I was left standing in the middle of a crowded street in London while slowly closing my fists because of anger and frustration. It was cold and I traveled how many miles just to get here and this is how Shinichi treats me?! This is not the time to joke.

With that thought, I stomped angrily which caught a few attention from the people who was passing by but I didn't care. I was a woman on a mission and that is to slap this detective hard on his face.

I pulled on Shinichi's scarf causing him to abruptly stop walking and he even almost fell over. He also dropped the coffee cup he was holding earlier. He looked at it before raising his head and looked at me angrily which I returned. I'm not fazed by thisangerhe was showing me because between the two of us, I have more right to act like this.

While he was here getting comfortable at the country I know he'd really love to spend his entire life with, I was in Japan worried sick about him.

Was he okay?

Did they find the antidote?

Did the antidote work?

Was he healthy?

Does he still love me-

Those were some of the thoughts that always kept running in my head while I was waiting for him, disregard the last one because now is not the right time for that.

Shinichi and I were still having our staring contest and we kind of caught alotof attention because of the spilled coffee and everything. Shinichi was about to open his mouth but I cut him off.

"What were you thinking not contacting me for the last two years!? Did you forget that you have friends that are worried and waiting for any update about you especially after all the things that we learned about you being shrunk to a kid, fighting a very big syndicate and the antidote to the drug that shrunk you is not yet found!? If this is one of yourjokesthen I'm not having it so you better explain yourself right at this moment, Shinichi!!!"

I was breathing heavily after that speech so I immediately tried to catch my breath. Shouting at him like that felt good but it's the frustration that I've burned is just teeny tiny bit of everything and I'll make sure that I release all of it by karate-ing Shinichi.

Shinichi looked at me before picking up the coffee cup on the ground and tossing it to the garbage can on the side. I watched him do that before he walked back in front of me and looked at his watch before looking at me again.

"I won't even ask how you know my name or how you found me but if this is one ofthoseantics then I don't appreciate it. I'm late for class now and I'm supposed to be angry at you but because you're a Japanese as well, I'll let this go. Just go home and stay away from me, Miss."

That's all he said before turning his back on me and leaving me with my mouth open. I was about to walk towards him again and grab his arm when it was mine that was grabbed, I was about to shout but wasn't able to because the unknown person covered my mouth with his hand.

I struggled against the unknown person and he let me go, I turned around and faced myattacker.

"Hattori-kun."

"Yo."

He answered me before a female's head peeked from behind his shoulder, it was Kazuha-chan.

"Ran-chan! Long time no see!"

She greeted before hugging me, I hugged her back but I was still confused with everything. Why are the two of them here?

"I know you want answers but this is not the place for us to answer your questions. Why don't we go have some hot coffee to counter this very cold weather? I'm freezing right here."

Hattori said and rubbed his arms, there was smoke coming out of his mouth because of the cold weather. I faced away from them and looked at the direction where Shinichi went to.

"We know you want to follow and talk to him but it's not the right time yet. Before you approach him you must first know what has happened to him in these past two years."

Hattori-kun said so I faced him again quickly. What does he mean? Does he know something I don't? How could that be when the person I was talking to and asking for updates about Shinichi was his mother herself?

But it doesn't mean she couldn't lie, right?

"I'll answer your questions but for now I really need to go somewhere warm or I'll die and won't give you your answers, want that?"

Hattori led the way because he knows that if he doesn't, the conversation will just prolong and he'll freeze to death there. He knows everything that has happened to Kudo for the past two years. He and the Professor are the only ones who were given thetrueupdates and they were also not allowed to speak about any of it to others – even to Kudo's girlfriend.

Everything that reached Kudo's girlfriend was true only until the first year he arrived in LA. After half a year, due to the efforts of the foreign scientists and chemists along with the daughter of the creator of the drug – Haibara, an antidote was completed. But everyone was anxious. What if it's nottheantidote?

Kudo was there to become a guinea pig. Everyone obviously tried to persuade him not to do something that dangerous because of the drugs that may affect his body but he didn't listen to them. He said that he already took prototype antidotes before and nothing happened to him so what could go wrong, right?

Even I called him from Japan and tried to put some sense into him but he didn't listen to me. I had no choice but to just accept his decision because I couldn't even do anything, I was left in Japan while he was in LA risking that life of his.

