Fic: Conjour's Masqurade (8/?)
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Title: Conjour's Masquerade
Authour: Saitaina
Rating: R (chapter)/NC-17 (full story)
Characters: Kuroba Kaito, Hakuba Saguru, Koizumi Akako, Edogowa Conan/Kudo Shinichi, Kuroba Mika (Kaito's Mother), Jii, Nakamori Aoko, Nakamori Ginzo, Edward St. Claire, Pierre Lemont, Ask, Eva, Pan, Kuma, Honua, Bohdona, Edogowa Kiden.
Pairings: Kuroba Kaito/Hakuba Saguru, Edogowa Conan/Koizumi Akako, Kuroba Mika/Jii, Nakamori Aoko/Pierre Lemont, Kuroba Kaito/Edogowa Kiden/Hakuba Saguru, Eden/Ask, Eva/Pan, Kuma/Honua, Nakamori Ginzo/Nakamori Maria,
Summary: It's been seven years, since the death of Kaitou Kid, but there is still one thing out there, Kaito and Kiden left un-finished.
WARNINGS: Sex, death, illness, MAGIC, blood/gore, slight religious content later.
Previous Stories: Magician's Waltz, Ilusionist's Ball.
Previous Chapters: Chapter I, Chapter II, Chapter III, Chapter IV, Chapter V, Chapter VI, Chapter VII.
Chapter Information:
Title: Weather is Here, Wish You Were Beautiful
Summary: With Kidoko around, the Genisis Larceny gang decdes to get some help, and hands over what they know to the gang. Secrets are revealed as are some long hidden emotions.
Notes: Mostly a lot of talking due to this being the 'information' chapter, I vote you not read it half asleep.
Chapter Eight: Weather is Here, Wish You Were Beautiful
Risen from sand, the Victorious kings
March in the light of the weakening moon.
Fourteen, of fifteen, and twenty-seven strong
Seeking a fallen fleck of the sun.
--
Conan groaned, flopping over onto the couch in the common area of the suite he shared with Saguru and Kaito. He shifted, yawning as his 'cousin' came into the room, pulling on a tank top to attempt to beat the winter heat still flooding the rooms despite the air conditioner.
"Of all the places in the world, why Cairo?" Kaito grumbled, grabbing a bottle of water out of the mini-fridge and cracking open the seal, taking a large drink.
"He's your other half, you figure him out." Conan muttered, pulling off his own t-shirt, melting into the cushions of the couch. It was only seventy degrees, but after the cold and snow of England it was practically scorching to the pair, especially since the planes they had taken hadn't seemed to believe in air conditioning...though, that could have been because they were chartered by Scotland Yard and the station seemed to be on a budget cutting binge.
"I wonder if the hotel has enough ice to fill the tub," Kaito murmured, dumping the last few swallows of water onto his head, shaking his now wet hair. He turned, as the door opened and grinned, almost launching himself at his boyfriend who barely had time to set his briefcase down before he was slammed against the wall, arms full of hyper magician.
"Finally!" Kaito said and kissed Saguru hungrily, pressing the blond back so that Saguru was forced to sit on the decorative end table, knocking over a vase of lilies that had been resting there. "I've waited forever for you to get back,"
"I was only gone a few hours, Kaito." Saguru managed to get out, before his mouth was distracted by Kaito's again, a small hum vibrating them.
Kaito pulled away to mouth at Saguru's neck, hands pulling the blond's shirt from his pants in order to slide under them. "Too long, wanted you." he murmured. "I've thought nothing, but wrapping my mouth around you're hard, thick cock since you left," he whispered, nipping at the flesh under his mouth before concentrating on the buttons to the shirt, eager to get them apart. His mouth latched on a nipple, sucking hard as his fingers continued caressing the flesh offered to him.
"No you weren't,' Conan muttered, not looking up from his magazine. "You were bitching about how hot it's been."
Saguru groaned at the magician's words, pressing his body tighter against Kaito's body, his hands slipping down the brunette's body, gently gripping the curves of his ass. "Oh really?" he murmured, ignoring Conan and lowering his head to gently nip at the shell of Kaito's ear
Kaito nodded, switching nipples for a moment, biting at it before trailing kisses down Saguru's body, pausing to flick his tongue over Saguru's navel. He looked up Saguru's body to the blond's face, smirking from where he was between Saguru's legs. "I've been drooling over it all morning, wanting your cock in me so badly."
Saguru grinned, pulling Kaito up for a hungry kiss, shoving his tongue into the magician's mouth, pressing their hips together, grinding up against his lover, before pulling away. "Then do what you need," Saguru said, spreading his legs more.
Kaito grinned, liking down Saguru's body again, hands working on the buckle of Saguru's belt.
"I'm still in the room," Conan reminded them.
"Then join in or get out," Kaito said, un-zipping Saguru's pants, tugging on them as Saguru lifted his hips to help Kaito get them off.
