Chae.Rim: I do not own Detective Conan.
Gosho Aoyama: Chae.Rim does not own Detective Conan. It belongs to me.
Chae.Rim: I do, however, own this fan fiction. Also, Kyoko is my own character.
Story Summary: When Ran walked by the Kudos' house, she saw a girl is living in the house that claimed to be Shinichi's girlfriend! Ai panicked when she saw that girl. What are her intentions of being this imposter? Involve Black Organization + RanXShinichiXAi
Chapter Summary: File 1, basically introduced the Kyoko, and it included a lot of hints about what she is.
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Save Me Not : Prologue
It is raining outside harder than ever. The icy breezes quietly passed through the window of the Kudos' house raised the temperature of the classic living room to 5 degrees below Celsius. In there, a small shadow stood across the bookshelves, pointing something looked as might as a gun at the tall dainty figure weakly stood quiet against the bookshelves. Silent overcast the Masquerade Street for hours, but sometime disrupted when people darted by, trying to escape from the hard rain.
" Well?" the tall figure spoke as she steps out of the shadow and then sit down on the sofa near the fireplace. " You can stop point that gun at me now."
" Why should I?" the small shadow who was still standing where he is shakily as the storm outside slush the icy wind across the room.
" For one thing, I've given you enough time to think about the deal. Another thing is that I can see you're freezing cold standing near that opened window," Kyoko smirked. " Beside, I don't want anyone to 'tap' our conversation."
How did she know? The small boy thought in panic. From afar, several houses away from the room, Ai and Dr. Asaga solemnly looked out their window straight to where Conan is standing without a blink with headphones on their ears. Carefully, he closed the window, but left it ajar, and then sat down at a nearby chair across from the fireplace.
" Fine," Conan said. " One condition though."
" Oh?" Kyoko fleered.
" You must tell me everything I want to know," Conan said.
Kyoko laugh, stood up, and then walked forward Conan and softly kissed his cheek. Conan was too freezing to move.
" I guess I can see why you're on everyone's hot list," she smiled. " Deal."
At this time, to Conan, Kyoko doesn't sound or look dangerous as he first impression of her. To Conan, she was just like Ai, trying to escape a black hole.
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Chae.Rim: That's the introduction. Please R&R, sending me feedbacks. Thank you so much for reading this.
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File 1: Invader" Let's go, Sonoko!" Ran eagerly urged Sonoko, her best friend beside Shinichi, to hurry to the Kudos' house. " Come on! I promised Shinichi that I would visit his house every few months."
" Jesus, Ran! For what? Cleaning up his crappy house for him? I can't believe I let you talked me into this," Sonoko complained as she catches up to Ran. " What about shorty Conan?"
" Oh! Of course, Conan! Wait for me here. I'll go and pick him up," Ran said.
" Ran-san! I'm here!" Conan beamed a grin. " Let's go to m- I mean the Kudos' house!"
Ran stared surprisingly at Conan for a while. " How did you know that we're going to the Kudos' house?"
Conan began to panic, but he tried to keep his cool. " Well, Ran-san, every time when we visit the Kudos' house, you're always excited!"
" The kid got a point, Ran," Sonoko smirked as Ran lower her head and turn away, not wanting to show her redden face. " Let's go. Oh yea, I have a dentist appointment after this, so I probably won't stay with you at Kudos' house for long."
Phew! Conan thought as he wiped off the sweats hiding under his chin. That was a closed one.
As they approach the front gate of Kudos' house, something caught Conan's eyes. Who's in the house? How come the window is open? Did the Black Organization come to my place? Panicked with negative thoughts, Conan urged Ran and Sonoko to visit the house another time until he finds out who did invaded his house.
" I don't think we should visit the Kudos house today, Ran-" unable to finished the sentence, Conan stand there hopelessly.
" Last time I remembered, Shinichi was a boy, wasn't he?" Sonoko interrupted. " I didn't know he looked like girls at time."
Because that is not me, Conan furiously thought. How dare you insult me, Sonoko… You… Baka…
Ran looked at the direction Sonoko pointed at the thin girl and said. " That is a girl, Sonoko, but that's not Shinichi-kun…"
Ran watched the girl watered the new plants as thoughts kept popping in her mind like crazy. Negative thoughts. Ever since Shinichi was gone, Ran changed a little. Okay, a lot. Sometimes, she sat on her dad chair and looked out the window recklessly thinking about Shinichi, where he'd be. Sometimes, she hit herself rapidly for crying with no reason whenever anything that reminded her of Shinichi was around. Sometimes, she stared at Conan for a long time when he's asleep with his glasses taken off. Sometimes, Ran does things that she didn't know what she was doing because whenever she is lost in thinking of Shinichi, her body took over and does crazy things like Juliet who desperately missed Romeo in movies. Sometime, she wondered if Shinichi thinks of her as a special as he is to her. Sometimes, she wondered if Shinichi even remembers that she is here waiting. Where is he? How is he doing? Sometimes, she just want to forget it all , and wishing her mom or anyone would be by her side right now and tell what to do. Crying alone in a small corner of your room doesn't feel comfortable at all, but at least it's a way of trying to fill a hole that went through the middle of Ran's beloved heart.
" Who is she?" Sonoko asked as the first thing come out of her mind, unexpected to hear the answer.
" I don't know," Ran's voice trailed off with a mixture of sadness and doubts.
" Maybe she's his cousin or something," Conan spoke, trying to distract Ran's thoughts.
" Well, let's go ask," Sonoko walked forward to the gate and wave at the girl who was about to go back to the house. " Excuse me miss!"
