-๑-๑ ஜ ๑- Chapter 31: Cozy cozy - -๑ ஜ ๑-๑-
-Izaya´s point of view.-
Ah it was warm. Fresh.
Feeling a hearty yawn come up his throat the raven rubbed at his eyes.
Sunlight was forcing its way inside the room through a few creaks left beneath the shelf they had used to cover the huge window up with.
Sadly the Ray of light had been aiming straight at Izaya's face, waking him up earlier than he had wanted to.
Wanting to sit up straight he put his hand onto the bed sheets- bed sheet that were not soft and fluffy but oddly warm and smooth.
Twisting his head he glanced to his side-
Ah.
Shizu-chan.
Right next to him he was laying there, sleeping just how Izaya had imagined the brute to sleep like. The blanket had been somewhat trapped between his feet, barely even covering any part of his body and those hands were sprawled anyway, the pillow almost falling off the mattress edge, and his face shoved into the pillow that had belonged to Izaya.
Suppressing the need to laugh at this admittingly somewhat strange sight the raven refrained from waking the blond up.
It was close to a miracle that he had been able to fall asleep next to a restless sleeper like him thought.
Shizu-chan´s arm was draped across the raven´s waist, seeming as though he wanted to claim, hey, this is my flea, even during his sleep.
Eyes narrowing to a soft gaze the raven decided that he didn't need to get up yet- well not that he could with that arm having chosen him as the perfect pillow.
.. and it wasn't like he wanted to either.
Letting his eyes slip shut once more he just relished in this raremoment of peace, this feeling of warmth, it reminded him of old summer days out in the nature being shone upon by the sweet sun and having no worry in the world.
Opening his eyes again he looked towards the blocked window.
That's right, their only worries were residing in that shop next to the school. Seeing how strong the sun was gleaming today they wouldn't dare come out till night fell.
Feeling bold the raven rolled a bit to the left, onto the blond to say more precise.
The brute was still sleeping, not even noticing the additional weight on top of his back.
it was- strange, or rather new.
This kind of thing. Cuddling or even just sleeping next to someone was something the flea hadn't done so far.
Not to mention the actions they had chosen the day before. Resting his chin on the blond´s shoulder he blew a breath of air across the blond´s ear in an attempt to wake him up.
A soft groan was all that followed- obviously the blond wasn't quite willing to be awake yet. Feeling that mischievous smile sneak back on his face the raven leaned a bit lower blowing again.
A grunt followed, and then the sleepy blond moved, raising his head in confusion as he squinted against the light.
"Good morning, Shizu-chan~" the raven chirped well too aware that the blond would have probably preferred to sleep longer than till sunrise.
The head was twisted, a frown appearing on the blond´s face before burying it inside the pillow once more.
"Hnn, not yet," he muffled into the soft fabric deeming that it was way too early to be alive yet.
A snort escaped the raven´s lips at the sight and he merely took the complaint as an invitation to poke the blond´s cheek.
"First you don't want to sleep and now you won't get up? You seriously are the epitome of contradictions," he announced, one eyebrow risen as the blond turned his head to glance at the raven somewhat groggily.
"Can't help it you are comfortable," he merely announced, pulling the flea closer with that arm of his, surprising the raven just a bit.
"Geez And you are supposed to be the fortissimo of Ikebukuro? More like the sleeping beauty of Ikebukuro." A snort resounded, followed by a pretty disbelieving gaze.
"You aren´t seriously comparing me to that sleeping princess-" Shizuo repeated, still groggy but awake enough to notice the flea was making fun of him.
A smirk was drawing across his expression as he tilted his head.
"Well looking at your face I bet the sleepy princess didn´t frown as much as you. I bet she was more graceful~"
"Graceful like what?" the blond questioned never having though that a sleeping person could even look graceful.
"Like me~?" the raven grinned, pointing at himself in that confident fashion the blond was already used to see.
the pillow the raven had been resting upon suddenly developing life in itself dashed away from underneath his elbow as the blond had tucked it away, causing the raven's head to thud back into the pillow and his back to nearly tilt over across the edge of the bed, resulting in a pretty funny if not awkward fight against gravitation.
"Indeed very graceful," the blond commented with a grin.
"You-!" And the pillow was thrown quickly, aiming at the blond, but ah this time Shizu-chan was the winner as he ducked away and hopped out of bed instead.
Letting his head thud back into the mattress the raven closed his eyes for a second, just enjoying this brief moment of peace.
