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Disclaimer: The works of Detective Conan and Magic Kaito belongs to Gosho Aoyama-sensei.

Warning: KaiShin relationship.

A/N: Wow! 100k+ words. Let's see if I can get more than 100 favourites or follows (^v^) Filler chapter, actual story will return next chapter.
On another note, I had been trying to figure out the timeline for this (was going to put in some holidays) and realised I've kind of messed dates/times/months up, guess I'm just following the creator's direction, free-flowing timeline. So sorry to say there won't be any birthdays, christmases, valentines, or anything of that sort here.


First Impressions

"You don't look fat in that shirt." Kaito said out of the blue as they stood in front of the Nakamori's gate.

"What?" Shinichi turned to look at Kaito with incredulous eyes.

"You were standing still there, made me wonder if you're hesitating because you thought you looked bad and would make a bad impression."

Kaito turned to face Shinichi fully, giving his whole attention. He can understand why his detective might feel nervous and apprehensive. They were meeting with the people who are considered as Kaito's family, even more so than his own mother to a certain extent.

"You can't blame me, I'm meeting your equivalent of Ran. I have every reason to be nervous." Shinichi tugged at his shirt once more.

"Aoko won't eat you alive. She doesn't have cannibalism as a skill set. Though she might look as though she wanted to maim you if you get on her bad side."

"You would know won't you." There was a wry smile on Shinichi's face, tension leaving him and starting to relax.

"She needs to exercise more to keep that girlish figure of her's. Unlike Mouri-chan, she's not that easy on the eye." He walked over to brush aside the stray strand of hair, caressing his face in the process.

"Now that's just mean." Shinichi hit him on the shoulders, Kaito laughed it off. "But do you think it's really ok?" He glanced hesitantly at the front door then at the ornate cake box in his hands.

"My Dear, you spent the last hour and a half choosing the cake. I don't think there's anything wrong with it. Makes me a bit jealous even, you putting so much effort into this." Kaito waited patiently at the door, fingers poised over the doorbell.

"Of the cake or of Nakamori-san?" He said with raised eyebrows, mirth twinkling in deep blue eyes.

"Both. You better make me something spectacular to make up for this." He gave a little pout. Kaito could not waste the chance to bribe something out of Shinichi.

"You were the one to suggest I bring cake..." Shinichi returned with a stern gaze, not willing to bow down so easily to the magician's demands.

"Yes, and that's because the bakery in Beika makes marvelous creations you couldn't get anywhere else." Taking Shinichi's hands and giving it a squeeze of encouragement, he depressed the doorbell. If he was this nervous meeting his adoptive family, Shinichi would be shaking when meeting his mother. That just means Kaito could either just spring a meeting without telling his detective or he would have to get really creative. He mentally rubbed his hands at the thought of scheming for a meet up.

They were greeted at the door by Aoko. Who looked stunned and surprised to see the detective.

"You're boyfriend is the Kudo Shinichi?!" Mouth nearly dropping at the sight, she at least remembered to invite them into the house. "How did you manage that?!"

"Must be my irresistible charms." Tooth flashing, he walked into the dinning area as though he owned the place.

"You're unbelievable." Shaking her head after the magician's back. "So, Kudo-kun. How long have the two of you been together?" She took the offered cake from the detective in the foyer, motioning for him to follow. "And stop standing around, come in."

"Quite a few months. I...don't quite keep track of such things..." He scratched his cheeks nervously. He was quite sure this was not a correct answer to give. Forgetting important dates is really a characteristic of a bad boyfriend.

"Well, you won't really need to remember such things, Kaito would definitely remind you." She looked at Shinichi with a critical eye, then shook her head. For a moment, he thought she disapproved. "You really need to take better care of yourself. Aoko remembered how worried Kaito looked last time you were sick."

Shinichi raised his eyebrows in question.

"You look too thin. Sure, Kaito is no better than you but at least he has Aoko, and now you, to nag him. But Kudo-kun, from what Aoko heard, you don't live with you parents now do you?"

"Ran stops by, and now there's Kaito...he's decided to become my permanent guest."

"He is? That's new..." She glanced towards the lounging magician, who was busy baiting Hakuba. Behind them in the kitchen was her father, busily preparing the night's meal. "Dad, Saguru, Kudo-kun's here."

"What?!" Hakuba's exclamation was the loudest for a change. The elder Nakamori stopped his chopping for a while, knife poised over some roots vegetable.

"You know Hakuba, you really need to expand your vocabulary. I've been hearing the same phrase for the whole week from you." Kaito commented with a wave of his hand.

"Kuroba, how...what...why...?" Hakuba stuttered.

"You were the one to introduce us, remember?" Kaito had a shit-eating grin on his face. "From that charity ball? Which, by the way, I still need to thank you for."

