Doyle's POV:
"Hell Kudo, ya gave us a fright! Findin' ya missin' an' then hearin' 'bout ya nearly bein' killed. How'd ya escape dis time?" I yell at Kudo as he walks inta my temporary residence at Agasa hakase's house. He grins at me, wavin' his hand. His tired eyes an' saggin' shoulders tell me he's not well. He's wearin' a turtle neck jumper, somethin' he don usually do.

"Oi, oi, daijoubu Kudo?" I ask, when he don't reply. He shakes his head, lookin' at hakase with tired eyes.

"Hattori, gomenasai, I don't feel like talking. Ran-neechan and ojiisan are out tonight, so I'm staying here for the night." Oi oi, Kudo, what's wrong? He stumbles up da stairs to my room, an' I follow him, ta make sure he's ok. He closes da door an' puts his index finger ta his lips. I nod, my eyes widenin' when he takes his jumper off.

"Don't let haibara or hakase know, onegai hattori!" He whispers, some indescribable feelin' in his eyes. Kudo, I'm ya friend, ya can tell me! I can deduce most of it though... raw bruises all round his neck, scratch marks indicatin' he'd tired ta escape but failed. Da classic signs of a.... a strangulation victim. Only, I'd never seen a live person with dese marks before. Bein' a homicide detective like Kudo though, I was familiar enough with 'em.

"How's the detective boys? I'm going back to school tomorrow, as conan, and I want to know what I've missed, I can't worry them, can I?" I grin, dis is more like it! Dis is da Kudo I know, an' respect, though I'm not tellin' him dat! I'm still curious about dose marks dough.

"Oh, hattori, I'm meeting Tagaki keiji soon, I'm going to tell him the truth, I think I can trust him." I open my mouth ta argue, but feel a unfortunately familiar pain in da back of my neck. Tranquilliser dart. Sigh, haibara San. I fall, wakin' up da next day ta Kudo tellin' me we're gonna be late fer school. Oh, joy. I could understan' Kudo bein' friends with da detective boys, but dey annoyed me at times.

Wolf's POV:
I watch as master Kaito takes Shinichi San away safely, Arthur kun standing beside me, supporting my great bulk with his slender greyhound body. I'm feeling faint, but I have to get out of here fast, find master Kaito or little shiho San and get help. I stagger a few steps, only to fall down. Arthur kun won't leave my side, he's not the terror of a puppy he was, but a mature, clever dog now. He stayed by me, helping me along each time I got up and staggered forward only to collapse after a few paw steps. We continued this way all night, getting close to the vet that treated me before by sunrise. Arthur kun was worried, he knew he'd been a puppy twice, and didn't want people knowing, but I didn't believe I'd make it much further, so I insisted Arthur kun help me into this vets, where I'd be taken care of. I felt a bullet graze my hind leg as I walked.

Arthur kun pushed the latch of the door, opening it wide, just after opening for this place. I managed to stagger in, no owner, just my microchip and blue 'n' white collar as ID. Arthur kun stayed by me, panting nervously as the nice nurse from before came up to me.

"Oh, oh my! Doctor! It's that dog again! No owner, just the dog, it's wolf chan! She's got a friend too. Oh, you poor thing!" She gushed at me, as I wagged my tail weakly. I sat down, offering my left paw politely, I don't remember her shaking my paw, though Arthur kun tells me she did, because I'm down, my tired, shot and stabbed body feeling like it's giving up. I don't remember the surgery, or the recovery much, everything I know Arthur kun told me, he didn't leave my side.

The vet remembered me from before, shutting me in the small office again rather than the recovery cages, Arthur kun refusing to leave me until I was stable. The vet couldn't get hold of my owner, or the hakase that's brought me before, but he treated me anyway, I still don't know why. Apparently, Arthur kun left me after a few days, whilst I was still unconscious, to find master kaito.

(A/N: oh, wow, look! A new POV! It's Arthur kun! The other dog!)

Arthur's POV:
I'm not sure what's going on, I'm still learning about life away from the racing kennel and lab cage, but wolf chan is hurt. We get to the place from before, the place called the vet, where she was made better before. They try to take her away, but I don't let them, I love wolf chan like a mother, she's such a motherly dog to me. Once I know she's ok, just sleeping, I escape, running as fast as my elastic greyhound legs would let me. Master Kaito, would he be home yet? I wasn't sure, so I raced somewhere else, to that blonde detectives house. He knew who master Kaito was, and he'd help!

