About two weeks passed, and Shizuo hadn't seen Izaya at all. It made him happy... But he was feeling strange too.

He noticed that he got angrier a lot easier, like he was moody, and generally, after work, he was ready to collapse and sleep for a week. The smallest thing could change how he felt, and he felt sick without being sick. Seeing as he was home right now, he placed his hand on his forehead. "Maybe I should see Shinra..."

Shinra might be a good plan indeed. The doctor was currently being ignored by Celty -occasionally jabbed in the solar plexus- as he tried and failed to flirt with her... again.

Finally, Shizuo sighed. Something could be wrong with him. So, he grabbed his keys and started on his way to the doctor's. And when he got there, he knocked on the door.

Shinra blinked but answered the door all the same, "Shizuo-kun~! What a nice surprise~" Shinra let him in right away at least.

Shizuo made his way to the couch before plopping down. "I can over for a reason, Shinra. You gonna ask why?"

"Ah... feeling under the weather?" He asked, closing the door and immediately sticking a thermometer in Shizuo's mouth.

Shizuo sighed when Shinra immediately got the thermometer before just nodding. "Yeah. I am."

"Hmm... you don't have a fever..." Shinra said when he finished taking Shizuo's temperature. "What are your symptoms?"

Now, the blond let out an irritated sigh before listing off what he had felt and what was going on. He wanted to know what the hell was going on with him.

Shinra frowned, "Well... could be the flu, how long have you felt like this?" Anything more than a day and he would have to run some tests.

"Let's see... A few days." Yeah. He had felt like this for a few days. It was annoying, but he wasn't hurting him, so whatever. Shinra sighed and frowned... well that sounded suspiciously like... but no, there was no way. May as well eliminate that first then. He gave Shizuo a specimen cup, "Urine sample, I need to run a couple of tests..." He said.

"Fine, fine." He took the cup before heading to the bathroom. If something was wrong, he wanted to know and have it fixed.

After filling the cup, he returned to Shinra. "Here. Need me to stay, or can I head home?"

"You may as well stay, I can at least tell you what it isn't if the first few tests come back negative," Shinra shrugged, "And if they're positive... well, then we know right?" He said as he got to work. One was a pregnancy test but Shinra wasn't about to tell Shizuo that.

"Yeah yeah. Okay." He sighed again before laying down on the couch.

Two minutes later though and Shinra thought he might faint. "Um... Sh-Shizuo?" He was uncertain about how to tell the other this.

Seeing as he had closed his eyes while laying on the couch, he opened one eye. "What is it?"

"Well... first I have a couple of questions and... they might be awkward for you..." He sat down. "Have you... been having sex with anyone?"

Shizuo sat up. "What?" He was about to say no, but then he remembered waking up next to Izaya... "...Once." He knew Shizuo wouldn't even dream of asking unless it was important.

"Recently, I'm assuming?" He asked, feeling awkward asking about a friend's sex life like this.

The blond's face heated a bit. "About two or so weeks ago... Why the hell do you even need to know this?"

Ah... "W-well... um... it would seem that... somehow... you've become uhh... oh how to put this lightly... oh no way... you're pregnant."

Pregnant...? "Shinra. I'm a guy." There was no way. There was just no way...

"I know... but... all your symptoms fit and... the timing... and the test... I didn't expect it to be positive but it was, you... you are pregnant Shizuo... but... who's the father?"

Shizuo scowled, but then there was the question. The father... It was Izaya... Shit. "..." He couldn't just say that.

"Shizuo what happened, you aren't seeing anyone so..." Shinra was just worried about his friend and this was a big deal, "Look... whoever he is... you'll have to contact him and tell him. Or... not, but you do have some options if you don't want to keep it okay?"

"What happened?" That could be enough. "What happened is that we were both drunk. I don't want to tell him, and what options?"

"Well... there is abortion... it's a little trickier with you being male but I think I can manage it... there's also putting it up for adoption when it's born though you would still be pregnant until you're near full term..."

"I don't know..." He didn't want to kill the kid, but he didn't want Izaya to find out. And he couldn't care for it. So really, he'd have to think about it.

"Shizuo... the father deserves to know if you chose to carry it to full term, he might even help... but I'll leave that up for you to decide.." Shinra worried about Izaya finding out too but for different reasons entirely... he worried Izaya might try to force Shizuo to miscarry because it 'would be a monster too'.

The blond let out an irritated sigh. "No." He knew Izaya wouldn't. If Izaya even wanted a kid, it wouldn't be with him. He'd be someone he chose to best and most perfect kid.

Not that Shizuo could know who Izaya would see as the best one to make a child with. He was right though, Izaya had never considered fatherhood as an option for himself someday.

"Alright..." Shinra agreed, "There is one other matter to consider though too and that's... well... Izaya."

Shizuo swallowed at that. Izaya because that was the father. Not that Shinra could know that. But, he was a probably. "I don't want him to find out."

Shinra nodded, "Me neither, Izaya's... unpredictable at best. If you choose to go the full pregnancy we can find somewhere to hide you for a little while so that no one finds out." Because if anyone did Izaya would learn it in no time.

