He caught her, swiftly and skillfully.

Her eyes were snapped shut, expecting to feel pain before she finally realized she was caught. He raised an eyebrow as he smirked at her crunched face. Finally she opened her eyes as he looked at her face. She looked slightly different closer up. Her eye's weren't chocolate brown, they were almost caramel colored, her lips were also pinker. Her cheeks held a natural light pink to them too.

Or was she blushing?

That thought made his smirk widen.

"My, my.." He drawled out as he looked towards the blonde protozoan. "Shizu-chan~! You almost could have seriously hurt this poor girl!"

Shizuo almost seemed to realize what he had just done before flying into another rage.

"You damn flea.." He started, as if building momentum. He charged at Izaya at full speed. "Let her go!"

The raven haired informant leaped into the air with Reika still in his arms, who was baffled and startled beyond recognition.

His slender arms slightly struggled with the girl in his arms. She was a lot heavier than she looked, this gradually slowed his movements. Upon realizing this, he dropped her mid-air so he could move more freely. This forced Shizuo to catch his neighbor easily, throwing her over his shoulder as he tried to kill his enemy. With Reika over his shoulder like a sack of potatoes, he threw the heaviest objects at Izaya he could find as the informant dodged them easily.

Reika yelped and screamed as she held herself tightly onto Shizuo as the blonde jumped and ran quickly. They passed building to building in the dead of night, all Reika could see was flashing lights from late night stores and bars open at this hour.

Finally everything stopped, or more specifically, Shizuo stopped in his tracks. She wondered what caught his attention.

"Shizuo" A deep, heavily accented voice said sternly. "Fighting no good!"

"Shut up!" Shizuo retaliated fiercely.

She heard his familiar voice in the background. "Well Shizu-chan, seems your busy here. Ja ne~!"

Reika faintly wondered what was going on, seeing as the only thing in her view was her neighbor's rear-end.

"Izaya!" Shizuo called out, enraged.

"Um.." Reika coughed awkwardly. "Can I be let down now?"

"Eh?" That seemed to catch both males attention.


Reika sighed as she finally seemed to reach her warm bed.

What a night.

After she had asked to be let down, the male with the deep voice introduced himself as Simon. He was a tall dark male from Russia. After introductions, Simon suggested that he would have Shizuo walk her home. After Reika had awkwardly declined, Shizuo insisted persistently.

They silently walked home almost awkwardly. Reika tried asking about the strange male called Izaya, but Shizuo just growled in response. After they reached each others apartment doors, Shizuo said a quiet goodnight and she swore she heard him say an even quieter "sorry".

Reika shook her head, but stopped as she grew a headache. All that throwing and catching her like a basketball had really took a toll on her as she crawled into her warm sheets.

She sighed again, planning to call in sick for tomorrow's day.