The jewels that Kaitou Kid stole in search for pandora were all supposed to be harmless. But apparently, he stand tremendously corrected when the gem he stole decided to curse him with the ability to sniff out emotions. So now here he is as Kuroba Kaito, suffering in his everyday life with all the overwhelming scent around him, and the only way to ease it was to be near a certain detective that strangely smell like sea salt and lemon.
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Don't you just hate it that you immediately had another idea for a story when you are currently writing an unfinished one?
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Chapter 1. The Pendant and The Unfortunate Lucky Thief.
It was a night of the full moon. As usual, the international phantom thief known as Kaitou KID strikes again with his extraordinary heist!
The target this time was a pendant named "Mirror Sapphire" that was owned by a famous actress. At first glance, the pendant seems ordinary. It has gray with silver swirl as its color. But according to the actress, she said that the pendant was special as it seems to change color according to her mood.
Not only that. There was a legend that at the night of the full moon the pendant would glow enchantedly. Though, that has yet to be proven by the actress because she heard rumors that it brings misfortune if she shone it up to the moon.
But even so, a mere legend and rumor won't stop KID from getting it. In fact, hearing that it glows under the moon had his hope up. It could finally be Pandora!
So now here he is. The famous thief stood ontop of the rooftop as he successfully escaped from the task force. Tonight he decided to be kind and only give pink glitters to them.
With the pendant in hand, KID held it up, waiting for the cloud to blow away and reveal the giant white orb on the sky to shine on the gray pendant.
"Your tricks look simple tonight. Though im surprised Nakamori-keibu didn't notice it..." a voice said behind the magic thief, there was a slight disappointment in his tone.
KID glances behind him and saw a familiar smile and cowlick, "Meitantei! I see that you're back!" He beamed, he was happy that his favorite detective finally back in his adult body.
"Of course. Couldn't done it perfectly without you" Shinichi said with a smile. If KID didn't decide to help him out on taking down the organization. Heck. Save the detective. Shinichi would have failed to retrieve the file about the apotoxin and he would have died from the explosion on the building. He really owed the thief.
KID chuckled, "oh im flattered" his gaze fixed on the pendant once again as he saw the bright moon start to peek.
The thief was about to open his mouth to say something but the pendant suddenly start to glow in golden color. It was so bright that it blinded KID's vision, and for a split second the male looses his bearing and stumbled backward. He can feel the person shifted forward to catch him by the shoulder.
"Oy! Are you okay?" Shinichi asked worriedly. He had no idea why the thief suddenly fell backward like that.
"Huh?" KID's vision was starting to clear up and he was confused at the moment. Just what was that?
As soon he noticed that he was leaning against Shinichi's chest, he quickly stand straight with a slight embarrassment on his face, "ah, pardon me" he said with a cough.
Shinichi raised a brow, "what was that all about?" He asked, his arms on his hips. How weird it was to see the phantom thief behave like that.
"Aw, are you worried about me tantei-chan~?" KID teased and Shinichi had a grimace look on his face as a reaction. KID himself didn't know what just happened. He didn't even noticed that the pendant he hold had turned into a darker color.
KID turned around to face the detective, he wasn't expecting for Shinichi to be so close (then again, he did lean against the brunette so..) and he sure as hell wasn't expecting to catch a whiff of something smell so.. good.
What was that? The thief thought to himself. Whatever that was, it had smelled nice. It was the smell of the sea mixed with lemon. KID, curious of the sudden smell, tried to look around to find the source. After a while, the scent went stronger when his head especially his nose come face to face with the East detective.
"What? Why are you staring at me like that?"
"Are you.. wearing parfume?" KID hesitantly ask, it was a weird question to ask for someone.
"Uh.. no?" Shinichi answered with a tint of confusion.
KID blinked, he lean closer toward Shinichi, he didn't believe the detective. He sworn that the smell came from the detective and he sniffed.
...
KID was correct! The smell of sea and lemon did came from the East detective!
The scent suddenly became sweet as soon there was a blush crept up on Shinichi's face, "o-oy! What the heck are you doing?? Too close!!" Shinichi protested and pushed KID's head away from his neck.
Ah.. KID didn't notice he had lean that close. "You're lying." KID deadpanned and took a grip on Shinichi's shoulders.
The brunette detective squirm a little, "what do you mean im lying-"
"You're clearly wearing a parfume. Ne, tantei-san, you're not supposed to wear a parfume this strong you know." The thief said as he lean close again to smell the mix scent of something sweet and sour (wait sweet? Wasn't it smell like sea salt before..?)
Shinichi at this point looked completely bewildered by the phantom thief behavior, why would he lie and why would he even wear a parfume to a KID heist??
A shiver ran up to the detective spine when he felt KID's nose brushed slightly against his sensitive neck. Out of reflex, Shinichi kicked the thief's schlong.
"Are- are you trying to molest me!? You pervert!!" Shinichi's face was completely red, he glared at the groaning thief on the ground who is currently in pain.
A football player and a kick to the nut isn't a great combination.
"H- how mean... i was just smelling your scent" the thief whimpered.
"That's what you call a pervert you idiot thief!!"
This is getting weird now that KID notice it. Just by Shinichi standing before him, he can already smell that scent.
It became even more weird that the scent gotten intense whenever the detective seemed to blush.
"You better run." Shinichi suddenly said lowly which snapped the thief out of his thoughts, "eh?" KID manage to let out when a sound of crackle can be heard.
KID yelp when he noticed that the noise was coming from the detective shoe and he can definitely see the ball was about to get kicked toward him. He quickly ran toward the edge and activated his glider. He could have sworn that he saw his life flashes before his eyes when the ball went pass him an inch too close with a frightening speed.
