Chapter 48: Assassinate.

Genre: Drama/ Hurt/ Comfort.

Warning: AU, cliché, OOC-ness, my shitty English (seriously!).

A/N:…I feel so guilty…That I didn't thank you guys for stopping by those last chapters D:! How horrible of me! So now! Thank you so much for reading these crap ^^! Thank you! You have no idea how I appreciate it :D!

GA in last chapter was indeed Gosho-sensei…That was my idea of how Shinichi was created. Because seriously, Kaito was created first, right :3?

To D-chan: yes, definitely, dear, that SH was me xD! And I'm on my shooooort break now so I think I can update more often…I hope v^^ (I still haven't got my laptop back T^T!). And you deserve to be spoiled, sweetie *hearts*.

"…You said us monsters should stick together! You said we'd be together forever!"

In all honesty, Kaito had never pictured how he and his childhood friend would meet again would happen like this.

By 'like this', he mean that Aoko was dying in front of him and his childhood friend, Kudo Shinichi, was standing over the fragile girl, his bloody blade in hand.

And icy blue eyes looked at him coldly.

"…Shini-" he tried but blue eyes gleamed dangerously as the other boy cut him off.

"Don't," his voice was cold yet Kaito could hear the breaking undertone, "I am Rous right now."

And his heart throbbed at the codename.

"I'm sorry," he said quietly and he hoped Shinichi could see how sincere he was right then.

Shinichi suck in a deep breath, his eyes hardened and Kaito tightened his fingers around his card gun, "…We were Danger and Rous, Kaito," he finally said after a long moment of silence, "We were dangerous but then, you betrayed me. You followed this little girl," at this, Shinichi used the tip of his shoe to nudge Aoko's side, "And left me in that Hell."

"Do you know what I did," and when Kaito didn't answer, Shinichi continued, "I kill almost all of them, our fellows, I mean. Those brats did ask for it. Because they mocked me that I was nothing without you."

"And they praised me, the mentors, I mean. I hope you haven't forgotten all about that place," a wry smirk, "They told me that I was qualified to go and killed those who dared to defy the Organization. That includes you, my friend."

"Shinichi, I really don't want to do this," Kaito said when Shinichi stopped talking, his voice trembled slightly and he cursed himself when Shinichi chuckled darkly.

"Do what? Fight me? You should have seen this the day you decided to betray the Organization, Kaito," Shinichi drawled, raising his blade just as Kaito raised his gun, "What have those weaklings done to you, dear? Where's the cheerfully cruel assassin I know?"

"He died," Kaito replied quietly, his eyes narrowed, "When he left his best friend behind. But Kaito's not letting Shinichi go on like this."

And he fired.

But Shinichi was quicker as he slashed the sharp card into two before dashing toward Kaito with his blade raised.

"You said us monsters should stick together!" Shinichi screamed, eyes narrowed even more in anger and Kaito froze as he saw the unshed tears, "You said we'd be together forever!"

And he was too frozen to dodge the blade, Kaito realized. Before he felt the pain, a deep slash was already implanted across his chest and torso and even when he could feel blood seek through his shirt, he knew nothing was painful more than to watch Shinichi's face, which was scrunched up in anger and hurt and pain of being betrayed.

He fell to the ground with a loud thump; his gun fell off his hand without him knowing. It bounced to Shinichi's feet and hazy violet eyes looked up just in time to see Shinichi raised his blade above his head, blue eyes narrowed and lips pulled into a thin linhe.

And Kaito's lips pulled into a smile as he mouthed the familiar words.

As the blade came down, Shinichi's eyes widened.

The group of children was divided and he was led in a long hallway with various doors.

His wide and clear violet eyes looked around in wonder when he and his guard stopped in front of one of the doors.

And the next thing he knew was that the door was being yanked open and he was being shoved inside.

He fell on his stomach painfully and he could vaguely hear the door being slammed shut.

"Hi there," a hand was offered to him and he took it gratefully to haul himself up. Then he was met with another boy around his age who could be passed as his twin- oh, mother would be so delighted to have twin sons, he thought of his mother and her screaming when the men had taken him away.

"Oh hi to you too, what's your name?" he asked cheerfully, shaking their already joined hands happily, "I'm Kuroba Kaito!"

"I'm Kudo Shinichi," the other boy replied, his eyebrows lift up in amusement, "So we're going to be partners from now on?"

"I guess so," he said back then grinned brightly, "Glad to be paired with you, partner!"

And Shinichi smiled, "Like wise!"

This story was born because I was doodling two OCs in my school notebook and I named them Danger and Rous then I thought of Kaito and Shinichi and then I was like, "Hell yeah!"

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