A/N: Maybe not as good as I hoped, but hopefully you'll enjoy it anyway!
Warnings:
Strange English, OOCness
Uploaded: 2012-11-12
Revised: 2014-09-17
Chapter rating: T
Words: 2,500
Chap. 56
Live and Let Live
Shinichi couldn't help but blush every time he looked at Hattori, who just seemed happy with pretending that last night never happened. The detective left the kitchen to retrieve the newspaper, missing the way Hattori leered at Kaito and the way the thief glared back.
"What the hell is wrong with you?" Kaito growled lowly, pissed off by the Osakan's continued grin, "you could've stayed quiet and ignored us."
"I could ask ya' tha same thing. Maybe ya' shouldn't have pretended ta be Kudou..." the thief was about to retort, but was interrupted by his phone.
"Kaito, could you come over?" Aoko asked and Kaito sent the detective a glare.
"How important is it? I'm training," he said with a cheerful voice, which cut horribly against his irritated expression and made Hattori shiver.
"Please, come over. I don't know who to talk to," Aoko sounded strange in the phone, like she wasn't far from crying.
"Oi, Aoko," Kaito asked in real concern, "what's wrong?"
"It's about Saguru," she responded weakly and Kaito scowled.
"What did that damn detective do? Do I need to kick his ass?" the thief growled lowly, "I can humiliate him in ways not even Kaitou KID could think of!"
"No-no, don't hurt him!" Aoko called out, "just come over, please."
"If he hurt you, there isn't a place on the planet where he can hide from me!"
"Don't hurt him! BaKaito! Don't you dare! If you're just going to be stupid then don't come over at all!" Aoko hung up and the magician stared at the phone before he realised that he now had a second detective to deal with; what's with all the detectives that were attacking from all sides?
"Listen to me, Hattori," Kaito muttered, "don't get on my bad side; it's nasty. You have no idea of who you're messing with..."
"Oh, I'm terrified," Hattori grinned and nonchalantly sipped his coffee, "but I could say tha same. Don't get on my bad side, or else..."
"Or else what?"
"Or else," the detective grinned evilly and saw how the Detective of the East entered the kitchen, "Kudou!"
Shinichi blushed and responded with a greeting, missing the heavy atmosphere as he sat down and read the paper all the while Hattori sent the magician a smug glance and Kaito narrowed his eyes.
"Shin-chan! I have to go to Aoko," Kaito smiled, and all signs of hostility were gone when the detective looked up, "she's apparently having some relationship problems." Shinichi nodded and got back to reading, missing the way the other two glared at each other when Hattori got up and then winked at Kaito.
"Oi! Kudou!" the Detective of the West grinned as he sat down beside his friend and wrapped an arm around his shoulders, sending a challenging smirk to the thief, "I never got ta take ya' to that restaurant! So how would ya' like me ta kick yer ass in a game of football an' then we'll go there. Tha loser in tha game pays for tha food, popcorn and tha movie we're goin' ta see later. Tha winner gets ta chose movie. How about it?" Kaito's eyes widened when he realised what the detective was doing, but Shinichi only looked up with a frown.
"You want to play football in the snow?"
"Yea, why not? Are ya' afraid of a little snow?" Hattori grinned and leaned in closer, "I'll beat yer ass in any weather."
"Deal," Shinichi smirked and pointed a finger at Hattori, "be prepared to swallow that pride when I kick your ass! There's no way that I can't win!"
"Ha! Like that's goin' ta happen!" Hattori called out and Kaito felt torn; Aoko needed him and Shinichi was way too dense for his own good, but Shinichi was fine. Hattori wasn't gay and was only doing things to annoy him while Shinichi was in love with him, but Kaito still feared that his detective would develop feelings for Hattori. The thief smiled strained and decided to get to Aoko fast, but he needed to stop by his home first so that he could leave a heist note for tomorrow in Nakamori's kitchen and then find Shinichi and punish Hattori; a perfect plan since he knew where they were going.
Kaito vanished out of the kitchen in a spurt, brushed his teeth and was then out through the door faster than what was humanly possible. Hattori got back to contently eating his food, knowing that he'd annoyed he magician to no end, and then read the newspaper after Shinichi.
"How come ya' took cooking classes?" he suddenly asked and the Tokyorite gave him his attention.
