Shārokku Aren's first day of school, One Billion Yen Heist, and Girl(s?) from the Black Organization!

Correction - Sorry about the past when Ran said Moah or something similar, I just checked and it is spelled Mō not Moah, so from now on I'll use Mo instead.

"Idiot!" Conan yelled.

"I'm sorry Ototo-sama! Please forgive me!" His older self begged.

"Well, I don't have much of a choice now do I? If I don't forgive you you'll eventually decide that I don't have the right to rejoin you in your body and I'll be forced to play with the brats for the rest of my life!" Conan ranted.

"I'm sorry! I tried my best not to do too good on the placement test, but I ended up becoming a Senior (Someone in their final year of high school)! I'm sorry!" Shinichi apologized.

"Ugh, if I was the one who stayed an adult we wouldn't be like this." Conan muttered.

"Ehem, you realize we're the same person, right Ototo?" Shinichi asked inquisitively, "If our places were switched we'd be in exactly the same situation."

"I know, I know, it just sometimes feels like we're different people." Conan muttered.

"Well, I'd better get ready for my 'first' day of school." Shārokku moaned.

"Yeah, oh, I've heard a rumor recently. You might want to hear it out." Conan whispered to Shārokku/Shinichi.

"Oh god, I'm dead." The teenager muttered to himself. As a precautionary measure he took a specially modified belt Agasa-Hakase had made that produced quick-inflating soccer balls and put it on.

"Students, we have a new student today. He goes by the name Shārokku Aran." The American teacher going by the name John Smith said.

"Hi, my name is Shārokku Aran, nice to meet you, I'm a high school detective, though I've only ever solved a couple cases." Shārokku introduced himself, feigning ecstasy.

"Heh, another no good lousy follower of the law, eh?" One of the children in the class asked.

"And he's short too, heh." Another one said.

"Think we should beat him up after class?" Another asked.

"Yeah, probably. That way if we ever do something against the law he'll be too scared to go after us!" Another laughed.

"Good thing I'm good at sports…" He muttered to himself.

When class ended…

Shinichi dashed out of the classroom as soon as it ended, running to second class, which sadly had the same punks from class one.

"We'll get him this time!" One yelled.

"Yeah!" Another bellowed.

"Yes!" One shrieked.

"You're next shrieker." One threatened the smaller one that shriked.

"No! Anything but that!" The one who shrieked started to cry.

When that class ended…

Shārokku ran as fast as he could to the roof. When he got there he went to the far side and turned. The bullies were in pursuit.

"Stay back unless you want to be knocked out punks!" Shārokku warned.

"Heh, like we'd believe that, you hardly have any muscle on that slim body of yours!" One of the punks yelled.

"And it looks like you have hardly any brain in that thick skull of yours." Shārokku said, feigning innocence.

"Why you!" The one that was insulted bellowed and ran towards Shārokku.

"Don't say I didn't warn you!" Shārokku said as he pressed the button to produce a soccer ball. The dull punk kept rushing forward so Shārokku kicked the ball straight into the punk's skull.

There was a loud Thwamp! And then the punk had his back on the ground. He yelled, "Ow! Argh! We'll get you for this Aran-san!" After the head-punk got up, he and the other punks left the roof leaving Shārokku there unharmed.

Shārokku grinned and looked around, seeing Ran he said, "Oi! You're that Mouri-san from yesterday! Fancy meeting you here!"

Ran was still gawking at how a skinny teenager ran to the roof, insulted the strongest punk in school, beat him up, grinned, and then casually greeted a girl all like it was something he did everyday, and this guy wasn't Shinichi.

"Uhm… hi… Shārokku-kun…" Ran greeted slowly.

"Nope, that is Shārokku-senpai to you, I'm a Senior!" He grinned.

"Hai..."

"Oi! Are you even awake?" Shārokku Aran asked.

"Hai, sorry, I was just stunned by what you just pulled. You're going to regret that, you know that, right?" Ran asked.

"Nah, if it starts becoming too much I'll just climb up to the upper roof, I am a very skilled climber." Shārokku bragged matter-of-factly.

"Hai." Ran said, thinking to herself, "You run extremely quickly, you can kick soccer balls superbly, you're a skilled climber, and you are kind of like a High School Detective. Any other similarities between you, Shinichi, and Conan-kun?"

