A/N

Falling Inside The Black—Skillet—(album) Comatose

Aaaargh, and here I thought I could post last chapter faster… ):T Hey guys, so maybe last chap's A/N was for naught… :s Today is… 15/08/2016, according to my laptop. MY PHONE BROKE, HOW CAN THAT BE?! I can't turn it on, and now I'm totally story-deprived. And the WiFi's off too!

Well, enough of my rants, and let the show begin (hehehheeeee)….

Shiho's hand hovered over the door, prepared to knock, but for some reason was hesitating. Her Alpha senses were just screaming at her to not disturb the Manor's owner. Ran had come a few minutes ago, asking for Shinichi so that she can escort him to the hospital.

'As if someone like him needs an escort…' she snorted inwardly.

"Shinichi!" Ran said, not sensing the Alpha's hesitation and just barged in to the scene of Shinichi sleeping on a very, very angry-looking guy who looked exactly like him, sending off angry Alpha signals.

He had a 'Do Not Disturb Us Any Further' look on his face, and Ran took a step back. The man pulled up the blanket until it covered Shinichi completely before clearing his throat and placed a small apologetic smile.

"Hello, you must be Ran-san and Shiho-san," he said smoothly, as if he had not been glaring a murderous glare at the Beta and Alpha a few seconds ago. Shiho schooled her face into an unreadable, unimpressed mask before nodding curtly at him.

Ran still had a shocked expression on her face and reluctantly nodded, still scared, seems like.

"Sorry, my Alpha side does that sometimes," the guy said sheepishly, scratching his cheek with a finger, careful to not disturb the sleeping Omega. "I'm Shinichi's mate. Nice to meet you."

It took a moment for Ran's mind to register what that meant, and she gaped. 'I'm seeing the real-life Kaitou KID?!' she thought in bewilderment.

"So, you're Kuroba Kaito, huh?" Shiho said nonchalantly. Ran looked at her with an 'Eh?' and Shiho elaborated, "Shinichi told us that his mate was… is Kuroba Kaito."

"My, I bet he told you much about me," Kaito said with a small laugh.

"Many indeed," Shiho smirked.

"Enlighten me. How much do you know?"

"Well," she said with a slight drawl, "about your… fetish… you know, cross dressing and blindfold."

"I sense more than that, though," Kaito said conspirationally.

"Of course, stalking was included, and many, many more things… Should I list them all?" she said with a raised eyebrow.

"At a later time, and when we're alone, maybe?" he said, glancing at Ran whom looked back and forth between them with confusion and incomprehension. "The innocent angel seems troubled by this."

"I agree," the scientist said with a nod. "So, why are you here? In his bed with him none the less?"

"Came back late from a date," the magician said dismissively whilst waving his hand. He then felt Shinichi stir, and snuggle into his chest even more, mumbling something incoherent. Both Alphas raised an eyebrow, and after their gazes connected, as if they had a very brief, yet lengthy telepathic conversation, Shiho steered Ran out of the room.

Kaito smirked and kissed his Omega's forehead, whispering, "Wake up, Shinichi. It's almost time for our child's things to arrive."

Shinichi smiled at the words 'our child' and cracked open an eye to see Kaito's amused smile. "Do I have to?" he mumbled.

"I'll get you something to drink first, then? What do you want, tea? Coffee?"

Shinichi grimaced at the thought of the options the magician gave him.

"Hot milk, please. And some bread."

"What are you, a child?" Kaito said with a laugh, getting out of bed and going straight into the bathroom which was adjoined to the detective's bedroom.

"I'm a man with a child," Shinichi grumbled sleepily. Moments later, he was dragged out of bed with a barely clothed magician who was chuckling.

Ran and Seiki were in the kitchen, taking care of breakfast and Shiho was at the table, watching the news, when the two people went down for breakfast, one looking very sleepy despite the wet hair, and the other looking far too cheerful for the detective's liking, also with wet hair and untamed locks of hair.

One very warm breakfast later, they all decorated the room in which the couple's child will be residing in, before Ran finally took Shinichi to the hospital, accompanied by a very energetic-looking Kaito.

