Welcome to chapter 11 *^*
Gosh I hurried to finish these updates you have no idea x'D it´s like approaching 1 am and I´m still sitting here writing x'DDD
Anyway anyway, xD I´m on time *0* Banzai xD Well not exactly on time since I´m late with this chapter by one week but heyyyyy no worries xD Next weekend there will also be a chapter of bcd in exchange C;
Now, now, this chapter hasn´t been corrected yet sadly- so please don´t kill me for mwa mistakes ;A;
And also... they are talking a lot here only so I dunno xD There is not much action but hey~! I have something SWEET in story for soonish future chapters xDD
Guest 2: Izaya is just a cutie pie xD of course he cares naw he just is seriously awkward at showing it x'D haha you really do C: In nearly every review you wrote there were just one or two sentences that struck me with an idea x'D funny little side fact- when i wrote the morning scene I first accidentally wrote Izaya thought Shizuo looked sexy in the morning with his bedhair x'D then figured that would be a bit too early x'DDDD The temptation though! xD Now then x'D thank you for putting it so nicely xD Domestic haha yeah I guess that suits it x'D I guess this is another domestic chapter before the storm breaks lose hehehe~
Anon: Awww thank you 3 C': I just love imaging them that way, i mean, Izaya being an informant and busy busy kinda person, I dunno but I somehow imagine him to like skip on sleep altogether sometimes xD While Shizuo is just so cute, I bet he sleeps in xD Sadly the drama has to wait a lilll bit more C; But no worries, it will be coming just like Shizu-chan- Surprising, destructing and with a bang xDDD
Reader: I hope so xD Gosh I should get on with it already x'D the interesting part is right up ahead in the next two or three chapters *0* xDD Poor Izaya with his nightmares :'C As for his father, well, well xD You will see C:
LRyuzaki24: xDDDDDD the chapter summed up in two sentences x'D
I will reply to all the other reviews tomorrow morning! xD sorry I´m so tired now x'D
Enjoy~!
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ஜ Chapter 11: Endless stairs ஜ
-Shizuo´s point of view-
"Good morning, Shizuo~!"
"Please, Shinra, not yet-" It had barely been a half hour's bus ride until they had gotten to the stairs.
Enough time to try and sleep some more while the flea did whatever. After the teacher had knocked on the door, there wasn´t much time left for him to ramble about bullshit and Shizuo had to get ready, as well, no matter if he wanted to or not.
They told them to get on the bus, and then they drove here- to some sort of temple. To be honest, Shizuo hadn´t paid too much attention- it was just too freaking early to bombard him with information and make him walk up a million stairs-
These stairs were goddamn annoying- Every single one of the students was moving so slowly, but they had to stay in the row, so they were marching right at the end of the queue -
Well... it was his own fault anyway.
He had fallen asleep on the bus.
Izaya had actually stayed behind to wake him up, which no one else dared to. Probably only to annoy him so he wouldn't get bored, but whatever, he was glad he didn't actually.
But now... they were last.
As well as the puking friend and Shinra. Those two had been busy stopping to feel nauseous and had been falling behind as well.
And now.
They were all stuck here at the very end of the queue.
Seriously- Shizuo couldn´t even see what was in front of them, or when these stupid stairs would end, because of all the students.
"Beware, Shinra, he said he likes to kill his friends in the morning." A glare was sent at the raven who was chirping next to him without a single care.
"I said no killing friends," he mumbled already annoyed as he remembered the flea´s words. Izaya quirked an eyebrow at that.
"You looked ready to throw me across the campus, though."
"That´s just because you are annoying." The sudden flash of bright light made both of them stop and blink- only to see a certain future doctor standing in front of them with a grin on his face and his phone in his hands. Had he taken a picture of them?
"What the fuck, Shinra?" It was Shizuo who had asked that, though Izaya was about to say something similar.
"Well, this was such a rare moment, I thought I would catch it on tape." Shinra chirped, sliding the phone back into his pocket while the puking friend backed away in fear.
Honestly, Izaya felt bad for the guy getting dragged into this, it was obvious how afraid he was of Shizu-chan; well, and maybe of him, as well.
"Rare moment?" he questioned, making the brunette grin even wider as he glanced on a watch on his wrist.
"You have been walking up here for at least 15 minutes, and there are no vending machines flying around yet. It´s a miracle~!" The raven snorted, while Shizuo sighed.
"About that. Izaya and me are trying to get along actually." For a second, Shinra simply stopped and gaped at the two, slowly but surely falling behind as they walked past him on the stairs.
"... come again?" he asked, running after them to catch up. Izaya just waved him off.
