NOTE: I just notice a few days ago that none of the chapter had the line breaks I made. I'm gonna test this out to see if they appear now so ignore the reposts, exact same story just with line breaks (hopefully).
Why was this detective so persistent? They came to Japan from England to capture this thief. Or so he says, on different occasions he has given tips to the person he believes is KID to help them out during a heist. That call was when he was in France by the way. Also at another time he took Kaitou KID's glove that was left at the scene, and nothing was done with it even though it could have been used to confirm Kaitou KID's identity. Yet nothing has happened.
Kaito was baffled as to why Hakuba would even do any of this. Nothing about the detective makes sense to the thief. He kept on contradicting his words with his actions. What was that detective after? What did he want from him?
Kaito did not know and said teenager interrupted his thoughts. "I hear you're off to steal the Frozen Heart," the detective said with as much arrogance as ever.
"That's KID who sent the announcement. I've told you a hundred times, I'm. Not. KID. When will you stop accusing me as being KID, you've even seen me in the same room as KID and you still accuse me," I tell him.
"I believe you are KID and none of my hunches have been wrong. I become… fixated till I prove my theory to be correct. I won't stop till a pair of handcuffs are on the thief's wrists and the disguise has come off." He said with more conviction in his voice than usual.
"Keh," was Kaito's intelligent and sarcastic response. He turned his head away to try to hide a slight blush at what Hakuba could mean with his words.
Kaito had been developing a small crush on the Brit, it had been months since it started to develop. He would never let it go anywhere and he makes sure to keep his emotions in check with his poker face. The blush faded as quickly as it came.
Class had proceeded as normal, or as normal for them. It featured yelling, mop swinging and dying of suspecting detectives. Kaito acted the way he always did to keep normalcy and keep the Brit from noticing his infatuation.
But because of said pranks Kaito was forced to clean up for the day. Kaito would have escaped that easily but… "Why are you here?" The thief asked.
"Because without me here you would run off and Aoko had plans this afternoon so she couldn't babysit you," Hakuba said with a bored expression. The detective seemed to be looking over a case file of some sort.
While Kaito was cleaning up the room curiosity go the better of him. "What case you reading?"
Hakuba sighed and closed the manila folder. "It's a rather difficult case. It's on a thief that, unlike KID, kills anyone in his way. Thing is it seems like there is more than one. They all carry guns and seem to all wear similar dark overcoats and hats. I have heard that one of their members is called Snake."
Kaito freezes for a second when he hears that detail. It doesn't go unnoticed by the high school detective. "Is there something you know about these people?" Hakuba asked slowly.
Kaito debates whether he should say something or not. On one hand he could risk his secret identity being found out, but on the other hand with the law on his side he may be able to catch them.
Kaito made up his mind. "I've heard of them…"
Hakuba seems surprised that Kaito admitted that and raised an eyebrow for him to continue.
Kaito took a deep breath. "I've researched them over the past year. When I was sneaking around during KID heists there are times I would overhear them talking to someone then there would be gunshots."
"And the reason why you've never brought this to the police is?"
"I don't have any solid evidence on them or proof they even exist. That's what I've been looking up. The first I'm not entirely sure who these people are, and the second I can only assume they kill anyone who gets in their way given how trigger-happy they seem to be. One time I heard them during the Red Tear heist, the magic troop maybe had something they were after and had almost killed the troop leader, but were intervened by Kaitou KID," He says evenly.
"Hmm…" is how Hakuba responds. "Then can you tell me all that you know about this organization? It might help catch them if we pool our information."
Kaito gives him a hard look. "Alright, I'll tell you what I found out on my own. They seem to target large gems, like Kaitou KID. Then seem to be searching for a specific gem, and from what I've seen KID and this group seem to be after the same thing, though they don't get along at all, every time I've heard them meet it usually ends with a fire-fight." Kaito stops himself before he says anything more that gives away that he is KID.
Hakuba seemed alarmed when he had heard Kaito infer that he was shot at. "...Alright, I'll shall try to believe what you're saying, even though there is no proof behind it. Do you know of the pattern that they steal those gems? Or how they can tell which one is the one they want?"
"That I personally don't know but I think I know of someone who does. Though you'll have to trust me on this, and do what I say," Kaito say with a bit of a cheeky grin.
