Disclaimer: I don't own Detective Conan. Gosho Aoyama owns it! Whaaaaaaaaa!! I wish it's me but it's not. (sobs) When Gosho is retired, I'll charge to Japan's Anime Headquarters and steal his position!! Joke!

A/N: Hi! I am Miyano Ran again! Hope you check out and review my other stories. I have been getting few reviews lately, so please review! But, NO FLAMES allowed! In this fanfic, Haibara and Conan are both 8 years old. I know that Shinichi is 17 years old and Shiho's 18, but, Shiho just turned 18 recently while Shinichi had his birthday during Movie #1 'Time Bomb Sky Scraper' which means that he turned 18 at Movie #1 because Shinichi's 17 since the first episode and Movie #1 is after more than 100 episodes already so that would mean that, by now, Shinichi and Shiho are both 18. As they drink the APTX 4869, their ages are reduced by ten years and so that would mean that they, in their little body, are currently 8 years old already. As for Ran, I think she's now 17 years old. Well, as far as this story goes, those are their ages.

As what I always say, please read, review and most importantly, enjoy! :)

Meeting Him Again After 5 Long Years

Genre: Drama/ Romance

Warning: Possible Shiho will be OOC

Pairings: Read to find out. :)

STORY

Chapter 1: The Departure from Home

Conan and Haibara were both seated on a bench in the park. Many people were strolling around happily there as they enjoy the cool air of the autumn of Japan. It was already night time.

"The organization's members are dead already." Conan stated happily. "At last. It's the end."

"Yeah." Haibara whispered, almost to herself. A tear fell from her eyes, a very sad one.

Conan noticed her sad eyes.

"What's wrong, Haibara? Aren't you happy that they have already been executed?" Conan asked worriedly.

"Of course I am happy. Why wouldn't I be? I'm glad that they have paid for all their evilness and bad doing. At last now they are finally out of our lives and we can all live happily and normally." She said while forcing a huge smile, a fake smile, that is. "Don't be silly. I'm happy, really." She lied while smiling deceitfully.

Conan held Haibara's hands tight while smiling at her knowingly.

"You can't hide your emotions from me, Haibara. I'm a detective and I know you. You're my very best friend. I understand you. What's wrong?" He asked again with concern in his tone.

She didn't say anything. Her hands were still held by Conan's hands. She blushed, then, she turned her head to the other side, looking down, and her eyes, widened while it glistened. She didn't face him at all. She didn't want to see his concerned face. She didn't want him to see her crying. She bit her lip while blushing, preventing the tears to fall. Yet, the tears still fell, a lot.

Conan held her chin and pulled it to face him. "Please, look at me." He said while smiling understandingly.

Conan wiped her tears but even though Haibara's face was already facing him, her eyes still looked sideways, not wanting to meet his eyes. Haibara blushed and blushed while her eyes looked at the opposite direction no matter how much Conan pulled her chin to face him.

"Is it……because of………me and Ran?" He asked with emotional eyes.

She didn't reply. She removed Conan's hand from holding her chin. She shook her other hand to remove Conan's grasp. Then, Conan let go of her hand. She stood up from the bench and walked away. She gave him a sad smile and looked at him with tender eyes.

"Take care of Ran- chan and the others for me. Play with the kids and give them three glasses of milk a day and make sure that Professor Agasa keeps his cholesterol low and always check his blood pressure for me, kay? That's because, I'm leaving, forever." She whispered slowly.

Then, her tears fell more and more as she turned around and walked away from him.

"To where?" He asked painfully.

"Somewhere very far." She stated while trying to control herself from breaking into more tears.

"Where, Haibara?!" He demanded for a specific answer.

"You don't need to know." She said to him, still crying.

"Wait! Haibara! You can't leave all of us!! What about the kids!? What about Ran?! She could be your friend! What about Heiji, Kazuha, and Sonoko!! They could also be your new friends! Why leave now!? You have Professor Agasa as well! You have everyone here! You have………me. Why leave?! I don't understand! Won't you miss them?" Conan yelled when he stood up from his seat, wanting to catch her.

