Sorry, it's been so long since I've updated this story... I've just been more focused on other things. I don't have any excuses that I think you would believe so I won't give any -honest or otherwise. I hate to say it but it'll probably be a while before I do another one again, though I'll try to make sure it's not months again, I just have a lot I'm working on right now.

I was going to have a kinda filler chapter before this one but I could not -for the life of me- ever get around to finishing it. I kept forgetting who was meant to be who for that chapter but ultimately I realized I was never going to finish it so even if it seems to be a bit to quick I'm just going to jump into this twist. I still have what I'd started to write for the chapter between this one and the previous one so maybe I'll finish it someday... yeah not likely.

In this chapter: It becomes extremely awkward. Not much dialogue but I promise you this; it's only the beginning. (also sorry if the Kaito part is a bit weird, I didn't want them to all be practically the same)

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

It only took two more days for us to have another random rotation, all four of us switched bodies again. Then it happened again two days after that, then then two days after that, and the next day after that, then the day after that.

Any idiot could have seen that the periods of time between the switches were growing shorter. Of course we were worried by it. If the lapse kept shrinking then it'd be twice a day, then three times and so on until eventual... what would happen?

After all we already knew that we were swapping because our bodies and souls had been damaged by the first swap and that with each swap they were damaged further... our souls would stay in a body for as long as they could tolerate the damage done but since the damage increase each time eventually we'd all just die right? With the time between swaps getting shorter doesn't that mean we only have a little while left?

With this worry in mind the four of us managed to survive another week body swapping at least once everyday as if it were completely average.

It hadn't taken long to adapt to the body swapping event. I was no longer surprised when I found myself suddenly in a different body, it was starting to seem rather commonplace as though nothing could be more painstakingly mundane than the mysterious phenomena that was occurring between me and my three friends. It had become a part of my daily schedule.

In the morning the first thing I would do upon waking up was confirm my identity, noting the time as a reference to measure the time between swaps as the gaps grew shorter. After that I would simply proceed with my morning in accordance with whomever I happened to be that day; take a shower, get dressed, eat breakfast, and go to school (if it's a school day). Rather simple, but effective.

That day was no different… or rather it was different, but not in that regard. I felt oddly tense immediately upon waking up, something was wrong… but what?

I looked around the room (as that was typically the quickest way to see who I must be), it was very plain with very few signs that anyone had ever lived there, whoever's room this was must have been a very serious person who didn't like to indulge in frivolous things. Whose room was this? I'd never been here before… but I'd already been in everyone else's rooms. Had someone slept over at a friend's house? No, there were so few signs of life that it was clear only one person had ever been in this room.

It was then that I ventured the thought that perhaps I had become someone besides one of our four person party. That seemed to be the only logical conclusion aside from one us having been kidnapped (which also seemed logical enough), half-optimistically I found myself hanging on to the first of my conclusions rather than the second.

I raised my hand to observe it. Pale skin, I definitely wasn't Hattori (Thank God). Long, thin fingers, they seemed agile which made me think of Kuroba for a moment before discarding the notion at the sight of the long, manicured fingernails. This was a woman's hand.

"I'm… female?" I concluded with a gulp, looking downward only to find further proof that I had been right. I carefully pulled a bit of short hair in front of my face. Dirty blonde with a reddish hue, some might say auburn or strawberry blonde. I did not like were this was going, not one bit.

A mirror, there had to be a mirror around here somewhere. Soon enough I found a small hand mirror in a drawer that contained plenty of things that confirmed my hypothesis before I even looked in the mirror.

I was Miyano Shiho, previously known as Haibara Ai, my current girlfriend.

Suddenly being female I could take but to be her specifically was to much for me. I would have been a bit disturbed but still completely okay had it been any other girl, but there's just something completely wrong with suddenly being in my girlfriend's body.

Not to mention... if I'm in her body what's happened to her?

I looked around the room, searching for her cell phone so that I could get in contact with the others.

If something like this was happening I certainly wasn't the only one effected by it, at the very least Shiho was affected as well, but I doubt it would be restricted to just the two of us... the universe is a bit too cruel for that. All four of us were probably affected... or maybe all eight of us? That could get quite messy.

Finally I found her phone, and sent a text to my own cellphone as well as those of Kudo, Kuroba, and Hattori with a sigh.

...

I woke up to light shining on my face through a window. I was tired but somehow it seemed like it'd be a hassle to just roll over and go back to sleep so I lazily lifted my hand to my face and tried to rub the sleepiness from my eyes.

That's when I realized my face felt a bit different than it had when I'd fallen asleep, I must've body-swapped while I was asleep... again. That was common enough so I wasn't really surprised in the slightest.

I wondered for a moment who I'd become this time. Would I be Hakuba? Hattori? Kaito? Maybe even myself for a change. It was almost as if all of this had become a game.

I sat up in the bed and immediately felt that there was something wrong, something terribly wrong, but that was a common enough feeling for me so I pushed it to the back of my mind. I stretched my arms and kicked my legs to the side of the bed where I came face to face with a mirror.

I screamed.

It couldn't have been happening, the person I'd become wasn't supposed to be involved in this... and yet there were no signs of it being a disguise, no signs of any other sort of trickery, the mirror wasn't lying.

