Wolf's POV:
It's dark, and I'm cold. Am I still alive? I feel the warmth of another animal as they curl up beside me. What time is it? Master Kaito, are you still there? The other animal, I can smell it. He's young, a young greyhound, it's Arthur kun. Arthur kun is with me, licking my ears kindly. I try and lift my head, to open my eyes. The world is blurry and distorted around me, but I'm awake, at long last. It's daylight, and the sounds around me are faint, but there. I blink slowly, trying to make the world come into focus. I hear faint footsteps, footsteps I know and love. Master Kaito, he's here. I want to get up and greet him, like before, but Arthur is whining.

"Stay down, not get up yet oneechan" i wag my tail weakly. The young greyhound is growing up. Master Kaito enters the room, quietly. I'm lying back down, my eyes open, watching him. He notices instantly, and comes over and pets me. I wag my tail. Why does he look so sad? But I can smell excitement too, is it a Friday? Master Kaito was always happiest on Fridays. I lift my head up, pushing my nose into the magicians hand, whining with happiness.

     "Wolf chan! You're awake!" He whispers, smoothing my ears. I'm wagging my tail properly now, I feel stronger, so I get up, staggering to my paws, determined to go home with master Kaito. By back left leg slides out from under me, it feels like it didn't.... can it be? Did they really...............

Doyles POV:
I've settled inta life with da detective boys, helpin' Kudo solve cases whenever dey happen. Dat haibara girl is scary, she's supposed ta be my half sister, but she acts more like da detective boys mother. Kudo looks forward to weekends, he often claims he's going ta stay at hakase's when neechan asks him, dough haibara San an' I both know he's really at his own house, with his boyfriend kaitou KID. Agasa hakase is takin' all us kids camping dis weekend, but Kudo is upta somethin' an' I wanta stay and keep an eye on him, I suspect he's gonna do somethin' stupid.

Hakuba's POV:
Kuroba has left school early again, he's always rushing off in a hurry these days. Aoko chan is stood there, her hand hovering over her desk. The pastel and white doves fly out of the window and disappear. A note, addressed to me, is left on the chair where Kuroba was just a few moments ago. How had he managed to do that? Disappear in such a short amount of time? Aoko chan lunges for the note, reaching it before I can, but akako SAN snatches it out of her hand before she can read it. She hands it to me, smiling sweetly. She's beautiful, but she's out of my league, and anyway, Aoko chan is more my type.

    "Ne, Hakuba kun, give my regards to kid SAN for me? He left a letter for you I see." Her voice, it's still the same, but it's filled with the faintest hint of jealousy. Why? Aoko is curious, she asking what's written, but the first line makes me shove it into my pocket. It's written in English.

    Hakuba kun, meet me and Kaito at the Kudo mansion....

It's not Kuroba's writing, in fact, I don't recognise it at all. Who could have written this? He wants to meet at the Kudo mansion, could it be Kudo sama's handwriting? It's incredibly neat, like a formal, well worded letter. I don't read it all, until I'm out of Aoko chans reach, hiding in the most clichéd hiding place imaginable, the men's toilets. (At least Aoko can't follow me, she's as persistent as a detective, which is ironically annoying.)

Hakuba kun, meet me and Kaito at the Kudo mansion
We'd like to explain something to you and a friend of ours.
Bring Watson too, unlike Kaito, I like your hawk,
But Watson helping himself to Kaito's doves isn't exactly a
Heartwarming thing....
Careful what you say though, our friend is a keiji San...

Signed kudo shinichi.

Wait, Watson had eaten one of Kuroba's doves? No wonder he didn't like me! (A/N he doesn't like you because you flirt with his best friend and you try and arrest his night persona, Watson eating his doves is just the icing on the cake.) I fold the note neatly and place it in my breast pocket before heading back to class. There's one lesson left before the end of the day.

I walk back into class, sit down and wait for sensei to walk in. (I have noticed that all of our sensei's arrive at the last minute. I figure it's because Kuroba's senseless jokes are stressful for them). Aoko walks up and begins threatening me with her mop, (I'm still trying to figure out where she hides it) demanding to know what was in the note left for me. I keep my expression calm, and tell her a half truth. I didn't exactly lie though.

    "Aoko San, it's written in English. It doesn't make any sense, Kuroba kun can't speak English, let alone write it." Aoko San is glaring at me. She's pretty... CRACK!. I jump, leaping off my chair. My desk is cracked as she swings her mop on it.

"SO WHAT DOES IT SAY?" She yells at me. Thankfully sensei walks in at that moment and Aoko San clams down, throwing me a glare that clearly tells me I was lucky.