"Aren-Senpai, would you care to join us for lunch?" Sonoko invited (Flirtatiously).

"Sure! Why not?" He agreed.

"Mo, Sonoko, all you ever think about is guys." Ran teased.

"Hmm?" Shārokku stared at them, pretending to be lost.

"Oh, it's nothing." The two assured Shārokku.

"Oh, okay then." He went back to eating.

After school…

"Conan-kun! Help me!" Shārokku panted after being chased by the punks for a couple kilometers.

"Hai!" Conan agreed, using his super sneakers to kick a can at the leader's head. It then bounced off his head onto another head and so on. In just a couple seconds all of them were unconscious.

"Those shoes are so powerful it is scary." Shārokku commented.

"Yeah, that is why I have them Shārokku-niisan." Conan agreed, holding his new Solar Powered Skateboard.

"Just make sure they don't get into the wrong hands, technology like ours could be sold for billions to foreign militaries. Perfect Voice Manipulation? Could be used for spying. Perfect Disguises? Could be used for spying. Electro-magnetic strength multipliers? Could be used to kill soldiers on the battle-field. Portable super-inflatable soccer balls? With just a little changing it could be used as a parachute for exiting planes and helicopters. Tranq-watches would be helpful in hostage situations, you wouldn't have to worry about your hostage saying anything. Even if this wouldn't completely change the balance of war, think about how bad it would be for us? People would smuggle this into the citizen world and everything would go haywire." Shārokku warned the child.

"Hai, hai, I know." Conan agreed.

"Okay, anyways, I need to go to the bank to withdraw my money for this month's rent. (Why did I need to move in at the end of a month?) So, how about we go to the bank?" Shārokku asked.

"Hai, let's do that." Conan agreed.

"Okay, let's go Ototo."

When there…

"Hi Masumi-san!" Conan greeted childishly.

"Ototo, you shouldn't bother the young bank teller." Shārokku scolded the child, though his face asked, "You know her?"

"But I know Masumi-san, she is really nice!" Conan said, but his face said, "Did you notice that she'd looked at her watch several times in the last couple minutes?"

"Oh, okay, that's fine then." He answered, but his face answered, "Yes, I did notice that. I'll withdraw the money, you investigate."

"Thanks Niisan!" Conan thanked his 'older brother' but his face said, "Got it, I'll do that."

While Shārokku withdrew money from another bank teller Conan walked over to Masumi and asked, "Hey, how come you've kept looking at your watch?"

"Oh, I'm a bit busy! Sorry, I think I'm gonna go get lunch." Masumi apologized.

"Hmm?" Conan raised his eyebrow as Masumi left. When she was out of the room Conan ran outside.

"Ptew-ptew!" Conan heard, he then immediately ran over to the parking lot to see a bank robbery in process.

"Hey Conan-kun! Did you find anything out yet?" Shārokku yelled.

"Oi, oi!" Conan glared at his niisan.

"Hmm? Something happened? Shārokku said as the bank robbers fled.

"Yeah, only a bank robbery for god's sake!" Conan yelled as he got onto his skateboard and chased them.

"I guess I'll go inform the bank and the police." Shārokku muttered quietly, but he thought to himself, "How come the kid gets to have all the fun?"

Conan was surprised by how fast the robbers could get in a van. They even went over train tracks… when the train was about to go through. That was when Conan lost them, when doing the same thing he tripped and fell off his skateboard, losing the robbers.

Around an hour later his phone rang, he picked it up, "Niisan?"

"Yep Ototo, there is something weird, the lipstick on the mask was where the chin would be, and there was no smell of cosmetics in the mask… I think we should investigate this tomorrow… when the police are done."

"Where was the mask found?"

"Oh, in the getaway car."

"Anything else?" Conan asked.

"I think this crime is related to Masumi and the guard who ended up transferring the money to the other car.

Next day…

"What? The guard and one of the thieves were found dead, and Masumi's lipstick was found in the thieve's room?"

"Yep, and I can only assume the guard was was an accomplice. He was far into debt." Mouri sighed, "Also, Masumi left the bank and has only worked there for half a year, it seems she got the job to rob the bank."

"Hmm… something doesn't seem right, if she staked the bank for half a year would she really be so careless as to drop her lipstick? Besides, Shinichi told me there was no smell of cosmetics in the mask. Something isn't right, I'm gonna check on this…" Conan thought, then said, "I gotta go somewhere, see you later!"

