"Shinichi!" I heard a voice call out when I fell into the river. Actually, I was pushed into it, but that's besides the point. I held my breath, but try as hard as I might, when I hit that water, I gasped. Despite it being in the middle of July at it's hottest peak, the water was freezing! The cold water wasn't helping me much considering the amount of blood I had already lost. See, Gin had gotten out again and was of course looking to exact his revenge against me. Well, he's going to get it from the looks of it. Even though I wished he had done it at a different time, I was on a date with my boyfriend and this would definitely complicate things. I felt the cold waters twist me every which way they could, and it wasn't long before I saw the black spots clouded my vision.
Beep. Beep. Beep.
Those were the sounds that I first heard when I felt my conscious start to reawaken. After I heard those sounds, I felt the tight grip latched around my waist and something twisted in between my right hand. I struggled to open my eyes, and before long, they did flutter open. I didn't even bother with my surroundings as I was more concerned about the thing latched to me. Looking down, I came to face with brown tangled hair. I moved my eyes further down and saw a sleeping face, though he didn't look like it was a peaceful sleep. I moved my free hand that wasn't intertwined with Kaito's, and moved it through his hair trying to softly tug the tangles free. As I was doing so a nurse came in rather loudly and I shot her a sharp glare.
"Shush please." I said, though I meant well, it came out rather harshly. The young nurse whose name tag read Daisy, had an instant look of surprise on her face. Coming closer and in a lower voice started talking to me.
"Ah, , I'm glad to see you're awake. Are you in any pain? I can put a little more sedatives in if you would like?" She said in more of a question like tone. I simply shook my head.
"No, I'm fine. Has he been here the whole time?" I asked Daisy. She sighed and nodded her head.
"I'm afraid so. We've tried to make him leave the hospital to at least go home for a bit and get some rest but the farthest we got him from you was when we forced him to leave and he sat outside the whole night before one of our nurses came to get him. He hasn't really ate anything for a few days either. Actually, he hasn't ate a thing. He kept saying that he didn't care about himself, he just only cared that you were going to make it. Even once we assured him you were going to be fine, he refused to leave and then he finally just crawled up there with you. He said something about you were probably cold even though you had like, five blankets on you. I swear, he is such a weirdo. What is he to you anyways?" I could only smile softly at him, yes, I know Kaito can be such a dork, but that's what I love most about him. Actually I love everything about him, but I love how he brings a different aspect to my life like no else could ever.
"He's my boyfriend." I stated simply. Daisy had a look of distaste in her eyes, but then she put back up her poker face again. She probably didn't realize she was in a room with a detective and a renowned criminal. Soon after checking over and making sure everything was as it should be, Daisy left and I realized I was just combing my fingers through Kaito's hair. His distressful face from earlier was starting to look a lot more peaceful. I watched as the sun began its setting, that was when Kaito decided to rejoin us in the world of those who are awake. His sleepy face was one I enjoyed most to look at. He was perfectly adorable. After looking around a moment, his gaze landed on me. He smiled at me with nothing but pure love, then his eyes widened so wide I was concerned that his eyes would pop out of his sockets. Even though we could just pop them back in, I would rather not have my boyfriends eyes hanging out.
"Sh-Shinichi?" I slowly nodded my head, afraid that too fast of movements would only frighten Kaito. Suddenly he was crying, and he threw himself into my chest and I wrapped my arms around him. He continued to wail and cry until I felt my hospital gown become soaked in his tears. I lightly pushed him away and wiped his tears that just would not stop falling.
"Please stop crying Kaito. It's not like you for one, and for two, you'll look like an old prune before long." Kaito tried to stop a small giggle, but it slipped past which caused a small smile on my face. I loved seeing Kaito happy, I didn't care about anyone else really as long as he was happy. It took a bit, but Kaito finally stopped crying. Still, though, I layed there and pet his hair and held his hand with my free one.
"Now, what's really wrong Kaito?" I asked carefully. I heard him sigh and then he sat up, still holding my hand.
"It's just. I feel it was my fault that Gin was able to attack you. I mean if I had been back sooner, or if I hadn't even left, you wouldn't be hurt and Gin wouldn't have been able to have the chance to even harm you. I failed, as Kaito Kid and as your boyfriend." He looked down so that his messy long hair covered his eyes. I felt a twinge in my stomach at the sight of Kaito's broken form. I pulled him to my chest and hugged him.
"Kaito, listen to me. I'm glad that he was able to harm me. The police caught him again, and at least you weren't hurt. You're not as strong as you like to try to make yourself sound. I would rather get hurt any day and everyday over seeing you even crying let alone hurt. If I ever see you in a hospital bed, I would probably be in jail...no prison for murder. Unless you did it to yourself. Then I'd knock you upside the head probably. But that's not the point. I never want to see you hurt, and you're hurting yourself by blaming yourself for something you had no control over. Look, I'm still well and alive and I should be out of here in a day or so okay?" Kaito nodded his head and then I placed my forehead to his, making him look me in the eyes.
"I love you Kaito. You know that right?" Kaito smiled and nodded his head a bit.
"I love you too Shinichi." After muttering a quick and small 'good', I kissed him.
It has been about a week since I was discharged from the hospital. I felt like crap for a few days, but then I felt a lot better. However, the agency still wouldn't let me come into work for a few days. So currently, I was sitting with Ran making….plans.
"Shinichi, don't worry. It'll be fine. I'm sure of what will happen." I nodded my head and sighed. I was really, really nervous. I mean, what if he isn't ready? No, I'm sure that he is. Maybe, I just hope this doesn't backfire in my face like a lot of things have.
"I know, it's just now I'm really nervous. You know I was planning to do this two weeks ago and then Gin just had to pop up. So now I think that most of my nerves are shot." Ran just shook her head.
