I am so sorry everyone! I know I haven't updated in over a month but life was busy and I was in kind of a writer's slump over this chapter. I am really sorry because I don't even really like how I wrote this, but it was the best I could come up with. Again, really sorry for the long wait and this chapter.

Chapter 14

Shizuo absolutely, positively, one-hundred-percent, loved Izaya Orihara. However, that did not stop him from wanting to throw his husband out of a window in frustration on a daily basis. That urge only grew during the weeks before May 4th, all because the stupid flea wouldn't tell him what he wanted for his birthday. Every year, Shizuo would ask his husband what he wanted and every year, Izaya would reply, "You'll have to guess, Shizu-chan!"

Of course, Shizuo would guess every time and get something for the stupid flea. One year, it had been a new switchblade, another year it had been a necklace, and last year he had gotten so fed up because he hadn't known what to get that he just went all-out and baked his husband a cake.

But this year he would find out exactly what Izaya would want for his birthday, because this year he had a secret weapon. A secret weapon by the name of Mikado.

Izaya knew that he was frustrating Shizuo and he giggled about it to himself. He truly didn't care what the blonde got him for his birthday, but it was so fun to mess with him! Of course, he loved whatever Shizuo got him, in fact, he still wore the necklace every day. The blonde seemed to work himself into a tizzy each year, worrying about what gift to get Izaya, and it was just so fun to watch him(he's not sadistic at all, why would you think that?).

However, this year, it seemed that Shizu-chan had a different strategy in mind to try to puzzle out what to get Izaya.

It was two weeks before Izaya's birthday. He was in the living room, watching Shizuo help Mikado with some of his schoolwork. They were all sitting on the couch while Izaya was using Shizuo's legs as a foot rest when he suddenly got up to get something to drink from the kitchen. What he didn't see was that as soon as he walked away, Shizuo immediately took to whispering conspiratorially to his son. When Izaya came back with a large glass of juice that would probably be drank by not only himself but his husband and son as well, he squinted suspiciously at the smug look on Shizuo's face while the blonde just patted the couch cushion next to him. Izaya gingerly sat down on the cushion and kept looking suspiciously at the blonde.

All of a sudden, Shizuo quickly turned away from him, grabbed Mikado, then plopped him onto Izaya's lap.

"Oof!" he grunted. "Shizu-chan what was that for?"

Shizuo just snickered evilly, which was something that Izaya did not appreciate. Evil laughing was his thing, thank you very much.

"Mikado wants to ask you something," he replied simply. Izaya turned his gaze down to the little boy in his lap who was giving him a shy smile.

"Oh, what is it, Mikado-kun?" he asked.

Mikado looked shyly over at Shizuo and when the blonde gave an encouraging nod he looked at Izaya and asked quietly, "Daddy, what do you want for your birthday? Papa says that it's gonna come up soon and I wanna get you something."

Izaya smiled sweetly at the boy while shooting a look at his smug looking husband. He couldn't really give his son the same answer that he told Shizuo, because it was likely the little raven would panic and worry himself into tears. But then again, he didn't really want anything for his birthday, he truly didn't care. Plus, he still wanted to tease Shizuo, and see what kind of gift the blonde would get him.

Mikado was shifting around in his lap, getting a bit nervous, so Izaya gave him a warm smile and said, "I'll love whatever you get me, Mikado!" then brought his son into a tight hug, making the little one let out a surprised squeak. Shizuo was giving him a dirty look so Izaya just stuck his tongue out at his husband, a gesture that the blonde returned.

Flash forward to a day before Izaya's birthday and he still didn't know what to get his husband! All of his attempts to pry an answer out of his significant other failed greatly. He knew that birthdays weren't all about presents, but it was the principle of the whole thing. At this point, he was pretty sure his husband was just doing this to spite him.

I mean, he said to himself while brushing his teeth, it's not that hard to tell me what he wants. It's not like I ever give him this much trouble when it's my birthday. Then again, I never really care about what he gets me-

Suddenly, he stopped brushing and looked at himself in the mirror, eyes wide with a revelation. He doesn't care. He doesn't give a shit about what I get him because he doesn't really want anything, he just wants to know what I would get him, he just wants to know that I care.

Izaya poked his head into his and Shizuo's shared bathroom to see his husband with a toothbrush hanging out of his mouth, staring hopelessly at himself in the mirror. Izaya wondered if the blonde was admiring himself, though the toothbrush kind of dulled down his natural good looks, when the blonde suddenly whacked himself in the forehead, dropping his toothbrush in the process.

"That took me way too long to figure out!" he said. "I'm an idiot!"

Izaya leaned against the doorway and laughed at Shizuo, drawing the blonde's attention to him. "I knew that a long time ago, Shizu-chan, and you're just figuring this out now?"

The day of his birthday, Izaya woke up with feathers in his hair from the pillow fight he and Shizuo had had, his son sleeping on his chest because their ruckus had woken him up and then he had wanted to sleep in their bed with them, and a dog drooling on his leg. Later in the day, after a breakfast prepared by his adoring husband, he was presented with a little black stuffed kitten.

"Do you like her, Daddy?" Mikado asked shyly.

"I love her!" Izaya exclaimed. "I think I'll name her Torio!"

Mikado smiled brightly and hugged his father again. "Papa has a present for you too. It's in the kitchen."

Izaya gave Mikado a kiss on the top of his head and then went to see what his husband had got him.

"Shizu-chan!" he called. "Now I'm curious. You couldn't have made another cake this year because Simon already dropped one off, and although Mikado and I could definitely handle that much sugar, I don't think you can." He stopped when he was suddenly grabbed from behind and squeezed in a hug.

"Aww, is this my present this year?" he cooed. "You being extra affectionate?"

Shizuo snorted into his shoulder. "No, dumbass," he responded, "your present's in my hand." Izaya looked down and he saw that in Shizuo's hand was-

"Shizu-chan, I love you so much!" he crowed after grabbing the container of fatty tuna. Mikado had come into the kitchen with Rufus in tow and he asked, "Did you like your birthday, Daddy?"

"Yeah, flea," Shizuo joined. "How was it this year?"

"It was perfect. I have a wonderful husband, an adorable son, a slobbering dog, a cute stuffed cat, and fatty tuna!"