It was a starless night and only the full moon ruled the dark sky. Aoko rubbed two of her hands together and blew out white cold air as she wrapped her scarf tighter around her neck.

She could hear faint cheers and screams at the other side of the street, a soft chanting of Kaitou Kid! echoing in the night and it continued ringing in Aoko's mind that she almost felt like chanting with them. She gritted her teeth and looked at her watch. The Kid's heist had started fifteen minutes ago and Kid should be almost done with his work.

Nakamori never allowed Aoko to be part of the investigation to stop Kid, saying it's too dangerous or she'll just be a nuisance, but at least he still let her in to give him his lunch or to linger around for a little while before she was chased out. Despite her dad's warning to stay away from the heist, she would still loiter around nearby sometimes just to see how everything goes although she was not part of it.

But if exams were near or when there were just too much homework to handle, Aoko always watched Kid's heist on television and she would never miss any of it, although she loathed it more than anything else when the whole Japan just witnessed her dad's failure and Kid's arrogant smirk over and over again. But there was a reason why she made sure she never missed Kid's heist.

Aoko was smart and it wasn't just book smart. Even though she wasn't a great detective like Hakuba or that small little kid who appeared in the newspaper a few times for stopping Kid, she managed to pick up some of Kid's methods of escaping and tricking all the officers with his fake identity or dummies on her own and she was often right in the end.

That was why she was standing right by the exit of the building which was beside the one that the jewel was protected that night, waiting for Kid to appear any moment. She wasn't exactly sure that Kid would use this exit to escape, but she was willing to make a bet. Aoko sighed and closed her eyes. She could hear her heart beating faster and faster for some weird reason and she frowned at herself.

"Calm down. It's not like he's definitely going to escape from here. I'm just betting on it, there's no reason for me to be so nervous." Aoko soothed herself, opening her eyes and gave a growl as she swung her fist in the air. "But just you wait, Kid. If I see you, I'll make sure that I catch you once and for al-"

"It's Kaitou Kid!"

"He escaped!"

"Kaitou Kid!"

Aoko widened her eyes, her head shot up as she heard the shouts growing louder and louder. Her brows furrowed again as she stared at the watch before looking away, her eyes filled with doubt.

"He escaped... already?" Aoko muttered.

She pushed the heavy metal door, stepping right out of the building and was about to make a turn to the other side of the streets when she noticed a white figure with a glider flying in the dark night. Aoko let out a cold breath, her shoulders slumped. Maybe she was wrong this time, about Kid's escape plan. But she was never always right either, so there was no way she was going to blame herself when this was the first time she decided to take this risk and face Kid all by herself. But then again, Aoko had promised herself to never let Kid bring her down, be it the fact that he stole her dad away or the fact that he pissed her off with whatever he did.

Accepting her first defeat, Aoko was contemplating whether she should go and find her dad or head home to watch the Kid's heist online when she heard the sound of a metal door shut tightly. She glanced back and watched a person who was wearing a black sweater and a black cap that hid his face well. Raising an eyebrow, Aoko scrutinized the man, observing the suspicious character before she decided to make a move.

"Hey excuse me!" Aoko yelled.

The man stopped and he glanced over his shoulder slightly. Aoko couldn't see his face at all, thanks to the cap and also the lack of lamppost around that area, but she was sure that man stiffened in his position for a moment. Taking a few tentative steps forward, Aoko tried to make sure she wouldn't scare that mysterious man away, not until she was able to grab him down and force him to tell her who he was, or maybe she could call her dad over to arrest such a suspicious man that exited the building that was suppose to be already empty at this timing.

"Is there a problem?" The voice was deep, but Aoko couldn't make out the age of the man just by his voice.

"May I know who are you?" Aoko asked steadily and she stopped at a distance, exposing herself under the lamp's light.

The silence was long and Aoko made use of that moment to prepare her next move. But just before she could even do anything, the man gave a soft laugh. Aoko was definitely taken aback as she blinked curiously at him.

