I started to walk, pretty soon I will run...

[timelordtantei]

In the lobby today is a new flavour of Hakuba Saguru which may be slightly familiar to some, but won't be the one they're thinking of.  At the moment, he's leaning against a wall, perusing the insides of a rather interestingly designed pocketwatch.  A full minute later, it snaps shut and goes back into its pocket.

As he looks up, his dark blue eyes

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... clearly a case of confusion is necessary

[blewupmyjob]

Doctor? In Kaito's mind, that word only meant one thing. And somehow, during his stay in this really weird mansion, he had managed to lose the very Doctor he was looking for yet again. The guy was far too slippery for his own good.

But as soon as that word reached Kaito's ears, he poked his head out from behind the corner to investigate. From afar, it's difficult for him to see the physical differences between this Hakuba and his own Doctor.

"Oi! Doctor!" he called across the hall, "That's you, right? Where the heck to you disappear off to this time?"

But of COURSE~

[timelordtantei]

Hakuba starts up from his leaning position and looks over in the direction of where Kuroba was shouting from. He then smirks somewhat laconically.

"Kuroba. Fancy meeting you here. So I suppose that means he took you along for the ride as well, hm?"

[blewupmyjob]

Kuroba. Kaito's pleased grin faded. That was a tell-tale sign that this blond wasn't the Doctor at all, but yet another Hakuba. He really had been running into a lot of those, hadn't he?

-- except this one didn't react with the normal confusion that the others had. Weird.

"What do you mean 'he'," Kaito asked as he approached the newcomer. The closer he got, the easier it was to notice the physical differences between him and the Hakuba he knew, "'S not like it matters anyway, though. You're not the one I'm looking for."

[timelordtantei]

He's confused at both the wide range of reactions he's recieved so far, and the fact that Kuroba didn't seem to know what he was talking about.

"By 'he' I mean the Doctor. Westerner in a suit and brown coat." Baffled, with added tilt of the head to one side. "What do you mean, I'm not the one you're looking for?"

[blewupmyjob]

"Doctor... you mean you?"

Kaito lifted a finger and pointed at Haukba, one eyebrow quirked. "Or are you another 'Hakuba?'"

[timelordtantei]

"Me? No. I thought I'd already said, but I was of the impression that the Doctor was the one who somehow managed to transport us here."

"My name does happen to be Hakuba Saguru, yes," he says dryly.

(ooc: before I forget again! Here, take a look~ http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5951373/1/ ~it relates to your character)

[blewupmyjob]

Great. Another Hakuba. It was far too easy to confuse the silly blond detective with the Doctor. It made finding said Doctor in this multi-dimensional nexus very confusing.

And rather annoying.

Kaito sighed in exasperation, arms crossed over his chest as he shook his head. "Thought so..." he grumbled, "Where I come from, you are the Doctor." A pause. "Or at least he looks just like you. Jerk still owes me money, too, and I bet he's never going to pay me back."

As much as Kaito liked the Doctor, he would never, ever forget the money.

((adfpaiosjdf Awesome! XD Kaito still hasn't forgiven Doctor!Hakuba for said job being blown up, either XD;))

[timelordtantei]

"...A place where I AM him? While I like to think highly of myself, I don't rate myself that high. I'm still earning my title, I'm afraid."

Stares. "Do I even want to know the story behind the money?"

[blewupmyjob]

"You blew up the building where I worked," Kaito deadpanned, "While trying to blow up some kind of alien spaceship. And you were just going to leave without paying for the damages."

There was a moment of silence while he thought these statements over. "Okay, not you, but the Doctor. The one I know. Who is, obviously, not the one you know."

A frown, and then he was mumbling to himself. "... which is kinda weird, now that I think about it... a past regeneration, maybe?"

[timelordtantei]

"...I see. Definitely sounds like something he'd do, too."

He hummed to himself. "Well... I met him in late March 2010, but of course that means nothing to time travellers... hm. Does the name Donna Noble mean anything to you?"

TOTALLY UNANNOUNCED THREADJACKING SINCE THAT'S HOW I ROLL

[temporaltantei]

"Not to him, it doesn't."

... Speak of the devil.

ABSOLUTELY COMPLYING

[timelordtantei]

...this was new.

"And it does to you, I suppose?"

... I SHOULD CHECK FOR THREADJACKS BEFORE REPLYING

[blewupmyjob]

Kaito was about to respond when a third voice entered the conversation, one eerily similar to the Hakuba he was talking to now. His gaze flickered from the newcomer to the Doctor he had known for so long now, and he grinned.

"Yeah, what he said." He peered at the Doctor suspiciously. "What is it with you and disappearing without telling me?"

YES, YOU SHOULD ;D

[timelordtantei]

Saguru blinked, but then smiled, with a bit of secret in it.

"Ah," he said. "Future, I suppose. Since the Doctor I met never mentioned having met Kuroba before, and yet... alternate timeline as well? Since you didn't seem to recognise me as myself." He paused, and grinned for a split moment. "Though the fact remains that I can't find a reason why you'd want to regenerate into myself, Doctor. I won't flatter myself by saying that I just looked good like like that."

Tagging order Kaito --> Hakuba --> Doctor?

[temporaltantei]

"Alternate timeline, thank you." He switched his attention to Kaito. "You're the one who I can't seem to keep track of lately."

Fine by me!

[blewupmyjob]

-- Hakuba was smug. Kaito kept running into smug Hakubas. Was there a pattern here?

The magician gave the blond detective a look, before he turned back to the doctor. "I wasn't the one who wandered off into the vents," he pointed out. His gaze flickered back to Hakuba.

"So there's more than one you running around after all?" For some reason, this revelation didn't surprise him.