Chapter 3

-The next day—

Shinichi woke up to Kaito cuddling up to him, and Alfred walking in to wake them up for the day. It was Sunday, tomorrow they had to go to school, but today Bruce and Dick were going to show them around Gotham, since he had never been here before and they wanted to make sure that we knew our way around the city while they were there.

"Master Shinichi, it is time to get up, please do wake up Master Kaito as well. Breakfast shall be ready in 30 minutes." Alfred left, the room leaving him to wake Kaito up.

Sighing he gently began to kiss Kaito, he drew back a bit and whispered in his ears, "Kai it's time to get up, Alfred already came in and we don't want Bruce to come in here now do we."

Kaito groaned at the thought but got up anyways. "Ne, Nichi, how are you awake right now, usually I have to bribe you to get up with coffee?"

"Jetlag, I'm not really used to the time zone change yet." He answered truthfully.

"Now let's go shower and head down to eat before someone else comes in." Shinichi said getting out and dragging Kaito to the bathroom.

Downstairs Shinichi and Kaito entered the dining room to see Bruce and Dick all ready for today's tour.

"Well what do you two have planned for us today?" Kaito said as he sat down and began to eat his eggs.

"Well, we were planning to show you the mall, some great places to eat, for Shinichi we also planned for you to visit the station and a couple of really good book stores we have here, and for Kaito we also have planned to go to the park, so he could run around for a while, and we also have a couple of chocolate shops here that you might like." Dick said seeing both of them look happy with what they have planned, although he was a bit worried with Kaito having unlimited access to sugar.

"And after all that we are going to the office to pick up a couple of things and we'll have lunch somewhere, private too." Bruce said not looking up from his newspaper.

"That sounds great actually, especially not a lot of people are supposed to know the Shinichi is back." Kaito mumbled the last part quietly. Bruce and Dick glanced at each other wondering what that was supposed to mean, they nodded in deciding they would find out later.

"Yeah, hopefully it's a peaceful day though." Shinichi said, Dick chuckled at his comment, it was Gotham it was never peaceful here.

"I know what you mean Nichi but don't worry I'm here I counter your curse, and that reminds me we should tell the other two about it." Kaito had a thoughtful expression on his face.

"I'm not cursed Kaito." Shinichi said glaring at Kaito, he did not want to believe he was cursed.

"Yes you are, even Akako commented on it." Kaito countered back before turning to the other two at the table to explain what he had meant. "Shinichi here has been running into dead bodies ever since he could remember, although when he was young it was because his dad was always watching him when the police called for Kudo's assistance, but now he goes barely 3 days without running into a murder case or two."

Bruce knew that Shinichi was a homicide detective and was well known in Japan but he didn't really know the extent of his involvement with cases until now. Dick on the other hand was shocked that Shinichi had been around so much death and that he wasn't even the cause of it, though he still thought it was cool how he would catch the murderer every time.

"It's not my fault and I'm not cursed, beside if I was then explain then why it when I'm with you nothing ever happens?" Shinichi said.

"Because I counter the curse apparently." Kaito said a bit smug.

Shinichi just stuck out his tongue childishly at his boyfriend teasing him.

"Master Bruce the car is ready, you may leave at any time." Alfred had just walked back in to hear the explanation Kaito had given.

"Thank you Alfred, well we should get going before the day is over." Bruce said mentally tucking away the information he had just learned and hoped nothing would happen today.

"So you're telling me that every day in his classes he pranks everyone there, and that they are so used to it that they barely ever react anymore?" Dick was trying really hard not to laugh at what Shinichi had just told him about Kaito.

"Yup and his childhood friend Aoko, chases him around the room with a mop sometimes to, if he goes too far with his pranks or he peeks at her." Shinichi said while looking over at his pouting boyfriend.

"Hey you try being hit by that mop and see how you feel, it can't be worse than Ran's punches?" He said trying to turn the situation onto his boyfriend.

"No I'm pretty sure that she is worse considering that she is the karate champion and if she does get mad enough she can punch through a couple of walls." Shinichi winced at the memory when he was Conan and Sonoko had kept encouraging her.

They were walking around in the mall and Dick was showing him some of the stores they may like, on the way to the mall Bruce and Dick had shown them which streets to avoid, like Crime Alley. Shinichi was the only one wearing a hat to cover his face, and Dick was wearing some sun glasses too.

"So Shinichi, why have you been away for so long and why don't you want anyone to know that you are back?" Dick had been wondering why ever since he found out who he was and what they had said during breakfast too.

Both Kaito and Shinichi tensed at that and were quiet, Bruce and Dick glanced at each other thinking that it was something serious and both of them are most likely involved.

"Well you see about a year and half ago when I had gone into hiding when 'they' saw my face and I saw something I wasn't supposed to see, they think I am dead. So for the past year and a half I've been investigating on my own and now I have enough evidence to do so." Shinichi looked towards Kaito and put a hand on his shoulder.

Kaito looked over, a silent message was sent and he nodded, he knew that they were going to be okay. He moved his thoughts onto brighter thoughts.

"Why haven't you brought the evidence in to the police then?" Bruce was curious to see if they would slip any more information.

"Well, you see there about only 5 officers that I do trust with this information but this case has the CIA and the FBI on it. I've been working with them on it, but of course they only know me by my aliases that I've been using." Conan was a really good cover but it was really annoying when the others would treat him as a real child.

Bruce was surprised that both the CIA and the FBI are involved with the case but that also meant that whatever Shinichi had seen had been a part of something big. He narrowed his eyes when he had said 'they,' it meant that it was more like a group or an organization.