The girl turned to Sonoko and replied with a smile, " Yes? Can I help you?" Her chestnut curling hair lay still on her shoulder, lingered of red highlights shined beneath the dazzling sun as she walked toward Sonoko. Once in a while, her long eyelashes touch each other in a blink revealed her hazel eye looked as sharp as an eagle. The color of her lips seemed like it's fading from purple to gray; the green pale face fulfilled with exhaustion replaced the pinky color under her cheek; her gracile slender body sauntered step by step to the gate as if she was injured. She was wearing a big shirt and jean that Conan noticed that they used to be his when he was 5 feet tall.
" Um… We're close friends of Shinichi Kudo, and we were asked to visit the house once in awhile to help out with cleaning stuff while he is not here," Sonoko said. " And uh… how do I say this…"
" And you were wondering who I am, right?" The girl spoke softly.
" I know it's rude, but yes," Sonoko spoke.
" I'm Kyoko, Shinichi's girlfriend," the moment those words came out of Kyoko's mouth, Ran's eyes opened wide. Ran felt like tears are going to spurted out, but she managed to hold them as Ran's body stood frozen there as if she wasn't able to breath.
" Say WHAT? You're Shinichi's girlfriend?" Conan pinched himself out of shock ness. When he realized he has said so, he covered his mouth with his hand and looked at Ran with both sadness and full rage. Who is this girl that claimed to be my girlfriend?
" Yes, little fella," Kyoko beamed a small smirk at Conan as she leaned down about his height. " I am his girlfriend."
" Well, I guess we'll be going now since you're here to take care of his house," Sonoko quickly finished the conversation and softly urged Ran to take a step. " Nice meeting you, Kyoko."
" Wait!" Kyoko shouted. " Would you like to join a snack with me? It is pretty lonely here for weeks."
" Um… I don't think-" as Sonoko about to refuse the invitation, Ran woke up from her moment and interrupted.
" Sure," Ran slightly smiled. The smile that hid Ran Mouri's mournful face all these years.
Oh my god, Conan panicked. What should I do? Okay, calm down. What if the Black Organization has set up to kidnap Ran and me? Do they know that I'm still alive? What now?
" Ran-san," Conan tried to urge Ran to go home instead. " Can we go home? I have a lot of homework to do and a lot of other stuff to do."
" Sonoko, can you take Conan home? I'll stay here for a while," Conan was shocked by Ran's words. What made her want to stay? This is bad, Conan thought to himself. I can't leave Ran here.
" Never mind, Ran-san. I'll stay," Conan reluctantly trudged into his own house because of the unknown danger lying ahead.
" I'm have to go now," Sonoko said as she started jogging in another direction. " I'm late. Bye. Nice meeting you, Kyoko!"
" Visit me sometimes!" Kyoko replied.
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Inside the house…" So Ran, how did you know Shinichi?" Kyoko asked as she was making tea and take out a tray of cookies that has already prepared.
" Ran and Shinichi has been good friends since they were kids," Conan said sharply.
" Oh? Have you ever gone out with him?" Kyoko teased as her eyes glared at Conan every seconds he has entered the house.
Ran blushed a little, but her disconsolate mood overwhelmed the tingling feelings. " No."
" Really? Every entry of his diary- I mean journal, he mentioned your name at least once per entry," Kyoko set the tray of cookies and tea on the table as she spoke.
She has read my journal? Who the hell is this imposter? Conan was outraged, but remained silent for that's all he can do for now.
" I envy you guys for having so much happy memories together, made me want to steal them all, and keep it for myself," Kyoko's voice sounded somewhat solemn.
Ran and Conan stared at Kyoko until she innocently looked at them and grinned, " Just kidding."
To Conan, that wasn't kidding. There are always something hiding under those words perhaps fulfilled with bad memories and regrets that made one became possessive of what others have. Like when someone obviously seemed disgruntled of something, and their friends ask them what is wrong, most teens would say 'nothing', an expression of trying to hide their problems. There is no such things as 'nothing'.
" How did you meet him, Kyoko?" Ran finally let out one question of her mind.
" Through a friend," Kyoko said. " I started to get interests in him and asked to be his girlfriend. You must think I'm weird for a girl, like me, to made the first move."
" Not at all," Ran said. " At least it is better than having to love someone and didn't get a chance to tell them how you feel. Even though if you get rejected, at least, you don't regret nor having any doubts."
Seeing Ran's sadden face made Conan struggled with himself hopelessly, don't know what to do. Conan wanted to yell out the truth, but Ai's words and the images of Gin stopped him from reveal himself.
" You're right," Kyoko said. " I'm glad I confessed my feelings."
Tears were pouring down of Ran's face. " I'm sorry," Ran said. " I don't know why I like crying so much."
" Ran-san, let's go-" Conan shouted, but stopped as Kyoko pulled out a champagne.
" My favorite wine,Gin mixed with Voldka," Kyoko began to pour the wine into her dry cup of tea. " Want some?"
" No, thanks," Ran replied. " I think I better go now. I have to cook dinner."
" Alright," Kyoko replied as she drank a gulp of wine. " Visit me sometimes!"
" Nice to meet you, Kyoko," Ran ran out the door. Tears were puffing in her eyes all these times, but Ran wants to hold them there because she didn't want to cry for Shinichi anymore. She's tired of waiting. She's tired of crying in frustration. Oh god, she prayed. Please let me be.
Conan chased after Ran, but he couldn't catch up. The sky darkened; rain started to pour down on Masquerade Street as Conan decided to leave Ran alone for now, so he stop chasing the pity shadow that he loved kept running and running a head of him.
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Author Note: End File 1.
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