Yo! Another Chapter right here! Things are really getting exciting now!

(Arisa's POV)

The room was lit by the small amount of moonlight coming through the window. I heard footsteps walking nearer and nearer to where I was sitting. Tied up with ropes to a metal chair, I was trying so hard to hide my fright. A figure appeared before me, I couldn't see what he or she looked like but I did notice one thing. A devilish smile appeared on their shadowed face. A blade they held shined in the light.
"What do you want from me? I didn't do anything!" I cried out to the unknown person.
They let out a small laugh. "Of course you did, you ran away. I really didn't want to do this to you." The person grabbed my throat tightly. I tried to flail out of their grip until the person whispered in my ear. "My little pet."
Then I was stabbed in the chest.

I jolted up from my bed, screaming at the top of my lungs. God, what a nightmare. My door was suddenly kicked open with it nearly flying off the hinges.

"WHERE IS HE?!"

Oh, I guess I woke him up, and that scream was a false alarm. Shizu-chan seemed pretty pissed off about that.

"I had a nightmare, sorry for waking you up. I can't promise it won't happen again." I said, hoping he wasn't too angry.

"A nightmare?! How old are you? Five?" He growled

"I was on the edge of death! Of course I'll have nightmares!" I frowned at him.

His angered face started to turn to a blank expression and he turned around to leave.

"Shizu-chan?"

He turned around slightly. "What, gnat?"

"I didn't think your hair could get any messier than it was already." I smiled. "It's kinda cute."

I earned a glare from that. "I'm not cute, pest. You probably look worse than me."

I gave him an annoyed smile. "Well, this isn't your apartment so try not to break anymore doors, okay?"

He left the room without another word.

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My alarm clock began to go off, was it 7:00 already? I didn't get much sleep since I was still stressed out from this entire situation I'm in. Hopefully my bath will wake me up, it has to be quick though so nothing awkward happens. I'm getting goosebumps just at the thought! I got out of bed and went to the bathroom to start running the water. Luckily, the water hasn't been shut off. To get a towel, I needed to go past Hanae's, or more like Shizu-chan's, bedroom. It wouldn't hurt to check on him, would it? Slowly opening the door a crack, I saw a slightly humorous sight. Shizu-chan was splayed out of the bed with the blanket half-covering his shirtless body and he was...wait, why did I noticed that he was shirtless? I mean, he is rather muscular and kind of handsome. No! Stop it, Arisa! He's a complete jerk! Don't compliment him! Closing the door, my face felt a bit warmer than usual. I swiftly walked toward the closet, grabbed a towel and went back into the bathroom. The tub was full and ready to go. The clock said it was already 7:15, I really had to hurry up. After quickly washing myself off, I stepped into the tub.

"Ahhh, this is so nice." I said aloud. "I could fall asleep, but I can't! I have work!"

Around 10 minutes later, I finally decided to get out. I dried myself off with the towel and reached for my clothes. They weren't there. I was too busy checking on Shizu-chan that I forgot to bring them in!

"Damn it!" I said, too loudly.

I wrapped the towel around me so it covered at much of me as it could. I don't even care that I didn't drain the water, I need to get my clothes! I practically ran to my bedroom and opened the door to a sight that turned my face beat red. Shizu-chan was angrily looking around my room for something I don't know of. I was so shocked that words couldn't even come out of my mouth. His faced finally faced the doorway and it turned pink.

"Why are you only in that?" He said in a voice that hardly matched his expression.

"Get...GET OUT OF MY ROOM, PERVERT!" I yelled with a burning red face.

He walked out of the room slower than I wanted him to. I had the urge to kick him in the stomach but that could cause the worst possible scenario. My towel falling off. Closing my half-broken door, I was getting the most odd feeling. My heart was beating faster than usually and my stomach was feeling funny. This is the stereotypical feeling of when you are around a crush, is it? If it is, I need it to stop.

I shuffled through my dresser and found a sweater and a nice pair of jeans to wear along with a pair of panties that I won't mind very much being seen. Putting them on quickly, I looked at the clock, 7:45 was glowing in bright red. I nearly screamed. Putting Celty's key in my bag, I ran towards the door only to find a man dressed as a bartender standing in the way.

"Gah! Move, Shizu-chan! I need to leave before I'm late!" I said, pushing him. "I can go to work by myself!"

He sighed. "I thought you asked me to escort you? You probably would get mugged anyways."

I puffed out my cheeks. "Fine, but we need to go now. I have to be there in less than a half-hour." Shizuo moved out of the way and I quickly walked out the door with him following behind me. "Let's go, you slug. Just because I can run faster than you doesn't mean you have to walk slower too!"

Eventually, we were walking side-by-side. It was kind of embarrassing to escorted by the strongest man in Ikebukuro, people were staring here and there. At 8:10, I managed to arrive and shooed Shizu-chan away. I had no idea where he was going, probably to his own job of whatever he does. Haha, I wonder if he's actually being a bodyguard for someone else for a living.

Holy mother of Jesus. I almost forgot about this fanfic. I've been working on a Fairy Tail fanfic in my notebooks so I've been distracted by that and all the other stuff going on in my life. It's been over a year since this had started and I want to thank all the people who followed, faved and reviewed this OCxShizuo fanfiction. Not many OC fanfics get as much love.

Setton-san