DC/MK: Parallels
Fandom: DC/MK
Title: Parallels
Progress: WIP
Hands descended on their shoulders, making them stiffen in surprise. "Now, what are you two doing here?" Kuroba Toichi asked when his sons looked up to him, eyes wide.
A heartbeat later, fingers were pointed. "He did it," the twins chorused.
Toichi released them as the teenagers then glared at each other.
"What do you mean I did it? I'm the law-abiding one--"
"Oi, oi! You said you wouldn't use that in our arguments!"
"I wouldn't if it wasn't true!"
"And you know I had a good reason for it--!"
"There's never a good reason--"
"Detectives like you make fangirls cry."
"Who said anything about fangirls--?"
"Boys," Toichi cut in with a mild tone of amusement which made Kaito and Shinichi freeze in apprehension. "Bickering over who started it is not going to answer my question."
Once more, the twins exchanged looks. Kaito looked pleading; Shinichi looked defeated and broke the momentary silence with a sigh. Kaito gave a grin and pat his brother on the back before looking up to Toichi, who had been excluded from the silent exchange. "I'll be a long explanation, oyaji...and maybe not all that believeable," he said carefully.
The elder magician rose his eyebrows in curiosity. "This ought to be interesting, then."
"..and since Kaito had need of getting some supplies, we both firgured that your equipment would be best, but I guess the change in location threw him off--"
"Like you were so easy-going when we went to Beika--"
"--which is why our actions were...well, obvious."
"So what do you think, oyaji?"
The famous magician known as Kuroba Toichi and the infamous Kaitou Kid rubbed his forehead and sighed, eyes having been shut since the twins had started their explanation. It was all farfetched and like some mystery science fiction horror story, but...
He sat up straight and opened his eyes, looking back and forth between Kaito and Shinichi. "Different reality," he said slowly.
Shinichi nodded.
"In which Shinichi is the son of Yukiko and Yuusaku, is a famous detective, was assaulted by men in black and turned into a seven-year-old."
Kaito snickered a bit and was elbowed by his brother.
"While Kaito...is the son of myself and Fumiyo, but then I was killed by these men in black while performing a show because I am Kaitou Kid...then when Kaito was 17, he became Kaitou Kid."
Shinichi coughed into a fist. "Well, we did say that we still aren't sure if it really happened or--"
"What on earth were you thinking, Kaito?" Toichi interrupted, watching his elder son with disbelief.
Kaito blinked in surprise while Shinichi crossed his arms and sat back in his seat. "...heh?" was all the wild-haired boy could get out.
Toichi stood up and began to pace. "Even if this other reality is just something the two of you created in your heads, why on earth would you put yourself in such a dangerous position--?"
"What the hell...!" Kaito spluttered out before standing up as well. "I was getting those men off the streets--keeping them away from Pandora--"
The elder thief lifted a finger, expression closed. "Don't. Don't speak of that thing so flippantly. Seven people died for that thing. I'm called murderer because those people don't want people to find out what is really going on--"
"And what's going on here might have happened in that other reality," Kaito retorted, expression mimicking his father's until he paused, sweatdropping. "If it's real, that is...which it could be--unless it's not--and if it's not, what's the big deal? Pandora's gone now, right?"
When no response came, Kaito asked uncertainly, "...oyaji? It's gone, right?"
Shinichi slowly rose to his feet. "Do you mean to tell us that a gem that is said to grant immortality from the liquid it sheds during the passing of the comet that's going to pass by in a matter of days is in their hands still?"
Kaito looked to his brother with dismay. "But then that means--" he began, turning back to look at their father.
Toichi didn't look away like other men might. Instead, he crossed his arms and calmly answered, "No. They don't have Pandora."
The twins blew identical sighs of relief.
"Vermouth and her group does," the elder phantom thief finished.
Shinichi froze, eyes going wide. "V-Vermouth?"
Kaito looked to his younger brother. "Shinichi?"
"And Gin and Vodka?" Shinichi continued to ask, receiving a grim nod from Toichi. "And--Sherry..."
"Sherry?" the two kaitou asked, one confused, the other puzzled.
The detective turned to the younger Kid. "Sherry...it's what they called Haibara when she was in the Organization."
"Haibara?" Kaito asked with dawning realization. "Haibara Ai, the creepy girl that lived with the old guy when you were Conan--that Haibara?"
Shinichi nodded and was about to say something when Toichi interrupted, "So you knew a member of this group."