But eventually we trusted his decision. I also thought that it won't be that dangerous because his parents are with him along with all the intelligent and prepared individuals to take care of him whenever something happened. I'm a detective, I trust scientific data and medicine so I know that nothing could go wrong if he's surrounded by those kinds of people.

But I was wrong. We were all wrong.

Seeing that this is the closest one to all the prototypes that they made, the Professor and I flew to LA to witness everything. Haibara decided to drink the antidote as well with him because that's how confident she was that they finally made the real antidote.

5 minutes after taking the antidote, they reverted to their original bodies and underwent a checkup which all turned out normal. We even chatted with them a little when half an hour later they told all of us that they feel sleepy. We paid that no mind and just thought that they were tired because of the transformation because based on what I've seen on Kudo going back to a child and vice versa, it was very painful.

What we thought was a harmless sleep turned out into a nightmare. The antidote was confirmed to be the correct one because they stayed in their adult forms for three whole days, something that the earlier antidotes weren't able to achieve. Only in the fourth day were we able to breathe a sigh of relief, they awoke.

Everything was okay at first but when we approached Kudo he started thrashing around and asking us to stay away from him like we were strangers to him. It was then we found out that he lost all of his memories, Haibara was fine though so the reason behind the memory loss was a mystery.

But with all the tests that Kudo went under, the prototype antidotes that he took during the past few months affected him greatly because he was reverting back to the form of a child to an adult repeatedly. We hoped it was just temporary so we hid it from everyone else in Japan.

When a year passed, Kudo's girlfriend started asking a lot of questions so all of us had to make up stories. I told her that maybe his past enemies are still searching for him and being in his adult body will make him more susceptible to danger because he was more recognizable since he's quite famous in Japan which is why he still has to stay in LA.

After that I let Kudo's parents to make up the lies so it's going to be consistent with what's really happening there. I heard that they tried for the following months to try and recover some of his memories but all of their efforts were in vain.

Kudo didn't change much though. His personality is almost the same but this time he's a little rude especially when he's not close to a person. His detective skills are still top notch because after all he only had amnesia, he may have lost his memories but his skills and abilities remain. To be honest, that information relieved all of us because it would be a waste to lose one of the greatest detectives in the world today.

The only thing that returned was his love for Sherlock Holmes which is the same reason why he asked to transfer to London to continue his education and it's the reason why we're here enduring this cold weather.

Of all places, Kudo just had to choose a country as cold as a refrigerator, huh?

Ran had her hands wrapped around the warm coffee cup, hoping that it could somehow protect her from the coldness in her surroundings and warm her heart.

"Shin-chan returned back to normal, Ran-chan! But he still can't return to Japan because we were advised to not return him to Japan for his protection. After all, that is where the organization's base is located. I hope you understand and still wait for him, okay?"

"Shin-chan is staying here in LA and doing home school so that he could graduate high school and enter university with everyone! Just wait a little more, Ran-chan."

"Shin-chan misses you a lot but because he is so busy with his studies and difficult cases are still asked for him to solve he couldn't talk to you so I'm the one passing his messages to you. Thank you for always understanding, Ran-chan."

"Shin-chan wanted to talk to you today but his father has been training his detective skills these past few months so that when he works professionally he'll be the best in his field. You want that for him as well don't you, Ran-chan?"

"Shin-chan keeps telling us that his misses you."

"Shin-chan wants you to know that he loves you."

"Shin-chan alwaysrememberyou, Ran-chan."

"OH? Why did you make the beautiful lady cry, Hattori-kun?"

I raised my head and standing in front of our table is a man, I think he's the same age as us and he's sporting a smirk on his handsome face. As I look at him longer, I get the feeling that I've seen him somewhere but I just can't remember…

Don't tell me I have amnesia as well now?

Hattori-kun before rolling his eyes at what the man said.

"Ran-chan, since it would be difficult for us to actually convince Kudo to come home to Japan with us, I sought for some help. This guy right here…" he pointed at the unknown man who's now chuckling at Hattori-kun.

"He'll be the one to help us."

I looked at him again and saw that he's now offering his hand to me. I held his hand but I was shocked when he suddenly changed the way he was holding it before leaning down and kissing the back of my hand.

"Hakuba Saguru at your service, Miss."