When the doorbell rang Izaya quickly shut down his computer and rushed to open it, greeting his guest happily,
"Good morning~ Akabayashi-san is early isn't he?"
"Where is he?" was the only answer he received.
"Calm down Akabayashi-san, he's just taking a shower and yes he's back to normal"
The redhead sighed, "Thank god, I was so worried"
"I can see that"
"I brought a change of clothes"
"I'll go give them to him", and he disappeared toward the bathroom, leaving Akabayashi alone in his office.
When he came back the redhead was sitting in his couch, Izaya tried to get his usual teasing tone back before saying,
"Akabayashi-san is really rude today, sitting wherever he wants, not even greeting me after I helped him cleaning up the mess he created, aaw I'm so sad~"
The redhead looked down, visibly embarassed,
"I'm sorry, I - I ..."
Izaya dismissed further apology, "It's ok, really, I never really cared for social conventions anyway"
As he finished talking Akabayashi raised his head,
"Ah, I nearly forgot, about payement I .."
"I don't need to be paid either"
"Eh?", clearly he must have misheard something, never would Orihara Izaya do something for free.
"Let's say it's a gift to my best clients~" he said cheerfully, suspicious, Akabayashi raised an eyebrow but before he could say anything they were interupted by Shiki coming back from the bathroom, a towel in his wet hairs and the redhead instantly stood up.
"Akabayashi-san, hello"
"I'm so glad you're ok"
"May I remind you nothing would have happened if it weren't for you?"
"I'm sorry, I'm really, really sorry! But you see, everything is back to normal now"
"Thankfully for you." he answered, harshly. "Now shall we go?"
"Sure"
Akabayashi walked toward the door, closely followed by Shiki, Izaya watching the scene.
Before closing the door the yakuza turned back toward the informant and said, "Thank you"
Smirking Izaya answered, "No problem, always happy to be of some help to you Shiki-san"
The redhead couldn't help but feel like something was off. As soon as the door was closed he asked,
"Shiki-san, did something weird happened between you and Orihara-san?"
The other one shrugged and answered calmly "No"
Meanwhile, Izaya was sitting at his desk, going through the videos from that day, blessing the day he had the idea to install these cameras everywhere.
He grinned at the thought of everything he could do with them. Shiki will definitely come back, he was sure of that.