"Have you packed? This'll be a different trip than usual, you'll need to bring more with you." Conan asked as he entered the professor's house to pick Haibara up. He was dressed in a short sleeved shirt and shorts but was carrying/dragging the three heavy bags of the Detective Boys along with his own bag.

"I have, but… I still can't believe that the kids want to go on a trip to the snow again. Didn't we just do this?" Sighing at the effort Haibara let Conan help her pull up her bags and move them into the professor's car. "And bad things happen every time, we're involved in a murder or some type of bombing or kidnapping or something else! Do they have no sense of self preservation?"

Giving a small laugh Conan thought for a moment and responded, "I'm pretty sure they just like the adventure part of it and the satisfaction of knowing you played a part in putting someone who was hurting others behind bars. It's a nice feeling and one that leads plenty of people to want to become detectives.

"I'm starting to think they're almost as risky as you are." The people outside made Conan almost miss her statement in the noise they made and hope he had hearn her wrong. Conan blinked once after deciding he heard right and pulled Haibara inside the house so he could actually hear her and looked at her in confusion.

"What? How is choosing to go to places with murders and being happy about it more risky than what I do? I'm always trying to save people!" Her definition of risky might cause him to not be able to help someone with her saying that it's too dangerous to let himself get hurt
"It's not worth it to be risky-"

"We won't age! It's not worth it to not be risky. It's way too dangerous for us if we can't find a cure or take down the organization before our time is up."

Haibara scowled both at being cut off and at his statement. "I'm not completely sure that'll happen, besides, there's too big a chance that you'll get yourself killed!"
"I'm probably the only one who can try to do most of these things. I'm either the only one there or the only one capable, it's not like I wouldn't let other people handle these things if I had a choice in the matter."

"Really? Cause I'm not sure I believe you at all." Stopping completely, Conan thought about whether he would if there were other options and found he had no exact response to her question.

"I… I think so."

Haibara gave a small laugh with a bitter edge to it. "There's something the great detective and savior of the police force doesn't know? Isn't that unusual!" At the end her voice lost all of it's teasing nature and she continued, "I'm still your voice of reason most of the time. You may not be able to rely on me a lot but if I remember you did say that Subaru and Amuro could be trusted, let them help you out with these things a little bit more."

In exchange Conan gave her a nod to show he had been listening but his eyes were glued to the floor as he thought through what she had just said. They had finished packing so there was no need for him to move and Haibara simply led him to the couch and sat him down as he thought.

"I can't believe you." Haibara's voice had an edge of disbelief and scorn coupled with anger and annoyance. The professor flinched away at her accusation, trying to become as small as he could in a body several times her size.

"I'm sorry Ai-chan…" he mumbled, keeping his head down. "But now that the machine's broke I don't see how I could take you all camping, please forgive me. I really, really need to go fix it."

"Don't think you could or don't want to?" Haibara sent the man a raised eyebrow that had him flinch back again. He was not good at handling her when she was this mad. "The kids were all looking forward to this all day. As much as I don't think it would be a good idea to go they're not going to take well to just being told they can't go."

"I know, that's why I asked someone else to drive you!" Haibara blinked in surprise at the sudden change in mood. "Subaru had some free time so he volunteered and you'll be going with him!"

'Of course he had free time, he doesn't ever do anything,' was the first thought that came to Haibara when she heard him say that. Then they shifted to a more somber note, 'can we trust him? He has tried to protect us and there are plenty of things he's done to help but I barely know him.'

As soon as that thought left her mind a new one took it's place, 'but Edogawa does.'

Conan admitted himself that he knew everything important there was to know about someone before he could trust them. Even if she forced him to admit that the statement still held true. 'I do, at least, know I can trust Conan. Besides, I did tell him just a minute ago that he should rely on other people more. Even if he trusts them with information it's completely different from working together. I might as well set a good example myself…

So instead of what she had been thinking about she smiled at Subaru and thanked him for taking them in a way that only a kid (or someone pretending to be a kid) would ever act. Subaru smiled in return as well and completely hid Akai Shuichi behind his mask.

The kids and Conan were given a quick explanation and they entered the car for Subaru to drive them to the mountains.

Immediately after arriving on the mountain the kids left to build a snowman while Conan, Haibara and Subaru unpacked the supplies. The group of adult's (teenager's are pretty much adults, especially when they're as mature as Conan and Haibara) checked into the hotel and set everything up for them to relax later.

