Chapter 6
A/N: Heey everyone! Hope you enjoy yet another chapter of Bloody Secrets! Apolgies will come after the story ^^;
Btw, I don't have time re-reading it now, but I will try to re-read probably my whole story, maybe I'll even re-write chapter 3 (it's still bothering me!).
Pairing: If you don't know by now, then you're a dumbass...
Warning: shitty english, yaoi and strong language.
Disclaimer: To tired right now, but don't think I give up! I don't own.
Enjoy!
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"It's been a while." He jerked around when he heard that voice behind him. His eyes narrowed.
"It has." He said. A gust of wind was the only thing that could be heard on the rooftop. The two males(?) stared at each other, one with a smirk on his face, the other cautious(?). The one smirking slid his tongue outside, just for a second, but long enough for the other to notice the small split in it.
"So? What do you plan on doing?" he asked.
"The same as always." The other said.
"You know, you're lucky he even gives you a choice. If it were me, you would have already given in or be dead." A smile tugged at his lips.
"But it isn't up to you." At this the smile dissapeared and the man's face showed his annoyance.
"This is your last warning. Choose wisely." He paused and turned around, ready to leave the rooftop, before continuing. "Or face the consequences." Then he was gone.
He turned around and looked at what he was looking at before. The busy crowd far beneath him. Those people knew nothing of the world. Not it's cruelty, nor it's dark side.
He heard the clothing on his back rip. Maybe he should have taken his shirt off before changing back to his orginal form, oh well, he'd just grab another shirt when he was home. At the moment he didn't care. After all, it's been a while since he did this and it felt good to do.
A smile tugged at his lips. 10 feet of leatherly wings spread, a tail slowly swept, sharp canines blinked in the moonlight and two pointy ears listened to the sounds below.
"For now, let's have some fun." He said and dived off of the building, soon the wind caught him and he flew over the city, looking at the pathetic humans bound to earth below him.
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"So, why are we doing this again?" the teen in front of him asked. He looked at him, then grinned.
"Because! Come on, don't chicken out now, it's going to be great~!" A blush rose to the others cheeks and he looked away.
"F-fine, let's..just make it quick." He said and the other nodded. Then he pushed forward, only to stop when a horrified scream reached their ears. The two young boys looked at the...position they were in...
"...I can't believe it." The teen said.
"Was that a record or what?"
"Jup."
"So, you are cursed?"
"Now do you believe me?" Shinichi asked. Kaito only stared at the position they were in. Both with only one foot inside the restaurant, except for Shinichi, he was already walking towards the crime scene somewhere in the back of the nice little place. For some reason they had ended up in the bed last night and fallen asleep. When they woke up this morning Kaito decided to take Shinichi on a 'date' (though he said to Shinichi that they were only going to do some fun things, but that still counts as a date actually), partly because he wanted to spent time with the latter and partly because he wanted a distraction from the death of one of his closest friend. At first, the detective had refused, appearently predicting it would be ruined by some case. The thief didn't believe the azure eyed teen and had eventually persuaded him, though it was already lunch time, so he decided to first go to a newly opened restaurant. That's where they were right now.
Kaito watched Shinichi solve the case bit by bit. At first the latter inspected the body, looking for any sign of what could have happened. It was a man around the late thirties maybe and it later appeared to be the manager of the restaurant, Mamoru Hibiki. The manager wasn't wounded and the people who were with him at the time when he died said that he suddenly grabbed his throat and collapsed (with the usual drama). Shinichi was inspecting the body again when Megure-keibu arrived.
"Ah, Kudo-kun! It's good to see you!" He said.
"Keibu!" Shinichi said while looking up. "It's good to see you too." He rose back to his feet and walked towards the man.
"So, what happened?" Shinichi started to explain the situation. Kaito sighed and decided to just sit down and watch as Shinichi did his detective work. He stared at the latter all the time with a little smile on his face. The high-school detective was just so...cool, calm and...handsome and he didn't even notice the stares he got from one magician thief, he was too caught up in the murder.