When Haibara heard him calling out for her, she was afraid that maybe he would chase her and stop her from leaving again. So, she made her last statement to him and said.

"I will miss all of you so much, Kudo- kun. But then, all people who wanted to kill me are all gone. Gin's gone. Vermouth's gone. Vodka's gone, too. All evil people that we know that destroyed both our lives are gone already. So, there is nothing for us to worry about anymore. I want to start a new life." She said softly while crying.

"Can't you start a new life with all of us?" Conan asked, his voice falling. He was suddenly crying, too.

"I'm sorry. I would be in pain if I do." She answered while tears rolled down her face.

"Why?" Conan asked softly with sadness in his heart. He removed his eye glasses to wipe his tears.

"I made an antidote for you. It's at the lab room at Agasa's house. It's in cabinet # 64. Just ask the professor. He knows where it is." Haibara said while her eyes shined with tears.

"YOU CAN'T JUST LEAVE!" He finally yelled. "What gives you pain?"

"Goodbye forever, Kudo Shinichi." She said at last while her eyes became blurry with tears.

"Seeing you and Ran together gives me great pain, but, you are meant for each other. I can't be selfish. She needs you. I don't want to get hurt, that's why, and I'm leaving." She said to herself sadly while more tears left her eyes.

"Oi! Haibara!" Conan shouted while crying. "Please! Don't leave!"

But, she felt that there was something not right. Her heart wanted to say something, but, what? She had to say it. It was either now or never at all. She knew that after today, she will never see him again. And so, she finally had the courage to say.

She turned around and ran to Conan fast while tears fly out from her wet eyes. She couldn't control herself. She couldn't keep her cold mask on anymore. She embraced him tightly while closing her eyes, blushing. She shouted at him straight away.

"I……I……I LOVE YOU, KUDO SHINICHI!! I…I LOVE YOU!! I LOVE YOU SO MUCH!!"

She cried out loud.

Conan was shocked and surprised. His eyes widened as he bit his lip. He turned red. Did he love her, too? He was not certain.

"Hai…Haibara?" He asked softly.

"But…But…I know that you love Ran. I…I am so sorry! I…I…"

Conan embraced her back tighter and simply smiled. He slightly blushed. Did he love her back? He knew not……well…maybe.

After getting back to her senses and realizing what she just did, she quickly pushed him away from her.

"I…I am so sorry! I got too emotional! S…Sorry! I don't know what got into me!" She apologized to him while wiping her tears. "I didn't know what I was saying. Forget it."

"But you just said…"

"Forget about it, Kudo! Pretend that I didn't say anything!" She shouted while blushing as she ran fast out of his sight.

"Oi! Haibara!! HAIBARAAA!! I AM BEGGING YOU!! DON'T GOOO!! PLEASE!!" He yelled on the top of his lungs.

Conan wanted to chase her, however, his shoelaces became loose then it got untied. He couldn't run because if he did, he would have stepped on his shoelaces and he'd trip. And so, he sat back down on the bench and tied his shoes.

A/N: This happening was just like on the first episode. Remember, when Shinichi was going to catch the men in black, Ran wanted to come along, but, her shoelaces got untied, therefore, she wasn't able to chase after Shinichi!! Huh, taku! (Meaning- jeez in Japanese) If only Ran's shoelaces weren't untied, maybe, she could have followed Shinichi! And, if she did, she could have seen Gin and Vodka! And if she had, then, maybe, Ran could have used her karate to kick the butts of Gin and Vodka before they turned Shinichi to Conan and they could have brought them to the police while they were still in the state of knockout! So maybe, the whole organization will be in jail already! Can you imagine that! If Ran's shoes weren't untied, then, Shinichi won't even turn into Conan and there wouldn't even be a show Detective Conan!! Can you believe the twist of fate!! I copied the- shoes untied- storyline here. This is sort of a kind of Disclaimer of the idea, oh well. Sorry if it is too romantic, hehe! Forgive me! But…the genre IS romance! Anyway, sorry, I don't want to erase and retype it anymore! Sorry if you hate it! Just review my story, okay? NO FLAMES. Let's get back to the story, shall we!! Enjoy! Hehe

He smiled.