He then got on his skateboard and called Shinichi/Shārokku, "Hey, where is Masumi's apartment?"

Shinichi gave Conan the apartment's address and said, "Be careful, I have a bad feeling about this case. I wish I could help you but I have soccer practice today."

"It's fine, I can do this by myself." Conan assured his physically older twin.

"That's good, I need to get back to practice, see ya."

"Bye." Conan said before hanging up.

Conan reached Masumi's apartment and found the hidden key. He then entered it, left his skateboard leaning on the wall, and went into the living room. He saw that there was a half-covered outlet so he moved the table covering it and pulled the outlet cover off. There was a key. Wait… what was that sound? Conan turned but before he could see Masumi behind him he was hit on the back of his neck. Although he could barely speak he said, "Don't- go- you'll- be- killed."

"Thanks Conan-kun. Sorry." Masumi smiled back at Conan-kun and picked up the Coin Locker Key that Conan was about to take.

Masumi then left the apartment, and soon after Conan-kun. No one was in the hall so Conan looked down at the parking lot. He was right, Masumi was leaving. He got out his stretchy suspenders and one of his trackers and slingshot it at Masumi's car.

"Yes, it hit. Now I just- need to… track her down." Conan said, annoyed at the pain in his neck.

When Conan arrived he found Masumi on the floor with blood flowing from her body, Conan yelled, "Masumi!"

"Conan-kun? How did you find me?"

"I put a tracker on your car. Are you okay?"

"W-who are you?"

"Edogaw- no, Kudo Shinichi, Detective."

"K-Kudo Shinichi? So, the rumors were wrong." Masumi laughed, "They killed the two I hired, and, in the end, the organization has killed me too."

"Organization?" Conan asked, feeling a deep pit in his stomach.

"It's a large, mysterious, crime syndicate. I don't know much else, but the organization's color is black, my sister and I are members, though I'm not high ranking. I tried to commit this crime so they'd let us leave. My real name is Akemi Miyano." Masumi aka Akemi Miyano whispered.

"Black?" Conan said, starting to feel a little fear mix in with the deep pit in his stomach.

"Yes, everyone intimate with the organization wears clothing as black as crows."

Shock, anger, and fear boiled inside Conan, remembering the two who had done this to him, splitting him into adult and child. Then Akemi grabbed onto Conan, trying to lift herself up a little, and said, "Please listen to my final words," She handed Conan the keys to the coin locker with the money in it, "Here… this is the real one. The one they took is fake. The coin locker at Beika station, " She convulsed, and said, "Please… before they realize, sorry, but I'm not gonna make it. I'll leave the rest to you, little detective." She said, then lost consciousness. She was dead.

Later, Conan and Shārokku…

"Little boy finds corpse of a friend who was also the last bank robber. Death ruled suicide." Shārokku quoted.

"Oh, shut up. We both know I don't want to be a kid, and we both know it wasn't a suicide. I just wish we could've revealed the truth." Conan growled. He was upset. Even if it was the death of a criminal, it was still a death of a human being, one that took place directly in front of him. She just wanted to escape a crime syndicate so neither she nor her sister would have to commit any more crimes.

"I know, I know. I'm just saying that you should be careful. What if they put the time you found her? Then you'd probably be dead. They'd realize that she might have still been alive when you found her and they'd shoot you dead." The older brother said.

"Yeah, yeah, I know!" Conan said in a leave my alone way.

Next day at elementary school...

"Okay students, there is a new student today! Her name is Haibara Ai!" The teacher announced while writing the name on the board, as she did this the new student walked in and scanned the room. She was a strawberry blond with a serious and unchildlike face on. She looked like she didn't care at all.

"So, Haibara-san's seat will be… well, wherever she feels like I suppose." She said.

Genta yelled, "Over here! The seat next to me is open!"

Ignoring this, Haibara went straight to the back of the room and sat next to Conan, she then said, "Nice to meet you." without even looking at Conan.

"Uh. Yeah…" Conan muttered, startled.

"What's with her, all stuck up?" Genta asked.

"She's a cool type." Mitsuhiko stated.

"She's probably just nervous." Ayumi explained.

"Okay everyone, we're starting the lesson now!" Kobayashi-sensei announced.

