The chapter this time is chock full of the usual drama and stupid jokes! You better prepare yourself, there's so many stupid jokes that I'd bet at least one of them will make you laugh!

In this chapter: a phone call of understanding or lack there of , Heiji faces Kazuha's wrath, Shinichi might as well have MPD, Kaito finally hears some good news, and Hakuba doesn't like where this is going

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Almost immediately after she'd called Shi- no, Conan Ran received a call from Kazuha-chan asking to talk to Conan. Of course that made Ran wonder if Kazuha-chan knew that right now Conan was Hattori, but Ran was hesitant because she was unsure. Ran knew that if Kazuha-chan didn't know about the body swapping that if she gave the phone to Hattori (Conan) then because of his accent it would be obvious that something was going on, so she decided to try to figure out weather or not Kazuha-chan knew.

"What is it you want to talk to Conan-kun for?" She asked, trying to sound casual.

At this point Kazuha wanted to just shout into the phone something about wanting to talk to Heiji, but she remembered that Hakuba had told her not to tell anyone about what had happened. Kazuha had never seen such a serious look on Heiji's face, and it was because of that look that she'd decided to help them keep it a secret- even from Ran-chan.

Kazuha replied with a casual tone of her own, "Well, Heiji's always talkin' ta him so I figured 'e must be pretty fun ta talk to."

With this Ran mistakenly determined that Kazuha-chan probably didn't know that the person she was asking to talk to was actually Hattori so she tried to come up with an excuse for Conan to not be able to come to the phone.

"Conan-kun is over at his friend's house right now so I can't really hand to phone to him," Ran said, hoping it was a believable lie considering that Hattori (Conan) was standing right next to her.

Kazuha, in her determination to talk to Heiji, thought Ran's response was suspicious.

"Then kin ya tell me his cell phone number, I'll jus' call him directly."

Ran had no reason -at least not one she could voice- to object so hesitantly she gave Kazuha Conan's cell phone number, hoping that Hattori would somehow be able to trick Kazuha into thinking he was actually Conan.

...

"HEIJI! ! ! !" Kazuha shouted into the phone, honestly I wouldn't be surprised if you -whoever it is you are, you random stranger reading this- heard it from wherever it is you are in the world, "WHY ON EARTH DIDN'T YA TELL ME DAT YA WERE BODY SWAPPED WITH CONAN-KUN? ! ? !"

Thanks Kazuha, yell into my ear why don't ya. Ya know, if I hadn't literally jus' told Neechan 'bout all a dis I would 'ave some serious explainin' ta do jus' 'cause a dat!

I sighed, as I made the obvious observation that the stupid brit had made some kind of slip up and wound up telling Kazuha everything, "I didn't want ya ta worry 'bout me."

Dear God! I sound like Kudo right now!

"Ya still shoulda told me! I coulda helped!"

"Kin ya help now?" I replied, my voice coming out in that sarcastic tone Kudo always uses when he's annoyed.

"Er... no... but if ya kin think a ne' way I kin help jus' don' hesitate ta ask 'kay?"

geez, what am I supposed ta say ta a cheezy line like dat? I sighed, "Ahou. Ya know dat if I needed yer help I woulda asked fer it. I'm not da kinda idiot dat tries ta do everythin' on his own without gettin' people dat'd worry 'bout me involved."

"Didn't ya jus' say dat ya didn't tell me 'cause ya didn't want me ta worry 'bout ya?"

"Yeah, but if ya were able ta help I woulda definitely told ya," I replied, feeling a bit annoyed that she'd seen through that when I was trying to sound cool, "It's jus' dat dere's no point in ya knowin' about dis when dere's still nothin' we kin do 'bout it, an' it's not like we kin go ta a hospital er anythin' 'cause they wouldn't be able ta help."

"Jus'... jus' don't do anythin' stupid, ya ahou..."

With that she hung up, leaving me to wonder if this was how Kudo always felt.

...

"Okay Ran-neechan, I'll be extra careful careful," I said just before hanging up my phone. Ran was really worried about 'Conan', more so than she was worried about me... kind of annoying actually.

I sighed, having to pretend to be Conan with my own voice was just unbearable. The entire situation made me just want to tell her the truth so everything would be less complicated, but I knew I couldn't do that, if I told her now it would make all those times I almost told her but didn't absolutely meaningless.

As I was thinking that Kaito's cellphone started ringing, and I knew before I even picked up that it was Ran calling to check up on me, "Oh, Hello Ran, how are you?"

