Prompt: In middle school, Izaya hears about Shizuo from Shinra for the first time. Since they're both interested in Shizuo in different ways, anon is free to make it girl talk-like.
Rumors
They had just left the arcade, Izaya winning hands down as usual while Shinra's score was mediocre at best. Sundown streaked down the teeming streets as they walked side by side, two scrawny boys in blue uniforms. The similarities began and ended there. Shinra carried his bag under an arm and smiled amicably, his tread was cautious in way it avoided even the possibility of a collision. Izaya pranced about, carelessly assessing his territory, his bag barely hanging from two fingers and tossed over his shoulder.
"Have you heard about Shizuo? Heiwajima Shizuo, that is."
"Hmm…can't say that I have. Why don't you enlighten me?"
Shinra could never tell when his friend was telling the truth. In fact, he could not even tell whether Izaya was his friend. They had drifted together because Izaya was intelligent to the point of it being uncanny, a quality that Shinra could not be indifferent to. But he knew that Izaya meant danger. Just yesterday Izaya had shown him his switchblade, flashing it for the briefest of moments to that the edge only caught the light for a moment. Sharp things did not scare Shinra in themselves, he had seen more scalpels in his short years than most people ever did in their whole life and he had even wielded quite a few but Izaya's razor spelled cruel intent.
"I've known him since elementary school. Shizuo-kun's is remarkably strong, to the point of even lifting fridges and throwing them. It's superhuman. I'd love to find out how he got that way."
Izaya smiled.
"Why don't you eviscerate him to find out? Just kidding."
Again Shinra half wondered if Izaya was indeed joking.
"That wouldn't do. I want to observe how his body works and see it in action."
"Eh? How interesting. I don't suppose you've got a picture of this amazing creature?"
"I got one, here."
Izaya scanned Shinra's cell phone.
"Oh my, a vending machine. And he's blonde. So my type."
Shinra adjusted his glasses.
"Type? So you are interested as well."
Izaya smiled.
"Indeed. Indeed I am. You have sparked my curiosity."
"Don't you wonder how he can carry a vending machine like that?"
"I don't care for 'how'. What drives me is 'why'."
"What do you mean?"
Shinra found himself drawn by the original points of view that Izaya had to offer. They were ideas that would never have occurred to him and while agreeing to them was too much for Shinra he still enjoyed to entertain wild ways of approaching reality. It spiced up things by adding a crazy Izaya element.
"If you were that strong I still very much doubt you'd go around hurling vending machines at people. The question that matters to me is 'why'."
Izaya was already skilled at picking people apart but he sensed that here was a source for endless fun.
"Shizuo-kun has some anger issues. But he's a very nice fellow as long as he is not provoked."
"Is that so? I am so jealous of you, you seem to attract strange phenomena."
"I want to study him and understand how his anatomy works."
"Heh, Shinra, it's like you've found a brand new toy."
Shinra nodded enthusiastically.
"Science could profit so much."
"How about you share Shizuo-kun with me? It's obvious that there's plenty of Shizuo go around."
"I can introduce you but Izaya-kun, please try not to upset him too much and-"
Shinra was suddenly pushed into an alley, a mouth covering his mouth. For a split second he was sure that Izaya was about to kill him.
"Shh, quiet now. I've spotted out target but let's just watch for now."
Indeed, Shizuo was passing by, so close that Izaya could reach out and touch him. Shizuo kicked a can and kept his eyes firmly on the ground so that he was utterly oblivious of the pair watching him intently. Izaya snapped a picture with his cell and let Shinra go as soon as the broad shouldered figure faded into the distance.
"So that's Heiwajima Shizuo. I believe we will have a world of fun of together."
Izaya smiled. It was then that Shinra realized that it was perhaps unwise of him to bring these two together but at the same time he knew that there was nothing to be done about it now. And the chaos that he sensed about to break loose might be worth observing for its own sake.
"So that's your type, Izaya-kun?"
"Oh yes. Speaking of which, got to get myself some new clothes. Can't make an impression wearing a uniform, now can I? See you tomorrow, Shinra. Introduce me to Shizu-chan after school."
"Shizu-chan?"
"Aye. Cute, isn't it?"
"I don't think he'll like you calling him that."
Izaya laughed.
"That is the whole point. And you know what they say about school friendships! They last a lifetime."
Shinra was left wondering whether that was such a good thing. Either way there was nothing he could do but watch where Izaya took this. Izaya waltzed away.
"I still want to find out how his body works."
And in his own way Izaya wanted that as well.
