13, 8 and 41 for furushin- I beg (´༎ຶོv༎ຶོ`)
THREE AT ONCE? You are upping the difficulty level on this game, Hiro! xDDD Let's see if I can combine those :D
8. “I’m never letting you go.”
13. “I won’t let anyone hurt you, you’re safe with me.”
Rei was exhausted. Everybody was. The raid had been going for close to fifty hours now. The final take-down. They got the boss, they got Rum too, down the chain. Some might have gotten away, but the united force of all the people investigating the Black Organization was enough to take the majority down. All thanks to one scarily brilliant mind. Kudou Shinichi. Formerly known as Edogawa Conan, a secret that Rei had only been privy to for a few short weeks.
This boy had pulled the strings behind Akai's faked death and he had brought them all together. All these agents who didn't cooperate, didn't share information with other agencies. But him? Even as a little boy, he had been able to outsmart all the adults in the room. It was mesmerizing to watch.
Then, the day before the raid, Kudou Shinichi returned to join the investigation, because Shinichi wanted to be there in person, in his real body. Rei had known about it, Conan had told him before, had asked him to take care of the Mouris in case something went wrong, because there was always a risk even with the antidote. Despite having learned Conan's secret weeks ago, it was something entirely different to stand in front of Kudou Shinichi and look into those beautiful, deep, blue eyes and see the same brilliance in them as he had seen in Conan's eyes, to hear the same dry-witted snark come from the gorgeous teen. Yesterday, Rei had spent most his time just staring at Shinichi.
Today, he had been busy with other things. Pausing for a moment, Rei wiped the blood off his brow. He'd taken some pretty bad hits. Perhaps a shot-wound or two, he wasn't so sure, but they'd only grazed him so there was nothing to worry about right now. No, right now, he worried about something else. About someone else. Shinichi had insisted on being a part of all of this. He'd been supposed to stay behind the scenes, but things hadn't gone entirelyaccording to plan.
“Shinichi?” Rei's voice was a soft whisper as he crouched down. “Hey? You okay.”
The teen sat against the wall, head tilted back, eyes wide. Blood running down his face and soaking his pants at a cut on his upper thigh. Rei was quick to remove his own belt and tie it around the thigh to make sure the bleeding would stop. Shinichi flinched on instinct at the physical contact.
“Don't be afraid,” whispered Rei gently as he carefully wrapped his arms around Shinichi to pull him close. “I won't let anyone hurt you, you're safe with me. I'm never letting you go.”
Shinichi relaxed against him, clinging onto his shirt as he buried himself in Rei. “You're okay.”
A few times, Rei blinked wondrously. Hewas okay? That was what Shinichi worried about? He ran a soothing hand over Shinichi's back, pulling him closer. As mesmerized as he'd been by Conan's mind, after learning the truth, he'd slowly fallen in love. And perhaps he wasn't the only one.
