The tips of the sun was barely peeking out of the horizon in Ikebukuro when Heiwajima Shizuo ran out of his apartment from a screech that had lanced into his dreams. Still wearing his boxer shorts and light blue shirt, he ran down the apartment staircases into the street, seeing a heavy brawl between a group of what seemed to be Raijin high school students.
"Hey, you stupid brats! Go home and sleep...you're disturbing my sleep!"
The kids froze and the big guy that was on top of another boy punching his face got up.
"And what are you going to do about it you stupid old man? Going to call our mommy?"
Some of the kids began to laugh along with the provoker. A vein popped from the blonde's temple and snapping his knuckles, he walked slowly towards the students.
"Oh, you want to know what I'm going to do huh? Since you asked, I'll kindly show you what I'm going to do!"
He pulled his arm back and rushed it forward into the big guy, sending him flying a couple of meters.
"I pulled back my punches..but if you want to see more, I can definitely show you!"
The other students gulped in fear and finally one decided to dip. One of the boys with red-dyed hair followed, causing the rest to join in. The one that was just punched scrambled painfully to his feet and ran away sobbing. There was only one student left, bruised and still lying on the floor. Shizuo turned to help the boy up but stopped when he saw the face. Something about the boys face was very familiar.
"Waaah! Shizu-chan was so cool! To save me from those bullies! I could fall in love with you!"
Two veins popped at his temples and he lost his calm. Ripping the nearest stop sign, he swung it at the other and missed when the other boy jumped to his feet and away from target.
"Shizu-chan! That's not very nice!"
"I-zaa-yaa!"
Neighbors started waking up to the racket and when they saw Shizuo and Izaya, they immediately ran to a safe room to hide.
"Come on Shizu-chan! You're waking up your neighbors to a living nightmare!"
"Heiwajima-san! Please think of the safety of others!" came the shout of a little girl who had run out of her front door and making her way to Shizuo. She grabbed onto his leg and his muscles tensed up. Her mother wasn't home and Shizuo saw fresh bruise marks on her arms revealed by her sleeveless pajamas.
"Izaya...I give you three...and you BETTER be gone!" growled Shizuo, who lowered his eyes when they came into contact with the raven-haired male.
"ONE..."
The little girl looked at Izaya with her golden pleading eyes and he sighed.
"Alright Shizu-chan...thank you for saving me," he said, swiveling on his heel and walking away with a huge smirk plastered on his face.
Dropping the stop sign pole with a loud clank, Shizuo started walking back to his apartment building. But he was stopped when he still felt the little girl still clinging onto his left leg.
"What?" he asked annoyed.
"You have to fix the pole or else you'll have more debt to pay!"
He couldn't refuse her puppy dog eyes that she was aiming at him. Reluctantly, he made his way back and stuck the pole right into the ground next to it's original spot.
"There, better?"
She nodded and let go of his muscular leg.
"Heiwajima-san must work hard today too! Mina-san will work harder as well!"
She gave him a thumbs up and smiled at the monstrous human who in turn, smiled back.
"Sure..."
Shizuo walked Mina back to her apartment that was next to his and took the keys hidden under the doormat to lock the doors so that no gang members or burglars can get in. Though if they did try anything, Shizuo would've been able to sense them before they made it to Mina's room and try anything to her. Walking back to his own apartment now, Shizuo saw something glinting where the earlier scene had taken place. He huffed an annoyed sigh before going back down the stairs and to the shiny object. By now, the sun was beginning to rise above the trees. He bent down to pick up the object and just stared at the weird chain that had been left behind. The face of the person whom he hated the most popped up in his head. He had seen Izaya wear it loosely around his pockets before. It was only now did Shizuo realize that Izaya wasn't wearing his usual coat with the fur and black jeans but a Raijin high school uniform and had a school bag strapped around his torso. Maybe that was why he couldn't notice who he was at first. Not caring anymore, he dropped the chain again and went back to his room, never looking back.
Izaya walked back to his house with bruises on his face and a cut lip. He giggled to himself at the memory of how cool Shizuo had been when saving him from the ignorant bullies of Raijin High school. He dug into his bag to get his phone and when he pulled it out, he sighed wearily as the cracks on the screen revealed itself.
"Time to get a new phone..."
He put it back into his school bag and searched for his house keys. When he was in his room, he stripped off all of his clothing and hopped into the shower. His hot shower was fogging up the glass doors and he felt like writing something on them.
"Hmm...what should I write? Ah! How about..."
His finger glided and squeaked with every stroke of the kanji. He stood a little farther back, admiring his penmanship. He had written Shizuo's first and last name. He thought a bit and felt like there was something missing from the picture. Then it hit him and he giggled, writing his name under. Afterwards, he drew a big heart around both of their names and smiled cutely. But as reality hit him a couple of seconds after his happiness, he stopped smiling and just stood there in the shower, like rain falling down upon the tragic hero of a love story.
"Shizu-chan...will always be a monster...and I can only love humans..."
The words began to fog up again and the heart along with both of their names that Izaya had written with a smile had disappeared. He continued with his shower, the only time where he could let loose of how he really felt strongly at the moment.
Once he got out of the shower, he wrapped a towel that was hanging on a rack around his lower body and made his way to his computer. He logged into his Dollars account and read through the message board.
MONgurl: [Have any of you guys heard about the high school students who have been going missing?]
JIMtheGaijin: [It hasn't been on the news but I've read it in a little article in the paper this morning. It's terrifying isn't it?]
KaitoLOVE: [Didn't the article also say that the ones that escape come back traumatized and deemed unfit to live in normal society forever?]
Izaya's eyebrows raised from this. He started typing right away.
Kanra: [How did that happen?]
KaitoLOVE: [No one really knows but the students return with cuts, bruises and...]
JIMtheGaijin: [AND?]
KaitoLOVE: [They come back with only one eye.]
MONgurl: [That's scary...]
Kanra: [Do you think there is any group of people they're targeting other than high school students?]
JIMtheGaijin: [I don't really know. If they are taking eyes, then probably people with unique eye colors is my guess.]
Kanra: [Haha! Well thanks Jim, I gotta go.]
Izaya logged out of his account. Inside his brains at that very moment, he thought back to just about an hour ago when he was beat up by the bullies. Izaya had been stopped by them because they thought his eyes were red. But they were a mysterious brown that shown red in certain lighting. When he told them that they were seeing things, they beat him up and that's where Shizuo came to the rescue. He had seen those Raijin students hanging around a gang base for the past couple of weeks now.
His thoughts were interrupted when he heard his cell-phone ring. Running back to the living room that still had his clothes sprawled on the floor, he picked up the bag and carefully answered the call.
"Hello?"
"Izaya, this is urgent! I need you to come to here right now!" shouted Shinra's scared voice through the other side of the phone.
"Why? What happened?" asked Izaya, for the first time, feeling his stomach sink in from fear.
"I think I figured a way for males to be pregnant! I want to try it on you first!"
Izaya didn't say anything. Although he was feared in some ways and known to never fear anything, he definitely feared Shinra's experiments. Once in high school he boldly took on the role of Shinra's guinea pig on that very same topic and he ended up having diarrhea and nausea for two months.
"Shinra...I will hang up on you in three two one."
He hung up and sat down on the couch. His phone beeped, alarming an incoming text message. Checking, it was from Celty.
[Sorry. It kind of just blew up right now. Don't agree to any of his nonsense.]
He chuckled and layed down on the cold couch, dropping his phone on the ground.
"Good night...Shizu-chan..."