Shizuo's pov

I opened my eyes and saw Kohana snuggled up against me.

Then I sat up on the side of the bed and rubbed my eyes.

And then I felt Kohana shift a little"Shizuo...?"I turned around to see Kohana groggily rub her eyes.

I turned back"Hey Kohana...are you okay?"I said softly.

"O-oh yeah I'm fine now..."

Then I looked at her in the eyes"What was that?"

Her face paled more than it already was"Oh...I just...had a bad ...dream..."she clenched the sheets hr eyes widened.

"Dream? What kind of dream?"I looked at her with skeptical eyes.

She didn't respond.

"KOHANA."I let out a growl.

Her bangs completely covered her face"I...don't want to talk about it.."

I was about to yell at her but then I saw a tear fall down.

Then I got up and began to walk out my room, but then I stopped.

"Hey Kohana..."

Again she didn't answer.

"Remember when you asked me why I'm so protective of you?"

I heard some sniffling.

"It's because...a long time ago...I had a friend who was just like you...but then I ended up hurting her."

And I walked out the room.

Kohana's pov

I had looked up to where Shizuo had been standing, tears rolling down my red cheeks.

I wiped the tears away slightly sniffling now. I then felt my neck, but I didn't feel anything.

Then I checked my stomach, again nothing not even a scar.

'That was me wasn't it?'

I got up and off the bed and headed to the hallway where I saw Shizuo sitting down on the couch with his head back.

I walked over to him at sat down next to him put up my legs and hugged them while looking a the broken table in front of us.

"What happened...to the girl I mean."

Shizuo turned his head over to me"Why should I tell you?"

I put my head into my legs"You brought it up..."

He sighed"Well she's definitely not you if that's what your thinking, and I won't tell you about anything unless you tell about what made start screaming."

I clutched my legs"I had a dream...that I was being abused."

He paid attention to this"Abused?"

"Yeah from what I remember...it was my mother. Or foster mother? I don't know..."

He grabbed my shoulders"What did she do to you?"His voice was shaking with anger.

"Well...it wasn't just her...it was her children helping out too..."I looked to the side.

"WHAT DID THEY DO?"he began growling.

"My foster mother...burned my skin with a cigarette...and one of her kids skinned my stomach..."

Then Shizuo got up and began pacing around mumbling"KILL."

"It was just a dream..."

Then he stopped and turned to me"AND WHAT IF IT WASN'T? WHAT IF IT WAS SOMETHING THAT HAPPENED TO YOU?"

"Well it wasn't I checked. If it wasn't a dream I probably would've had the scars."

And he began pacing around again.

I got up and walked to Shizuo.

And grabbed his arm"It's okay Shizuo nothing's wrong. I'm fine!"I smiled at him then he rubbed the back of his neck.

"Don't scare me like that..."Then we went to go sit on the couch.

He looked over to me"You didn't tell me what happened to your eye."he poked my eyepatch.

"Oh as it turns out I'm half blind now. I went to go see Shinra and he said I had a...whatsamacallsit."

"You don't even remember the name?"

"Nope! Now stop asking so many questions about me!"

"Now it's your turn to tell me about his girl that Shizu-chan cared so dearly about!"I fluttered my eyes.

"DON'T CALL ME THAT. IT'S THE LAST THING I NEED."

He grunted"Well around the time when I first started middle school there was this new transfer student."

"Mmmmhmmm?"I lay my head on his lap.

"She looked just like you only she had a green and red eye. So one day our teacher assigned us a project and no one wanted to be our partner so the teacher decided to partner us up. At first I thought 'this was stupid why do we even have to do this stupid project?'then we went over to my house to do the project after school. We began talking a little and at first we were just doing a project, but then by the end of the week we became good friends. And then we stayed like this for the rest of the year."

"So you talked to a girl and she liked you?"

"Well yeah...I guess?"

"Did you like her?"

"What? NO."

"Shizuo you had a crush on her didn't you?"

"Why the hell are you on me?"he pushed my head off his lap.

I stuck my tongue out at him.

"You said you wanted to hear the story didn't you?"

I sighed"Yes..."

"Then we were put in the same class together again. But that's when things began to...get bad."

"Get bad?"

"Yeah. So there was this new girl joining our class that year and she seemed nice at first. We talked a little and became acquaintances, but then I introduced her to my friend."

"You said but. What happened?"

"Shut up and let me finish. As it turns out she didn't like her so she started bullying her. She gathered a group of friends she had made to gang up against her. I tried to help but she wouldn't let me. And like the idiot I was and still am I left her alone. And I even started hanging out with the other girl. Things got worse and worse everyday she said she would fix it but she never did. And what I didn't know was how bad it got until I went to go see her at her apartment. That girl actually set her apartment on fire.

"WHAT!? Why would she do that!?"

"Well apparently she was suffering from schizophrenia."

"So she was a crazy person."

"Yes.

"What would make her hate her so much anyway?"

"Don't know."

Then I saw a glimpse of Shizuo's eyes. They were filled with regret.

"I completely betrayed her."

"I rushed into the apartment to find when I did find her she was on the the ground with a beam over her. And then that girl came in telling me to get out and if I didn't I would die along with what she called her a"Monster". I knew that was true but I couldn't leave her behind. Then I heard her yelling to me to help her that she didn't want to die. But in the end I left her to die."

I stared at him in disbelief.

"Then the firemen had shown up and I told them about how she was in the apartment. And when they brought her out she was suffering from 3rd degree burns. I went with her to the hospital since she had no else to come with her. I was in the waiting in the waiting room when they said I could see her. And when I saw her she looked at me with these cold dead eyes."

I would say something but I had no idea what to say.

"And the next day, she jumped off the roof of the hospital."

I looked at him with sad eyes"I'm sorry..."

He waved his hand"Don't be it was my fault all this happened to her. I shouldn't have listened to her when she told me she could handle it."

"What happened to that other girl?"

"Got sent to a mental asylum."

"Oh."

I saw Shizuo getting angrier and angrier.

"H-hey Shizuo it's okay. All of that is in the past now."I hugged him.

I felt him tense up"It's okay. I may not know what you went through but I know I don't want you to be upset over something that happened a long time ago."

He then relaxed and to my surprise he hugged me back.

"Umm Shizuo...your crushing...me"I let out a squeal.

"Yeah I know that's the whole point."he squeezed tighter.

"You...jerk..."And I heard him chuckle.

AUTHOR'S NOTES:Yaaaaayyyyy! I'm done with this chapter and Shizuo's past in middle school!OoOHow sad...T^T More things will be explaine in the next chapter!...A LOT OF THINGS. So stay tuned! Oh yeah you guys DO know that this IS not only a ShizuoxOC story but a IzayaxOC story? So yes Kohana might end up with Izaya. Just a head's up!

~Alessa