Disclamier:

The following story has been inspired by Dragon-sama and her amazing Chatty Punnies! Also I will add that no, I do not own Detective Conan or Magical Kaito.

If I did; there would be more character death then there already is. Oh and much more Kaito/Shinichi love!

Warnings:

Possible Kaito/Shinichi moments, gore, and unexplainable exploding people. Can't really think of all the warnings that probably belong in the story...heh...sorry?

A/N: Thanks for the review's! I'm kinda proud of my exploded man...is that weird? What I'm thinking is that it's a low calibrated bomb that gives off enough punch to explode a person but is barely heard. Does that help some questions? Or it could even have some kind of wrapping that lowers sound? Oooh the ideas!

Oh, I'm gonna add that this chapter had to be written twice! Evil cats and their paws on my laptops~! So if it seems a little off or less detailed, it just means that it killed me inside that I had to rewrite about 3,000 some words!

On to more explodsions!

(After all that's what Detective Conan's all about)

Aquarium Switch

Chapter Two

The Case of the Exploded Man

(Part Two)

He started at the alley in almost disbelief, surely one's luck couldn't be as horrible as Kudou Shinichi! He made a slight whine in the back of his throat as he stared at the blood covered walls and road. There right in front of him as the bottom half of a female, and the only reason he knew it was female was the once white skirt, now tainted in a brownish red, was on what remained of the body. He bit the bottom of his lip to level himself then called Inspector Megure to the scene with a firm voice. Kaito really couldn't believe this; really the chances of just going to get a bite to eat and running to another victim? He was really starting to hate what ever had possessed his Shin-chan, hell and he wasn't even Shinichi! Does that make this contagious? Kaito winced at that thought, he did not need dead bodies at a KID heist. Not at all!

He was really debating the pros and cons of getting some charms that wards away death for Shinichi at this point. Sure, his Shin-chan is the best detective ever, but running into dead bodies while trying to get things to eat or an entertaining night out is just annoying and scary. He looked over at the latest body, did this kind of murder really have to happen while he was pretending to be Shinichi? Not that he wanted Shinichi to see this, really body parts everywhere. It was sickening. Worse then the first victim, but that might because this one was 'fresher' then the first.

The whole reason he was in the alley was because he heard a soft sound, almost like crying coming from the alley as he passed by to a near by fast food place. Him, being a natural gentleman, turned into the alley to see what was wrong, just as he turned in, was another weird squashy sound, then bam, half a lady in the middle of the alley, the rest of her everywhere. He didn't know if he was lucky that he wasn't that fast coming into the alley or horrified that he didn't get here fast enough. Oh, he just couldn't wait to hear what Shinichi said about this! After all he was given orders to stay at home, but no he wanted some comfort food that e included some fried potatoes and over done chicken sandwiches. Now he wasn't sure if he'd ever be able to eat meat again. Being a vegan didn't sound to bad now.

He glanced at his cell phone then sighed, might as well finish this. He glanced around the alley, really detectively if he said so, then flipped the phone open and called his favorite detective.

"Baby..I want yoouuuu...Oh baby,baby..." Shinichi slightly wondered if he continued to ignore the phone that it'd just stop ringing. He sighed as it continued on with the annoying ring, and picked up. "What?"

"I think it's contagious"

Shinichi honestly didn't know what to answer to that, "What's contagious?"

"The dead body thing."

Shinichi almost growled at his answer, "Ha ha ha, what did someone die in front of my house?"

"No, but I wanted something to eat after reading one of your dad's books, and I thought 'oh! Fast food would be wonderful right about now!' and I went out and now there's another exploded person and it's EVERYWHERE! Worse part, I was about 2 minutes away when she exploded. Oh yeah Megure is totally not gonna let me go home now! I blame this on what I dub 'Shinichi Detective disease' cause I know I've never had this many issues. Kleptomania. Yes. Attraction to shinny things. Yes. Possible ADHD or something like it, yes. Dead bodies? NO!"