"Ugh. Breasts, I need breasts," Conan muttered, finally tossing the magazine aside and standing. "I'm going to get coffee and take a long walk, please be finished by the time I'm back." With that, Conan slipped on his shoes and opened the door, about to walk out when he found himself face to face with a pair of breasts.
Blinking, Conan looked up at the group in the doorway, stepping back. "Uh, can I help you?"
"We need to speak with Inspector Hakuba and Mr. Kuroba," one of the men said.
Conan frowned, recognizing the man as someone that had hung out at recent Kid heists, before moving out of the doorway. "Come in,' he said, before heading back towards Kaito and Saguru. "Put it away, we have company."
"Conan, now really isn't..." Kaito trailed off, looking at the group coming into the suite. "Oh."
Saguru shifted, using Kaito's body as a shield to get himself back together, studying five people now arranging themselves on the sofas and chairs. "How can we help you?"
"We need to discuss Edogowa Kiden aka Eden," The blond man spoke and Saguru's frown matched Conan's.
"You're one of his new accomplices," Saguru said, before his eyes fell on the young blond that was glaring at him. "Nice to meet you again, Kudo-san."
Ask glared more, eyes lowering when Eva elbowed him. Eva turned her attention to the three men whose hotel suite they invaded. "We are his accomplices, and normally we would not even dream of talking with you, but things have come up that we believe need your attention.'
"And how are we supposed to believe you?" Kaito asked, taking a seat.
Pan and Eva shared a look before Eva pulled a thick file out of her purse, placing it on the table between her and Kaito. "We're willing to share information, that you do not have access to."
Kaito raised an eyebrow, picking up the file and opening it. He blinked, staring at the images and reports, all the information Saguru would have needed to arrest the people in front of them. He passed the file to Saguru, before looking back at Eva. "Does Kiden know you're here?"
"No," Ask said. "Not that we could tell him if we wanted."
"What do you mean?" Conan asked, setting a pitcher of water and eight glasses on the table.
"That's what we're here about," Eva said. "Kiden is...lost."
"Lost..you mean missing?" Saguru asked, looking up from the file.
"Not in so many..."
"He's been replaced," Ask interrupted, ignoring Eva's glare. "By another personality, much like he had been, to Kaito."
"Are you trying to say Kiden's developed multiple personalities?" Conan asked, trying not to laugh at the absurdity of the statement. "Why?"
"We don't know," Eva said sadly. "Sometime after Lilith's death, Kidoko became the prominent personality."
"Kidoko?" Conan asked, surprised. "Are you sure Kiden's not just hiding behind her persona?"
Ask shook his head. "I know Kiden. I've been his lover for over a year, and his roommate for seven years. I also know when he's acting as Kidoko...there's still...parts of him, behind her smile. This is different."
"You have to understand, it's very hard to accept the idea that Kiden just developed another personality at random," Conan said.
"She said she loved me," Ask whispered, and Kaito shared a look with Saguru. Kiden, no matter whose face he hid behind, never said those words...at least, not to anyone besides Kaito.
"Excuse me," Kaito said softly, leaving the room.
Saguru watched him go sadly, before turning back to the group. "Why don't you tell me more about your group and it's history, maybe we can find a clue."
Pan nodded, starting his story.
--
Eight years ago, Kiden came to me with a plan, it was especially his Plan Z, something to use if anything went wrong and the Black Ops got too close to Kaito. I was...against the plan from the beginning, but just like most of us, Kiden had me wrapped around his finger enough that I agreed. I kept the things needed for the plan and waited for his call, which came the night Rum kidnapped Kuroba-san.
Kaito stared at the key he had snagged off of Ask, twisting it into his fingers before jogging down the stairs, mind whirling around, chasing it's own tail as he tried to figure out what the hell was going on. He flagged down a cab, giving directions to the hotel the group was staying at, fingers still twisting the key.
After Kiden faked his death, he used his connections with a woman named Belladonna get a place to stay. He finalized the identify of Kidoko and used her face to shield himself. For half a year, things were quiet, we went back to our normal lives. And then we found Ask.
Kaito took a breath, before slipping the key into the lock, opening the hotel room and slipping into the room, silently closing the door behind him as he glanced around, following the sound of singing to the bathroom, where he found a near female body behind the curtain.
"Ask? Can you hand me the shampoo?" Kidoko called, returning to her singing.
"I don't think he can, but I'm willing." Kaito said, grabbing the shampoo from the bag on the toilet, passing it through the curtain.
Kidoko froze, before peering around the curtain, her face lighting up. "Kaito!" She jumped out of the shower, almost tripping over the curtain as she wrapped her arms around the magician. "What are you doing here?"
"We need to talk," he said softly, holding tightly to the wet body in his arms.
--
Pan leaned back against the couch, pulling a pack of cigarettes from his shirt pocket. "Do you mind?" he asked, before lighting up at Conan and Saguru's head shakes. He took a long drag before sighing. "At the time, Kiden had already gathered the basics of our group around him. Most of us had been working with him before, I provided some of his explosives, Kuma and Honua did some of his forgery work, and Lily..." His voice caught and he covered his face for a moment.