"I am sure she would still be at Agasa's house packing! I think that I can still stop her." He said to himself determined to stop Haibara from running away.

Right after he tied his shoes, he quickly ran fast towards hakase's house.

"Do I love her?" He asked himself repeatedly in his mind while he let out a blush. He ran speedier now. He sweated. He ran faster than the wind. He was determined to stop his best friend from leaving.

Gasp…………gasp…………gasps…………sigh………sigh…………

Conan gasped for air while bending his body, cupping his knees in exhaustion. His sweats dripped to the floor. He inhaled and exhaled loudly. He looked up. He beamed.

"At last……huh…! I am here, hakase's house! Now, I better convince Haibara!"

He said happily.

"I don't think I can live happily without you Haibara. There would be a missing piece………in my heart?" He spoke to himself, suddenly questioningly.

He opened the door and ran inside the house speedily.

"Ehh? Where's Agasa hakase?" He asked himself.

"He's out with some single old scientist friends of his. I think they are out shopping together. He left a note here." A voice of a girl uttered coldly from a room near the hallway.

Conan followed the voice and entered the room. There he found the girl who he was searching for. He was so relieved that she didn't leave yet.

"There you are, Haibara!! Please, you're not seriously going to leave all of us…are you?"

He went closer to her and embraced her from the back.

"Don't go……please, Shiho." He said warmly while smiling.

She didn't look at him. She blushed when she heard him call her by her real name, not the surname, but, the first name, Shiho. She blushed more when she felt him embrace her. But, she still ignored him. She continued packing her clothes. It seemed like she was almost done packing up. She then closed the zipper of the stroller. She had three huge travel stroller bags. One, light blue, the other, red, and the last one was colored black.

She slowly removed Conan's arms wrapping around her waist. She turned around when she blushed. Then, she ran to hakase's table. She took her passport from hakase's drawer. She kept it before Conan could even see to what country she is headed to.

Conan eyed the passport that she took.

"He…Hey…you're going abroad?" Conan stammered worriedly. "I……I didn't know that you will go THAT far!"

She still ignored him. She got a white envelope from her jacket pocket and placed it on the table beside Agasa's bed.

"He…Hey…… Where did you get the money to buy a plane ticket and passport, huh?" Conan wondered.

"Oh, and, about that, I am really sorry." Haibara suddenly apologized softly out of nowhere.

"About what?" He asked, his left eyebrow, raised.

"You'll see what I mean. But, I promise you……I'll give it back." She said.

"Give WHAT back?" He asked more curiously. He can't understand what she is referring to.

"Just, don't get mad at me, okay? I promise…I'll give it back. I'm just going to borrow it first."

"Huh?"

"Never mind. Just…believe in me and please don't hate me."

"Of course! Why would I hate you?! I can never hate you!"

"That's good to know." She smiled sadly.

Haibara tied the red and light blue strollers together. That had a sentimental significance to her. She left the black alone. She then pulled the two strollers tied up together with her left hand and the black stroller bag with her right hand. They were extremely heavy. They contained clothes, her tooth bush, tooth paste, towels, socks, shoes, and so many encyclopedias, dictionaries of different languages, and a lot of medical books. The books are what made it REALLY, REALLY heavy. The light blue and red bag contained all the heaviest books in the world. She brought her Bible, too. At her black bag contained all the light clothes…etc……

She pulled the two bags forcefully and dragged them out of the room to the hallway. She didn't look back at Conan. She walked pass Conan without even looking at him! She couldn't run because of the very very heavy luggage. Conan ran after Haibara who was pulling her bags. He caught her hand and pulled her to him. She finally faced him.

