I will be adding Heiji into my story but I'm not going to add Momiji because we really don't know anything about her and I'm really not liking this whole love triangle thing. I was never really a HeiKazu shipper in the first place for similar reasons to ShinRan so I'm just not going to feature much about them as a couple in this. Sorry.

Conan pulled his arms up in a stretch and took a calming breath.

"Are you sure your ok?" Amuro asked, knowing that someone who had been grazed badly in the leg and shot in the stomach should not be up and moving around as soon as Conan.

"I'm fine, really. Kids heal fast." the last part was more to convince Armuro to let Conan go to the police station than give an accurate medical report but it payed off. The point of going to the police station was to help them do a full check of the area and make sure that the organization was not still anywhere on the island. There was also the flashdrive to worry about, the one that England lost a hold of.

Walking to the police station was good practice to help him get more used to walking again. While at the beginning he was limping heavily by the end he would have been able to fool most people despite the sharp bursts of pain that came every step. Even though all that he likely should not keep walking, he felt there was not much point of him still staying on the island if he was not helping fight the organization.

As the building came into view, so did the shadow of one person inside the building. At first, Conan payed it no mind, but the closer he got the more he noticed something. The person inside had the same presence as the organization.(I know it's Haibara who feels this but I think he should be able to recognize them by now) Moving to a corner out of sight from the inside of the station Conan slowly made his way closer, taking cautious steps to a small side window. Peering in, Conan saw the last thing he expected.

Vermouth was there, but that was not unexpected. She was the most likely person to have been the subordinate at the safe. The unexpected part was what he noticed when he used his glasses to magnify the scene. She was carrying two flash drives, one of them matching the physical description for the English one, and one of them with the words 'APTX 4869 ingredients' on it. Other than a very select few people, no one in the world knew what the APTX was, so it was apparently fine to write the words on a flashdrive.

It was important for Conan to get both flash drives. One of them could be dangerous for the entire world, and one of them could bring Shinichi Kudo back to life. Conan reached into his pocket and pulled out a cell phone only to realize that this part of the island had no service. Glaring, Conan placed the phone back in his pocket and turned on his shoes. One of his legs was recently grazed with a bullet, but as long as he held onto a wall or other stabilizer he should be capable of using the power-enhancing-shoes. Heading into the police station from the back he saw that Vermouth was going through the witness testimonies on the group that attacked the safe, likely making sure there was no report of the organization anywhere.

Leaning on the wall, he turned on his shoes and created a soccer belt.

1, 2, 3!

Kicking the ball to her hand with the flash drives sent them flying through a window and outside the station. Both people chased after the flash drives, Vermouth taking only a split second to pull out her gun. Conan used the darkness of the night to stay relatively hidden from view as Vermouth was aiming for an adult with her gun. Both of them followed the flash drives that had fallen on a truck heading to a construction site. They followed, watching as the driver left the truck on order to move supplies.

Both people were nearing the flash drive when everything went wrong. Someone messed up with some explosives they were using and ended up sending one next to the truck (I'm going to be making up a lot of this and it probably could never happen in real life but just roll with it) causing the entire bottom to explode.

Vermouth, the closest one, was also caught up in the explosion. She was sent off a cliff, only surviving by holding on to the hook of a crain.

For a split second Conan paused. The APTX flash drive was in the exact opposite direction from the other flashdrive and Vermouth. In addition to that, the explosion caused rocks on a cliff over the APTX flash drive to loosen, so if he goes the other direction one of his only chances at a normal life will be crushed.

The split second was all Conan needed to make his decision, saving lives was always most important. On the way to the crane that Vermouth was hanging on to he picked up the flash drive and placed it in his pocked. Inside the crane he thanked his dad for teaching him how to use one (in hawaii) and had the string be pulled up. Working on a construction vehicle was near impossible for a six year old child, and even more so for a child with bullet wounds in his leg and stomach. Despite reopening his stomach wound in the process, Conan caused the crane to pull Vermouth up, then ran out to make sure she was okay.