"Well, she was in the Organization because they killed her parents and then held her sister hostage. When they killed her sister, she tried to kill herself with her own creation--the apotoxin." Shinichi paused and put a hand to his head, looking pained. "But what if that reality's an imagination? Or even if it wasn't what if the situation was different?" He looked up, turning to Toichi. "Do you know a Miyano Shiho?"
"I do."
The Kuroba twins turned to see Kudo Yuusaku sitting atop a large shelf. The third Kuroba sighed. "Yuusaku, how many times have I said no to a Night Baron versus Kaitou Kid?"
"More times than I can count," Yuusaku answered as he calmly climbed down from the shelf. "But I wasn't going to ask that this time. To be honest, I noticed change in behaviors of your boys there, Toichi. Never thought that would be the explanation, you know."
Kaito pointed at the novelist. "You know about oyaji being Kid?"
Yuusaku shrugged as he approached the trio. "It was mostly coincidence how I found out."
"That, and he's suspected me ever since Yukiko introduced him to me when he kidnapped Shinichi," Toichi added, a wry and amused look crossing his face.
The other man looked to the young man who had been the baby he'd once abducted as a prank on an old friend. "And it all makes sense...if what you two say is real," he said grimly. "I'm surprised you two were able to keep up the act for this long and not tell anyone until now."
Kaito laughed uncertainly while Shinichi answered hesitantly, "Well, Saguru and Heiji deduced some of what's going on--"
"And Koizumi's a witch and knows all," Kaito added.
"But you said you know Miyano Shiho?" Shinichi asked, looking pleadingly at the man whohad been his father in another reality--if it really existed.
"Know her fairly well," Yuusaku agreed, with a patient look."She's a scientist I refer to when I need help with the chemical aspects of deduction and murder."
"Oh? Lucky!" Kaito said with a grin. "She wouldn't happen to have also have a change in behavior, huh?"
The novelist shook his head. "Can't say that I've noticed one."
"But Haibara's usually very careful," Shinichi said, keeping his attention focused on the man. "She thinks everyone is the enemy except for her sister--"
"Who's alive, in good health, and very cheerful," Yuusaku put in before eyeing the younger twin with a studeous gaze. "You're wanting me to introduce you to a young woman who may be working for a sinister underground faction of the men who already run this country?"
"Faction?" the elder twin asked.
Toichi answered, "The men who've been in charge of this country's government have always been separated until around twenty years ago when they joined forces, worked their magic, and made their control virtually absolute."
"Ten years ago," Yuusaku continued, putting his hands behind his back as he spoke, "The unified organization began to split into two groups. They were both fighting for the same thing but were disagreeing with how things were done. So, one side bided their time until--"
"Kaitou Kid went after Pandora during a banquet eight years ago," Shinichi finished for the two men, "where seven government officials were killed as Kid escaped through the dining hall."
"They used Kid to their advantage," Kaito said coldly, hiding his anger and indignance behind a calm countenance.
Shinichi then added, "And the one's who did the actual killings were Vermouth, Gin, and Vodka."
"When they say alcohol isn't healthy, they're not talking about the drink," Toichi said lowly.
"Aa," Yuusaku agreed with a frown. "And there isn't any way I'm going to show you, Shinichi, to any of those drinks. Even one that sounds as innocent as Sherry."
"But--" Shinichi bit back what he was going to say and said instead, "Look, there isn't going to be a way to get out of our situation unless I talk with Haibara--"
"And if she's just Miyano Shiho, an assumed opprotive?" the elder man argued, hands coming away from behind him so that he could cross his arms as a stern expression feel onto his face. "It's too dangerous. It's already bad enough that the two of you could have done ridiculous ly idiotic stunts in a different setting--a thing that should seem actually ridiculous if you didn't already know some things you shouldn't."
"What?" the twin boys asked in confusion.
Toichi put a hand on his friend's shoulder. "Yuusaku, this isn't the time for that."
"It never is, is it?" was the disgruntled response. "And don't you start saying you agree with what they're suggesting--"
"Of course I wouldn't!" the magician exclaimed, obviously wearing a mask of feigned cheerfulness. "I think I know better than to let these two get themselves killed--"
"We survived this long!" Kaito objected.
Shinichi added to their defense, "If you think that all we've done up to this point has been nothing but ridiculous, then why did you encourage us?"
"Encourage you?" Yuusaku asked increduously while Toichi put a hand to his head with a sigh.
