Tokyo

Conan Edogawa sneezed.

He looked out the window of Mouri's detective office at the busy street below him and sighed.

It was the summer holidays and Conan was bored. He was stuck at home with Kogoro Mouri because there was nothing to do. Ran had gone out wit Sonoko Suzuki and the Detective Boys were over at Dr. Agasa's place, trying out a new game.

Mouri had not gotten any new cases recently. It seemed as though Tokyo had become the world's most crime free place. That was why Conan felt the need to do something to stimulate his brain cells.

'It's better than to watch the old man drinking beer and watching reruns of Yoko Okino's concerts and shouting till his lungs were sore.' Conan thought to himself. He turned back to his detective novel, one he had read close to a hundred times.

'I wish something big and exciting happens.' He thought.

Another part of Tokyo

Ichigo Kurosaki yawned and flopped onto his bed. He closed his eyes and got ready to take a nap.

"YEAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Ichigo jumped up, shocked.

Kon was lying on the bed, flattened by Ichigo's body. The lion-bear plushie stood up angrily and shook his paw at Ichigo.

"Do you care about me? How could you flatten my beautiful body like that? I deserve more respect around here."

"KON! What the heck were you doing on the bed?" Ichigo demanded furiously.

"I was sleeping there obviously." Kon replied, brushing his shoulder. He looked up to see Ichigo's leg flying towards him. He could not avoid the kick in time. He flew backwards and bounced around the room.

"You don't sleep on my bed. You can sleep on the floor, on the table, in the toilet but NOT ON MY BED!" Ichigo grabbed Kon before he could reach the ground and flung him into the closet.

"I hate you, you idiot!" Kon's muffled voice came from the closet.

Ichigo plopped back onto the bed and sighed. It was peaceful and quiet again. He closed his eyes again.

"Ichigo!!! WAKE UP, ICHIGO! We have an emergency!!!"

Ichigo's eyes sprang open again and he leapt off the bed. He saw Rukia standing in front of him, dressed in her shinigami robes.

"Knock before you come in, Rukia!" Ichigo complained. "I think a growing man like me needs his…" Rukia gave him a punch to the stomach and he groaned.

"We need to hurry. Soul Society needs us." She said simply. "Where's Kon? We need him to take over your body again."

"I'm here, Rukia nee-chan!" Kon said happily, opening the closet and leaping to hug Rukia. Rukia gave him a violent backhand punch and he flew back into the closet.

"Come Ichigo." Rukia said, pulling on her glove. She leapt forward and punched Ichigo hard. Ichigo's shinigami form appeared. Rukia then went over to Kon and grabbed him hard. He was protesting and wriggling about. She put her hand into his mouth and pulled out the modified soul orb. Then she put the orb into Ichigo's body.

"Gah! I hate this body! It's so smelly and I feel stupid." Kon complained.

"You little…" Ichigo bared his teeth but Rukia pulled him back.

"We need to go now."

The two shinigamis leapt out the window and air hopped into the distance.

"I'm going out, oji-san." Conan said.

"Ah…um. Don't do anything stupid when you're out." Mouri looked up from the television. "GO YOKO!!!"

"Idiotic old man." Conan muttered under his breath. He closed the door and walked down the stairs. He could still hear Mouri shouting for Yoko.

Conan was bored. There was absolutely nothing to do. He decided to go to Dr. Agasa's house. At least he'd get some company there. Even if the Detective Boys were most likely going to thrash him in the computer game. He had absolutely no talent for computer games.

He walked slowly on the pavement. He decided to test out his deduction skills on the people passing by.

'That woman…she's an artist.' He thought, looking at a woman who was hurrying by. 'Her hands have obvious signs of paints and her fingers are slender. Plus she's holding a stack of canvases. She's probably going to hand in her paintings because she's rushing so much.' Conan smiled to himself. 'Who am I impressing?'

He continued walking. He thought about how great it would be to be back in his own body again. He didn't want Ran to miss him too much. She'd been weeping in her room often, he noticed. But she would not show it out in public. That was Ran, she was strong on the outside but just as emotional on the inside.

Suddenly, he felt a strange sensation in his stomach. He looked up. The people were still hurrying around. Nothing seemed to be amiss. He shrugged his shoulders and continued walking.

"WHAT THE HECK DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?!" Ichigo screamed. "You want ME to kidnap a KID?"

"It's odd. He's the one we're supposed to bring back to Soul Society. But why did the General Captain ask for a kid?"

"Now you start thinking. You were just about to nick the kid and run." Ichigo said furiously.

"And he has no spirit power at all. How am I going to communicate with a kid with no spirit power?"

"RUKIA! You've got the wrong person. So let's go find the right person now. And please don't screw up anymore."

"I didn't screw up, Ichigo." Rukia narrowed her eyes dangerously. "See what the communicator says. That kid there is Shinichi Kudo."

"I think we better follow him some more first before we nick him away." Ichigo suggested.

"We don't have time for that, Ichigo. Soul Society is in trouble."

"We need the right person. So we better make sure first."

"Fine!"

"Maybe we can ask Uruhara to help. He'll think of something."

"Uruhara might not be interested in minor things like these. So don't bother him."

"I do believe I heard my name being mentioned." Uruhara stepped out from the shadows behind them. He was flanked by the massive Tessai and the two children, Jinta and Ururu.

"Uruhara, you idiot!" Rukia said, glaring at him. "You gave me a heart attack."

"Apologies Lady Rukia. I simply appeared out of the sha-." He could not complete his sentence because at that moment, Rukia gave him a flying kick to the head.

"And THAT was for scaring me."

Mr. Tessai and the two kids just stared.

"Whoa." was all Ichigo managed to say.

Uruhara's shop

"So now you're saying that we need this Shinichi fellow?" Uruhara asked, rubbing a bruise on his head.

"Yes. And we need you help us." Rukia replied. "Find a way to help us."

"Yes. I have here a device that might just arouse our young detective's interest."

Rukia and Ichigo leaned in closer to look at the weird device Uruhara brought out. It was a small metallic machine that looked a little like a gun.

"What does it do?" Ichigo asked. He prodded the machine a little.

"Well, it does this." Uruhara reached over and pressed a button. The machine gave a series of beeps and clicks. A whirring sound could be heard from deep inside the machine. Finally, the machine stopped. And suddenly, an object flew out of the barrel of the machine and hit Ichigo on the head.

"What the heck?!"

"Ah, it's a letter. Now all we have to do is give it to that Kudo kid." Uruhara looked pleased. "And both of you can wait here. I assure you he'll be here very, very soon."

"I hope you're right, Uruhara." Rukia said.

"I hope so too, Lady Rukia."