Yuri: This chapter is shorter than I expected. Gah! Reviews! I love reviews and it is always refreshing to know that I've gotten reviews just 2 days after I posted the last chapter. So, thanks! No worries, I never meant this to be one-shot anyways. I'll probably make this into a 10-chapter fanfic as I really loved this universe! It's been around in my head for a while just that I usually need time to sort out the ideas before I wrote anything down. I've change the summary as well. I do realize that it's really kinda confusing so I tried making it less weird, though I probably failed again. Now, stop with all my useless rambling, here's the next chapter.


Chapter 2: Heist

To the world, Kaitou Kid is a well-known phantom thief who basically and always get what he (or she, no one ever knows the details concerning the elusive thief) wants and always get away with it. To Kid's task force that dedicated themselves in catching the phantom thief, Kid is like a shadow, sometimes he was there and you know it, but one can never ever seems to catch the thief, much to their chagrin. To the detectives, KID is like their final goal of achievement that shows how good they are in their job. But to his fans, KID is like an idol, doing all impossible feats while entertain his fans as well as having fun messing around with all the law enforcement that are after his tail.

It was like every other month during a night when the moon shines its brightest, a KID's heist note appeared on the head of KID's task force, Inspector Nakamori's desk. Filled with rage but gathered all his power to keep the profanities and vulgarities out from him mouth, Nakamori could do nothing else except shake with anger, until he could not hold it anymore.

"Kaitou KID! I will get you this time! I swear!" The middle aged Inspector shouted and the others nearby winced at the volume of the sound except for those who remained in his task force for quite a while. They just covered their ears before even the poor Inspector shouted in anger.

The heist note was cracked by the joint force of Hakuba Saguru and Shinich, much to Kaito's annoyance (his relationship with the blonde detective was never a good one to start with, considering one of them make it their personal mission to annoy the hell out of the other one). It seemed that Kid's target was the Dominar Olhar (King's Eyes) that was being displayed at the annual Suzuki Company's appreciation dinner on one of the company's cruise liner.

After bickering and exchanging profanities (which greatly amused the disguised Kaitou Kid and increased his vocabulary of vulgarities at the same time) with the Suzuki Jirokichi, Nakamori and his taskforce finally had the chance and permission to guard the said jewels that was Kid's target.

The Dominar Olhar, a pair magnificent blue garnet found at Russia were cut and fixed into a golden statue of King Emmanuel II, the last king of Portugal. The golden statue was bought from a collector residing at Portugal by Suzuki Jirokichi as a challenge issued to Kid and a personal collection to add into his (already huge) collection of statues and valuables.

The Kudo family, being a close friend with the Suzukis were naturally invited to the party (or dinner) though both parents who were busy running away from Yuusaku's desperate editors were absent from the trip. The siblings, however, were present both for the heist and the relationship between the families.

Ignoring the (still) bickering session between Nakamori and the elder Suzuki, Shinichi and Conan went to take a look at the target of the night while Kaito wandered somewhere else after murmured something about wanting to see Kaitou Kid up close.

Up close, the jewels were as magnificent as what they heard. Shining under the hall's lighting, the jewels seem to glimmer and both the Kudos could not move their eyes away from it. Noting the position of the officers that were posted to guard the jewels, Shinichi turned to find Kaito but could not find him in the hall at all.

"Conan, did you see Kaito anywhere?" The younger twin looked down and asked her youngest brother but held back a chuckle as she realized how serious the 8-year-old looked.

Startled by Shinichi, Conan raised his head and smiled sheepishly. "I'm sorry Shinichi-neechan, but I haven't seen Kaito-niichan since we entered the hall."

"Hmmm..where could he be? Let's look around for hi-" Shinichi was cut short as a burst of fireworks blasted from beneath the stage, startling the emcee for the day who doubled back and fell on his back. The poor guy yelped as a fluttering white cape covered him. Seconds later, after the smoke cleared, the emcee was nowhere to be seen and his position earlier was replaced by a certain cocky white-clad thief with an insane grin split across his face.

"Kaitou Kid! How dare you show up! I'm gonna catch you tonight!" bellowed an angry Inspector Nakamori while pointing a finger at the grinning thief.

"My, my, inspector. Try not to get too excited. I can see your veins popping out around your neck. We don't want you to faint in the middle of my grand show, do we?" Kid said while waving his finger at the angered inspector like a parent scolding his child.

Inspector Nakamori was seethed with anger at the thief gesture and throw himself towards the laughing thief together with the rest of his taskforce that were situated near the stage. Kid dodged the (flying) officers with his amazing reflex while showing off his amazing acrobatic skills. Laughing his head off, Kid turned and run towards the statue. With the help of a few smoke bombs, Kid managed to pry some of the officers off his track while he searched for the statue in the midst of the heavy smoke.

Realizing he was probably near the statue, Kid increased his speed but was tripped half way by a rope of some kind. Struggled to keep his feet on the ground, Kid glanced around cautiously until he saw a small dark figure in between the smoke.