A few hours passed and not once did that gaze leave the azure eyed teen. Finally the time came where shinichi solved everything and started his deduction show. Kaito thought he was even more dazzling during that. The criminal had been one of the waiters of the restaurant. The motive was something about money or so, but Kaito's attention was still fixed on his, yes his, Meitantei-kun.
A few police officers took the murderer away, while Megure-keibu's attention turned towards Shinichi.
"Kudo-kun, you keep amazing me everytime you do that! Amazing work once again!" He said and patted the teen on his shoulder.
"No problem, Megure-keibu." Shinichi said. Kaito stood up and came to stand besides the other.
"Ready to go?" He asked and the two man looked at him. Shinichi nodded.
"Kudo-kun! I didn't know you had a twin brother?" The keibu said.
"Eh..." Shinichi looked at the keibu then back to Kaito. "Ah, actually I don't. This is Kuroba Kaito, a friend of mine." Kaito smiled.
"Nice to meet you, keibu!"
"R-really? You're not related?" The teens shook their heads. "Man, that's kind of scary."
"Megure-keibu! Are you coming?" Takagi called from the entrance of the restaurant.
"Ah yes, I'll be there in a sec. Well, Kudo-kun, again thanks for your assistance. Nice to meet you too Kuroba-kun." Then the keibu turned around and walked out of the restaurant.
"Are we going too? We have some hours to catch up to!" The thief grinned and they as well, walked out of the restaurant. Kaito thought it was around 4 or 5 o'clock. Suddenly his phone started buzzing.
"Wait one moment." He said to Shinichi and answered it. "Mushi-mushi."
"Kai-chan~! You know where I am right now? At home! But the house is empty, where are you?"
A crap! His mother was home? "Didn't you say you'd be in America for another week at least?" He asked and sweatdropped.
"I decided to surprise you and come home a bit earlier~! Wait! Don't tell me you're on a date with Aoko-chan right now~!" He couldn't help but wince at that. His hands started to shake a little and he knew his voice was shaking when he talked again.
"Ah, not...really, more like spending time with a friend and it's not...Aoko either."
"Not Aoko? Then who is it?"
"Just a friend."
"Then why don't you invite him for dinner? We'll have a great time and I'll get to know this friend of yours!"
No, no, no, no, no! "Actually we already had plans to go somewhere."
"Moh, Kai-chan~! You're leaving your mother all alone after she came back from a long trip earlier, for you?" His mother whined.
That wasn't what he had planned, but he couldn't leave his mother alone like that. Damn it! "Allright, we're coming." He said with a sigh.
"Allright! Then I'll see you later Kai-chan~!" He hung up and just stared at the ground. He had forgotten, his mother didn't know what had happened to Aoko. He hadn't told her yet, seeing as she was on one of her spending-dad's-savings trips to America. It was going to be a hard time telling her.
A hand slowly grabbed his own and surprised he looked up, straight into a beautiful azure. Worry was shown on Shinichi's face.
"You okay?" He asked. Kaito smiled, nodded and felt his body relax slightly.
"Yeah, sorry." Then he remembered what he had promised and his smile became awkward. "Uhm..looks like we're having dinner at my home." He said and saw Shinichi's eyes widen.
"Are you-..Are you sure about that?"
"What? You already know who I am, so knowing where I live doesn't matter, does it?"
The detective looked away and blushed a bit. "Guess so." Kaito gave him a quick peck on his cheek, then dragged the other along to the train station.
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Even though Kaito said it was alright Shinichi couldn't help but feel awkward when they reached the thief's house. He tried to surpress his instinct of scanning the area but failed miserably. He noticed they were in Ekoda and they were walking through a nice little neighborhood, none of the houses were really big, nor were they small. He followed Kaito to the front door of one of the houses. It looked really nice and a kinda cozy.
Kaito opened the door.
