The sun was moving its way down to the horizon where it began its adventure everyday. Shinichi walked home slowly. He whistled a song and swung his house key with his index finger. He entered his house and lied on his bed. As he closed his eyes, he heard the door opening. He thought, "Must be professor. Doesn't he know how to respect my privacy?" Shinichi stood up and walked towards his room door.

Note: Shinichi's house has double storey so he was in the second storey when the main door opened.

As he approached the door, he stopped. He didn't hear professor's voice. (when professor comes to Shinichi's house , he will always shout, "Shinichi, I am here.") Shinichi heard many heavy footsteps. He thought, "Damn, it doesn't seem to be professor. Who is it?" As he was thinking, he looked out of the window and saw a black Porsche parking outside his house. Immediately, he realized that owner of the car must be the one in his house.

The mysterious person crept up the stairs. Shinichi looked around, seeing no where to go, he quickly hid under his bed. He listened as closely as he could and he heard the sounds produced by high heels. "A..woman?" he thought. The door opened and the footsteps stopped. It started again but it was smaller than before. "She must be looking for me." He thought.

After a few minutes, the mysterious person walked away and said as she went, "Not here." "More than one? It will be dangerous if I go out now…I should wait here and followed them after they left. They are looking for me? Who are they? Why?" Shinichi thought. The main door opened again and the footsteps were gone. Shinichi crawled out and gave a sigh. When he was out, he was shocked. There was a figure in front of him.

It was Miyano Akemi. She looked at Shinichi and pressed her finger on her lips. Shinichi stared straight into her eyes. He heard footsteps again. He thought, "Damn, I made a big mistake! Never mind, it is just a woman…or is it?"

When that person arrived at the door, Akemi turned her head and said with a slight giggle, "It's him."

It was Miyano Shiiho. She examined Shinichi closely and gave a slight smile to Akemi. The two women then stood by the wall and said nothing as if they were waiting for something.

Shinichi looked at them strangely but they were looking away. Shiiho was staring out of the window while Akemi was looking at the floor. When Shinichi realized that they were not going to kill him any moment now, he asked as calmly as he could, "Who are you?"

Just when Akemi was about to speak, Shiiho said softly but angrily, "None of you business! Why must you be such a busybody all the time? Anyway, you should know that we saved your life and you should…."

"Stop it, Shiiho. Sorry about it, Kudo. We are trying to get away from those scary guys and we thought of using this opportunity where we are on a trip with them to kill someone to escape. Please forgive us." Akemi said as she bowed to Shinichi.

Shinichi thought, "Kudo, how do they know..?"

Shinichi enquired, "Those guys…? Anyway, why are they looking for me? I'd never met you before and…"

"Search your own soul. You did something totally wrong today." Shiiho interrupted harshly.

Shinichi thought for a moment. "Oh it's them! It must be!" Shinichi thought.

Flashback

Shinichi was at the amusement park with Ran when he saw two men in blacks doing a sort of trading with a man. He gave one of them a briefcase and…what happened after that? Something hit him real hard on his head, a wood plank or something, and he fainted. After Shinichi had fainted, Gin wanted to finish him off with the new pill that was invented but he heard a siren coming from far. It was the police. Gin peeked at Shinichi's identify card and murmured to himself, "Kudo..Shinichi." He gave a slight grin and left hurriedly with Volka.

End of flashback

Note: Shinichi was fainted at that time when Gin found out his identity thus he was oblivious to why Gin and Volka managed to trace him down.

"The guys…in black?" asked Shinichi.

Akemi nodded. She looked at Shiiho and asked, "Shall we do it now?"

Shinichi looked at them, trying to figure out what they were going to do. Shiiho looked into Shinichi's eyes and said coldly, "Go down." Shinichi looked at her but knowing that he could do nothing now expect following them, he obediently went down.

At the back gate of Shinichi house, Shiiho said coldly, "Go out." Shinichi wanted to ask why he had to listen to her instructions but was stopped by Akemi.

Akemi said hopefully, "We will pay you one day for this."

Shinichi looked at Akemi strangely and said a 'never mind'. Just then, Shiiho lighted up a matchstick and threw it towards the pill that she had laid on the floor not long before. It then gave off an explosion sound and Akemi quickly grabbed Shiiho out of the house. "Quick! Run!" Shinichi shouted as he slowed down his steps and pushed the women forward. He then quickly leaped forward and dived.