"You must be Nakamori-san? Inspector Nakamori's daughter I mean."

Aoko froze and she took a step back against her will. Her eyes slightly narrowed before realization dawned her. The voice was no longer deep and she realized that voice she heard before was probably faked. And the only person she knew that could use this trick in order to impersonate anyone in this world was Kaitou Kid.

"You-!" Aoko turned back, staring at the last spot she saw the suppose-to-be-Kid flying in the sky and the only reason she could thought of was that it was just a dummy and her dad was probably foolishly chasing after it. She spun around and surprisingly, Kid was still standing there instead of escaping when he had thousands of chance to do it already. Was he playing with her? Aoko gritted her teeth.

"Are you actually waiting here for me? Nakamori-san." Kid fully turned and faced Aoko, but his cap was still tilting forward, masking his face features and all Aoko could see was that stupid smirk that she wished she could wipe it away from his face forever. "I'm surprised that you are able to guess my escape route."

"I did not guess it." Aoko corrected him. "This was one of the few escaping routes I thought you would pick, but I choose this because the chance is higher, but I was just betting on it."

Before Kid could say anything, Aoko could hear her father's yell in the distance. It seemed like the squad must have comprehend that the Kid they were chasing was a fake. Aoko noticed Kid shifted his feet and she jumped forward but Kid was faster. He started running and so did Aoko as their heavy steps echoed the empty street. She took out her phone and punched in her father's number, praying that he would pick up although he often wouldn't since he was always busy chasing after Kid to take notice of his phone.

Kid turned into an alley and Aoko followed closely behind, deciding not to shout for his name since it would only waste her energy instead. The street was rather empty, not like Aoko was puzzled about it since everyone nearby would have gone to watch Kid's performance, but her eyes were fixated on him rather than anything else at the current moment because she knew that if she were to blink, Kid would definitely disappear and she'll lost that very chance to see him behind bars.

Aoko's phone was beside her ears, her long scarf flowing along with the wind with her two eyes focused on nothing but what was in front of her. She couldn't even slow down just a little bit because if she did, she wouldn't be able to close that distance between Kid and her anymore. So she continued running and running, refusing to look anywhere else, just like the truck that was speeding towards her when she stepped on the road and was about to cross to the other side just like what Kid had done.

The few horns that sounded finally managed to make Aoko take note of her surroundings, and she did. But that moment was too late as she couldn't stop herself from taking another step forward and now she was directly in front of the truck that was trying to stop but the brakes couldn't work on time.

She felt like she was flying before hitting the ground, but there was no pain but warmth covering her body. After a long while, she had the courage to open her eyes to see what just happened.

Aoko wasn't knocked down, although she wasn't very sure. At least she could feel her own limbs and breathing wasn't a problem for now, but she felt tired all of the sudden.

"Are you alright? Nakmouri-san!" Kid yelled, patting her cheeks softly. Struggling to focus on the voice, she saw Kid right beside her but because of the cap, his face was shadowed.

"Not going to die, I guess..." Aoko groaned softly

"Hey are you two alright? Oh my goodness." The driver had already got off his vehicle, scratching his head in anxiousness before he went and dialed the police and ambulance. The last thing she remembered was Kid lightly slapping her face, asking her not to sleep but then there was darkness.

.o.

"I'm fine!"

"No you're not."

Aoko sighed heavily and crossed her arms as she slumped against the hospital bed with a small pout. Nakamori watched his stubborn daughter and sighed heavily as well before taking a seat on a plastic chair beside her bed.

"You had me worried sick." Nakamori looked up at Aoko, his eyes tired all of the sudden.

Aoko looked away, not used to her father looking at her like that. "It wasn't on purpose anyway."

Nakamori huffed. "Didn't I tell you to go home? Why are you even there in the first place?"

