He blinked. He rubbed his eyes. He closed his eyes and counted backwards from 10. He opened, and blinked again. Even banging his head against a nearby wall didn't change a thing.

The entire Katiou Kid Task Force was wearing fish accessories. Fish scarves were loosely hung around necks. Fish coats were tightly zipped, shapped, and elsewise fastened. The most eccentric even had fish hats. Big, floppy, fish hats.

It had to be Hakuba, no one else would try this sort of stunt without provocation. It took someone determined that Katiou Kid was, infact, one Kuroba Kaito, teenage magician. Ah, there was said detective, near the edge, at a position where he could see what was going on, and still have time to react to Kid's stunts. Kaito's eye twitched at the sight of him, blowing the infamous Poker Face sky high. There was Hakuba alright, and his sense of self seemed to have flown the coop for he was wearing all of said fish excesories, and then some. He even had his bird with a fish shaped necklace on one claw. Poor bird, Kaito couldn't help but feel sorry for it. He groaned as he saw what they had done to actually protect the jewel. They had hired the mascot from the fish market down the road to watch it. Poor guy, poor police force, poor Kaito.

On one hand, Kaito really didn't want to go through with this, not with all those fish. On the other hand, if he fled, that would do him as much good as putting up a neon board saying "I'm Kuroba Kaito" for Hakuba.

Ohh how he hated Hakuba right about now... He was going to pay... soooooooo much.

A puff of pink smoke announced the arrival of the illustrious Kaitou Kid.

"Ladies and Gentlemen! The Kid is in the building."

The chase was on.

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Kaito noticed with a grin that Hakuba was absent from school the next day.

Well, that was to be expected. The hot-pink hair-dye wouldn't be comming out with just one shower.