"Tadaima!" He yelled.
"Kai-chan~!" the thief was tackled to the ground by a young woman. She hugged him in one of those my-mother-is-so-happy-she's-choking-me.
"Kaa-san….I….can't…breathe!" The thief was able to say.
"Whoops, sorry!" The mother stood up and looked at Shinichi who was still standing in the doorway. At first she looked surprised, then a broad smile tugged at her lips.
"So this is your friend? After all these years you two found each other again? That's so amazing!" she squeeled. Kaito and Shinichi looked at each other confused.
"After all these years?" The thief asked.
The mother nodded. "Shinichi, you've grown just so much!"
"Uhm...I don't-...Have we met before, miss..."
"Just call me Chikage. I'm Kaito's mother and I know your parent's Shinichi. We, my husband, Kaito and I, used to come over when you two were little. You two loved to play together." The teens looked even more confused at each other.
"We did?" Shinichi asked. Chikage nodded.
"Kaa-san, why didn't you ever tell me?" The mother frowned and tapped with her finger on her cheek.
"I guess that's because I haven't seen them in a while. We lost contact after Toichi...passed away." Shinichi noticed the way she hesitated and the thief looking away with a sad face. They both really seemed to have loved this man, Toichi. Shinichi smiled inwardly. Must be nice to have such a caring family.
"But anyway, dinner is ready! Let's eat!" Chikage said suddenly happy. Both teens nodded and smiled.
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"See, there you are!" His mother pointed at the photograph.
"Aww Shin-chan, you look so cute~!" Kaito said and didn't miss the blush that rose to the other teens face. He looked at the picture again. It seemed to be taken in a library, seeing as the walls were covered with bookshelves. Books were also scattered around the picture's center of the attention, namely two young boys, around 5 years old. One of them had neat brown hair and piercing azure eyes. An air of seriousness, no child his age should have, surrounded him. He was sitting with his back towards the camera and looked over his shoulder with a surprised look. A book laid down in his lap.
The other boy looked almost exactly like the first one, only people close would recognise the small differences. As much as the other one looked serious and neat, the second one looked messy and indigo eyes looked at the camera mischievously. The 5 year old held a snow white pidgeon in his hands and was sitting with his back against the neat one, thus facing the camera.
"You were both so adorable back then. Always playing together, really even Yukiko and I almost thought you two were twin brothers." Kaito looked at his mother, then at Shinichi and after that back to the picture. During the time Kaito, or rather KID, had faced the detective as Conan, he had often wondered why he regocnised the boy. Later, after finding out the child was actually Shinichi, he just thought that it was because he had seen him, the seventeen year old one, in the newspaper a few times and thought how they resembled each other, pretty obvious seeing as they were one and the same.
But know that he thought about it, it probably was because they had known each other longer than this. The only thing that kept him from remembering were the glasses Conan had worn. Slowely memories started to unfold in his mind. Times he had spent with his favourite critic, when they were little. Shinichi mostly reading while he practised magic tricks or that he showed something new he had learned from his father.
After a long silence Chikage broke it and started telling stories about the two boys. Cute times when they were in bath together, Kaito knew his mother silently laughed at both of their blushing faces! And going to see his father's shows. The thief eventually went to the kitchen to make some tea and when he came back he saw how Shinichi and his mother were laughing and it gave him a warm feeling inside. Especially Shinichi's smile gave him so much joy. It was hard to get the detective to laugh, really laugh, without any sarcasm or mock in it. Just a laugh that showed he was having fun. He sat down and smiled fondly at the one he loved so much. Really, there was no one else in the world that would make him this happy. No one that would make him feel so content, so satisfied.
So complete.
It was that moment that he realised just how much he really loved the other teen and if the latter ever left him, he probably wouldn't be able to move on. Never in his life had somebody been that important to him. Not even his father was able to make him not care about the world anymore.
