Author's Notes: Should I continue with this story? I'm nearly finished with my other story, 'No Matter What'. One more chapter for that and that's it... unfortunately it isn't the same for this one. This is going to be longer, I think.

Anyway, I'll start with the story now.

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Just kidding. Use them if you have a better story for them. But don't take all the credit!

Oh, and thank you to Cynthia, Akitsuki Akira, angelstreetno.23, nequam-tenshi, and Yuki Sanatona for reviewing! Luv ya all!

REWRITTEN, due to some major loopholes, and major things I have forgotten to put in it.

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Sweet 'n' Sour

Chapter Three

The girl skipped down the corridor, and Shiho found herself staring wide-eyed at her. Who was she? Why did she seem familiar?

More importantly, just why was she in the organisation?

WHY?

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When Shiho asked around about the girl, she found out her codename was Claret. A young prodigy, and very likeable. Shey were training her now to be a competent member of the organisation when she was older.

She reminded Shiho of herself when she was younger.

But no.

That girl wasn't like Shiho when she was younger, at all. That girl was too happy, too carefree. Shiho didn't want the girl in the organisation. She didn't belong there. And, somehow, Shiho felt that this girl wasn't what she seemed at first glance.

WHY?

Shiho wanted to know, but didn't want to ask. She didn't know why, but she seemed to have a bad feeling about asking - she felt like the last time she asked something bad happened.

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Also, there were the dreams. Shiho had been having dreams about a seven- eight-year-old strawberry blonde girl, who, as Shiho realised, resembled her when she was younger.

Who was she? Why is she of personal significance to Shiho?

And what about that boy? That small boy with the glasses who that red haired girl constantly get annoyed at?

Did she know these kids?

Who? What? Where? When? Why?

WHY?

There was only so much she knew, and so much she didn't know.

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Someone was in the next room, Shiho realised, when she heard a small thump. She was pretty sure that it wasn't anyone from the organisation, as that room was never used. What should she do?

Find out who it is, and if it wasn't an organisation member, kill them.

Shiho took her gun, and flung open the door to the room. She looked at the boy who looked about seventeen years old, with messy black hair, and gasped as she recognised him.

"Kudo Shinichi!" she shouted, and pointed her gun at him. That boy was a fugitive from the organisation, and she was instructed to kill him if she ever saw him.

WHY?

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Shinichi slowly turned around, when he heard. Oh no! He was discovered!

Wait..... The girl looked familiar. It was Haibara! But the only problem was, she was aiming her gun at him.

"Haibara!?" he gasped.

Shiho looked at him, and suddenly in her mind, saw a six- seven- year old girl with short red hair in a dark hospital room pointing a gun at a boy. She quickly regained her senses.

"Who is that little girl with the red hair whose name is Haibara?!" she demanded.

Shinichi looked at her. Did she forget? How?

"Did you forget?" he said slowly. "That was you. After you took APTX 4869, and turned into a kid."

"Turned into a kid?" Shiho repeated. Somehow, in her heart, she got a feeling that this particular person was okay to talk to, this person could be trusted. Why? Why was there so much mysteries about her own self, that she as yet to find the answers to, but that everyone knew already? Why?

"Yeah, you stopped all work on APTX 4869 when your sister was killed, and the organisation imprisoned you and was about to kill you too. Then you took the drug to commit suicide, but turned into a kid instead. And then you escaped. Don't you remember?"

Shiho's mind slowly took in that information. Normally, she wouldn't have believed this part of information. She would think that he was just stupid, or trying to trick her with a stupid trick, or trying to make her go mad. Normally, she would have had a smirk on her face, say 'you really expect me to believe that?' and shoot him. Although she didn't like killing that much, she was brought up in it, and was always prepared to shoot some guilty people or two, especially those who have done someting really wrong. But... somehow, tis bit of information made her think. This teenager made her think. If they all made her think so much... Why didn't she remember? Why didn't she remember what else had happened to her?

WHY?

Then they heard some heavy footsteps. A voice came from outside. "Sherry, where are you? What's all that noise?"

"Oh no! They're looking for me. Look, I don't know who you are but I'm pretty sure you can keep a secret," Shiho said worriedly. "Okay? Don't tell anyone about this secret passage."

She fiddled wth a few knobs and switches, and a hole in the floor appeared. "Quickly, quickly, go! " she ushered him down, and shut the entrance, then rushed out of the room.

Shinichi felt something drop along with him, and realised it was Shiho's hand-held computer. Not knowing what to do with it, he stuffed it into his pocket and started running through the passage.

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Shiho typed furiously on the computer. Suddenly, the world seemed to swim before her eyes, and she found herself in a university professor's office. She saw that strawberry blonde girl standing on a computer chair, also typing furiously, and announcing something about the floppy disks not being there. In the room, there was also a plump old man wearing a white coat, and that glasses-wearing boy.

Suddenly the scene changed, and that red haired girl was standing, and Shiho surprised herself by being able to know what the girl was thinking about. There was this young woman, probably in her early twenties, with long dark hair, eating at a cafe with a person that looked exactly like Shiho. The dark-haired woman was saying something about a weird boy who behaves like an adult, and then that person who looked like Shiho was saying something about if 'sister' was alright, and the dark-haired woman replied by telling her to stop making the drug and go find a boyfriend, and if she did that, 'I'll be alright'.

I'll be alright.

Then, Shiho saw a newspaper article about that dark-haired woman's death, and that glasses-wearing boy was in the picture. I'll be alright.

I'll be alright.

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Shinichi stared, shocked, at the almost invisible circular door that was just covered up again. He frowned, trying to think of all the events in a logical order. Okay, so he managed to break into a building that might be connected to the case he was currently working on. Lucky for him, he'd been able to find Haibara again, ever since she disappeared from Agasa's house without a trace. He'd looked everywhere for her... all the places she usually went... all the places she didn't go that often... and all the places she'd never went, to his knowledge. No one had seen a little girl with short strawberry-blonde hair. No one had seen a teenager with short strawberry-blonde hair. In the end, he and Agasa had been forced to abandon their search.

But now... It was very fortunate that he found her... but very unfortunate that she was pointing a gun at him. Even though she had lowered it. Which brought to mind another question... did she really forget everything that has happened to her? And who was the 'they're'? Was it... Could it be... the Black Organisation???

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Well, another chapter done! *flexes fingers*

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