Altering
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Days turned into weeks, and Shinichi found falling back into his old life surprisingly easy. It was almost as if he'd never left at all. The major exception was the fact that Ran wouldn't leave him alone about his mysterious crush. She kept springing questions on him at the weirdest moments. The worst part was when she'd asked him with Sonoko in range. Shinichi was pretty sure the surprised yelp had been heard by the entire school.
There was also the fact that his name was even more well known than it had been before, and he was getting all kinds of requests for him to work for people. In little more than a single night Sleeping Kogoro had been eclipsed.
Shinichi made it a habit of avoiding the street Ran lived on at all costs. It was self preservation, really.
"Not like he could solve anything now anyway," he muttered to himself.
"What was that Shinichi?" Ran asked, eying him suspiciously.
Dropping the deadpan look on his face he replaced it with an overly cheerful one. "Nothing! Nothing at all!"
Ran took a swing at him, and he ducked out of the way.
Well, so long as he didn't have make any severely life altering decisions for awhile he was content.
It helped that he'd caught Satou talking to Yumi about an upcoming Kid heist while he was at the station the other day. Only a little.