Beep Beep Beep Beep Beep
Kaito groaned as his alarm woke him up with a shrill voice.
"Jeez, I just need another minute or two..."
His heists always made him tired the next day, and he burrowed deeper into the blankets.
And then his second alarm woke him up.
"BaKaito! Wake UP!" His childhood friend, Aoko, screamed with a shrill voice guaranteed to wake him up better than his alarm.
He got up, muttering a profanity under his breath... and got a mouthful of long hair in his face. Annoyed, he brushed it away-and his hand froze in midair as he did so. Long...hair?
Wait a second...He didn't have long hair. And yesterday's disguise was a 35 year old man named Kirama Oko. Who had nothing close to long hair...But if Akako's warning had been...
He felt himself leaping out of bed and scrambling towards the bathroom mirror. Nope, nope, couldn't be possible- He stared at the reflection staring back at him.
A panicked, indigo-eyed girl stared back at him. She had messy, slightly ruffled hair, and her eyelashes were about a centimeter longer than they should have been. He stared at her and she stared at him. Then, trembling, Kaito raised a hand to a face. The girl in the glass did the same. And...And...He was...He was...
"AAAAAHHHHHHHH!"
From across the street, Nakamori Aoko stared at Kaito's house through her window with a slight frown. "Aoko thought she heard...a girl's scream…? But that's impossible...right?"
How had this happened? Kaito was pacing around the room, biting his lip and shuffling cards faster than he could think. If he- wait, was he a she now? Or was she a he? Or- Groaning, he/she ran a hand through her hair. This was too confusing! He/She thought about the events of last night's heist.
"Kuroba-kun, I would advise you to skip tonight's heist. Hera's Jealousy will have a bad effect on you if you hold it up to the full moon tonight."
"No way, Akako! I never skip heists-Not even if I'm sick!"
Now, he stood as Kid on the rooftop, silently counting down as he peered down at the Beika Hall of Treasures entrance, laughing silently as a man in a Kid costume was pulled aside to be questioned by the police force. Did Inspector Nakamori expect him to be that stupid? There was five minutes left...
Four minutes...He slipped into the famous building through a barred back door 'for Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department District 2 members' in a disguise. The owner of the disguise's identity, a 35 year old Kirama Oko, was fast asleep in an abandoned water closet.
Three minutes...He did a double-check with Jii to make sure that the old man was ready for his trick.
Two minutes...He quickly stowed a plastic capsule in his pocket as a precaution.
One minute...He joined the Kid Task Force group that was crowded in the vast hallway in a police officer disguise. Inspector Nakamori walked to the front, and bellowed, "We're going to catch Kid tonight!"
The group roared in agreement, some casting wary looks towards the endless mass of Kid fans coming into the building.
5...4...3...2...1...0!
"Ladies and gentleman!" He said, appearing at the front of the crowd on a stone pedestal with a burst of pink smoke. "Welcome to tonight's show!"
The crowd cheered and screamed. "Kid-sama!" The fangirls screamed as he threw a rose towards them, which, in a puff of smoke, duplicated into an endless amount for them all. "Get Kid!" the old inspector roared, jabbing in the air towards the thief.
However with a burst of sapphire blue smoke, their outfits transformed. "In honor of Christmas..."
The mob of police officers became a herd of mortified police reindeer, a group of snow policemen, a large amount of police elves with red ears, a group of trying-desperately-to-hide police ballerinas, and lastly, a Santa Nakamori Claus. "Damn you, Kid!" The inspector said, frantically checking if his normal clothes were underneath the lumpy costume (which it wasn't) with a panicked look on his face. "Oh, keibu, are you looking for..." Kid whipped out a violet-red jewel and held it in the air to look at it. The glass ceiling had a good view of the full moon, which he looked through the jewel at. 'Damn... This isn't it either...' he thought, feeling a cold sensation wash over him like a wave of water. He ignored it, telling himself that he was letting Akako get to him again.
"Now then, as promised, Hera's Jealousy is now mine. Now, good night!" He smirked at the Kid Task Force, who were having trouble chasing after him from their outfits. "Better luck next time, keibu."
He threw down a capsule and ran off to the stairwell, planning to use his hang glider to escape. As he flew, he looked back at the building behind him, which was now surrounded by helicopters. He laughed quietly to himself as the protesting cries of his fans filled the air as the officers refused to let them leave, like at the previous heists. He wasn't that stupid to disguise as one of his own fans.