Eva gently squeezed Pan's hand, before taking up the story. "Lily was the youngest of us, before Ask. She worked at the Cat's Playpen in order to earn money for collage, as well as find out information about the Black Ops...the only thing that kept her going at that time was revenge."
"Revenge?" Conan asked gently and Eva nodded.
"Each of us have been touched by the Black Organization in some fashion, my parents were members who were killed, Pan's wife was a member, Kuma and Honua lost their sister in a Black Ops related accident...Lily lost her parents in an accident, when a bar they were working at was destroyed. This drove her a bit...over the edge."
Conan lowered his head, feeing slightly responsible for the bar bombing, even though he couldn't have stopped it. He hadn't even been really involved, except being in the same place at the same time.
"Anyway, it was Ask who really built us into what we are now. His appearance set us back onto the track of finding Pandora." Pan said, glancing at Ask who didn't seem to be interested in his own story, but in peering out the window.
"And what would some kid know of Pandora?" Saguru asked, still rather grumpy about the boy being his lover's lover.
"Everything," Kuma said, and Conan jumped, not prepared for the two to speak. Kuma gave the teenager a smile before turning his attention back to Saguru. "The Black Organization doesn't discriminate, when it comes to talent and Ask was one of their highest members, purely for his brain. He lead the research team, looking into Pandora...until he was ten, when he was supposedly assassinated."
"Supposedly?" Saguru, not at all surprised that the boy was wanted for his brain. Intelligence levels seemed to run high in those that associated with Kaito and Kiden.
"We found him before he could die," Pan said, leaving it at that.
Conan stood, moving over to the bitter young teen staring out the window. He leaned a glass, staring down at the ancient city below them. "What was your name?" he asked, curious.
"Snow White." Ask said with a bitter smile. He turned his attention from gazing out at the city, looking up at his cousin's reflection. "Everyone related to the search for Pandora were named after a Fairytale."
"Cute," Conan muttered, shaking his head.
--
Kaito sat on the bed, watching as Kidoko donned a silk robe, wrapping it around her flat chest before loosely tying it and taking a seat in the chair across from him, crossing one leg over the other. "Why are you here, Kaito?"
Kaito ran a hand through his hair, messing it up even more before taking a breath. "What did you tell me, on the roof before you died." he asked, picking the only question that would settle for him, wither this was an elaborate prank or real.
Kidoko blinked at the question, opening her mouth to answer before realizing she didn't have one. Whatever Kaito and Kiden had discussed before Kiden died, was locked away in the vault in their head, kept private even from someone sharing his head. "I...don't know." she whispered.
Kaito stared at her, blinking for a moment before standing. "Why? Why is he gone?" he asked, crossing his arms over his chest, almost hugging himself. "I don't...he was the strongest person I know, why would he need protection?"
Kidoko laughed, taking a sip from the glass of scotch resting next to her. "Not all personalities are created for protection, Kaito-kun. Kiden was because you were young when your father died, and you needed someone to rely on. I'm here, because Kiden needed an escape. He's not...ready to deal with Lilith's death and so here I am."
"So does this mean I'm going to lose him to you?" Kaito asked, nervousness bleeding through his voice. It had already been seven years, he couldn't stand to lose Kiden again, to his own mind.
Kidoko laughed, covering her mouth as she almost spit scotch out. "No, not even close, Kaito. I have no interest in Kiden except as an amusing head mate who gave birth to me. My lover has been and will be Yuki-chan."
"You really love him," Kaito said, surprised. "How...er..."
Kidoko smiled fondly as she thought of her young boyfriend. "He means the world to me, Kaito, and before you ask, that feeling is quite separate from what Kiden feels for him."
"Do you know..."
"I do, but that's none of your business." She took another sip of her scotch, before cradling the glass in her hands. "So what brought this on?"
"Your...friends interrupted a very pleasant time with Saguru to inform us that you were around."
"I wonder why they did that," Kidoko said, tilting her head, and Kaito could almost see the ghost of her ponytails in the action.
"Probably because we are most familiar with such an occurrence," Kaito said, shrugging. "I didn't exactly stick around to find out.
Kidoko smiled before standing. "Want to go have lunch? My treat." She gave him a wink before disappearing into her closet to change.
--
"Alright, let me see if I have this straight," Saguru said, running a hand through his hair. "Eight years ago, right around the time he first appeared, Kiden came to you with a plan to protect Kaito," Saguru said to Pan who nodded. "Six months after that, Ask appears on the scene and Kiden gets interested in Pandora again, the one thing he left un-finished."
"Correct," Eva said, stubbing out her cigarette.
"So where do you fall in," Saguru said, gesturing to her and the twins.
"We were the core of his group. Along with Pan's skill with explosives, each of us have our own unique...talents."
"Which are?" Conan said, taking his seat again as Ask wheeled himself back to the group.
"I'm a con-man. I provide information that Kiden needs, but doesn't have time to retrieve." Eva said.
"We're forgers," Kuma and Honu said together.
