Suitcase
It was around 12:05 AM and Shinichi couldn't find Kaito anywhere. There was a suitcase missing from the storage closet as well, but no drawers emptied.
Wondering what the magician was up to, he called out for him, but received no answer. Frowning he went down stairs and notice that one of Kaito's pair of shoes were missing too.
"What could he be doing with and empty suitcase going out this late at night?" Shinichi wondered as he too put on his shoes and went out the door to look for his missing Kaito.
Walking out into the cold night air, he made a turn and began walking around the neighborhood hoping to run into Kaito wherever he was.
He knew that the magician hadn't left home, all his belongings were still there, they didn't have a fight and Shinichi had hope that he didn't forget something important again that would make Kaito mad at him until he figures it out and apologizes, so where is he?
Sighing as he'd hadn't any luck of just running into the magician, Shinichi broke into a run to look for him.
"Kaito!" He called, and waited for a while, no response. That's...normal right, well not really but Kaito can take care of himself so there wasn't any need to worry, he hoped.
Swallowing down the rising fear that set in, he took off running again to look for his lover who apparently can just disappear without a trace.
Racing around the neighborhood with no lead he found himself back at the Kudou Mansion's looming gate.
Peering at the house closely he noticed a light on inside the house.
"I'm sure I had all the lights turned off when I left" he mumbled to himself.
Upon entering his home, he noticed Kaito's shoes were back on the shoe rack. Letting a slow exhale, he tentatively called out, "Kaito?"
"Kaito, babe where are you?" He called a little louder this time. A low thud could be heard upstairs and not a minute later, a tuft of messy milk chocolate brown hair appeared at the top of the stairs and then the magician was there along with a slight pink tinged on his cheeks.
"You have seriously got to stop that Shin-chan." He mumbled and walked down the stairs towards the frowning detective.
"Where were you? I was looking all over." He stated when Kaito was in earshot.
"Out" was the simple reply.
"With an empty suitcase I'm sure." Shinichi said quirking an eyebrow.
Kaito gave him a sheepish smile as he wrapped his arms around Shinichi's neck and proceeded to kiss him.
When the detective didn't respond he pulled back and pouted giving his deduction nut of a boyfriend a kicked puppy expression.
"You said you wanted to travel a lot this coming year, so according to gleggle, in Columbia people take an empty suitcase out at midnight and walk around the block with it." Kaito explained as he was still latched on to Shinichi like a koala.
Rolling his eyes, he muttered "you're an idiot, don't scare me like that ever again." and pulled the magician into another kiss allowing the other to unbutton his coat and pull him up stairs into their shared room and bed space.
A/N: I decided to search on google what they do for the New Years in different countries. Admittedly, not the best place for research but...yeah. Obviously I'm not from a lot of these places so sorry if it's incorrect. Also, last bit of note...DC legitly used 'gleggle' as their google in the anime. I don't remember what episode I saw it form but it was probably the one where Agasa was trying to auction his vase...or one where Haibara was using her laptop at Agasa's...yeah...too lazy to find it again, but it's there lol.
