Yet, Another Victim
Chapter 1: Reminiscing Old Memories
It was a beautiful day in the Beika District. The sun was shining out from the blue, blue sky. There were birds flying and chirping up in the air, and only a few clouds were showing. Conan and the gang were all headed home from a tiring day from school.
"Wooh! I'm beat!" said Genta, who claims he is the fearless leader of the Detective Boys. Sure he is fearless, but once in a while he gets scared out of his pants.
"Man! That science exam was hard!" said Ayumi, the cute girl of the Detective Boys. One reason she joined was because she wanted to be with Conan Edogawa, the first person she ever fell in love with. She stared at him at every chance she got.
"I disagree. I thought the test was fairly challenging. I knew most of them." said Mitsuhiko. He was the smartest person in the group. Well, next to Conan and Haibara of course. He is good at math and science. He would always use mind and logic to explain things. "Right Haibara?" Mistuhiko asked on one of the people he had a crush on. His other crush was Ayumi, his first crush, actually. But, if he had to choose between them, he wouldn't know who to choose. The only thing he knew was that you can't use math OR science to determine who you want to be with.
"The science test? Yes, it was fairly easy." said Haibara. She was the cool, quiet, and mysterious type of person. She didn't really want to join the Detective Boys, but she had no choice. She needed to keep an eye out for her so called test subject, guinea pig if you will. And, for some strange reason, she felt safe around him. "Did you have any problem with it, Edogawa-kun?"
"Huh? Oh, the science exam? Like what Mitsuhiko said, it was fairly challenging." said Conan. Once a famous high school detective Kudo Shinichi, now living in his 7-year-old kid body. "Well, I have to go now. Bye guys!"
"Bye, Conan-kun!" said Ayumi, waving a good-bye to him, as he left.
At the Mouri Detective Agency...
"I'm home!" yelled Conan, entering the Mouri Detective Agency. As he went inside, he saw Kogoro passed out on the desk. '...typical.' Conan thought. He looked around the room for that one special person he wanted to see, 'Guess she's not home yet.' but to no avail. He sighed, then decided to watch TV. He went to the couch and turned on the TV and decided to watch the news, if there was any murder going on.
'Now, here's Nakita Gorishi with the weather.'
'Thanks Nobuta. It's seems that tonight there will be a little storm, with a slight chance of snow. Also...'
The weather woman trailed on with the weather, when Conan heard a door slam behind him. He turned around and saw something appealing to his eyes', Ran Mouri, the love of his life.
"Oh, hello Conan-kun!" said Ran, putting down her school bag.
"Hello Ran-neechan! Why are you late?" asked Conan, with his best childish voice he can give her.
"Oh, sorry about that. There was an emergency karate club meeting after school today. Why? Did you miss me?" asked Ran, curiously; mockingly.
Conan was blushing. "No, no! Of course not!" said Conan, waving his his in front of him. 'Well...'
Ran just giggled at that. She loves making him blush because she always thought it was funny and cute to do so. She walked away into the kitchen. "So, Conan-kun, what do you want for dinner?" asked Ran, looking through the cabinets.
"Ummm... I want ramen!" replied Conan, childishly, arms up in the air.
"Oh shoot! It looks like we don't have the ingredients for ramen."
"Awww..."
"It's okay. I'll go run to the store and get the ingredients."
"Y-You don't have to do that. We can have something else for dinner, if you'd like."
"It's okay, Conan-kun." said Ran, " I was going to go down to the store anyways and get some supplies, and now that you mention it, I kind of feel like eating ramen too!" She started getting ready to leave. " Do you want to come with, Conan-kun?"
"No, thanks. I'm going to take a little rest. I'm a bit tired." said Conan, while yawning.
"Okay then! I'll be back in a half hour or so! Bye, Conan-kun!" she waved a good-bye hand to Conan as she left.
"Bye, Ran-neechan!" Conan waved back, as she closed the door behind her. He turned his attention back onto the TV, about to turn it off, when he suddenly realized something. He got off the couch, grabbed an umbrella, and started chasing after Ran. He opened the door outside,"Wait, Ran-neechan!"
"Ran turned around and saw Conan with an umbrella at hand."Hmmm? What is it, Conan-kun?"