"Why'd you choose the blue and red together, huh?"

He asked while smiling. He wanted to change the topic. But, he was holding her hand tight. Haibara was trying to pull her hand from his grasp but he held her hand back. She looked down at the floor.

"The red bag represents you, fire, and the light blue bag represents, me, the ice. And, the black bag well represents the organization that we had finally escaped from. You are the only fire that is able to melt the ice inside me. You brought me back to the light that I was deprived from right after I was born, when the organization destroyed my whole life. Now, both of us are free from the darkness and both of us will walk the same path, going back to the light, the place where we were meant to be, leaving the darkness. The red and blue strollers are leaving the black stroller behind, going to a much better place."

She said softly while looking at the floor, blushing. "The blue and red strollers are heavy, because their hearts…" She paused and looked at him with yearning blue eyes.

Conan just looked at her and blinked, listening to her meaningful lengthy sentimental thoughts.

She turned her head away and looked down at the floor, continuing.

"…their hearts are filled with overflowing love, joy, good deeds and peace, while the black stroller is very light, almost empty because it represents the members of the organization. Unlike them, our hearts are filled with goodness and hope, while their hearts are hollow…and empty. They are heartless, empty; they have no peace, no love, and no joy. Their hearts are nothing but bitter hollow shells that consumes everything in them. I'm glad that the red stroller…"

She looked at Conan with her eyes showing much gratitude at the same time asking for forgiveness. She smiled, biting her lip a little shyly. She carried on with her sentimental talk.

"…the red stroller…he…he was the one who brought the blue stroller out of the emptiness of the black stroller. It's you, it's you, Kudo!! YOU!! YOU ARE THE RED STROLLER! YOU BROUGHT ME OUT OF THE DARKNESS!!" She suddenly shouted.

"You're so sentimental." Conan laughed, trying to lighten up the intensity and the enormity of her thoughts.

"How can a girl think this way? Are girls really this sentimental?" He wondered to himself.

"Guess so." She said while giving him the last painful smile.

She slowly calmed down and thanked, ending her talk, or rather, her speech.

"Thank you…" She smiled. "…Kudo. I owe you. That's why I won't bother you any more."

Conan's eyes narrowed, temper rising. He yelled at her, snapping her back to her senses.

"So…SO IS THAT WHY YOU ARE LEAVING?? YOU THINK YOU'RE A BURDEN TO ME, IS

THAT IT?? Well…WELL YOU'RE WRONG ABOUT THAT!! YOU'RE NOT A BURDEN!! YOU'RE…you're…you're a friend!! You're MY best friend, Miyano Shiho!! It would be a burden WITHOUT you by my side!!"

He screamed, explaining his thoughts.

"You're very important to me!! So are you to everyone else!! I help you because you're my friend! So you don't owe me anything, got it?! YOU DON'T OWE ME ANYTHING!! And…and even if you DID owe me, running away from me would be terrible payment for my kindness!"

"I don't think so. You have Ran and the others anyway." She said tonelessly and coolly.

"THEY also need YOU!! Do you know how much they've been waiting to see you?! They want to see you, Shiho!! They want to meet you, idiot!!" He replied exasperatedly.

"We both know that isn't true. They won't like me." Haibara said, controlling tears.

"You idiot! Of course they'll like you! Many people will love Miyano Shiho!!" He retorted.

She thought of another one of her lame excuses, more like lies, actually.

"Sorry. Wouldn't want to waste money, I paid for my trip already. I've got to go." She said.

"Don't go, damn it!!" Conan, Shinichi inside, had his temper filled up to the brim already.

"You're too noisy, shut up." Haibara said tearfully. She still struggled to hold back tears.

"How many times do I have to tell you this, MIYANO SHIHO?? You're NO burden!!"

"No. I AM a burden. I've caused you so much pain before. I've brought you into so much trouble, this just feels like the right thing to do…coz'…I…I don't want you to experience grief all over again all because of me. I want you to be happy. Bringing you into dangerous situations, involving you with the underground crime ring the 'Black Organization' seemed like the worst thing that I have ever done in my life. You're life had a twisted, wretched destiny…all because of me."

