Paige: Yes… I'm alive. Sleepy, and I really want to go back to bed… but alive. Now it's summer break and all I really want to do is sleep. But hey, can you blame me? XD

Warnings: BL (boy's love), cussing, and slight OCCness.

Flames are used to make- CAKE. I'm in the mood for some cake. Though… not cupcakes. -_- I have bad memories of too much icing…


E N D L E S S

Chapter III - Innocence or Ignorance


Shizuo wasn't sure why he was the one who that had to be imposed by whatever Izaya was trying to pull. The only thing he could think as he stared at the brunette was simply… Why me? He didn't ask for this… at least he thought he didn't. Though sometimes, even things like this, turn out to be fate… which was something that Shizuo prayed for it not to be.

"…flea, I don't know what your trying to pull but," Shizuo ran a attentive hand through his blonde hair, "you really should go bug someone else about this love stuff… I highly doubt someone of your… your liking would ever fall in love. I don't imagine you as the type of person-"

"Will you shut up a minute and listen to me, Shizu-chan?" even though Izaya used the Shizuo's nickname, the information brokers voice sounded as if it was dripped in acid.

Silence filled the air for what seemed like an eternity. The one thing that Shizuo wanted to do was to get away… far, far, far away from Izaya.

And so that's what he did.

Shizuo turned around and ran. Ran as fast as his legs would take him. At the moment, he really didn't care if he was running away from a fight. The only thing that he cared about was getting away, and having some time to clear away his thoughts. The blonde didn't stop until he was in front of his house…

Then he felt dumb. Countless times he had beat the shit out of people who got in his way but, all of a sudden the person that he hated the most confessed that he loved Shizuo and he did what? He ran away. Like a chicken he ran away. There was no doubt he'd hear about that tomorrow.

Izaya felt even dumber, as he stood there looking at the place where Shizuo had once stood. Perhaps he had been just a bit to sudden with his confession. It had just slipped from his lips before he could really stop it… he hadn't really expected him to run away though…

Maybe it was something he said before…

Izaya sighed, shoving his hands in his pockets. Perhaps Shizuo was just leaving to sort out his feelings. Maybe he felt the same… deep, deep down… maybe. Though, it was just a gut feeling that Izaya had that told him that Shizuo might just feel the same. And… well it had never stirred him wrong before. So he was going to go with it.

"Oh Shizu-chan…" Izaya shook his head, a playful grin making it's way to his lips. "I wish you wouldn't play this cat and mouse game much longer. As much fun as it is to catch you… You'll be the only one who's getting tired out."


Izaya had most likely passed following Shizuo around… now he could probably call himself a stalker. But, of course, it was basically his job to stalk people… normally in a roundabout way though. But right now he was doing something… different.

In other words, he was waiting outside Shizuo's door with a box of chocolates.

The chocolates were for an… 'apology'.

Izaya wasn't sure exactly what he was apologizing for, whether it be the many times he tried to kill Shizuo, the times that he annoyed the hell out of him, or just recently when he confessed his love, which didn't really seem to turn out all that great...

But never mind that. Izaya wasn't really worried about the what he was apologizing as long as Shizuo knew that he wasn't going to hurt him anymore. Right now his mind was only set on somehow making a decision of how to give the chocolates to him while standing outside his house. He hoped that he hadn't been noticed by the man inside yet…

Not that Izaya was afraid that Shizuo might come out there and beat the shit out of him.

He was afraid of what the other might say.

Though it was common sense for people to be afraid of situations like this. Standing outside someone's house who you think you're in love with. Being in love. Unrequited love.

But Izaya wasn't your normal guy. Most every person that knew him was certain of this.

"Hm…" Izaya stared at the door in front of him. "Now this is a problem."

Seconds went by, filled with uncertainty. He had three choices right now. The first was to turn around and go home… much to boring for Izaya's liking. The second was to ring the door bell 'politely' give Shizuo the chocolates… then head home. Then again the second choice was also much to dull. The third choice was to break into Shizuo's house and stick the chocolates there.

That was just to Izaya's liking.

The rust-eyed boy dug around in his pockets for a moment, searching for something to open the door with, specifically a bobby-pin, when… the door opened. And there stood Shizuo Heiwajima… With a very confused look plastered on his face.

