Chapter 13

"I still can't believe that you let me wait for Izaya Orihara." Tom sighed while walking casually next to Shizuo. He had waited quite a while and he couldn't say that he wasn't pissed.

It was normal that Shizuo could get distracted easily. But not in that manner. Normally he would show up in time, sometimes get lost during work because of losing it and running after some crazy people, before reteaming with Tom after around 10 – 15 minutes. That wasn't a problem at all. Tom was rather used to it. But when his friend wouldn't show up for almost an hour, in Shizuo's case it could also mean that he might have been shot or worse, and Tom didn't really approve of that idea.

"I'm sorry. He's just kind of distracting." The blonde mumbled under his breath. Tom looked curiously to his friend. There was no way that he wouldn't have noticed the blush on the blonde's face, whenever he mentioned the raven.

Tom didn't really know, if this was good or not. After all it was Izaya Orihara they were talking about. But Shizuo seemed really happy. Actually he had never seen the blonde this happy before and of course he absolutely knew what this meant.

He sighed.

"You know, if we hurry a bit, you can go earlier to your beloved one today."

"He's not my beloved one!" The blonde almost screamed while a furious blush was on his face.

Yeah sure, Tom thought to himself, though he smiled about his friends surprising behavior.

"If you say so. Let's hurry anyway." He answered nonchalantly.

Shizuo just nodded. It wasn't like he could get the raven out of his head anyway.

"And what exactly means the incident with the boy from last time?" Namie stood in front of Izaya her hands put into her hips. Izaya could just sigh at the way she was trying to confront him.

It wasn't like he hadn't expected her to ask any questions but that she would be so persistent to find out anything …

The raven sighed again. This time even deeper. His head was already lying on his desk not being able to bear anymore of this conversation.

"How often do I have to tell you that it wasn't that important?"

"Ha! Not important! Don't make me laugh, Izaya! As if you'd ever act like that if it wasn't for the end of this world. And don't try telling me again, that he just wanted to show you some cute kittens! As if I would ever buy that shit!"

"But if I tell you, Mikado and I just recently figured out that we were the hugest cat fans on this planet. Actually we even grew friends because of that!" The raven tried to wine, but of course the woman didn't believe one word of what he was saying.

"As if you would suddenly have friends!" She countered causing Izaya to raise his head.

"Rude!" he shouted back a childish look of shock appearing on his face.

"Pfft!" The woman breathed in contempt before letting herself take a seat on the couch next to her. She closed her eyes for a while the slightly furious look on her face slowly vanishing. Izaya just waited a little annoyed until her eyes opened again. His ears and brain were really hurting from all the shouting and he didn't really manage to work at all. The woman had approached him as soon as he had opened the door. At first asking him where he had been the whole time, how he was thinking of paying her, if he wouldn't start working already. When Izaya on the other hand hadn't give her a clear answer, she started digging deeper and deeper, asking about Mikado, their sudden disappearance and Izaya's strange behavior finally leading to the situation they were in now.

"As long as you don't do any crazy shit that will hurt Seiji, I don't really mind." She finally said after staring at him for a while.

"It's a promise~" he hummed hoping that she would shut up at last.

Namie shot him one last nasty glare before starting to look through a couple of files on the desk in front of her.

Izaya stared back at the monitor of his computer. Though he kind of trusted Namie he didn't really want to tell her about the whole kidnapping issue.

She most probably wouldn't be any advantage anyway. What could the woman do that all the others weren't able to?

Nothing. That was the bitter truth. She couldn't really help him at all, let alone she wouldn't probably even consider helping him.

Namie was rather the kind of person that would make fun of him or of the feelings he held for his sisters. That was their relationship. Though they appeared to get along from time to time, having trust in each other during work or even spending some of their time together with cooking, watching TV or doing other unnecessary things, they would never change their relationship or their personality for each other.

Namie would only care for Seiji, like it had always been.

And Izaya would only care for himself. Like he had always acted in front of her.

It was just fine this way. No need to regret anything about it. Izaya didn't need her. After all he had Shizuo at his side now.

