A/N: I call bullshit on my statement that I won't write anything. It's like saying that I won't breathe for the rest of October!
AW-meeting
Me: Hello, my name is Nech and I'm a writeoholic...
Everyone: Hello Nech.
Warnings:
Strange English, OOCness
Uploaded: 2012-10-23
Revised: 2014-09-17
Chapter rating: T
Words: 3,300
Chap.54
Never Poke a Sleeping Magician
A week went by and Kaito spent most of his time with Shinichi in Beika, even though the detective had been over to his house a couple of times.
"Hey, Kuroba-kun," Ran said after she opened the door to the mansion, surprising the thief as he walked out of the kitchen with a glass of water, "where's Shinichi?"
"I told you; call me Kaito, and he's in the library," Kaito smiled and studied the woman, noticing that she no longer seemed to give him harsh looks, "he's doing homework." He stuck out his tongue with a disapproving grunt and she huffed at him, but then seemed like she got an idea.
"I was going to tell him that Kazuha-chan and Hattori-kun are coming over tomorrow and are going to stay a couple of days. Hattori-kun wants to surprise Shinichi, but I think it would be best if Shinichi told him that he fell in love with a nut job. Could you just sit beside Shinichi so that I can send a picture of you two to Kazuha-chan?" Kaito grinned at her question, knowing exactly what kind of picture he wanted her to take and ignored the remark on his sanity, "I told her that Shinichi's got a boyfriend and that she shouldn't tell Hattori-kun, but she wonders what you look like."
"Sure!" Kaito grinned and was about to run away, but stopped himself, "wait five minutes and I'll give you a picture worth taking." The magician winked and before Ran had time to protest he'd placed the glass on a small hallway table and disappeared into the library.
"Kaito! Get off!" she heard her childhood friend call out and decided to stop whatever the thief thought was a good idea. When she got to the library Ran watched how Shinichi had been pinned to the settee and struggled to get his boyfriend off.
"What's wrong with you?" Shinichi asked with a frown after Kaito had given him a quick kiss, "I told you that I have to read the rest of the stupid book and write a paper on it; it was supposed to be in yesterday. I even had to beg Anzai-sensei to let me turn it in later, so I have to be finished tonight. Can't you wait till later?" Ran blushed at the implication of the sentence while Kaito shook his head with a grin.
"Just a kiss," he begged and lowered himself so that he could steal one from the detective that only scowled and turned his head away, "just a teeny-weeny kiss." Ran pulled up her phone with a mental sigh, realising that there probably was no way that she could ever get the magician to sit still beside Shinichi.
With a loud thump the couple was lying on the floor with an annoyed Shinichi pinning Kaito down.
"I told you to wait; I'm busy," the detective explained patiently, but Kaito didn't look happy.
"No, I was supposed to be on top! This is all wrong," he complained and struggled, making Shinichi smirk. Hearing the thief's whine Ran took a picture as Shinichi bent down and gave him a gentle kiss, she then hid the phone in her hand and cleared her throat, causing her friend to fly up from the floor and sit down on the settee.
"Excellent timing," he commented with a small blush rising to his cheeks and Ran sent a glance to the pouting magician, who had failed his mission in getting a picture of him on top.
"Hattori-kun is coming over tomorrow. He wanted to make a surprise visit and stay for a while, now that spring break is next week, but I thought that you might want to warn him about your insane boyfriend before he gets here," Ran informed him and opened her phone to send the picture to Kazuha.
"He's coming? Here?" Shinichi panicked slightly and turned to the thief that sat on the floor, "Kaito, can you please not flaunt that you're, him."
"I'll try," Kaito said with a smile, but his eyes were laughing wildly.
"Please," Shinichi begged, "you do realise that getting a detective to fall for a thief is an accomplishment while falling for a thief would ruin all respect Hattori has?"
"Is it really that bad?" Kaito asked and hid the fact that the comment had stung painfully in his heart, "hell, you made the Kaitou KID fall for you; how is that not an accomplishment?"
"For a detective to fall for a thief, any thief, is bad, and Hattori would laugh at me, not to mention that he wouldn't be able to keep quiet about it!"
"Ah, but he has no evidence!" Kaito grinned.
