Genre: Romance, hurt/comfort, angst, Supernatural

Rated: T

Word count: 1,714

Disclaimer (forgot it last chapter): I don't own!

Chapter 2

- Let's commit the perfect crime, I'll steal your heart and you'll steal mine -

Kaito looked around with half-lidded eyes, filled with sheer boredom. The teacher was holding a lecture about how important philosophers were for the development of politics in the ancient Greece, while the whole class was bored out of its mind. Students yawned almost all the time, others were passing notes, but most of them just stared at something in front of them.

Maybe it was time he did something. A maniacal grin spread on his face and not a second later the whole class was covered in a cloud of smoke. Startled yells resounded with the echo of the explosion and when the smoke slowly disappeared the whole classroom was painted in baby blue – except for two persons, Akako and the felon himself, who both stood out with their normal colored clothing and skin and hair and….well everything. It took a second before the girls screamed as they noticed that even the color of their panties had changed.

"Kaito!" The prankster saw Aoko blink as several other voices joined her angry shout. He laughed at them, though that soon stopped as he was faced with every girl from the classroom – excluding Akako, who sat quietly in her chair, looking rather amused – looking with murderous glares at him. He yelped as the girls tried to grab him, but avoided them easily. Deciding that it was getting dangerous he stopped on the windowsill. Grinning he waved at his classmates and jumped down with a playful 'Ja ne!'. Landing safely with the help of a tree on the ground he heard his classmates shout after him as he walked away.

When he reached the street he released a puff of smoke, putting on a disguise – he didn't feel like people asking him if he should be at school – and continued his walk over the street. He just felt like being alone for a bit. If he was alone he could feel him. Some person, who he couldn't see, only feel. It was a weird feeling and he was wondering if he wasn't going crazy like everyone said he already was.

But the feeling was just so real that he couldn't ignore it. It differed where he got the feeling, mostly it came to him when he was alone, but sometimes it would feel like someone really lonely was looking at him when he was laughing with Aoko and Hakuba. Once he'd been in the cinema looking at an action movie. All of a sudden it had felt like someone had sat down beside him, a chilly feeling had spread over the left side of his body and he'd shivered as he turned his head to the chair next to him. Sad blue eyes looked straight at him for only a second before they disappeared, making him wonder if it hadn't been his imagination. When the 'spirit' had left he'd had this rather empty feeling.

"Where are you?" he muttered as he walked around aimlessly. First down the busy streets, then in the park and now in some mal he didn't recognize. The spirit was nowhere. He shook his head, deciding that yes he had finally gone haywire. Seriously he was skipping school and searching for a ghost who he didn't know even existed. With a sigh he headed towards the exit and walked back to his house. On the way it began to rain all of a sudden and he cursed himself for not taking an umbrella to school. Quickly covering his head with his arm and bag he started to run. Water spat up as he sprinted through the puddles forming on the pavement.

"Aah!" A cry of surprise made him look up. He was walking on a riverbed and could look into the garden of a house where three children were playing in the rain. One of them had fallen in a puddle and was now soaked. His two friends came to stand by his sides immediately, first looking at him with worry, then they burst out laughing. Soon the third boy joined them and jumped up from the ground to continue playing. Kaito had stopped to see the event for a bit and smiled as he remembered the time he and Aoko had played in the rain when they were little.

XxX

He turned around, ready to find some place to lie down and sleep, when he saw him. That teenaged boy. Hair messy – and currently wet –, mischievous, indigo eyes and a laid-back attitude. Kuroba Kaito, he knew from the times he'd followed him during one of his trips with his friends. A magician who looked so much like him. Shinichi hadn't known he'd been there until now when he turned around and saw him continue his run through the rain. Just in time he stepped aside to avoid letting the other run into him and he saw Kaito's eyes widen at the movement. A few steps further he stopped and twisted around, looking Shinichi straight in the eyes.