"My food was eatable, to me, but I decided that if I ever got Kaito to like me he couldn't do all the cooking..." Shinichi sighed and sipped his coffee, "it's unfair, you know, Kaito just plays mad scientist and laughs when he cooks and it always turns out good." The Detective of the East snorted amused, "you should hear him, he sounds insane... Sometimes it looks a bit strange, but never as strange as my food looks."
"So ya' learnt ta cook for 'im?" Hattori raised an eyebrow.
"Yea, I guess,"
"Ya' really love tha guy," the Osakan smirked and Shinichi blushed, "it's good that ya' found someone. I know how hopeless ya're when it comes ta things like that, an' I almost feared that ya' would be alone for tha rest of yer life, but it only took ya' a little less than a year ta find that guy. Were ya' really in love with Neechan?"
"I don't know, Hattori, I honestly don't," Shinichi sighed, "from time to time I think that I was, but then I look at Kaito and is certain that I never was, not the same kind of love anyway." Hattori smiled and watched the detective that seemed to realise something. "How can you call me hopeless when you haven't even confessed to Kazuha?"
"I don't like her!" Hattori quickly defended himself with a blush rising to his cheeks and Shinichi snorted.
"Yea, right... And you say that I'm hopeless..."
Kaito greeted Nakamori as he opened the door without knocking and disappeared up the stairs, making the inspector raise an eyebrow.
"Aoko!" he called out and then ran though her door without knocking, but what he saw made him angry, "what the hell is wrong with you?!" The blonde detective jumped away from the girlfriend that he'd been kissing, thinking that the magician was mad at him while Aoko did the same. "What's wrong if you're kissing him?"
"BaKaito, he was shot!" the woman yelled as she made a gesture to the detective and Kaito sent an unimpressed glance to the arm that was held in a sling; he'd had worse, and he'd been forced to take care of it himself, "I called you two hours ago, where were you? And you didn't even answer after that!"
"Sorry, I wasn't at home," Kaito sighed, still feeling agitated and glared at the blonde Brit, showing all of the annoyance he felt for Hattori, "can I still humiliate him?"
"No!" his childhood friend called out while the detective paled at the unusual display of anger from the magician's side.
"Well, then. Everything here is fixed, which means that I can leave to kick another detective's ass for intruding on my turf! I have to go and protect what's rightfully mine!"
"Which detective?" Hakuba called out, but Kaito was already gone, leaving behind two blushing teenagers, whereas one was worried about getting caught for aiding a criminal.
Kaito ran and made it to the restaurant that they'd been to yesterday and then waited for an hour without any detectives showing up. He tried calling them, but Hattori had used the same trick as him and turned off their phones. Thinking, the thief suddenly remembered that Shinichi always carried transmitters on his watch in case he needed them, and had the monocle Kaito had made for him in his pocked in case he needed to follow the transmitters; Kaito had, after examining Conan's glasses, made a few updated on the monocles. An evil grin showed on the magician's lips and he pulled up his own monocle from his pocket.
"Bingo," he said as he found them and headed for their location.
Hattori smirked as he brought the detective to another restaurant than the one he'd been to before after they'd been walking around Tokyo, thinking that he was out of trouble. It was an old-looking restaurant decorated with low lighting and a small fruit bowl on each table and since the magician wasn't nearby he had no reason to hit on Shinichi, but as Hattori was about to sit down beside his friend a grinning Kaito joined them, sitting opposite to his boyfriend with his arms folded.
"Oh, I made it in time," Kaito remarked at the stunned detective and watched how Shinichi sent him a sunny smile. "Just so you know, Hattori, turning off your phones won't make you any harder to find; you've got no idea of who you're messing with when you're trying to steal Shinichi from me." The Detective of the East frowned and looked from the Osakan to the thief seeing them glare at each other.
"Kaito, Hattori isn't interested in me that way," Shinichi blushed as a memory from the night before flashed through his mind, "you even confessed to him, remember?"
"He's still hitting on you..." the thief pouted and Hattori gaped.
"What on earth makes ya' think that?" the dark-skinned detective asked in a fake shock, sending a glance to a confused Shinichi, "yer boyfriend's way too overprotective ta be healthy."
"Kaito, you know that I'm only interested in you, and Hattori used to pick me up and carry me around as Conan."
"Wait! Ya' told 'im about that?" Hattori asked in real shock and Kaito gave off an amused laugh, "ya' never even told Neechan."
