Writing a four-way body swapping story is harder than time travel... It's really hard to decide if I should just have them refer to each other by their bodies or by their minds. In most cases I'll probably use 'mind (body)' as the format for referring to people, especially if they're all in one place but if it's made clear by dialogue or context I'll only put one or the other. I'm only saying all this so I won't confuse you guys, 'kay.

In this chapter; we learn some things about what it takes to be a detective, Heiji messes with Haibara, Hakuba sulks (couldn't think of much for him to do, but I didn't want to leave him out...), and Kaito plots. ^_-

Disclaimer: If I owned Conan I would have more money than I do.

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The next day I had to go to school as this 'Kuroba Kaito' guy. It helped that Kuroba (or rather Hakuba) was my classmate, but I had no idea how I was supposed to act.

From what Kuroba had told me, and from what I could conclude from inside his room, he was a magician (yeah, already knew he was Kaitou Kid so magician was a given), he's smart but not the type to show it off, he enjoyed pranking his classmates (not going to happen!), and his childhood friend was Nakamori Aoko (whom he called 'Ahoko' ) the daughter of Nakamori-keibu that was always failing to catch Kaitou Kid. I could only deduce that he wasn't by any means a normal person, and was likely mentally insane.

I decided that because I wasn't particularly sure how to act it would be best for me to just act naturally and hope it was close enough, though I seemed to be making everyone in class -especially the girls- wary of me.

For lunch Kuroba and I went up to the roof so we could talk freely, but he seemed to be intent on complaining about my performance. Unfortunately there was nothing I could criticize about his act, I didn't particularly know Hakuba well but from what I saw he was spot on- well Kaitou Kid is known for being able to disguise as anyone, right down to the personality so I guess it was to be expected.

"Come on, Meitantei-kun~ If you don't pull a prank while you're me it'll ruin my reputation!"

I was tempted to ask exactly what kind of reputation he had if he pulled pranks everyday, but decided that I didn't want to know the answer.

"If not pranks, then do a magic trick."

"I don't know any magic tricks..." I replied. I did know a few but not really anything flashy just a few old tricks I learned in case I ever got a case that involved magic tricks.

"Then at least flip up Ahoko's skirt when we get back to the classroom and take a look at her panties, make sure to make some commentary on the color" He replied, "I'd do it myself but it would completely give away the fact that I'm not really Tantei-san."

So that's the kind of reputation he has? I was glad I didn't ask.

"Nakamori-san's panties?" I asked, he looked at me with a 'don't tell me you don't want to know what color they are' type of glare, I continued, "Yellow, with lace."

"That's odd... usually she wears white. How do you know anyway? I've been watching you, did you flip her skirt when I wasn't looking?"

I just smiled, "I'm a detective you know, I can tell without looking."

"Really?" He seemed honestly surprised by my answer, "I wonder if Tantei-san can do that... you'll have to teach me that trick sometime..."

...

Being in first grade sucks. That's all I have to say. It just sucks.

I have no idea how Kudo survives. It's amazing he's even kept his sanity after this long. I personally could feel my (His? Conan's?) brain cells committing suicide by the second I sat in class and pretended to be a diligent student.

I pretended that I couldn't talk, because if I did I'd instantly be found out, I just put on a surgical mask like I had a cold and pretended I'd lost my voice. It was rather difficult to keep myself from shouting with joy when the final bell signifying the end of class rang, but I managed somehow.

The only person that seemed to be suspicious at all was that little mad scientist girl, she suspected that something was wrong right away.

"What are you hiding, Kudo-kun?" She'd asked.

She would be one of the few people it'd be safe to tell about this whole body-swapping fiasco, but I wanted to see if I could make her believe that I really was Kudo before I told her that I wasn't. So I silently waved my arms as if to say, 'I'm not hidin' nethin', I really can' lost my voice.'

She looked skeptical, but didn't bother asking again right away, Kudo is pretty stubborn after all.

Later when we'd managed to ditch the other kids she did ask a second time.

This time I replied, trying my hardest to casually speak in Kudo's usual Tokyo-ben, "Nothin', everything's fine."

