Welcome to chapter 8~! *0*

Hehe, being in one room together- I do wonder what kind fo things will happen when they are forced to be close together~

Oh well, let´s surprise you all C; xD

Thank you very much for correcting SoylentRamen! *^* Seriously, she is the queen of proofreading! With university and all that shit I´m not exactly the fastest writer at the moment, and to be honest I thought there was no way I would make it in time this time-

BUT- after I wrote all the updates yesterday- she corrected all four chapters in like, within 3 hours, after I sent them to her ;/; Thank you a lot SoylentRamen C:

Anon: awwwww, thank you 3 3 Haha, well them being together in a room was kinda a necessary setting xD Otherwise they could avoid each other too much, ne~? C; Especially in case SOMETHING happened C; C; C; C; xD I hope this now will be more surprising for you xD

Reader: Awwwww, no worries, Izaya is safe C; For now~ Hehe Shinra is kinda the glue that is supposed to stick them together xD Even more so after this chapter~ but you will see C;

Guest 2: You always do~! xD I wonder how you do it, but everytime you comment I get an idea for something xD ohhh very sharp~ C; Well, about the nightmares, I guess we will have to wait till night C; There you go, giving me ideas again xD The mega sweet part will be starting at the end of next chapter hehehehe~ This one is supposed to be the sweetest story next to Survival of the doomed xD minus the zombies that is xD Haha oh well~

I hope you all will like this chapter *0*

Enjoy~!

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Chapter 8: Beetles and a deal

-Izaya´s point of view-

Without a care, Izaya´s bag was tossed into the corner of the room- a glare directed at the blond as he slumped down on one of the beds.

Sure, Izaya was kinda grateful that Shizu-chan had carried his luggage here, as well, but did he really have to behave like a brute with it?

A snort was to be heard, and Izaya snapped his head towards Shinra just in time to see him cover up the smirk he had been wearing with an innocent expression.

The future doctor was probably enjoying this a damn lot.

Izaya sighed as he walked over, turning his bag around so it was at least laying there in a decent way.

This was going to be one hell of a week- funny for him though, because he surely wasn´t going to leave the brute alone for even a second. That idiot had gone and rambled to Shinra right away.

He was lucky enough the bespectacled boy hadn´t drawn any conclusions yet.

Not that he would be able to.

No one would be able to guess what was actually going on. He could rest assured.

"Now, where is the dining hall?" It was the brute that had voiced his thoughts, and the raven blinked. It didn´t exactly look as if Shizu-chan had already unpacked everything. The opposite, in fact.

Was he going to live out of his suitcase?

Would suit a brute like him.

"I would say where the sign points, protozoan," Izaya grinned, answering the question by pointing towards Shinra. On the wall opposite their opened door was a sign with a neat arrow, pointing to the dining hall.

The blond glared at the flea, though he didn´t say anything.

Without another word, he stomped out of the room.

"Aren´t you going to unpack, Shizu-chan~?" the raven called teasingly, but the brute didn´t even glance over his shoulder as he moved on. The future doctor grinned.

"He is getting better at ignoring you." Izaya rolled his eyes, getting up, as well, and moved to the door.

"Oh, shut up, Shinra. Why are you even still here, anyway? Go to your own room." And with that, he pushed his friend out of the door, turned around, and locked it.

"So rude. Izaya, you should try to be nicer to your friends or they won´t be your friends much longer!" Shinra huffed, crossing his arms. The raven only snorted in response, though.

"No one is keeping you are they?" The brunet boy gasped theatrically.

"How can you say that, Izaya? You're hurting my feelings!" Izaya rolled his eyes.

"Do you even have feelings?" Shinra grinned, adjusting his glasses. "Oh, I do have feelings. Strong ones, even. But they only belong to my dear Celty-chan~" Walking towards the dining hall, Izaya let his eyes trail around to search for the annoyed brute.

After all, now that he had told Shinra anyway, there was no one left that would be a potential threat to him.

"Again with the imaginary girlfriend?" he asked, finally sighting the desired individual again.

He was already sitting at one of the tables, simply waiting, it seemed.

The teachers were also in the hall, discussing what they would be doing on the trip and where to go when.

To Izaya´s surprise, Shizu-chan wasn´t the only student there, though. He doubted anyone of their classmates had properly unpacked their stuff and put it away, but they were all sitting there in the dining hall already.

They probably just skipped that stuff, just like Shizu-chan.

Setting up his usual smirk, he let himself slump down on the chair opposite Shizu-chan.

A glare was thrown at him instantly by none other than the beast, but he could live with that.

"Can´t you just leave me alone?" Izaya grinned sheepishly.

"I don´t know what you're talking about." He swore Shizu-chan´s stare looked as if he wanted to throw him through the entire hall- But he remained calm.

"I wonder what we will be getting for dinner." Izaya blinked, turning his head just in time to see Shinra sit down at the table, as well. Izaya irked an eyebrow.

"And you are sitting here because...?"

"Because you are both my friends, of course~!" Right. The blond snorted.

It was weird, wasn´t it?