Meitantei is definitely angry at me- he thought, sweat dropping.
Meanwhile Shinichi on the other side, watched the thief glided away with a huff. That was certainly weird to see KID like that. Was it a coincidence that it happened right after he saw that the thief look like he was blinded by something?
Shinichi grabbed on the pendant and observed it for a while, "huh.. was it this dark before?" He ask to himself. He sworn that it was a bit shiny before...
The detective shrugged it off thinking maybe it was just a trick to the eyes and decided to go back inside the building to give the pendant back.
The next day, KID- Kaito now. Sitting in his college class, still wondering of yesterday night event. It became more complicated that he have been smelling a lot of scents around him right now, and oddly enough the smell seems to come from every individual.
That girl with a ponytail right next to him? She smell like honey and flower.
The guy with emo hair infront of him? Smell like wood and rain.
Not only that... Kaito sometimes catch a whiff of something foul. It's usually when he's around people that seems to be in a bad mood.
Like that guy with short hair, leaning on the wall while looking on his phone with a very angry face (like geez, who pissed you off man?) he smell like three weeks old leftover... yeah not the best smell.
Kaito scrunched up his nose in disgust, he should probably stopped paying attention to that guy's scent and just focus on the one that smell nice.
"And now you're making funny faces. Seriously Kuroba, is something the matter? Perhaps last night heist didn't go as well as you intended?" A british male with brown- blond hair and red eyes said.
Kaito turned his attention to the male beside him, "er- i just thought of something weird that's all. And for the last time, im not KID!" He frowned at the british male. It has been years and this guy, Hakuba Saguru a british detective (also a friend-) still won't stop accusing him. It is true that the magician is infact KID, but Kaito be damned if he admit that.
Hakuba just rolled his eyes on that, truth be told the british detective don't really care catching the thief as much as before. It took him a good year to notice that Kaitou KID isn't that bad.
Kaito sniffed the air a bit, noticing there's a scent of what he guessed as jasmine tea and newly baked biscuits (how fiting, somehow-), "so, did you had a date with Aoko?" He eyed Hakuba. It doesn't take a brain for him to realize that whenever people smell nice, it means that they're in a good mood or happy.
The blonde blushes, "h-how did you know that-" he let out a cough, "i mean, yes. Actually we were planning to have dinner together this Saturday" stated Hakuba rather shyly.
Kaito hummed at that and stood up, he didn't like the fact that Hakuba was dating with his childhood friend at first. In fact, it took a whole week of tremendous prank for the british detective to convince the magician that he loved Aoko full heartedly.
"You better keep your promise." The messy haired male said, glancing at the blonde with judging eyes.
Hakuba sweat dropped. Yes, the promise where he swore not to make Aoko cry or hurt her feelings, because if he does... Kaito will not show mercy. "O-of course!"
Kaito nodded and made a face that says "you better!" Then walked away from the blonde with a clap.
-poof-
Just like that Hakuba's blond hair was suddenly replaced with a green mess, "KUROBA!!" Yelled the unfortunate male and Kaito just snicker from afar.
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Man, Kaito felt tired for today. It's not that college was hard... and he never felt too tired after class, let alone his heist. But today was just so different, he kept smelling nice things and disgusting things to the point it gave him a migraine.
Kaito kept rubbing the side of his head, hoping that it could atleast ease the painful ache a little bit, "damnit, am i cursed or something? Just what the hell is going on-" he grumbled.
He tried to recall last night heist, everything was normal and nothing seems off...
no wait, think Kaito! How did you suddenly smelling things-
Kaito's eyes widened in realization, "ah.. the pendant started glowing and my vision was blurred, then... ackkk i dont know! This headache is killing me.." he scratches his head in frustration, ignoring the stare he got by others as he walked outside his campus.
Kaito walked his way to a small cafe, wanting to drink a cup of hot chocolate to brighten his own mood up. Unfortunately just as soon he opened the door, his nose was hit with wave of a tremendously horrid odor that he had to instinctively put his hand on his nose to block out the horrible smell.
The odor soon was followed with a blood curdling scream of a woman, "he's dead!!!" Standing up from her seat, staring in fear at the lifeless man sitting infront of her.
Kaito's face paled at the sight. Not only that, the horrid smell is still there and he couldn't help but puke on the corner of the cafe's entrance.
Everyone in the store was shocked and frighten too at the scenery, "everyone please calm down" a cool soothing male voice said and the crowd seemed to calm down a bit.
"I'll call the police, untill they arrive, i dont want anyone to leave. Im positive that the killer is still here." The male said confidently.
Kaito couldn't see who it was, he couldn't even think why the male would say that. He was too busy bending on the corner trying to get anything out that's left inside his stomach.
Kaito couldn't bear with it. He really dislike seeing dead bodies and plus with this stench lingering around him. He really can't.
The pained magician didn't notice the footsteps that slowly approaching toward him. He didn't even notice the oddly gentle hand on his shoulder until- "hey, are you okay..?"
Suddenly the stench disappeared and was completely replaced with a scent of lemon and sea.
Wait a minute-
Kaito looked behind him and saw a familiar blue ocean eyes staring at him worryingly.
"Meitantei?"
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Aaaand- i'll end it right there!
Honestly, im still not quite sure how this would go or how it'll end :'D
Wondering why? :
Shinichi smell like sea salt and lemon is because of the lemon pie and his blue eyes
Hakuba smell like jasmine tea and freshly baked biscuit is because.. er- he's british (no offense cuz I myself adore the hell out of tea!) and biscuit somehow goes well with jasmine tea-
Cya next chapter~!