It was 7:10 in the morning. The sun's rays started to enlighten Ai's room passing through the window, slightly obstructed by the thin curtains.

Conan slightly opened his eyes, having his face lighted by sparkling sunlight, as he immediately found Ai next to him on the bed. They both had slept on their right covered with the blanket, only wearing a few clothes, Conan was only wearing his boxers while Ai was with her underwear and her pajama pants. His arms were around her belly and his nose was buried in her strawberry blond hair, smelling its delicate scent.

He sighed in the pleasure of that nice awakening as he lifted his head to look more properly at his wife. He reached her face with his left hand and fetched a chunk of her hair behind her ear, then brought his face closer to her neck, inhaling her fragrance. Conan didn't resist the urge to bring his lips to her skin and started to kiss her neck gently while moving his hand to caress her left shoulder. His body was heating up as he closed the small gap between his chest and her back, lightly rubbing against it. The hand that was caressing her shoulder reached the top spring of her bra and was about to lower it.

"STOP NOW" Ai suddenly said out loud with her intimidating tone. She didn't move a millimeter and kept her eyes closed while speaking. Actually, her mind had awakened a few minutes before him, but she didn't move a single muscle of her body in order to relax a bit before getting up at the sound of the alarm clock, which was set at 7:20 am.

Conan gasped in surprise and instantly pulled back from her, he didn't expect her to be awake since she wasn't moving an inch, even during his loving gestures.

"If I wanted I could sue you for attempting harassment" she teased sharply while turning to face him.

"A-Ai, since when are you awake?" he stammered while blushing madly.

"Actually, I woke up before you, but I wanted to see how far you were planning to go with an unconscious girl" she clarified with a mischievous smirk on her face.

"Very funny..." he said annoyed "...and what was the result?".

"Pervert, what do you think?" she questioned back rhetorically.

"Acting lovely towards my wife isn't a crime, in fact, I wouldn't mind if you did something like that to me" he replied, whispering the last part in a seductive tone while leaning closer to her face to kiss her, but she stopped him from doing that by placing a finger on his mouth and pushing him away.

"You had enough of these yesterday evening," Ai reminded him, "and honestly, it's not like you to be so nice and romantic..."

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*FLASHBACK*

Agasa residence, yesterday evening, 10:00 pm...

Ai was in her room sitting at her desk, doing her school homework because that day she hadn't had time to do it before. The room was dark but not at all, Ai kept the lamp on her desk turned on, but only because without it she couldn't see what she was writing in her notebook. While they were coming back from school, after having separated from the rest of the Detective Boys at the usual intersection, Conan and Ai had met Takagi, who was investigating a murder, and helped him to catch the culprit, this had caused them to arrive at home only at dinner time. After having had dinner with Agasa, Ai had taken a quick shower and had gone to her room, while Conan was taking a long and hot bath to take some rest and relax for having chased the culprit.

The door of the room was slowly opened by Conan, who had just finished his bath and was only wearing his black boxers. After having fully come in, he locked the door from the inside and silently walked towards Ai.

"What are you doing?" he asked her while wrapping his arms around her neck from behind and kissing her on the cheek.

She sighed and rolled her eyes, "I'm finishing this elementary essay, and you should do it too" she answered, bored.

"Why do you care so much? We could do more interesting things right now" he whispered the last phrase in a smooth and seductive voice.

"Isn't it obvious? I don't want to be reprehended by Kobayashi-sensei, inducing everyone of our classmates to stare at me and ask me a thousand questions" she responded using her ordinary cold tone while continuing to write in the notebook.

"Come on, forget it and come to bed" he begged, tightening his hold around her.

"Give me five minutes and I'll be done with this" she replied indifferently.

"Two" he tried to negotiate.

"Five or else you can sleep on the couch in the living room" she retorted sharply.

"Okay, you win, but at least let me help you" he whispered as he released her from his hold and brought his hands to her hips, getting her out of the chair. Ai was about to ask him what was he doing when she heard him whisper to her ear, "Shhhh... don't resist, just relax".

Then he sat on the chair, his hands still holding her hips, and brought her down, making her sit on his lap. 'He's finally gone out of his mind' she thought, astonished by his abnormal behavior; sometimes he used to show a romantic attitude, but not as much as this time.

"What the hell has gotten into you?" she questioned, disturbed for having been distracted from her work, while a shade of red appeared on her cheeks.

