Okay.. I won't upload so many chapters each day.. but I'll try to upload a lot each week since I'm now focusing on this story!


Chapter 4.

A New Friend.

Conan walked up towards the cream-coloured school, he hadn't thought he'd get away, but why did it have to be Teitan Junior High! Of all the schools in Tokyo, he had to end up with his own old Junior High from when he was Shinichi, oh well, he couldn't really complain could he? He walked into the school and straight to the headmasters office, lucky him for knowing where it was, he knocked on the door and someone answered come in, he pushed his glasses higher up and entered.

"I'm Edogawa Conan.. transfer student.." he explained and stopped in front of the headmasters desk, the said headmaster was an old woman, not a man, but Conan knew that already, right!

"Ah yes.. from.. 2nd class from.. Primary school?" the woman stared at him in slight shock, Conan blushed "y-yeah.." then the headmaster took up another paper and nodded "no wonder since your a genius, do you want to be in a special class?" Conan sighed.

"No.. rather not, I'm tired of people looking at me like I'm the worlds greatest gem or something like that" he explained and the headmaster nodded understanding.

"Then, here's your uniform, your classroom is 2c, on the second floor, the class will start in five minutes!" she explained and soon Conan could take his leave, he hurried to the toilet, then he changed and rushed to the classroom he would belong to onwards. He didn't meet anyone, but the bell hadn't rung yet, suddenly the said bell rang and Conan sighed.

"Speak of the devil and he shall appear" he murmured and stopped in front of the classroom, he looked up and saw the sign of Class 2c, oh well. Thus Conan nodded.

"Come in" a woman's voice called and Conan opened the door, the teacher that had talked smiled to him "class, today we're having a new student" she blinked at him to enter and he did, some of the girls in his class let out gasps, Conan felt himself stiffen, he knew he was popular as Shinichi, but he didn't he didn't know he'd be popular as Conan as well, darn looks.

"My name is Edogawa Conan.. nice to meet you!" Conan stated and smiled to the class, the teacher had already written the odd name on the blackboard, but no one seemed to notice, there was whispering in the whole class, Conan barely caught a hold of most of it.

"Hey, there's a kid at primary school that's named that too.. I thought it wasn't that common" a boy stated, a girl whispered something and everyone looked back up at him, one of the girls, Conan noted, was looking very hard at him, in a matter of speaking, she looked angry and Conan had no idea why.


"Hey, Conan-kun, where do you live?" a boy asked, it was free-period and Conan had been bombed with questions, said boy leaned against the chair as another one sat on top of his desk, he was apparently named Kaimo Hirono, but he was called Hiro.

"I.. live in Beika.. why?" Conan asked and stared, Hiro just smirked back.

"Nothing really.. you see, most of the people in the class thinks your the kid from primary school that's named the same as you" Conan stared up at him and sighed.

"But I am him.. I mean, Conan from class 2b at Primary school" everyone in the classroom went dead silent and listened to Conan.

"R-really.. you are!" Hiro repeated and Conan scratched the back of his head.

"Y-yeah.. is it that weird?" Conan sounded as if he was scared, Hiro understood this and shook his head, his black hair shook with his head.

"No.. not really" he had kind of understood that Conan didn't want to talk about it because he was scared of being shut out from the possibility of new friends, suddenly the door opened and a kid with a third-class uniform appeared, Conan could understand just from the other teens looks that this person was not popular and definitely not a good guy, more like a bully.

"Is there an Edogawa Conan here!" the teen asked, every stared from him to Conan, who wondered how the heck his name had ventured through the school on just three hours? Oh well, he stood up and walked over "yes, that would be me" suddenly the teen grabbed his hand and he was dragged down the hall and into a storage room, Conan was the slammed into the wall by the forceful teen.

"What.. tha.." Conan began, but the teen silenced him.

"Sorry about that Tantei-kun" the teen said and Conan's mouth dropped open.