Hakuba shook his head, trying to clear out whatever insane thought that had lodged in his mind for the moment. Instead, he focused his attention on the Eastern Detective.

"Kudo-san, it is good to see you again." He offered his hand as a diversion. "Since the school trip right?"

"Yes, you missed KID's last heist." He took the outstretched hand and shook it. "You had to return to England."

"Unfortunately." There was slight disappointment in his voice, "I also want to congratulate you on the recent capture of the criminal group. I have been trying to track one of its members, but never was able to gather the solid evidence against him."

"So I've heard. You missed out on some intense action." He tried to hold back all the negative memories that were threatening to resurface. But something must have shown on his face as Kaito clicked his tongue.

"Intense indeed..." Kaito muttered in the background. "Being hypnotized and left to that pervert's device. I still think he got off too light."

"Kaito, we've been over this. I'm fine now, that man haven't done too much lasting damages..."

Kaito grimaced, storing the thought for later discussion with his detective. There might be not much in terms of lasting damages but there are definite, and likely permanent, impacts is what he is hearing.

"Does that mean you're still recovering Kudo-kun?" Aoko handed him a cup of water, having taken the cake to be placed into the fridge. She turned towards Kaito, readying a scold. "You should have mentioned it Bakaito!"

"But you guys were the ones who really wanted to meet him. Besides, I'm now keeping a close eye on him, how bad could it get?" Kaito danced out of Aoko's swing before prancing around the table with Aoko chasing him with a mop. The elder Nakamori must be used to this as he turned back to the cooking and letting the teenagers settle themselves around the dining table.

"How do you manage it Kudo-san? Surely you must know..." Hakuba trailed off, he was going to lay out his own suspicions before seeing the pointed look directed to him from the magician. "Kuroba's pervasive actions had been notorious in school." It was a quick save that must have satisfied the magician for his eyes stopped boring holes into Hakuba.

"I think it's just something he was programmed with. I try not to be flustered by it..." There was a knowing smile on Shinichi's face, hinting that he knew Hakuba wanted to say something KID-related.

"Kudo-san...would you mind stepping out with me for a moment?" Hakuba took the magician's distraction with Aoko to pull Shinichi aside. "I wish to consult you in private about certain matters..."

"Sure." He motioned the English detective towards the corridor. Shinichi have a vague idea as to the reason why. Once outside, and away from the doorway, Shinichi spoke first before Hakuba could even voice his suspicion. "You wanted to talk about Kaitou KID."

"Yes and no." Hakuba was still weary that the magician may have bugged all their conversations and he really does not wish to spend another week trying to erase whatever traumatic memories that the magician-prankster could induce. "I merely wanted to ask whether you find Kuroba's obsession with KID to be abnormal, whether he acted any different when KID comes up in your conversation, and more importantly, why did you choose to deal with Kuroba on such a regular basis."

Shinichi chuckled, hiding the laugh behind his fist.

"Kaito's not really that bad you know. He might have a certain...dislike for our profession but...well...I guess it makes some sense since he is a KID fan. And you won't believe the amount of KID memorabilia he has laying around the place." He patted Hakuba on the shoulders. "I heard about how he pranks you often. He finds your reactions amusing, that's why he does them. As long as you keep your cool, not blow up at his actions and stop trying to bait him into doing or admitting to something, you should have a relatively safe school year."

"Mou, Shinichi. Stop giving him tips." Kaito actually shouted from the dinning room. Evidently, he must gave placed a bug to listen into the conversation.

"You shouldn't listen into a private conversation Kaito." Walking back into the dinning room, the magician was already seated at the table. Aoko was helping her father with the plates and setting. "And shouldn't you be helping Nakamori-san?"

"But I am, by staying out of trouble." Kaito beamed at Shinichi, which was promptly ignored. The beaming smile turned into a childish pout.

"Is there anything we can help with?" Shinichi approached the kitchen. Hakuba followed in fashion.

"No Kudo-kun, Saguru, you're guests." Aoko shooed the detectives away.

The meal, thankfully seafood free, was passed with amicable chatting and no interruptions from their prankster-magician (though, that had more to do with Shinichi's pointed looks at the magician whenever it seems he was about to pull off a stunt). Hakuba insisted on helping out at the end, along with Shinichi and the former was delegated to dish washing with Kaito whereas Shinichi help with the desert setting.

While Aoko was busy keeping peace with the two boys by the sink, Shinichi was left with the inspector at the table. The man was carefully scrutinizing Shinichi's actions.

"Keibu?" He asked as he placed the plate down in front of the man.

"Can't believe it was Megure's kid that tamed Kaito-kun." He muttered, no doubt it was not supposed to be heard. Then, in a louder voice, he turned to speak with Shinichi, "you two, do you get along well?"

