A/N: Scarlet Phantom: Chapter 1: Prologue:
Okay, so when I first got into the series, I tried writing a fanfiction for it and failed miserably (In my opinion). However, the first time I wrote it was also the time that I met my husband, and he was the one who tried to help me write it by doing Kaito's lines for me. With that, I decided to take a crack at this story once again, as I'm starting to get back into the show again.
So, without further ado, 'Kid V.S Scarlet Phantom'.
Chapter Summary: Even gentleman thieves have their off days.
Summer holidays and care free hours had gone away, and the fall season and school tests had taken their places. Along with the cold weather it brought, this time of year always seemed to bring a tremendous amount of stress to one student in particular, whose after school activities may be viewed by some as strange.
'The night of a heist and the weather just HAS to drop down to below fifty degrees... Ugh, if I catch one more God damn cold-'
"Kaito!" Aoko screeched, kicking the side of her friend's desk in an attempt to get his attention. "Have you heard a word I've said!?"
To be honest, the dark haired male hadn't heard a word at all, far to focused on his own thoughts to really give a care to what the other had to say. Not like it was any different than any other normal day between the two- Or as normal as a day would get with those two around each other.
"Honestly? No." Kaito replied, leaning on his hands and bitterly looking out the window next to his desk.
The girl pouted at this reaction, suddenly jabbing her thumb against her friend's temple and expecting an over the top reaction from it. However, Kaito simply allowed the jab to push him over and into the cool and hard surface of his desk, where he proceeded to attempt to take a nap. Attempt was the key-word here, as the poking continued and Kaito was beginning to take joy out of annoying Aoko by ignoring her.
"Are you feeling alright? You don't seem as horribly immature or perverted today as you usually do." Aoko pouted, reaching a hand over and under her friend and placing it onto his's forehead in a gesture that the male found very unwelcome.
"Off." He grunted, casually brushing her hand away and pouting a bit.
"You sure?" Aoko asked, but not in a caring way, but rather in a 'I'm not convinced' kind of way. "Or is this still about the teacher confiscating all of your magic junk the other day? Because I honestly think its about time she did, an-"
"M'fine, just tired." This wasn't really a lie, as most of the night before now had been spent plotting for tonight's heist.
It was also spent all but chugging a bottle of cough syrup, bundling himself into ten different blankets, watching random videos just because he was bored, practicing a card trick or two, and basically anything else that a teenage boy could do a night before a jewel heist that was legal... Or illegal, in his case, but that was another story. The main point being that he was more stressed than he usually was, and for one simple reason; He really didn't plan anything special for this one.
'8:00 PM at blah, blah, blah. You know the drill. I steal and- Holy crap, is it cold outside! I'm Kid. Blah.' Basically his announcement if were summed up by a five year old.
He really could have put a bit more effort into this heist, but it was such a low grade museum with very little obstacles or challenges for him that there was really no point. Well, there was the point that the gem in the artifacts section of the museum possibly housed the Pandora Gem. In the case of this particular gem, it was best to leave no stone left un-turned, though he really would have preferred it if he didn't have to bother doing such a simple task.
"Listen to me when I'm talking to you!" Aoko's yells suddenly pulled Kaito back to the real world, as he sat up and looked over at her. "Thank you, now as I was saying, my dad is going to be out late bec-"
Tuning her back out, Kaito had already figured by now what was going on. Aoko's father, the very man out to bring Kid down, would be at the museum where the gem was 'hidden' for the night's heist, or rather hidden in plain sight, that is. The gem, while very valuable, had been recently moved to said location in an attempt to keep it almost hidden from Kid. However, what they didn't know was that you'd have to wake up pretty early in the morning in order to fool Kid with that old trick.
Smack!
"Jerk! I was going to invite you over to the museum with me and my dad tonight, but if you're just gonna stare off into space then you can forget about it!" Aoko concluded, not bothering to check and see if her friend was okay, even though the smack had sent him flying out of his chair and onto the floor.
She probably would have roughen him up some more, if it hadn't been for the teacher suddenly walking in and looking at the two with a look that just screamed 'I am so done with you both'. With a grunt, Kaito quickly dragged himself off of the floor and sat back down in his chair, fully intending to get some rest during this class before his 'job' tonight. Really, in all honesty though, he also didn't need to risk anymore welts from anymore women today.