Merry Christmas my dears~ *^*
A FUCKING LATE CHRISTMAS XDDDD Im so sorry x'D I really, really tried to finish it at well, you know Christmas xD 24th xD or 25th depending where you are from but heyyyyyyyyy- yeah I suck at keeping any deadlines xD anyway *^* I still wanted to post this since, I worked so long on it ;A; and it got so long xDD
So hey, let´s just act as if Christmas isn´t over yet and I wasn´t too late x'DDDD
Merry Christmas :'D
You won´t believe how damn difficult it is to find a title that doesn´t exist yet for a Christmas story xDDDD From Izaya´s Christmas to Christmas surprise and pretty much anything that simply contains the word Christmas already seems to be taken away xD
So hey~ then the radio helped me out one day xD Maybe you know the song I abused as my title~ 3
Enjoy~
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❅ ❄ ❆Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow~❆❄ ❅
Oh the weather outside is frightful~ But the fire is so delightful~
And since we've no place to go- Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
- Shizuo´s point of view. Outside, in the snowburried Ikebukuro.-
Shivering a little bit Shizuo blew into his hands. To say it was cold that day was a huge underestimation.
It was freezing-
Not even blowing hot air into his hands could warm the debt collector up as he waited for Tom to return from the building.
He almost hoped the guy he was visiting would not pay his debt, so he could get some warm up by beating the shit out of him.
He wasn´t really lucky though.
Was it because of Christmas day? Or some other reason?
He didn´t know. Fact was, that almost everyone today had instantly paid up their debts.
Probably were some lucky guys that got money from their relatives as gift or something- or they sold some shit on the blackmarket and that was booming just as any other market during Christmas.
"Shizuo! We are done for today it seems." The familiar sound of Tom´s voice reached his ears and he stuffed his hands quickly back into his pockets.
The inside of them was only half as warm as it had been before he tugged his hands out of them, which caused him to shiver slightly.
Really. He liked the clothes Kasuka sent, but for a season like this he wished his younger brother had gotten him something different.
The black muffler he had gotten from Celty, was wrapped around his neck. But it did almost nothing to warm him up.
When Tom´s words reached his ears he blinked surprised, breath forming little puffs of air in the coldness.
It was barely 5pm. Sure, it was dark, but that mislead easily.
"We are done already?" he repeated, making his friend nod with a smile.
"Yeah! Isn´t that great? It´s Christmas and we get to finish our work early." He grinned, the tip of his nose growing red from the coldness.
"Hmm…" Shizuo hummed. He was right, looking at it like that he could return home, where it was warm, sooner than he thought.
"Who are you going to spend Christmas with?" Shizuo blinked at the sudden question and tilted his head thinking.
Christmas huh?
"Kasuka said he would drop by in the evening with Hijiribe-san. Guess I´m going to celebrate with them." He had no clue what he should get as a present though…. Seriously no clue at all.
"Heh, that sounds nice. I´m going to spend Christmas with my family as well." Tom said, shuddering when a cold breeze woshed through the streets. "Woah it´s so cold-! Have a nice evening then Shizuo. I´m going to head home." He declared, half turning around already to walk away with a wave.
The blond smiled. "You too." he answered and watched Tom walk away.
Well then-
It was the 24th of December and Shizuo still had no clue what to get his brother.
Urgh somehow he felt a little shitty for that.
He bet Kasuka had gotten something ages ago.
But what the hell should he buy?
He tilted his head thinking and looked up and down the street. There were so many shops, there just had to be something that his brother would like!
Determined he grinned and made his way towards one of the shops.
A warm breeze blew down on him as he entered the building reminding him that he loved shops in winter-
He pulled his hands out of his pockets and rubbed them together in the warm room.
He had entered something that seemed like a toy shop. He hadn´t particularly looked into what kind of shop he was going so hey, now he was here.
Lots of different toys, plushies but also games were sitting in the cupboards left and right.
He smiled when he spotted a game that Kasuka and him used to play when they were younger. But a game probably wasn´t going to be something his brother wanted for Christmas.
Or was it?
"Ah, Shizuo-onisan!" surprised the blond turned around, facing a very familiar little kid. Grinning she looked at him. "Are you looking around for presents too?" Akane asked happily.
She was wearing a cute red and green dress and carrying around a little bag.
Shizuo smiled back at her. Sure, she had stunned him with a stun gun once, but he couldn´t really hold it against her. It was the flea´s fault she did that in the first place after all.
"Yeah kind of, I don´t know what to get my brother." He answered, making the girl giggle.
"I have the same problem, I forgot to get a present for Akabayashi-san!" she announced whispering, said man suddenly appearing behind her.
"Ah, hello Shizuo-kun. You two were speaking of me?" he asked, kneeling down to be at the same eye level as the little miss. He was wearing his usual attire of course, even though it was Christmas.
