clockmaster | RL with Kaito- Dealing with the Damage control (again)

Inwardly, Kaito's stomach did a quick back flip, but outwardly he didn't move. Instead, he merely grinned at Hakuba, and the more he grinned, the less he looked like Kaito and the more he resembled Kid. This mask wasn't coming off easy.

Kaito could have told Hakuba the truth-- that being 'married' wasn't so bad (even though he was entirely too young for such a thing). Instead, he opted for the sarcastic route. "Did you call me over here just to ask me what being married to Aoko is like?" he scoffed, "What, planning on proposing or something?"

There was something strange on Kuroba's face, so fast he might have missed if it he weren't used to attempting to pick up clues from the Kid's expression, before it fell into a bland mask of nonchalance.

Creepy. This was definitely rated high up on the bizarre situation he was been mixed in to interactscale.

"Do you think you could drop it? The smile. As a personal favour?" The tone was wistful, but there was a 'before I have to hurt you' part of the statement, which was no less valid.

Hakuba recognized Kuroba’s words as Kaito going into Aoko-protective mode. His friendship with both Kuroba and Aoko was nowhere near stable and the last thing he cared to do was alienate either of them, but this was going out of hand. And he really didn’t want them to end like Irene and him. Hakuba usually wondered why he cared at all, he could live without a heart after all.

The detective looked around room with his hands in his pockets in what could be interpreted as a too innocuous to be believed gesture.

“Maybe, maybe not.”

Drop the smile? Hakuba had to be kidding. As if Kaito would comply with such a request, especially if it was bothering the British detective. "What's wrong, Haku-baka?" he snarked, "Am I getting too creepy for you?"

Then, his grin faltered ever so slightly, the oh so familiar feeling of jealousy suddenly bubbling to the surface, when Hakuba answered his question with 'maybe.' It was only one moment of weakness, though, and Poker Face was back in place as if it had never let. With a grunt, Kaito crossed his arms and looked away from the detective across from him. "Do what you want," he deadpanned.

This time Hakuba wanted to use the book to hit himself. Talking with Kaito was like running in circles. He didn’t pay attention to Kuroba’s insults and jokes, he was too used to it now.

Oh, but he noticed it, it was his job to notice things after all...the small, nearly imperceptible, change in the corner of Kaito's grin.

He knew how to play that game too and seemed a shame to let the age-old battle of wits go to waste, especially with Kaito sitting in front of him.

“Good, because I was planning on ask her if she want to go to Paris with me. You know, they call it the city of love....And looks like she needs to clarify some things...I’m sure I can help her with that.”

He wanted to take her to Paris? Wonderful. Just wonderful.

He didn't care. He didn't care. He couldn't allow himself to care. It was probably better this way. Hakuba wasn't a bad guy. Annoying... but not bad. He and Aoko did go well together, no matter how bitter it was for Kaito to admit that fact.

"I said do what you want," Kaito repeated, this time a bit sharper than he had originally intended. He hesitated for a bit, before curiosity got the best of him and he had to ask. "What kind of things does she need clarified?"

Now, now,...finally some light at the end of the tunnel, Hakuba thought

“Personal things.” He admitted, a smirk tugging at the corners of his mouth. He moved a hand in a slightly manner and a shrugged his shoulders. “About the last virus.”

"Eh?" Kaito finally mustered up enough courage to look at Hakuba. "You talked to her already?" his expression softened slightly. "It took me forever to get her to loosen up after that. She's okay... right?"

Hakuba looked at him serious, the smirk gone.

”Now looks like you decided to talk.” Usually the Kuroba got the last word in, but this time he figured it was his turn. And it was damn amusing, even if the situation wasn't.

"We talk a bit, she didn't feel like talking much at all. Nakamori's -not- angry with you, but..."

Kaito mentally cursed to himself for falling right into Hakuba's trap. "I don't have anything to talk about with you, Hakuba," he nearly growled.

And he didn't really like the way Hakuba trailed off like that. "But? But what?"

“Fine. You don’t want to talk, Then why you decided to came here?" Hakuba growled back. "If you’re going to act like a child, you better go. You know were the door is...or the window, whatever.”

"You're the idiot who told me to come!" Kaito cried, leaping out of his seat to glare quite angrily at Hakuba. His hands were clenched into fists at his sides, but not seconds later he had relaxed and regained the composure he had lost for just a moment. He sucked in a deep breath (his injured shoulder was throbbing in pain now, for some odd reason) and spoke again, his voice deliberately calm. "I just want what's best for her. I assume that's what you wanted to talk about?" He arched an eyebrow at Hakuba, "What's best for her, I mean."

