"Ne, Aoko?" Kaito said suddenly during lunch one day.

Aoko looked up. "Yeah?"

"Hypothetically, what would you do if I left?" Kaito asked.

"Left?" Aoko questioned before taking a bite out of her bento.

"You know, just up and left, presumably forever, though I probably would come back..."

"Why, are you planning on going anywhere, Kaito? Because if you are I will tie you up so tight you'll never get free, even with all your tricks!" Aoko demanded angrily, moving as if to stand up and get to work on it.

"No, no, calm down, it's a hypothetical question, I'm just curious about your reaction!" Kaito said, holding up his hands in a placating gesture and Aoko relaxed her posture a bit.

She looked thoughtful as she went over the question in her mind. "Well, why are you leaving, hypothetically? I need to know why you left if you want to know how I'd react."

"Well, maybe you don't know why, what then?"

"Then I'd be angry! I'd stomp around and rage at everyone and go to your house and tear it apart for clues! You'd hide them behind that picture of your dad wouldn't you? So I'd check there first and then I'd check your room and then I'd check your mom's room until the whole house was destroyed and then I'd go check Hakuba's house and then Akako's house-." Aoko fumed and Kaito cut her off before she could get too into it.

"You'd check Akako's house before checking Keiko's house?" Kaito questioned.

"Well, you don't like Keiko, do you?" Aoko questioned back.

"So you think I like the witch?" he exclaimed.

"That's mean, and of course you like her, otherwise you won't talk to her so much!" Aoko reasoned.

Kaito sweatdropped. "Okay, so what if I only told you that was really important and then told you I couldn't tell you anything else, what then?"

Aoko pondered this for a moment. "Well, I'd still be kind of mad, and I'd probably still search your house, at least, though I'd leave Hakuba and Akako out of it, I suppose. But I think I'd mostly be worried, what could be so important you couldn't tell me?"

Kaito blanched slightly behind his Poker Face and changed the subject. "What would it take to keep you from vandalizing my house and traumatizing my poor mother? She'd have to clean it up all by herself without me around, you know?"

"Hmm." She said. "Well, I think you'd have to give me a good reason for leaving and promise you'd be back. If I could know those two things, I wouldn't want to look for clues to track you down with."

"What if I was going somewhere dangerous and couldn't promise I'd be back but I gave a really good excuse?" Kaito prodded.

"What kind of excuse?" Aoko said.

Kaito pretended to consider this for a moment. "Okay, how about this. What if, I was actually Kaitou Kid and I was fighting a massive underground crime organization that killed my father? And I and two detectives teamed up to defeat them and bring peace and justice, and one of the detectives' proper bodies, to all? What would you do then?"

Aoko paused. "So is it just you, as Kaitou Kid, and the detectives? No police officers?"

"Maybe one or two, if they can keep the secret."

"No one else?"

"Now that I think about it, I doubt the detectives would be able to make their girlfriends stay at home, so we might have to count them in. If we don't invite them they'll just sneak in and we'll be caught up in a hostage situation."

"Hmm, so it's you, two detectives, their girlfriends, and maybe a police officer or two?" Aoko inquired.

Kaito nodded. "Yeah, that's about right. So what would you do?"

"I'd come with you. You could invite me or I'd find my own way, I'd get Akako and Hakuba to help, they already think you're Kid so they'd be excited."

Kaito glared at her. "You would not come, do you know how dangerous that would be? Baka!"

Aoko glared back. "What? So the detectives can bring their girlfriends but you can't bring your best friend?"

"Those girls have martial arts training and they hang around crime scenes a lot with their boyfriends anyways. And they know how to use a gun!"

Aoko huffed. "Fine. I'll let you think you've one."

"Right, we'll see about that." The bell rang for class then. "Time for class!"

Kaito stood up and Aoko started to as well. "That was all just hypothetical, of course, right? You aren't really Kaitou Kid and there is no secret organization that killed your father, right? And you aren't actually leaving?"

Kaito grinned. "Of course not, it was all just hypothetical!"

Next week, Kaito was absent from school for several days.

Aoko sighed. "Akako-chan, Hakuba-kun, I need your help, I have to go catch Kaitou Kid..."