Hello again! This chapter was a bit longer, but not what I hoped. I will be able only to update on weekends, but not much because my Geomtry Regents are coming up. Maybe next week or two.

Chapter Two

The next morning, two seven year-old children were seen running to go, or so it seems.

"Damn it, Miyano! Why did you take so long?" Conan yelled.

"It's your fault for not staying at your girlfriend's house yesterday! Why do you make a big deal about school? You're not even in first grade," Mai said. "By the way, aren't I Haibara to you, Kudo-kun?"

"Why are you so childish? Black Organization members probably aren't as childish as you, Haibara! Besides, you should be blaming yourself when you said that I'm in first grade! Without you, I would probably still be in high school!" Conan retorted.

Mai stopped running. "True, if it weren't for me, nothing would have happened. If my sister wasn't alive, she wouldn't have made the drug. There wouldn't even be an antidote. You wouldn't even know about the Black Organization and its evils. I never wanted to be a part of the organization. Now, I'm not even a part of it. Maybe you are right. It is my fault. I don't care if you kill me later. I just want my sister safe. Now that you found out that she made the drug, you probably wouldn't even try to save her," she said and started to run again with Conan trying to apologize.

'Damn, I messed up this time,' he thought. "Haibara!" he said trying to catch up to the girl. He caught up to her in no time because her speed and put his hand on her shoulder.

"I'm sorry. I really didn't know. I just expect all people from the organization to be bad. I know that you didn't mean to steal the billion yen. You just wanted you life and your sister back," Conan said.

Mai burst into tears. "I-I never knew that Gin and Vodka would lie to me! They were right! I was too naïve," she said. "My sister's probably trying to escape and she might die because of my mistake."

"Shh, I'm going to help you," Conan said comfortingly.

Mai nodded and cleared her tears. Her eyes were red and puffy from crying. "I'm so stupid, ne? Letting my emotions getting control of me," she said. They walked to school in silence. She looked up at the sky. 'Even if I do get my sister back, it still wouldn't be enough,' she thought.

At last, they got to Teitan Elementary and started to run up the stairs. Mai followed Conan to room 1-B and walked in.

"Conan-kun, you're late!" Kobayashi-sensei said.

"Ah, I'm sorry, I stayed over at my uncle's house!" Conan said.

"Okay, go to your seat, Conan-kun," she said. Conan nodded and did as told.

"Okay, today, we have another new student! Like Conan-kun, she also came from America!" Kobayashi-sensei said. "Introduce yourself: say your name, likes, and dislikes." (Lol Kakashi)

'I wonder . . . how are you going to introduce yourself, Miyano Akemi?' Conan thought resting his head on his arm.

Firstly, Mai looked a little shy and looked around timidly. 'Pretending to be the shy girl, ne?' Conan deducted.

Then, she smiled widely. "Hello, everybody! I'm Haibara Mai! I used to go to school with Conan-kun and it was fun there! I like kitties, doggies, and bunny rabbits! But I don't like people making fun of me. They're mean," she said pouting.

Conan was completely thrown off. 'W-what?'

"Now, take any seat you want," Kobayashi-sensei said.

Mai skipped into the seat in front of Conan. She leaned back to talk to him. "Looks like I threw you off," she smirked.

It suddenly turns out that Haibara Mai grew popular right away. The girls "oohed" at her prettiness and guys "aahed" at her cuteness. Apparently, boys became jealous of Conan and girls automatically became jealous of her, well the Conan fans at least.

Kobayashi-sensei coughed to gain attention. "Okay class, today, we are going to talk about family."

Later . . .

"And Ayumi's parents always make yummy sandwiches for her in breakfast! I love my mommy and daddy!" Ayumi said.

"Good job, Ayumi-chan," the teacher said. "Next is Mai-chan."

Mai smiled softly. "My parents . . . they were awesome. They used to give me piggyback rides, give me cookies before dinner, and read stories to me when I go to sleep," she said.

"W-were?" Mitsuhiko asked softly.

"Y-yeah, my parents are dead," she said. A couple of tears slid down her face, but she wiped them away quickly so that no one would notice, but Mitsuhiko and Conan did.

"I'm sorry, Mai-chan. Go back to your seat, now," Kobayashi-sensei said. She nodded and sat down on her seat with Mitsuhiko muttering a "sorry" to her. He was sitting next to her.

The bell then rung and everyone rushed out of school, leaving the Detective Boys and Mai behind.

"Hey, Mai-chan," Mitsuhiko said.

"Hm?" she asked.

"Since you're a friend of Conan-kun, would you want to join the Detective Boys?" Mitsuhiko asked.

"Sure!" Mai said cheerfully. 'Without Kudo-kun, there wouldn't be a Detective Boy would there?'

"Yatta! I'll introduce you to everyone!" Mitsuhiko said. He grabbed her hand and pulled her to the conversing Detective Boys.

"I want to watch that new Kamen Yaiba movie coming out!" Genta cheered.

"Ayumi wants to, also!" Ayumi said.

Conan sweatdropped at their conversation.

"Hey guys, Mai wants to join the Detective Boys!" Mitsuhiko said.

"Okay, another person!" Genta said. "I'm the leader!"

'More like, Conan is,' Mai thought.

"Yay! We're going to solve more cases!" Ayumi said hugging Conan. "But Conan is the person normally solving all the cases." She smiled at Mai sweetly basically saying "Back off, he's mine!"

'Wow, Conan has a fangirl,' Mai thought. She then sighed. 'Well, at least Ayumi can keep her loved ones close to her. Even my so-called boyfriend didn't love me,' she thought. 'I wonder where he is now.'

Meanwhile . . .

Everything happened in slow-motion. His cup of coffee fell onto the floor shattering into many pieces.

"Shuu," Jodie said.

Akai got up from his chair. He just heard from Jodie that his lover, Miyano Akemi died in a fire. It was deemed a suicide. He didn't know what to think.

"I'm going to sleep," he said walking up the stairs neglecting to clean up the mess he made. He had to make sure. He hadn't had enough time to answer the text message he received the day before. He came back from his job in New York.

"Wait!" Jodie said, but was met with the sound of a door slamming shut. "Shuu," she whispered.

James put his hand on her shoulder. "It would be better if he was left alone for now," he said.

Up in his room, he sat on his bed with his back leaning on the wall. Akai opened the text message again.

Fumbling with his phone, he made a reply. "Yes," he wrote down and pressed the send button. He waited for a reply.

The minutes passed by before he heard his ring tone. He received a message. Instead of a reply, he had a message from a server. "We were unable to reach this phone number. Please try again."

And so he did. He finally gave up after nine more tries. He closed his phone and his head hung loosely on his neck. His lover, Miyano Akemi, was truly dead.

Poor Akai :(

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