Shinichi knew it had been a bad idea from the start. He knew he should have said no, that he could handle it.

The detective also knew he couldn't resist when those puppy dog eyes appeared, followed by a cute whine and silent pleading. Kaito was beyond bored had wanted to be helpful. He was practically hanging from Shinichi's shoulders, being half dragged-half carried as the detective carried the basket into the laundry room. After five minutes of Kaito listing off reasons for him to accept the magician's help, he finally gave in.

That was his first mistake.

Against his better judgement, Shinichi agreed to let the magician fill the washer while he went to make lunch for them. All the while telling himself: How bad could things get? Even if it was Kaito he could be trusted to help with something simple such as laundry... right?

Oh boy, was he wrong.

The detective had expected perhaps the whites turning pink or blue or something silly like that.

What he wasn't prepared for was the loud bang and surprised squawk that echoed from behind the closed laundry room door. In a flash Shinichi had flown from that kitchen, sandwiches forgotten, and down the hall.

Throwing open the door he found a very shocked Kaito sitting on the floor with a pile of soapy suds at his feet. Suds that also decorated everything within a three foot radius around the washer, along with a few bits of clothing. The lid was open... correction, the lid was missing and water was sloshing out of the top of the still humming machine.

"Kaiiiiito..."

Kaito gave a nervous laugh, flinching slightly at how his favorite detective ground out the name.

"Wait, Shin-chaaaan! I can explain!" He said hurriedly before bursting into an explanation about how he thought he could make the laundry go faster with one of his new gadgets he had been tinkering with. A soap bomb contraption thing of sorts. He had thought it to be a perfect test run for it too.

In short there was too much soap for the poor machine to handle and it rebelled, rather spectacularly.

Whatever possessed the magician into thinking that was a brilliant idea, Shinichi would never know. Nor did he want to know. Some things couldn't be explained when it came to his overly eccentric boyfriend.

Shinichi raised a hand to silence the lengthy excuse and pinched the bridge of his nose, sighing. It was partly his fault. He should have expected this.

"Whatever Kaito. Just... start cleaning up the mess. Hopefully we won't need to buy a new one."

Kaito blinked in surprise, having expected a far worse scolding, then nodded as Shinichi went to help the other man to his feet. Together the two set about turning the washer off and began cleaning up the room. Several minutes of silence passed between them before Kaito stopped hefting what soaked clothes were still in the washer into a basket at his feet.

"I'm sorry, Shinichi." It was an accident.

Shinichi paused in his mopping and looked at the magician. Kaito wasn't looking at him but if he had gone as far as to drop the nickname it was pretty clear that he felt bad about the whole thing.

With a sigh he rested his mop against the wall and took the taller boy's chin in his hand. He turned the others face towards him and planted a long, firm but gentle kiss on Kaito's lips.

I know. Apology accepted.

When he pulled back Kaito was smiling, the unease having drained from his face and body. Shinichi blushed before promptly putting a blob of left over suds on his boyfriend's nose.

"Baa'ro. Don't think I've completely forgiven you! Now hurry up so we can actually eat lunch."

The detective returned to his mopping, ignoring the whistling behind him as Kaito continued his work with renewed vigor.

Shinichi smiled to himself.

As frustrating as it was, situations like the exploding washing machine were an everyday occurrence for the detective. It was one of the many things that came with being in a relationship with Kaito Kuroba and, quite honestly, he wouldn't have had it any other way.

Author's Notes: Okay. So this little idea bit me on the butt while I was doing laundry yesterday. It wouldn't leave me alone while I was trying to plan my next chapter for Brainwashed so I had to type it up real quick.

Also I don't own Detective Conan or Magic Kaito. :3