Dick was thinking along the same lines, but he also was wondering why Kaito tensed too, Dick put his thoughts to the side thinking that Shinichi must have told him everything or that Kaito had figured it out and forced it out of Shinichi.

"Hey," Kaito said interrupting their train of thoughts, "Are we going to be meeting more of your friends Bruce and can we visit our little bird's friends again they are so much fun to mess with, and I have some new disguises that I want to use on them." Kaito was trying to direct their attention somewhere else and hopefully it had worked, he didn't want them to know anything else.

"It depends on how you behave, and if they are lucky they might never meet you." Bruce didn't mind if he had met the league, he thought would be funny to see how they would react to the thief's pranks and introduction.

Dick cracked a smile at the thought of his cousin meeting the rest of the league.

"So are we going to walk around some more or are we going to go to lunch soon?" Shinichi felt his stomach growl, he looked to his watch to see it was already half past one.

"Yeah, let's go. There's a place not too far from here that we can eat in private." Bruce said pointing to the opposite direction where they were coming from. Bruce knew of the change of topic was on purpose, all it meant to him was that whatever the two are involved in is dangerous, he just didn't know what it was, yet.

After lunch, Gotham City Central Park

"Kaito stop acting like a six year old on a sugar high, we are almost there." Shinichi couldn't contain Kaito's excitement when he had heard they were going to the park after lunch.

"B-b-but, Nichi, at the park we can play soccer and I can do my magic tricks as much as I can with a crowd, how can you not be excited, I mean it's going to your first time out since you came back, don't tell me that you are not excited too." Kaito said looking over to his boyfriend that looked a bit tense but he could tell that he was excited too.

"What do you mean? Couldn't Shinichi go out if had an aliases, I mean he has been uncover for so long without getting caught right?" Dick interrupted, both of them jumped a bit, they didn't remember they weren't alone.

Both Bruce and Dick had been in the car across from them, they were so wrapped up in their own conversation they accidently let something slip again.

Kaito winced before saying, "He could, but what I mean is that it's his first time going out as himself and not as his aliases. Even when we started to go out I couldn't do anything then show that we were friends or even family sometimes if people got confused enough."

"I know you two have probably gone undercover before, it's not the same if you are acting like someone else and you can't be yourself." Shinichi knew he wasn't telling the truth but it was close enough to the truth as he could get, he didn't want to have these two involved with them if they could help it.

Bruce and Dick nodded, although Bruce had felt both of them holding something back but didn't know what. He was going to find out eventually but he would let the two come to him when they were ready, then again they did come here for a small vacation.

The car stopped and Kaito was out of the car before the door even opened. Shinichi sighed and thanked Alfred before running off to get his childish boyfriend. Dick followed him thinking whatever Kaito was going to do was going to be fun or was going to get them into trouble.

Kaito set of to the playground where most people would at, he wanted an audience for his magic, and he didn't wait for the others since he knew they would be right behind him. It had been years since he last did this, the last time was when he had just finished his first year in junior high.

His smile widened when he saw the park was full, he pulled out two of his smoke bombs and threw it. Pink smoke erupted where he wanted, he heard a couple of people shout out in fear that made a small frown appear on his face. This city had its problems but he was going to bring a little fun to this city.

Shinichi, Dick and Bruce caught up to see almost the entire park enthralled by Kaito's performance, the kids were up in front to see his magic. Doves were appearing from a puff of smoke all over the small stage that Kaito had somehow managed to get. The three just stood back and let the magic appear.

Kaito saw off to the side Shinichi, Dick and Bruce, a small smile crept onto his face.

"I need an assistant for my next trick, I need someone who is above this height." Kaito raised his hand to about the height of his cousin. Many hands were up in the air, but there was only one person he wanted to be on the stage right now. He chose a girl brown hair and green eyes.

"Oh my Ojou-sama, what you are wearing will not due for this trick right now." He announced to the crowd. He took out a small handkerchief, the crowd look confused before they felt the wonder when he began to unfold the handkerchief. He threw it over the girl, he snapped his fingers and with a small poof and it disappear.

The crowd clapped when they saw the girl had been changed into a light green sundress and her make-up and hair all done.

"Thank you my dear, now I need you to hold this dove," a small dove appeared in her hand, "Now I need you all to count to the count of three, and on the count of three you will be replaced by another person and a different bird." Kaito turned to the crowd and repeated what he said to the girl.

"ONE."

"TWO."

"THREE!"

White smoke came around and cleared quickly, in place of the girl was three people. The audience was amazed and began to cheer at the trick he had just done.

Shinichi, Dick and Bruce had been standing on the side when white smoke had consumed them, when the smoke cleared they found themselves standing next to Kaito on stage and each of them had different animals with them. Dick had a small robin, Shinichi had a small black rabbit, and Bruce had a Rottweiler puppy with him. The girl had appeared back next to her parents with a smile on her face.

The crowd began to applaud once again, "Thank you ladies and gentlemen, I thank you for giving your time today and may the rest of your day be peaceful." Kaito bowed and made the animals and the stage disappear.

A scream tore through the crowd, along with a yell, "He's dead!"

Kaito turned to Shinichi with an annoyed face, "I thought that I was supposed to prevent the curse, dammit."

"Well it has been a while, hehe." Shinichi had a sheepish expression on his face and scratched the side of his face.

"Ugh, Nichi you are absolutely hopeless." Kaito rubbed his head making it messier than before.

Disclaimer: I do not own Detective Conan or Young Justice.