As he reached his home, he felt a wave of exhaustion pass over him. "Man, I had to use a capsule to get out of class today, and I didn't sleep because I was planning my heist...Might as well sleep a bit anyways."
After changing into a simple gray shirt and pants, he buried himself under his covers and closed his eyes.
"Kaito! Come on! You're going to be late!"Aoko's voice broke through his thoughts from outside the door of his house.
'Crap! I can't let her see me like this!' Kaito ran out of the bathroom and into his mom's room, which he knew had many of her old clothes as well as her disguises from her time as the Phantom Lady.
"Teenage clothes...teenage clothes...Here they are! "
Just as Aoko was about to kick the door down, it opened.
"U-Um, excuse me..."
Aoki stepped back, surprised. "A-Ah..."
The person who stood in the doorway was not BaKaito. It was a girl with long, brown hair, indigo eyes mirroring Kaito's, and with a hesitant smile on her face. She was wearing a simple cotton blue dress, as well as a see-through magenta jacket. She looked nervous and confused at the same time. Aoki couldn't blame her. After all, she had just pounded on the door and screeched like a cat-anyone would have looked that way.
'How embarrassing...' she thought, turning red, thinking of something to say... Ah!
"Wait a minute! Who are you?" she asked. "Aoko's lived with Kaito for a long time, and he lived alone during that entire time. Why are you in his house in the first place?"
The girl paused for a moment, as if deciding what to say to answer that. "Well... um...Kaito's...uh...on vacation!"
Aoko stared at the girl in disbelief. "On... vacation?" What kind of reason would Kaito have to suddenly take off on vacation a week before midterms and three weeks before winter break? It made no sense whatsoever. "Um...Aoko doesn't mean to pry, but why did Kaito suddenly go on vacation? Midterms are next week on Monday-he knows perfectly well, too!"
"U-Um...I think...that...Chikage-san might have...um...dragged him along to an...an old town that knew Toichi-san to...pay their respects...um...because the...er...anniversary of their marriage was...um...tomorrow...I think?" The girl was stammering, her face red, as if flustered and shy. Aoko wondered if she had startled her a little.
"Oh...um...Nakamori Aoko...um...Aoko's name is Nakamori Aoko; Aoko lives next door to Kaito!" she said. "And...what was your name?"
The girl fidgeted with the edges of her hair. "Oh...My name is...um...Kuroba...er...Mikuya!" she said, red staining her cheeks. Aoko thought that she looked cute when she blushed. "Ok...ah!" She remembered that she had to go to school, and she checked her phone. "E-Eh?!" she shrieked. "Aoko's going to be late!" She bowed to Mikuya, who was wearing a ghost of a smile. "Aoko needs to go to school; it was very nice to meet you!" she called as she ran from the open door. As she ran hurriedly, she smiled as she thought of the blushing, quiet new girl in her childhood friend's home. "Maybe I should bake cookies for her later..." she murmured under her breath. She yelped as the school bell rang in the distance. "Oh no!" She sprinted towards the school faster than she had ever run before.
Closing the door, Kaito sighed in relief. His quick thinking had saved his life-though he had now created an extra and completely fake member of his family that Aoko would surely interrogate him about when he 'got back from his vacation'. "Speaking of which..." He glanced in dismay at a schedule lying on the ground that he had knocked over during his dash to the door. Friday-Heist at 9:00 PM at Beika Aquarium. Definitely going to be hardly now-he was a girl, for kami's sake! He couldn't just show up as he was now-he would have to knock out a girl that had the same chest size, height, and waist length as him! And that was just tarnishing the whole 'gentleman thief' thing. He decided to see if his acrobatic ability had gotten better or worse from changing. After all, it couldn't have changed too much...right?
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Minutes later, he couldn't believe how wrong he'd been. "Man, my body has no stamina now...I can't even do the three triple flips I need for the laser maze they set up in the basement all the time! How am I going to pull off this heist?"
Groaning, he flopped onto the bed and buried his head in the pillow. His newly acquired long hair tickled his arms as he did so. "This is impossible...Even Dad didn't get turned into a girl when he was looking for Pandora..." He got up and looked around the room, looking for something to do. His eyes darkened when he saw the idle laptop on the desk in the corner. "Might as well get this over with..." he said, bracing himself as he started a video call with his mom, Kuroba Chikage.
