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To: Lu_Chan

From: Nakura23

Subject: new toy

Here, Tek-chan. I've attached a new toy for you to play with. Don't kill too many people's computers, okay?

To: Nakura23

From: Lu_Chan

Subject: re: new toy

You're the best, Kura-kun!

Arlua grinned at the document Nakura had attached to his most recent email. It seemed to be meaningless symbols and displaced phrases, but she knew computer code when she saw it.

"Kura-kun, where on earth did you find this?" she murmured out loud, scanning the code.

So if you try to delete it…it wipes your hard drive...twice? she realized, eyeing a particular section gleefully. And if you have antivirus installed, it seeks it out and disables it. Nice.

The problem was, of course, the method of delivery. She would still have to bypass the firewall herself to plant the virus.

Unless I add the code from one of my other successful viruses, she thought, pulling up the program file for one of her favorites.

Tania sighed as she left Raira, glad the week was over. She wanted to go home and get ready for the date she had planned with Shizuo that evening. Malcolm and Supai had planning to do for their next job, so they would be at Supai's house all weekend, meaning the teacher would have some time to herself before meeting up with her boyfriend.

"Yuuki-sensei!" Tania fought back the urge to roll her eyes – which she found herself doing more and more recently, probably because she had picked the habit up from Arlua – and turned to see one of her students.

"Ryuugamine. Can I help you?" she asked politely. The dark-haired boy hesitated.

"Well, you see, I was just wondering if Masaomi was still registered in school," he told her quietly. She sighed.

"Besides the fact that I'm not the principle, so I don't have direct access to that information, I'm not supposed to tell you anything about other students' files," Tania reminded him. The boy nodded.

"I know. But…unofficially…"

"Unofficially, I can tell you that I have heard that Masaomi Kida is still registered at Raira, but is on an extended leave of absence, so I'm sure he'll be back by the start of next term. If he's not, his registration will be revoked," she informed him. The boy looked down. "Don't worry. You could always ask Supai Orihara if you want to know more. I've heard he's a reliable source of information, and less manipulative than his cousin in Shinjuku."

"Really? Thank you, Yuuki-sensei," the student said with a bow. Tania allowed herself a small smile.

"You're welcome, Ryuugamine," she replied. The boy smiled back, then went over to the girl who was waiting for him, and they walked away side by side.

That's another one you owe me, Supai, she thought. How many people have I sent your way now?

She shrugged and continued on her way.

"So, Ani-chan, you're sending potential clients to my disreputable cousin, are you?" a familiar voice inquired, breath stirring her hair as the owner of said voice whispered in her ear. Tania drove her elbow sharply into the person's stomach – or tried to. He was fast enough to take a half-step backwards so her blow met empty air.

So much for having time to myself before I go to meet Shizuo.

"What did you call me?" she demanded.

"Ani-chan. Hasn't Shizu-chan started calling you Ani?" he smirked. She whirled and glared at him.

"I'm not even going to ask how you know that. Instead, I'll ask why you're here, when the last time I saw you, I shot you," she growled, forcing herself not to draw her weapon and fill him with enough birdshot to do real damage simply because the school was barely half a block away, and if she was seen with her gun out here, it would be known that she went to work armed. Which she technically wasn't supposed to do, despite her perfectly legal conceal-and-carry permit.

"I was just wondering how much you know about Lu-chan's new job," he said, purposely ignoring her reference to when she and Shizuo had chased him down.

"Ask her if you want to know. Aren't you her new friend Kura-kun?" she snapped, irritated with the informant. He smirked.

"Yes, but I would rather not seem too interested in her new boss, in case she figures out who 'Kura-kun' really is," he explained. "And since the whole pen pal thing was your idea, Ani-chan-"

"Quit calling me that, flea," she ordered. His smirk just widened, which made her fingers itch to reach for her hidden, silenced, and not-damaging-enough weapon. Of course he caught her movement.

"Tut tut, Ani-chan,~" he admonished. "If you want me to stop calling you names you don't like, then you should be nicer to me and give me the information I want.~" Tania hid her scowl and put her hands on her hips.

"Yatsuhiro Yamakawa. His company, FanaTECH, is completely legitimate as far as I know. If he has a dark side to himself or his company, I haven't heard anything about it. He's a fairly average guy, known for compassion and other niceties. He's also known to look quite a bit like you, to the extent that rumor has it Shizuo's scared him to death and maybe even injured him a few times, thinking he was you," she added, not letting her smug smile show as Izaya frowned at that last bit. The teacher knew he probably hated the idea of other people being mistaken for him when he hadn't planned for it to happen, simply because it was something he couldn't control. "You're lucky Yamakawa's such a nice guy; if he weren't, then he might do something you would get in trouble for, like try to mess with an operation you set up," she continued. "And it will be good for Arlua to have someone who's nice to her working with her, even if he does resemble you."

Izaya bit back a retort.

"Thanks, Ani-chan," he said, hiding a grimace. "A little more than I wanted to know, but thanks. Have a nice date with Shizu-chan." Then he turned on his heel and walked away. Tania blinked at his abrupt departure.

"You better not show up again today, flea!" she called after him before continuing on her way back to her apartment. Izaya didn't answer, just put his hood up and shoved his hands into his pockets.

If he's so nice, then would she…no. Of course not. Lu-chan wouldn't fall for a nice, simple guy like that, would she?

The problem was, he just didn't know. She was so unpredictable; had her attachment to him been a fluke? Did she normally like the compassionate ones, not 'challenges' like him? Or had she even really been attached to him at all?