Okay, this is the last chapter! I know you guys are probably irked about me always saying: "This is the last chapter!" and then after that chapter is posted, I say: "There's one more chapter!" I'm sorry about that. It's just that if I had posted this chapter and the third one together, it would have been too long...

Anyway, chapter 4! Oh, and if you are super emotional, this may be to upsetting especially if you love Ayumi. Also, to Nika: I know and I do apologize for killing off Conan. Still, I'm glad you like my story. Also, I'm thinking of a sequel, too.

Okay, where were we? Oh yes! Oh, and this is going to be a long chapter, so please do be prepared!

"Manabu glared at her and went to his car again. He grabbed his keys. He was still naked but goddamit, he had to get out of here first. The car starting was music to his ears. He felt he could escape. Suddenly...

"Where do you think you're going, Akuma?!(1)""

Manabu's body stiffened in surprise. Who was that?! There was nobody else when he and Ayumi came, they didn't see anyone in the road. And that voice - it sounded so familiar - and so near. Manabu could barely move his eyes to see the interior rear view mirror. What he saw sent chills down his spine. There was the late Conan Edogawa's face glaring directly at him. Pale yet red with fury. Manabu screamed and had gotten out of the car and ran to the peak of the cliff. When he saw to his left, he saw Conan still standing there.

"YOU! BUT..." Manabu shrieked in terror. Conan said, coldly, "I'm dead, right? Yeah, I know. Everyone in Japan knows. " His eyes were transfixed on Manabu. Manabu then snapped, "Hey, listen you dead Sherlock Holmes! You ruined this special night for me. I get to spend a date with a hot babe and then she yells at me when I want to have sex with her! It's just normal to have sex! Then she says I'm sexist! I just think she should respect me and love me since she's my date. If you had never came in her life, she wouldn't be moping about you and admiring me..."

Conan's eyes were unblinking as the raven haired boy continued, "Do you even know what you're saying? First of all, you act like she's your property. She is not property. She is a human being just like you. Second of. all, forcing somebody to have sex with you might as well be rape. Good thing she resisted. Third of all, she is not just "hot babe". She has a name..." Suddenly, Conan's calm face suddenly took a mask of rage and hate. He boomed out: "IT'S AYUMI YOSHIDA!"

Manabu snarled, "You're going to make me deaf, you..." and punched Conan. However, to his horror, he saw the punch go through the transparent teenager. Conan let out a laugh and continued to say coldly, "Do you really think you can hurt somebody who has died? I'm a goddamn ghost! Your punches are pathetic! Ayumi's too good for you. You are a cruel heartless demon and worst of all a coward..." Manabu looked directly at the eyes, which continued to be constantly fixed to his. Conan then thought for a second and brightened, "Oh! You're Etsuko's little brother, aren't you?" Manabu's eyes became huge as he snapped, "How did you!"

Conan said, becoming serious, his eyes still focused on Manabu, "I saw on the news. Ten years ago, Etsuko Hoshi killed her father after years of him abusing her, her mother, and her younger brother. It was during in a fight that Etsuko grabbed her gun and aimed it at her father. Mr. Hoshi was angry. He threatened Etsuko. Etsuko shot him in his dick. Twice. Mr. Hoshi started crying, begging for mercy. You know what Etsuko did? She shot him in the head. Oh, she gave him mercy all right. Mrs. Hoshi was obviously not pleased... she yelled at Etsuko to stop. Etsuko grabbed her mother and shot her in the mouth. Mrs. Hoshi and Mr. Hoshi were dead! And little Manabu Hoshi, only eight, saw every little bit! You...my dear, dear, Manabu, look like him. Same names, same appearance..." Manabu began to tremble, something he hadn't done in ages.

