I feel like this hasn't quite lived up to the awkwardness that it's capable of, starting next chapter I'll start including the girls parts as well but there will only ever be four perspectives (not counting random third person) per chapter, so I hope that makes it more interesting. Next chapter I'll explain why the girls are getting caught up in this now of all times so this is basically filler but it has some kinda important points as well so don't just ignore it. Also, I plan to start listing who is who at the beginning and end of chapters now that eight people will be scrambling... hope it helps.

I had trouble at first coming up with what should happen for Hakuba's and Hattori's parts in this chapter, but ultimately Hakuba wound up taking a nice sledge hammer to the forth wall and Hattori wound up actually progressing the story (mostly because his personality seemed most funny with this scene)... it makes me feel bad for Shinichi and Hakuba's surprisingly insignificant roles in this chapter...

In this chapter: Shinichi stops caring about nonsense, Kaito has a woman's intuition, Hakuba nearly gives in to paranoia, and Hattori actually gets somewhere

Well here goes nothing, I hope you enjoy, please review it doesn't matter if it's short or long or if you like the story or not (though I can't imagine anyone getting this far without liking it).

"Shinichi!" Ran in my body said a little bit louder than I would have liked as she rushed towards me, "What's going on?!"

In hindsight I have no idea how she knew it was me and not someone else in her body, but I thought nothing of it at the time, and by this point I know better than to question that sort of frivolous thing.

"I guess we've been body swapped... the others probably have been as well, I'm not sure why something like this would be happening now..." I replied with a sigh.

It made no sense to me that Ran and maybe even the other girls would be swapped with me now after she had remained uninvolved as long as she had, but nothing about this made sense anyway

"But... why now?"

"I don't know..." Was the only reply I could give.

Suddenly my cell phone went off in her pocket, she tossed it to me -it was, after all, my phone- and I looked down to see that I had received a text from Shiho asking all of us to meet up at her house and to bring our respective girlfriends sighed by Hakuba. I was then hit with the sinking feeling that I had been correct and that the other girls had indeed been pulled into this.

I told Ran and she and I complied immediately... after she helped me pick out an outfit.

...

I'm not sure why but it just seemed to make sense that if I'd become Aoko then it was only natural that she'd become me, so with that assumption in mind I rushed to my house so that I would be able to talk to her. In hindsight I probably could have just called her on the phone and it would have worked just as well but it's not like my house was all that far away so it doesn't really matter.

I wasn't really sure how much time had passed since the swap had happened, after all time can pass in the strangest ways when you're asleep, so I couldn't be certain that Aoko would still be awake, but I had been awake in the secret Kid room so at least she was probably still there and I doubted that she would be able to sleep after suddenly being switched out with me. I was right, of course.

Upon reaching the Kid room I found her (or would it be him since she's me?) sitting at the desk that I had been not all that long ago. She (ugh this is confusing, she's still a girl on the inside even if she's me) looked kind of scared, but I guess that makes sense any normal person would find it scary to just suddenly be someone else.

"Aoko?" I asked, realizing that she didn't know I was there and that I actually had no evidence proving that it was indeed Aoko in my body and not someone else entirely, not that I needed evidence I'm not a detective as a thief I trust my intuition.

She tensed up upon hearing the name, I guess she really hadn't been able to tell that I'd been there, or maybe she was just surprised that I'd guessed correctly.

"Kaito?" She asked in turn, now looking at me with an expression of horror as though me being in her body was something from one of her worst nightmares which had now become reality. What was so wrong with it, it's not like I haven't disguised myself as her in the past, I already knew just about every dark secret that she had.

"Yeah," I replied cheerfully, acting as if it were no big deal in hopes of cheering her up a bit, "looks like you and I have swapped. I wonder if anything's happened to everyone else?"

At that point my cellphone which had been sitting on the desk in front of her began to buzz. I picked it up, it was a text from Shiho-san according to the phone but upon reading its contents I knew that it had been sent by Hakuba, who was apparently now in her body. He was asking if everyone (girls included) could meet up at the professor's house, as it would look weird for eight teenagers to be hanging out at the park this early in the morning.

I told Aoko about what it said and we soon set out for the professor's house though she still hadn't returned to her usual cheerful demeanor. Of course our destination was pretty far away so we had to take the shinkansen, I tried to make chat a few times along the way but she just seemed distant and just gave short answers. I finally managed to figure out what was wrong by making use of something I never thought I'd have the chance to do myself.

"Ne, what's wrong?" I asked, leaning and whispering right into her ear, "Kaitou Kid~"

That was the only thing I could think to do that I knew would automatically snap her mind from whatever she was thinking about to reply, because in the time that I'd been Kid it'd been such a common thing for people to accuse me of being Kid that the reflexive response had become a part of me.

She automatically tensed up, and responded a little bit louder than she probably meant to, "Nothing! I'm not Kaitou Kid!"

"I know, I'm Kid after all," I replied, glad to have succeeded in distracting her for a moment even if I still wished she'd tell me what was bothering her so. At the same time it occurred to me that I -Kaitou Kid- was currently in the body of Nakamori-keibu's daughter, oh the irony.

She gave me a weak smile, she probably realized that I had been trying to cheer her up.

"What's on your mind?" I asked.

She sighed, "I guess I was just worried... what if I screwed up and someone figures out that 'Kuroba Kaito' was Kid because of something I do or..."

