It had been two months since their little incident where Izaya had absurdly lied about the death of his father happening not long ago and now, it was time for the school festival. Everyone was fired up and eager as people gathered all over the school, trying out the different types of things the classes had set up and wanted to show. Some classes had maid café's or cosplay cafe's while one class had made a haunted house and another had made a music concert in their classroom. Well, there were all kinds off things to try!
Izaya was walking down the hallway, not really paying attention to anything. [What should I do.. There's nothing fun anyway and there's nothing to help with in my class.] The girls did everything in their class. They were making a maid cafe and all the boys had to do, were to set everything up and make sure it worked out. After that, the girls took over, some doing the cooking and others handing the food for who ever were to come.
"Izaya-kun!" He heard someone from behind him call. Turning around he saw Himiko and Sakura come running towards him further down the hallway. "Izaya-kun, we have something you should try!" Himiko said excitedly.
"What is it?" he smirked. To be honest, he didn't wanna get bothered by the two girls. He still had to deal with the fact he liked Shizuo. That's pretty much what he had used these two passed months to think about but it still didn't feel like enough. He had already accepted that he liked him. Loved him. But it still bothered him knowing Shizuo probably wouldn't like him back. Still. He thought he would try to make Shizuo fall for him and that was his current problem. How would he do that?
"You see, we have this little game going on in room 216 on the second floor and we want you to be part of it!" Himiko exclaimed.
"Y-yes" Sakura agreed.
"A game? What game?"
"Listen!" Himiko said as both girls grabbed an arm and started dragging him to the stairs. They were only on the first floor and they needed Izaya on the second floor.. "We'll tell you when we get there!" the two girls looked at each other, still dragging Izaya, and giggled. [Such strange girls] Izaya thought.
When they finally stood in front of door number 216, Sakura let go of his arm and slid the door open. Himiko dragged him inside, with Sakura following behind, sliding the door closed. "So, this game..." Izaya said.
"Yes! Oh, wear this! You have to be blindfolded!" She put a cloth around Izaya's head and binding it, making sure it wouldn't fall off. "How many fingers can you see?" she said as she held up two fingers before Izaya's face.
"I can't see anything"
"How many!"
"Three" he sighed.
"Yes, you can't see!" she agreed.
"L-let's take him to t-the closet." Sakura said.
"Yeah!" Himiko exclaimed.
[Closet?] "Would someone mind telling me what's going on?" he tried.
"Oh! We're gonna leave you in the closet and soon someone will come in to you! It's the Seven Minutes In Heaven game!"
"The what?" he asked confused.
"It's a game where you leave two persons in a closet. None of them knows who the other person is and then you leave them there for seven minutes to do whatever they feel like doing. They can kiss, hug or something! It's fun!" Himiko explained while Sakura and she lead Izaya to the closet.
"Y-yes. We thought you m-might like i-it." Sakura continued.
"What? Bu-"
"Here we go!" Himiko cut him off, pushing him into the closet.
"Ah!" he exclaimed as his hands hit the back of the closet. "Wha?"
"We're gonna get the other player! Wait here, okay?" they closed the closet and locked it, making sure Izaya wouldn't leave.
"W-we'll be back soon, o-okay?" Sakura said.
"Let's go Sakura!" and with that, they left the room, leaving Izaya confused and locking in a closet.
"What just happened?"
Shizuo only agreed to help out in his class. In no thinkable way was he gonna get some costume on and play stupid. He didn't even want to go outside his classroom.
"Shizuo-kun!" Himiko yelled as Sakura and herself saw Shizuo further down the hall. Shizuo almost dropped the things he had in his hands when he heard someone calling his name. He turned around, noticing Sakura and Himiko running towards him.
"Eh?"
"Shizuo-kun, come with us!" Himiko exclaimed happily. Both girls panted slightly. At least Shizuo was on the second floor, so they didn't have to do a lot of running to find him.
"What? I don't have time for that!" he said, showing him the things he was holding on to.
"Yes you do!" both girls grabbed an arm making him drop all his things.
"o-oi!" he exclaimed. "Wha- what's going on?"
"We have a little game going on and you're gonna play!" they started dragging him further down the hallway. "Y-yes, please d-do." Sakura stuttered nervously.
"I don't have time for games! Oi! Let me go!" he wouldn't be mean to some girls, so he didn't put up a fight. How pathetic.
"It's fun! Really! You'll like it!" Himiko assured him. Sakura was a bit scared and didn't say anything. But Himiko wasn't, though she would be if he got angry. She was only afraid of him when that happened. "Here it is! Room 216! Listen, you're going in a closet where someone is waiting for you! It's the Seven Minutes In Heaven game!" Himiko said happily.
"I-it's a game where y-you won't know who t-the o-other person is..." Sakura explained before she took a pause for Himiko to take over; "And the other person doesn't know who you are either! You are both blindfolded and in a dark closet where you will be for seven minutes! In the closet you can do whatever you wanna do! Hug, kiss or something else! That's the game!" She finished. Sakura let go of Shizuo's arm and got ready to open the door.
