-FIRSTS-
Disclaimer: The works of Detective Conan and Magic Kaito belongs to Gosho Aoyama-sensei.
Warning: KaiShin relationship.
First Thrill
Kaito motioned his doves to remain silent as they flew into the apartment. His detective was resting on the bed, having vented out all the frustration in the form of silent tears. Kaito did not have to do much to coax the detective into bed and the obedience from his detective scared him.
He had equipped his spy doves with cameras and was quite thankful that it was the recording type. With the telecommunication signals still jammed, as evident from the static on their TV and from their radio (not to mention the continuous 'No Signal' icon on their phones), the recorded video would at least show them how their friends were doing. The first group of doves came back carried videos containing the Detective Boys. Kaito managed to breath a sigh of relief to watch the three children running about in the playground playing football. Their skills had definitely improved, though by no means would they be a match for the small version of his detective, but at least they were smiling and laughing. The next few were all videos recorded from the TMPD HQ, with shots of the various Division One and Two officers. A few actually fed his doves, earning a headshot on screen. Kaito stared at the few that took up the offered food, glaring at them.
"You lot should know better than to accept food from strangers." He reprimanded, tapping on the few doves that took the food. Kaito never knew it was possible for doves to look sheepish, but his actually did show such emotions.
Kaito was in the process of swapping the cameras to download the next video when a rather haggard dove dived into the apartment. Kaito managed to catch the dove in his chest, brushing at the feathers to check for injuries. Thankfully, there were none. He quickly swapped out the video camera he was downloading to this new camera, depositing the dove to a nearby water dish to let it recover.
Kaito had to steady his hand as it hovered over the small icon. The fear coursed in him like the torrential rain. This dove he recognised as the one he directed to watch over the the little scientist.
At first, the video showed his dove flying through the neighbourhood before landing on the tall wall overlooking the Professor's house. A few stationary seconds later, the video moved to another position,this time closer towards as window into the kitchen. The little scientist was busy with something by the counter, moving about in a slow fashion. She came to a stop part way, before moving again. She briefly disappeared from the screen and his dove was on the move again. The wobbly picture signaled his dove to be in flight but there was no image of the little scientist until his dove came to a stop to a place overlooking the shopping district of Beika. There, Kaito saw the little scientist walking down the pedestrian path towards the supermarket. A split second later, the little scientist disappeared from view and the camera became wobbly again. This time, there was a sense of urgency in the picture as the scenery flew by in rapid speed. Kaito had a hard time picking out the route, he saw a few recognisable buildings but seeing as Beika was never his area, he needed his detective's input on this. Looking across the space between him and the bedroom, Kaito was reluctant to wake his detective up. Still, it was imperative that his detective was alert about this.
"Love?" Kaito laid his hand on Shinichi's shoulders. Shinichi buried himself further into the pillows and Kaito was extremely tempted to let him do just that if he had not known his detective would give him the cold shoulder for at least a week if he failed to rouse him.
"Mm…" Shinichi struggled to pull the blankets closer to his body but Kaito's weight had made it difficult to hog the blankets. Not having any other options, Shinichi finally turned to face Kaito with bleary eyes cracked opened a fraction to reveal the dull blue orbs. It seems he is still halfway in dreamland. "Kaito? What's the time?"
Instead of replying with the actual answer, Kaito decided shocking his detective would be the easiest way to wake him up. "Ai-chan's been kidnapped."
"What?!" Shinichi bolted upright without any indication. It was only Kaito's reflex that saved them both from a pained forehead.
"I set my doves to follow our friends seeing as many of the surveillance network in the city is still down. The communication grid has been partially recovered but it is mainly for emergency services right now. My video feed showed Ai-chan suddenly disappearing during her shopping trip in Beika, the dove followed as best she could before returning. My guess, she's being held at the moment." Each word from Kaito brought more worry lines around Shinichi's eyes, lines that Kaito desperately wanted to kiss away.
Shinichi scrambled out of the blankets that seemed to have a will of its own for the moment for they wrapped around his torso and leg like a tenacious octopus. The moment he was free, the rushed to where the laptop was set up and reviewed the video. Kaito sat next to his detective, hips and shoulders touching, as they viewed the footage. If Kaito thought worry lines were prominent, add to that the growing frown on Shinichi's face made the situation more grim.
"Love?" Kaito wrapped his arm around Shinichi's shoulders and rubbed up and down the forearm in hopes of providing comfort to his clearly distressed detective.
"She's by the industrial district, the old Newspaper factory." Shinichi shrugged out of Kaito's hold to approach the bookshelf where they kept the Tokyo map. He brought the book back cradled in his arms, knuckles white from the grip. Kaito had to pull his detective onto his laps instead of letting his detective flopping onto the couch. Carefully, Kaito extricated the map from Shinichi's death grip and flipped it to the general Beika area map.
