Memories...lost to the wind
Part 2
A Detective Conan Tribute Story
100% Fan Fiction!!!
Written for Fun...
CHAPTER TWO
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A few days later, at the Mouri Detective Agency, Ran was still recalling all she heard from ." So...they had hidden all that from me from the very beginning...all of them...just for the safety of everyone around you...but Shinichi, couldn't you have just told me? I wouldn't have told a soul...why is it that I feel like you don't trust me as much as you trusted them.......?" Rantossed around in her bed. It was 2:39 a.m., her new digital clock said, but sleep did not want to come to her. She couldn't help but think about the time she had lost her memory..." Why is it that you are protecting me so much? Hey, why?" she asked Conan...no, Shinichi, and he replied, "Because I love you...in this world...more than anybody else..." ...."Conan-kun, you said that earlier to help me remember, right?You must have heard at the hotel, what Dad said to Mom when he proposed...and so you said that on purpose, right?"...."Uncle also said....?!" "Besides, I'm too old for you, Conan-kun..." But did Shinichi really mean that? Or did he really just say that to remind her of everything? As the tears fell, the door opened and Eri Kisaki, her mother, entered the room. "I somehow knew you were awake..." she said.
"Mom?? W-what..." Ran asked her mother, surprised. "That lousy detective over there just asked for my help...you had had a fever these past four days, and he said you were talking in your sleep, saying, "Remember me, Shinichi..." and he couldn't stand it, hearing that "horny bastard's'' name any longer...that idiot...so I figured coming back here for a few days will help you get well soon..." Eri said, giggling. "Oh...was I...?? I never knew..." Ran replied,blushing, something that her mother clearly saw in the moonlight streaming in from Ran's window. Eri stood for a while, studying her daughter. Something had made her more beautiful, more mature....but despair was also imprinted in those big, charming eyes of hers..."Ran, listen to me...friendship is one thing, but love is another...tell me now," Eri said, closing Ran's door behind them. ".....do you love Kudo Shinichi?"
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" M-mom...what kind of question is that...? Y-you're embarrassing me!" Ran replied, giggling. But her mother's question was answered in her mind..."Mom, I...I want to tell you that..I...
do love him...but...what will you say? I don't want to risk it..." "Ran...please, I want to know, I want to find out something about you that is very important to me. Tell me, yes or no?"
Eri said again, desperate. "Okay...I...yes, Mom, I love Shinichi so much...but now I feel like he left me...ha ha, what'll Dad say when he..." Eri stared at Ran. Why did that emotion come so naturally to Ran? To her, it was a strange feeling when she found out she was in love with the Kogoro of many years ago..."Ran...I congratulate you....you just told me something anyone would prefer to keep secret..." she said,tears coming to her daughter...how had seventeen years passed so quickly...? Soon Ran would marry him, leaving her all alone...my little Ran-chan..."Mom? A-are you okay...? You're crying..."Ran asked, concerned. "N-no...I'm not crying of sadness, Ran, I am because I'm proud of you...just keep it up, dear, he'll find out soon enough...just keep believing, Ran..." Eri replied. Ran hugged her mother, and Eri smiled...even though she was really worried about her daughter...
The next day, Ran woke up to find her mother sleeping on a chair beside her desk. She felt her forehead...her fever was gone, thank God...she looked at the time...12:12 p.m....too late to go to school...she dressed up silently to avoid waking Eri up, passed by her father who was once again busy watching a Youko Okino concert on TV, and left the house. Ran, feeling refreshed, ran happily to Beika Central Hospital. She didn't care if it was pretty far away from their house...all she wanted to do was see him...
Ran arrived at the hospital at around 12:34 p.m. "I'm a visitor for Kudo Shinichi...the name is Mouri Ran...the room is Room 108..." Ran said to the nurse who greeted her when she walked in. "Eh??? You can't be his girlfriend...? You seem so concerned about him..." the nurse replied. "Actually...I'm just his childhood friend...but I think I may be in love with him..." Ran replied, giggling. The nurse looked dumbfounded as Ran hurriedly walked over to Room 108. "Ran-chan..." A tired, depressed Yukiko greeted her as she entered the room. Ran had never seen her like this, and she was shocked at first. Her hair, usually set in thick curls around her face was now straight, and hung limply around her once friendly, smiling face. Her clothes look like she'd worn them for weeks,her eyes were red and puffy from crying,her face was still stained with tears, and her voice when she greeted Ran was weak,and barely audible. " Aunt Yukiko...w-wha...what's wrong?" Ran asked, still shocked. "I can't do it anymore...I give up...Shin-chan will never remember anything...help me, Ran-chan...please..." Yukiko pleaded, then sunk into a chair, with her face in her hands. "She's been like that for days, Ran," Yuusaku said, as he entered the room. "Poor Yukiko can't stand the sight of Shinichi's helplessness...to think that she can't stand him when he's alright because he's very rude to us...maybe you can help, Ran...I'm out of ideas." Ran sighed and replied, " But how about...Shinichi?" Yuusaku paused for a while, then replied, " He's still clueless. gave up and went on a vacation in Nagasaki, while Ai-chan is guarding his house and goes back here whenever she can. Shinichi needs you, maybe...you're his friend, after all, I really have no idea what he considers you as..." Ran nodded, and tried once again to talk to Shinichi.
"S-Shinichi...I'm back. Ran, Mouri Ran, your friend. It's alright if you don't remember...hey, do you want to go out for a while?" Shinichi stopped looking out the window and said, "Mouri...Ran? The name is familiar, but I don't remember if you're really her...you look like you can be trusted, though...all right..." Ran smiled. So Shinichi has a chance of getting his memory back...
"Hey, Shinichi...do you think you're going to remember everything soon?" Ran asked Shinichi as they sat on a bench in the hospital's mini park. "Maybe...but every night, I dream of things...something about an old man and a little girl handing me a pill...then I eat it and start feeling like my bones were melting...do you think that's something that happened to me...um..is it okay for me to call you Ran? I mean, if that's you..." he said, in a childish way. "Of course...of course...it's okay, Shinichi..." Ran said, beaming at him and quite accidentally, gave him a kiss on the cheek. Shinichi looked surprised, but Ran mistook it for a look of annoyance. " I-I'm s-so s-sorry, sorry, Shinichi...really...! I didn't mean to..." Shinichi remembered Ran giving him an underwater kiss...was that woman really this one I'm talking to...? "I know you didn't...Ran...I'm the one who's supposed to say that for forgetting about everything...I'll try to remember everything soon...just for you..." he said, without really thinking. " Shinichi...you're starting to get your memories back, right??" Ran happily cried. "Yeah...but there's still a lot of missing pieces in the puzzle...um...can we go back to my room now...my...guard...I need to talk to her..." Shinichi muttered. Ran, still smiling, escorted him back to Room 108. There's still hope...congratulations, Shinichi...
END OF PART TWO-------