"Go back to what you were doing and don't mind me," Conan said as he brought his face to her neck and begun to place some kisses on it.

"Idiot" she mumbled and then tried to get her thoughts back to the essay. She recommenced writing but stopped again after a few seconds as she felt his hands unbuttoning her pajama shirt; after that, he gently started to caress her flat and soft belly with both his hands.

'How am I supposed to concentrate on my essay while he's acting like this?' Ai asked herself in her mind; in fact, she was quite enjoying that treatment and it was distracting her. She gathered all of her self-control and focused on her task, managing to finish it in a few minutes.

"Tired?" he asked smoothly as he saw her putting the pen on the desk and closing the notebook.

"A bit" she responded as she felt him taking her pajama shirt off, revealing her black bra.

"Then don't move" he murmured to her ear. He got out of the chair and carried her in bridal style to the bed, then laid her on it and went on the top of her. She was speechless but didn't need to talk as she felt the pressure of his lips against hers, without fully realizing what was happening; her body was heating up and started acting on his own. Her mouth started opening, responding to the kiss, and allowing his tongue to meet hers. She groaned for the pleasure and brought a hand through his hair, while holding the back of his neck with the other one, making it easier for her to kiss him. Both of his hands were on her face as he deepened the kiss, moving his tongue into her mouth with agility.

They continued like that for several minutes, without going any further, until their eyes met after they broke the kisses to gasp for air. He then laid in the bed beside her, who turned in his direction, they were now facing each other. Ai led her hand on his cheek and decided to speak.

"What happened to my dense and naive husband?" she asked ironically, looking straight at his electric-blue eyes.

"I don't know what you're talking about" he replied in the same tone as her, putting the blanket over them and giving her a quick kiss on the lips.

She sighed and turned to the other side, with her back facing him, resigned to the idea that she could not get the true answer from him; then she felt his arms tying around her belly and his bare torso pressing against her back, giving her a comfortable sensation.

Conan leaned his head towards hers and whispered to her ear, "Tomorrow I'll tell you everything, now let's sleep". She nodded in approval and closed her eyes.

*END FLASHBACK*

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"... So now, care to explain to me what's going on in your empty head?" she questioned with coldness.

"I realized how beautiful my wife is," he said sensually, trying again to kiss her, but she stopped him again in the same way as before, giving him a death-glare. 'Still a child inside' she thought of him.

"Cut off your smooth talk and tell me the truth" she intimated.

"But that was true," he affirmed, trying for the third time to kiss her and being stopped for the third time by her finger.

"Ohhh, I got it, I bet you need a favor from me" she took it for granted, it was obvious that he had tried to 'melt' her to get something he needed. He didn't answer and looked away, giving her the confirmation she expected. Ai sighed and decided to ask him the details.

"So, what kind of favor do you need?" her voice went from cold to annoyed now.

"Ehm... Actually-" he was interrupted by the ringing sound of the alarm clock on the bedside table that was on Ai's side, meaning that it was time for them to get up and start preparing for going to school, so she quickly turned it off and got out of the bed.

"We'll talk about this later, now hurry up and get ready, the kids will be here in less than half an hour" she ended their conversation and went out of the room, making her way to the bathroom.

"As you wish" he replied, following her to the bathroom.

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After washing their teeth and faces, they came back to Ai's room to wear their daily clothes. While looking at herself in the mirror, she noticed Conan behind her.

"You're missing something" he pointed out softly. She raised an eyebrow but didn't have time to speak as she watched him putting a golden necklace with a circular sapphire stone around her neck. Her eyes widened while her cheeks became red; she turned away to face him and was welcomed by his warm and genuine smile.

"One week ago you requested me 'an expensive gift for fooling you like that', remember?" he reminded her while caressing her blushing cheek with his hand.

"Y-yeah..." she was a bit astonished but then quickly regained her composure, "...but you're a week late" she continued, using her sarcastic tone,

Conan grinned at her words, then locked her lips with his for a few seconds.

"Do you like it?" he asked smoothly.

"Not bad, detective... but I'm not sure I can wear it in front of the kids, what will they say about that?" she was concerned that their three friends could become more suspicious about the real relationship between her and Conan.

"You don't have to specify that I gave it to you. We could tell them that Hakase wanted to give a present to his adopted daughter" he suggested.

