Penn & Teller: KID us
Stage One
*at Ekoda High School* "Hey, did you hear? If any magician can fool Penn & Teller on the show 'Penn & Teller: Fool Us', that magician gets to perform live in Las Vegas!" Five girls turned to face one of their best friends named Aoko Nakamori. "Oi, Aoko-san, try to get Kaito hooked, please?" These girls were now crowding all around her, trying to get her to finally talk to her childhood friend, Kaito Kuroba. Today, she and Kaito were fighting. Okay, so they always fought (The school had to buy six new mops due to their fights and call in the hazmat squad when Aoko brought a mop that had been used at a fishing pier when she felt particularly mischievous and wanted her revenge on Kaito.), but this fight was totally different. Instead of going all ballistic on him, shouting at the top of her lungs and beating him over the head with a mop, only to be defeated by Kaito's magic, she was giving him the silent treatment, the cold shoulder. This fight all started when she had gone over to his house to study for the test they had that day with him at his house That night, she spied a white, blue-ribboned top hat and the unmistakable shine off of a monocle.
*Flashback*
"A-le? What's this? A monocle? It looks like KID's. Maybe it's just the one he wore at the ski slopes. No, that one was larger, as if he wanted people to notice it. Maybe it's KID's. Wait, if this is KID's monocle, what's it doing here, in Kaito's house?" As Aoko tried to reconcile the hat that was in her left hand and the monocle in her right, she heard Kaito shout into the phone, "It's alright, Kaa-san! No, Aoko does not know who I am." At that she ventured closer to hear what he was talking about and why she did not know who her best friend in the whole world was. As she ventured, she heard him whisper, "Why are you so worried about that all of a sudden? Listen, until I am either caught by her or her dad, I don't want her to know. You know that if they found out she knew who I was, they would target her as well as me. Yes, I'm fine with this. As long as she is safe from them, Kaito Kuroba and Kaitou KID must be two separate identities with her. Kaa-san! I know that it hurts every time she yells 'I hate you, KID!', but that's what a poker face is for. Concealing pain. Yes, I will try my best to get to Las Vegas to check out Peace's Angel. I will. I have to. For Tou-san. Alright, I've got to get back to studying with Aoko before she starts to wonder where I am. See you later, Kaa-san.' That last sentence was said as if reassuring his mom that he would live to see her again and not die. Aoko then thought to herself, 'Kaito really is Kaitou KID?! And what does he mean by "for his father"? Alright, consider yourself caught by me, Kuroba Kaito KID! I WILL have answers out of you! Tonight!'
Kaito walked back into his room, with a slightly hurt and about to cry face on. That quickly changed to a flash of fear then solid poker face when he saw what Aoko held in her hands and the accusing look on her face and in her eyes. 'Where did you find those, Aoko?' he coolly asked. 'In the middle of the floor, Bakaito. Or should I say K-I-D?' She stared at him with eyes like lasers, drilling hurt, anger and coldness right to the center of his very being. He decided to test her loyalty, not sure if she'd tell her father, or, even worse, that stuck-up-and-on-himself Hakuba Saguru or the annoying bitch witch Akako, once she knew. 'Alright, I'll tell you. But not tonight. It's getting super late and we both need sleep for our test tomorrow.' 'Why?' Aoko asked. 'Is it because you stay up too late most nights after giving my father one hell of a night? Is that why you need to sleep now? Too tired? Do you drink coffee in the mornings to combat heist fatigue or do you prefer Popsi*?' 'Please, please, Aoko, please wait until tomorrow night. We don't have any tests to study for and, yes, I have no heists that need attending to. I have to take a long time to explain it to you. Otherwise... otherwise... I don't know what I will do. Honestly, I haven't prepared myself for any explanation to you as of yet. So, for old times' sake, will you please wait for tomorrow night? I promise, I WILL explain everything then.' His voice and face abandoned their pokerness as he neared the end of his speech, to the point that he was genuinely near the breaking down and crying point. As she looked at her friend nearly broken by her accusation, she told him, 'Okay, I will wait. But DON'T expect me to talk to you or even look at you until such time as you have explained EVERYTHING to me. Got that? I'm going home now.' She left very abruptly, leaving Kaito on his bed to finally break down and cry.
*Popsi=Gosho's equivalent of Pepsi in the manga and anime (Don't believe me? Look at the DC OVA 9: Stranger in 10 Years. That's a prime example)