Desclaimer: I don´t own Detective Conan
A/N: And so we continue :)
Kaito did not want to leave his new friend behind.
Kudo Shinichi, as the little magician in training had found out, was a rather interesting person.
Kaito had no issues admitting that he was much smarter than most kids his age. To be honest, sometimes he found it was annoying when people couldn´t follow his thoughts when he spoke them out loud. Shinichi, on other hand, had no apparent problem, easily following his line of though and even adding a new dimension.
It was with a heavy heart, and a big pout, that he left his new friend behind, making sure to memorize the address to visit him the next day.
The trip to zoo with his parents was important, dad was busy with job more than ever, the time he had to hang out with Kaito was almost none existent. Before they could play together, dad taught him magic… now, for some reason, dad was always out, working, working, working…
Not that Kaito didn´t understand, he was not some stupid seven years old child, work was important for his father. He, just, kind of missed their time together… Kaito was, after all, still a child. It was in his complete right to miss his father. He, wondered, for a moment, how his new friends dealt with his parents.
Shinichi had told him a little about his parents, and from what the little magician had heard, they didn´t seem good parents. Even if he managed somehow to ignore the fact his friend had been left in Japan all alone, not even knowing personally the person whom would be taking care of him; there were other issues that peeved the tinny magician. It was obvious, by way he talked about them, that Shin-chan was extremely lonely, and in Kaito´s book, that was something unforgivable. A child should never feel lonely, no, no, no!
Sighing, Kaito stopped as he reached the park where he met Shinichi, staring at the bench where he had found the boy. He was such a nice, interesting person… how could his parents just leave him behind?
A pout made it towards Kaito´s face before he even noticed, anger starting to grow in his heart. If it was him, he would have thrown a huge tantrum to be certain his parents knew his feelings, it spoke volumes about Shinichi´s life if he accepted it with nothing but a glance…
That´s right! While Shinichi was in Japan, Kaito would play with him all the time! Show his favorite places, bring him to the zoo and the park, make sure his friend didn´t feel lonely anymore! And when the time came for Shinichi to go back, the little magician would find a way to keep Shinichi with him! After all, he was nice, smart and actually listened to everything Kaito said! What were the odds of finding another like him? No, Kaito would need to keep him close!
Thinking about zoo, wasn´t he supposed to be going somewhere?
"The visit!" Young boy screamed as his feet picked up the pace again, aware he was going to be late. Hopefully mom wouldn't scold him too badly…
"Where were you, Kuroba Kaito?!"
As Kaito silently rushed in the kitchen, his mom´s loud voice was the first thing that greeted him. Pausing with a slightly flinch, the young child turned around carefully, smiling apologizing at his angry mother.
"Hi mom…"
"Don´t you hi me, young man!" Putting down her apron, Chikage shook her head, ignoring the smirk her husband was certainly stopping behind her. "What did you promise me when you went to the park this morning?"
"That I would be back by lunch…" Kaito mumbled, not looking into his mother´s eyes. He should have known she would be angry at him… "But mom, I…"
"No buts!" Chikage took a deep breathe, leaning forward, her violet eyes flashing with annoyance as her brown long hair fell forward, covering her view of her only child. "I should cut my hair… Anyway, once we are back from the zoo, you are so grounded young man."
"But mum, I was…"
"Now, now, Chikage, there is no need to ground Kaito." Toichi suddenly interrupted, hugging his wife from behind as he grinned. "After all, he was just a little bit late, I´m sure he didn´t do it on purpose."
"You are being too lax again, Toichi." Chikage complained, sighing loudly. "This is the third time he is late this week because he wasn´t paying attention. Should we really ignore this behavior? No, Kaito is grounded for three days."
"But mom, I didn´t do it on purpose!" The little boy interrupted before his dad agreed, worried his plans of hanging out with Shinichi would be interrupted. "There was this lost boy, he was all alone and crying, and dad always said that we should help people, so I went to ask him what was wrong, and he said he was lost and that it was his first time in Japan, so I asked where he wanted to go, and since it was Beika and I didn´t want him to cry, he was nice to me and all, I walked him there..."
"Calm down, little man." Toichi interrupted as Kaito talked without stop, not even pausing to breathe, so fast he hadn´t even caught most of what he said. The magician did, however, catch the key words, and a part of him was starting to worry the child had run away or been abandoned. "Now, can you explain everything from the start, but without rushing so much?"
Blushing, Kaito nodded, feeling a little bit silly. This wasn't the first time he had been told to speak slower.
"Well, when I was at the park, I noticed a boy about my age sitting all alone and crying." Maybe if he explained everything right, he wouldn´t be grounded after all. "As I asked him what was wrong, he told me that he was lost and did not have money to catch the right train. So I offered to help, maybe call you dad or take him to the police."
"He then explained that he came alone since his parents are traveling and showed me the address. He was supposed to go to Beika. Since it was near, I took him there, thinking it would be faster than taking a train. We talked on the way there, he lives in America, this is his first time in Japan and he almost can´t read Japanese at all. He was really scared and I didn´t want to leave him alone, even when we reached Hakase´s house, but I had to go back and…"
"This is his first time in Japan?" Toichi asked with his eyebrows raised, the situation seeming darker with each moment. So the child had been abandoned, probably given to some barely related person to be taken are off. "And he came here all alone from America?"
"No, his dad´s employee, secretary I think, he never told me her profession, came with him on the plane, but had to leave right away to catch her connecting plane." Dad seemed really worried… maybe Kaito should have brought Shinichi with him home after all… "Should I have taken him here or to the police. Shin-chan said it wasn´t the first time his parents left him alone, even if it was the first time no one came to pick him up."
"Shin-chan?" Chikage asked suddenly, stepping forward to get a good look at her child. "You said he was about your age and he wanted to go to Hakase´s house." It couldn´t be, could it? "Did this boy look slightly like you? You know his full name?"
Confused, Kaito nodded, trying to remember if he had described Shinichi to his parents earlier. Hm, no, he hadn´t, so how did his mom know they looked similar?
"Shin-chan has beautiful blue eyes, they sparkled so brightly! And his hair was much neater than mine, but with a cowlick sticking up from the back of his head." Why did his father´s eye open so widely in surprise? Why did mom pale all of sudden? Kaito didn´t understand, and it was annoying him. "He told me his name was Kudo Shinichi."
A/N: Thank you for continuing reading. *bow*
InsanityOwl: Now that is a great idea, no?
1412Kaishin4869: Really? (=^ェ^=) I´m so happy. Those two together are so cute, aren´t they? Double cuteness... Soon, my friend, soon...
Kensy Echo: Thanks. I´m wondering what he´ll think when Toichi tell him he is his dad´s friend... Muahahaha
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