"Eh? What..? What if I won't do it?" he frowned a bit. What a silly game? Why spend time on games like that?
"You will if we ask you to, right?" Himiko smiled happily. "Now shhh! Don't talk to loud when we enter the room! The other person might hear! Sakura, you can open the door now." Sakura nodded and slid the door open. Himiko dragged Shizuo inside and Sakura followed, closing the door behind them. "We'll put this on you" Himiko whispered and started binding a cloth around Shizuo's eyes.
Izaya was getting bored inside the closet when he suddenly thought he heard something but decided to keep quiet.
Shizuo sighed heavily. Ridiculous. Why did he have to spend time on this? [Seven minutes.. in a closet... with someone else?] He sighed at the thought.
"Come on! It's gonna be fun!" Himiko whispered. "How many fingers can you see?" she said as she held up four fingers in front of Shizuo's face.
"Eh? I can't see anything..." he mumbled.
"How many fingers"
"Two.." he sighed
"Yep, you can't see! And in the closet you go!" Sakura and Himiko giggled as they both grabbed an arm and lead Shizuo to the closet, unlocking it and pushing Shizuo inside. "Seven minutes people" They left the closet locked and left the classroom. "We got them! They'll be friends and hopefully more in no time!"
"Y-yes, I hope so t-too!" Sakura smiled. Both girls giggled as they went down the hallway.
Izaya sat down in the other side of the closet, sitting on his butt while hugging his knees close to his body, as he felt the closet move a bit and heard someone enter.
Shizuo stumbled against the back of the closet. "Eh?" he tore the blindfold off and it was completely dark in the closet. He decided to sit down and sighed heavily.
The sound of that 'eh' sounded a little too familiar to Izaya's liking. Changing his voice a bit, to make it sound more girly he let out a small sound. "Huh?"
Shizuo looked around but obviously that wouldn't help him to find the other person who was in the closet, so he searched for the other person with his hands. He touched the coats and cloths that were in the closet. "Where are you?"
"H-here..."
Shizuo frowned and crawled towards the sound and suddenly bumped into something. "S-sorry.."
[Shizu-chan...] "I-it's okay..."
Shizuo reached out a hand and gently stroke the other person's knee. He was frustrated because he couldn't see who the other person was.
"Hm.." he flinched at the touch from being so nervous. What should he do anyway? He liked Shizuo's touch.
[Okay.. that's a knee..] He thought to himself. He tried to sit down beside the unknown person.
Izaya moved to the wall for Shizuo to fit there as well. [So close...] Their sides were practically rubbing against each other and it made Izaya blush. Luckily, no one could witness it in the dark. [I might as well remove the blindfold.] He tried to take it off but found the knot to be a little too tight.
Shizuo felt the other move around a bit. "Huh, what're you doing?"
"C-can't get the b-blindfold off..."
"Ah.." Shizuo let his hand find the other's body and moved his hand upwards, gently caressing every inch of the other's body. He finally found the cloth around the other's head. Successfully he untied it and pulled it off. "There.."
"T-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-thanks!" the touch of the other freaked him out. But... He liked it.
"Wow.. You seem shy.." Shizuo was a bit freaked out at the outburst from the other person.
"I-I... N-no.. I... N-never mind..." he let a shaky hand wander towards the others body and found a knee.
"Eh?" Shizuo blinked.
He quickly removed his hand when he got even more nervous. "S-sorry!"
[Well.. I didn't tell you to stop] he sighed. "Isn't this part of the 'game'?"
"I-I guess so... I-I've never heard of it b-before…" he put the hand back on the others knee and moved his fingers, feeling every little curve of it.
Shizuo froze at the touch. He didn't know what to do. "Nervous?"
Izaya quickly took his hand back, in surprise when Shizuo spoke again; holding it with his other hand as if Shizuo had hit it.
"Huh? What's wrong? I'm not gonna hit you..." he frowned.
"I-I know..." He slowly leaned to the side. Slowly, ever so slowly, he was touching Shizuo's shoulder with his head more and more. [It's amazing I can be this nervous...]
Shizuo let a hand touch the other's head. [Eh, short hair...] He stroke the head.
Izaya tensed at the touch before relaxing into Shizuo. [He doesn't know it's me.. It'll be okay... He won't mind...] "mm" he found himself saying and felt a little embarrassed. The sound was said in his own voice after all. Maybe Shizuo would notice? It wouldn't matter if he knew he was a boy. All they would be doing was sitting like that or maybe hugging. And Shizuo probablywouldn't mind hugging him a bit even if he was a guy.
"Comfortable?" he found himself smiling at the sound of the other person.
"Y-yeah..."he paused, not bothering to change his voice. [Maybe he won't notice...] "I-is this o-okay?"
"Are you hoarse?" he asked, frowning. [Or is it a guy?]
"I'm n-not.."[Did he find out?]
