A/N: And the next two rewritten chapters are here too :)

Chapter 15.

Miyoshi waved a goodbye to Tsukiko and sighed then. "She is a good person. I think you should be nicer for her too." She glared at Sonoko.

"I was just normal." The older girl complained. Mai snorted.

"Right…" The class president muttered skeptically.

"She knows quite much though, like she'd done background work. She has just transferred here and already was able to say that much…" Ran said then, feeling like she had to interrupt before the two began arguing. It had happened some time and it wasn't pretty.

"Ran, you are thinking too much. All those details can be found anywhere, it's just a matter of recalling them. For example about my family. We are rich and have been in newspaper several times. Especially Jirokichi-ojisama lately." Sonoko explained.

"Not to mention that she had to listen to Hanajima prattle for the first two periods." Mai added.

"I see… Maybe you are right…" Ran muttered. Has Shinichi rubbed off to her to make her suspicious of everyone? "I have to go now too. Conan-kun must be home already. See you tomorrow."

"See you, Ran! Don't think too much of it. Oh, I know! Think about your husband. That should relax you." Sonoko grinned.

"Shi-, Shinichi is not my husband!" Ran blushed rapidly.

"Yes, yes, of course not. See you!"

"Bye, Ran-senpai!" Mai added.

"Bye, Miyoshi-chan."

Tsukiko rang the doorbell and waited until Jodie came to open the door. She still didn't have a key yet but Jodie had promised to get her one on the up-coming week. And to be home when her classes ended.

"Hi, Okiya-san. Had a good day?" The woman smiled at the girl but Tsukiko noticed her eyes were a bit swollen and red. Like she had just cried. Tsukiko decided not to comment on it and just smiled back.

"Yes, I had a good day." The girl replied and stepped inside. Jodie closed the door behind her and then led the two of them to the kitchen.

"That's great to hear. Which class did they put you in?"

"My class is 1-B. Do you know that class?"

"Pretty well, it's packed with stereotypes. One needed a firm grasp in both teaching material and their personality types in order to get the classes going properly." Jodie chuckled. "It took a couple of weeks but I managed it eventually."

"I see."

"Did you make any friends?"

"Yeah, Miyoshi Mai-san, the class president, and I are pretty good friends now. I also got to know Hanajima Megumi-san but she gives me an uneasy feeling…" Tsukiko told. "And when Mai-san and I were on our way home, we walked part of the way with two girls from the class above us. Their names were Suzuki Sonoko and Mouri Ran."

"Oh, those girls. I know them from my time at Teitan. Ran and Sonoko are both really good girls even if we tended to run a couple of cases together. I hope you can get along with them. And Cool Kid lives at Ran's place."

"Does he really?" Tsukiko feigned surprise. "I already knew that."

"Yes, he does. And about your classmates then…" Jodie paused to think something positive about them.

"They all are pretty talkative. Or noisy…" The girl pointed out.

"True, but the majority of them are good people. Especially Maki Namida-san."

"Maki… Namida? Who is she?" Tsukiko frowned, trying to remember if she'd heard such a name.

"You probably didn't notice her. She is pretty quiet person and always in the shadow of her twin sister, Tsunami. They both belong to that clique part of your class but the last time when I saw of them it seemed that Namida wanted to quit. Somehow."

"But because of her sister's dominating nature she can't? I think I know the girl you are talking about. She sits right behind me after the seating order was changed."

"You have good eyes, Okiya-san. I'm surprised you noticed that detail." Jodie gave an impressed look at the girl. "There are just so many nuances when it comes to the interactions within that particular class. It took me for a while to discover all of them."

"Uhh… That's what everyone keeps saying…" The girl muttered. The woman quirked an eye brow.

"Did you say something?"

"Ah no, I didn't. I'm going to change my clothes now." Tsukiko made a hasty retreat to the room she'd already taken to call as 'hers'.

Tsukiko changed into some of the clothes she and Jodie had bought during their shopping spree on last Saturday: a pair of blue jeans, a pink t-shirt with a funny print – although she wasn't quite sure if that picture was a bird or a fish – and a black hair band to keep her sand-colored hair away from of her face. They all fit well and thus made the girl smile. Little things to make her life go on in this new world.

"I do wonder though how long of a time I have to be here… Is there even a way home? I have no clues…" Tsukiko frowned, making her way back to the kitchen. There he began helping Jodie with the dinner. The girl chopped the vegetables and Jodie put them into a cooking pot. They were making some simple chicken noodle soup.

"You are good in chopping. Have you cooked a lot?"

