Day 6!

Words: 1,000
Character(s): Kaitou Kuroba, Aoko Nakamori, Toichi Kuroba/(original) Kaitou 1412/KID
Rating: G
Prompt: #6; childhood moment, pig, and cake; 1000 words exact
Disclaimer: Not mine!! Gosho Aoyama owns all!

Flying

Aoko Nakamori, who would be seven years old soon just like her friend, glanced over at said boy as the two sat on the couch playing video games.

Kaitou Kuroba had his little tongue sticking out of his mouth as he sat cross-legged on the couch, frantically beating buttons with his small fingers.

"So, what do you want for your birthday, anyways, Kaitou?" Aoko asked the boy.

Kaitou didn't even spare her a glance, his eyes glued to the screen. "Dunno."

"Aw, come on! You hafta know something you want!"

Kaitou twisted his upper body a bit to the side as if that would help the character on the screen dodge as well. "Mebbe."

Aoko huffed. "Then tell me!"

"I know I'm gett'n a good set for intermediate magic tricks from dad…dunno what I'm gett'n from the other kids…we'll be go'n to the zoo! Didja know?"

"I'm invited, Kaitou. I know…"

"Now, mebbe if I had the zoo…"

"HUH!?" Aoko nearly fell off the couch.

There was a small 'thud' from nearby in the kitchen, but the two children disregarded that since both of Kaitou's parents were in there.

"That would take all the piggy banks in the world to buy!" Aoko exclaimed.

Kaitou laughed. "I was just kidd'n…I wouldn't know where to put the animals."

A moment of silent stretched on.

"Well?" Aoko prompted.

"Well, what?"

"What do you want?"

"Hmm…how about to fly?"

Another pause.

Then, Aoko groaned. "Okay, lemme make it more specific…what do you want that I can get you."

"Oh! Uh…surprise me!"

The only thing that kept Aoko from leaping onto Kaitou and mercilessly beating her best friend was the call from the kitchen.

"Kids! Come in for dinner! There's cake, too!"

Kaitou grinned widely as he paused his game. "Cake! Wooo!"

Aoko followed at a more moderate pace since Kaitou had scurried to the kitchen.

"Where's the cake? Where…?" Kaitou paused when he saw the item on the kitchen counter. Then, he wrinkles his nose. "It's small. And…it's pink."

Sure enough, it was a small cake, with pink frosting and decorated by strawberries.

Laughter came from his mother. "You'll be getting ice cream for your party, so I made a small cake for tonight since today is actually your birthday."

"Well, we couldn't have a party during a school day, after all," Kaitou's father, Toichi, stated.

"But it's pink!" Kaitou stressed to try to get his parents to understand what was so wrong with it.

Toichi's black mustache twitched as he laughed. "Only on the outside! On the inside, it's chocolate death!"

Kaitou's expression turned into one of appeasement. "Welp, it's fine, in that case."

Aoko rolled her eyes as the boy's parents laughed.

Kaitou didn't know what woke him up…only that his clock said that it was eleven at night, and there was a breeze in the room.

Wait…breeze?

It was true that he sometimes opened his windows, it being summer and all, but he knew he had closed it before bed.

Kaitou sat up with a disgruntled frown, then gasped.

At first, he thought it was a ghost…but another look, and he could see the movement of the white cape that billowed in the breeze from the window that the mysterious man stood by.

He wore all white…a white suit with a dark button down undershirt and red tie, a white pair of pants, a white hat with a blue ribbon around the brim, white gloves, and white shoes. There was a monocle over his left eye, and the child could see a black mustache on him and wisps of black hair from under the hat.

"Who…are you?" Kaitou eyed him suspiciously.

The man chuckled, then spoke in a deep voice. "I'm no enemy to you, young one. As for who I am…there are some things in this world meant to remain a mystery."

Kaitou blinked. That sounded like the things his dad and his dad's magician friends often said…

"I heard a wish of yours, and I'm here to grant it. That is all."

Kaitou hopped out of bed, now more curious than anything. "A wish of mine?"

"Yes. It's your birthday today, after all."

"How'd you know that?"

The man winked. "A magician never reveals his secrets, young Kaitou."

"Uwaa…you even know my name!"

A gloved hand extended towards him. "And, if you'll let me…I'll grant a wish of yours."

"Wish?"

A smile appeared on the man's face. "To fly."

For some reason or another, Kaitou found his hand in the man's gloved one. Strong arms wrapped around him and picked him up.

"I'm warning you…you'd better be tell'n the truth, cause if you hurt me or tryta kidnap me, my dad will beat you up! He's the greatest magician ever!"

The man chuckled. "I have no doubts of that. But, this is merely granting a wish."

What happened next was a blur to Kaitou…he was vaguely aware that they had left the house, and from what he could discern, had traveled fairly quickly one way or another. He didn't know how, because he had felt sleepy and closed his eyes in the man's arms.

When he opened them again, he gasped.

They were on top of the weather building, which was one of the tallest buildings in the area.

The wind was chilly that high up, even in June, and Kaitou could see the lights from below.

Then, before he could say a word, they were falling.

Kaitou let out a yelp, and was about to shout at the suicidal man, when he realized that they were no longer falling…no…they were floating.

They were gliding.

The man's cape had somehow turned into a glider, and they were soaring millions of miles up in the air, above the city but below the stars.

After his initial gasp at the beauty and freedom of the flight, the man spoke again.

"So…do you like your present, young one?"

"You kidd'n?" Kaitou smiled brightly. "This is the best birthday ever!"

END