Catboys

Chapter Four: Heist

by Phantom-Akiko and Vampire-KIDDO

thanks to hallow777 for beta-reading

We really have to apologize to Kaito in this chapter...we let him suffer so much...^^°

How the name is already suggesting, this entire chapter is nearly only about the heist.

Have fun^^

The days went by and all too soon it was the evening of the KID heist. Conan worked on getting used to all the new cat stuff he had to deal with so that hopefully they wouldn't appear during the heist. He went with Ran and Kogoro to the museum where all the police already were.

Kaito had done the remaining preparing with Jii and they were in position. The heist wasn't due to take place for another hour, so they had still time.

Kid took a last glance into his binoculars and scanned the area of the museums. "Let's see...there's Nakamori, shouting at his men again...and there's Hakuba. Looking smug tonight, aren't we? Wonder if he's planning something about my new nature. Oh, and there is tantei-kun! That's gonna be fun. I wonder if he will notice my new agility and balance..."

The shrunken detective was patiently waiting and also thought about that. 'Maybe my new balance will be helpful while chasing him...', he thought and sighed, 'as long those damn ears and tail don't pop out...', and could already imagine Kid's grin, seeing him like that.

Kaito waited for the rest of the time then flew with his glider a minute before the arranged time onto a balcony of the museum.

Conan watched at his watch again and again until he could count the seconds until it was finally time for Kid to appear. Then he heard some police shout "Kid! On the balcony!", and looked immediately in that direction.

The thief went through the huge glass doors as if they weren't even locked. Which they actually were. He stepped up on the railing of the upper corridor, jumped in the air and let himself fall towards the ground again. He landed in the middle of the museum's floor.

When he landed in the middle of the floor the police ran towards him and tried their best to catch them. "Catch him!", Nakamkori-keibu yelled. Conan kept still and watched what Kid was going to do next. If he were to run towards him, he'd get lost under the police.

He evaded the first officer with a jump in the air and used his head to avoid a collision with two other officers, who now lay dazed on top of the other. The game of dog-pile-on-the-bandit continued like this until all the police officers were in one pile and also stuck together from the blue paint that Kid had somehow managed to stick between them. All in all, Kid was having loads of fun and was laughing like the idiot he was. When he was lounging on top of the pile of officers like one giant dove, Hakuba approached the thief from behind, hoping to surprise the Kid. But then, the thief suddenly did a flip in the air and was suddenly behind the blond detective, who soon found himself tied up against the nearest pillar of the museum. Which only left Kid and Conan.

Conan had watched this and sighed. 'How can the police be so stupid?', he asked himself and really wondered. Kinda tired of Kids game he turned the power of his shoe on and noticed that he and Kid were the only ones left. "You really had fun,didn't you?", he asked, glaring at him annoyed.

Kid turned around to him and *grinned*. "Oh, how can you tell, Tantei-kun?", he asked innocently and prepared to leap, if the detective should shoot one of his soccer balls again.

"Maybe because of your stupid laughing?", he said and pushed the button on his belt and let a soccer ball appear before kicking it straight in his direction.

Kid leaped out of the way without a problem and bounced over to the case, where the gem still lay inside the glass case. Humming some sort of tune, he quickly picked the lock and had the gem in his pocket a few seconds later. With that he swirled around to the detective again. "My laughing might be stupid, but I have the gem."

Conan looked at him and pointed his stun-gun at him. "Not for long!", he said and tried to get him with a shot of his stun-gun.

Kid dodged the dart with a jump over the pedestal, the dart got stuck in the material of the case and the thief vanished with a mock bow and a puff of smoke from the room.

"Shimatta!", Conan swore when Kid disappeared in the smoke and looked around and ran to the exit of the room, hope to find him before he could escape.

Kid had already made his way to the roof, where he checked if the jewel was the Pandora Gem or not. He sighed as the gem did nothing in the full moon's light.

When Conan found the stairs he hurried up to the top and finally arrived on the roof. He saw the thief, putting the gem back and slowly came up to him, not making a sound.

After tucking the gem safe in one of his pockets, Kid sighed and looked across the town. He already wondered, where the Chibi-tantei was, but he was sure, that he would hear the little footsteps as soon as he would make his way to the roof.

The little detective noticed that Kid didn't noticed him and turned his shoe on again and pushed another ball out of his belt. By now the thief should have heard him, because he was kicking the ball with full power to the thief again.

