WFY Chapter 3
Hello. . . This was SUPPOSED to be a part of chapter 3, but because of, ahem, certain circumstances, it got cut off. So some of you may have all already read the last part. So it's shorter then the rest. Ok?
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"Kudo..."
"Kudo..."
Leave me alone. I want to sleep more.
"Shin-chan. . ."
"Wake up, Shin-chan. . ."
Go away. I'm still tired.
"Shin-chan. . ."
"Shin-chan!"
"SHIN-CHAN!"
Shinichi groaned and tossed around in his bed.
"Shin-chan? Are you awake?"
Shinichi slowly opened his eyes, but quickly shut them and groaned, "Argh! Shut the curtains!"
There was a sound of someone closing the curtains.
Shinichi opened his eyes again and met his mother's eyes.
Wait, kaasan?
"What are you doing here?" yelped Shinichi as he shot up from the bed.
His mother looked surprised, as she answered, "You don't sound happy."
"B-But... You-you... You're supposed to be in America!" Shinichi spluttered.
Yukiko raised an eyebrow. "You think your parent's don't have the heart to come visit their son when they're about to die?"
"I'm not dying!"
"You sure SEEMED like you were gonna die." Yukiko answered.
Shinichi groaned and flopped back on his back. "Where in the hell am I, anyway?"
Kaito popped in with a POOF and a cloud of smoke. Shinichi jumped and snarled, "You behave yourself!"
Kaito snickered. "You're sounding like an old man. Anyway, you said you didn't wanna go back to that hospital (I don't know why in the WORLD you didn't want me to take you there, but I thought I shouldn't take the chance of getting killed) so I took you to a smaller hospital in Beika. Not the best doctors, but it did."
Shinichi pointed to his mother. "When did SHE come?"
Yukiko glared at her son with her hands on her hips. "Am I unwelcome?"
Shinichi gulped. "No, no. I was just... wondering."
Kaito continued with another snicker. "I knew your parents were at the airport at a certain time, so I called them and told them to come here instead. Don't worry, your parents are the only one who knows."
"Where's tousan, by the way?" asked Shinichi, looking around.
"He went to 7-eleven to go buy our breakfast."
Shinichi cocked his head. "How long have I been unconscious?"
"Hmm. . . You've been unconscious for approximately 1 month." Kaito answered innocently.
Shinichi grabbed the fly swatter lying on the nightstand and swatted it at Kaito's arm.
He quickly jumped back and glared at him. "Ow! Cut it out! I'm not a fly."
Shinichi smiled innocently. "Oh, sorry. I thought I saw a very big pest there."
Kaito gave him a death glare.
"You've been unconscious for a day, dear. We were so worried about you! Ran- chan is worried to death, too." Yukiko added helpfully.
Shinichi rubbed his head. "You didn't need to remin-d me!" he snarled.
Yukiko just shrugged. "When are you gonna tell them? They ALL think you're dead. You should thank Kuroba-kun, you know. He delivered you to the hospital, after all."
"Don't tell anyone yet. I'll surprise everyone."
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It was the night after Shinichi had fallen from the building.
She leaned onto the fence and let her tears fall.
Why did you have to go Shinichi? You know I still needed you.
A sparkling thing caught her eye. It was the thing Shinichi had thrown when he told her about the story.
Curious, she kneeled to the ground and picked up the thing.
It was a ring.
And engraved in loopy cursive was:
"Ran and Shinichi Forever"
Tears were falling again. Shinichi DID love her, after all. It was kinda good to know that he didn't die thinking she hated him.
The door opened. She didn't dare turn back. But who was it?
"Hello Mouri-chan."
The cold icy tone belonged to none other then Ai Haibara. The tone itself gave everyone the shivers.
But why would she be here?
"A-Ai-chan? Why are you here? You shouldn't be here."
Ai walked up next to Ran and rested her chin on the railings.
"They didn't find his body."
Ran fought to keep her tears to herself. Not in front of Ai-chan. She was a teenager; she shouldn't see people die like this...
But she WASN'T a teenager. She was about her age. Because of some weird pill that shrunk her.
"They'll never find his body, you know." Ai's cold voice offered no emotion. As if a robot was speaking.