"K-KID-san!" Conan let out, the teen smirked and in the next second he was facing said thief instead of the teen.

"Where's the real bully?" he asked, Kaitou smirked at him.

"Over there, he wanted to beat you up though, but I beat him to it" Kaitou explained and Conan stared at him in utter shock.

"B-beat me up!"

"Hehe.. I'd rather not.. I hope we'll be out of here when he wakes up, anyway.. you remember that promise?" Kaitou asked, Conan nodded, hesitatingly.

"Good, now, I'm going to do a Heist tomorrow at 12 pm.. please meet up an hour earlier, can you get away from Mouri-chan?" Kaitou asked, Conan stared up at him for some minutes then.

"Yeah.. I think I can.." he turned deep red, why did he, a famous, or infamous detective as you see it, have to work with the thief, why yes, because of information.

"Tantei-kun?" Kaitou asked, seeing that he noticed the other's red face, he inched closer and soon they stared into each other's eyes. Conan just stared back with a quickly reddening face.

"KID-san.." Conan's voice was barely above a whisper as Kaitou inched even closer to the other's face, then he seemed to grasp reality and backed off, Conan sighed, Kaitou wasn't even sure if it was off disappointment or relief.

"Er.. then I'll see you tomorrow Tantei-kun" Kaitou explained and poffed away with a cloud of black smoke, Conan stared at it before he stared at the guy who was still on the floor, but he had begun to stir so Conan slipped out into the hall and headed back to the class room, he looked out of the window and just barely caught a sight of the phantom thief in the sky, flying away, he had noticed the bothered look on Kaitou's red face when he had disappeared, but he didn't dare to question it.

"Kaitou KID.. hm.." he thought about well and long when a hand closed around his wrist and he was forced to turn and face the real bully, well wasn't Conan lucky today! He stared up at the third year student, who glared back.

"What do you want?"

"Come here!" the other teen stated and pulled him down the hall, Conan got a feeling of deja-vu as he was slammed into the wall of the very same storage room, they had been lucky that no one had seen them, this time either, well, Conan hoped so.

"So.. your the kid that transferred from primary school to junior high!" the teen asked, Conan stared at him for a long time before answering.

"And what if I am.. does it bother you?" the teen slammed a hand into the wall beside Conan and he flinched, was he really going to be beat up or?

"You are just like anyone else, thinking you can just come and go as you want.. being all high and mighty" Conan stared at him in confusion as he talked.

"What.. am I that weird?"

"Yes you are.. your a freak" with that said, Conan felt his world shatter around him once again, what did he ever do to deserve this?


"Where's Conan-kun?" the teacher asked, Hiro stared at the empty desk, he had been feeling very uneasy ever since that third year and picked him up, Conan hadn't returned since and that was three hours ago.

"I'll go look for him" he stated and got up, whatever had happened, it wasn't good and he really didn't want to think of any possibility of Conan being in danger, he was a friend after all. Hiro walked out of the classroom and he soon found his way down the hall, he looked into every empty room he could see until he was by the end of the hall, he hadn't looked at the last two empty storage rooms yet either and when he tried the first door it was looked and there was no sound coming from the inside. When Hiro tried the second door though, he found it opened and he could heard wincing from behind the door.

"Conan-kun?" Hiro called and opened the door fully, he heard a small wimper and walked into the dark room, then he saw Conan.

"Conan-kun!" said detective was looking as miserable as he'd come to be, he had a brusie forming on his left cheek and he looked like he was in real pain.

"Are you okay?" Hiro ran over to the small form on the floor, he crouched and laid a hand on Conan's shoulder, said boy let out another wimper and seemed to sink away from his new friends hand.

"Conan-kun? It's okay.. it's me, Hiro" Conan looked up at him and let out a sigh of relief, then he managed a painful smile.

"Hiro.. er.. just call me Conan, I kind of hate the -kun thing!" Hiro chuckled a little to seriously, then he managed to get Conan's hand around his shoulder and get him to stand up, said boy let out a hiss of pain, but didn't do anything else.

