My gosh, what is wrong with me these few days? I think I must be having something spinning around in my mind. Here's a new story, and I guess I'll be focusing on the three current stories in the meantime. I'll try to get the sequel for Ai Edogawa going, but the drafts in my head are still sketchy. But until then, please read and review my stories, and I'll update as fast as humanly possible.

P.S. Shinichi and Shiho do not know each other in this story. At least not like in the Detective Conan stories, they don't.

I corrected the mistakes in this. Boy were there a lot. Thanks to all those who spotted them.

CHAPTER 1

" Ah? A new teacher?"

" Yeah," Ran said, scratching her head. " They said that she was just a few months older than most of us, but had the IQ of 200."

Shinichi's eyes widened.

" 200?"

Sonoko raised her eyebrows, rotating around in her chair. " How do you know the news of this, Ran?" Sonoko asked, chewing the huge loaf of bread in her hands hungrily. " You're usually the most blur one of the lot; only finding out the news when the principal announces it in assembly."

" That's not true." Ran said huffily.

" Yes it is." Shinichi muttered.

Ran just bit her lip, glaring poutily at the two of them before answering. " My father knows her." Ran said, looking away, noticing two figures appear outside the door, muttering sounds heard. " She had some sort of connections with a past client of his, but I'm still not too clear about it. My father told me about it today as I caught him before he went downstairs to the betting grounds."

" Oh," Sonoko said, watching the two figures too, before averting her attention back to Ran. " I wonder what she's like."

" She's silent and cold." Came a voice from behind them and they jumped.

" Yoro." Shinichi said.

" Yo." He said cheerfully. " She looks really sullen and quiet, but she had hotness to be equal to Ran's. Plus, she has a super body."

" Really?" Shinichi asked, suddenly interested. " Like what?"

" Oh, put a lid in it." Ran said angrily, shoving Yoro away, blushing to the roots of her hair. It amazed her that even after this many years of solving mysteries and staying around serious and top notch people, Shinichi still had certain areas that he had yet to mature. She watched him laugh along with Yoro, and she bit her lip. She didn't love him. It sounded strange, after all the different names she had been called, all having her referred as his wife, but there was not an atom of attraction she had for him. She looked away as she heard the doorknob being wrenched open. Shinichi had told her he loved her a few days ago, and she had put him down. But he had never stopped trying, and she felt-

Irritated.

Yes, she loved him as a friend. But why did he want more than that?

Everyone stared at the new teacher who had walked in.

" Damn." Shinichi whispered.

Damn indeed. All the way from her milky skin which was shown from her tight skirt all the way to her unblemished face, she was altogether beautiful. Shinichi even swore he had seen the male teacher behind her lick his dry lips. But from the moment he saw her, he knew that chemistry was not going to go along as smoothly and relaxingly as teacher Anzaki did. From the very second he saw her, one word filled his mind. ' Iceberg.' He had thought.

Iceberg.

Nothing could penetrate that icy exterior which she bore.

Her eyes traced the class slowly, her hands on her hips. She didn't say anything as the male teacher behind her slowly wrote her name out on the board. Everyone in the classroom, even Maki, who slept in the class from the start to the end was staring at the board in rapt attention, his head following the marker as it slowly traced out her words in sleek colour of black.

Shiho Miyano.

While many boys in the class scribbled down the name in their phone books furiously, Shinichi frowned at her. There was something familiar about that name. Where did he hear it before?

" I want you to meet someone, Shin-chan!" he could remember a girl's voice said happily, walking him down a corridor.

Shinichi's eyes snapped open.

He blinked.

What WAS that?

The male teacher coughed and nodded at her, before walking out of the room, shutting the door quietly. Ran was bedazzled. She had never seen the class this silent and quiet before. Sure, there were times where they were silent and totally quiet, but this was almost scary. Her eyes traced the girl before her with her eyes. There was something strong inside that girl in front of her. She had the ability of silencing a room without even trying.

" My name is Shiho Miyano." The girl said silkily, her hands sliding into the pockets of her skirt. " As you can see on the whiteboard."

Silence continued that.

" I will be teaching you chemistry." She said. " And I do not like to waste time. Please open your books to page 14, thank you."

As she walked over to retrieve her book from the table, her eyes and Shinichi's met.

They just looked at each other.

A wordless communication took place.

She turned away.

Sonoko saw this, and she raised her eyebrows.

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" Boy, was that class boring."

" But she was hot, wasn't she?"

" Must get her number, if I have the change."

" Didn't warm up to us much, did she?"

The class slowly dispersed from the chemistry lab, muttering silent remarks between themselves.

Ran waited until almost everyone was gone before she walked up to Shiho by herself. She didn't like the negative remarks about her new teacher, and wanted her to feel as welcome to the school as possible, not just some random teacher who was beautiful, boring, and had a hot body.

" Er, Shiho-sensei?" Ran asked silently, and Shiho looked up.

" Yes?" Shiho answered coldly.

