I have no idea where the ConAi kiss scene from last chapter came from... well it probably has something to do with the fact that I recently watched episode 345... yeah that's probably it...

I'm not going to bother rambling pointlessly this time, I just hope you enjoy it ^v^ I hinted that this was going to be how it would end a lot, but I don't think anyone noticed... well the 'mystery' that Shinji mentioned will be solved, then Conan ponders his sanity... the end. Sorry that it's such a lame ending, but at least it's Short, sweet, and to the point.

Arigato Gozaimasu everybody. I'm really glad for all of you who've read so far, especially those of you who reviewed, I would have ended it all around chaper nine or ten if there weren't so many nice people reading out there.

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34. Welcome Back

I could feel myself being gently shaken over and over.

"C ... n-kun ... Co... an ... ku ... w ... e ... up ..."

Eh? Who's that? I'm tired...

"Con ... n-ku ... wa ... e ... u ... Cona ... -kun ..."

That's Ran's voice... what's going on?

"Conan-kun ... wake up ..."

Eh? 'Wake up' ... but when did I fall asleep? I don't remember ...

Why is Ran trying to wake me up anyway, I live at the professor's house now ...

As if by instinct I murmured a response, "Just a ... little bit longer ... Ran-neechan ..."

That's weird, I stopped calling her that after Shinichi told her the truth about everything ...

When she didn't stop trying to wake me up I continued my earlier statement, "Let me sleep ... for a little bit longer ... Ran-neechan ..."

"Conan-kun, you have to wake up now! If you don't you won't have time for breakfast before you go to school."

At this point I was almost completely awake, but I didn't feel like giving up on sleeping so I stubbornly replied, "Ran ... I'm not a little kid can't I skip school just this once ..."

"What are you talking about Conan? You're only seven. Of course you can't skip school!"

Eh?

That's when I realized exactly what was going on.

It was all a dream.

Of course it was! Time travel can't exist, there's no way a person can come back after dying, there were even times when things contradicted themselves... of course it had all just been a dream. How could I have been stupid enough to think it was real? Why didn't I think at least once that it might've been a dream...

When I tried thinking about it carefully there was so much evidence that it was only a dream and not actually real that I couldn't keep myself from face-palming.

Freud would have a field day with this...

There was no way I was going to go to school after Haaibara had kissed me in a dream. I wouldn't be able to face her... even if it was just a dream- no the fact that it was a dream just made the entire situation worse, it meant that somewhere in my subconscious I actually wanted something like that to happen.

"But I don't feel very good Ran-neechan..." I added a fake cough, "Can't I just stay home today?"

Hesitantly, Ran agreed that because I was sick I could stay home from school and went to go get me some chicken soup.

Suddenly I could hear a loud buzzing noise coming from behind me. I turned to see that it was just my cellphone vibrating because I'd gotten a text message from an unknown sender.

It read:

Yo, Conan,

Welcome back to reality. - Ji-chan

p.s.- see you in dreamland.

The text message made no sense. The only person it could have possibly come from would have been Shinji... but he doesn't exist, he was just a dream. So why did I have a text message from a nonexistent person? There was probably no one in the world that could answer that question; but if you were to assume that everything actually had been real and that the paradox that Shinji, Shinichi, and I caused turned it all into my dream to restore the world's balance it might make a little bit of sense.

Upon checking I saw that my cellphone still had the short text conversation from when Shinji asked me to help him with Plan B saved, but there weren't any other messages that could shed any more light on the subject of whether all of it had really been a dream or not.

I decided to ask Shinji if I ever saw him again, it felt weird to assume he would know more about it than I did considering that if he were simply a character in my dream that he would have to be a figment of my imagination. Judging by his message I probably would see him in the world of my dreams, I would ask him about all of this whenever that happened - if it ever did.

I've officially gone insane haven't I?

I wondered whether or not I should get a therapist until Ran returned with a bowl of hot -but not too hot- chicken soup, which I proceeded to eat/drink.

My conclusion: I'd drive a therapist insane. All I'd have to do is say 'hello I'm Shinichi Kudo, I'm seventeen, but don't tell anybody because I'm pretending to be seven year old Conan Edogawa, I shrank to this age because some black-clothed members of an evil organization poisoned me but that's not why I'm here. You see lately I've been having some weird dreams about time travel and ...' need I say more? Therapy was out of the question.

I just have to keep myself sane enough to take down the black organization and return to my original body, then maybe I might get myself some therapy.

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THE END

probably...