"It doesn't matter; if he knows who you are and goes after you, your luck won't do. Hattori will first try to convince me to haul you in, then he'll try to get me too! He'll try to get me to do a slip up on tape or he might search the entire house for clues; Hattori doesn't follow your happy little 'Rules of Engagement' where everyone only tries to catch you in the act! And if he manages to convince the press that you're Kaitou KID it would be bad, ooh, so bad," Shinichi took a breath and was about to start again, but Kaito began talking.
"Are you paranoid? Or is 'your best friend' actually your arch nemesis?"
"Huh?"
"After what I've seen of Hattori, I can't say that I for a moment believe the scenario your painting up. First off; he'll never freaking believe that you, for a second, are together with a criminal. He'll probably say something along the lines," Kaito cleared his throat and began speaking in the Osakan's voice, "there's no way that Kudou would be together with a criminal! Ya' need ta get yer head examined, old man... Or, how about; Kudou and KID, are ya' insane? Why tha hell would Kudou get together with 'im? He's been tryin' ta catch 'im!" The detective couldn't help but to smile at Kaito's 'upset Hattori'-voice, while Pandora and he agreed that they might have slightly overreacted. The thief caught a glance of Shinichi's smile and stopped his ranting, seeing happiness sparkle in the blue eyes.
"Kaito?" Shinichi asked with a smile, "did I tell you that I love you?" Kaito grinned at his question.
"What? I didn't hear you quite clearly," he smirked and his boyfriend bent down and placed a loving kiss on his head.
"I overreacted," Shinichi confessed and received a single nod from the other.
"Hattori has on blinders when it comes to you, just like Aoko and Nakamori-keibu have them for me. I'm only Kuroba Kaito, Kuroba Toichi's son, a prankster magician who loves hogging the spotlight."
"I don't know about tha-,"
"Are ya' hearing me Blondie! There's no way that Kudou would ever kill anyone!" Kaito called out, remembering what Hattori had said to Hakuba when they met at the Hagiwara Hotel, and then continued in his own voice, "now tell me again that he doesn't have blinders on."
"Okay, you win," Shinichi sighed and realised that Ran was still standing in the doorway to the library, giggling at her phone and had ignored the entire conversation.
Kazuha was sitting in a restaurant, eating dinner with her father and Heiji, and had smiled when she saw that she got a message from Ran; knowing that it must be a photo of Kudou's boyfriend or the 'cute couple' she'd been laughing about. Once she opened the phone she stared at the picture colour rose to her cheeks and she gaped. The phone buzzed as she got a second message.
'Guess who's who!' Ran had sent and Kazuha looked around to make sure that no one saw what kind of picture she looked at before she got back to studying it, frowning as she did so.
'The top one?' she sent after a while of staring, 'he seems more... Detective-y.'
'Correct!' Ran immediately responded while Kazuha blushed.
'And they aren't related?'
'No, that's why it's so funny that Kuroba and Shinichi are together; they could be twins!'
Kazuha blinked and took a better look on the picture seeing that there only were a few differences.
"Oi, Kazuha?" Heiji's voice suddenly brought her out of her musings and she gave him her attention, "ya' aren't gettin' sick, are ya'?" She stared at him and then slapped her hands over her burning cheeks, trying to cool them.
"No, I'm not," she muttered and he sent her a disbelieving glance.
"If ya're gettin' sick ya' should stay in Osaka."
"I'm not gettin' sick! Ya' ahou! Ya' wouldn't understand anyway! It's a girl-thing!" at the mention of 'girl-thing' she could see her friend's eyes narrow until he blushed and coughed a bit awkwardly, and she knew that he had misinterpreted the sentence in some way, but she had no intention of correcting his misunderstanding so she just continued to send messages to Ran.
"Are you going to call Hattori-kun now?" Ran asked as she looked up and Shinichi felt like it was an order even though it was phrased like question, "or are you going to shock him like you did to me?"
"I'm going to call him," Shinichi mumbled and pulled out his phone, he waited for a while and then heard how his Osakan counterpart answered with a happy greeting.
"Hey, Hattori. I heard that you're coming over tomorrow."
"Damn it! Neechan told ya', didn't she? I told Kazuha not ta tell her, but she didn't listen!"
"Yea, but I think that it was for the best... When will you arrive?"
"Twelve at the train station. I was goin' ta surprise ya'. Ya've been so busy lately and ya' haven't visited like ya' said!"
"Sorry, Hattori," Shinichi sighed, "I should've upheld my promise."
