Maelstrom

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There was something wonderfully fun about making the task force chase him around the room in classic capture the bandit style. They hadn't done this in forever and Kaito was taking great glee in setting off traps and things to knock them out of the running.

Dropping a sudden smoke bomb he popped up in the midst of them, chasing along with them until they burst through the smoke cloud and realized that, no, he wasn't there.

"Lose something?" he asked cheerfully.

As all of them turned on him and attacked, Kaito jumped out of the way, using their helmets as stepping stones before taking a flying leap off the last and tackling Nakamori. Grinning into the Keibu's shocked face, Kaito used his momentum to swing around the man like he was trapped in some chaotic maelstrom, then bounced away.

All of this, had, of course, happened in only a few short moments. While Nakamori bellowed in rage his shout was cut out by an annoyed feminine snarled, "No way! I didn't let Kudou have him, there's no way I'm lettin' some foreign ahou have him either!"

"Kazuha!" Hattori's oddly high pitched yelp of surprise was possibly hysterical, but Kaito had nearly tripped over the previous implication.

Bouncing onto the backs of a couple of on coming officers he ignored the crack of their helmets connecting below him, and shoved off, vaulting over toward the small group. Dropping down behind Hattori he grabbed the sputtering Osakan and set off a swirl of smoke and glitter that he'd been saving for Shinichi. But, well, this was a better use than revenge for the darting incident.

Even if there was no truth in the girl's words, well... Shinichi was his princess, damn it.


A/N: Just to clear up a few things here and preempt some comments:

No, there never was any HeiShin, Kazuha's comment is just a reference to something Sama always says: 'She never let that Kudou hussy have Heiji, why would she let Hakuba?' which I found rather hysterical, so I wanted to reference it. Also, I love HeiKazu.

No, there is not any HakuHei in this 'verse, and I doubt I'll ever write it. _ I'm not a big fan of 'everyone's gay' fics, it drives me nuts. 'Sides, the only boys I like Hakuba with are Shinichi and Kaito, whether together or separately. 8D

Anyway, they're just being teased for humors sake by Kid and Shinichi.

Oh, and on a final note.. For those of you who have read Sama's Chatty Plunnies and remember the Club Night ficlet, well, it's now been incorporated into a larger 'verse called the Undercoververse which has a new part by Sera (Flippant Wisdom) which can only be found on LJ. I'll be post yet another new part to that 'verse sometime today called 'Hangover' which follows my The Real Party follow up to Club Night. Sadly, it will only be available on my LJ, but check it out anyway?

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