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ஜ Chapter 21: Bonding ஜ
-Izaya´s point of view-
Grinning the idiots were looking at him, arms crossed, Izaya was completely surrounded by the high schoolers- well not that he was intimidated by it. It wasn´t the first time people tried to challenge him. Although it was the first time that he was being assaulted by a headache of immense magnitude during an approaching fight.
Not trusting his legs to actually make a run for it the raven remained in his seat, setting up his best smirk. Of all the things he was capable off, physical or close up fighting was an option he would rather avoid if possible- his tongue was way more useful after all.
"You do know that I could very well make your life hell, right?" the raven grinned confident seeming not in the slightest intimidated, while he let his thumb brush in soothing patterns over his knife´s blade. Threatening the guys apparently was the wrong move though when the three guys in front of him merely laughed.
One of the guys had a bat- stepped forward-
Pushing himself of the ledge the raven jumped right, the blade ready in his hands and-
"You little shit!" the guy hissed, the threatening wood clattered to the ground. Glaring at the raven he held his right cheek. Having taken a slash tiny droplets of blood were trickling from his chin.
The other two guys were now glaring at him as well the laugh having been ripped off their faces, and it was as though now that their leader hadn´t managed to hit Izaya, they were going to try next. The little brother in the back just grinned triumphantly, seemingly sure of his victory.
The raven sighed softly. This was annoying- his head was throbbing, his movements were slower than he liked them to be and he really just wanted to sleep.
"Didn´t you want to take revenge for whatever? Isn´t going too great now is it?" The raven cooed, purposely annoying the guys even more so they would just hurry the fuck up already.
"You little piece of shit-" one of them growled and picked up the bat the former guy had dropped. Izaya took a small step back, got the knife ready and-
*CRASH*
- was left to blink surprised.
Wood, splinters, in a brief moment his eyes caught the sight of something brown and huge pass by his eyes.
And then there were no people in front of him anymore- no, - quickly snapping his head to the right he saw them all sprawled on the ground.
Seriously if Izaya didn´t know it better he would say that a table came flying by just now.
"GET LOST!" Snapping his head into the other direction the raven put one and one together.
A violent Shizu-chan, a table and people sprawled on the floor, yeah the situation wasn´t too hard to read.
Lowering his knife and pocketing it into his pants the high schoolers got up from the ground hurriedly and took off running.
Izaya was a tiny bit taken aback by the fact that they didn´t ran from him, but they did when they saw Shizu-chan. Sure he wasn´t as great of a monster as the blond was but he sure had thought his reputation would be bad enough for people to keep their distance.
Well then again the monster was coming towards him like a puppy wagging with its tail- he couldn´t be all that threatening after all.
"Heh, seems my knight in shining armor appeared, or rather, a monster in a bloody school uniform," Izaya noted when the blond caught up to him, but Shizu-chan didn´t even seem to have heard his words, or registered them properly as he merely frowned into the direction the guys disappeared to.
"Are you okay?" he asked instead, robbing the flea finally of every last drop of dignity.
"Seriously? Those guys didn´t even manage to touch me Shizu-chan," Izaya made clear, letting himself slump down on that fence´s ledge again. A soft hint of irritation flashed in his eyes as he looked at the blond.
It was almost as if the blond was trying to say he couldn´t take care of himself- and it pissed him off. How often had they been running across the entire school while Shizu-chan kept throwing deadly projectiles like tables, chairs and other people at him?
"That´s not it, but you look kinda pale." The raven took a deep breath.
Again- so what?
"Didn´t I say I´m fine?" he asked, maybe a bit too hostile considering Shizu-chan had taken care quicker of the problem than Izaya would have been able to, but still- if he hated anything then it was being looked down upon.
And being done favors he didn´t need.
"You did, but you were also at the infirmary," Shizuo threw in, totally not getting why the flea seemed... angry?
"Oh my, the protozoan is getting smarter by the day, am I influencing you perhaps?" Okay, he was definitely mad. Izaya hadn´t used any of these stupid nicknames, except for the Shizu-chan of course, since they kinda became friends.
