vatheon | Some Interesting Title Goes Here

Entry tags:

Some Interesting Title Goes Here

Who: Kaito Kuroba, ANYONE
Where: Town Center
When: After Night Fall
Status: OPEN!
Style: Anything goes

[ Sometime after the sun has gone down there's a boy with a cap pulled low over his eyes dressed all in black. He's crouched the ground and there's a faint orange light by his hands before he jumps up and moves away just a loud crackling noise goes off. Kaito sinks down on the edge of the fountain and watches the firecrackers crackle and dance merrily in the night, a much needed distraction from the horrible turn his life here was taking. ]

[ He now had two disguises to juggle and the little detective was gone only to be replaced with someone Kaito's favorite detective. The pressure of hiding his identity never felt like so much before now and keeping up two identities with no real relief was starting to feel like too much to handle. When was the last time he was able to just be Kuroba Kaito? To respond to his real name and chat with friends like he did back in school? The pressure was starting affect his sleeping habits and racing thoughts were making it harder and harder to sleep. ]

[ It's not so much that he's trying to start trouble as it is that he just wants to do something that Kuroba Kaito would. Something to remind himself that he was still the son of the world's greatest magician, Kuroba Toiichi. ]

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[Nack was watching from the shadows of a nearby wall. Boy. This kid would look suspicious enough if he wasn't all slinking around the architecture. Maybe he wouldn't be noticed by a lot of people, but a lot of people weren't The Fanged Sniper.]

Somebody's having fun.

[ If Kaito was at all startled no one would ever know as he merely calmly looked up, not at all surprised the noise had gathered some attention. After all, it's kind of hard to miss fire crackers going off in the middle of the night. ]

[ The night's shadows were all he needed to keep his face from becoming visible though he insisted on pulling the cap a little lower. ]

Ah, come to enjoy an impressive display of fireworks?

[Nack was a little disappointed that he didn't get more of a reaction there, but he could play the cool game too.]

's that what's happening here?

[ It takes a lot to startle the great Kaitou Kid-or at least for him to show it. ]

If you want to see an impressive show, of course.

Gotta be careful with those impressive displays, kiddo. Ya' might spook somebody.

None of my tricks are dangerous, I make absolute sure of that. The last thing I want to do is scare someone. If they're startled it's something they can recover from.

[Nack laughs.]

Excuse me then, it looks like you've got this all rationalized out. No lost sleep over here.

[It's the fireworks that draw Hakuba to the place and his first thought when he sees Kaito, dressed all in black, is to wonder just what exactly he's up to. Of course, what could Kaito possibly get up to here anyway?]

[The slant of Kaito's shoulders looked all wrong, upon further observation. There was something in the slope of them that Hakuba hadn't seen since the Nightmare case, and that more than anything is what prompts Hakuba to step forward into Kaito's view, posture purposefully unassuming.] Kuroba-kun. What are we celebrating, then?

[ At the sound of the all too familiar and highly unwelcome tone of voice Kaito feels himself freeze. Not because he's startle but more because this is the exact person he didn't want to talk to and yet... hearing his real name forced him to twist enough to look back at the detective, making sure to keep the cap pulled down low. ]

[ Should he deny being Kuroba? Was there much of a point to it with Hakuba around? Something inside didn't really want to put up the fight- the whole reason he had come out here was because he was tired of acting like he was someone he wasn't. It didn't matter if he and Kudo had several things in common they were still completely different people and it was exhausting to constantly live in disguise. ]

[ ...But he can't risk the chance of going to jail or Hakuba telling Aoko the truth. ]

Kuroba?

[ He says in a voice that is decidely not his own. ]

[Hakuba rolls his eyes at the affected voice, which isn't even any real voice in particular, beyond simply not Kaito's. Even if Kaito was up to something, under such conditions it couldn't possibly be anything worse than the sorts of things that Kaito has gotten up to in class every day and as such it was no concern of his.]

[He had much more important things to dwell on here, in this place.]

Yes, Kuroba. Kaito Kuroba. Your name. You do remember your own name, don't you?

[ For a moment Kaito really doesn't know what to do. Deny farther or admit the truth? But if he were to do that then Hakuba would easily figure out that he was Kid since there was no one under the name Kaito Kuroba in the directory. And again he had remind himself he might be facing time in Jail if he were to talk to Hakuba. ]

[ And suddenly a thought that he's never had before hits him so fast he doesn't have much time to react to it. Maybe... Maybe if he explained things to Hakuba-explained what had happened and why he had to act as kid-just maybe he'd have a chance? ]

...

Of course I do.

