since i have a feeling tha shiho/ai will not end up with anyone, it makes me wonder... what will be done with her character? she can't stay as a child ... a least, i doubt that would happen... but she most likely won't end up with shinichi... i am actually starting to think that possibly killing her off in the end may be done... i don't want that to happen but it might... if it does, i would want it to end with shiho/ai telling shinichi/conan her true feelings for him... even if he doesn't feel the same way, i think that would be a good way to end it... i'm depressed writing this since i love shiho/ai... but i was thinking really hard about this and i don't think that she has a place in the living world anymore (not like an outcast or anything) but it's like there is nowhere for her to turn... she isn't necessarily shunned, but her only life would be as haibara ai, but as an adult, and what she's said over the course of the episodes and chapters she has been in... i think she wants to be an adult again, and she doesn't like seeing herself as a child... yet she has no family other than the professor and he's not even blood related... that's why i wonder what would become of her... most characters end up with a lover or child-hood friend as a lover, but that isn't possible for shiho/ai unless it's mitsuxai and i really don't see that happening... i'd love to hear what you guys think will actually happen, not what we wish would happen, but what might actually be a valid ending... so i think that shinshi/conai endings are not included (sorry conais and shinshis, but i want a plausible ending...)