Shinichi noticed Kaito's staring and waved a hand in front of his face. "Earth to Kaito! You there?" He asked. Kaito, still a bit absent, nodded without looking away. Shinichi leaned back into the couch and started to blush a bit. Then he looked back to Chikage and started another confersation Kaito didn't listen to.
"Kaito!" His mother's voice snapped him out of his staring and he turned his head towards her. Chikage looked at her son with one eyebrow raised. She stood with her hands on her hips and said. "First of all, your tea's cold! Second, look at what time it is! Shinichi should be home by now! Be a gentleman and bring him home!" Kaito sweat dropped. Had he been out of it for that long?
"Hai..kaa-san..." he said and stood up. Then grinned at Shinichi. "Come on, I'll bring you home."
"Ah no, that's okay. You're already home, so you just stay here, I'll be fine." Shinichi said and waved his hands in front of him.
"Ah, ah, ah, Shinichi, Kaito's going to bring you home. We don't want you to run into any other problems along the way now, don't we?" Chikage said and Kaito nodded that he agreed with her.
Shinichi sighed. "Okay. It was nice to...uhm...see you again, Kuroba-san." He stood up only to fall back when he lost his balance after taking a step back, caused by the angry look on Chikage's face. "I mean...Chi-..kage." The woman chuckled.
"It was indeed nice, Shinichi." She said and gave him a hug after he got up again. The detective tensed a bit, but eventually hugged her back.
They walked to the front door and the two teens went outside. "Will you come again sometime?" Chikage asked. Shinichi turned back and nodded, then smiled and waved while walking away.
"Of course!"
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"So, here we are." Kaito said. Shinichi looked at his house. The big mansion looked cold and empty after spending some time with the thief and his mother. It had been an amazing day and he wouldn't soon forget it.
"Jup, do you want to come in for a bit?" Shinichi asked. Kaito nodded and the two went inside. The detective started to walk towards the kitchen when two arms slung around his neck. He stopped and blushed.
"Kaito?" A sigh was his only response. "Kaito?" The thief laid his head on Shinichi's shoulder.
"This was supposed to be a day with just the two of us." He said with a pout.
The detective blushed even harder. "But it was fun with your mother, wasn't it?" He said and looked away. He yelped when Kaito licked his neck, which became exposed after turning his head.
"You don't get it, do you?" he wispered in Shinichi's ear. "When I said it had to be just the two of us, I meant it for the rest of the day untill tomorrow morning when we wake up inside a soft queen-sized bed, cuddling."
Shinichi's face became fully red and the Kaito's breath that against his ear sent a shiver down his spine. One of Kaito's hands had found it's way down and was now rubbing his chest. "Kaito, come on, stop this." Shinichi said with a weak voice.
"Do you really want me to stop~?" Kaito asked breathing into his ear even more. Suddenly the thief broke the moment and lifted the detective, bridal-style.
"Oi! Let me go!" Shinichi yelled and struggled, but before he knew it Kaito had already dragged him into his bedroom. The other struggled even more and the thief had to let him go. Shinichi fell, not too hard to hurt, but hard enough to feel it, on his knees and glared up at the other, then blushed as the thief came closer and sat down on his lap, legs on both sides of the other. Shinichi tried to back away, but a hand caught his chin and forced him to look up. Soft lips were pressed on his and he stared into half-lidded indigo eyes.
When they parted Kaito looked down on him with a big smirk on his face. "You really think you can escape me?" Shinichi blushed.
"Not really, I just think you're mother will wonder why you're not coming home." Shinichi really didn't know how Chikage would react to the fact her son was gay, but if she knew his mother...damn it all.
"You're cute." Kaito said and chuckled. Shinichi wanted to protest, but was cut off by Kaito's lips as they kissed again. Both teens closed their eyes and kissed, again and again. They were lost in their own little world, not aware of anything except the other.
"Shi-...Shinichi..." Shinichi stopped and spun his head towards the voice. He heard Kaito growl softely, but didn't pay any attention to it. All he did was stare at the door opening were someone stood. Leaning on one feet as if she had stepped back, hand covering her mouth and wide eyes filled with tears.