Kuroba Chikage was having a pretty average day. Her old friend in New York, Bella, had invited her over at a cafe to talk about how they were doing, and now she was lounging in Bella's living room with a cup of iced tea, laughing at an joke from school. "...and then he was screaming, 'YOU SHALL NOT PAAAAAAAAAAAAASSS!' and blocking everyone's way from the gym! Remember?" Bella fell back with a giggle, and both women laughed so hard that Bella fell off her chair. Chikage's laptop was open, showing a cute picture of Kaito performing a magic trick with Toichi. Suddenly, there was a chime from it, and on it stated: Incoming Video Call: Kuroba Kaito: Answer or Decline?
Chikage frowned. Wasn't Kaito supposed to be at school? Why had he brought his laptop with him? Did he even go to school at all? And if so, why was he calling her? "Hey, Bella, I've got a call on my laptop. Do you mind?" Her old friend shook her head. Nah, it's fine. I'm going to take a shower and get some sleep. I'm free the rest of the week, so you can stay as long as you want." Chikage thanked her, and turned to the computer. Picking up her mouse, she clicked Accept.
"Kai-chan, why are you calling okaa-san? Did something ha...ppen...?" Her voice faltered as she stared at the person on the screen.
The person was a girl with features creepily exactly the same as Kaito. The only difference was her height, her gender, and the telltale lumps on her chest. "'Kaa-san, don't say anything. Let me explain. No, you are not dreaming, and yes, I know that you only have one child who is definitely not a girl. I am your son, Kuroba Kaito, and I was turned into a girl by a new gem I got recently from last night's heist. Hopefully this doesn't last forever because I've seen your outfits that you got from Yukiko-san, and they have scarred my life forever. I am not going to wear those barely-even-there skirts and shirts you have in the attic." This was spoken so fast that it took Chikage a minute to process everything that had just been said. "Ah-um..." She attempted to process the information again. "So you're Kai-chan as a girl?"
The girl on-screen looked relieved. "Yes, I am."
Chikage gasped in delight and excitement as she looked at her son with new eyes. "Oh, Kai-chan, you look so cuuuuuuuute!" she squealed. "Should I board a plane over? Oh, I must keep pictures of this moment! It's a once-in-a-lifetime chance! I still have some dresses from Yukiko-san, and I know that she'll lend me some more! Oh, I'm getting a flight to Japan right now!"
The female Kaito groaned. "Mo-om," she groaned. "I'm not going to wear dresses like a girl! I only look like one, I don't have the mentality of one!" Chikage was half-listening and half-scrolling through plane flights to Japan. "Ooh, here's a flight for 6:00 am! Kai-chan, I need to go pack! See you soon!" she sang, clicking the laptop off. She grabbed it and knocked on the bathroom door, where Bella was still taking a shower. "Hey, Bella, I've got to go. A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity has come for me to have fun with my Kai-chan! The flight's at six in the morning, so I need to go back and pack. Thanks for everything!"
Bella called, "Wait! There's a package on the dining table; think of it as a goodbye gift! Come back soon! Bye!"
"Bye, I'll send you pictures and I'll be back soon!" Chikage said.
She went down the stairs and to the dining table, where a package lay on the table. Chikage grabbed it and dumped everything in her bag. Then, picking up her coffee and her bulging bag, she opened the door and shut it behind her. "I'm going back to Japan to see my Kai-channn!" She squealed as she
Kaito woke up on his bed, still a girl. "Ugh," he said, dragging a hair through the tangled, long hair he now had as he remembered his conversation with his mother. "What have I gotten myself into this time?" he muttered to himself as he checked the time. "What the...Did I sleep that long?" At this time, everyone had probably already left school. Wait a minute.
Kaito got up, excited. That would mean that Akako was probably home...and he could tell her about his problem, and she could fix it! Simple as that, and then he wouldn't have to wear dresses that his mom and her friend had worn in the past. He dressed himself in the same outfit as this morning, and went out. He forced himself to walk so he wouldn't stand out, and walked all the way to the witch's house. He rang the bell, and the door opened, unlocked by the witch herself. "Oh. It's you. The fool who did not heed my warning once again," she commented drily. She stepped aside to let Kaito in. "Well then, come in, Kuroba-kun. Let's see what magical trouble you've gotten yourself into in this time."
