A bit of comic relief in this chapter as well, but we'll get a bit of story progress in too. I'm sorry to say but this story has almost reached it's ending... *dum dum duuuuum* You won't believe it when you get there! I've actually already written that part out, I just have to figure out how to get there...
Ok by now I'm sure you know the drill, please enjoy and review.
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"You can't help her look for Conan!" Haibara whispered pulling on my sleeve, "Make up an excuse for why he wouldn't be here, and try to make sure she doesn't try to call him while you're nearby either."
That's strange... wasn't Haibara also worried about Conan going missing? But I just I should do as she asks if I want her to explain everything.
"Oh, I see," I pretended that I had replied to Haibara's whisper, then quickly made up something to tell Ran, "This little girl says that Conan-kun went to one of his other friend's house after school and will be staying there for the night."
"Oh... is that so?" Ran asked looking at Haibara who nodded in confirmation, "but he should have called and checked with me before doing something like that..."
"I'm sure he just forgot to," I replied awkwardly. Seriously, who is this Conan kid? He has a connection to me, a connection to Haibara, he's fighting against the black organization too, and based on what Ran has been saying he lives with her... "You should probably head back to your house soon, you left the boiler on when you left to see if Conan-kun was here, didn't you?"
Ran paused for a moment to think before she turned to run out the door, "Ah! You're right! I've got to go!"
Haibara looked at me with narrowed eyes, "How could you have possibly known that?"
"Just a guess," I replied, "She opened the door before any of us answered so she must've been in a hurry, that means left something at home that she couldn't leave alone for very long alone, either that or she was really worried about Conan..."
"Well it's pretty good luck that she left so fast, that little girl can't possibly tell you who Conan really is if your girlfriend is around," Kaitou kid said as he shuffled a deck of cards, he seemed to have recovered from Ran's punishment pretty quickly.
"What was that about anyway, 'Kaito' couldn't you have picked an alias that doesn't make it obvious that you're Kaitou Kid?"
"Hey, I resent that! Kaito is my real name! No one's been suspicious of me because of it yet!" He said breaking his usual facade, as soon as he'd said it he suddenly looked as though he regretted it. He had an expression that seemed to say 'Crap! I just told a troublesome detective my real name!'
"You're a Kaitou named Kaito?" I couldn't help but laugh.
He recovered his poker face before responding, "Anyway, I had to use my real name, you were about to make up an alias for me, I didn't want to be stuck being called something weird. We already know you can't make up an alias to save your life... 'Conan Edogawa'."
"Are you saying..." I trailed off, I didn't want to finish the thought. If it's true then this is so messed up.
"That's right," Haibara said, "You are 'Conan', and he is you."
Yeah, my life is officially messed up.
"It seems as though you're memories were changed somehow... but Conan is the only thing you don't remember," Haibara continued, "This seems to be similar to when 'Conan' first showed up and didn't realize that he was you... but I wonder, why?"
That's odd... what she said just now makes it sound more like Conan and I would be separate people, the same goes for what she said over the phone earlier when she was asking to talk to Conan... It can't be...
"Multiple personalities?" I said aloud to confirm my hypothesis.
"Correct, though that's relatively recent."
"What was it that Conan said to you on the phone before... you know when you called me to ask what he meant..." I asked, I had been wondering for a while.
She began to blush before turning around, her response was slightly stuttered, "Th-that is he said... *she said something very quietly and I wasn't able to tell quite what it was she said*... and um he said that he was about to do something dangerous and stupid, and he said 'goodbye'... so of course I'd be worried..."
"Tsundere?" Kid or rather Kaito said. Haibara twitched, but otherwise she completely ignored Kaito's comment.
I agree, she definitely has a crush on Conan... wait doesn't that mean she would have a crush on me? Whoa... I don't need a love triangle... Ran is enough for me!
'Ne, ne Shinichi-niichan... is that true? Do you really think Haibara likes me?' A childish voice suddenly resounded in my mind, it's tone was so hopefully happy that it took me a moment to realize what it was.
"Conan?" I asked aloud, not sure if he would hear me reply in my thoughts or not.
Haibara turned to face me with a questioning gaze, and Kaito stared at me with an interested expression.
...
Yay! Shinichi-niichan heard me!
Ohhh! I wanna switch with him now. I want to see what it's like being tall! I want to talk in a deep voice! Oh, this is going to be so cool!
"You're talking to Conan-kun?" Haibara asked, she still had a little bit of cute pink blush on her face from earlier.
"Um... I guess so..." Shinichi-niichan said, still a little bit unsure of how everything worked.
"Please switch with him real quick, I need to talk to him," Haibara said.
'She want's to talk to me! She want's to talk to me! Ah! Maybe she's going to answer my confession!'
Shinichi-niichan heard me and was a little bit surprised that I'd confessed to Haibara, 'Wait you did what?'
"Even if you say that... I'm-" Shinichi-niichan started, by I switched with him really quickly, "It's nice to see you again Haibara!"
Kaito-niichan and Haibara both had blank expression after seeing us suddenly switch personalities.
"So this is what it's like being tall! Oh, I bet I can touch the ceiling if I jump..." I tried but I couldn't hit it and I landed on my (actually it would be Shinichi-niichan's) behind, "Owie..."
'what are you doing? Don't do stupid stuff like that with my body...' Shinichi-niichan still seemed to be a bit disturbed by the whole ordeal.
Judging from her face Haibara found it somewhat creepy for me to be in Shinichi-niichan's body. Meanwhile Kaito-niichan wouldn't stop laughing at me. That's rude you know, cut me some slack, I'm only seven! It's natural that I'm not a cool as Shinichi-niichan.
Haibara cleared her throat, "So, about what you said earlier..."
"I meant it! All of it!"
There was an awkward silence for a moment as though she wasn't sure what to say, I guess she wasn't quite ready to answer me yet.
"Um... did you take the antidote right after you called me," She asked breaking the awkward silence.
"That's right..." I replied.
"Then there should only be about seventeen hours left until it wears off..." She said, still a bit awkwardly, "Then... I think Kudo-kun should spend some time with Ran..."
'but I'll feel creepy if I go along on Shinichi-niichan and Ran-neechan's date! I don't want to! I don't want to!' even if that's what I was thinking I knew it was the right thing to do to let those two have an uber romantic afternoon together, so I said, "Okay!"
Kaito-niichan was still laughing, "Hehe~, meitantei-chan is almost as fun as meitantei-kun! I knew I needed to stick around!"
Shinichi-niichan and I switched back after that. So he could prepare for his upcoming date.
