I remember everything…

Izaya couldn't believe what he just said. He said it so…bluntly. Just out of the blue blurted out the one sentence he thought he'd never say in his entire lifetime, especially not to Shizuo, his nemesis. There was no going back, he couldn't steal back the words he let slip. Izaya waited nervously to see what the brute would say.

"Is this some sort of joke? Are you high on something?" Shizuo asked. Izaya felt like a knife went through his heart, who knew he had one? Shizuo just brushed it off like it was nothing. Even he couldn't believe the informant had a heart capable of love, well it makes sense in a way. Ever since the first day they met they've always been enemies and suddenly Izaya says he "cares' about Shizuo. When he thought about it, the informant understood why the blonde just disregarded it. If he really did care about Shizuo he'd have to prove it to him and to himself.

"Believe it or not Shizu-chan…I am actually starting to care about you. I don't know why, but I am." Shizuo still couldn't understand why the flea would just say something like that. This had to be a trick. Izaya didn't give a damn about anyone but himself and it'll be a cold day in hell when Izaya truly "loves" someone.

"Look Izaya, I don't what your pity and I know you don't care about anyone besides yourself, especially not me. I'd love to punch your face, but if you haven't noticed my hands are currently out of commission. I assume you know how to use a door, so if you could show yourself out you'd save yourself from a lot of pain." This wasn't working, he still didn't believe him. He had one option; tell him the secret he's been keeping for the last fifteen years…his last resort.

Izaya placed both of his hands on Shizuo's face. Waves of heat surged through Shizuo's body. He took in a sharp breathe. Memories of that child he met all those years ago kept flashing in his mind. The heat he felt the emotion that welled up inside him, it was all the same. Izaya had to be, he just had to be…

"Shizu-chan…your skin is just as soft as I remember it…" There's no turning back…

"Izaya…you're that kid I met…the one who disappeared before I could even…"

"When I first saw you waiting at the train station I first didn't think too much of you. But there was something about you that made me want to…that made me want to…"What were the words? Where was that sentence he wanted to say? When did he realize that he had already given in…?

Shizuo slowly moved in closer to Izaya, never once breaking eye contact. Just inches away from his lips, so very close. Shizuo yearned to absorb his heat. He wished to be enveloped by it, seared by it, captured by it. These emotions he felt, were the very ones he wanted to feel with the one who would shield him, protect him…love him. Was Izaya the one he had been waiting for? Or was this some plot drawn up by the flea to humiliate him or mock him for waiting at the train station? So many emotions swirling around in his heart, all of them telling him to different things at once.

Izaya looked into those eyes, the only windows he couldn't open. He knew nothing of Shizuo's thoughts, desires, fears, nothing, he was locked out and there wasn't a way in.

"I've never known the touch of another human…I've never had my first "love", my first kiss, I don't even know what it's like to be loved for who you are as a person. I want to believe the one person who I despise the most, is the very person I've been waiting for, but I just want to believe in something." Shizuo placed his head on Izaya's shoulder and nuzzled Izaya's neck. He breathed in his scent, intoxicating. It was sweet, bitter, tempting, every feeling he's ever craved. Yes…he was the one. He was his salvation…

Izaya wrapped his arms around Shizuo and held him tight as his heat enveloped the freezing brute. He could feel him shutter and then relax. This feeling was real; it wasn't a one time thing. This was something worth keeping alive.

Holy Crap! I just checked my calendar and realized Christmas was three days away! Ahhhh! That means I don't have much time before the special Christmas chapter is due! I'm saying this in advance: If the story seems a little rushed you now know why. I'm gonna have to start uploading two chapters a day in order to be ready by Christmas. I hope you guys liked the little lovey chapter. I wanted the love to start to blossom. ^_^