A wise reviewer once told me "don't push yourself to hard. If you do, you might end up getting burnt out. It's your choice, but in my opinion if a chapter is late every once in a while, or if you decide to post less often (like every other day or something), I bet your readers would understand." I have taken this wise person's advice since getting burned out is something that happens to me a lot. It also came at a good time since the word for Saturday, June 25, 2011 was a word that I couldn't use without making this M rated and while that may occur in the future (probably not though) it's not something I personally can bring myself to do right now. Anyway here's a triple and I hope you enjoy it. Please review at the end to keep me inspired!

Again this is un-beta-ed and while I started this one-shot early enough that there should've been more than enough time to at least look it over myself once, somehow this one took on a mind of it's own and turned out so long that I don't even have time to do that. Well, that and I'm tired after writing for around seven or eight hours with hardly any breaks.

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Word of the Day for Sunday, June 26, 2011

sirocco \suh-ROK-oh\, noun:

1. Any hot, oppressive wind, especially one in the warm sector of a cyclone.

2. A hot, dry, dustladen wind blowing from northern Africa and affecting parts of southern Europe.

3. A warm, sultry south or southeast wind accompanied by rain.

Word of the Day for Monday, June 27, 2011

attenuate \uh-TEN-yoo-eyt\, verb:

1. To weaken or reduce in force, intensity, effect, quantity, or value

2. To make thin; make slender or fine.

3. In medicine, to render less virulent, as a strain of pathogenic virus or bacterium.

4. In electronics, to decrease the amplitude of an electronic signal.

Word of the Day for Tuesday, June 28, 2011

catawampus \kat-uh-WOM-puhs\, adjective:

1. Off-center; askew; awry.
2. Positioned diagonally; cater-cornered.

Kaitou Kid's Cheshire grin morphed into a frown as he watched the small detective in front of him. The said small detective was leaning back against the roof doorway behind him while the Heisei Lupin took in his labored attempts at air, flushed face, blue eyes having a hard time focusing on their target, and the sweat that clung to the small boy's face.

A plethora of emotions rose inside the Phantom Thief at the sight.

Worry, that his favorite critic was ill.

Irritation, that Tantei-kun was here at Kaito Kid's heist instead of at home, in bed.

Anger, that no one had bothered to stop the reckless kid who obviously was in no shape to be here.

Happiness, that his tiny boyfriend had still come to see him, even though he was sick.

Guilt, that he felt happy about that.

Pride, that the chibi could still make it past Kaito's traps even with his illness hampering him.

More guilt, that he wished his boyfriend was in his original, more matured body at this moment, so Kid could ravish him here and now.

Out of all of these feelings, however, Kaito's worry remained at the forefront.

"While I'm glad you wanted to visit me, Tantei-kun, shouldn't you be in bed resting? You look positively defenseless right now, and in your current condition, who knows what pervs will try to take advantage," Kaito said airily, with a strong undertone of concern. He narrowed his eyes at the small boy.

"Only perv I'm worried 'bout is you, stupid thief," Conan replied, a blush darkening his already flushed cheeks attenuating the insult. "Besides, I thought you'd be bored if I didn't come to challenge you. Since Hakuba is still in London, the only ones here to stop you are Nakamori-keibu and your task force."

"Don't forget I'm your boyfriend, Shin-chan, so I'm allowed to be a perv when comes to you. Besides, I'm more inclined to violate you when you're not attending grade school. I was talking about the lechers who prefer cute little boys, such as yourself. You attract so many murderers and nut jobs that I'm surprised you haven't encountered one yet. Murder isn't something I've committed as of yet, and I'm hoping to keep it that way. Unfortunately, your good intentions were wasted, seeing as you aren't exactly in a shape where you can challenge me at present," The Phantom Thief scolded, wagging his index finger at the small detective.

As Conan's protests dissolved into a mess of unintelligible grumbles and his face continued to darken, Kaito made a note to dye his boyfriend's hair green sometime in the near future. With the tiny detective's head being almost too round to be seen as natural, the boy's fair-skin allowing his face to exhibit various shades of red, and the unorthodox hair color Kaito was soon going to give him, the prankster magician couldn't help but wonder how much his Shin-chan would resemble a tomato. As Kaito began premeditating this particular cabal, his thoughts wandered to other stratagems, which had involved him turning someone's traditional black Japanese hair and mustache into a fun heteroclite color. The Magician Under the Moonlight, smiled to himself, raising his left hand to his ear to turn the small ear-radio's volume up to a barely audible level before he dared to turn it on. The smile became a smirk as loud shouts, instead of the normal ear-shattering roars, thanks to Kaito's forethought on the volume adjustment. The said shouts on the police radio, of course, belonged to Kaito's favorite Kaitou Kid obsessed inspector, Nakamori-keibu. As he listened to all of the orders hidden under all of Nakamori-keibu's profanity, the Heisei Lupin crossed the remaining distance between himself and his detective.

