Wolf's POV:
They load master Kaito into the ambulance, shinichi SAN going with him. The teen asks them which hospital. Was that for my benefit or his? I tilt my head as I listen, beika General hospital. Good. Not too far. My bullet wounds were painful, but master Kaito was hurt, I had to protect him. Shinichi San is with him, he'll take care of my owner until I return. I race back to the Kudo mansion, opening the door with some difficulty as my blood made the handle slippery. I race over to master Kaito's phone, which he'd left behind on the heist in case he dropped it. I grab the mobile in my teeth, gently, and run towards the door, tripping over my own paw and finding I couldn't use my near hind leg. I ignore the pain, I race away, as fast as I can, with the phone in my jaws.

I know shinichi SAN has aoko number, and hakuba number too, but he didn't have Kaito's mothers mobile. I just hoped she'd answer. The hospital staff are mean, they shoo me away several times, calling me a dirty mangy dog. I keep trying, eventually getting past them, following my keen nose until I find shinichi San. I drop the phone in hand, hoping he understands. He does, thank the moon. I wag my tail as he looks at the phone. He doesn't speak, but dials a number and hands the phone to aoko.

"Moshi moshi? Is this chikage? Hai, it's aoko chan, no, he's not ok, he's been shot, he's alive, but judging by his mute friends reaction, not for long. Do you have any health records of his that might help? Oh, you want me to pass you over to his mute friend? Why? Ok, ok, here" she says giving shinichi SAN the phone. He holds the phone close to his ears, listening.

I slink off, going back to Agasa Hakase's house, with a long detour to nakamori keibu she house to drop of the oceans dream tied to my neck. I moved At a slow limp, moving any faster was agony. I'd helped my master, I was happy, master Kaito wasn't out of the woods, but with the proper care, he'd be fine. And anyway, despite the rumours of shinichi SAN being a death magnet, Kaito still seems to be favoured by Lady Luck. I make it back to Agasa hakase, I'd collapsed and slept in exhaustion several times, but I crawled into the warm house eventually, the devil girl haibara San (my shiho!) rushes to me and orders the old man and Doyle kun to gets warm water, cloth and a pair of surgical tweezers she kept in the lab downstairs. I don't remember anything else for a while, I wake up in a cage, I'm panicking, no, I can't be back in the lab, they'll find out about my human intelligence! I feel better, and I open the latch on the cage easily, escaping. They catch me with a noose on a pole, muzzle me, and put me back into my cage. The muzzle it the plastic variety, which allows me to eat small chunks of food and drink, but I can't bite. It's just the vets, I know, but the memories of my last time in a cage haunted me, there was even an elderly dog in the cage next to me.

I escape on a daily basis, trying to get back to little haibara San, she'd be able to take me to master Kaito. The vets call hakase, who has apparently paid for my treatment. They want them to try and calm me down. Finally, they can give me a reason for Kaito not coming for me. Please let master Kaito be safe.

Shinichi's (conan's) POV:
Kaito's mother talks to me, telling me I don't have to answer, that if I know kudo shinichi, to tell him to get is backside over to his boyfriend and protect him and that aoko chan has the same blood type as him. I want to thank her, but I still can't speak, the fear is choking me. I hang up, rush over to the doctor who'd spoken to me, and pointed at Nakamori San, hoping he'd understand. Wolf chan had limped off and hidden somewhere. The doctor frowned for a moment, then I saw realisation dawn on his face as he called for one of the nurses. They ask nakamori SAN what her blood type is, and she answers. Telling them to take whatever they need if it's for Kaito........

...........the transfusion of blood was successful, but Kaito remains unconscious. He's recovering slowly, but the doctors are worried about his health. They've warned me he could suffer permanent damage from the bullet wounds, but I don't answer. I can't answer. I've lost my voice completely, conan is missing still of course, and ran's been practically force feeding me. I sit beside Kaito's bed, not moving, or eating, I even sleep in the chair. The doctors tried chasing me out a few times, but after the first two days, gave up. It's been a week now, he's still lying there, unconscious. Megure keibu has come, asking me questions that I desperately want to answer, but can't because my voice won't work. I'm scared, I can't lose Kaito, and I know if I lose him, I'll follow him to the grave. Huh, funny. Now I know how some of those poor people felt whose deaths I investigated. That's a horrifying thought.

