Chapter 14: Memories
A/N: This chapter is dedicated to the new episode that came out the day it was published: "Kaitou KID and the Trick Box - Part One"! Yay! ^^
When Kaito awoke, he was confused. His body hurt... But... He couldn't quite remember why. And his parents... They were there, with him tucked into his father's arms, pressed tightly against his warm chest and his mother's hand snaking around to stroke his hair softly, even as she dozed just near the edge of sleep.
His father's embrace was tight, heated, and borderline smothering, but it was entirely unlike the hot and painfully tight, constricting embraces he remembered having felt some time recently. When and where he'd felt such a painful to recall embrace he wasn't sure, but because he was anything but eager to remember it he let it go, opting instead to drift back into a this-time more peaceful slumber, enjoying the presence of his parents; comforting and secure.
Kaito mentally shrugged off the memories of discomfort lingering in the back of his mind and went back to sleep...