There were a few requests for a sequel, so I decided to give it a shot... Just understand even though I ended it in a way that left room for continuation I never really intended to do anything besides leave the rest up to the reader's imagination... So all of this is coming off the top of my head in attempts to make you happy.

In this chapter; things change

Well here goes nothing, I hope you enjoy, please review.

It was a normal day, that's how these things always begin. No one would have ever expected such a thing to happen on a pleasant day like that, not that a dark an stormy night would have made the occurrence any more predictable. Even if there had been any kind of omen we would have likely dismissed it without a thought, though I can assure you we had no warning whatsoever.

Everything we'd become accustomed to simply changed in the time it took to blink.

After the body swapping fiasco had occurred our lives passed by as normally as they possibly could in that situation for a little more than a year, the event that I'm talking about now happened only two months later.

... and the story continued before any of us had realized that there was something horribly wrong.

I had been eating dinner with Ran -it's not like it was a date or anything, we were just hanging out- we had been talking when my phone started ringing. I looked down at the phone, seeing 'Shinichi Kudo' on the caller ID.

Why would Hattori be calling me right now? Is it important? I wondered as I answered, giving Ran an apologetic glance, which she returned as if to say that it couldn't be helped.

"Hello? What is it Hattori?" I said into the phone, implying with my tone that if this wasn't something important I intended to hang up.

"Should I take that to mean you're still Shinichi?" The voice that answered was definitely 'Shinichi', so it should have been Hattori that I was speaking to since he was supposed to be in my body but the lack of accent made it clear that this wasn't him talking, not to mention the fact that Hattori has always called me 'Kudo' rather than 'Shinichi'.

I immediately felt suspicious, my eyes narrowed as I replied, "Of course I am, what do you mean by that anyway?"

"Really? Nothing has happened to you?" Whoever I was talking to seemed surprised, but didn't seem to think that explaining themselves would be necessary.

"Was something supposed to happen?" I replied, hoping he would finally give me a legitimate answer instead of just answering me with another question... again.

"Well there's... been a new development."

Though it was -thankfully- not a question, the answer still left a lot to be desired as it didn't actually answer anything. I still wasn't exactly sure who it was I was talking to much less what kind of 'development' could have occur that I needed to be informed of or why this person seemed to believe something may have happened to me. I figured it would be best to keep this simple before I wind up with even more questions running through my head and not getting answers to the current ones.

"What's happened?"

He seemed hesitant to say anything, "Er... I've been body swapped again and now I'm in your body."

Another body-swapping? Why was I left out of it? Wait before that... Hakuba and Hattori both have accents so this must be Kaito. Is it wrong that I'm worried that Kaito is in my body? Right... that's hardly the problem here.

"What about Hattori and Hakuba?"

"You're the first I called," Kaito replied, sounding oddly calm though I knew he was probably freaking out even if only a little, "But Hattori would have to be in either Hakuba's body or his own right now, considering those are the only remaining options once my body and your body are taken out of the equation."

True, Hattori having returned to his original body (and Hakuba also would have returned to his own if that were the case) was a distinct possibility. The mere fact that more body-swapping was occurring after so long (giving the possibility of returning to normal) left me somewhat overjoyed despite the fact that I was apparently being left out of it- but the mere thought that Hattori may already be in his own body as I spoke to Kuroba only served to annoy me. Why couldn't I return to my body? Must I be stuck as a look-alike magician forever?

"The four of us should probably meet up at the usual spot," I said, hiding both aforementioned emotions expertly with Kaito's own flawless poker face, "I'll call Hattori's phone, you call Hakuba's, alright?"

Kaito laughed quietly for a moment before replying, "Who died and made you the boss? Well, whatever, I had already planned to do that anyway."

Before getting the chance to make a comment about just how annoying it was to know that he and I had come up with the same plan he hung up, leaving me with no choice but to send Ran another apologetic glance as I began to dial Hattori's cellphone.

...

I'd been in the middle of a mid-day nap (not really something I'm in the habit of doing, I simply did it because I had nothing better to do) when my cellphone went off, the obnoxious ringtone startling me from my nap. I found my self unconsciously glaring at the phone just a moment before picking it up.

The caller ID read 'Kuroba Kaito', I wondered for a moment exactly what Kudo would want from me. Deciding that the best way to find out what he wanted would be to simply answer the phone I finally answered the phone, "'ello?"

"Are you Hakuba or Hattori?"

I wasn't usually confronted with such odd questions so soon after waking up, he hadn't even bothered to greet me in return. I could feel a faint frown creeping onto my face, thinking just a moment about how to answer.

"I sa'pose one could say I'm both..." I replied, trailing off before I continued with an explanation, "It dapends on whether er not de identity of a person is decided by their soul er by their physical body, de answer 'aught'a be de 'soul' but dat can't be seen by the naked eye, so instead we rely on de a'pearence ta tell us who's who. By dat standard it's impossible ta say if I'm truly 'Hakuba' er if I-"

"Definitely Hakuba then," He interrupted.