Kid indeed only heard the detective, when he heard the familiar clicks of the shoes mechanisms. He was just turning around and about to flee, as he already felt the ball slam into his waist, sending him over the edge of the rooftop. Luckily for him, the museum wasn't that high. Still three stories high, but he even managed to land on his feet and hands after doing a flip in mid-flight. And for the sake of his own freedom, he ignored the pain in his stomach for now.

First Conan was pretty satisfied that he hit the thief but didn't thought that he'd fall down the building. He ran to the edge and saw Kid already on the ground, with no hint of any injuries. Conan wondered how the thief managed to do that and looked for another way to get down. Then he discovered some ornament on the wall of the building and after thinking about it, he jumped down and by climbing and jumping he was soon also on the ground. 'Good thing that I have more balance...', he thought till he was on the ground again.

Kid looked surprised at the way Conan made it down to the ground. "Was he always this good...?", he wondered absently, before he checked the door of the museum. ' No police officer there, yet. Must still be in a tangle of themselves...Hakuba might be free already, but he hasn't gotten out yet...'

He also noticed that the police still wasn't around and sighted. 'Damn thief...', he swore and looked at him. "Seems like you can't use your glider any more.", he said grinning.

"Oooh, who said that?", he asked with a smirk and went off. He made his way onto the street next to the museum and went to the direction of the slightly bigger buildings.

"Hey!", Conan yelled and ran after him and trying not to loose him.

When he arrived at the first higher building, he took a look backwards and saw that the detective had been faster than he expected, but was still far behind. He turned a corner and already climbed up the fire escape, thinking that just running up there would waste too much time, anyway.

He still saw how the thief climbed up the fire escape and sighed. 'Why can't he just stop?', he thought and also climbed up there, hoping that the thief won't be too much faster than him.

From the top of the fire escape, he jumped directly to the next roof and waited there for a moment to see Conan climbing up there as well. 'He's gotten GOOD. I wonder if he just never used it or if I just haven't noticed it...'

Right now, Conan was pretty thankful for his new senses. He also wondered that the thief can climb so much, but he didn't thought about it any more and jumped after him on the roof and asked himself how long the chasing will go on.

Kid grinned as the boy landed on the roof as well and run over to the next rooftop, and kept on running.

Conan quickly started to follow him and was glad that he could manage the jumps over the rooftops.

Kid had very much fun with leading the detective around across the rooftops. He usually didn't have the opportunity to do so with other people. So he chuckled slightly, as he watched the detective approaching him, as he was standing on some sort of glass covered roof. He wasn't able to see what lay inside the building, but it wasn't rather important for him, anyway. What he didn't notice were the cracks a few feet in front of him.

After the thief finally stopped after a while Conan also stopped at the roof and grinned. "Want to do this chase for another few hours?", he asked and when he took a look down he also noticed that it was some sort of glass roof and also noticed the cracks. He gulped when the cracks got bigger.

Kid's now better ears also picked up the noise of the cracks getting bigger. 'Oooops...guess that roof was not designed for people standing on it...', he thought just as the ground gave away and they both fell into whatever lay below the glass. Kaito felt water hitting his body and he struggled not to breathe the water.

When Conan felt that he felt into water he tried to open his eyes again and blinked when he saw the fish, even if it wasn't that clearly because he was under water. 'Probably some sort of aquarium...', he noticed and fast swam up to breath air again. When he looked around he noticed that the tail and the ears popped out again and sighted annoyed. "Just great...", he muttered and his wet ears drooped.

Kaito felt something brush his one leg and opened his eyes to see what it was. His mind already told him, what it could possibly be, what animal would swim in the water, but he didn't want it to be true yet. When his eyes came face to face with a fish however, he tried to scream, which only erupted in a flow of bubbles. He swam fast to the surface and took a few long breaths, before he climbed onto the next prop he could get his hands on. With now being a little calmer, he noticed his ears, which hung under his hat and the tail that was hanging down. It didn't help that he was wet all over. 'Well, shit...', he thought and took a look at his little rival. His eyes went wide, as he saw the nearly identical cat ears.

When Conan noticed some bubbles next to him, he looked into the direction and suddenly saw Kid who looked like he had total panic... and than he also noticed the ears and the tail of the other and blinked a few times. "Wait a sec... is that real or just one of your jokes..?", he asked.

"Why should I use jokes like that, when I didn't even know about your current condition?", he said with a raised eyebrow. He noticed how his body still shook from fear at the memory of the fish.

He also went up on the prop and looked at Kaito. "Uhm... could it be you got kidnapped by some mad scientist a few days ago?", he asked curious and raised one eyebrow.

