Yah! Chapter 3 finished for your reading enjoyment! Hope you luv it!

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~ Magiker ~

- 7:10 p.m. -

Aoko was on her stomach stretched out on the bed. Her feet were up in the air as she lightly kicked them back and forth, her head was propped up on one elbow near the foot of the bed, and her borrowed book lay beneath her prying eyes more than half finished. She was so enthralled by the words printed on the page that she did not notice the knock on the door. There was another knock a little louder this time, but still she did not notice.

"Sorry, for barraging in, but dinner is ready." said Assistant as he opened the door.

Finally, Aoko was startled out of the text by the sudden intruder and she sat up with a gasp. "Ah! Assistant, you scared me. I wish you would knock before coming in."

Assistant sighed "But, Miss Aoko I did. Twice, actually. When you did not answer I came in."

"Oh . . . You did?" she said blushing. "I guess I didn't notice, I was reading." and she gestured to the open book on the bed.

"Find a good book, did we?" he said with a smile as he put the tray of food down on the chest.

"Yeah, actually, I found it in that trunk." she said as she pointed to the chest. "Who would have thought that KID likes super sappy romance novels." she snickered.

"Really, he does? Well, I'll have to give him a hard time about it later." he said rather happily.

"So all the stuff in that chest is KID's?"

"Yes, normally this is his room. Speaking off this room it is rather dark without sunlight." he said as he walked over to the floor lamp by the desk.

"Wait; please don't turn on that lamp. I won't be able to turn it off." she said while tugging gently on the silk rope still tied around her ankle.

"Oh right, I had forgotten." he said as she walked over to the lamp on the nightstand and turned it on.

"Since you forgot, clearly don't need it, so why don't you take it off?" she said with a hint of hope in her voice.

"Afraid not, the Young Master said I am not allowed to take it off no matter how much you don't need It." he sighed, as if he had asked already.

'Damn. Stupid KID.' she thought. "Well, it was worth a try." she shrugged.

"Are you hungry, Miss? That is the reason why I came." he said changing the subject by motioning to the tray.

"Yes I am, but would you mind tasting the food again?" she asked sheepishly.

"Of course, Miss. Tonight for dinner is Chanko Nabe with a side of rice and a coke." he said as he lifted the lid and he proceeded to try some of each dish.

"Don't worry about the soda can it's clearly unopened."

He nodded "Well then Miss, I need to go and check on the Young Master, so just leave the dishes there when you are done and I will fetch them later. Until then." and with that he left.

Aoko sighed and flopped onto the bed. 'Man, I want to ask him more questions, but he left too quickly.' She sat up and turned to the food. As she stared at the food she thought 'I wonder if Dad has eaten dinner yet? No, he probably hasn't all day, since he's so worried and has been looking for me. I'd bet he hasn't slept and he's been smoking nonstop. I wish I could tell him I'm fine and he shouldn't worry.' "I hope he is ok." she whispered and then she began to eat.

- 8:30 p.m. -

Once she finished, she put the dishes back on the tray and looked around for her book. 'Where is it? It was here a while ago.' She got up off the bed 'Well, if I make the bed then maybe I'll find it.' and she proceeded to make the bed, but the book was nowhere to be found. 'Did it fall on the floor and get pushed under the bed?' she bent down and look under the bed. "Eureka!" she exclaimed and reached for her book then she saw another book farther under. 'What's that?' she managed to pull out the other book and her book as well. She discovered that the other book was a leather-bound journal with a red ribbon holding the users place.

She lay back down on the bed assuming in the same position she had been in before Assistant had brought dinner. 'Would it be wrong to open it? I mean it's not mine and KID must have been trying to hide it from Assistant, so do I really have any right? Yes, it's fine KID won't know and besides he did lock you up in his room so you have all right to paw threw his stuff. Shut up, you stupid little voice your making it hard to think. Don't think. Read.' "Ugh. Maybe just a peek. It won't hurt anyone, will It." she whispered with anticipation. She opened to where the ribbon was and saw neat hand writing filling the page. At the top there was a date and it was three days before KID's last heist. She flipped through all of the pages to find that they were all identical, even the pen color. She flipped back to the red ribbon to read and the entry read…

"Forever at my side, but never mine.

Oh, how I wish to see you standing by me

You cannot see through my lies only viewed by moonshine,

Yet still you smile at me so beautifully.

I wish to free you of me, but I can't bare

To watch you suffer with your lonely agonizing despair…"

She suddenly snapped the book closed as a deep red blush spread across her face. 'It's a love poem! Kaitou Kid has written a journal of love poems! I can't keep reading it would be wrong and a horrible invasion of his privacy, but… but… I wanna know who it's ABOUT! When else would I get another chance to snoop in the Legendary Thief's private life! Maybe-' then a knock at the down yanked her from her very agitated thoughts. She dropped the notebook on the floor and slid it under the bed with her hand as she stuttered "C-c-come in."

"It's just me, I am here to pick up your dishes." said Assistant as he opened the door. When he saw Aoko he raised an eyebrow at the very skittish looking girl, but said nothing.

"R-right. Of c-course." Aoko stuttered out.

Assistant walked over, picked up the tray, and turned back to the door. "Goodnight, Miss Aoko. And please try to get some sleep." he said gently, as if speaking to a deranged rabbit. He smiled and left, closing the door behind him.

