Hush~

britishhsdetectivehakuba:

moonlightmajutsushi:

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The teen blinked wearily as the door opened, eyes going wide as he saw the detective. He turned so that his back was to the Hakuba, hoping the other hadn’t seen the wetness on his face…. Though he most likely had…

“…I had nightmare,” he said, wincing at the hoarseness in his voice.

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Hakuba smiled and nodded, relaxing back against the bed, though he had no intentions of sleeping in it.

“He really is. he’s honestly the opposite of myself. He’s friendly to everyone he meets, where as I’m polite. He likes to find the good in everyone, he’s always smiling, laughing. He tries to make everyone feel as happy as he does.” Hakuba placed his hands over his chest, folding his arms. “I don’t know what I would have done without him. He’s my support.”

Hakuba raised a gloved hand to his mouth, yawning softly, and then looked up at the ceiling. “He gave me a reason to keep moving forward.” He closes his eyes. “I’m sorry, I kept you up later then I should have,” He sits up straighter. “I apologize.”

“No, really, it’s fine,"  the magician was quick to assure, a small smile tugging at his lips, "It was probably going to take me a while to get back to sleep anyway, and it’s nice to hear that you can talk about anything outside of your actual work.”

A slight tease at the end of that. The worry and curiosity loomed in the back of his mind, but they weren’t pressing, so he was trying to fall back into something more normal….

…For all of a few minutes, as the smile fell yet again and he looked over at the other teen.

“…Hakuba? Could you…”

A pause, as Kaito realised what exactly he was going to ask. He probably wouldn’t normally… but, just for tonight…

“Could you come and stay in the bed with me?” And another pause, followed soon by a slight blush and embarrassed hiding of the magician’s face in his pillow at how that might have sounded.

“I mean… not sleeping together or anything. You could even just sit like you were earlier…. …Just until I fall asleep?”

He would be happiest if the other would actually sleep in the bed, for many reasons, but that wasn’t why he’d really asked. He just wanted to feel the weight of the detective there. Knowing that Hakuba, at some point, had to be pulled up before he died… even if the other was fine now… it made that worry swell some. Having the detective stay with him right now probably wasn’t a necessity for dealing with it… but it would help to have the small reassurance.

Hush~

britishhsdetectivehakuba:

moonlightmajutsushi:

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The teen blinked wearily as the door opened, eyes going wide as he saw the detective. He turned so that his back was to the Hakuba, hoping the other hadn’t seen the wetness on his face…. Though he most likely had…

“…I had nightmare,” he said, wincing at the hoarseness in his voice.

“Yes.” Hakuba answered, his face softening in fondness. “He’s out of high-school now, since he’s two years older then me. He’s getting his Private Investigator licence, currently. Though the last I heard of him, he was on a pretty big case, going undercover and everything.” Hakuba sighed, he really did miss Ryan, his support, the one who got him through the worst of his times.

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“I guess you could consider him my senpai. He taught me much of what I know today, he was a huge part in me becoming a detective. If it wasn’t for him, I probably wouldn’t be here right now; or living.” He closes his eyes. “He brought me out of the darkness, and I owe him everything. He’s also how I got Watson.” Hakuba let out another sigh. “I miss him too, but the last time I brought him, he nearly died….”

That had been so terrible. He hadn’t known Watson would be scared of flying and the hawk had gone into shock. By the time they got him off the plane he’d nearly stopped breathing. Hakuba had rushed him to a vet, and they were able to calm him down thankfully. Birds could die rather easily when they go into shock; their hearts would just stop. 

He’d made Bayaa drive them back to England then.

He listened as the detective spoke, a soft smile coming up at the obvious adoration Hakuba had for this person. It really was nice to know that he did have someone he actually got along with, considering he wasn’t actually all that social with people at school, outside of polite conversation. Well, and not quite so polite if the magician was concerned, though they didn’t bicker all the time… Not usually, anyway.

At the mention of not being alive if not for Ryan, though, a coldness went through him and he drew in a sharp breath, his mind shutting down for a moment. The words following the comment barely heard and faded soon after they reached his ears.

It had never occurred to him that the confident and slightly cocky detective might have ever had enough trouble that he’d let himself be taken by death.

And Kaito found himself scared by the thought, a knot tightening in his chest as he looked down.

Hakuba hadn’t exactly been the most welcome person he’d met. Criminal obsessed, arrogant, and, once he’d come to the conclusion Kaito was Kid, incessantly making accusations, both outright and veiled, and trying to catch the magician off guard. Honestly, every time he’d heard the other’s voice, his thief defenses would immediately go up. And it had been tiring and annoying.

But at some point, he’d started to not mind. Not bring up caution.