"Oi," Kaito said with a tone of relaxed amusement as he looked at the two men in front of him, "you should know better than to underestimate a thief and detective combo, 'jisan. You happen to have been in one for over fifteen years, right?"
"And if you try to deny that," Shinichi added, eyes narrowing, "then Kaito and I will just have to go through every single clue and piece of evidence we have against you."
There was a moment of silence.
Toichi broke it with a stifled chuckle.
"Toichi," Yuusaku scolded with a heavy frown.
The magician pat him on the on the back. "Forget it, old friend. They're a second generation and they've got us beat." He looked to the twins with a smile. "But even if you've found us out, that doesn't mean either of us are going to let you two get involved in this."
Immediately, the boys started protesting.
"We've never had too much trouble before--"
"But if it is Haibara--!"
"Can't believe you're actually telling us 'no' after all we've told you--!"
"Who the hell says you guys can just toss us out of the fight like this--?"
"It's not fair!" they chorused heatedly.
"Life's not fair," Yuusaku said flatly.
"I thought you both should know that by now," Toichi added quietly.
Kaito and Shinichi looked to one another before lowering their eyes and nodding defeatedly.
"Now," Yuussaku said, uncrossing his arms and placing a hand on Toichi's shoulder with a bit of a smile. "I should be going and checking on that Miyano girl to see whether or not we can get some information. You probably should keep an eye on your brats, Toichi."
"Of course," the magician responded with a similar smile as he looked to the twins who looked mutinous. "Sometimes, though, you make me want to be the detective."
Yuusaku made a noise of amusement. "And who would be the thief? You know I'm no good at things like that."
Toichi chuckled at that. "Of course, of course," he said lightly. "Be careful, though."
The novelist nodded once and looked to the boys one last time before walking off.
Shinichi ended up bitin the inside of his cheek to keep himself from exclaiming in protest on last time.
"This is a joke," Kaito said later when the two of them retreated to their room while Toichi went to reassure his wife that everything was all right and that Yuusaku would be coming by for dinner. "How can they just shut us out like that? They were probably at a dead end before you mentioned Haibara."
Shinichi, who had just uncharacteristically flopped onto his bed, looked away from the ceiling to see his twin sitting on a computer chair, absently shuffling a card deck with a light frown on his face. "It's actually not that muchof a surprise for me. My father--Yuusaku, that is--has always been that way. He actually tried to abduct me to America after a few weeks of me being Conan."
"And what's his excuse for abducting you at two years old?" Kaito asked with a snicker.
Shinichi threw a pillow at him. "As I was saying: I shouldn't have been surprised at all when he showed up...I guess I thought Toichi would agree with us."
"Really," Kaito muttered, setting his cards aside and standingup for a moment to spin the chair around. He then straddled the seat and put his chin on top of the back, looking glum. "I don't know why oyaji just fell into line like that when Yuusaku showed up. It's--"
"Weird, I know." Shinichi put a hand over his eyes. "Their behaviors completely changed when they were standing next to each other--"
"Argh."
The detective peeked through his finges. "Argh?"
Kaito was banging his forehead against the back of the chair. "Mental image."
"...why do you always twist things like that!"
"It's not my fault!" the thief wailed, keeping his head down after a final thump. "Heiji's too pally with me--Aoko's dating Akako--people keep insinuating we have a narcisstic, incestual relationship--"
Shinichi sweatdropped. "Who said anything like that?"
"--and you know, before waking up that day at school, I never randomly thought of those kinds of things!"
There was a pause.
"Sigmund Freud would have a wondeful time psychoanalyzing you," the younger twin stated with a somewhat puzzled and amused look.
He was awarded with a pillow to the face.
"But seriously," he continued, pulling the pillow off of his face and sitting up, "I don't think their relationship is like that--but it's odd. Not a business relationship...not a familial relationship--"
"Kind of like us?" Kaito asked, lifting his head.
Shinichi pursed his lips in thought before shaking his head. "I would say yes, but you never listen to what I say."
The thief snickered while idly turning the computer chair side to side with his feet.
"And there's that thing with when they mentioned us knowing something we shouldn't," the detective continued, murming as he propped his chin up on his hand while his elbow rested atop his knee.
Kaito stopped moving the chair. "Oyaji told Yuusaku it wasn't the time to bring it up," he reminded his brother. "Maybe I've been right all along and we're twin half-brothers or something--"
"Which is just as out there as us being totally unrelated and yet being almost identical," Shinichi broke in, a cynical accompanied a snort of derisive laughter.