"Why are you here anyway? Weren´t you supposed to wait for the nurse?" Izaya threw in, seemingly still not in a much better mood.
Well if some shitheads approached him in front of the school gate challenging him to a fight Shizuo wouldn´t be too amused by it either. Just thinking about how these assholes ganged up on him even though he wasn´t feeling well made his blood boil. And no matter what the raven said, it was obvious that he wasn´t quite as energetic and back to his old state like he pretended to be.
Who the hell would attack a person when they were sick? That was just beyond mean.
"Actually you forgot your phone," the blond answered, pulling the said device out of his pants pockets. He had noticed it before when the flea hurriedly left the room, he had left it on the bed.
Obviously surprised by the answer the raven blinked and the frown disappeared from his face for once.
"Oh," the raven said, taking the device. He hadn´t noticed he had even dropped it. "Well thanks for that, I guess." Izaya mumbled, putting it into his pants, feeling just the slightest bit guilty for lashing out at Shizu-chan.
The blond hummed, glancing around. Considering the next lesson wasn´t over yet they were the only ones at the school gate. The other students would be coming rushing out of the school in just half an hour.
"Are you heading home now?" the blond asked, frowning just the slightest as he thought of the possibility of these assholes trying to pick a fight with Izaya again once he was gone.
"Yes. And you should go back to the infirmary," the raven answered firmly, getting up from the ledge.
Shoving up his shirt´s bloody sleeve the blond showed the raven his arm. It was already covered by white fabric and tended to.
"The nurse already wrapped my hand, so-" the blond faded out, rubbing his neck as he wondered how to put his next words without making the flea angry again. He had already noticed that Izaya seemed somehow opposed to the idea of them becoming or being friends, so he figured he shouldn´t mention it too much.
Well Izaya was too smart for his own good though.
"You aren´t seriously suggesting to walk me home?" he asked, annoyance layered thick in his voice as he had already figured out what the blond wanted to say.
Well- then again, Izaya always said he was stupid right?
So Shizuo cleared his throat and tried to act as nonchalant as possible.
"No, just asking if you mind me joining you. Since it´s boring to walk home alone."
"..." Catching the frowning glance the raven sent him Shizuo wondered if maybe, just maybe he would find a knife slashing across his chest now.
It was the most common instant reaction from Izaya when they were standing this close and considering his glare, well-
"You know what, I don´t care, do what you do," the raven answered instead with a sigh, surprising the blond pleasantly as he turned around to walk away.
Shouldering his bag again that he had dropped at the gate the blond hurriedly followed the raven.
Sighing softly the raven let his eyes travel across the trees decorating the school ground. Autumn was approaching, if not already there considering how the leaves already changed their colors according to his most hated season.
Cold weather, strong wind, freezing temperatures in the morning that would rise during the day to a degree it was just warm enough to make the raven feel suffocated in his clothes only for a storm to appear and drench him on his way home.
Yeah, really, a lovely season.
Feeling the wind from the roof breeze across his neck again the raven shuddered annoyed. He threw a glance at the blond next to him, who was oddly quiet for once.
Well then again usually Izaya was the one to rant endlessly long, wrap everyone into a conversation and put words in their mouths for fun- but for the blond to say nothing at all like this was a bit strange too.
"So, I heard you failed ceremoniously on your history exam?" Izaya said aloud, feeling that it would be too weird to just walk home with his lifelong enemy without even saying a word.
"What?" the blond asked surprised snapping his head to look at the raven, "How do you know?"
"Shizu-chan, because I know everything of course~!" Frowning the blond remembered how he got the most recent exam back- that was only a couple lessons ago and only Shinra-
Of course.
"Shinra," the blond groaned, causing a smirk to crawl across the raven´s lips.
"Bingo~!" the raven cheered, feeling less annoyed at the prospect of being able to tease the shit out of the blond because of his lacking intelligence regarding exams.
"I´m going to skin that idiot..." he heard the blond mutter under his breath causing his mood to lighten up more and more.
"Why did you fail in the first place~?" the raven asked with a sly grin, "It´s just history. You just need to memorize who did what, when and why." Honestly speaking though, history? Of all subjects? If it were maths, well okay, he would get that, a lot of people had problems with math or physics, but history?