Ai rolled her eyes since she wasn't sure about the effectiveness of his advice, also because she tended to be a pessimistic person.

"Come on, don't be skeptical, it's already a shame that we can't wear our wedding rings. Plus, this looks gorgeous on you" he said, taking a few steps away from her to look at her more properly.

"Well... thank you... now let's go and have breakfast" she said walking out of the room and proceeding towards the kitchen, being followed by Conan.

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Conan and Ai were walking to school with the rest of the Detective Boys. As usual, they were a few steps away from Ayumi, Genta, and Mitsuhiko, who were talking about random kids' things.

"You see? It worked perfectly" Conan said in a low voice to Ai.

"What worked perfectly?" she asked back, not being sure about what he was referring to.

"You know, telling them that the necklace was a gift by Hakase" he specified while moving his arms behind his neck.

"I'm not sure that your plan worked, they didn't seem particularly convinced, and you didn't even inform Hakase about this lie" she remarked, "Anyway, what favor do you need from me?" she questioned, narrowing her eyes and glancing at him with her disinterested look.

"I need some advice" he answered, lowering his eyes.

"That's it? Do you just need some advice? So you did all of that-" she was cut off by him.

"It isn't for me, it's for a friend" he quickly clarified, putting his hands in his pants' pockets.

"I'm even more confused now, explain yourself please," she asked with her indifferent tone, raising her eyebrow even more.

"Let's start from the beginning... Yesterday evening..."

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*FLASHBACK*

Agasa residence, yesterday evening, 9:30 pm.

Conan was taking a long and hot bath in Agasa's house's bathroom when his phone rang. He extended his hand to the piece of furniture behind the bathtub where it was leaning on and grabbed it. The caller was Hattori Heiji, two weeks had passed since the last time they talked to each other; Conan hadn't told him about his secret wedding with Ai yet, the only thing he knew was that they were dating. He answered the call and brought the phone to his ear.

"Hello, Hattori" Conan spoke first with a neutral tone.

"Kudo! Long time no hear you!" Heiji replied loudly.

"Yeah, I know, the last time you called me was about two weeks ago".

"Hey! Why don't you call me sometimes?" Heiji said displeased, putting a strong accent on the word 'you'.

"Duly noted..." Conan said, chuckling.

"How're you doing? Are you still dating Haibara-san?" Heiji questioned, taking a sip of coffee while sitting at his desk.

"We're not dating anymore because-" Conan was interrupted by Heiji.

"Really? Why? I bet you cheated on her"

"No, idiot, you didn't let me finish. We're not dating anymore because we're married now"

As he heard Conan's words, Heiji instantly spit the coffee he was drinking and his eyes widened; he coughed a few times before speaking again at the phone.

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN WITH 'MARRIED'?" he shouted.

"The only possible meaning of that word" Conan replied rhetorically.

"WHY THE HELL DIDN'T YOU INVITE ME TO YOUR WEDDING???!!! I'M YOUR BEST FRIEND!!!" Heiji yelled out, expressing all of his disappointment.

"I'm sorry but the fewer people we were, the better"

"You could've at least told me about that when we talked two weeks ago," Heiji remarked, irritated.

"You didn't ask me, and I didn't know I had to tell you everything of my love life," Conan said back. Then he told Heiji about the details of their wedding, starting with the day he proposed to her and finishing with the description of their actual life as a married couple.

After the long explanations, Heiji let out a deep and long sigh.

"What's now?" Conan asked, referring to Heiji's sigh.

"..."

"Oh, I bet you're jealous because you haven't proposed to your girlfriend yet" Conan teased, talking about his actual relationship with Kazuha.

It was true that, although Heiji and Kazuha had started dating three years ago, he hadn't found the courage to take the big step.

"Actually, here we tie with the reason why I've called you," Heiji said, lowering his voice.

"Wait, are you thinking about marrying Kazuha?" Conan asked surprised, raising an eyebrow.

"Ehm... Actually... The problem is... You know... I was thinking... I don't know if..." Heiji was hesitating, not managing to find the right words to explain his thoughts.

"Go straight to the point, will you?" Conan told him, noticing his friend's dubiousness.

"The point is that I don't know how to ask her to... you know... about the marriage thing" Heiji tried to explain.

"You simply have to say the words 'Kazuha, will you marry me?'"