It was so cozy, comfortable- Izaya didn't know it was possible to feel this at ease with someone so close to him. Usually his mind would be rotating over possibilities of how this situation could end, what would happen to both of them from now on, what consequences their action had and yet- right now he was really just not giving a fuck.
Shizu-chan had been around for so long, he had given his best to not only not hurt him but also help if not even comfort the raven. Be it the loss of his siblings or… the aversion he had of those disgusting creatures.
Swallowing his grip on the sheets tightened just a bit as the all too rosy surroundings got a harsh hint of reality back.
Right. Those things were still out there. Waiting, hungry. It was when Shizu-chan´s curse reached his ears that Izaya blinked reverting his attention to the present.
"Oh shit-"
Lifting his head the raven glanced past the blond wondering what it was that Shizu-chan was swearing about- only to see the table he had been working on having shifted by a couple centimeters.
Standing in a different place was not what put the blond off though, but rather a couple of pretty fragile looking vials that had tilted over and broken right on the desk.
The contents of said fragile glass objects was now mixing with each other and forming a puddle of wasted and failed research.
The puddle was partly dried up however, and the remains in the vials having mixed with each other had no worth.
"Was that me?" Shizu-chan questioned, a hand rubbing on his neck as he looked at the mess he had created.
The raven hummed as he approached, and tried to remember, but certainly yep, there had been a moment the blond had almost stumbled-
"Well now I know at least what you bumped me into," he replied picking up one of the many glass shards.
To be honest he wasn't even mad about it. Sure he had been researching and trying to find an antidote but for one thing that was but a mere start, it wasn't like Shizu-chan just destroyed a years worth of work.
And besides...
"Damn, sorry-" Shizuo mumbled a guilty frown appearing on his face.
"I can just create a new test round." Blinking the blond turned to look at the raven, who actually really seemed like he didn't give a fuck about the broken vials.
"If… you say so," he mumbled, having no idea what the flea had even been doing here exactly. Chemics had never been his favourite subject nor had he gotten to wrap his head around those confusing equations of Oxygen, Polypropylene or whatever.
Though he almost would have bet on the fact that izaya probably had always liked this sort of things. Sure he skipped school a lot, being busy getting on his nerves and all, but he did somehow ace the entire high school- which only pissed the blond off even more at that time.
Glancing to the side he looked at the raven that was now collecting some of the shards. He was wearing nothing but a new set of pants- that he had chosen to wear for some reason.
Lifting his gaze his eyes travelled to that… not exactly professionally stitched wound the blond had created. It seemed to be healing, but the sight was still somewhat disturbing, not looking like anything close to what Shinra would have done.
to be honest he had wondered why Izaya hadn't ripped that shit out again and fixed himself anew.
… no that would have probably been worse for his injury right? And wouldn't people pass out if they did that sort of thing?
Shizuo wouldn't really know, over the years he got so used to feel pain every now and then the feeling of it was somewhat numb to his senses. When someone stabbed him with a blade or he broke a bone again he was used to the feeling of it as if he had merely hit his knee or something, so stitching himself up, or trying to fix a wound with glue or tape was something he had already tried to do when he didn't want to bother Shinra again.
"Does it still hurt or something?" the blond questioned, letting his fingers brush across the fine skin softly.
A bit surprised the raven blinked, not yet used to the blond acting so… not brutish, before he shook his head with a smirk.
"Never thought the monster would worry so much about the fleaish me," he hummed, leaning against the desk- to be honest, Shizu-chan was surprising the raven nonstop. inside that hospital he thoughts Shizuo would just leave him behind. Yesterday he thought he would shove him away but he didn't, obviously hating him not as much anymore as he used to- and then he thought Shizu-chan might as well stop because of his worried about Izaya being injured and all, but neither did he do that.
"There was never any reason to even start worrying over you," the blond merely shrugged, remembering way too well just how many signs, vending machines or cars he had thrown at the louse and sometimes even hit him with and he still didn't go down.
"Heh, Shizu-chan you make it sound like I'm some sort of god that cannot be defeated. Not that I don't like it," the raven purred, only causing the blond to snort though.
"God my ass, you are like a roach, not getting down even if being stepped upon." Cringing the raven frowned as he looked at the blond.
"Shizu-chan honestly speaking I prefer flea over roach," he announced, remembering all too disgusted just how many roaches he had seen crawl on the streets or across human bodies ever since the zombie virus had spread around.
Shizu-chan didn't seem to have in mind to cease his teasing yet though.
"Hoh, is that so roach?" he repeated, mentioning that despised word again just to be annoying.
"Don't you dare-" the raven glared, although in a playful fashion as he almost waited for the blond to say it one more time.
