Shizuo POV

Why can't Izaya just disappear from the face for the Earth? It's all his fault why my Bukuro is going crazy and now I have to keep a close eye on Mara and Yumiko because he has them involved in his stupid game now. I walked to Mara's room making sure that she was alright. I opened the door and saw her looking out the window. "Mara what are you doing?" "I saw someone walk by the window so I was checking to see who it was." She said looking up at me. I picked her up and ran back into my room to Yumiko still asleep. "Yumiko wake up." I said shaking her. "What, why it's still dark." She said turning over. "Because someone is snooping around the…" I heard a glass break and she shot right up.

I put Mara on the bed and walked out the door and downstairs to see someone dressed in all black walking into the living room. "Who the hell are you, and what are you doing in my house?" I yelled. He turned around and the color drained from his face. "Shizuo Heiwajima, I'm so sorry I didn't know you lived here." The man said trying to run away. I got a hold of him and well I don't think he will ever walk again. After I finished beating the living shit out of him Yumiko called the cops and they took care of him. It looks like Ikebukuro was turning into its old self once again, knock on wood. I didn't sleep easy for the rest of the night and neither did Yumiko so we stayed up talking about every possible thing you can think about.

Yumiko POV

Man I was so tired but I couldn't stop thinking about the burglar and Izaya's stupid ass. Was he the one who was behind all of this? "Mara do you have all your things?" I asked as she ran past me. "Yes mommy." "Ok Celty should be here for you any second now." I said as the doorbell rang. Shizuo let her in and fell on the couch out of exhaustion "Hey Celty, thanks again for watching her for the day. I really appreciate it." I said hugging her

~ Don't worry about it I think she so cute and she gets a chance to be my daughter for a day. ~

I nodded and told Mara goodbye once more and watched them walk away before going into the living room and lying on the couch across from Shizuo. "Why is my life so stressful I'm too young to be stressing. You don't stress unless you're like 40." I said yawning. I heard Shizuo chuckle so I looked at him.

"What's so funny?"

"You are."

I got up and laid down on him kissing him softly. "I feel like you never take these shades off, even when you're getting ready to sleep." I said pulling them off of him and getting up. I put the shades on and walked around acting like him. "What are you doing?" He said following me. "I'm acting like you, watch." I said scowling. He began to laugh and attempted to take the shades off my face which he failed miserably at. "Yumiko can we talk for like one minute?" He said walking into the kitchen. He sounded pretty serious so I followed him in there and saw a bottle of wine with two glasses next to it. I took off his shades and watched him carefully trying to read his expression. "What is this?" I asked quietly. He shook his head and poured the wine out in both of the glass and pushed on towards me. I picked it up and took a sip still watched him. "I'm not that great at things like this and you know this so I'm just going to hurry up and get it over with." He said sighing. "What are you talking about?" I asked. He turned a little red and went down on one knee and looked up at me.

"Yumiko Fukui will you marry me?

I couldn't believe the words that just came out of his mouth but it was the one thing that I had been waiting for since I can remember. "Well?" He asked smiling up at me. "Yes, yes I'll marry you." I said kissing me. He put the ring on my finger and kissed me back softly. "I have to call my mom and tell her. She's been waiting for me to call and tell her that I'm engaged since I graduated." I said grabbing the phone."I'm sure your mother can wait awhile, so go get dressed." Shizuo said taking the phone from me. "Why where are we going?" I asked as he pulled me upstairs. "We are spending the day together so put on some comfortable clothes." He said smiling at me. I pulled on a white summer dress and walked downstairs to see Shizuo of course his usual bartender get up. "Don't you have any other clothes?" I asked as we walked out of the house. "No now let's go." He said putting a blindfold on my and leading me somewhere.