Conan's POV:
"Taidaimas!" I announce as I walk into the Mouri detective agency. Ran greets me cheerfully, as always. I'm late home because I promised akai SAN I'd drop by after school and explain my plan for the weekend.

"Gomen conan kun, but Agasa hakase just called, he says your older brother Arthur kun is looking after you this weekend, there's not enough room in the beetle for all of you. But that's not right, is it? You don't have a brother, do you?" My eyes widen for a moment, then I grin, in a childish way.

"No ran neechan, but KID niisan had to have a valid reason for wanting to stay with me in the hospital, so we pretended he was actually edogawa Arthur niichan." I explained, hoping she'd buy the truth. She usually gets suspicious when I say things like this. She opens her phone and calls shinichi's phone. I'm glad I gave it to Kaito to look after, he can answer for me.

   "Moshi moshi? Shinichi?" She pauses as Kaito answers in my stead. "Is Kuroba kun with you? We both know he likes that hideous white hat..." I can just imagine what sort of face Kaito is pulling on the other end of that phone. "I'd like to speak to him, apparently KID is looking after conan kun this weekend, but I think either hakase or Conan kun is lying." I don't hear what Kaito says on the other end of the phone, but it seems 'shinichi' passes the phone to him and he talks for a bit before bidding goodbye and hanging up.

"Conan kun, gomenasai, for doubting you. Kuroba kun is going to pick you up in a little while, shinichi has another case to go to, so he's not going to be here..." she trails off sadly, and I want to tell her that I am shinichi, but that would put her in danger, with the shadow organisation still lurking around. They've already targeted me and Kaito at his heists, and the keep calling him Kuroba toiichi, so how long will it be before they realise that it's Kaito, the second generation kid and not his father?

"Ran neechan? Arigato." I tell her softly. She looks at me with that sweet big sister look she reserves specially for conan and the detective boys. She knows I don't like my mother, and conan never talks about his family, but she deserves a reason, even if it isn't the whole truth. "Okaasan, she.... she left me at hakase's house, and ran away." I sniff quietly, hoping she will think I'm upset. "She wanted to protect me. Shinichi niichan is helping her bring down the criminal group chasing her, that's why he's gone all the time. But I don't want them to, they killed Kaito niisan's otousan, and I don't want... want... to... *sniff* lose okaasan too." I hoped my acting skills would pay off, and as far as I could tell, ran seemed to buy it, crouching down and hugging me, just as Kaito knocked on the door and let himself in. Oh, I hope he isn't jealous...

Kaito's POV:
     Mou, that ran San is really annoying. Asking so many questions. I suppose it's a good thing she looks out for conan, he is only eight after all. I wonder what she'd do if she found out he was actually her best friend. I walk up to the detective agency and enter. Only to see ran San hugging conan kun. I know she treats him like a little brother, and there are tears on his face, but he winks at me with a cheeky grin when Ran turns to wake her father up for dinner.

    "Ah, KID San" her voice is icy cold, sending shivers down my spine. I ready myself, shin~chan warned me about this voice, she going to throw a kick or a punch or do something violent. Her voice softens, as does her face, into a sad smile. "Take care of conan kun, onegai? I worry about him." Not what I was expecting, but then, nothing ever was these days. I wonder how wolf chan is, has she realised what the vet has done yet? I remember her staggering to her paws to greet me, but she couldn't talk to me because I'd forgotten my tablet.

    Conan rushes up to me and smiles, a real, warm smile. God, shin~chan is so cute when he's like this. I'd rather he was actually shin chan though... ran San waves goodbye as 'conan' holds my hand and walks next to me as we head towards the Kudo mansion. We take a detour to make sure ran San doesn't see us going towards the Kudo mansion, and when we finally get there, Subaru SAN let's us in, greeting us with curried rice. Once the front door is shut, conan frowns and vanishes, he's Shinichi again. What had ai chan done to those clothes to make them change size? They weren't elasticated...

    "So, Kuroba kun, Kudo kun, I hear you've invited a keiji San and a high school tantei San round tomorrow. I've already agreed to it, though I'd rather you not mention me at all, after all, Okiya Subaru SAN doesn't exist." Oh, right, subaru San was actually akai shuuichi, an FBI agent who shin~chan helped by faking his murder and giving him a place to hide. Subaru San offers me a plate of curry rice, which I take gratefully. I notice shin~chan with a cup of coffee and no curry rice. I frown, doing a neat backflip after placing my plate down, and snatching the cup away from him.

