Kaitou Kid's Apprentice
Me: Apparently, a lot of people were surprised by Haru's lack of enthusiasm for his birthday.
Haru: My b-birthday is bad l-luck! I c-can't celebrate it!
Me:…even that was adorable…Anyway, we have a special visitor with us today!
*Haru's eyes grow wide*
Haru: I'm s-so excited! W-Who is it!? Is it a giant ice c-cream cone!?
Me: Nope! *Haru pouts* It's DoomsdayBeam! *Haru smiles again*
Kaito: Why are you inviting her!? Do you know how much I had to suffer because she requested something!?
DoomsdayBeam: I only did it because I like you, Kid-kun~!
Kaito: You are seriously twisted…even more than KaitoPhantom1412! And will you quit calling me that!?
Haru: I h-have something to g-give to DoomsdayBeam! *pulls out a white cat stuffed animal that is made to look like Chibi-san*
Me: Apparently the toy company that shipped Conan and Haru to London heard about what happened on the plane and decided to make a white cat Chibi-san toy.
Haru: *handing the toy to DoomsdayBeam* His n-name is Chibi-nyan! Take g-good care of him! Thanks f-for all of your r-reviews! *gives DoomsdayBeam a big hug*
Kaito: Would now be a good time to say that KaitoPhantom1412 doesn't own Detective Conan or Magic Kaito?
Conan: Probably…*gets an evil look in his eye* Kid-kun! *snickers*
Kaito: Et tu, Tantei-kun!?
Chapter 23
A couple of hours later, the three boys were seated in front of a ginormous flat-screen TV with junk food all around them. Even though Haru had told him that he wasn't rich, the size of the TV seemed to beg to differ.
"Just wondering," Kaito started. "But how much money does your aunt send you!?"
Haru thought for a moment. "Only about 5,000 American d-dollars each m-month…But I h-have to exchange it f-for yen myself…" Conan and Kaito just stared at him. "I-It's really not a lot! I usually s-spend most of it on c-candy and stuffed a-animals anyway!" This made the two boys in front of him face palm.
"Figures…" Conan said. He looked at his watch. It was almost seven. He turned to Kaito, who was playing with a deck of cards. "Did you remember to call Ran?" Kaito grinned.
"One moment…" He pulled a phone from midair and dialed a number. Before the person on the other side could answer, he cleared his throat dramatically. Conan rolled his eyes but Haru was completely entranced. The person on the other phone answered.
"Hello?"
Kaito answered back in Fumiyo Edogawa's voice. "Hello Ran. This is Conan's mother. I'm going to keep Conan with me tonight."
"Are you sure? Conan has school tomorrow."
Kaito laughed light-heatedly. "Don't worry about it! I'll make sure that my sweet baby boy gets there!" Conan's face turned bright red.
"Alright then! Have fun!"
Kaito got a mischievous look in his eye. "We will! Bye Ran!" He hung up and Haru clapped. Kaito bowed dramatically and looked Conan right in the eye. "Yep! I remembered!"
"You didn't have to call me your 'sweet baby boy'…" Conan murmured.
Time Skip
At about 11:30, Conan was getting pretty fed up. They had played five card games (all of which Kaito won) and over a dozen different board games. Conan couldn't believe how good at board games Haru was! The worst part was that most of the board games were just rolling dice!
Conan yawned. They had all changed into pajamas and moved to Haru's room a couple of hours ago but they all ended up staying awake for a while. "You know that we all have school tomorrow. We should probably get some sleep."
Kaito laughed. "You afraid that you won't be able to focus tomorrow? Grade school must be hard!" He teased.
Conan glared at him. "I was actually worried about you two!"
"But you're the y-youngest, aren't you? So you should be the f-first to go to s-sleep!" Haru chimed in stubbornly. In actuality, he just didn't want to be the one who fell asleep first.
"Besides," Kaito added. "We hardly pay attention in school anyway! Isn't that right, Haru!?" Haru nodded enthusiastically.
Conan sighed. "Whatever. If you two are staying up, than there's no way that I'm going to be the only one sleeping!"
Kaito looked disappointed. "You don't trust me, Tantei-kun!? I'm hurt!" Conan rolled his eyes.
Haru looked at the clock and saw that it was getting close to midnight. Even though he was trying to hide it, it was obvious that he was getting nervous.