"I specialize in financial forgery, bank cards, checks, credit cards, anything to provide money," Kuma expanded. "Honu is identity forgery, any id you need, we can provide...except certain ones."
"Then these are yours?" Saguru said, pulling Lily's ID's from her file.
"The paperwork needed to get them are mine, obviously good enough to get an actual identification card," Honu said proudly, taking the id cards and slipping them into his wallet.
"And what about you," Conan asked, looking at Ask.
"Surveillance and technology. As well as the research into Pandora," Ask answered.
"And is that everyone?" Conan asked, curious.
"No, there is Bohdie, who is our un-official leader, she basically runs everything and supplies us, and another member, Leif."
"Who had the interest in mythology?" Conan asked.
Eva smiled. "Kiden."
--
"Hey hunny, want another drink?"
Kaito nodded absently to the barmaid, pushing his glass towards her as she re-filled his beer before turning his attention to the blond at his side. "You're so different," he mused, watching her chew on her straw, occasionally blowing bubbles in the mudslide she ordered.
Kidoko giggled, taking a sip of her drink before turning towards Kaito, smoothing down her skirt as she crossed her legs. "One of the perks of being an original," she said, tossing a peanut into the air and trying to catch it in her mouth, only to have it fall down her tank top. She fished around for it, ignoring the looks she was getting from men as she nearly exposed her fake breast. "Plus I'm only a few weeks old," she added, finally finding the missing nut and popping it into her mouth.
"But still, it seems so odd..."
Kidoko gently tapped Kaito's leg with her foot. "Kaito, you created Kiden in yours and your father's image, what did you expect when he came to life much like you? For all your differences, you and Kiden have the same core. You both would die to protect those you love, you both fight for what you believe in, and you both fight so hard to live your lives. You are twins, both in looks and in your heart." She took a sip of her drink before sighing, looking far older then she should have before hiding the emotion away behind her perky attitude. "I wasn't born of you, or even really of Kiden," she said, trying to smile. "I was created by Lily, her influence and death bringing me out. It makes sense I'm different...I'm not your 'daughter'."
"It's a little weird when you refer to us as related, or me as Kiden's father." Kaito muttered, sipping his beer.
Kidoko laughed, almost inhaling the peanut she had been eating. "What else would you be, Kaito-kun? You gave birth to him, the same any parent would a child. Just because you had sex with him, doesn't change the fact you're his parent. You gave him the morals and values, as few as he has, that he knows. You taught him and gave him the strength to survive these past years..." she trailed off, stirring her drink before looking at Kaito. "He wanted nothing more, then to return to you and Hakuba-kun. You were what kept him going, and I thank you for what you gave him, without it...I wouldn't be here."
"Doesn't it worry you, Kidoko? What happens when he's ready to return and doesn't need you anymore?" Kaito asked, resting his hand over hers, feeling a part of his heart already opening up and accepting this new part of his twin into his life.
Kidoko smiled, turning her hand over, clasping their hands together. "I may vanish when he's ready to wake up, but I'm okay with that. If he's ready to take back his life, then I've done what was intended of me. It was his life in the first place, and it's his right to live it. Besides, even if it's for a short moment, I got to have a great many things, my lover, a great job, wonderful friends...and I got to meet you face to face." She squeezed his hand, raising it up to rest it against her cheek. "Kiden and I don't have what you did, there is no bond between us save the job I was charged with at my creation. I'm okay with fading away."
"It still seems sad," Kaito said, content with allowing her to keep his hand as he sipped his beer.
"I'll always be inside him, Kaito...you'll see me again, even if it's just a memory."
--
"Are you ever going to tell him?" Eva asked as she walked with Ask back towards the lift that would take them downstairs.
"What, and ruin his happy little life? Please." Ask muttered.
"It's the information they need, Ask. It's what they've wanted for seven years." Eva countered, grabbing the handles of the boy's wheelchair, holding him still. "It's what you've wanted. Wasn't that why you were killed? Because you searched too hard for your brother?"
Ask was silent for a moment, before shifting in his chair, turning to look at Eva. "What do you want me to say, Eva? Yes, I wanted to know my brother, yes, I wanted to see what kind of man he was. And I've done that. He doesn't need to know that his family is a group of murderers, that his father created and heads the very organization that he and his family would have died to stop. The only thing I can give Saguru, is a life without that knowledge." With that he jerked his chair out of Eva's grasp, wheeling himself towards the lift.
Eva sighed, following, not seeing the pair of shadows behind her.
Kaito watched the woman leave, before shaking Kidoko off his arm, staring after the two even though they had long left. "You knew," he said softly.
Kidoko nodded, taking Kaito's hand. "When Ask joined us he told us everything he knew about the BO, including it's leader. Despite knowing it's Saguru's father, we couldn't make a move against him. As such, Kiden decided it was better that you didn't know, it would serve no purpose to hurt you both."
Kaito was silent, staring at a spot on the floor unseeing. Hakuba Thomas, the man that had pulled all the strings in his and Conan's life, the one thing they had been searching for since either of them had come in contact with the BO...and if he exposed this fact, it would destroy his lover.
