Sorry it took so long for me to update (well longer than it has been taking me lately) it's just that I really have no plan for what happens next so I have to make it up as I go and there's not really much I can make happen without it getting really boreing... so this is a pretty short chapter and it's probably much less funny because I have no idea where it's going.

geez it feels like I've started to write myself into a corner, well maybe if I keep heading to the corner it'll blow up and I'll have a burst of inspiration. Wish me luck everyone!

In this chapter: Shinichi learns so new tricks, Heiji rambles about useless stuff, Hakuba , and Kaito worries

Please review or else~ ~ (this is not an idle threat, if you don't review I won't have any drive to write more) Thank you to everyone that has reviewed.

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There was no school and I wondered what I should be doing.

I couldn't very well go hang out with Ran after what had happened, at least not as 'Shinichi' she'd be too wary that I might be Kaito and eventually she'd find out, but I don't want to hang out with her as Kaito that would be almost as pointless as being there for her as Conan... I'd be there but not really there. So it stood to reason that I should just keep up pretending to be Kaito , the only trouble with that is I had no clue what he did in his free time besides magic and thievery -neither of which I wanted anything to do with.

I probably could have tried hanging out with Aoko because I could probably tell her I was Shinichi and just act like myself after what Kaito and I had told her before, but even if it's the truth that would feel like lying, so doing that was definitely out of the question.

With no idea of anything better to do I sat down in Kaito's room -my room for now- and tried practicing magic tricks so I could do a better job of pretending to be him. I was aiming to become able to actually impress Kaito with whatever skills I managed to acquire.

Yeah, I know, I set pretty lofty goals. If I didn't I'd never have been able to be such a good detective.

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The shonen tantei dan's search for mysterious things didn't lasted nearly the entire day but was neither successful nor eventful. I was ready to head for Kudo's, no, Conan's bed when I got a text from Haibara the chibi mad scientist.

Apparently, she'd caught wind of my underage drinking adventure from the day before. She didn't seem to be very happy about it but she had decided to take advantage of the situation anyway to collect data to help her with future trial antidotes to that poison ahoutoxin or whatever it is.

All she did was take a blood sample to analyze (which came off as extremely creepy because of her child-like appearance) before proceeding to ask me questions concerning the time I'd been Kudo instead of Conan; 'how long did it last', 'do you feel any different since changing back'- that sort of thing.

With that over I finally went to bed, getting myself some rest after all the nothing I'd been doing all day. Not that I was really able to sleep well, I was to busy wondering if we were going to be stuck like this forever to get any quality rest.

Of course the next day at school was pretty stupid too. I've said it once and I'll say it again; being seven sucks.

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"Heiji, ya've been acting weird ever since ya made dat bet with Kudo-kun," Kazuha said, her tone made it clear to me that if I didn't answer honestly I'd have first hand experience what akido feels like, "What's wrong? Ya know ya kin tell me."

I tried, to no avail, to keep a little snicker from escaping my mouth alongside my response, "You wouldn't believe me even if I did tell you."

"I'd believe ya, honest I would."

Fool, you can't know whether or not you'd believe me until I tell you. I thought for a moment about speaking my thoughts but decided not to and went with a more calm approach, "A little over a week ago I wouldn't have believed me."

I'd say 'a little bit of honesty goes a long way' but she didn't really seem to appreciate my vague but honest response.

"Come on, jus' tell me Heiji! If it's affectin' ya so much I 'ave a right ta know what it is!"

I guess I was pretty close to the line that decides whether or not I'm sane- or maybe I'd already gone past it. Whatever the case I felt like if I kept lying I was going to fall so far from my sanity that I'd never be able to return.

"If you really want to know then stop calling me that."

Naturally, she was confused, "Eh? But I've been callin' ya Heiji since forever! Why on Earth should I stop callin' ya Heiji now? !"

"Because I'm not Hattori Heiji," I said, my tone sounding much angrier than it should have.

From the way she was looking at me I could tell that she wasn't sure if she should believe me or not, she was probably about to ask if it was a joke. I could answer that 'yeah, jus' kidin' why'd ya take it so seriously ya ahou', but I didn't want to do that, I wanted to stop lyin'- urg lying, so I left her without another word.

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I'm not sure if I should be happy or disturbed that when we finally got back to school Shinichi achieved a level of pretending to be me so high that me managed to dye my (Hakuba's) hair aquamarine without my noticing for more than five minutes.

It's rather amazing that he managed to do that and I'm pretty excited that I've finally pulled him over to the dark side enough that he's pranking, but it just means we're all one step closer to basically being each other. Right, definitely not a good thing, Shinichi being confident and skilled enough to prank me is not a good thing at all!

At least he did it to me, I've never pranked anyone besides Hakuba with hair dye, besides I know the secret of removing it so it doesn't last the whole week it's- no I shouldn't tell you, a magician never gives away his own secrets after all.

Despite that things seemed to be moving in a good direction.

Akako's cold was finally starting to clear up, well it wasn't completely better but she could now talk without breaking into coughs and sneezes. Still I'm a bit disappointed that it hasn't completely cleared up, I mean who on Earth has a cold for more than an entire week? That's got to be a record or something...

I guess it's about time I do another heist, wouldn't want to keep my fans waiting.

Besides it'll be easy because none of the meitantei will be able to challenge me because of the current situation; Hakuba can't because it'd land him in jail, Hattori can't because even if he tried there's no way he'd stand a chance when he's probably still not used to being Conan, and Shinichi can't because not only is he not a detective right now he'd feel bad putting me in jail when I might be fighting against the same organization he is.

Hmmm... I guess that makes things pretty boring.

Ah, whatever I'm sure it'll all turn out well in the end.