Startold/Tim Kudoproudly presents :

Conan's Return


Yay ! The first chapter was, in my opinion, a success. I want to thank Haibara Ai Z, Meow-chan-15, and Al Landers, for leaving reviews.
So, this is the explanation of what happens between chapter 1 and chapter 2.
Masumi, Sonoko and Ran are now in their last year of high-school, so they are 17/18. All of Conan's friends have accepted his death. Some people have noticed that Yusaku hasn't been really sad of his ''realtive's'' death. Ran's house seems empty without Conan, and Masumi's house also seems empty : in the year before he died, he liked staying at her house, talking about their last cases. So, in this chapter, even if most of the characters have accepted their friend's death, it still had left a mark.


One of Tokyo's High-Streets, Half past 5. Winter. The sky's nearly black, and it's really cold.

Masumi, Ran, Sonoko and Kazuha were walking in a really-crowded steet of Tokyo. They were trying to be warm, because it was really cold in the streets. It was nearly snowing.

''Masumi-san, do you know who's the client you're going to meet ?'', asked Ran betweeen two chills.

''Absolutely not, Ran-chan !' This client's secretary called me, saying that her boss needed my services. We are going to meet at the restaurant : ''Itadakimasu'', I've brought my notebook to take notes.

''Ya sound like Heiji !'', said Kazuha, chuckling.

''Yeah ! What can be more thrilling than having to solve a case ? The satisfaction of arresting the criminal ?!''

Ran blinked a few times. What Masumi had just said... Shinichi has said the exact same thing twenty minutes before his... er-... ''impossible-to-resolve-case''.

''No, I musn't think of Shinichi ! He-he's past, now !''

Maybe you don't understand Ran's last sentence. Some weeks before Conan's supposed death, Shinichi had visited her, and at the end of their little head-to-head talk, she had admitted that she was in love with Araide-sensei. Shinichi hadn't call her since this incident, and she had noticed a weird change in Conan's behaviour. He was more distant from her, and he had wanted to live at the Professor's, his ''Step cousin of the father of the aunt of his mother''. He took the habit of abandonning a case to go to sleep, and he even missed school two weeks. Then, Heiji and Masumi has tried to motivate him, and they managed to get him to feel better. Conan's life turned back to normal. Well, ''normal'' if you seem to attract all kinds of murder around you.

Heiji and Kazuha had moved in Tokyo, because Heiji wanted to help saving Kogoro's now-famous detective agency. But still, Kogoro had matured quite a lot, and had became a much better detective than before.

The two osakians were now officially ''in couple'', and they had done everything so that the media didn't know about that. Heiji had been pronfoundly wounded by Conan's death : the person he considered his best friend had died, in an avalanche. Heiji was right now in the north of Japan, for some buisness he has to do.

''Well, I'm gonna leave you, girls'', said Masumi, leaving in the direction of an enormous centre. She entered the gigantic building, and entered the first restrautn. Chairs were around a conveyor belt, where food was moving.

''Uh, a kaitenzushi. Shame I'm not here to eat... !''. Masumi opened her pocked and picked up her notebook. There was written in it her ''mystery client'''s description : at the left of the K-seat...

Masumi looked in the room. And found a man in a dark corner of the room. He was in a black and white suit, with a black tie. A hat was covering his face, and Masumi could only see his neck.

She looked at the man.

''Hello sir. I guess you're the person who wanted to contact me for a case ?''

Masumi heard a less-than-audible ''yeah''. She sat in the chair in front of the man. She still couldn't see his face.

''So... why did you hire me, sir ?''

''I want to find somebody'', he answered.

''Okay, I can do that. Tell me your name.'

The man smiled and leaned over, lifting slowly his hat over his head.

''Edogawa Conan. Tantei sa.''


Cliiiiiiiffhangeeeeeeeeer !
Oh, and did I mention that there will be one cliffhanger at the end of each chapter ?:devil:

Tim Kudo