"Hey! You're that brother of that girl who killed her parents!" "So, how does it feel to have somebody crazy for a sister?" "Ha! Manabu's sister is a freak!" "Freak!" "Freak!" "Freak!" "You know what?! You're gonna grow up to a freak too!" "I wouldn't be surprised if you killed someone. After all, the apple never rots far from the tree." "Ew! Why would I date the brother of a bitch?!"

Manabu looked at Conan with huge tearful eyes, pathetically waiting for a sympathetic remark.

Thanks to Etsuko, my school life was over. Kids laughed at me, called me crazy, and thought I was going to be a murderer. It didn't help my sister died of AIDS in prison and everybody called her a sex-driven murderer. They kept saying I would turn into her. It wasn't until middle school my school life finally after years, skyrocketed.. I started to become handsome and athletic. I got my revenge on those bastards who made fun of me by beating them up and convincing everybody to ostracize them. It felt so good seeing them suffer. When I saw Ayumi...my heart missed a beat. Then, you came...and stole her away from me... Come on, say something nice...But..

Instead, he was met with Conan's unwavering cold vengeful dark eyes.

They were eerie-looking.

At that second, Manabu screamed and rushed into the car once more and began to drive off. Conan continued glaring into the sandy-haired boy, only to widen his eyes in fear when he saw that Manabu was driving too close to the edge. He shouted, "Manabu! Look out!" Manabu didn't have time to look. When he did, he had looked up, losing all control of the car. Conan could only watch in fixed horror as Manabu screamed, as he and the car began to swerve. Conan shouted in shock and horror, "Manabu!" But it was too late. The car had fallen off of the point and into the rocks and water.

With Manabu in it.

Conan moaned in horror as he heard the car smash into the rocks and it splashing into the water. He didn't dare to look down but knew it was necessary. With fear in his eyes, he looked down. There it was: the beaten down car- once beautifully fixed was broken. At first Conan thought, He's not dead...he's... It wasn't until he saw the body of a blonde male, with a bleeding head. It was Manabu. He's dead...he's dead... Conan thought. However, Manabu was the least of his problems. Ayumi! Conan thought in terror.

He rushed to the brunette and knelt down next to her. He saw the damage that Manabu had done. Ayumi's lively red lips were colorless. Her beautiful and rosy face was pale. Her beautiful white blouse soaked in a bloody red. Thanks to that devil Manabu. What did Ayumi do to deserve this fate? She can't be dead, please no, don't let it be true... Conan thought. He held his head close to her chest, waiting for at least a faint pulse. To his relief, he heard a faint heartbeat. Suddenly, he felt a hand go through him. He looked at the owner of the hand. It was Ayumi Yoshida's hand. She was touching him. Conan watched at Ayumi, who opened her eyes. She looked strait to him and smiled, as she mouthed, "Conan-kun..." Suddenly, her smiled disappeared and she let one shuddering breath before closing her eyes.

Conan watched in horror. AYUMI! He shouted. She laid still. No...please... you can't be dead! No! You're strong, Ayumi! Hold on!

The doctor sighed sadly, "I'm sorry. There was just nothing more to do... she was dead by the time we found her..." Friends and Family of Ayumi Yoshida were called up to hear the tragic news. It was a tragic shock. There was not a dry eye. Mrs. Yoshida's eyes were spilling tears while she held her remaining daughter, Tomoko, who was weeping at the grief and shock at losing her older sister. Mr. Yoshida was looking at the doctor, eyes spilling with tears. Could you really blame him? He had just lost one of his daughters. Genta and Megumi were hugging each other as Megumi Ito sobbed and Genta Kojima was crying. Mitsuhiko Tsubaraya was crying. Even Ai Haibarra- who had a poker strait face- was crying, looking down at the floor. Ran Mouri looked in horror and grief. All she kept saying was, "No..." Conan was watching the entire scene, as he hid in the hallway. Nobody noticed him. Mainly because he was a ghost.

