(I do not own Detective Conan or Magical Kaito, Aoyama-sensei does. Well I was attacked by viscous plot bunnies this morning so here goes nothing)
He was not lost. He refused to think he was lost. After all, Kudo Shinichi was a brilliant detective, child's body or not, he was still a genius. Shinichi looked around. He hated being short. He could no longer see where he was going because he had gotten lost in a sea of legs. Not lost, separated from Ran, Sonoko, Hondou, and the Shounen Tantei dan. He had tried rejoining them by using his glasses, but he hadn't remembered to recharge the battery last night, so they were dead, and only worked as glasses now. Actually, they only worked as a disguise. Seeing as 'Edogawa Conan' needed glasses, Kudo Shinichi did not. Where is Ran? He thought shaking his head every which way in hopes to spot her. If he were really a little kid Shinichi would have gone to a security guard. He had way too much pride for that. He was not lost. Ran was just up ahead probably in line with Genta to get a snack. The concessions! He thought triumphantly. There was one problem with that. There were possible a hundred Concession stands. I should narrow down my search. The shrunken detective thought. Genta liked eel. Maybe that's where they were. Now, out of the hundreds of concessions stands here, how many sell eel? More importantly where is the food court? Shinichi just realized he had no clue where in Tropical land he was, he hadn't been paying attention to where he was going as he blindly looked for Ran. This is exactly what got me lo- ano… separated from the group in the first place, my aimless wandering. Conan sighed deeply and went to find a map.
Ksou! He thought after his ten-minute search proved no good. Honestly why did tropical land have to be so big? It wasn't fair to little kids and people who had been shrunk by a not-always-lethal-poison. Not a map to be found, perhaps someone had dropped one. He moved his search the floor.
You've got to be kidding me! He thought outraged. Not one person was careless enough to drop a map of tropical land? Shinichi began to wander aimlessly again. Perhaps, his group was riding the mystery coaster. Conan glanced around to study his surrounding. His eyes rested on a sign that read;
'Thank you for checking out our recently added new division of the park!'
Conan fell over. Of all the places to wander aimlessly into, he picked the recently added one, so now he had no clue where he was. Just great Kudo, He thought bitterly. What do I do now? Go to security officer? No, doing that would be admitting that he was lost, and he wasn't. Suddenly he felt a drop hit him on the nose. He looked up to see the graying sky. Just great. Of all the days to get lost… ano separated from Ran and the others I pick the one that forecasted rain. Did the weather forecast rain yesterday? It didn't matter he was sure Ran had hung up her sunny charm. Hattori… he remembered awhile back the Kensai detective wanted to go investigate when Conan had a field trip. So that night while the sunny charm was hanging Hattori had taken it down and replaced it. He probably never gave it back. Conan thought. Making a mental note to get even with him. How? He wasn't sure. On the Brightside it was just one drop, maybe it won't rain very- a clap of thunder caused a downpour. Much… perfect! Thought the young detective. Just perfect! He attempted to cover his head from the buckets that were being dumped on him. To make matters worse it was cold rain and it was sixty degrees. Sixty degrees wasn't cold, but in cold rain it made everything colder. How had all this happened again? Oh yeah! He had been casually striding by Ran when suddenly she was gone. He wondered if Ran had noticed he was gone. Probably. She always had her eye on him. Now that he was lo- separated from them he was wondering why she hadn't paid closer attention to him today? Conan shivered slightly and decided, after seeing a streak of lightening, that perhaps he should go find shelter. After all the longer he stood here getting soaked the more likely that lightening would be attracted to him. He looked around. Oh for the love of-! Damn it all! There wasn't any shelter around. Nothing he could stand under to avoid the cold rain. This was easily not turning out to be a good day.
Conan wandered around for another thirty-minutes before he found canopy over a bench. Finally, A silver lining! He dashed over and sat on the bench. He'd continue his search for Ran after the rain slowed. For now it still seemed like buckets were being poured from the sky. Shinichi sighed and did not notice wasp nest directly above him. Becoming bored he gently nudged the pole where said wasp nest was. Luckily only one of the un-happy residents was home. But one could hurt. Conan still hadn't noticed it until it landed on his arm. Shimata! He quickly made to shoe it away but, it was too late, it had already stung him. Shinichi swatted it and it made to sting him again but he hopped up quick as lightening and ran off.
Note to self. He thought acidly. Don't piss off of wasp. It hurts. Looking for new shelter Conan noticed the back of a girl's head. Is that…? Oh thank Kami-sama! It was! Ran! Conan started to run towards her.
"Ran-neechan!" he called. Conan had been so excited to see her he failed to notice her attire had completely changed. "Ran-neechan!" He tugged on her skirt. She turned around to look down at him.
"Nani?" This girl was not Ran…
(Hope you enjoyed Chapter one!)