After about 20 minutes of walking we stopping and he told me to sit down and I sat down on what felt like a blanket. "Alright." Shizuo said taking the blindfold off. I opened my eyes and saw that we were out in a field having a picnic. Shizuo ran in front of me and sat down taking out a bunch of food out of the basket. "Since I'm not that great at cooking I had Celty cook for us." Shizuo said sheepishly. I smiling and shook my head slightly. We spent most of the day in the open field joking around and eating the delicious food that Celty had made for us. At sun down we packed up and walked over to Shinra's place. "Shizuo, Yumi how are you guys? How was your date?" Shinra yelled. "Well I'm great and It was absolutely wonderful." I said walking in the house. "MOMMY!" "Hey Mara how are you baby?" I said picking her up. "I'm good Miss. Celty took me all over the place then we made dinner." She said grinning from ear to ear.

I sat down next to Celty who was half way on the floor looking worn out. "Are you alright Celty?" "No there is something wrong with your kid. Children shouldn't have the energy she has its ridiculous." "I know that's why I love her so much we're exactly alike." I said kissing Mara's forehead. "Are you ready to get going baby?" "Yes I have to go get my backpack first though." She said running into a room and running back out with her things. "Thanks for watching her for us." "No problem."Shinra said closing the door on us. "Thank you Mara maybe he'll leave me alone for good." Shizuo said as we walked back to the house. When we got home Mara was already asleep and I was exhausted from not getting much sleep in the night before, but I had to make sure I did one thing before going to bed. Call my mommy and tell her I'm engaged

~Hello?~

~Hey, mom guess what?~

~Your giving me more grandkids?~

~No guess again.~

~You have a rich boyfriend?~

~Mom, that's not even funny.~

~Alright I'm sorry tell what's wrong with you.~

~Nothing's wrong but guess who has a ring on their finger now?~

~When did he ask you?~

~This morning I can't wait to show you the ring but I'll tell you more about it Shizuo looks like he wants to talk. Call you later.~

"What's up why are you looking at me like that?" I asked walking up to him. "Someone is in the house and their upstairs in our room. It looks like they got in from the side door." He said quietly. I took Mara from him and he disappeared upstairs. Everything was so quiet I'm sure a feather hitting the ground would have been loud. "WHO THE HELL ARE YOU?" Shizuo yelled. The house shook and he came downstairs dragging a man who was screaming his lungs out. "I'm sorry I really am no one told me you were back from your trip I promise I won't ever try to break into your house." The man yelled as Shizuo threw him out of the door. It sure does feel great to be back at home.

Yumiko POV

"Shizuo, Tom called he says he needs you at the office today." He frowned and I gave him his phone and shoes. "I was going to head to the bakery and sign Mara up for school." "No I don't want to go to school I hate school so much." Mara yelled running over to me and hugging my legs. "You're going to have to go to school or you're going to be taken away from us and I know you don't want that." She shook her head and frowned. "Are you alright you look a little pale?" I gave Shizuo a weak smile and shook my head. "I'm alright don't worry about it."

"We will see you later baby." Shizuo leaned down and place a soft kiss on my lips before walking out the door. "Alright sweetie let's get going, mommy's has to go back to work and you're coming with." Mara jumped up putting on her shoes and running out of the house. I followed her and we walked to the bakery.

"Your back Fukui-sama I missed you so much the bakery has been so hard to deal with since you've been gone and I don't mean to be a snitch but Amaya hasn't been to work since you left, I see her all the time but she just doesn't want to work and I've been working I even brought my brother in to help me because I can't do it alone I don't know how you did it but you did it well." I smiled and patted her head.

"Thank you very much Rika you can take the week off I'll take it from here plus I have a little helper here right now." I said pointing at Mara. "Thank you so much Fukui-sama have a nice day." She said grabbing her things and walking out of the bakery.

"Alright Mara put on your apron because today we're going to be baking all day." "Yay I love to bake."

Shizuo POV

"This better be good Tom because I was hoping to stay home with my fiancé." Tom looked over at me and smiled. "We'll make sure to do these runs quickly so then you can get back to your fiancé." I frowned at him as we made our way to an empty apartment. Like always these stupid people would just disappear and hope that they don't get caught but they usually do.