"Mhm, Shizuo-onisan is searching for a present for his brother!" she turned back to the said blond and whispered once more. "The truth is, it´s Akabayashi-sans birthday today! I didn´t know!" Shizuo blinked and whispered back.
"Seriously? On Christmas? That´s rare." The little girl nodded. "I want to get him something! But I don´t know what." she whined. The blond nodded. "I think I know how I can help you."
Akabayashi looked at the two blinking when they turned around to look at him.
"Now what are you two whispering about? Care to let me in on the secret?" Akane quickly shook her head. "Nope, this is a secret between me and Shizuo-onisan!" Shizuo got up and turned to the Awakusu-kai member.
"Truth is, I´m searching for a present for my brother. But I have no clue what to get. What kind of present would you like to receive?" Shizuo asked, winking at the little girl.
"Hmmmmm, your brother you say." Akane showed him a thumbs up, getting what he was trying, while Akabayashi looked at the ceiling thinking. "Well I guess if it was me I would be happy with a new pair of sunglasses or something." He mumbled making the girl smile.
"But your brother, I don´t know. He is a filmstar he probably pretty much has everything he really wants." He commented, making Shizuo sigh and rub the back of his neck.
"Yeah, I thought about that too." The man laughed. "Maybe you should check out the shops on the sunshine street. You could search for something unique I think , they have lots of interesting stuff there." He suggested, making Shizuo smile.
"That´s a great idea. Thank you." The man laughed. "No problem, but you should hurry. The shops are closing soon." Shizuo nodded and smiled at the little girl that was already stealing herself away from her companion.
Seemed the man had realized it too, because he followed Shizuo´s glance and barely saw her disappear behind a shelf-
"Ah! Akane-chan!" quickly he hurried after her, making Shizuo smile. He hoped she would succeed in slipping away so she could get the present she wanted now.
"Well then-" he turned around, stepping out onto the cold streets once more.
Fuck it was cold-
Quickly he stuffed his hands back into his pockets.
The sunshine streets it was.
Well then- and with that he started walking.
Tiny snow flakes were dropping from the sky and collecting on top of his head.
For the first time in years snow was actually piling up on the streets.
And that a lot. The cars had come to a total halt, and the only vehicle being able to drive in this weather was the underground train.
Well and Celty´s carriage most probably.
Shizuo was used to having lots of people in Ikebukuro and on the streets.
But this time around it were almost four times the usual amount.
And since no cars were driving even the roads where full of them, at least in the shopping parts of Ikebukuro.
He shortly wondered if they were all still missing something for Christmas, like a present, or something for the christams dinner, because they were all still on the streets.
It certainly made him feel better about the fact that he hadn´t gotten a present fo his brother yet.
He wasn´t the only one after all he guessed.
Having moved away from the huge crowds he could walk along the streets until he was at the sunshine street, but trying to find his way through all the people proved to be annoying pretty quickly, and so he decided on a different route.
A park was what caught his eyes first, and surprisingly no one was there.
It was too cold for that today he guessed, people were only outside if they needed to be.
Deciding that he didn´t mind taking a slightly longer way to the sunshine street he headed for the park.
He relaxed as he stepped into the calm winter scenery.
The snow was glittering in the moonlight and there were no footsteps or anything whatsoever that would interrupt the white blanket.
He almost felt bad for interrupting this peaceful picture.
Puffing some hot air at his frozen hands he stepped through the calm park.
Akabayashi had said that something unique might be the right thing, right?
Hmmmm.
He still had no clue what to get there though.
Kasuka was always so quiet. It was difficult to think of a present for him.
He wasn´t exactly like Shinra, who was probably shouting out loud what he wanted for Christmas at the start of December to Celty.
Yeah, he kind of could imagine that.
Probably something that included Celty.
But Kasuka?
He was still thinking about his little problem, when he suddenly spotted something in the snow.
Footsteps.
One pair only, that led to the old skating place.
Heh, so there was actually someone else who was enjoying this calm scenery?
He walked a little faster, passing some trees behind which the footsteps disappeared.
And then he stopped blinking.
Ah.
He had found the person who was in this park.
And it seriously wasn´t someone he would like to meet even on Christmas eve!
Frowning he looked at the flea.
Yes.
Izaya.
He was the louse that had ruined the peace.
He was walking around on the old ice scating place and … what was he even doing?
The place around him was digged up completely, you could see the grass shine through the snow again, and he had made 4 piles of snow over there.
Was he just ruining something that looked beautiful or what the hell was he even doing?
Shizuo growled quietly, and for a second he even pondered on walking over there-
That damn flea should get his ass out of Ikebukuro after all.
But then he stopped.
No.
It was Christmas.
He still had to get a present,and if he ran out of time to get one because of that stupid flea, he would seriously kill him.
Moreover-
He didn´t exactly want to destroy this place. But he knew he would once the flea noticed he was there and started to provoke him.