Title: Conjour's Masquerade
Authour: Saitaina
Rating: R (chapter)/NC-17 (full story)
Characters: Kuroba Kaito, Hakuba Saguru, Koizumi Akako, Edogowa Conan/Kudo Shinichi, Kuroba Mika (Kaito's Mother), Jii, Nakamori Aoko, Nakamori Ginzo, Edward St. Claire, Pierre Lemont, Ask, Eva, Pan, Kuma, Honua, Bohdona, Edogowa Kiden.
Pairings: Kuroba Kaito/Hakuba Saguru, Edogowa Conan/Koizumi Akako, Kuroba Mika/Jii, Nakamori Aoko/Pierre Lemont, Kuroba Kaito/Edogowa Kiden/Hakuba Saguru, Eden/Ask, Eva/Pan, Kuma/Honua, Nakamori Ginzo/Nakamori Maria,
Summary: It's been seven years, since the death of Kaitou Kid, but there is still one thing out there, Kaito and Kiden left un-finished.
WARNINGS: Sex, death, illness, MAGIC, blood/gore, slight religious content later.
Previous Stories: Magician's Waltz, Ilusionist's Ball.
Previous Chapters: Chapter I, Chapter II, Chapter III, Chapter IV, Chapter V, Chapter VI, Chapter VII.
Chapter Information:
Title: Weather is Here, Wish You Were Beautiful
Summary: With Kidoko around, the Genisis Larceny gang decdes to get some help, and hands over what they know to the gang. Secrets are revealed as are some long hidden emotions.
Notes: Mostly a lot of talking due to this being the 'information' chapter, I vote you not read it half asleep.
Chapter Eight: Weather is Here, Wish You Were Beautiful
Risen from sand, the Victorious kings
March in the light of the weakening moon.
Fourteen, of fifteen, and twenty-seven strong
Seeking a fallen fleck of the sun.
--
Conan groaned, flopping over onto the couch in the common area of the suite he shared with Saguru and Kaito. He shifted, yawning as his 'cousin' came into the room, pulling on a tank top to attempt to beat the winter heat still flooding the rooms despite the air conditioner.
"Of all the places in the world, why Cairo?" Kaito grumbled, grabbing a bottle of water out of the mini-fridge and cracking open the seal, taking a large drink.
"He's your other half, you figure him out." Conan muttered, pulling off his own t-shirt, melting into the cushions of the couch. It was only seventy degrees, but after the cold and snow of England it was practically scorching to the pair, especially since the planes they had taken hadn't seemed to believe in air conditioning...though, that could have been because they were chartered by Scotland Yard and the station seemed to be on a budget cutting binge.
"I wonder if the hotel has enough ice to fill the tub," Kaito murmured, dumping the last few swallows of water onto his head, shaking his now wet hair. He turned, as the door opened and grinned, almost launching himself at his boyfriend who barely had time to set his briefcase down before he was slammed against the wall, arms full of hyper magician.
"Finally!" Kaito said and kissed Saguru hungrily, pressing the blond back so that Saguru was forced to sit on the decorative end table, knocking over a vase of lilies that had been resting there. "I've waited forever for you to get back,"
"I was only gone a few hours, Kaito." Saguru managed to get out, before his mouth was distracted by Kaito's again, a small hum vibrating them.
Kaito pulled away to mouth at Saguru's neck, hands pulling the blond's shirt from his pants in order to slide under them. "Too long, wanted you." he murmured. "I've thought nothing, but wrapping my mouth around you're hard, thick cock since you left," he whispered, nipping at the flesh under his mouth before concentrating on the buttons to the shirt, eager to get them apart. His mouth latched on a nipple, sucking hard as his fingers continued caressing the flesh offered to him.
"No you weren't,' Conan muttered, not looking up from his magazine. "You were bitching about how hot it's been."
Saguru groaned at the magician's words, pressing his body tighter against Kaito's body, his hands slipping down the brunette's body, gently gripping the curves of his ass. "Oh really?" he murmured, ignoring Conan and lowering his head to gently nip at the shell of Kaito's ear
Kaito nodded, switching nipples for a moment, biting at it before trailing kisses down Saguru's body, pausing to flick his tongue over Saguru's navel. He looked up Saguru's body to the blond's face, smirking from where he was between Saguru's legs. "I've been drooling over it all morning, wanting your cock in me so badly."
Saguru grinned, pulling Kaito up for a hungry kiss, shoving his tongue into the magician's mouth, pressing their hips together, grinding up against his lover, before pulling away. "Then do what you need," Saguru said, spreading his legs more.
Kaito grinned, liking down Saguru's body again, hands working on the buckle of Saguru's belt.
"I'm still in the room," Conan reminded them.
"Then join in or get out," Kaito said, un-zipping Saguru's pants, tugging on them as Saguru lifted his hips to help Kaito get them off.
"Ugh. Breasts, I need breasts," Conan muttered, finally tossing the magazine aside and standing. "I'm going to get coffee and take a long walk, please be finished by the time I'm back." With that, Conan slipped on his shoes and opened the door, about to walk out when he found himself face to face with a pair of breasts.