"Is he- Is he alive?" Ran whispered, trying desperately not to raise her hopes up.
"No. I never said that."
Her hopes shattered.
"Then why?"
Ai sighed and looked forlornly at the view. "The antidote was never really complete. But it was the closest I could get to it. You see, the first antidote I created just returned him to his normal body for 24 hrs. Yet, it was far from the real one, since it was because of the use of that Chinese liqueur. But after Kudo-kun left, I began to work nearly all day and night on the antidote.
"One day, I was trying to make a pill. I made a temporary cure. This one I thought it lasted for a week. But I was wrong. Very wrong. This was the real cure, where you wouldn't turn back small. But it had one fault in it that made it not permanent.
"The pill needed the body to help it keep the body big. It needed to have the body actually functioning for at least 10 years. So technically, Kudo- kun needed to be alive for ten years to keep his body forever. If they ever find a dead body out there, they'll most probably find Edogawa-kun instead. But I highly doubt that, because the body is smaller and unnoticeable. It may not be found for weeks, months, or even years."
Ran felt tears pouring out. Shinichi was really gone. They wouldn't even find him.
Ai stared at her for a moment. "Do you want to know how it happened?"
Ran raised her head and looked quizzically at Ai. "Of course. But-"
Ai tipped her head up and stared at the stars. "My side of the story and Kudo-kun's may be different. But I'll be happy to tell you my side of the story.
"For me, it all started when the Organization killed my sister. You see, my parents were working for the organization, but had died when I was very young. So the only family member I had left was my sister, Akemi. I worked for the Organization when I had grown up and continued the research on the records my parents left.
"But my sister was normal. She had normal friends, went to a normal school, went to vacation like a normal girl, and had a normal -life-. Unlike me.
"When I heard that my sister was killed by the hands of the Organization, I asked them many times why they killed her. But they never told me. So I stopped doing the research on APTX 4869 until they told me the reason why.
"So they decided I wasn't a safe member of the Organization, so they locked me up into a small room in the research center and chained me to the wall until they decided what they would do to me.
"I knew they would kill me soon, so I decided that it was better if I just die quickly by taking the APTX 4869 I had hidden in my pocket. But instead of killing me, the pill made me small, allowing my hand to slip out of the chains and escape by the dust chute.
"I had no where to go, so I was only left with the choice of going to Kudo- kun's house, since I had a fair idea of what might have happened to Kudo- kun instead.
"That's where Hakase found me. I was lying in front of his house in the rain, when Hakase happened to go by and took me to his house. I stayed there, and thought up of a name for me. So that's how Ai Haibara was born . . . You must hate me, for making Kudo-kun and your life miserable because of the pill I made . . ."
Silence followed as Ai finished her story.
Ran broke the silence. "Thanks."
Startled, Ai looked up and gave Ran a quizzical stare. "Why do you thank me?"
Ran smiled. "If . . . if you hadn't made the pill, then the Organization or whatever would have killed Shinichi in a different way. Like another poison that was actually . . . poison. So if you hadn't made the pill, Shinichi would have been dead way before, and I wouldn't have known that Shinichi . . ."
A tear dropped onto the railing.
Ai looked away. Emotions unexplainable were bubbling up inside her as well.
Why did she care anyway?
Her whole life had been a dark shadow . . . so why was she feeling pain for others as well?
That was one thing she could never explain.
She looked at her watch. "I had better go, Mouri-chan. You too. Your mother is probably worried sick for you." Ai said, returning to her cold face.
Ran wiped away a tear. "Thank you . . . Ai. Thank you for telling me and comforting me. You know what? You don't seem as black as you say you are."
Ai just opened the door and said softly, "Thank you yourself . . ."
Just as she was about to leave, Ran spoke up.
"What's your real name?"
A shadow a smile appeared on her face. "Shiho . . . Shiho Miyano."
With that, she left closing the door softly behind her.
Ran smiled. Shiho. She liked Shiho very much.
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Okay! Another chapter finished . . . And thanks, bluegirl; I will always and forever support love mysteries! Fantagal . . . fast update, huh? y-7is, see, I didn't kill of Shinichi! And update your story ASAP please! REVIEW, PEOPLES!
