Shinichi Kudo and Ran Mouri
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Relationship analysis
As Shinichi
Ran Mouri is Shinichi's childhood friend and canonical love interest. They have known each other since as early as kindergarten[1] and had been playmates since then, which caused some censure from Eri Kisaki.They are very close together, they have even been together as long as the time of children all the way to young adults, they have somewhat of a love-hate relationship before Shinichi 'disappeared', but when Ran mets Conan (who is Shinichi, although she's ignorant of this fact), she tells him that she was in love with Shinichi for a long time- probably ever since they first met, which of course causes Shinichi/Conan to blush like mad.
They are living together with her Father, Kogoro Mouri and 'Conan' solves crimes in her Father's place without either noticing, making Kogoro a great detective for most of the cases that Shinichi has solved himself. Shinichi has been able to have a great deal of affectionate moments with Ran since becoming Conan, including hugging, holding hands, sitting in her lap (etc.), even sleeping in the same bed and having a bath together once (he had a nose bleed at the last one). While still as Conan, Shinichi is able to keep other guys away from Ran, as seen in episode 6 when he tells a guy to never go near her and at the end discovered the chocolate that Ran had made for the guy was only a chocolate for celebrating Friendship. Shinichi has confessed to Ran in the 4th movie 'Captured In Her Eyes' so that she could get her memory back; he has also, during a brief return to his true form, canonically planned to propose to her but was interrupted by a case and turned back into Conan before he could. When Shinichi went missing Ran was worried sick (so much that she couldn't even sleep) and was on the verge of going to the police. Although it's dangerous, Shinichi has given her a number to his cell phone for her to call when she wants to speak to him, and, as Conan, uses his bow tie to mimic his real voice and reassure her he's fine. Shinichi doesn't dare tell Ran he's Conan as, until the Black Organisation is stopped, she could be in danger if she knew the truth (though Ran has almost caught on several times in the show)- also although Shinichi does love Ran, he has stopped himself from (canonically) telling her about his feelings, as then she will miss him even more and he doesn't want to see her cry anymore, even if he is no longer in her heart (it is possible, however, that Shinichi hasn't really thought this last statement through, as even after this he's seen getting jealous and fending off any men who get close to her, proving he clearly _does_ care if someone else is in her heart instead of him).
Despite their obstacles, it is quite obvious that throughout the series Ran and Shinichi(Conan) have a relationship that started as childhood friends but developed into love- however, how long it will take until it is safe for this love to prosper and be openly shown depends on the impending defeat of the Black Organisation.[2]