"No, worries! Ya' just have ta buy me some lunch when I get there, I heard of a really great restaurant from my favourite chef! And I think that we should check it out!"
"Yea, sure! You're cheap!" Shinichi laughed, but then grew serious as he threw a glance on Kaito, "but there's a reason as to why I'm calling you now."
"Oh?"
"Yea," Shinichi hesitated, wondering how he would phrase the reveal, "there's something I'd like to tell you before you come. You see, I've found someone I like..." He trailed off and the Osakan laughed.
"Someone, other than Neechan? That's great Kudou! Ya' have ta let me meet her!"
"Yes, but that's the thing," Shinichi sighed, "it's not a woma-." A loud scream echoed through the phone and Hattori interrupted the detective.
"Oi, Kudou. Yer curse struck through tha phone! I have ta go!"
"I'm not cursed!" the phone clicked and Shinichi growled in annoyance. 'Pandora,' he thought, 'can our curse strike through the phone?'
'What? I jus-, what? No! Are you a moron?' Pandora called out in confusion of the question and then laughed as Shinichi deadpanned, 'I can't believe that you just asked that!'
'How am I supposed to know?'
'How about logic?'
'How's a talking jewel in my head logical?'
'I... might see your point...' Pandora grinned and got back to playing dress-up with an imaginary Kaito, which was very distracting to Shinichi when he had a boring book to read, especially since the gem's giggling made him curious.
The very next day the alarm clock in the room went off with a loud noise, making Shinichi groan in irritation and shut it off as he got up. Without even opening his eyes Kaito managed to latch onto his waist and pull him back to bed with a soft thud.
"Not yet," the magician complained and somehow managed to drag him underneath the blanket and entangle their bodies, "five more minutes." Shinichi smirked and stroke the magician's soft hair until he felt that he'd fallen asleep. The detective carefully freed himself and slowly eased off the bed leaving behind a sleeping teenager.
"Wake up!" a voice called out to him and shook him.
"Go away," Kaito groaned and turned around, but felt that something was off, something about the voice and scent; he could smell foreign spices.
"Oi! Kudou!" the person laughed and Kaito spun around with wide eyes, realising that the voice didn't belong to Shinichi and then glared when he registered the dark skin on a familiar face.
"Hattori," he muttered and held the cover to his stomach as he sat up, making sure that it hid the fact that he was naked, "what do you want?"
"Who's a grumpy boy?" the Osakan grinned and Kaito scowled at him, for a moment thinking that Shinichi had sent the detective to wake him, but quickly realised that it was highly unlikely.
"I'm sleeping, come back tomorrow!" Kaito fell back into the soft bed with his back towards the annoying detective and pulled the cover to his shoulders, wanting to get some more sleep.
"No way, Kudou!" Hattori grinned and Kaito suddenly realised that the Osakan hadn't been picked up on the train station by Shinichi if he'd managed to confuse the detective with him, but before he had the time to say that it was a misunderstanding Hattori had grabbed into the cover and Kaito immediately understood what would happen. He reached out to underneath the sheets and just as the detective pulled the cover away a smoke bomb exploded. Much to Hattori's confusion 'his friend' was standing on the other side of the bed, completely dressed, not even a second later.
"I'm up," Kaito muttered and drew a hand through his messy hair and sent the clock a glance, "happy?" Only a quarter had gone by since the alarm went off, which meant that the Osakan had arrived early and that Shinichi had had the time to make a cup of coffee, drink it and gone to the shower, "why are you here so early?"
"Ya're worse than Kaitou KID," Hattori snorted amused and earned a grin from Kaito, "and I took an earlier train; I wanted ta surprise ya'."
A sneaky thought had entered the magician's mind; a lovely idea, a great experiment and a fantastic punishment.
"Oi, Hattori, you can wait in the kitchen, there should be some coffee in a pot," the thief said and started to walk out of the room with his hands in his pockets, "I'm going to take a quick shower."
Kaito walked through the corridor and heard the Osakan's steps disappear down the stairs before he picked the lock on the bathroom door, opening it to hear the sound of a shower. He brushed his teeth as he picked up the detective's phone, turned it off and placed it in his own pocket before he smirked and tore open the blue curtains, making Shinichi jolt from the shock and push up against the wall.