"Idiot, I already know this, but I don't know where and when I should do it"

"Well... I can't help you with that... you heard my story, did you? You should know I'm not that much of an expert about these things... plus, I'm not a woman and I've got no idea of what a woman could wish" Conan remarked.

"Right but... you could maybe ask your ehm... wife?" Heiji suggested.

"May I introduce Ai to you?" Conan asked back ironically, letting out of a giggle.

"Come on! What's wrong with her? She's a woman, isn't she?" Heiji insisted.

"First of all, she's not like any other woman... secondly, she's not the kind of romantic stuff... and thirdly, I perceive that she doesn't like you that much, so it would be quite difficult to convince her to help you" Conan explained.

"Give it a try at least"

"..."

"Pleeeease, do it for your best friend... I don't want to ask my parents to help me" Heiji pleaded.

"Mmmmm..." now it was Conan the one being hesitant.

"If you do it I might... forgive you for having not invited me to your wedding"

"Mmmmm... Okay, I'll try to persuade her to help you"

"Thank you, Kudo... so, call me as soon as you get an answer from her, bye" Heiji greeted his best friend and hung up the call.

Conan laid down his phone and got out of the bathtub. 'How could I convince her...' he started thinking while drying himself with a large towel. 'Oh yeah, I'm sure she'll like this' he finally came up with an idea, put his black boxers on, and went out of the bathroom, heading towards Ai's room.

*END FLASHBACK*

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"... And this is the situation" Conan said, concluding his summary of the phone call with Heiji. He only told her that Heiji asked for her opinion, without going through every detail of their dialogue.

Ai's eyes were narrowed, looking at him from their corners. The look on her face was perfectly reflecting her mood after having heard Conan's narration; it was true that she didn't really like Heiji Hattori, she considered him as a cocky and self-centered detective, somehow he recalled Shinichi's worst flaws. On the other side, Heiji wasn't crazy for Ai either, he had always thought that she was a touchy and scorbutic girl; he had never understood why did Shinichi fall in love with her.

"So... What do you think about that?" Conan asked her gently, sensing her nervousness.

"I was wrong" she affirmed softly.

"About what?" he was confused by her words, having no idea of what she was talking about.

"I said that you were the densest man on the Earth, but apparently, that Hattori Heiji overcomes you," she said with her typical smirk.

"CONAN-KUN! AI-CHAN! WHERE ARE YOU GOING?" Ayumi asked curiously, breaking their conversation. They hadn't realized that they had already passed the school gate, so they turned away and walked towards the school main entrance.

"We'll continue later" Conan whispered to Ai.

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"Okay guys, now I'm gonna check if you did your homework" Kobayashi announced to the class, then started walking through the benches, paying attention to her students' notebooks.

"Oh geez," Conan mumbled, while Ai giggled and smirked at him, extracting her notebook from her school bag.

"Edogawa-kun, where's your essay?" Kobayashi asked, having reached his bench.

"Ehm... Kobayashi-sensei... you see..." he stuttered while searching for an excuse.

"Don't tell me that you didn't do your homework?" the teacher said, surprised by the lack of the smartest boy in the whole school. At that moment, every child who was in that room turned his gaze to him. Edogawa Conan being caught for not doing his homework was an extraordinary event.

"Y-yeah... yesterday I was a bit... busy" he mumbled, blushing while thinking of what he had done to Ai before sleeping.

"I'll turn a blind eye this time since this had never happened before today, but next time I'll be forced to take action" Kobayashi stated, still incredulous.

"I'm wondering what you were thinking about instead of doing your homework" Ai teased him speaking with an extremely low voice, making him blush even more.

"Shut up" Conan murmured to her, trying to mask his embarrassment.

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During the break time, Ayumi, Genta, and Mitsuhiko reunited in a corner of the classroom to talk about the weird happenings of that morning.

"Something is going on with Conan-kun, he's behaving weirdly this morning" Genta started the conversation with his two friends.

"Genta-kun is right, Conan-kun always does his homework, there must be an important reason for not doing them" Mitsuhiko whispered.

"Maybe he wasn't feeling well yesterday" Ayumi hypothesized.

"I think something happened yesterday, and it must also regard Haibara-san, she and Conan-kun were talking on the sly this morning, it must be a secret" Mitsuhiko deduced, automatically discarding Ayumi's hypothesis.

"Speaking of Haibara-san, do you really think that it was Hakase who gave that necklace to her?" Genta asked for his friends' opinions.

