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Bad Habit

Nakamori Aoko loved her boyfriend very much.

She could tolerate his skirt flipping, his childish ways with cookies and chocolate, and even his night job.

The one thing she could not tolerate was his sleep talking.

Aoko didn't want to think what was going on in that brain of Kaito's, judging by the bizarre things he mumbled in his sleep every night. Last night had been by far the worst she'd ever encountered, and she'd begun considering sleeping in a separate room. The lack of sleep was really getting to her, and she couldn't concentrate well during the day.

"Aoko!"

"Hmm?" replied Aoko sleepily.

"F... fish! Aoko take it away!"

Aoko sat up, looking confused. "Kaito, what are you talking about? I'm not holding anything!" Looking at Kaito, she realised he wasn't even awake. Great, she thought to herself. Here we go again.

"Take it away! Please? I promise I won't touch the cookies again! I'll stop flipping your skirt! I'll stop playing pranks on Hakuba! I'll stop saying your dad can't catch Kid!"

Aoko started to giggle. Kaito had a look of utmost terror on his face; she really should record this. It wasn't every day that one got to see the cool and collected Kuroba Kaito so terrified.

An idea popped into her head. Slowly, so not to wake up Kaito, Aoko climbed out of bed and walked over to her bag. Grinning, she found what she was looking for and slowly crawled back into bed. As she pressed the button to record, her phone made a loud BEEP. Aoko froze, wondering if Kaito had woken up; after all, she knew he had very sensitive hearing, but luckily, the dream must've been pretty scary, as Kaito was still thrashing around wildly. Breathing a sigh of relief, Aoko zoomed in on Kaito's petrified face; he was now twitching and mumbling incoherent words.

"NO! I won't let you take them! Hurt me if you want, they're innocent!"

Aoko jumped when Kaito started to yell again and she wondered if he was dreaming about the Black Organisation again. He seemed to have those dreams a lot. She was about to end the recording when Kaito yelled in his sleep again,

"Look Hakuba, I'm sorry I turned your hair purple and your eyebrows pink, but you don't have to take your anger out on Aoko's cookies! She made them for me, and you are not going to hurt them!!"

Realising that this wasn't about the Black Organisation, Aoko started laughing so hard the camera was shaking and making the recording go all blurry. She couldn't wait to show Kaito the video. It was so adorable to see him being so protective of the cookies.

Suddenly, Kaito rolled over on his side and stopped twitching and yelling, his expression finally looking less miserable. Still laughing to herself, Aoko quietly turned off the camera and settled into bed to try and get some sleep. Thank goodness it was Saturday the next day, and she didn't have to wake up early.

Aoko had been wrong about not waking up early. Unlike her, Kaito, who seemed to have no memory of the dreams from the night before, woke Aoko up a few hours later because "he was hungry and needed breakfast".

Despite feeling annoyed at having been woken up so early, Aoko couldn't help think that it had so being worth not getting enough sleep yesterday. There were some upsides to having a sleep talking boyfriend after all.

A/N: I always seem to make Hakuba the target of Kaito's pranks, though it wasn't so bad this time..

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