Mikau: Hey guys! I'm so exhausted right now. I've been going non-stop these past three days while still trying to get over my cold. Life's pretty good though. By the way, I'm overjoyed to announce that we've reached 250 reviews. I'd like to take this moment to thank everyone who has supported me thus far; as you likely already know, it means a great deal to me, and I appreciate your feedback immensely. Thanks as well to Athie Lestrade, MysteryConan, Aniki-xvi, Mai-chan63, Questionable Answers, Sirastar, Sweetest Writer, and kakashikrazy256 for reviewing. Well, enjoy the chapter! Trapped in the Twilight is up too.
Disclaimer: If I owned it, I would probably be caught up on the series. As it stands there are probably one hundred chapters and three hundred episodes I've missed. It's hard to catch up because I've tuned in here and there throughout the years, so I'm not sure which episodes and chapters I've missed. -.-
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Meeting of the Boyfriends
After dinner the detective and the thief retired to the living room to watch Miyazaki and Disney movies while cuddling on the couch.
Conan curled up on Kaito's chest as the magician wrapped his arms around his boyfriend's body.
"So…you love me?" the smaller teen fished.
"We've been over this, Shin-chan," Kaito chuckled. "Yes, I love you. I love you, I love you, I love you. How many times do I have to say it before you'll believe me?"
"Oh, I believe you," Conan sighed contentedly as he listened to the steady beat of his beloved's heart. "It hasn't quite sunken in yet, but I know that you're not lying. I just like hearing it."
"I love you, Kudo Shinichi," Kaito whispered, kissing his shorter boyfriend on the top of the head. "I'll say it as many times as you like."
"I…I don't want to share you with him, Kai-chan. I want you to be mine…just mine," the grade schooler pouted, sounding a great deal his physical age.
"I…I'm sorry," the magician mumbled, feeling lousy. "I…God, I don't deserve either of you. You should just break up with me, you know? Both of you. I shouldn't get to be happy." Kaito sat up, setting the detective down next to him. "This sharing thing was a bad idea. It's selfish and stupid and…let's just break up, okay?" The younger teen began to whimper.
"No!" Conan screeched, climbing his way into his boyfriend's lap. "No. I'll share, so…"
"It's not—" Kaito shook his head and squeezed his stand-in teddy bear tight to his chest. "I'm not saying that you have to share or else I'll break up with you, Shin-chan. It's not like that. I…I'm saying that I shouldn't be allowed to have either of you until I decide for sure on just one. You and Saguru are two of the best guys I've ever met. You two deserve someone a hell of a lot better than me—someone who's devoted completely to you and you alone. I'm clearly not that person, Shinichi. I shouldn't get to be with either of you until I can give myself fully to just one."
Conan sighed. "You know what? You're right. You may not deserve either of us, but we both want you. It's not always about you, Kaito," the shrunken sleuth snorted. "At this point in time, I don't care what you want. I want you, and I'm going to have you, dammit. I'm not going to sit around and twiddle my thumbs while you go back and forth between us. You'll never be able to make up your mind, and then we'll all end up old and lonely. You may not have earned us, but you've got us. Both of us. You'll have to deal with whatever guilt comes with that, but you're not going to get in the way of my happiness with your 'woe is me. I'm a terrible person' crap. I love you, you idiot, and you love me, so we're going to be together. Fool around with your blonde on your own time, but remember that you're mine too, and I'm not letting you walk away from us. Instead of whining, how about considering yourself blessed to love and be loved by two incredible men?"
Kaito blinked. Once. Twice. And then he burst out laughing. "You're right. You're absolutely right. Sorry," the magician whispered sheepishly, touching his lips reverently to his boyfriend's forehead. "Thanks for yelling at me, Shinichi."
The bespectacled boy shrugged, giving his idiot a kiss. "You're welcome. Sorry for getting angry. It's just…you're so dense sometimes."
"Meanie," the younger teen pouted, lying back down with the midget on his chest.
"It's the truth. For being so ingenious, you can sure be a ditz." Conan grinned evilly. "Or is it that Kid's the genius and you really are a moron?"
"Hey! You'll be sleeping on the couch at this rate, Mister," Kaito grumbled.
"You don't mean that," the tantei tot snorted. "You want me in your bed as much as I want to be there."
"Humph," Kaito replied, knowing that it was true. He nipped the little brunette on the ear.
Conan nipped back, and things quickly escalated into a tonsil hockey match.
Princess Mononoke continued on in the background, completely forgotten.
000
"Take off your shirt," Kaito commanded, stripping down to his boxers as they got ready for bed.
"W-Why do you want my shirt off?" Conan stuttered, gripping his garments like a life vest.