"Eh...? Yeah...you too?", he asked and raised an eyebrow as well.

He sighed and nodded. "Yes and now, unfortunately, these ears and tail keep popping out sometimes or it's getting even worse..", and thought about that play-mood thing.

"Worse...the loosing control thing?", he asked and sighed. "Guess we have similar problems, huh?", he asked, grinning slightly.

He looked surprised at him and nodded. "Well, seems so.", he agreed, "But you got quiet shocked when we fell in here?", the shrunken detective wondered then.

"Uhh~" He glanced a little nervous to the large hole they made. "Kind of...", he admitted, but also didn't want to tell the detective about his fear of fish.

"May I ask why? Hate cold water or something?", he asked curious.

"No, you may not ask why.", Kid said and shrugged.

Conan blinked and snorted. "Fine then...", he muttered, "Too bad I don't have ball here you for you. I'd love to see the great thief, playing around like a cat.", he grinned.

"Oh...you would, wouldn't you?", said thief answered with a smirk. "Bet you would lose control as well if you see the ball rolling. So what? The great detective of the east playing around like that?"

He looked at him and sighted. "Probably... well... you probably also didn't find anything to stop those cat stuff to pop out, did you?"

"Nope...and I have a person, who likes to find new ways of making them pop out.", he said and sighed.

"Sounds nice.", he said, glad that Ran was not like that. "I don't think Ran'll do something like that on purpose... even though she likes to see me like that. She even thinks it's cute..", he mumbled at the end.

"Well...same here.", he said and let out a groan. "I could understand that a little boy would be cute with them, but me?", he wondered.

"I'm not sure about that, probably they think it's always cute?", he said and sighed. "At least I'm not the only one who has to deal with it."

"Yeah...kind of good to know, huh?", he said and chuckled. "Think they would look for us, since we both obviously escaped?"

"Mh... not sure..", he said and thought about that. "Could be... I mean... they probably wanted to do something else with us, when the retrained us... even though I don't really wanna know what exactly...", he mumbled because that was already enough.

"Something even worse than this? Oi, Tantei-kun...don't even go there...", Kid said and shuddered. "But I think so, too...", he said and sighed.

"I just hope they don't kidnap me again. It is already enough to being shrunken..", he sighed annoyed.

"Guess we have to stay on alert then...I'm not fond of mad scientists kidnapping me as well.", he said equally annoyed.

The detective nodded and smirked. "Well, next time I see someone with that cat-stuff I'll probably know your true identity.", he grinned.

Kid muttered something incomprehensible at that and sighed. He knew it was most likely true anyway.

"How many of your people know about the ears-tail thing anyway?"

"Uhh...three people. Not sure about a fourth one, 'cause she's unpredictable like that, but that would be it..."

He nodded and thought about that. "Well, also only makes three people. Lucky that the kids don't know about that... They wouldn't mind at all to let that stuff appear...", he sighed.

The thief laughed slightly. "I can imagine that!"

Conan nodded and stood up, after some water on his body was gone.

Kid raised his head slightly to follow the other's moves.

"Well, I can't use my stun-gun any more, but I still can use my shoes.", he said and grinned at him.

The kaitou gulped slightly, as he heard that and was on his feet moments later as well.

Conan pushed another ball out of his belt and hit him again with the ball. But Conan put the shoes only on low, because he just wanted to see the thief fall into the aquarium.

The slight round about drill the ball got from Conan's kick got him by surprise and in the back. He had thought he would only need to jump a little to avoid the thing, but now his eyes flew open in horror, as he saw the water and the FISHES under him. As some sort of last lifeline, his tail wound itself around the prop and he dangled now with his nose a few inches away from the surface of the water. Now, he was really glad that he had his tail. But he could already see the fishes clearer than he had ever wished and stiffened up.

Conan watched him and had a big grin in his face. 'Seems like he really doesn't like that...', he thought an looked to his tail, which held him over the water. "Why don't you wanna go swim?", he asked amused stepped to his tail, "Don't worry, I'll help you.", he said in an innocent little boy's voice and grabbed the thief's tail.

Kaito, now pretty much the teenage magician, rather than the phantom thief, looked over his shoulders up to the little detective, who he right now considered one of the most evil things in the world. In this moment, his pokerface was pretty much forgotten. "Don't. You. Dare!", he hissed through clenched teeth, voice still the Kid's, but it got a slight edge to it.

But Conan just untangled the thief's tail from the prop, shifting his own tail happily. "Sorry, too late.", he just said and watched the thief falling down into the water and chuckled.