Narrators POV:
The detective boys were sad. Their whole school was sad. Edogawa Conan had been reported missing during a kaitou kid heist, nearly two weeks ago. Haibara ai and haibara Doyle were the only two not worried, after all, both shrunken teens knew he was really Kudo shinichi, and he was in the hospital protecting his 'friend'. However, the haibara siblings were still worried, but about Kudo being mute. Their sensei had also read about a high school detective that went missing about the same time (hattori's disappearance had been kept quiet until that point.) everyone was worried for conan, but the children couldn't do anything, so they moved around instead. They were all hoping for a miraculous return.

    Doyle's big white dog had been replaced by a smaller, crazier one called Arthur kun that had to be muzzled else he'd chew on everything except people. All the other children were curious as to what happened to the big white dog wolf chan, but the haibara siblings wouldn't say. Neither of them had the heart to say that wolf chan was at the vets, seriously hurt. The big dog had staggered into hakase's house a few nights ago, collapsing in a pool of her own blood by the door. ai chan had treated her, but the dog was too badly injured to be home treated. The vet had done what he could, it was up to wolf chan now. The dog was recovering, but wasn't helping itself, it kept escaping its cage. (It had been padlocked to stop her escaping, but she still got out somehow.)

The haibara siblings wnet to the vets to see her, the vet worried that such a 'vicious animal' was owned by two children. Ai chan ignores the woman, and rushes up to the hyper intelligent dog, unlocking the cage and letting the animal loose. The woman screams, as the big dog rushes out, but once free, it doesn't move, just wags it's big tail.

"Wolf chan, it's ok, Kuroba niichan is ok, hes alive, thanks to you, you big softy. You don't like cages do you? Reminds you of before Kuroba niichan?" The little girl asks the dog seriously, the woman vets eyes widening when the dog nods to the girl. Haibara removes the plastic muzzle and throws it at the vet.

"You stay here and get better, they won't put you back in the cage, and they won't muzzle you, ok?" The girl is comforting the dog, and the old man requests for the dog to be left loose, it's been badly traumatised by cages before it was rescued, which explained why she kept escaping and fighting anyone who put her in the cage. The vet agrees. If that's what made the big dog safe, then they'd try anything. The police had specifically ordered for the dog to be kept alive where possible for some reason, so they couldn't destroy it. (Despite having human blood all over it as well as its own.)

Kaito's POV:
I don't remember surgery, or the ambulance, or even the blood transfusion from aoko. But I do remember shin~chan, he was always there beside me, never leaving to eat, or sleep, he left a few times for a bathroom break and that was it. I could hear his soft breathing when he was asleep, hear the tears as he cried quietly to himself, but I couldn't respond, I wanted to put my arm around him, but I couldn't move, I was trapped I'm my own head. That Mouri ran girl came twice a day, to force feed shin~chan. She'd whispered that " he's kaitou kid, He'll be fine" to him several times. He apparently wasnt eating. I never heard his voice, but he was there, I'm sure of it. I don't know how long it was, it felt like eternity, but I was only out for a week apparently. Shin~chan was fast asleep, clutching onto my right hand tightly, when I finally woke up. I was sore all over, but I was awake. I move my hand, and to my joy, my limbs do what I ask. Shin~chan stirs in his sleep as I grip his hand back, waking him with a start.

His eyes fill with tears again, but tears of joy. He sits on the edge of my hospital bed and hugs me gently, crying into my shoulder. He gets up and pokes his head out the door, and a doctor comes in and speaks to me, explains everything. Shin~chan hasn't said a word, but the doctor explains that too.

"What you did was very brave young man, stupid, but brave. You protected your friend saving his life, but you were shot four times in his place. Without your friends, you would have died. A girl called nakamori aoko basically told us to drain her body of blood if it was the only way to save you, you have such caring friends, though this particular fellow is still in shock and refuses to speak" I blink. Shin~chan, I'm so so sorry, I didn't mean to scare you, I just wanted to protect you. The doctor continues to explain:

"You had us worried Kuroba kun, when you wouldn't wake up from surgery, we thought we'd lose you, and your friend too. His friend Mouri ran kun came twice a day, to force him to eat. He won't talk, eat, he doesn't drink, he's made himself sick over you" oh shin~chan, I'm so very sorry, I had no idea how much I'd scare you. I'm just glad your alive.

"Shin~chan? Please, say something, I'll be ok now, I promise you" I beg my boyfriend quietly. His hair is greasy, it looks like he's not washed at all, he's even wearing the same clothes that he had on during the heist, minus the shirt, (wonder where it was?), his eyes are dark and troubled, nothing like the light sparkling blue I was used to, and his usually cheerful, if somewhat arrogant, personality was gone. It's like he's an empty shell. The doctor leaves, sensing I want to be left alone with my Shin~chan.

