Title: Renovation
Day & Prompt: Day 7 (4/19): Moving in together
Rating: T
Warnings(*please indicate if it's sfw/nsfw): SFW
Side Pairings(if applicable): N/A
Summary: A home is not just a house you live in, it's also a place where you can return too, and a place others will one day come back to also.
A home.
This was probably the first time Izaya had a place to return to that was called a home, instead or house or apartment. He and the blonde were finally living together after getting married and graduating high school.
The apartment, a large condo that took up an entire floor, was spacious and sophisticated, just the way he liked it, being the minimalist he was. They had saved money up together, well more like Shizuo saved up money despite Izaya's insistence that he could buy the place by himself. Apparently the blonde wanted it to be a shared effort.
Sadly, the modest look only lasted for a bit.
They originally didn't have that many possessions to decorate the condo with, only bringing along with them necessities such as kitchenware, clothes, tables, chairs, and lamps. They managed to decorate the new place exactly the way Izaya liked it, neat and tidy. But as time went on, it slowly became more and more cluttered.
It wasn't cluttered in the way that it was messy, they still kept the condo very clean, but it was cluttered in the way that it contained unnecessary objects like decorative vases and random paintings of fruit bowls and rivers.
At first, he didn't really mind it much, finding it very endearing and Shizuo-esque. But as it continued on, he found himself lying on his shared bed, landing on a pile of pillows instead of the actual mattress, and decided they should have an intervention.
So confronting Shizuo while he was drinking milk in the kitchen, Izaya gently plucked one of the paintings that decorated the kitchen wall off from where it was hanging. It was late at night and the blonde was tired from a long day at work, but even though the raven had the same amount of sleep as the blonde, he was able to sustain himself with black coffee that Shizuo refused to even sip.
"Shizu-chan, we need to have a talk…."
Turning around, still half-asleep from having just woken up, Shizuo blearily regarded the other with a tired look.
"Huh? We do? Is something wrong?"
Nodding solemnly, Izaya gestured around the apartment.
"What do you see when I do this?"
Eyebrows furrowing together, the blonde grunted as he turned his head and looked around. Izaya hoped he would get the hint as his hand moved from some kind of blobbed sculpture on the kitchen table to the pillows and rugs that lay scattered about the living room area.
"I see our home, what about it?" He asked, confused, walking past the exasperated raven.
Rubbing his temples, Izaya tried again, flustered still at this place being regarded as a home. It seemed foreign on his tongue, unused and unsaid, but he agreed. It did look very homely and cozy compared to before, which was an efficient office that just so happened to also be where they lived.
"Shizu-chan, maybe you should stop buying things to decorate the house with…" The raven suggested casually, watching as Shizuo sleepily trudged back up the stairs to the second floor of their apartment.
"Can we get a dog then?" Was what he asked back, as if it was some kind of ultimatum.
Stiffly stopping in his tracks in following the other up the stairs, Izaya instantly answered back without hesitation, a scowl forming on their lips. He dislikes dogs very much.
"Absolutely not."
Getting into the bedroom, Shizuo quickly plopped down, closing their eyes sleepily as they began to doze off. Izaya scoffed at the other, sitting on the other side, fully intent to try to convince the other to stop this home renovation still.
"Why is Shizu-chan so bent on making this place homey anyways, it's just the two of us," he had said off-handedly, just as a way to keep the other somewhat conscious and from falling asleep.
Grunting as he rolled over, he quickly pulled Izaya down, holding him behind as he nuzzled his nose into the slender neck. The raven jolted, shivering at the contact, trying futilely to break free from the strong grip, pink tint rising in his cheeks at the unrelenting hold.
"Shizu-chan! Let me go and answer me."
Only seeming to snuggle in more, Izaya sighed, rolling his eyes at the other, about to wake them up by pinching their nose and mouth shut, before half-asleep words fell from the blonde's lips.
"'Cause it's not always just going to be us…. I want to make this to be a place where…we can have kids in the future…"
The smaller male froze, heart half stopping at the suggestion and what it implied, as his eyes widened comically. Turning around in the hold, he faced Shizuo, about to ask what the blonde meant by that, however, the light snoring that emitted from him deterred Izaya enough to just lay in the darkness of their room, contemplating what to do. The vagueness of that statement would keep him sane for now.
Perhaps, the blonde didn't realize what he said and would forget this whole exchange once he wakes up, the raven tried to persuade himself. But that didn't get rid of the problem that Shizuowanted kids one day.
It was endearing, but it also meant that he'll eventually gain more people that he loved differently than his love for humans. A little fear embedding itself in the back of his head at all the possible risks and consequences that came with it.
"We've only been together in this place for about year and you're already thinking about children, Shizu-chan really is a romantic…" He chuckled nervously, stroking the other's blond hair.
If it was with Shizuo, it'll be worth it somehow.
"Unpredictable brute…"