At the end of the school day…

"Haibara-san! Haibara-san!" Ayumi yelled.

Haibara ignored her and kept walked.

"Where do you live, we'll take you home?" Ayumi offered.

"22 Beika Block, Second street." She answered, "That is where I currently reside."

"That's strange, that would be just about where I live, but there aren't any apartments or mansions in that area, was there a Haibara family nearby?" Conan thought to himself.

Haibara then let out a little bit of a chuckle and smirked at Conan. Conan stopped moving, a bit of a blush growing on his face.

Genta then walked over to Conan and asked, "What's wrong? You like the stuck up woman?"

"No! Definitely not!" Conan denied loudly.

At the shoe lockers…

"Haibara-san, we're in a group known as the detective boys, care to join us?" Ayumi asked.

"Detective Boys, you guys?" Haibara asked.

"Yes, we are servers of justice who work to solve everyone's cases we work day and night!" Mitsuhiko explained.

"You should join us, Haibara-san!" Ayumi begged.

"Is Edogawa-kun in it too?" Haibara asked.

"Yeah, but he is just my apprentice!" Genta assured the girl.

"All the requests go into Genta-kun's shoe locker." Mitsuhiko informed the serious-acting girl, ignoring his chubby friend.

"We're keeping it a secret from the teachers though." Genta said.

"Heheh, they know." Conan thought to himself.

"We get tons and tons of requests in here everyday… that's strange, there aren't any today. Guess today is just slow." Genta lied.

"Hehehe, there usually aren't any there either." Conan thought to himself.

"Well, let's go home and play soccer!" Conan yelled.

"Yeah!" The three detective boys agreed.

"Wait! There is a request in my shoe!" Genta yelled.

"It is a kidnapping!" Ayumi gawked.

After solving the case…

"Hey, you can get home by yourself from here, right?" Conan asked the crying Haibara Ai, "Well see ya tomorrow."

As Conan walked away from the girl, she suddenly stopped crying and calmly said "APTX 4869."

"Heh?" Conan said, genuinely surprised.

"The drug that cloned you. Creating a second you who although has an identical nervous system has every other bodily system shrunk." Haibara said.

"Hey, what are you talking about." Conan said nervously.

"I'm sure I'm right, it was the drug that I was ordered to create, by the organization."

"Organization? Created? What would a child like you know…" Conan said, fear showing throughout his face.

"I'm the same as you. I took the drug and I awoke naked in my own clothing with an adult me due to its unusual side effect." Haibara explained, "Amazing drug, isn't it?"

"Haibara, are you?" Conan started, trembling.

"It isn't Haibara, the name is Sherry. That's my code name. What are you surprised about. Kudo Shinichi-kun?"

"Then… then you are a part of those men in black!" Conan stated, eyes as wide as a hawk's.

"You don't have time to be standing around looking surprised, slow witted detective!" Sherry smirked.

"What?"

"I told you my address didn't I? The house that is next to yours. You know where that is, right?" Sherry asked, smirking.

"Agasa-hakase!" Conan yelled into his mini-phone after calling the old man.

"No matter how long you try he won't pick it up. The receiver is set down and he can no longer pick it up himself. Because he is no longer… in this world anymore." Sherry glared with a smile plastered on her face.

"You… what did you do to the professor!" Conan asked in a scream.

"If the professor were to disappear would you be troubled?" The small lady laughed, "All your gadgets were made by him, nay? He is the only reason you can be a kid detective! Otherwise you'd rely on your older self, luring him out in the process!"

"That's the reason you killed him?" Conan yelled.

"Who knows, if it bothers you why don't you check his house?"

"Damn it!" Conan ran to the professor's house. He thought to himself, "Hakase! Be safe Hakase!"

When he got to the gate he hid behind the wall and looked through the cracks in the gate. The lights were on but no one could be seen. He slowly opened the gate, hoping that the men in black were no longer inside. Ran up to the door, waited a second, then slowly opened it. He surveyed the room, but no one was there. He slowly snuck in, but nothing was unusual. He then yelled, "Hakase! Hakase!"

"Shinichi? I thought I heard Shinichi's voice! Ahh! Shinichi! What are you doing here so late?" Agasa asked as if nothing abnormal had happened.

"Hakase… you were safe…" Conan whispered.

"Safe… did something happen?" Agasa asked.

