onwards, Haibara leaning her head on his shoulder as he edged his hand across her shoulder. Ayumi bit her lip, anger filling her heart. ' Fine, Haibara.' She thought, getting out her hand phone. ' You want to battle? I'm game. I'm totally game.'

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There was rain that day as Conan and Haibara, as usual, sat together. They saw Ayumi enter the classroom a second after, and the class waited with baited breath at what Ayumi had to say at the sight of this.

" Good morning, Ai? Conan!" Ayumi said, and several people took a sigh of relief. Ayumi sat down near them, the usual smile on her face. Only Haibara saw through her. She frowned. There was something wrong with that smile of hers. She had already started to work things out. She turned and observed the looks on the Genta, Mitsuhiko and Sumiko.

They were grinning at her.

She smirked back.

And so the game begins.

It was already through experience that Haibara knew that boys acted by force, and if they were unhappy with you, they would walk up to you during recess and say, " I'm not happy with you." But with girls, they worked in secret, and hit on you behind your back. Ayumi wasn't so stupid after all. If she had acted grumpy and everything she would naturally suspect that Ayumi was doing things to her behind her back. In this case, with that smug, laughing smile on her face, Haibara knew that she had a plan. A pretty good plan at that.

She fished out her timetable, ignoring Ayumi who was trying to make contact with her, one hand on Conan's hand, and the other on his thigh. She looked at the lessons, an eyebrows raised. It was Science next, followed by double Physical Education, then a math lesson, and then double English. She slowly plotted her plan out. She wasn't planning on doing anything to Ayumi and the rest today unless she did anything back, and she would lie on defense for the time being.

During science Ayumi couldn't do anything, as being twelve years old they didn't work with dangerous chemicals such as acid (No matter how diluted they were), broken test tubes, falling tripod stands, and other dangerous things in the laboratory. In fact, there was nothing else but stay in the classroom and read or do work, so she was perfectly safe during that lesson.

Next following up was double physical education, and she had to be sure to be careful of that class, or else she could ' accidentally' hit in the face with a basketball. But the boys played separately form the girls, so she didn't think she would get hurt that bad. Plus, most of the girls were on her side due to her smartness and cool, so she didn't think anyone would agree with Ayumi or Sumiko to hurt her, so she didn't have that much of a problem there. Plus, those two girls were weak.

Next was math, and Ayumi couldn't do anything because she the teacher was just plain strict.

The last with double English. Again there was nothing Ayumi could do, as it was acting day. Nothing much, just plain drama in front of the class, and she couldn't slap her in front of the class without being scolded or something.

She smirked and put the timetable back in her back and zipped it shut. As long as Ayumi didn't do anything or act stupid again to Conan, she didn't think that she had to bother much.

" Ai-chan." Ayumi repeated and she looked up.

" Yes?" Haibara said.

There was uncertainty and betrayal in Ayumi's eyes, but didn't know whether she should say it. Haibara watched her struggle with, amused. Would she do it? She wondered. She was feeling unnaturally mean today, she admitted. If Ayumi did this to her a few weeks ago, she would have patted her shoulder and told her to relax, as that whole girl-friend thing was joke, and was sure that the three of them and Genta and Mitsuhiko would all have a good laugh.

But what she had been doing to Conan was almost absolute obsesity, and was sure that she had seen a spycam in his bathroom one day when she had visited his house one day. But she was a child after all, and as long as she didn't do anything to her or annoy Conan to the absolute depths of the Earth, she wouldn't do anything to her. She was still human, after all.

" Nothing." Ayumi said, turning away.

Haibara smiled sadly.

' Sorry.' She thought softly. ' But what has to be done has to be done.'

Ayumi looked at her team at the edge of her eye. They gave her the thumbs up sign. She grinned.

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As Haibara suspected, Ayumi didn't do anything to her in science lesson, only questioning her about what she thought about the lesson, in what Haibara answered with a dull tone that she would rather ride on the back of a gay camel. Ayumi let out a big laugh at that, and the two girls were sent to the wall.