Suddenly, he started sprinting and ran out of the hospital. He had no idea where to go. He just kept running, away from the hospital, from them, from Ayumi's lifeless cadaver somewhere in this hospital. Suddenly, when he thought of her body, he made a realization. Ayumi was sinless when she was alive, she is in paradise now. Her parents, her sister, Ran, The Detective Boys, Megumi, they would all reunite with her. But he would never see her again because he was a ghost. She - in a beautiful, place full of light and peace, where no strife existed for no end. And he? Trapped in this hellhole of Earth for eternity.

How I wish that I can rewind time, so I can see you again, so I can hug you once more, and never let go of you again. I know your time has come, that the fates called you, to be in the heavens, be in a better place, yet I never thought it would hurt so much (2)

At that moment of horrific enlightenment his eyes instantly filled with tears and he let out, shouting to the heavens:

"AAAAYYYYYUMMMMMIIIIIII!"

It had been two days since Ayumi died. Conan hadn't returned back to his current home ever since Ayumi died in his arms. He had been spending the last two days in depression in his home when he had been alive. He didn't care that the ghosts he knew back home were worried. In fact, he could care less. And even if they did care, they would probably laugh at him anyway, thinking it was silly for a ghost like him to mourn the death of a mortal. But they didn't know Ayumi. She was always by his side, loyal even when it was over. She didn't love him because he had a washboard body (he didn't), because he was rich (he wasn't), because he was popular (not in a million years), she liked him because he was him. A feat most girls (like Megumi Ito or Sonoko Suzuki) Ayumi's age were unable to do: love someone for the inside not the outside. They wouldn't be laughing if they knew her. They'd be crying too.

Conan got and started to walk away. He was unable to stay here any longer at least for today. He's walk to wherever his mourning heart guided him to. Perhaps, to a bookstore. Or Dr. Agasa's home. Maybe Teitan High School. Or...

"Aah! Aah! Conan-kun! Conan-kun!"

Conan's eyes widened. He swore that...voice...it was undeniably... AYUMI! And it sounded so close, so near... could it be? "Ayumi! Hold on!" Conan shouted, memories of them as eight-year-olds running through his mind. He ran out of the door and ran to where his beloved's voice echoed. It was coming from the alley. He looked around and his breath drew. There was Ayumi, her wound gone, her teal eyes shining, her pale skin shining, her brown hair flowed beautifully, she was clad in white clothes. She was glowing... Yet, she was frowning. Conan's mouths pursed into a smile and he let out, "Ayumi!"

However, instead of greeting him, Ayumi let out in horror, "Conan-kun!" She ran to him. Conan was about to kiss her in the forehead when she screeched in terror, "Conan, listen to me! Manabu wants you..." her eyes widened and she pointed behind them, "Look out!" Conan's eyes widened in shock at Ayumi's worried face and out of habit, looked behind him. He gasped. There was Manabu Hoshi. He was bleeding, his skin ripped open, the eyes of dead shark eyes. Manabu was holding a rope. Behind him, an infernal portal... "Aw, why did this touching reunion have to end so suddenly...? It was getting so sweet..." Manabu taunted, and he, suddenly, flung his goddamn rope towards Conan.

"Conan!" Ayumi screamed. She looked around and, with all her might, pushed the raven haired ghost out of the way. Conan watched in fixed horror, as he watched the rope intertwine Ayumi, towards Manabu. Manabu smirked, grabbing Ayumi. Conan snapped, "Let her go!" Manabu smirked, "Not a chance." Conan scowled as Manabu said mockingly, "Ta-Ta..." With Ayumi in his shoulder, he jumped towards the portal, them disappearing. Conan watched in anger but noticed the portal there. He ran towards it and an overwhelmingly infernal force surrounded him.

