There is a thin line between sanity and the opposite. Nobody must told this Kaito Koruba. It wasn't like he dance on this thin line every single heist, always in danger to fall at the wrong side down. But really, who wouldn't go insane.
The stress, the pressure and the worst, the lies slowly take their troll. He didn't sleep well, okay, he didn't sleep at all. The dark bags under his eyes get more and more visible and the forced smile vanished little by little.
His friends worried, but what could they do? It wasn't like he wanted to stand before Aoko and tell her about the last 2 years. Okay, that's a lie, sometimes he really wants to do that. But than there were the images of her, dead in his arms and a laughing Snake above them.
He destroyed her live enough; he wouldn't risk damage on her for his wellbeing.
He held the Blue Hope, felt his weigh is his hand that suddenly felt like crashing him to the ground. Or was it the Red fire? He lost the sense for remember the diamonds names because, they aren't Pandora so they are useless. Like this little shiny stone.
No red colour. Another failure and another wasted night.
He felt like crying, but instead, something like a laugh comes from the back of his throat. Now he went really insane. So he didn't hold back the hysteric laughing that made its way out of his mouth and let the tears stream over his cheeks.
Oh, how useless he was. At this moment he wanted nothing more than to throw this stupid rock as hard as possible to the ground and watch it broke. But it was a diamond, so it would be useless to try. So he stands there laughing and crying at the same time. Did his father felt ever like that? He doubted it. His father would never be that weak and pitiful.
"KID, what the hell do you you're doing?"
Small hands clenched the back of his white costume and shove him away from the edge of the building. Since when he get so near to the edge anyway? Through his tears he stared at the much too small detective. "T-Tantei-kun?"
"Yeah baka. So what do you think you're doing here? Jump and look if you can fly without your glider, because it looks really like this." The boy sounded angry. But behind his blue eyes burns not a flame of anger. More like a cold flame of fear that paralyzed his whole body. Without much thinking the thief hug the smaller one.
Conan made a small noise of surprise because of the suddenly closeness of them but he didn't fight back. So he held the thief until the laughing and crying fades. For now.
"I can't take it anymore. I can't" Kaito didn't care if the detective thought he was insane or something like that, beside Conan wouldn't think something like that would he? He only wanted to feel the warm body against his and the soft and comforting things he didn't understand which were mumbled against his hair because Conan couldn't really reach his ear in this position.
After a while the tears faded and Kaito's mind realized that he clenched the other like a lifeline. How ironic, the one who was one of his enemies helped him to not fall into the dark mass of his mind.
Sometimes you find help in really strange Moments. Not that he minded.