Gomen gomen (Sorry) I know some of you are annoyed that I had the B O in that chapter… Ran will find out SOON!

Also, if I misspell a Japanese word… I'm sorry! Please tell me so I can make a dictionary. I accidently deleted the directory someone gave me, sorry. I meant to press OK. Please re send it to me!

Conan was surprised by how low the security system was in the trunk of the car. Once he had woken up, he noticed that his hand and feet were not bound by rope at all! There was nothing stopping him from just jumping out at a red light. (Does Japan have different colors?) so that is exactly what the detective did. He waited for the next light to come, then flipped open the door of the trunk and hopped out, undamaged. All the people nearby looked questionably at this action, like something important was happening but they could not get their minds around it.

Conan speed down Quilard, (Made that up… in this story it is a real street name!) heading towards Mouri's detective agency, where he could call Ayumi-chan and reassure her that NOTHING happened.

He phoned Ayumi-chan up on the phone, and this was their conversation-

"Conan!" Ayumi's metallic voice boomed thru the receiver.

"Hi…" Conan whimpered.

"Where were you! I followed you footsteps and it lead to some car tracks! I thought you had been KIDNAPPED!" She wailed

"Gomen, Gomen!" (Sorry) Conan apologized. Ayumi was right on the dot!

"I WAS WORRYED SICK! DON'TYOU SAY 'SORRY' TO ME!" Ayumi sounded like someone very familiar to Conan… she sounded like Ran in a way.

"Oh, I got to go, bye!" Conan hung up with Ayumi still talking on the other end.

Conan walked towards him bedroom, getting really to get changed into his PJ's, it was already dark outside. He took off his shirt, revealing a scar where he had been shot. 'Weird, I don't have a scar from the time I was shot as Conan… why now? Perhaps when he was Conan his body healed faster?' Then it came to him, he had left the hospital before the release date! His body was not fully healed. That was not a scar, but nothing less than a scab, a very uncomfortable scab. One thing was for sure… today was not his day, could it get any worse?

The answer to that would be, YES!

"Conan-kun! Where are you?" Ran's voice echoed though the hallway.

Conan responded, not knowing if she found him, she would find out that he was Kudo Shinichi. "I'm in my bedroom!" How was Conan suppose to know she had seen the scar on him normal body? Ran opened the door, revealing Conan's scab to the open, so she could instantly make a connection in a heart beat.

Ran stared at the mark on Conan, no, Shinichi's skin.

"S-Shinichi?" Ran shuddered.

"Ran…"

"You're Shinichi!" Ran cried. "You… you kept it from me all this time!"

"Why are you calling me Shinichi-nechan? Why would I be?"

"You are him! I-I s-saw a picture of him while in the hospital… you have the exact same mark right there!"

Conan looked at her in surprise, how had she known? "How…?"

"The doctors showed me…" She blushed hard.

"But Shinichi-nechan died! Right? How could I be him?" Conan was really trying to conceal his identity.

"That was an act." Ran looked down. Suddenly the phone rang, right in the middle of their conversation. Conan reached to answer it, it was his mom! "Hello… Yukiko-san… why are you calling?" Conan deliberately said his moms name to make it seem like it wasn't his real mother.

"Oh, let us see if you really are Shinichi!" Ran grabbed the phone and listened to Shinichi's mother's response.

"Shinichi! Why don't you call me mother! It's rude to call your own mother by her first name! seriously!" Kudo Yukiko screamed.

"So… you are Shinichi!" Ran gave him a questionable look.

"Is that Ran? Oh, I must have made a mistake, that was Conan right? NOT SHINICHI-CHAN!" Him mother suddenly figured out why he didn't call her "Mother."

"So, you are working together on this, hu? That's why when I thought Conan looked like Shinichi without his glassed, you said he was a relative!" Ran was putting things together at the speed if lightning. Both Conan and his mother were out of ideas. "So, explain, why are you seven years old!" (Isn't Conan seven?) Ran demanded.

Conan grabbed the phone and ran to the corner of him room. Ran looked at him suspiciously, but let them whisper.

"Should I tell her the truth?"

"I think you might have too. She has all the pieces of the puzzle, and is fitting them together, slowly! That might turn nasty if you don't tell her!"

"Ok, I guess I'll tell her, it's just… I worked so hard to keep it a secret, I kinda feel that it was a waste." Conan finished the conversation, he hung up with his mom still talking. He had now done that twice that day.

"Ok, I have something to tell you… I, I really am Shinichi, you were right." Conan faced Ran with a bowed head.

Ran looked at him with a bewildered face. 'That means… that I, I hugged him, took a bath with him! (That must be why he had a bloody nose, he's in HIGH SCHOOL! And of the male gender as well!)' Ran was panicking like crazy. Her face was bright red, life roses.

"I'm sorry, I have a reason…" Conan tried to make the situation a little better for Ran's point of view, but it was no use. Ran was in tears now, she could not stop. All this time she had been missing the fact that her love was right next to her. And, and… she had confessed to him, right to his little kid face!

"Then… you know, you know…" Ran freaked.

"I'm sorry, I know every bit of it." Conan hung his head in shame. She must be in shock at that moment, even though she thought he was Shinichi many times before.

"Why, why are you seven?" Ran repeated the question once more.

"It wasn't my idea. When we were at that amusement park, when I ran after the two men in black, that's when it happened. I was attacked after witnessing some illegal business, and they forced me to take a drug. They thought it was poison, but instead it shrank me. If they find out that I'm still alive, they will kill me and anyone who knows that I'm actually Conan… I didn't tell you so that if they ever found me…you would not be harmed."

"Shinichi… SHINICHI!" Ran ran (Te he! Ran ran!) to Conan and bawled on his shoulder.

"Hattori-kun, Haibara, Agasa-san ans my parents are the only ones who know… and Kaito Kid might know… also the Detective Boys found out today… I fell stupid being outsmarted by some seven year olds. It seems like everyone knows now." Conan's head slumped.

"So, you tell all those people, but not ME!" Ran gridded her teeth.

"Um…" Conan tried to explain but ran out of answers.

Hello! How was that chapter? I think it was the longest yet! My friends are watching The Life of Brian, which I can't watch so I wrote this meanwhile. B O in the next chapter, or if not… the following chapter will!

R & R :)