"Ran, Are you okay I heard you scream?" Ojii-san asked as he opened the door to -you guessed it- Ran's room, stumbling in in his pajamas. The fact that he didn't seem surprised at all to see me there was proof that I had indeed somehow body-swapped with Ran.

"I'm fine, I just had a weird dream then when I looked in the mirror I thought I saw a g-ghost... but it was just the curtain," I answered Ojii-san, hoping that he would find that to be a reasonable enough reason that his daughter would have screamed. He took my excuse about as well as I expected him to, simply giving me a strange look, shrugging, then leaving to go watch Yoko on tv or something.

So I was no left alone... in my girlfriend's body... stuff like this just shouldn't happen. Ever.

Not to mention if I was in Ran's body what had happened to Ran? I mean without assuming that one of the other girls also became involved logically she'd have to be in either my body, Hakuba's, Hattori's, or Kaito's...

I decided the best thing to do would be to send a text around to figure out who's who and get everyone to meet up. So I picked up Ran's cellphone which was laying on her dresser and began to dial but I had only managed to type one of our cellphone numbers in before the door burst open.

It was me... or rather Ran in my body.

...

I had to pee. That was my first thought when I woke up.

There was a weird shift in weight as I sat up in bed but I thought nothing of it at the time, I was far more focused on getting to the toilet at the end of the hallway. It wasn't until after I'd... relieved myself that my eyes caught on the bathroom mirror.

I clapped my hand over my mouth to prevent myself from shouting, and rushed back to the room I'd come from.

I was in Kazuha's body... Was this the universe's attempt at a joke? I wasn't laughing, not at all.

For me to be in Kazuha's body she must be in someone else's, but whose? I guess it could been any of the four of us... but what if she isn't the only one involved that wasn't before? Could the four of us and each of our respective girlfriends all been swapped in a chaotic mismatch?

Well I guess there's no point in speculating about that kind of thing, it's probably right anyway.

I guess we need to meet up and figure out what's going on... Just as the thought crossed my mind a cellphone buzzed on the dresser, Kazuha's cellphone of course. According to the phone it was a call from 'Heiji'.

Well, this oughta be good, I thought as I picked up the phone, answering with a polite but curious "Hello, who might dis be?"

"It's Kazuha ya idiot! What de heck is goin' on Heiji?" Came a somewhat muffled shout as if she (...he?) were afraid that someone might hear her if she was too loud, she (he... oh whatever Kazuha is a girl darnit!) probably screamed when she realized that she'd become me and so she was trying to keep quiet so that my parents wouldn't think that I'd gone crazy or something.

"I don't know, apparently you an' maybe de other girls are involved in dis now..." I sighed, "Wait, how'd ya know it was me an' not someone else?"

"Dunno," she said as if she was just realizing how odd it was that she'd been so certain that it was me, "It jus' kin'a made sense I guess."

Ah whatever I'll just chalk that one up to her being in my awesome detective body, must've made her better at being analytical and detective or something. Yeah that must be it.

"Hakuba-kun sent a text as Shiho-san sayin' dat he thought we all needed ta meet up at de usual spot," She said after a brief silence, "I figured I should tell ya."

So Hakuba's his girlfriend right now too... maybe we've all swapped with our respective girlfriends, but why? Why should they suddenly be involved when they hadn't been before?

"Ai'ght, guess I'll see ya there den," I said, and just as I was about to put the phone down so I could get dressed or whatever else I'd need to do to prepare to go out Kazuha spoke up one last time before hanging up.

"Ya'd better not do 'nethin' weird in my body, 'kay?"

...

I had stayed up all night making plans for my next heist, so of course I hadn't gone to sleep and didn't get to just wake up and discover that I'd been body swapped with my girlfriend as the others did no matter how much simpler that would have been.

I'll just start from the point where it started to get weird.

I was almost done with plan B (you know in case plan A didn't work out so well) when I put my pencil down and reached for my coffee cup, after taking a sip or two I put the cup back down and went to pick the pencil up again but found myself holding a mop instead.

For whatever reason that seemed to be the most normal thing in the world at the time so I didn't question it at all, rather I began to walk down an interesting blue and white checkered pathway with my new trusty mop in hand despite the fact that I'd been sitting in a chair only moments before. Along the path I saw several odd things but what caught my eye most was a flash of white that I recognized all too well just out of the corner of my eye.

I followed it and pretty soon I found myself face to face with Kaitou Kid -or rather face to monocle, I couldn't actually see his face.

It was at that point that I realized how weird all of this had been, not just because I'm Kaitou Kid so baring the few times I got Shinichi to help out when he was in my body there should be no other Kid, but because at that point he kissed me.

Then suddenly he turned into a fish and started chasing me... it was honestly the most frightening thing I've experienced in my entire life.

I jolted upright in bed. It only took me a few seconds to realize that I must've just been body swapped and that what just happened was actually a dream, which was kind of a relief.

Instead of doing the smart thing and looking around the room which would have probably let me know what body I was in right away I couldn't stop myself from thinking about that dream (or maybe I should say nightmare instead). I just automatically assumed that one of the other guys had been dreaming about chasing Kaitou Kid -me- and then kissing him, which freaked me out just a little bit.

So I was actually pretty relieved when I realized that I was in Aoko's body and that had been Aoko's still extremely weird dream, it was better than it having been Hakuba's like I had half suspected for an awkward moment.