Chapter 2 - Deal

'My body feels as heavy as lead.'

Aoko felt like being under water, only that instead of floating she felt as if her body was stuck at the bottom and everything around her was dark and cold. Subtle murmurs could be heard in a far corner of her throbbing head. Her fuzzy mind was having a hard time to focus on her surroundings and what was actually going on.

'I can hear someone's voice…but I can't quite make out what they're saying.'

"Aoko…" She heard a muffled voice, followed by a gentle caress on her left cheek. She pleasantly noticed how warm the touch felt.

'Is that person calling out to me? Who could it be?'

With the scarce strength she possessed at the moment, Aoko tried opening her eyes but her eyelids felt as if they weighed a ton, resulting in small blinking movements that let her caught a quick glimpse of the outside world. It was all chaotic and confusing, blurry images and mingled colors danced in front of her; all but one shadowy face of a boy with messy hair and deep blue eyes.

"I…"

Darkness engulfed her, like a deep veil over her eyes; her body couldn't hold on any more. And all was still and quiet once again.

The wind was numbing cold, her legs trembled, her fingers twitched. She tried to speak, to say something, anything, but she found it dry and coarse.

The moonshine revealed the silent tears running down her face. She didn't even make an attempt to hide them. She couldn't.

His impeccable white clothes shined against the dark night.

"I'm sorry."

A faint whisper, but damn the stillness of the night…she could still hear him.

She shouted. She cursed. She hated. She swore. She threatened.

And he silently agreed to every single one of them.

She broke into million pieces.

"Mmm…" Aoko stirred, saying farewell to her dreamless sleep; her hand went to massage her still aching head. She seriously felt as if a bunch of elephants had decided to dance polka over her head…twice. "Ugh, my head's killing me…"

She half noticed the feeling of a soft fabric under her fingers, and after tiredly cracking her eyes open she realized she was in a bed…an unknown bed with white silk sheets. "Actually…where am I?"

Aoko blinked, pushing herself into a sitting position. Her mind started run through her fuzzy memories, following step by step from the beginning of her day to the KID heist. 'I remember running into KID at the museum…and I think he knocked me out…with some sort of gas, maybe?' Aoko tiredly rubbed between her eyes, her eyesight becoming more focus now. 'What exactly happened to me after that?'

Sudden anger started to build up deep inside her when her mind fully processed her own statement.

'That son of a bitch! Even though we made a deal he goes and- gahhh!'

She knew. She had known for few years. It was the main reason for why she hadn't seen him for such a long time. She promised to never reveal Kaito's secret if he stayed out of her life. That person…

'Kaito…' She sighed. 'That time in high school…Who knew Hakuba had been right all along?' She grimly remembered how the detective had used to tease him about being KID. Endless of times Hakuba had approached him in hopes of cornering him and make him confess, all of which Kaito had eluded with an extremely convincing alibi.

And to think she had always so stubbornly and foolishly defended him. Aoko gripped the sheets with a pained expression. She knew she shouldn't be thinking about the past, not now. Not ever.

A hasty memory of last night's events crossed her mind. 'And what about the gun that went off back then…?' She quickly tossed the white covers and got off the king sized bed, relieved to have something else to think about. 'In any case, I need to start by figuring out what's going on here. Geez…I can't believe I was so careless.' She stared at her surroundings, only noticing the bed, two night tables on each side of the bed, a small round table with two chairs on the left corner of the room and two doors that obviously one of them must be the exit to this room. 'Still, where exactly is this place?'

All of a sudden, one of the doors started to open and Aoko braced herself for whoever was on the other side…

"Ah! You are awake, Aoko-san? Thank goodness…you've been asleep all day long."

"Huh!? Hakuba-kun?" Aoko exclaimed, quite startled to see him at the door (and holding a tray with a tea pot, one cup and what looked like delicious biscuits), instead of a certain unwanted thief.

"Yes?" The British detective looked at her with curious eyes.

"I see…so you're the one who brought me here?" Aoko felt so relieved at that moment.

"Don't you remember what happened last night?" He arched a questioning eyebrow.

"Uh…I don't know what happened after I passed out."

