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Shinichi didn’t really understand why he had been invited to the party he was currently at. Well, he kind of knew so that was a lie. He was there because Ran had told him that she didn’t want to go alone, even though it was a singles awareness party; being alone was kind of the point. He had been talking to Kaito and found out that Aoko was the one that had invited Ran, so at least he had someone to blame, other than his best friend, for him showing up to the party.
He was a bit upset that he had yet to see Kaito here, he was coming because he was part of the planning committee along with Aoko and some girl named Akako that he had heard about from Kaito, apparently they had all gone to highschool together.
He still found it quite entertaining when Kaito went off about some grudge he held against Akako, so Aoko had invited Ran and Hakuba to piss him off that there were a bunch of detectives at the party (apparently when he called Kaito, Aoko had already informed him that she had invited Ran so Shinichi would probably be coming too).
He had apparently looked a little too happy when he found out Shinichi was coming and Aoko got suspicious. They couldn’t actually tell anyone they have been dating for almost a year, because they had only officially met as Kaito and Shinichi 2 weeks ago.
Yet, here they both were, on Valentine’s day, not doing their original plans that they had made in December, and instead attending a freaking Singles Awareness party. That was supposed to last until midnight.
Shinichi was quite put-out by the whole situation because he was really looking forward to the plans they had made. Which included going to the exact restaurant the party was taking place in. He had a feeling that Kaito had a hand in the locations, purely for this reason.
He thought it was sweet of his boyfriend to get the party to be at the exact places they were planning on going anyway, since they had been dragged to, and in Kaito’s case forced to help with, a singles party.
“Ah! Kudo-san!”
Shinichi turned; before him was the man of the hour- one Kaito KID, also known as Kuroba Kaito.
“Kuroba-san, how are you?”
“I'm amazing. It's good to see you again,” the man replied with a shit-eating grin.
This got some suspicious looks from the others present.
“Kuroba-san,” Ran intruded, “are you drunk?”
Aoko looked her straight in the eye and spoke, “Yes he is. I dragged him out of his house this morning because he was sobbing into his desk claiming ‘he doesn't love me’. Still no idea who the ‘he’ is.”
Shinichi glanced to the thief in question. At least the other had the decency to looked ashamed. “Kuroba-san, would you like to come with me for a moment?” Shinichi held out his hand to Kaito and the thief’s hand was quickly placed on top. He dragged the other man to the bathroom because he needed to slap some sense into him. Shinichi looked at his boyfriend. “‘He doesn’t love me,’ huh? Do you really think so lowly of me?” When Kaito didn’t respond, Shinichi shook his head, “You are the most insecure jerk I have ever met Kaito.”
He grabbed the man by his shoulders and pulled him forward, into a kiss. As he pulled his face away, he shifted into a hug and whispered into the other’s ear, “But that’s why I love you.”
Kaito slowly pulled away with a slight blush on his face. “Uh, Shinichi-”
Shinichi looked at him with a puzzled look.
“You- were you aware we were followed?”
“What?” And, sure enough, when he turned around to see what Kaito was staring at, there was a crowd of Ran, Aoko, Akako, Hakuba, Heiji (when had he gotten here? was he even invited?), and a few others. Most of them had out their smart phones and were filming the scene. “Damnit. Guess we can’t sneak around anymore.”