"Wha-?" Conan gasped, jerking slightly in surprise, as he opened his blue eyes to stare at his boyfriend, who was leaning over him, their faces now only inches apart. The shrunken detective's over sized glasses slid down the boy's nose and tilted slightly towards the right at the sudden movement.

"So here's how the rest of tonight and tomorrow morning are going to go from this moment on, Tantei-kun. In just a moment, Nakamori-keibu is going to throw open that door your leaning on, so, before that happens, I'm going to snatch you up into my loving arms and spirit you away to my house. In other words, I'm going to kidnap you. When we reach my house, either you or myself will make a call to the good doctor you're so fond of and ask him to tell Mouri-san that you will be spending the night at his place. After that particular matter has been settled, I am going to tuck you into my bed and proceed to nurse you back to health. I will serve you my home-made porridge in bed and, with the exception of bathroom trips, you will not leave my bed until I am satisfied you have returned to 'la bonne sante'. If your cold has been cured by tomorrow morning, then we will have a date starting with breakfast at a cafe somewhere near my house, and if you are still suffering from your illness and thus forcibly bed-ridden, then you will be made an omlette by yours truly. Any further plans will be made when the state of your health is made clear at breakfast tomorrow," Kaitou Kid finished, amusement evident even though the Phantom thief was serious about every word he had just spoken to the sick boy.

Before his shrunken boyfriend could utter even a single word of protest, Kaito snatched the visibly six years old boy into his arms, using a gloved hand to seize the catawampus glasses from his captive's alarmed face. The magician safely tucked the unnecessary eye-ware into the inside pocket of his white tuxedo, where it would not be under the threat of falling off it's owners face and smashing into multiple shards; yet another tragic victim claimed by gravity. Kaito then proceeded to press the now glasses-less boy's small back to his own, much larger chest.

"Don't let go of me now, Tantei-kun; rescuing you is possible if you slip, but, unfortunately, there would be quite a few hazards involved in such a task," Kaito told the apparent child, who was snuggled against his chest.

It was the only warning the infamous gentleman thief gave before he jumped off the side of the skyscraper's roof.

In the exact same moment that the thief jumped with his precious cargo into a free fall down the side of the building, the rooftop's door was flung open, just as Kaitou Kid had predicted, to reveal an angry Nakamori-keibu, who was sporting neon-yellow mustache and hair.

Both boys heard the inspector's furious bellows of outrage even as they continued to fall, the wind whipping almost harshly at the pair's faces. While Kaito's eyes were closed, letting the pleasure of flying overtake his senses, the younger boy, who's smaller body was being firmly held to the others larger one by an arm locked securely over his chest, had both eyes wide open in terror, not having the flying experience of this kind to know how much he would regret it when his brain, still on the rooftop, finally caught up with his body, which was quickly approaching the sea of cars and people beneath it.

Kaito used the hand, the one that was not currently preventing his boyfriend from receiving a one-way trip ticket to the afterlife, to open his snow-colored hand-glider and thus change the rapid free fall into a controlled coast, which was descending at a dramatically decreased pace towards the Earth's surface compared to it's descent speed only mere moments before.

He felt the small charge sandwiched between his arm and torso, take a gasping breath like he had just been underwater. The boy sneezed twice before turning his head to glare angrily at the jubilant boy holding him.

"You, stupid thief! A little more warning next time would be nice; I feel like my heart nearly stopped! And now my eyes and face are burning," The detective complained loudly. Conan blinked in an attempt to stop the burning sensation in his eyes, which were now tearing from the stinging pain and in an effort to re-moisturize themselves. His face, swollen from his cold, also felt like it had just been dunked in a bucket of ice water before the pain was slightly soothed by the sirocco winds the couple were experiencing.

Kaito, noticing the boy's attempts to clear his eyes, let out a chuckle.

"Sorry, Tantei-kun. I forgot I've never taken you flying with me before. The stinging in your eyes and face will go away soon, you just need to give them a few moments to adjust. Tell me when you can't feel it anymore, but don't open your eyes until I tell you," The magician said, humming one of his partner's favorite songs as he waited for his companion to feel better.

"What am I going to do with you, Kaito?" The small detective sighed, amusement about the situation winning over his anger, which was being quelled by his boyfriend's obvious concern.

"Love me unconditionally?" The Phantom Thief replied, his normally confident tone replaced by a hopeful, but slightly unsure, bordering on nervous one.