She sobbed a little, smiled and whispered.

"That's why, it's time for you to have a little nap, detective."

She smirked as always, but of course this time, a sad smirk, an awfully sad one I must say.

Conan sensed that she was about to do something of destroying his plans of stopping her from leaving him. He knew she'd do something, and he sure darn won't like it at all.

"Gomennasai (sorry) for ruining your life, sayonara (goodbye) I'll never see you again and arigato (thank you) for showing me the light that neechan always wanted me to see since before we met. I'll love you forever, Kudo-kun." She said painfully as tears fell from her eyes once more.

Just when Conan was about to release himself free from her grasp, she shot him with the tranquilizer gun. She used her finger to open up the tranquilizer gun on Conan's wrist while his hand with the tranquilizer gun held her hand tight.

A/N: Sorry if that sentence was long and confusing. But, I hope you understood it. Conan was holding her hand. The hand that was holding her hand was wearing the tranquilizer gun. Then, since, he won't let go of her hand, Haibara used her thin finger to flip up the gun and………………

Conan felt the needle enter his arm, then, he fell asleep. As soon as he fell asleep, of course, he let go of her hand. When he was about to fall on the floor, Haibara pulled his hand. She made him stand straight and she carried him to the sofa. She let Conan lie down the sofa and she placed a pillow at the back of his head. She knelt down before him and gave him a kiss on the cheek.

"I love you so much." She said tenderly. "Have a good sleep, Shinichi. Bye." She blushed while she cried.

She ran towards the entrance door and carried all her things while tears uncontrollably fell. She wiped her tears, but, the more she wiped it, the more they fell. Just as when she was about to leave the house, Dr. Agasa stood before her. She quickly shook her tears.

"Hello, Ai- kun! Look at what I've bought for you! I bought your favorite take out sushi and tempura! Let's go inside and eat while it's still warm." He laughed happily. He didn't notice her tears.

"He…Hey! What are you doing out here with all those bags?" He asked curiously.

"Oh, I am going to have a sleepover with Yoshida-kun tonight. Thanks for buying those foods for me, but, just eat them yourself, okay? I'll be back by tomorrow, don't worry." She smiled.

"Oh, why don't you bring this to Ayumi- chan's house so that you can eat them together?"

"If you insist." She said while smiling.

Hakase gave her the packed sushi and tempura. She smiled back.

"Thanks."

"You're welcomed." He said.

"You're not so sarcastic and cold anymore, Ai- kun." Agasa said happily.

"Yeah. I have decided to be cheerful from now on. My cold personality is gone. The sarcastic Haibara Ai is dead. I'm going to try to be cheery from now on." She grinned.

"That's good to know."

He smiled.

"But…why do those bags look heavy? You're just going to bring clothes, right? Why many things?" He asked suspiciously.

"Oh, um, that's because I am going to teach Yoshida- kun Math and Science so I brought all my books. That's why it's heavy." She explained, telling a part lie and part truth.

"Oh, that's good. Why don't you call her Ayumi- chan instead?" He suggested.

"Okay. I'll call her Ayumi- chan."

"Okay. You better be off now."

"K. Thanks again, hakase, and, I love you so much. You're like my father. Thanks for everything. Oh, and say my goodbyes to everyone. Goodbye, I'm sorry for everything." She said while smiling sadly.

"Ai- kun?" He asked, confused.

She had already run off in the dark while her tears fell again.

A/N: I know that she can't run because her bags, but, well, she tried. She used all her might to run with those heavy bags! That's the only way that this story can work. Hehe

She called a taxi.

"Where to, miss?" The taxi driver asked.

"Narita Airport." She said curtly.

"This is it. I guess there is no turning back now, is there?" She thought.

She finally reached Narita Airport.

A/N: Please review! It would mean a lot! I wrote this a year ago but only posted it now…