The second she heard the door click closed her face dropped to the bed with a heavy sigh. 'He must be coming up with some crazy reason about what I was doing before he came in and I can't believe that I couldn't stop stuttering! And the way he was talking to me when he left, made me feel like I was a person suffering from a mental breakdown. Look at the mess you got me in, you stupid little voice! I shouldn't have gone snooping it that journal! Don't yell at me, you're the one who was s-s-stuttering.'

She sighed and sat up to lean back against the headboard. She looked around the room and her eyes came to land on the full moon shining brightly in her window 'Wow, the moon must be shinning so brightly . . .' and with that she reached over to the table lamp and turned it off. Moonlight filled the room with its soft and pale glow. "Beautiful. The moonlight is even bright enough that I can even read." she whispered and she picked up her book flipping to her page.

- Midnight -

Assistant was making one last check on KID, when he noticed that Aoko's door was open and he knew for a fact that he had closed it. He rushed into the moonlit room fearing the worst, Aoko had escaped. When he saw the girl slumped back against the headboard fast asleep he said "Then why was the door open?" rather loudly.

"Ssshhhh, or you will wake her." whispered a voice behind him.

Assistant jumped in surprise and spun around to see a young man in jeans and a black sweater leaning against the wall by the door. "Master Kai-" he began to shout as Kaito covered the old man's mouth with his hand.

"Quieter or you'll wake her." Kaito said in serious, but hushed tone. He removed his hand after Assistant nodded in understanding.

"Kaito what are you doing out of bed, your wound hasn't healed yet, you need your rest." protested Assistant.

"Jii-chan, I have been resting for twenty-four hours, I'm tired of resting. Besides I wanted to see our police prisoner princess…" he sighed longingly as his gaze fell on the sleeping girl.

Jii sighed at the love sick puppy expression Kaito had on his face and remained silent as Kaito walked closer to the sleeping girl. But he began to protest as Kaito bent down to pick up his princess "Hey, hey don't do that you will just reopen your injury."

'Damn it, I know he's right, but… oh, to hell with it!' Kaito thought vehemently as he reached out to pick up Aoko. When he picked her up he felt a pain in his shoulder like a hot poker was jabbed into it and it began to twist around searing the wound. "Come here and pull back the covers so I can lay her down." Kaito whispered as softly as before, without a hint of pain in his voice or on his face because it couldn't break his poker face.

Jii rushed over and pulled the covers back for Kaito as he sighed in defeat.

Kaito laid Aoko down without a sound then he began to pull the covers over her, but stopped as he saw a book lying open beside her. A small smile crossed his lips as he picked up the book and said "Enjoying my reading selection, Aoko?"

"Speaking of reading selection, Romances, Young Master who would have guessed?" Jii said with a smirk on his face.

"Adventure Romances, yes. Fluffy, frilly, Romances, no."

"Sure ~, whatever you say." Jii said sarcastically.

Kaito rolled his eyes 'Ha, if he is giving me a hard time about my book choices then he would most definitely have a field day if he ever found my journal.' "Actually, this book series was written by a world renowned mystery author. His wife wanted him to try something new, so he wrote these." Kaito said ignoring Jii's last comment.

"Really, who?" asked Jii curiously.

"He writes the Night Barron series, you know the one that's really famous in America, right now." said Kaito with his trademark smirk.

"Are you serious!" asked a bewildered Jii.

"Hush, and yes I am. Here check for yourself." said Kaito and he tossed the book to Jii.

Jii caught the book, read its spine, and quietly said "Sure enough, it is." Then Jii turned the book over to look at the title and his eyes grew wide in surprise. He look at Kaito, who wasn't looking at him and whispered "Kaito, this title . . ."

Kaito sighed. "Manacles and Masterpieces, I guess you can see why I like it so much. It's the first in the series, sadly each book is independent so this is the only one about a wickedly handsome art thief and his undying love for a stunningly beautiful police inspector who is trying to stick him behind bars." he said with sad voice as he looked as Jii over his shoulder.

"And how does it end?" asked a weary Jii.

"It has a happy ending." Kaito said with a small smile as he turned to face him. "Can I have it back?"

"Sure." and Jii tossed it back.

Kaito flipped back to the page Aoko was on and pulled a fake rose out of the air. He placed the plastic stem in the book, with the flower poking out of the top. He closed the book and placed it on the nightstand.

Jii headed towards the door and said "I am heading to the captain's quarters to get out fresh dressings for your wound so hurry there." He then left with a knowing smirk and a passing thought 'I know when I'm not noticed or need…'

Kaito watched a smirk flicker across Jii's face as he left and sighed yet again 'I'm never gonna hear the end of it this time . . .' He finished tucking in Aoko, but she mumbled something in her sleep. Kaito couldn't hear what she said, so he leaned in to catch her words if she spoke again.

"Kaito" Aoko mumbled "please don't leave me…" and a tear rolled down her sleeping face.

Those five simple words created an invisible blade that stabbed through Kaito's heart and it brought him such excruciating agony that it shattered his poker face. Kaito wiped away her tear and breathed "Don't worry Aoko, the story has a happy ending." Then he kissed her forehead and repeated "It has a happy ending." over and over until he almost believed that their story would have one as well. "Now, get some sleep you beautifully stupid girl." and he left Aoko to dream of legendary thieves, 'best friends', and happy endings.

But no one ever said it was going be a happy dream. I could very well be a nightmare.

~ Aren't I so mean ~ Now, run along and review. Please, please, please, PLEASE! Nawh, I'm not desperate or anything.

That was a lie, I am. Lawlz

Until the next chapter,

Farewell XD