I am sooooooooo sorry about the wait! I went to Canada for a while and I didn't have any way type a new chapter!

-CCV

000

Ran was released form the hospital after a long chat with the doctor about her well-being. The whole process was actually pretty exhausting in itself since Dr. Aoyama liked to make sure is characters...er patients were well taken care of. It surprised the good doctor how the girl could go from bad to worse and then to unbelievably cheerful in the course of about a day and a half. (He secretly wondered if perhaps he had made that particular character slightly to emotional, but then he looked at his reader feedback from all of the romantic drama scenes in the manga and quickly changed his mind.)

Ran's parents as well as our favorite little Detective Boys were extremely pleased to hear about her swift recovery as well as a little confused. Like Aoyama-san they couldn't believe how fast she recovered from the death of her 'best male friend'

Conan had also seemed a bit more cheerful since Ran's release, but everyone just assumed it was because his 'neechan' was all right again.

000

Conan waited at the top of the steps of Mouri's Detective Agency for Ran to shut the door so that they could walk to school.

'I'm glad Ran is feeling better,' he thought as Ran joined him and they descended the stairs together. 'Maybe it's a good thing everyone believes me to be dead now. After all, Ai may never find a cure.'

Conan's theory on reporters evidently hadn't been far off since the death of Shinichi Kudou had been that morning's top news story. He had worried that Ran would break down again so he had been watching her very carefully, though it made him glad that despite everything she trusted him. She trusted him to come back to her, and Conan would find a way to make that happen.

'Ai will find a cure, and I will do everything I can to help.'

The walk to school was mostly uneventful, excepts that Conan could have sworn he saw Doctor Aoyama walking down a side street that they passed.

Teitan high however, was a completely different story. Much like Conan's first day, not much work got done. Everyone wanted to know what happened with Ran, and Sonoko was having the time of her life exaggerating the story for the class. The biggest factor to that class's mayhem that day though, was the strange absence of their teacher.

About ten minutes into the class period, the sliding classroom door opened and the principle entered. The class quickly quieted at his presence.

"Class," he started as he made his way to the front of the room, "I am sorry to say that your regular math teacher will be away for some time due to personal matters."

The classroom erupted into cheers and Conan rolled his eyes.

"I wonder what happened." Ran stated with a somewhat confused expression.

"Who cares!" cried Sonoko happily. "Maybe our new teacher will be a young cute guy!"

Conan yet again rolled his eyes.

The principle waited for silence before continuing.

"It is my pleasure to announce your new math teacher." The principle gestured towards the door and in walked a strangely familiar man. Conan's jaw literally hit the floor.

"This is Gosho Aoyama. He has kindly agreed to step in for Mikawa-san until she returns." he went on to explain a little bit more about the background of Aoyama but Conan and Ran had stopped paying attention.

"Wasn't he that doctor that took care of me at the hospital?" Ran asked Conan quietly.

"Yes he was," Conan agreed. "But he works with medicine, it's strange for him to suddenly become a math teacher. Things like that just don't happen."

000

Once the principle had left the room, Aoyama began his own introduction, explaining about his teaching habits and what the class would be working on.

His first assignment for the class was rather tough. It featured a rather involved story problem, and the majority of the class had trouble just deciphering the words judging from the fact that the whole thing was in English. Luckily the problem was meant as kind of a joke, and Aoyama didn't expect very many people to be able to get the answer. However, Aoyama was the joking type and of course he didn't tell the class that right away. After all what was more fun than watching students freak out about work?

Conan had no trouble at all translating the assignment, he was after all fluent in English. (A/N read The Golden Apple volumes 34 and 35.)

Ran also had a fairly easy time with it, even though she wasn't as good at English as Conan, though she didn't know he was. Meanwhile the other students who knew English did pretty well, and the ones who didn't were literally pulling their hair out complaining loudly about how this was sugaku, not eigo.

Little did the students in his class know, Aoyama-sensei the teacher was not the same Aoyama as the doctor. Sure they looked alike, sounded the same, and they both had the same name, but this Aoyama was actually doctor Aoyama's evil twin who was secretly conspiring against the characters of his brother's manga. As he looked over the students' papers, he smirked an evil little smirk when he got to Conan's.

"Edogawa-san, will you please come see me?" he called.

Conan looked up from the doodle he had been absent-mindedly scribbling on a piece of notebook paper to see the teacher gesturing towards him. He got up and made his way to the front of the classroom where Aoyama was sitting.

"You wanted to talk to me sensei?"

"Yes, it would seem Edogawa-san, that you are quite full of surprises." Conan tilted his head to the side questioningly.

"I had heard about your jump to this math level from the principle. That surprised me enough as it was, but English too? You are just the regular little genius aren't you?"

Conan mentally hit himself again, he was really making a mess out of things. How could it be that he kept on accidentally giving away bits of his secret?

"That math problem wasn't simple English Edogawa-kun, you do know that don't you?"

Conan only nodded, eyes fixed on the floor.

"If you don't mind, I know an English teacher at this very school who would undoubtedly love to be your teacher."

Conan definitely saw this one coming, but there was nothing he could do about it, so he just sat by idly as Aoyama-sensei set everything up with Ran. Evidently, someone up there really hated him.

Poor Conan didn't have any idea

He made it through the rest of his day in primary school all right, however he probably should have been expecting what would happen on the walk back home with Ran.

"So Conan, is there anything else you're keeping from me? Like maybe for instance being a pro soccer player? Or maybe even an internationally famous teen detective?"

Nope he really hadn't had any idea. Poor poor Conan.

000

Ha! I finally did it! I got this chapter posted! Hahahaha!

Sugaku means math

Eigo means English

By the way, I have some Detective Conan fanart on fanart central. Soon I will have some relating to this story too! I will post links when I put them up.

Meanwhile here is the link to the DC section of Fanart Central if you didn't know it user name is Akirichan. I hope you like them!