Reaching her right before she was pulled up revealed that the hook of the crane was stuck on a rock, and that Vermouth was losing her grip. He reached down, ignoring the pain signals his stomach was sending him and moved the hook of the crane away from the rock.

For the first time Vermouth noticed that it had been her 'Cool Guy' that she had been fighting, and that had once again saved her life.

*CRUNCH*

The APTX flash drive was crunched. Destroyed under the rocks that were loosened in the explosion. As Vermouth was moved up, she saw Cool Guy immediately turn around and start to run to the flash drive. He ran to the rocks and could only look at his chance of returning to a normal life having been crushed under them. He took three more small steps, as if trying to make the flash drive magically fix itself, only to reopen a leg wound and fall down.

The leg wound he got at the safe when Vermouth was not able to do anything to save him out of fear for angel's life.

She began by taking a step closer to him, but stopped when she heard voices. Bourbon and the Subaru person she met at the Asaca case were coming, and they would help Cool Guy.

"Thank you again cool guy. I'm sorry I couldn't protect you." One whisper was all she left him with as she ran back to her hotel room to report that she was able to modify the witness accounts but not get the flash drives.

"Ah, Conan-kun, are you feeling alright?" Conan woke up to, noticing absentmindedly that he was in a hospital. Furuya Rei was with him, and Shuichi Akai in the form of Okiya Subaru was also present.

"Hi, both of you. Yeah, I'm fine… In my jacket pocket... there should be a flash drive…"

"Don't worry, we got it. Probably it's good that we told you what we were looking for and all. So, …what happened?" the conversation was switched back to more pressing matters, clueing Conan in that they were currently in a secure location.

"Vermouth." Conan had to take a few breaths to control his breathing, "she was changing the witness accounts to make sure there was no record of the men in black. She had two flash drives with her, one of them was destroyed under some rocks."

Amuro nodded, "Yeah, we found that."

"Do you know what the flash drive was for?" Subaru jumped in, getting information for his report back to the FBI.

"Yeah, it was just the ingredients for one of their poisons. Nothing important." He was not lying. It really was not important or helpful in the least for the FBI or PSB to have the ingredients to the APTX 4869. Even the organization could probably change the recipe if the ingredients were used to find a way to tell when the poison was used. The only people in the world who it was really life changing for was Haibara, Mary, and mostly himself.

"I see. What really worries me is the amount of attention this is getting. Both the organization can't ignore this and the public will find out."

"No, that's fine. I am going to do something so for now we can attract as much attention through both the public and the organization as we want." Both Amuro and Subaru looked at Conan curiously at that but said nothing. Conan was always aware of or the mind behind everything that happened in Japan after all.

We're going to need to go fill out a report but you're back in an area with cellular connection, call us if you need anything." Amuro nodded to show he agreed with Subaru's statement, both making eye contact with each other.

"Actually, I would like you to help me with something Furuya." Furuya looked slightly startled at the use of his real name but motioned for Conan to continue. "I need you to do something for me as Bourbon."

A short conversation later and both Subaru and Amuro left the hospital.

"Hattori, are you ready to help me with this? This could put you in a lot of danger too."

"Of course I am Kudo! But… are you sure that you want to do this? I mean it sounds like you have this idea and the people working on it all planned out but while I'm sure I'm willing to do this for you, are you willing to do this? It's going to be a pretty big change and it's going to be hard to get back to normal once this is done."

"I'm sure. I can't put Ran or anyone else in danger any more, you know as well as I do that this needs to be done. It's only been my recklessness that has kept us from doing something like this by now. Besides Hattori, after we finish this you really need to stop calling me 'Kudo'."

"Right, Conan-"

"I didn't ask you to add extra emphasis."

"Anyways, I'm just going to ask one last time in case. Are you sure you want to sacrifice all of this?"

"I am. Thank you."

The call ended. Both Hattori Heiji and Edogawa Conan put their phones away and started to work on what they had agreed to do. Hattori Heiji left to complete his part of the plan, while Conan pulled out a different phone. There was only one contact number in it, and to that number he texted 'It's time. Get in position'.

"Hei-chan, what are you doing?" Otaki asked as he neared Hattori Heiji.

