Chapter 5!!! It's gonna end soon so for all of you who begin to get anxious about the ending of this story you can relax now ^^. Ayumi-chan will talk to you in this chapter so ENJOY!!!

Disclaimer : I do not own Detective Conan (Aoyama-sensei does though ^^)

Bye – bye, Ai-chan…

Yoshida Ayumi

It's pretty hard to get permission from my parents to go out at this hour of the day. But it sounded very urgent, so I told my parents that I left my book with Ai-chan and I needed that book right away for my exam tomorrow morning.

Genta-kun and Mitsuhiko-kun looked puzzled when I told them that Ai-chan wanted to meet us. I pity Mitsuhiko-kun, though; the fact that Ai-chan was a twenty years-old young lady hit him pretty badly. We all knew it all along that he liked Ai-chan a lot, just like how I liked Conan-kun…

I mean, Kudou-senpai…

Somebody was walking out, probably Ai-chan. I couldn't see clearly due to the darkness of the night. There were no stars appearing, nor bright moon that normally hanging up high in the velvet black sky. Well, even the sky understood my mood right now. I would be a big liar if I said the fact that Conan-kun was actually Kudou Shinichi didn't hit me badly. Worse than Mitsuhiko-kun, to be honest.

The door swung open and I automatically said hi the one I believed to be Ai-chan.

"Kombawa (good evening) Ai-ch…"

My words were cut off right there. I couldn't believe what I saw even though I knew the fact. The one standing before me was a beautiful young lady instead of the little blonde girl that I knew. Both Genta-kun and Mitsuhiko-kun stared at her, their mouth wide opened. The young lady smiled at us. She probably found our reaction amusing.

"Miyano-oneesan…" I continued with low voice. She still smiled and looked at us.

"I'll always be Ai-chan for you, Ayumi-chan. And of course," her eyes darted towards the two boys, "…Haibara-san for both of you…"

We were coming into the house and I found it weird that the house was very silent. The five of us…it was the five of us who filled this house with a lot of laughter. Genta-kun's complaints about not enough food in Hakase's house (he would never had enough, honestly…), Mitsuhiko-kun's bright ideas, Ai-chan who acted cool all the time but could be very dependable when occasions called, and of course…Conan-kun's courageous acts, bright deduction…every thing used to be here in the house.

There would never be another Detective Boys' investigations, Agasa Hakase's inventions, feeding the school's rabbits with Ai-chan, solving cases which event the police officers couldn't solve with Conan-kun, or messing around in Hakase's house and being asked by Ai-chan to clean up the house the next day…

No more, just no more…

And the pain at the bottom of my heart grew into a choking ball of agony upon thinking about those things we did in the past…

"Sorry for the long wait…" Ai-chan reappeared from her room while carrying a stack of pictures in her right hand.

"Is that why you're calling us, Haibara-san?" asked Mitsuhiko-kun. Ai-chan nodded curtly.

"Yes, these are some pictures of us. I edited some of them a bit using Photoshop, and I hope you guys like it because it might be the last thing from me…"

Our pictures for the last two years. Five of us with our Detective Badge gleaming on our chest, picture of Ai-chan and I wearing yukata at Tanabata's Fair last year, pictures that we took during our vacation at Kinosaki Hot Spring, some other pictures from Karuizawa when we were invited by Inspector Shiratori, pictures of Genta-kun, Mitsuhiko-kun and Conan-kun grinning widely (and shamelessly if you ask me) in front of Twin Tower Building which was bombed several hours after the picture was taken, another picture of five of us in front of Girls' Day dolls which I got from my father's acquaintance, some from when we visited various beaches and even the pictures that we took at Ikkaku's Rock two years ago, every thing was there…

"A-arigatou yo, Ai-chan! I like it so much, really!" I said, and I felt a lump in my throat choked me as I said that.

"Yeah, hontou! I don't know you're very good at handling this kind of stuff, Haibara-san!" said Genta-kun with rather hoarse voice.

"Very well, I'm glad that you like it…"

The clock chimed ten times, and we had to go home before our parents began to worry about us. I gave Ai-chan one last hug and a drop of tears fell on her white coat. She sent us to the front door and suddenly I remembered about something.

"Ai-chan, why didn't you call Conan…nope, I mean, Kudou – senpai as well?"

For a few moment, Ai-chan stood rooted at the front door. But at the next moment, she smiled and said, "Only God and I know why…and I don't think he fancies 'Kudou-senpai' as a new nickname from you… "

I grinned at her joke. Just before she closed the door, she whispered "Arigatou" sadly to three of us, and another drop of tears fell on my cheek.

When eventually she closed the door, I knew that I might not be able to see her anymore. Three of us knew it. The night's summer breeze cleared up the sky and stars began to appear one by one. Somehow, the sky's mood had changed into a better one. But my mood had not changed. Not even a morsel. All those years that I spent with the Detective Boys would remain as beautiful memories in my heart, and I would never, never forget about Ai-chan, Mitsuhiko-kun, Genta-kun, and of course, Conan-kun and Agasa Hakase.

"Bye-bye, Ai-chan…"

A pretty sad chapter, don't you think so? Even I felt "the pain at the bottom of my heart grew into a choking ball of agony" (if I had to borrow Ayumi-chan's expression to describe her sadness) when I wrote this chapter. Next chapter is coming up so don't forget to give me your review! ^^