thirteen is an unlucky number, so chapter is bad luck for the boys, a lot of romantic actions leading to the worst bit of luck yet! Sorry if it's not quite what you're expecting... I'm going to charge straight forward to the ending from here, so be ready!

In this chapter: Aoko doesn't know what to do about Kaito, Ran feels lonely, Kazuha still thinks Heiji is cute, bad news is received (I didn't think I could write it from Akako's POV but this is a girl's only chapter so it's third person)

Yup, this chapter is completely the girls, get ready for tsundere.

Please review or else~

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Kaito was Hakuba all this time? No that's not possible there has to be a mistake! But then if it was a mistake would he have that distressed look on his face... I may not be a detective but I doubt it.

Still, I had to ask just to be fair, "Kaito?"

Panic flashed across his face, he was probably trying to come up with a lie to tell me just to get me to think he's really Hakuba. Well, it's not going to work! I've seen through your lies Bakaito!

I start to pout as I look at him more closely, it's a pretty good disguise, I can't even see where the mask stops. I try pinching his face to see if it'll come off... it doesn't.

"Ow, ow, OW! Stop that Ahouko! It hurts!" He says as I pinch him, I let go. He seems to realize that he just made it obvious that he really was Kaito and put his hands over his mouth as he murmured curse words in another language -English I think- before sighing and putting his hands back down in defeat, "...Sorry Aoko..."

Does he think sorry will help! That idiot! Saying he's sorry only makes it harder for me to be angry at him! I have a right to remain angry!

"Kaito! What is going on here! Why do you look just like Hakuba even though you aren't wearing a mask?" I shout, reaching for a conveniently placed mop that I could almost swear wasn't there until I reached for it.

"Would you believe that Hakuba, Shinichi, Hattori, and I were kidnapped by aliens from Saturn and that they gave us all plastic surgery against our will?" He responded, venturing a shy smile as he raised his hands to protect himself from the mop.

What a load of crap. It's not even as good as the usual lies he comes up with to go with magic tricks.

"No."

I gripped the mop tightly and prepared myself to swing but he lowered his arms as if resigning himself to his fate as started to speak again.

"Of course you wouldn't..." He sighed, "The truth is we were mysteriously body-swapped now I'm stuck in Hakuba's body, Hakuba is stuck in Hattori's, Hattori is stuck in Shinichi's, and Shinichi is stuck in mine..."

I wanted to shout at him, to yell that he was lying, but something about the look on his (er... Hakuba's?) face made me believe what he was saying.

"Oh... Kaito... no..."

"We've been trying to fix it... but it's been almost two weeks already. I'm not sure if we'll ever get back to normal again..."

I hit him with the mop lightly.

"Bakaito."

He looks at the mop then looks at me with that silly grin of his (that looked extremely out of place on Hakuba's face) but says nothing. He just stands there smiling as if he expects me to do all the talking. Fine.

"Of course you'll never be normal! But even if there's no way for you to go back to being you I'm sure you'll find one. That's just the kind of luck you have!"

"I guess so."

...

It'd been a while since I'd last talked to Shinichi, ok a while might be an exaggeration but it felt so wrong that he was so nearby but he couldn't hang out with me because he was so busy pretending to be somebody he's not... I was starting to miss him. I didn't even have Conan around anymore, Hattori was nothing like the cute little brother that I'd gotten used to.

I made up my mind and decided to call Shinichi, just to check on him. Who knows, maybe he'd have some free time and we could hang out.

"Hello, Ran," He answered.

"Hey Shinichi, I was wondering if you maybe wanted to hang out or something..." I trailed off as I asked, feeling embarrassed. I worried that he'd just make up an excuse because he might not want to hang out with me.

I could almost see him shrugging like he always does through the phone, "Sorry, I've got to go to some magic show Kaito wanted to go to... he was going to go with me -you know as Hakuba- but I don't think he's going to be able to make it... want to come?"

Eh? Is he asking me out on a date? ! Wait no... he'd be there as 'Kuroba Kaito' there's no way he'd be thinking of it as a date. I'd rather be together with Shinichi AS Shinichi... there's no meaning in it if he's someone else...