"He must not want to be awake during his birthday." Kaito thought. He let out a big sigh. He knew that he wouldn't be able to sleep since he developed insomnia from having to take care of Jii when he was sick and staying up late to plan heists.
"W-Why don't we all g-go to sleep?" Haru yawned. Conan nodded his agreement.
"I'm not sure that I can sleep but I can try," Kaito admitted. Haru's eyes grew wide.
"Th-That's not good! W-We have to find a w-way to help you sleep!" He ran to one of his dressers and searched through one of the drawers. When he got back to the big bed, he was holding a big shiny pocket watch.
"What the hell are you doing!?" Conan asked. Haru looked at him as if it was obvious.
"I'm g-gonna hypnotize him! Th-That way, he'll b-be able to sleep!" He looked so determined and confident that it was actually kind of funny. Conan had to admit, it would be interesting to see the small chibi teen hypnotize the famous phantom thief.
Kaito wasn't amused. "Do you really know how to hypnotize people?"
Haru nodded proudly. "Yep! W-When I was little, one of m-my dad's friends t-taught me! I th-think that his name was Gunter or s-something like that."
"Gunter? Why does that name sound familiar?" Kaito thought. He had a bad feeling about the name…it was almost the exact same feeling that he had when he saw the picture with Snake in Haru's room. "Wait! It couldn't be!" Kaito looked Haru in the eye and tried to stay calm. "Did Gunter have blonde hair?"
Haru nodded. "Yeah! H-How did you know!?"
"Just a lucky guess." Kaito said as if it was no big deal. Haru accepted that and held the big pocket watch up.
"J-Just follow the watch and listen to the s-sound of my voice." He moved the watch back and forth. "You are getting sleepy." He held out the last syllable for a couple of seconds. "When I c-count to three, you will f-fall into a deep sleep. D-Do you understand?"
"Yes," Kaito said. It had just occurred to him that if Haru really did learn how to hypnotize people from Spider, then it might actually work. But he couldn't bring himself to refuse. Haru seemed so excited to do it.
"Alright. One…T-Two…Three." As soon as the last word left his mouth, Haru collapsed on the bed, fast asleep.
Kaito and Conan stared at each other for a moment. Finally Kaito spoke. "You recorded that, right?"
"Yep. But I wasn't expecting him to hypnotize himself…"
"Do you think that we could mess with him?" Kaito asked, the familiar mischievous gleam returning to his eyes. Conan looked at the clock and saw that it was midnight.
"Leave him alone. It's his birthday, after all."
Kaito sighed dramatically. "I guess it can't be helped. We should probably turn in too. But first," He threw a blanket over Conan. When the small boy finally struggled out of the tangled fabric, he was wearing panda pajamas.
"What the hell, KID!?" Conan cried out.
"Shhhh! He's sleeping!" Kaito whispered as he took a picture of Conan.
Kaito: I'm actually really surprised that I didn't suffer because of a certain someone's request!
Me: Well I was gonna make you suffer a little but I decided to mess with Conan instead!
Haru: I w-was trying so hard n-not to be the first one to fall asleep! *pouts*
Me: The sad part is that I think that he would have made it too!
Conan: Why did you have to pick on me!? Isn't Kaito more of a main character!?
Kaito: You're so mean Tantei-kun! You're starting to make me think that you don't like me!
Conan: You're a thief…I'm a detective…I'm surprised that we even hang out!
Me: So who wants some snacks!?
*Haru and DoomsdayBeam both raise their hands*
*I hand Haru sugar-free candy which he takes half-heartedly*
Me: I got something special for DoomsdayBeam! My favorite snack food of all time! *Pulls out…a bag of goldfish (the snack that smiles back!)*
Kaito: You traitor!
DoomsdayBeam: You're right, Kid-kun! We should have asked if you wanted some! *chases Kaito with the bag of goldfish*
Kaito: I blame you, KaitoPhantom1412! *jumps up to the ceiling and glares at DoomsdayBeam* And quit calling me Kid-kun!
DoomsdayBeam: NEVER!
Me: *laughing* I should have invited her sooner!
Haru: Thanks so m-much for reading! W-We really hope that you liked this chapter! Don't f-forget to review and let KaitoPhantom1412 know if y-you have any ideas! Also, p-please don't forget to ask m-me lots and lots of questions! Bye! *Waves excitedly*