Chapter 4: A Monster is Bitten
Monster.
God how much he hated that word.
He wasn't a monster.
He has short fuse and had few anger management issues, but who doesn't? So what if it's an excessive amount? There are worse people with anger management issues and it's not like he is the only one! So he could rip up a street sign from the ground with little to no effort…that did not make him a monster. Just different ok? He really wasn't violent person, violence was attracted to him because of his immense power. It wasn't fair. Why was he born like this? How could he change the minds of the people who feared him? It's near impossible because of that damn flea and his meddling.
That damned info broker just has to have the last laugh no matter the expense of the person. So annoying! It pissed him off and what's worse is that he actually missed his meddling. It had been so boring the last couple of years, not that he'd admit that to anyone. Izaya has always been strange to him, he never showed any form of fear towards him. Only mockery, and he hates to admit it. He really does. But he liked that about the flea, it was a very slim shred of positive emotion towards him. Honest, it very miniscule! Like the size of half a pea, yeah that small. He's still a pain though. No matter how many times that annoyance called him a monster, he wasn't one. No matter how many times he was called a protozoan, he wasn't one. It was simple. He wasn't an idiot, albeit a little slow on certain things, but not an idiot. Shizuo was actually a very observant person by nature. So observant that he knew the flea was off.
This whole chase was off.
So annoying. That damn flea, what was his angle anyways?
He wasn't acting like he usually would during their game. The raven's reddish brown eyes would not linger on his face like usual, his smirk looked forced even. Why? His posture seemed almost the same, Shizuo noted as he racked his eyes along his silhouette. Skinny as hell, he really needs to eat and not eat like an anorexic teen girl, but that wasn't the issue. He was so off. It was really pissing him off. What was he planning?
"What the hell is your plan this time Izaya? You haven't bothered me in a month and now you show up?! What scam you cooking up now?!" Shizuo growled as he tore a mail-box from its hinges. For the record, he wasn't keeping tabs on the little shit. He was just being observant, and careful about the little prick.
"Shizu-chan is so mean! Insinuating such things from me! I'm perfectly innocent!" Izaya teased pointing the sandwich at him as if it were a weapon.
"Innocent my ass!" The blonde hissed angrily throwing the mail box at him missing once again and stomping over. "Get back here you little shit!" The debt collector felt his eyebrow twitch when he heard the fake offended gasp of the raven in front of him.
"Language Shizu-chan! Oh I forgot~ Such language is normal for a barbarian." Izaya chuckled jumping up and down excitedly. "Barbarian!"
Annoying.
"Barbarian~"
Annoying, Annoying.
"Shizu-chan is such a barbarian~! With his tiny protozoan brain, I wonder how you function?"
Annoying, Annoying, Annoying.
"Aw Shizu-chan your face is red! Are you angry cuz I found out your little secret? I Promise not to tell anyone you're a barbarian~" Izaya put a delicate pale finger to his lips and threw him a wink.
ANNOYING.
"Shut the fuck up you flea! You piss me off!" Shizuo growled and slammed his hands against the brick wall making small indents on either side of Izaya's head. When and how the blonde got so close escaped him in his haze of red. Leaning his head down to eye level he finally caught the sight of a surprised Izaya. He would have laughed at the stupid look on his face if he wasn't so pissed at the moment. Those wide reddish brown eyes, they showed no fear only surprise, ridiculous. Those full pink lips almost looked appealing with their slightly parted gap between them.
"Shizu-chan is really tall..." Now that would have made him laugh. The way the info broker looked was utterly hilarious. He sounded so astonished. Stupid little louse.
"Don't piss me off more you fucking flea! Now why the fuck you in 'Bukoro?!" He hissed as he leaned in closer a low rumble coming from his throat.
"Shizu-chan's to close… He needs to move now." Came the quiet reply.
Shizuo felt a vein rise at his temple, and a twitch of his left eye. So fucking annoying. "Why the hell should I listen to a louse? Now explain yourself! First you're fucking gone for 2 years! No one knew where you went, not even your bitch secretary!" He hissed angrily leaning closer to Izaya. Vaguely noticing how the shorter man pressed himself closer to the wall.
"Too close…move." Came the same soft reply once again, that was met with an even stare.
"Fucking answer me first! Where the hell did you go? You show up last month, and disappear again! What the fuck are you planning you fucking flea!" The debt collector growled slamming his fist against the brick wall. His blue tinted glasses slipped off the bridge of his nose and his eyes narrowed more without the blockage of the blue screen; was the flea pinker than usual? He was. The hell?
"Shizu-chan move already!" Izaya snapped a little harsher, but Shizuo only noticed the hue of pink spreading more onto his cheeks. The fuck?
"Oi Izaya, are you sick or something?" The blonde asked forgetting his momentary rage towards the man in front of him. Without even thinking, he placed his much larger hand on the info broker's forehead pushing back his inky black bangs, and placed his other hand on his own forehead and hummed. "Hm, you don't feel warm…" He muttered and took in the sight Izaya presented him. The shorter man had his mouth hanging open and the flush grew deeper in color. His reddish eyes held surprise but something else he's never seen in his eyes before, the mockery from before was completely wiped of his face. That's interesting….
"Too c-close stupid protozoan! Don't t-touch me!" The flea stammered and finally pushed the larger man away from him, holding his chest in utter confusion. "SHIT!" He whispered and looked at the blonde one last time before putting his hood on managing to glare at him. Though it was very feeble with the pout and red cheeks, and ran off once again leaving his sandwich on the ground.