Blinking, Conan looked up at the group in the doorway, stepping back. "Uh, can I help you?"
"We need to speak with Inspector Hakuba and Mr. Kuroba," one of the men said.
Conan frowned, recognizing the man as someone that had hung out at recent Kid heists, before moving out of the doorway. "Come in,' he said, before heading back towards Kaito and Saguru. "Put it away, we have company."
"Conan, now really isn't..." Kaito trailed off, looking at the group coming into the suite. "Oh."
Saguru shifted, using Kaito's body as a shield to get himself back together, studying five people now arranging themselves on the sofas and chairs. "How can we help you?"
"We need to discuss Edogowa Kiden aka Eden," The blond man spoke and Saguru's frown matched Conan's.
"You're one of his new accomplices," Saguru said, before his eyes fell on the young blond that was glaring at him. "Nice to meet you again, Kudo-san."
Ask glared more, eyes lowering when Eva elbowed him. Eva turned her attention to the three men whose hotel suite they invaded. "We are his accomplices, and normally we would not even dream of talking with you, but things have come up that we believe need your attention.'
"And how are we supposed to believe you?" Kaito asked, taking a seat.
Pan and Eva shared a look before Eva pulled a thick file out of her purse, placing it on the table between her and Kaito. "We're willing to share information, that you do not have access to."
Kaito raised an eyebrow, picking up the file and opening it. He blinked, staring at the images and reports, all the information Saguru would have needed to arrest the people in front of them. He passed the file to Saguru, before looking back at Eva. "Does Kiden know you're here?"
"No," Ask said. "Not that we could tell him if we wanted."
"What do you mean?" Conan asked, setting a pitcher of water and eight glasses on the table.
"That's what we're here about," Eva said. "Kiden is...lost."
"Lost..you mean missing?" Saguru asked, looking up from the file.
"Not in so many..."
"He's been replaced," Ask interrupted, ignoring Eva's glare. "By another personality, much like he had been, to Kaito."
"Are you trying to say Kiden's developed multiple personalities?" Conan asked, trying not to laugh at the absurdity of the statement. "Why?"
"We don't know," Eva said sadly. "Sometime after Lilith's death, Kidoko became the prominent personality."
"Kidoko?" Conan asked, surprised. "Are you sure Kiden's not just hiding behind her persona?"
Ask shook his head. "I know Kiden. I've been his lover for over a year, and his roommate for seven years. I also know when he's acting as Kidoko...there's still...parts of him, behind her smile. This is different."
"You have to understand, it's very hard to accept the idea that Kiden just developed another personality at random," Conan said.
"She said she loved me," Ask whispered, and Kaito shared a look with Saguru. Kiden, no matter whose face he hid behind, never said those words...at least, not to anyone besides Kaito.
"Excuse me," Kaito said softly, leaving the room.
Saguru watched him go sadly, before turning back to the group. "Why don't you tell me more about your group and it's history, maybe we can find a clue."
Pan nodded, starting his story.
--
Eight years ago, Kiden came to me with a plan, it was especially his Plan Z, something to use if anything went wrong and the Black Ops got too close to Kaito. I was...against the plan from the beginning, but just like most of us, Kiden had me wrapped around his finger enough that I agreed. I kept the things needed for the plan and waited for his call, which came the night Rum kidnapped Kuroba-san.
Kaito stared at the key he had snagged off of Ask, twisting it into his fingers before jogging down the stairs, mind whirling around, chasing it's own tail as he tried to figure out what the hell was going on. He flagged down a cab, giving directions to the hotel the group was staying at, fingers still twisting the key.
After Kiden faked his death, he used his connections with a woman named Belladonna get a place to stay. He finalized the identify of Kidoko and used her face to shield himself. For half a year, things were quiet, we went back to our normal lives. And then we found Ask.
Kaito took a breath, before slipping the key into the lock, opening the hotel room and slipping into the room, silently closing the door behind him as he glanced around, following the sound of singing to the bathroom, where he found a near female body behind the curtain.
"Ask? Can you hand me the shampoo?" Kidoko called, returning to her singing.
"I don't think he can, but I'm willing." Kaito said, grabbing the shampoo from the bag on the toilet, passing it through the curtain.
Kidoko froze, before peering around the curtain, her face lighting up. "Kaito!" She jumped out of the shower, almost tripping over the curtain as she wrapped her arms around the magician. "What are you doing here?"
"We need to talk," he said softly, holding tightly to the wet body in his arms.
--
Pan leaned back against the couch, pulling a pack of cigarettes from his shirt pocket. "Do you mind?" he asked, before lighting up at Conan and Saguru's head shakes. He took a long drag before sighing. "At the time, Kiden had already gathered the basics of our group around him. Most of us had been working with him before, I provided some of his explosives, Kuma and Honua did some of his forgery work, and Lily..." His voice caught and he covered his face for a moment.