Hello. . . This was SUPPOSED to be a part of chapter 3, but because of, ahem, certain circumstances, it got cut off. So some of you may have all already read the last part. So it's shorter then the rest. Ok?
***
"Kudo..."
"Kudo..."
Leave me alone. I want to sleep more.
"Shin-chan. . ."
"Wake up, Shin-chan. . ."
Go away. I'm still tired.
"Shin-chan. . ."
"Shin-chan!"
"SHIN-CHAN!"
Shinichi groaned and tossed around in his bed.
"Shin-chan? Are you awake?"
Shinichi slowly opened his eyes, but quickly shut them and groaned, "Argh! Shut the curtains!"
There was a sound of someone closing the curtains.
Shinichi opened his eyes again and met his mother's eyes.
Wait, kaasan?
"What are you doing here?" yelped Shinichi as he shot up from the bed.
His mother looked surprised, as she answered, "You don't sound happy."
"B-But... You-you... You're supposed to be in America!" Shinichi spluttered.
Yukiko raised an eyebrow. "You think your parent's don't have the heart to come visit their son when they're about to die?"
"I'm not dying!"
"You sure SEEMED like you were gonna die." Yukiko answered.
Shinichi groaned and flopped back on his back. "Where in the hell am I, anyway?"
Kaito popped in with a POOF and a cloud of smoke. Shinichi jumped and snarled, "You behave yourself!"
Kaito snickered. "You're sounding like an old man. Anyway, you said you didn't wanna go back to that hospital (I don't know why in the WORLD you didn't want me to take you there, but I thought I shouldn't take the chance of getting killed) so I took you to a smaller hospital in Beika. Not the best doctors, but it did."
Shinichi pointed to his mother. "When did SHE come?"
Yukiko glared at her son with her hands on her hips. "Am I unwelcome?"
Shinichi gulped. "No, no. I was just... wondering."
Kaito continued with another snicker. "I knew your parents were at the airport at a certain time, so I called them and told them to come here instead. Don't worry, your parents are the only one who knows."
"Where's tousan, by the way?" asked Shinichi, looking around.
"He went to 7-eleven to go buy our breakfast."
Shinichi cocked his head. "How long have I been unconscious?"
"Hmm. . . You've been unconscious for approximately 1 month." Kaito answered innocently.
Shinichi grabbed the fly swatter lying on the nightstand and swatted it at Kaito's arm.
He quickly jumped back and glared at him. "Ow! Cut it out! I'm not a fly."
Shinichi smiled innocently. "Oh, sorry. I thought I saw a very big pest there."
Kaito gave him a death glare.
"You've been unconscious for a day, dear. We were so worried about you! Ran- chan is worried to death, too." Yukiko added helpfully.
Shinichi rubbed his head. "You didn't need to remin-d me!" he snarled.
Yukiko just shrugged. "When are you gonna tell them? They ALL think you're dead. You should thank Kuroba-kun, you know. He delivered you to the hospital, after all."
"Don't tell anyone yet. I'll surprise everyone."
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It was the night after Shinichi had fallen from the building.
She leaned onto the fence and let her tears fall.
Why did you have to go Shinichi? You know I still needed you.
A sparkling thing caught her eye. It was the thing Shinichi had thrown when he told her about the story.
Curious, she kneeled to the ground and picked up the thing.
It was a ring.
And engraved in loopy cursive was:
"Ran and Shinichi Forever"
Tears were falling again. Shinichi DID love her, after all. It was kinda good to know that he didn't die thinking she hated him.
The door opened. She didn't dare turn back. But who was it?
"Hello Mouri-chan."
The cold icy tone belonged to none other then Ai Haibara. The tone itself gave everyone the shivers.
But why would she be here?
"A-Ai-chan? Why are you here? You shouldn't be here."
Ai walked up next to Ran and rested her chin on the railings.
"They didn't find his body."
Ran fought to keep her tears to herself. Not in front of Ai-chan. She was a teenager; she shouldn't see people die like this...
But she WASN'T a teenager. She was about her age. Because of some weird pill that shrunk her.
"They'll never find his body, you know." Ai's cold voice offered no emotion. As if a robot was speaking.
