Bomb in a Birdcage: Chapter 2, Childish Whims.
It was a Tuesday when the idea suddenly dawned.
So suddenly in fact that the thought could have been a rogue flying road sign or trash can thrown by none other than the blonde brute himself for all Izaya could have known. None the less, the thought completely caught the young informant off guard, too absorbed in the notion of stirring his dark black coffee and flicking aimlessly through a three month old woman's health magazine, left discarded on the coffee shop table he, in that moment, occupied.
Scarlet eyes widened as he stared, unseeing ahead at a mother and her daughter sat at a table across the café, the young girl waving a tiny toy elephant about by its trunk as her mother chastised her troublesome behaviour.
"Zoo! Zoo! Zoo!" The toddler chanted, as she swayed precariously in her seat, a short chubby finger pointed at a small flyer stuck to the window of the café by three pieces of sellotape.
"No, now, hurry up and finish your milkshake madam or else I'll send a letter to the zoo, saying how naughty you've been and they'll come and put you in a cage with all the lions."
The wailing of the girl concealed the screeching of chair legs against tiled floors as the raven rose from his seat suddenly, a sly Cheshire cat smile plastered onto his face as he made his way across the coffee shop to the window, stopping just short of the child.
The little girl ceased her crying immediately to look at the strange man who stood next to her, her tiny toy elephant all but forgotten as he lay quietly on the floor, having fallen in the ruckus. She took a deep breath, crocodile tears having all but disappeared, before asking in a confident voice, "Do you want to go the zoo too?"
Izaya nodded enthusiastically as he continued to stare at the colourful piece of poor advertisement.
"I do, yes!" He said happily, peeling the leaflet off the grubby window, folding the piece of paper carefully and shoving it into one of his back pockets.
Without warning Izaya spun around suddenly to face the red faced little girl, her mother tensing in her seat as she watched the scene play out warily.
"Tell you what!" He chirped as he crouched down, balancing precariously on his haunches, "I'll open my own zoo, a much better zoo than that one, and you are invited." He all but sung, touching a ring adorned finger to the small girl's chest.
"Really mister?" The little girl asked, wide blue eyes glistening with excitement at the strange but perfectly welcomed proposition. "Will there be lions and elephants there?" She asked innocently, gently swinging her little legs.
The crimson eyed man smiled, closing his eyes and leaning into the little girl, a hand coming up to cup the little girl's ear in a secretive gesture as he whispered, "No, it'll be a special zoo, not for boring normal animals like that, no. My zoo will be the stuff of nightmares, a freak show if you will; a place where humans just like you and your mummy can watch, in safety, from behind inch thick glass and steel, the scariest of monsters the whole of Ikebukuro has to offer."
The little girl's mother watched from across the coffee shop table as the peculiar man continued to whisper into her daughter's ear. The gesture seemed innocent enough, perhaps even playful, as the man, no doubt, regaled her daughter in his imaginary zoo, feeding the fire to her already wild imagination.
But all too quickly the mood changed, her daughter's bright blue eyes turned suddenly blood shot and tearful, her rosy cheeks draining of colour as Izaya pulled away from her, resting once more, crouched on the floor, hands splayed on the ground behind him.
"What did you just say to my daughter?" The mother asked, quickly rising to her feet and reaching out for her little girl.
"Oh nothing nothing, she can tell you that herself. I was merely telling her about my little zoo, isn't that right sweetie?" The raven shrugged, also rising from his hunched position on the floor, thrusting his hands into his fur lined coat.
"No, what did you really say to her?" She asked, voice rising, as she rounded on Izaya, motherly instinct in full force much to the informant's glee.
"That's wonderful! So wonderful, just like a lioness and her cub! The wrath of a mother protecting her child is truly the greatest wrath of all!" Izaya sang, jumping on the spot, clapping and congratulating the woman before stating in a somewhat airy voice, "I really do love humans."
"Cut the crap!" The now irate woman all but yelled, "What the fuck did you say to her? What did you do to her you pervert?!"
The bouncing ceased at once as shock registered on Izaya's face. "My my, a pervert you say? Where?"
"Tell me what you said right now or I am phoning the police!"
The raven once again shrugged and laughed to himself, "It is not my fault your offspring is incapable of controlling her feelings. "
The little girl sobbed uncontrollably, sobs wracking her body violently as she gasped for gulps of air. Izaya smiled once more at the little girl, muttering the single word, "Bless.", under his voice before regarding the mother with amused eyes.
"Ah emotion, I love that in a human."
The woman took a lunge toward Izaya, anger boiling over, teeth grinding in fury.
"Why you piece of shi-"
In a flurry of motion and fur, the informant spun on the spot and skipped away towards the café door, darting out of the mother's murderous grasp.
"Oh, I almost forgot, silly me!"
Stopping just short of the glass door, Izaya's hand darted into the right pocket of his jacket and pulled out the little girl's small blue plush elephant, bringing the small toy to his face and inhaling deeply.
"He was on the floor the poor thing. You know, you should really teach your child to look after her belongings better." He said, tucking the elephant once more into his pocket.
Izaya smiled at the now aghast mother sweetly, quickly blowing her a kiss, before darting out of the coffee shop door, the welcoming bell not enough to cover the "Your welcome!" that had been thrown over his shoulder.
The mother stood there, mouth open, eyes wide and disbelieving for a moment longer before tending to her small child and her inconsolable tears.
Hello again, Tufty here and thus, chapter 2. Oh my gosh, I am ashamed at how short the chapters are at the moment. I was going to write more for this chapter but thought that that was a good place to end it and that I am way too tired to do anything more than read it over a few times and change a few words here and there. I hope you enjoy, please review and all that jazz, I would love to know what you think.
Hopefully you guys can see what's going on in Izaya's mind and what he is going to try and do. He's such a bitch ne?
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