Eva gently squeezed Pan's hand, before taking up the story. "Lily was the youngest of us, before Ask. She worked at the Cat's Playpen in order to earn money for collage, as well as find out information about the Black Ops...the only thing that kept her going at that time was revenge."
"Revenge?" Conan asked gently and Eva nodded.
"Each of us have been touched by the Black Organization in some fashion, my parents were members who were killed, Pan's wife was a member, Kuma and Honua lost their sister in a Black Ops related accident...Lily lost her parents in an accident, when a bar they were working at was destroyed. This drove her a bit...over the edge."
Conan lowered his head, feeing slightly responsible for the bar bombing, even though he couldn't have stopped it. He hadn't even been really involved, except being in the same place at the same time.
"Anyway, it was Ask who really built us into what we are now. His appearance set us back onto the track of finding Pandora." Pan said, glancing at Ask who didn't seem to be interested in his own story, but in peering out the window.
"And what would some kid know of Pandora?" Saguru asked, still rather grumpy about the boy being his lover's lover.
"Everything," Kuma said, and Conan jumped, not prepared for the two to speak. Kuma gave the teenager a smile before turning his attention back to Saguru. "The Black Organization doesn't discriminate, when it comes to talent and Ask was one of their highest members, purely for his brain. He lead the research team, looking into Pandora...until he was ten, when he was supposedly assassinated."
"Supposedly?" Saguru, not at all surprised that the boy was wanted for his brain. Intelligence levels seemed to run high in those that associated with Kaito and Kiden.
"We found him before he could die," Pan said, leaving it at that.
Conan stood, moving over to the bitter young teen staring out the window. He leaned a glass, staring down at the ancient city below them. "What was your name?" he asked, curious.
"Snow White." Ask said with a bitter smile. He turned his attention from gazing out at the city, looking up at his cousin's reflection. "Everyone related to the search for Pandora were named after a Fairytale."
"Cute," Conan muttered, shaking his head.
--
Kaito sat on the bed, watching as Kidoko donned a silk robe, wrapping it around her flat chest before loosely tying it and taking a seat in the chair across from him, crossing one leg over the other. "Why are you here, Kaito?"
Kaito ran a hand through his hair, messing it up even more before taking a breath. "What did you tell me, on the roof before you died." he asked, picking the only question that would settle for him, wither this was an elaborate prank or real.
Kidoko blinked at the question, opening her mouth to answer before realizing she didn't have one. Whatever Kaito and Kiden had discussed before Kiden died, was locked away in the vault in their head, kept private even from someone sharing his head. "I...don't know." she whispered.
Kaito stared at her, blinking for a moment before standing. "Why? Why is he gone?" he asked, crossing his arms over his chest, almost hugging himself. "I don't...he was the strongest person I know, why would he need protection?"
Kidoko laughed, taking a sip from the glass of scotch resting next to her. "Not all personalities are created for protection, Kaito-kun. Kiden was because you were young when your father died, and you needed someone to rely on. I'm here, because Kiden needed an escape. He's not...ready to deal with Lilith's death and so here I am."
"So does this mean I'm going to lose him to you?" Kaito asked, nervousness bleeding through his voice. It had already been seven years, he couldn't stand to lose Kiden again, to his own mind.
Kidoko laughed, covering her mouth as she almost spit scotch out. "No, not even close, Kaito. I have no interest in Kiden except as an amusing head mate who gave birth to me. My lover has been and will be Yuki-chan."
"You really love him," Kaito said, surprised. "How...er..."
Kidoko smiled fondly as she thought of her young boyfriend. "He means the world to me, Kaito, and before you ask, that feeling is quite separate from what Kiden feels for him."
"Do you know..."
"I do, but that's none of your business." She took another sip of her scotch, before cradling the glass in her hands. "So what brought this on?"
"Your...friends interrupted a very pleasant time with Saguru to inform us that you were around."
"I wonder why they did that," Kidoko said, tilting her head, and Kaito could almost see the ghost of her ponytails in the action.
"Probably because we are most familiar with such an occurrence," Kaito said, shrugging. "I didn't exactly stick around to find out.
Kidoko smiled before standing. "Want to go have lunch? My treat." She gave him a wink before disappearing into her closet to change.
--
"Alright, let me see if I have this straight," Saguru said, running a hand through his hair. "Eight years ago, right around the time he first appeared, Kiden came to you with a plan to protect Kaito," Saguru said to Pan who nodded. "Six months after that, Ask appears on the scene and Kiden gets interested in Pandora again, the one thing he left un-finished."
"Correct," Eva said, stubbing out her cigarette.
"So where do you fall in," Saguru said, gesturing to her and the twins.
"We were the core of his group. Along with Pan's skill with explosives, each of us have our own unique...talents."
"Which are?" Conan said, taking his seat again as Ask wheeled himself back to the group.
"I'm a con-man. I provide information that Kiden needs, but doesn't have time to retrieve." Eva said.
"We're forgers," Kuma and Honu said together.
"I specialize in financial forgery, bank cards, checks, credit cards, anything to provide money," Kuma expanded. "Honu is identity forgery, any id you need, we can provide...except certain ones."