“And you’re the one who decided to come to see this idiot.” Hakuba stood up and went to the door. “I will be back in a minute, if you want to go that’s your opportunity, but yes, I wanted to talk about what was the best for her..”

Kaito watched Hakuba leave the room suspiciously, alarm bells going off like sirens in his head. He subconsciously shoved his hand into his pocket and clutched the smoke bombs-- if Hakuba was going to try anything, Kaito was ready.

When Hakuba came back, he was happy to see that Kuroba was still on the room, even if he was giving him a suspicious glare. Kuroba looked like a angry cat, ready to scratch him and run away. He approached his classmate, a glass of water and a small white box in his hands, and offered them to Kaito.

“I noticed the cringe. I wouldn’t be any good at my job If I didn’t.” Hakuba wonders why he always say” his job” when he was talking about he noticing things. It was more like a way of life, really.

“They’re just aspirins. Better than paracetamol, because unlike it, aspirin is a very effective anti-inflammatory agent.”

Kaito blinked at the white box and glass of water, a little confused as to why Hakuba found it necessary to give him medicine.

Then it hit him, and he almost dropped the items in surprise. His shoulder. Of course... as if that would have escaped the perceptive detective's attention. "Shit!" Panic flooded Kaito's brain-- outwardly, however, he seemed as calm as ever.

"What makes you think I need aspirin?" he grumbled. Nevertheless, he shoved two pills in his mouth and downed them with water, before shoving the now empty glass back into Hakuba's hands. "Thanks," he grumbled under his breath. It may have sounded gruff, but it was about as sincere as Kaito could force himself to get with his rival.

“You’re insulting my intellect here Kuroba.” Hakuba raised his eyebrows and gave him another plane look. “Welcome.”

Hakuba left the empty glass in the table next to the book and sat on the couch again. “We will discuss about your magic trick gone wrong, as Aoko said, and the latest heist of KID gone wrong other time…we were going to talk about the best for Nakamori, right?”

So it seemed like Hakuba wasn't going to try anything. Kaito visibly relaxed and stuffed his other hand into his pocket. "Yeah, sure," he responded, not even bothering to play the denial at the moment. It wouldn't do him any good anyway. Besides, his silence was not a confession.

After a minute of complete silence, Kaito sighed heavily and scratched his head. "What's best for Aoko is..." he began, trying his hardest to find the right words. In the end, he opted for simplicity. "Not me."

Hakuba didn’t say anything. Instead, he focused on the room's other occupant. He wanted Kaito to explain that statement, but the other boy didn’t say anything more. Another long silent minute passed between them. to memore exactly, 1 minute,16 seconds. Hakuba counted it in his head. He could honestly say that he'd never seen Kuroba look so affected.

“Why?”

Kaito scoffed and gestured roughly to his shoulder, obviously indicating without words the secret he was so careful to conceal. Choosing his sentences carefully (and making sure Hakuba wouldn't take anything he said as a confession), he finally replied, "You know why."

“I see…” The only movement from Hakuba was being a tilting of the head, then a shrug of the shoulders. "You can always stop." he continued when he saw that Kaito was going to protest.

“I kno…I think I know, that maybe that’s not a possibility now. But eventually. ..she will be waiting for you. ” Hakuba pulled his mind to of the 'dangerous thoughts' zone. He couldn’t help himself. “If you don’t, someone will make you stop. And both know that I'm not talking about myself, or Nakamori-keibu for what maters.”

Kaito laughed, oddly enough. He threw back his head and allowed himself to laugh. It was a bitter laugh, too, not nearly the same as those childish chuckles he allowed loose after a prank. He stopped for a moment and smirked at Hakuba-- it was a Kid smirk, nothing Kaito about it. "Don't be an idiot. Geez, and I thought you were smart."

He shook his head and laughed to himself a bit more, before his snickers turned into sighs. "Maybe," he said, raising his hands and putting them behind his head, "That's why she doesn't have to wait on me. Why she shouldn't wait on me. You know." He was still smiling, although there was something completely different in it this time.

((Meee tooo >.>))

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“I thought you were smart too. No, she doesn’t have to wait for you. I never say that she should. But she will do it anyway.”

It took Hakuba a moment to remember why he got involved in all this madness. He was confident in his relationship with the Kaitou Kid, such as it was. He enjoyed the intellectual challenges, the games and the heist but….there’s now that dark shadow over them, and he didn’t like it.

