Shinichi was wondering how long it would take for Hattori to realise that Kazuha had been following/stalking them for quite some time now.

In typical Kazuha style she needed to watch from a distance and watch to see if Hattori was interested in any girls, and if she had any competition.

He was not the only that had noticed because he could see that Ran was texting with Kazuha and giving her constant updates.

The news that Hattori was potentially in love with Hakuba and that he was gay was probably pushing Kazuha over the edge. Now this would be a bag of mixed emotions because on one hand she had another rival and the other the guy she liked turned out to be gay.

And if he was gay then she had to be happy for her friend because there could be no other choice. Kazuha would be deemed as homophobic, and anything she did would be bad otherwise and she would always want Hattori in her on the conversations that she had with him were all wrong and what she thought was a guy that was in love with her was just a guy that her friend.

Kazuha would be more likely bad for her friend because he was too afraid to come out to her and that he could not trust her than anything else. He knew that it was bad not to tell Hattori what was going on but he was enjoying the show rather too much.

He knew that everyone had their attention attached to the two males' teens, and their attention was not on him. This was something that he was only too glad to not be in the spotlight, and he could spend more time with Ran.

He was enjoying the spotlight that was on Hakuba and Hattori Right now they really did look like a couple with the amount of arguing that they were doing. It went from sibling rivalry to a couple with a spot. But it did look like Hattori was enjoying it a little too much?

"Shinichi?" said Ran.

Shinichi immediately stopped his train of thoughts and focused his attention on his girlfriend, Ran.

"Sorry" he said apologising.

Ran looked back at the 'happy couple' and looked back at Shinichi. And then started to whisper and pull Shinichi in closer to ask the question she needed to ask.

"So?" she whispered.

Shinichi decided to play dumb for a moment because he wanted get some information out of Ran that he wanted. And he wanted to see Hattori suffer a little after all the jokes he had made at his own expense. Also the fact that he had called him 'CcconKudo' multiple times. Almost revealing his secret, again. If anyone was going to reveal his identity Haibara had bet it would be Hattori before anyone else did.

Ran elbowed him in the ribs.

"They are not a couple," said Shinichi in return.

Ran sighed in relief.

And then it only took them several seconds to realise that they were very close and close enough that it looked like they were either kissing or about to. And he wanted to. That was he wanted to kiss Ran, and it looked like she wanted to kiss him as well…

"OI Kudo!" said Hattori.

Both of teens jumped at this and quickly separated. They barely even realised that Hattori had wrapped an arm around each of them. And now he was quite literally the third wheel that was between them.

"So, Kudo ya has kissed Neechan yet?" said Hattori.

And that was the second time Kaito was knocked out by Mouri Ran.