Chapter 3: You and I

"You can't possibly dream that you'll keep me here forever!"

Kaito sat with the plainest face he could muster as he listened to his ward shout at him about how he had school, his friends were probably worried about him, and Ran. The magician twitched every time the detective mentioned her name. He knew the feelings 'Shinichi' had toward the girl and he couldn't deny that he was jealous.

"Are they really your friends Tantei-kun?"

Conan paused at Kaito's question, "what?"

"Are they really your friends?"

"What are you saying? Of course they are."

"But if they were truly your friends, surely you could tell them your little secret?"

"Of course I can't do that! They- they could never handle it."

"Then they couldn't possibly be your friends."

"That logic doesn't make any sense," Conan retorted, "just because I can't tell them doesn't mean they can't be my friends. You don't go around telling your friends that you're Kaitou Kid, do you?"

"I told you," Kaito gave him an infuriating grin.

"You did not 'tell me' that you are Kaitou Kid, you showed me," Conan denied, "and we are not friends."

"Meitantei, my feelings are hurt," Kaito feigned a devastated face and Conan deadpanned.

"Have you been listening to a word I've said?"

"Fine," Kaito sighed exasperatedly, "give me a few days."

"A few days?" Conan watched the magician stand and walk away. The boy detective stood dumbfounded as he was left alone in the middle of the room.

Kaito hummed as he trotted down the hallway and suddenly broke out into a sudden burst of laughter. It was too much fun messing with the detective.

He pulled out his phone as he entered his room and collapsed on his bed. He was so thirsty.

He dialed a number from the small detective's stolen phone and listen to it ring.

"Agasa residence."

Kaito grinned at the childish voice that answered the phone, "Ojou-chan."

There was a long pause, longer and more uncomfortable than Kaito had expected before a response came.

"Who is this?"

Kaito ignored her question, "still living the child's life I see. What's the name now? Ai-chan?"

"Why do you have Edogawa-kun's cell phone?"

"Ah, that is where you're wrong, I've made a mistake and grabbed the wrong phone and the number is that of one Kudo Shinichi."

There was another pause before a deep sigh was heard from the other side, "I don't have time for games, I will hang up."

"Sorry sorry," Kaito grinned, "games and tricks are a magician's best friend."

"Why did you call me, Kid-san?"

"Took you long enough."

"Do you take me for an idiot? Only your annoying presence would call me from Kudo-kun's phone."

"I'm offended."

"What do you want?"

"A temporary antidote, tonight."

"It's impossible," Haibara responded flatly.

"Make it possible."

There was some shuffling, "why?"

"I asked nicely. I'll even come and pick it up from you."

"It's still impossible," Haibara replied, "there's no way I could finish the current antidote I'm working with now by tonight."

"You have older prototypes, don't you?"

"They will do more harm than good."

"I'll take responsibility."

Haibara sighed with irritation, "how will you take responsibility for a body that isn't yours?"

"You don't know who you're dealing with."

"I do, and I won't let you put his life in danger for your own greed."

"I plan to return him to Beika in a few days. Either the antidote comes tonight or taking him back might slip my mind and I might decide to move away."

There was another pause, "he wouldn't let you."

"You don't know what I'm capable of, my dear," Kaito shot back, "I don't care if it works only for a few hours, you're a smart girl, come up with something. You have eight hours to decide."

Kaito hung up and clenched the phone in his hand. He wouldn't let anyone stand in his way.

"Let me check your arm," Kaito said as he sat in the guest room with Conan.

"It's about healed now," Conan watched Kaito slowly remove the bandages. He had decided it was useless to try and fight with the magician anymore because cooperating made the process go so much faster.

Kaito examined the wound. The skin had closed over but the area was still red and irritated where the wound was still partially open. He bent his head down and trailed his lips across the long cut. More of the redness disappeared and the skin covered over the open parts. "I'd say about two more nights of this and it should be completely healed."

