A/N: OKAY! I KNOW I'M REALLY LATE BUT MY EXAMS ARE OFFICIALLY OVER AND I'M ON SUMMER VACATION SO HERE'S YOUR WELL DESERVED UPDATE!
Disclaimer: I don't own anything recognisable
Notes: this chapter relates to Magic Kaito 1412 Episode 14
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Yawning, the brunette scowled, rubbing her eyes in attempt to wake herself up. Fairly, there was only one thing in the teen's mind while she sat on a wooden bench, with her jacket zipped all the way up to her chin.
Coffee
She desperately was in need of some caffeine; especially at such an ungodly hour.
It was Saturday for Pete's sake!
She tapped her foot on the ground due to her lack of patience as she waited for her Father to return, turning her eyes towards the other teen next to her, Aoko amused herself by watching Kaito attempt to keep his eyes open, only for them to flutter shut for a few seconds before snapping back wide open.
The cycle wasn't ending and Aoko was glad she had found a source of entertainment while waiting at the train station.
"I told you to be ready by five, stupid" she snorted, glancing up towards the train timings above. It was still 6:02, their train wasn't leaving for another twenty three minutes.
Kaito jolted awake, his eyes wild as he turned his head around to face her. It took him a few seconds for him to process what she had said "well I was ready, wasn't I?" he yawned loudly, massaging his temple.
"You should've slept earlier. I can't believe you're this desperate for a Kaito Kid heist" she muttered frowning, before realising that the teen was already falling back into his slumber.
Aoko was about to shake him awake before finally properly studying his face.
God, his under eye circles were so dark… and he had said he'd been awfully busy lately.
Frowning, the brunette slowly exhaled through her nose. His neck was going to kill him later. He wasn't even sleeping properly, resting his elbow on the bench rest, with the side of his face against his fist. His was already slipping and it hadn't even been two minutes.
Ignoring her pride for now, she cupped the side of his face, and bought his head down towards her lap, attempting to not jolt him awake for a second time.
He didn't complain
Aoko rolled her eyes, her cheeks lightly dusted with red.
"The things I do for friendship" she muttered, half annoyed.
Now. She had twenty one minutes to herself.
Joy
Normally, in situations like this she would definitely pull out her phone and text Shinichi or Heiji. But she wasn't stupid enough to hope that either of them would be awake at such an ungodly hour on a Saturday.
Yawning once again, she turned up the volume on her phone, hoping that the music would be enough to distract her at this point.
Locking her ankles under, she swung her feet lightly back and forth. Irritated with the boredom threatening to take over.
For the school festival, they had decided on putting on a play
How surprising.
But moving on, the young brunette was having a sudden case of Déjà vu
Seriously though. Didn't they already go through this?
Aoko blew a strand of her hair out of her face, eyes narrowed.
At least they weren't going to put another priceless gem on a train for Kaito Kid to steal. But they did have to take a train ride to reach Jirokichi's next gem exhibition.
It was so far away- a four hour train journey far.
Hopefully the police task force wouldn't mess this up again.
She rolled her eyes. But there was the slight possibility that her dad and Jirokichi Suzuki had thought of a decent plan. They may have actually learnt from their mistakes.
What was the train they had ride on last time called? 'The royal Express' was it? Kaito had told her that he really wanted to ride on that train because of a Kaito kid heist so she had begged her father for tickets. She barely even remembered what had happened on that vehicle- why the hell could she not remember?
They had met the queen, and her dad had been drunk, sitting next to her while Kaito and herself had introduced themselves. She remembered Prince Phillip, her son and how he himself had wanted to capture kid.
Another sense of Déjà vu hit her
The kid kind of reminded her of Conan-kun
Focussing back onto the crisis at hand Aoko scowled. Kaito Kid had made his appearance on that mystery train ride yet she couldn't remember any of it.
Wasn't there a shooting?
This was really getting on her nerves. Did she pass out or something? It was the only other valid explanation.
But that was impossible. She had gotten such a good night's rest before the train ride and she definitely remembered being wide awake.
So at what point did she suddenly blank out?
Unwrapping a toffee, Aoko tossed it into her mouth. Sucking on the sweet, her cobalt eyes narrowed in determination. There was no way in hell she was going to miss anything this time.
Not that she needed to, the train ride would be a bore. The heist was what she was looking forward to.
Her eyes then landed on the sleeping teen on her lap. She sweat dropped, realising that she would probably be left alone soon after they got to their destination.
Her dad would obviously be doing his best to capture Kid. But Kaito? She frowned.
Kaito would go who knows where.
She groaned, rubbing the side of her face with a hand.
Despite Kaito being an utter ass without hesitation Aoko would always consider him as to being one of her closest friends, but there was no doubt he'd ditch her in the long run when it came to a Kaito Kid heist.
"I wish eyebrows and that idiot babysitter were here" she muttered, her fingering playing with Kaito's hair.
Her jaw then dropped as realisation occurred to her.
Pulling out her phone, Aoko unlocked it with one hand while typing. A small smile finally appearing onto her features.
"Aoko!"
Looking up, the brunette tugged an earpiece out of her ear and smiled towards her father who came rushing back with a cup holder, three cups of steaming coffee in his hands.