"Now's not the time to ask about that.. seriously, you where beat up and the only thing you think about is wherever or not I should call you with -kun or not!" Hiro complained with a mildly amused voice, Conan chuckled.

"Guess so.."

"Come on.. let's get you to the nurse.." Hiro said and managed to help the surprisingly light teen down the hall, Hiro stared at him.

"You barely weight anything, do eat at all?"

"What kind of a question is that! But I do eat, a lot in fact, I'm just very active.. and my brain needs most of the food anyway" Conan explained.

"Hm.. I guess.. wait, your brain, you sound like a geek" Hiro laughed and Conan turned bright red, they entered the nurse office and noted that said nurse wasn't even there.

"Where's the old hag when you need her!" Hiro complained, he helped Conan to sit down on a bed as he fetched the first aid kit himself, he sat down beside Conan and looked at him.

"What did he do with you actually!" Conan flinched and looked down.

"Aside from beating me up and calling me a freak.. well.. nothing really"

"WHAT! He called you a freak.. that's... that bastard" Hiro seemed to get angrier and angrier as Conan managed to pulled off his school jumper and open his shirt, albeit painfully.

"Woah.." Hiro let out as he saw the deep scar on Conan's left ribcage, Conan stared at him, a blush painted on his face, Hiro motioned at the scar and Conan sighed.

"It's rather old.." Conan stated, Hiro nodded. By now the bruises that had been forming on Conan's body was very evident, the door opened and a middle-aged woman came in, she laid her eyes on Conan and Hiro was pushed away in order to patch up the younger teen.

"Teens now days.. who did this!" she demanded, Conan sweat-dropped and looked at Hiro.

"Taeshi Ren, third year" Hiro explained, the nurse stared at him, then at Conan.

"I'm new.. so I'm not known to any name except my teacher and Hiro" he explained, the nurse nodded began putting on bandage on the beaten up teen, it took ten minutes and soon the teens could go back to class. This class said, gasped when Conan came in, all patched up and beaten, Hiro with a dangerous look and looking very worried as well. The teacher didn't ask as Conan handed her a paper and then he took off, well, that was Conan's best day ever.


"I'm home" Ran called as she opened the door, there was no one there, or so she thought. Seconds later Conan came into the main room and she gasped.

"C-Conan-kun, what happened?" she nearly yelled.

"N-nothing really.. just.." he fell silent and stared at the floor.

"What is wrong?" she asked and walked over as he slumped down on the sofa.

"I.. er.. I was.. beaten up.. at the school.. I was.. called a freak" he explained as he folded his hands under his chin, Ran gasped and eyed the bandage on his cheek.

"B-beaten up.. who did such a thing, and your not a freak" Ran explained and wrapped a hand around his shoulder, much to his surprise and embarrassment.

"R-Ran-neechan!" Conan asked, much more in shock than confusion now.

"Conan-kun, it'll be fine!" she stated, her eyes was very dark, but Conan didn't dare to point it out in case she'd explode.


"Conan-kun, your phone is ringing!" Ran called up stairs and soon he grabbed the phone Ran was holding, he stared at the screen and went up stairs again.

"Yes?" Conan answered.

"Kudou-kun.. how are you?"

"I'm great.. why're you calling when you can come here Haibara?"

"Because those kids are around and they'd drag me off if I tried to go to your place.. I'll try later today, when I manage to ditch the brats" the tone in her voice made Conan shiver, she sounded very angry, but he didn't blame her.

"Okay..? seriously, are they that bad?"

"Of course they are, I mean.. wait.. I'll try to come back later okay!"

"Sure.."

"Okay, see you" then she hung up. Conan knew why, because he had heard the voices in the background, they had found her, luckily they wouldn't see that she had called him. He sighed and slumped down on the bed.