"The two things must be related, I bet it was Conan-kun who gave it to her" Mitsuhiko exposed his suspect.

"I've got an idea, why don't we ask Conan-kun about his homework? Later we could go to Hakase's house and ask him about the necklace" Ayumi suggested.

"That's a good idea, Ayumi-chan" Mitsuhiko stated, putting a hand on Ayumi's shoulder, "let's go".

The three proceeded in Conan's direction. Ai was still sitting beside him at their bench but as soon as she saw them arriving from behind with the corner of her eyes, she stood up, gaining his attention.

"I leave them to you, good luck," she said in a low voice and winked at him, then went out of the classroom, heading to the playground. Conan watched her, confounded by her words, not having noticed his three friends who were right behind him now.

"CONAN-KUN" Ayumi called him with her typical loud voice.

Conan gasped and jolted, immediately turning his head to the voice's direction.

"Oh, guys... that's you... please... next time try to avoid me to have a heart attack" he requested while trying to calm his racing heartbeat.

"Why didn't you do your homework yesterday?" Genta questioned distrustfully, raising an eyebrow.

"I've already answered that question, I was busy" Conan affirmed.

"Busy with what? Are you hiding something?" Mitsuhiko asked with a slightly aggressive tone.

"Of course not! I was... I helped Takagi-keiji with a case!" Conan answered faking a childish voice. 'After all, it's the truth' he reassured himself and regained his composure.

"Then why didn't you call us?" Genta asked.

"Probably you had just arrived at home from school when I met him, asking you to come there didn't seem right to me" he justified himself.

The three kids took a quick glance at each other and decided to believe him. Every one of them knew that Conan was always ready to solve a case, no matter when, where, or with who, so it wasn't hard to believe that he had put that before his homework.

The looks on their faces lightly softened and, a few seconds later, the bell rang, marking the end of the break time. Ayumi, Genta, and Mitsuhiko left Conan and came back to their seats, while Ai returned from the playground and sat beside him.

"How did the interrogation go?" she asked jokingly, smirking at him.

"They seem to be convinced by my answers," he replied confidently, "but you could've remained here to support me instead of leaving me alone with them, you evil-eyed yawny girl" he continued with a disapproving voice.

"So the Great Detective of the East is scared to be left alone with three kids, I'm wondering what would the media say about this" she teased, narrowing her eyes at him, who chuffed in annoyance.

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The five of them had just exited the school gate and were ready to head home when Ayumi broke the silence.

"Ai-chan, can the three of us come to your house later? We'd like to play Hakase's videogames with you and Conan-kun! Right guys?" she said out loud cheerfully, glancing at Genta and Mitsuhiko and waiting for them to confirm her latest statement. Both of them nodded in approval.

"Yeah, why not?" Ai replied with a slightly jovial tone, curving her lips up to form a smile.

"Thank you, Ai-chan!" Ayumi greeted, putting her best friend into a tight hug.

"I-it's okay, Yoshida-san" Ai said, trying to free herself from the suffocating hug. Ayumi pulled away and gave her a warm and friendly smile. Although she and her two friends had decided to go to Agasa's house to investigate on Ai's new necklace, Ayumi was always happy to spend some time with Ai and Conan, who were respectively her best friend and her crush; in fact, the increasing closeness between the two of them still bothered her a bit, even though she was used to it.

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As soon as the two fake kids separated from the rest of their friends at the usual intersection, Conan sighed heavily, inducing Ai to turn her gaze at him.

"I wonder what they're up to this time" Conan spluttered, putting his arms behind his head.

"I'm sure they've planned to investigate on us, again," Ai said back, emphasizing the last word.

Several minutes passed without any one of them saying a word. They were now a few meters far from their houses, walking slowly without any rush.

"So, have you decided?" Conan asked Ai.

She raised an eyebrow and looked at him like he was an alien. He sensed her puzzlement and decided to give her more explanations.

"You know... About that advice" he muttered, worried about the answer she could give.

"Oh... That... Well... Let's say that..." she was speaking very calmly while trying to express her intentions, "...There's no way I'm gonna help that cocky and perky detective with that kind of thing," she stated very firmly, wearing her cold and idifferent look.

This was the exact reaction Conan was expecting her to have, so he wasn't surprised at all. He was about to say something but he got stopped from her, who hadn't finished with her speech yet.