"Whereabouts?" Already, Kaito was planning his reconnaissance team and going over his mental inventory.
After a moment of contemplation, Shinichi pointed to the upper left corner of the page, just on the outskirts on what can be deemed as the main business hub of Beika and not yet near the residential district. There were several seemingly empty lots scattered about in the area, with small service roads leading to and from each of the parcels of land.
"It's in the open, we won't be able to sneak up on them." Shinichi muttered, tracing the street where the factory was located. "There's a row of factories on this side of the road. The other side, last I remembered, has a construction site in the middle and two empty lots on either side."
"No chance of actually approaching when there's daylight is there?" There was the waterways just behind the factory, but without knowing the condition of the water and how visible it would be from the factory itself, Kaito cannot say with absolute certainty they could infiltrate using the waterways. Then there is the problem of footholds for scaling the external wall leading up the factory to the nearest window. Without knowing the building's structure, it is difficult to plan for all eventualities. "I say our best bet would be the main entrance. They'll probably be expecting some sort of a rescue operation through stealth so if we enter in through the front, it would have been a surprise. Unless, of course, that is what they wanted all along and set up ambush near the main gates. In which case, how about this point?" Kaito pointed at the boundary adjacent to the newspaper factor. "They would have camera surveillance along this wall, but we can force it to short circuit without causing any suspicion right now. The whole electric grid and communication networks in the Greater Tokyo is in confusion so jumps here and there would be normal."
"We'll have to wait until dusk at least to scale the walls, which means we'll be working in the dark." Shinichi tapped his finger on his chin.
"I'll go in and grab our package, secure her and bring her out." Kaito traced the route he was thinking of taking. "And I'll be using another path to escape. Our getaway vehicle would have to be left at idle to make our speedy getaway."
"What do you mean I? Don't you mean we?" Shinichi's eyes lowered as he glared at Kaito. It took all of Kaito's will not to back away and hide from the intense blue eyes. They were the exact same pair that his detective had reserved for murderers and criminals.
'Now I know how it feels to be on the other end…' Kaito gulped, steadying his breath before responding. "I mean I because I will be the one who will be infiltrating. Out of the two of us, I'm the one equipped with the required skill."
"Kaito." Shinichi warned. "I thought we're in this together."
"We are, which is why you'll be the one who would plot the route of least resistance. If you behave, I might even let you drive the escape vehicle." Kaito stood to begin preparing for the occasion. It had always been his intention to leave Shinichi out of this rescue as his detective's mind was not geared for infiltration and stealth operations. However, even Kaito had to acknowledge that Shinichi's skills behind the wheel was something to be marvelled at. Pulling off stunts that professionals would have difficulty in with ease. "Love," Kaito could feel eyes boring holes into his back as he bend over to retrieve a box on the lowest drawers of their bedside table. It held his usual munitions of smoke bombs and sleeping pallets, along with a few new inventions the can fry any electrical circuit upon impact. "I can feel you glaring at me."
"You're sleeping on the couch when we come back." It was Shinichi's way of punishing Kaito for leaving him out. It was something Kaito disliked but he could live with it if it meant his detective could stay safe and away from traps. This whole scenario was an obvious trap and Kaito was not about to hand Shinichi over just like that.
"You'd think so." Kaito teased, turning back to face his detective with an amused grin. "But you'd be cold on the bed by yourself at night, then you'll drag me back."
"You're...I'm…" It seems that even Shinichi knew Kaito had spoken the truth as he stumbled with his words. Though truth to be told, it was not the first time his detective had threatened him with the couch. The last several times had Shinichi complaining about the room being too cold and produced several sleepless nights, accompanied by two pairs of eye bags and dull eyes. Neither had slept well without the other and it showed when even their friends commented on how haggard they looked.
"Love, Shinichi." Placing the items on the bed carefully, he moved to where his detective sat. "I know you can handle yourself and I know you're capable of many of the things I do, even without the same finesse, but I need someone who I know can help us make the escape flawless and quick. I need you in that escape vehicle, ready to floor the gas the moment I've returned with our precious cargo."
Not being able to deny such logic, Shinichi nodded reluctantly, head bowed over the paper map as his eyes took in all the details and memorised each of the road. Kaito knew they would be able to escape smoothly now that Shinichi was focused on the task. All the pressure was now placed on Kaito on ensuring success in the actual rescue operation.
'Nothing like a time limit under high pressure situation.' Kaito licked his lips in anticipation as the thrill of a possible chase thrummed in his veins. It had been too long since he last experienced something like this, even at such a high cost. Glancing over at his seated detective, he could detect the trace amount of excitement under the dull glitter of sapphire that was Shinichi's eyes. 'I guess we are two peas in a pod, thriving under pressure.'
-TBC-
