A/N: Hi, I'm back, and sorry to anyone following my other stories, they all got so sad and I needed som fluff. Here's a first attempt at humor, we'll see if anyone laughs... It'll be a couple of cute drabble-like chapters coming up, irregularly as inspiration and time strikes (hopefully simultaneously). Don't forget to review, serisouly, I live for them *_*

Summary: It wasn't easy being best friends with a famous detective you also happened to be madly in love with, but Kaito was pretty good at keeping straight face. Of course when meddlesome friends got involved, certain managing had to be enforced in order to keep what is yours safe. Eventual KaiShin/ShinKai

Kaito was doing his best trying to stop himself from bending over the table to wipe away that small spot of sauce that had stuck to Shinichi's mouth. They were sitting at a café a late Monday afternoon, waiting for Ran-chan and Suzuki-chan to join them.

As they barely had any classes together, with Shinichi and Kaito focusing of physics and chemistry while Ran-chan and Suzuki-chan were taking law and economics respectively, Ran-chan had made it her mission to set them up of breakfast, brunch, lunch and dinner dates throughout the week to ensure they still hung out. Kaito would have been fine without them, but Shinichi seemed sincerely happy every time Ran-chan insisted he could postpone a report to hang out.

Just as Kaito had decided it would be rude not to mention the distracting dot on Shinichi's lower lip, and was about to open his mouth, voices interrupted his intentions.

"Can you believe how slutty that tramp has become? Just because she got a boyfriend she doesn't have to go around sucking his face off every chance she gets, you know what I mean?!" Suzuki-chan exclaimed in her shrill voice and waved her arms dramatically.

Ran-chan looked a bit uncomfortable at the use of Suzuki-chan's crude language but didn't comment, per her being used to her best friend's banter. When she caught sight of Kaito and Shinichi she brightened up and waved as she led her still babbling friend to their table.

"So, how are you guys doing?" she asked happily, but before she could continue, Suzuki-chan had decided it was time to change to subject to the current one.

"Oh, we have great news! You're gonna love this, Kudou!" she cried and grabbed Shinichi's hand as they took their seats.

At the sight of the much too frivolous actions of the girl currently touching Shinichi, Kaito almost growled. He caught himself and settled on a scowl which went unnoticed by the two. Unfortunately, not by Ran who hid a smile, unknown to Kaito.

"Whatever it is, I refuse", said Shinichi with a dead-pan expression. Before Suzuki-chan could interrupt, Shinichi continued in a flat voice. "After you tried to set me up on a blind-date with a high-schooler, I'm not going near your 'great news'". He made sarcastic quotation signs around the words "great news" and Kaito snickered silently.

He was very happy with Shinichi's clear disinterest in dating other people, and as for the nagging feeling in his gut saying he was sad his friend seemed disinterested in dating whatsoever, well, he was blatantly ignoring that. Instead he finally reached across the table and wiped a slightly surprised detective over the mouth and joined the conversation.

"It's no wonder that didn't go well; she was four years younger than Shinichi. Going out with that little doll-face would have made him look like a freaking pedophile!"

He cast a glance at Ran-chan who sounded like she had suddenly choked on air. Shinichi worriedly asked if she was alright but she only waved it off. Suzuki-chan looked like she had bitten off a piece of a rotten apple.

"First of all, I don't know how you know what she looked like unless you boys sit and talk about this stuff like gossiping ladies. Second of all, I'm never doing you that favor again, Kudou! I don't know what you did to that poor girl but she came back in tears stating she would never date a detective again, which, third of all, is really too bad since she was planning on becoming one, which is why I set you guys up in the first place. So what if she looks young, she's really mature for her age, even jumped up a grade. You should be ashamed, whatever you did, Kudou, ashamed!"

Silence stretched out in the café after Suzuki-chan's reprimanding of increasing volume. Shinichi stared somewhat empty-faced at her with an open mouth, which, if you asked Kaito, made him look like the most adorable detective he knew.

As seconds ticked by and the rest of the guests of the café resumed their peaceful coffee, Shinichi carefully cleared his throat. He looked like he was readying to talk a jumper out of committing suicide on a lonely Christmas Day (something Kaito knew he had actually done, two years ago, and on some other occasions that weren't Christmas and were of surprising and worrisome number of times).

"Sonoko, I didn't do anything to your friend. I told you, I don't want to date someone more than three years younger than me, and, now that we're on the subject, I don't want your help finding a date. To be perfectly honest, I don't know why she came back in tears as I didn't even meet her. She stood me up."

While Shinichi continued to explain to Suzuki-chan of the unfortunate events of the supposed date last Friday, Kaito was doing his best trying to hold a straight face. He wasn't in a million years going to confess as to the reason why that (probably really stupid and unsuitable and evil evil evil) girl (which that stupid stupid stupid Suzuki-chan had set Shinichi up with) had returned in tears.

That day had not been great for Kaito. It had started with a decline from Shinichi to go to the magic show in town for this week only, and ended with Kaito intercepting the blind-date his best friend was supposed to go on and threatening her into leaving without saying a word. Phrases such as "if you ever go near him you may just find your doll collection not quite as assembled as you're used to" and "you may even stay clear of all detectives in the future, just to be safe", may have been exchanged.

Kaito was not proud of what he did. But as he looked to that porcelain face of the most beautiful detective in the world, knowing he was not dating some flimsy (though, admittedly, unlikely to be evil) high-schooler, Kaito was pretty glad. The thought of someone else touching his friend was completely unacceptable. If that Suzuki-chan was going to interfere this way in the future he might just have to take drastic measures.

Just then Ran-chan stretched out a hand and put it on Kaito's. Surprised he looked up at her and saw her smile sympathetically.

"I'm really sorry about this spectacle of a date. I'll keep her in check from now on, so don't worry."

"W-what do you mean?" asked Kaito, somewhat nervous. Oh, Kami-sama, how much did she know?!

"Nothing much, I'm just saying. Oh, and don't let anyone else accidentally get hurt, though I am aware Sonoko can be a handful, she is my friend and if I ever found out someone did something to her, I would be very upset."

Kaito sweat-dropped. Ran-chan had a tendency to look all cute and lovely one second, but when her friends were in danger, she turned into a blood-thirsty hound.

"Now, I'm sure you'll get him. He may be slow, but I'm sure it'll reach him eventually, so just hang in there, Kuroba-kun."

"Su-sure" Kaito whispered half-heartedly, feeling emptied of air.

They noticed a sudden silence around them and looked to Suzuki-chan and Shinichi to realize their conversation was over, and they were looking at Kaito and Ran-chan with very suspicious eyes. Kaito couldn't help but notice, with a very measurable amount of satisfaction, that Shinichi was shooting daggers at Ran-chan's hand, still lingering comfortably on Kaito's hand.

Quick to amend, Ran-chan pulled back and Kaito shot her a small smile of thanks before turning to Shinichi once more.

"So, wanna share a chocolate cake?" he asked cheerfully.

"You just had two pieces by yourself. I don't understand how another one would even fit in you…"

"I'm sure it'll go down if you feed it to me!"

"Why would I want to do something like that?" said Shinichi exasperated.

Ran-chan giggled and Kaito wailed in sorrow.

"Shin-chaaa~n!"

"If you call me that again, I'm cutting your sugar rights", threatened Shinichi, dead-serious.

More? Just drop dead? Tell meeeee~