After a few minutes and a drawing of his blood, Akako came back with a sadistic gleam in her eyes. It didn't hide the shadow of worry in their depths. "Well...I've got good news and bad news."
"Er...what's the good news?" Kaito prayed that this could be over with some weird spell and that the bad news weren't that bad.
"The good news is that this magic has a cure, and that there will be no side-effects when you take this cure."
He perked up. This was better news than he'd expected.
"But...this cure will not be able to be completed for a week. That means that you will stay like this for a week."
He sputtered, shocked and suddenly fearful of his life. "One...week?"
Akako nodded. "I suggest canceling your next heist as well. Not that anything terrible will happen, but your physical ability-"
"-has decreased because I'm a girl," Kaito interrupted. "I know already. So there's nothing I can do until Sunday?"
"Not a single thing, I'm afraid," Akako said. "You can at least survive and make the cure worth it. That is my suggestion: Stay alive until the cure's finished. Can you do that?"
Kaito smirked. "Of course I can."
Afterwards, Akako gave him a blood-red stone and told him to go give it to a friend of hers at a certain address, which she gave to him on a piece of paper. When he had dropped it off, surprisingly without any trouble, he decided to go visit Edogawa Conan's "home", the Mouri Agency. He still had Hera's Jealousy, and wanted desperately to get it out of his hands asap.
He put it in an envelope as well as a note warning the boy not to hold it up to the moon and look at it. He didn't want the shrunken boy teenager to be a shrunken girl teenager.
He rounded the corner and slipped silently across the street. Soon, he was standing in front of his destination. He put the envelope inside the mailbox carefully, so he didn't accidentally make a mark on the precious gemstone inside. However, as he turned to leave, he heard a familiar voice behind him.
"Ne, onee-chan, who's this letter from?"
'Shit...'
He turned to face the chibi detective, who was smiling at him innocently with a childish tone to his voice. "Is it from, by any chance, a bastard who humiliated the entire Kid Task Force once again last night?"
Kaito groaned internally. "That's right, Tantei-kun," he said, cringing at his girly, high-pitched voice.
Conan raised an eyebrow. "What happened to you, Kid? Did you inhale helium or something?"
Kaito gasped, holding a hand to his chest. "Tantei-kun, I'm horrified that you'd think that I was that foolish to do so."
Conan rolled his eyes. "I disagree with that. I think that you would do it, and on purpose to piss off the inspector."
Kaito shrugged. "Possibly."
Conan looked him over. "I guess you're in one of your disguises again, huh? You better not use this same one on Friday. I'll know that it's you and I'll bring you to the police."
Kaito's playful grin froze on his face as he remembered the heist he was having on Friday. 'Shoot! How am I going to do the heist?! I can't do anything in this stupid body, and it's at an aquarium! With fi-finny things! If I fall into one of those tanks during the show, I'll panic and get caught and get arrested and then they'll know who i am and then-'
"-id! Oi, Kid! Are you listening?" The detective's voice broke him out of his thoughts.
"Uh...yeah. Why wouldn't I be?" he asked.
The detective looked at him with a worried look. Before he could say anything, Kaito blurted, "IjustrememberedthatIhavesomethingtodosoIgottagonowbye!" and ran from the detective.
Kaito groaned, putting a hand on his (her?) face. "My god, what was that? Why did I do that? Geez..."
"Mikuya-chan! Aoko just finished making dinner!" Aoko called from her room window. "Would you like to eat at Aoko's place tonight? Otou-san's going to be at work until late at night again, and Aoko doesn't want to eat alone again..."
Kaito winced in sympathy. Aoko's dad often spent his nights at the police station working, or getting drunk, or brewing up plans for catching Kid. (Which, of course, never worked, but A for effort, right?) However, he had too much on his mind right now. "Ah-gomen, Nakamori-san, I need some time to move in. But maybe I can another night."
Aoko drooped a bit at that, but then perked up again. "Okay, but if you have time, stop by to see Aoko, okay?"
Kaito nodded. "I will!"
Kaito turned off the lights and got into bed. His new, long hair got into his eyes as he turned to face the wall.
"But...this cure will not be able to be completed for a week. That means that you will stay like this for a week."
'Damn...a week, huh? I really am screwed this time...'
A/N: And that's it! This used to be on another account, but I'm going to rewrite this and try to find more time to update any fanfiction. This is still my first fanfic, so idk if it's good or if it belongs in the trash T^T