Genre: Romance, hurt/comfort, Supernatural
Rated: K+
Word count: 1,830
Chapter 3
- Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love -
~Albert Einstein
Unbelievable. Three simple rules. Three!
- Don't follow him to his house.
- Don't follow him two days in a row.
- Don't watch him for too long.
He already broke two of those rules…..
Shinichi looked around frantically. He felt stupid for looking around to see if anyone noticed him when he'd been invisible for about two years, but he still did it ever thirty seconds. After that he'd watch the magician sitting with his friends around a table on the other side of the restaurant. His body told him to hide behind a menu, like he saw a girl do once when she was spying on the guy she liked…..Since when did he get urges to act like a girl?!
Shaking his head quickly he ignored the thought and went back to his task. Namely watching Kuroba Kaito and thinking up good reason as to why he was breaking his own rules. He'd been watching the magician for four days straight now, only letting him out of his sight when he went home. He watched him at school, laughed silently at his tricks and antics, followed him after school until he parted with his best friend Aoko and spied on him when he was meeting up with friends – namely Aoko, Hakuba and sometimes a strange girl, who Kaito was definitely careful with named Koizumi or something.
As he watched how Aoko laughed about something Kaito said he wondered if they were going out. It didn't really seem that way since they didn't hold hands or kissed or anything, but their classmates always said they were married. How did that happen? Was it arranged by their parents or something? Aoko always said that they weren't, while Kaito happily confirmed it. Was she not happy with it?
Spoiled brat. She doesn't even deserve him!
Whoa! Wrong train of thoughts, Shinichi! You don't know her! Come on focus! He looked back up, only to see the table with the two childhood friends empty. He jumped and looked around for the two only to see them walking out of the restaurant. Shinichi ran after them, narrowly avoiding a waiter. Outside he saw them walk around the corner back towards home. Usually he would have stopped and walked the other way because he knew nothing was going to happen on the way back. Not this time though. He followed them to the point where they would part, but they kept walking. Together. Towards Kaito's house….
He stopped and watched them move away further. Should he follow them? He said he would never go to the magician's house, but….he already broke two of the three rules. So a third one wouldn't matter that much, right?
He heard his pulse beat rapidly in his ears. What was he going to do? Breaking that last rule might be the final straw.
But he had to know. He had to know more about Kaito. What made him tick? What was going through his mind? What was behind that mask? Yes, he'd noticed. Kaito sometimes faked his emotions. Played he was happy. Manipulated a conversation to another subject when the one at that moment wasn't something he wanted to talk about.
Hesitantly he took a step forward. And another one. Another, another, another. Until he was following the two childhood friends towards the magician's home. He could still turn back now. He still didn't know where he lived, so he could turn back. He thought about it and almost willed his body to stop and turn around when Kaito opened the gate towards one of the houses. He moved towards the front door and retrieved a key from his pocket to open it. Shinichi stilled in front of the house.
Now it was too late. He knew the address and wouldn't be able to let it leave his mind. His eyes trailed over the building in front of him, taking in the small details, then the garden and lastly towards the door which was now closing. How would he get in?
First through the gate, duhuh. He thought to himself and did just that. He felt like a thief when he walked towards one of the windows and looked through it after taking a quick look around to see if there was anyone out on the road – idiot! He looked inside the living room, at the back he could see a little hallway of sort leading towards what he thought would be the kitchen. Aoko and Kaito were nowhere to be found. After taking another glance to see if there were any open windows he walked around the house, but at the front nor at the back of the house were any. Hesitantly he looked through the window in the backdoor, seeing no one in the kitchen. He tried as softly as he could to open it.
The handle got stuck at the last part and he had to push really hard, but once he was passed that the door opened up silently. Quickly slipping inside he closed the door. His heart skipped a beat as just that moment Kaito and Aoko walked inside the kitchen. He pressed himself against the wall on instinct, which lessened the chance that people would bump into him. The two though were too busy fighting that even if they could see him they wouldn't notice him. Both glared at the other and Shinichi could just feel the tension building.
Maybe he shouldn't have followed. This seemed to be a rather personal fight.
"I can choose to go out with anyone I want without needing your permission, Kaito!" He really shouldn't be so intrigued in this argument. Aoko rarely used the magician's real name instead of Bakaito and those were the times when she was absolutely serious.
"I'm just saying that you should be careful! I don't trust that guy! I mean, look at how he looks!" Kaito yelled back at her. How could he leave without letting them notice if they were going to keep standing in the door opening like that? He couldn't slip between them, with them moving around so much – yet not away from the door – and the only other way out was the back door, which they would definitely see if it opened all of a sudden.