"Wait, Kudou-san," Seiki said, making the thee departing figures turn around.

"What is it?"

"Is it okay, if we… stay here?" he asked uncertainly. Shinichi grinned at him and nodded.

"It's alright. Rather… I insist that you both stay here!" Then, he leaned to them and whispered, so that only they could hear him, "We don't want our boss to find you now, do we?"

Seiki shuddered. "Yeah… you be careful, then."

"I will," the detective said with a wave of his hand. After the three were out of sight, Shiho and Seiki went into the Manor. Seiki was oblivious to the eyes which followed them inside, nor to the eyes which eyed the detective's group which was out of sight by now.

But Shiho wasn't.

"Well then, we'll go and get you some snacks, what do you say?" Kaito asked with a grin. Shinichi glanced at the clock and saw that it was almost 8 PM. He shrugged and said, "Why not?"

"Be a good boy, Shinichi~" Kaito said in a sing song voice and closed the door before the detective could react. 'That conceited little thief…' Shinichi though in irritation and amusement, if that's possible. He then opened the book, The Hound of The Baskervilles by Conan Doyle and started reading it.

Just as he was about to enter page 10, the door opened and the one who entered was one Sharon Vineyard, her lavender scent was the one which blew her cover.

"Silver Bullet," she said with a smile, her eyes cold and hard.

"Vermouth," Shinichi said, nodding in acknowledgement. His guard was up, and his usually warm and tender azure orbs were a matching cold and hard version Vermouth was wearing.

"So I see that it was Kaito-kun who impregnated you," she said nonchalantly, as if it was public knowledge that the detective and the magician were mates. The way she worded it made Shinichi flush in embarrassment, and he had no way of hiding it.

Judging by the woman's smirk, he knew that she'd planned for it to happen.

"So? Why're you made to be confined in here?" she asked, looking around the white and boring room which had a TV right in front of Shinichi's bed, which was turned off. Right next to his bed, there was a visitor's cot, and a table with four chairs and some fake plants were placed in the room's corners.

"What do you think?" Shinichi asked sarcastically.

"Hmm," Vermouth said, eyeing the big bulge on Shinichi's stomach. "I wonder why…"

Shinichi rolled his eyes.

"So? What brings you here?" he asked, placing the book on the bed side table.

"Ah, right… Just gonna give you some details for your next mission... although you still have to kill KID, or Snake will," she said, noting the dark glare that passed on Shinichi's face for a second before getting replaced by a confused look and furrowed eyebrows.

"There will be others there, from our group. Chianti, Korn, Gin, Vodka, Merlot, and Snake…. Ah, there are more, but including you, there will be ten people. I know, a lot of people are gonna be there," she said with a dismissive wave of hand, seeing the incredulous look on Shinichi's face, "but Boss is very adamant on killing this one. He's… elusive, they say."

"You mean…" Shinichi said, letting his words hang in the air, so that Vermouth would complete it herself.

"Yep, that's exactly who I mean," she said with a glint in her eyes.

"Y-you can't be serious?!"

"Well, boss' orders are still orders that we have to complete… Plus, the party's far too grandeur for anyone to realize that an assassination might occur," she shrugged. "That person might not even come out."

"That kind of party needs him to come out to greet his guests…" Guests! He realized that this wasn't a normal assassination. No matter what, the chances of them being seen murdering someone with so many guests present was 4:7, according to the info he had at this time. But depending on the place's layout and the target's movement patterns… His eyes travelled to his hands in thought.

Vermouth smirked, seeing that her 'student' was already starting to form a plan. But she herself had her own plans set in motion.

"Oh, and considering your status, you might just get an invitation for the whole event, so be prepared," she said and walked out of the room with a wave. Shinichi missed the smirk that showed on her face a second before the door closed.

"Nee, nee, Kuroba-san," Ran said excitedly, finally finding the time to ask him what she wanted to ask the most.

"What is it?" Kaito asked curiously, in his mind deciding which pudding Shinichi might like the most.

