When Pandora bleeds... (Shinkai)

Security

With his small suitcase packed, Shinichi arrived at the airport, carefully eying his surroundings. It had been only a few months since his 'death', the chance people recognized him was still as high as ever. The adult breathed out a soft sigh and shook his head. He couldn't wear his favorite suits anymore because even now he looked very much like Edogawa Conan. He didn't worry much about his identity as Kudo Shinichi, it had been more than a decade since Shinichi's own 'death' and he doubted public would draw conclusions as fast as he was going to hush through security.

I wonder where KID is.

Shinichi closed his eyes and took a deep breath to clear his mind, then just followed his inner need of finding Pandora. It led him through a few halls, past the mail station and even past a few fastfood courts, only for him to lock his eyes automatically onto a person with unruly brown hair, hemd and a pair of jeans. He had a black suitcase behind him while his fingers flew graciously over the keys of his phone, giving away a great amount of talent and focus on his movements. It didn't surprise Shinichi in any way how good he seemed to blend into the mass; although he was able to catch tiny movements in the corner of his eyes to scan his surroundings.
Shinichi knew for sure, KID had also become aware of him.

No doubt, that's KID.

Without hesitation, Shinichi marched over towards his magician and gave him a good look up and down his body. He was definitely going to remember his outlooks.
"Well, I'm here," Shinichi awkwardly announced himself. The corners of Kaito's lips tugged into a halfsmile as he wordlessly held out a small bunch of papers, not looking up from his phone.

Shinichi, already knowing what this was, glanced over the papers and took note of the important details. Not only was there a fake identity for him, it also sounded... familiar? At least the last name.
"...why did you give me the name Kuroba Shinobu?"
Kaito finally bothered to look up from his oh so important phone; and that was when it hit him.

Kuroba Kaito!

Shinichi took a step back in utter surprise.
"Allow me to introduce myself."
The young man bowed gracefully towards the detective and a rose appeared out of nowhere inside his hand; Shinichi was far too dumbfounded to be able to deduce where it came from.
"Kuroba Kaito, magician extraordinare. A pleasure to meet you, Meitantei."

Shinichi didn't know what to say as he kept staring into those mischievous indigo eyes. His company seemed more than pleased to have caught him off guard, yet it didn't last long for Shinichi to find his voice again.
"You are Kuroba Kaito. I... I've seen you on television."
"The great detective watches my magic shows? I'm flattered."

And while Kaito took that as his cue to turn around and walk forward towards the line of security, Shinichi just dumbly followed behind, left to make his own deductions.

No wonder he gave me his last name. I knew we looked pretty similar but this is downright creepy. It's no problem for us to pass as twins, especially on a flight from his home country. Not a bad idea.

All of a sudden, Shinichi stopped, and so did Kaito. Mere seconds before security, Kaito held out his hand behind himself and Shinichi knew what he wanted.
They needed to hide Pandora.
Shinichi had to give him Pandora, for the magician to hide it.
Oh no.

Very slow and trembling to his last cell, Shinichi slipped his glowing gemstone into Kaito's hand, then latched onto his back and clung onto his hemd from behind, shivering and close to tears.
"I-I can't-!" he whisperyelled into his ear and Kaito took a sharp breath through his nose. When was the last time he had been touched by someone? It was weird, and moreover uncomfortable.
But he understood he couldn't shake Shinichi off, Kaito knew what the sleuth was going through and it was awful to say the least.
"Five minutes, Meitantei. Five minutes. Hold on. It will be fine," he uttered back to him and Shinichi swallowed. He needed to trust onto Kaito that he was safely leading them through the check of bags. He could only beg that none of them would have needed a body check as well.

Entire five minutes.

Lucky enough for him, Kaito had asked the very last seconds before their turn for Pandora, thus Shinichi didn't have to go through this in the waiting queue.

I-I can do this. This is not the end of the world. Pandora i-is safe. I'm touching the same Pandora is touching.

Yet the sweat on his forehead was obvious and Shinichi looked positively as pale as a ghost. His limbs were shaking and he had trouble keeping himself on his legs; his vision was blurring and his ears were ringing. Sheer and utter panic made itself comfortable inside Shinichi's body, the detective wanted to scream and cry at the same time. A faint "Sir, are you alright?" was audible from one of the security guards but Shinichi didn't react; he wouldn't have been able to put a grammatical correct sentence together anyway. He vaguely heard Kaito give an answer, and in the last minute before he was able to faint, he felt the familiar texture of Pandora inside his hands.

A breath of relief passed his lips- the sleuth slumped against Kaito, exhausted, while said one moved them to the nearest bench and sat both of them down, observant eyes glancing over to Shinichi.
"How do you feel?"
"...is it over...?" he pressed out, trying to calm his racing heart.
Kaito nodded and Shinichi allowed himself to close his eyes, cradling Pandora close to his chest. He never wanted to do any of this ever again.

Kaito felt somewhat responsible for this, even if none of it was their fault. While his body remained tense at the unusual contact (he could feel Shinichi's breath against his neck, holy shit) Kaito himself didn't want to push him off at the same time. Thus he sat there... offering himself as a comfortable surface for Shinichi... and observed every too close passenger as careful as possible, sending subsconcious deathglares into their directions.

Author-chan picked Kuroba Shinobu because it would be easy to pass Shinichi off as his twin-

Also, as far as I know, Shinobu is japanese for 'Endurance' and Shinichi more than earned this title for his patience-