She raised an eyebrow, "Are you sure there's nothing wrong?"

Crap, she's catching on... I tried replying again, this time I added a fake cough hoping to make it convincing, "I'm fine, I've gotta cold s'all."

Her eye's widened a bit before narrowing, "Who are you...!"

"I'll tell ya if ya'll buy me some okonomiyaki," I replied with Kudo's usual victorious grin. Hesitantly, the mad scientist gave in and I helped her find the best okonomiyaki place in Tokyo.

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Hattori is an idiot. I knew as much before but I hadn't had much actual proof until now.

Even Hattori's childhood friend, Toyama-san, 'Kazuha' as he called her, didn't question it when I said that I was speaking 'Tokyo-ben' because 'Kudo' bet me that I couldn't. No one in the world would have taken on such a stupid bet, but clearly Hattori was so haughty and hot-blooded that he actually would have. He's an idiot in all senses of the word.

I'd have much rather been stuck in Edogawa-kun's body (or should I say Kudo-kun's body, they are the same person after all) at least he's only pretending to not be as smart as he actually is, then Kudo-kun could be in my body, Kuroba could be in Hattori's, and Hattori could take Kuroba's body. It'd have probably have worked out best that way, so why did it have to end up this way?

More importantly how did we wind up body-swapped in the first place, of course it probably had a lot to do with Kid's (or rather Kuroba's, he finally admitted it!) heist, but Kuroba clearly hadn't done it on purpose because if he had he likely wouldn't have gotten himself mixed in so he could protect his secret identity.

All in all this sort of situation shouldn't even be possible, it makes no sense.

...

I must say, Meitantei-kun taught me a lot about being a detective, maybe I should think about trying it sometime -you know, when I'm not in a disguise- I'd be a pretty good cover 'high school detective Kuroba Kaito' secretly Kaitou Kid... just kidding the only good thing about detectives is that they make things fun, and apparently they can tell what kind of underwear a girl is wearing without even looking (I think that's a pretty cool skill).

Seriously though, I thought I'd gotten lucky when the person that wound up in my body was Meitantei-kun; he's the son of a famous actress, and he's somehow managed to convince his not-girlfriend that he's really a seven year old for nearly a year now, so naturally I thought he was a pretty good actor. The truth is his acting sucks, I doubt anyone in class would have believed he was me if it were theoretically possible that he wasn't...

Anyway he managed to correct his acting a bit after lunch. I didn't turn around to look but I could hear him while I walked discreetly from Tantei-san's desk to Akako's.

"So what color do you have today Ahoko?" He said as he nonchalantly bent over and flipped up her skirt, "Oh? So it's yellow? I thought so... but really white suits you much better..."

Of course that began the usual mop chase routine, which he didn't seem to expect but was able to do relatively well, he was probably more used to avoiding his not-girlfriend's karate attacks but dodging seemed to be a skill of his- definitely better than his acting.

But that's not the point. The point is I went to talk to Akako about the current situation.

"Yo, Akako, I..." I trailed off when I saw that she was glaring at me, her face was partially covered by a cold mask.

"What is it, Hakuba-san?" She asked, clearly not in the mood to be talking.

"Actually, it's me, Kaito," I replied. I could see her annoyed gaze shift from me to where Meitantei-kun (in my body in case you've forgotten) was being chased with a mop then back to me, from her expression I could tell she was beginning to question my -or rather Hakuba's- sanity. I added, "Something weird happened at the last heist and me and the meitantei(s) wound up body swapping, you can fix it right?"

She looked as if she was about to do her usual 'oh oh oh oh' laugh, but she probably would have broken down into a fit of coughs if she had. She replied, "That's quite the predicament you've got *cough*... However I won't be able to help, with my body *cough, cough* in this condition... if I were to do any complicated magic... It'd probably backfire...*cough*."

"So... I'm probably going to be stuck like this until you get over your cold?"

"Beats me."

Well crap. It looks like I'll be stuck as Hakuba for a while... wait a minute, if I pull a heist like this and Meitantei-kun attends as me. My alibi for not being Kid will be perfect!

My poker face barely suppressed an evil sounding snicker as I plotted for Hakuba's first heist.