"Boy." Haibara and Conan both stopped and turned around at Subaru's sudden and complete change in attitude, watching him in confusion. "Our information suggests that the organization might be watching Kogoro regularly, you'll have to be careful."

"Got it." Giving a quick nod Conan slipped his snow shoes on and walked out with Haibara into the cold icy air.

"There's another problem too." Seeing that he had their attention Subaru continued, "we think there's a chance they're watching you."

Conan's eyes widened while Haibara gave an almost silent gasp. Both turned to look at each other with fear in their eyes. "Why me? What about Ran?"

"There's a chance they're watching her too but they can't get much out of her, you and Kogoro are the only one's we'll need to be careful for. You'll have to act more like a child than usual."

"Sorry?"

"They'll be able to tell if you act like an adult, until we confirm if they're watching you or not please act more like a child than normal." Conan gave another nod while Haibara started walking away mumbling to herself.

Several people turned their heads in confusion at the adult telling the two children to 'act' like children. Haibara ignored them unlike how she would usually become worried and continued mumbling to herself.

"He's right, we need to come across as normal kids. But we'd need to make a big enough impression that it'd be obvious we're just children, playing with kids won't do that…"

"Yeah, that'll definitely be the hardest part." Conan agreed as he started running through different ideas as well, "building a snowman is something anyone will do, not specifically children."

"I agree…" Subaru suddenly stopped speaking when he saw Conan give his usual smirk. Haibara was still mumbling to herself but Conan turned to Subaru and put a finger to his lips.

Quiet. Giving a nod Subaru watched as Conan bend down into the snow and knelt with his back facing Subaru.

"I guess we could try to make one that's extra childish… no that would be too easy for anyone to do. What would make a strong impression-" Haibara's hood was suddenly pulled back and she felt something cold go down it.

"GAAAAHHH!" She yelled and suddenly turned around to see Conan holding the remains of a pile of snow in his gloves. "You did not just through snow down my jacket."

"Maybe…."

"You bas-" Cutting off as Conan suddenly put his hand up in a stopping motion she only glared harder when she heard him say.

"Children shouldn't be talking like that, Haibara." At the very least that did remind her of what they were supposed to be doing. It also happened to fuel her anger a hundred times over. She took on a smirk of her own and knelt down to the snow as well. Confused at why she wasn't yelling at him Conan made a small noise. "Haibara?"

Haibara, as it turned out, could carry a lot of snow in her arms. Letting the aura she had from her time as Sherry she gave him a smirk. "Fine, we can be kids if that's what you want." Her aura increased as she flipped some of her hair behind her ear in a simple head motion. "I just hope you know… this means war!"

Conan took off running the second her sentence registered in his mind, laughing all the way. Ducking behind trees the war of snow began with a violent stream of attacks from Haibara and unhealthy amounts of laughing on both sides.

The battle continued until late into the day and Subaru got a message from Kir that said, 'I've heard that Conan was being watched but while Mouri still is Conan was decided to be a normal child. He won't be watched anymore.'

Subaru smiled and showed both children the message, making them look at each other and laugh. It was nice to see Haibara laughing like a real kid, he was glad she could still feel those emotions.

After a long bath with Ayumi Haibara was back to her normal self, albeit a bit more relaxed than she usually was.

I'm going to give a mini rant here for no reason at all. Usually I would put this on my profile but my friend said this so I'm not sure it goes there. If you want to ignore this it's not really important. So, my friend has another problem with Heiji. He and Conan are always competing at murder cases and seem to ignore that they're playing a came around someone else's life. Someone was murdered and they think it's a fine time to play a game together and compete to find the murderer. It's like Conan doesn't realize that this is life and death anymore. Despite wanting to catch a criminal they don't share information and they let the criminal stay free or potentially kill more people just so that they can have a bit of fun together. What's wrong with them?! Do they not care that the family of whoever was killed will have to wait for them to finish their game to learn who murdered their family? That is completely irresponsible and honestly makes both of us dislike Hattori cases even more. I both don't like most of them just on what kind of cases they are (supernatural, not overly interesting) and I don't like the interactions with Hattori (playing a game, not a huge fan of Hattori's character just personally). Plus, I always feel a bit like the cases deviate from the usual tone of the show into a more romantic comedy (my least favorite part of DC) rather than any of the tension that comes when with a Bourbon or Rum suspect.