"..." Shinichi blushed as he nodded, 'well' wouldn't be the correct term to describe them.

"Kaito-kun may act as though he doesn't care and pull pranks, but he's also fragile. If you hurt him in any way..." The man need not to finish the sentence for Shinichi cut in.

"The day Kaito is hurt by me is the day I'm not here. Though I do try to keep myself out of dangerous situations, knowing that Kaito would worry. But I have no intention of leaving Kaito unless that is his choice." It might sound a bit morbid but it was the truth. Shinichi would stay with Kaito regardless of the situation, even as a shadow if the magician decides to leave him.

"Good to know that you are aware of your own dangers. But I still need to warn you, don't bring Kaito-kun into whatever case you've entangled yourself in. He's the kind that would do everything to keep the people he cared about safe."

"I would like to say I promise you, but knowing Kaito, he'll be barging into my cases if he even suspects I couldn't handle it alone."

Nakamori laughed, alerting the three by the sink at the same time.

"That is Kaito-kun's character."

Shinichi smiled, fully relaxed, now that the usual parent-speech is out of the way. It made him wonder if his own parents said the same thing to Kaito.

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"Love, what were you and the inspector talking about?" Kaito asked as they changed out of their clothes in his bedroom. They have decided it would be less tiring to stay the night at the Kuroba house instead of travelling back to Beika. And since the two were practically the same size, it was easy to borrow some of Kaito's pajamas (though the first few outfits the magician pulled out all had Shinichi blushing in various shades of red. Those were more like costumes than actual clothing and Shinichi adamantly refused to put them on). Kaito pulled on a loose tee and helped Shinichi button up the pajama top. "You two seemed to be having a good talk."

"The Nakamoris do care a lot about you." Shinichi gave his magician a peck on the nose before wrapping his arms around Kaito's neck. "He was telling me not to hurt you or bring you into my messes. Must have heard about my long disappearance."

"Yeah, the Keibu can be a bit overbearing at times." Smiling, he pulled his detective close by the waist before making them both fall sideways onto the bed. "Sometimes I feel bad keeping KID a secret from them, then I remembered it was for their own protection." He glance behind Shinichi to look at his father' life-sized poster hiding the entrance of his KID lair. "Did you know, up until now, Keibu-san still thinks my father's death is no accident? I think he was the only one to believe it, and voiced it, ever since."

Sensing the darkening mood of his magician, Shinichi reached up to smooth Kaito's hair in an act to sooth him.

"He wasn't even in the same department but he believed my father is not a man who would be so absentminded to not check his tricks before a performance." Closing his eyes, he let Shinichi's actions lull him to sleep.

Shinichi continued his ministrations, until he felt his magician relaxed completely and breathing deeply. He slowly, and carefully, re-positioned themselves fully onto the bed before pulling the blanket around them. Placing a light kiss on Kaito's forehead, he soon joined him in their dreams.

Kaito dreamt of his father that night, introducing Shinichi to him. His father in his dreams looked really proud of his son, for being able to find someone to be with and for continuing to pursue his dreams (whether it be KID or as a magician). When he woke up with a smile on his face and looking at his detective's soft expression, he couldn't help but pull him closer. Shinichi reacted by snuggling and burying his face into Kaito's chest. Kaito felt very content, it was the weekend and they won't need to wake up so soon. He was about to drift off back to dreamland when his bedroom door opened.

"Kaito, I heard from Yuki-chan. You're dating Shinichi-kun? When were you going to tell me?" Chikage looked at the single lump of blanket on her son's bed. One was still just waking from a deep slumber while the other had his eyes wide like deer caught in a head lamp.

"Mum! I thought you were still in Europe!" Kaito exclaimed, clambering out of the bed to stop his mother coming any closer. He was lucky that they were fully clothed last night.

"I would have been still there if you would call to tell me instead of having me find out from Yuki-chan. They flew over to track me down, saying they have to tell me in person." She had her hands on her hips to look angered by the glitter in her eyes told Kaito otherwise. His mum was excited and overjoyed at the news, he was sure.

"Kaito...?" Shinichi tried to focus his eyes and rub out the sleep.

"Oh Shinichi-kun. It's fine, go back to sleep sweetie. I'll just be borrowing Kaito for a while." For added effect, she walked over and patted him on the head like a mother trying to coax a child back to sleep.

"Yes 'kaasan." Shinichi muttered incoherently thinking it was his own mother, still stuck in his sleepy haze, nodded and closed his eyes once more. Chikage smile at the pure adorable-ness of Shinichi snuggling further into the blankets with a soft smile and burying deeper into Kaito's pillow.

