Seeing Double
Hakuba's eyes widened in confusion as his gaze swept from the Kaitou Kid to Kuroba Kaito and back again. His mind just couldn't seem to grasp the fact that the two weren't the same person.
"If you keep doing that, you're going to give yourself a headache," the Kid told the bewildered detective solemnly.
"Does this prove that I'm not the Kid?" Kaito ventured from where he stood. As much as he liked Kaitou Kid, Kaito didn't want to get to close and so stood some three feet to the thief's right, completing the unconscious triangle.
"But, but," Hakuba stammered. "What about, what about all the evidence I gathered?"
"What evidence?" Kid asked, a grin forming at the edges of his mouth. "Just because you never saw Kuroba-san and I together doesn't mean we're the same person."
"How do I know you're the real Kaitou Kid?" Hakuba demanded, hoping he could still prove his theory. As far as he was concerned, there was no way he could have been this wrong for this long.
"Like this!" Kid replied, his trademark grin flashing on his face while throwing a white handkerchief over the detective's head. He counted to three, pulled the cloth off dramatically and made it vanish while pulling out a mirror.
Hesitantly, and slightly dreading what he might see, Hakuba peered into the offered mirror. His own reflection stared suspiciously up at him between the strands of pink hair falling into his eyes. Hakuba had the proof that he was wrong and his mind shut down in protest. The British detective dazedly turned and walked drunken-like from the presence from the two Kaitous.
As soon as the blonde was out of sight, Kaito and the Kid glanced at each other and burst into laughter.
"That had to be the best trick I've ever pulled on him," Kaito managed to say through his laughter.
The Kid nodded in agreement. "I should do this more often. Call me the next time he gets annoying, okay?"
"Sure thing," Kaito agreed. "Come one, you can change in here." He led the Kid into the nearby shack they had used to set up the trick.
"Thanks," Kid replied, removing the hat and monocle to reveal the face of Kudo Shinichi. "I could use a laugh now and then and I like this magic stuff."
"Addictive, isn't it?" Kaito asked and laughed at Shinichi's enthusiastic nod of agreement.