Conan's only response to his other-half's question was to let out a small hum of agreement. After a short pause of comfortable silence, Kaito felt the small heartbeat beating near his own, return to it's regular rhythm, the burst of adrenalin caused by the free fall finally leaving the smaller body's system.

"I think my eyes are more or less okay now."

"That's good. Don't open them yet though, we're almost at what I want to show you, but not quite."

Kaito used his free hand to turn the glider slightly to the left, his destination only five or so meters away. When they reached it, still soaring gently across the sky, the thief took a deep breath and hugged his more law-abiding side a little firmer against his chest, making yet another light blush blossom on the small boy's cheeks.

"Okay, Shin-chan, you can open your eyes now," Kaito whispered into the others ear.

Conan opened his eyes to what was easily the most amazing, breathtaking sight he'd ever seen. About a hundred meters below them was one of the places Conan knew he frequently went camping at, when the Shonen Tantei forced him along on their infamous camping trips, but as Conan looked in awe at trees, river, and hills, he couldn't ever remember a time that the place, or any place really, looked so beautiful. The river was crystal clear as his ears registered a faint gurgling sound caused by the water running over the taller rocks, that broke through the water's surface. Soon the sound of the forest's nightlife joined the river's gurgle, an owl's soft 'whoooo, whoooo' a little more distinct than it's fellow inhabitants. He almost missed the threesome of Black Bears creeping from the forest's safe shadows to drink from the river, the biggest of the three used it's snout to encourage the much smaller two forward, until the smallest bear edged to the river's bank and started to drink, the slightly bigger one pausing as if scared before following the others lead. As the largest one followed, it looked around, as if trying to detect any nearby dangers. It took him a moment of watching this to realize the three Asian Black Bears below, were a mother bear and her two cub. As he saw the mother bear nose both cubs affectionately, Conan felt a warm peace settle over him. In the corner of his eye, he saw a large silver fish glitter under the surface, the moonlight reflecting off of it's scales. Almost as if Kaito had planned this whole thing, a full moon shone down from the dark sky, moonlight bathing the scene in an iridescent light. The river's surface became a mirror, and Conan could see the reflected moon, a perfect glowing orb that filled Conan with the unusual childish urge to reach out and grab it. Transfixed by the orb, he finally realized that a large white-winged bird was in front of the moon's reflection, not covering the shiny orb, but instead blending with it, the edges of the white wings were not discernible from it's round, radiant background. Conan's breath caught in his throat, at his and Kaito's reflection, allowed to join in the natural, beautiful scene without shattering the illusion of the dream-like quality this place possessed, another world protected from harm and disaster.

Conan tore his eyes away from the fantasy like painting before him, his eyes finally giving into the strange yearning that the sight filled him, and he looked up into the soulful eyes above him, their eyes locking. Sapphire blue eyes gazed into eyes that were almost their own perfect reflection for all but a slight violet hue in the others.

"I wanted to show you my world, Shinichi, since you've let me into yours. I know we haven't been together long, but I needed to show you this, needed to show you something that's a large part of who I am," Kaito Kuroba, Kaitou Kid, murmured, voice hushed by the trepidation could see hidden in his lover's indigo eyes.

Conan almost started crying, knowing that the boy above him, who's ability to live, let alone happiness, depended on his ability to keep his identity secret, and because of this spent more time wearing the emotional masks he put up and the physical ones he made, more than he did his own, unadulterated face. Kaito had learned the hard way that opening himself, his true self, to others, gave them the opportunity to betray and hurt him. The fact that this same boy was opening himself in such a large way, leaving himself so incredibly vulnerable, that his heart was barren in front of his lover's eyes, made Conan's emotions go haywire as it finally, truly dawned on him how much he loved the boy holding him. The detective's small fingers closed around Kaito's much larger ones.

"Kaito?"

"Yeah, Shinichi?"

"Thank you."

Hmmmmm... I can't say this is what I pictured when I came up with "Kaito takes Conan flying". The whole thing where Kaito showed Conan the forest and river were kinda just typed out before it even occurred to me what I was writing. The ending turned out completely different as well, the original one ending with Kaito carrying little sick Conan into his house. The whole tone on the chapter was originally intended to be like the beginning but somewhere it deviated...

Three words were a challenge though especially since they were all different parts of speech. Sirocco was by far the hardest even though the whole flying scene was built around it. It just didn't want to fit in anywhere and it was greatly annoying me.

Anyway I do kinda like the turns this took even if I didn't consciously allow them and I'm hoping you guys liked it to. The technicalities of the scene bother me a little but I'm hoping suspension of disbelief is enough to guide you guys through this xD

Please review after my super long one-shot :D