After a few minutes of explaining, Agasa said, "Hahaha! Sorry, sorry! I've been into computer messaging recently, it must have blocked the phone line!"

Haibara then entered and said, "Hi, I'm home."

"Welcome Ai-kun." Hakase said.

"Huh… huh?" Conan asked, confused.

"How was school?" Hakase asked.

"I was able to have quite a bit of fun." Haibara answered.

"That brat… she got me." Conan muttered to himself.

"Now now, you were careless not to know my address too!" Agasa told the young Conan-kun.

"How was I supposed to know, I've never sent you a thing in my life since I live right next door!" Conan yelled back, "Besides, what is with that Haibara girl?"

"Huh? Didn't you ask her?" Agasa asked, "She was with the men in black but then took the drug and got cloned. That's strange, she said she would tell you everything herself."

"HEH?" Conan screamed, "Hold on a second Hakase,"

Hakase then said, "Oh, her name comes from…" Then went into a short explanation about how he chose her name.

"THAT ISN'T WHAT I'M ASKING HAKASE! I'M ASKING WHY THERE IS AN AGENT OF THE BLACK ORGANIZATION IN YOUR HOUSE!" Conan screamed.

"He took me in." Haibara answered quietly, "When he found me and my older self on the ground in front of your house."

"My house?"

"Didn't you know? The organization went through your house twice to investigate. Out of all the deaths of the Apotoxin only yours went unconfirmed. Of course, as I made the drug, I went as well. The first time everything was fine, but the second time I noticed that some clothing was missing, and it gave me the goosebumps. The clothing from when you were a child that was there a month ago. This wasn't entirely unexpected, in development of the drug a female mouse gave birth to a younger genius mouse with identical genes that was already approximately a month old. What we didn't expect was that the mouse, or in this case you, had actually kept the memories of the older mouse, not that it was a genius."

"Then… the organization knows that I've been cloned…" Conan trembled.

"You should thank me, I changed your data to confirmed." Haibara said, "You interested me quite a bit so I let you live. I suppose now that I betrayed them they'll start questioning it."

"Betrayed?" Conan interrogated.

"For two reasons, the first and lesser reason was because they were using the drug in its experimental form, the second was much more important, they killed my sister and refused to tell me why no matter how much I demanded to be told. Because of that I refused to continue development on the drug until I received an answer. Of course, since I who went against the organization, was forced into a small lab and to wait for a decision from above. I decided that since I would be killed anyways I might as well die from the drug that I had created. To my luck I was 'given birth' to so I went to retrieve something to break my elder self's handcuffs. After doing so I placed the item I used to break the cuffs back when I found it and cleaned off the finger prints. We then managed to escape from a tile in the ceiling, though we reinforced it on our way out so the organization wouldn't know how we escaped. The only hope for us who had nowhere else to go was with you, who had shared our fate and would hopefully understand us."

"Don't kid yourself! How do you expect me to understand someone who developed a poison to kill other human beings?!" Conan yelled.

"Hey, Shinichi!" Agasa tried stopping Conan as Haibara's eyes widened.

"Do you understand how many people have suffered from your drugs?"

"There was nothing I could have done." Haibara stated matter of factly, "I never intended to create a poison."

"What?" Conan yelled and tried to attack Haibara.

"Now now Shinichi, she isn't part of the organization anymore." Agasa said, attempting to calm Conan down, "With the creator of the drug on our side it shouldn't take so long to create the antidote, right?"

"All the drug's data is in the lab." Haibara answered, "I never even tried to remember all that data."

"Damn it! Then tell me where that lab is!" Conan demanded.

"No use, look this is an article from three days ago," Haibara said, showing Conan the newspaper, "Drug company burnt down, Researcher gone missing." Haibara then continued, "Even if you were to go there all the data would be missing. The Organization would have feared that I'd let people know of what was happening and burnt all my labs down."

"Then you're…"

"Yeah, the organization is probably doing everything they can to find me." Haibara said calmly, smiling no less, "But as long as they continue to use the drug for assassination they'll find more people like us and find both of us and our elder selves will be found. What are you going to do, get rid of this bothersome girl, high school detective, Kudo Shinichi?"

"Baro, if they find out about you it is only a matter of time before they find out about me. Sorry but I'm gonna force you to be an elementary student even if you don't want to. As for your elder self I'll have my mom give her a disguise so that she won't look like her normal self. It would be more bothersome for you two to be wandering outside."