He leans close to me, kissing me on the lips gently. He has to remove my oxygen mask to do it. He breaks the kiss, and whispers, so quietly I can barely hear;
"I was so worried Kaito, I should have seen the Porsche, I should have known, I should have changed to conan" shin~chan, why? Why blame yourself? It wasn't your fault, I don't blame you. I don't blame anyone. His voice is raspy, like he hasn't used it for a long time. He's hugging me, crying softly with relief into my arms. I let him, don't cry shin~chan, please. "I love you shin~chan" I whisper quietly, as he cries himself to sleep. I look up suddenly, noting a news paper on my bedside table. The headline states that high school detective of the west, hattori heiji has gone missing, and below, at the bottom of the page, is another front page missing persons advert. The KID killer Edogawa Conan. I want to read the two articles, so I can figure out what to do, returning conan is easy, but hattori heiji, well, I highly doubt Doyle kun would be allowed to change back anytime soon, so that was going to be harder.

Aoko and hakuba kun visit me, glad to see I'm awake, but hakuba is still suspicious of me, I can't believe he still thinks I'm kaitou KID. Shin~chan is asleep on his chair, leaning on the side of the bed. Then it's Mouri ran San and Suzuki Sonoko San to visit, both of the asking if I'm really kaitou kid. I grin, one of my best poker faces.

"I'm not edogawa Conan kuns older brother am I?" I tell them, grinning at their confused faces. "What if I was, would you have me arrested?" I grin at the two girls cheekily. Mouri SAN shakes her head.

"Hmmm hmmmm. It's not up to us. I know KID has a good reason for stealing, and if you are him, shinichi clearly believe your doing the right thing, else you'd be in prison already, and I would never have you arrested, shinichi loves you and he's sick enough as it is." She replied, looking at the still sleeping detective with a soft expression. "Ne, Kuroba kun, can you please make sure shinichi eats something? And if he speaks a word, please tell us, he hasn't eaten, hasn't spoken, he doesn't even move from that chair. He even refused a cup of espresso!" She's worried about her friend, I can see that. I can't believe he's refused coffee. I assure her I'd take care of shin~chan, because I cared for him too. (why did I confess my feelings for shinichi to this girl?)

Shin chan stirs, he's waking up, Suzuki San, no, sorry, she Insists I call her Sonoko San, and ran San (what I insist I call her) both leave, ran looking at the sleepy detective with concern. I know how you feel ran, he's an important piece in both our lives. It's a pity you don't know how many times shinichi has saved you as conan, but I can see why he doesn't tell anyone, it's like me as kaitou KID, it's to keep people safe that I keep the secret. He looks up, stretches and gets up from his chair, and talks. Quietly, in a soft, quiet voice I can barely hear. He's explaining everything, why he froze, why he won't talk, everything. I listen, it's strange, since I've met shin~chan I've felt less inclined to pull my ridiculous pranks, but when he's not around, people are still getting neon hair styles and crazy costumes.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~time skip to the day Kaito is discharged from the hospital~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Wolf's POV:
The vets were nice to me once they knew about my cage problem, no one tried to catch me, or put me on a lead, they just left me alone in the corner of a small office, and I was thankful ai chan (the devil girl as master Kaito killed her) had made them listen. I heard what the vets said, they wanted me destroyed because I'd bitten someone's hand clean off, but I also heard a strangers voice, arguing rather loudly that;

"the dog was protecting Kudo kun and his friend, the animal is the property of the FBI and its own blood was already drying by the time it attacked the owner of the hand!" So they either didn't know it was Gin, or they were keeping the issue quiet. The stranger comes into the room, by now I'm almost ready to go home, I feeling so much better, and crouches down by the door, introducing himself. He's a rather rounded fellow, with kind eyes and a nice smell.

"Wolf chan, I'm megure keibu, it's nice to meet you. I know your a dog, and won't understand, but thank you for protecting Kudo kun and his friend." This man is polite, but he clearly thinks I'm just a stupid animal, and this man also respects Shinichi San a great deal, despite being roughly twice his age. I walk up to him, sit down in front of him and politely offer my left paw. He shakes it, clearly surprised at my manners. I scratch at my collar, unlocking the hidden compartment, letting a folded note fall out. I scratch again, locking it safely. The note falls to the floor, and megure keibu picks it up. He reads it out loud to two officers behind him, he called them sato keiji and Tagaki keiji.

"To the police, division one,
Conan was attacked and taken by a man in black.
This dog I have left behind in the care of kudo shinichi,
To protect him. The man who took meitantei kun was after Kudo San.
I'm going to rescue meitantei kun,
A dove will supply you with updates.