"Why do I have a bad feeling about this?"
Kaito just started to laugh maniacally.
"Right that's why…" Hakuba was starting to regret telling Kaito about this.
Hakuba really hated Kaito right now. He was freezing his ass off outside on top of the roof of an adjacent building to the museum. Usually he would be inside waiting for Kaitou KID to try to catch him, now he was waiting in the snow where he was told the thief would escape to.
Why Hakuba was trusting Kaito on this info is because he knows that Kaito is KID. The glove he took confirmed his suspicions, now he was starting to piece together why Kaito was stealing. It may have something to do with the men seen at a few of his heists. His guess was that they were involved with something that had caused him to hate the group. He saw the way Kaito tensed up when he mentioned the name "Snake." there was also a bit of anger in his voice, so they must have done something unforgivable to the magician, and with what Kaito said of the group, it may have been the death of a loved one...
Before Hakuba could continue his thoughts he saw a large blur of white, larger than the snow. He then saw the international thief standing on the edge of the building, directly in front of the Brit. Hakuba saw that KID wasn't even fazed with his presence at all and he stood with confidence and a bit of smugness. That had always irritated the detective probably more than it should have.
KID spoke first. "London gairi no tantei-kun, what a nice surprise to see you waiting for me. It must have been rough on you in the cold. I would say that it is about -8.5°C out here. I hope you didn't freeze," he said feigning concern.
Hakuba looked down at his pocket watch. "January 3, Sunday, 12:14:06.21 am. You are 2 minutes and 14.12 seconds earlier than when I thought you'd get here." Hakuba said without acknowledging the criminals attempt at concern.
"Well that would be due to the numbers I usually have to fend off being one short from what I expected," the thief responded without missing a beat. "So what do I owe the pleasure of this meeting to?
Hakuba's face then hardens with conviction. "I want to know about an organization that, like you, has an eye for large jewels. I believe that one of their member's code name is Snake."
KID's face became a wall. "Tantei-san, do you really want to know of this organization? This is much larger than you may think it is. It can seriously put you and your loved ones in danger if you are caught snooping around."
Hakuba was a bit stunned at the seriousness in KID's tone, nothing at all like the way Kuroba spoke earlier. Kuroba spoke as he had some anger but was still his usual self; the phantom thief spoke with a dark and serious tone, malice obvious in his voice. He regains his composure and speaks. "I have to know the truth, I can't leave a case unsolved when there still leads to follow. I am also good at covering my tracks when I'm looking into something or obtaining a piece of evidence."
Kaitou KID looked into his eyes to determine whether his conviction was great enough or not. It seemed as Hakuba passed the test. "Let's get things straight right now, you if you are to bring this information to the police you have to leave out who it was that gave you the information, don't report it directly, send an anonymous tip off that way the organization doesn't know that you know more than you're letting on. Also this is only one branch of the Black Organization, it only one part of something much bigger. This means that it will be very difficult to take down and they have assassins at the ready, I should know since I have been shot a fair number of times and only managed to live thanks to lady luck. Do you still want to go through with this?"
Hakuba took a second to let this one bit of information sink in. If he agreed then he would be in league with a criminal, though this thief did have his morals strait, for the most part. He would also have to be more covert than he normally is; he was one to take a shine from publicity. It would not be the case here; everything would have to be under wraps, though that would not be too big of a problem. The main problem was that this was more dangerous than chasing after murders or serial killers it seemed like. What he chose here would change his life, for better or worse.
"Tell me about the Black Organization." Hakuba said it with all the conviction in the world.
-8.5°C is about 16.7°F I just wrote it as Celsius because basically everyone in the world uses Celsius. Us Americans really wanted to be different from everyone else, seriously are there any measurements that are the same as basically the rest of the world?
Sorry got on a bit of a rant there. Also damn it's hard to write the times for Hakuba, why is he so obsessed with time? Well I hope you enjoyed the first chapter of the Detective and the Thief. I shall try to continue to right this series. I want another Kaito x Hakuba fic out there, there are so few. Though I think I will take my time for actually getting these two together, they're going to have to go through a lot to reach a relationship, at least that's where I think this is going. Well until next time bye!