"Kaito!" he complained when the magician allowed his gaze to travel over the detective's naked body with hungry eyes. Shinichi grumbled as Kaito left him to spit out the toothpaste and got back to rinsing himself, ignoring the thief to his best efforts. Kaito grinned as he quickly got undressed and joined the detective in the shower, immediately wrapping his arms around his waist and started kissing his neck.
"Sorry about scaring you," he murmured and Shinichi huffed.
"Sure you are,"
"Let me make it up to you," the thief grinned and moved a hand down to his groin, groping his detective and made Shinichi sigh.
"I don't have time," he muttered, knowing that the magician would eventually win, "damn it, Kaito"
Kaito smirked as he finished his shower and got out.
"Yea, you're right," he said in a mischievous voice, "you need to get going."
"Oi, you're not going to leave me like this are you?" Shinichi stared at him in disbelief.
"See you later Shin-chan!" Kaito grinned and was gone in a puff of smoke, leaving behind a horny boyfriend that muttered curses and started to plan punishments for his thief as he was forced to turn the temperature down to cold.
"Okay, let's go," Kaito said as he found the other teenager in the kitchen with a coffee cup in his hands and Hattori raised his eyebrows while he sent a glance to the watch.
"Did ya' really have time ta shower, or did ya' just a dip yer head in tha toilet?"
"Oi!" Kaito called out and ruffled the still wet hair, "don't insult me when I hurried so that I wouldn't keep you waiting!" The thief made his way to the door followed by Hattori, leaving behind a single cup in the kitchen and a handwritten note on the bedside table.
Shinichi got out of the shower in an ever so slightly bad mood and searched for his phone, wondering there he'd placed it. He ended up calling it and received his own voicemail, but knowing that he hadn't turned it off he called the thief, who was the only one that could've taken it or turned it off just to mess with him. He sighed as he received Kaito's voicemail and decided to call Hattori to tell him that he might be late, but received his voicemail too. Shinichi shook his head and went into his room, seeing a note beside the alarm clock.
"Gone out to assess the competition!
~Love Kaito"
Shinichi raised an eyebrow and shook his head, thinking that it was something KID-related, and ignored it as he got dressed.
"Shinichi!" Ran's voice called out from the floor below, and he went downstairs.
"Ran," he greeted as he saw her, but then realised that Kazuha was with her, "Kazuha? You're here? Weren't you supposed to arrive around twelve?"
"Yea, we were, but Heiji still wanted ta surprise ya', so we took an earlier train," the young woman explained and Shinichi pulled out the note, "isn't he here yet?"
"Oh, no," he groaned and pinched the bridge of his nose, "that explains everything Kaito did." The females looked at him in confusion and he handed the note to them.
"He tricked Hattori that he's me and now..." Shinichi sighed as he interrupted himself, realising that he had no idea what the magician was planning, "we need to find them." Shinichi took his jacket and ran outside, hoping that they hadn't gotten too far, but knowing that it was hopeless given that the thief could vanish within five seconds and the twenty minutes he'd spent from the moment Kaito tore open the drapes till he was out of the door meant that there probably wasn't even a trace of them.
Kaito grinned as he listened to the dark-skinned detective compare his lunch to the food in Osaka and began planning his revenge by acting nervous and a bit jumpy, but still insisted that it was nothing even though he clearly showed that something was wrong, which in turn made the Osakan suspicious.
Just after they'd left the restaurant a red car stopped by the street and Takagi exited the car, running past them and into the restaurant.
"Kudou-kun!" Satou waved with a smile to them, "how have you been?"
"Satou-keiji!" Kaito exclaimed with a smile, not really wanting to involve the officer in his scam, "I'm good, how about you?"
"I'm great; have you eaten at this restaurant before?"
"Only just now, actually,"
"Their food is great, isn't it?" Satou smiled, "Takagi and I always go here whenever we have the time."
"Hattori-kun? Kudou-kun?" a voice stated behind them and they turned around to see Takagi with a bag in his hands, containing the food that they had pre-ordered.
"Hi, Takagi-keiji. It's nice to see you," Kaito exclaimed before the officer had time to say anything more, "but we really should get going now and you should enjoy your lunch." Kaito grabbed into a confused Hattori's arm and was about to drag him away, but as if Lady Luck had abandoned him the radio came to life and stated a code that the thief recognised; someone had died, and the scene was even less than a block away.
"All right, let's go!" Hattori grinned and Kaito saw what was about to happen before he was forced into the car and then kidnapped to a crime scene.
