Paring: KaiShin – Kaito x Shinichi

Warnings: homicide, yaoi,

Disclaimer: I don't own Detective Conan or Magic Kaito – they belong to Gosho Aoyama

A/N: Alright, I feel really bad about having Kaito get shot in the last chapter! Forgive me, it was cruel but I really needed Kaito to not follow Shinichi like a little puppy in this chapter.

~Kaito's POV~

For a while everything was black. He might have been somewhat conscious again but somehow he still hadn't quite awoken yet. He heard the faint sound of someone talking around him and felt the warmth of someone's hand in his.

"What did the doctors say?" a young woman's voice sounded near him; Aoko, he recognized. She sounded upset. Why was she upset? Oh, yeah. He was shot.

"Well, the bullet didn't hit any vital organs so he should be fine. But he had lost a lot of blood by the time we got out of the place," answered a male voice, his most favorite voice in the entire world; Shinichi's. Shinichi's voice sounded tired, and heartbroken. Kaito felt his chest contract at the sadness in his lover's voice. He wanted to comfort him. He wanted to be there for him. He closed his fingers around the hand in his and heard the surprised gasp from beside him, letting the sound guide him back to the world as he finally opened his eyes. He hissed and his eyes squinted at the brightness of the room he was in. He glanced around the hospital room and found what he was searching for. He found Shinichi.

Shinichi's eyes were red from what one might assume to be crying. He wore the same outfit he had when they'd been in the chamber, even though the calendar on the wall told Kaito that he'd been out for two days. The blue eyes lit up with joy as they found Kaito's.

"You're okay!" Aoko cried as she threw her arms around his neck. He gasped for air as the girl's embrace tightened. Shinichi coughed next to them and muffled a quiet, "You're choking him." Aoko let go of him, tears in her eyes. She wiped her eyes and stood from her chair next to Kaito's bed.

"I'm gonna go call your mother. Let her know you're okay," she explained and left the room. Kaito turned his attention back to Shinichi who still looked incredibly tired. He wondered how much trouble there had been with the case after he'd blacked out.

"Did you get the kids out?" Kaito asked, deciding it to be the most important question. Shinichi nodded.

"Yeah, after you passed out we got you outside and called an ambulance for you. Then we called Megure-keibu and the police took over and got the children down," he explained as he looked at their entwined hands. "We think they'll be okay but… they're still under hypnosis." Kaito nodded attentively.

"How about the fog?" he asked. He hadn't really told Shinichi but it had really mystified him. He believed in the supernatural way more than his logical boyfriend so it had seemed stupid to bring it up. Maybe he was just interested in it from his magician point of view.

"Remember the machines in the chamber?" the detective asked. Kaito nodded. "Well, they were smoke generators, you know like in clubs or theaters only bigger and more powerful. They had pipes leading to several placed in the area of the city we were looking into. The police's laboratories are analyzing what it is but we suspect it's a kind of hallucination-provoking drug. It lured the kids in. He must have then hypnotized them."

Kaito didn't entirely understand the explanation but decided that if it was good enough for Shinichi, it was good enough for him as well. He cupped the detective's face and gently ran his thump across his lower lip. Shinichi smiled warmly and leaned in to kiss him. Kaito met him enthusiastically and slipped his hand into his boyfriend's hair. However, when he shifted to be closer to the detective a sharp pain shot through his stomach and he hissed. Shinichi's eyes filled with worry and he pulled away. Kaito groaned. What was the point of being awake in a bed if he couldn't have fun with Shinichi?

"I'm fine," he said. Shinichi looked doubtful but was distracted as his phone buzzed on the table next to them. He picked it up to answer but kept his eyes on Kaito.

"Yeah? Oh, right. I'll be down in a second," Shinichi said offhandedly and hung up. Kaito raised a questioning eyebrow at him.

"Um, Heiji has to go back to Osaka and wants to say goodbye before he leaves," the detective explained. Kaito's eyes narrowed at the prospect of Shinichi leaving but opened his arms in a welcoming gesture, asking for a hug. Shinichi smiled and hugged him. Kaito basked in the other's smell and the feel of him against him for a second before discreetly bugging him with a listening device. It might be childish of him but he still wasn't entirely comfortable leaving Shinichi along with Hattori. Shinichi pulled apart and kissed his forehead before leaving the room with a reassuring, "it's just down at the parking lot. It won't take long".

Kaito nodded and waited a respectable amount of time before pulling out the other part of the listening device and the headphones from the stack of his personal items on the table. He put the earbuds in his ears and maneuvered himself to the window. He smirked. He had perfect view of the parking lot from his room. He turned on the device and listened to the ruffle of Shinichi moving downstairs.

Soon the detective emerged outside where Hattori waited near a motorcycle. The two stood closely and exchanged random facts about the final details of the case before Hattori broke the 'detective mood'.

"So," Hattori's voice sounded sadly in Kaito's ear. "You really love that guy, huh?" He could just see Shinichi nodding, and Kaito smiled lovingly from his spot at the window.

"You know you need to break it off with Kazuha, right?" Shinichi said with a strange sympathy in his voice. "It's not fair to her and you know it."

"Yeah, I know," Hattori sighed. "I just thought that it'd work, you know, like it did with us." Kaito cocked his head in curiosity.

"Because we were friends first and you and Kazuha were friends first?" Shinichi asked.

"Yeah, you know, 'cause I loved her already so maybe it wouldn't be so hard to fall in love with her," Hattori said before shrugging, though still looking rather tense.

"But if you weren't attracted to her then how could you possibly count on ever being attracted to her at all?" Shinichi asked tiredly. Hattori ran a hand through his hair.

"I don't know…. So, there's , like, no chance at all of … well-"

"Us getting back together?" Shinichi finished his sentence. Kaito sat up as straight as he could with his injury and listened hard for the next words coming out of Shinichi's mouth. "No. I really don't think there is." Hattori didn't look convinced but Kaito was wearing a triumphant smirk.

"But I don't get it! We've got WAY more in common than you do with that other guy," Hattori reasoned. Valid excuse, Kaito reluctantly had to admit. Shinichi just shook his head and smiled a sympathetic smile.

"Exactly. We both have to argue and reason for everything until we win, neither can ever accept defeat – we drove each other crazy," Shinichi smiled. "You don't remember that? That's the whole reason we broke up."

"I figured it was just, like, that one stupid fight that got us too worked up," Hattori said dejectedly. "I didn't really see it like that."

"Face it," Shinichi said in a conclusive end-of-discussion tone. "We're good as friends, terrible as boyfriends."

With that said the two stood in silence for a while. Then Hattori looked up from the ground, sighed and smiled weakly.

"Guess you're right about that," then he smirked. "Hate to admit it, though."

The two of them laughed and exchanged a few polite 'stay in touch'/'have a safe trip home'. Kaito willed himself not to clench his fists as the two detectives hugged each other goodbye. Hattori then put on his helmet and drove away. Shinichi didn't stay behind for long in the parking lot. He turned and walked back to the hospital. Kaito quickly pulled the earbuds out of his ears and put them back on the table as he repositioned himself underneath the blanket.

When Shinichi entered the room he had something in his hand. He sat down on the side of the bed and opened his palm, revealing the bugging device.

"Happy now," Shinichi smiled and shook his head. Kaito smirked and pulled the detective down to lie on top of him, ignoring the shooting pain in his wound.

"Very."