"Alright. That seems fair enough. Hmmm..." Something to ask... Something to ask. Let's see... Okay. Random question time just because he really couldn't think of anything else to ask. "Have you ever had a crush on someone?"

"Huh? I don't know... not really I suppose... there have been people I thought of as attractive but it's not just about looks either ne?"

Shizuo chuckled. "No. I don't think it should be about looks. It should be about what that person is like and how they treat you."

"How about you then? Have you had any crushes?"

"Eh? Well. Yeah. When I was younger..."

"Cute~" Izaya chuckled lightly, wondered what she must have been like.

"Tch." Shizuo glanced down at the ground, a bit embarrassed. "You ask something now, that isn't just my question back at me."

"Mm? Alright, when did you first discover your strength?"

"When I was nine." Because Kasuka ate his pudding. Then he tried to throw the fridge at him and only failed because his bones weren't strong enough to hold it up. But Izaya already knew about the attempting to throw the fridge at Kasuka part. Just not when and why.

"I see… must have been scary at first..."

"I guess it would have been had I been focused on it." He had been more focused on the fact that he was in the hospital with broken bones.

"Eh? What were you focused on then?" Izaya asked his tone curious.

"...I was in the hospital."

"Ah? Oh... yeah, I guess if your body wasn't able to handle such a thing..." Izaya fell silent. He supposed neither of them had experienced particularly easy lives.

Shizuo sighed and nodded. "Yeah. I was in the hospital a lot. I think every time I used my strength till the middle of middle school or something."

"That's a long time," Izaya agreed, "You should ask me some questions now then."

"Uh. Alright. ...Hmmm." What to ask? He didn't have many questions. "I can't think of anything."

"Really? Nothing? Fine, what's your greatest fear?"

"Hurting people I care about."

"Oh... makes sense I suppose..." He agreed, nodding a little.

Shizuo sighed before spotting a bench and sitting down. "Yeah. I mean, it'd be really easy to hurt them, even kill them on accident..."

"I guess so... Shizu-chan, you don't see Kasuka often either, do you?"

Shizuo shook his head. "Not really. He's always out. And it isn't like he can just come to visit whenever he wants."

"I suppose not. But you don't call him too much either, I had thought by now he would have at least texted you..." Unless Shizuo did all the initiation in terms of conversation.

"Kasuka usually emails me. And even then, not much." Shizuo shrugged.

"I see..." Izaya sighed.
And just as they were about to stop talking about Kasuka, there he was, across the street and walking towards them now. He had found that Shizuo's apartment had shown no signs of him being in it for at least a week, so had been walking around the city looking for him. However, instead of walking up to 'Shizuo', he walked up to 'Izaya'. "Good afternoon, nii-san..."

"Eh?" Izaya blinked and watched Kasuka referring to his body as 'Nii-san'.

"But this is Shizu-chan's body..."

Shizuo looked over at Izaya. "Kasuka has always been able to tell who I am and how I feel just from the way I hold myself. He's perceptive like that." Kasuka nodded in agreement, face still blank.

"I see... how unusual... you must care about Shizu-chan a great deal then"

"Nii-san is family. Of course I care for him." He turned back to Shizuo now. "How did you and Orihara-san switch bodies?"

"Ah... we made Celty mad."

"Yeah... really mad" Izaya scratched the back of his head lightly in sheepishness.

"At least you two are getting along now."

Shizuo smiled lightly. "Yeah. That's good."

"Yeah..." Izaya shifted, feeling a bit awkward to be just standing there.

Kasuka glanced over at Izaya. "Should I come back after you two are back to normal?"

"No, I just don't think it would be wise for Shizu-chan's brother to be seen talking to my body is all... not in public..."

"I'll come by later then. Maybe tomorrow around noon. Your place, Orihara-san?"

Shizuo nodded. "Yeah. We've both been staying there."

Izaya nodded, "Alright Kasuka-kun," He agreed.

Kasuka nodded. "See you later, Orihara-san, nii-san." And with that, he left.

"Looks like we can't really hide this well. The only people we've interacted with who don't know we switched are Tom and that one client. Shiki."

"And Dotachin ...or are you counting only those we've interacted with since the switch?"

"I said that we've interacted with who don't know we switched." Shizuo pointed out.

"Ah... right," Izaya shook his head. "Mmn, my mind gets muddled when your body hasn't got enough nicotine it seems..." That would go away soon he hoped.

Shizuo shrugged. "Cause you're still having me quit. Isn't gonna be like that for awhile? Till my body isn't addicted anymore or something?"

"Yeah... but even then it's half mental too, you have to want to stay off them once your body is"

"I already said I'd try to stay off them, didn't I?" Shizuo pointed out a bit irritably.

"Yeah, yeah," Izaya sighed, "Let's not argue."

Shizuo sighed too. "Yeah. I've been mostly calm since we switched. I'd like to stay that way. Arguing wouldn't help with that."

"Yeah..." Izaya knew they would have some but he wasn't going to try to stop them now before they started.

Shizuo stretched before standing up from where he was sitting. "Alright. Let's walk around some more. It's nice being able to walk around outside."

"Yeah..." Izaya agreed, "Hey, Shizu-chan... n-now that we kinda know each other I think you're a pretty okay person..."

Shizuo smiled. "Yeah. And you're not as bad as I thought either. Though you're being all shy. How come?"

"Mmn... well, I'm usually shy with people I like, nobody knows it, that's all..."

"You didn't seem shy with your sisters though." Shizuo pointed out. "But I guess that makes sense. After all, they're mean to you so you wouldn't like them."