I sighed before responding, "No... just promise we'll hang out sometime when you get back to your real body... okay?"

Shinichi didn't answer right away. That worried me. I was about to say something but he suddenly spoke up in a tone that made me want to believe him, "Ok."

Even if he had been hesitating before there wasn't an ounce of hesitation in his voice now.

"I'll definitely come back to you someday, Ran."

He hung up on me after that, leaving me with an awed feeling and blush creeping across my face.

To get my mind off of how cool Shinichi just sounded I decided to call Conan, again, to check up on him. I mean he gets into enough trouble as it is normally, imagine what kind of trouble he might be getting into as Shinichi!

"Hello Conan-kun," I said once Conan picked up.

"Oh, Hello Ran-neechan," he replied, if it weren't for the '-neechan' part I'd have thought he was definitely Shinichi just playing a trick on me.

"How are you doing? You're not lonely are you?" I asked. I mean I have no idea where Shinichi even was before all of this happened, what are the chances that there's anyone that Conan-kun knows around?

"I'm fine, What about you Ran-neechan?" He asked, sounding calm.

Even though I called to check on him, it sounded like he was more worried about me. I guess I can't think of him as a little brother when he's older than me right now...

"I'm fine..." I answered him.

We continued talking for a little bit before he had to go do some 'Shinichi-niichan business' so we both hung up and I went home to fix dinner for otou-san, Hattori, and Kazuha-chan (who was sticking around because of Hattori).

...

Heiji kept complaining that it hurt whenever I would hug him, but it's not like I could help it! I might wouldn't hug him so much if he wasn't just about the cutest thing ever!

Is this how Ran always feels around Conan? ...I'll have to ask her that later.

I mean even though he's like four feet tall he's talking all detectivey and teenagery! It's just too cute! He's actually even cuter whenever he insists that he isn't cute because he pouts like he's a grown up even though he isn't.

He was even cuter at dinner because he was trying to act like Conan because Ran's dad still doesn't know about the whole weird body swapping thing, so even though Heiji's in complete denial about being a child he was doing a totally good job of acting like one and...

-Oh God. I've become a doting older sister.

Whatever. I have every right to enjoy Heiji's cuteness until he get's back to normal!

...

Kaito sat alone at his -no Hakuba's (though at this point it may as well be his)- house, thinking. Not about anything in particular, just thinking.

He'd already reached the point where he was starting to honestly believe that they may never be able to return to 'normal'. He was already worried that even if he did get his original body back things would never be the same; some of his toughest pursuers would know his true identity, he'd never quite feel like himself, and no matter what things would be awkward between him and Aoko from now on.

Not that it'd be any be any better to give up on righting the situation.

Kaito spent hours agonizing over this, trying to think about every possibility... Like a detective.

He sighed, "I wonder how much longer things will stay like this..."

Suddenly his phone started ringing, he cursed himself as he checked the time on that stupid pocket watch before he picked up the phone.

"Hello...?" He answered, wondering who in the world would be calling him past midnight.

"Kuroba, it's me," said the person on the other line. The person's tone sounded so disappointed he almost didn't recognize their voice.

"Akako?"

Her change in tone was obvious, he could practically feel her glare through the phone, "Clearly, or can you not recognize my lovely voice?"

"I was just making sure.," he replied, borrowing from Hakuba's usual overly professional demeanor but adding his own charming twist as he continued, "So, to what do I owe the pleasure of your call?"

"Not pleasure."

"Ah-re?"

"I asked Lucifer what would need to be done to return you and those other boys to normal..."

Kaito completely ignored her tone, focusing only on her words. He asked, "What do we have to do?"

She hesitated, not sounding at all like a self-absorbed witch when she finally spoke.

"It's impossible."

Kaito stopped moving. The phone dropped out of his... no Hakuba's ... no HIS hand and fell to the floor with a clattering sound. Once he got over the initial shock -though still very much in shock- he bent over and picked the phone back up, pressing it back to his ear as if hoping he'd heard wrong or that Akako had been joking.

"Kuroba, it's up to you to tell those other boys, the four of you won't be able to return to your original bodies... unless something coincidental happens like whatever it was that switched you in the first place."