Shinichi wasn't sure to laugh or try to comfort the magician, so he decided to let the other boy continue to rant. Really, he named his luck? Hell, he'd call it the 'zombie complex'. Not that he'd tell Kaito that, not encouraging his habit of naming random things like that. If he did that he'd find parts of his body named weird things, He shook his head as Kaito starting ranting about his surroundings and chimed into something, "umm What about the left wall again?"

"It also smel- oh, there's a piece of what ever exploded her in it. Oi, Shin-chan, there's an English letter attached to the piece, I think it's an 'I'. Oh, and there's a 'I' over here and a 'H', I think it's gonna spell something, but the only other letter is an 'C'."

"So, I, I, H, and C, right?"

"Yes, maybe there where other letter's at the detective's office."

"Maybe, but this also means that the murder is gonna strike again." Shinichi glanced at Hakuba, who had stopped in his note taking when Shinichi answered the phone. Aoko was somewhere with the class witch, looking at some sort of underwater animal. Shinichi started walking towards a more isolated area and found a bench to sit on, Hakuba following silently behind him. "It'd probably help more if we can get the beginning letters, there's probably four."

"Why four?"

"Do you really need to ask that?" He could most see Kaito's smile as he tried to cheer up the situation.

"Okay so I'm guess there's four because there were four here?"

"Smart boy, Kaito." Shinichi said sarcastically. Really, where did that boy's brains hid when he wasn't on a heist? Great, now he was starting to think like Haibara, that couldn't be healthy. "So Megure's there now?"

"Yup, He just got here. He keeps giving me this creepy detective-y- look"

"He once told me that he thought I was a god of death, always showing up after someone dies like I do." He heard Kaito chuckle weakly as the other boy continued to give him as much details as possible. "Oh, Megure told me the other letter that his team found!" Kaito chimed in, "It was H, N, I, and S. Hmm, I wonder what it could be spelling?"

Shinichi frowned deeply and wrote down the letters in a notebook.

S

C

2-H

3-I

Icihihs? -No doesn't sound right...He flipped the letters round, then almost smiled bitterly as both he and Kaito came to the some conclusion.

"Shinichi! This isn't good! It spells out your name!" Kaito said the obvious, and he made a sound in agreement. Could the murder be someone from a past case? Someone who heard of him through papers? Or worse one of those that could be scraps left of the Syndicate? It was possible that there could be stragglers left after his huge take down just four months ago. Why go through the trouble of exploding people? Why not just come after him?

So many questions, and if it was leftovers from that horrible group, then it was possible that Kaito was also in danger through his night job. It wasn't that much of a secret that Kaitou Kid helped with the take down. Even if it was mostly information gathering and helping him get out of that tough spot with Gin. He closed his eyes and tried to focus on Kaito's ramblings. "Kaito, is anyone listening to you talking to me?"

"No, of course not. Well, Takagi looks like he's trying, but I think I'm talking to fast for him and Satou-san is to busy being a good detective."

"That's good, don't tell Megure or them what I think about the letter's quite yet."

"But..."

"I wanna think on it." Hakuba motioned that the class was leaving to reboard the bus for the ride back to the school. He nodded and got up. "Look, I got to go, I'll call you as soon as I'm off the bus, okay?"

"Okay, love you."

Shinichi smiled and hung up the phone. He jogged a little to catch up to Hakuba. "He found another one." The blonde looked at him briefly.

"Any clues?"

"Yeah, letters." He handed the other detective his notebook. He climbed the stairs of the beaver bus with a smile and sat down in the same seat that he was in earlier, only difference is that Hakuba switched places with Aoko with the excuse of wanting to keep a closer eye on him. "How the hell did he run into another one?"

"He went to go get something to eat."

Kaito sat at the police station to give his report of what he saw, when he saw his love of his life enter through the door dressed up as him. He got up and nearly tackled Shinichi to the floor. "I've missed you!" Shinichi smiled and patted Kaito's head as he sat next to him. "You do realize your still me right?" Shinichi said as he pulled out some juggling balls.