"Hey so when did you propose to her?" "A couple days ago why you look so suspicious?" He shrugged as we continued walking. "I just wanted to congratulate you." I nodded and thought about Yumiko and we were going to be married the one thing that I thought would never happen to me. Every woman I knew was either afraid to even walk up to me or they just wanted me for sex, but not Yumiko, she's so different she didn't see a monster but a gentle kinder Shizuo.

"Tom I have a serious question for you and don't laugh." He looked back at me and shrugged. "What do you need?" "Do you think I would be a good father?" Tom gave me a small smile and just turned around. "You didn't answer my question do you think so or not? I'm planning on marring Yumiko and eventually she's going to want to start a family sooner or later." Tom just shook his head and continued walking.

Yumiko POV

"Mommy is this how the cake is supposed to look all spongy looking?" I glanced at the chocolate cake and went back to decorating the one I was working on. "It looks fine baby just leave it there and I'll take care of it." She closed the oven and walked over to the cake I was working on. "Mommy can you teach me how to be awesome?" I nodded quickly taking the cake out of the oven. I haven't really been feeling that well since I woke up this morning, I'm hoping I'm not getting sick that's the last thing I want to happen right now.

"Daddy, what are you doing here?" I turned around to see a very worried Shizuo, he so cute when he's not brooding. "I came to take the both of you home, mamma looks like she's going to pass out any second now." I made a face at him as he turned off my open sign. Mara ran to the back to get her things as Shizuo took the cake from me. "I'm sure they can wait until tomorrow you need to go home and get some rest. I've already called Chieko she's at the house waiting for you and I know you don't her coming to get you." Did he really call my mother because I wasn't feeling well? I took my apron off and turned off everything in the bakery before turning back to Shizuo who was standing at the door with my things and Mara. "Tom's worried about you too; he thinks you caught something from the plane right back here." I nodded and not really caring what he was saying, all I wanted to do was go in my bed and go to sleep.

When we got to the house my mom was waiting with a large bowl of soup and little sugary treats for Mara. "Mom you really don't have to do this." She grumbled and pushed me upstairs into my room. "Just go to be bed you look horrible." She shut the door behind her and opened my draws pulling little items of clothes out. "Mom can you not go through those I happen to have private things in there." She blew me off and took out a t-shirt and a pair of fleece pants. "I used to be your age and trust me I hid worst things than condoms in mine." I felt my face heat up as Shizuo cracked open the door. "Is there something you need Shizuo?" I shook his head stepping out of the room. "I'm going to be here for the rest of the night and I'll be taking Mara with me so she doesn't catch whatever it is you have. I've already picked up her uniform and everything she needs for tomorrow. Get some rest because I want you ready and healthy so you can give me some grandbabies." She yelled walking out of the room.

About an hour I drifted into a dreamless slumber and boy did it feel great, I woke up the next morning at 6 o'clock on the dot. Shizuo was still asleep on the couch; I made my way to the kitchen and took out everything I need for a tasty veggie omelet. After making my deliciously large omelet Shizuo walked into the kitchen looking very exhausted. "Morning how are you?" I said smiling at him. "I'm tired you look, great but I could be wrong." "What do you mean?" He looked down at the jar in front of me. "You're eating an omelet with sugar or salt on top and drinking pickle juice, I don't think that's a good sign." I continued and ignored him. "I'm fine I haven't felt better." I said grabbing the jar of peanut butter and eating a couple scoops of it. He took the peanut butter from me and frowned at me. "Shizuo baby, I'm fine I prom…" I held my stomach feeling everything that I just ate come back up. I ran to the bathroom and thankfully made it to the toilet before everything come out. "Oh yeah I'm calling your mom again." Shizuo said holding my hair out of my face. "No, can you take out the little blue box in the cabinet?" He nodded doing what I asked and handed me the box.

"What is that for?" He asked sitting on the counter. I gave it to him and he opened in pulling out a pregnancy test. I've never thought Shizuo could go into shock but he did. I got up taking the test out of his hands and pushing him out of the bathroom.