"Is he- Is he alive?" Ran whispered, trying desperately not to raise her hopes up.
"No. I never said that."
Her hopes shattered.
"Then why?"
Ai sighed and looked forlornly at the view. "The antidote was never really complete. But it was the closest I could get to it. You see, the first antidote I created just returned him to his normal body for 24 hrs. Yet, it was far from the real one, since it was because of the use of that Chinese liqueur. But after Kudo-kun left, I began to work nearly all day and night on the antidote.
"One day, I was trying to make a pill. I made a temporary cure. This one I thought it lasted for a week. But I was wrong. Very wrong. This was the real cure, where you wouldn't turn back small. But it had one fault in it that made it not permanent.
"The pill needed the body to help it keep the body big. It needed to have the body actually functioning for at least 10 years. So technically, Kudo- kun needed to be alive for ten years to keep his body forever. If they ever find a dead body out there, they'll most probably find Edogawa-kun instead. But I highly doubt that, because the body is smaller and unnoticeable. It may not be found for weeks, months, or even years."
Ran felt tears pouring out. Shinichi was really gone. They wouldn't even find him.
Ai stared at her for a moment. "Do you want to know how it happened?"
Ran raised her head and looked quizzically at Ai. "Of course. But-"
Ai tipped her head up and stared at the stars. "My side of the story and Kudo-kun's may be different. But I'll be happy to tell you my side of the story.
"For me, it all started when the Organization killed my sister. You see, my parents were working for the organization, but had died when I was very young. So the only family member I had left was my sister, Akemi. I worked for the Organization when I had grown up and continued the research on the records my parents left.
"But my sister was normal. She had normal friends, went to a normal school, went to vacation like a normal girl, and had a normal -life-. Unlike me.
"When I heard that my sister was killed by the hands of the Organization, I asked them many times why they killed her. But they never told me. So I stopped doing the research on APTX 4869 until they told me the reason why.
"So they decided I wasn't a safe member of the Organization, so they locked me up into a small room in the research center and chained me to the wall until they decided what they would do to me.
"I knew they would kill me soon, so I decided that it was better if I just die quickly by taking the APTX 4869 I had hidden in my pocket. But instead of killing me, the pill made me small, allowing my hand to slip out of the chains and escape by the dust chute.
"I had no where to go, so I was only left with the choice of going to Kudo- kun's house, since I had a fair idea of what might have happened to Kudo- kun instead.
"That's where Hakase found me. I was lying in front of his house in the rain, when Hakase happened to go by and took me to his house. I stayed there, and thought up of a name for me. So that's how Ai Haibara was born . . . You must hate me, for making Kudo-kun and your life miserable because of the pill I made . . ."
Silence followed as Ai finished her story.
Ran broke the silence. "Thanks."
Startled, Ai looked up and gave Ran a quizzical stare. "Why do you thank me?"
Ran smiled. "If . . . if you hadn't made the pill, then the Organization or whatever would have killed Shinichi in a different way. Like another poison that was actually . . . poison. So if you hadn't made the pill, Shinichi would have been dead way before, and I wouldn't have known that Shinichi . . ."
A tear dropped onto the railing.
Ai looked away. Emotions unexplainable were bubbling up inside her as well.
Why did she care anyway?
Her whole life had been a dark shadow . . . so why was she feeling pain for others as well?
That was one thing she could never explain.
She looked at her watch. "I had better go, Mouri-chan. You too. Your mother is probably worried sick for you." Ai said, returning to her cold face.
Ran wiped away a tear. "Thank you . . . Ai. Thank you for telling me and comforting me. You know what? You don't seem as black as you say you are."
Ai just opened the door and said softly, "Thank you yourself . . ."
Just as she was about to leave, Ran spoke up.
"What's your real name?"
A shadow a smile appeared on her face. "Shiho . . . Shiho Miyano."
With that, she left closing the door softly behind her.
Ran smiled. Shiho. She liked Shiho very much.
***
Okay! Another chapter finished . . . And thanks, bluegirl; I will always and forever support love mysteries! Fantagal . . . fast update, huh? y-7is, see, I didn't kill of Shinichi! And update your story ASAP please! REVIEW, PEOPLES!