"Oh, so you're a kind person." Haibara commented, "And my elder self already was given a disguise."

"Also, shouldn't we be worrying about the safety of your parents as well?"

"Don't worry about them, they were part of the organization as well, they're long dead. They died not long after I was born." Haibara assured the professor.

"What about other family?" Agasa asked.

"I had a sister… wait! Before she tried getting me out of the organization she sent me some floppies, and when I returned them I accidently gave her a third. She then sent those floppies to a professor friend of hers! If we can get that floppy we might get some data about the organization!"

"What was the professor's name?" Conan asked.

"Hirota Masami."

"Hirota Masami…" Conan thought to himself out loud, it sounded familiar.

Conan and Haibara then went on the same case and such that they did in the anime and had the same moment of Haibara crying at the end.

Shārokku and Elder Haibara at the beginning of the school day.

(Elder Haibara is already disguised. She has long dirty blonde hair, a darker skin tone, and her face is slightly edited, enough not to be easily recognizable.)

"Okay students we have a new student today, her name is Irene Kurisuti." Sensei announced.

"Sounds fake." Shārokku thought to himself, not that he could talk.

"Okay Kurisuti-san, you can sit wherever you want… oh, there is only one seat available, you can sit next to Aren-kun." The teacher said.

"Okay." She muttered.

"Nice to meet you." Kurisuti said in a monotone.

"Y-yeah." Conan responded.

"Oooh! Now that's a hottie!" One of the punks responded.

"Let's ditch chasing 'Soccerballs' over there and chase after her today." One said in a suggestive voice.

"Yeah!" Another agreed.

"Idiots." The blonde muttered.

"Yeah, they are, they keep falling for the same trick every time. All you need to do is get them onto the school's roof and climb onto the roof of the stairway and they won't be able to find you." Shārokku recommended.

"Thanks for the tip." The blonde agreed.

After class...

"Just follow me." Shārokku grabbed Kurisuti Irene's arm and ran as fast as he could while pulling someone else to the roof, it was still fast enough to outrun the punks, but only barely.

"Ran-san! I need a little help over here today!" He pleaded.

"Hai!" Ran got up and went into her karate pose.

"Oh god! It is Mouri-san, head of the Karate Club! Run!" The punks yelled in fear.

"Sheesh, I'm the one who either beats them up or evades them every day and she's the one they're scared of. Talk about idiocy." Shārokku muttered.

"What did you say Shārokku-senpai?" Ran asked innocently.

"Nothing! I didn't say anything Ran-san! I swear!" He pleaded nervously.

"That's good. I swore that I'd heard you say you were better than me at beating up punks." She said innocently.

"No, never. I'd never say something so wrong." Shārokku promised.

"Anyway, who is the girl? Your girlfriend?" Sonoko asked suggestively.

"No, just some new student who the punks were planning on stalking." Shinichi assured his friends, blushing slightly, then realizing he was still holding her arm, let go.

"So what is your name Senpai?" Ran asked politely.

"Irene Kurisuti. You can call me Kurisuti-san." Kurisuti said.

"That's a very… unique... name." Ran said.

"Well sorry that my parents were creative." She deadpanned.

"That isn't what I meant!" Ran apologized.

Just then a teenage boy walked up to them and asked Shārokku, "Ehrm, you're that new high school detective, right? I have a request."

"A request? At school? What is it? I do anything from haunted bathrooms to mass murders. What do you need?"

"Ehrm, I don't need you to find the cause of a haunted bathroom… or to solve a mass murder, I want you to find a missing person, thank you."

"Okay… who do you want me to find?" Shārokku asked.

"Yes. Uhm… I want you to find Kudo Shinichi." The kid asked.

"Can you tell me why?"

"I need him to solve a case for me!" The teenage boy exclaimed.

"Now listen here, I can solve any case this Kudo Shinichi can. Just give me the case instead!" He yelled.

"No! It needs to be Kudo Shinichi!" The teen answered.

"Then I refuse!" He answered.

"Ugh. What got stuck up your asshole, asshole?" The teenage boy muttered as he walked away.

"You're the asshole, telling a detective right up to his face that he isn't good enough to solve your case, I mean, mo, how rude can you get?" Shārokku cursed under his breath, though in reality he was thinking, "I'm right here dumbass."

