CH9

It was the middle of the night as Shinichi sat in his hospital bed, unable to sleep. The next day his life would finally return to normal, he would back to the same school, he'll attend the same class, and the same fools would heckle him about Ran being his "wife". Only now he could call Ran his girlfriend, a prospect the young detective was very much looking forward to. Shinichi laid back as a smile graced his face, but was soon gone when he heard the door crick.

Jodi stuck her head back in the room, "Hey kid, how's it going?"

"What are you doing here sensei?"

"I heard from Ai about your little plan to take Ran away for protection."

Shinichi's face fell; he had completely forgotten that plan.

"I'm just here to say it's not necessary, because I'll be returning as the teacher and we already started to have our agents look after Ran, your parents, and pretty much anyone important to you that could be targeted."

A smile grew on Shinichi's face as heard Jodi's word and he knew Ran would be safe.

"One thing one should know before I go Shinichi be careful around Ran."

"What do you mean, you can't suspect her of all people as a member of the BO!?"

"Of course not, but the BO were smart, they were able to figure out your only weakness."

With that Jodi left the room, leaving Shinichi to sleep.

The next morning Shinichi and Ran were back to their old ritual of walking to school together, but a slight modification had been made, their walk with their arms inter locked and Ran's head resting on Shinichi's shoulder.

"Shinichi do you know what to day is?"

Shinichi instantly started to sweat, 'What the hell? What did I forget? It February so her birthdays not for awhile, definitely can't be an anniversary or something, we only got together yester day. HOLY SHIT!!' Shinichi had come to a conclusion upon seeing red heart in a nearby corner store. 'It's fucking Valentines day! Crap!!' (Im going by the Japanese Valentines Day tradition instead of the US one, were girls give the guy chocolate)

Ran stopped walking and pulled out a small box with a red ribbon on it, "I know it's early in the day, but I wanted to give this to you before the other girls at school saw you."

Shinichi took Ran's box and hugged her, Shinichi then whispered into her ear, "If it bothers you, I won't accept chocolates from anyone. Yours is the only chocolate I care about."

Ran smiled as they moved into a chaste kiss. It was than they had realized that everything had just taken place in front of the school with the entire student body watching.

The couple smiled nervously with beams of sweat as pretty much every single guy and girl giving them a dark look. The single guys were jealous of Shinichi, while the single girls were jealous of Ran. Sonoko ran up to Ran an hugged her, "It finally happened, you two got together!"

Sonoko sent a cold glare into the crowd, and out of fear they started to cheer.