"Ran!" Shinichi said. Ran snapped out of her shock and stood straight again. Her hand fell limply next to her.
She shook her head and looked at him. The tears finally rolled over her cheeks. "So this is why...you rejected me last week." It wasn't a question and even if it was the answer would never reach her. She ran away.
"Ran, wait!" Shinichi yelled and pushed Kaito softely of off him. He began to run after her but was stopped when the thief caught his wrist. "Let go!" he said.
"Shinichi, let her go." The detective didn't listen and tried to yank his wrist free, but the iron grip didn't budge. Soon he heard the front door slam close. He stopped struggling and turned towards the thief.
"Why didn't you let me go after her?" He yelled.
"She wouldn't listen anyway." Kaito said emotionless.
"I have to try!"
"What does it matter? You rejected her, didn't you?"
Shinichi felt a stab through his heart. He had, last week. She had confessed to him and he had rejected her, but...
"I had a reason and no, it wasn't you." Shinichi said weakly and looked away. He felt Kaito hold his wrist a little harder.
"Then what was the reason." He finally asked. Shinichi clenched his fists.
"It-...It's the same reason..." Shinichi didn't want to say anything anymore. He coulnd't tell Kaito about that. "It's the same reason why we can't be together." He said. The grip lossened until his wrist slipped out of Kaito's hand.
"Why not?" he asked, voice showing no emotion.
"I'm sorry, Kaito. I just can't be with you. I-.." Finally he dared to look into Kaito's eyes. The thief looked as emotionless as his voice sounded, but Shinichi saw that deep inside he was deeply hurt. He looked at their feet. "Sorry, I can't keep this up. Please...stop coming."
Silence reigned for what seemed like decades. Then suddenly Kaito started moving, at the door he stopped and said. "You promised kaa-san to come back, didn't you? How are you going to keep that promise?"
Shinichi gasped. The coldness in the thief's voice was enough to shatter his whole being. He heard the front door close and for the second time today a friend walked out of his house. Hurt.
Why? Why? WHY? He didn't want to hurt anyone! So why did he have to do this? First with being Conan and now with this! He let himself fall down on his bed, grabbed a pillow and curled up. Why is it that doing what he loved doing the most, hurt him so much?
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He didn't even greet his mother when he came back home. "Kaito? Is that you?" The only answer she got was a door slamming close upstairs. He threw himself on his bed and stuffed a pillow in his face. He wasn't going to cry. He wasn't go to cry, damn it! He knew better than to cry.
The door softely opened. "Kaito? What's wrong?" His mother asked. After getting no answer she entered and sat on his bed. "Come on, talk to me." The thief looked up, tears which were held in because of the pillow started to flow and he hugged his mother. He cried and cried.
After calming down a bit he started telling. About Aoko and Shinichi. And what happened today.
"He must have a good reason. He said he had one, didn't he?" His mother said after his story.
"Then why didn't he just tell me? Why did he just say goodb- he didn't even say goodbye! He just said sorry and that we can't be together! Why? He's going to have a damn good reason for this!" Kaito yelled. Chikage stood up and walked towards the door.
"Just try to get some sleep and don't give up to soon."
"Why would I, that damn bastard!"
"Kaito, you don't know what his reason is. Maybe you should try to figure that out before coming to conclusions." Kaito didn't listen to her. Chikage sighed. Sometimes her son could be so stubborn!
Why Shinichi? Why?
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I'm sorry! Really, to everyone who's suffering because of this! You readers, Kaito, Shinichi and even I am! I don't know why I let them have this fight it just wrote itself I swear! I promise you I'm going to make everything turn alright but not yet. You just have to have patience.
Also, I didn't keep my promise of updating sooner TT^TT sorry guys, school's been such a bitch lately!
Anyway, I have holiday so I can upload more :3
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