I've been busy, again. I mostly worked on this chapter while I was out of school for two days. I hate blizzards, but I love snow days. (Apparently this is Illinois 3rd largest snow fall. Heh.) I cought up on a ton of movies that my firneds have been reccomending to me for awhile now.

This is a time skip, yeah, but I think I handled it well. Izaya really wouldn't change within a year, same with Anri. (Or at least I don't think they would. But I might be wrong. I'm still on like, the 4th light novel.)

The chapters subtitle is a really, really good song sung by a Vocaloid, Gumi, but written by one of my forever favourite song writers: Hachi. He's brilliant with lyrics, really. Panda Hero is almost as good as Matryoshka, which everyone should listen to. It actually kind of fits Izaya, there's even fanart for it on Pixiv. Waiting for the Panda HeroxDurarara! fanart now, Pixiv...

Ah, I'm rambling again... Oops. I usually get like this with Vocaloid.

Oh, and again, I beta'd this myself. Feel free to point out any mistakes and I'll try and correct them myself!~

Disclaimer:I do not own Durarara! nor any of it's characters.


Chapter two

If you find yourself troubled, call for them,
On the field enclosed by electric towers
A black-and-white hero of unclear morals,
A metal bat in their left hand

-Panda Hero, GUMI, produced by Hachi

-One year later-

Anri sighed as she was walking to her so called 'home'. Really, it was Izaya's apartment. She didn't exactly mind livingwith him now, since he provided her with company, but she missed her quiet old apartment that was a bit closer to school. Izaya had offered for Anri to move in with him a couple of months ago, explaining that it'd tightentheir relationship, Anri couldn't reject his offer. He was paying for everything, even Anri's schooling, all out of his own pocket.

Taking out her keys, Anri opened the door, not expecting Izaya to be there as usual. And, as she expected, he wasn't. He normally worked late, so late that sometimes he wouldn't come home until twelve o'clock at night. During this time, Anri had picked up cooking for once. She normally ordered take-out or something else that was full of calories, but Izaya had given her the thumbs up for her to be cooking. Literally, he gave her a 'thumbs up'.

Anri decided to make beef stew, since it was a bit chilly outside. For September anyway. As she got out all the ingredients, Anri's cell phone vibrated. Taking it out of her skirts pocket, Anri flipped it open. 'Eh? A text message from Izaya?'

'I'll be home a bit earlier than usual tonight, Anri! What're you making tonight for me?'

Anri texted back a reply, trying not to smile. She couldn't help it; at least Izaya liked her cooking. At times she ruined things like chocolate chip cookies, and spaghetti. But Izaya still ate her cooking, even if she at times did not.

'Beef stew. I just hope that it comes out okay, I've never made it before after all.'

A few minutes later, Anri's cell phone vibrated again.

'I'm sure it will. Your cooking is the best, Anri!~'

Now Anri smiled. She had no idea why Izaya was being so nice to her in the first place, maybe because he was coming home early for once, so he wasn't grumpy and stomping around like a little kid.

'Thank you, Izaya. Um, can I get back to cooking now?'

Putting her cell phone away, Anri finally got back to cooking. After a few mishaps with draining, and cutting up a simple onion, Anri thought that the beef stew was coming out great. After an hour had passed, Izaya came home, he skipped to Anri, and peered over her shoulder.

"This smells great, Anri!" Izaya said, now stepping to Anri's side as she was cutting up various vegetables.

"Thank you, again, Izaya." Anri said, as she concentrated on cutting up a carrot. She still wasn't the best at handling cutting with a knife. She can cut up a door with a sword, but a knife was an entirely different question.

"Just be careful with that knife, Anri! I don't want to see blood all over the counter and floor again." Izaya said, remembering when Anri cut herself while slicing up fruits for a fruit salad. "But it seems like your getting somewhat better at cutting up food."

"I am getting better, I have to admit. But that happened awhile ago, when I first started cooing." Anri said, putting the sliced up carrots into the pot. "By the way, dinner should be done within half an hour, Izaya."

"I can't wait!" Izaya said, squirming a little.

