Books and Humans

A Durarara! Fanfic

Disclaimer: I do not own Drrr!, just a massive fan. Drrr! Belongs to Ryohgo Narita and Brainsbase.

Raijin Academy, beginning of a new session.

"….I like observing humans…", the raven haired boy finished his introduction keeping it as short and precise as he can and headed back to his seat.

All through this time she could barely keep her eyes open. A new school did not excite her. Prospect of new ambitions, new friends, new memories were not what she would normally seek out. Reality is a boring place to stay, she ponders. All these humans around without the slightest knack for adventure makes her recoil into her books.

But then that one statement made her turn her head to the odd guy who just finished his introduction, only to find him staring back at her with utmost curiosity. She didn't look away immediately, she turned away almost elegantly, curving her lips into a small smile.

'Observing humans huh;' she thought. 'He might just have an interesting story to tell.'

The girl named Nakamura Ayano

"Hello. My name is Nakamura Ayano. I like anything and anyone with stories. Nothing elsecan entice me particularly. Nice to meet you all, I do hope we get along."

She smiled gorgeously at the confused class and walked back to her seat. Izaya stared at her from the corner of his eye. There was something in her smile which he could not understand, could not predict. She was not lying, yet there was something concealed behind her every move. She smiled well but looked bored. Her eyes shone but she looked sleepy. He grinned as his love for humans only grew more.

Right after he was called over to present his introduction. He said whatever came into his mind at the time, for there were far more interesting things going on in the classroom. He had already found someone to observe, and quickly jumped into the job he gave himself.

But then she turned and caught his eye, and slowly smiled while looking away. His interest only piqued. He could not make out anything out of her smile; it was nothing of the sort of admiration or friendliness. Nor was it entirely condescending. It was almost like she just wanted to say 'I'm right here.'

But then another human in the same classroom were watching them both.

Lunch Break

Ayano headed straight for the roof top as soon as the bell rang. She could do well without girls flocking in asking her name or commenting on her long beautiful brown hair or her sparkling eyes, or even guys for that matter. She gets that annoyingly often. She was always made to feel good about the body she was in, even though she could not care less. And now that she saw some girls heading her direction she straight up ignored them and ran to the rooftop.

She sat on the edge of the fence guarding the edge of the building; and kept smiling to herself as she felt a belonging to a higher dimension than the gleeful people beneath her. The girls were already forming groups; the giggles were already audible. She loved how carefree everyone pretended to be while concealing their darkness inside. Indeed, everyone had a story they did not want discovered, but she was not interested in every one of them. Even though she loved reading everything she can there still were preferred genres. Some of the stories were not even concealed well, and open way too simple books bored her.

"Hello, amm… Nakamura-san, right?"

She was startled at the sudden voice from behind but she hid it in time; and looked at the person carelessly barging into her territory. It was a bespectacled boy with the weirdest grin ever.

She smiled with a hidden contempt. "Right. What might you want, Kishitani-kun?"

His smile widened. "Ahh you remember my name! Well that makes it easier. Want to join the biology club?"

She was taken aback. She was sure he approached her with friendship or flirting in mind. He was to straight-forward to be true, but his face did not look like he had other intentions.

"Biology club? I don't know", she thought for a moment about what to say next. Sure they were told about the compulsory club activities in class but she had not given much thought to it yet. And besides her habit of reading everyone who came up to her just made it difficult for her to take this seemingly innocent looking guy very lightly.

"Well… I can't say I'm very interested in biology. I rather find it the most annoying of all the sciences, sorry." In the end she just gave him the most honest answer. There was something extraordinarily honest about this guy.

"That's great, actually! If you were really interested in biology it'd have been troublesome. I want the club activities to be as minimum as possible."

"Just what are you talking about?"

"You see," he said with his weird smile; "I could not care less about being in a club. But since it is compulsory, so I thought forming my own would be better so I can have the freedom of doing nothing and not engaging myself with too many people. You can form a club with three members or more; so would you mind joining me?"

She counted till five in her head and then sighed. "You're a weird …," she smiled, "That is not a terrible idea- freedom of doing nothing and not engaging with too many people. I could join you."

Shinra almost jumped up in delight. "Haaaaaa! Thank you. I knew you'd agree!"

She did not know she gave the impression of a loner on him. "Tch," she said, "And who is this third person going to be?"

Shinra adjusted his glasses and looked serious. "I do have a person in mind. I know he'd agree."

"And who exactly is this person?"

"Aha…", Shinra scratched his head while grinning like an idiot. "The thing is, I don't remember his name."

Ayano sighed deeply. "Seriously? Well. Good luck."

To be continued….