We managed to keep that conversation going for about twenty minutes before it dissolved into an awkward silence with neither of us really being sure what to say to the other, and at that point we just exchanged a 'talk to you later then' and hung up. That much at least added a little bit of normalcy to my day.

All of this was actually getting to be pretty tiring. At school pretending to be Kaito took up a lot of energy -the daily mop chase routine was downright exhausting- whenever Ran called on the phone I was supposed to be using as myself I had to pretend to be Conan and if she called on Kaito's phone I got to act like myself.

The situation had begun to get out of hand, it was much worse than having to be Conan, at least then I was still technically myself... at this point I'm not really sure who I'm supposed to be anymore.

Well at least Kaito seems happy about something, he was acting really cheerful after lunch - so much so that he started breaking character and didn't do a very good job of acting like Hakuba though I was probably the only one to notice.

...

Guess what, guess what, guess what?

... No that's not it.

That isn't either... you know I don't know who you are but you really suck at guessing things.

Right, I should just tell you what it is you were supposed to be guessing:

AKAKO'S COLD IS GONE!

Awesome right? She's completely healed. Hooray! We can go back to our original bodies and completely wipe this whole fiasco from our memories forever- not.

There's a catch. There's always a catch, nothing can ever just go as smoothly as my heists -I've decided to just blame the detective's collective bad luck, this is all their fault, they just dragged me into it.

After just looking at me and Kudo for a little bit she said that she wasn't sure how to change us back and that she would look into it for us. I found it odd that she couldn't have been looking into it while she was useless with a cold for more than a week, but I didn't question it because I figured by 'look into it' she probably meant she'd ask Lucifer and that probably requires magic to do.

In the meantime while she looks into it she suggested that we get the four of us together and try all of the cliqued 'this will fix any weird magical situation and give you a happy story-book ending' things.

I stifled a laugh as I pulled out Hakuba's cellphone after school to call everyone together.

Heh heh, If it's cliqued she wants then it's definitely gotta be that.

...

For whatever reason Kuroba called us together, apparently it had something to do with the 'person that can help' that he mentioned back when this first began, but mostly he said that while that person tried to find a solution we should try some stereotypical problem-solving stuff and see if we can fix the situation before that person figures out what to do.

Surprisingly sound logic coming from Kuroba.

Kudo-kun was the first to question it, "So, what exactly is it that you're saying we should do?"

"It happens all the time in movies and manga right?" Kuroba replied as though he was referring to the most normal thing in the world, when we all looked at him with confused expressions he continued, "Do detectives not read fairy tales or something? Seriously, there's just one thing that always breaks curses or fixes weird situations!"

He paused dramatically as though what he had just said made it absolutely obvious what he was talking about -it didn't, but he seemed to think it did.

"Wait... you don't mean..." Hattori said, trailing off awkwardly. I stand corrected, apparently it was obvious from what Kuroba said what he was talking about; it'd have to have been obvious for Hattori to understand so quickly.

But it was Kuroba's response that surprised me most.

"That's exactly it. Kissing."

I was glad that I wasn't the only one that hadn't expected that when Kudo-kun and I both reacted at the same time, "What? ! Are you serious! ?"

Hattori shrugged, "It's worth a shot right?"

"So... if we're kissing love interests... is it the body or the mind?" Kudo-kun asked, "I'm not sure I'd be comfortable kissing Ran while I'm stuck as Kaito -you know, I'd much rather our first kiss be while I'm in my original body and not as Kaito or Conan or anyone else- but I'm pretty sure that it'd be just as awkward to be kissing Aoko..."

Kudo-kun trailed off as though he were beginning to question his own sanity for going along with what Hattori and Kuroba were saying. Quite frankly I agreed, it did seem rather strange for him to be going along with something of that sort, but I decided to blame Kuroba's body for influencing that, Kuroba/Kid was a flirt after all.

"hmmm... what about Hakuba?"

This comment caught my interest, "eh?"

"I mean, the rest of us have our childhood friends, but what about Hakuba?" Kuroba asked, "As far as I'm aware the only thing even remotely resemblance of a romantic relationship in Tantei-san's life is..."

The fact that he'd switched back to calling me 'Tantei-san' made what he was trying to get across painfully clear. Kudo and Hattori stared at him wide-eyed before turning to look at my reaction for a moment and going back to Kuroba.

"Kuroba... do you know what you're insinuating?"