Hakuba took out the handkerchief, which he’d already doused with disinfectant and scrubbed it against the thief’s lips before kissing him, briefly, a small peck, on the lips.

Kid had wondered what the detective was doing when he’d come close, but his lips being attacked with disinfectant hadn’t been anything he’d have expected.

Nor had the sudden, short kiss.

The thief stared off into space for a moment before blinking, mentally shaking his head to come back to awareness as a small smirk tugging at his lips. There may have also been a slight blushing, but he ignored that. He wasn’t used to being on the receiving end of people’s lips, an it had certainly caught him off guard. Especially coming from Hakuba. Though, as quickly as it had gone and as hurried as the detective had seemed to get it over with, he could guess that it hadn’t been because the other wanted to…

“…Is this you acting on those roses you gave me quite some time ago? Because that certainly took some time.~”

He paused and the smirk fell into a softer smile as he put his hands in his pockets a flash of what might have been sadness going across his face.

“…But thank you. Even if you might not have done it willingly, I appreciated it.”