"Mmm…I see…Ah! Here, you must be a bit hungry. I brought you some tea with biscuits." He merrily mentioned to the tray on his hands while leaving it over the small table.

"Ah! Thank you, Hakuba-kun." She smiled, gratefully. She really could do with a nice cup of tea at the moment to calm her nerves.

"Well, I found you collapsed on the stairway." He idly commented, with his ever present British manners, while pouring some of the dark tea on her cup. "So I decided to bring you back home with me."

Aoko briefly wondered why he didn't take her with her father. It would have made a lot more sense than bringing her to his home.

Out of the blue she started giggling; a mad idea crossing her mind. "You're not suddenly going to say 'I'm KID', are you?"

"Huh? What's that supposed to mean?" He paused on his current task, focusing his gaze on hers.

"Yeah, never mind…" She made a quick gesture with her hand for him to discard her comment. The silly idea of actually being kidnapped by KID sounded really bizarre and improbable now. After all, why would he do it? Even though he was the last person she saw before fainting, what motives would he had had to take her away instead of leaving her in the good hands of the police and her father? But if he hadn't taken her away then, who did the blurry image from before belonged to? She hadn't been so sure at that moment, but now that she was trying to put the pieces together with a clearer mind, she was so certain that the unmistakable untamed hair and cobalt eyes had belonged to him…

"Aoko-san?" Hakuba put a hand over her shoulder. She knew he must have noticed her confused expression and now was worried.

"Well, the truth is…" She shifted her bare feet over the carpeted floor. "Before fainting I saw KID."

"KID?!"

"Uh…yeah. I just happened to run into him." Although she tried to sound casual, her insides where twitching with an unknown emotion. 'I know he thinks that Kaito is KID but…I can't tell him that I actually know. I made a deal after all…'

"So that's when you passed out, huh?" Hakuba left her side and sat on one of the chairs, adopting a thinking posture. She could tell by his expression that his mind was already working and processing what she just told him. She needed to be careful with the information she leaked, one mistake and Hakuba would realize she was hiding information.

"Uh…well, something like that." She knew she was a very bad liar, but with Hakuba around she was a double bad liar.

"Aoko-san…"

"Mmm?" Aoko stood, nonchalantly making her way towards the petite table and grabbed her cup of tea taking a short sip; her tongue tasted the sweet flavor of strawberry tea. 'How did Hakuba know that I like strawberry tea?'

"When I found you collapsed on the floor…I also found traces of gunfire."

Aoko stilled her movements.

"Did something else happen at the time?"

'That's right…at the time, KID seemed like he was being chased but not by the police. They wouldn´t shoot at him.'

A small beep sound interrupted the deep silence between the two.

"What was that sound?" Hakuba wondered.

"Oh, this?" Aoko extracted a small device from under the collar of her shirt. "This is a high-powered, ultra-thin cellphone that a journalist friend gave me." She grinned. "Apparently some professor invented it and he ordered several of them for him and other co-workers. He thought I should carry one of these in case I someday got in trouble." Aoko briefly wondered if she really did get in that much trouble… "See? It's got an adhesive sheet that I can use to stick it underneath my collar so no one would notice it."

Aoko giggled, standing up to settle herself over the wide comfortable bed. "Pretty cool, huh? Now, looks like somebody is calling me. It must be-"

Aoko couldn't finish her sentence for a hand suddenly knocked out the device from her hands, while another hand pressed firmly over her mouth, pushing her violently backwards over the bed. A large heavy body straddled her hips making her impossible to move. She could hear a faint voice that was coming from the device calling her name.

Her hands started to frantically move in hopes of getting free from her captor. How could Hakuba be doing this to her?! What was he thinking?!

And then, she could hear her own voice speaking…

"Hello? Ah, sorry daddy, but the signal seems to be really weak."

"Where are you?! I had to call you on this number because I couldn't reach you on your regular cell phone!"

"Sorry…sorry…like I said, I have really bad signal right now. What is it? Is there something wrong?"

Aoko cracked one eye open when her hand came in contact with something soft and plastic like rubber; she pulled without hesitation.

