AN: Uh... yeah... A lot of crap has been going on lately and I haven't gotten in the mood to write for this story lately... I've been taken over by the Castle madness too and every time I would try to work on this I would end up thinking about Castle instead...

I am sorry but this chapter is kind of... bleh... But I figure something is better than nothing right? Right? I was going to do the haunted house case but as I got into writing it, I remembered that Ran hates ghosts and wouldn't go into a haunted house willingly. (Plus I wasn't sure how I would have Shinichi solve that case so this was easier XD )

Hallow does not own Detective Conan and she never ever ever will.

"No."

"But, you have to!"

"No, I don't."

"Ran-kun… You have to go to school."

"No."

They had been arguing for quite a while now over whether or not Irene had to go to school. Or more specifically, Elementary school. Again.

"Sorry Ran-kun, but I already filled out the papers and you get to start today."

Irene looked up at the elderly man in shocked horror, trying to figure out how he could be so cruel as to make her go to Elementary school again.

It took some more convincing, and Hakase practically kicking her out the door with her brand new backpack that he bought for her, but she finally relented and headed to the place that she had thought she would never have to go to again. Teitan Elementary school.

She sighed, wishing that Shinichi had been there to talk some sense into the obviously senile old man, but Shinichi had gone out to do something before heading off to school himself.

"Class? We have a new student joining us today."

"Um…Hello, my name is Kudou Irene…Nice to meet you."

Irene started fidgeting as the entire class of seven year olds stared at her like she was some alien or something. Finally one spoke up.

"Irene?... What a weird name!" The entire class erupted in laughter as Irene made her way to the only empty seat in the room, thinking that maybe she shouldn't have chosen that name.

"Why don't we show Irene-chan around school?"

She had just sat down in her seat but jumped back up as she heard the teacher speak.

"No! Er… I mean its okay! I got to tour the school the other day so I am fine!"

The teacher looked confused but nodded and went back to the lesson.

'A high school student in a first grade class… This is going to be so boring. At least I know I'll get good grades though.'

Irene sat dutifully at her desk propping her head up with her hand and her pencil and paper in front of her. She might not have wanted to come but that didn't mean that she was going to be a bad student.

"Okay! Everyone, what's one plus one?"

"Ni!"

The whole class let out a huge smile and Irene let her head fall to the desk.

'I really hate you Hakase.'

Irene managed to survive the first few classes and soon it was lunch time. She found herself forgiving Hakase just a little when she found that he had also thought to pack a lunch for her in the backpack.

Irene was just about done with her lunch when a girl with short dark brown hair with a headband came up to her desk.

"Hi! My name is Yoshida Ayumi! But you can just call me Ayumi if you want."

Irene could only listen as Ayumi didn't even give her a chance to talk.

"You should come with us. We are going ghost hunting!"

She paled a little at that.

"Ghost…hunting?"

"Uh huh! Its in an old western style house on the fourth block. They say the owner of the house was killed there five years ago and his wife and child moved some where after that but they say that evil spirits live there. And at night you can hear moans coming from the house and last night I saw a light floating in the window!"

"Oh come on Ayumi why do you wanna bring another girl along? Its not like she is going to be any use to us."

A rather large boy turned around in his seat to face the two girls. One of which looked mad at him.

"Oh be quiet Genta! We can't go with just the two of us!"

Ayumi turned back to Irene. "You'll go with us right?" Irene gulped. "Um well I don't know…"

"I'll go. But only to prove that ghosts and such things are just make believe and they don't really exist."

Another boy spoke up this time to Irene's right.

"They do too exist!" Ayumi and the other boy, Mitsuhiko argued for a bit and just as Ayumi turned around to ask Irene to go with them again, the teacher walked in and announced the end of lunch.

Thankfully they all had to go back to their seats and Irene was saved from having to answer for now but that only lasted until the end of the school day where they cornered her before she could head home.

"So? You'll come with us right?"

Irene stepped back trying to think of how to get out of this.

"Er well… you see… I really don't like ghosts…"

"Ah! You can't be afraid of them! Don't you want to go see them?"

'What is wrong with this girl?'

"Um… No? Erm… Oh! I can't! See, I have to get back home right after school… so uh. Bye!"

She quickly turned around and managed to move around them heading back to Shinichi's house.

Irene breathed a sigh of relief as she managed to get away from them. There was no way in hell they were getting her to go into a haunted house. No freaking way.

When she got back to Shinichi's house he wasn't home yet since the Elementary school let out earlier than the High school so she went back over to Hakase's to kill time until Shinichi got home.

A few minutes later she found him down in his lab working on something that looked like glasses. It only took him a few seconds to notice her standing there and he waved her over and showed her what he was working on. Which were in fact, glasses.

"Oh but these are not ordinary glasses! Push that little button on the side." She did as she was told and a little antenna came up and one of the lenses changed into a little map looking thing.

"I call these my criminal pursuit glasses! See that little dot on the screen? That shows where the transmitter is. That way if you put the transmitter on someone or something you can track where it is. Isn't it great?"

She watched as he beamed with pride as his invention but couldn't help but ask why he was working on something like this.

"Well I figured that you might use them… I actually made them a while back but I had no need for them so I thought maybe you could use them. Even if you don't used the transmitter and tracking part you can just wear them as a disguise."

She pushed the little button again and the antenna disappeared and so did the map. Irene placed the glasses on and then looked at herself in the mirror, scrunching up her nose as she took in her appearance.

'I look like a dork.'

And just as she was about to take them off, Shinichi walked through the door.

"We have a problem. Your dad has got the police out looking for you. They even came to question me at school… What are you… Glasses? … You look like a dork! No… a vertically challenged dork!"

She watched as he literally had to sit down on the floor to keep from falling over from laughing so hard.

'Just you wait Shinichi, when I get my normal body back, you are so going to get it.'

AN: If you are confused about the one plus one thing, Ni means two in japanese but its also the sound effect for smiling thats why they all smiled.

Again sorry for the horribleness of the chapter hopefully i'll be inspired to write a decent chapter soon lol!

Next Chapter:

I have no clue... I gotta sit down and make an outline of where we are going from here because I have yet to do that. I am thinking probably the Akemi case though.