No, not today.
Quietly he moved on. The flea had his back turned to him so he couldn´t exactly see the blond, and so he passed by the scene.
Without being spotted.
He sighed, just the tiniest bit annoyed that he didn´t get to at leat try and beat that flea´s ass, but a cigarette from his pocket and a lighter flick later he felt alright again.
Calm again he breathed out the soothing nicotine as he stepped out of tha park at the other side of it.
Damn, he had a feeling here were even more people than on the street before.
"Yo Shizuo." Surprised Shizuo blinked and looked next to him. He totally hadn´t noticed Kadota was standing there next to his van.
"Hey Shizuo~!" Karisawa was waving at him now as well and Walker was greeting him too. "Merry christmas~"
"Merry Christmas to you too." he grinned, walking towards the bunch of people.
Erika was sitting on the ground, seemingliny not caring at all that it was cold as fuck and was reading some Manga, while Walker preferred sitting on the backseat of the van with his own Manga.
Kadota was leaning against the van. "Don´t tell me you need to still buy presents too?" he asked making the blond blink.
"Too?" Karisawa laughed. "Togusa forgot to get something and drove here in a hurry- and that even though there are people on the streets!" Walker nodded in agreement. "Oh but we didn´t knock anyone over! He was honking all the way~!"
Shizuo frowned at that. Okay.
That was reckless.
More so with that van. It wasn´t even that tiny to begin with.
"Well actually I´m searching for something for my brother." He admitted, answering Karisawa´s question.
"Kasuka-kun huh? Well that proves to be difficult. You got any idea yet?" Kadota asked, but Shizuo shook his head. "Not really. I was just told that maybe if I looked through the shops here I might find something."
"You could get him a manga!" Karisawa announced waving with her book.
"Nooo, his brother doesn´t like 2D characters Karisawa-san. Forgot? He is a 3D filmstar." Walker shook his head waving her off. "Ah right. Hmm then I don´t know either." She hummed.
"How about getting him something sweet? Like those small present packages?" Kadota asked, making Shizuo blink.
"Ah, that´s a great idea Dotachin!" Karisawa agreed.
"Heh, he could actually like that. He is pretty fond of chocolate. But only the white one." Shizuo agreed. "Ah but where would I get something like that?" he asked looking down the street with various shops.
Kadota pointed towards the park.
"Well actually I know a good shop at the other side of the park. It´s a chocolatier so I think you would find something like that there. You just came from that direction, right?" Kadota asked, making the blond nod.
"Yeah I did. But a little walk through the park isn´t that bad." He mumbled, remembering though that the flea was still there.
He swore, if that little pest saw him there he would not respond to his taunts.
A quicky glance to his watch told him though that he had no choice if he wanted to be there in time-
"I will be off then. Have a nice evening!" he waved, before returning to the snowy scenery.
"Bye byeee~!" he heard karisawa shout as he entered the park again, ready to face that flea one more time.
He swore, if he started to taunt him he would just bust his face in real quick and then hurry up for Kasuka´s present.
He looked at the path he had walked, and trailed back his own steps, kind of like a game, setting one foot and then the other into his footprints from before.
Only when he walked past that tree he glanced to the right shortly-
And stopped.
He blinked.
Once.
Twice.
The flea was still there, but those piles of snow, they sure had changed- at least two of them.
That louse- he was building snow sculptures-
And damn.
He was good at it.
With no mistake he could identify the first pile of snow as a sitting Shinra. And the smaller one next to him looked like one of Izaya´s sisters.
He didn´t really know which of them, but considering the snowpile next to her was just as high Izaya was probably going to make both.
Heh-
It sure was a weird thing, but this time Shizuo seriously didn´t feel the need to beat the raven´s ass.
At least not while he was being quiet like that and making beautiful things.
Quietly he started walking again.
He didn´t exactly want the flea to spot him after all, because, if he did, he bet he would just spout shit again.
And so he walked the way back he came from before.
It didn´t take him long to reach the end of the park again- it was a rather tiny one after all- and so he stepped back onto the busy street.
So… Kadota said that shop should be here right?
Shizuo looked up and down the street. Lots of different shops were aligned next to each other all beautifully decorated with Christmas lights.
Shizuo looked at them with a smile until he spotted something that looked like an illuminated giant chocolate bar.
Well- if that wasn´t what Kadota was talking about then he wouldn´t know what was.
Glad he found his destination he started walking down the streets. Busy people were bumping into his shoulder, but he didn´t really mind that much.
He was in a way too good mood.
He was going to get a present and then head home, where it was warm and celebrate Christmas with his brother.
He really was in a happy mood-
Well at least until he reached the shop.
Disbelieving he stared at the door.
"You have got to be kidding me-"
Opening times:
Monday- Friday 9:00-12:00 ; 15:00-17:00
It was past 5- in fact it was already near 6pm. The shop was closed.
