Hello. No I'm not dead although maybe I should be. I can't believe I almost let a year go by without even a thought of updating. That is disappointing. Well here I am now with a new chapter for you guys! I hope that maybe this will make up for it.

Manga-fan-99: Well I guess it is a little fast but I figured there was at least a couple of minutes of silence in between what Conan said and Ran fainting.

Loyal DC Fan: I am terribly sorry that I haven't been able to update sooner but well I'm here now. Sorry about your lack of patience.

ON WITH THE STORY!

The tension in the room was so thick it was almost tangible. No one said anything and that annoyed Sonoko that her question wasn't being answered.

"I said whose identity are you trying to keep secret?" This didn't help the situation, in fact it made it worse. All of a sudden Heiji and Conan started babbling words that no one could understand. They were talking so fast that they were running out of breath.

"Alright I think I need to talk to these two for a second so Sonoko, could you help Kazuha make some tea?" Ran said quickly thinking. The expressions on the boys faces were extremely grateful as well as tired from all the babbling.

"Okay but I will find out what is going on here." Sonoko giving a glare at the boys before following Kazuha to the kitchen.

Ran quickly closed the door hoping Sonoko wouldn't decide to eavesdrop later. "What is going on in here? Are you trying to reveal yourself to everyone Shinichi?"

"Don't blame me it was Hattori who yelled at the top of lungs messing up like he usually does!" Glaring at Heiji while saying this. "He does something like this so often I'm surprised half of Japan doesn't already know my secret."

"Oi don't blame me! How was I supposed to know that you had told her! Especially all those times you warned me how important it was that she didn't find out!" Heiji was obviously steaming.

"Boys stop fighting! Come on you guys can't you just calm down? This is getting ridiculous." Ran's words did the trick as Conan and Heiji took a second to calm down before continuing. "Alright well, now that that's settled I have a question Shinichi. How come you told me now? I know you told me it was dangerous for me to know but I don't know why you told me now." Ran had a point.

"Yeah why? This is a big thing. How come you told her now?" Heiji was also curious. The look on Conan's face said it all. He didn't know why now. He just wanted her to know after all this time. He felt guilty for all the lies and wanted to clear his conscience. So in a spur of the moment decision he told her.

"Wait I just remembered. What I told you you on the night I brought you home! OH MY GOD! I told you that I loved you! But I didn't know it was you!" Ran started freaking out. Heiji then burst out laughing after noticing Conan's face turned a deep crimson.

"Shut up Hattori! It's not funny!" Ran then noticed what was going on around her. But they didn't notice she stopped freaking.

"How can I not laugh when she's spazzing about this! It's so funny to see the girl you love going crazy about confessing to you!" At this Ran's eyes got even wider. Shinichi loved her? Why hadn't he said anything about it before he got shrunk? Why hadn't he said so after he told her?

"You love me?" Ran's quiet voice rang out stopping the 2 boys in the room from what they were doing to stare at her. Once again silence filled the room. But it was soon broken by frantic cover-ups coming from the shrunken detective how didn't feel ready to confess his feelings just yet.

"You love me, don't you Shinichi?" Ran's question silenced the boy as he nodded a simple yes. Ran's face instantly brightened as she jumped onto Conan and gave him a big hug. "I'm so happy to hear that! This is so great!" She then surprised him and herself by kissing him.

If Heiji hadn't known that the young boy that was currently being kissed was actually a teenager too he probably would have been wondering what was going through the young girls mind. But knowing that this was the first kiss of two people who deeply loved each other despite extenuating circumstances he felt happy for them. He hoped in the far reaches of his mind he could have the same thing with Kazuha one day. Besides the shrinking part. Knowing that this was special for them he still couldn't help but butt in. "Hey I'm all for romance as much as the next guy but could you at least do that when I'm not here?"

Breaking apart both Ran and Conan blushed deeply. They hadn't expected today to turn out this way but both weren't about to change it. They had finally confessed to each other and shared their first kiss (on purpose) but now realizing what they did felt embarrassed. Especially Conan considering he currently looked like a seven year old. This meant it had (if anyone had seen) looked that a girl 10 years his senior had kissed him.

A knock on the door and a faint voice saying that the tea was ready alerted the new couple and the other boy in the room that maybe they should leave the rest of the conversation in the room, come back later, and for now go to the two people in the house who had not seen or heard any of what happened in the room.

Unnoticed to the occupants of the room outside of the window, sitting on a telephone line was a dove. On the doves ankle was a camera and listening device that had recorded and heard all of the conversation.

On the other side of town a certain phantom thief smiled knowing that now that Tantei-kun has resolved some things he might feel better about helping him. Now time for the heist notice.

And that concludes the longest chapter that I think I have done. It even surprised me at some points. I didn't it to turn out the way it did. Even if I didn't expect it I think I did A good job. This fanfic is now going to be apart of my school project so I will be updating a lot more frequently now. Please click the pretty white button that says review. It likes being clicked and feed kind reviews. Hope to hear from you soon. Ja ne!