Title: Ironic Death
Characters: Snake, Kid and Saguru
Pairings: slight Kaito x Saguru
Warnings: guns, death, shounen-ai
Rating: T
Summary: Kaito and his hunter never thought about the danger that lies in another hunter.
Ironic Death
Kaito was frozen in place as he stared at the barrel of Snake's gun. It would figure that the assassin would catch up with before he found Pandora but Kaito was not about to give up. He may have been all out of tricks but that did not make him dead yet.
"This time I'll make sure you die, Toichi", Snake hissed as saliva ran down his chin. "I'm going to empty my whole gun into you. There's no way you'll survive that."
Just as Kaito was about to come up with a biting remark a gunshot echoed in the night. There seemed to be an endless pause, an unstoppable silence, before five more shots rang out, seemingly almost at once.
Peering up at Snake's face Kaito realized that he was not dead yet. Snake was staring at Kaito with dead, lifeless eyes and dropped his gun. A trail of blood ran down the same path his spit had only moments ago.
When Snake fell forward and crashed on the ground Kaito finally came to the conclusion that none of the shots had been aimed at him. This also meant that Snake had not fired any of the bullets. Which, in turn, lead to the conclusion that there was a third party in the alleyway.
As Kaito observed Snake's corpse while he thought he noticed that all the shots had been fired to the dark man's back. There was a gaping hole in the trench coat with blood seeping out. The entry point was on the left upper back, which informed Kaito that the person behind the gun had known just where to aim in order to kill.
Kaito lifted his gaze from the body and froze once more. There was a person standing only a few feet away, holding a gun that was still pointed at Snake's figure. The wide-eyed face was twisted in inner turmoil and it took Kaito a moment to recognize the person because of the foreign expression.
Carefully Kaito hurried to Hakuba and noticed that the hands holding the gun were shaking, while the trigger was being pulled over and over again. But since there were no bullets left in the gun the weapon only clicked with each pull.
Ever so gently Kaito pulled the gun out of the other's grip, bringing blue eyes to lock with his own violet ones in the progress. Quietly Kaito questioned: "Are you alright, tantei-san?"
The blond teen started shaking his head, tears pouring out of his eyes. Kaito grabbed the distraught detective pulled him against his chest, head landing on his shoulder.
"No one gets hurt", Hakuba whispered brokenly. "It should apply to you as well."
Kaito closed his eyes, breathing in the other's scent.
'Yes...' he thought sadly. 'But not at the cost of you getting hurt instead...'
Owari
Ending Notes: Just in case someone is wondering what I meant with the ‘ironic death’ as the title, Snake said he would empty his gun in Kaito but got a gun emptied into him. It’s stupid and pointless but it gave this piece a name.