"Oh, Otaki-han, I'm waiting for my friend to come. We have something to talk about, want to wait with me?" Heiji responded, then watched as he received a shrug and nod to his question. "Oh, there he is now!"

"Hey Kud-"

"Hattori, we don't have much time."

"Huh? Kudo what are you talking about?" Shinichi Kudo reached into his jacket and pulled out a notebook.

"I have some of the information I've recorded written in here. I wasn't able to tell Ran anything like we planned, they found out about me." Kudo handed the notebook over and looked into Heiji's eyes frantically.

"You mean they found out you are alive?!" Kudo only gave a frantic nod of yes, sweat dripping from his face onto his jacket. Hattori scowled, "Hold on, let me make sure your not just someone pretending to be Kudo." He said and gave a hard tug on the boy's cheeks.

Kudo scowled and rubbed the now red spot on his face, "Satisfied? Look I really don't have time. I have to get out of here before they find me. I don't have much that can help you find them, too risky to write the information down, but I want Ran to know more of what I've been hiding from her, please."

Hattori nodded, "I'll make sure she reads this."

"Wait, Hei-chan? What's going on?"

Heiji looked at the man with an expression of frantic worry. "Sorry, I'll explain what I know later. He needs to run away."

Kudo nodded, "I'll meet you at the agreed place, if I don't show then they probably found me. Be careful."

"So, Hei-chan. Could you explain what that was about?" Otaki asked after having been led to a seemingly random spot in the city without any explanation.

"Damn it, he's not here yet. He should be here by now." Heiji started pacing back and forth, "I'm going to go check on him, will you come with me?"

"Uh, sure-" Not having yet finished agreeing Heiji pulled him along an odd path with lot's of twists and turns.

"So, we finally found you. I'm glad I get to be the one to kill you." A man's voice said, only increasing the speed of the two.

"So you did. I have to say I'm impressed Bourbon, but it figures I would lose to another detective. What will you do now?" Heiji kept Otaki back but was able to see the two despite them being far away. A man with blond hair who he had met on a case quite a while ago was holding a gun pointing at the head of his friend. They were at a park and Kudo's back was against the edge of a steep cliff, one that's fence seemed to have been destroyed in a series of bullets.

"Obviously, get rid of the danger. Good bye, I have to admit you were more fun than most people I hunt down, but in the end, you lose."

*BANG*

The blond haired man left right before Heiji burst out of his hiding spot to the end of the cliff that his friend had just fallen over. There were security cameras in the area but they were angled at a way that would make it impossible to see who the blond man was.

"Kudo Shinichi is dead. It seems Gin tried and failed to kill him, he was hunting down our organization in secret. He's an idiot though, he kept contact with the girl you wanted me to protect. Even though he asked her not to tell anyone he was alive after a while all of the people at his school still knew that he was alive."

'Kudo Shinichi is dead.' Those words had terrified Vermouth. Not on an assignment she immediately took a plane to Japan. His death was in all of the news, the footage of him being shot from the security cameras was everywhere. It turned out that one of his friends was also there who had been told about the organization, he was the one who had brought the policeman to the scene. However, all that he told his friends was that there were people who had thought they killed him when he actually survived so he was not someone to eliminate.

The information that was in the notebook he carried was almost pointless. All it really said was how they was an organization, he didn't know how bit, that thought they had killed him. It mostly ended up being how he felt about lying to Ran, and how hard it was to keep everything from her.

In fact, the most important thing to the organization was that he admitted to being the man who helped Sherry escape until her death on the mystery train. But that wasn't right. He faked her death on the mystery train. And there was a brief mention of him being involved at the island, except it took out any mention of Bourbon being Amuro Tooru. Did he just lie in the notebook in case it was found?

But to her the worst part is she was that his friend had been suspicious so the friend had checked and made sure that it was not a mask. Unlike for Sherry, this was not a mask, it was the real face, a face that was also shown on a security camera and could be proven to be the face of Kudo Shinichi. His real face.

Disguising herself as an everyday civilian, she went to comfort angel when she saw someone else comforting her. Someone whose existence explained some Kudo Shinichi's death.