His relationship with the Kid's other side however... 'Nonexistent' came to mind. He saw Kuroba practically every day in the classroom, but they rarely interacted other than various taunts, usually about intelligance, the lack there of or the Kaitou Kid. As far as he could figure, the darker haired boy had split his personality, or mind, into two separate beings. There was Kuroba and then there was the Kid. Except for when they crossed over, one personality bleeding slightly into the other. Like now. And that was affecting Aoko too. So if they wanted to resolve the problems with her, first they need to end some unfinished things.

“It doesn’t have to be this way. I been…” Hakuba stopped. Even if there was still absolutely no question in his mind that Kuroba was the Kid and Kid was Kuroba, they were playing a game now, and that was crossing the line. He will have to play a bit more then. “Hypothetically speaking..If I been doing some research about some people who usually tried to kill some random thief, and if I, hypothetically speaking, had been discovered some information like, dunno, a complete list of jewels who could they been looking for…you think that, hypothetically, you will know now to contact that random thief to give him the list?. Hypothetically speaking, of course.

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Kaito knew Hakuba was right, and he couldn't help but feel terribly guilty that his best friend was wasting her time on him. He chuckled a bit more to himself, not even bothering to brush his dark bangs from his eyes, before muttering somewhat fondly to himself, "Idiot girl..."

His head shot up again, his expression once again defaulting to poker face, once Hakuba mentioned this 'list.' So he wanted to play the hypothetical game, did he? Kaito was walking on thin ice, one slip meant he would be spilling his entire secret to Hakuba. He'd have to tread carefully. He hesitated for a bit, but continued slowly, "Hypothetically speaking of course, how did you create such a list, if you aren't even sure what kind of gem Kaitou Kid is hypothetically looking for?"

“Don’t call her that. At least, not in front of me. I’m not going to hit you with a mop, but I can hurt you anyway. A gentleman must be respectful to women.

"I made a lot of research and I analyzed a lot of things. About the heists, the stolen jewels, and I had an special interest in old case involving a jewel called blue birthday.” Hakuba’s grin makes him look evil.

“First it looked like the evil guys ran away that time, but some months ago Nakamori-keibu caught one men of the gang…. I can be very persuasive in the interrogatories.” The young detective looked serious again and frowned . “The man was found died in his jail no much after that. It looked like a suicide but I know better. But!, I don’t want to bore you." He commented simply in a philosophical tone.

“There’s still…some big hole on the research thought. I have the name of a certain jewel, but I don’t know why Pandora is that much important to them.”

"Oh please, Haku-baka," Kaito said. He rolled his eyes sarcastically, "It's Aoko. And it sounds like you've been a very busy detective these past few weeks." The magician sighed and pulled out his juggling balls again. "I don't know why you're telling me all this, though," he said nonchalantly, "Considering I have nothing to do with it. At all."

He tossed all three ball high into the air, where they seemed to disappear without a trace. "You'd have to ask Kid about this... what's it called? Pandora. I don't know anything about it." He grinned. "But it sounds like something that has supernatural powers. You know, magic? Perhaps something like immortality?" He said all of this rather pointedly. "Although that's probably pretty ridiculous." He eventually added, faux innocence practically radiating from his words. "And you really created a list of all jewels that could possibly be Pandora?"

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Hakuba payed no attention to Kaito’s insult, even if it bothered him a lot.

“Even if is Aoko you must be respectful towards women. Even more if the woman in question is your love interest. And I’m always a busy detective, criminals don’t have vacations.” Hakuba looked at the coloured balls again. He was still suspicious about them.

“I feel like talking to someone about it. I can’t tell my father or Nakamori-Keibu about this. It’s not like I don’t trust them, it’s just…it looks dangerous. You don’t give a damn about me, so you look like the best person to talk about that.”

Hakuba eyebrows went up when the balls disappeared suddenly. He murmured something about Kaito being a smartass…

“Sure, I just have to ask Kid. In the middle of a heist or something, I can use a megaphone. Oh but first I have to grope him to be sure that he’s a man…Don’t look at me like that. Forget what I said.” Hakuba grumped.

“Magic? Immortality? There’s no such thing as real magic Kuroba. And if you know anything about mythology you should know that Pandora is the responsible of al the pain and sufferings of the human race.” Hakuba feels the beginning of a head ache.”yeah, that’s pretty ridiculous…. Ridiculous enough to be true. I will investigate that.”

He smiled slithly when he heard Kaito’s question

“I did…hypothetically.” Hakuba took the book of the table and threw it to Kaito. “Give the book a try, maybe you will learn something.”