     "Shin~chan!" I sing scoldingly; "food first, then you can have coffee. You're too thin!" He looks disappointed, why he likes such a bitter drink I don't know, but what I said was true, he was too thin. He was only a centimetre shorter than me, so he should really be the same weight, but he weighed so much less than me. I noticed as conan, shin~chan had a healthy appetite, but he didn't eat when he was shin~chan. I worry about him. This eating problem, why didn't he eat properly? I'm glad he eats when I tell him, I don't want him getting sick from not eating properly. Shin~chan glances at the coffee cup in my hand sadly, before taking the plate of curry rice I'm offering him. He looks at the plate with a half hidden expression, and reluctantly eats a some. He's hungry, but putting on a show, as usual.

     Subaru San is watching us with amusement, but he doesn't say anything. We're all sitting quietly, shin~chan eating his third helping of curry rice. (Is he hungry, or is he eating to stop me from complaining?) a voice at the front door breaks our comfortable silence. Subaru San curses quietly.

    "Hello? Is anyone there?" I don't recognise..., oh, wait.... *gulp* yes I do. It's that scary jeet kun do girl... the one I mistook for a boy during a heist once. (Who can blame me, she looks like a boy and was using them men's toilet, no I don't know why either). Shin~chan looks pale.

   "Akai San, hide, haiyaku!" He whispers hurriedly, before pointing up the stairs. "Hai, hai! I'm coming sera neechan!" He calls, changing back to conan to say it. I'm not sure what's going on, so I rush to the library and hide on a bookshelf. I don't want her to kick me in the face again, she's dangerous. What is it with shin~chan and all the women around him being dangerous or scary crazy anyway?

Conan's/shinichi's POV:
     Sera, you have impeccable timing, as usual. I change back to conan and let her in. She talks too fast, but I get the gist of it. She's been off school ill the past week (she wasn't ill, I knew she was looking after Mary) and hadn't seen the news. She demanded to know where hattori was, which made me laugh. She knows I'm kudo shinichi, but I haven't confirmed that to her yet.

    "Ne, Conan kun, where's hattori? Is he like Kudo kun? What's happened, why aren't you looking for him? What's going on? And I swear I saw that thief here the other night." She saw Kaito in his KID outfit? This is going to be a tough one to wriggle out of.

    "Sera San, you were waiting for me to tell you the truth ne?" I ask, avoiding answering her questions. She glares at me, but agrees. Thankfully. "Watch sera San, you were right..." I tell her, as I change back into shinichi, calling Kaito to show himself. I was expecting her to kick him first and ask questions later. Of course, Kaito is bright enough to hover at the edge of the room, well away from sera San, and out of sight of her.

    "Conan....no, Kudo kun?" She asks me. I smile, apologise for lying, and get knocked off my feet by sera, as she hugs me. Oh, great. Kaito is not going to like..... a puff of green smoke announces kaito's presence, I feel sera being pulled off of me and Kaito growling angrily at her to keep off. The green smoke clears, and Kaito is stood there, he's smoothed his hair down and put in a set of contact lenses that brighten the blue of his eyes. He looks like my identical twin now.

     "Eh!!?? Kudo kun, you have a twin? No, wait, you must me..." her face darkens. She knows he's kid. He's wearing different clothes to me, and she aims a few kicks at him, which he flips away from.

   "Sera San, stop! Leave him alone!" I shout angrily, making her pause long enough for Kaito to hide behind me.

    "Mou, shin~chan, why do you associate with such scary women?" He asks in a hurt manner. I can see the laughter in his eyes though.

    "Wait, shin chan? Kudo, you know him?" I glare at her.

    "Of course I do, we've been working together with a friend of ours to bring down the remnants of the black org. How's Mary chan anyway?"

    "Mary is upset in a way, she wants to get her..." she trails off, not sure how much she can say in front of Kaito.

    "Don't worry, miss, I know about conan here, and the black org took my father from me, I gather Mary wants her original body back? Oh, and shin~chan, should I tell Subaru San to come down here?" I grin.

     "No, I'll get him. You explain to sera SAN about your otousan." I grin mischievously, as I walk up the stairs, to talk to akai San. Sera's visit was unexpected, but akai had been intending to reveal himself to his younger sister for a while now, and this was a perfect opportunity. Akai SAN wanted to assure his sister, but how would sera SAN react to seeing her brother, who she thought was dead? I'd have to explain how I set up that murder case, and really, I didn't want people knowing I've fooled the FBI, CIA and Interpol. I don't want them to look like idiots after all. (Regardless that they weren't as bright as kaitou kid and the detectives of the east ..........and west).

