Chapter 8:

Ai and Ran waited beside the door, and heard slight moans from inside the room.

"We should go in and check on him." said Ran nervously.

"No." said Ai. "He said only to come in if—"

Suddenly, they both heard Conan scream loudly in pain, and then he said something.

"RAN! HELP! GET IN HERE QUICK!"

Ai and Ran slammed the door open, and saw Conan lying on the ground, squirming pain, sweating blood. Both of them gasped in fear.

"Something must have gone wrong with the antidote!" said Ai. Ran hurried to the table and looked at the bottle carefully, and noticed it had a fake label, and then smelled the liquid inside.

"Ai, this isn't sake! This is a phony!" she gasped as she listened to Conan scream. She looked in the top cabinet and saw the real bottle of sake right before her eyes. She grabbed it as quick as she could and ran back into the room where Conan was. She immediately poured two cups, and fed them to Conan as fast as she could. Suddenly, a familiar face appeared at the window. It was Gin, his face was still covered in dry blood, and his eye was deformed. He looked more evil than ever now as he jumped into the room and began to laugh maniacally.

"I knew the antidote the whole time! All I had to do was put out a phony bottle of sake, an even worse poison, and you idiots took care of the rest! YOU SHALL FINALLY DIE DETECTIVE!"

As he said his last words, he fell on the ground to his death. He died laughing with an evil grin on his face.

Ai and Ran stared at the body for a moment, and then looked back at Conan, who was breathing very heavily, and his eyes were barely open.

"Don't die on us, Kudo!" yelled Ai.

Ran leaned over him and held him in her arms. She began to weep as she yelled to Conan.

"Shinichi! Please stay with us! Shinichi!"

He spoke softly to her. "R-Ran......"

He blacked out.

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His eyes opened slowly, and he saw a blurred view of Ran in front of him. He suddenly realized that he had awakened, and he quickly sat up, opened his eyes, and breathed hard for a moment. He looked around him, and saw he was sitting in a hospital room in a bed, and he saw Ran looking at him, her eyes filled with tears.

"Huh!? I'm alive...? What the...my voice...."

Ran held up a mirror to him, and he saw his face. Not Conan's face, but his real, 17 year old face.

"So the antidote worked...." He looked away from the mirror, and at Ran's face. She was crying, but they were tears of joy, and she had the sweetest smile on her face. Suddenly, she leaned over him, and hugged him, her face buried in his chest.

"Shinichi.." she said quietly. "I thought you were going to die back there. I didn't care weather you stayed as a child or not. But you survived, and you are back to normal for good."

He looked down and smiled at Ran as he lay in the hospital bed.

"You were poisoned back there." said a familiar voice.

"Huh?" he looked around him, and then looked down. He saw Ai.

"Gin snuck into her house while nobody was home, and he put a bottle of a new kind of poison on the table, and then put a sake label on it. He probably didn't remove the real bottle because he didn't want to look for it and have left signs that he was there. But he never would have guessed that the sake was also a cure for that. Ran saved your life by giving you the sake when she did. You really would have died from that poison, and I am surprised that you are even alive at all right now."

Shinichi didn't respond. He just looked back at Ran and smiled.

Shinichi was released from the hospital several hours later. When he was let out, he went right back to his old house, where he, Ai and Ran met Agasa.

"Congratulations, Shinichi! It's good to finally have you back!" said the doc excitedly.

"It's so good to be back! I can finally get back to my old body, my old house, and my old life! I can rebuild my fame again as the famous detective!" he laughed. Then he looked at Ran, who was still just staring and smiling.

Agasa leaned over and whispered into Shinichi's ear. "You know, I think she is even happier to have you back than you are."

"I wonder when she will be back to normal." Shinichi said quietly.

"I guess it's ok that you didn't tell me who you were immediately. I know you were only doing what was best for Me." said Ran.

Agasa then spoke out loud. "You know Shinichi, I am surprised that Ran doesn't seem at all upset about the fact that while you were Conan and she didn't know who you were, you bathed together, slept in the same bed- -"

Shinichi tried to shush him, and then slapped his hand over his mouth. He then slowly turned his head to look at Ran, afraid of what he might see. Her face was completely red and she had a look on her face that was embarrassed and angry at the same time.

"Uh.....Ran?" he said nervously, knowing that he was about to be badly hurt.

"You.....you......SHINICHI YOU JERK! WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME RIGHT AWAY? I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!" she continued to yell at him as she started beating him up with her karate. He fell on the ground and laughed weakly.

"See you tomorrow at school!" she yelled angrily, and she walked out of the house and slammed the door behind her.

"Yup, she's back to normal!" Shinichi said to himself as he lay on the floor, smiling.

Epilogue:

The next day, Shinichi explained the whole situation; minus the part about Conan and himself being the same person; to Inspector Megure, the funeral was cancelled, and everyone was glad to have the great detective back. The police were glad to see that Kaito Kid was dead, but Shinichi actually felt bad since Kid had done him a favor the night before he was killed. The Black Organization was revealed, and gradually dissolved altogether. Ai took the antidote, and she began a life as a regular woman working as a scientist, forgetting about her old life as a member of the Organization. Ayumi and Conan's other elementary school friends received a phone call from Conan, by Shinichi using the voice changer, saying that he was really sorry but he had to move back with his parents. .As for the great detective Kogoro Mouri, he traded back his fame with Shinichi Kudo when he kept getting wrong solutions to cases, and Shinichi stepped in and found the right ones.

And as for Shinichi and Ran, they continued their lives as High School students, but no longer denied their feelings for each other after what had happened. But Ran never forgot about the cute little boy named Conan Edogawa that had kept her company for so long.