Kaito grimaced slightly as he landed on the floor with a hard thud. He tried to yell at his captors, but the wad of cloth stuffed in his mouth and tied tightly at the back of his head made it impossible to do anything but grunt. Kaito tried once again to pull his wrist free of their bonds. Whoever had kidnapped him had done their homework however and had placed the magician's forearms on top of each other and had secured his hands to his elbows with copious amounts of electrical tape. His legs were also bound with black electrical tape once at the ankles and again just behind his knees.
"How much do you think we'll get for him?"
Kaito glared as a beautiful brunette entered his field of vision. Another voice coming from the region of his feet answered coldly.
"If that little brat of a detective cares about him at all then he will give us whatever we ask for."
Kaito snorted through his gag. The brunette looked sharply at the bound boy, "What the hell is so funny?" Kaito merely looked at her and grunted. She growled and ripped the cloth out of his mouth, "I asked you a question." She snarled.
"You're really quite stupid aren't you?"
"What!"
"You heard me little girl." The brunette's eyes grew murderous and she raised her hand to slap him. Suddenly there was a loud crashing noise as the face of the mysterious voice dropped into view, an imprint of a soccer ball clearly etched on his features. All at once another brunette's foot swung out of nowhere and landed squarely in his captor's face and she fell back unconscious, hand still raised in the slapping position. Kaito dropped his head on the floor with a sigh.
His savior quickly knelt beside his and began to work on the tape. "Are you alright Kaito-kun?"
"Ran, how many time do I have to tell you to drop the 'kun' already?" he plastered a grin on his face and turned to look at her, "I'm fine really" She looked at him for a minute as though assessing the truth, but slowly she began to smile back.
"Good," her tone turned suddenly playfully serious, "cause I know a certain detective freak who's been worried sick about you and if you had been hurt…." Kaito sat up and rubbed the parts of his body where the tape had been wrapped too tight. He was just about to ask where the certain detective freak was when there was the sound of running and all at once he was being squeezed to death.
Ran just giggled as her childhood friend inspected his lover from top to bottom before kissing him. She could see the exasperation in Kaito's face, but she also saw the relief and a little something else.
Oh dear