"That….was fucking weird." Shizuo muttered to himself sighing as he scratched the back of his head in annoyance. Still staring at the place the flea once was, until his phone rang snapping him out of his daze.
"Shizuo where are you? Our next client is in the apartment buildings on the east side. I took care of the sandwich guy already. So hurry up. I'll text you the address."
"Right, sorry Tom-san. I'll be right there. Stupid flea" He muttered before pocketing his phone again, and sighed once again. Picking up the sandwich and unwrapping it he took a bite, and hummed. Huh, it's his favorite. Coincidence much? With that thought in mind, he set out to deal with the next loser on the list.
The debt collector waved to his boss when he arrived in front of the apartment building. Relaxing his posture more and placing his hands in his pants pocket. Getting the nod from Tom, the two walked into the building and walked up the stairs to the fourth floor. It was room 433, that this Miroku Teru lived in, and he was 2 months behind his pay. And without further ado Shizuo kicked the door in and made a huge crack appear when the door slammed against the wall. "Sorry…" Shizuo muttered sheepishly to Tom, who merely chuckled and waved him off as he stepped inside.
"Don't worry about it. Hey Miroku where's our money!" Tom shouted as he walked in more and headed towards the living room area, as Shizuo took to the bathroom and bedroom.
Too lazy to take his hands out of his pockets, Shizuo kicked open the bathroom door and found nothing and next went to the bedroom and once again kicked it open. He walked into the room and snorted as he saw the cowering man trying to get under his bed with his butt sticking up in the ar. "Pathetic." He muttered and easily plucked him up by the hoop of his jeans and flung him outside to the living room.
"Oh you found him Shizuo." Tom said cheerily and squatted in front of the man with a big smile and placed a heavy hand on the trembling mans shoulder. "Now, our money?"
Shizuo rolled his eyes as he had to listen to the pathetic excuses of Miroku, god don't the excuses ever change? They always have the money, they just never want to give it up it. So irritating. He grumbled to himself as he walked over to the window tuning out both Tom and Miroku, knowing Tom wouldn't need him for this job. As he looked down onto the busy streets and watched all the bustling people go on with their lives he couldn't help but wonder how many lives was the flea messing with today. He snorted quietly to himself. Why did his thoughts always circle back to that little pest? He was always on his mind, like glue stuck on the bottom of your show. He always managed to stick himself in every aspect of his life. Not that he really minded… He only got irritated when he would screw up his jobs or fuck with people's lives. Which was most of the time but other than that, he had no reason to really hate him. He just really pissed him off easily.
He glared at a couple in a park bench as he remembered Izaya's weird behavior from earlier. What was wrong with him? He was acting perfectly normal a month ago, perfect annoying, god-complexy Izaya. But then he just didn't come to Ikebukoro for a month, now don't get him wrong. He didn't miss him at all, and no he wasn't glad he came back. He was just glad he no longer had to be bored in Ikebukoro like before. He was merely suspicious, Izaya used to bug him every other day. The largest gap that Izaya went without bugging Shizuo was 10 days. Such a peaceful, and boring 10 days it was. But that still didn't explain anything! It was like he was purposely avoiding him! Why the hell would he do that? Was he planning something against him again?
Even if he was planning something that wouldn't explain how he was behaving today. He was all pink! It's weird, was he really sick? Should he tell Shinra or Celty to keep an eye on him? He even let him corner him! Something had to be wrong with – wait, he cornered him. He was trapped earlier, and he let him escape. He face-palmed. He is such an idiot! That was a once and life time chance, he's never going to get a chance like that again.
"Oi Shizuo!" The dark skinned man yelled, making the blond jump. "Let's go." He said pocketing the money he beat out of the guy. Shizuo took a glance at the trembling man on the couch and nodded and walked out of the building his thoughts not straying from the flea at all. How could he let him escape? Was he really sick? Why was he avoiding-
"Shizuo! Did you even hear me? Geez, you keep zoning out. What's your deal?" His boss asked sighing and cleaning his sunglasses.
"Sorry," Came the meek reply as he scratched the back of his head feeling guilty for ignoring his ex-senpai.
"Just spill." He said simply as they sat on the bench Shizuo was staring at earlier, and the blonde let his shoulder slump and nodded. He reluctantly told him about the chase, the way he noticed his enemy and his own thoughts on everything.
"Maybe I should tell Shinra, ya know? He's really weird and it's weirding me out." The pervious kohai mumble playing with his fingers on his lap feeling like he did on his high school days, relying on his senpai for advice. He glanced back up when he heard a soft kind chuckle from the man next to him.
"Oh man Shizuo. You're so clueless sometimes. You really have been bitten haven't you?" He teased lightly confusing the blonde immensely. "Ya, tell that crazy doctor. You're obviously worried, but things will work themselves out." He said lightly and stood up and messed with his blonde locks. "I'll clock you out, we're done for today."
Shizuo watched as his ex-senpai walked off, feeling more confused. "Bitten? What the hell is that supposed to mean? And I don't care for the flea…" he muttered to himself and pulled out his phone to call his crazy friend.
Bitten by what though?
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Hehe... I'm back! ^^ Sorry for the very long update, I was a little unsure how I wanted to do this chapter. I think it came out ok... We
finally got to see what Shizuo is thinking! And it seems like Izaya may have had revelation... andwhat do you think Bit Shizuo? Tell me
what you think in the comments! Until the next chapter then.