"Oh hey dad. How was the queue?" she smirked teasing, as she reached out, happily accepting a cup
"Awful. I can't even begin to understand why Starbucks is always so full" her father huffed
She shrugged before tilting her cup back and taking a sip. "It's so early in the morning dad. Can you blame them for needing this caffeine boost?"
He sighed, "I know, I know. But it's just such a nightmare to put up with"
"I hear that" she raised her cup once again and her father grinned, raising his own cup and gently smacking it against hers.
"I bought another one for Kaito-kun, but I'm guessing he's not going to need it" Nakamori Keibu sighed, gesturing towards the teen who seemed to be snoring into her lap by this point
"Hey, if he doesn't want it I'll gladly take it" Aoko said grinning before drowning her own cup
Her dad raised an eyebrow "Are you going to be okay with all this caffeine running through your blood stream?"
"Absolutely"
"Somehow, that doesn't make me reassured" he answered dryly
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Humming, the brunette skims through a magazine. She still had music blasting through her headphones and Kaito still seemed to be fast asleep besides her.
So far so good, all seemed to be in order.
They had only been on the train for around twenty to thirty minutes. Her father, being a police inspector went to a different cabin to converse with the rest of his crew and Kaito was knocked out besides her.
She doubted he'd be up any time soon, judging by those dark bags underneath his eyes.
Her jaw then dropped
If he was sleeping now, and her dad was gone just what the hell was she supposed to do for the rest of the journey- Lay an egg?
Groaning, the brunette shuffled out of their booth. Disregarding the magazine on the table, she then adjusted her skirt and grabs her make up bag before heading towards the bathroom.
She's adjusting her weight on each foot as he waits outside the occupied bathroom door. She's had two cups of coffee and thanks every God she can think of for her current wide awake state.
She's half aware that it's going to suck when it wears off
Ugh
Pushing that thought towards the very back of her mind she thanks the man who holds the door open for her and goes into the rest room, locking the door behind her.
"This is pretty lame" she decides, realising she's probably going to be alone for the entire trip and for the heist.
She rolls her eyes before washing her face. Unzipping her bag, she pulls out some concealer and stares at it.
"Time to create art" she whispers, grinning.
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It was around twenty minutes later, when Aoko finally realised that she was on public transport and not her own private bathroom excluded from the rest of the world.
She flinched, hearing an inpatient knock from the other end
"Oh fuck no, they probably think I have diarrhoea or something" she whispered, embarrassed.
"I-I'll be out in a minute!" she then called out, rapidly shoving all of her equipment back into her bag, fumbling with the lock and ungracefully stumbling out.
She then winced towards the sudden queue of what seemed to be twelve people and bowed, muttering a quick apology before fleeing as far away from that area of the train as possible.
A gasp escaped her lips, as she collided with another figure
"Shit!"
"Oh my goodness I am so sorry!" she felt her face heat up, as she struggled to pull out some tissues from her bag
"Are you fucking serious right now?" the older man sneered, snatching the napkins away from her trembling hands and aggressively wiping himself down, attempting to soak up the hot liquid that was dripping down his suit
"I-I really am sorry! Here, I'll buy you a new coffee or get your suit dry cleaned-…" she trailed off, nervously twiddling her thumbs
"What the fuck is wrong with you? What are you? A headless chicken" he snapped, turning to glare at her
Her cheeks flared "I...I-"
"I-I what?" he barked in question and already, she could feel the eyes of several passengers on her
A hand then rested itself onto her shoulder abruptly and she found herself being pulled back, her eyes now suddenly finding themselves onto Kaito's back as he stepped in front of her.
"What seems to be the problem?" Aoko found herself freezing momentarily as Goosebumps managed to rise on her skin.
Was Kaito's voice always this cold?
Nervously, she peaked from besides the teen in front of her to view the older man's reaction, her heart thumping rather uncomfortably rapid for her taste
"The problem? Do you not see searing hot coffee dripping of my clothes?" he snapped
"And as I recall did she not apologise and offer to make up for it?" He didn't skip a beat
"What's going on here?" oh my god where did that attendant come from? This was blowing way out of proportion
Aoko stepped forward "I-I was being careless. I didn't look at where I was going and bumped into this man, it caused his drink to spill all over"
The attendant blinked "Is that all?"
"Uh- yes" could they just go please? There were way too many people staring
Kaito raised an eyebrow "She's already apologised so can we go?"
"And what are you going to do about my suit? Or my coffee for that matter" the man glared
"You got that coffee from the vending machine here right? That's about 200 yen" Kaito said, digging into his pockets for the change before handing it to him
"And my suit?"
"It'll wash out fine" Kaito said offhandedly but handed him a 500 yen coin "If you're that upset about it, just take it to a coin laundry place (laundromat)"
Aoko found herself both internally thanking the other teen and resenting him as she watched him deal with the matter easily.
Why was she so bad at dealing with people?
Kaito was a really cool person and it was sort of pissing her off. It was silly of course, he was literally her saving grace but damn
For once, could she not be the damsel in distress?
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A/N: AND THERE WE GO! Seriously though, I'm sorry for the super late update! I just can't seem to gain any motivation for writing D: it sucks man. BUT WHATEVER! R AND R! THANKS FOR READING!