Aoko never got the chance to explain to her dad about everything, especially the part when she managed to locate Kid's escape route and how she was chasing him in the night. She wasn't sure if she should tell or not and she and been pondering on this issue ever since she woke up this morning, but when the first thing her father said to her when he came into her ward was about Kid's escape, she felt angry all of the sudden and wanted to be discharge immediately and an argument broke out.

Before she could even argue any further, the door slid open and a figure stepped in, both father and daughter turned to see who the visitor could be.

"Ah, Kaito-kun." Nakamori stood up from his seat and headed to the door as Kaito blinked. "Look after Aoko and make sure she don't move around too much. I'll go back to the station to give my report."

"I will." Kaito jokingly gave a salute as Aoko gritted her teeth, watching her father leave the ward and slid the door shut behind him, leaving the ward to Kaito and her alone.

"Since he cares more about Kid's report than me, why wouldn't he let me go home?" Aoko stared out at the window, her eyes looking far before she sighed and looked back at Kaito when he gave no respond. Kaito then took a seat beside her as he poured himself a glass of plain water and took a sip.

Aoko raised an eyebrow, suddenly noticing something that she almost missed out. "How did you even know I'm here?"

"Oh." Kaito gave a cheeky grin. "It was so friggin' cold these days and I was wondering if I could come to your house since my heater is not really working. I called you but no one answer so I called your dad and... yeah."

She scoffed and looked down at her blanket that was over her leg. "So should I be thanking you or your heater for visiting me?"

"Hey come on, at least I brought some flowers for you." Kaito snapped his fingers, and instead of roses popping between his fingers, a small bouquet of flowers appeared in his hand and Aoko stared in awe.

"Wow." Aoko accepted them and caressed the flowers gently and she gave a faint smile. "Thanks Kaito."

Kaito softened his eyes and surveyed Aoko's bandaged arm for a long while before he cleared his throat. "How did you get into this mess anyway?" He asked.

Aoko looked up from the flowers and stared at Kaito who looked earnestly curious. She bit her lips. Kaito was rather supportive of Kid, although he never appear in his heist to cheer on him like a normal fan would. But whenever Aoko spoke about how much he hated Kid for taking her dad away from her, Kaito would try to give some excuses to defend the magician thief, like how he probably have personal reasons to do all these stealing, but Aoko was never impressed enough to forgive Kid.

The problem now was that she didn't know if she should tell her best friend about her incident. She had heard from the nurse in charge of her that it was the driver who sent her to the hospital and there was no mention of anyone else, so the best reason Aoko could come up with was that he had escaped before the police came. But nonetheless, Kid still saved her from the tragedy that could have caused grief to her father and Kaito... and she owed him for that although she didn't want to admit in the first place.

Aoko clutched her bed sheets tightly. She wanted to say the truth to Kaito badly, but if she had to repay that debt she owed Kid, it would be best if she didn't reveal that incident that happened previously and keep it all to herself.

"Got into a car accident." Aoko paused for a moment, suddenly not sure what to say. Kaito wasn't called her best friend for nothing, he could easily see through her lies and furthermore she wasn't even a good liar in the first place, which was rather unfair since she was never good at reading his poker face yet he could read her like some ABC book. She then nodded her head slowly, deciding to stop her answer right there, she wasn't lying, it's just that she didn't say the whole truth.

"I see... glad that you're okay." Kaito's voice sounded strain as Aoko looked up curiously at him but a smile was already plastered on his face so she just dismissed that thought. All of the sudden, he slowly leaned forward and Aoko blinked a few times, moving back a little. Kaito smirked, his eyes slowly lingered from Aoko's eyes to her chest. "Luckily your boobs didn't contract any further or that'll be terrible."

"K-Kaito! You pervert!"

He grinned while Aoko blushed and they bickered all day.

My very first multi-chap woohoo
Not sure if I upload this first chapter on impulse without preparing for the next one though opps,
but reviews are appreciated!