-Thirty minutes later-

"Anri, this is really good!" Izaya said, eating really quickly. He usually did this with Anri's cooking. At times, Anri couldn't tell if he liked it or disliked it because he ate so fast. But she was guessing he liked it, he usually got seconds.

"Um, thanks." Anri said making a mental note that she can indeed make beef stew. Even she liked what she did, for once. "Izaya, uhh, you'll get a stomach ache at the rate your eating."

Izaya took another big spoonful of stew, and answered Anri. "I don't get stomach aches. I have an iron stomach after all!"

Sighing, Anri continued to eat her stew. She soon learned that after moving in with Izaya, he was worse than an eleven year old kid. She got used to his wacked up personality after awhile, somehow.

"Hey, hey, Anri. You turn seventeen this year, right?" Izaya said, taking another spoonful of stew.

"Um, yeah. Why're you asking me this? I thought that you already knew this, Izaya." Anri said, confused.

"Just double checking, that's all! By the way, what month do you want to get married on?" Izaya asked, getting another bowl of stew.

Anri hadn't really thought about it. Not that she really cared much, anyway. "I guess December. Just because it's a romantic month and all."

"I agree, Anri! December is much more romantic then February is! Do you want out wedding to be on Christmas then?" Izaya asked, taking another spoon full of stew. Anri was wondering when Izaya was going to complain that he had a stomach ache.

"Okay." Anri suddenly thought of something, who were going to be the guests at their wedding? She hoped that Izaya wasn't going to invite Mikado and Kida, she'd never live it down if they saw her marrying Izaya. "Um, Izaya, who're you inviting to our wedding?"

"People that I know. I may or may not invite Shizuo, he'd make things exciting, but he could quickly make a mess of things. Celty and Shinra are for sure coming, and a few yakuza bosses said they'd come." Anri almost dropped her spoon into her bowl. Izaya was inviting yakuza bosses to their wedding? She knew that he had connections to various bosses, but inviting them to their wedding? How crazy could he be? "Don't worry, I won't invite Mikado-Kun, and Misaomi-Kun. I'd like to try and keep it a secret from them. Who knows what they'd do to me if they knew I was marrying you!"

"Truthfully, I didn't want Mikado-Kun or Kida-Kun to know about this either. But, um, why do you want to invite Heiwajima-San, Izaya? Doesn't he hate you?" Anri said, breathing out a sigh of relief.

"I figured that Celty could control his urges, or finally realize that he cannot get married while I can. Oh wait, that'd just make him even madder!" Izaya leaned back in his chair, tapping his chin. "I guess that was a bad idea to bring up. He'd just make a mess of things, like I mentioned before. He could end up killing a yakuza boss anyway! I don't want that happening!"

Anri almost laughed, the image of a very mad Shizuo killing yakuza bosses was just way too funny. Anri settled on smiling instead of laughing. "You mean that wouldn't be entertaining, Izaya?"

"Oh no, it would be entertaining, but I don't want to go to a funeral. They're always boring, and not… fun!" Izaya said, tilting his chair back and throwing his hands up in the air.

"Um, Izaya, I think boring literally means not having fun." Anri said as she corrected Izaya, and was really confused. Anri was used to Izaya's childish behavior, but this was going between weird and ridiculous.

"Oh, I know that. I'm just trying to be funny." Izaya's face turned red anyway. "A-Anyway, do you want to invite anyone, Anri?"

"I have no idea, really. I'd like a small wedding anyway." Anri said, smiling again.

"That's fine with-urg!" Izaya suddenly turned pale, and ran to the bathroom. Hearing gagging sounds in the bathroom, Anri got up out of her seat and walked to the bathroom, to find Izaya throwing up.

"I told you to eat more slowly, Izaya."


Dattebayo Devon: Thank you!~

I don't know much about marriage rules in Japan, but I do know that in some states you need permission if your going to marry at 16-17. I also read somewhere that Shiki is Anri's guardian in the novels. (I was really surprised when I read that, to be honest.) Shii's on good terms with Izaya, so he'd likely let him marry her. (I'm going by my rules, so I might be wrong on this.)