It was quiet. Far quieter than back home, but maybe it was because of just how big the Kudo manor was. Ran untangled herself from the white sheets of 'her' bed. She'd claimed the bedroom across from Shinichi's as her new bedroom. It was one of the closest rooms to his, and this way she'd be able to run directly to him own if something were to happen.

She hopped of the twin sized bed with a quiet thump, her night shirt brushing against her ankles as she stretched. She dug through the mahogany dresser for a moment before retrieving a simple pink skirt and a green shirt with a cat's face printed on the front. Today would be her first day of repeating elementary school and she wanted to at least make a decent impression. Pulling her night shirt over her head, she tossed the lavender flower print garment into a corner before getting dressed for the day.

She glanced at the door across from her own for a moment. Shinichi was not a morning person. And while he'd never been late to class because of it, she'd more often than not walked into his house to find him half way through breakfast because he'd slept through his alarm. She could let him sleep until breakfast was ready, she decided.

She dapped down the hallway towards the stars. Descending them, she made her way to the kitchen to start on breakfast. She knew there was food stuffs, and where everything was kept. The day before the Tropical Land fiasco she'd dragged him out to get food and then had helped put it away, like she had several times before. Standing on a chair she began cracking eggs as the stove warmed. To her right a rice cooker was doing its job. The rice cooker beeped as she was dividing the scrambled eggs between two plates.

She placed the bowls of rice and plates of eggs on two spots at the end of the western style dining table. Back in the kitchen a pot of coffee was brewing, it would be ready by the time a certain someone was down. With her preparations complete, Ran climbed back up the stairs to go poke a sleeping dragon– er, her friend Shinichi. He'd slept through his alarm; she could hear it even from the kitchen. How he slept through something that loud was a mystery all its' own.

She opened the door in a manor not meant to be quiet. She marched on over to the dark navy blue curtains and threw them open, letting in the morning sunshine. A bundle on the bed groaned and turned over to face her. The teen detective regarded her with ire as he poked his head out from his nest of blankets. With that bedhead of his, he looked the part of a sleepy cat, he even let out an annoyed hiss as he sat up. They didn't say anything to each other as Shinichi got out of bed and blearily stumbled out of his room in search of the nearest bathroom. His uniform was already hanging outside of his closet, so she was no longer needed.

She headed back downstairs to go eat breakfast. Exactly 10 minutes after she sat down, the coffee machine chirped and Shinichi came downstairs. He first made a beeline for the coffee; drinking a mug straight from the pot (it still amazed her how anyone could drink coffee as black as he liked it – and he liked his coffee blacker than she'd though possible). He brought a second mug with him to the table and began eating. It wasn't until the pair was out the door did they actually say anything ("You have you house key?" "Did you remember lunch?").

"Hey, Shinichi!" Sonoko called.

He regarded the heiress with a stained smile, but waited for her anyway. The tea brunet ran towards his as though she was going to be late for class, which she wasn't. He'd checked his watch after dropping Ran off, there was still plenty of time, just how he needed it.

"What is it?" He asked.

"Do you know were Ran is? She didn't call me last night and I'm worried." She replied.

He knew she'd be asking the question eventually.

"Yeah, she's doing some undercover work for me, we stumbled upon something yesterday." He explained, then placed a finger to his lips. "It's a secret, so please don't go blabbing it to everyone, okay?"

Sonoko pouted at him. "What kind of woman do you think I am?"

He didn't both responding to that, any answer would have been regarded as the wrong one and earned him a scowl or some form of retort.

"Well, sense your wife isn't here to care for you herself, I'll keep an eye on you in her place." She huffed.

Shinichi sputtered.

Repeating elementary school was not that bad, or at least Ran didn't mind it. Shinichi probably would have been bored out of his mind, being practically a prodigy and all. At least high school was closer to his cognitive lever, though she suspected he still found those to be not mentally engaging enough. She regarded each class with the same level of enthusiasm as her fellow grade schoolers.

"Wow! You're so good at this!" Yoshido Ayumi said.

The grade school girl regarded her work, all simple addition and subtraction, with awe, or maybe it was the fact that she'd done it so quickly. Ayumi's friends Genta and Mitsuhiko regardewd her work with less enthusiasm, but no less impressed.

"Thanks, I did this sort of thing in America," she said.

Her cover story was as Rachel Christy was that she was a relative of Agasa's from America whose family was dealing with some hard times as felt a change of scenery would do her some good. It was a solid story, simple enough that no one would ask question, and easy enough to build upon if needed.

Sonoko is going to be treated a litter differently, scense she's pretty much going to fill Kogoro's role when he's not there and Hattori or Kazuha aren't either. I guess this story could pontentially become 'Shinixhi become that damsel in distress we all know he secretly it', because he's the only other person besides Sonoko who doesn't know a valid for of self defence, and Sonoko is going to have to step up her game to protect him.