KID parted from Conan and sighed, raising himself. The male flashed a short glance left and right before lowering his eyes onto Conan who stared right back at him.
Kuroba-kun is dripping wet and looks illegal good like that, he thought and continued to scan the person in front of him from head to toe.
"If these fake sunflowers could be used to set fire to the whole exhibition, I knew the floor could be flooded, too," KID explained and Conan quirked an eyebrow.
"...in conclusion, the culprit must have been the one with the idea to set up all those sunflowers," he deduced and KID nodded, a mischievous grin on his lips.
"I see you found out who the culprit is. Good to know the next generation of detectives is as sharp as I am," KID arrogantly replied and Conan rolled his eyes.
"Oh drop the act, I know you're KID."
"Guess you aren't that sharp. I'm still Kudo Shinichi. Let's get out of here."

KID turned to leave and Conan trailed after him, surprise plastered all over his face.
"How do you plan to leave?"
"Easy. We will head upwards and can climb out through the elevator shaft."
Conan nodded in response and suddenly grinned, walking now next to the thief who had his hands calm as ever inside his pockets.
"I see. And what was your original plan?"
"Hm?"
"To get out! Don't tell me you expected this all to happen."
KID raised an eyebrow and looked straight forward.
"I have no idea what you-"
"KID. Oh my god. Stop. Seriously. I know you are KID. It's getting ridiculous."

The thief breathed out a loud exaggerated sigh and flashed a grin at Conan.
"Oh come on. Nothing can deceive you, huh? Fine. I'd have just flown out of the cave with my hangglider through a passage I've opened myself inside the stone. Pretty much amusing that old man didn't think of that escape. But how did you know it's me?"
Conan chuckled and nodded, arms folding behind his head. He was relaxed... as relaxed as he could be in KID's near.
"First of all, Suzuki-san and I both deduced you'd be the only one staying behind once the museum was evacuated. Second, no one had mentioned Kudo Shinichi's presence. Third, you knew about my power kick boots and freaked out-"
"I did not freak out!" KID threw in with a pout on his lips Conan swore couldn't have been more adorable.
"-fourth, you vanished once Sonoko had spotted you because you were afraid Ran or I would discover who you really are," Conan finished his reasonings and KID allowed himself an impressed whistle.
"Wow. Good work Meitantei. But how could I pass the checkup?"
"Easy. You weren't armed and didn't need a mask to dress up as Shinichi because you are lookalikes."
A slight frown appeared on the magician's face, only for a split second until his pokerface settled back in, but Conan had noticed nevertheless. Cute.

"Why aren't we using your first escape, by the way?" Conan finally asked and flashed a glance forward, "Instead of running all the way up."
KID shrugged and walked around the corner to a suitcase hanging in midair. Obviously, installed by him.
"Much to my distaste I have to admite, my hangglider broke as I freed the fifth Sunflowers. Got quite a hard rock onto my back."
Conan frowned and flashed a glance at the thief's back. Now that he said it, Conan saw him walking less relaxed... somehow stiff.
"Ah... Get that looked at later."
"Who are you, my mum?" KID smirked down at him but was visibly pleased by his concern.
"I'm Edogawa Conan, detective. Nice to meet you," the detective replied nonchalant and both broke into a fit of chuckles. It was good to hear KID laugh. Not his KID-laugh, his normal, sweet and genuine laugh. Butterflies began to swarm once more inside Conan's stomach.

KID finally returned to his explanations and continued to tell the detective about his little adventure down there.
"I knew about the culprit's plans because I stole them from their laptop- I just couldn't know wether they had help. I tried to stop the power shutdown here, but... Charlie-keibu discovered my hiding place and chased me around. I thought if I'd drop a note for a specific someone... Well, I thought you'd solve it faster."
"Yeah yeah I'm sorry," Conan groaned, rolling his eyes. Now was the wrong moment for that.
KID unhooked the small suitcase he had placed there and opened it, picking up the revolver inside. Conan caught a glimpse of a small device inside and gasped, snatching away the headset.
"Go plan our escape, I'll contact the police to identify the real culprit."
KID nodded and finally dropped Shinichi's outfit, revealing himself in the beautiful white suit KID always wore.
"Sure."
And within a blink, he was gone. Conan watched him leave and smiled lovingly after him.
"Awesome..." he quietly muttered before refocusing. He waited a small moment to be sure he was gone and then began his little show as Kudo Shinichi, revealing the culprit as Miyadai Natsumi and cleaning up KID's name.