He remembered two nights previous when he showed the boy how he healed and it alarmed the detective to see his skin mend together so quickly. Truth was, he was trying to stall as much as he could. He had the capability to finish healing the wound in one go but where was the fun in that?

"That means I can leave then right?" Conan asked and Kaito suppressed the urge to roll his eyes.

"Why are you so keen on leaving? Isn't it nice having a break?"

"This is imprisonment. You took my phone, you won't let me have a computer, you won't even let me watch television! It's driving me crazy!"

Kaito was quiet for a moment before he snapped his fingers and produced a thick book. He passed it over to Conan and the book visibly brightened at the title.

The Case Collection of Sherlock Holmes Vol. 1

"I'm sorry, I should have given it to you from the beginning," Kaito scratched the back of his head, "will your bear with it for the next two days?"

The detective wasn't paying attention anymore but Kaito quickly took the book back and made it disappear.

"Wha-"

"Sorry, but you can't have it tonight," Kaito smiled, "if you go to sleep now, morning will come quickly." He couldn't have the boy awake when the girl came over.

"How could you show me something like that and take it away just as quickly?" Conan crossed his arms and Kaito held back a laugh.

"I'm sorry. It gives you something to look forward to. I can help you sleep if you'd like. It's better if you sleep for the night."

"How will you do that?"

"Virtually the same way I healed your arm. It's the limit of my current powers but it will help."

"The limit of your powers?"

Kaito smiled painfully as he sat on the bed, "my father, Kuroba Toichi, was the previous King of our kind. The powers of the King are passed down if the current king chooses to pass them on or if he dies." Kaito's eyes darkened, "unfortunately, I'm not yet of age and cannot inherit those powers until eighteen."

"Eighteen? Why then?"

Kaito shrugged, "it's just when it happens. I'm rather happy it's sooner than later."

Conan mumbled something and then a blush took over his face.

"Ehh? What was that?"

"I asked when your birthday is!" Conan averted his gaze.

Kaito grinned, "in two weeks on June twenty-first."

Conan nodded and Kaito thought he might have been getting somewhere.

"For now, just sleep."

Conan crawled under the covers and Kaito put a hand to his forehead. Within a moment, the boy's blue eyes closed and he was soundly sleeping.

Kaito stared down at him and smiled thinly as he stroked his hair, "so trusting, aren't you?"

He turned the light out and left the room quietly. He checked his watch. Only thirty more minutes before time's up.

He trotted down the stairs and Jii was cleaning up the living room.

"Young master," Jii bowed.

"You should head to bed Jii-chan. When's the last time you've had a good rest?"

Jii looked at Kaito in surprise before he smiled. "I live to serve you, Young Master. It is my duty."

"If that is your duty to me, get some rest Jii-chan. It is unnecessary for you to push yourself so hard each and every day. I'll be fine for one night while you get some decent sleep."

"If that is your wish, Young Master." Jii bowed once more and moved to climb the stairs when the doorbell rang.

Kaito glanced at his watch again. Twenty-five minutes to spare.

Jii went to the door and was shocked to see a little girl glaring up at him behind it. She stepped through the door and removed her shoes in the genkan.

"Where are your manners, Ojou-chan?"

Haibara snorted, "you don't deserve them."

"Jii-chan does," Kaito crossed his arms.

Haibara sighed and glanced back at the old man, "pardon the intrusion."

Jii-chan nodded and Haibara turned back to Kaito, "where is he?"

"Do you have what I have asked of you?"

They stood in a staring match for a few moments before Haibara sighed and pulled out a small container. She handed it to him and he opened it to find one pill.

"You wouldn't lie to me, would you Ojou-chan?"

"Not on the risk of Kudo-kun," she responded.

Kaito nodded and ushered her to follow him up the stairs.

"Have your instincts been suppressed with the age reversal?" He questioned casually.

"Fortunately. Somehow, I still have control of my power as well." She responded just as easily.