The blond nodded. "Yeah... I don't know if I want to keep it or give it up or..." Abort it. Really, it was a tough choice.

"You still have time... how long ago did you uh..." Shinra wasn't sure how to put it.

"When conception was?" He put it bluntly. "Two weeks ago... At least, that's the only time..."

"Two weeks... yeah, you have a while to decide if you want this baby or not or if you'll just give it up for adoption. Think it over for the next few days okay?" He suggested and gave the blonde a pat on the shoulder.

Shizuo nodded before getting up and making his way home. Keep his and Izaya's kid... get rid of it... or put it up for adoption...

It was a tough choice and one Izaya would be not part of. He wouldn't even know unless Shizuo chose to raise the kid himself.

Shizuo sighed when he got home before just plopping down on the couch. One hand rested on his stomach. Could he really kill a kid? No... So either give it up or raise it... But he still had to decide.

He had nine months though to make that choice now that he had decided he didn't want to abort... and that should be enough time... Izaya however felt his presence was too long gone from Ikebukuro the next day and so it was this city he was now roaming... hunting for the blonde man actually to see just how pissed Shizuo was at him for stealing his virginity while they were both intoxicated.

Really though, Shizuo didn't care. He had something much more to worry about. The kid. But... if he told even one person, besides Shinra and Celty, then news would spread fast. Which was why he was at work with Tom. Though, he wasn't really paying attention to anything around him.

Tom noticed Shizuo's distraction first and he worried that his friend was sick. Izaya noticed it second when he practically stood in front of Shizuo and still got no rise from him. "Shizu-chan is being boring..." He decided, frowning a little. Shizuo was supposed to rip something out of the pavement and toss it at him, not ignore him.

When Izaya spoke, Shizuo blinked a few times, like he just noticed that the raven was there, before narrowing his eyes. "What the hell are you doing here, flea?"

"Well it has been a while since I visited my favourite city you know~" He grinned slyly. His favourite monster too when he thought about it and he must find Shizuo attractive or he never would have slept with him, even drunk.

Now, Shizuo growled before grabbing the stop sign they were standing next to. "Get the hell out of this city!"

Izaya chuckled, "Make me~" He taunted, itching for a good chase today. Then again Shizuo's pregnancy might have other idea's...

Shizuo growled before swinging the sign and running after the raven. At first, he felt fine. Well, as fine as he had been feeling before. Izaya ran, ducking into the first alleyway he found, grinning like an idiot. He really loved being chased like this. Shizuo roared as he ran after. But, after turning the alley and running half way through it, he stopped. He felt horrible... Before he knew it, he leaned against a wall and threw up.

Izaya stopped when that happened. He stared too. Shizuo never got sick so... what? "Shizu-chan?" He asked, almost worried.

Shizuo coughed a few times before spitting, not liking the taste of vomit in his mouth. After, he glared at Izaya, not yet chasing him again. This was his fault, even if Izaya didn't know it.

Izaya's head tilted to one side, something was wrong with Shizuo... definitely wrong. But what was it? Izaya had to find out, it was in his nature... and he definitely had his ways of extorting information out of people who might know... like Shinra. That would be the easiest one to crack.

Shizuo's eyes closed for a moment before he opened them again. Now, he decided that he wasn't going to chase Izaya. At least, not now. So, he turned to go home. He'd have to apologize to his boss later.

Izaya frowned and he went right to Shinra's. He had leverage over the doctor... namely that Shinra desperately wanted Celty's head to stay out of Celty's hands.

The doctor gulped when he saw Izaya. Ah... This could be bad. "Hey Izaya."

"Hey Shinra..." Izaya sat down and looked around, "So has Shizu-chan been here recently?" He got right to the point.

"I am not at liberty to say. Doctor-patient confidential. You know this."

Izaya smirked, "I thought you might say that~" He leaned back comfortably, "But then... I know the current where-abouts of a rather fascinating object... one I think Celty would be most interested in finding... should we ask her~?" Low blow? Definitely, but Izaya never played fair either.

Shinra chewed his bottom lip. "Why do you want to know if Shizuo's been here recently?"

"Well something... interesting just happened. I was enjoying a brisk stroll through Ikebukuro and Shizuo happened to notice me and happened to 'join' me -so to speak- and then wouldn't you know it? He throws up in the middle of our run together~" Of course by 'brisk stroll' and 'run' Izaya meant 'running for his life' and 'chase that could destroy the city'.

Shinra frowned. He should have told Shizuo not to over-exert himself. Oh well. "Just that? He just has a little bug. It'll be over quickly." Not really. But that should satisfy the other.

"A little bug?" Izaya frowned, the disbelief showing all over his face, "Shinra don't bull-shit me, Shizuo never gets sick."

"He rarely gets sick. Not never. Just because it doesn't happen much doesn't mean it doesn't happen at all. Shizuo has gotten sick before."

"Yeah... not in the last decade or so though," Izaya pointed out. Even the blonde's immune system was monstrous...

"Doesn't matter. He's still human and he still can get sick. He did, and that's all it is." He shrugged, acting like it was no big deal.

