Midday Meetings

Happy

Aoko was surprisingly happy that morning.

Kaito, despite being very confused the evening before, was positive that she would be in a terrible mood. In fact, he'd spent most of the morning ensuring that Hakuba was in a good position to shield him from her wrath… which was really hard to do without anyone figuring it out.

But Aoko, despite all speculation, seemed almost… giddy.

It took awhile before Kaito realized it wasn't just an act and that she was honestly in a really good mood.

'Did I miss something?'

Since when did "You make things complicated!" and "I really, really dislike you!" lead to giddiness?

The question haunted him… and for some reason annoyed him.

'Why is she so freakin' happy?!'

Was it something Kid did? Nothing really happened after that, he reminded her to close her window again and she threw a chair at him. Very usual.

Well, her face had been really red but that was about it out of the ordinary but she tended to turn red out of anger a lot anyway…

'…wait, so how was that out of the ordinary?'

"Argh!!"

Kaito had had enough. He was going to find out why she was so happy if it killed him!

…hoping that it wouldn't kill him though, he deduced to try and find out without ruining her happy mood.

Akako, propped on her arm nearby, snickered as Kaito approached his target.

With a mischievous grin, Kaito plopped down on Keiko's desk and started juggling, the giggling girls stopped their conversation long enough to send him a confused look before Aoko shook it off and continued her tangent(something along the lines of getting fish for dinner… Kaito shivered).

Kaito frowned, she just ignored him! Like he was nothing! And she still had that ridiculously huge smile on her face! He could practically feel the cry of joy she seemed to be suppressing.

Without his consent, his heart skipped a beat and juggling got a little harder.

Somewhere in the back of his mind he acknowledged that it wasn't her giddy mood that was annoying him… it was that he didn't know who caused it and how.

He wanted to be the one she smiled like that at…!

Kaito shook off the thought as suddenly as it came; he was here on a mission!

Propping an arm on Aoko's head, he continued to juggle.

"What'cha doin'?"

Aoko rolled her eyes, giggling slightly, "Go away, Kaito."

Kaito developed a grin; that was a giggle she only used around him. She was amused.

He had her attention.

"Not until you can tell me that with a straight face!" Kaito practically sang before going for the kill.

Aoko reared back in surprised at the sudden poof of smoke and could only stare in mild surprise while Kaito tickled her nose with a paper rose.

"Cut it out!" she was giggling a lot now, conversation with Keiko long forgotten and her giddy atmosphere replaced with a jovial one reserved for Kaito and his magic tricks.

Kaito grinned more and completely ignored the part of his mind that acknowledged that he was in fact jealous of whoever made her so happy.

((Ending Notes: I'm sad to say that I feel this chapter needs a bit more explanation -.-; -feels like a failure as an author-

Yep that was more of Kaito being jealous of his alter ego x3 (without knowing it) and as for why Aoko was in such a good mood, it's because this is the point in 'Middnight Meetings' that she started to develop a crush on Kid (whether she knew it or not) instead of the normal blatant attraction to affection that she had in the beginning. And like it or hate it, having a crush tends to make girls giddy.

So that was Aoko being giddy over her crush on Kid XD get it?

-Muse-chan feeling disapointed in her writing style.))