Izaya was only ever causing trouble, and always annoying the shit out of him- who the hell would want to be his friend?

"... I still don´t get how you can label that asshole as friend."

"Same to you brute." He glared, but Izaya didn´t seem to be intimidated by him at all. As usual- Honestly, for all the people he wished would not be afraid of him, Izaya was the only one that he wanted to freaking be scared. That way, he would stay away from him. But no, he just had to be the only one beside Shinra that didn´t give a fuck about his strength.

Well, that wasn´t true, probably. Shinra gave a lot of fucks about his strength- in a weird sense of admiration, or curiosity, or whatever. It annoyed him sometimes, just a bit.

"Ah, they are already bringing the food." Upon hearing Shinra say that, he lifted his head, looking towards the entrance of the dining hall.

A few people were coming in, carrying plates filled with food.

One moved over to them and placed it in the middle of their table.

"What the fuck is this?" Surprised by the reaction, Shizuo looked up at the raven who looked like he had just seen the grossest thing ever.

"Whoa, I rarely hear you swear," Shinra commented, stabbing one of the three poor animals with his fork as he pulled it onto his plate. Still confused, Shizuo eyed the food.

"It´s just grilled fish. What´s wrong with it?" He didn´t see the problem here. The raven, however, cringed as he used one of the knives on the table to poke one of the swimming creatures. "Don´t you eat Otooro all the time?"

"I do but Otooro isn´t staring at me like that." The blond blinked.

"Huh? It´s dead." Izaya cringed, shoving the plate away from him.

"I'm telling you, it´s staring at me. Who the hell would eat something so gross?" A snort was to be heard, and Shizuo looked at Shinra, who was grinning at the flea.

"Ahhh, I remember. You are grossed out by fish eyes, aren't you? What´s with you and animals? Just like last time with the do-" Shinra didn´t get to finish his sentence, though.

Shizuo didn´t know what he had been about to say, but obviously it was something that Izaya didn't want him to tell, as he grabbed one of the staring fishes and shoved it in Shinra's mouth, effectively silencing him-

Crossing his arms, he leaned back in his chair, looking towards the entrance of what seemed like the kitchen.

"I´m done. What´s for dessert?" he announced, his brows still furrowed in that tight line.

Something akin to a grin spread over the blond´s lips. He didn´t think he would ever get the chance to see how Izaya for once did not get what he wanted. Maybe it wouldn´t be so bad to spend the week with him.

"Maybe a bowl, filled with fish eyes," he answered, and for once, he enjoyed the way Izaya glared at him for that. He was aware he would probably sound like the flea if he said it out loud, but he enjoyed teasing that annoying louse.

And it got even better-

Because approximately after 15 minutes of Shinra trying not to suffocate on the fish down his throat and Shizuo finishing his own- the dessert came.

Chocolate mousse.

"This is way too sweet-" The raven was cringing again, his tongue sticking out as he dropped the spoon he had used to taste the cream back into the bowl.

Shizu-chan, however, was utterly delighted by this surprise. It was no secret to Izaya that he was fond of sweets, so it sure disturbed him that Shizu-chan got something he really liked instead of having to eat something disgusting-

"Just like a little kid," the raven teased, hoping to at least be able to amuse himself with the blond´s reaction, but Shizu-chan merely grinned at him as he ate another spoonful of the mousse.

"You are just annoyed because you didn´t get anything to eat."

The frown on Izaya´s face deepened even more.

Really, this was one shitty day.

"May I have your attention, please?" Izaya turned his head. The voice that had spoken those words belonged to one of the teachers that were travelling with them. She had stood up from her chair to be seen by everyone.

"After dinner, you may return to your rooms for today, lights out is at ten. I expect everyone to meet up in front of the building tomorrow morning at 8am. For tomorrow, the teachers will do the wakeup call around 7:30 am. That´s all." And with that being said, she sat down again.

The raven sighed.

"10pm is lights-out? What are we? 12 years old?" Shinra shrugged.

"Well, it´s a school trip, so that can´t be helped." It´s not like he minded going to sleep early; without Celty being here, it would be boring anyway.

And it would probably be better for these two, too.

To be honest, Shinra was almost proud of his two friends.

Shizuo hadn´t killed Izaya yet, and Izaya almost seemed to be holding back a bit; otherwise, he would have gotten Shizuo to flip out already.

Fascinating. Was he not feeling well, or something?

Letting the spoon dangle from his nose, he watched the two teasing each other.

Looking at it like that, he really wondered why they weren´t friends. Izaya wasn´t as bad as he was trying to seem- he wondered why Shizuo didn´t get that.

If he was able to sniff Izaya out, then he should at least be able to see this much.

Then again, that was just wishful thinking.

He sighed as the raven stood up from the table, declaring that he would be going back to mess Shizuo´s suitcase up.

Of course, Shizuo was on his heels as soon as he had said that, and before Shinra knew it, he was sitting there alone.

"Ne, Celty, how should I make those two become friends?" he mumbled, more to himself than to anyone else, of course.

And then all of a sudden, he got an idea.