"You can't judge a book by its cover! So don't go telling me about who to go out with and who not! Especially if you've never even asked me out!" That made Kaito take a step back. A painful expression crossed his face, but it was soon replaced by a frown. Shinichi watched the two interact, surprised since he'd never seen them like this. "Thank you for buying me dinner Kaito, but I should go now. See you tomorrow at school."
And with that Aoko left, leaving behind a quiet Kaito who just watched her move back towards the front door. As soon as said door was closed with a loud bang he stomped out of the kitchen and towards the stairs. At first Shinichi wasn't sure if he should follow him. He stood a few minutes frozen against the wall, contemplating his options. Eventually he decided he'd just check up on the magician. When he reached the corridor upstairs he looked for the room where Kaito was and found him in his bedroom.
So….now what….He wanted to check up on him and well….what else could he do but look at the teen standing in front of a painting. The painting was a of a magician on a stage, holding a top hat in one hand, while doves flew around him. He noticed the similarities between the man and his own father, Yusaku. Taking in Kaito's expression he tried to distract himself as his heart clenched in a painful, longing feeling.
"What should I do, Tou-san?" The teen whispered. Tou-san? So the magician in the painting was his father. It made sense though. Kaito definitely got his physical appearances from his father. Shinichi watched in fascination as the teen let his hand touch a spot on the painting a little above eye level. His fingertips brushed the surface hesitantly, then pushed forward opening a hidden door. Shinichi couldn't help, but let his jaw fall as Kaito disappeared behind the painting.
His mind reeled for several moments, trying to process what had happened, but really there was no explanation for the magician's need of a secret room or corridor or wherever the door let to. The only way to find out was to get in and look for himself. But what if Kaito was still on the other side and saw him open the door? What if he came back just then? It didn't look like the door would just open without a reason.
He really wanted to find out where it let though. Long forgotten detective instincts urged him to investigate this secret space. What would be wrong with just a little peek?
Making a decision he took the chance and pushed at the exact same place where Kaito had pushed. He felt the painting give in under his hand and he almost squeaked when it suddenly spun around, making him fall forward. He landed hard on his back on the stairs, luckily he didn't fall any further down. After the initial shock he stood up, rubbing the aching place on his back. The stairway was dark, but further down he saw a light.
He moved down cautiously until he stepped into a room, which looked more like some kind of underground garage. All kinds of gadgets lay on a huge working table, the space between those was filled with tools and blueprints. He saw a closet standing against the left wall and huge boxes next to it, filled with what seemed to be magic equipment. Somewhere in the back he even saw a car – how the hell did that get here?
He started from a sudden clink from the closet, head spinning in that direction. Kaito had pushed some button on one of the doors and all of them opened. Mechanical arms came out of them holding a white suit with a navy-blue shirt and a red tie, a white top hat with a navy-blue stripe and a monocle with a clover dangling on the side like a charm.
Wait….
Kaito took the top hat in his hands stroking it affectionately. Shinichi could still see the top hat on that messy brown hair.
That is…..
The monocle was next. Put carefully on the right eye, Shinichi remembered his face from pictures in the newspaper.
Kaitou KID's uniform….
A fond smile appeared on Kaito's face as he looked in the mirror and for some reason it triggered his memory to think of the grinning face of Kaitou KID on the front page, on the news and everywhere after a heist.
That means….
Kaito is Kaitou KID…
A/N: And here's the next chapter! I really hope you guys like it, because I'm not really happy about it... I think it went a bit too fast...
Anyway, don't forget to leave a review ^,^
Thank you to the ones who did on the last chapter, namely; CresentMoonSpirit, Kaddy 16, Clams-and-Rainbows, Mokuren no Ken, mochiusagi, Jelp and suebsas.
Replies to guests:
Jelp: Well, children are more innocent and belief in ghost more than adults do. Children are just more prominent to seeing ghosts because they still don't rule them out as impossible - unlike adults.
Well, I got that from somewhere else, but I thought that it was correct so I used that train of thought for this story - and every other story that I write or will write about ghosts.
XD Jup, that would definitely be awesome!
suebsas: Me neither actually, but it's easier for Shinichi. Otherwise he would have to get food from somewhere, but since he can't use money, he'd have to steal food thus making him a criminal and first of all I thought he wouldn't like that nor would it fit his character ^^