"Sick with what~?" Izaya asked now, watching him carefully.

"The flu."

"Is Celty around? I have some interesting information for her." Izaya said, not buying the 'flu' for a second. He was too good a liar to not spot when someone else was.

"Celty is out on one of your jobs. And Izaya, it doesn't matter. It's just a bug. A parasite, and Shizuo won't have it for long."

A parasite? That was interesting... his mind began to turn now with this information and he frowned, "A parasite? About... how long is not long?" He asked, frowning, "Will he have to go away for his health?"

"Perhaps. I don't know yet." Because he didn't know if Shizuo wanted an abortion or not.

"I see..." It clicked just like that for Izaya too... Shizuo was... it seemed impossible but Shizuo was not exactly normal either... "Shizuo is pregnant, isn't he?"

"What?" Shinra's eyes widened. Shit. No. Bad. No no no. "Of course not! He's a guy, after all. Heh heh..."

"Shizu-chan isn't a normal human, it is reasonable to assume most standards do not apply to him." Izaya pointed out, frowning, "Pregnant... damn it..." Now Izaya had to go talk to Shizuo...

Shit. Okay. Rule. Never tell Izaya anything relating to Shizuo even, even if it results in bad things happening. "Just go. You found out what you wanted."

Izaya stood and walked out now... and went right to Shizuo's, hoping he was there now.

Lucky for Izaya, but not for Shizuo, the blond was home. He was on his bed, eyes closed. Really, he just wanted to relax.

Izaya knocked quietly, only knowing the address from the morning he'd woken up here. This was going to be an awkward conversation to say the least.

Shizuo glared tiredly at the door before dragging himself to it. Not stopping to see who it was, he opened the door.

Izaya slipped past Shizuo fast so the door wouldn't be shut in his face. "Hello Shizu-chan~, long time no see..."

Shizuo scowled, and narrowed his eyes at the raven. "What the hell are you doing here? And get the hell out!"

Izaya frowned as he stood well inside the apartment instead, "You're pregnant." His tone wasn't accusing... not yet. He just wanted to know Shizuo's plans.

The blond scowled. He was. But why the hell did Izaya know? "Get the hell out. Now."

"Mn... no, you talk... you can't over-exert yourself, right? I just want to know what your plan is..."

"What my plan is?" With the kid, right? He didn't know. He was going to let the child be born, but he really didn't if he was going to keep the kid or not.

"Well, not to point out the obvious but it is technically mine too..." Izaya frowned, he wanted control over this situation but he wasn't sure how to get his way in... Maybe make Shizuo love him? That shouldn't be impossible; Izaya had a whole multitude of people in love with him.

"Yeah? I don't care." His eyes narrowed. He was irritated and ready to lash out. "Just get out."

Izaya sighed softly, "Fine... but... whatever you decide I'll... support that choice okay? I just... want to be involved..." How unlike him to say something like that, but it was true. Not because he loved Shizuo or the baby that was apparently growing inside him but because he needed control.

Shizuo's eyes narrowed a bit more. Fine? He was just leaving and he'd support him? Yeah right. Shizuo didn't buy it at all. But, he was leaving. And for now, that was fine. "Go."

Izaya left though he would be back... he hated kids... he would still be involved if Shizuo kept it because then he could control how it came out.

Once Izaya left, Shizuo sighed and picked up his phone to call Shinra. Because that was the only way Izaya would have know.

Shinra answered, swallowing when he saw who it was, "H-hello?"

"Sssshhiiinnnraaa." He growled that out. "Why the hell does Izaya already know?"

"I didn't tell him! He came over asking why you were sick and I told him it was just a parasite you'd be better in no time and he... figured it out..."

"Why the hell would you tell him anything in the first place?!"

"He... threatened me..." Shinra admitted guiltily, "Look, what's done is done, we can try to keep him away so he doesn't hurt you or anything, if we get you out of town until you know what you want to do then..."

The blond let out an irritated sigh. "He's a stupid flea. And I don't want him to interfere, so sure."

"I'll find someplace for you to stay, out in the country..." Shinra agreed, "It might take a while but... he won't be able to hurt you if he doesn't know where you are."

"And don't tell him this time, got it?" But, he was glad. He didn't want Izaya involved at all. Not when an innocent child was involved, even if it was his too.

Izaya would be trying to prove himself now... if Shizuo kept it he needed Shizuo's approval to be near it, if adoption he could work that in his favour... and if abortion Izaya didn't need to worry about a brat screwing his life up.

Shizuo sighed lightly before just hanging up on the doctor. Now, he made his way back to his room to relax.

Shinra found someplace within a week, but the person renting it to him never showed their face and worked through an intermediary. He told Shizuo the good news though, the place was far away from prying eyes in case Shizuo decided to carry to term and very quiet

Shizuo was glad when Shinra found him the place. "How soon can I head there, Shinra?"

"Right away, the owner hasn't been there in ages apparently, but they said it's all yours for the next year.

"Ah. Alright. That works. I'll pack some stuff and let Tom and Kasuka know. Then we can head out there."