It was getting late and the sun had already set. Shizuo had said he had some business and had left the tent while Izaya made dinner. While the bread was baking he thought he might as well try and see what he could make of those grapes. He took a bowl and plucked a whole cluster, putting the grapes in the bowl. "Hmm.." He looked at the stone he had used to smash the other vegetables and thought he would try that. He mashed the grapes and felt a bit confused as to why there weren't any seeds in them. "Lucky?" he questioned. The grapes made a thin liquid in the end, but he had to take out the peel of the grapes which still lay in the liquid. After that, he had something that looked like water, though it was green. "Interesting..." he put the bowl to his mouth and tasted it. His eyes went wide as he drank a mouthful. It tasted amazingly good!

Shizuo sighed as he entered the tent. He scratched the back of his head and glared at Izaya. "What are you doing?"

"Look, look!" he exclaimed happily and ran to Shizuo, shoving the bowl in his face.

"What?" the blonde frowned and gently pushed the other's hands away.

"See! Try this! It's really good!"

"Calm down, boy." Shizuo sighed as he took the bowl from Izaya's hand and brought it to his nose to inhale the sweet scent. "What is it?"

"Just try it, ne?" he smiled happily. That was probably the first time the blonde had seen his true smile.

Shizuo sipped on it and frowned before drinking some more. "It's.. actually good."

"See!" he said happily.

"What is it?" Shizuo asked again.

"Grapes!"

"Grapes? Really?" the blonde raised a brow. "It's good.." he murmured as he looked down at the drink.

"Yeah! I gotta go find some more! We don't have that many." he told him.

"The sun has already set.. It's too late to be wandering around out there now." Shizuo mumbled.

"But.."

"You'll have to wait 'til tomorrow.." the blonde placed a calming hand on the other's shoulder as he passed him.

Izaya was a bit shocked that Shizuo was being all calm and trying to calm the excited Izaya down. "Okay." he replied and followed the blonde close behind.

"Do you mind if I drink the rest?" Shizuo asked.

Izaya hesitated for a bit since he liked it a lot too. "No."

"Hm?" Shizuo turned around to meet crimson eyes.

"No. I don't mind."

"Okay then." Shizuo quickly drank the rest of it and handed Izaya the bowl. "Good job" he sent Izaya a weak smile.

Without knowing why, Izaya blushed lightly at the welcoming smile. "Y-you're welcome."

Shizuo stretched his arms and sat down to begin eating his dinner. Izaya went to wash the bowl in his hands before turning to Shizuo and sit down before him. There was a deep silence between the two of them as they ate their dinner.

Izaya didn't eat all that much like usual but made sure he got some. He glanced at Shizuo, as he thought about the whole marriage thing again. Poor guy... Shizuo definitely wanted to be with some girl.

"What're you thinking about?"

Why didn't Shizuo just run away? It's not like someone else couldn't make weapons instead. Shizuo could just teach them.

"Oi.. Izaya." Shizuo snapped his fingers in front of the young boy's face.

"E-eh?" he blinked, confused.

"What's the matter with you?"

"Nothing?"

Shizuo raised a brow in disbelief.

"So... Umm... Is the food alright?"

Shizuo nodded, he didn't speak because his mouth was full.

"Okay.. I'm glad."

The blonde swallowed and rose from the ground. "Thanks for the food. I'm going to bed, so stay quiet when you finish up here, okay?" Shizuo yawned and walked to the bed.

[I'm tired too, you know...] "Yes." he replied and picked up the bowls and stone plates as he went to wash them.

Shizuo lay down on the soft wolf fur and unrolled the blanket to cover himself with it. "Mm.." he snuggled his face into the soft fur pillow.

Izaya glanced over his shoulder to see the blonde snuggle up in the covers. Kinda cute. Oh well, he continued with the dishes and quickly finished up, rubbing his eyes.

A sigh left the already sleeping blonde as he rolled over to lie on his back.

[Ah, sleeping already..] He yawned and approached the bed. [How am I gonna do this without waking him... He'll be furious if he wakes up..] Izaya thought nervously. [I guess I could just step over him?] Izaya did so and carefully laid down beside the sleeping blonde, crawling under the covers and keeping as long a distance as possible.

Shizuo was far away in dreamland, so he didn't even notice Izaya moving around.

"Good night, Shizuo." Izaya whispered as he quickly dozed off.


Shizuo woke up the next morning, lying on his side. It was still a bit dark. He rapidly blinked his eyes to look around. Izaya wasn't up yet either. The blonde froze as felt something lie over his upper body. He looked down to see an arm lying lazily over him. Shizuo turned his head a bit to see Izaya laying a bit too close to him. He smuggled his arm out from under the warm fur blanket to remove Izaya's arm.

"Nn.." Izaya mumbled and tightened his grip around Shizuo.

Shizuo's eye started twitching and he sat up. He looked down at the sleeping raven; his arm still holding onto Shizuo.

"Mm..." he moved a bit closer to the warm body and lay on Shizuo's pillow instead of his own.

"Izaya." he mumbled.

"Nn."

Shizuo couldn't help but smile a bit at the sleeping boy. He softly placed a hand in Izaya's hair and began to nuzzle it.

"Mmm." the raven purred as a small smile tugged his lips.

