Hiya! This idea just popped into my head and I decided that I had to write it, so I did! Here ya go! Enjoy!
Shinichi ran. He felt as though his whole world had just shattered. All positive emotions that he had previously had seemed to have just upped and left him. A fresh wave of tears made their way down his face as his shoes hit the soft grass of a park, he slowed his pace slightly and looked around. He wasn't somewhere he recognized. Good. Making his way towards a small copse of trees in the corner of the park, a vague thought at the back of his mind niggled at him, but he ignored it, his emotional state overcoming any sense of rational thought. He felt upset, betrayed, hurt, empty and shocked, but most of all he felt guilty. Guilty for not knowing that he had made his parents hate him so much that they threw him out. Guilty for not apologizing to them before he left. Guilty for having not told the school that he wouldn't be going there anymore. But most of all he felt guilty because even now, having run miles and miles away from where his old life used to be, he still couldn't understand just what he had done wrong. These thoughts plagued him, circling around in his head as he leant against a tree near the middle of the copse, sliding down until he was sat on the ground, hugging his knees with the rough bark pressed against his back. He rested his head on his knees, trying to push the upsetting thoughts and the pain in his leg from when his mother had gotten so annoyed that she had throw one of the kitchen knives at him, out of his head, hoping that he would just wake up, back in his bed at home, and find out that it had all been one long, horrible dream. But he knew that it was a futile hope, even as the dark realms of sleep threatened to overtake him, he knew, that once he woke up, his situation would still be exactly the same. Completely hopeless.
Kaito bounced ahead of the small group of people he was with, calling back to them to hurry up. Since he had woken up this morning his day had just kept getting better and better. The teacher had been ill, and none of the replacements that were qualified were able to come on such short notice. A supervisor had been sent in to keep an eye on the class, but they had been a timid person, and had told the class to do whatever they wanted. Of course, for Kaito, this meant a whole day of uninterrupted pranks to play on the entire class. Over half of whom now either had different coloured hair, or their school uniform had been tye-dyed all the colours of the rainbow. As an added bonus, he had managed to break his record of how many times he could piss Hakuba off so much that he shouted in a day. His previous record had been 7 times, but today he had managed a grand total of 12. And so it was with a very smug smirk that he was bouncing.
Aoko had planned a picnic for today, she had invited Kaito, Hakuba (for some unfathomable reason.) and, most confusingly, Akako. When she had asked him to come, Kaito had promptly decided that the small clearing in the middle of a copse in a nearby park would be the perfect place, and, no matter how many other suggestions were thrown at him, he flatly refused them time and time again. In truth he didn't really have a specific reason as to why he wanted the picnic to be there, he just did. For some reason he just felt the urge to go there that day. So, due to Kaito's incessant pestering, that was their destination.
They were now in the park, steadily making their way over the flat, grassy area that would shortly give way to the copse, Kaito still bouncing ahead of the rest. It was only once they were nearing the clearing itself though that things started to go weird.
Kaito had been jogging backwards when Akako suddenly veered sharply to the right, seeming to completely ignore that the copse that was just ahead of them, confused, Kaito had run to her planning to tell her that she was going the wrong way, but before he could get even a word in, Akako cut him off.
"There is an exceedingly mysterious aura coming from this direction." She said, Kaito blinked at the revelation of having discovered yet another form of Akako's powers. After a short moment of internal debate, Kaito decided that if it had caught the witches attention, then it was most likely worth his time as well. He called back to the others to go ahead, telling them that he would catch up in a minute. When he turned back round he broke into a run, noticing that Akako was almost out of his line of sight. He almost ran headfirst into her back when she stopped suddenly, causing him to backpedal and fall over. 'I'm going to have to work on that so that nothing like that will happen on one of my heists.' He mentally noted to himself, before standing up and craning his neck round Akako to see what held her attention so completely. To his surprise it was a boy, he looked no older than fourteen, and, for some reason or the other, was asleep in a copse.
"He's going to get sick if he stays here." Akako stated. Kaito looked up, confused. It had been sunny only a moment ago. Keyword 'had', in the time that it had taken for him to stand up and look at the boy, the sky had filled with dark clouds, and the first few droplets of rain were beginning to fall. 'Looks like we're going to have to skip out on that picnic.' Kaito thought mournfully. It was then that he noticed Akako staring at him expectantly.
"What?" he asked, a little unnerved.
"Well, aren't you going to pick him up then?" She asked. "Because you can't seriously expect me to carry one of my own slaves." She said, sounding offended by the very thought of it. "And besides, if you look closely, you will see that his leg is bleeding, and quite badly too. Kaito checked, and, sure enough, there was a dark crimson oval on the leg of the boy's clothes. He sucked in a breath, not even wanting to imagine just how much that had to hurt, and crouched down, hooking the 'eerily similar to him' boy's legs around his waist, being careful not to mishandle the injured one, and hoisted him up onto his back. As he left so that he could get the boy to the warmth of his house, he saw Akako flipping out a cell phone and texting Aoko, telling her to tell Hakuba that the picnic would be suspended for today.