That's probably tantei-kun with that short stature of his. Kid mused at the sight. Then tantei-chan's probably near him. I wonder where she is? Checking around to make sure that no one had the chance to ambush the thief (he could not find tantei-chan or Kudo Shinichi anywhere near him), Kid walked in a confident pace towards the short dark figure, hoping that the smoke from his smoke bombs will go away soon. Not a moment too soon, the smoke cleared up as soon as a ball whizzed past the thief head and sunk into the wall behind him.

Oi oi oi..I'm almost killed by that ball. Cold sweat formed on Kid's forehead as he dodged a few more balls that were aiming dangerously close to his head. Turning his head around before another ball whizzed past his head (again), Kid faced Conan with a ball juggling on his leg and a devious smirk formed on his face. Let's see how the taskforce and tantei-kun love this little gift of mine.

With an extra boost from his left leg, Kid jumped into the air and gracefully turned his body before landed on top of the statue. Looking down at the seething Nakamori and his taskforce and a very angry Hakuba who had got his haired dyed green since who-knows-when as well as dodging a few soccer balls coming from Conan's side, Kid searched for his bigger challenge, the famous high school detective, Kudou Shinichi, who was missing from the heist.

"It was fun and all but I'm taking my leave now. Adieu my lovely fans!" The magician thief bowed as another burst of fireworks shot from the sides of the statue.

"Kaitou Kid! We ain't your fans and returned those garnets at once!" bellowed a furious Nakamori.

Grinning at his audience (and the poor law enforcers), Kid took the Dominar Olhar away from its place at the statue while dropping more smoke bombs with a flick of his finger. Here's my gift to you all.

After the smoke cleared, the sight of the taskforce as well as their head-in-charged colored in a bright yellow paint, imitating the statue in front of them was an amusing sight, or so what the thief thought. Not only their bodies were covered with yellow paint, their hair was also dyed bright yellow to match their body. To top it up, each one of them had a neon pink laurel crown on their heads; pair of ridiculously huge pink colored wings at their back and the worse part, all of them was wearing fluffy baby blue ballet tutu dress. Struggling to get of their ridiculous outfit, all the taskforce as well as Conan were shocked to find the outfit glued onto themselves (how the thief managed to do all this in mere seconds they'll never know and never want to know) and themselves glued to the floor. Hakuba, on the other hand, had a totally different outfit than the rest of them, considering how much Kid loved to toy with him. The poor blonde detective had his Sherlock outfit changed into a more Irene Adler kind of outfit with a tight fitting neon pink gown matched with a pair of blood red high heels. The poor half-brit almost died of embarrassment after he found out what he wore.

After taking a picture of the one-of-the-lifetime sight, Kid tucked away his camera before heading to the front deck of the ship, ignoring the cries and pleas from behind.

Upon arriving at the highest floor of the ship, Kid was not at all surprised to see Shinichi standing with her hands on her hips and a smug look on her face. Her turquoise gown matching her cerulean eyes and complements her pale white skin, a sight that probably make all guys fall for her.

"Hey, Kid! Found what you're looking for?" Shinichi asked, still wearing the smug look of hers while juggling a few colored balls that just appeared in her hands. If Kid's a second change of expression indicates anything, Shinichi was willing to bet that whatever she said just now just hit a jackpot.

How did she know? Keep calm. You're Kaitou Kid the Phantom Thief. Poker face, poker face. Placing his poker face back in place, Kid checked both the garnets under the moonlight. Unsatisfied with nothing happened, Kid threw the garnets at the detective who caught them easily.

"Returning your prize in haste? Why? Are you in a rush or something?" Shinichi asked with her head tilted to one side, eyes never leave the thief.

"I've something more to do than to be your practice post for that vicious kick of yours."

Switching her pose with karate stance (and make her colored balls disappear and yes, all the Kudo siblings know a little bit of trick. That's what you get when you have a Kuroba Toichi as your caretaker), Shinichi held the hem of her dress with her left hand while ducking low, eyes analyzing the area in front of her as her brain calculates the speed and angle needed to deliver a powerful kick right at the thief's abdomen.

Sensing the detective's objective, Kid wasted no time and jumped down to the sea before engaging his hang glider and flew away.

Breathing out a sigh of relief and frustration, Shinichi went to the corner of the deck, making her purse appeared in a puff of blue smoke, she tucked the garnets into her purse. Before walking back to the hall, Shinichi glanced back and narrowed her eyes. I'll get you back for this, Kaito.

Kaito returned to his room after the heist ended. Changing his Kid regalia into his formal wear for the dinner, he went out to search his younger siblings.

Reaching the hall where the heist took place, Kaito could not help but laughed out loud at the sight of Kid's task force and his youngest sibling. All equipped with the outfit he'd chosen for them and still stuck in the pink harden slime. Shinichi shot him an annoyed glare at a corner of the hall, eyeing at Conan, asking him to get at least their youngest brother out of the mess. Mentally.

Kaito, still satisfied and happy at the fact that he and Shinichi could communicate without any verbal contact, grinned and walked towards Conan, with a pink bottle in hand.