I arrive at the house, catching the scent of the evil dove killer Watson. So, the nice boy who let wolf chan sleep In his house owned the beastly bird that killed and ate some of master Kaito's doves. I know not to hurt it though. I don't like this sort of door, blond detective, I can't open it. How did wolf chan do this? She was so clever compared to me. I decide, I don't know what to do, so I'm going to bark.

Wooof!
Ruff, rufff,
woof, woof,
WOOF!
WOOF!
WOOF!

Silence, nothing from the house, it's early afternoon, could the boy be out? Wait, isn't there that school thing Kaito goes to today? I turn and race away, heading toward the school, hoping I'm going the right way, wolf chan usually led the way. Yipe, what's that? Oh, it's just a cat. One of those ones I'm not to chase. There, up ahead, isn't that the school thingy? The gates closed. How do I get in? Wait, didn't wolf chan scale this gate once? An obaasan is walking past, she stops to watch me as I turn and race away, only to race back and bunch my elastic legs up. I push the ground with all my strength, hoping I'll clear theses huge gates.

"Uso! Dog, you're not going to..." the obaasan mutters as I leap up, higher than I've ever jumped before. Up, up, no, I'm not going to, wait. Tuck my legs up under me, maybe I'll clear it, no. I'm going to crash into the gate it's too high. I close my eyes, why do I need to find Hakuba again? Right, wolf chan, she's hurt, he can find master Kaito for me. Wolf chan, gomenasai! Thud. I land, shake myself and glance back at the imposing gate. I'd forgotten something, wolf chan was twice my size, but I'd still jumped over it! Yay! I turn and chase my tail a few times in joy before following the scent I'd picked up, I was so focused on finding the blond detective, that I didn't smell master Kaito, if I did, I passed it off as a stale scent.

I race into the building, following the strong scent of teenager and evil dove. I career into a classroom, upsetting everyone. Oh, right, they knew I belonged to master Kaito, but I'd never come inside before. I look about frantically, searching. I'm so focused, I don't see him. Master Kaito.

"Arthur kun! Where's wolf chan?" He asks, I think he's hopeful. I want to tell him, but I can't write like wolf chan can, so how? I look about, trying to tell him, but I can't, I have to lead him. I grab his shirt, and growl, hoping he understands. The sensei shrieks, and that Aoko girl produces a mop from nowhere. They don't understand, no, no, no, wolf chan is still sleeping, she won't wake up! If I were human, I'd scream at them. I want master Kaito to see wolf chan. He has to see her! I let go, and bark, over and over, urgent, please master Kaito, understand.

"Kuroba kaito! Control that dog!" The sensei woman screeches. I don't care. I bark and bark, he has to follow me.

"It's wolf chan, isn't it? Where is she, arthur kun? Show me." Master Kaito. for an abnormally bright human, you are so slow. Finally. I stop my barking, and wag my tail, waiting for him to clip the white and blue lead onto my collar. Clip. I tug at the lead, I hope I can remember how to get back to wolf chan.

Doyle's (hattori's) POV:
I'm sat In da class, with da rest of da shounen tantei dan, another borin' day at school. Three shrunken teens in da one class. It was kinda fun to wind sensei up dough. Ku...ku....conan kun spent most of da day tellin' classmates he didn't wanna talk 'bout da kidnappin' eventually breakin' down inta a teary eyed mess. Was he actin'? Was hard ta tell. At da end of da day, we all walked back ta Agasa hakase's house, only ta get distracted halfway. Damn it Kudo, you really are a death magnet.

Conan's POV:
The walk home was trying for me, because ayumi chan, mitsuhiko and Genta all wanted to know why I was wearing a turtle neck instead of my usual clothes. I refused to talk about it, I didn't want to remember the hand gripping my neck, the rope, the pain, the... the.... no, shinichi, get a grip! Calm down, stop thinking about it. Think about seeing your boyfriend on Friday, about spending a whole weekend with him... that's better. We made it almost all the way to hakase house, only to get tangled up in yet another case near the alley where Kaito had been shot.

"Ne, ne, sato keiji, what's happening?" I ask her, when I approach the crime scene. She's looking at me oddly, like I shouldn't be here. Which I probably shouldn't.

"This is the second, third if you count both previous boys separately, to be attacked in this alley. This is the first murder though." She tells me, glaring at me.

