One of my favorite parts of my previous fanfiction dealing with a substitute was how other characters reacted to Conan, so I'll be doing that for the magic Kaito characters. As stated in the summary I won't be going under the idea Kid knows who Conan is. I also don't want this going anywhere non-canon, so it will just be their thoughts on the matter.

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'Who are you?' ran through the mind of one Kuroba Kaito as he sat back during class, already having memorized the material. It takes a lot to distract a phantom thief to the point where they don't even look like they are paying attention, but this was a topic that continued to confuse him.

Edogawa Conan, also known as tantei-kun to the elusive thief, was a mystery that even the greatest detectives in the world would have trouble with. Easily smarter than almost everyone else on the planet, and able to figure out the notes of Kaito Kid faster than the police and other, older detectives, Kaito was happy to know that he was one of the few people in existence who got to see the truth beneath Edogawa Conan's mask.

His mask did slip up sometimes, but it also seemed like he was trying to wear it 24/7. With the exception of a few people it seemed like Conan tried to just be a normal, slightly mature and smarter than average boy. He would hang around with normal kids and that one scary girl, but never acting truly the kid he was at heists around them unless he and the scary ojou-sama were alone. Around Ran and the Mouri idiot he was just a normal kid who was curious enough to get in the way of investigations and cause Mouri to hit him. That was how Kaito knew Mouri was not aware of the kids intelligence. Anyone who knew wouldn't risk hurting the brain of someone that smart, even if it did seem like the man cared for the kid that did not excuse acts of violence.

Then there was tantei-kun's weird friends. First the scary ojou-sama. She was a little monster herself, no kid was that sarcastic or morbid all the time. There were older friends too. Scary-chan or Sera Masumi was a skilled detective who just decided to suddenly come to Japan and instantly became friends with the Mouri family.

As many questions as that brought up, there was also the person living at meitantei's house. Subaru Okiya was not someone kid had done any specific research on as according to the man himself he was, 'not interested in thieves that steal physical objects…'. Even so, kid would never forget the one case he had met the man and almost ended up having a heart attack when the door was suddenly locked and it almost felt like bloodlust was leaking out of the guy.

And most importantly, Conan himself. It felt like the kid was getting faster each progressing time at solving his code, how he was able to notice the smallest details and irregularities in any problem. Their first meeting did not immediately come across as odd. Alright, he'll admit that at first he had slightly panicked when he noticed someone on the roof his code implied, he had not expected Nakamori to come at all close to solving it. Then, he noticed it was just a little kid, happily playing with fireworks as he called it. Everything about the boy's body language changed a split second later, as he went from happily playing with fireworks to asking if kid would be OK as the firework had caused a police helicopter to come that way. That had taken him by surprise. The cute naive kid from a second ago was replaced with an aura of a genius who had been orchestrating everything from the shadows. Really, that should have been his first clue that there was something off about the boy.

Their second meeting was even stranger. Letting his guard down by the age of his adversary, he allowed himself to be trapped in a space with no one to disguise as or trick. He had to use his last resort, something that should really have never worked on a six year old. And with each continued meeting the two had kids understanding of the boy was destroyed time and time again. As much as he went out of his way to make sure the kid had fun, there was always a sense of competition that he never felt with anyone, much less a child.

The breaking point which had really gotten Kid thinking about Conan constantly was the mystery train. Not only had he been pinpointed easily, but he was asked to do a favor for tantei-kun. A favor that involved being led with a gun to his head into a train car full of explosives. When he went back to check on the chibi-tantei later he saw the kid getting along just great with the person who held the gun.

In between his heists, he did like to check up on his detectives. Putting one camera at the cafe under the Mouri detective agency, he witnessed the oddest encounter he had seen yet. Unfortunately, the person with the gun on the train worked part time at the cafe as Amuro Tooru and was constantly sensing that there was someone listening. Luckily Kids camera's exploded when the battery died, so he could just get rid of them early if he felt they were going to be found. One day the tension between Conan and Amuro suddenly disappeared, they were at each other's necks one day and the next day Conan came in and simply said "Liar," to which he got a response of, "You're one to talk."

Absolutely nothing about the kid made any sense. What kid understood was that he was against some organization and was hiding his intelligence out of fear of being found. This, however, just brought up more questions. The first being what on earth were children working against evil organizations for. He understood that he could be considered hypocritical, he was a teenager working against an organization, but he at least was as tall as some people he went against. Conan was barely up to an adult's waist.

"Hey, Kaito, what's wrong? You've been spacing out all day." Aoko asked him, mostly scared that she was able to easily tell something was wrong.

"Nothing nothing, just thinking about a kid."

"Oh, an actual kid, not a kaito?" Aoko asked to make sure she hadn't misheard. Kaito was acting completely out of character to be so deep in thought.

"Yeah, Edogawa Conan. He's a detective who specializes in solving murders but you probably know him as-"

"The Kid killer. The person whose come closest to capturing Kaito kid out of anyone." Hakuba interrupted in his usual self-gloating manner.

"Oh yeah, I know him. He's so cute! And he keeps stoping that evil thief." Aoko joined in."But what's so interesting about him?"

""It's more like what isn't.""Hakuba and Kaito said simultaneously.

"Well, do you have some sort of connection to that boy Kaito?" Hakuba asked, hoping to gain more proof that Kaito and Kid were the same person.

"No, of course not, just wondering who could defeat the wonderful Kid-sama!" and like that everything was back to normal, leaving Hakuba deciding to check up on Edogawa Conan when he had a chance.