"Ah, something has come up. I'm afraid I need to go"

"Still, you should have at least contacted me to let me know you were alright."

"I'm sorry about that."

"You are not in danger, are you?"

"Nah, it's not like I'm dealing with a murderer or anything. And if I were, I wouldn't be talking like this to you daddy!"

Aoko's eyes widened at the sight of the person's true face.

Kaito's face was wickedly smiling behind the few remains of the broken mask.

"Well, I need to get going, but I promise to call you as soon as I get home." He grinned. "Yeah…I told you I'm just fine!"

Aoko closed her eyes tightly, a sudden wave of different emotions bathing her whole body.

"Talk to you later!" Kaito ended the conversation and released her mouth. "Aww…sorry about that, Nakamori-san." He teased, his voice drastically changing to his real one.

"You…! What the hell?! What are you doing!?" Before she realized, Kaito had turned her around facing down over the mattress, and had clasped a handcuff on her left wrist.

"K-Kuroba…!" Not Kaito, because she had angrily promised to never call him again by his name. And he wouldn't call her by her first name either, that was part of their deal, right? To lose all attachments between them. "What do you intend to do!?"

"Listen…" Kaito casually started to remove the remaining pieces of the mask. "If you had just gone along my little act, I never would have had to do this. But now that you know my little secret…"

"WHAT?! You're not going to get away with this!" She tried giving a few tentative pulls in hopes of releasing her hand.

"In that case…" Kaito grinned. "Why don't we cut a little deal?" Kaito's face got nearer to Aoko's while she slightly backed away. "After all, we are good at making deals, right Nakamori-san?"

Aoko grumbled, throwing a tentative punch with her free hand towards him. A punch that he easily evaded with a mocking grin.

"For the next ten days…all I want you to do is stay right here."

"Ten days?" She repeated, not wanting to show how nervous she actually felt for having him so close. "I don't understand the point of this."

"Isn't it obvious? During those ten days there are some jewels that I want to steal."

Aoko blinked, her nervous state quickly changing into rage. "Don't play me for a fool! You expect me to just sit back and let you do what you want!?"

Kaito smiled, putting a finger in front of his lips as if making a silence sign. "Like I said, if you can hold out for ten days, you'll be able to tell the cops all about me."

Aoko's breath stilled. Kaito was letting her reveal his identity to the cops...just in exchange of her staying there for ten days? "Are you serious? What are you thinking?" She looked suspiciously at him, she couldn't fully trust him. Not anymore.

"Well, it's not like the cops are going to be able to catch me even if they know who I am." He merrily answered.

"I see…" She scoffed. "You're pretty confident about that, aren't you?" After a few seconds of silence and staring at her chained wrist, Aoko lifted her head. A deep glare was directed towards her ex-boyfriend. "Okay. You are on." One would think she had gone completely mad for agreeing with him, but she had viewed her options, and from her perspective she was completely stuck. Might as well agree with him and see where it was going.

Kaito smile widened. But she could see a few leaks in the mask, a bit of sadness perhaps?

"But! Only on one condition…" Kaito blinked, confused. "I want you to tell me why you decided to become KID. That night…you never actually told me why and at first I couldn't care less but now…" Aoko shifted her gaze; the wall seemed much more interesting now. "Now, I want to know why you did it. Why did you have to lie to me all those years ago…"

It was true…at first, she had been so mad at him that she had thought whatever the reason he had had, it wasn't enough to explain his actions. But now, after a few years of pondering and cooling down, she was curious to know his motives. She felt a little stupid asking him that now, and Kaito's silence made her think he would never willingly tell her now after all that had happened.

"Sure." Her eyes quickly shifted over his, searching for something, anything that would let her know he wasn't lying. Though, how could she really tell? "I don't mind telling you, Nakamori-san."

And he smiled. It was a smile like she had never seen before…so beautiful and yet so sad that made a shiver to run down her back towards the very tip of her toes. She had to look away. She wouldn't let herself feel anything for him. Not again.

Another beeping, different than the last one, interrupted the silence between them.

"W-What was that?"

"Uh oh…I almost forgot." Kaito checked his watch. "Sorry, time's up."

