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Double-Double

By MoonlightKagomeHimeko

"WHAT?!" yells out Shinichi in confusion and fear.

"I should have known something would have gone wrong…" sighed Conan, equally confused and scared, "…something always goes wrong."

"I either, only have 24 hours or nothing happens…" agrees Shinichi.

Conan continues, "…and there's always that painful side-effect that—"

"THERE'S NO SIDE-EFFECT!" they both say in unison as their eyes meet.

The room grew quiet for a few seconds before Shiho breaks the silence, "Come to think of it…I didn't feel pain at all when I took the test sample…and you've said that you feel pain upon taking the substance. Yet again it could just be that it's not a pill this time."

Both Shinichi and Conan turn to look at her, eyes wide and alert. "That's right," starts Shinichi, "I didn't feel pain. It was more like a short stinging sensation and then when I opened my eyes…YOU WERE THERE!" he yells pointing at Conan who runs up to him.

"Hey! I felt that stinging too! Besides, we don't even know if you're just an imposter. A fake that the substance created. I know for a fact that I'm the real thing!" yells Conan, just as angry.

Shiho eyes them quietly before saying, "Wrong."

They both turn to look at her once more, "You're wrong." She says, "You're both the real thing."

Agasa's eyes light up, "That's it! This is the answer! Shinichi!"

"Yes?" they both respond in unison.

"Now you don't have to tell Ran anything! 'Conan…'" he says making the quotation marks with his fingers, "…can stay with Ran and you can be there for with her like you've been waiting to! You can live your normal life again!"

Shinichi's eyes begin to form small tears that refuse to fall. A smile came across his lips, "My normal life…?"

"Hey! That's not fair! I've been waiting for all this time to be with her again! Why does HE get to be with her?!" says Conan, pointing at Shinichi with rage.

"Because, little Conan…You're not Shinichi Kudo. You're Conan Edogawa. Ran is expecting to see me." gloats Shinichi as he ruffles Conan's hair.

"I DAMN WELL AM SHINICHI KUDO! AND YOU KNOW IT TOO!" he responds. He stops to take a deep breath before continuing, "besides…she's not going to want to see you like that." he points to the towel Shinichi has as the only form of clothing. "At least wear some normal clothes."

Shinichi realizes that the boy is right. He takes Conan's hand and runs out of the house leaving two very confused people behind.

Shinichi quickly turns the handle of the door to his house before anyone on the street knows that he's naked. "What are you doing going into my house?!" Conan questions.

"What?! This is MY house! I've lived here all my life!"

Conan sighs and walks inside, "Whatever. I guess it shouldn't matter, since she said that we're both the same…I still don't get that, though. How can we BOTH be here at the same time?"

Shinichi closes the door behind him and walks inside as well, "I don't understand either. Yet again, both of us know only the same thing…This is so frustrating…"

"I know…"

Footsteps could be heard from the hallway and Ran walks in holding a feather duster. She stops abruptly to see that she was correct. The two people she heard talking were…

"Sh-shinichi…?...Conan?"

The two guys turn to look at her with a surprised expression. Startled, Shinichi stupidly runs to hide behind Conan. Conan turns his head slightly towards him, "A-hem!" he says, trying to get his attention. Ran, still standing but the hallway, gives them a confused and surprised look.

"W-what are you both doing here?"

The two boys panic for a few seconds before Shinichi decides to stand up and try to act like nothing happened. "I-I live here, remember?"

Conan glances up to glare at him coldly and walks over to Ran. He pulls on her sleeve lightly, his fingers, small and fragile, clasping onto the thin fabric she wore. "Ran…" he speaks, yet, her attention is on the man standing before her. Angered, Conan clears his throat loudly to get her attention. "Ran…" he repeats.

She turns to look at Conan standing beside her, "Eh?" Neither of them knew how confused she was at the moment. 'Okay…well, what was it they were talking about??? "How can we both be here at the same time" he said…What's going on? I thought for sure he was…'

Shinichi chimes in, "Brat! You can't call her 'Ran.' You're NOT old enough."

Conan turns to him and glares once more. He doesn't know why, but at that moment… he was tempted to beat the shit out of himself, literally. "You can't tell me what to do!" he calls out tauntingly, "Besides, I can tell her what happened back there and then we wouldn't have to make the decisions for ourselves. She could make them for us." His smile was so menacing looking.

"Sh-shut up you brat!"

Ran looked even more confused now, "Um, guys? What decisions? Please stop yelling…" she sighed and moved to sit on the couch and finally noticed that Shinichi only had a towel on. "Eto…Shinichi…?...Um…" she blushes lightly and looks away.

Conan sticks his tongue out at Shinichi. He laughs, "Yeah, go away and put some clothes on!"

"SHUT…UP!" Shinichi yells back at him as he stomps away up the stairs to his room.

Ran stares at his disappearing figure in confusion. 'What's going on…AND WHY WAS HE NAKED?!' She quickly turns towards Conan, "Conan, why is Shinichi only wearing a towel?!"

The boy looks up at her, about to make Shinichi seem like her was cheeting on her, but then hea realized what was going through his head. "U..um…he was at Agasa's house and the place caught fire and Agasa sprayed him with water, so he doesn't have any clothes." He said as fast as he could.

"Eh? But why didn't he just—?"

"No questions." Conan stopped her abruptly, "Um…it's embarrassing to talk about." He lied and giggled nervously. "But, I haven't seen you all day, Ran-neechan." He stressed the 'neesan', because he knew Shinichi would be listening in on them, because they both know he can't trust himself. Conan took a seat next to Ran and rested his head on her arm.

"You saw me this morning, though." She giggled.

As Conan predicted, Shinichi was standing at the top of the staircase listening to them. "Goddamnit…" he said under his breath, "Why did it have to be like this…?" He turns to go into his room. "Why…?"

Moonlight: yay! I'm glad a lot of you like it so far! =D Thakyou for your support!