"Shizu-chan just went crazy, that´s all. I´m sure by the end of today everything will be back to normal." After all, he didn´t particularly intend to act any nicer towards the brute, so- it was more than predictable this time how the day would end.
"You could at least try, you know," Shizuo grumbled, glancing at the flea who was so obviously not trying to change a single thing about his behavior.
"What? Becoming friends?" The way he said it sounded like a mockery in itself. As if he and the brute could be friends- that word itself was something that shouldn´t even exist in their dictionary.
"Yeah. Stop saying annoying things." Seriously, a thinking and wondering Shizu-chan who tried to change things was a Shizu-chan that he didn´t particularly like all that much.
"So what, you want me to lead a serious conversation with Shizu-chan the amoeba?" he spat, expecting an equally venomous reply, but instead the beast simply nodded.
"Actually, that would be nice." The raven sighed.
"Seriously?" The blond actually looked like he meant what he said- not reacting to his taunt. Izaya almost felt ignored.
"You always say that it was my fault things ended up the way they did. So what would you have done if I had said something different that day?" Something different?
So not, You piss me off, but something else?
"Honestly?" The blond nodded.
"Honestly."
"I would have still annoyed the shit out of you~" The brute didn´t react to this tease either though. The raven frowned. Shizu-chan was supposed to simply flip out and not start getting self-control and thinking.
"Honestly," the blond repeated, obviously telling the raven that he would ignore whatever he said that didn´t sound like that truth. A defeated sigh left the raven´s lips.
"I don´t know, seriously. You ask me things that happened like, ages ago. What do you think I would have done?" Shizuo just shrugged.
"You would have probably used me for some schemes." At least, that's what he liked to think. After all, on that day, he already wore this stupid grin that seemed like he was scheming dozens of plans in his head for Shizuo. The raven only hummed, though.
"Well that strength of yours isn´t anything to put to shame, but I wouldn´t have used you."
Okay that made the blond laugh.
"No? I don´t believe you, you would have used me to beat someone up or shit for sure." Okay, now Izaya was getting annoyed.
"If you don't believe me anyway, then why ask in the first place?"
Stupid Shizu-chan. Oh well, that´s what he got for thinking an amoeba was smart enough to get something easy as that.
"Oh, really? And why wouldn´t you have used me?" The disbelief in his voice was still obvious.
"It´s impossible to use you." Shizuo frowned, not understanding what he was getting at.
"What do you mean?"
"You are unpredictable, Shizu-chan. So many things and people and whatever piss you off, it would be a gamble to actually try and use you in some way, because the outcome would be a disaster 99% of the time. If anything, I would try to keep you away from any of my schemes."
... that actually made sense, in a way.
"But then what else did you want with me?" It was odd, wasn´t it? The flea was always doing everything with some freaking purpose behind it, there was no way he didn´t have anything up his sleeve at that time. "You made Shinra introduce us, so you must have had some sort of intention behind it."
Somehow it was starting to get tiring to talk to the brute like this.
"Shizu-chan, as much as it honors me that you think everything I do is part of some complex plan, that one actually wasn´t." It really wasn´t. In all honesty. "I had heard of you through rumors. Talking about a certain "Shizu-chan" that would knock everyone out. To be honest, at first I thought you were a woman." He could still remember how surprised he as when he realized that wasn't the case.
"Wait, you didn´t come up with that name to mock me?" Disbelief was accompanying the blond´s words again, but the raven had already given up on making him believe him. It was a fruitless attempt.
"I thought you were a girl at first, so I kinda thought of Shizu-chan. And when I saw you that name kinda slipped- well seeing how much you hated it, it was too tempting to stop using it. Who could ever guess you were a guy that literally knocked people out? I was surprised when I saw you, you know."
Shizuo remember that day only too well. He didn´t know anymore what even pissed him off about those guys on the field, but somehow they must have made him angry, and well...
"You probably thought I went crazy." Izaya thought about it.
Shinra had dragged him over to the field and from far away, he could already hear the screams of the guys that got beaten up- he could still remember thinking what kind of monster had to fight there. But crazy?
"Actually, I just thought you were interesting," he admitted. "If given the chance, I wanted to learn more about you- that´s what I thought when I saw you the first time."
And to be honest, not much had changed since then- realizing that he might have been a tad too honest with the brute, he opened his mouth to switch the topic, only for hands to suddenly wrap around his waist from behind-
Startled, the raven almost lost balance as the whining friend sort of hugged him like that.
"What the-" Or rather, abused him as an object to lean on.
"Izayaaaa I don´t wanna walk anymore!" Trying to pry the hands off him, Izaya sighed at the behavior of his weird friend.