As Kid felt the small hands moving his tail, a cold chill, which had nothing to do with him being wet, went through his body and the next thing he knew was, that he was hitting the waters surface again, but now instantly struggled to get out of the water full of these little evil things. His head broke through the surface and he gasped for air, not so much from the suffocation, but more from the fear.

To watch the magician in such a fear was for the shrunken detective quiet amusing. "Ne, you really hate water, don't you?", he asked and wondered if he just didn't like the cold water or if it were the things, which were swimming in it.

The thief all but *glared* up at the little brat above him. "I already fell into too much water to hate it, thank you very much.", he said and got the hell out of the fish infested water, back on all fours onto the prop. He looked now like a rather large and irritated, let's not forget wet cat, his tail twitching behind him.

Conan still grinned, because he had really fun watching the thief. "Already had enough of the water?", he asked and his grin went bigger, "I wouldn't mind to send you into the water one more time.", and enjoyed to see the thief on all fours an all wet.

"You would, huh...", he grumbled and suddenly launched forward to catch the little detective and dragged him though the framework of the aquarium until they were out again.

He blinked when he suddenly dragged him. "H-Hey! I can walk on my own, okay? Lemme down!", he yelled and tried to get free what didn't really help and his ears dropped.

"I sure do know that, Tantei-kun!", Kid said grinning from ear to ear.

"Then let me down!", the shrunken detective yelled again.

Just then, the thief ran over the edge of the building and letting gravity befall them.

Conan blinked when he ran over the edge of the building.

"Should I really do that, now?", he asked, grinning widely as they fell.

He gulped and didn't say anything and started to hold on to Kaito.

Kid laughed silently as he opened his glider and soared through the air only seconds later.

He glared at the thief quiet annoyed."Stupid thief...", he muttered.

"You deserved it!", he replied happily.

"You were the one who ran first on the roof of that aquarium. Where are we going anyway?", he asked and looked to him.

"Well, I did plan to just drop you off somewhere, since I still have them gem...", he replied grinning.

"Great...", he muttered, "It'd be nice if that wouldn't be the end of the city."

"I see...so the agency would be nice?", Kid asked casually.

"That'd be unexpected friendly of the thief.", he said and watched him with raised brows.

"I can drop you off here as well!", he said and grinned and just flew a little lower to demonstrate what he had just said.

Conan noticed that they lost height and gulped. "I mean, that'd be so nice of you as always!", he quickly told him, smiling like an innocent child.

The thief nicked, smirking. "I knew you'd say that~", he said and flew higher again."

The shrunken detective who was still holding on to Kid mumbled something and could see the agency after a while and got an idea and smirked.

Kid flew lower again and prepared himself to drop the detective off. His hands grabbed the smaller boy under his arms to get him off of him just before they were over the agency.

When Kaito wanted to drop him off, Conan just grabbed him more and didn't think to let go and grinned.

Kid pulled and was surprised, when he didn't got off. "Oi! Let go!", he exclaimed. By that time, they flew already past the agency's roof.

"Forget it!", he yelled back grinning and also tangled his tail around him so he wouldn't get loose for sure. "I am beginning to enjoy this flight, really."

Kid glared down at his little passenger. "You little...", he murmured and tried to separate the detective from him.

Conan kept holding on to him permanently, and didn't even though of loosing grip.

As they struggled like this, Kid hadn't even noticed, that his glider was unbalanced and a strong gust of wind hit them in the side and caught his glider, they got swirled down near one of the nearby rooftops. Kid let his hands off the little detective and hoped he was wise enough to just jump off to avoid the crash.

The detective also didn't notice, just when the thief let his hands off he wondered and widened his eyes when he saw that they were crashing and let go close before the crash.

Kid just felt the weight vanish from his chest and the next moment, he already slammed down on the rooftop with a scream as his head hit the floor, blacking out after that.

Conan fell to the ground with no scratches but got worried because of Kid. 'Ouch... hope he's not injured that bad..', he thought and ran to him. He noticed that he lost consciousness and checked him for any injuries. 'Seems like it's not that bad...Anyway, he had hit probably his head on the ground...'

There was a slight gush of blood on the Kid's left side of the head, sticking his hair together, but it wasn't much. A smear of blood could also be found a few feet away from where the thief lay on the ground.

He noticed the wound on his head after he checked his head carefully. 'Hm..the wound doesn't seem so bad..', and looked to the thief face. ' Could be a chance to get know his real face...', he thought.