"Oh... so basically you're worried you can't be quite as me as I am?"

"Yeah, something like that," She said, sounding a bit closer to being the usual Aoko that I'd come to love.

For the rest of the train ride we continued to chat, and she gradually reached the point where she no longer seemed to be jumpy... I could tell she was still worried but I also knew that nothing I could say was going to make her worries disappear completely, she needed to talk with the other girls for that, so I didn't mention it again.

…

It wasn't too long before the eight of us were all gathered in the professor and Shiho's living room in a chaotic jumble. The girls (boys) swapping horror stories about how they'd realized they'd become involved, as the other guys (girls) and I tried to see if there was any common factor that may have caused the girls to get dragged into this –and we found one but that will be explained later, it didn't make much sense anyway.

Honestly I had expected as much but it just seemed a bit to perfect that all four of us had been body swapped with our own respective girlfriend, there had to be a pattern to it, it was too much of a coincidence otherwise. Assuming that something happened without our knowledge that caused the girls to be brought into this mess, it seemed to be against the odds that each of them would be placed in their boyfriend's body and that we –in turn- would each be placed in our girlfriend's bodies. Wouldn't it have made more sense to be more shuffled, scrambled even?

It occurred to me that I'd noticed a hint of a pattern the first time we'd been swapped as well, it had come to my attention rather early on that we'd been swapped into the most dissonant possible arrangement. Though at the time I'd thought that had been more of a complaint on my part for having been placed in Hattori's body, and it was easily dismissed as a coincidence.

Now, however I couldn't help but feel that it may have been planned by someone… something, though the notion seemed a bit paranoid. After all, how could anyone or anything manipulate a mysterious happenstance such as this, the only sort of person I could think that could do that would be a witch, but it's become increasingly apparent that Akako-san -despite apparently being a skilled witch- is not able to do anything about this.

The notion itself I found a bit disturbing but I don't think I would have been surprised if I'd ever found out that it was true.

Maybe it is true, maybe all our current actions were calculated by some as-yet-unknown individual who just enjoys watching us suffer meaninglessly. Even if that were the case I suppose there's very little that we could do in such a situation, it's better just to ignore any possibility that such an entity could even exist to begin with.

Ya got that? I don' care who ya are but I'm ignoring you!

... If we ever take care of this situation I'm getting a therapist.

...

Kazuha and I met up at the station and were soon on our way to the Professor's house, where Hakuba had requested for everyone to meet up. We didn't talk much along the way; there was mostly just awkward silence… I guess there wasn't really anything to say. We were each other, Hakuba was Shiho, and it didn't take a genius to assume that Kudo was probably Ran and Kuroba was probably Aoko.

At least we could take solace in the fact that this wasn't happening to just us, it'd happened to all eight of us as unlikely as it seemed if you tried to look at it from a logical perspective.

Anyway since the ride over was boring I'll just skip to us getting there.

We had been the last to arrive and everyone else seemed to be on edge for one reason or another, I'm not entirely sure why as they all refused to tell me, but I can make a guess. Hakuba seemed to have picked up a bit of Shiho's paranoia when he crossed into her body, meanwhile she was trying to figure out what had happened differently this time than the other times we'd swapped around to have involved the girls –to no avail. Kudo looked kind of defeated, I guess he must've given up on trying to understand all of this and decided to just take it as it comes, while Ran just seemed kind of fidgety so I figured she just needed to go to the bathroom or something but didn't want to. Kuroba seemed to be trying to cheer up a rather stressed looking Aoko, even though he looked like he had clearly needed some cheering up himself.

I guess Kazuha and I had things pretty much together in comparison.

With our arrival everyone just began to carry on as if everything were normal, the awkwardness was still laying beneath the surface but we all just kind of looked past it like we weren't confused or worried about what was going on at all. Those of us who had previously been boys split of into a group and those who had previously been our girlfriends split off into a different group.

"It's obvious that somethin` musta happened given da circumstances," Hakuba stated, "But was there anything that all 'a us did yesterday ta trigger a change?"

"Yesterday..." Kuroba replied, "Aoko and I went to a magic show together, we went and ate at a nearby cafe afterwords."

A date then, how sweet of him. I bet she enjoyed the magic show more than he did though, he probably just spent the whole time trying to figure out their tricks.

"Oh, As fer me Shiho an' I were here experimentin' wit' DNA samples fer most a' the day," Hakuba added.

Also a date... or about as close as those two ever get to normal romance. Really, they're a pretty strange couple, but they both seem to have improved as human beings since they met each other.

"Kazuha and I went to see a movie then got dinner together," I admitted. It hadn't been too fancy or anything but with this whole body swapping thing everyone's had to keep dates pretty basic because the girls could never be absolutely certain which body their date would be showing up in and they didn't want their friends to think they were being unfaithful.

Of course that was making it quite clear that the point was all four of us had gone on a date (or at least spent time with) our girlfriends, that was almost definitely the connection, Kudo's testimony was the only thing that could prove this hypothesis.

Suddenly Kudo realized that everyone was staring at him, with a sigh he answered his part, "Ran and I went to Tropical land for a date, but a murder wound up happening and that pretty much killed any thoughts of it being a date."

Sounds like a normal Kudo-date to me. That pretty much happens every time for them, I'm surprised they haven't seen it as a omen as to the future of their relationship.

Anyway, with that it was clear. We'd all gone on dates... but what did that have to do with anything?