"Anyways ..." He tossed three of the brightly colored balls to his boyfriend and tossed the darker colors. "I think it might be someone from a past case. It is possible that it's one of those 'Ravens' but I doubt it." Shinichi tossed in a red ball. "I went and took a quick look around each scene too, discreetly of course. You where right, it was everywhere. I've never scene something like that, and everyone thinks I draw murders to me." Kaito watched him as he tossed in a yellow ball into Shinichi's juggling circle.

"God, I've felt unlucky all day." Kaito whined. "I'm hungry and tired, I've rather had been stuck with those horrible things then this!"

"Well serves you right trying to get out of your class trip." Shinichi said and tossed the yellow ball back at Kaito. He grabbed the balls and put them back where he got them. He smiled at Kaito, " But at least we know for sure that their after me, or something like that."

Kaito frowned, "That's not okay!" He huffed and crossed his arms. "Especially exploding people! Common murders. Horrible, but okay. This is bad, Shin-chan~! I mean really bad! Even my luck isn't canceling something like this out! I've ran into two of them!" Kaito twitched slightly in his seat, "and I still haven't gotten my lunch, well it'd be dinner now. I'm sooo hungry!" His head fell to the table with a loud thud, making Shinichi shake his head and sigh at his boyfriends antics. "So why are you in the interrogation room, anyways?"

Kaito twitched again, "Megure said that I couldn't be allowed on the streets anymore. I'm not sure if he was messing with me or what." He sat back up and scratched his fingers through his hair making it to it's usual wild and uncontrollable self. Shinichi let out a low laugh, "Did he seriously?" The other nodded mockingly sad and pouted at him. "Yes, he said it was dangerous and it could possibly lead to more exploding citizens and he didn't want that."

"Oh, come on! It isn't my fault when psychopaths start getting weirder in the murders! Did Megure pick up on the message, yet?"

"No, I don't think so. Didn't he tell you anything?"

"No, he looked me up and down, then told me 'Your other half is in the interrogation room.' Then turned to continue whatever he was doing. I'm going to guess that it's okay to leave now, since he didn't give my another instructions."

He watched Kaito jump up in cheer, then slowly got up himself and followed the other boy out the door. They both waved to several officers that knew them as they left. "So where do you want to go?"

"Huh?" Kaito looked at him, tilting his head cutely.

"To eat?"

"ooohh! Hmmm, is that safe? The last time I tried, someone blew up." Shinichi elbowed him and started walking to the nearest resturant. "You can now starve."

"Shiiinn-ccchhannn, I love you!"

"Yea, and your still gonna starve."

Ran stared at the now clean steps that lead to and from the apartment that she shared with her father. She suppressed a shutter as she slowly walked down the steps, still remembering what had covered them just hours before. She was glad that Shinichi had shown up to walk her to school instead of the other way around. Even though he was just as horrified as she was, he went and tried to cheer her up as best as possible, given the circumstances. Sure, she's seen murder almost everyday back when Conan-kun lived with them. It's not everyday that you open your door to an exploded person all over your steps. She reached the bottom and started her way to the store. She just needed some fresh air; away from the apartment and her drunkard of a father.

Another change that came with Conan's leave, her father seemed to be falling short on his cases. He did get lucky every once in a while, but they just don't come around like they used too. She knew the real reason behind that, and it's because with Conan gone, Shinichi came back. He had let her down gently, even told her the truth about Conan. She still couldn't separate the two when thinking of either of them. To her; Conan was Conan; and Shinichi is Shinichi. Only difference was that Conan was never going to come and visit unless he has an accident with experimental drugs again. Which she doubted since Shinichi seemed to have a weird evasion to any form of pills. She couldn't really blame him for that.

She smiled as she crossed the street to the local grocery store that she went to when it was to late to hit the vendors. She entered the store, grabbing a basket on the way and turning towards the produce. She went through several produce items and selected a few that would be good for dinner. She then roamed over to the meat/seafood section.

When Shinichi told her that he had fell in love with a guy, she had almost laughed. Almost. He had even introduced her to Kuroba Kaito, before the guy knew about Shinichi's feelings, he was a very active person always pulling some magical trick. He had told her when she asked that his dad was a magician before he died. She had noticed how both of them acted around each other before they confessed, and it was cute. Adorable even. Shinichi blushing when Kaito would 'accidentally' touch him, and Kaito messing up on a trick when Shinichi did something unconsciously, like loosing his collar or taking off his school jacket.