The house slowly burned down on its own. Shinichi stared blindly at it. Suddenly, he felt someone pulling his hand. It was Shiiho. "Hey, wait, where are you going?" Shinichi asked shockingly.

"To somewhere safe." Shiiho answered harshly. Suddenly, she stopped. She ran back to the house and pulled Akemi, who was near to fainting due to the gas produced by the burning, along. She thought on the way back to where Shinichi was, "Where should I go? There doesn't seem to be anywhere for me to go." She looked down.

When she reached Shinichi, her eye caught his and she quickly turned away. She asked without looking at Shinichi, "You got anywhere to go to?" Shinichi thought for a while and nodded. Shiiho looked down upon his response.

Shinichi looked at her and asked, "You…have no where to go?" Shiiho did not reply, but just stared at the mud on her pants. "You and your sister can come with me." Shinichi said with a wink. Shiiho did not reply again but this time she heard her sister speaking.

"Thanks…Kudo.." Akemi said weakly.

Shinichi carried Akemi on his back and walked towards a house just a few streets down. Shiiho looked at Shinichi and wondered, "Why must he do this?" At the same time, Gin was driving his Porsche away from the Beika Street with Volka. He thought, "Sherry, I know you are still alive. I know you are. Are you just trying to go against me? I've never seen this day coming but since it is here, I might have to do something that I don't want to do with you. Remember that it is you who ask for it."

As they reached the two storey house, professor exclaimed, "Hi Shinichi! Long time no see….who are they?" Shinichi turned back and smiled at Shiiho who still gave him the annoyed look.

"Just…two women. They will be staying with you for a while, ok?" Shinichi said.

Professor nodded and looked at Shinichi. "What happened?" he asked.

Shinichi put the sleeping Akemi on the sofa and told the whole story to Professor. Professor remarked, "That's something that is coming sooner or later. The way you investigate every crime and the sensitivity of you will certainly annoyed those bad people out there."

"Haha.."

Shiiho went into the basement laboratory. She lifted up a test tube and murmured to herself, "All this, all this shouldn't exist. The small amount of liquid in it and change the lives of everyone. I'm such a fool to not understand that….a fool that is afraid of facing herself…a fool that doesn't deserve to live…" Shinichi heard all that but he remained silent. He knew that there was something about the sisters that he would not know. He could sense that but he just could not put it into words.

A few hours later, Akemi woke up. There beside her was Shinichi. "Shiiho is alone in the laboratory." Shinichi said with a smile. Akemi nodded and her tears began to gather in her eyes.

"Shiiho is very pitiful. She created drugs which she did not know what Gin would use it for. When she found out, she was very sad. She wanted to die but no one in the organization allowed her to. The only thing was to escape." Akemi said. She paused for a while as if she was waiting for Shinichi's response.

"I understand it."

"I hope you can forgive her when she said something wrong. She feels that she had harmed too many humans and she shouldn't be included in the human race. She just did not know how to connect with normal humans."

"That's…words from her?"

"Yes."

"Ok, I understand."

After the talk with Akemi, Shinichi phoned Ran and told her that his house was burnt down and he was staying with professor but mentioned nothing about the two sisters. As he put down the phone, he saw Shiiho in the garden. He walked towards her and as he was walking, Shiiho said, "From now on, don't be that reckless in your actions."

Shinichi did not speak. Shiiho continued, "If you continue with your way of life, the people around you will get hurt. Your mother, father, professor…… and the girl that you called just now as well. Those guys will kill anyone that they think is an eyesore. I am, you are but they aren't. Remember this."

Shinichi looked at Shiiho, eagerly waiting for her to speak. Shiiho said as she looked up to the sky, "I didn't tell you this because I want to protect you; it is just because you carried my sister just now." Shiiho then walked away.

Shinichi looked at her disappearing image and shouted, "Shiiho, don't give up on your life!"

Shiiho turned her back slightly and gave a small smile. Shinichi looked at her and thought, "One day, one day I will hear the 'thank you'." He smiled and walked back to the house.

Next chapter will be about Akemi and her first love. Thank you for reading.