Just at the moment the raven ended his thought, there was a loud stumbling to hear from the outside. It already caused Namie and Izaya to look into the direction of the door. Their eyes widened in surprise when it suddenly opened very abruptly and Shizuo Heiwajima entered the room as if it was the most natural thing in the world.

"Shizuo Heiwa-" Namie already started in shock but was cut off by Izaya.

"Shizu-chan, what are you doing here already? Aren't you supposed to end work just in a few hours?"

"I could persuade Tom to let me go earlier." The blonde answered happily closing the door behind him.

When he turned around, he started walking into Izaya's direction, but stopped midway. He raised his hand to his head, nervously going with it through his hair, before he locked eyes with the raven again.

"And I wanted to ask … how you are?" The blonde suddenly asked a slight blush appearing on his face.

"Shizu-chan, we just saw each other this morning…" Izaya answered hesitatingly. The atmosphere between them was indeed a little awkward causing him to get a little blush himself.

Namie on the other hand just kept her head moving from one guy to the other, both of them obviously trapped in their own little world not noticing her existence at all. Really now, at first Mikado, now Shizuo Heiwajima … How could this even be possible? These two were supposed to hate each other! Did she somehow miss something really important that had happened currently? Since when did the Informant have friends? Since when was he getting along with Shizuo?!

"That's enough! I don't have anything to do with this!" she shouted, shooting up from her seat. The two men didn't even have the time to say anything, before she had already grabbed her bag and left the room.

"What was that?" Shizuo asked bewildered his eyes still resting on the door.

"Don't worry about her. She's always like that" The raven chuckled earning him a curious glare from the blonde.

Suddenly Izaya stood up slowly approaching the blonde. Shizuo already gulped nervously expecting the raven to come closer, but instead he just walked over to the couch between them and sat down. Petting his hand on the place next to him, he signalized the blonde to sit down too. All this time he was wearing an inviting smile on his lips and Shizuo couldn't really say whether it meant danger or seduction.

After a little hesitation he still sat down next to the raven, nonetheless keeping a little distance between them. Izaya seemed to be in a good mood, but Shizuo couldn't be sure and didn't want to scare the Informant away. He already knew that he wanted to touch the raven again, but he was afraid that Izaya wouldn't return this feeling.

The raven was still smiling while Shizuo's hands were still rubbing against each other in his lap. He couldn't believe that he was actually that nervous because of the raven.

"Well … did you find out anything in your chat room?" The blonde asked to distract himself from this sensation.

Izaya's eyes widened in surprise and the smile suddenly left his face.

"It's not MY chat room, Shizu- chan~ But no, I didn't find out anything" The raven answered, his voice a mix of sadness and amusement.

"Hm…" Shizuo hummed sounding rather upset.

"Could it be that you're a little jealous?" Izaya suddenly asked causing the blonde to look up.

"Why jealous?"

"Because we're all in that chat room that you obviously never heard about before~" The raven sniggered.

"It's not like I'm jealous or anything like that. I was just disappointed when I was left out of something apparently that important."

"I wouldn't consider the chat room as something important. It was just for fooling around from time to time, at least when it comes to me." Izaya sighed, though he didn't seem upset. Rather a soft smile had placed itself on his face.

"I get it. But I still feel left out. What if someone writes something important in case of the kidnapping? Literally everyone would know about it, just I wouldn't know anything about it."

A small snigger left Izaya's mouth when he heard the blonde complain, earning him a strange look.

"What's so funny?"

"I think you mistook my words earlier~ With "literally everyone" I didn't mean "everyone". Sure there are quite a lot of people, but for example Kadota or Shinra are not in there. And to be honest, I think even if someone was going to find out anything, he wouldn't put it in the chat room first. It's just with the one time with Mikado. He contacted me personally right away. I guess that goes for everyone who's in this."

Shizuo felt relieved when he heard Izaya's words. Though it wasn't really that much of an issue, he felt strangely connected to Izaya again. Shizuo would stay at Izaya's side for the rest of this time. And if anyone was going to contact Izaya, he would notice right away. Like that he wouldn't lose sight of the raven right again. He could protect him just like he was supposed to. Of course Shizuo wanted to rescue Mairu and Kururi, too, but he had to admit that Izaya was his absolute priority. However, there was one thing he had to discuss with the raven further.