No explanation... I swear he's becoming even more like Kuroba everyday- it's almost frightening. I might as well ask. I sighed, "Yes, why do you ask?"

I could hear a loud sigh emerge from the other end of the phone putting my own sigh to shame, finally he responded, "Looks like Kaito and Hattori have somehow managed to body swap with each oth-"

That was as far as he could get before I couldn't stop myself from making a comment, as stupid as it may have been, "They what? !"

"Kaito is now in my body, and it would appear that Hattori is now in yours," He responded with yet another sigh, "Kaito called me a moment ago and he should be calling Hattori now, it was decided that the four of us should meet up at the usual spot to discuss what's going on."

"Fair 'nough, I'll be there soon," I replied.

"See you then," Kudo said just before hanging up.

I muttered quietly to myself as I put the cellphone in my pocket and began to slip on some shoes, "It's not like I had 'nethin' better ta do 'neway."

...

I had been Hakuba for approximately twenty four minutes, forty-nine seconds, and twelve milliseconds- I knew this because since becoming him I had the oddest desire to keep up with time right down to the millisecond and could not help but check the pocket watch every other moment to be sure that time was indeed passing at the same rate it usually does. It was so annoying and I hated doing it but I really couldn't help it.

Naturally I was at a loss as to exactly why -or how- I'd suddenly become Hakuba after being Kudo for as long as I had but it was far from being the strangest experience that I'd ever had so I tried looking around to see if I could determine why I'd suddenly switched bodies again- I couldn't.

My search was interrupted when my pants pocket started vibrating along and playing a strange tune that seemed to be more to Kuroba's tastes than Hakuba's. Upon pulling out the cellphone I saw the name 'Kudo Shinichi' on the caller ID, which would have been more helpful if I hadn't been Kudo up until that point.

I answered the phone, hesitant as I wondered who was on the other end, "Er... Hello?"

"Why hello Tantei-'san'~" Rang the obnoxious tone that could not have been mistaken for anyone else even if the wording hadn't already made it clear. The fact that I was in Hakuba's body at the moment served to only make him seem even more obnoxious, if that was even possible.

"So it's you..." I muttered, adding the next bit under my breath, "Figures de Kudo look-alike would be de one ta take my place in Kudo's body."

The magician-thief laughed, I could practically see a smirk on his face as he spoke, "You're Hattori then? That makes things easier."

You have no idea how disconcerting it is to hear that you've just made something easy for Kuroba, it's almost as creepy as seeing that devious grin of his forming on his face whenever he reaches into his pockets to pull out who-knows-what. If it hadn't been for the odd hint of relief in his tone I might have actually been scared. I swallowed unintentionally, "How so?"

"You'll see later," He answered vaguely, "The four of us are meeting up -the usual spot- to discuss this. See you there."

Then he hung up on me leaving me to glare at the phone for just a moment, sigh, then get myself ready to go to the usual spot, though not before checking that stupid pocket watch one more time.

Twenty-eight minutes, fifty-five seconds, thirty-nine milliseconds.

...

And so, only moments later the four of us met up at the usual spot- a centrally located park where we wouldn't look like anything other that just four high school boys talking together. However the simple fact that we were now together did nothing to change the fact that none of us really knew anything about why Hattori and I had just been body-swapped again so long after everything had happened.

It was most worrying that it was only Hattori and I affected, why not Shinichi and Hakuba? Was there some kind of reason behind this that we were unaware of? Is there some kind of pattern behind the events? Was there a trigger this time like the heist that occurred last time? These kinds of questions were flying across the picnic table we were sitting at- but naturally remained unanswered.

Even if Shinichi, Hattori, and Hakuba were detectives they were used to having evidence and clues. They couldn't just be asked to explain something inexplicable at the drop of a hat.

With a sigh I mumbled, "So in conclusion, we have nothing."

"Exactly," Shinichi agreed, also sighing.

"Indeed," Hakuba chimed in with a sigh of his own, "I've even informed Shiho and she has no idea what could have happened."

That's not strange considering there was nothing she could do about it before, she's a scientist there's nothing she can do about something of a supernatural nature like this even considering the miraculous nature of the de-aging and re-aging drugs she'd created.

Ran would also know now because she had been with Shinichi when I called him, she would probably tell the rest of the girls about it so they would at least realize that I wasn't Hattori and Hattori wasn't me if they saw either of us but nothing else would likely come of them knowing of this new development.

I even had already texted Akako -not really expecting much seeing as she also wasn't able to actually do anything last time- and she informed me that aside from some kind of coincidental event she didn't know of any reason we would suddenly body swap again and that she would look at Shinichi and Hattori in the morning to see if anything had changed from before.

In other words -as I previously stated- we had nothing.

Nothing to go on, not a single clue what to do about the sudden new development. Not that we had really expected to gain anything from meeting together like this, if anything we'd only met up to feel as though we were actually doing something for the situation.

As soon as we finished entertaining the illusion that there was anything we could do we all returned to what had become our normal lives as though nothing had really happened.