"Pretty much, yes. After all I have been on my own for some time…" Tsukiko replies, amazed how easy it was to tell lies that were based on the truth. "Do you need my help anymore? I think I should do my homework now."

"Go ahead. I'll call you when the dinner is ready. Thank you for your help."

Jodie waited until the girl was in her room before taking her cell phone from the pocket of her jeans. She speed-dialed Black's number and pressed the call button.

"Hello? Jodie-kun?" The man answered.

"Yeah, it's me."

"What is Okiya-kun's situation?"

"Well, today was her first day at school. I enrolled her to Teitan High. She seems to be adjusting well to all this."

"That's good to hear. What have you found out about her background?"

"She doesn't really care about talking about herself much but what I found out on Saturday, is that she used to live in Kyoto has a family of four. Her parents are abroad because of their work and her older brother, Okiya Subaru, lives somewhere in Tokyo." Jodie explained quickly. She was afraid that Tsukiko would come from her room and hear the conversation. And that would do nothing good for the trust already built between them.

"Somewhere in Tokyo?" Black repeated. "So even she doesn't know where?"

"She doesn't. She told her brother was moving to a new apartment and has a habit to change his phone number in the process. Okiya-san was coming to help him but got into that accident. And apparently she didn't even tell her brother she was coming for visit in order to surprise him."

"Her brother is unaware that she has been in accident?"

"Yeah, there is no way she can contact him…" Jodie sighed. "But isn't it still weird that no one has tried to contact her? She was so lost at the hospital before I offered her to stay with me…"

"Actually one person did contact her. It was when you were at the Police Station checking the finger prints…"

Jodie bit her lip. She didn't want to remember anything about that day. She had already done her crying for the day, she didn't want to break down again. "What did she talk about with her… friend then?"

"I don't know. She went outside to talk with him. She just seemed she had been waiting for that call eagerly. She phrased it as…'He promised to call me no matter what'."

"Strange…" Jodie tapped her finger against the table and let her gaze to drift some papers she'd been filling to register Tsukiko living with her in the same apartment. There were parts that Tsukiko had filled personally though… Like her birthday. 13.4. she had written in British order though with the dots rather than using slashes. Jodie took a moment to reverse the numbers to Japanese/American form, 4.13. "But maybe it was for her birthday. She has marked it as the thirteenth of April in official papers."

"Maybe." Black agreed. "It is also possible for her to pick the date because that was when you offered the place to live for her. A chance for new life."

"That's true…" Jodie mused. "I'll try to ask it at some point."

"Let's hope she'll open up more with the time. Right now we can only watch and wait."

"You are right. I need to go now though. The dinner is cooking."

"Jodie-kun, do take care also about yourself."

"I will. Bye."

Tsukiko let a smile spread across her face. She knew Jodie would make a call right after she had left. She just knew it! But she was also surprised that the agent hadn't noticed her. The girl was standing right next to the doorway while the woman thought she was in her room doing her homework. After all Jodie had heard when Tsukiko closed the door of her room but not seen it directly as there wasn't a direct visual connection between the kitchen and my room. Afterwards Tsukiko had snuck back, next to the kitchen's doorway to listen to her phone conversation.

"I knew she'd report FBI what she had already found out about me. I'm surprised she didn't do it when I was at school, even less of a chance to be eavesdropped." Tsukiko thought and slipped back to her room once the call was over. "But it seems she believed my cover story… But I didn't expect Black to become suspicious about that call I made… I must be careful even if Jodie came up with a good reason after seeing my birthdate."

Yes, her birthday had been on the same day than Akai's 'death'. With all the excitement going on in the hospital, Tsukiko had promptly forgotten about it. And afterwards she didn't feel like reminding Jodie about the date. Besides, this was Detective Conan world. It wasn't like she actually aged there. But she could also say that on last Friday it had been her sixteenth birthday.

Tsukiko did her homework quickly but not too tidily. Thanks to that world studying in Japanese was as easy as she was used to Finnish, her mother tongue. She had assimilated the language somehow and could read and speak it fluently. Because of her slight rush to cover up her eavesdropping, she didn't really concentrate on the problems presented on the homework sheets and thus made several mistakes. Her handwriting wasn't that tidy either.

"Well, I can't help it. I'm not used to write kanji…" Tsukiko shrugged and packed her school satchel for the next day.

A/N: Some new info was put here. Like Tsukiko made more comprehensive explanation in the previous chapter, Jodie also had more information to pass on in this one. And I added birthday for Tsukiko. It's legimate for her. Not same than mine though.