Annoyed Shizuo pulled a cigarette out of his pockets and tugged it into his mouth.
He freaking thought he was done- what the hell was he supposed to get now?!
He had no idea!
Cursing he watched the lighter as it fell from his frozen hands.
God he was fucking cold-
He was just about to pick the lighter up when a hand, wrapped into a warm red glove picked it up for him instead.
Blinking he looked up, staring into the face of a brunette grinning girl.
"Yahoo~ You dropped this, didn´t you?" she smiled through her pink glasses.
"Ah, yeah thank you." Shizuo mumbled back, looking at the other, very similar but seemingly shy girl standing next to her.
Ah-
"You two are Izaya´s sisters-" he suddenly realized dumbfounded.
"Naww don´t bring up that stupid big brother now." She waved him off. The other girl looked at Shizuo and tilted her head questioningly.
"Shizuo-san. Shopping?" Shizuo blinked at the weird way she spoke. He had met her before, sure, but he really couldn´t get used to how different the two of them were.
"Yeah, I´m actually searching for a present. What are you two up to?" he asked but was immediately interrupted by the glasses wearing sister.
Really- he just didn´t remember their names- he hoped he wouldn´t need to use them.
"A present? Who are you buying it for? What´s it going to be?" she asked.
"Ah… for my brother actually. But I have no clue what to get-" suddenly he paused. Those two, they were hard die fans of his brother weren´t they?
He was ashamed to admit it, but maybe the two of them could think of something!
"Do you two have an idea what I could give Kasuka for Christmas? I wanted to give him some of his favourite chocolate stuff- but that damn shop closed." He pointed to the closed sign. "Now I´m kind of running out of ideas."
He swore he saw the eyes of the glasses wearing sister glint.
"Ohh I do think we know what you could give him, but only with one condition!" she pointed at the blond. "You have to let us meet your brother in person!" she declared making Shizuo frown- but did he have any real choice?
"… shoot the idea first and if it´s good I will think about it." he stated making the girl grin.
"Hmmmmm playing hard to get huh? Okay, then listen now, your brother has lots of hobbies, like- sports, fishing, billiard, darts, horse riding, collecting automobiles, going to the theater, going to the movies, painting, calligraphy, home carpentry, table magic, aikido, flying small planes, flower arrangement- do you now have an idea what to get him?" she asked grinning after enumerating all that stuff.
For a second Shizuo could do nothing but just stare at that vicious little brat.
How came she knew that much more about his own brother?!
He didn´t even know what the hell aikido was- hell he didn´t knew his brother was painting-
Nor did he know what exactly to get his younger half.
The girl seemed to pick up how hard he was thinking about this and smirked. God how damn much that reminded him of Izaya.
Suddenly she pulled something out of her jacket´s pocket.
"I will give you an easy solution. These are two theater cards for an already booked out theater play that I know your brother will love to go to. I bought them for Kururi and me. So~" she waved the tickets in the air.
"These tickets against a meeting with your brother, what do you say?" she grinned.
Urgh-
Those tickets sounded perfect- He seriously couldn´t stand theater plays, but if his brother liked them-
…
Those two didn´t actually seem that bad he had to admit. Well for being siblings with that lousy fleabag that is. He lit the cigarette that had hung loosely from his lips for a while now and blew some smoke into the cold air.
"…. Fine-" he agreed finally, "but only if Kasuka really likes them as you said! And I will be present when you meet my brother." he quickly added, but the girls were already looking at each other happily- even the usually so quiet one seemed to be absolutely elated.
"He will love it!" the glasses girl said and handed Shizuo the tickets.
"But don´t you two dare tell your fleaish brother about this!" he made clear, but the girl just laughed at him-
"Are you talking about Izaya? I don't even remember when we last saw him!" she laughed, making Shizuo blink a little surprised.
"You are not going to spend Christmas together or something?" he asked and the girls shook both their heads.
"No, we are actually heading to a party Aoba is throwing. Ah-" suddenly she looked at her phone.
"Crap we are late Kururi!" she suddenly exclaimed and grabbed her sister by her wrist.
"Don´t you dare forget our promise!" she quickly yelled at the blond before disappearing into the crowd.
A little surprised Shizuo stared into the direction they had run of too.
Heh. He had thought for sure that flea would spend his Christmas at home with those two.
Oh well. Not like he cared.
Happy he looked at the cards in his hand. This was great, he could give his brother something that he would really like. And he even had two of the cards, meaning he could go there with his new girlfriend, or friend?
Whatever she was.
He smiled.
This was great.
Shivering he threw the cigarette to the ground and stomped on it before walking back.
Finally- now he was going to go home, and first make himself some awesome hot chocolate and warm himself up on the couch.
He smiled at the prospect of the warmth that was waiting for him.
He glanced at the park, that he had crossed twice today.
