The two were Married for seventy very happy years as Kudo Shinichi and Kuroba Kaito. During their time, they became known as the famous Duo. Shinichi going on to be a very successful detective with a ninety-eight- percent closure rate and Kaito a world-renowned champion of magic, they were often found together, either Shinichi helping on stage or Kai helping catch the criminal. However, the thing they held the most pride in was their children.

Shortly after their second anniversary, Shinichi solved a case that left two four-year-old twins orphans. With no body else to turn to the twins were sent to the nearest orphanage. During the case, Shinichi had gotten quite close to them and as a result grew attached. Once he heard what had happened to them, he immediately told Kaito of his wish to adopt them. A few days later Kaito agreed to the meet the children to see if they could connect. Within the hour of meeting them, Kaito fell in love and agreed to Shinichi's plan. With in a few months they had quietly adopted the intelligent trouble makers, bringing their merry family up to four.

While they grew into their roles as fathers and then grandfathers, the rest of their friends and family lived out their lives, keeping in touch and meeting at least once a week, circumstances permitting.

Ran went on in life to become a world expert Karate champion and travelled the world giving lectures and teaching others the way of Karate. She also got married during their lifetime. Surprising everyone when she announced she and Sera had been dating and were now engaged to be married. It didn't take long after their marriage for them to adopt a little boy, Tom.

Both she and her lover lived to the ripe old age of eighty- eight. Enjoying the fruits of their labour before passing away in death. Holding each other close as they fell asleep together for the last time.

To nobody's surprise, Hattori got married to his childhood crush Kazuha. He became a prominent detective and soon took up the mantle left behind by his father as chief of police in Osaka. He made it to the age of fifty-two before being killed in the line of duty. Kazuha was not far behind him, dying six months later of a broken heart, leaving their fourteen-year-old daughter, Rain, an orphan. Who Kai and Shin took in as a last salute to their fallen friends. Bringing their close nit family to five.

During the transition, the family decided to move to Osaka to make it easier on her, that way she wasn't losing everything in one fell swoop.

Professor Agasa carried on his inventing, earning a lot of recognition in high science societies before passing four years into The Kuroba's marriage. He died aged eighty-nine after finishing his final invention, greeting death with a smile.

At the time Ai was still living with the Professor and was only in her second year of high school. With nowhere else to go the Kuroba's took her in as one of their own, allowing her, her independence while also being there to support and care for her.

She went on to be a famous scientist, creating the cure for cancer, MS and so much more. Even got married to a man she met while at Uni who was training to be a doctor. The two were expecting their first child.

The detective boys all went their separate ways for college. Ayumi went off to Paris to study Fashion under one of the many big companies. Genta accepted an offer on an exchange program that sent him all around the world learning different culinary skills. While Mitsuhiko stayed in Japan and joined the Japanese defence force.

It was hard watching all their friends grow old and die, despite them growing old too, they knew they could regress age at any time. Even harder to watch their parents wither away, knowing every day was a day closer to not being able to see them again, to never be held by them, given support or even hear their advice.

In the years leading up to the parent's death, they spent every waking moment they could with them. Taking photos and videos at every opportunity. Writing down the best days in a special book, so as not to forget.

Shinichi's mum was the first to go out of the three. With all the hard work and none stop attitude, it had taken a drastic toll on her body as she aged. She found she was becoming weaker and weaker until she passed at a good old age of ninety-two.

Shinichi wept for days after her death. Refusing to speak to anyone or even leave his room. Just replaying the videos and the photos she was in over and over again. Trying to remember every word she had ever said to him, reliving all the memories of her he had. It took a while for him to recover, to be able to smile or laugh again but with Kaito at his side as a constant support, he was okay. At least they were until the next hit came along.

Kaito's mother and Shinichi's father were within months of each other. Chika passed away in her sleep, a smile on her face as she knew she was about to be reunited with her soulmate. Hers was a case of old age at ninety-one.

Yusaku died off a heart attack while he was looking through his wedding photos, age ninety-three. The boys took the deaths hard and clung to one another. Pandora offering support when she could and taking care of their basic needs when she couldn't. She may have leant and had begun to experience human emotions but she would never be able to understand what it felt like to loose a parent, so when she ran out of words to give and her hugs stopped being comforting, she took on the roll as temporary house wife, making sure they were fed and clothed, while they worked though one of the hardest things they would ever face.

