Detective Conan Fanfiction: Kiss of Death

Tough Love

Ran hummed her favourite melody while taking out a few cutleries from the kitchen to serve her guest. She was far from relief and thanked the heavens for Tomoaki's safe arrival.

She no longer wanted to grieve for someone's death.

She entered the dining room, where Kazuha, Heiji, Agasa and Tyler were waiting. "You can eat to your heart's content. Just don't forget to give me feedback on the curry!" she chirped, giving a smile that never changed since she was a child.

"So this is how Japanese curry tastes like," Tyler stated as he chewed another spoonful of Ran's delicious cooking.

Ran laughed at his compliment, "so how did you find school today?" she asked the teen, hoping to be acquainted with him.

"It went okay, quite mundane things," he replied, "until that boy with glasses went lip-lock with a girl named Haibara. It was quite a scene in the school." This earned a jaw-dropping reaction from the rest of the people sitting among the table, in particular, Agasa choking on his meal. Ran immediately stopped dead in her tracks.

"Are you kidding? I knew that those two were close, but I never expected that they would be that intimate!" Agasa said, breathing hard and coughing up his food.

I knew it-!"

"What a brat, going so fast in his first kiss," Kazuha commented slyly, "well, at least he made such a bold move for his age. Unlike a certain idiot here." She glanced at Heiji, who noticed it right away.

"Oi-oi, what do you mean by that?"

"Nothing..."

The married couple began taunting each other, satirizing in every possible manner. However, their increasingly loud volume in their squabbles seemed to drown out in Ran's ears, like it didn't matter.

She dropped the plate she was holding, still in a trance and not bothered to pick up the fragmented pieces as she tried hard to process the news.

Conan and Ai kissed.

It's weird. I should be happy that my "little brother" had found a possible match, but as he grows up there are times where Conan reminds me too much of Shinichi. It's like this uneasy feeling that Shinichi had long preferred me with someone else even before I started dating my spouse. And if Tomoaki's theory was right... I hope he's wrong...

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"Tomoaki! Explain what kind of bullshit is this!" Ran screamed, pointing angrily at the board that was filled with an enormous mindmap of the hypothesis of the Black Organization and APTX 4869.

"Listen, Ran," he replied, trying to be as calm as possible, "8 years ago, a close friend of mine, Julias Cisson, disappeared mysteriously. Among his items that were hidden in a secret compartment were all clues that pointed out to this mysterious syndicate and files on a dangerous drug, "APTX 4869". Among its side-effects was that it can shrink a grown adult to a physique of a child."

"And what does my father, Conan-kun and Ai-chan have to do with this?"

"You see. There was a file on a woman named "Shiho Miyano". It stated that she created the drug but gone missing," he explained, handing a photograph of Shiho to Ran. Her wife vividly exclaimed, recognizing the woman in the picture.

"I've met her before!" she gasped, "she was with Shinichi the last time I saw him."

"Indeed," he nodded, "and that little girl named Ai, looks like her. Isn't it a coincidence that your childhood friend, Shinichi, has an uncanny resemblance and similar personality to Conan?"