Chapter Summary: Hakuba, Akako, and Kaito all in one room? That's just asking for disaster.

I really wish Detective Conan and Magic Kaito belonged to me, sadly they do not.

Chapter 13: Witches

He'd almost forgotten about the group project until Aoko had left him a voice message asking where he was at. He was three minutes late but due to him heading to the lobby and moving as though to leave he had to explain to the clerk, he learned his name was Hiro, that he needed to go meet up with a group for a school project.

Hiro-san nodded at him and gently reminded him to be careful and not to stay out too late.

His guilt from earlier came back but Hakuba reasoned with himself that the hotel had plenty of rooms and if he noticed there was none left and someone needed a room then he'd give them his.

After saying goodbye to Hiro-san and promising to be safe, Hakuba called a taxi and was able to make it to Aoko's house after eleven minutes only making him fourteen minutes late, which was shocking for him especially. The moment he rang the doorbell Aoko's father, Inspector Nakamori opened the door and looked him over.

Something Hakuba was beginning to hate with how often it's been happening towards him from others.

"You're late." Inspector Nakamori said gruffly with his arms crossed over his chest.

Hakuba shrugged slightly, "I apologize, I was with a client and had lost track of time."

"You? You of all people lost track of time with that time obsession of yours?" Kaito explained in disbelief clutching at his heart in shock as he fell back against Aoko.

Hakuba couldn't help but roll his eyes at Kaito's theatrics.

Aoko moved to the side causing Kaito to fall to the floor as she walked over to Hakuba.

"Hakuba-kun!" Aoko crossed her arms, mimicking her dad's posture, "If you had a case, you could've told me and you wouldn't have had to come!"

"That's alright Aoko-san, I would prefer doing my part for this project." Hakuba smiled.

Aoko grinned at him happily, "Keiko-san and Akako-san are waiting in the living room. BaKaito's been bouncing all over the place so we haven't been able to get much done."

"Why am I not surprised," Hakuba muttered dryly causing Kaito to glare at him.

Hakuba stepped over Kaito, who had yet to get off the floor, and followed Aoko to the living room where Akako was lounging on the couch while Keiko was kneeling on the floor by the table.

Keiko looked up at him and grinned, "Hakuba-kun!"

"Hello, Hakuba-kun." Akako said, grinning at him.

Hakuba greeted them both before settling himself down on the floor next to Keiko, he would've sat on the couch by not only was Akako taking up most of it but something about her unnerved him ever since he came back from a trip to visit his mother and saw she was a new transfer student.

He suspected it had to do with the way any orbs of spirits hovering around her vanish almost instantly, something which unsettled him greatly.

"Okay!" Aoko clapped her hands together loudly to gather all their attention on her, "Since we're all here and BaKaito's stopped distracting us...Let's get to work!"

Working on the project was relatively easy, the only issues that arise were Kaito refusing to work with Akako on their part and throwing a tantrum when Hakuba was asked to work with her causing Hakuba to roll his eyes at Kaito.

"Kuroba-kun either you work with her or I work with her," Hakuba gestured at Akako, "Koizumi-san doesn't deserve your rudeness and you clearly do not wish to work with her so I will. It's not a big deal, you just have to help out Keiko-san in my steed."

Kaito began grumbling under his breath and reluctantly sat next to Keiko who looked highly offended, causing Kaito to hastily apologize and offer her a flower.

Akako moved over slightly on the couch, leaving room for Hakuba to sit down, it wasn't a lot of room seeing how the moment he sat down Akako was leaning against the other end with her feet nudging Hakuba's thigh. They all worked in silence for the majority of the night, after two hours Aoko got up and headed to the kitchen promising them snacks, Keiko followed after her to help out leaving Hakuba alone with Akako whose feet were now fully in his lap and Kaito who was glaring at her harshly.

Akako let out a low humming noise causing Hakuba to look over towards her. She pulled her legs towards her and spun so that they were now beneath her as she got to her knees and leaned towards Hakuba who pointedly looked away as her low hanging shirt revealed a lot of her cleavage.

A loud bang caused Hakuba to divert his eyes towards Kaito who had jumped to his feet and in the process knocked over Keiko's laptop which Hakuba hoped didn't break. Kaito began making his way towards them but Akako flung her arm out towards him and held it there, as she did that Kaito stopped moving.

Hakuba's head snapped over to Akako and he was only slightly surprised as he said, "You're a witch."

"Most people wouldn't come to that deduction immediately," Akako said coldly.

Hakuba's eyes narrowed, "Would you mind letting Kuroba-kun go? He's annoying but I'm certain he doesn't wish to be held against his will."

Akako sighed lightly, waving her hand and Kaito, whose body apparently didn't catch up to the fact it was forcibly stopped and released, came barrelling towards them until he situated himself on the couch between Hakuba and Akako. Kaito was practically sprawled out in Hakuba's lap with how close he was.

Hakuba shoved at Kaito's shoulder but he refused to move or take his gaze off of Akako.

Akako ignored Kaito and stared at Hakuba without blinking, after 45.23 seconds she blinked and her eyes widened, "You...you have a lot of spiritual energy surrounding you…."

"Don't put a spell on him!" Kaito snapped.

Akako finally looked at Kaito and scowled, "I'm not! Men are simply attracted to me and all I'm doing is looking around him. He has years worth of spiritual energy buzzing in the air around him!"

Frowning, Hakuba cut into the conversation, "Pardon me Koizumi-san, I admit you are a beautiful young woman but that does not mean I have a crush on you. Kuroba-kun as for you, would you kindly get out of my lap already!"

Akako looked as though she was insulted by Hakuba's words which he realized she may have been and Kaito looked confused before apparently just realizing how close he was to Hakuba. Kaito scrambled to get out of Hakuba's lap but because Akako wasn't moving back to give him room, all Kaito managed to do was knock himself and Hakuba off the couch.

"Omph!" Hakuba grunted as the side of his head smacked against the corner of the table on the way down.

"Owowow~!" Kaito sat up and twisted around to glare at Akako who looked highly amused with the situation.

"Kuroba!" Hakuba snapped forgoing the honorific, and holding his hand against where he smacked his head, "Get off!"

Hakuba shoved Kaito so he fell back against the couch and gave him enough room so that Hakuba could Schoch back away from him.

"Oi…" Kaito eyed Hakuba warily before his eyes widened, "Crap, did you hit your head? I'm sorry! Lemme see it!"

Hakuba sighed, "I'm fine. It's just a bump."

"Let me see!"

"No."

"Yes!"

"No!"

"Damn Hakuba just let me see it!" Kaito tackled Hakuba to the floor and wrestled his hand away from his head, Hakuba could've used his Judo knowledge to knock Kaito off of him but he didn't want to hurt him. So Hakuba reluctantly laid there and allowed Kaito to prod at his forehead until he was satisfied with what he saw. After a few minutes, Kaito finally leaned back and declared Hakuba fine, and said he just needed an ice-pack.

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Hakuba stopped by his house and packed a light suitcase with a few pairs of clothing, three books, his school stuff and some of the file Scotland Yard faxed him earlier that week. The lobby was mainly empty by the time Hakuba made it back to the hotel with his things, and despite Kaito saying he just needed an ice-pack Hakuba now had a pretty large bruise on his temple. He wasn't worried about a concussion but the look the night clerk sent him told him he must've looked bad.

Smiling reassuringly at her, Hakuba hurried towards the elevators and was mentally debating on whether or not to go to school tomorrow or to have a long overdue talk with a couple of ghosts.

While writing this I had an idea for another story so I'll be posting that one, later on, It's almost 4 am and I need to get some sleep.