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The Grey Zone: Chocolate Thief
by Icka! M. Chif

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Kaito loved chocolate.

And while Kaito not-quite-freely admitted to having a sweet tooth, it had taken several days of on-and-off pestering, blackmail and cajoling to get Saguru to admit to a fondness for dark chocolates.

Fortunately, Saguru's Mum was also fond of chocolates. Willy Wonka brand chocolate in particular, Mum was mad about the top hat wearing man's candy. The name sounded odd, but the candy were absolutely marvelous. But this meant that when she finished off a box of assorted chocolates, he and Saguru got to split the remains of the chocolates that she didn't like. Kaito got the sweet milk chocolates and Saguru got the more bitter dark chocolates.

And after some further embarrassment and minor discomfort on the half-Briton's part, Kaito got the ones with the nuts in them. Or at least the nuts out of the dark chocolate ones.

Kaito had his fish phobia, Saguru had an allergic reaction to various nuts. After meeting much of the blond's family, Kaito was quietly un-surprised.

So with the above reservations, Mum's leftover chocolates were gleefully divided up between the two of them. And with Saguru's usual fastidious, it was usually divided up fairly.

Usually.

Except when it wasn't.

Like if Kaito stole a chocolate when he thought Saguru wasn't looking. Or maybe just pieces of chocolate. Flakes, really.

Or if Saguru took an extra piece because he -thought- he'd seen Kaito steal a chocolate.

Which was horribly unfair of the blond.

Because this was -chocolate-. Wars had been fought over for less.

Wars had also been fought for more as well, Kaito reminded himself as he lunged at Saguru, who was using his few centimetre height to his advantage by holding the last piece --dark chocolate with caramel centre-- above his head. And laughing. Well, snickering.

Which turned into muffled gasps as Kaito proceeded to attempt to climb Saguru like a pole. Kaito smirked as Saguru began to shake with muffled laughter. He'd forgotten that Saguru could be ticklish.

That was not to say that the detective was without defenses. With a yell and a judo twist, Saguru flung Kaito off of him and took off running through the house, still holding on to the piece of chocolate. Kaito flipped and rolled to his feet, avoiding hitting anything as he took off after the obnoxious blond.

"You won't get away with this!" He hollered, pounding down the stairs, following Saguru's trail. "That's MY Chocolate!!" The bastard was prolly heading for a door. He took a short cut by jumping over the banister and shortened Saguru's lead. The blond dived into the dining room, scurrying behind the large table that took up most of it.

Kaito grinned, more of a showing of teeth as he quickly moved to block Saguru's retreat into the kitchen. The two of them danced back and forth, Saguru smiling as feraly as he was, eyes sparkling at the thrill chase. "Deciding to turn the tables for a change?" The blond taunted.

"Why? Tired of always watching my skinny ass ahead of you?"

That was probably the wrong thing to say, he realized slightly belatedly as Saguru opened his mouth to retort. That just left himself wiiiiiiiide open for comment.

Fortunately, Saguru was a gentleman and leapt -on- then -over- the table to escape back through the hall with a cackled laugh instead of a reply. Kaito bit back a curse and chased after him, down the hall, around the living room, through the kitchen, past Mum screaming for them to take it outside, back down the hall, charged up the stairs and nearly hit himself on the door to Saguru's bedroom as the detective slammed it shut in his face.

"Bastard!" Kaito howled, turning the still unlocked doorknob and pushing against it. Saguru leaned on the other side, the hand holding the melting chocolate waving in and out of view.

Saguru half-laughed, half-grunted as he attempted to push Kaito back. "w-Wanker!"

The contest of wills might have lasted longer if Saguru hadn't been thrown off balance by desperately trying -not- to hit anything with his sticky-chocolate covered fingers and get the dark confection all over the place. Kaito used that to his advantage, pressing inside the room and knocking Saguru off to one side. The door belatedly slammed shut behind them, causing both of them to flinch as Mum's voice shouted for them to keep the racket down echoed faintly from downstairs.

They both paused, breathing slightly hard as they waited to see if her vengeful wrath would ascend the stairs and scold them for rowdiness. It didn't and they both breathed partial sighs of relief.

Then Saguru made an abortive attempt to move the chocolate covered hand out of range, both visually and physically.

Kaito pounced. Saguru made a slight muffled yelp as Kaito sat on him, pinning the larger blond to the ground, one hand firmly wrapped around the wrist below the chocolate covered hand.

He almost sulked. The chocolate and the caramel had been squished during the chase, melting and running over most of Saguru's hand. There was no way to pick it up and eat it now.

Then again, why waste good chocolate?

With some effort, a few insults and a bit of muttered cursing on both of their parts, he got Saguru's hand right where he wanted it. Saguru protested the casual use of his limbs, but shut up about it when Kaito began to carefully lick the chocolate off of Saguru's fingertips.

Kaito then proceeded to thoroughly clean every last trace of chocolate from Saguru's hand and fingers with all the smugness and pleasure of a cat polishing off a bowl of cream. There was a bit of a soapy aftertaste -they'd just washed their hands before getting the chocolate-- and a bit of sweat salt tang mixed in with the stronger flavours of chocolate and caramel. The caramel in particular was stubborn in leaving the skin, requiring a judicious use of licking, sucking and nibbling to get all of it off.

When the chocolate and caramel were all gone, he released his grip on Saguru's hand and carefully licked the remaining chocolate off his lips. Not bad. Now he was all sticky and covered with chocolate though. He got up, absently licking the hand that had been holding Saguru's wrist, getting some of the flavour off of his skin as he headed out the door. Time to wash his hands.

Saguru glared after him, eyes dark as he continued to breath hard, his face with a wild flushed edge to it as he pointedly did. not. move.

"Prick!" Saguru's slightly strained voice echoed down the hall.

Kaito almost flinched. He may have taken that a -bit- too far. He should probably expect retribution in some form or another in the near future. But what did Saguru expect, stealing his chocolate and then waving it around like that? He stopped licking long enough to shoot back "Tease!"

Kaito -loved- chocolate.

-fin-

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