This next one here is not listed on the first page, and it's an old story I had since last year sitting in my notes. It's a Time Travel/Conan and Ai haven't aged a single day fanfic. Well, it's just one of the many ideas I have had that can be fun to think about for the story. I kind of typed this up as a free write so it's a spur of the moment and I didn't really think this story all the way, just went with the flow and typed it all out. Note: All Canon Pairings. Enjoy!

Title: To Start Over

Type: Story

Summary: They were tired. They needed a plan, an escape, a way out. Then, an opportunity presented itself and so the two found a way to start over.

Look for the rest at the bottom.

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The night was calm and quiet, not a noise to be heard except the low humming of the computers and machinery in the underground lab. No one was around this late at night other than two children who were quietly walking around. The first child was a little girl who looked about five to seven years old, she had long auburn hair that went to her waist and straight cut bangs in the front. The other was a boy also looked about five to seven with short raven black hair and a cowlick in the back. The two headed into the security room and went toward the computers. The girl went under the panel and the boy on the chair controlling the computers and monitors. Sounds of rapid clacking noises were on the keyboard while sounds of clicks and sparks were heard below. After a few seconds, the sound of the system powering down could be heard. With that, the boy and girl immediately made a run for another room which looked like a control central. There were so many computers, but the one the boy made a dash for was the largest one, which was the main computer. The girl went to each of the other monitors and started reprogramming and re-coding them all while the boy went to downloading files. Neither one of them spoke to each other, and by the looks of it, they would not speak until their job was done and they were home free.

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On the top floor of the lab, was a front for an inventor's museum that has been around for about 300 years, with its opening date in the 1990s. Along with being a museum, it was also the housing to two caretakers who were currently sleeping in the bedroom. It was peaceful and quiet until an alarm rang. The man who was sleeping on the bed was woken up by the alarm and he was alerted. The woman groaned in her groggy voice and said "Nathan, did you forget to turn off the alarm last night? Please turn that off. The museum is closed today so we can sleep in." The man, now known as Nathan immediately turned it off.

"Sorry dear, I guess I forgot. Well, since I'm up, I may as well go check on the children. Since we're off today, we can finally take the children somewhere later."

The woman yawned and replied, "Yes we can, they haven't been out since we've been caring for them. It will be good to get out, but in the morning when the sun's higher up."

"Okay dear, go back to sleep, I'm going to check on the children." The woman nodded and yawned, she laid back down and went back into her dreamland.

Nathan got up and walked all the way to the door. Exiting the bedroom, he entered the hallway and walked down to the children's bedroom. While walking, he started thinking about the two children and how much they had taken a liking to them. The circumstances in which they met were unusual, but in the end, he was glad.

-Flashback-

It was the early morning when he was coming home from a seminar he was asked to speak at for a young inventor's school. If anything, Nathan enjoyed his time speaking to all the enthusiastic young adults who were interested in being inventors, especially since this day and age, they were in such high demand. So now he was on the road driving back to the museum. The road in the morning was empty of cars, but that was expected since the museum was out in a secluded area. But while driving down, something that wasn't a natural color caught his eyes. He couldn't ignore what he saw, so he parked the car to the side and walked back to see what it was that was out there on the side of the road. Getting closer, he noticed it was a big deep blue blanket that was sort of dirty. Why there was such a blanket way out here he wondered, so he got closer to pick it up. Once he got closer and picked up the blanket, he saw there were two children, a boy, and a girl under the blanket. He was startled by the sight and looking closer, the children were covered in dirt and they were shivering in their sleep. There was no way to imagine where they had been and how they got there, but it wasn't the time to be shocked. Thinking fast, Nathan picked up the children and put them in the back seat of his car and drove off.

Once he got back to the lab, he called "Kaya honey, come here quick!" Kaya, loving wife to Nathan came as soon as she heard his call.