"Then these are yours?" Saguru said, pulling Lily's ID's from her file.
"The paperwork needed to get them are mine, obviously good enough to get an actual identification card," Honu said proudly, taking the id cards and slipping them into his wallet.
"And what about you," Conan asked, looking at Ask.
"Surveillance and technology. As well as the research into Pandora," Ask answered.
"And is that everyone?" Conan asked, curious.
"No, there is Bohdie, who is our un-official leader, she basically runs everything and supplies us, and another member, Leif."
"Who had the interest in mythology?" Conan asked.
Eva smiled. "Kiden."
--
"Hey hunny, want another drink?"
Kaito nodded absently to the barmaid, pushing his glass towards her as she re-filled his beer before turning his attention to the blond at his side. "You're so different," he mused, watching her chew on her straw, occasionally blowing bubbles in the mudslide she ordered.
Kidoko giggled, taking a sip of her drink before turning towards Kaito, smoothing down her skirt as she crossed her legs. "One of the perks of being an original," she said, tossing a peanut into the air and trying to catch it in her mouth, only to have it fall down her tank top. She fished around for it, ignoring the looks she was getting from men as she nearly exposed her fake breast. "Plus I'm only a few weeks old," she added, finally finding the missing nut and popping it into her mouth.
"But still, it seems so odd..."
Kidoko gently tapped Kaito's leg with her foot. "Kaito, you created Kiden in yours and your father's image, what did you expect when he came to life much like you? For all your differences, you and Kiden have the same core. You both would die to protect those you love, you both fight for what you believe in, and you both fight so hard to live your lives. You are twins, both in looks and in your heart." She took a sip of her drink before sighing, looking far older then she should have before hiding the emotion away behind her perky attitude. "I wasn't born of you, or even really of Kiden," she said, trying to smile. "I was created by Lily, her influence and death bringing me out. It makes sense I'm different...I'm not your 'daughter'."
"It's a little weird when you refer to us as related, or me as Kiden's father." Kaito muttered, sipping his beer.
Kidoko laughed, almost inhaling the peanut she had been eating. "What else would you be, Kaito-kun? You gave birth to him, the same any parent would a child. Just because you had sex with him, doesn't change the fact you're his parent. You gave him the morals and values, as few as he has, that he knows. You taught him and gave him the strength to survive these past years..." she trailed off, stirring her drink before looking at Kaito. "He wanted nothing more, then to return to you and Hakuba-kun. You were what kept him going, and I thank you for what you gave him, without it...I wouldn't be here."
"Doesn't it worry you, Kidoko? What happens when he's ready to return and doesn't need you anymore?" Kaito asked, resting his hand over hers, feeling a part of his heart already opening up and accepting this new part of his twin into his life.
Kidoko smiled, turning her hand over, clasping their hands together. "I may vanish when he's ready to wake up, but I'm okay with that. If he's ready to take back his life, then I've done what was intended of me. It was his life in the first place, and it's his right to live it. Besides, even if it's for a short moment, I got to have a great many things, my lover, a great job, wonderful friends...and I got to meet you face to face." She squeezed his hand, raising it up to rest it against her cheek. "Kiden and I don't have what you did, there is no bond between us save the job I was charged with at my creation. I'm okay with fading away."
"It still seems sad," Kaito said, content with allowing her to keep his hand as he sipped his beer.
"I'll always be inside him, Kaito...you'll see me again, even if it's just a memory."
--
"Are you ever going to tell him?" Eva asked as she walked with Ask back towards the lift that would take them downstairs.
"What, and ruin his happy little life? Please." Ask muttered.
"It's the information they need, Ask. It's what they've wanted for seven years." Eva countered, grabbing the handles of the boy's wheelchair, holding him still. "It's what you've wanted. Wasn't that why you were killed? Because you searched too hard for your brother?"
Ask was silent for a moment, before shifting in his chair, turning to look at Eva. "What do you want me to say, Eva? Yes, I wanted to know my brother, yes, I wanted to see what kind of man he was. And I've done that. He doesn't need to know that his family is a group of murderers, that his father created and heads the very organization that he and his family would have died to stop. The only thing I can give Saguru, is a life without that knowledge." With that he jerked his chair out of Eva's grasp, wheeling himself towards the lift.
Eva sighed, following, not seeing the pair of shadows behind her.
Kaito watched the woman leave, before shaking Kidoko off his arm, staring after the two even though they had long left. "You knew," he said softly.
Kidoko nodded, taking Kaito's hand. "When Ask joined us he told us everything he knew about the BO, including it's leader. Despite knowing it's Saguru's father, we couldn't make a move against him. As such, Kiden decided it was better that you didn't know, it would serve no purpose to hurt you both."
Kaito was silent, staring at a spot on the floor unseeing. Hakuba Thomas, the man that had pulled all the strings in his and Conan's life, the one thing they had been searching for since either of them had come in contact with the BO...and if he exposed this fact, it would destroy his lover.