"I get less shy over time, I'm not with them because they're my sisters... and they can be mean, but they're usually nice too..."

"Guess that makes sense." Shizuo shrugged. "It close to dinner time?"

"Yeah," By now it was nearly six so they found a place to eat -Izaya knew Shizuo would like it since he came a lot. In fact the waitress greeted Shizuo by 'Orihara-san' and asked if he would like his usual order.

"Uh. Yeah." Shizuo went ahead and figured that he'd like it since he was Izaya. The waitress seated them before asking Izaya if he knew what he was going to order.

Izaya grunted that he'd need to look at the menu first and did just that to find something that would appeal to Shizuo's tastes.

The waitress merely nodded before going off to get them both a water to start off with. She soon returned and set the glasses down.

Izaya picked something sweet and put his order in. It was healthy at least, just on the sweeter side of things.

Shizuo glanced around the place. "This is nice. Fancier than I'm used to too."

"It is, I come here often... as you can tell considering they know my name... or... well, I suppose right now it's your name,"

Shizuo chuckled. "Yeah. Guess so. It's a nice place. You have good taste."

"Well... thanks..." He shifted a little and smiled nervously at the other.

Shizuo waved his hand lightly. "It's nothing. I do like it here though." It was kinda cute how shy Izaya was acting, even if it still looked like him.

Shizuo waved his hand lightly. "It's nothing. I do like it here though." It was kinda cute how shy Izaya was acting, even if it still looked like him. After a bit, the waitress came back and set their food down. "Well, let's eat."

Izyaa nodded and sighed happily at the first bite. "Oh good, you like what I ordered~"

Shizuo chuckled. "You'd eat it anyway, wouldn't you? Ah, but it's better that you like it."

"I was trying to find something I would like in this body... but yes, I would prefer to like it than to eat it and I don't believe in wasting food."

"I don't believe in wasting food either. I mean, I don't really make that much money, so I can't afford to waste food." Shizuo shrugged.

"Guess that's true. So tell me, how... how much do you make usually?"

Shizuo shrugged. "It depends on how many people we collect debts from. I don't really know."

"You don't know your own salary?" Izaya frowned. Even he knew how much he made in a year.

Shizuo shrugged. "It's enough to get by. I know that."

Shizuo rolled his eyes. "Just give me a moment to figure it out. I usually just go by it's enough to survive." Shizuo was silent as he tried to figure it out in his head, even drawing on his hand with his finger to help. "I'd say that I earn about 200,000 yen a year."

"Ah? That's it?" Izaya was shocked it was so low. He made more than that in one job usually.

Shizuo nodded. "Yeah. I get my check cut in half. But I can live on it."

"I see... why are they cutting your check then?"

Shizuo looked at Izaya for a moment before sighing. "My tempter and strength." That probably answered it.

"I see... then what you owe is partly my fault, isn't it?"

"Hmm. I guess so. I mean, a lot of the damage is from me chasing you around."

"Well then I'll pay for some too..."

"Eh?" Shizuo shook his head. "No. It's fine. As long as I have work, I'll pay it off eventually."

"I caused most of it, and I have a way higher disposable income then you, let me pay for some,"

Shizuo frowned. He really didn't like having others help him with money problems. He had even turned down Kasuka when he had offered. "It's fine. You don't have to pay for it."

"I do if it's my fault. Don't think of it as me giving you money, think of it as me paying back what I owe you,"

"Hmmm." Phrased differently... "Alright. But not till after we switch back."

"Ahh... fine," Izaya sighed. Not that Shizuo could really stop him either though.

Shizuo shrugged before going to eat his meal. "Let's just eat now."

"Sure..." Izaya kept eating though he disliked long periods of silence. He was the type to talk during meals and sometimes he talked just for there to be noise.

Shizuo, on the other hand, was used to there being silence. He'd eat breakfast alone in his quiet apartment. Lunch would be out with Tom, though they wouldn't talk, and dinner would either be at Russia Sushi where he was still quiet or more likely alone at his apartment. He didn't actually talk while walking around with Tom either unless it was about a client or they were confronting a client. So he didn't really think of it. Besides, there were other people eating there, so there was some noise.

Izaya hated it though. He was used to it but he loathed it. It reminded him of when his parents died too much and it made him anxious and uncomfortable.

"Shizu-chan, can we talk about something?"

"Huh? Oh. Uh. Sure. But what?"

"Anything... I-I really don't... like silence..."

"Oh. Well. Um..." Shizuo really wasn't the best when it came to conversations, at least he didn't think so. "Uh... So how much do you think we have to get along before we switch back?"

"N-not sure... maybe if we just get along like we are now but if she's waiting for us to become BFF's there's no way..."

Shizuo shrugged. "You don't know that. I mean before, when we were fighting, didn't it seem impossible to get along?"

"Ah... it did... but it depends how far she does expect us to go too, eventually we may have to just tell her to switch us back."

Shizuo shrugged. "Guess so. Maybe she expects us to become friends. Not necessarily best friends though."

Maybe... but if we at least get along she'll be okay too I think..."

Shizuo shrugged. "Then I guess since we're getting along, we can go to see her tomorrow to switch back."

"Might as well," Izaya shrugged as he finished the last mouthful of food and sighed contentedly.

Shizuo chuckled before finishing his food off as well. "Shall we go home now?"

"Sure, guess so," Izaya paid though in cash so the waitress wouldn't know who paid before they returned to Izaya's.