"I might act stupid, and silly, but my IQ is still higher than yours. I might not use it to logically find killers though evidence, but I use it to create the impossible," the magician said smugly as he pushed up his sleeves and slowly took up an orange from the fruit bowl and then carefully rolled it to Shinichi, who took it up while Kaito began speaking lower, "I knew who he was, but I dismissed it since it was impossible; that kind of magic doesn't exist, but then I found out about the Apoptoxin." Seeing Shinichi stare at the orange Kaito let a very KID-like smirk show, "go ahead; open it after you've examined it."
"How long have ya' known each other? I've never even heard tha name Kuroba Kaito," Hattori muttered and blinked confused as the Detective of the East peeled off a piece, showing another kind of peel underneath.
"You might have heard of Kuroba Toichi. He was one of the best magician's in the world, and my father. My parents were friends of the Kudous, so Shinichi and I apparently played when we were small," Kaito chuckled at the look of disbelief as the detectives examined the apple that was revealed once Shinichi had removed the orange-peel.
"How did ya' manage ta do that?" Hattori exclaimed and took up the peel to examine it, "ya' must've exchanged the fruit just after ya' got here, but why are ya' carrying a thing like that around?"
"Taste it, Shinichi," Kaito grinned and the detective eyed him in suspicion before he took a bite, but spat it out as he expected it to taste of apple. He stared at the bite, seeing that the fruit pulp apparently was that of an orange, making it an orange covered with an apple-peel, covered by an orange-peel, and he huffed amused, deciding to tease Kaito a bit. Shinichi folded the piece he'd spit out in a napkin, and after he wiped up a drop of juice that was travelling along his chin with a finger he licked it off, a little too slow to be usual, but as he sent Kaito a glance he told him that it was all for him. The detective wiped his hand on the napkin and smiled as he saw the redness on his boyfriend's cheeks. Hattori was staring at the bite in the fruit, trying to find an explanation while Shinichi took up the menu to order a coffee.
Kaito had been messing with Hattori the entire time, causing his cup to tip over and making his silverware drop to the floor. The Osakan had no idea why he was so clumsy and spilled water on someone he passed as he tripped over a woman's bag, while Kaito only grinned innocently towards his glaring boyfriend as the Osakan was slapped when the woman he'd spilled water on realised that his hand had 'accidently' ended up on her right breast, so as a punishment Shinichi ordered in a chocolate cake with whipped cream and a cappuccino. Licking the foam off of his lips, eating in a slightly different manner and 'accidently' getting whipped cream on his finger caused the magician to have a near constant blush on his cheeks throughout the rest of their entire meal, and made Hattori less 'clumsy'.
Shinichi had too much fun with teasing Kaito, so when they got on to a packed train he luckily ended up in front of Kaito so that he could lean back against him while Hattori stood beside them. The detective smirked back at his boyfriend, enjoying the conversation they had, and that he could see Kaito swallow thickly and make him stutter by brushing against him, until their stop came up. There was a small puff of smoke and Hattori's hair had turned blonde.
"Kuroba!" the Osakan called out and chased the laughing magician though the doors to the platform.
"What do you want, Hakuba-chan?" Kaito called back and Shinichi left the train in a normal pace, ignoring the loud argument the two teenagers had as they ran around a vending machine.
It wasn't until later that evening after the movie when he went to bed that Kaito made an attack and got him undressed.
"Kaito, no," Shinichi mumbled and the magician sighed.
"After what you did today you're still saying 'no'," he grumbled and pouted as he lay down beside his boyfriend.
"That was only teasing, and you've been messing with Hattori the entire day," Shinichi answered and let a hand travel over his thief's chest, "I can't go further when he's around; I feel nauseous just thinking about it."
"All because Hattori is her-," Kaito interrupted himself and grinned.
"No, you can't throw him out," Shinichi commented.
"I was thinking that we could go out. We could go to me. Mom is staying with a friend since I'm staying here so our house is empty..." the thief grinned as Shinichi seemed to consider it and immediately came up with multiple ways to get the detective in bed. Kaito straddled his boyfriend with a smirk, "we could stay there all night long."
"Okay, let's go," Shinichi smirked and Kaito dressed them both in a puff of smoke.
A/N:
A Wild Author appeared!
Wild Author uses double update!
No I did not steal that from 'D'... Okay, yes I did... XD
I just find it hilarious!