Honestly, Shizuo felt like he was playing with a cat that was already wagging its tail.
"How about cockroac-" okay he definitely hadn't seen aht pillow come out of nowhere! When did Izaya pick it up from the floor?
the end of the word being muffled he suddenly found himself being jumped and pushed to the ground- a book suddenly at hand, grabbed from the billiard table that was still looking like someone had had a fight with it.
The book was oddly held just in the same way Izaya used to hold his flick blade against izaya's neck in their chases- and the best part was he even had the same glint in his eyes he used to have back then.
"Beware Shizu-chan, you are dealing with me here," the raven grinned, that challenging smirk again on his lips.
Withdrawing the book he threw it back to the pile the tilted stack had created the day before. Flying through the air Shizuo could catch a glimpse of the title even, hehe he had tried to kill him with Moby dick.
not quite as threatening as his blades used to be- and sitting on top of him wearing nothing but his underpants was also somehow warping the picture making the blond laugh instead.
the raven tilted his head, not really knowing what was going on in Shizuo´s head.
"What's so funny?"
"You," the blond sighed, "us." Binking the raven looked at the blond, tilted his head ot the left, to the right, Shizuo swore he could almost see and hear him think about what he said.
"... okay now I lost track- what are you talking about now?"
"Back in Ikebukuro," Shizuo started, "before all of this you know…" Ended, was the word he was going to say, but seeing how they were still struggling to stay alive saying it out loud like this almost seemed like giving up. So he decided not to say it, the flea would know what he meant anyway. "It´s just," he sighed, "I´m sorry I never gave you a chance."
At least that's the way he felt because from the very first second he had laid eyes onto that raven he had declared he hated him, sure it was his guts telling him so but he had no reason to- if he had given Izaya a chance, just how he somewhat had by trusting him in this mess, wouldn't things have turned out a different way?
Snorting and laughter was reaching his ears though as the raven shook his head.
"Oh, don´t be I deliberately made you hate me so that´s for that," he said, while crossing his elbows on top of that pillow that was still resting on Shizuo´s chest. "Besides. It was fun to see you raging like a bull through the city. I would have never learned parkour this well if I didn't have this monster here chase after me, actually out for my life," the raven explained, causing the blond to frown just a bit in doubt.
"Seriously?"
"But of course!" Izaya threw in with a vehement nod, "And without that skill I mightn't have had all the best cards with the zombies running around out there," he continued, almost sounding like he was trying to convince the blond that what he had been doing was actually good. "So if you look at it that way you probably saved my life in a way." Snorting the blond could do nothing but shake his head at the flea´s explanation on how trying to kill him saved him.
"What? It's true if you think about it in a logical fashion," the raven threw in with a hint of sarcasm inside his voice.
"How on earth is that logical?" he snorted, but Shizuo already knew it, the flea was just trying to cheer him up. Just like he always did ever since they decided to team up.
he was looking out for him at all times, just like Shizuo as looking out for the flea.
to be continued ho ho ho C: xD
Sorry for being gone so long oh my goodness OAO I seriously didn't notice how fast time flew by studying and all x'D
Now my dear people, ….. enjoy this chapter xDDD read it, love it, be glad it's so sweet and calm and…. happy- because… OHOHOHOHOHOHO C: Soon . . . C: Lol I wanna spoiler you but I can't xD
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On a different matter, people! I am curious! I have the feeling the Shizaya fandom is growing smaller and smaller x'D And I haven't been updating a lot recently so I'm wondering how many of you are still reading or interested in this story/the pairing? xD
Like, am I writing for 5 people? or 50? 500? (lol joke) xD
I'm really curious, so:
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Haha depending on how many people are actually reading this I might adjust my writing schedule for this story actually :3 Lol whether that's good or bad depends on you guys x'D
Well then, no matter the outcome of this see you guys in the next update on 1st February 2018~!
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Guest 2: xDD didn´t you know wine can expire? C; xD lmao nah actually my dad explained to me it can expire xD if it´s not uhhh well stored xD but not of age of course xD xD haha I love it when Izaya is being bold and taking the steering weel xD Cuz actually when writing a sex scene betweent hem it´s really damn easy to accidentally let the flea drift off into the ukeish kinda sectiona nd dang he has so much pride that´s not where he belongs x'D he need some control or sass there xD
Unknown: ... can you read thoughts? xD ahahahahah I have indeed Something planned for them C: if it will be sad.. or just scary, or maybe something entirely different... welll you will see C: C: C: xDDD