Ran flinched, but recovered herself.

" I would just like to welcome you to the school," Ran said cheerfully.

" Oh." Shiho said simply, not looking up to meet her eyes.

Ran raised her eyebrows at the teacher.

Odd.

What was with her?

"" I enjoyed the lesson very much." Ran chirped.

" I thought it was horrifically boring." Shiho said.

Ran almost laughed, but her tone was so cold and quiet it was almost like she meant it.

" You have beautiful hair." Ran went on.

" I was thinking of shaving it bald." Shiho almost yawned out.

" I like your name." Ran persisted.

" I was named after a prostitute." Shiho said. She knew that this was a lie, but the cheerfulness of this student was really starting to bug her.

Ran's mouth opened and shut.

" Ran!" Shinichi called out, opening the sliding doors. " Come on!"

Ran frowned at Shiho, who was still not looking at her.

" Okay." Ran said, following him.

Shiho watched her leave before sighing, and sat down.

" Japanese school girls sure are irritating." She muttered.

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" You tried talking to her?"

Ran nodded, and all of the boys around her just gaped at her.

" I never knew that you were a lesbian!" Yoro gasped.

" Don't be an idiot." Sonoko snapped; dispersing the crowd while Ran blushed.

" So how was she?" Sonoko asked.

" Cold." Ran said truthfully. " It was almost like she hated everything in the world. I doubt that she has any friends."

" That's mean, Ran." Sonoko laughed.

" Not that she couldn't if she wanted to." Ran said, almost ignoring what Sonoko had said. " But there's something about her that makes her unapproachable."

" Mm," Sonoko said thoughtfully, before noticing Shinichi deep in thought. " What's up, Shinichi?" she said, and Shinichi jerked to attention. " You've been quiet for a long time. What's on your-er-mind?"

He ignored the insult.

" Nothing." He said. " Just that-I think I saw that girl before."

Ran turned around.

" Really?" she asked. " Where from?"

He scratched his head uncomfortably.

" That's the weird part." He said, sighing. " I don't know."

Sonoko snorted and turned back around, making her way to the schoolyard. Ran, however, seemed to consider, " If you find out, will you tell me, Shinichi?" she asked, and Shinichi could feel heat rise up to his face.

" Sure." He said.

She smiled.

" Thanks." She said.

He watched her walk off for a moment before biting his lip.

" Oi, Ran." He said, and she stopped.

She turned around, smiling.

" Yes?" she asked.

Face red, he looked away.

" I need to speak to you later." He said softly. " Can I meet you after our sports meet?"

Ran almost knew what was going to happen.

What had happened over the last few days.

" Okay." She said silently, and walked off.

Shinichi grinned, and ran after her.

He thought that finally something would happen between the two of them.

He was right, after all.

In more ways than one.

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" Nice shot! Kudo!"

Shinichi smirked as he ran off to defend, still smirking at the goalkeeper who was pounding his fists on the ground. ' Was Ran watching me?' he asked himself, turning around. She wasn't there. His eyes widened before he looked back down at the pitch, biting his lip. What was he thinking?

She NEVER was here. Sure she had come to watch him for the first few days, but she had been acting really distant the past few months. Sure they were friends, able to talk in school and everything. But they didn't walk to school together anymore. She did not make him lunch anymore.

She didn't-love him anymore.

Shiho just happened to walk past, notes in her hands as she noticed a downtrodden Shinichi standing there. She blinked.

There was something familiar about him.

She was in a dark room, once again.

Suddenly a blinding light flashed into the room, and she started to scream. She didn't even know she could scream, but here she was, yelling and shouting like nothing could be cared. But her eyes got used to the light, and she winced.

Who was that boy hiding behind that woman?

" Hello, Shiho-chan." The woman said kindly.

" Hey! Shiho!" someone called, and she winced. She really hated it when people called her by her first name. It was almost like a form of disrespect, a swear word. She almost said something spiteful to the person when she noticed that it was the principal. He smiled jauntily, and walked over.

Oh. Him.

" Hello, sir." She said tonelessly.

" How do you find our school?" he asked her.

There they go again, she thought aimlessly. The whole school finding talk. " It's good." She said.

The principal gave a cough.

" Er-JUST good?" he asked hopefully.

Shiho almost rolled her eyes but held herself.

Her eyes went back to the boy.

" Who's that, principal?" she asked, and he looked in her direction.

" Which one?" he asked.

" The one with the number eight on his jersey." She said.

" Oh, Kudo Shinichi!" he said excitedly. " That's a very popular boy in our school. Won the Well-rounded prize two years in a row!"

" Oh?" she asked.

" Yeah." He said jollily. " Famous with the girls, liked by the guys, good-looking, great at sports, fantastic at studies, and the High School detective."

Her eyes widened.

" High school detective?"

" Yeah." He said, glad that she was showing interest in something. " Some people argue that Hattori Heiji is as good as him, but, well, whatever."