"Oh, Shizu-chan! I was just about to-"

A gust of wind sent Izaya's hair flailing about, and yet again Izaya was standing yet again in front of a closed door. His lips became pursed. So, now Shizuo thought that he could just shut a door in his face? Well, he wasn't going to leave it at that, whether or not Shizu-chan wanted to see him or not was something that he could, and would, worry about later.

"Aw… I know your there! Open up! I just want to talk to you~" Izaya pounded his fist onto the door repeatedly. His voice held a certain child-like feel to it but on the inside he was starting to get frustrated.

Shizuo on the other hand had his back pressed against the door. Only one thought remained in his head.

Should he open the door?

So far Izaya hadn't shown any feelings of hostility towards him… yet. It was only a matter of time before Izaya snapped out of… whatever he was doing and reverted back to his old self. And when that happened Shizuo wanted to be far away when that happened.

All of a sudden the banging on Izaya side of the door stopped. Shizuo's eyebrows slowly began to arch.

"Shizou."

Now that was a first. Izaya calling him by his name and not the ignorant nickname he had placed on him ages ago.

"…please, will you just open the door? I'm not going to hurt you I just want to give you some chocolates to… erm… apologize."

If the blonde ex-bartender's jaw could reach the floor then it would. It's too bad that's impossible. Shizuo's hand started to reach for the doorknob when thought came to mind… That if Izaya always acted like he was then maybe he was a little, just a little, cute-

But then he remember who he was thinking about.

He opened the door just a crack. "What do you want, Izaya…?"

Izaya pushed on the door so he could stick his face through the crack that was now 3 times bigger than it was a couple of seconds ago. "I told you already. I'm here to give you chocolates."

"…and you didn't poison them…?"

"No."

"…or put glass in them…?"

"No."

Shizuo opened the door so that it was now all the way open. "Fine. I'll take them." Izaya handed the chocolates to him with a smirk, or was it a smile, stretched across his features.

"Aren't you being nice now, Shizu-chan?" The raven haired boy tilted his head to the side. "May I come in?"

Shizuo paused. He wasn't really sure that he trusted Izaya enough to let him into his house… but since so far he hadn't pulled anything funny he'd trust him. Only this once… The blond held open the door.

"…really?"

"What?"

Izaya chuckled. "I was expecting the door to be slammed in my face." Izaya shrugged his shoulders as if he didn't have a care in the world. "But it's nice to know your starting to finally trust me, I really should be going though." He leaned in so that he was inches away from Shizuo's face. "I'll just take these and be on my way." he plucked Shizuo's glasses right of his face and began to skip away.

At first, Shizuo really cared less. He had thirty different pairs that all looked a like, and he was still trying to calm his heart that was beating loudly against he chest. But, that was only because he was afraid that Izaya was going to stab him… or so he thought.

But then it accorded to him that Izaya was now standing in the middle of the road, trying on his new pair of sunglasses that he'd just stolen… when a car was speeding towards him.

"That fucking idiot." Shizuo growled under his breath. If anyone was going to kill Izaya it was him. Not some stupid car.

"Get out of the road!" he yelled at the informant. But Izaya merely tilted his head to the side like an innocent child. The car was now a good fifteen yards away… and before Shizuo knew it his feet were running towards Izaya as fast as they could take him. The raven haired man still seemed to be confused… until Shizuo was right next to him, shoving him out of the way did he finally understand.

He'd saved his life.

"Shizuo!"


Aren't I evil? Yes, no? This chapter is again thanks to Megan and her constant bugging. Sorry it was uploaded earlier… I-I've been addicting to Persona series (played the third one and just picked the Fourth one up at Gamestop today!). Anywho, this should be uploaded a ton of a lot sooner than this chapter was. ;) Haha, well, remember reviews inspire me to write more! Encouragement, good. That means… chapters are like 3x faster. XDD Anyway, I have a couple of other fan-fictions I'm working on (a Kingdom Hearts Zemyx multi-chapter, Persona 3 oneshots (two of them), and… well Yugioh fan fictions to) so feel free to read them when they come out… xD