He lead her to the room his ward slumbered in and opened the door. She rushed in and went to his bedside. Kaito watched her touch his face before she touched the bandage on his arm.

"What did you do to him?"

"Me?" Kaito scoffed, "I saved his life."

"What is this then?" She questioned.

"Anticoagulating venom. I've been healing it."

"Why haven't you completely healed it yet?" She questioned.

Kaito pursed his lips, "I can't."

She stared at him, hard and long before her eyes widened ever so slightly. "You're body is going into starvation."

"It's not something I want to admit," Kaito sighed.

Haibara gritted her teeth, "and you want to use him to sate your hunger."

"I want to remove the rest of the anticoagulant from his blood."

"Or so you tell yourself." Haibara snapped.

Kaito huffed, "I've allowed you your visiting time, isn't it about time you've returned? You have school in the morning don't you?"

"How do I know you won't keep him locked away here?"

"You said so yourself, he wouldn't allow that."

"But you'd find a way to make him concede?"

"If I truly wished it." Haibara glared at him and Kaito shrugged, "he'll be safely returned to Beika the day after tomorrow, thief's honor."

"There's no way that can be trusted."

Haibara moved away from the bed and ghosted past the magician, "Beika, the day after tomorrow." She paused by the door. "If you are going to bite him, do it after the antidote. Be aware though, the medicine in his bloodstream may potentially have adverse effects on your own body."

"I'll take it into consideration," Kaito nodded.

"Why him?" Haibara asked finally.

"What do you mean?"

"Why did you pick Kudo-kun to be your mate?"

"You know it doesn't work like that, Ojou-chan."

"I just wish," she sighed, "it would have been someone else. Anyone else. He's been through so much."

"I know," Kaito said in understanding.

"Also," she glanced back at him, "that girl is looking for him."

She left with those words and Kaito couldn't stop the growl that rose in his throat.

"Otou-san! How long do I have to wait?" Ran slammed her hands on her father's desk and he rushed to catch a wobbly beer can.

"Calm down Ran!"

"We still don't have any information about Conan-kun's whereabouts! Didn't they say he had been rescued! Why has he not been returned to us?"

Mouri Kogorou glanced at his daughter as she stared at him with the most desperate face. He felt bad that he couldn't give her the information she wanted. "The police have given us as much information that they could, Ran, there's nothing more we can do."

"We're his legal guardians! Why can't they tell us where he's at?" She clenched her fists, "it's been almost three weeks since the kidnapping, and two since he was rescued, I just- I'm so worried about him."

Mouri hated when his daughter cried.

"Look, I will call Megure-keibu and see what else they know, okay?"

The girl nodded and left him to go to her room. She closed the door and sat down on her bed. A sigh left her mouth and her eye caught the photo of her and Shinichi at Tropical Land. She pulled out her phone, determined.

Kaito was surprised when a vibration began in his pocket. He glanced at his cell phone on the table before he glanced at the boy sitting across from him eating as he engrossed himself in his book.

He quickly grabbed his phone and stood, "excuse me Tantei-kun."

Conan hummed and Kaito pulled 'Shinichi's' cell phone from his pocket. He glanced at the caller ID and his eyes darkened.

He flipped the cell open and put it to his ear.

"Shinichi?"

Kaito quietly cleared his throat before he answered in the teenage detective's voice as he trailed up the stairs, "Hey Ran, what's up?"

Kaito was surprised when she skipped the pleasantries and went straight into the situation involving Conan. She spouted out how angry she was that the police wouldn't tell her or her father anything, how rude the person keeping him captive was by not returning him to his family, and what she would do to him if he wasn't returned to them soon.

Kaito had nothing response to say to her and he really wished he could have kept the boy longer but he wouldn't go back on his word.

Finally, Kaito was able to get a word in, "hey, I get that you're upset but now's really not a good time."

"Oh." Everything seemed to stop on the other side of the line, "a case?"

"Yeah, I can't really talk about it but we'll talk later."