A good part of it likely had to do with seeing the other in school quite often. Hard to constantly be in constant ‘beware the detective’ mode when he was with him for so long. However…. another big part of the relaxing of caution had to do with the fact that…. Hakuba did seem to care. He may have said Kid was bait for Spider in the beginning, but he didn’t really want the thief to die. There had also been times like with Chat Noir, the injury to his arm, and being banned from magic at school, when Hakuba took the time to give a bit of help to the person he had already made clear that he was suspicious of being a criminal.

Irritating as the detective could be at times, both during the day and at night…. Kaito already couldn’t imagine what it would be like now without him here.

Wait, scratch that. Considering his first encounter with Spider… he’d be dead.

The magician fell silent again for a few minutes, but he didn’t turn around this time. He half wanted to talk more. Ask about Hakuba’s life, more about his past, why he thought he wouldn’t be alive.

But it wouldn’t be fair of him to ask about things that might be more personal, considering he wasn’t sharing anything himself. Nor did he want to, right now. He was more curious for information than he himself would be willing to give if the other was the one asking.

“…Sounds like a great guy…” he finally said, forcing himself to keep his voice normal. He didn’t really want Hakuba to think he was still depressed, though his current position and the silence from earlier likely hadn’t done much to get rid of any idea that he wasn’t.

themoonlightthief:

“You really think I’d give you any other torture suggestions?”

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Not that it felt very much like torture in the first place and, really, he’d be lying if he said that he didn’t enjoy the attention. 

Kaito grinned, one hand idly reaching upwards in a sudden urge he couldn’t quite contain, to slide up the side of the thief’s head, fingers just barely dipping beneath the hat to curl into his hair and lightly pet his counterpart. He might’ve had a few ideas flash through his mind, but—

Well. It was probably a better idea not to say anything at all.

“You’re a really bad torturer, you know.”

The thief hummed contently at the touch and let his eyelids fall closed, arms tightening around the other’s waist just a bit more. Yep. It had definitely been worth it to catch the other while he’d been sleepy. Not nearly as cautious as the first time they’d met. Though, it probably helped that the magician did have the first experience, considering questioning one’s sanity probably helped make it easier to accept that there was another self, trying to explain it by way of claiming the other person is a robot or no.

As for this Kid… well… he really didn’t much question things that should be unbelievable. Whether it has explanation or not, what happens happens and he just figures out what to do in response. In this case, the decision to cuddle his doppelganger seemed to be received well.

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“Well then, I suppose that part of my ‘programming’ was never installed. Forgive me if I don’t particularly mind that.”

themoonlightthief:

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“Ah, right, of course. My apologies, robot-kun.”

Hey, he might not think he was actually a robot anymore, but that certainly didn’t stop Kaito from teasing him about it. Besides, he still didn’t quite understand how there could be two of them, but, well, that was a question for another time. There were more important things to pay attention to right now. Like cuddles.

“So,” Kaito began, leaning back against the thief, lips tugging upwards. “If they’re not going to kill me, then what are you planning? Is it a new kind of torture?”

He didn’t really mind the nickname by this point, so long as he was correct thinking the other wasn’t serious about it.

"Hmm… I was just planning on continuing like this for a while…. Unless you have any suggestions that might be interesting enough for me to allow.”

The thief rubbed a cheek against the other some, very much like a cat as the other arm slid down to join the other around the magician’s waist.

“So the only ‘torture’ you’d be getting right now would be if you didn’t like the attention.~”

themoonlightthief:

“Oh, is that so?”

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Amusement flickered across Kaito’s face at his counterpart’s affectionate actions now that he was a little more prepared for it. Yeah, definitely not a robot.

“So your plan is to…kill me with kisses and cuddles? Gotta say, I don’t think that’s gonna be very effective.”

“Kisses and cuddles? No, no. I’m obviously eating you up and smothering you. I thought we already discussed this.”

Yep, let’s just take advantage of the wording, since he had just as much fun with things like that as he did teasing and doing magic. The thief pulled the other in a bit more before sliding one of his arms out from around the neck and letting it go under the magician’s arm instead, hand clasping the other from the arm still over his counterpart’s shoulder. That done, he smiled and propped his chin on the now free shoulder and tilted his head against the other’s.

“And I say they’re being as effective as I want them to be, considering I never actually said they’d be killing you.~”

themoonlightthief:

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That caught him off guard enough to render him speechless for a few brief moments, but then he grinned, head tilting sideways and back as he glanced up at the thief.

“I thought you were going to strangle me, not eat me, robot-kun.”

“Don’t believe anyone said I couldn’t do both.”

Kid lowered his head to place another kiss, on the other’s now easier to access cheek this time, before laying his head across an arm, next to the other’s head.

“Besides, a captor can choose to do whatever they want to the one they’ve caught, magician-san.~”