"First of all, I'm not an expert in love and things like this..." she said, lowering her voice, "and being married to you is the proof of that" she teased, but with a serious tone.

"Thank you very much" he replied to her last sentence with an annoyed voice.

"Secondly, I still can't believe that he's asking ME to help him," she said, raising a bit her tone.

"He's desperate, very desperate" he remarked. They stopped walking as they had reached the gate of Agasa residence; Ai opened it with her key and started walking towards the main entrance of the house, followed by Conan, who closed the gate and took a few quick steps to reach her side.

"And thirdly, I'm not gonna help him also because of what you did to me yesterday evening" Ai concluded her speech while opening the door and stepping into the house.

"Don't tell me that you didn't like it?!" he asked in bewilderment, closing the door behind him.

"That's not the point" she clarified, trying in vain to avoid the blush on her cheek, "the point is that you acted like that only to get a favor from me". The more she talked about that, the more nervous she was becoming.

"But-" he tried to protest but was cut off by her.

"No buts, now forget it and let's have lunch" she ended their talk, not wanting to become more nervous than she actually was, and went straight to the kitchen.

Conan didn't know what to do at all now, and this fact was giving him trouble, women had always been his weak point, and Haibara Ai was even more complicated than the other women. Now she was mad at him, but he didn't exactly understand why yet, even though she had told him the reason. He had only tried to help a friend, one of the few people who knew his true identity and who had always helped him before, there was nothing wrong about it.

The truth was that Ai hated when people were nice to her only to get something from her, especially when Conan was the one doing that. She remembered all the times in the past when he would be nice to her only to get the temporary antidote, and those memories still bothered her.

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Later in the afternoon, Ai was sitting on the couch in the living room, watching TV, or rather, she was continuously switching channels, desperately searching for something interesting to watch in order to kill the boredom. Conan entered the room after having done his homework at the table in the kitchen and saw the top of her head from behind the couch's back, so he took the opportunity to talk to her and proceeded to sit beside her.

As Ai noticed Conan sitting beside her, she turned off the TV and stood up to walk out from the room; she was still upset because of him and didn't want to face him yet. He didn't let her take a step as he grabbed her wrist.

"Wait"

"No" she firmly replied, trying to free her wrist from his hold. He tightened his grip and pulled her back on the couch, beside him.

"Can we talk, please?" he asked her gently. She didn't answer and looked away from him, who was trying to make the things between them right since she hadn't talked to him since they had come back from school.

"Listen, I'm sorry that I did that to you in order to get your help with that affair, I didn't want to hurt your feelings," he told her sincerely, holding her hand. She still didn't say a word, neither looked at him. Conan gently held her chin with his free hand and turned her face to him, looking straight at her greenish-blue eyes. She couldn't resist at his gaze, his electric blue irises had the power to hypnotize her, they were one of the things she loved the most about him.

She closed her eyes and decided to break her silence treatment.

"Promise me that the next time you'll need something from me, you'll ask me directly, without using any trick to get it from me," Ai said, keeping her eyes closed to avoid his in order to sound as cold as always.

Conan gave a quick kiss on her lips, "I promise". Then he felt the urge to kiss her again, which he did. This time, his lips didn't want to leave hers, so she opened her mouth enough to allow his tongue to swoop inside it. He held her cheek and deepened the kiss, enjoying the fact that she was kissing him back, while his other hand went on her hip, pulling her down with him. Now they were laying on the couch, she was on the top of him, and they hadn't broken their kiss yet.

Her anger was being replaced by the feeling of his sweet taste in her mouth, and her need to do something interesting was being satisfied. Now she only wanted to savor that moment and forget about everything else.

"These are... the moments... when I wish... we had... our old bodies" he mumbled between a kiss and another.

"Let's enjoy... what we can" she answered back.

He intensified their kiss and felt one of her hands reaching to open the first buttons of his shirt; he let out of a moan of pleasure as he sensed her hand sliding under it and rubbing against the bare skin of his chest, while her tongue was exploring his mouth, making his heart pound like crazy. Luckily for them, Agasa was taking a nap in his room, so he couldn't interrupt them. His senses were blurring now, the only thing he wanted to do was enjoying the privileges of the married life with the girl on top of him. His lips moved from her mouth to her jaw, kissing it and leaving traces of his saliva on it, while her hands went through his dark hair. Then he focused on kissing her neck, while his hands went under her sweater, sensing the skin of her waist and caressing it with his thumbs. He was going to take it off from her when something stopped him from doing that.

