"Dying together is a kind of a happy ending."
Erika nodded enthusiastically.
"I feel like drawing doujin of this now! Mirai Nikki: Kida-kun is Yuki, Mikado-kun is Yuno!"
Yumasaki chimed in.
"Add Izaya to it so we can kill him in 2D!"
"I can't have that, Izaya exists to be paired with Shizuo. Shizaya is what I live for! And Mi-Kida now!"
Mikado grew thoughtful.
"You could add Aoba-kun, he does deserve to die."
Which of course spurred Erika on to text Aoba with the destination they were headed to. Just for the fun of it.
"What should I do... I suppose I'll have to use Izaya but if he's with Shizuo odds are he would either not pick up his phone or he'd be all 'whee, sexy times'. So annoying that he's the one person who can find anyone in this town."
Celty was unsure if this diatribe was addressed to her or if Aoba was simply ranting in pure psycho monologue mode. It might not even matter. She knew that she should simply leave but she was very curious as to what was going on and she suspected Aoba had an idea.
[Put on some clothes! Do you know why everyone is suddenly so crazy?]
Aoba explained the strange condition in which some people were unable to lie.
[So that's what happened!]
Aoba sighed and seemed reconciled to actually get dressed when his phone beeped from the midst of his clothes. He read the text and jumped up and down.
"Alright! It's on!"
Celty could not simply let him walk around Ikebukuro in his boxers and so found herself following him down the street.
[Where are you going?]
"Sunshine 60, that's where!"
To say that Shizuo had been looking to being alone with Izaya in a snug hotel room was an understatement yet as the tall facade came into view he began to walk slowly and having his doubts. After all, there was something highly embarrassing not to mention compromising about walking into a very crowded hotel lobby and asking for a room together with Izaya, of all people. Shizuo might as well advertise. The fact that the entire city of Ikebukuro was already buzz with the unlikely match up did little to abate Shizuo's misgivings.
"How about we just go to your place or something..."
"Say what, Shizu-chan?"
Shizuo was staring at the pavement and spoke very low.
"You know, we could just go to your place... not need to go to a fancy hotel."
"Oh really? I don't think you get it. I have my 'dream date with Shizu-chan' all planned out for years now. Years. There is no way I'm letting you mess up with that. Besides, it is way too late for you to be acting all coy."
"But it's just, you know... going to a hotel with you is a bit... maybe you can dress up as a girl?"
"How about you do that instead."
"Wouldn't work..."
"I may be a wonderful trap but there is no way I am going to go that route."
"I'm no homo..."
"Fine. Then you'll miss out on delicious Izaya sex. Your choice, really."
"That's not fucking fair, blackmailing me with sex..."
"It's all part of dating, Shizu-chan."
Shizuo had his serious doubts as to the validity of such a generalization but he was not about to voice them. Instead he kept on staring at the ground most intently and tried to be as inconspicuous as possible. Which was hardly easy considering that he much bigger than most and Izaya had seen fit to put on the bizarre penguin hat in a strange case of fashion statement.
To Shizuo's surprise Izaya relented and actually showed a kinder side for once.
"We have a reservation under 'Orihara Izako.' For the honeymoon suite."
"We only have one under 'Orihara Izaya."
Izaya batted his eyelashes most girlishly. The hat most definitely helped.
"Oh my, they have written it down wrong."
Shizuo quite liked this arrangement. If Izaya used a female name then Shizuo was in the clear. Of course odds are there would be hell to pay later but for the time being Shizuo did not care much.
And then all hell broke loose. Suddenly the pen kid arrived with the yellow kimono blonde kid along with Erika and Walker. Shizuo blinked at the weird combination and would have simply ignored them but Kida was not having any of that.
"Orihara-san, you bastard! You left me with this, this, this Mikado!"
Izaya blinked innocently.
"Oh my, 'Mikado' is an insult now. How fickle, youthful friendship-"
"Shut up!"