"You owe me for last night, and I want flesh-on-flesh cuddling. Kid has this thing about not getting touched enough, and I want to exchange body heat. Shirt off, Studmuffin," the taller of the two decreed.
"You're not seriously going to start calling me that, are you?" The detective grimaced, shrugging off his shirt.
"I might," the imp chuckled, lending a hand to speed up the disrobing process. "Oh, hey! Let's take a bath together!"
"A ba-bath?!" Conan gasped as Kaito stole his underwear and slung the little sleuth over his shoulder like a sack of loot.
"Yep. You can wash my back, and I can wash your hair. It'll be fun!" The magician giggled as he set about preparing the bath water.
The two of them thoroughly scrubbed clean before getting into the tub to soak. Kaito insisted upon personally washing Conan from head to toe. He messaged shampoo and conditioner gently into the older boy's scalp and carefully rinsed away the suds.
Conan, after arguing with his boyfriend for a solid five minutes, finally won the right to wash his own body.
"I've already touched it all before. What's the big deal?" the prankster snorted, rolling his eyes.
"Would you want me touching yours?" the detective made his rebuttal.
Kaito smirked.
Conan blushed. "I liked it better when you were the nervous, sexually conservative half of this couple."
The magician gave his miniature lover a sloppy kiss.
They soaked for about forty minutes, flicking droplets of water back and forth, blowing bubbles, and talking about nonsense.
Then they dried off (Kaito doing the drying for them both), donned their boxers, and got into bed.
"We need to keep doing stuff like that," Kaito whispered after the lights had been turned off. "Just spending time together being silly."
"Friendship is just as important to a relationship as…copulation." Conan blushed. How come it was so much easier to talk about such matters when he was his regular size?
"I could go for some copulation right about now, though," Kaito snickered, licking the shell of Conan's ear. "How long do we have to wait before next time? Another month? God. I'm not gonna make it."
"You know…" The shrunken teen hesitated, afraid to ruin the moment.
"Hm?"
"I know before you said it made you feel like a pervert, but…I wouldn't mind…you know…" Conan was thankful for the darkness hiding his blush. "I know it's not exactly the same as making love, but…if it would help you out, I wouldn't mind…" he fibbed.
More than not minding, he wanted to. Shinichi wanted to hear that husky voice whimpering his name once more. He needed to see the weak, flushed face Kaito made while being sated. He needed something to reassure himself that while Kaito would be with the other detective, the magician was still Shinichi's.
"Okay," Kaito whispered hesitantly. "But…if it makes me feel like a pedo, we stop, okay?"
"Un!" Conan agreed, eagerly beginning his ministrations.
000
"Uuuuunn," Kaito groaned as his lover pulled the covers away. "It's cooooold."
"Because you're naked," Conan chuckled. "Get up, Sleepyhead. It's already nine o'clock."
"No. Come back to bed, Shin-chan," the younger brunette whined.
"Don't you want breakfast, Kai-chan?" the detective attempted to lure the elusive Kaito out of bed.
"No. I want you to come back to bed and do that thing with your tongue again," the healthy teenage boy pouted like an eight year-old.
"Which thing with my tongue was that?" the mini-tantei snickered, a self-satisfied smirk in place on his face as he climbed back up onto the bed.
"You know the one," Kaito returned, smiling innocently.
"Oh, you mean this one?" Conan leaned in and nearly gagged his boyfriend with his tongue.
Not that Kaito minded.
"No, the other thing with your tongue," the mischief-maker moaned as his detective pulled away.
"Ooooh," the schoolboy teased. "No, you've had plenty of that. You see, last night I was feeling generous. If you want my attentions again, next time you'll have to earn it. I've been chasing after you this whole time. Time for you to chase me. How about you try courting me for a change?"
"Shin-chan!" The litany of whines and pleas continued.
There was some rolling around, but Conan finally got the magician out of bed without giving in to Kaito's demands.
"And I ask you, whatever happened to feeling like a pedophile, Kaito?" the gumshoe sniggered.
"I got over it when a certain part of my anatomy fell in love with your tongue," the taller teen grumbled as he washed up and got dressed.
"Let's go to a café or something for breakfast," Conan suggested. "Since neither one of us can cook."
"I could if I had to," Kaito informed his little love. "But breakfast out sounds good. I'll pay."
"You sure?" Conan blinked, looking absolutely adorable.
"Yeah," Kaito chuckled nervously. "Think of it as an advanced apology, 'cause afterwards I'm going to have Saguru come over to talk about rules and regulations for making this…this whatever we're doing…work."
"Oh." The former teen looked less than ecstatic.
000
Conan tried his hardest not to transform into a Tasmanian devil and claw Hakuba f-ing Saguru's pretty little golden eyes out as Kaito greeted the blonde at the door.