[Something in Hakuba relaxes when Kaito acknowledges his name and he takes a step forward. Then a few more. He stops next to Kaito and, after a moment's contemplation, crouches down beside him, eye level with the other boy.]

[He'll never be an expert at reading body language, and Kaito is difficult to read under any circumstance, but he likes to think he knows the boy well enough to recognize that he seems to have decided something. He hasn't really had a chance to speak to Kaito since that phone call during the Chat Noir heist, had known better than to think his presence would be appreciated after Nightmare, and if his suspicions about how Kaito had been living in this place were at all correct, he was curious to see how the other boy was holding up.]

Well that's certainly a relief. I was worried for a moment that Aoko-kun had hit you one too many times on the head and you had forgotten.

[ As an instinct Kaito tenses slightly, not at all ready to admit the truth to Hakuba but at this point in time he didn't have a choice. He hated to admitted it but if he continued on without anyone but a talking rabbit talking to him as Kuroba Kaito then he'd go insane. No one could stay sane living the kind of life he had been for the last few months. ]

That would imply she's caught me.

[Hakuba laughs genuinely at that, pointedly refusing to look directly at Kaito when the other boy tenses in his periphery. It was a bit like how one was supposed to deal with wild dogs, Hakuba thinks: never look them directly in the eyes.]

If anyone is capable of catching you, Kuroba-kun, it's her. [There was no hidden message in his words, no snide asides to Kaito's time as Kid. Just one classmate speaking to another.]

Edited 2012-04-26 08:54 (UTC)

[ It's amazing how much the casual talk is doing to help him relax as his shoulders are starting to very slowly release tension. ]

Maybe one day she'll succeed, but she hasn't yet. Which means my memory is perfectly fine.

[Drolly.] Well that's certainly a relief.

So what are the fireworks for then? What are we celebrating?

Nothing.

[ He pauses... how much exactly is he willing to reveal? ]

They're... a reminder.

[Gently prompting him.] A reminder of...?

Edited 2012-04-27 03:55 (UTC)

Is that so hard to figure out?

[Hakuba makes a small sound of affirmation.] Perhaps not.

[ Kaito just gets up and pulls another string of fire crackers out and lights them before stepping back and watches them crackle ]

What are you doing out here anyway?

[Hakuba quietly watches a string of them fizzle out and die before answering. He shrugs as he does.] I had to get out. I've gotten used to not staying in one place for long and I'm not terribly good at withstanding such... earnest company even at the best of times.

[ Earnest in one way of putting it. Just be glad you're not pretending to be her not!boyfriend. ]

Your reasoning isn't too different than mine then.

[Yeah, that has to be really awkward.]

I can't imagine you staying still for too long, Kuroba-kun. Strange that we would have something like that in common.

We have more in common than either you or I want to admit, Hakuba-kun.

[ like romantic interests :|a ]

And my mind, though it pains me to admit it, doesn't work that much differently than a detectives- it's just when you walk into a room you immediately look it over to make note of everything in it. When I walk into a room I immediately look it over for all possible escape routes.

[Hakuba... he doesn't narrow his eyes suspciously at the mention of escape routes, that would require him to have at some point had doubts about Kid's real identity. It's more so that he... focuses more on Kaito now. Gently he says:]

Escape routes, Kuroba-kun?

What do you want, a written confession? I'm not an idiot Hakuba. I know there's no way I can convince you I'm not Kid when he and I just so happen to have been abducted by the same coral and I just so happen to be hiding my identity for no apparent reason and using the disguise the disguise of Kudo Shinichi.

Yeah, at this point only an idiot wouldn't be able to figure it out. You're a lot of things detective, but stupid isn't one of them.

[Oh honestly Kaito, so defensive.] Of course I don't need a written confession, Kuroba, I'm just a little surprised that after all this you've finally stopped denying it.

Oi. I'm not infallible. Even I have my limits and I pushed them passed a breaking point by taking on two identities in this giant f-fish tank. It's just-[ He pauses, not sure he wants to continue that thought ]

...Nice to talk to someone as myself from back home.

[Hakuba sighs at Kaito's admission and runs a hand through his hair.] I can't even begin to imagine what you were thinking, doing such a thing Kuroba-kun, there are innumerable and varied ways that such long term seperation from your identity can have negative reprecussions on your psyche--

But I also can't see why you thought it was necessary to admit to being Kaitou Kid in order to speak with me like this.

[ Kaito's a little surprised by it but there's definitely a highly awkward and shaky feeling of trust he's experiencing. ]

Like I said, you'd have to be stupid not to figure it out.

[You'll get there one day Kaito.]

There was nothing for me to figure out.

[ Yeah, he's just gonna give him a completely unamused look for that. ]

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Some Interesting Title Goes Here

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject