KudoEdogawa presents...

A KudoEdogawa production...

A Detective Conan fanfiction...

The sequel to ""Always""

""Everlasting""

===Note: This is a sequel, you might not understand parts of the story if you did not read my other fic "Always"===

Kyou wa donna koto ga attano?
What has happened today?
Asu mo buji ni owaru youni
Seems like tomorrow will also be uneventful

Kimi ni deaetta sono toki kara
From the moment that I met you
Ichibyou zutsu wa totemo daiji nanda
Every moment of my life is valuable
Itsumademo togirenu omoi
Forever, an everlasting love

Kimi no nukumori oboeteru yo
I'm remembering your warmth
Sono massugu na koe mo hibitteru yo
And that eager voice echoing
Itsumademo togirenu omoi
Forever, an everlasting love

Kimi ga doko ka de miteirunda to
Thinking that not matter where you're watching over me
Omoi nagara zutto ikite ikeruyo
This thought has kept me going
Itsumademo togirenu omoi
Forever, an everlasting love
Dokomade mo taenai omoi...
Everlasting, a love that never ceases

~B'z "Everlasting" (Note: The translations were not done by me, and I do not know how accurate they are. If you know a more accurate translation, feel free to let me know).

~C h a p t e r 1~

"Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear Hiro-chan, happy birthday to you!" The merry chorus echoed in the detective agency.

The black haired toddler stood excitedly on the sofa as he blew out the candles. The people surrounding him clapped and cheered, they were supposed to, for today was Kudo Hiroichi's fifth birthday. With crystal-blue eyes like his father and the equally soft and silky hair, Hiroichi looked just like a smaller Shinichi, a smaller Conan. Shinichi smiled as his son tore open Ayumi's small pink-and-white package which revealed Conan's old Detective Boys badge; upon seeing the badge, Hiroichi screamed and hugged his Ayumi-neechan. Shinichi chuckled softly.

It has been five years since the arrest of Kageoni Hoyami, the mass murderer who once tried to murder Shinichi when he was suffering from amnesia, but Ran has taken the hit for Shinichi and brought back his memories, and at the same time, bringing them closer together. Much has happened during these past five years, Mouri Kogoro died the previous from excess smoking and drinking and the agency was shut down. However, Shinichi established his own agency inside his own house and became just as famous as Kogoro. People often say that Shinichi is an apprentice of Kogoro, he ignored those comments and neither denied it nor confirmed it to the public.

After giving birth to Hiroichi, Ran has opened her own martial arts class in what used to be the agency. Makoto, now married with Sonoko and the world karate champion, was the main instructor of the class. Sonoko didn't sit around doing nothing either, she started her own fashion brand and her picture and her designs may be seen on magazines, in malls, and in fashion salons big and small. When she's not working her butt off on the latest fashion, she goes to Ran's class to help take care of Hiroichi, so that Ran can do a bit of teaching herself.

Heiji and Kazuha got married two years after Shinichi and Ran and has a three-year old daughter named Kaze. Heiji has taken over his father's job as an officer and is also a famous detective, second best to his best friend and rival, Shinichi. Kazuha has taken on writing; she is now the most famous mystery novelist in Japan, modeling her stories after the adventures of Shinichi and Heiji. Heiji often called Shinichi to ask about certain details about a certain case, so often, in fact, that Shinichi sent Kazuha of a copy of Kogoro's old files.

Eri retired from being a lawyer, but her new job still revolved around law; for she's teaching law at Tokyo University. Yusaku has also stopped his writing career and has been traveling and living in different parts of the world with Yukiko for the past many years. As for Agasa Hakase, he's been living very well for an eighty-seven year old man. He sometimes helps Shinichi look up data on old criminal records, and besides that, he's been very inactive in Shinichi's jobs.

Genta, Mitsuhiko, and Ayumi are officially in high school as of this year. They have established the first detective club in Tantei High. They, along with a new student--Ai*, help out as Shinichi assistants when they don't have school. Either that, or they baby-sit Hiroichi when Ran needs them to. Genta has thinned considerably, if you hold a picture of him in elementary to a stranger, they would never believe that that was once Genta. Mitsuhiko and Ayumi are a couple now and their relationship has been growing steadily over the past few years, seeing them like this reminds Shinichi and Ran constantly of themselves.

Hiroichi picked up a last package, thin and small, wrapped in blue-and-red wrapping paper. He shook the box excitedly to see if he could hear anything--nothing. He shrugged and ripped opened the paper and tore the lid off the paper box behind the wrapping. Concealed within the box was a small, but extremely delicate picture frame, and within the frame was a picture of Shinichi and Ran during their sweet high school relationship.