Title: Parallels
Progress: WIP
Hands descended on their shoulders, making them stiffen in surprise. "Now, what are you two doing here?" Kuroba Toichi asked when his sons looked up to him, eyes wide.
A heartbeat later, fingers were pointed. "He did it," the twins chorused.
Toichi released them as the teenagers then glared at each other.
"What do you mean I did it? I'm the law-abiding one--"
"Oi, oi! You said you wouldn't use that in our arguments!"
"I wouldn't if it wasn't true!"
"And you know I had a good reason for it--!"
"There's never a good reason--"
"Detectives like you make fangirls cry."
"Who said anything about fangirls--?"
"Boys," Toichi cut in with a mild tone of amusement which made Kaito and Shinichi freeze in apprehension. "Bickering over who started it is not going to answer my question."
Once more, the twins exchanged looks. Kaito looked pleading; Shinichi looked defeated and broke the momentary silence with a sigh. Kaito gave a grin and pat his brother on the back before looking up to Toichi, who had been excluded from the silent exchange. "I'll be a long explanation, oyaji...and maybe not all that believeable," he said carefully.
The elder magician rose his eyebrows in curiosity. "This ought to be interesting, then."
"..and since Kaito had need of getting some supplies, we both firgured that your equipment would be best, but I guess the change in location threw him off--"
"Like you were so easy-going when we went to Beika--"
"--which is why our actions were...well, obvious."
"So what do you think, oyaji?"
The famous magician known as Kuroba Toichi and the infamous Kaitou Kid rubbed his forehead and sighed, eyes having been shut since the twins had started their explanation. It was all farfetched and like some mystery science fiction horror story, but...
He sat up straight and opened his eyes, looking back and forth between Kaito and Shinichi. "Different reality," he said slowly.
Shinichi nodded.
"In which Shinichi is the son of Yukiko and Yuusaku, is a famous detective, was assaulted by men in black and turned into a seven-year-old."
Kaito snickered a bit and was elbowed by his brother.
"While Kaito...is the son of myself and Fumiyo, but then I was killed by these men in black while performing a show because I am Kaitou Kid...then when Kaito was 17, he became Kaitou Kid."
Shinichi coughed into a fist. "Well, we did say that we still aren't sure if it really happened or--"
"What on earth were you thinking, Kaito?" Toichi interrupted, watching his elder son with disbelief.
Kaito blinked in surprise while Shinichi crossed his arms and sat back in his seat. "...heh?" was all the wild-haired boy could get out.
Toichi stood up and began to pace. "Even if this other reality is just something the two of you created in your heads, why on earth would you put yourself in such a dangerous position--?"
"What the hell...!" Kaito spluttered out before standing up as well. "I was getting those men off the streets--keeping them away from Pandora--"
The elder thief lifted a finger, expression closed. "Don't. Don't speak of that thing so flippantly. Seven people died for that thing. I'm called murderer because those people don't want people to find out what is really going on--"
"And what's going on here might have happened in that other reality," Kaito retorted, expression mimicking his father's until he paused, sweatdropping. "If it's real, that is...which it could be--unless it's not--and if it's not, what's the big deal? Pandora's gone now, right?"
When no response came, Kaito asked uncertainly, "...oyaji? It's gone, right?"
Shinichi slowly rose to his feet. "Do you mean to tell us that a gem that is said to grant immortality from the liquid it sheds during the passing of the comet that's going to pass by in a matter of days is in their hands still?"
Kaito looked to his brother with dismay. "But then that means--" he began, turning back to look at their father.
Toichi didn't look away like other men might. Instead, he crossed his arms and calmly answered, "No. They don't have Pandora."
The twins blew identical sighs of relief.
"Vermouth and her group does," the elder phantom thief finished.
Shinichi froze, eyes going wide. "V-Vermouth?"
Kaito looked to his younger brother. "Shinichi?"
"And Gin and Vodka?" Shinichi continued to ask, receiving a grim nod from Toichi. "And--Sherry..."
"Sherry?" the two kaitou asked, one confused, the other puzzled.
The detective turned to the younger Kid. "Sherry...it's what they called Haibara when she was in the Organization."
"Haibara?" Kaito asked with dawning realization. "Haibara Ai, the creepy girl that lived with the old guy when you were Conan--that Haibara?"
Shinichi nodded and was about to say something when Toichi interrupted, "So you knew a member of this group."