"Time's up for what?" 'Don't tell me he's on his way to steal something?'

Kaito stood up, stretching his limbs as if he were a giant cat. "I've got a magic show that's about to start."

"Oh…I see…" She blinked, not quite expecting that.

"I'll be back in about five hours." He suddenly sat back down leaning a bit towards her. "Don't you even try to think about running away, alright? Especially not after our deal has been reached."

Aoko humped and glared. If looks could only kill…

"If you break your end of the bargain, who knows what I'll end up doing…" Kaito was again throwing her a grin that was more suited for the Cheshire cat. But she was not going to show him any kind of reaction. She wasn't going to give him that pleasure. Her feelings for him were way over and she was a grown up woman now. Kaito didn't scare her. She was going to show him that his games didn't work on her.

"I understand." She answered in a monotone voice. "Geez…if we're in agreement, can't you at least undo these cuffs?" She was feeling extremely annoying with the fact that she couldn't freely move.

Kaito smiled, much too happy for her likeness. "I'm afraid those are part of the agreement!"

Aoko muttered a loud curse.

"My, such a dirty mouth…" He chuckled. "Now, you should be able to reach that door over there if you need to use the toilet." He pointed to the door on her left, near the bed. "And there are books in that drawer, so you can read those to kill some time." Now pointing to one of the night tables.

'He sure is well prepared…'

"Nakamori-san."

"Huh?" Aoko noticed he was suddenly opening the other door.

"Make sure you don't forget. We've got ourselves an agreement." And he waved her little device and cell phone before leaving the room.

Aoko stared quietly at the closed door. Her mind already forming a plan to escape.

Kaito was finishing getting ready for the show when he heard someone calling him from behind.

"Kaito!" he noticed it was one of his partners; a cute and nice girl with blonde hair and amber eyes that, he knew, had some feelings for him. It was hard not to notice them. "Are you just about ready?"

"Yeah, I'm all set Tia." He smiled, casually. "I'll be right there."

"Hey, Kaito?" Tia neared him with an enthusiastic expression.

"What is it?"

"With your skill, I'll bet you could do your very own show. So why do you stick with this magic troupe?" She wondered, her amber eyes shifting nervously to the floor.

Kaito sighed. "Good question." He closed his locker. "I guess I just feel a sense of comfort being with the whole gang." He had felt too alone for some years; it didn´t mean that he had been literally alone, his mother and Jii-chan had always been with him. And, even though he didn´t like to admit it, Hakuba had also made him company from time to time with chess games and loads of tea (damn his British habits). He even experienced the company of some little nocturne adventures. But he yearned the opportunity of being with someone else…

"Really?" Tia sighed. Kaito could tell by her sudden change of humor that she was expecting a different answer.

"And besides, I'm not sure I've got the courage to go about it all by myself." He smiled, playfully. His mask doing its job by covering his real emotions.

"Aww, you're always cracking jokes, Kaito!" She pouted at first but then cracked a small smile not being able to contain herself.

Kaito laughed, glad that he had lifted up her mood, and started heading towards the exit of the room when he noticed someone, in a scandalous tight short black dress with the three top buttons open, and thus revealing her prominent bust, was leaning over the door frame.

"Akako." To say he was startled to see her there was a statement. He hadn't counted with her appearing this soon, but then again one could never tell what the sexy witch was really planning.

She gave him a seductive smile.

"I don't remember calling you here." He continued his way towards the exit.

"Oh? I'm not happy to be here either, actually." She purred.

He passed by her side not really caring what she got to say.

"You can't expect me to believe you hadn't considered the possibility that I may know your little secret. And I'm not talking about a certain someone in white."

Kaito stopped, slightly turning to face the witch.

"Kaito, it's time to start the show…" Tia suggested, seeing the serious face on his partner.

"I'm on my way" He replied, curtly.

"Okay…just hurry, alright?" Tia briefly glanced towards Akako and made her way towards where the rest of the troupe was.

Once the girl was out of sight, Akako scoffed. "Oh my…sounds like that girl's got a thing for you too, huh?" She chuckled. "And yet you've told me countless times who your heart really belongs to."