(OOC: There’s a DVD in the middle of the book’s pages ^_~)

Edited 2008-08-01 02:32 (UTC)

During the entirety of Hakuba's rant, Kaito had been shuffling a deck of cards in several rather creative ways. He ignored Hakuba's comment about Aoko being his 'love interest' (because it was quite true, to say the least). He snickered to himself and shrugged when Hakuba brought up the previous Kid-conversation (and he inwardly shuddered at the idea of Hakuba doing anything like that to him). But he couldn't keep silent any longer at Hakuba's obviously naive assumption that magic didn't exist.

"Is there no such thing as magic?" Kaito asked, "You should get out more if you honestly believe that. Magic is very, very real. My magic isn't. Kid's magic isn't. But there are certain types of magic that are. And as for Pandora..." the magician flipped a card from his deck and tossed it in the air, and with a snap of his fingers it exploded and turned into one of the colored balls from earlier. He caught the ball and fiddled with it, before shoving it in his pocket. "I know what Pandora's Box is. I know what implications the name has." And I know how dangerous that jewel really is, he added mentally.

He wasn't quite expecting Hakuba to throw the book at him, so Kaito was forced to let out a surprised yelp as he just barely caught it. He stared at the book for a second, before shrugging. "Of course. Hypothetically. I'll hypothetically see if I can get this to Kid, although it'll probably just sit on my shelf and collect dust for the next few years."

“Good. Then, hipoteticaly speaking, tell him that it wasn’t an easy thing to find.”

He supposed that he -should- feel morally obligated to be pointing and shouting 'He's the Kid!!I Instead of helping him. It's the Kaitou Kid! On the other hand, he had no proof what so ever that this was the case. Certainly he knew that Kuroba was the Kid and vice versa, but he was still in the same position he had been a year and a half ago. Knowing and lacking the evidence. Perhaps he was no longer quite the shining white champion of justice he had once thought he was. But then, Kid wasn't exactly a deep dark villain of evil either. And he was doing that for Aoko.Sure, he was..

He frowned at Kaito’s words.

“Saying that is like saying that Santa Claus really exists. Magic doesn't exist. Only tricks. Many magicians do not believe in supernatural occurrences. Paranormal. Pychokinesis. Telekinesis. Any thing that denotes the purported ability of the mind to influence matter, time, space, or energy by means outside the currently known laws of physics. I don't believe them, either. Until a scientific findings prove them to be true, they will remain false for me.” He said, his voice low and a bit on the rough side.

To say he was uncomfortable was an understatement. He didn’t like things that he can’t control, that’s why magic was such a hard thing to understand and believe.

“But...” He said calmly, keeping his own neutral mask up. "Even if they’re not true for me, I think that, in Pandora’s case, the possibility remains . When you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth, right?"

Kaito shifted the book and held it under his arm. He shook his head at Hakuba. "Many magicians don't. I used to not believe in that stuff myself, you know." He shrugged. "But seeing is believing. And I think it's closed minded of you-- or anyone else, actually-- to negate the possibility entirely."

Kaito reached into his pocket and pulled out one of the juggling balls. "Catch," he said, before tossing it to Hakuba. "You can have it. I don't need it." He grinned, a devious glint present in his expression. "This has been fun, Haku-baka, but I've got to run. Gotta catch a worldhopper after all." He made a movement, as if he was heading towards the door, but then stopped and turned to face Hakuba once more. "Hypothetically speaking, if I were Kid, which I'm not, then I'd quote this," he paused as he dug through his memory, trying to remember the words Maurice Leblanc had written down so long ago, "We may talk, shake hands, nod to each other, but the fence remains. You will always be Sherlock Holmes, the Detective, and I, Arsène Lupin, the Gentleman Burglar. So..." he hesitated, "Are you still going to try your hardest to catch Kid? Slap him in handcuffs? Throw him in jail? And all that fancy stuff?"

Edited 2008-08-01 23:46 (UTC)

Unlike Kaito with the book, Hakuba was already keeping an eye on Kaito’s hands, but he was still surprised when he threw one of the coloured balls to him. The blonde detective caught the ball in mid-air, careful to not squish it too hard. It looked like a normal ball, but he knew better.

“Thanks, Kuroba.”

The detective raised an eyebrow at the world-hop comment. He was leaving after all. Hakuba sighed internally. He would have an eye on Aoko the next days just to be sure she was alright. The first time Hakuba talked to her after the virus she managed to scare him to death with her smile.

Hakuba recognized the quote, it was from LeBlanc’s book Arsene Lupin vrs Sherlock Holmes: The blonde Phantom. How…adequate. He gave Hakuba a smiled, a sincere one.

"Hypothetically speaking then, if you were Kid, which I'm sure you are, even if I don’t have proof, then I'd say that yes, I will still try to catch you. But I will not use such at low techniques as blackmail or shooting at you because, I’m a gentleman detective as much you’re a gentleman thief. The fence remains, but we can talk, nod, and discuss about magic and jewels anytime you feel like do it.” A worried expression flittering across his face before a neutral mask was show again.

“Don’t kill yourself before I catch you.” He requested, hoping that he didn't sound too needy or concerned as he though he did.

"Good," Kaito replied, "I don't think Kid would appreciate it if you stopped." He almost looked... relieved? Was that it?

After all, one of the best thing about his job was the fact that he got to lead Hakuba on wild goose chase after wild goose chase. He didn't want that to change, not even if he and the pretentious detective were temporarily acting as allies.

The magician scoffed and reached for the doorknob. "How many times do I have to say it before it penetrates your obnoxiously thick skull?" he said, giving Hakuba an annoyed look, "I'm not Kid." And with that, he raised a hand and waved as he left. "See ya around, Haku-baka."

Mere seconds after he left, the colorful ball in Hakuba's hands exploded, and it suddenly began snowing. Indoors.

After all, Kaito couldn't leave without leaving Hakuba some sort of magical gift.

The other boy was already gone before he could reply his usual quote yes, you are. He was shaking his head in resign when the ball exploded.
Snow. It was snowing. In the room. Not outside. Inside the room.

”stupid magic tricks..:”

He murmured, removing the snowflakes out of his hair. He has more research to do.

Edited 2008-08-02 01:32 (UTC)

RL with Kaito- Dealing with the Damage control (again)

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Evil Hakuba...is really evil >D

Kaito's a dumbass, so it's all good!

Good, because Hakuba is being an ass...and getting payback.

This type of revenge is much better than murder, Y/Y?

A way much better. Is like the orgasm of revenge XD..well maybe not that ^^' but you get the idea

O_____o Interesting way to put it~

Yeah sorry...it was a bit too much ^^'...Hakuba is still being an ass, he want him to beg

I lol'd though, and I dun think Kaito's gonna beg...

DUN DI DUN!! what's Hakuba doing? aaah surprise!

Hee...

he's not that bad....at least not now XD

LULZ. Oh Hakuba...

Yeah, he’s really a softy in the heart :3 …really deep, but he is.

He is XP

He just knows to choose his battles ^^

But of course. He's no idiot, after all.

Neither is Kaito~

'Course not

The game is up!

Re: The game is up!

Re: The game is up!

Aaaaand we're back to playing denial!

LIES! all LIES!

Pfffffffft! Of course not!

YUUUUUUS because Kaito is an evilish thief

>:3

Lol. See? It’s true! throw out her tonge nyyyah!

He's just running because he's being a dumbass. He'll find his head and come back soon~

He better! Hakuba really don’t want to go to Andalasia because he’s scared of Nancy..LOL snow

RL with Kaito- Dealing with the Damage control (again)

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Evil Hakuba...is really evil >D

Kaito's a dumbass, so it's all good!

Good, because Hakuba is being an ass...and getting payback.

This type of revenge is much better than murder, Y/Y?

A way much better. Is like the orgasm of revenge XD..well maybe not that ^^' but you get the idea

O_____o Interesting way to put it~

Yeah sorry...it was a bit too much ^^'...Hakuba is still being an ass, he want him to beg

I lol'd though, and I dun think Kaito's gonna beg...

DUN DI DUN!! what's Hakuba doing? aaah surprise!

Hee...

he's not that bad....at least not now XD

LULZ. Oh Hakuba...

Yeah, he’s really a softy in the heart :3 …really deep, but he is.

He is XP

He just knows to choose his battles ^^

But of course. He's no idiot, after all.

Neither is Kaito~

'Course not

The game is up!

Re: The game is up!

Re: The game is up!

Aaaaand we're back to playing denial!

LIES! all LIES!

Pfffffffft! Of course not!

YUUUUUUS because Kaito is an evilish thief

>:3

Lol. See? It’s true! *throw out her tonge* nyyyah!

He's just running because he's being a dumbass. He'll find his head and come back soon~

He better! Hakuba really don’t want to go to Andalasia because he’s scared of Nancy..LOL snow

Lol. See? It’s true! throw out her tonge nyyyah!