Conan's enraged thoughts zoomed like an angered ocean rushing to destroy anything in its path. That jerk... even in death, he can't just rest! He has to make everyone suffer! I was the one that unintentionally caused his death. He thinks he can get the last laugh...He's wrong... JUST BE OKAY, AYUMI! I'M COMING! (3)

Conan began running towards where he swore Ayumi and Manabu ran at. He couldn't help but eye the tormented souls, all of them (except for Ayumi and himself) deserving punishment. They were moaning in pain, begging for him to free them. But Conan had somebody to rescue. His soul burning and burning obviously not made for this hell. Thank heavens, he had nothing of clothing on, having discarded them in his depression, or he'd be sweating, suffering more. Suddenly, he heard Ayumi scream in anger, "Leave me alone! Do you expect me to forgive you and be your little sex doll after what you did to me?!" Conan scowled and ran towards the voice. He found them, they were next to a burning tree. What he saw angered him. Manabu had stripped to nothingness and Ayumi... her white beautiful dress, the top ripped, exposing what Manabu lusted for.

Conan growled and ran towards him. "Don't you dare!" He screamed. Ayumi had covered her exposed top. Manabu glared at Conan, as Conan scowled, "Manabu...leave her alone..." Manabu snarled, "Why should I? You...you killed me." "I didn't kill you...it was you and your stupidity. I warned you." Conan stated. Manabu growled and was about to punch him when Ayumi...grabbed a branch from the burning tree and she smashed Manabu's head with it. The ghost boy fell down unconscious. Ayumi ran towards Conan. Ayumi whispered to him, "Let's go! Fast!" Conan nodded, and the two began to run.

"Ayumi...I'm so glad to see you again!" Conan said, huffing as they ran. Ayumi laughed a bit, "I am, too..." The two noticed the portal back to the living realm. The two smiled as Conan remarked, "Ayumi! There it is! We're safe now!" Suddenly, Ayumi screamed in terror. Conan looked at her and gasped. There was Manabu, grabbing Ayumi tightly. "You don't give up, do you!" Ayumi growled at her tormentor. Manabu smirked, "Babe, you're my sex bomb..." but he scowled and looked at Conan, "You leave, she stays with me...besides, the portal is closing and... I'm going to be sucked in my own hell, to stay FOREVER...but at least I can be sucked in with the hottest girl..." Conan grimaced with growing anger, "I don't mean to boast but I've happened to save her lives multiple times. My last moments of life were saving her in fact. You, you killed her... Do you even now about her life, her story, something BESIDES APPEARANCE?!" Manabu laughed, "Oh, screw that crap..."

Ayumi suddenly wiggled her way out of Manabu. She ran towards Conan as she held his hand. She glared at Manabu as she snapped, "I hate you, Manabu. Get that strait, you worm. You tried to rape me, you killed me, you brought sadness to everyone that loved me... I can't forgive you, in fact, I hate you... I'll never forgive you for this..." Manabu watched in surprise but suddenly growled and then, just as she was about to enter the portal, grabbed her arm. Manabu threw her into the ground, like a rag doll. The girl sat up, her rage growing. Manabu picked her up, and held her deathly tight, and snarled at Conan, "So long... your girl's mine..." Suddenly, Manabu fell down on the ground. Conan, in his rage, had tackled him. Ayumi stood up and ran towards Conan as Conan said, "No, she's not your girl..." He looked as he saw the portal closing. Time was running out.

Conan and Ayumi began running towards the portal, which was fading away... When they got there, they were ready to jump... Then Manabu grabbed Ayumi by the leg. "Eek!" Ayumi screamed in terror, frustration, and anger as she began struggling to break free. She watched the portal fading and fading away... "Welcome home, darling..." Manabu smiled evilly and lustfully at Ayumi as he readied himself to drag the girl. Suddenly, Conan pounced on Manabu. The blonde boy became shocked, releasing the girl.

