Author's note : Nothing is mine, only the story… and even that I'm not sure.
Phone calls
Ring.
Ring.
Ring.
"… Jii, it's two in the morning… shouldn't it be time too… what?"
Aoko hated her cell phone.
It rang whenever it wasn't meant to. Especially when she was taking her shower.
"HELLO?"
"…"
"Miyoshi-san, I appreciate… but…"
"…"
"…er…"
"…"
"DID YOU CALL ME ONLY TO TELL ME THERE WAS NO MESSAGE FROM KID TODAY?"
She slammed her phone shut.
She hated her cell phone and her assistants.
Dial. Dial. Dial.
Ring. Ring.
"Hello?"
"Hello, Hiyoshi speaking. Gimme whoever is the director of the walking disaster! What? Who I am? The producer, you dumbass! Now give me what-ever-his-name-is or you're fired within the newt five seconds!"
There was a dead silence at the other end of the phone. Kaito smirked. Threats always worked.
"Hello?"
"You fool! Who asked you to bring that actress forward! What's that casting? I'm not crediting you fit an ignorant goose! What you can do for me? I'll tell you what you can do – go find me a real actress, someone who might know her role! Somebody famous, so that people will pay for this show!"
"But…"
"No buts! Just find me somebody right now! If there isn't twice as much people as yesterday tonight, no me credits!"
Kaito hung up violently and changed his voice for that of a young, quite famous actress. He dialled the same number again, preparing his double role.
Kaito's number.
Her finger stopped cold before dialling the last number.
What was she doing?
Create confusion. A very simple trick. One more call to go. Then he'd call the police station. Or Aoko-kebu.
Hey, was that an idea…
"Hello? Hi Ran-chan! What? A show tonight? No, I'm not busy… wait. I don't know. Can I call you later on, or… fine. Bye."
"Jii? Have you called them? Good. Yeah, same for me. Huh? Yeah, if you could manage that… fine. Thanks… no, I've got some more calls. Call me back when you're finished."
"Hello? Miyoshi-san, this is Nakamori-kebu… I was calling for that. None? Are you fairly sure? Okay… fine. I'll see you tomorrow morning, then."
She hung up. No Kid's heist tonight.
For the moment. Wouldn't it be safer to…
"This is Kaito Kid!" The disguised voice was echoing through every single one of the police station's loudspeakers. "May I have your attention, please? Well, thought you'd like to know – as a simple neighbour's courtesy – that I'm planning on a heist tonight. Yes, tonight. Sorry it's a bit short. But if I waited any longer, the jewel would be abroad by then. Got it?"
She took a deep breath and pushed the "call" button.
Ring. Ring.
She couldn't believe what she was doing. Her heart was pounding very, very fast.
Ring. Ring. R–
Bip-bip. Bip-bip. Bip-bip.
Crap. It was busy.
When he hung up, half laughing (playing fun at the task force was on the best side of being a thief), Kaito noticed he had missed a call. He raised an eyebrow.
Aoko's number. What the hell–?
Next time she was in the kitchen when her phone – which, of course, she had left in the sitting-room – rang.
When running for it, there was a BANG! and a very loud curse she had never even suspected she new. She picked the phone quite breathlessly.
"Hello?"
"Hello, this is Kaito Kid…"
"WHAT?"
CRASH!
Ouch, Kaito though on the other end. That must've hurt.
"What?" she repeated, more calmly.
"I said, 'Hello, this is Kaito Kid.'"
"Yeah, I kinda got that," she said ironically.
"Good. Well, Nakamori-kebu, just thought you'd like to know I'm planning on a heist tonight."
"…" He said that as though planning on a party. She definitely hated him.
"Are you listening? In a theatre. A gem that's about to go abroad. At least, that's what I told your assistants. Your voice is so easy to mimicate… Hey, are you still there? Have you figured out where it is?"
"Go. To. Hell."
"Uh. Okay. See you there, then."
He hung up. She glared down at her phone.
"Hello? Ran-chan? Well, I'd definitely love to go with you…"
Okay, so that was a bit tough… Don't know if you understood… I wrote this all at once but the plot is this, more or less: Kid's aiming at a jewel an actress must arbour in a show for the last time before leaving Japan. He threatens the director so that he fires one of the actresses and he can take her place so he can get at the jewel. He also makes it so that there's a lot of spectators and policemen in the theatre, he can create confusion, and escape in the usual way.
The phone call to Aoko is only because this is supposed to be a Aoko/Kaito pairing, and it could show their relationship as rivals when no one was listening to them… (you know, first chapter was about her feelings, second about his, third about how he reacted with Shinichi and Heiji… next will be about photos from their childhood.)