... the flea was still doing his snow figures there right?
If he wanted to go home then walking through that park probably would be a little of a detour-
… well then again it wouldn´t hurt to walk through there again, right?
He was kinda curious how far the flea had gotten.
Or who else he had made, because it had been 4 piles of snow initially.
He just hoped the flea wasn´t done already and spotted him instead.
He seriously didn´t want to chase that louse today.
Blowing warmth into his hands soflty, he walked back the path, that he had walked twice by now.
It didn´t take him long to arrive at the scene.
He would of course never admit that he specifically went there to see what the flea had formed out of the other snow piles, but well- to be honest he did, didn´t he?
What he didn´t expect, however, was what he saw then.
Puffing some cold air into his hands he walked through the winter scenery- following his footsteps just as before, and approached the tree where he had watched the flea from before.
And then he blinked.
Really, honestly surprised.
He could spot Shinra´s snow sculpture and the one of Izaya´s sister, they were sitting there just as before.
But now there was so much more to look at.
It weren´t just 4 piles of snow for sculptures anymore.
Next to Shinra, Celty was sitting. She was wearing her usual helmet with something that looked like a mistle toe hanging down from it, and now that Shizuo looked at it, it seemed like the Shinra sculpture was grinning right at her.
It looked like a little story.
In front of them there was not a snow table with usual Christmas meals and even little presents on them.
Izaya´s sisters were sitting next to each other and laughing as it seemed.
… that wasn´t even what surprised him the most though.
Because right next to them, was he.
Yeah.. that fucking flea had build a snow sculpture out of him as well.
He made Shizuo.
And it wasn´t even bad.
There were no horns put on him or any weird things that he would have expected the raven to add to his sculpture.
After all, Izaya did hate him so he wouldn´t have been surprised if his sculpture was the only one that looked like shit.
But no…
It looked really good actually. And he wasn´t even looking angry.
He was smiling like he did when he was at peace when the flea wasn´t around.
Confused he looked at the flea.
Izaya was sitting there as well.
Not a snow sculpture but the real flea.
He had taken a seat at this happy Christmas gathering.
While Celty and Shinra were sitting to his left, his siblings were sitting opposite of him, and Shizuo… actually on his right.
"Merry christmas~!" startled the blond flinched when the raven suddenly threw his arms up into the sky and laughed.
"Thank you all for coming~ Aha, Shinra I really thought you would spend your Christmas alone with Celty. But you came nontheless~!" he laughed and actually looked at the Shinra sculpture he had made.
Shizuo frowned. That…. was really a new kind of crazy.
Not pausing his little game, the flea laughed again and shook his head.
"Ah but you are ignoring me as it seems, ne? Don´t let you two be interrupted by me~" he chirped and looked over to the two sister sculptures.
"And you two are surely planning something, right? Just don´t destroy my apartment, ne?" a sort of nod was given from Izaya as if the siblings had actually said something back, until Izaya looked to his right, staring now at the Shizuo sculpture and tilted his head.
"Actually I should say that to you, ne Shizu-chan? I do wonder why you came, but don't destroy anything either, okay?" he grinned.
"Then again, you really do look peacefull today- don´t tell me!" he suddenly fake gasped. "Is this your Christmas present for me? Not trying to kill me? Aww that´s so nice Shizu-chan~"
…
Okay.
This was really weird.
He knew the flea wasn´t right in his head but this seriously took being crazy to a whole new level.
…
Strange.
Very strange indeed.
It reminded him of a child.
He used to do that with some of his plushies, sometimes together with Kasuka when they were little. Before the time that he discovered his strength.
Okay, maybe it wasn´t that strange then.
No wait, Izaya was 21 or something- nevermind, it was strange.
"Well then~! Present time~!" the raven suddenly announced and stood up from his seat, snow falling from his jacket as he hoped over to a snowpile.
Shizuo blinked when he noticed that the flea had build something there as well.
It were presents. Lots of presents. Small ones, big ones, long and short ones. The ribbons were only carved on them, but it sure were supposed to be presents.
The flea picked one of them up and grinned.
Almost like a child.
Shizuo couldn´t stop thinking that way. It was really weird to see a grown man run around and play like that.
He couldn´t really make sense of this weird scenery.
But then the raven moved.
Shizuo didn´t know what happened- maybe he held the snow present too tight or maybe it just wasn´t built well enough, but all of a sudden it fell apart- and dropped to the ground.
The flea froze in his tracks and stared at the little snow pile in front of his feet.
For a few seconds Izaya just stood there and looked down.
Shizuo blinked and looked at the raven, searching for some kind of reason why he was just standing there, when he noticed the flea´s hands.
… weird he hadn´t noticed before.
The flea didn´t wear any gloves. But… he made all of these sculptures right?
He had to be cold as fuck. The tips of his fingers were really red…
Didn´t that hurt…?
