CHAPTER 36: Meeting in the Park

Suzume was walking through the park, wondering what to do with herself. Heiji and Conan had kicked her out of the house, saying they needed to talk about something. So Suzume decided to go for a walk in the park, she asked Haibara if she wanted to come along, but she didn't want to, heartlessly.

Children were running around and shouting for each other to hurry up. A giant crowd was surrounding a boy, Suzume's age, with brown spiky hair and blue eyes. Suzume stopped walking and watched as the boy did magic tricks for the children.

The Children laughed when a bird came out of his sleeve. Suzume watched the bird as it flew up to the sky and then came back down, resting on her shoulder. Suzume saw the bird was a lovely dove. Suzume rubbed her finger under the birds chin and it seemed to enjoy it.

Suzume glanced over to the group of children as they focused at the boy's final act. Which was, pulling a rabbit out of a black hat and making the rabbit blow up into rose petals.

The Children all laughed and ran off after that. The boy, on the other hand, looked at Suzume and smiled. Suzume smiled back and the dove flew off her shoulder. Suzume then turned around and was about to walk away, when she heard a voice say, "Leaving so soon?"

Suzume turned around and saw the boy right in front of her. Suzume didn't know what to say to him, but it seems she didn't have to say anything.

The boy reached in his sleeve and pulled out a red rose. He then handed it to Suzume, who took it grateful and swearing she saw the same thing from someone else.

"Thank you," Suzume said, smiling.

"You're the girl from the papers, right?" the boy said. "The one Kid keeps kissing, correct?"

Suzume's smile faded. "Not like I asked for it," she said, "but sadly yes that's me. Kei Suzume."

"Kuroba Kaito," the boy said, smiling.

"Pleasure," Suzume said.

The Dove from earlier flew off from his shoulder and landed on hers. It then began rubbing it's head against her cheek and Suzume actually giggled.

Kaito smiled and gave a small laugh. "I heard kid's appearing tonight," he said. "Are you going to try catching him again?"

Suzume thought for a moment. "Yep!" she said, smiling. "I'm going to get my revenge on the guy for kissing me without permission."

Kaito laughed. I don't think she's going to able to though, he thought.

Suzume looked at her watch and saw it was almost seven. She had been walking around since early that morning, so she knew it was time to head back. "Well," she said, getting the dove to fly over to Kaito's shoulder, "I must be going, Conan and Hattori-kun should be finished with whatever they were chatting about. I hope to see you again, Kuroba-kun."

Suzume was about to walk away, when Kaito stopped her. "Wait a moment!" he said.

Suzume looked back and saw three more red roses in his hand. "I hope to see you again, Kei-san."

Suzume smiled and took the flowers from him. She then walked back to the house, where Conan and Heiji were waiting.

That night, Suzume sat on the roof of the building Kid was stealing from that night. She decided to just wait on the roof for him, since she didn't want to be around all the people.

"Been waiting long, My Little Dove?" a voice said.

Suzume looked up until her head was seeing the door behind her. There she saw Kid walking toward her.

"Ready to give up?" she said, getting to her feet.

"Nope!" he said, smiling.

Kid held a hand in front of Suzume and in a second, a rose appeared. "Charming…" she said sarcastically. "But not what I'm after…" She then kicked her foot under his, trying to trip him. But Kid jumped over her foot and landed safely on the ground again, looking like he didn't even move.

"Not very nice of you, Suzu-chi," he said.

Suzume didn't care about what he said, she simply just tried Karate kicking him. But Kid managed to dodge and disappear in a puff of smoke right before her eyes.

"Running is cowardly…" she said, looking around.

Arms wrapped around her and tightly embraced her from behind, making her unable to move.

"I'm not running," Kid said.

Suzume looked at Kid and was caught off guard by another kiss from him. Suzume struggled to get free, but Kid was stronger then he looked. Kid pulled away with a smirk on his face. "You taste like strawberries," he said.

Suzume stepped on Kid's foot, making him release her. She tried throwing a karate chop at him, but he caught her hand, stopping her from going and further.

Kid took Suzume's hand in his and kissed it. He then bowed, while backing up towards the edge of the building. "Until the next night, Princess," he said. He then stepped off the building and glided away.

Suzume put her hands in her pockets and felt the jewel from that night in there, along with a note. Suzume was full of rage at this point, yet again he was able to kiss her. She needed to be more on her guard.

Suzume stood there, looking at the night sky, thinking. I wonder why he always returns the jewels after stealing them…

Suzume shrugged and turned around, taking the card out of her pocket. She opened the envelope and was surprised by confetti flying out of it, along with the rose he was going to hand her. After that she took out the card and looked at it.

You really need to keep up your guard if you expect to not have me kiss you ever time we meet. Although, I surely don't mind it.

Kaitou Kid

Suzume rolled her eyes and stuffed the card in her pocket. She then rubbed her lips together, picking up the rose, and she made her way down the stairs. She walked past Inspector Nakamori, handing him the jewel and then walking down the rest of the stairs. She was trying so hard not to scream in pure anger.