"Look, everything will be fine." At that exact moment, Kaito walked in the house and I shot Ran a quick look and she nodded in understanding. Don't say a word about that now. I know. Kaito walked in the kitchen and hung up his keys.
"Hey Ran! It's been awhile since you were last here, what brings the occasion?" I looked between the two as Kaito came over to me and hugged me from behind resting his head atop mine.
"Nothing much, just thought I would check up on my two favorites. Well, I'm going to head out, it was nice seeing you Kaito. I'll talk to you later Shinichi." I waved as she left. I turned in my seat and hugged Kaito. It was so boring without his loud mouth being here. Now before anyone thinks what I'm sure someone is thinking. Kaito isn't intimidated by Ran anymore. He realizes that I only saw her as a sister and nothing more. We ate dinner and talked about our day and then we went to our room and threw in a movie. Even though we were both asleep halfway through said movie.
It's been a few days since then, and I'm now back to work. However, currently, we weren't really working since there were no cases. Instead we were setting the whole office area up with birthday stuff. I was currently running around looking for the best cake that I could find. I finally found one. It was pretty big and was an a range of different colors. It definitely looked like cavity central, and I just knew that he would love it. With that sweet tooth of his anyways. After buying the cake and heading back to the agency, I saw something in the window. I figured it was the perfect present, well, besides the one I am going to do. Haha. So I bought it and had them gift wrap it and I went on my way back to the office.
When I got there, Ran was helping everyone put up the last of the decorations. I placed the cake in its respectful place and put his gift in the gift area. After doing that, I went to ran.
"Ran, I'm even more nervous now that it's actually here. What if I screw up?" I was actually sweating from the nerves I was breaking. She just laughed softly at me and pulled me into a light hug.
"Shinichi, you have always been such a worry wart. Look, you'll be fine. I believe in you as does everyone else. If you screw up, you have us here to get you out of it. Now go get him." With that she spun me towards the door and lightly pushed. I ran on my feet so that my fear and nerves wouldn't get in my way. After what seemed like little time, I reached his workplace, of course like an idiot, he was waiting outside for me.
"Shinichi! I missed you!" I laughed as he jumped on me to hug me. I wrapped my arms around him.
"Kaito, you just saw me this morning. But I missed you too." After our little 'moment' I opened the door for Kaito and then got in to drive back to the agency.
"Uhm, Shinichi? Why are we here?" I smiled and told him to come with me, that I had a case file to pick up and didn't want him to be in here by himself this late. He followed me without much voice. We finally reached the point where my office would be. I held Kaito's hand and gave him a quick kiss and opened the door before he could question me. As soon as both of us were in the dark room, I flipped the light switch.
"Happy birthday Kaito!" Everyone jumped up and yelled. Kaito jumped about ten feet, but had a huge grin plastered on his face. I swear that one of these days, that smile will be there permanently. He looked at me and gave me a jump hug.
"Did you do all of this?" I laughed and shook my head.
"No, I had a lot of help. Ran, everyone in the agency, they all helped. So they are also in need of thanks." Kaito looked like he was going to cry. But Ran, and Aoko grabbed the poor boy and pulled him around everyone. As the night went on, we went through people, food, and now we are finally at the presents. He was finishing up the last three, Ran's, Aoko's, and mine. Ran had gotten him a fishing pole, and Aoko got him a fish plushie. But the eyes on that thing were creepy as all hell. Kaito was trying to keep up his poker face, he even mumbled, 'P-p-p-p-poker face.' All of us were laughing really bad because of the poor boy's reaction. But then we came down to earth a bit more and then Kaito opened up my present and he just looked at me. I gave him an innocent smile. It was a book of a bunch of rare magic tricks, they were complicated and hard to do. But I had no doubt that Kaito could complete them. Plus he could use them with his...extracurricular activities. It's funny really because here and today, Kaito just turned twenty six and he still does the Kaito Kid stuff. But then again being twenty seven, I still have a love for detective work and solving mysteries. Even if I don't take part in Kaito's antics anymore. Kaito gave me a hug and a quick kiss.
"Thank you Shinichi. I love it." He also got the underhanded meaning to it. Kaito went to walk away, but I grabbed his hand and spun him around. He gasped lightly and looked at me with confusing eyes. I noticed everyone else had formed a type of circle around us. I sighed and closed my eyes before snapping them open with confidence.
"Kaito, we've been together since we were nineteen, and in these past seven years, I have done nothing but fall more and more in love with you. You have been my rock to lean on and you have always done so much for me. I try to do my best to do the same for you. I would take the fall for you any and every day. I promise to protect you with my life, need the situation call for it. I know I can be a bit of a pain, but let's be honest, you can be a pain in the but sometimes as well, but I love it more than anything. I fell in love with your eyes, with your smile, your personality, what you can do, but I mostly fell in love with just you. You are so imperfect to me that you are perfect." I chose this moment to get down on one knee and I pulled out the ring.
"So Kaito, the love of my life, what I am asking is, will you make me the happiest man in the world, and marry me?" Kaito had put his hands over his mouth and started crying. When I asked him to marry me he just nodded his head and then he attack me to the ground.
"Yes! I will marry you Shinichi! God I love you!" Every single one of our friends and those that were basically family were around us clapping and I happened to notice that Aoko and Ran were both crying while smiling the biggest smiles that I have ever saw them have. I pushed both kaito and I up from the floor to grab his left hand. I slipped the ring on his finger. It was somewhat simple, but elegant, a plain silver ring with two small stones in the center. The stones were our birthstones, the amethyst one for Kaito, and emerald for me. Kaito looked at it like it was the best thing in the world. Then he did one of the most cliche things ever, he cupped my face in his hands and kissed the hell out of me. I think he was happy.