"If you don't have any business here please get back to your seat." He answered her with an indifferent expression.

"Heh heh…don't worry. I'll be done here soon enough." a subtle movement, she flicked a strand of her silk hair behind her shoulder. "I only came here to pass on a message."

Akako grinned. "You told me why you decided to leave Japan. Surely you can't expect me to believe that you've forgotten?"

Kaito's lips twitched into a taunting smile. "I'm not sure I know what you're talking about."

"So you say…you can put up a bold front for now…" One of her perfectly manicured fingers traced Kaito's cheek lightly. "But the wheels are already turning…" Her voice lowering to a whisper. "The curse known as fate, will eventually put a stop to you time together."

Her finger kept trailing down sensually towards his lips. "It would take a miracle to make it stop…so-"

Akako's hand wad quickly slapped away.

"Sorry, I really don't have a clue what you are talking about." He smiled, like nothing in the world was wrong. "See you around. The show is about to start." And resumed his walk towards the stage.

"You…You really are a fool!" Akako felt extremely pissed off. How dared he to reject her like that? "I mean it… Don't expect any miracles to happen!"

'That's right…there won't be any miracles…and I have no intention of waiting for one to happen…' Kaito thought, sourly.

"I won't let it happen." He whispered. 'I'll figure out what to do…'

"Kaito!" Tai called him. "It's almost time!"

"Yeah…this is the greatest stage…" He grinned, his hands already on the work for the opening trick.

'I will change fate with my own two hands…even if I have to destroy this world to do it…'

The lights of the stage consumed his whole body while the cheering from the crowd invaded his ears.

Still, a single name remained untouchable inside his mind.

'Aoko…'

"Mmm…mmngh…"

Aoko stretched towards the exit door as far as her body could. "I can't reach it! Dammit!"

"Geez…" She pulled the chain attached to the cuffs. "These handcuffs sure are sturdy!" , Aoko let herself fall ungraciously onto the bed feeling tired with her many failed attempts to get free. "Aww, geez! I guess I should expect no less from that bastard KID…but still…"

Aoko could feel her eyebrow twitching in annoyance. "I can't help but feel cheated…I'm just so close to being able to reach the door…" She sighed in hopes of calming her killing aura. "At least I can reach the toilet but there are no windows, only a small vent in there." She mumbled to herself. "It's almost as if he was planning to lock me up in here from the very beginning."

She sighed. "Well then, what should I do? I guess I've got about three hours left, right?" She absently looked at her cuffed wrist.

"In that case, let's make a deal…"

Kaito's smiling face, and their previous talk, suddenly appeared in her mind.

"Now that you know my little secret, I'll keep you here for ten days while I steal some jewels. Then, I'll gladly tell you why I became KID…"

"It doesn't make sense." She thought out loud. "I've known his secret all this time, still only now does he decide to lock me up…" A bit of her locked up melancholy wanted to come out on the surface, she really despised how things turned out for them.

Aoko pushed once again those unwanted feelings way deep down. She promised never to think about how things were back then…

Her rage came back with a new idea that crossed through her mind, and once again she found herself hating the man who locked her up. "If I think about it, Kuroba must be actually having fun with this."

A slight frown formed between her azure eyes when a new idea popped into mind. It would hurt, but it was the only way. "While I don't really intend to run away…" She grabbed part of the fine sheets and tore them without hesitation, wrapping the remains over her left hand. "Sorry, Kuroba. I know I made a deal with you, but if you intend to keep details of this deal a secret…" She tried to get together the fingers under the newly made bandages as closely as possible while her right hand positioned over the iron cuff. "That in itself must violate the terms of the deal!" And with all her strength, and a muffled cry, she pushed down...

"Kaito…"

With a bottle of water in one hand and leaning tiredly against his locker, Kaito smiled to the head of the Hopper's Magician Troupe. "What is it, Jody?"

"Did you tell Tia that you were staying with the troupe, today?" The blonde woman demanded with a serious face. "Didn't you say so yourself? That you wanted to surpass your father someday?"

