Here's Chapter 2 for those who enjoyed this. I apologise if the differing lengths of chapters throw people for a loop. Anyway, on with the story!
It was a little after lunch, and Ran was going out soon, which meant that he was either going with her or she was going to ring someone to look after him. He didn't know what had inspired this sudden desire to always call a baby sitter when ever she left him alone, but it was degrading to his seventeen year old mind, or it would be if it weren't for who came around to 'look after him' when his nee-chan went out. He felt his ears perk up and the muscles on his back give a little twitch when he caught the sound of Ran on the phone.
She was dressed up in a red dress that fitted her nicely, bringing out the blue in her eyes and those features that had caught him even when they were in elementary school. It immediately made him think that she was going out with someone she wants to impress or was going somewhere formal for dinner. Both didn't sit well with him, not the protective love interest kind of way, more like protective brother kind of thing. That was another thing that made it hard for him to still love her that way, he had been her little brother now for so long.
Shinichi glanced at her again spying a relieved smile on her lips and how her cheeks had a happy flush. That immediately narrowed his deduction down to either she was going on a date with someone she liked that Sonoko had set her up with, or she was going to dinner with her mother. He was leaning more towards date that Sonoko had set up if only because she had met up with her mother rather recently and the lawyer was rather busy. When she hung up on the phone Conan made his way over to her with a questioning look. She gave a little smile before answering his silent question.
"I'm going out with Sonoko and a couple of friends, those two will be here soon to look after you, while I'm out." She answered affectionately ruffling his hair were his little cow licks immediately rebelled and bounced back up as his hair fell back in its oddly neat order. He nodded eagerly, already feeling giddiness spike his blood. Just as Ran grabbed her bag to go, the door bell rang and Kogoro answered, unprepared for the wild brunette who practically teleported inside the room, snatching Conan up off the ground into a hug.
"Conan-chan!" Trilled Kaito as he hugged the poor shrunken detective who was struggling to escape his clutches. He felt himself flush as the magician nuzzled his neck, seemingly stopping for a second to subtly sniff him before resting his head on top of Conan's. The blonde with brown eyes on the other side sighed as he pushed aside the flabbergasted Mouri Kogoro who had answered the door.
"Hakuba-Niisan save me from your boyfriends clutches!" Shinichi whined, finding that it was a Conan sentiment, not a Shinichi sentiment. That had implications, dangerous yet interesting ones. Ran let out a chuckle as she turned to confirm everything with Hakuba while Kaito kidnapped him into the lounge room. He was quickly seated on the magicians lap and hugged from behind while the magician idly performed tricks in front of him. It was still an odd notion to think that Saguru and him would get along so well with the thief. He had figured it out the moment the blonde had first rocked up with the violet eyed menace.
Shinichi had immediately picked up on their heritage, a flacon and dove shifter, but he wasn't sure if they had noticed his. Granted that most shifters didn't show signs until they turned eight and it was merely luck of the draw until then and no one would know, so they probably hadn't. Though, they had pinned the fact that he was Kudou Shinichi. He blamed that one on the thief being unable to keep his mouth shut in his excitement of finding out that Conan wasn't going to kick soccer balls at him ten ways to Sunday. Hakuba had been rightfully shocked before he eyed Shinichi up and down, that had made him want to shift restlessly, then shrugging and said he'd seen stranger things. What kinds of stranger things, Shinichi would never know, it was probably best he didn't know actually.
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