i was finally able to write and update this chapter coz i had half term. sorry school's been making me really busy lately. but here's chapter 4, i hope you enjoy it.

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The velvet sky laid peacefully above, ready to be gazed at any moment now. Countless of stars sewed onto the rich material, sparking against it like diamonds. The teenage boy lying at the back seat of an old beetle stirred. His eyes slowly opened as the night greeted him. His naked eyes stared right pass the glass window and onto the starry night. He blankly blinked twice before remembering what has happened. Taking into his surrounding he slowly sat up, a natural reflex cause him to clutch onto the roots of his hair due to an agonizing headache. A headache that felt like a dreadful hangover, the painful feeling didn't last long, it faded away over the minutes. The little girl next to him was soundly asleep; he hesitated before waking her up. He shook her gently, she responded and her hazel brown eyes gradually launch to full size, a cloud of confusion hide behind her eyes as their eyes met. He saw the confusion before she snapped back to her focused self. She seemed surprise when she properly looked at him, her face then turned pale, and her head dived down to meet her hands for support.

"This headache kills…" she whispered

"You'll feel better in a minute," he replied. He was then stunned by the voice that came out of his mouth, it was much deeper than the one he had as a kid. The girl looked at him from the corner of her eyes, sighed by his slow realization.

"You just realized?" she asked in a weak voice.

"…Yeah…" he said looking at his fingers, flexing them. "I can't believe that actually worked!" He said excitedly.

"Can you keep your voice down? It's ringing in my head, I'm going to find some aspirin," she said and exited the car. Professor Agasa was still sleeping, Shinichi wanted to find out more about the time machine; although it may seem illogical it actually works! He logged onto the professor's computer and tried to find the right file, but something didn't seem right. The date was wrong. The night they all time traveled was October the 8th, Friday. But now the computer clearly states that today is October the 9th, Saturday. Did Professor set the date wrong? We should be back to the date the explosion happened. Shinichi thought.

"Haibara," he called out

"What?" she snapped at him, as she looked through the cabinet with empty bottles of aspirins.

"The explosion happened on the 8th right?" Shinichi asked

"I think so…why?" she asked sounding more interested

"Today is the 9th," Shinichi replied

"What do you mean? I saw Professor put in the 8th on the time machine," she stated

"Then where did 24 hours of our lives went?" Shinichi questioned. Haibara gave him no answer. Haibara seemed to have felt better; she went downstairs to her room and got her laptop. They matched the date, it was in sync. The snoring from the Professor seemed to have stopped, and the two of them have a lot of unanswered questions to ask. The middle aged man stretched as he woke up, the teenage boy and the little girl rushed over.

"Professor, what's going on?" Shinichi asked

"Shinichi? You're back! So the time machine did work!" the professor said with pride.

"Yes, Kudo-kun has returned but we want to know what went wrong, why are we 24 hours behind?" Haibara said impatiently.

"Oh no, not the headache again" the professor said to himself completely ignoring what she said. She was annoyed by the reaction but didn't complain.

"You've…time traveled before?" Shinichi asked

"Yes, once, but then I broke it and I tried fixing it but then I caused the explosion," Professor Agasa explained.

"Then you should know why we're 24 hours behind," Shinichi said

"…24 hours? Ah! That's the side effect, it takes a lot of strength to time travel, the 24 hours are for our bodies to rest," the professor explained.

"Then why didn't you set the date one more day forward so we can wake up without all these confusion?" Haibara asked

"I can't, I don't have the knowledge to do that yet, this time machine can only send us to the certain time we choose, but we'll always have to return to the date and time of the day we used the machine," said the professor. They both nodded slightly, the facts seemed to all fit into place after the professor's explanation.

The next day was just like another day. Except the fact that Shinichi's got his body back. And nothing seemed to have changed around him, it was just like the everyday life he had before he got turned into a kid. It was as if he never left and Edogawa Conan never existed. Thinking back, it all felt like a dream to him, all the adventure with the detective boys and all the times he shot Kogoro with the anesthetic needle just so he can solve a case. He smiled to himself, reminiscing the dreamlike adventure that seemed totally absurd.

"Shinichi!" a girl with brown hair behind him called out.

"Ran, what's up?" he greeted his childhood friend.

"Did you watch Kid's heist on TV last night?" she asked excitedly

"Kid…had a heist last night?" he asked absent mindedly

"You missed it? It was amazing! He made the diamond vanish even though the security guard held onto it and the guard wasn't his assistant or anything" Ran told him "But the one he stole was a fake so he's going to steal the real one tonight!"

So Kid's going to be having a heist tonight huh? This is going to be interesting, I'll definitely capture you now that I'm back in my original body, just you wait Kid. Shinichi thought.

will Shinichi be able to actually capture kid now that he's back? i know nothing's changed much, but *SPOILER* it will when he time travels again. (and i'm just basically giving away the story, sorry) but it will definitely get better, i promise. there'll be a lot more drama and romance in the later chapters. thank you all for reading.

R&R. x