"Mum!" Kaito pried his mother from the sleeping detective and dragged her out of his room. Closing the door gently, even though he felt like slamming the wood, he blocked the way. "Why couldn't you just make a video call?"

"Oh? Are you ashamed to tell your own mother?" She teased.

"What? No!" And there went all his plans to surprise his mother. He had wanted to make the meeting a bit less dramatic and more romantic.

"Then you better start telling me. How did it start? When did it start? How far did the two of you go?"

"Mum!" Kaito wondered when his mother became such a gossipy woman. He was just about to reply when he heard scrambling from behind the door. There was a soft curse and a (series) crash(es). Kaito suspects his detective's brain must have finally caught up to the events and woke up. As though on cue, the door behind him opened and a frantic detective stood at the entrance, trying to tame his hair and straighten his clothes.

"Um...good morning Kuroba-san. Uh...we can explain...?"

Chikage giggle at the cute expression of desperation on Shinichi.

"Why don't the two of you wash up first, I'll have breakfast ready downstairs." She waved them towards the bathroom with a smile showing prominently on her face. "Take your time~"

"Come on Shinichi." Kaito tugged at his detective grumpily towards the bathroom.

"That was your mother wasn't it? Not my mother pretending to be your mother to traumatize us right?"

"Although I must admit, it did cross my mind once, but I can assure that it is my mum that bursted into the bedroom just then." Pushing Shinichi towards the sink area, he rummaged around for a clean towel in the cupboard.

"Oh God, I just made a fool of myself." He buried his face in his hands, muttering incoherent sentences.

"She wanted to surprise us. And she did so effectively. But I wouldn't go as far to say you made a fool of yourself." Kaito leaned in, wrapping around his detective's waist and laid a kiss on his neck. "With how she acted, she must have accepted us."

"That does not make it any better. What kind of first impression are we making?"

"All the good kind I'm sure." Kaito continued to lay down a line of kisses along Shinichi's neck, extending to the shoulders. "You're too cute to be able to make a bad impression."

"Stop it Kaito." Shinichi tried to sound put off, tried to push his magician away, but his body has its own idea, leaning into his magician's chest and angled outwards to expose more skin for the magician to explore. "Your mother is downstairs."

"She practically gave us permission and expects us to take our time..." Kaito smirked into Shinichi's shoulders, "no point in wasting the offer."

"Mmm..." Shinichi moaned, hand grabbing onto Kaito's head and started caressing his face by tracing light lines on the jaws. "Not exactly the best of morning manners though."

"She'll live." Pulling his detective into a better embrace, he crashed their mouths together. All sense of time was lot to the two as they pulled themselves into the showers (clothes lost to the floor between the sink and the shower place).

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"Well, at least that answers how far your relationship has progressed." Chikage commented with a smile from the dining table to which Shinichi blushed a vibrant pink. Breakfast already set out on the table with a cup of hot chocolate and coffee at two of the seats. She was calmly sipping on the tea, set with a pot to the side. "Now, sit down and eat before the food is ruined."

Despite the amount of time they spent in the bathroom, the food was still warm, indicating that Chikage had indeed expected for them to take their time. Shinichi fidgeted with the coffee cup for a while, not sure what to make of the situation. Kaito reached underneath to place a calming hand on his detective's thighs. He smiled gratefully for the gesture, earning another giggle from the woman sitting opposite them.

"Ah, young love." She sighed into her cup.

"Uh...Kuroba-san. You're...not mad?" Shinichi ventured.

"Mad? Good heavens no! But definitely annoyed that my son did not inform me of this development." She leaned over the table and flicked Kaito on the forehead. "You don't keep these types of things from your mother. Especially since things have progressed this far."

"Sorry mum, but the opportunity never came up..."

"That's no excuse young man." Turning back towards Shinichi with a bright smile, a full one-eighty difference from how she was treating Kaito earlier, she asked, "so, did Kaito treat you well? He hasn't hurt you has he? Did he force you into uncomfortable situations? You can tell 'kaasan."

"Mum! You're supposed to be on my side!"

"ka...'kaa...san?" Shinichi stuttered, embarrassed.

"Well, that was what you called me just then. And I'm not complaining, at least I would have one son that could keep track of where I would be and inform me of the important things. Now, when and where would you two be planning the wedding? I do hope you would wait until you two have graduated..."

His mother continued on that vein, doing her best to embarrass the both of them for her own entertainment. Kaito figured this must be her way of revenge. Well, at least it was good to know his mother was quite taken in with Shinichi. Kaito reached back towards his detective's hand on the table and gave it a gentle squeeze before leaning towards the stuttering detective for a chaste kiss on the cheeks. Although all his plans have been foiled, this introduction did not turn out too bad. Though he could do so without his mother's constant gushing over his detective and hogging his attention.

-TBC-