Haibara was really impressed with Ayumi, as her acting was so superb that she almost forgot that Ayumi was plotting on revenge on her, and had to pity the people who made her angry or got in her way.

Before they knew it, it was time of Physical Education. Ayumi was not changing beside Haibara as usual, and Haibara raised her eyebrows but said nothing, knowing perfectly clear what she was planning. On the far end, Ayumi and Sumiko were talking. " Okay," Ayumi said. " Haibara is a really popular girl in the school with both the boys and the girls, and after asking quite a large amount of people why they liked her so much, I found out what was good about her."

Sumiko nodded.

" They like her smartness for once." Ayumi said. " That's something that I can do nothing about. All I can try to do is to change her test papers when the teacher leaves the room, but I know that's not possible, because the writing of hers and mine is totally different, even if I just simply change her number ' 3' to an '8'. Plus, the teachers know she gets a hundred all the time, and would question her even if she got one question wrong, and find out. And even if that isn't so, I don't think me, Genta, Mitsuhiko or you could get a hold on them anyway."

" Why?" Sumiko asked rather stupidly.

" Because she marks the papers on the spot." Ayumi said, rather disbelievingly. " And so do many of the other teachers."

" Oh." Sumiko said.

" Next is that she's beautiful." She went on. " I think I might be able to put some powders in her food or something to make her sick. You create a diversion while I slip something in. Through years of being her friend, I know she can conduct tests, and thus will be able to get away measles that I can pass onto her, so the best one would have to be sneezing powder."

" Okay." Sumiko said.

" Next is that she's cool." Ayumi said, frowning. " I guess I could give her itching powder or something."

" Yeah." Sumiko said brightly.

" Next is that she's untouchable." She continued. " So I think that even if I say some rumors about her nobody would care, and that would be totally useless. But I'll just have to give it a shot."

" Yeah." Sumiko said.

" But there are bad things about her too." Ayumi said reasonably. " She's human too, you know. " The first thing I know about her weakness is that she's not that good at sports, but better than many others, so I guess that's scrubbed off the list." She paused for a moment, before letting her face light up.

" I read her diary one day." She said, a grin on her face. " That her sister died from some place called the Black Organization. I think that's fake, but let's just act that out in a play or something to let her know that we're onto her."

" Bingo." Yumiko said. " There's play acting today."

" Excellent." Ayumi said, before walking out of the toilet.

Then she raised her eyebrows at Sumiko.

" Is ' Yeah' or 'Okay' the only things you can say?" she asked.

" Yeah." Sumiko answered.

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Physical Education ended fairly fast, and it was time for recess. Conan had dressed up in his uniform once more, but hurrying to get a bite, Haibara didn't, and sat there in her PE uniform. Several boys watched her, blushing, and looked away when she turned around. Conan blushed as he saw her legs, and tried to concentrate on his food. But Haibara saw him.

" I never knew you were a voyeur, Kudo-kun." She whispered throatily, and he spat out the drink in his mouth. " Could it be that I acclaimed one of your secret fetishes?" His face was beet red now as he clawed into his pants. She winked and smiled. " Just kidding." She said.

" Haibara!" Ayumi said, grinning at her.

Haibara smiled back.

" Take a look at this!" she said, placing a photo before her face, dropping sneezing powder into her food which was in the same hand. (Try it, it worked for me. I love doing pranks) In fact, she pulled it off so well that neither of the not-so-young-teens didn't notice. Haibara raised her eyebrows at it cautiously. This girl had something going on in her mind, she could tell.

She looked at it.

It was of herself at the sports center.

Haibara raised her eyebrows at it while Conan blushed.

" Okay," she said. " It's a picture of me. What about it?"

" Oh, it's nothing." Ayumi said, pocketing it. " I'm just sure that a lot of guys in the school would be glad to have a picture of you in short tight pants."

Conan had a small feeling of Shiho in those but shook himself mentally.

Haibara frowned at Ayumi's cheerful smile.

She was going to do it, she thought. She was going to do it.

" Fine," she said, smiling at her, crossing her legs. Ayumi flinched. " But I think that they might pay more for a picture of you in a bathing suit."