"Can you even act more childish?" he questioned, tugging the hands off him.
"But it's so many steps, I'm freaking dying!" Shinra pouted, running in the front so Izaya couldn´t simply walk on anymore. The raven simply smirked, putting his hand on Shinra´s shoulder.
"I could always shove you down the stairs so you have to go them up again once more~" Gasping in disbelief the future doctor stared at the raven.
"Izaya... you are so mean."
Shizuo just kept quiet, watching the two. Thinking about it...
He guessed... he really messed it up on his own, right?
He hated to admit it, but somehow Shinra might have been right all those times he said he should try getting along with him. Even when he acted like an asshole towards Shinra, somewhere deep down even Shizuo knew that Izaya cared somehow about their weird friend.
He just didn´t show it.
Then again... he didn´t act any different towards the four-eyes.
"Go walk yourself, Shinra, or I will shove my knife up your ass." It was obvious Izaya was getting annoyed by Shinra now.
"You even brought it to the trip?"
"Of course I did." Before Shinra could even react, the knife was flicked open and pulled out of the raven´s pockets, aiming right in front of Shinra´s face.
A strand of hair tumbled down as Izaya intentionally had grazed it while pulling it up and a smirk drew across his lips. The future doctor frowned, pulling at the strand that was now cut a bit shorter.
"And that´s why you don´t have any friends," he pouted, only for the raven to wave at him.
"Shoo shoo-"
"What do you like doing?" A bit surprised by the question, Izaya blinked, stopping the shooing motion he aimed at Shinra and glancing at the blond.
"What?" A tad awkward, Shizuo avoided his glance as he rubbed at his neck.
"I don´t know. I just thought I would try get to know you better after all. Guess it´s a stupid question."
To be honest, Izaya was surprised.
"You didn´t give up yet? Admirable."
"Oh, shut it." He didn´t think Shizu-chan could be this attentive when it came to him- well except the topic was revolving around being chased atop roofs, then he could be very attentive, but even when trying to get along?
"I like reading," he announced, surprising the blond with an actual answer. He blinked, then looked at him as if he had just said the most ridiculous thing on earth.
Izaya quirked an eyebrow.
"What´s that look for?" As far as he knew, reading was a quite common and normal hobby.
"I just kinda thought you would say, 'I like setting cats on fire,' or something." The raven snorted, really now-
"Just how evil do you think I am?"
"Not evil, but you did stomp on that girl's phone a few days ago like a psycho."
Laughter bubbled from the raven´s throat as he remembered that scene, he didn´t know Shizu-chan had seen it.
"Shizu-chan, that was supposed to freak her out. I´m glad I gave the right impression, though."
"I'm not even gonna ask why you had to freak her out. So, books, really?"
"Yeah." It didn´t suit the flea at all.
"What do you read?" Izaya just shrugged, he didn´t prefer any kind of genre.
"About everything, I guess. I used to spend my lunch breaks in the library just reading whatever book fell into my hands."
The flea and reading in the breaks?
"You wouldn´t strike me as someone that...uh-"
"Timid?"
"If that means quiet and not annoying, then yeah." It was really an odd image. Izaya not annoying anyone, just staying on his own and reading in a library. It was such a calm image.
"Well, I only started making plans, as you call it, when I entered high school, after all." It wasn´t exactly plans or schemes though, just little things that he needed to get by somehow.
"That´s another thing I don´t get about you- why do you do that?" Shizuo asked- it was something that he had never understood.
"Planning things?" He nodded.
"Yeah. It´s almost like you make people hate you on purpose." Without any warning, the flea suddenly stopped, just staring at him, making the blond stop as well, but he didn´t say anything, he just wore that unreadable expression.
"What...? Got something in my face?" The raven hummed, frowning just the slightest bit.
"You know, sometimes it really surprises me how perceptive you can be." Confused, the blond blinked.
"Huh?" And Izaya smirked again, jumping up the stairs until he had caught up to the crowd.
"And then again, be so incredibly dense," he laughed as the blond hurried after him.
He wanted to retort something to that, not wanting to leave things as they were, but then he heard a happy squeal and a certain bespectacled boy ran up the stairs.
They had finally reached the end of the long staircase.
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End of chapter 11 C:
Now, now, the fun part will be starting soon hehe C: Sooner than you might think C; C; C; C; C;
Now I should get to writing once more xDD The next update will follow this Sunday! Sunday the 28th~! xD I will be on an anime convention this week in Vienna, so, maybe the update will be coming on Monday morning instead, but definitely not later C; With that being said~
See you next Sunday~! xD