"How did you get to know Shinichi?" the Beta asked, taking a vanilla milk and some soy milk from another part of the fridge-shelf.

"Well, I sorta stalked him before doing other things…" Kaito said sheepishly.

"You don't just do stalking," Ran said with unveiled curiosity. "You first see or meet, and then you get all curious, then you start with stalking, and so on."

"We-well… we might just… uuh, consummated first before… everything else…"

"…. You what?" she said darkly at the magician, whom gulped, sensing the dark aura the karate champion was emitting.

"W-w-well, you see, i-it was at a heist where we first met, and…" Kaito proceeded to tell her the whole story. Her aura seemed to get darker by the second, and by the end of everything, Kaito could've sworn that his sweat wasn't cold at all. It was because of the black fire she was emitting, due to her dark aura.

"I will never forgive you if you ever make him sad."

"Y-yes ma'am," Kaito said with a gulp.

When they got back, Shinichi was sleeping soundly, The Hound of The Baskervilles was placed on his face as if he'd been reading it before falling asleep. Kaito and Ran shared a smile before they agreed silently on being silent.

They turned off the lights and Kaito put away the book, placing the food that they'd bought earlier on the table by the bed. Ran checked everything first, before deeming that it was alright for the two to be left alone.

"Do not make him cry, alright, Ku-ro-ba-kun?" Ran said with a dark smile that sent shivers down the magician's back. Said magician only gulped and gave her a brave grin before nodding. She then left without another word.

The days after passed relatively quickly, as various people visited him. Various people, including Vermouth (disguised as a lot of people, relaying some more info about his upcoming mission) and Ran's classmates Sonoko and Sera, who was a Beta detective, although could be qualified as an Alpha, if they disregard the fact that she had a weaker scent than normal Alphas and don't get into heats (or ruts, as some might say).

Labor day was coming up quick, and when it hit, it sent Shinichi gasping and screaming in pain. They were playing a round of cards when it happened.

"Sh-Shinichi?!" Kaito asked, immediately getting to his mate's side, who was heaving as the after-effect of screaming.

"I-it's starting," Shinichi said, eyes wide in both wonder and amusement. And leftover pain, it seemed.

"What is?!" Kaito asked, seeing that Ran was quickly going into motion, calling nurses and doctors and all that stuff.

"The contraction—" he started with a 'duh' look and was cut off with another painful; scream. Ran opened the doors to let the rushing doctors and nurses in without a second to let herself think, seemingly moving purely out of instinct—doctor's instinct and what not—or so Kaito thought.

Kaito stayed right beside Shinichi as everything went, swearing to himself that he would look at Shinichi and only Shinichi as the whole laborious birth giving thing went. He wasn't ready to see any more blood than he'd already seen in that whole ten hours or so.

By night time, ninth November, to be exact, a baby girl was born. Kaito relented to 'mother instincts' which Shinichi had seemed to get since he'd started the whole pregnancy thing, and called her Naria, cooing at her even as she cried her first breaths of air before falling asleep in the arms of one tired Shinichi.

The Alpha inside him roared in joy.

A/N

Holy, that was fast. But hell, I have no idea how giving birth works in hospitals, seeing that I haven't experienced it myself, and my mom gave birth to my little sister(s) when I was at an age where I wouldn't remember anything much (I started remembering stuff from when I was in fifth grade. Before that are snippets of the most hard-impacted things that went through my life—including 2 hours of math every 4 days within a week of my kindergarten to third years of school.)

Let's just say I have four little sisters, three whom died, and one who is three years younger than me (and always get annoying as hell when I'm remotely near her, for no reason whatsoever, mind you) and a big sister who seems to only talk to me when she wants to. Yes, we do seem like a cold family. Wait until I get back for my monthly getting home, in which I don't take every month. We get all riot-ic about everything.

Alright, I'm ranting again. A piece of advice—three teaspoons of cocoa powder can't taste sweet enough for me when mixed with four teaspoons of sugar.

So? How was it? The giving birth was rather vague, wasn't it?

- To be continued -