"Well, she was in the Organization because they killed her parents and then held her sister hostage. When they killed her sister, she tried to kill herself with her own creation--the apotoxin." Shinichi paused and put a hand to his head, looking pained. "But what if that reality's an imagination? Or even if it wasn't what if the situation was different?" He looked up, turning to Toichi. "Do you know a Miyano Shiho?"
"I do."
The Kuroba twins turned to see Kudo Yuusaku sitting atop a large shelf. The third Kuroba sighed. "Yuusaku, how many times have I said no to a Night Baron versus Kaitou Kid?"
"More times than I can count," Yuusaku answered as he calmly climbed down from the shelf. "But I wasn't going to ask that this time. To be honest, I noticed change in behaviors of your boys there, Toichi. Never thought that would be the explanation, you know."
Kaito pointed at the novelist. "You know about oyaji being Kid?"
Yuusaku shrugged as he approached the trio. "It was mostly coincidence how I found out."
"That, and he's suspected me ever since Yukiko introduced him to me when he kidnapped Shinichi," Toichi added, a wry and amused look crossing his face.
The other man looked to the young man who had been the baby he'd once abducted as a prank on an old friend. "And it all makes sense...if what you two say is real," he said grimly. "I'm surprised you two were able to keep up the act for this long and not tell anyone until now."
Kaito laughed uncertainly while Shinichi answered hesitantly, "Well, Saguru and Heiji deduced some of what's going on--"
"And Koizumi's a witch and knows all," Kaito added.
"But you said you know Miyano Shiho?" Shinichi asked, looking pleadingly at the man whohad been his father in another reality--if it really existed.
"Know her fairly well," Yuusaku agreed, with a patient look."She's a scientist I refer to when I need help with the chemical aspects of deduction and murder."
"Oh? Lucky!" Kaito said with a grin. "She wouldn't happen to have also have a change in behavior, huh?"
The novelist shook his head. "Can't say that I've noticed one."
"But Haibara's usually very careful," Shinichi said, keeping his attention focused on the man. "She thinks everyone is the enemy except for her sister--"
"Who's alive, in good health, and very cheerful," Yuusaku put in before eyeing the younger twin with a studeous gaze. "You're wanting me to introduce you to a young woman who may be working for a sinister underground faction of the men who already run this country?"
"Faction?" the elder twin asked.
Toichi answered, "The men who've been in charge of this country's government have always been separated until around twenty years ago when they joined forces, worked their magic, and made their control virtually absolute."
"Ten years ago," Yuusaku continued, putting his hands behind his back as he spoke, "The unified organization began to split into two groups. They were both fighting for the same thing but were disagreeing with how things were done. So, one side bided their time until--"
"Kaitou Kid went after Pandora during a banquet eight years ago," Shinichi finished for the two men, "where seven government officials were killed as Kid escaped through the dining hall."
"They used Kid to their advantage," Kaito said coldly, hiding his anger and indignance behind a calm countenance.
Shinichi then added, "And the one's who did the actual killings were Vermouth, Gin, and Vodka."
"When they say alcohol isn't healthy, they're not talking about the drink," Toichi said lowly.
"Aa," Yuusaku agreed with a frown. "And there isn't any way I'm going to show you, Shinichi, to any of those drinks. Even one that sounds as innocent as Sherry."
"But--" Shinichi bit back what he was going to say and said instead, "Look, there isn't going to be a way to get out of our situation unless I talk with Haibara--"
"And if she's just Miyano Shiho, an assumed opprotive?" the elder man argued, hands coming away from behind him so that he could cross his arms as a stern expression feel onto his face. "It's too dangerous. It's already bad enough that the two of you could have done ridiculous ly idiotic stunts in a different setting--a thing that should seem actually ridiculous if you didn't already know some things you shouldn't."
"What?" the twin boys asked in confusion.
Toichi put a hand on his friend's shoulder. "Yuusaku, this isn't the time for that."
"It never is, is it?" was the disgruntled response. "And don't you start saying you agree with what they're suggesting--"
"Of course I wouldn't!" the magician exclaimed, obviously wearing a mask of feigned cheerfulness. "I think I know better than to let these two get themselves killed--"
"We survived this long!" Kaito objected.
Shinichi added to their defense, "If you think that all we've done up to this point has been nothing but ridiculous, then why did you encourage us?"
"Encourage you?" Yuusaku asked increduously while Toichi put a hand to his head with a sigh.