"….yeah…about that…" He lowered his gaze. "I think this tour of Japan will be my last…I'll be quitting the troupe after that."

"Then you'll be going about it on your own, right?"

His bangs shadowed his eyes, only letting her see a small melancholic smile. "Someday, I think you'll understand why I really don't have the right to even speak my father's name…" He lifted his gaze, clear blue stared back at her making a marvelous job at hiding the shadows behind them. "My qualifications as a magician are just so…"

Jodi looked at him with a confused expression. Wondering what could have happened to the once strong willed magician that now looked like his dreams had no future…

"Ouch…" Small droplets of blood ran down her wrist and spilled over the sheets of the bed. "I guess I got what I deserved there…damn, that really hurts." Aoko hold her arm tight in hopes for it to stop shaking from the throbbing pain on her wrist. Without letting another second to pass, she grabbed the previously used pieces of sheet and started to bandage her left hand once again, this time to stop the bleeding a bit.

'I'd better hurry up before he gets back…' She made her way towards the door. 'Well then, should I just kick the door down? I'll bet it's not unlocked…' She gave a tentative try on the handle, realizing with a bit of surprise that it was indeed unlocked. 'It is!? But why…?'

She mentally shook her head. With a firm resolution, and still mildly wondering why he didn't lock the door, Aoko turned down the knob completely feeling the adrenaline of the moment ran down her body and her legs ready to sprint out of the room. 'Now is not the time to worry about that…I have to get ou-'

Without her pushing, the door suddenly opened on its own, revealing a man with messy hair and mischievous smile on the other side. "Isn't this against our agreement?"

"Uhhh…" Aoko started sweating; she never fully expected to get caught red handed. "It's not what it looks like…I just wanted to know where you were…" Clearly, lying wasn't one of her best qualities.

"Oh, I see." He continued smiling, pushing the door a bit wider making himself in to later close the door firmly behind him. "I guess that makes sense."

Aoko suddenly found herself being pushed down against the bed while Kaito stood beside, looming over her with an unreadable smile and noticing her bandaged hand. "Aww…you even injured yourself."

Aoko sat and started to slowly crawl backwards. She didn't know why she was feeling so nervous by just watching that smile. "When you said you'd be back in five hours…were you trying to trick me?"

Kaito started to lean towards her, kneeling over the bed, and slowly trapping her against the headboard. "I just managed to finish up earlier than expected."

"Yeah right…" Aoko scoffed. "I'm sure I'll be hearing that a lot."

"Same to you Nakamori-san…" His face was dangerously close to hers. She could even feel his warm breathing from while he spoke. "Care to explain what were you doing just before I got back?"

Aoko twitched. She wasn't used getting caught doing something wrong. 'Wait…something wrong!? I wasn't doing anything wrong! I was trying to escape! It's for my own good! But, if that is so…why do I feel ashamed? I mean, who cares if I promised him I won't try to escape…? He has also broken a lot of promises too…'

Still, Aoko found it hard to look at his eyes and shifted her eyes down finding the sheets much more interesting to look at. "Like I said, I wasn't trying to run away. I was only going to look around and come back."

"Our agreement was for you to remain in this room, wasn't it?"

Something snapped inside her with his last comment; her previous rage was waking up again and all the pent up frustration was quickly pilling up in an uncontrollable swirl of emotions. "What about you!? You haven't even explained why you're doing this!" On an impulse, she tightly grabbed the collar of his shirt, pulling their faces a bit closer. "And why in the world did you bring me here!? You were trying to incite me to try and escape, weren't you!?"

"Hey…" Kaito was getting a tad nervous in front of her old friend's pure hatred image. Aoko could be quite scary when she wanted to.

"You can call yourself a chivalrous thief or a gentleman all you want but in the end, KID is still just a common criminal!" She shouted, this crazy situation finally getting to her nerves, and wanting nothing more than punch the guy in front of him in the gut. "No…in fact, you're even worse! Now hurry up and release me!"

She noticed how Kaito's expression went from shocked to emotionless in just a second. Bangs were covering his eyes but she still could make out the color draining from his face.