She had cried for awhile, unable to understand where she lost him. He was there next to her the whole time, as Conan. Cute, adorable, little Conan that tried to cheer her up whenever she was depressed about Shinichi. She sighed as she picked up a bag of rice and started heading over to the checkout line. She had finished most of her shopping while thinking. She loaded it up on the belt and put the basket under the belt with the other baskets. The cashier smiled at her and rang her out. After she paid, she headed out of the store still in thought about the last couple months.

She started wondering how Hattori and Kazuha was doing, she hadn't seen them since the case with the two baseball players. She idlely wondered how pissed off Shinichi would be if she called and told Kazuha about the exploded man in front of her door. She knew that Kazuha would eventually tell Hattori, and that would cause Hattori and her to come for a visit. She smiled at the thought and whipped out her cell to give the two a call.

"Hey Kazuha-chan~!"

On the way home from the restaurant that, yes, both he and Kaito ate at, he started getting a bad feeling. It was the kind of feeling he always got when Kaito was up to no good. A silent Kaito was a very bad thing to him. It usually ended up with his cell phone exploding with calls from various people. Didn't they know that he couldn't even control the other teen?

"Call From: Hattori Heiji- Are you ready, now? Dinng dong dis" Kaito gave him a glare and a pout. "That is so not fair." As he handed Shinichi his phone back, He answered it right away with his boyfriend pouting behind him. "Yes?"

"Why didn't ya call me right away~!? Explod'ng man? Kudou that…that….god I don't even know how to put it! Anyzwayz, Kazuha called me and told me about, so we'll be over in the morning, Think ya can put us up for a couple days?"

"Do I have a choice?"

"Thanks man! I'll see ya laterz, Kudou!" Hattori said happily before hanging up.

Kaito clapped happily behind him. "Ohh we're gonna have company for a while, ne?" Shinichi sighed and nodded. It's not that he didn't like Hattori, hell Hattori was his best friend. It was just that the other boy could be a bit much, and with Hakuba already on the trail too, this was going to be impossible to solve the case without a good dose of Advil or something. Really, what was Ran thinking? Calling Kazuha about that of all things. He opened the door to his home and entered, Kaito following in behind him. "I'm guessing that your mother already knows your staying here?"

"Of Course!"

Megure stared out at the scene of yet another murder. Where the people all psychotic in this city? He briefly wondered if it was too late in his career to turn to another district or city. Maybe an other country. The body was yet again exploded into tiny pieces and scattered everywhere on the scene. The only difference was that this person exploded in the middle of a busy intersection, according to witnesses the victim was in a furious panic and hurry. According to some, the victim had stopped and asked for the directions of Baker District 2 and house number 22. If he remembered right that was the address of Professor Agasa, who happened to live next to Kudou-kun.

If he didn't know better it was as if the murder was sending a message to Kudou-kun, one person at a time. He looked at the letters that his team barely found. "K…U…D…O..U…" phht. Like that one wasn't obvious. As much as he hated not having the boy around, He couldn't afford for the boy to be in danger either. He ordered for a team to put a watch on the Kudou household till further notice. "That boy probably knew from the second body that it was his name the psychopath was spelling out." Megure huffed really, that boy never told him anything till he had all the facts. Something like this was serious. It could mean life or death in some situations.

He'd have to have a talk with the boy later, right now he had another body to clean up. Maybe he should take up Kuroba-kun's advice and put a warding charm in his car for Kudou-kun. He wondered if the boy knew that he sometimes talk to himself, maybe it was a nervous habit he picked up from following Kudou-kun everywhere. After all how many dead bodies could one person take?

Yay! Finally finished! hmm, I didn't get that Kaito/Shinichi moment I wanted in there, Oh well. Maybe next chapter! Ohhh! Let's disturb Kazuha and Heiji~!

Well till next chapter!


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