Chapter 21

Abruptly he realized that he didn't know where he was. The sheets underneath his hands were too soft and the faint echo of doves cooing was absent. A throbbing pain jolted his memory. He remembered a successful heist with a large emerald. He recalls taunting the Inspector to a trap of paint and the different colors of the police officers.

Yes, he then placed the emerald in his left sided breast pocket. He shifted and notice that the weight of the precious gem was not there. His eyes snapped open and he attempted to pat down his chest to assure himself that maybe he made a mistake and the gem was somewhere else on him. Ignoring the pain of his shoulder he pushes himself up noticing his surrounding for the first time.

He was not in his bed or at a hospital or even with Jii-chan. He appeared to be in a presidential suite of a hotel room. He frowned in frustration at being unable to recall how exactly did he arrived there. He looks at his shoulder to see that it was expertly bandaged. Slowly the events that happened trickled into his mind. He was gliding in the air and a bullet hit him in the night sky. He fell and for some reason there was a little boy. He remembers the bright blue eyes watching him but the memory is foggy at best. He assume the boy took him to his parents though it is suspicious that he is not at a hospital or a jail cell by now. He glances at the stitch up wound. Whoever the mysterious person is he knows that they are no amateur when stitching a bullet wound.

He once again survey his surrounding with a critical eye only to meet the dark greyish blue gaze of a young girl with somewhat foreign looks. Kaito blinks his eyes in surpise.

"You are wake then?" Her voice lacked the high pitch of curiosity of a child .

"Who are you little lady?" His voice croak at the first word but then smooth out as if his voice never was any less perfect.

"Haibara Ai"

"What a lovely name. Could you tell me where I am?"

A soft sound of footstep alerted him of an addition person in the room just hidden behind the large sofa. A boy with blonde hair and blue eyes yet his features showed he is of oriental descent, similarly to the girl who was looking up at kaito.

"Conan-kun" Haibara whispered. She motions for he boy to walk towards where she stood.

Kaito glanced at the boy. A vague memory recalls the boy in an alley but beyond that Kaito couldn't immediately remember all the events that happened.

"Ah I should thank you Conan kun for helping me out. But this does cause me to wonder what a young child like you were doing out so late?"

Conan looks at him with narrow eyes. An eyebrow rose in response to Kaitos question. Scoffing he turns his head away and reply "I should be asking you that, are you not the international 1412 thief that has been stealing for over a decade? So why are you a snotty moronic teenager?"

"'Eh?!" Kaito poker face slipped.

Conan-kun raises an eyebrow at Kaito's response.

"Ah first of all I'm not Kaito Kid" Kaito replies immediately, recalling what Conan called him he glared at him." Oi ! you brat, two don't call me snotty or moronic when you are the one who is most -"

"Yeah, yeah, yeah.." Conan cuts him off.

Kaito let's out a sigh. He decides to change the subject.

"So who patch me up?"

Conan then spoke up and said "Martini did."

Haibara immediately glared at Conan for using that name but Conan ignored her glare. He focused on the thief's face checking to see any recognition. When there wasn't any facial twitch Conan then relaxed his stance.

"Ah, may you call Martini-san so I may give her my thanks for stitching me back up."

A tick mark appeared on Conan s forehead. Ai turned around to hid her laugh. "I'm sure Martini knows your thanks."

"Anyways could you had me my phone over there I need to call my assistant and tell him I am well."

Conan went to pick it up and toss it to him. Haibara had taken a seat on the bed and Conan climb up a chair nearby.

"Hey Jii-chan! I-"

"Bo-sama! Where are you?! I was worried you were hurt or worse that you were capture. Is everything alright?"

"Yeah, I'm okay. I'll tell you more but can you first come and pick me up?"

"of course I'm getting to the car where are you?"

Kaito soon gave him his location and shut off the cell phone in his pocket.

"Thank you for your ever so generous hospitality but I need to get going."

"What do you mean you are leaving?! " The boy eyes widen and his cool demeanor was broken. His voice hitched and his fist was giving a small tremble.

"well your guardian will soon be here.-"

"What gave you that idea?" Conan looks at him confused.

Kaito was left stumped. "Er, the hotel room? How were you able to get a room without an adult verifying it?

"Easy we asked some foreigner that didn't really understand Japanese and manipulated him to turn in the information and money. The people here just assume that because we look foregin we were his kids. Adults here really are stupid."

'This kid' Kaito thought he then thought of the person who stitched him up. "How about Martini-san?"

Haibrara spoke up and jabbed her thumb at Conan "He's Martini."

Kaito eyes narrows as he reassess the kids in front of him. "Who are you kids?"

Haibara replies with "Who are you Mr. Not Kaito Kid?"

Kaito looks around the room seeing if anything could indicate an adults presences or that the kids were lying to him. There was nothing. "Who do you work for?"

"No one." Haibara replies truthfully.

Kaito taps his fingers against his arms, itching to shuffle cards between his hands in nervousness, but didn't want to let the kids know how much this information unnerved him. Casually he ask, "So, if you are not working for anyone then whom are you running away from? The government?"

Haibara bites her lips. It was Conan who spoke up.

"We were the apprentices for the best agents in the organization. Due to our own natural talents in the fields we were taught their skills in hopes to replace them one day. Both of us are prodigies and specialize in different fields. Haibara did lab work and I worked on equations and later puzzles. It ..it wasn't that great. It was horrible. We were constantly pitied against other members and competition was constant. Expectation after expectation was placed on us. When the location we were at got compromised we took advantage of the chaos to slip out. Since then we were on the run."

Kaito looks at the two kids. The kid has a good poker face but Kaito can tell he neglected to mention a lot of information.

"Okay so I am forbidden to leave until I gain your trust boya right?" Conan gives a sharp nod "Well then if we are going to learn about each other its best to live together so what do you say? Do you wish to stay with the lovely moonlight magican? At the luxurious home of the famous gentleman thief 1412?"

"N-"

Haibara quickly put her hands over Conan mouth.

"We'll accept."

"Great! Welcome to the family."

Hurray! an update after so long. I swear the next chapter will not take nearly as long as this did. Most likely to be posted in the next month.