Seduction

Kaito wondered if he could go back in time and erase Sherlock Holmes from existence.

Or, better yet, maybe he could go erase Kudou Shinichi and his stupid (sexy) bad habit.

He'd heard about Shinichi's habit from Ran before, but at the time, he'd just brushed it off as a random fact that would never truly matter.

Oh how wrong he'd been.

Kaito now sat across from Shinichi in the Kudou family library, a very uncomfortable three feet away, pretending to be entirely engrossed in the book about… uh… was it unsolved murder cases? – that he was holding.

Shinichi was also reading. He was flipping through a much worn copy of The Sign of Four. That wasn't weird or unusual or anything, considering that it was fairly widely known that Shinichi was an avid Sherlock Holmes fan.

It was just the fact that Shinichi also had an extremely strange habit of biting his lip while he read.

Ducking his head, Kaito tried not to stare as he watched Shinichi clamp his bottom lip between his teeth absently. Seeing as they'd been reading for nearly twenty minutes now, his lip had long since gone bright red under the abuse. It was also slick with saliva, and every now and again his tongue would dart out and trail across it, alleviating just a little of the redness. His top lip had been given a short break, but the red had yet to fade entirely.

The thought of exactly what those lips were capable of made Kaito flinch inwardly and try to focus on the page in front of him.

"How's the book?"

Nearly jumping four feet in the air at the sudden question, Kaito stuttered out a, "Fine, yes!"

Shinichi nodded approvingly. "You're reading A Collection of Unsolved Murders, aren't you? Have you gotten to the Kyoto Nagaoka case yet?"

Kaito blinked. "What?"

With a patient smile, Shinichi repeated, "The Kyoto Nagaoka case. The one about the two women collecting bracken?"

"Uh…" Kaito stared down at the book in his lap. "Yes?"

"That's one of my favorites," Shinichi commented, smiling, and Kaito's eyes were instantly drawn back to his lips.

His still red, still wet lips.

Oblivious, Shinichi blinked in confusion as Kaito groaned and buried his face in the book. "Do unsolved murders really annoy him that much?"

Ah, my darling dense Shinichi. I think it's more like "does Kaito really like you that much"?

Also, there really is an unsolved murder case in Kyoto Nagaoka in which two women gathering bracken are killed.

(Not quite sure why I know this.)