If anything he was amazed the blond had troubles in only that one subject.
"Alright, alright, I got it, I am stupid," the blond growled, the all too familiar vein on his forehead having popped already. For a second the raven felt the urge to tease the blond to his limits- would be fun to get chased around again. It had been a while since their last chase, but thinking about how he wasn´t even confident to run from these high schoolers before because of his not so top condition he refrained from going that far.
"Seriously though, do you have such troubles memorizing?" he asked instead, a different idea forming in his mind.
"Well not everyone is a smartass like you," the blond answered, the frown growing deeper and deeper.
Interesting Izaya ended up annoying Shizu-chan even more without even trying to- which was totally due to the blond lack of listening skills and his temper.
"No really, how do you usually study?" he tried once more, giving his best to sound serious as he had different plans with the blond now.
"How?" he asked, raising an eyebrow at the raven.
"Yeah, do you slam your had against the book in an attempt to make the knowledge enter your brain or-"
"What the fuck flea?" Izaya snorted, the blond seriously was just too easy to tease.
"No really, what do you do?"
Hmm, what did he do? Tilting his head thinking Shizuo figured no one ever really showed him how to study. Of course everyone told him that he should study and learn and what he should memorize, but... how?
"Usually I just read what I have to memorize over and over again till it sticks," he mumbled, his hand travelling to his neck in an awkward gesture. The raven hummed and nodded to himself as if to affirm something.
"... well that´s what I do for studying. Difference is when I do it the information actually sticks." Feeling embarrassed the blond speed up his steps- why again did he decide to walk the flea home? He was only making a fool of himself-
"I got it I´m stupid," he uttered under his breath as the flea caught up.
"Well no, maybe you just use the wrong method. There are different types of learning you know," the raven informed, causing the heat in Shizuo´s cheeks to lessen at least a bit.
"Types?" he repeated not having heard of that sort of thing before.
Pointing to his ear the raven nodded.
"Maybe you are the audio type rather than the visual one." Okay now Shizuo was confused.
"Audio?" What was the raven even trying to tell him.
A soft chuckle left the raven´s lips as he saw the blond´s dumbfounded expression. Looking clueless like this he really reminded him of a lost puppy that searched for a ball that he never threw.
Sneaking a quick glance at his watch the raven looked up again.
"Actually, how about you come over for a bit?"
One blink.
...
Another.
"Huh?" was the overly intelligent response that followed after a couple of seconds.
"My place," the raven repeated, getting that he probably exceeded the blond´s brain´s capacity in keeping up with what he said. "You already were there and besides Mairu and Kururi aren´t coming home today since they are sleeping over at a friend´s place."
Izaya swore he could almost see those gears inside Shizu-chan´s head rotate quite like they would inside a clock.
"Let´s see if I can teach the monster something," the raven added with a grin, giving the last hint to the blond to get what Izaya was trying to say.
"... you want to help me study?"
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To be continued~ C:
Lmao so a couple people had already asked if Izaya wasn´t going to tutor Shizuo at a point and whelp there you go xD I thought why not xD this is probably gonna be the only high school shizaya fic I will ever write so if not here then where would I put it x'D
Hehehe be prepared for some drama though~ C: xD
Sorry for the delay btw- lol for lots of delays ahhh I took ages to update I know- sorry people 3
But hey I managed to get internet today and finished the chapters so- Happy late easter xD 3
I will be faster again now xD
Guest 2: xDD ahahah daww no worries C: now he will get to rest properly xD I´m done with making him sick C: eheh as usual good instincts xD lmao xDD I had to think of her while writing the nurse yeah xD Lol but I bet whoever is the nurse is going to be pissed just like that at Shizuo x'DDD heheheh C:
Next chapter will be out on Saturday the 6th May C: Sorry I bet you are thinking now- WHAAAATTTT?! xD But I do want to draw on my doujinshie and write on my book and live a little while studying for university so- squeezing four chapters in one week is just impossible C': Except I drop the quality xDD but no way xD I do wanna give my best with each chapter and take my time making it good xD
So two weeks and three days it is C': sowy 3