"Ehh.. ?" he was starting to feel a bit awkward. Sitting there with a guy.
He removed his head again and sat as close to the other wall of the closet as possible "I-I'm sorry.. I-is t-this bad?"
"If you're a guy..." Shizuo didn't really know what to say. He wanted to know who it actually was.
Izaya didn't reply. What Shizuo said hurt. It really did. He loved the guy after all! [Pull yourself together... calm down...] he thought for a second. [Maybe I... Should just tell him how I feel?]
[Wait.. those girls planned this] "Okay, I think I'll leave now..." he was about to get up but Izaya stopped him.
"I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I!" It all came out incredible fast and Shizuo stopped him by trying to find his head and covered his mouth with his hand.
"Jesus... calm down"
He took a deep breath through his nose and nodded, as to tell Shizuo he could let go now and Shizuo removed his hand.
"Why do you want me to stay?" [I can't ask who it is.. it's against the rules... arh, screw that!] He sighed. "And.. who are you anyway?"
"I like you..." he suddenly said, completely ignoring Shizuo's question, hoping he would forget it.
Shizuo froze. His heart beat faster. A guy just told him he liked him. [Wha-what?] He couldn't say anything.
Izaya placed a hand on the others shoulder. "I-I like you.." he had pulled himself together enough to not stutter as much as before. But if there were light in there, he was pretty sure his own face was completely red.
A little whimpering was all Shizuo managed to come up with as the other touched his shoulder. He coughed. "Wha-what?"
"I-I'm serious.. Y-you don't like it? Do you?"
"You're a guy!" he suddenly exclaimed.
A little surprised at the reaction Izaya quickly removed his hand, but placed it on the blondes shoulder again. He stroke the others arm, running his hand down the arm.
Shizuo flinched. [Awkward, awkward!] "Do you mind..?" [I really should just... get out of here..]
When he found the hand at the end of the arm he nuzzled it with his thumb.
"o-oi.." he mumbled. [It is quite nice... What! No!]
"A-am I making you feel uncomfortable?"
"yo-.." he stopped. [Just say yes, and get out!] "um.."
[I'll take that as a no...] "S-should we try and really play this game?" he gulped.
Shizuo blinked in confusion. "You want... what?"
"J-just a… hug... Ne?" [Shit! Now he'll know for sure!]
[Ne..?] "A hug?" he repeated.
"Y-yes..." [You really are a stupid protozoan, Shizu-chan...]
[How many people do I know who says... ne?] Shizuo thought about it. "I'm not... that" he tried to push himself away from the guy.
"I-I only found out just recently... J-just... One hug?"
[One hug always turns into something else..] "I.."
"Just one.."
Shizuo gulped. He really shouldn't be allowing this to happen. "One.."
"R-really?" he sounded rather happy as he said that. [Ah, all out of character.. Not that it matters.. Hugging Shizu-chan really isn't your character either, stupid. But you've already thought this over so many times. I know this is what I want.] He pushed himself away from the wall he was leaning against and found Shizuo's knees, holding on to them as he sat on his own knees in between Shizuo's legs. He hesitated.
Shizuo felt the other sit between his legs now. He tried to push himself as much as he could against the wall he was leaning up against.
Izaya gently pushed down on the knees, making Shizuo stretch his legs. When he stretched them, Izaya placed a hand on the floor on either side of Shizuo's body and leaned down until his head touched Shizuo's chest; he wrapped his arms loosely around his waist.
Shizuo's heart was beating ever so fast he felt like fainting. [Fucking hell.. pull yourself together! It's just a hug!] He tried to calm down, hoping the guy wouldn't notice his heart beating so fast.
"Hm? Y-your heart is beating awfully fast, Shizu-chan" [Fuck!]
Shizuo's eyes widened. "Izaya!" he placed both his hands on Izaya's shoulders and pushed him away.
Izaya was blushing violently and debating on what to do while his head almost exploded from too many thoughts thought at once.
"What the hell are you doing?"
"I-I-I-I-I-I?" He tried to calm down.
Shizuo was stunned and surprised, but also angry. He couldn't get himself to move from the spot where he was sitting. "I should've known!"
He took a deep breath and exhaled, feeling more calm before answering. "Y-yeah... I.. Well... N-now you know..." [I need to get out of here!]
[I wish I didn't have to know!] He didn't even feel like beating Izaya up, he just had to get out of there. He rose from the spot and pushed the wardrobe door open with incredible force, accidently breaking the door and got out. He didn't even look back. [Those girls... ]
Izaya's head popped out of the closet as he watched Shizuo. "Shizu-chan?" he paused. "O-our little secret, ne?"
Shizuo didn't answer. He had heard what the flea had said but decided to leave the room without saying anything. [Of course this'll be a secret! Idiot]
[That hurt, Shizu-chan...]
Izaya: So close!
Shizuo: O-oi…
Christine: Sorry, it was close but not yet! O.O Shizaya~
Signe: But it'll come soon!
Izaya: I sure hope so! And so do the reviewers! Ne?