CHAPTER 2: ACTION

He sighed as the bell rang. Conan still hadn't gotten used to being in elementary school again. He didn't like it. Learning the same boring subjects were a total pain. His teachers were amazed by his knowledge and he

had to pretend that it was all in the books he read.

"Hey Conan-kun! Matte!"

He turned around to see Ayumi, Mitsuhiko and Genta running towards him. Behind them was Ai Haibara who was walking slowly. Haibara nearly didn't do any effort to act like a kid.

"Conan-kun, what's wrong?"

"Nothing Ayumi. I just feel like... I don't know. Don't worry about me, I'll be fine."

Conan lifted his head to look at Mitsuhiko and Genta who were staring jealously at Conan. They didn't like it when Ayumi fussed about Conan.

"Come on, Ayumi. Let's go! Sayonara Conan!" Genta said and started walking home.

"Okay..." Ayumi said "Ja ne Conan-kun!" she said and started running after Mitsuhiko and Genta.

"Ja ne.." Conan said without much enthusiasm. He turned around to start walking but stopped short.

"Kudo-kun."

Conan turned around. "Yes Haibara?" Haibara was going over to Ayumi's house to work on their homework. There was something in her eyes that Conan couldn't quite explain

"Take care."

Conan nodded. "You too." and started walking.

I can feel it, he thought. Something is going to happen.

"Okay, here is the plan guys. We're turning around and following Conan-kun." Ayumi said.

"But why, I mean isn't he alright already? He's really smart, he could take care of himself." Mitsuhiko responded.

"Yes but I want to see what he does when we're not around him. I wonder if he only acts really smart, like an adult when we're around."

Genta shot a questioning look. "You mean, like, to show-off?"

"No, not like that. What do you think, Ai-chan?" Ayumi turned to Haibara.

"I guess it's fine." she shrugged, turned around and started walking towards where Conan went.

You guys have no idea, she thought.

The boys didn't have many choices after that. They started after Ayumi and Haibara.

If only Haibara could make the antidote... Then everything will be fine and I won't have to keep hiding anymore, Shinichi -or Conan in this case- thought. But his train of thought was interrupted by a clunk noise from the

alleyway.

What's that?

Another clunk.

It's probably a cat.

He turned to leave but then there was even a bigger clunk.

No way that could have been done by a cat.

He slowly peeked in but saw nothing. He could see the end of a black van parked on the end of the alley.

Huh...

Conan started walking slowly and carefully. Unfortunately, he was too concentrated on finding what made the noise that he didn't notice tha man who was watching him had ambushed him.

Suddenly, an arm wrapped around his neck as a handkerchief was pressed over his nose and mouth, muffling his yelps. Conan struggled furiously and brought his hands on the arm on his neck and pulled, trying to free

himself, but it didn't work. He recognized the substance as the alleyway grew blurry.

Chloroform...

Conan was aware that he was being carried away as his eyes closed and he sank into unconsciousness.

"He turned around that alley!" Genta yelled as they all started running towards the alley. (A/N: I didn't want to use the same thing again but I didn't know what else to write. -.-')

Genta put his back on the wall and peeked in towards the alley. "He's gone! Where did he disappear?"

"That isn't possible." said Haibara as she started walking into the alley. Ayumi came from behind her and gasped when she saw what was resting on the ground. "It's... it's Conan-kun's glasses!"

"There's a handkerchief next to it." Haibara said as her eyes filled with horror. (A/N: Was that OOC? I hope not. I thought she'd probably figure it out right away so..)

Mitsuhiko and Genta ran to her and stared at the glasses.

Mitsuhiko looked up towards the other side of the alley where he saw a man walking towards a black van. He was carrying something.

"Hey isn't that..."

Ayumi and Haibara looked up and saw an arm hanging freely down the side.

"Conan-kun!"

"Conan!"

They all started running towards the man. The man who was dressed in a blue windbreaker started running as he heard the kid's friends call out for him. Lucky for him, he had already arrived to his car. The other kid's

were too behind. He lay the kid called Conan on the back of the car as he jumped into the passanger's seat and drove away.

Ayumi's eyes filled with tears as she watched the black van disappear from sight.

"Conan-kun!"

Haibara popped out from behind her. "Ayumi, you and Mitsuhiko go to the Mouri's and tell them what happened. I'll stay here with Genta. Come on, we have to help him. He'll be okay, don't worry."

Ayumi nodded as she stood up and started running rapidly with Mitsuhiko-kun who looked pretty terrified and concerned.

Ai Haibara watched them go as her mind rested on one thought.

"Kudo-kun..."

A/N: How was that? Epic, okay, so-so, or bad? OH. Just to make things clear, I don't want this Fanfic being ConanxAi. I just wanted to make it look like Haibara cared about Shinichi which she does. I hope you people out

there don't think the other way. I'm not sure about including Kaito Kid in this though. Should I? Even if I do, I don't know how...

Matte = Wait

Sayonara = Bye

Ja ne = See you