He thought about that option for a while and couldn't stop his curiosity and knelt down to him and slowly took off the monocle, because the cylinder already fell of before from the crash. He looked at his face, kinda surprised how similar he looked to the detective's real self.

The Kid's eyes twitched slightly at the contact, but he didn't wake up from that. He felt as if he was in some kind of semi consciousness, surrounded by black and some smoke that swirled around. The thief's tail would itself lazily around the monocle holding hand, but then unwound itself as slowly as well and well on the ground again with a slight grunt from the Kid.

Conan looked surprised at the tail of the other and thought it'd be the best to put the monocle back, and so he did. 'Think it'd be better if I stay here till he wakes up..', he thought and yawned.

It took some time for Kid to regain consciousness again, but when he did, he first sneezed slightly, because he was still a little wet. His eyes slowly opened, but his sight was totally unfocused. He saw a somewhat colourful blur in front of him and groaned slightly as he remembered the accident. He wanted to get up, but his muscles didn't want to move at all, so he just fell down again and panted slightly.

Conan watched at the thief for a while and got pretty tired, because it was soon morning already. "Ne, shall I call someone for you?", he asked, after he watched how the thief tried to stand up with no success.

The thief looked confused at him and it took some time to let the question register. He slowly shook his head and the free arm, that was not half pinned under his body, slowly reached into his jacket and pulled his mobile phone out. "Not necessary...", he croak out, "I know who to call...", he said and stared at his phone. His mind was still clouded and he could really think.

He watched him and sighted. "You were unconsciousness for quiet a while. Seems like that crash was pretty hard. You also hurt your head."

He nodded in response and cursed, as his head hurt from the movement and he needed to close his eyes for a short time. His sight became clearer now and he could see the little detective better. But he also noticed that it was already morning. 'Shit...Jii-chan must be worried sick about me...mum probably as well, if I don't show up soon.', he thought and used all his strength and concentration to get into a sitting position. He looked back to his cellphone again and typed a message for the elder man to pick him up here.

Conan notice that the thief had to really tired and stood up again. "Well then, if someone will come to pick you up I can leave I guess.", he said and looked to the thief who was sitting now.

Kid looked at him again and the clouds in his head slowly faded away. "Say, Tantei-kun...if I have been unconscious for so long and you were here the whole time...I don't think you could resist the urge to look who I really am...am I right?", he asked with a flat voice and raised an eyebrow at the shrunken detective.

He looked at him and after a while of silence he sighted. "Guess you got me. You're right, I couldn't resist. Sorry for that. But don't worry, I won't call you Kid if I see you in public. And I also dunno your name...", he said and looked at the thief and smiled, "Well, not yet."

The thief just looked at him, then sighed and dropped his head. "Alright...that's acceptable...", he said and stared at the ground.

He looked at him and sighed. "Don't worry, I also won't tell anyone of course. I just want to catch you like it should be."

Kid took a glance at him and grinned slightly. "My, what an honest detective you are..."

"You should be happy that I'm thinking this way. I bet Nakamori-keibu would just love to see your true face.", he mumbled.

There was a short flicker of regret in the kaitou's eyes, but it was soon replaced by the Kid's usual grinning pokerface. "I bet on that as well...", he said and chuckled.

"I better go now.", he said and went to the exit-door of the roof. "Guess we'll see each other at your next heist.", and waved his hand short before he left the roof.

Kid watched the little detective go and sighed after the door was closed. 'Great...now he knows about my cat problem AND knows my real face! Guess the heist couldn't have ended worse...no, scratch that, it could have. I could be dead or in jail. Got lucky that Tantei-kun has this honest side to him...I guess it would have been seven times worse if it had been Hakuba, who was here the whole time. He's quite honest as well, but I'm not sure just how much...'

"..........."

'Should stop thinking so much...it huuurts!', he thought again and just flopped back to the ground. After some time, the door to the rooftop opened again and he could see a very surprised Jii standing in the doorway. He flashed him a short grin and sat up again.

Jii had been surprised at the ears and the tails and the fact, that the teen had just lay there on the rooftop, without his hat. "Everything alright, Kaito-bochama?", he asked worried, but Kaito just sighed and nodded. "Yes...I'll tell you later...", he said and stood up to retrieve his hat. He placed it back on his head with a slight grin. Although his head still hurt like hell, he could still put on a performance. Not long and not exhausting, but still. "Let's go, Jii-chan...I think you would be surprised at what had happened this night...", he told the man and they went down to Jii's car.