Kaito hung up before she could respond and a small smile lit up his face. He went through the cell phone before he found the number he was looking for.

He typed it on the phone and waited while it rang. He was surprised when the person picked up before the second ring.

"SHIN-CHAN!"

Kaito winced and pulled the phone away from his ear as Yukiko started on him for not calling as much as he should and how happy she was that he was okay.

"Hi there!" He interrupted, "my name is Kuroba Kaito. This is Kudo Yukiko?"

"Kuroba? Oh, Kai-chan, Toichi's boy! How are you darling?" Kaito smiled at the antics of his ward's mother.

"I'm well ma'am, I hope you are the same?"

"Oh please, don't call me ma'am, you make me feel old," Yukiko chuckled a bit, "so to what do I owe this social call? And on my son's phone no less?"

"Yes well," Kaito allowed a mischievous grin to grace his face, "there is some information I assume might interest you..."

Conan had since moved to the living room when Kaito came down the stairs. The big book laid on his lap, supported by his good arm, and his eyes scanned the pages avidly.

"Shin-chan~" Kaito sang in Yukiko's voice and he chuckled when the boy's shoulders tensed, "so you aren't completely lost to the world."

"I hate you," Conan gave Kaito the most hateful glare before he turned back to the book.

"Take this," Kaito approached him with the capsule Haibara had given him and a glass of water.

"What is it?" Conan marked his book and popped the pill in his mouth and swallowed it down with the water.

"Painkiller," Kaito lied smoothly. The magician stepped away from the boy and went into the kitchen. He pulled out stuff to make a sandwich. He listened to the telltale sound of the glass falling, and a muffled grunt, he continued to make the sandwich. He was glad he kept a pillow on the settee.

He finished the sandwich and cut it and only a few seconds later he heard the pained scream cut through the air.

He came out of the kitchen and glanced at the naked boy, no, teenager now sitting on the settee. He came around and Shinichi yelped as he tried to cover himself. Kaito chided himself for not thinking about the aftermath of the antidote and produced a blanket with the snap of his fingers.

He handed the blanket over and the detective took it to cover himself. Kaito sat the sandwich on the table and took a seat.

"You're oddly calm about this," Shinichi stared at him, bewildered.

"No no, Meitantei, I have a believable poker face," Kaito smirked and Shinichi shivered.

"What did you give me?" The detective questioned.

"I told you, it was a painkiller."

"What kind of painkiller?"

Kaito evaluated him as if seeing him for the first time and Shinichi averted his gaze, "w-what is it?"

"There are clothes you should be able to fit in the wardrobe in your room. I don't think we're that much different in size so it should be fine. I'm sure anything is better than being naked?" Kaito was confident in his ability to manipulate conversations but he didn't know how well it would work with the detective considering how adamant he could be. "Also, if you're going to shower, use the hall bathroom."

Shinichi went pink and nodded, "you're right. I'll go shower. But don't think I forgot! We'll talk properly when I have clothes on." The detective stood and stomped away and Kaito could hear his grumbles about idiot magicians and their trickery.

Kaito snorted and turned back to the sandwich on the table. He supposed he would eat it.

After twenty minutes, Kaito trailed up the stairs and the door to the hall bathroom opened. He swallowed when Shinichi stepped out in nothing but a towel, his hair dripping and water droplets cascaded down his bare chest. Kaito's eyes roamed across his bare torso and Shinichi finally noticed him.

Kaito's body moved on its own and his mouth watered at the huge expanse of skin presented to him. He pushed the detective against the wall and Shinichi grunted.

"Kuroba, what are you-" he voice trailed away when he saw the magician's eyes, a deep and glowing violet and it was almost ethereal. He was mesmerized by the color and he unconsciously leaned into it.

Kaito met him and the detective wasn't aware enough to be surprised by the kiss. It was quick and he moved down to the detective's neck without a second thought.

Kaito grinned at the gasp when he kissed the skin beneath his lips and did not hesitate to sink his fangs into the detective's sweet flesh.