"Oi.. It's time to wake up." Shizuo said, as he figured he couldn't let himself do that. It was just wrong, right?

"Mm?" he had furrowed his brows when the other talked but soon relaxed again.

"Izaya."

"Noouu.." he whined softly. "Not now, Mairu.."

"M-Mairu?" the blonde frowned. The raven kept still. "Oi!" Shizuo shook the raven, hoping he'd wake up.

"Ah, Ah, stop!" he whined and quickly sat op. "It's not funny Mairu." he mumbled as he rubbed his eyes.

"I'm not Mairu." Shizuo said, feeling grumpy.

"Hm?" Izaya opened his eyes and stared at Shizuo for awhile. In silence. "S-sorry!" he suddenly exclaimed, blushing. The blonde sighed. Izaya then quickly rose from the bed and went to make breakfast.

"Oi.." Shizuo frowned.

"Y-yes?"

"What was that?"

"W-what?"

"Who's Mairu?"

Izaya stopped his movements, body tense. "My sister."

"Your sister?"

"Yes..." he nodded and continued with the breakfast.

"You miss her?" Izaya nodded silently. "Aha.." Shizuo approached the raven, bent down and untied the leather strap from Izaya's ankle. "Go get some of those grapes..." he mumbled.

"Mm." he nodded and left the food he was preparing. He went out of the tent and into the woods. It was quite a long walk to get there, but once there he plucked five clusters which he held in his arms and sighed as he began walking back to the camp. The moment he had left the tent, memories from Izaya's tribe brushed him. The times he had played with the leather ball with his sisters. The times he had cooked with his mother. The times he.. had failed and got scolded by his father for not being good enough at hunting... The times his grandmother had comforted him. His grandmother's funeral... Maybe it wasn't all that bad to stay with Shizuo. But he missed his mother and sisters, Mairu and Kururi. After the long walk home he entered the tent again.

"Got enough there to make two drinks?" Shizuo asked.

"I think so... There wasn't much yesterday because I only used one bunch. I've got five more here, and four from yesterday." he explained and sat down in the kitchen. "What about breakfast? Did you eat something?"

"No."

"I was out for awhile... I'll continue what I started." he said and did so.

"No." Shizuo grabbed Izaya's wrist.

"E-eh?"

"I don't want that.."

"Then.. what?" he asked as he turned his head to look at the blonde.

"Grapes.." he mumbled and tied the strap back onto Izaya's ankle.

Izaya looked down at his ankle as Shizuo put the strap back. "Okay."

Shizuo brushed his hand against Izaya's leg as he pulled his hand away. "There.." he smiled up at the other.

Izaya blushed slightly at the touch. "Thank you."

The blonde crawled over to his tools and found an oblong rock and started to roughly cut tiny flakes of stone off. He knew it would take forever to make it into a knife.

Izaya began making the grape liquid as he had made it the day before. In the middle of it he glanced over his shoulder, seeing Shizuo work. Nothing new there. He went back to the grapes and mashed them. He had used three bunches this time and left the bowl almost full. He then prepared another one with also three bunches and mashed them too. When they were mashed, he picked out the skin of the grapes and went to Shizuo with both bowls. "Here." he said and sat down, handing one bowl to Shizuo.

"Ah, thanks.." Shizuo placed the rocks on the ground and took one of the bowls. Izaya watched as Shizuo brought the bowl to his lips and took a sip. "What's wrong, Izaya?" Shizuo asked, still looking at his bowl.

"N-nothing." he blushed slightly, hoping the other wouldn't notice, as he took a sip of the other bowl.

The blonde quickly downed the grape-juice and placed the bowl away from him. "As good as it was yesterday." he mumbled.

"I'm glad." Izaya drank about a third of his and placed the bowl before the blonde.

"Hm?"

"You're welcome." he simply said and left Shizuo to make breakfast. Or rather lunch.

Shizuo's eye twitched as he looked down at the bowl, which still contained some of the liquid. "Izaya..."

"Yes?"

"When.. you give a drink, which you've already taken a sip of, and give it to another person.. that means you just confessed your love to that person." Shizuo growled out as he glared at the bowl, fists clenched.

Izaya tensed. "Wha-?"

"You... heard me."

"S-sorry.. I didn't know that..."

Shizuo gulped and shook his head. "Of course you didn't." he murmured.

"I'm sorry. I'll take it back then." he said nervously and rose from the ground, approaching Shizuo. He thought he better not tell Shizuo that they had drunk from the same bowl the day before. Shizuo sighed. "Unless you want it? I mean.. You know I didn't mean anything by giving it to you, ne?"

"Even though that's tempting, I can't." Shizuo said as he began working again.

"I.. I understand." was all Izaya said and took the bowl with him to the kitchen.

[I hope that boy didn't mean anything by it.] Shizuo thought as he looked over his shoulder, seeing Izaya clean the bowls.

Izaya then continued with the breakfast which was now lunch and was almost done. "Lunch is ready." he mumbled and went to Shizuo with two food-filled bowls. He went back and got two more bowls, one with the grape liquid Izaya still hadn't drunk and one with some new, he had made for Shizuo.

Shizuo coughed as he turned around to take the bowl of food and began to eat. "I'm thinking about going out to look for some meat today." Shizuo mumbled.

"Sounds good." he paused. "What do you want me to do?"

"Come along."