"Nathan, what's wrong? Wait, are those children!?" she asked surprisingly. He quickly explained he found them on the side of the road and so they cared for the children until they woke up. When they did they both were looking around and were unsure of where they were. Kaya went over to them and talked to them.

"Are you two okay? My husband found you both on the side of the road, and we were both worried for you." The boy and girl nodded, but their eyes still showed they were scared.

The boy said in such a scare, childish voice "You aren't going to take us back are you?"

Kaya looked puzzled and asked, "What do you mean?"

The girl spoke up and explained, "Mommy and Daddy are gone, and we wanted to get away from the orphanage. They said they separate children, and I didn't want to be separated from Nii-Chan."

Kaya looked a little surprised for two reasons, one that she heard about cases where brothers and sisters get separated in foster care and two a little Japanese slipped from the girl. She let the slip of the tongue slide from her mind and thought about their situation a little.

She finally responded, "I don't know what to say right now. I wish I could say yes, but the system will probably take you back." They looked frightened, but she continued "But seeing as my husband and I are special cases, I'll see what we can do." A sense of relief seemed to wash over them and she could see that as she walked out.

"Honey, those children..." Kaya was interrupted.

"I heard your conversation Kaya, but I don't know. They're children, this is no place to raise a child, let alone two children."

"Let's give them a few days before calling and well call. But honestly, children are kind of what I've been hoping for since we found out I couldn't bear any." She said.

Nathan gave her a long hard look and sighed. He nodded and agreed to the next few days. The events that transpired after that lead in favor to the children, for they displayed interest in the technology and the sciences the lab had to offer. They even were helpful through their childish words which were like hints to the couple about simple solutions to problems. They were a joy to have, and with a few calls, they were granted to stay under the care of Nathan and Kaya.

-Flashback End-

He was happy and content with his life so far. He was given a chance to have some children around to take care of, even if they weren't his own. He had a loving wife who loved the sciences and was an inventor on her own. The caretakers of the private facility that holds both the history of technology and a lab underground which takes its efforts to make better technology than the last. The best part of all, their lab was home to the time travel project. This was aimed at creating a time travel machine to go back to the past, and the great thing was, the machine was almost complete. So far, they have successfully been able to make the machine work, but according to the programming, it was only able to go back in time and could not return forward. Still, this was a huge leap since time travel has been one of the almost unachievable dreams of man.

Nathan was nearly at the door of the children, he wanted to be careful and make sure that he opened it slowly. A click of the knob and a small squeak of the door hinge and he was peeking in. At first, he saw two bumps on each bed, content with the sight he thought they might be sleeping. So he went in to check on them, but as he got closes, he noticed the blankets were as still as a rock. He questioned it and got even closer to the bed, and that's when he saw both were replaced by a pillow. He panicked, "Where are they?" Just as he was about to go out, he noticed an envelope on the floor that was being illuminated by the beam of light from the door. He picked it up and turned it around. On the back, it said To Nathan and Kaya. He hurriedly opened it and saw the letter. After reading the letter, he quickly went to wake Kaya.

-.-.-

The sounds of clacking keyboards and electrical sparks could be heard and a smile could be seen on the faces of the children. The girl was relieved that all of what she did was over.

She spoke to the boy, "We did it. Everything is done, the bombs are in place and the data has been deleted. We can now get away and change it all."

He looked at her and nodded. "Ah, it's been so long since I had hope like this. But doing this means we're changing a lot of things, not just the past but the future too."

"It's worth it, don't you believe so? We've waited for this day since they announced the creation of the Time Machine Project."

He chuckled at that and replied "Yeah, that was also around the same time you finished the antidote. We could have had our lives and lived in our true bodies, but when you suggested it, I was surprised."

"Well, I knew it was worth it, you've never let go of her even after all these years. You've watched over her children and even her great-grandchildren after that. You've never moved and have proven your love to be strong for her. So today is the day we'll go back, back to the day when the BO was no more, back to the day they destroyed all copies of the drug, back to the day I asked you to wait for me to finish the antidote." She said with honesty and truth in her voice. But somehow, he knew there was some sadness in there.

