I've Never Felt So Young

"Hey, hey wake up!" I quickly sat up from whoever was calling me. I looked around to see I was laid out in a bed in a hospital. I noticed my head and my side were wrapped in gauze. There was also a police officer sitting by my bed. He must have been the one who was calling me. "Feeling better kid?"

"Y-yeah, wait the men in black? Did you get them?" He seemed confused after I said that.

"Men? What men? We found you in the middle of the street passed out with major injuries." I shook my head not believing it.

"What about the car?"

"What car?"

"The car that exploded!" He then started laughing at me.

"Ha-ha, kid there was nothing there when we found you." I got off the bed only to lose my balance. I held on to the edge of the bed to help me up. Everything seemed bigger to me for some reason. As I tried to walk my shoes tripped me.

"Ah, damn show laces," I mumbled to myself. The officer came over to me to see if I was all right. I waved my hand at him so he wouldn't help me up. As I lifted myself up he started to ask me a question.

"Now kid, mind telling how you got the wound on your side?" I felt shivers going down my spine. The men in black weren't caught, so how am I supposed to explain the gunshot? I looked around the room to see a window above to bed. I guess I have no choice.

"Sure, I'll tell you everything." I jumped on the bed, which made him even more confused. I gave him a small smile. "If you catch me." I jumped through window while covering my face with my arms. Shards flew everywhere. I could hear the officer panicking as I landed outside the hospital.

I was really relived that I was in a room in the first floor and in front of it as well. I ran for it. Though it was hard since my laces were untied. It was already the middle of the night as I ran home. There was no one around to see me running for my life.

"Damn, I would've have told him, but they didn't catch them. Oh officer I don't know how that got here, is that what I was suppose to say?" I stopped running so I could catch my breath. I'd stopped somewhere in a neighborhood. For some reason I felt weaker. I looked to my wound to see it's opened up from the entire running. I had no choice, but to rest against the wall that was connected to someone's gate.

My breathing wasn't going down and neither was the blood. My vision was getting blurry as well. I put my hand over the wound. There was no stopping the blood anyway; this might just delay it a little. I closed my eyes trying to calm down. "Ha-ha, I don't even know where I am…"

That's when I heard footsteps coming close to me. I didn't want to open my eyes. It didn't sound like they were going to hurt me, they weren't trying to be sneaky or running towards me for that matter. I just waited for a voice. "You okay," when I heard that voice I knew who it was. I peeked through one eye to see I was right.

"S-Scott…" He's one of my best friends. He was taller than me, spiky blonde hair, blue eyes; he wore a long sleeved shirt that had blue and green stripes, cargo shorts, and tennis shoes. He seemed surprised to hear me say his name. He got down on one knee to look at me.

"Do I know you girly?" I tried to hit him with my free arm, but I was so weak that it just fell back down. "Wait, are you hurt?" I nodded my head slowly.

"I got shot, but you seriously don't recognize me?" He shook his head while pushing away my hand from the wound. The blood spread all over the gauze.

"Shit, looks like the bullet went through and through. I need to get you to uncle's." He lifted me up bridal style. My wound stung a bit.

"Scott! It's me! Sam!" He stopped to only stare at me. His face was only a few inches away from mine. I felt a slit blush on my cheeks. He squinted his eyes until they widen.

"Is that really you in this tiny body?" I felt a little more confused. Tiny body? I looked down at my body to see he was right. I couldn't believe that I didn't notice this sooner. I'd shrunk. I nodded at him slowly. "Huh, you're even cuter this way." This time I had enough strength to smack him across the head.

"Would you just help me with this wound already!" He laughed as he walked over to the house next to the one I was rest in front of. It was a small house and roundish. Seemed like an odd house to me. He opened the gate with a key he'd had. As he walked towards the door there was someone opening it from the other side.

When the door opened I saw it was an old man. He was bald on top of his head but not the side of his head, had a mustache, some casual clothes with a lab coat, glasses, and some slippers. He seemed surprised to see me in Scott's arms. I waved at him to assure him this was nothing to misunderstand.

"Hey there uncle! I sort of need some help with her. I just need some antibiotics and gauze." The old man nodded as he held the door open for us. He quickly ran to get the supplies. Scott closed the door behind us. He began walking towards the couch in the living. He gently laid me out there. The old man late came back.

"Who is this girl, Scotty?" Scott looked at his uncle with worried eyes.

"She's my friend, somehow she ended up in the body of a child. I don't know how this happened honestly. You think it's the same as your friend Kudo?" I could feel my heart thumping against my chest. Kudo? Does he mean that guy the inspector was talking about? Scott lifted my shirt to take off the bloody gauze to wrap the new one around. Though he poured alcohol down the wound as he did it. It hurt worse than getting the gunshot.

"G-gah," I screamed as he tried to make it stop. He patted my head as he finished wrapping the gauze. My heavy breathing went down slowly. I didn't feel as worse as I did before. That was a good sign to me. I slowly turned my head towards them. I closed my eyes as I tried to speak, "What about Shinichi?"

Scott got up from where he was to through away the worn out gauze. He didn't turn around back to me. His uncle walked up to where I was laid out. I sat up slowly to look at him. He gave me a gentle smile as he was about to talk, "Shinichi's been turned into child as well." I felt my eyes widen from hearing this. "He spotted some me-"

"The men in black?" His eyes were now the ones that were widening.

"H-how did you know?" He grabbed my shoulders waiting for me to answer. I didn't know if I could really tell him what happened. That I just stood in front of the car and stopped it with one hand? He'd think I'm crazy. That's when Scott spoke up.

"He knows Sam." I slowly looked towards Scott. His back was still facing me though. "He's helped me with some of the experiments I've done on you and he's even healed you before."

"It's true, there's really nothing that you can surprise me with now." I looked down to the ground. I took in a deep breath as I explained what really happened. To my surprise he wasn't that shocked. He nodded his head as he got something from his pocket. It was a cell-phone.

"What're you doing Uncle?" The old man got a small smile on his face as he dialed a number.

"Someone who knows all about this." He walked off into the to the other room while speaking to someone on the other side. As he walked off I could hear someone coming closer. I looked towards the hallway to see a small girl. She had short light brown hair, blue eyes, serious face, and was wearing pajamas.

"Huh, Scott who'd you test on this time?" Scott laughed as she said that.

"Ai, she's my friend. She's been through whatever you and Kudo went through." Her facial expression didn't change as she walked towards me. I felt shivers go down my spine with that stare of hers. She then sat on the couch next to me. Her arms were crossed while her eyes closed.

"You look familiar somehow, weren't you the one that caught that murder today?" I nodded my head slowly because of the change of topic.

"How did you know?"

"The news, Sammy Rose am I right," I nodded once again, "Damn they got another one. Shinichi won't like this." I felt myself getting impatient again.

I've never heard of this Shinichi guy until today, now all of you are telling me he can help me? That's just great! I've been turned into a child once again and have no idea where the men who did this to me are. Now Shinichi Kudo's going to be a big part in my life.