"Ah, sorry Celty." Izaya suddenly started to talk again and smiled softly at the snow figure of the Dullahan. "Seems I broke your present… but don´t worry. I will make you one again."
Shizuo kept watching the flea as he bent down and started to gather some snow.
….
This…
Was actually quite sad.
He knew as a fact that Izaya´s sisters weren´t intending to spend Christmas with him. And considering that the flea was here and not at home he guessed that Shinra wasn´t planning on doing so either…
If he looked at it like that it actually almost seemed as if Izaya… were lonely.
… nah.
The flea was just acting weird, wasn´t he? He was acting strange all the time.
Shaking his head Shizuo dropped the cigarette he had started to smoke and it dimished with a hissing sound.
He needed to hurry up to get home or he would be late for when Kasuka arrived.
…
One last time he glanced at the flea.
He was still crouching there and re-building the present he had dropped.
…
Really now.
He wondered what was going on in the flea´s head.
Watching his hot puffs of air disappear into the night sky he continued his walk- back into the direction of his apartment.
He finally had his present after all. Heh... he really wondered if those two girls were right with Kasuka liking these theater tickets.
It didn´t take him long to reach the end of the park, just as before. This time considerably less people were running around on the streets, and the blackness inside the shop windows indicated the reason.
Most of the shops were closing now.
He was really glad now he met those two. He would have never known what to get Kasuka if he didn´t meet them.
… Izaya´s sisters , ne?
…
Sudden neighing startled the blond and he turned around- only to face a certain familiar black horse.
A headless horse that is.
"Ah, Shizuo-kun~! Merry Christmas!" Shizuo snorted when he spotted his bespectacled friend in an open carriage behind the horse. And of course Celty was sitting right next to him, holding up her PDA.
(Merry Christmas.) it read and Shizuo smiled.
"Merry Christmas to you too."
"Are you going anywhere?" Shinra asked, grinning from one ear to the other.
No wonder, he was holding his lover in his arms after all.
"Only home now to spend Christmas with my brother." He answered, feeling happy for the two.
But he still couldn´t chase away the imagine of Izaya and his own little Christmas party in the snow.
…
He had made those two too, hadn´t he? He had been about to give Celty a present even.
…
"Ne… do you have any clue what Izaya is doing?" he suddenly found himself asking, surprising Shinra and Celty, as well as himself.
"Izaya? No, why? Is he plotting something again?" Shinra asked with a groan. "I swear if he ruins my Christmas with Celty I won´t treat him the next time he comes to me after your fights!" He whined cuddling up to his lover- making Celty more than just slightly flustered.
Shizuo sighed.
…
"No, I just didn´t see him, that´s all." He lied and shrugged.
Shinra nodded "Ah, that´s a good thing, isn´t it?" He grinned and the horse started moving again.
"Well, merry Christmas Shizuo~ See you." He waved, the carriage disappearing behind a corner-
But Shizuo was deep in thoughts as he waved at the two.
He barely even registered that Celty was holding out her PDA with a "Merry Christmas" written on it too.
That stupid flea.
… he actually was lonely.
Probably.
The thought of the flea actually being lonely, struck him as odd..
But sure enough..
It sounded right.
It was Christmas and he was standing in a park, freezing off his hands to build himself some friends he could spend it with.
…
Lonely was almost an underestimation.
…
Well… he guessed the flea deserved it.
For acting that way.
He was always an asshole after all.
"Ah, Nii-san?" startled by the familiar voice approaching him from behind he spinned around on his heels.
"Ah, Kasuka-" he mumbled surprised, spotting his younger brother, as well as the girl he always had with him now.
Ruri Hijibire if he remembered correctly.
"Merry Christmas." His brother mumbled expressionless and the girl smiled slightly.
"Merry Christmas, Shizuo-san."
"Merry Christmas-" Shizuo replied quickly, still surprised that he met his brother here. "Weren´t we supposed to meet at my apartment?" he asked a smile spreading over his lips.
"Yes, we were. But I only returned from a film location today, so I didn´t get your Christmas present yet." Kasuka replied solemnly, making Shizuo look at the thing Kasuka was carrying around in his left hand.
"I don´t really know how to wrap up presents, and since we met here, would it be alright if I gave them to you like this?" Shizuo blinked, then laughed.
His brother.
Practical as always.
And he even got his present only today too.
Now he certainly felt better about not having had anything until today.
Really, he shouldn´t have worried so much.
"Of course it´s alright." he answered and for a second Shizuo thought he saw something like a smile spread over Kasuka´s face when he took the little bag.
"Merry Christmas big brother."
Eagerly Shizuo looked inside the bag-
…
He blinked surprised.
Heh… his brother really knew him.
It were gloves.
Black ones.
He was always freezing, especially his hands were.
They really were the perfect gift for him he guessed.