I notice the corpse, a teen about my actual age. He's got dark hair and he's wearing dark clothes...... he's the same height as kudo shinichi, as my teen self. I don't know this boy, but I feel a now familiar rush of fear. I... I..... for the first time.... I don't want anything to do with this case, it's too much of a coincidence. The same alley, similar build, similar clothes, the same type of bullets.... no. No. No. Gin, he's targeting people like me. Kaito. What if he's next? I have to warn him. I don't know what I'm doing, I just in a blind panic.

"Oi, Conan!" I hear Doyle kun shout, but I'm too panicked to hear. I don't know what's going on. I have to get out of here, now! I run away, heading blindly away from the crime scene. I hear rushed footsteps behind me, making me run faster. I'm being chased. I feel strong arms around me suddenly, lifting me up. No, get off me! I'm screaming with fear, the detective boys are looking at me with confusion. They can't understand, they don't understand! It's my fault, my fault for not dying that this teen is dead! I kick out at the adult who's holding me, trying to break free. Until...

"Oi, Conan kun, calm down, it's me, Arthur niichian. Calm down." Kaito, it's Kaito. He's holding me, hugging me close. The detective boys are watching Kaito, open mouthed.

"You look just like Conan kun!" Ayumi chan Tells him, much to our amusement. I'm still shaking, I can't stop them, I've tried so hard, but how can I stop someone as evil as Gin?

"Why wouldn't I young lady? I am his brother after all!" Kaito grins, putting me back on the ground. I turn to him and hug him, glad he's here. Had he known something was wrong? I noticed a pair of tracking glasses on him, was he using them to track me, or just for cover like me?

"Arthur niichan! Why you here?" I ask happily, glad I had one person I could count on near me. He wasn't like haibara, who was cold and distant, though quite sisterly to me, or Doyle who was hot headed and rash and like a brother to me. Kaito was in the same position as me, he wanted to bring the remaining members down, to avenge his otousan. He was the one I could turn to, my brother when I was conan, my boyfriend when I was shinichi. He crouches down and hugs me back, a strained pokerface at breaking point on his face.

"I was on my way to visit Subaru San, I heard he's back from his holiday. What's wrong, little brother? You're usually good at hiding your panic attacks." He talks softly, just loud enough for the detective boys hear, but not so loud to seem like he wants them to hear. Mitsuhiko is the first to speak, though I can see hattori wants to say something, but a well trained watch was pointing at him. (Who else but his supposed half sister ai chan?)

"Ne, Conan? Is Arthur San your real brother? I thought..." mitsuhiko lowers his voice so the others can't hear, "kaitou KID was your brother." I frown, well, technically conan couldn't have a brother as he didn't exist.

"Lets go see Subaru San, they can explain themselves there." Haibara's icy voice tells the others. They agree, but I can feel panic rising again. What's wrong with me, I've always been so calm.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~at the Kudo mansion~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Narrators POV:
Akai shuuichi had returned from America a few weeks ago, but as he was early, he didn't want to intrude upon his friend kudo shinichi. He was one of three FBI agents to know the truth about their favourite elementary school student Edogawa Conan. He chuckled. If he hadn't already worked it for himself, he wouldn't have believed it either, but then, his mother was in the same predicament, so that made it easier for him to accept. Conan and Shinichi were one and the same. He'd heard about the shooting, he'd met Kuroba kaito, who he'd clocked as kaitou kid in seconds (having to remove his Subaru San disguise to clean the dye from his hair) and still kept aloof of the main group of agents, preferring to work alone.

As okiya Subaru San, he had to entertain the shounen tantei dan occasionally whilst his next door neighbour Agasa hakase run a few errands, but that didn't bother him, as shiho San or haibara ai as she was now called kept the three real children in line, Conan kun often wandering off to his own library to read Sherlock Holmes and other mystery novels. On arriving at the house, Subaru San had noticed the chewed looking Holmes book and gone out to replace it, knowing the high school turned elementary school detective would be upset if he saw it.

"Subaru San! Can we come in?" He could hear conan kuns voice clearly. He goes to the door, there are six children and a familiar teen stood in the doorway. The shounen tantei dan and Kuroba kaito. He notes that the children are calling the magician Arthur San. He lets them in, curious. He knew about conan and KID, and about miyano shiho masquerading as haibara ai, but who was the dark skinned boy with the osakan accent?