It was like a movie. The second Manabu let go of the brunette's hand, it let off a chain reaction. The girl had been shocked as well that she fell right through the portal. Next thing she knew, she was on her hands and knees, back on Earth. She looked behind her and gasped, in horror. The portal closed right in front of her eyes, shutting off Conan and Manabu from the living realm...forever... For a second, she watched the now-gone portal and then said to herself in sadness, eyes forming bitter tears, "Could it be? Conan's...gone?" Tears fell from her beautiful sea-blue eyes and she screamed: "No! Conan!"

Conan watched in growing horror as the portal sealed off for good. Manabu's face formed in horror - at the loss of the girl he lusted for. Conan then lowered his head. But Manabu growled and started beating Conan at his back. "You son of a bitch! That bitch was supposed to be mine!" Manabu screamed. Suddenly,a pair of devilish huge hands started to grasp the blonde haired boy. Manabu's eyes widened, anger and rage replaced with fear and terror. "It is your time..." a dark voice said to Manabu. Conan watched in horror as Manabu was dragged into sinful darkness...never to be seen by anyone but the sinning souls ever again. Conan looked at the darkness and looked at the ceiling. Somewhere, Ayumi was going back to paradise. And he? Oh, in eternal damnation, a nice way of spending...well, forever.

Conan sighed sadly as he stared into darkness. Probably what he'd be staring at now. "I'm sorry...Ayumi...so sorry..." Suddenly, there was a bright light, the last thing Conan saw before he lost unconsciousness.

Conan Edogawa felt some warm rays hit his body. He slowly but surely opened his eyes. The first thing he saw was Ayumi's face. Her teal eyes were shining with relief and she smiled a half-smile, her checks scarlet, the top of her dress now fixed, as though it had never been ripped at all. All he mouthed was, "Ayumi-chan..." Ayumi responded, "Conan-kun...are you...are you okay?" Conan sat up and said, "I'm fine. And you, Ayumi?" Ayumi smiled, her blush fading, "I'm fine..." Conan looked down on himself. Interestingly,he was still pale. He thought for sure he'd would be red and burnt but he was now unharmed. Conan began to look around. Instead of burning trees, flames, tormented souls of the evil, there was beauty everywhere. The room was bright and beautiful. Even the futon he was resting on was too comfortable to describe any words. Outside in the window there were happy souls.

Paradise was beautiful after all. Just like everybody thought it was.

"Ayumi...I'm in..." Conan said. Ayumi smiled and nodded, "You're in paradise..." Conan said, "But how...?" Ayumi looked at him as she added gratefully, "Remember back at Hell? How you helped me escape? That redeemed you... from your accidental murder of that girl who shot me in June. You saved me from a terrible ordeal and Hell. I love you..." Conan's cheeks became scarlet. Finally, he smiled and held her hand. He neared her and said, "I love you." and gave a kiss on her forehead. Ayumi watched his face and her checks grew rosy too. She gave a small smile.

Conan said, feeling light, "Come on...why don't we go see a bit of Paradise?" Ayumi nodded, smiling a bit more and giggled, "I'll show you this neat little view..." With that the two with smiles walked outside to join their fellow souls to enjoy paradise. However, it wasn't just the fact that they were in paradise that made them happy. It was also the fact that they were together forever, with nothing to separate them anymore. Now, they could truly rest in peace together.

Fin

Wow! That, my fellow fanfic writers, is the end!

Oh, now to explain to you what the ones with numbers mean.

1) Akuma means "devil" in Japanese.

2) Lyrics is actually a translation of a Spanish song I heard in a Christian Radio Program called : "Te Extranare". If you speak Spanish, or are of Spanish/Hispanic descent and can understand it, I recommend you to listen to this song while reading this story (particularly the parts with the deaths of Conan and Ayumi.)

3) This is a shout-out to episodes 12 and 140, episodes that have moments where Conan shows genuine concern over Ayumi.

Finally, this story is finished! I hope you Conan and Ayumi fans enjoyed it. Remember, it was my first attempt at a fic. I only own my OCs. Please Review! No flames, just constructive criticism.

Peace Out!