"Looks like you solved the case," KID shouted, swinging himself elegantly over a large rock and Conan whipped around. Did he notice who he was?!
"So what?! Can we get out there?!" Conan said instead and the thief eyed him with a smirk.
"Alone, I can."
"S-so what are we going to do?! Will you get help?!"
"I'd rather not. One mistake and the whole- oh shit!" He yelled as he saw a large rock breaking off of the ceiling and jumped at Conan to tackle him away, too. The boy clenched his teeth and looked around. Was there any way to escape?
"Everything alright?" the worried phantom questioned him and Conan nodded, eyes focused onto the white male. He definitely wouldn't leave without KID, he would rather die than doing so.
"But how long is this going to hold?" Conan questioned in return, sapphire eyes flickering over to the mass of rock blocking the way Kaito had come from.
"I'm impressed this still holds," KID replied, "One hole in the ceiling and the whole cave is going to collapse."
A crack became visible above them, the leftover construction began to sink into the ground. Finally, the ceiling gave in with a deafening roar and sunlight shined through.
Both pairs of eyes grew wide in horror. Oh no.

The rest of the cave began to tremble, huge masses of stone collapsed onto them. Conan gasped and jumped at KID, trying to get a hold on him but the male slipped through his grasp as the floor ground gave in.
"KID!!" Conan screamed, agony in his voice as his rival disappeared into the masses of water. Tears began to run down his face. No, it wasn't going to end like this. He was scared of this but it needed to be done.
Crying out again KID's name, he jumped after him into the endless deadly ocean down below.

Conan fought against the torrential current with all his power, again and again he swam back to the surface while he tried to avoid the rocks crashing left and right next to him. KID was nowhere in sight.
The water pushed him out of the cave and soon enough, Conan found himself staring into sunlight- Painful enough, so he turned away.
Where was KID?
He swam further with the stream and finally saw him. Lucky enough, not in near of the keibus, sprawled out at the shore. A wide smile split his face in a half; Conan was grinning from ear to ear.
"KID!" he shouted and swam over, smile immediately disappearing once he noticed the man wasn't reacting. Oh no.

Immediately Conan bent over the soaked body, feeling his pulse. Pulse was there. Breath?
"Hold on KID...!" Conan commanded and pressed KID's nose shut, opened his mouth and began to reanimate him. Again and again, over and over until he felt his rival moving. Conan backed away just in time as KID shot up, coughed out a bit of water and looked half in a daze around until his eyes landed on the chibi in his lap. Eyebrows narrowed and KID slowly lifted his hand to his lips, well aware of the tingling feeling after a long kiss-alike action.
"...you... No... what?"
Slowly, his face turned from pale as snow to crimson red. Conan giggled but blushed himself, too.
"You're blushing, Mr Kaitou," Conan cheekily grinned and KID averted his eyes, a barely audible grumble breaking out of his lips.
"...first..."
"Wait... That was you first-?!" Conan yelped, eyes as wide as plates. But that lasted only until the detective broke into a fit of giggles.
"That isn't funny!! S-stop laughing! I'm a gentleman and not a womanizer!" KID complained whining and Conan finally stopped, an idea on his mind.
"Well. If you lost your first, it won't be much of a problem when I...?"
"When you wha-"
Lips sealed his own ones and KID stared wide eyed at the chibi in his lap who kissed him. Had he not been too shocked, he surely would have pushed him away. Conan was a child!
The kiss he gave was gentle, sweet, caring... far more experienced than any elementary schooler could have known. Just who on earth was that Meitantei?

Conan pulled away and eyed with smug satisfy the dark red blush of his companion.
"Don't do that to me again, have you heard?"
"The current slammed my head against something hard, it wasn't my- w-what am I chatting carefree, Meitantei you kissed me! You are a child! You shouldn't even be thinking about this!"
Conan rolled his eyes. Perhaps he needed to spill some of his own secrets.
"I lied, KID."
"-I am not planning to go to jail because of pedophilia, I- what?"
"I said, I lied. I didn't discover your dressup, I knew from the beginning it was you. Because I am Kudo Shinichi."
KID kept quiet for a long time until a smile came onto his face.
"You almost got me there Meitantei, but seriously, you-"
"No. KID, I'm honest. Kudo Shinichi disappeared because I was forced to take a drug... Should have killed me, but I was that one percent who survived and instead shrank into a child. I'm hiding from those people until I found the antidote. Look."
Conan adjusted his hair and took his glasses off, staring at his rival.
"Don't you recognize me?" he asked hopeful. KID reached out, almost shy, and rested his gloved hand on Conan's cheek.
"No way... You really are..." he trailed off, speechless.

Voices started to approach and Conan jumped off of KID while said one raised himself.
"You need to disappear," Conan whispered, eyes carefully scanning the forest. KID, still speechless, slowly began to catch himself and nodded, dashing off into the depths of the woods. Conan smiled after him. He had kissed KID. The Kaitou KID.
Conan didn't care if he felt the same or not. He had kissed him. That was enough for the chibi. Smiling, he ran towards the direction of the voices, letting Ran and Sonoko hug him.

Unaware of these indigo eyes still watching him like a hawk, throning above them inside the trees was Kaitou KID.
A smile on his lips... and a blush on his cheeks.