Narrators POV:
        Sera was arguing loudly with kaitou kid, demanding to know why he was in Kudo san's house, and how they knew each other, with kid backflipping and cartwheeling around to avoid each kick and punch aimed at him. Sera wasn't impressed. Just because he helped Kudo kun, didn't mean he was a good guy, right? He was an internationally wanted criminal, apparently staying in a detectives house. That irked her a lot. What did Kudo kun see in the thief that she didn't?

    "Oi, sera, calm down, leave the poor boy alone. And here I was thinking it was going to be a peaceful evening with a few friends." Sera stops dead. That voice, it can't be, he's dead, right? But it sounds like.... was it someone using conan kun's bow tie to make that voice? The man turns the corner into the room just then, and sera stands there. Open mouthed, eyes wide. He looks just like...

      "Shuu-nii? Is that really?" She asks the man, who smiles and laughs. (Something he very rarely did, but was doing too often these days).

     "Sera, nice to see you so well. And I'm not 'shuu-nii' anymore. I'm okiya Subaru San. I'm staying like this for a while longer, to protect Milano shiho San for her sister akemi." He explains to her. She stutters as she asks what, why, how? Kudo kun walks in and pull kid close to him, much to her surprise. KID laughs warmly and hugs the detective back, as sera narrows her eyes at them. KID's behaviour didn't surprise her, he was crazy after all, but Kudo kun, she thought he had a thing for girls.... or rather, a thing for ran chan. What was going on? She didn't really care, her brother wasn't dead, he was alive, and here, safe.

    "But shuu-nii, they told us you were killed by the black org. How did you?" She asks her older brother, who doesn't answer her immediately.

   "Before I knew who conan kun was really, he approached me and asked if I was willing to take a gamble. He'd already proven himself to be far brighter than an ordinary elementary schooler, so I heard him out. You can thank Kudo kun for orchestrating my supposed murder. He helped me fake my death, and hide. His okaasan helped me with my disguise for a while, and now I live here in the Kudo mansion with Kudo kun and kaitou kid staying here at the weekends." He explains calmly, watching his younger sisters reaction. She was unpredictable like him, she was as likely to hug him as punch him.

-------------------------------------Time skip to later that evening, after sera leaves------------------------------------------------

Shinichi's (Conan's) POV:
            "Ne , Kai...to?" I ask the magician hesitantly.

      "What is it, shin~chan?"

         "Do you think I'm doing the right thing? Telling Hakuba kun and Tagaki keiji?" I ask. I'm starting to have second thoughts about telling them, but I can see that they will be a huge help if they understand.

    "Does it really matter? The whole world is going to find out eventually, that Kuroba kaito is Kaitou KID and kudo shinichi is edogawa Conan. Anyway, shin~chan, let's just relax tonight, ok? There's no point worrying tonight." He answers, moving closer to me and cuddling up to me. We're sat on the sofa in the living room, Akai San has gone out, to meet with Jodie sensei and James San. Kaito turns and pulls me into a kiss, and I kiss back, happy to be in his company again. It wasn't the same when I was conan.

   "Ne, shin~chan?" He whispers, as our kisses become passionate. I think I know what he's going to say, he's going to say what I'm thinking. I hope. "I'm not feeling up to it tonight, can we just relax?" How did I guess? Maybe it was because I felt the same way. We spend a few hours just sat on the sofa, together and content. I glance at my watch, noting it's nearly eleven at night. I want to go upstairs, but I'm so tired... I can feel myself falling asleep on Kaito's shoulder. Oh, god, I hope I don't drool.

Kaito's POV:
       Shin~chin is finding it hard to stay awake. He's drifting off to sleep, he's so... so..... perfect. Apart from the drool droplet forming on his lips. He's leaning on my shoulder, fast asleep. We've been sat here for a good three hours. I can hear Subaru SAN returning, he's opening and closing the door softly, a faint metallic sound makes me frown. Subaru San walks into the living room, where shin~chan and I are sat, Arthur kun on a lead and wolf chan limping off the lead besides him. She's wagging her tail.

    "Sorry to disturb you, but I thought I'd bring them back here, now wolf chan is feeling steadier. It's funny, the veterinarian said he was suprised how fast this particular malamute mongrel adapted. I think you should get your boyfriend to bed, don't you, Kuroba kun?" Subaru San is speaking softly, so as to not wake shin~chan. I'm grateful for that. Shin chan's snoring quietly, as I pick him up bridal style and carry him to our room. He's still in his normal clothes. Should I Change him into his nightclothes? I decide to take just his shirt and pants off, leaving him in his boxers. It was a warm evening after all. I strip down to my boxers and slip into bed with him. He's slept through the whole thing. I wrap my arms around him and close my eyes. Goodnight, shin~chan.