"Is this mommy and daddy?" Hiroichi asked innocently.

"Yup," Shinichi replied. "This was your mommy and I when we were Ayumi-neechan and Mitsuhiko-niichan's age."

Hiroichi looked at the small picture in front of him; it was a toy or candy or anything that a five-year-old would like, but somehow it feels magical to young Hiroichi, and he cherished it like he would to a long-lost treasure that has just been found. "You guys must be the handsomest and prettiest in the school." He said, followed by a yawn.

Eri hugged her grandson and picked him up from the sofa. "Of course they were, my dear. And someday, you will be too." Eri flicked his nose softly with her finger and began swaying the child slowly in her arms.

"Cool..." Hiroichi said softly as he drifted off to sleep.

Shinichi looked at his watch: eleven o'clock, about bedtime. "Alright," he said. "That's the end of the party, off to bed, and you four," he said to the Detective Boys, "still has school tomorrow. Better catch some sleep."

"Can we have a sleepover, Conan?" Ayumi asked. Though Shinichi has turned back for a while, she's made it a habit to call Shinichi by the name of Conan.

"Please, Shinichi-niichan?" Mitsuhiko added.

"Nope, you all still have school tomorrow!" Shinichi said sternly, hoping that would be the end of the night. But it wasn't as he wished, the detective boys grinned mischievously and went into Shinichi's studies, reappearing a moment later with their backpacks in their hands.

"You seemed to have forgotten that we came here right after school," Genta said proudly.

Shinichi scratched his head helplessly and sighed. "I still couldn't handle them..., even as an adult." He muttered to himself before disappearing into his room.

Ran came out from Hiroichi's room, carrying four sleeping bags and the detective boys, like little elementary students would, dashed for their soft and fluffy temporary beds. She then walked her mother to the door and gave her a hug; Eri smiled. It seems she has lost none of her superiority as a lawyer, her hair has not even begin to show the slightest sign of age. Ran reentered the living room a while after to find the Detective Boys still chattering on.

"That is it." Ran said. "It's sleep time for you guys or there won't be another sleepover!"

"Hai~!!" The teens chorused as Ran turned off the lights.

~*~

Shinichi returned home late from the police department that night, to find the detective boys there again. Since the next day is a Saturday, Ran has granted them a second night of sleepover. Shinichi slouched on the couch, watching Mitsuhiko and Genta fight over the control of the remote. The channels switched from this to that as the remote was snatched out of their hands by the other.

Ran stepped out of the kitchen to greet her husband, "Hard day at work?"

Shinichi sighed. "Crime rates are increasing again," he said tiredly, "higher than ever in the past seven years."

"Why the sudden change?" Ayumi asked half-way reading her newspaper.

"I have no idea..." Shinichi replied and watched the on-going struggle between the two teenage boys.

Although each channel was only displayed for a short while, Shinichi still managed to catch glimpses of each channel. The latest music video of Arashi, a report on a case that the "legendary Mouri Kogoro" solved years back, entertainment news and a report on the reappearance of a famous American actress, the eight o'clock drama, a British movie about a ring on HBO...

Shinichi was jerked awake from his tiredness. "Switch back to that channel!" He yelled at the boys.

"What, the drama?" Genta asked.

"Or Mouri-san's case?" Mitsuhiko said.

"No, the entertainment news!" Shinichi yelled, unable to control himself.

Slightly frightened at Shinichi's sudden change of attitude, the boys did so. The news seems to be reporting at a certain movie premiere, which seemed normal enough, and the detective boys couldn't figure what wrong with it, but Ran let out a terrified gasp.

On the bottom of the screen, as the headline for the report, were stated the words, "America's famous Chris Saintemillion returns to Hollywood after eight years of mysterious absence."

~T o B e C o n t i n u e d~

*Note on "Ai"- I just thought that the Detective Boys wouldn't be complete without Ai, so I added her. There may be a possible appearance of Shiho in this story, so just think of "Shiho" as Shiho from Always, and "Ai" as the Ai we know from the manga...just without the whole APTX4869 and Organization involvement and stuff.

That was all for the first chapter, reviews are welcome, I hope this would be just as good, if not better, than Always.

Also, I have started my first original fiction and posted it on Fictionpress.com, please support me! Go to "www . fictionpress . com/~xxhiroxx" (take out the quotes and spaces) to find the link to my first original fiction, "Connected by Stars"