They'd have this moment before. When he'd followed him and his friends inside the cinema. He hadn't meant to let the other see him or know that he was there. He just wanted to remember what it was like to go out with friends again. So he'd sat down in the empty chair beside the magician. Why, he didn't know but the other looked to the side as soon as he had. For a few seconds he sat frozen, looking into the pair of indigo eyes. Yes, they had looked at him too. First it was happiness that filled in his heart. Somebody saw him! Somebody could really see him!

Then he remembered the last time that had happened. A girl had seen him. He was about to talk to her when she started screaming about a ghost standing in front of her. He tried to get her to stop, but she wouldn't listen and only screamed louder. A few days later she was brought to a mental facility.

He couldn't let that happen again. Not to anyone and especially not to Kaito. He'd really come to enjoy watching the magician's life. He couldn't screw it up. Kaito was too nice a person.

So he ran. Out of the cinema, out of the street, back to his home where he'd spent a few days far away from the teen. He promised himself not to mess with the magician's life and to just watch when he was out with friends and sometimes he go with him to school. But never at his house. Never follow him too long. Never watch him two days in a row.

Keep your distance.

Now it was the second time they had a moment like this. Azure meeting indigo. And this moment lasted longer than the first.

Too long.

XxX

Kaito couldn't look away. If he looked away now, maybe those eyes would disappear like they had in the cinema. He didn't want that. He wanted to know more about this spirit, if he really existed – though it was hard to say he didn't, seeing as he was now standing right in front of him –, what his name was or is, why he was so lonely and what had happened. Everything. As a child he'd always been really curious.

Now he was acquisitive.

"Who are you?" He asked, wincing at the loudness of his voice. The spirit backed off, like a scared animal. Eyes moved from left to right, before they disappeared. "No wait!" Kaito yelled, but it was too late. An empty feeling filled him as he felt that he was staring at a retreating back, but couldn't even see it. The spirit was gone. He'd scared him off.

He kept standing in the rain for a while. The cold liquid slowly drenched his clothing and he knew that he should go if he didn't want to be sick tomorrow. He got his feet to move after two minutes or so passed, but the movement was sluggish and almost didn't register in his mind. No, he wasn't crazy. That spirit really existed. There was no other explanation for this feeling. Why did he even feel this way? Why did he want to know more about that spirit so badly? Maybe it was because he felt the spirit's loneliness. The sadness that shrouded around the invisible creature, waving around it like a fog.

His body worked on auto-pilot as he walked inside his house, closed the door, took off his shoes and climbed the stairs. It was only when he stood inside his bedroom that he was shot out of his musings. His disguise had been shed, schoolbag lay on the ground next to his desk and he stood in front of his bed, looking at it as if it would give him answers he wanted.

Maybe being crazy wasn't so bad if only the bed would give him just that. An answer.

XxX

Shinichi ran. Away from the teenager he'd promised he'd stay away from. Why was he there? He lived in Ekoda, Shinichi knew and yes he was in Ekoda right now. So he was going home? But school wasn't finished yet. What if he was sick and told to go home? Would he be lying in bed then? Cheeks red from a high fever?

Screaming in frustration Shinichi jumped in the river. He felt the cold surround him and his body as he looked up towards the water surface above him, rain disrupting its smoothness with circles that grew until they disappeared.

He did this a lot. Let his body just float under water and look up at what's above him. Because that's what his live was like now. He was left alone in the cold and could only see people move on the other side. He couldn't speak to them, he couldn't get to them, he couldn't mess up their lives. The lack of air didn't kill him, like not eating or the lack of clothing couldn't.

He screamed again as all thoughts brought him back to that person. Kuroba Kaito. His eyes slowly closed as he fell asleep. Thoughts swayed to the background as the cold water nuzzled his skin as if telling him to just let it go for now.

It'll be okay.


A/N: Hey, so here is the next chapter ^^ Oh, I forgot to say something last chapter. This story is based on Fairy tail episode 128. While watching this the idea suddenly popped into my head and I had to write it -.-'

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