Fandom: Detective Conan/Case Closed

Disclaimer: They belong to Gosho Aoyama. I wish they were mine. o.o

Story Title: Collective Moments

Notes: Some people get a bit too imaginative, in my opinion.

Chapter Title: Roses and Hangliders

Chapter Summary: Shinichi discovers something terrifying online, something horrifying enough to turn him inarticulate and a shade of scarlet. Kaito just thinks it's funny.

Chapter Quote: "Come on. I've been watching you squirm there for nearly a half-hour now."

Shinichi stared at the computer.

Kaito had noticed that the detective had been reading something with extreme interest, his face flushed (was that embarrassment?) and the curve of his neck bright with cold sweat. Occasionally Shinichi would glare at the screen, and sometimes he'd let out a strangled noise that Kaito could only figure might have been indignation. Whatever Shinichi was reading, it was...enticing.

"What're you up to?" he asked from the doorway.

Shinichi started, and chocked on his drink when he saw Kaito looking expectantly at him. "It's nothing," he said, sounding extremely flustered.

Kaito rolled his eyes. "Come on. I've been watching you squirm there for nearly a half-hour now."

"Well," said Shinichi helplessly, "I'd rather not - "

"Does it involve me?" said Kaito, narrowing his eyes suspiciously.

Shinichi flushed heavily, and didn't answer.

"If it's Kaitou Kid's fangirl gossip column on why I was so flustered and unkempt-looking after emerging from a room with Hakuba..." He coughed delicately. "He, out of nowhere, suddenly threw a fish in my face. It caught me off guard. Rumors saying...otherwise aren't true."

If it was possible, Shinichi turned an even deeper shade of scarlet. "No, it's not that."

"Then what is it?" said Kaito curiously.

Shinichi fumbled with his shirt collar, looking extremely embarrassed. "First, let me just say that I'm only reading it because it was so strange that I couldn't stop. There's no other reasons behind it. I swear. Just...shock value."

"Okay," said Kaito, raising an eyebrow. "Now out with it."

The detective took a deep breath, and pointedly looked away from Kaito's face. "Have you...have you ever heard of fanfiction?"

Kaito blanched. "You didn't - "

"I did," said Shinichi, his throat tight. "Sonoko - she sent me something she'd found, trying to tease me, I suppose, and when I started reading it..." He buried his face in his hands, looking the epitome of hopelessness. "I can't. I just can't. Take a look for yourself."

A midge afraid, Kaito nervously began reading the small print on the screen.

His eyes widened.

After a minute of strained silence (where Shinichi was turning redder by the second and Kaito struggled not to let Poker Face slip), Kaito said gingerly, "I was unaware my magic could be used in...such interesting ways."

"Roses," said Shinichi weakly. "Do not ever do that trick in front of me after this."

"I was also unaware that one could do the nasty on a hang-glider."

"I'm never watching you fly off on that thing again," said Shinichi, closing his eyes with a pained expression on his face. "I don't understand our fangirls. They're insane."

"Hmm," said Kaito, ignoring him. He glanced at the URL and committed it to memory. He wasn't sure how he was going to use it, but oh..."Thank you for showing me this."

Shinichi stared, uncomprehending. "What do you mean?"

It was then that Kaito turned to face Shinichi, a positively evil grin on his face and a mischievous gleam in his eye. Shinichi blanched, recognizing the expression, and cursed himself for being so stupid to show Kaito the slash fiction.

"It's given me a few ideas," said Kaito curtly and sauntered off, laughing when Shinichi made the strangled noise again.

A/N: There's some good slash there (I'll miss Thamiris forever D;) and some weird slash there. I recall glancing (on accident, I swear) over a fanfic in which twin violinists were doing something rather interesting with their bows, and another where - I kid you not - Kaito made some flowers pop up in very odd places. When I read that, I was horrified, but then I was thinking that if Gosho read that, he'd be even more horrified. And then my thoughts drifted, and I wondered what Kaito and Shinichi would react like if they read a fanfic in which they were a slash pairing. XD Shinichi would be freaked, and Kaito would use it as torment. 8D