"Well, you did kind of tell him that you would solve any case…" Sonoko said.

"Yeah, well, I wasn't expecting him to request that! I could deduce by looking at him that there had been a kidnapping, he had reported it to the police, but they haven't gotten any results." Shārokku explained.

"Wow, you must be a fairly genius detective to see that just by looking at the kid." The dirty blond stated, the tiniest flickers of sadness in her eyes.

Suddenly being reminded of her existence, he said, "Care to have lunch with us Irene-chan?"

"What did you just call me?" She glared at him.

"Gomen, I meant Irene-san." Conan corrected himself, still getting a glare, he said, "Kurisuti?" She stopped glaring so he figured it was fine.

"Sure, I can eat with you three." She answered.

When lunch was over Shārokku asked, "Hey, after school today would you three like to go watch a movie? It is a horror mystery about a mass-murdering politician. I mean, you aren't supposed to know it is the politician until the end, but I was able to deduce that from the description."

"Mo, even if we did go now it'll be no fun as we know it's the politician." Ran answered.

"How do you know I told the truth?" Shinichi asked.

"You're not exactly the lying type." Ran answered.

"I dunno, he looks like the chronic lying type to me." Kurisuti commented.

This pissed Shārokku off quite a bit, so he said just loud enough for her to hear, "Like you're one to talk, Kurisuti."

A cocky smirk appeared on her face, which threw the young detective off. He didn't know why she would be happy about him realizing that.

"But, I'll go anyways. I don't really have anything in particular to do today." She agreed.

"I guess we can go too." Ran and Sonoko agreed, confused by why Irene Kurisuti accused Shārokku of being a chronic liar.

"Okay, let's meet up in front of the school when classes are over for the day." The only male in the group said.

After school…

"Yo! Ran-san! Suzuki-chan! Kurisuti!" Aren Shārokku greeted.

"Aren-senpai Ne! (Hey)" Sonoko greeted.

"Konnichiwa!" Ran greeted.

"Hi." Kurisuti sighed.

"The movie has apparently gotten 4 and a half stars by critics, and, thanks to a friend, I managed to get us 4 tickets for the first showing! I also managed to get us the best seats in the theater." Aren Shārokku said excitedly.

"Four and a half stars? First showing? Best seats in the theater? What kind of connections do you have?" Ran asked, shocked.

"My O- I mean, an Obasan relative of Ototo gave it to me. Her name was Yukiko Kudo. Apparently she helped with the movie a little." Shārokku explained falsely. Sure, Yukiko Kudo was the one who gave him the tickets, but she was his Okasan/Mom, not a relative of his neighbor. And that isn't even mentioning the fact that his 'neighbor' is actually his duplicate younger brother.

"I recommend you don't call her 'Obasan' when she is nearby, and pray no one tells her that you did call her that. She'd kill you if she found out, or at least torture you a bit." Sonoko laughed.

"Yeah, I know that quite well…" Shārokku muttered, quiet enough that he didn't think anyone would hear him, but Kurisuti did hear. She decided that she wouldn't comment about it though, at least not yet.

After the movie was over…

"Oh my god, I didn't expect him to come out of the ceiling right then! It was so scary!" Ran laughed loudly.

"Yeah, that was good but the best part was when the politician serial killer found that the container he held his chainsaw in was emptied and replaced with cotton candy!" Sonoko countered, also laughing.

"Look at the time! You guys should probably be getting home, mind if I walk you?" Shārokku asked.

"Sheesh, flirting with three cute girls at once, what a player." Sonoko teased.

"Heh, I'm only intending to flirt with one of you." He thought to himself, but said while blushing wildly, "No! That isn't what I meant at all!"

"Mo, I was only teasing, you don't need to take everything so seriously." Sonoko laughed while they left the theater.

"So, Kurisuti, where do you live?" The disguised detective asked.

"22 Beika Block, Second street." She answered, "That is where I currently reside."

"22 Beika… that sounds familiar…" He said to himself out loud, then thought, "Hmm… that is near where I live, there aren't any mansions or apartment complexes near there… was there a Kurisuti household near there?"

