A/N: I am extremely sorry for the long break and I hope that this chapter makes it up for all of you. Before winter break I had no time to write the chapter but I hope this one is enough. Enjoy!

Previously on The Worlds Collide:

It was like he held it in for so long, that there was finally too much and he exploded. That's what scared her. When she had felt the self-loathing, a half-hour later she couldn't deal with it and chose to end her life. The only reason she was alive right now was because of the very same person she was thinking about. He came in, forcefully took her hand and shielded her with his body and and save her from the exploding bus. Then to help her even more, he spread his own blood on her to get her away from that woman. He ignored himself even though he was hurt to make sure she was alright. Yet now here she was not even knowing how to help that person that did so much for her to live.

But she was curious. Curious about one thing. Why was it that when Kudo-kun was speaking about how he caused people to die there was this look in his eyes. A haunted look. Like he had seen it happen before and had proof. It made her curious to know why. She felt sorry for prying into private grounds that she had no permission to tread upon, yet she knew that she had to know if only to be able to help had a professor to call.

The present:

The kids after seeing Conan had cheered up. They convinced Sonoko to take them to the convenience store to buy paper and other art supplies. They wanted to make get well cards for him. With the kids now out of the way Mouri has time to think. To really think. He was thinking about something he had completely ignored for a really long time now. It was the mystery of Edogawa Conan. He knew that many people saw him as an incompetent detective. He knew that. But he let it pass. After all you could say he didn't want to blow his cover. It was an intricate cover really. One wrong move, and all his hard work would be over. That's why he ignored them. Because it meant his cover was working. Why would he bother with it you would ask, well there are many reasons. The most important being that because he is a detective many people would watch what they show and say in-front of him.

But they would relax their guard the moment they realize his "foolishness" as everyone would call it. So he could get tons of information that way. They second reason being he wanted to take all eyes off his family so if anything happened they would take the person who is the most incompetent person who would obviously be seen as him. Third, is actually a new thing that started right after Edogawa Conan came to live with them. The boy was an interesting figure to watch. After all it's not like he was able to do it all the time. No. That kid was more paranoid then the whole police department put together. But whenever he could he watched and took note. But what he got wasn't pretty. Edogawa Conan came to them as a boy wearing a suit that looked to mature for any child. From the very first moment he tried solving the case and ended up putting his life in danger and could have died if Ran hadn't come fast enough. Yet still he kept coming to the cases to solve them. It started with hints first until suddenly it became worse. A couple weeks after Conan came and his fame started to rise instead of the usual hints he felt something different. He felt something crash into the back of his head and his world turned black. When he woke up everyone congratulated him on solving the case. After that one time instead of a crash he felt something like a needle a stung his neck and the same thing happened. And every time he took the pleasure in excepting the praise even though he knew that it wasn't his. It was the little boys.

Conan has been solving those cases, not him. He had no solid proof to confront him with but enough visual proof to know that the boy wasn't who he said he was. No. He would renounce his title as a detective if he was. No, he was something much bigger and the mystery continues to grow. Just what was he gonna do now?

~ The Professor's Place ~

Thinking about his experiments couldn't have been harder then it was tonight. What could he do? Shinichi was like a grandson to him and he want looking that well the last time they spoke. Physically he was healthy. But mentally... he sighed... mentally not so much. He was still affected by what happened all those years ago. If they didn't stop it, who knows what he would do this time.

Ring~Ring~Ring

Who could be calling him at this time. It was

10 p.m. Unless... something happened. No, he has to calm down. That probably was someone else.

"Moshi moshi, Agasa Residence"

"Hakase, it's me Haibara."

"Ai-kun, did something happen? Is everyone alright?"

" We were able to go to the museum and we took a little walk through Domino City but..."

"But what? What happened?"

The kids were really excited and were running all over the place and... a car was coming over the street. They were too excited to see were their going and were going to get hit. Nobody saw the car but... Edogawa-kun. Edogawa-kun saw the car and with almost inhuman speed he ran to them and pushed them out of the way. But... as that happened he instead got placed infront of the car and wasn't able to move himself in time. He got a severe concussion and a few badly broken bones. He went through the surgery and is going to make a full recovery."

"..."

"Hakase?"

"Why didn't you tell me earlier?"

"I wanted to tell you we found out he was alright so that you won't have to be as worried."

"Hakase? I've got a question for you."

"Ask away."

"When in the hospital room Kudo-kun began acting weird"

"Weird how, exactly?"

"Well, when the kids came in to apologize to him, he told them that it's not their fault. That was pretty normal. But then he started talking about how his mistakes had much graver stakes and did much worse things. He looked haunted, like he'd seen things that no human should see. He was traumatized and yet it had only appeared through his eyes."