-Shizuo´s point of view. Back in room 104-

"I swear, if you try anything, I´m murdering you, just so you know," the blond growled as he was about to climb into his bed.

To make sure the flea wouldn´t do anything, he moved both their beds farther apart.

Izaya´s he shoved into the far right corner of the room, and his own into the left corner. More distance wasn´t possible.

"Aw, Shizu-chan don´t worry, I won´t do anything while you sleep. Though what Shinra requested sure sounded fun," the raven snickered, slumping down on the bed himself.

"Don´t you dare." The lights had been turned off, and apart from annoying each other, they hadn´t really done anything.

No death threats, no bruises or broken furniture, so far everything was going well, Shizuo thought as he stared at the dark ceiling. After they had returned to their rooms, the flea just went for a shower, anyway, and didn´t come out of it for ages, so he had lots of time to get his stuff out of his suitcase.

All in all, it was okay sharing the room with the flea, he guessed. Maybe it was due to the fever Izaya had this morning, but he was slightly better to deal with than usual.

...

He still wondered why Izaya wanted to go on this trip so badly, though.

It didn´t seem like he was enjoying himself much here.

... oh well. That was Izaya's problem.

The raven, on the other hand was also still awake. His arms were crossed behind his head, and he couldn´t help but think about home.

Or rather, about his mum and the twins.

They didn´t know anything.

And he hoped they would never find out.

...

He rolled onto his side, his hands tightening around the pillow he was resting on as he glanced at the brute.

It seemed he was sleeping.

Ahhh, how tempting it would be to pull some prank on him.

... what would he do if he knew what was going on at home? Would he laugh?

Somehow, Izaya got the impression he wouldn´t. Even when Shizu-chan thought someone random hurt Izaya during a fight, he seemed rather more pissed than pleased with that knowledge.

It was weird, wasn´t it? Because at the end of the day, Shizu-chan was always yelling that he would murder him, and yet he never had even a bruise.

He complained about their chases all the time, but somehow, Izaya got the feeling he didn´t hate them as much as he was letting on.

Same for him, he guessed. Killing Shizu-chan would be a waste. He was way too fun of a toy to throw away.

Suddenly, there was a knock.

At first, Izaya thought he was imagining it because... it was after 10 pm already.

But after he heard the second, the third, and even the fourth knock, he got up with a groan- unlocking the door as he opened it.

There was only one possible person who would dare to knock at their door at 10pm.

"I want to go catch beetles!"

"You are kidding." It was none other than their friend Shinra.

"No, I´m serious! My dear love Celty-chan said she's never seen a rhino beetle, so I gotta get her one!" Leaning against the doorframe, Izaya quirked an eyebrow as he crossed his arms.

"You mean your imaginary girlfriend?"

"Can you two shut up?" The raven smirked, glancing over his shoulder to see Shizu-chan glare at them.

"Great, Shinra, you woke the protozoan." But Shinra didn´t look guilty even in the slightest- the opposite. As soon as he noticed that Shizu-chan was awake, he stepped into the room, walking over to the brute.

"Shizuo, are you going to come into the woods with me to catch a beetle?"

Sometimes, Izaya seriously couldn´t believe how bold Shinra could be.

"Just send her a photo from the internet, oh my god." And then again, he didn´t get how Shizuo didn't end up punching his lights out by accident.

"But it has to be one that I caught! You don´t understand- it´s a matter of love~! I promised to catch one myself." The blond only rolled over, though, not speaking another word.

"Give up, Shinra, the brute said no," Izaya stated as he closed the door and walked over to his bed, lying down.

"Then you do it, Izaya!" the brunet boy pouted, walking over to the raven.

"As you can see, I´m trying to sleep, so no." And the pout only got worse.

"Come on, Izaya." The raven didn´t move though.

"Izaya." Shinra crouched down and poked the future informant.

"Oi." Another poke followed.

"Izaya."

"GODDAMNIT, SHINRA." It was the blond who had barked those words- A snort was to be heard as Izaya couldn´t hold his laughter anymore.

"I´m tempted to stay here simply to see you bug the hell out of Shizu-chan."

The blond growled, finally getting up from the bed as he walked over to the annoying guy.

"Just some freaking bug, right? I will fucking go with you, so now shut the fuck up." Shinra grinned, clasping his hands together as he was lifted by the back of his shirt and dragged out of the room like a puppy.

"Yay~!" The raven shook his head as he walked after them.

"Can´t miss the chance to see a brute trying to find a beetle at night, now can I?"

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End of chapter 8 C:

Well, well~ Now let´s see what´s going to happen outside in the dark xD

xD I hope you enjoy the light mood of the two just annoying each other xD Soon~ soon, soon, I will take this up a notch~ In which direction I wonder, good or bad~? xD

Well then, sorry for being a tad late again C: Now I will update regularly again cx tho I will mention up ahead, that on sunday the 10th I won´t be able to update C: I will be on holiday, in Turkey for a week xD And considering how the wifi usually sucks balls I probably literally wouldn´t be able to post anyway xD

Other than that I will update every sunday tho *0*

I hope you liked this chappy C:

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Well then xD

See you next sunday~!