They looked at each other.

Ayumi knew inside her heart that more than half the guys would pay double to see a plain picture of Haibara in a sweater than a picture of herself totally naked. But she held herself together.

Ayumi smiled.

" Thanks." She said, and walked off.

Haibara smiled softly.

" Not good to keep things bottled up." She muttered, getting back to her food.

Conan frowned.

" Haibara---do you think she had some ulterior motive of showing you that photo?" he asked her uneasily.

" Yes." She said haughtily. Then she stopped eating. She spat out the rice she had in her mouth and glugged down as much drink as possible. She placed a hand gently on the top of her rice, and felt the soft grains on top. " Damn." She muttered. " Let my guard down for a second, and this is what she does."

" What is it?" Conan asked anxiously.

Haibara sniffed it.

" Sneezing powder." She said. " It works after ten minutes. I guess I'll have to spend some money on tissues, right?"

Conan sighed.

" Sorry, Haibara."

She smiled sincerely. " It's okay. Anything for a friend."

He felt his face redden.

" Plus, I get a free dress." She continued, grinning.

The blush fell off his face as quick as a bowling ball above the Grand Canyon.

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True enough, she was sneezing all over herself, and quite a number of girls and boys gave her tissues and concerned looks, and it was only now that Conan knew how many admirers and stalkers she had. A girl invited her to go to her house for some chicken soup; a boy gave her a lace-embroidered handkerchief and he swore he saw a boy pocket a handkerchief she blew on.

Ayumi was secretly pleased with herself as she saw Haibara's nose all red and sneezing, but was angry and jealous with all the people caring for her, and knew the cold she gave her would go away by English.

Sure enough, Haibara was well by English, and paired up with Conan during acting. Surprisingly, Haibara and Conan saw Ayumi automatically go towards Sumiko. She looked at Conan confusingly, and he just shrugged. Haibara frowned at Ayumi's back. She was planning something, she could tell.

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They went group by group, and soon enough, Ayumi and Sumiko went up, with several claps and cheers. Ayumi wasn't that unpopular with the boys after all, but most had their hearts set on Haibara. Needless to say.

When they started, Haibara lounged in her seat peacefully, watching them as they showed a gunfight, but when Sumiko acted dead and yelled at the running away Black Organization, she felt a cold chill down her spine. Was---Ayumi---could she possibly? They went on to the death of Sumiko, with Ayumi crying by her side. Haibara's eyes bore at them with rage, unknown tears threatening to fall out of her eyes.

Haibara---," Conan whispered.

Haibara glared up at Ayumi.

Ayumi hid a smirk across her lips as the crowd applauded.

" Who wants to go next?" the teacher said.

" Me and Co-chan," Haibara said at the last words, smirking backwards at Ayumi. Ayumi remained motionless, although her eyes let herself away. Several murmers erupted, but nothing else was said. They did a scientist/detective short scene, and was a rather well-done act they admitted, gaining laughs and smiles from the teacher and the students alike.

Haibara hid a smirk.

It was at the near end.

Time to end it.

" Thank you, Tantei-san." She said, a smile on her face as she wrapped her arms around Conan's neck. Conan's eyes widened in shock. This wasn't part of the act. Was she going to add more scenes because of the hate to Ayumi?? But he hadn't rehearsed at all, what was he going to---

" You're wel---," he said out but was cut short with her soft lips pressing against his.

END OF CHAPTER 2

Hahaha, a cliffhanger. How was it? I was pretty happy while I was writing it, I have half the mind to add on more chapters and add a sequel. As most of you all know, Conan is starting to fall for Haibara. I'm hoping to make a big happening in every chapter that I do, and if I'm lucky I can achieve that. I'll write what will most likely happen in the next.

Thank you all so very much!!!!

(Tell me if Haibara is OOC. I hope she's not. I just think she's very touchy about her sister and everything. Please read and review!!!

NEXT CHAPTER

Terribly angry,. Ayumi launches into silent attack. Something bad.

Haibara has a bad feeling about that.

What does she do?

Easy and simple.

The seduction of Mitsuhiko.