Disclaimer: Detective Conan & Magic Kaito belong to Aoyama Gosho.

Ship: Eventual Kuroba Kaito (Kaitou KID) x Kudou Shinichi (Edogawa Conan)

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A/N: New story on April 1st! Happy KID & Conan's First Encounter Day~!

Trade

Prologue: Surreal

Is this for real?Mused Kaito as he held the diamond-shaped big jewel to the moonlight. Bright crimson light exploded from the inside of said jewel, revealing a smaller, teardrop-shaped piece. Yup, it certainly matched the description for Pandora all right, and he had no doubt that this was the real deal.

Kaito collapsed onto his knees as he let everything happening that moment sink in. He was holding the Pandora – the jewel that took his father's life from him and his mom – in his hands. He was just given the Pandora by Tantei-kun, and now he was kneeling in front of said detective, in his full Kaitou KID attire. He was just told that the jewel had been hidden in the detective's house since ten yearsago.

In other words, he and his father had been digging through the wrong places all alongfor the cursed jewel that shattered his family.

Oh, the irony.

The white-clad thief didn't realize when he started trembling or when his eyes started to run. He didn't move an inch even as the petite detective started calling his name and shaking his right arm to get his attention. KID. Kuroba. Oh crap, his identity was no longer a secret now huh? But somehow, it didn't matter to him anymore. Nothing seemed to matter anymore. After all, he finally had the Pandora in his hands, despite the surreal circumstances that led to it. He could finally smash this blasted jewel into pieces and bring an end to this immortality nonsense.

A sudden sense of relief washed over Kaito as he relaxed every tensed muscle in his body. Before Kaito could manage another thought, everything went blank and his consciousness took a free fall through darkness. A small yet reassuring hand rested on his burning forehead as he blanked out, telling him to rest and not to worry.

TBC.

Afterword: Thanks for reading! Please review and tell me your thoughts! Big thanks to everyone who fav-ed/alert-ed/reviewed my other stories, as well as everyone who put me on their author fav/alert list! \^p^/

Don't know if anyone here read Spiral story #2 last year… that's this story but it has gone through major changes since then. Chapter 1 will hopefully be up this weekend. The prologue will be explained later in a few chapters.

Title adapted from GARNET CROW's Trade – one of their newest songs from their latest album Terminus. My love for nearly 10 years is disbanding. I'm trying to figure out a way to go to Japan in May or June to watch GC's final live ;A; (This is NOT an April Fool's day joke. Go check their official website.)