Unknown to almost anyone, after the blood exploded from Kudo Shinichi's chest and he fell off the cliff the boy could later be seen inside the Kudo mansion. Wiping the now revealed to be fake blood off his chest he stood in front of the mirror and ruffled his hair.

"Good job with that performance, Kid." A voice came from a child who was in actuality the real Kudo Shinichi.

"Well, anything for my almost cousin, right?" Kid's smirk came back, the body language of Kudo Shinichi disappearing entirely.

"Ha, ha. Well, we can talk about why you're being a phantom thief and why I'm doing this later, I'll call you at a good time. Anyways, you can consider your debt to me completely payed." Conan said with a slight smirk, then paused. "How do you think Ran's going to take it?"

Kid's smirk also disappeared, the gravity of what they had just done finally coming in. "You know her best tantei-kun. I have no idea what she'll do, but you said it yourself, right? She's the strongest person you know. She will be sad, but she can make it through anything."

"I hope so."

The funeral was over. The Kudo couple had given performances above the expected level of the actors and over dramatics that they were. There was not a single person in the crowd who doubted their feelings without knowing the truth.

Ran stood in front of Shinichi's grave. The last person still at the funeral, with everyone else having gone home. Conan, playing the innocent little brother of Shinichi, was behind a wall in the cemetery, just waiting for his nee chan to be done.

"Hey, Shinichi." It was her voice. Conan listened, wondering what she would say to his dead self. "Wake up." She paused.

"Why are you down there like that? You said you would always come back for me. Hey, Shinichi, answer me!" With the last yell she took several more steps close to the grave, glaring at it for just existing.

"You promised, remember? You said that all you had to do was win my heart again… so why are you down there now?" Her voice changed to a whisper, barely audible with the soft night breeze. "Shinichi you're supposed to be a hero. You're supposed to be able to make it out of anything just fine. Why aren't you here right now?"

She leaned on his gravestone that had no corpse under it. The body had been completely destroyed. They were able to tell it was recent, that was the main reason they knew it belonged to Kudo Shinichi. No one suspected that it could have been artificially made by a certain professor and filled with the blood of the real one. Letting the strength in her legs disappear, she collapsed on the ground and placed one hand on the stone, not trying to hide her tears anymore.

"I've waited for you so long...Shouldn't I get something as a result? Where's my reward for my patience, huh? What right do you have to make me go through all this, promise that you'll come back and then just disappear?"

Sorrow turned to anger. Whispers to yells. "I hate you Shinichi!" Conan could feel his breath stop. He could not move or turn or defend himself or breathe.

"I hate you! I hate you for putting me through all this with no explanation! I hate you for waiting so long and not trusting me to tell me people thought you were dead! I hate you for trusting Heiji so much more than me. We're childhood friends, what's wrong with you?!"

A pause for a breath, having run out of air somewhere in the rant. "Come on Shinichi. Tell me how silly I'm being right now. Come over to me like you always do and explain to me all of the flaws in my logic. Give me another one of your stupid Holmes quotes or brag to me about how much praise detectives always get…"

"Come back to me Shinichi. You said you love me. I need you."

"I'm sorry." one whisper in response. It was quiet enough to be impossible to hear, but the words were loud enough to shake his entire world. 'I can't do that Ran. I said that if I confessed my feelings for you that you would just miss me even more because I'm the person who's breaking your heart by making you wait for an eternity even though I'm always right by your side. I remember saying that. It was just naive hope that caused me to confess to you. I'm sorry, but I care about your safety more than your life with me. Even if I came back I wouldn't brag to you as much or talk about Holmes as much. That person died that night at tropical land. So go ahead, find another guy, but pick one who will give you everything I can never give to you again.'

So this is one that could be considered more ShinRan but it has my personal opinions on ShinRan. I can't see Conan and Ran having the same back and forth stuff as Shinichi and Ran. When I go back and read the first chapter he seems really different to me. Sorry for ending it on a bit of a sad note. Hope you guys enjoy this chapter.

End of Arc 1