"Subaru San, I'd like you to me my half brother, haibara Doyle kun." Ai chan introduces them. The dark skinned boy glares at him and mutter a faint nice to meet you to him, before turning and joining in watching Edogawa Arthur with his magic tricks. Conan motions for Subaru San to follow, locking themselves in the library.

"So, care to explain why ai chan has a brother, when we both know she can't have?" He asks the shrunken detective, knowing full well he was going to get a full explanation anyway. Conan grins and explains.

"You've met him before, akai San, that's..." the boy lowers his voice in case the others are listening in. "Hattori heiji, the detective of the west. reported missing. Haibara doesn't let him test the antidote, we both think he'd do something rash, though I'm one to talk." The boy is almost laughing now, watching Subaru San as he concentrates and changes into kudo shinichi for a brief moment before reverting back to conan. The boy explains how his new changes came about, and what he needed from akai San. The supposedly deceased FBI agent always found listening to the detective interesting, because he could never predict what the boy was going to say next.

"Akai San, I'm going to bring Kaito and Tagaki keiji here this weekend, so I'd appreciate it if you could expect us on Friday evening, I apologise if Shinichi niichan and kaitou kid Niisan disturb you though" akai SAN smiled a faint smile. Yes, he knew, or rather, had deduced the relationship between the infamous thief and the famous detective. He was concerned about Kudo kun's decision to tell a police officer, but it wasn't his choice to make, and anyway, hadn't this boy proven himself to be far brighter than the FBI and the CIA.

They both leave the library, Subaru San heading to the kitchen to prepare some snacks, and conan to the living room where the detective boys were. Conan was nervous, how was he going to explain his panic at the crime scene? His 'older brother' Arthur niichan was telling the shounen tantei dan something, and Conan's sharp ears could hear him clearly.

Conan's POV:
"Conan kun was seriously hurt when he was kidnapped at my heist, I blamed myself for letting my brother vanish, so I looked for him and managed to get him away from the bad guys. By that time, the criminal had decided to... do away with him, and if wolf chan, the dog I let Doyle kun borrow, hadn't attacked the man, conan would be... be...." the magician thief tells the children, I can't tell wether he's acting or not, though I hopes it's the latter. Kaito is doing a good impression of being my older brother, and subaru San is playing along, acting like he knows all about the edogawa brothers. Haibara is suspicious, as always, but thankfully she only dishes out sly comments that the other kids don't understand.

   Ayumi and Genta both accept Kaito as a friend, Ayumi even going as far as saying that if I trust the international criminal, then he couldn't be all that bad. Mitsuhiko on the other hand, by far the brightest of the three, merely gave me a curious look I couldn't place before joining the others in their games.

Subaru San gets out the English board game trivial pursuit, one he's changed a bit to suit the detective boys level of knowledge. I grin, I'm good at the regular version too, even in English. This is going to be fun, especially as both Doyle and haibara are playing against me, with Kaito (Arthur) supervising, and ayumi chan, mitsuhiko and Genta being shown what to do by Subaru (akai) San. The evening passed by in a flash, mitsuhiko winning two games and ayumi winning one, genta only coming second once (mitsuhiko took pity on him, answering incorrectly on purpose). I was challenged by hattori and haibara, all of us winning a game, losing a game and coming second in a game. I haven't had this much fun in a while.

Ayumi chan, mitsuhiko and Genta were all picked up by their parents, leaving Doyle and haibara to walk back to hakase's house, and me and Kaito alone with Subaru San. Until I heard Conan's phone go off. It's ran, so I answer, waiting for the inevitable....

"Mou, Conan kun! It's late, are you coming home, or staying at hakase's again?"

"R..ran neechan! I'm coming home, I want you to meet someone!" She bombards me with questions, but I grin and hang up.

"I'm guessing you want 'Arthur niichan' to take you home?" Kaito asks me, a typical grin plastered on his face. He adjusts his glasses so they are more firmly on his nose, and grins. "As long as she doesn't karate kick me again!" We both laugh, Subaru San joining in, all three of us have been on the receiving end of ran's kicks, and it wasn't really funny, but still. I feel like a little kid again, glad I have people who care about me, despite me being a murder and danger magnet. (I'm a homicide detective, I can't help it!)

    "Not exactly. We're going to tell her a half truth. You'll see" I tell the cheerful magician, changing into shinichi for a brief moment so I can kiss him warmly, momentarily forgetting about subaru San. I love Kaito so much, I'm so glad I got to meet him and get to know him.