He spoke, "I'm sorry, I love you, but only as a friend, a partner, and a sister. It's not the same way I have felt about her." He saw her eyes go wide, and then a smile was growing on her face.

"It's okay, I've known that for the longest time. But somehow, it still hurts a little to hear even now. I still assume it's because our bodies and minds have been preserved for so long." The spark noises were growing louder, they both looked at each other and nodded. Before going toward the machine, she asked a question.

"Kudo-kun, are you ready to go change everything?" He smiled, it's been a long time since he heard that name, his true last name.

"Ah, I'm ready Haibara. Are you?" She smiled too and nodded, for she hadn't heard that name in a long time as well. They both walked to the machine, a bright flash bathed the room and then they were no more.

-.-.-

Kaya was sleeping and relaxing in bed, her wonderful pillows were comforting her and she was nearly in her dreamland. That was until she heard a voice that sounded rather panicked. She knew it was Nathan, and immediately got up. "Nathan, what's wrong?"

He couldn't say anything more than "The children, here. Read it, we need to stop them." She took the letter and read it:

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Dear Nathan-san and Kaya-san,

Thank you for everything. We've been happy here with you both, to be called your family and even be called by our true names is something I will never forget. We can't tell you the true meaning of what we meant but we both won't forget these experiences. But we wanted to tell you we've decided to go, we're going back to fix everything and make sure what happened to us won't happen a second time. We're going to the past, we're going to fix everything. We thank you for all you've done for us and we'll remember you as we disappear.

From,

Shinichi and Shiho

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"Nathan! The time machine, they're going to go back to their parents!" Kaya exclaimed. "Hurry, we got to stop them!"

Both Kaya and Nathan got their security cards and ran for the project zone. But getting there was difficult for most of the power was shut down, and the emergency backup generator didn't successfully power the whole place. But finally, they arrived on the floor of the project zone. As soon as the elevator opened, they heard sparks of electricity getting louder and louder.

"Nathan, hurry! Go to the computer! Shut it down!" Nathan rushed and tried to program it, but with little success in shutting it down. But then he thought, if he couldn't get them out, he could reprogram it to just change the date to today. So change he did but failed to notice one thing, the year which he quickly typed. By the time he was done, the light bathed the room in white, and Shinichi and Shiho were gone. Nathan and Kaya saw that the machine was destroyed. The future was slowly fading away without the two even noticing they were fading along with it.

TBC?

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Yes I know, I left it as it is without fixing any of the grammar errors and such. I'll fix it one of these days. XD Normally I put all this information up top, but I thought it would be too much spoiler content, I guess? Anyway, here you go, all the ideas I had in mind for this story.

Idea: Shinichi and Shiho haven't aged a day + Time Travel.

Sub-Ideas:

-The reason Shinichi and Shiho (Conan & Ai) ended up in this museum was that they actually knew who it was that was in charge of the project.

-Conan and Ai have studied up on Hacker Skills over the years of not aging. (Added: Especially in later movies we see Haibara has great computer skills.)

-Kaya is a descendant of their dear professor Agasa, a several times great granddaughter or close relative.

-Either Ran didn't get married to anyone other than Shinichi, so on the final temporary antidote days, he had married and had children OR Ran married someone else and was a guardian much like Goku was in DBGT for the little descendant of his granddaughter Pan.

-They fell off the grid after their family who knew the truth were gone (I.E. Mouris, Kudos, Ran specifically and even Sonoko who helped fund them) and have been running and hiding in various places, and they didn't accept any witness protection program.

-The time they will end up in was instead the year of the takedown was the year it all started.

-Conan never loved Ai the same way she loved him. Even after Ran was gone, he never looked at another the same way. He loved Ai too much like a sister. (Poor Ai.)

-(There were other ideas for the plot but I forgot.) XD

Thanks again for reading this mess of ideas I have.