" Tentei-san."

She shook herself.

" Okay." She said, walking away.

" Ah! Wait!" the principal said, but she was already disappearing out of sight. He scratched his head. " Wow." He said, impressed.

" Cool."

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It was eight.

Shiho yawned and looked at the clock.

Eight.

She rubbed her tired head and got to her feet. Whoa, head rush. She dropped back to the chair before getting up again. She didn't remember being this tired ever since she studied for her MIT exams. She pushed open the door, ready to get moving to her car when she stopped. There were noises and straight away she recognized who one of them talking were. The irritatingly cheerful girl in class, and someone else. There was a pillar shadowing herself from the two of them. Somehow, something inside her told herself not to go out. Something was going on. She could feel it.

" What did you want to speak to me about, Shinichi?" came the girl's voice.

She blinked.

Shinichi.

The boy at the football pitch.

" You know what I want to tell you Ran." Came his unsteady voice.

She heard Ran sigh.

" Shinichi, we've been through this a million times," she had said.

" Then say yes." Came Shinichi's pleading voice.

" I love you as a friend, Shinichi." Ran said, in a voice so distant that it sounded almost nothing like her. " And nothing else."

There was a dull silence after that.

" I love you, Ran." Shinichi said hollowly.

" I know you do, Shinichi." Ran said. " It's just with all the things I've been doing and all the things you've been doing, and what other people have been saying-well, I would just like to move on."

Shinichi's heart broke into two.

He looked away.

Ran bit her lip and started to walk away, before stopping.

" We're still friends, right?"

He forced a smile at her.

" Yeah." He said bitterly. " See you tomorrow."

Shiho felt it.

She felt every inch of pain in him.

Shinichi waited until Ran was out of sight before he crumpled down to the floor, tears threatening to spill from his eyes as he pressed his hands to his eyes, feeling them moisten against his eyes.

He almost fell asleep until he heard the soft tapping of a foot before him.

He looked up.

" Miyano-sensei." He said softly.

She looked away.

" Come into my office." She said silently, making her way to the office room door.

His eyes widened before he grinned.

" Right behind you." He said.

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Shinichi watched her as she calmly brought two hot cups of coffee over to the table and laid it down. He took one of them. " Thanks." He said.

" You're welcome." She replied.

They just sat there for a short while, nobody making a sound expect for the faint whirr of the fan blades, sipping their coffee in peace. Shinichi drank one quarter of it before setting it down on the table, biting his lip as the tears threatened to fall once again. " So I guess you heard everything, right?" he asked.

For the first time in the day, Shiho smiled.

Or was it a smirk?

" Yeah." She said. " Every last word."

He hung his head.

She was about to say something spiteful to him about the way he was so clingy to Ran that even a dead hog wouldn't have wanted to go out with him when he opened his mouth. " We were friends since childhood." He said, and she was cut off in mid-sentence. " We would always walk home from school together to sit down under a huge tree found outside the schoolyard."

He paused for a while to lick his lips.

" I was happy." He went on. " We were the best of friends, even though many teased that we were husband and wife. Soon after we had sports meets with her karate and my soccer, we didn't have much time to do that any more. But she always found time to take it out for me."

Shiho didn't say anything.

" One time it was pouring buckets of rain, and we held the soccer match in the school sports hall. We played for hours and hours, because we couldn't tell what time it was or how much time went by. And before I knew it it was already nine at night." He picked up the coffee cup. " I saw her still under the tree, an umbrella in one hand, the lunch still in her hands."

His hands dropped the cup, spilling it sideways.

" Could you hand me the," Shiho said, pointing at the tissues before he stopped.

Tears were flowing down his face.

" I love her." He burst out. " I love her so damn much. But-why doesn't she love me back?"

He was almost yelling out now, wiping his eyes furiously, but they almost refused to stay clean. But he stopped for a mere moment as he felt her arms wrap around him tightly. His eyes widened in shock.

" Don't worry." Shiho said silently. " I won't let that happen."

She pulled away, not noticing the blush appearing on his face.

" W-What do you mean by that?" he asked.

She just smirked as she walked off. " You'll see." She said. " Meet me after your class tomorrow. I'll see you then."

He didn't say anything for a while, before smiling.

" Okay." He said.

" And one more thing," she said, throwing the tissue box at him. " Don't cry in front of a lady. It spells out one word. Wuss."

She walked out, shutting the door behind her.

He gazed at her for a while before looking down at the tissue box in his hands.

" I know that," he muttered, pulling out two to three tissues out at one go.

Then he smiled.

The iceberg had melted.

" Maybe she isn't so cold after all." He said, grinning.

Shiho stepped into her dark house.

She almost jumped as her sister's face almost bounced up to meet her, grinning almost madly in excitement.

" How was school? Anything happened to you today, sis?" came her older sister's excited voice, smiling.

Shiho raised her eyebrows and looked away.

" No." she said. " But there's going to."

END OF CHAPTER 1

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