"Oi," Kaito said with a tone of relaxed amusement as he looked at the two men in front of him, "you should know better than to underestimate a thief and detective combo, 'jisan. You happen to have been in one for over fifteen years, right?"
"And if you try to deny that," Shinichi added, eyes narrowing, "then Kaito and I will just have to go through every single clue and piece of evidence we have against you."
There was a moment of silence.
Toichi broke it with a stifled chuckle.
"Toichi," Yuusaku scolded with a heavy frown.
The magician pat him on the on the back. "Forget it, old friend. They're a second generation and they've got us beat." He looked to the twins with a smile. "But even if you've found us out, that doesn't mean either of us are going to let you two get involved in this."
Immediately, the boys started protesting.
"We've never had too much trouble before--"
"But if it is Haibara--!"
"Can't believe you're actually telling us 'no' after all we've told you--!"
"Who the hell says you guys can just toss us out of the fight like this--?"
"It's not fair!" they chorused heatedly.
"Life's not fair," Yuusaku said flatly.
"I thought you both should know that by now," Toichi added quietly.
Kaito and Shinichi looked to one another before lowering their eyes and nodding defeatedly.
"Now," Yuussaku said, uncrossing his arms and placing a hand on Toichi's shoulder with a bit of a smile. "I should be going and checking on that Miyano girl to see whether or not we can get some information. You probably should keep an eye on your brats, Toichi."
"Of course," the magician responded with a similar smile as he looked to the twins who looked mutinous. "Sometimes, though, you make me want to be the detective."
Yuusaku made a noise of amusement. "And who would be the thief? You know I'm no good at things like that."
Toichi chuckled at that. "Of course, of course," he said lightly. "Be careful, though."
The novelist nodded once and looked to the boys one last time before walking off.
Shinichi ended up bitin the inside of his cheek to keep himself from exclaiming in protest on last time.
"This is a joke," Kaito said later when the two of them retreated to their room while Toichi went to reassure his wife that everything was all right and that Yuusaku would be coming by for dinner. "How can they just shut us out like that? They were probably at a dead end before you mentioned Haibara."
Shinichi, who had just uncharacteristically flopped onto his bed, looked away from the ceiling to see his twin sitting on a computer chair, absently shuffling a card deck with a light frown on his face. "It's actually not that muchof a surprise for me. My father--Yuusaku, that is--has always been that way. He actually tried to abduct me to America after a few weeks of me being Conan."
"And what's his excuse for abducting you at two years old?" Kaito asked with a snicker.
Shinichi threw a pillow at him. "As I was saying: I shouldn't have been surprised at all when he showed up...I guess I thought Toichi would agree with us."
"Really," Kaito muttered, setting his cards aside and standingup for a moment to spin the chair around. He then straddled the seat and put his chin on top of the back, looking glum. "I don't know why oyaji just fell into line like that when Yuusaku showed up. It's--"
"Weird, I know." Shinichi put a hand over his eyes. "Their behaviors completely changed when they were standing next to each other--"
"Argh."
The detective peeked through his finges. "Argh?"
Kaito was banging his forehead against the back of the chair. "Mental image."
"...why do you always twist things like that!"
"It's not my fault!" the thief wailed, keeping his head down after a final thump. "Heiji's too pally with me--Aoko's dating Akako--people keep insinuating we have a narcisstic, incestual relationship--"
Shinichi sweatdropped. "Who said anything like that?"
"--and you know, before waking up that day at school, I never randomly thought of those kinds of things!"
There was a pause.
"Sigmund Freud would have a wondeful time psychoanalyzing you," the younger twin stated with a somewhat puzzled and amused look.
He was awarded with a pillow to the face.
"But seriously," he continued, pulling the pillow off of his face and sitting up, "I don't think their relationship is like that--but it's odd. Not a business relationship...not a familial relationship--"
"Kind of like us?" Kaito asked, lifting his head.
Shinichi pursed his lips in thought before shaking his head. "I would say yes, but you never listen to what I say."
The thief snickered while idly turning the computer chair side to side with his feet.
"And there's that thing with when they mentioned us knowing something we shouldn't," the detective continued, murming as he propped his chin up on his hand while his elbow rested atop his knee.
Kaito stopped moving the chair. "Oyaji told Yuusaku it wasn't the time to bring it up," he reminded his brother. "Maybe I've been right all along and we're twin half-brothers or something--"
"Which is just as out there as us being totally unrelated and yet being almost identical," Shinichi broke in, a cynical accompanied a snort of derisive laughter.