"Say Izaya, you seem kind of … happy. Don't get me wrong, I'm happy that you're not depressed anymore … but it feels strange." The blonde ringed with the words to not possible scare or anger the raven, but this one just kept his soft smile.

"That's thanks to you Shizu-chan." The Informant told him pretty bluntly causing the blonde to blush immediately. A shocked sound left Shizuo's lips while doing so making the raven chuckle in return.

"What do you mean?" The blonde asked still trying to fight off his red face.

"At first when this whole kidnapping thing happened, I felt horrified. I'm not used to trust in other people, for that I tried to find out everything on my own. When I couldn't do that, I felt lost and useless … almost broken. I just wasn't used to this feeling." The raven started, a small frown had placed itself on his face. "Shizuo, you know that I don't have many friends. Shinra is probably the only one I'm actually trusting. That's why I contacted him at first. Well, stuff went pretty strange from that moment on." A snigger escaped Izaya's lips when he remembered the encounter at Shinra's place. "Literally all people that are into this rescue mission, wanted to kill me before, just like you …" Izaya directed a straight glare to Shizuo, though it wasn't reproachful, Shizuo felt immediately guilty. "But still, all of them wanted to help. At first, I thought it were just words and when it came to actions, they wouldn't do anything at all. But then Mikado came and tried to help me under the risk of his life together with Anri Sonohara. Just like you Shizu-chan. You are here for me the whole time. Don't you think it's a wonder, how these few days have changed us? You' re not even thinking about killing me anymore, let alone you're not even getting angry when I'm making a few stupid jokes. Just now, we are like two sides of a coin, perfectly completing the other one. And that's giving me peace. Because I somehow know, as long as you are here, everything's going to be alright. Thanks for that feeling, Shizu-chan."

Shizuo was watching Izaya the whole time with keen eyes. He liked to listen to the raven, when his words were so very clear for once and at one point of the speech his mouth eventually opened a bit resulting in him staring at the raven pretty dumbfounded. Once he noticed it, a slight blush appeared on his face out of embarrassment, though the raven apparently didn't notice the flustered one, at least a soft and grateful smile was still placed on his face.

"You're welcome." The blonde muttered under his breath letting the raven snigger a little.

Shizuo didn't know how to respond to Izaya's sudden sincerity. He really appreciated it but after all Shizuo wasn't really fond of words. Taking actions was his area.

"So… would you like to do something today?" he asked kind of nervous instead.

"Sure~ Any suggestions?" The raven asked still smiling happily.

Of course Shizuo immediately remembered what they had done the last time when they had been alone and his face turned a shade darker. Though he would never admit it.

"I don't know. Well, what would you like to do?" He asked flustered carefully observing the raven.

The raven suddenly started laughing whole heartedly causing the blonde to only blush a bit more.

"Oh, Shizu-chan~ Why did I never notice before how cute you can be?"

"I'm not-"

Suddenly there were lips pressed on his. They were just touching for a mere second, but Shizuo could feel the heat in it. And while his eyes stared in surprise at the raven's face, he could see the red blush that had settled itself on the beautiful face in front of him.

"Don't worry about it. I know exactly what I want~" The raven whispered locking eyes with Shizuo. Their look and the smile on his face were filled with lust and Shizuo couldn't prevent his heart from beating faster in anticipation.

Suddenly the raven pressed his lips again on his. This time it held more pressure and lasted just a second longer, but still enough for Shizuo to wrap an arm around the raven's waist. When they parted slightly, they locked eyes again.

Shizuo gulped. The look in the raven's eyes was sincere and held a big promise. He knew its meaning even before the raven started to speak again.

"This time I'm not confused~"

The next chapter is actually going to be the one why there's Rating M. So beware~ *x* However, I really want to Progress the Story now where I have the time. I'll try to update as many chapters as possible. Maybe I'm even going to end it ? *.* See ya soon~