"Y-You're looking a little pale…" She had never seen Kaito like this before; he looked almost vulnerable yet his walls seemed higher than ever. Impossible to break. It was sad to realize that she was facing a different Kaito from the one implanted in her memory years ago; she didn´t know how to react to this unknown person in front of her. What exactly had happened to him all these years? Aoko started to regret her words…

"Hey…You know… I'm not that much of a fiend." She lessened a bit the grip on his collar. "If you let me out of here, I won't tell anyone. I'll leave the cops in the dark." She huffed. "I've been doing that so far, haven't I? Why would I stop now?" She murmured the last part; she was feeling really silly all of the sudden.

"I nearly forgot…." He whispered.

"Huh?" Aoko lifted her gaze towards him. Dark blue stared intently at her.

"You know, you're a real ahou…" Kaito chuckled. "Ahouko."

"Hey…Kuroba-" Aoko yelped in pain as a sudden rush of fire ran up her arm towards her shoulder when her wounded was being pressed slightly against the mattress. "Ugh…what are you doing!? I told you I wasn't running away, didn't I!?"

While still holding her injured arm, he swiftly grabbed her other arm and pinned both of them above her head, expertly locking both of them again with the handcuffs against the headboard.

"Hey! What are you…!?" He grabbed her forehead and pushed her head backwards against the pillow, pinning her head and thus being at his complete mercy.

"If you really want to harm yourself that much…" His clever fingers began travelling above her blouse, swiftly unbuttoning it and leaving her white bra exposed. "I'll break you myself, and I'll do it gently…"

Aoko trembled. This definitely wasn't the Kaito she once knew. He would never do this to her forcefully. "What are you…!? Wait!" She felt how something wet and warm started running over the brim of her bra, hands going to her back and quickly unclasping her bra thus getting it out of his way.

"Stop that! Kuroba!" She trashed in hopes of making him stop. 'Oh God…this isn't happening…not like this…'

She could see one of her nipples being completely sucked by him, making a wave of warmth to unrwrap on her lower regions. "Ah! No! Stop that!"

One of his hands was slowly travelling south, getting under her skirt till he reached her underwear.

How long had it been since their last time together? Aoko couldn't remember. But she did remember what it was like to make love to Kaito… The feeling of their bodies moving rhythmically against each other, his curious fingers moving over her body as if trying to unravel a trick under her skin, the caress of his tongue over her most sensitive parts (he had once told her he had made it his personal mission to find all of them), the shudders she provoked on him when she decided to explore his body, their moans filling the silence of the room, the wrinkled sheets impregnated with their sent… their love expressed in each of their movements…

However, right now… Even though Kaito was touching her like before, teasing her like he used to, making her body react like only he could do, her heart couldn't completely give in to him.

"D-Don't touch me! Ahhh!" She moaned.

"Oh? What's this?" Kaito smiled rubbing his fingers against her sensitive spot. "You are already all wet."

"Y-You are w-wrong!" Aoko's face couldn't get redder than it already was. "Let go of me damn it!" After all the trashing, one of her legs finally got free and she didn't hesitate to strongly hit him in the stomach.

'Shit!' Kaito immediately stopped; hand went over the abused stomach and head lowered hiding his pained expression. He completely forgot how much Aoko's kicks could hurt.

"Ah…that's why I told you to stop! I'll hit you again if you try anything else!" She felt much more confident after hitting him. It almost felt like the old times…only that this Kaito reacted much more different to her threats.

She saw him quickly recovering and, before she had the time to fight back, he reached for her waist to turn her around so she was facing down now. "Hey! What are you doing!?" Once again, she felt his hand reaching for her underwear, removing them completely this time. "Stop! I told you to stop!"

She froze, watching him extend his arm to grab a little foil package from one of the drawers on the nightstand. "What!? No…Stop!"

Two fingers went completely inside her, making her squirm and moan. "Ah! Ahhh! Stop…Kuroba…"

He chuckled. "Looks like even a despicable thief like me can turn you on…"

"Don't be ridiculous!" She turned her head to glare at the thief. "If you do that, it's only obvious that a girl will react like that!" 'Like hell I'm going to admit it…'

"In that case…" He added a third finger…and then a fourth, making slowly penetrating movements and curling them a bit inside to add pleasure.

