"I have to go to work soon Izaya. Do I have to come with you?" Chihiro clutched her bag closely as she walked in between Izaya and Celty on her bike.

"Aren't you the least bit excited Chi-chan?" he asked in a fake tone of shock. "You're walking next to Ikebukuro's best information broker and the Headless Rider! Most humans wait their whole lives to encounter someone like her alone!" he spun around beside himself with giddiness

Chihiro sighed. "That's all well and good, but I have responsibilities and I'm already on probation for somebody making constant phone calls." she glared at him pointedly.

Celty's head (helmet) quickly turned to her and back to Izaya who shrugged carelessly.

"How's that my fault?"

"Ugh, never mind. Are we there-" Chihiro stopped suddenly. "Hey what the heck's that guy doing?!"

Not too far from where she stood were four teenagers; well, one of them looked a bit older and he was the one getting right up in the other boy's face and yelling at him. There was a smug looking girl behind the yelling jerk and another girl next to the cowering boy.

"Wow, that girl's boobs are huge." she couldn't help thinking. "Geez, and she's younger than me…."

She was about to step forward to say something but Celty blocked Chihiro with her arm; she typed a quick message on her PDA.

"Don't worry. I got this."

She certainly did; she walked right up to the guy yelling and gave him a roundhouse kick to the face. Izaya began to jump on the guy's back while he lay face down on the sidewalk.

"Of course he'd jump in now; literally." Chihiro thought rolling her eyes to the sky; he seemed to get a lot of amusement from stomping on stuff. She began approaching the group when Izaya strolled toward the now not so smug girl.

"Oh, the ganguro girl; Izaya wouldn't shut up about stomping on her phone to help out some kid." Chihiro glanced over at the boy and the girl; they both seemed quite confused. "He must be Mikado then. I wonder if that cute girl's his girlfriend." she wondered absently.

Izaya's voice interrupted her thoughts; he spoke to the ganguro girl. "Are you exploiting my rule against hitting women?" he sounded a bit impressed; she trembled in either fear or anger, Chihiro wasn't sure.

"That's Izaya for you." Celty thought to herself. "Leave it to him to sound friendly and threatening."

"What a clever girl you are." Izaya continued. "I would ask you out; however, you're so not my type." The girl's mouth hung open in mortification. "Now scram!" he yelled gesturing for her to leave.

The girl burst into tears and ran off. "You're an asshole!"

"Tell me about it." Chihiro mumbled.

"Have a nice day!" Izaya waved goodbye to her retreating form; Celty shook her head (helmet...)wearily.

Izaya turned to Chihiro and grinned expectantly.

"What?"

He frowned and whined. "Chi-chaaan! I just saved these defenseless kids from those awful bullies." he smirked again triumphantly with his hands on his hips in a superhero pose.

"Oh please, like you didn't do it just for your own sick enjoyment." she retorted. "And you have a type?"

"Why, yes I do." he said smirking once more. Chihiro was honestly dumbfounded.

"Huh. I didn't think….well, I wasn't sure you had…..urges…?" she finished awkwardly scrunching up her face; she actually felt a tiny bit grossed out from the revelation. It was an idea she had never really considered, seeing as he was so detached from other humans.

"Well, I did think he might have a thing for Shizuo or at least he was asexual." but she left that thought unsaid.

Regardless, Izaya looked mildly offended. "What a rude girl you are. I am a perfectly healthy young male. Why I even-"

"NO. I don't want to know." Chihiro cut him off. Mikado was looking back and forth from her and Izaya as if he was trying to figure out something; the girl looked shy and like she didn't want to be there.

"Wait. Celty mentioned her. Her name is Anri or something." Chihiro's thoughts were once again interrupted, but not by Izaya.

"Wait, you're Orihara-san's girlfriend?!" Mikado said loudly. Chihiro blushed and scowled while Izaya simply smirked.

"I-I'm sorry!" Mikado bowed in apology. "A friend of mine just mentioned that Orihara-san was dating someone; it was just a rumor floating around. I didn't mean to..." he trailed off looking quite embarrassed; he was just so surprised.

Chihiro smacked a hand to her face. "Goddammit I was afraid of this. Look, it's not like that at all." she said firmly and Mikado looked a bit relieved as she didn't seem aggravated at him.

"Trust me, it's not." Chihiro glared at Izaya daring him to say otherwise.

He held up his hands defensively. "Hey, I never spread that rumor, honestly! People get bored and get the wrong idea, you know how it is."

She rolled her eyes and huffed. "Look, I have got to get to work. Goodbye and good luck." she waved to all of them and practically ran in the opposite direction.

"Chi-chan's so quick to accuse me." Izaya said with mock disappointment.

"That's because you're always starting trouble." Celty typed out.

Izaya feigned hurt. "How can you say that about me?"

"Very easily."

Later that night:

"So I have to ask." Chihiro served Izaya his food. "What is your type?" she asked almost reluctantly.

"Curious are we?" he smirked suggestively.

"Not like that."

"Well, you know," he said through a spoonful of soup. "I don't give out information for free, much less personal information about yours truly."

"Well there's no way I'm going to pay to know; I'm not that curious." she began eating her own food eagerly.

It was silent for the rest of dinner and as Chihiro began to put away the dishes Izaya finally spoke up.

"I like a challenge."

She turned to him confused. "Huh?"

"My type." he explained simply. "I like a challenge."

Chihiro laughed; it sounded like bells chiming away. "You're in luck then."

Izaya cocked his head slightly to the side."Now what does that mean?"

"Any girl you like is going to be hard for you to win over, if you even can." she smirked.

Izaya just smiled. "Tell me about it."