Hello~ dear readers! Sorry for being late with this chap, but here it is :)
Oh, and HAPPY EASTER to everyone! I hope you get tonns of chocolate :D
And please thank my dear Beta for correcting my mistakes even though being swamped with studying ^^

Chapter 4

The next morning, Izaya woke to the scent of pancakes.

Drowsily, he opened his eyes and sat up. As he looked around and realized he was naked, yesterday night's events flooded his mind. He carefully got off the bed, minding his sore rear and rummaged through Shizuo's closet only to find a lot of bartender suits and a few casual clothes and gym clothes. He settled for a plain, white T-Shirt, which reached his thighs. He left for the kitchen and saw Shizuo in a black short and a white tank top, with an apron that had 'Kiss the cook' written on it in English.

"Oh my, what a sight." Izaya chuckled, smooching a kiss on Shizuo's cheek. "Good morning~."

"Good morning to you too." The blonde smiled back, bringing the rest of the pancakes to the table. "I made two different kind of syrups for the pancakes. There's maple syrup or dark chocolate syrup. which is pretty bitter for my likes."

"Oh, thank you." Chuckled the ravenette, tasting the pancakes with the dark chocolate syrup. "Oh my god, this is delicious!" He looked up surprised, a small smile playing on his face as he dove in and ate all his portion pretty swiftly. "May I have some coffee, please?"

"Sure, black or with milk?" Asked Shizuo, standing up to prepare Izaya's morning caffeine dose

"Black as my soul~!" Came a reply, and soon the blonde brought Izaya his midnight black, overly strong coffee. "Mm~, perfect!" Izaya sighed as he drank the whole mug of dark liquid in one gulp, and leaned back in the chair with a satisfied sigh. "Now I feel like my brain is functioning well."

"That's good, because I wanted to talk to you about something." Shizuo declared as he set the used dishes in the sink, and motioned Izaya towards the living room to sit on the couch.

"What is it, Shizu-chan?" Asked the informant, making himself comfortable as he lay down and snuggled in the pillows.

"Hey, don't fall asleep!" The blonde laughed and tickled the smaller man, receiving a grunt and a kick in the stomach along with a furious glare, which made Shizuo laugh. "Back to the point. Umm... How am I supposed to put this..." Shizuo scratched his head. "What are we right now?"

"Huh? Isn't that obvious, Shizu-chan? I'm a God and you're a monster!" Izaya chirped happily, smirking coyly as he laid his feet in Shizuo's lap.

"That's not what I meant!" Shizuo growled, annoyed by the reply.

"I know, I know!" Izaya laughed, then looked seriously in Shizuo's golden eyes. "Still, I think it's obvious what we are. At least that's what I think. Maybe you protozoa can't even think or understand my logic." Izaya mused. "But I think our relationship hasn't fundamentally changed. I mean we have hated each other since the first time we've met, but I think we've also loved each other in a twisted way. Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't we always engrossed with what the other does? Do we not need each other in order to bring some color in our lives? Are we not essential to each other? Have we not seeped into each other's pores so badly that we can't have enough of each other?" Izaya inquired, his tone demanding, still playful in an odd way.

He crept closer and closer to the stoic blonde man, who kept nodding to all his questions, until his face was only separated by mere millimeters from Shizuo's lips. "I think our relationship is only clear to the two of us. Shizu-chan, you're incredibly sweet, which I hate. I hate it with all my being, but there is a small, exquisite bitter part in you, which I love. I love it so much I can't have enough of it." The ravenette concluded by kissing the blonde's lips softly, tentatively. Shizuo responded immediately, entangling his tongue with the other's.

"And I find you terribly bitter, which I hate, though there is a small sweet part in you which I love." He replied after separating their lips for breath.

"I knew Shizu-chan would understand." Izaya smirked settling himself in Shizuo's lap, and felt the other man's heartbeat increasing lightly. "Gah, I have to go back to work~" He suddenly whined as he saw it was already 1 P.M. "Namie will kill me and pester me about slacking off."

"Isn't that woman a creep? I mean isn't she the one who is in love with her own brother?" Shizuo asked, frowning as it seemed to dawn on him too, that they've slept through half of the day.

"Yeah, she's that one." Izaya chuckled as Shizuo gave a disgusted look. "Now that's disgusting. Not you being intersex. That's not disgusting at all"

"Shizu-chan you're flattening me." Izaya smirked, chuckling lightly. "But I'm glad you don't find me disgusting, and that you find Namie that."

"You kidding? Not even I'm that into Kasuka. Okay I love him, but I'm not in love with him!" The blonde mused, letting go of Izaya as he stood up preparing to get home.

"Right, though you do have a strong over protectiveness if it comes to Hanejima-kun. Dare I say brother complex." The smaller male stated then left to pick up his own clothes in order to dress. When he finished he came out holding the T-Shirt he had borrowed during the morning. "Mind if I take this shirt away and use it as a pajama?" He asked waving said cloth in front of the blonde's eyes who was watching TV.

"Like some of my hoodies and shorts you snuck away from my house while we were still in high school? Especially that grey hoodie and black shorts which were my favorite ones?" Shizuo smirked at the dumbfounded expression Izaya had.

"How did you realize that?!" He huffed crossing his arms over his chest.

"Mh? I don't know, maybe the fact that you stole them from me when you 'accidentally' lost your home keys, and your parents just happened to be on a business trip and your sister went with them too." The blonde's smile grew wider as Izaya blushed in frustration. "I remember you liked wearing my hoodies and shorts, but whined a lot about them being too big for you, so you just left them, but after graduation they gradually disappeared from my closet so it must have been you."

"Sheesh!" Izaya stomped clearly annoyed by Shizuo's sudden revelation. "I couldn't help it! They were so soft and large and comfy!" Shizuo only laughed at his reply, and thought that Izaya was cute.

"Anyway you can keep that shirt and I have some other clothes that are small for me, but might be just the rights size for you." The debt collector said as he strode over to his room, taking out a few clothes from a hidden shelf in his wardrobe. He put them in a smaller suitcase and gave it to Izaya, who happily accepted it, and left for his own apartment in Shinjuku.