And even though he didn´t even intend to, he suddenly had to think of Izaya.
Of Izaya and his cold hands.
Nah not cold, probably frozen by now.
… if he was still there.
…
Everyone was going to spend Christmas with someone beloved today.
Everyone.
Except Izaya.
Deep in thoughts Shizuo put on the gloves.
They were fitting perfectly.
"Thank you, Kasuka." He smiled at his brother.
"No problem."
He was freezing all day. Especially on his hands, he had tried to warm them up by blowing into them a lot of times.
Now they were warm.
… and Izaya´s were cold.
Somehow, even though he hated the flea he couldn´t stop thinking about the stupid louse.
.. he guessed... the flea did mess up by himself…
He was an asshole after all.
Always shitting with people.
He messed up a lot.
But then again…
Didn´t Shizuo destroy most of the city?
Act like a monster?
Scare everyone away?
… didn´t he mess up too?
"Shizuo, are we heading to your apartment now?" Kasuka´s voice suddenly reached his ears and he looked up.
Ah, they were probably cold too, weren´t they? He was letting them wait.
… but…
…
Ahhhaaa….
He couldn´t, could he?
"Sorry." He mumbled suddenly,surprising the bruenett. "I can´t, I am already meeting up with someone." He smiled and quickly shoved his own present on Kasuka.
"Please take this." Kasuka blinked, actually looking somewhat surprised and took the two cards Shizuo held out. It were the theater cards that he had gotten from Izaya´s twins.
"Oh- I was thinking of going to this, but it was already sold out." Kasuka suddenly mumbled and Shizuo smiled happy.
He actually got something his brother really wanted.
"Please go there with Ruri-chan, and sorry but- I have to leave now!" he apologized and turned around- he really wanted to catch the flea while he was still here.
Kasuka blinked as he watching his older brother run away.
"Did we say something wrong?" Ruri voiced aloud, but Kasuka shook his head slightly.
"No. I think nii-san is chasing someone."
Confused the girl blinked and tilted her head.
"Chasing…?"
-Izaya´s point of view. -
…
And now…?
Sighing Izaya let himself drop onto the self made snow table.
His hands were stuffed into his pockets and he couldn´t help but sigh at how cold they felt.
Seriously he should have brought some gloves with him.
His fingertips were hurting.
.. why was he even doing this anyway?
"It´s not like you five are even thinking of me right now, ne?" he mumbled aloud and watched the snow fall from the sky slowly.
Flake after flake the dropped from the sky and pilled up in front of him.
… should he go home now..?
Maybe work some more.
He had wasted half a day making these stupid figures after all.
And his clients would be only too glad if he got their information earlier.
…
Thinking he rose one of his hands, drawing a pattern into the new snow that had collected on the table.
…. Really now.
He hated Christmas.
It was just a way for shops to make more money.
And for all those sickenly happy people to have an excuse to spend even more time together.
Pissed him off.
"Well, at least you are silent." He mumbled aloud, looking at the Shinra figure he had built.
Seriously.
If these two were real they would have left a table like this immediately.
His sisters as well.
Maybe Mairu would have tried to attack him before that even. With one of their karate kicks probably.
And Shizu-chan?
Who was he kidding? He would brake everything down the second his snowfigure came to life.
Violent brute.
"Well if that isn´t the flea."
Startled Izaya´s eyes widened and he snapped his head up, looking over his shoulder.
For a second he thought he was in a bad dream-
Shizu-chan was standing over there and slowly walking over.
What was he doing here?
Quickly he got to his feet and faced the blond, one hand already slipping inside his pockets to grasp the flickblade.
"Ara, Shizu-chan- What make you come here?" he asked, already stepping away from the snow figures- ready to run.
"That´s what I should ask you, this is Ikebukuro after all." He repeated, throwing the cigarette that had been hanging loosely from his mouth to the ground.
But what the blond did next surprised him even more-
He expected the blond to approach him. To try and hit him, to try and get him like he always did.
He always said he wanted to kill him right?
Instead,however, he suddenly looked to his right- and approached the snow figures Izaya had made, making his eyes go wide.
Was he going to destroy them?!
Confused he looked at the blond.
"Shizu-chan. What do you think you are doing?"
But the blond didn´t answer.
Intead he just kept heading for those snowy sculputers with a look in his eyes that Izaya just couldn´t identify-
"Oi, don´t destroy that!" Izaya yelled, before he could stop himself from doing so-
He didn´t even know why he was so attached to those figures.
It wasn´t like they would be there forever.
They would melt.
They would be gone soon anyway.
But still-
He stepped just one single step closer, so he was just a few feet away from the blond.
"Don´t you have some important lovely plans to attend to today, Shizu-chan?" he asked with a frown on his face.
He just knew that brute was going to destroy what he had made.
He just knew it!
As a type of revenge because he was in Ikebukuro! He bet he would!