All of a sudden, the doorbell rang. The Detective Boys were waiting outside the gate.

Conan rested his head on the couch, stopping his 'assault' on his wife. His mood changed immediately.

"Geez, why had it to be now?!" he lamented, extremely frustrated for having been interrupted.

"You welcome them, I'm going to the bathroom to erase your... traces on my neck," Ai said as she gave a last peck kiss on his lips before getting up and walking swiftly towards the bathroom.

Conan also got up and began to approach the main door, having completely forgotten that his shirt was still half-opened.

"Adjust your shirt, idiot!" she said out loud from a far distance, knowing his lack of attention for these details, especially when he was displeased like this.

He rolled his eyes and buttoned his shirt again, then he led his hands through his hair to fix it. Once he restored his composure, he took a deep sigh and welcomed the three kids in.

"Hello, guys! Come in!" he greeted them waving his hand.

"Hello, Conan-kun!" They said while coming into the house.

"Where's Ai-chan?" Ayumi asked while looking around her in search of her best friend.

"Hi, guys" Ai came out from the bathroom, she had washed her face and her neck to wipe off the small traces of Conan's saliva and the signs of his kisses. She did a good job since the kids didn't notice anything and didn't even suspect what they were doing before.

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The five of them spent the next few hours playing video games, solving some quizzes that Agasa had prepared for them, and eating some snacks. Nothing particular happened until Mitsuhiko left his four friends in the living room with the excuse of going to the kitchen to bring more biscuits, but his real intentions were to ask Professor Agasa about Ai's new necklace. Conan's intuit told him that Mitsuhiko was planning to do something other than grabbing some biscuits, so he also left the group with the excuse to go to the bathroom, but instead, he secretly followed him, careful not to be noticed by anyone.

Agasa was in the kitchen eating a bar of chocolate without his daughter-in-law knowledge, or permission. He almost choked on a piece of chocolate when he heard the sound of the door that was being opened by someone.

"It's not what it looks like, Ai-kun," Agasa said out loud in a hurry, thinking that he had just been caught red-handed by her.

"Don't worry Hakase, it's only me" Mitsuhiko reassured him.

"Oh, it's you Mitsuhiko-kun, please don't tell Ai-kun about this, or she'll kill me" he pleaded.

"No problem, Hakase, I only wanted to ask you something" Mitsuhiko took several steps in the professor's direction.

Agasa a sighed in relief and put the chocolate bar, or rather what remained of that, back in the cupboard.

"Hakase... Haibara-san's new necklace... is it a gift from you?" Mitsuhiko asked in a low voice.

Meanwhile, Conan was hidden behind the door and was listening carefully to their conversation. He hadn't told Agasa about the lie he had to tell the kids, so he needed to come up with an idea to keep his relationship with her secret, and he needed to do that as soon as possible.

He quickly grabbed his voice-changing bowtie from his pants' pocket and slipped the mic at the professor's feet. The professor opened his mouth and was about to tell Mitsuhiko that it

"Of course it's a gift from me" Conan spoke with his bowtie using Agasa's voice.

Agasa blinked a pair of times before spotting Conan gesturing to him from the kitchen's entrance, then he understood what was going on.

"I wanted to thank her for helping me with my latest invention" this time he managed to move his mouth in sync with the voice resonating from the microphone.

Mitsuhiko believed this version, not noticing that the professor wasn't the one speaking. Then Agasa spoke with his own voice.

"Why did you want to know that?" he asked.

"Ehm... nothing... just to know" he replied, blushing slightly while grabbing the bowl of biscuits which was on the table and walking out of the room. Conan waited for Mitsuhiko to reach the living room as he came out from behind the door and whispered a 'thank you' to Agasa, who replied whispering a 'you could've warned me'.

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It was 10:00 pm.

The kids had left the house before dinner time, and, after dinner, Conan and Ai had washed themselves, worn their pajamas, and gone to bed. They were sitting with their backs leaned on the pillows, checking their smartphones' messages, enlightened by the screens, and by the warm and not too strong light coming from the lamps on the bedside tables.

"So?" he began.

"What?" she asked, annoyed by his way to start conversations without even specifying what he was talking about.