"AHH! UAHHH!"

"How about this?"

"Ugh…it-! Hah! Ah…"

"Hmph! Found it." Kaito grinned.

"Ah! Ugh! AHHH!" Aoko gave a long shuddering moan when she finally came. Kaito took out his hand, completely wet now. Even the inside of her thighs were dripping with her warm cum.

"Oh my…was it really that good?" Kaito smiled staring at his wet hand.

Aoko was having a hard time breathing normally. "It's…not…like that…" She was angrily thinking how her prideful behavior still reacted to his cocky attitude, when she felt him move behind her; the distant sound of the foil wrapping being torn reached her ears.

"Now the real fun begins."

"Huh…?" And she felt it; something warm and big getting inside her, stretching her inner walls but at the same time filling her inside with an unexpected wave of pleasure and completeness. "UAHHHH!"

Kaito grunted, slowly pushing his member deeper inside her.

"Ugh! Stop it! No!"

"J-Just a little more…"

"No! Don't!"

With a final push, his hips rested complete against her backside. The feeling of his member wrapped against her tightening walls was driving him crazy. "Ahh…It's all the way in…"

Aoko was feeling so ashamed to the point of not daring to lift her head. 'Please, just hurry up…I feel like I'm going to burst.'

As if reading her thoughts, Kaito started to move; trusting inside of her with slowly gentleness, making Aoko want to mewl from the sweet friction. Not wanting to give him that pleasure, she covered her moans and screams with the pillow, wondering how she could feel pleasure in this kind of situation.

He was starting to move faster, his own groans becoming louder as the end was almost reaching them both. A veil of lust covered his vision, his hands touched everything they could reach, his tongue danced over the curve of her back. He had missed her so much…

And with a final trust, both bodies experienced fireworks exploding inside of them, filling their very souls with a long forgotten sense of completeness. For a very brief moment they realized how much they both wanted, needed, the release.

It took Aoko a few seconds to regain her breath and bring her mind back from the high place it went to. "Hu-Hurry up and pull it out you…you idiot!"

To her relief, he did as she requested. But then he turned her around once more, this time facing up, and started to remove his shirt.

"Wh-Why? It can't be…" Aoko stammered.

A shirtless, grinning Kaito was now leaning over her; his bare toned chest and arms were making her blush to intensify even more if that was possible. "It's not over yet…we're just getting started."

He positioned her legs around his hips and trusted inside her again.

"Ah! Ahhhhn! Stop! Ahhhh!"

He used his arms to spread her thighs even more, getting deeper and deeper with each trust. Just when Aoko thought she couldn't take it anymore, Kaito lowered his face using his fingers to hold firmly her chin and kissed her deeply, trusting his tongue inside and exploring it fervently.

At that moment, in the back of her hazed and messy mind, Aoko realized that was the first kiss they had shared after such a long time…His lips tasted the same, incredibly warm with a hint of chocolate and tint of mischief that drove her crazy for more.

Her body was slowly beginning to give up.

"Good girl…" He murmured, licking his lips in the process, his trusts getting faster once again.

"Ahh… Ahhh! Ngh- K- Kai-" Aoko mewled. Her body started to betray her and was beginning to answer Kaito's touches and ministrations.

This was the point where Aoko's memory started to become muddled… What came next…

"Aoko…" Kaito's blurry image was sadly smiling above her. Beads of sweat were running down his forehead making his hair to stick to his face. And impossible azure eyes that were completely dilated by this point stared at her with unlimited passion and lust. "Hate me… Despise me… And never forget about me…"

…was a confession from Kaito, the man who locked her up…

"And please…kill me…"

…and it never reached her ears…

Hellooooooo beautiful people! I'm finally here with a new chapter! Reason for being late? Umm…would you all believe me if I told you that I saw a white rabbit, decided to chase it and then I fell down a hole with lots of stuff floating around me and then…

Anyway, I hope you liked it! What an end, huh? Hahaha! I promise you next chapter will have the same…ejem…intensity ;)

Bye!

Butterfly-chan