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Chapter Thirteen

Unbeatable

Kaito looked at the clock. Ten more minutes until the promised hour is up.

'Where was he? Shouldn't the detective have been here by now?'

An hour was too long. Why Kaito had to wait at all was beyond him.

Kaito glanced at the clock again. 'Arg. I give up. I'll just look for him for a bit.'

The magician put on his shoes and opened the door, only for it to meet a solid object.

"What was that for, stupid thief?" Shinichi groaned as he rubbed his face.

"What took so long?" Kaito asked in return. He felt a bit bad about the door, but he was too frustrated to feel real guilt.

"I said I would be back in an hour! There is still five minutes till then!" Shinichi still rubbed his sore face and pushed past the magician to enter the house.

"Fine, fine. Sorry. What happened?" Kaito asked impatiently.

Shinichi collapsed on the couch. "What did Gin, Vodka and Snake talk about?"

Kaito's eyebrow twitched. "Hey, I asked you first."

"I'll tell you, but Vermouth gave me a basic overview of what happened tonight, I just want to see if there are any holes I need to fix." Shinichi explained.

Kaito huffed but he told the detective about Gin and others were going to go after KID too now.

"I see…" Shinichi mumbled to himself; then he faced Kaito. "Vermouth said practically the same thing; though there is one more thing…They are coming after you." Shinichi looked at Kaito straight in the eye.

"What? I already knew that." Kaito raised an eyebrow. "Didn't I say that your guys have taken an interest in me?"

Shinichi shook his head. "No, I mean, as Kuroba Kaito."

Kaito's eyes widened. "They found out?"

"Seems like it. Gin apparently decided that the second generation took over…and the most likely to be it would be you…luckily your mother is away. But, we don't have anything to worry about. Tomorrow our plans start. Just disappear first thing in the morning. Or maybe we should right now…"

Kaito looked around the room, as if expecting them to be surrounded right then. "What if they are already here?"

"No, they won't be. Vermouth said that Gin, while he has high authority, he still can't do everything he pleases. He needs to speak with a couple of people before anything happens."

"You sure put a lot of trust in this 'Vermouth' person…"

Shinichi scratched his cheek. "Yes…well…it's complicated. She is a bit different in a way." It was true. While Vermouth never out right helped him, she never had given him wrong information before.

Kaito shrugged. "As long as you don't get fooled by her."

Shinichi deadpanned. "I'm not an idiot. Anyways, did you send the heist notice?"

"Of course. This will be fun~!"

Shinichi nodded. While fun might not be exactly the word he would have used, he had to admit he felt excited.

Though there was one worry in his mind.

There was one more warning Vermouth gave Shinichi…

"What?" Ai practically screamed when Shinichi and Kaito told her the situation.

"Calm down, Haibara." Shinichi raised his hands up. "There isn't anything to freak over, we just wanted to make sure that you stay behind for the next heist."

"You realize what you are risking, right?" Ai shot a glare at the detective.

"Yes, yes. If I mess up, it would be the end to me and everyone else." Shinichi grumbled. "I know that already, Haibara. But I won't mess up." He smirked proudly. "This will work. Just leave it all to us."

Kaito smirked, one much like Shinichi's. "Loosen up, after this is over, you can relax, okay, little girl?"

Haibara glared at the magician. "Don't call me that. I'm still older than you."

Kaito crouched down to Haibara's eye level and tilted his head. "Are you serious?"

"Yeah, she is like eighty-something years old." Shinichi joked.

"Ehh? Really?" Kaito turned to look at Shinichi then looked back at the still shrunken scientist. "No wonder she didn't take the antidote too…"

Ai, despite herself, blushed. "I-"

She was interrupted by Shinichi's laugh. She blinked. This wasn't what she was expecting. Whenever it involved them Shinichi would try hard to do everything on his own while protecting everyone else. This time, it seemed more like he was working with someone. Not only that, but Shinichi was more…calm. Whenever they were mentioned, before Shinichi would tense up and get angry, and sometimes that anger caused him to make mistakes…but this time he was more relaxed and even was joking around.

Ai smiled, just a tiny one. She'll let things go this time.

Shinichi pointed at the small girl with distrust. "Why are you smiling? That's creepy…"

Ai smirked. "Oh, just thinking."

"I never knew something like this would stop the great Kudou Shinichi." Kaito hummed and looked between he two.

"She is evil I tell you." Shinichi said, semi-serious.

Ai held in a chuckle. "Enough of this. What's your plan?"

With a sigh, Shinichi gave Ai the plan outline; he knew she wouldn't give up until she saw them anyway. "It's not complete, but that's the basics of it."

"Better we don't prefect it anyways. That way we'll be more comfortable altering the plans when the time comes. No way will this be set in stone, despite how much we plan." Kaito added.

Ai looked it over. "This is…risky." She said at last. "You think you can do this?"

"Don't doubt us!" Kaito exclaimed, proudly.

"We won't be defeated easily. Just you wait; they won't know what hit them."

Ai looked in between the two she had to admit…she couldn't help but believe in them. She gave the plans back and watched as Shinichi and Kaito added a few minor details and came up with back up plans.

They worked well together…and they seemed so confident. So sure of victory.

It was scary in its own way; it seemed like nothing could stop them. The confidence itself made them seem invincible.

Ai sighed. But, she couldn't allow herself to get fooled. This was them; they won't be taken down so easily. Confidence won't be enough to stop them. After all, they have never been stopped before.

…But, that hope Ai felt while watching the two was still there.

Author's note

I consider Miyano Shiho to be eighteen and Kaito and Shinichi seventeen. I'm not sure if it was revealed that Ai was really eighteen or not, but that's what I went with.

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