"Will you help him?"

She rolled her eyes and made a silent noise with mouth closed, expressing her annoyance.

"What's the problem now? I apologized for my behavior, this afternoon we made... ehm... peace... so what's the problem?" he laid his phone on the bedside table and turned his gaze at her.

"You should see a specialist... because I'm sure I've already told you that I'm not good at this kind of thing, but it's evident that you didn't hear me at all," she told him with coldness, still looking at her phone's screen.

"You're still a woman... well... you're not exactly like any other woman, but still a woman... a special one" he muttered the last part, a hint of red appearing on his cheeks.

"Don't try to convince me with your compliments" she replied, also putting his phone on the bedside table next to her side of the bed.

Right at that moment, Conan's phone rang. He took it and read 'Hattori' on the display.

"Speaking of the devil" Ai mumbled.

Conan answered the call and set the speaker. He thought that maybe if she heard Heiji's frustration, she could change her mind.

"Hi Hattori"

"Hello, my friend!"

"I thought our deal was that I would call you as soon as I had got a response from Ai" Conan pointed out.

"Yeah, but I thought I better check every day, since it may take ages for you to ask her, and I can't wait for all this time" Heiji explained.

"Hey! I'm not scared of my wife! In fact, I've already asked her" Conan defended himself.

Ai was listening to the conversation with disinterest, waiting for one of them to hang up, allowing her to sleep.

"Really?! And what did she say?" Heiji asked impatiently.

"She said she's not good at this kind of thing," Conan told him, taking a quick glance at Ai, who was still impassive.

"But she's still a woman" Heiji debated.

"I told you she wouldn't have helped you... also because I have the suspect that she doesn't like you that much..." Conan said, lowering his voice for the last phrase, then yelled in pain when Ai elbowed him in his hip.

"I married an idiot" she mumbled in an almost inaudible voice while crossing her arms at her chest.

"Are you okay?" Heiji asked, having heard his yell.

"Y-yeah, nothing serious" he replied, massaging the aching part with his free hand and giving her an irritated glance.

"You brought this on yourself," she stated sharply, careless about the fact that another person was hearing her.

"Who was that? Is there someone near you?" Heiji questioned, curious.

"It's me, the wife of this dummy man" Ai said out loud, showing her annoyance.

"Ha-ha-haibara-san... since when are you listening?" Heiji asked, embarrassed because of the awkward situation.

She couldn't stand all of this anymore, so she decided to bring this annoying phone call to an end. So she grabbed the phone from Conan's hand.

"Listen carefully, you idiot, if you're worrying so much about the 'how', the 'when', and the 'where', that means you're a chicken and a blockhead. Just ask her! If she says no, that means she has good taste, and if she says yes, she'll probably regret it later. Now gather all of your courage and start making that microscopic brain of yours work. Bye." she pressed the red button on the phone immediately after the last word, then laid more properly on the bed, turning at Conan's opposite side.

Conan was speechless about Ai's rigorous words and blinked a few times to realize what had just happened; despite insulting Heiji with half of the speech, she managed to give him the advice and the incentive he was looking for.

He turned off his phone and put it on the bedside table, took off his glasses and laid them on the phone, and then pressed the switch next to his side of the bed to switch off the lamps. His attention focused now on the girl beside him. He let out of a childish grin, which then evolved in a clearly audible laugh.

"What are you laughing at?" Ai questioned sharply.

"I'm just amazed by your ability to give advice" he replied with his typical grin. He leaned to give her a loving kiss on the cheek and to whisper at her ear "you're unique", then buried his face in her neck and started to smell its scent in a flirting way.

"You know, we still have something to do... we left it unfinished this afternoon" he whispered sensually.

"I'm tired and not in the right mood, control yourself, you pervert" she retorted.

"Come on, I promise you that it will be reinvigorating, and your mood will change" he pleaded, planting some kisses on her neck.

"No way, now let me sleep in peace," she said back.

"Okay, but you'll sleep in my way" he placed a hand on her hip and turned her to him, then hugged her and gently crashed her head to his chest.

"Are you comfortable?" he asked softly while driving his hand through her strawberry blond hair.

"Idiot"

"I love you too, my queen"

THE END

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A.N.

So here's the second one-shot, tell me in the comments what do you think about it and if you have some advice to give to me. I already have a few ideas for the next chapter, so stay tuned.