But then all of a sudden the blond stopped in his tracks and just looked at the flea.
Izaya blinked, wondering what he thought he was doing.
And then Shizu-chan did something that sent a chill down his spine-
He smiled-
Shizuo grinned. He knew he would get him this way.
He knew if he approached those figures he had made first Izaya would think he was going to destroy them.
Well- it had been a gamble, but now he actually achieved what he wanted.
With one quiet step he suddenly jumped forward and dashed in Izaya´s direction-
The flea was fast- fleaishly fast- but standing just a few meters away he couldn´t escape Shizuo at this short of a distance-
All he managed was to turn around with a surprised yelp as the blond got ahold of his hoodie and pulled him with him to the ground.
"Got you, you damn flea-" Shizuo stated, quickly grabbing the raven´s wrist that was holding his favourite flickblade to make him drop it to the ground.
He wasn´t going to tlet himself get stabbed by the louse after all-
Izaya´s thoughts raced rollercoaster as he saw the blond loom over him-
Fuck-
A tug on his collar was enough to pull him up only inches away from Shizuo´s face- and he squeezed his eyes shut for the punch that was about to come-
He should have been smarted shouldn´t he?
He had stood up for these shitty snow figures and now the blond was going to blow his lights out on Christmas-
Really.
Fuck this shitty day.
But the punch he expected never came-
Instead he suddenly found himself loosing the ground under his feet and yelped-
Only to find himself hanging over the blond´s shoulder a second later-
"I don´t know if you noticed, but it´s fucking freezing stupid flea." Stupified Izaya blinked.
Not getting what was going on at all-
"What the hell-" that was the fisrt thing that left his lips when the blond started to walk- " What the fuck are you doing?! Shizu-chan let me down!" he yelled at the blond, trying to hit him with his fists- but yeah, against a body like Shizuo´s that had to feel like a few annoying mosquito bites he guessed.
He doubted he was inflicting any pain to that fucking brute.
"Shut up." That was the only response that Shizu-chan gave as he walked through the park- with the raven over his shoulder- while the raven kept hitting the blond and struggling with everything he could-
"Really want me to leave you all by yourself with some snow again?" that sentence made the raven pause and he tried to look at the blond´s face-
Which was actually pretty damn difficult like this-
"I don´t know what you are talking about Shizu-chan." He glared, despite knowing that the protozoan would never see it.
"Oh really. Should I ask dear Celty´s present that you had to re-make?"
Surprised Izaya blinked-
What the-
…
His eyes turned to tiny sliths.
How did the blond know about that…?
Had he been here before..?
…
How long..?
…
As no answer or snappy retort was given to his last wors Shizuo just continued to talk.
"Where is that secretarian of yours?" it was a question that had lingered on his mind as well.
Because if at least that woman was at the flea´s place he would have stayed there.
But she wasn´t he figured so he did wonder where she went off to.
"… she got free today. I guess she is spending the day with her dear brother." Was the answer he finally received after a felt 20 steps in the snow.
"So that´s why you were outside instead of at home." Shizuo mumbled more to himself than to the flea, but he still answered that thought.
"Yeah. Kinda." He mumbled.
Silence fell over the two once more.
And while Shizuo already knew what he was doing and what intentions he had, the flea was still totally wandering in the darkness regarding that topic.
Shizuo wasn´t beating him up yet.
That much he understood.
But what he didn´t really get was where he was carrying him to.
And why-
He hated him didn´t he?
So it had to be something bad.
Maybe a gang waited to beat him up and Shizu-chan thought it would be funny to let them to the dirty work?
…
No.
Somehow the thought struck him as odd.
But then… what was it?
What was the blond thinking he was doing?
"So…?" he finally decided to raise his voice.
"Hm?" only making the blond hum questioning as an answer.
He sighed, propping up his elbows on Shizu-chan´s back.
"What now?" he asked, a sigh escaping his lips. He really wasn´t too keen to get beat up in some shitty place the blond deemed perfect for this opportunity-
But he figured he would be able to get away- somehow.
He had to.
So getting information first was the best right?
But then the blond said something that really threw him out of concept-
"Dunno. My place or your place?"
…
…
"HUH? What exactly do you plan to do to me?!"
Oh the weather outside is frightful~ But the fire is so delightful~
And since we've no place to go- Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
To be continued on Christmas 2016~
Hehehe cx YES
I AM STOPPING RIGHT THERE BWAHAHAHAHAAHAHAH xDD
Merry Christmas 2015~ I guess for the flea this year it was a little less of a lonely christmas~ cx and ahahahah I know I´m mean for ending there xDDDDD
Hohohoho~ Have fun waiting~ xD And sorry for being late, again xDDD
Let´s pretend it´s Christmas *0* xD I PROMISE to be punctual next year x'DDDDDD
I hope you still liked it xD Despite being late as fuck xDD
Love you all xD