Izaya was just finishing his last bit of work on the computer when his doorbell rung. He knew that it wasn't a client as no one had phoned to say that they were coming and anyway, he was expecting Tomoko to come round for a bit, and yet he hadn't expected they sight he saw when he opened the door.
There was Tomoko, yes, but something was wrong. Izaya first noticed her eyes, her maroon eyes which were always so alive and bright but now they were dead, far away and empty as well as being glazed over. Izaya then noticed her hair, her too-long bangs were stuck to her face by some sort of liquid, which he then noted to be blood, blood was running down her face.
Izaya didn't exactly know how to react, he was going to laugh but the sound didn't come, Tomoko had pushed past him and was wobbling around for a few seconds and then he collapsed, straight into his arms.
"Awh, yet another girl who just fell into my arms! Though I am surprised that that girl is you T.K-chan" Izaya purred.
"My pride just got bruised Iz, I would have rather you didn't catch me, I hate relying on people..." She slurred before her body went limp in his arms.
"She's dead, she's dead." Was the only thought Izaya had in his mind, he was slightly annoyed that she had dropped dead seeing as they had a plan for the last day of school, something to give everyone something to remember them by, but noooo, she had to just die. But then he noticed her slight breathing and called Shinra. The rest happened pretty fast.
A few days after...
Tomoko had to have her head stitched back up and she had sprained her arm when she fell, but apart from that she was ok.
She was awake now and still stuck at Shinra's house, bored. So she decided to become difficult.
"Shinra, I want to go home." She complained loudly.
"You can't Tomoko, you still have to heal." Shinra explained gently, pushing aside the sinking feeling in his stomach, for he knew that what Tomoko wanted, she got, not matter what she had to do to get her way.
"Save your breath." She said getting up going to leave, she honestly didn't care if she had to walk through Ikebukuro in her current state.
"But Tomoko! Your step-dad will kill you if he sees you, you can't go home." Shinra wailed in despair, rushing to grab his friend, but she just pulled her arm away
"Well, I guess you will just have to arrange my funeral then, до свидания!" She said with a shark grin, closing her eyes tight and revealing white teeth that are all the better to bite you with, then swing the door open, took one step forward and collided with someone.
Tomoko rubbed her nose and looked up to see Izaya Orihara, smirking at her, Tomoko returned the smirk, her smirk going in the opposite direction, as the pair stood together like that, Shinra couldn't help but feel that both their smirks looked like a huge evil smile when they stood together like that.
"I couldn't help overhear your conversation, but Tomoko isn't going back to her home, she is going to come and stay with me," Izaya announced, stunning everyone in the room. Before anyone had a chance to react, Izaya had grabbed Tomoko by the hand and dragged her off.
"Let go off me, I'm not a toddler, I can walk by myself without you hanging on to me." She growled at him, attempting to jerk her hand out of his grasp.
"You couldn't the other day, if I remember correctly; you practically fell into my arms." He teased.
Tomoko just rolled her eyes and laughed, "Well, I'm ok now," was all she said, giving up and allowing herself to be dragged from Ikebukuro to Shinjuku by her friend.
When they arrived back, it was mid afternoon and the streets were bustling, it was a relief to be out of the streets and into the peace and quiet of Izaya's apartment.
"What about all my stuff?" She asked him, half-interested in what his answer would be to this question.
"All ready here, " Izaya said with a smug smile.
Tomoko narrowed her eyes, looking at him suspiciously "Did you arrange this to happen...?"
"For you to come and live here, yes, for you to get beaten the crap out of by your step-dad, of course not, like I said, you control the board now with me, you don't play on it." Izaya said as solemnly as he could, causing Tomoko to laugh.
"Hey, T.K-chan, do you remember when me made that little oath to always be friends when was little? We were such strange children..."
"You're still strange now Iz, and yes, I remember." Tomoko said , suddenly lost in thought.
Author note: So the Russian translates to "Goodbye", and the next chapter is going to be about how Izaya and Tomoko became friends and basically some more details about Tomoko's past, coming from both of their POV's. Thanks for reading ~