Signed KAITOU KID (kid doodle)

"Megure keibu, does that mean KID saw what happened to Conan?" The woman, sato San, asks the inspector. I bark, making them look at me, and nod clearly. I bark and wag my tail, turning dizzy circles. I can smell Arthur kun, and shinichi San, and I can smell master Kaito too! Megure keibu and the two officers are shoved aside as the unruly greyhound puppy launches himself into me, licking my face excitedly and whimpering about how worried he was. Then I see them. Shinichi San is supporting Kaito on one side, he has a crutch on the other, and they're coming towards me. I walk up to them calmly, my tail the only give away at how excited I am. They're ok, they're both safe! I sit down and tilt my head, asking for something to write with.

"Wolf chan, when we get home. Shin~chan can't talk at the moment, like you!" He whispers to me as I jump up to lick his face, carefully avoiding leaning on him. He laughed, so does shinichi San, but he makes no sound. What made Shinichi San so scared? I can smell it, the fear rolling off him like waves. I go back onto all fours and push my nose into shinichi sans hand, asking for a pat. He smooths my ears and smiles sadly. It's not the face of the confident detective kudo shinichi, but the broken and scared face of a child. Master Kaito pats his knee, and I walk to heel, grabbing Arthur kuns trailing lead first.

They take me and Arthur kun back to the kudo mansion, muzzling Arthur kun so he can't eat anymore mattresses. Or bed, or generally destroy stuff. Shinichi helps master Kaito to a chair, where the usually cheerful magician collapses into a heap, pulling shinichi down onto his lap. I'm sat there in front of them, panting with happiness. My tail is sweeping from side to side as I turn my head away, so I'm not looking at the two boys as they kiss. Kaito is breathing funny, I can hear a rattle in his chest, and despite knowing it's going to make the two boys angry, I grab shinichi sans shirt and pull him off of master Kaito and push him over. I whine, and run upstairs, coming back down dragging the forgotten oxygen tank and mask from shinichi sans room.

Kaito's POV:
Shin~chan stayed at the hospital with me, he refused to leave my side, not even to eat, he was drinking coffee again at least, but I wouldn't let him have is bitter drink until he'd eaten something substantial. I recovered enough to be sent home with a clean bill of health by the end of the week, and shin~chan helped me to hobble about on a crutch. I'd injured my leg badly, by shielding shin~chan, causing a fair amount of damage. Apart from that, i felt fine. Shin~chan took me to a vets, to pick up wolf chan, who was beside herself with joy. Arthur kun was there too, apparently shin~chan had brought him along in secret some how. Megure keibu, sato keiji and Tagaki keiji were also there, but they merely nodded to us, aware that shin~chan wasn't in a good enough place to be bombarded with questions. I'm glad those three understand, it might come in handy one day.

Shin chan hadn't spoken a word to anyone else since the accident, but when we were alone, he'd whisper to me, so no one would hear him. We entered the kudo mansion, and shin chan helped me hobble to a soft chair, with I gratefully crashed into, I hadn't admitted the short walk from the vets home had nearly ruined me. My whole body is still sore, but I ignore the discomfort and pull shin~chan onto my lap, kissing him joyfully. He kisses back, and we're enjoying being close to one another again, when wolf chan suddenly pulls him off of me and, after knocking him over, races upstairs and returns with the oxygen tank and mask, just as I black out.

Shinichi's (Conan's) POV:
Wolf chan pulls me off of Kaito, and I'm about to shout silently at her, when she disappears and returns with the forgotten oxygen tank and mask. I look at the white malamute, then turn to Kaito, who's looking at me, with a strange look in his eye. He tips forward, collapsing onto Arthur kun, who's faster than me and dives underneath him, softening the fall. I check his vitals, he's perfectly fine, just dangerously short of breath. His injuries must have been worse than anyone had thought. I take the tank and mask off wolf chan, and hand her the tablet and pencil for her, I know she want to say something.

Rest. Both of you. Devil girl told me that ran San
was going to ask Shinichi San to find conan for her.

Kaito's breathing is better now, with the oxygen. He wakes up, I'm holding him in my arms. He grins at me, and speaks chirpily.

"Sorry to scare you again shin~chan, I was short of breath, that's all." He says, getting up slowly. Removing the mask, He pulls me into a kiss, and I melt into it, kissing back with passion. I'm not going to try to go any further for a while, he needs to recover first. We break the kiss and walk upstairs, it nearly dark, and we're both tired. We strip down to our boxers and slip into bed together, falling asleep wrapped in each other's arms. For the first time in two weeks, I don't have any nightmares, I feel safe in the magicians company.