It too a very long time for the two to even semblance a version of their old selves. They were never quite able to move on from their deaths, kept them with them in spirit and in memory. Some days it was easier to think back on the times they had with them fondly, others it sent a searing pain through their chest and left them feeling hollow for days, but they were happy. If they ever needed to feel close to them, they just went outside and stared at the stars, remembering their teachings and applying them to his lives.

Shortly after their deaths, the boys decided it was time to say goodbye to this lifestyle and turned the clock back until they were eight. Their children were already grown by that time and had learned the secret of their parents. Now knowing of their situation, they had agreed to take care of them as children.

The documents had already been forged well beforehand, saying that they were adopted from an orphanage in Hokkaido. Giving them enough distance for no one to be suspicious but still within the Japanese nation so as to explain their fluency in the language as well as their looks, which they had decide to keep the same for their first time. Changing names and creating a whole new identity.

This was how it played out the first few changes but soon it became clear that the system would not work. It became apparent that while trying to give their children the world, they ended up chaining them, forcing them to take on a role they shouldn't have to. Putting them in a situation they never should have been put in. What they had thought would make them a close family began to strain it, neither knowing their place anymore. So by the fourth do over they decided they had relived their lives as children long enough and put a stop to it. They still adopted, they still created a family, only now instead of turning back to children, they said their goodbyes faked their deaths and turned back the clock until they were eighteen again, moving far away so as not to hurt their children, but still having Pandora watch over them. Attending their funerals and weeping from a distance, praying to their parents to take care of them.

Living life this way was painful, but even though it broke their hearts a little bit more with every child they buried, they still repeated the sequence. They had both grown up with absent parents, if they could even make one kid feel loved and supported then they didn't care about the later date, they focused on the here and now.

That became something of a motto for them, living for the moment and letting the future come at a slower rate than they had once wished it to. It was funny, when they had first started out, they knew there was a limitation to time but they had never really thought how it would apply to people who were no longer constricted it to, at least not in the sense others were. While most peopled feared how little time they had, Kaito and Shinichi feared for their loved one's times instead. There was nothing more heart breaking then watching your own child slowly wither away and die, while you still looked like an adolescent. Forever immortalised as a teen.

They changed occupation many times over the centuries. Ranging from footballers, musicians, chefs, artists, dancers, mathematicians, teachers, doctors, writers. Trying out everything they could, never repeating jobs until a hundred years had passed. Living out every dream they had ever dreamt, every theory they ever thought and exploring every feeling they ever felt. It helped to distract them from the enviable as well as keeping them as inconspicuous as possible.

Their looks changed just as quickly as their names, but the love they held for one another and the belief in doing the right thing never changed. Pandora remaining with them, finally getting the hang of sustaining a physical form outside the gem.

The two saw the birth of new planets and ideologies. Saw wars start and famine end. For every bad action committed another positive one took its place. Sometimes the two intervened others they stood by and watched, documenting what proceeded so others could learn from mistakes witnessed. The life wasn't easy. Sometimes they wondered if there was any point to saving humanity as it found new ways to be cruel, but then then they would think back on all the families they had created, the people they had met and decided that even if a small percentage turned out decent then it was worth it in the end.

It wasn't until two centuries had passed did they learn that other jewels like Pandora were out there, just waiting to be found. In danger of falling in with the wrong hands. So, the three of them set off on a new adventure.

Finding and protecting mythical beings, learning all they could of the magic of the world. Leaning how it worked and how best to protect it from those who wished to cause harm or destroy it. Finding a new reason to protect the innocent.

Mother moon and Lady luck looked down fondly at them. Lady and gentleman thief were beside the moon while a novelist and actress were seated beside Lady luck. Beaming down proudly at the life their sons had created.

Although their names changed and looks shifted, the language they went by and ethnicity altered, they never stopped using their special language for one another. Even when the langue was forgotten, long dead due to the ever state of change the world was in, the two could never part with it. The words Nuri and Mon Tout became engraved upon their very souls, becoming as timeless as the very beings themselves, soon to become lost in the legends that would spring up by evoking their names.