[Izaya's POV]

Izaya sat at his desk, absently tapping his fingers on the surface in front of his laptop, biting his lip as he glanced between his fingers and the now-covered camera on the machine. It had only been two days since he'd seen Kasuka and found out about the photo, but he was currently contemplating how he should handle the situation.

He had told his boyfriend that he would wait for a letter discussing the terms of their separation in patience, only speaking to him at work or about work, but it was just so hard for him to wait. Along with having a bad attention span, he also wasn't one to wait on anything, being a man of action. He would always take action when called for and handle things swiftly with precision, and he knew that he could probably do the same with this - he wasn't the best hacker in the world, at least not when it came to this type of hacking, but he knew a thing or two of how to trace back to a source. I can just try and see if anything comes up. This guy is no where near as good as we're giving him credit for, surely..

With that, he lifted his hands back up to the keyboard, fingers tapping quickly to form a code and soon there were at least 6 windows open with just programming codes and interfaces, his eyes glancing between them quickly to try and find something out of place. This is why you don't stop practicing, Izaya. This is so much harder than it had been a couple years ago… he thought to himself as he examined the codes, seeing slight differences in place already but noting that he was the one that caused those with all the extra firewalls and duplicates of them that he had created to try and make his own network unavailable to anyone besides him. All that time wasted..

The informant just sighed as he continued, frowning when he couldn't find a single trace of the guy that had done this. Yes, he was still referring to the culprit as 'the guy' since there were quite a lot of people besides Dong-Yul that could have done this and were a lot smarter than him as well. I have fucked over a lot of people working for Shiki too, so it might not even be someone I know personally.

Izaya scowled at his computer screen when there was still no trace of anything wrong, giving him the impression whoever did it was better at covering his tracks than he was at being subtle. He was just about to close out of the programming before he spotted something, a string of code that was new, the log stating that it had only been added a couple weeks ago, and since it didn't correspond with anything he could have made as in folders or files or things like that, he immediately looked into it.

Thing was, as soon as he put in the analysis code and input the identification, the screen flashed saying that there had been an error. He tried again another two times, each with different input sequences, before his computer froze and began crashing only a moment later.

The informant watched his wide eyes before he simply slid down in his desk chair, running his fingers through his hair. "Fucker.. Now I need to watch my back and probably get a whole new laptop." Izaya growled to himself, feeling a headache forming as he glanced at his door, waiting irritably for some kind of letter to show up again. Of course there was none, he didn't have that kind of luck, but it slightly eased his impatience whenever he cast a glance over, hoping for and dreading the terms they could get.

After having stared at the one spot under his door for 10 minutes, he finally sighed and stood up, closing his laptop and heading off to wander around the house and busy himself with cleaning. For once he wished he hadn't told Namie to do better when dusting his things, because it now left him with even less to distract himself with. Fucker, fucker, fucker.. Why does this stuff always happen to me?


[Kasuka's POV]

The actor paced impatiently around his home, waiting and dreading yet trying to not think about the letter he could be receiving at any moment. This was torture for him; he'd already had to avoid his beloved for their safety once and now he had to do it again until God knows when. And he couldn't even text him or anything, in fear of the picture getting out or an actual, life-threatening announcement being made.

Then there was the question in his mind about what they would do when the letter did come. Would they listen to it? Would they ignore it? Would whoever was doing this reveal himself?

They had no idea what this person even wanted.

They could want Izaya dead, maimed, put into prison, taken as prisoner.. Then they could want Kasuka instead, or even along with Izaya for some reason, maybe to hold a ransom or make a statement, or maybe it could just be a crazy fan-girl trying to steal him, literally steal him, and not want him with or near Izaya.

There were so many options it was terrifying. And there was nothing to tell them which it was unless they just sat down and fucking waited! How fucked up was that!? They could have at least given us the terms when they sent the picture, then we could be following their rules already, getting whatever needed to be done done or making proper preparations to handle this. Even for a stalker, this is just too cruel.

Kasuka sighed and finally sat down on his couch, head in his hands as he tried to focus on something else for a while, anything to let himself relax a little bit before he got the bad news. Then his phone rang, it turned up on the highest volume in case the stalker wanted to call them and explain the terms themselves instead of by letter, and he answered it quickly.

"Hello?" he answered, almost shouting on accident. There was a sound on the other side before he got a response.

"Hey ototo, uh.. Were you expecting someone?" Shizuo asked on the other side, obviously confused. Kasuka face-palmed before pushing his bangs out of his face again with a sigh.

"No, no I... " Kasuka started, then paused, thinking over the situation for a second before he cleared his throat. "Actually, I was just about to call you. Sorry about shouting. Can I head over to your house for the day?" the younger Heiwajima asked, hearing a small grunt on the other side to show his brother was thinking.

"Yeah, come on over. You sure you're alright?" the blond asked him, even across a phone call being able to sense something was up.

"Yeah, I'm perfectly fine. Just a little stressed from work. Anyways, I'll be over soon. Cya." the actor announced, trying to sound calm and collected before getting a farewell in return and hanging up.

Alright… Okay, this is good. Shizuo hates Izaya but.. If I told him that I was in trouble then he can't be too focused on him, right? He'll help me no matter who I'm dating.. Everything will be fine. He told himself, perking up a bit as he went to his room and changed, then headed out to find his sibling's home once more.


Chapter 49!

Alright so, for everyone who was wondering about Izaya and his amazing hacking skills, this is a result.

Yes, he is good, but most of his job would probably consist of breaking firewalls to get credit-card information or addresses and stuff, not tracing people to their exact location. And there is, in fact, people better at hacking than him that exist. He's the main character, but he is still not God. *shrugs*

Sorry I love to torture you, Iza-chan~

And I also wanted to put Kasuka being the one to take a stand about something, since in most fanfiction even without this pairing, Izaya is always the one to make a head-start in these kinds of situations.

Thought I'd shake it up a bit~

PS. To pichu10176, who asked about if the show had been aired yet - yes, it has been. It aired very early in this series actually, in the story before this one. Ya know, when they went to the party together.

And for those wondering how their close friends haven't figured out it's Izaya working with Kasuka in the show; taking into account the amount of outfits and make-up they put on him for every episode, along with contacts maybe (red eyes wouldn't be common for a protagonist unless it was a vampire show or something close to it) then with him using a different name and not having done much to promote himself, only the show, it wouldn't be the most obvious thing in the world unless they were looking for it.

Plus, with Shinra always working on underground patients, along with healing Shizuo when necessary, Celty doing dirty work and helping Shinra with his, along with everyone else living their every day lives in general (AND taking into account the tastes they probably have in television) I don't think it would be likely that any of them even watch the show. The only one with a reason to would be Shizuo, and only because he knows Kasuka stars in it in the first place.

So, there ya go. I have explained myself ^^

Sorry for taking so long to get to your question pichu10176!

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