"Hey," Kaito purred, wrapping his arms around the taller detective's neck.
"Hey, Kai," Hakuba returned, an elated smile on his face as his arms circled the magician's waist.
They touched their foreheads together and shared an Eskimo kiss before slowly breaking away.
Conan made a low, guttural noise somewhere in the back of his throat.
To the younger sleuth, he sounded like a Chihuahua whose turf had been trespassed upon.
Kaito rolled his eyes, scooping up his smaller boyfriend while directing the other one into the living room. "Hush, Shin-chan," he ordered before kissing the boy silly.
Saguru tried not to see, but it was a little difficult…and very disturbing.
Kaito set Conan down on the sofa and directed Saguru to sit next to the shrimp. The man himself took an armchair across the coffee table from his two suitors. "Okay. Someone tell me what the hell we think we're doing."
"Nothing complicated," the Englishman assured. "You and Edo…Ku…Shin-chan will carry on with your relationship however you see fit. You and I will do the same. However, Kid is your jurisdiction…uh…just what the devil do you wish for me to call you, anyway?"
"Anything is fine. Maybe Edogawa-kun in public, Kudo in private?" the not-child proposed.
"Good. Thank you. Anyway, 2.0 is the only one we're sharing since I have no romantic interest in my friend, and No1 seems to dislike you immensely."
"Really?" Conan blinked.
"No romantic interest in me at all, Guru?" Kid whined.
The blonde chuckled, smiling at his friend. "None whatsoever. Hello, Kaitou."
"Hello, Guru." The thief smirked, giving the detective a flirtatious wink.
"Hey, why does No1 not like me, and why are you flirting with my boyfriend?! You said that that one was mine!" the rugrat detective squealed.
"'Cause No1 likes Saguru." Kid shrugged, turning his attentions towards his boyfriend. "He's kind of mentally around your physical age, so he's a little too innocent and pure-hearted to understand things like loving more than one person. Guru's his knight in shining armor, and Kaito's feelings for you are keeping those two from being together. No1's still hoping that true love will win out.
"Anyway, I'm flirting with Saguru because that's just the way that we roll." Kid smirked and changed the subject. "So…that thing with your tongue that Kaito likes so much…"
"Ahem," Kaito interrupted his roommate as soon as he saw where the conversation was headed. He mentally scolded Kid, "You do not discuss our torrid make-out sessions with Shin-chan in front of Saguru." "I'm going to get some tea…and coffee…and hot chocolate. I'll be right back, so please play nice," the magician improvised, beating a hasty retreat to the kitchen.
When he returned, mugs in hand, he almost dropped them in surprise. He wondered if he had accidentally stepped into an alternate dimension.
Saguru and Shinichi were sitting together on the couch laughing.
Kaito could do naught but stare.
The hell? They were just sitting there laughing and talking about the latest season of the series Sherlock.
"The best part was when he put the sugar in Watson's tea to see if it was causing the hallucinations," Saguru chuckled, and it sent Conan rolling in laughter.
"No, it was the part when he was in the sheet at the palace!"
"He would do that, too," Hakuba snorted.
"Oh, what did you think of the end?" Shinichi looked eagerly up at the blonde.
"God, it was heartbreaking. When Watson said, 'don't be dead,' I cried," the blonde confessed, looking like he was about to start crying again.
"Me too! And then you saw Holmes, and I started crying because I was so happy! They've just gotta make a third season!" Conan had never looked like such a child more than in that moment.
"Ahem," Kaito cleared his throat, raising an eyebrow at his boyfriends. "I leave for ten minutes, and suddenly you're best friends? What's up with that?"
"He likes Holmes too," the youngest-looking of the three replied innocently. "Anyone who likes Holmes can't be all bad, even if they are a home-wrecker."
"I agree," the actual youngest member of the love triangle returned. "Even though I find it absolutely despicable how he took advantage of your hormones and tricked you into sleeping with him despite the fact that your relationship was not ready for such a physical element."
Kaito nodded and passed out the drinks.
This relationship was going to take some very honed juggling skills. It was bound to be interesting.
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^,^ "Hohoho"
Mikau: It's Akako! Because of the slant of the mouth, to me, this emoticon looks very pleased with itself. I can just imagine it laughing like Akako. Can you, or am I just nutters? Anyway, I think I might actually be going crazy. This Sunday I went to my church's chicken dinner. I'm a vegetarian, for those that don't know. I went because my guy friend said he'd be pleased if I showed up. Yeah, the same one I talked to at the Halloween party. Anyone else think I may be developing a crush? Well, I hope you guys liked the chapter. Hopefully I'll have the next one edited and up by next Thursday. Fingers crossed. Have a good week, guys!