Haibara put her phone into the pocket of her jumper, pretending to be looking at the ground for something, then she threw her detective badge into the bushes, hoping they'd fall for it.

"Ai-chan, did you talk to someone right now?" Ayumi asked as the girl appeared, the boys came after and Haibara stared at them "I talked to myself.. I'm searching right now" she didn't bother to sound like a little girl, yet they seemed to catch that it was a lie.

"What are you searching for?"

"My detective badge.. I lost it somewhere.." Haibara explained, trying to sound frantic and desperate, this time she managed to get their attention and they fell into the trap, believing that it was true that she wasn't speaking to anyone, or so it seemed.

"Ayumi-chan, Mitsuhiko-kun, we have to go" Genta stated, Ayumi nodded at him and Mitsuhiko stood up.

"Yeah.. um.. your badge.."

"No worries.. I just found it" Haibara showed the the dirty badge that she just picked up from the bushes, they nodded and turned away, but Ayumi turned back.

"Are you still talking with Conan-kun?" she asked and both boys protested with a snort, Haibara glared at them and nodded to Haibara.

"But not for the last days.." the boys glared back.

"Stop meeting him Haibara, he's weird"

"He is my friend.. and yours too.. well, used to be it seemed, but he is precious to me and I wont stop meeting him because you believe he is a liar, wich he isn't!" okay, now she was the liar, Conan had for as long as she had known him lied about his age etc etc, but he did it to protect everyone and she wanted to protect them too, that was why she lied.

"You know.. even though he is a relative of Kudou Shinichi, doesn't mean he is a genius" Mitsuhiko complained and Haibara felt the last straw drop.

"Shut up, you don't know anything, Edogawa-kun is a genius, it lies in the blood and he is not a liar.. you stop talking bad about him behind his back or I'll seriously be angry" she yelled and turned to leave when Genta grabbed her arm.

"He is the one being mean, he made Ayumi cry!" Haibara turned to him.

"Then you should know this... you made him cry too!" this made the three children gasp and back off.

"Conan-kun.. began to cry?" Ayumi asked, she looked very surprised. Haibara nodded, her glare was to that of a murdered at this point and they knew not to opose her, but it didn't seem to effect Genta today.

"So what, it's his own fault.. he's a freak" Haibara's eyes widened and then she turned fully to Genta, next thing they all knew, the sound of palm agains cheek resonated through the park.

"A-Ai-chan?" Ayumi gasped, Genta stared at the shrunken girl before him, in utter shock.

"I hate you! Edogawa is not a freak!" she screamed, then she turned and ran away, leaving the children in complete shock and surprise, they had never seen Haibara so angry and hurt, and mainly desperate, but desperate to what, to make them believe?


Conan sneezed.

"What tha.." he looked out of the window and got out of the bed, his eyes made it to the board on the wall of his room, it was mostly filled with clips of paper about KID's heits and a famous Detective's disappearance, plus more unimportant papers.

"Tomorrow huh.. hope Ran will let me go"

"Conan-kun" he stopped his thoughts.

"What is it Ran-neechan?" he opened the door to his room and answered as he saw the teenager standing in the stairs.

"Ai-chan's here" Conan nodded as the news prosseded to his brain.

"Haibara? Okay.. I'll be down right away.

"What's going on.. so soon. I thought she'd stay at least a little longer.. oh well.." he walked down the stairs and quickly faced Haibara, her face was red, angry and her eyes was actually filled with tears, Conan understood at once and smiled at Ran.

"We'll go up at my room.. come on" he stated and soon he and Haibara disappeared up the stairs. Ran looked after them.

"What was that about?"


Okay, I kind of made them a little out of character.. well, Haibara anyway.. I never thought I'd make her so angry, but.. and I'm really sorry, I made that third year, Ren beat up Conan T^T I'm so sorry! D:

please reivew and tell me if you like or hate! and I heard from some of you that it was about time Conan was the vicim, hey, don't blame me!