Kurisuti smirked, immediately afterwards they heard a female scream. The two disguised teenagers immediately ran to the scene to see a mugging take place. The mugger had a gun in his hands and pointed it at the innocent woman who had screamed. Shārokku noticed a rock on the ground next to him, and as soon as the mugger had noticed the pair of teenagers who had arrived at the scene a rock was kicked straight into the culprit's hand, freeing the gun from his grip. Kurisuti then jumped, grabbed the gun, rolled, and got into a shooting position. Aiming the gun at the culprit she shot, leading a bloody mark on his face. He just collapsed and grabbed his face. Throughout all this Kurisuti remained calm and collected, much like she did this for a living.

"Kurisuti-san! Shārokku-senpai! Are you two okay?" Ran yelled.

As both teenagers looked to see Ran, the mugger took a bold move and jumped his armed captor. Grabbing the gun from her hand he smacked Kurisuti across the face, knocking her unconscious, and pointed the gun at Ran. As he shot Shārokku yelled, "Ran!" and jumped straight into the bullet. It hit him square in the shoulder and he moaned, "Call the cops and ambulance! Hurry Ran!"

"Masaka! I'm staying to help you two! I don't leave friends behind." Ran yelled defiantly. As the mugger shot another bullet at Ran, although scraping her face, mostly missed. Ran then kicked the gun out of the mugger's hand using her karate but realized that he was already falling unconscious.

"Bull's eye…" Shārokku whispered as he went unconscious.

"Did he do that?" Ran thought to herself.

"Ran! Aran-senpai! Kurisuti-senpai! Are you guys okay?" Sonoko yelled.

"Call the ambulance and a police! Hurry! Shārokku-senpai, Kurisuti-san, and the criminal are all unconscious!" Ran yelled.

"Yes ma'am!" Sonoko did as told.

In the hospital…

"Are you awake, Kudo-kun?" Kurisuti asked.

"Yeah… wait… WHAT?" Shārokku yelled, nearly falling off his bed.

"I said, 'Are you awake, Kudo-kun?' Did you not hear me?" Kurisuti deadpanned.

"What are you talking about, my name is Shārokku Aran!" Shinichi answered nervously, sweating like crazy.

"I know you're Shinichi Kudo, don't bother lying about it. I'm not gonna tell your girlfriend." Kurisuti answered.

"Who are you?" Shinichi asked with a serious face on.

"Hmm… I suppose I shouldn't mess around with you like the other one did to 'Edogawa Conan', wouldn't want you running to Agasa-Hakase's house in your condition." She started.

Shinichi gave her a confused look, she continued, "I'll explain later. First, make sure to keep calm, I wouldn't want to whole hospital hearing what I have to say. In short I'm an ex-member of the organization you call the Organization in Black or the Black Organization. I quit after they started using my drugs in experimental forms and killed my sister without even telling me why. Since I refused to continue working on the drug I was currently working on they locked me up in a small lab, handcuffed to a pipe coming out of the wall. I took the drug I created, APTX 4869, knowing that I'd be killed either way, and I ended up 'giving birth' to a clone with all my memories and of the approximate age of 7. She helped me escape and, already knowing you were possibly alive, came to Agasa-Hakase's house with me. I was hoping that you being in a similar situation, you with your young clone by the name of 'Edogawa Conan' and me with my young clone of 'Ai Haibara' that you would understand me and help me in my predicament.

"You bastard! How do you ever think that I could understand someone who created deadly poisons?" Shinichi yelled in a loud whisper.

Eyes showing sadness, shock, and self-pity for a moment, then said, "So, are you going to leave me to fend for myself?"

"Baro, I couldn't do that. If they find out about you they'll find out about me soon after. If you're staying near Ototo and I, then at least we can keep an eye out. Besides, you're able to make a cure, right?" He asked.

"I couldn't have remembered all the information about the drug even if I tried. Without any information on the drug I'm near powerless. Also, all the labs that had information on the drug have been burnt down. Though, in spite of all that, I was texted not too long ago, Haibara, my Imoto (Younger sister), has gone with Conan and Hakase to find a disk that might have some potential information on the drug. If they got that I might be able to at least make something to help the immune system fight the poison, if only for a little while."
"Well, I suppose it is better than Hakase could do by himself." Shinichi sighed, then went back to sleep.

The Desperate Revival

Why will Shinichi appear?

Is Ran starting to get suspicious of Shārokku or Conan?

How will Heiji Hattori play along in all this?