"Here! You should probably take this with you because I heard on the weather today that it might rain tonight." Conan handed the umbrella to Ran.
"Oh! Thank-you, Conan...kun..." Ran trailed off, looking at Conan. Her eyes' were looking at Conan, but her mind and heart was looking at Shinichi. 'Shi-Shinichi?' For some strange reason, when Conan handed the umbrella to her, she felt like it was Shinichi giving it to her, not Conan. It also reminded her of one particular memory.
***Flashback***
"Oh no, I'm going to be late for school!" yelled Ran, running around the house like mad, trying to get her stuff ready. She only had 15 mintues to shower, change, and eat breakfast. She got showered and changed in 10 minutes, and in a few seconds, she decided call toast slathered with butter breakfast. With that, she ran out of her house.
Her father, Kogoro, was passed out on the couch; with a remote in hand and the TV turned on the the weather...
'Well, it looks like it's going to rain all day today, so make sure to grab your umbrella and raincoats before going outside...'
Ran was pacing herself. she was halfway to school when she was done eating her buttered toast; and boy was she thirsty. 'Man! I wish I had some water right now.' She started walking the rest of the way there, when she felt something drip on her nose. 'Huh?' She looked up to the sky and noticed that it started raining. 'Shoot! When I said I wanted water, I didn't mean this kind of water!' She looked around her and saw that there was no shelter and that there was no one in sight. With that, she used her book bag as shelter, and started running.
A mintue later, she saw the school. 'There! I can see the building! And, with no time to lose!' she thought, looking at her watch, when suddenly... she accidentally slips and falls, spraining her ankle. Her school bag slides away from her, landing in a puddle. She sits back up, holding her right ankle in pain. 'Shoot! Now what am I going to do?' She sit there for a few seconds, when it suddenly stops raining. 'Yay! it stopped- what?' A smiled appeared on her face, then a confused look. She noticed it was still raining, just not ON her. She looked up and saw an umbrella above her head. She turned around to see who it was and noticed it was Shinichi. "Shi-Shinichi?"
Shinichi looked at her in confusion, "What are you doing on the ground Ran? You fall or something?"
"No, Shinichi. I just sat down here on purpose, admiring the view!" said Ran, sarcastically.
"Well, come on, get up! We're going to be late for school!" Shinichi walked away to get Ran's book bag.
Ran tried to get up, but did not succeed. She fell back to the ground with the word 'ow' escaping from her mouth.
Shinichi heard her and turned around. "Hmmm? Are you okay Ran? Did you sprain your ankle?"
"Y-Yeah, a little." Shinichi went back to Ran with her book bag. After, he turned around and crouched down. "Huh?"
"What 'huh'"? I'm offering you a lift. All you have to do is hold the umbrella, while I'm carrying you AND both our book bags."
Ran looked at him, "A-Are you sure Shinichi?" asked Ran, blushing a bit.
"Yeah, I'm sure." He gave her an assuring smile.
With that, Ran climbed onto Shinichi's back, holding the umbrella. Shinichi, holding each book bag in one hand, started walking to school. 'Thank- you, Shinichi.'
***End of Flashback***
Ran continued to stare at Conan, who reminded her so much of Shinichi.
"Ran-neechan? Ran-neechan!" Conan yelled out to her. He was wondering why Ran was looking at Conan in a daze.
After calling her a few more times, Ran finally snapped out of it. "Huh? Wh-What is it, Conan-kun?"
"Ran-neechan, are you okay? You were staring at me in some sort of daze. Are you alright?" asked Conan worriedly.
Ran just stared at him, "Y-Yeah, I'm okay. Thanks again for the umbrella, Conan-kun." she said, accepting the umbrella and giving Conan a warm smile,"... bye, Conan-kun!" She waved a good-bye hand to Conan, walking away.
Conan did the same thing, "Bye, Ran-neechan!" Suddenly, Conan sensed something, 'Huh? Wh-What's this feeling? It feels like something bad is going to happen, or am I just being paranoid?' he thought to himself. With that, he ignored the thought and walked back to the agency. There, he lay on the couch, expecting the worse. 'Ran, please be careful...'
And later, the worse has been expected.
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An Unexpected, Yet Expected Event