"Hakase, I wish to know just what happened to make him like that? What could make a person that traumatized. Me a person who is haunted by her past had also never looked like that, so why does he?"

"Shinichi had a terrible past. It's full of pain and hurt but the worst part isn't anything but that he had to go through that at such an age."

"Why do you want to know Ai-kun?"

"I want to know because... I won't deny that I'm curious but that's not my only reason. I want to be able to help him with anything I can do. When I came to you I was a wreck. I was a shrunken scientist that made a poison that ended up destroying somebody's life. Yet you took me in and helped me. Kudo-kun found out and at first was mad but protected me and put his life on the line to ensure my safety. I would do anything to help him because even though I may not express it... he is just like a brother to me and I hope I could be a sister that's able to protect him."

"I... never though you would say that but... I will tell you. Here's a warning Shinichi never liked and never will like pity, so don't pity him."

"His story starts from pretty early actually. On the day before his 4th birthday he and his older sister Seiko accompanied by his best friend went to the park. Shinichi was really close to his sister, she was his role model in the case of maturity. As for his best friend Hanako they were inseparable. They were neighbors doe to door, so it wouldn't be odd to find the other eating dinner at the others place and for them both to have sleep overs for a whole week. If you looked for Shinichi you found Hanako with him and if you found Hanako then you will find Shinichi with her. As they were outside, it was nearing the end of the day and they had to get home but suddenly Shinichi was pulled from his sister's grasp. The kidnapper pulled out a gun and pointed it at Hanako and Seiko. Moments later they were both lying on the floor in their own pools of blood. And the worst part was that Shinichi saw them get shot. He was then kidnapped for the next 5 months for ransom because even where they were in the states his father and mother were really famous. While he was kidnapped he met another that was kidnapped with him. Her name was Jenny. She was from another famous and rich family. Whenever the Kidnappers had a bad day they would come and take it out on them. Unfortunately, they focused their attacks on Shinichi. He came up with an escape plan for them to run and they did. But they were found out. During the time that they were kidnapped Jenny and Shinichi got really close. So when they got ready to run she wrote them a letter that told them that it was her plan not his and to kill her instead. And they did. She died in his arms. When he got taken away this time he was put on 24/7 sleeping gas. They knew that if he was any more awake he would escape again so they kept him under it's influence for the rest of the one month he was there giving him a minute or two of fresh air now and then. When the police came and found them Yusaku was with them and he ended up getting shot as well as a couple of others. Shinichi ended up getting into a coma for 5 months. His parents were ecstatic. After all their older child died and their younger child got kidnapped then was in a coma. They then moved to Japan to try and help Shinichi get over the depression that he had. And it worked for a year till horror struck again. The Kudo's went to live in Ekoda next to Yusaku's brother. Kuroba Toichi was a very famous magician through all of Japan. He had a child named Kaito. Kuroba Kaito. And Shinichi and Kaito became closer than brothers. Shinichi was going through a tough spot with his father and Toichi-kun became close with him if even more then his father was. But when he was turning 7 Toichi-kun dedicated a show for him just like he had done for his son. But... during the show a fire started and Toichi-kun couldn't make it out. The Kudos moved to Beika and he was still in the depression. Things happened later but they don't need to be said now. But I will tell you this he has done something's that he isn't too proud of."

"What did he do?"

"He... he was suicidal and almost took his life 4 times. But don't look down at him because of that. He had gone through things that nobody should go through. Especially at that age."

"I'm not gonna look down at him. He has done nothing. I had only heard about my sisters death and I gave up and tried taking my life. Then I tried taking my life again because of that woman and how afraid I was of her. I would never look down at Kudo-kun. No. I'm gonna try my best to help him no matter what happens and nothing can stop me.

A/N: Hello my AMAZING readers. Okay, here I am begging for forgiveness for my inexcusable absence and I hope that this chapter can make up for my complete stupidness and my in maturity because I left this story hanging for so long. So some hints about the next chspter( they will most likely be in the chapter but not 100% sure, alright?)

1. Kaito is appearing next chapter and the connection between cousins appears

2. Yusaku and Yukiko come to Japan to see their son

3. Shinichi has a lot of family issues (Mom and Dad)

4. Many people want to protect Shinichi and see him as a Grandson/Brother , etc. in everything but blood.

5. Shinichi explodes with an emotional breakdown in front of The Kaitou KID who Shinichi sees as someone closer than a brother.

Okay, I think those are enough sneak peeks and I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and Happy Holidays to all.