Over the past few months things were becoming hectic for Izaya, he was a lot larger and he hated it. He was now 6 months pregnant and felt like he had to punch a mirror everytime he saw how big he was. It was just to quick and he wasn't ready for such a belly. How his top didn't even cover the bottom of his stomach, he hated it.
For Shizuo, despite the excitement that his child was coming soon, he tried his best to keep his distance from Izaya and his insane mood swings, during the nights, when he tried to snuggle into the brunet he'd get scolded and to sleep on the couch, where he'd end up sleeping with the twins (before they left) and would then be accused of him cheating on him as he slept beside his twin sisters in the guest bedroom.
He would be screamed at for every little thing, from yawning, to walking too fast or even just breathing. Izaya yelled at him for everything so Shizuo despite wanting to sleep with the informant, to snuggle in with him and kiss him good night, spent most of his time either at work, with Kadota at a bar and stayed with Shinra but returned home almost every night when Izaya was asleep and kissed his forehead and slept on the couch, cut out the middle man and go straight to the couch.
He wasn't neglecting him, he would visit Izaya but he was mainly asleep and would leave a kiss on his forehead and leave a little note with, 'You look sexy sleeping. I had go to work. Phone me when you read this,' and when he did eventually call he just spoke how he was busy with work and would stay with Shinra then hung up.
Izaya woke up, feeling hot lips touch his forehead but was too tired to open his eyes and kiss his lips. All he wanted was him to kiss his lips and snuggle into his back and to love him, well cherish him. He groaned when he felt the door shut and decided he needed to get out of bed and go get his kiss.
He managed to get out of bed, which was always a struggle and rushed after Shizuo, he made his way down the steps, waddling from side to side as he ran as fast as his swollen ankles, aching back, swollen stomach would allow. He saw Shizuo shut the front door but continued to run after him until he got to the door and saw that he had completely vanished.
Izaya sighed and slumped against the door feeling exhausted from chasing after Shizuo and sat their for a few moments while he slowly rubbed his stomach and sighed to himself, "You saw that right. He was clearly avoiding me. Why is daddy doing that?" He asked the child who gave no response.
He just dashed away, trying to run out of the apartment. The informant was brought out of his thoughts when a cheery tone echoed around his room emitting from his computer. He rushed over to see that it was his father calling. He gasped in surprised and brought up an application that would allow him to record their conversation.
He pressed the accept button and watched as his father popped up. He looked very much like Izaya but had more muscle than him. Had the ruby eyes, and the cute little nose but had a square chin. A mossy green hat sat on his head that was covered in leaves and dirt. He had dirt all over his face but Izaya wasn't bothered. Behind him was just green and Izaya assumed he was in his tent and managed to get some signal.
"Hey dad," Izaya smiled as he saw the man he looked up to smile back at him in a loving smile that could make the whole room copy the same action from such a smile, that made everyone's day become ten times better and could easily cheer up anyone when crying, "I'm recording this. Say hello to the twins. They'll kill me if I don't," He laughed and watched as his father laughed as well, that smile even brighter than before.
"Miaru, Kururi. Hi babies. Have you been good for your brother? I'm going to assume not. Just behave...your brother looks off. I love you, all three all of you and when I get home I can't wait to spoil all of yous. So stay good for me baby girl's," He spoke to Twins who will eventually will see the video. "And if your crying now...stop it. I want you only to smile. Girls, I know that I maybe away and be very far away from you, but when you smile, I swear I can feel it. Ah you're smiling now, I can tell. The world is brighter when you smile, so don't cry and just remember to smile,"
Izaya smiled at his words, the twins would be a mess when they saw this video, crying their heart outs and shouting to the screen that they loved him to, hoping that their voices would meet him in Iraq and would be grinning like idiots.
"As I was saying...you don't look to well. What's wrong? It looks like you've been crying," Izaya wiped his eyes with the side of his hand and looked to the door where he had been slumped against moments ago.
"I got myself a boyfriend," Izaya smiled. He watched as his dad's face froze for a millisecond then he flashed a bright smile at him. Izaya couldn't help but copy his dad's actions before his face fell into a scowl. "Well he's been avoiding me for like a month now. He just left despite running after him and I won't see him for the week no doubt. He knows I flaming need him and he-" Izaya scrunched up his face as he tried to hide his sadness and the tears that were slowly seeping down.
"Son. Don't cry. He's probably really busy. Why would he avoiding you?" Izaya pouted sadly and turned his head away.
"I didn't want to snuggle," he sighed. Izaya's father laughed hard before looking to his son. "Dad...I want to tell you somethin-" he was stopped when he could hear screams in the background and his happy expression faltering slowly.
"Sorry you were saying," he turned his attention back to his son his smile back on that face that instantly brightened Izaya's mood.
"Well the truth is...I am...I am... I have a...," As Izaya spoke he heard a large noise that he would assume that it was a bomb falling. He watched as his fathers screen flashed and he watched as his fathers bodies was blown to pieces. Izaya stared at the screen for a few moments, watching as his blood rained down over the camera and could fainly see his fathers head in the back ground.
"DAD!" Izaya screamed in pain seeing his fathers head in the back ground. He hung up as as soon as possible and phoned him mother as soon as possible, his fingers shaking too much to even press the keys correctly. When he heard the click and his mothers soothing voice he broke down even futher.
"Mum...dad's dead," he cried into the phone. There was silence on the phone for a few moment before he heard his mother sob on the other end.
"Baby...can I come round?" Izaya nodded slowly to his mothers words then made his agreement clear with a weak yes. He heard the phone cut off and went to get him some milk as the kid was kicking and knew it loved milk and would soothe down to the white liquid.
He waddled over to the kitchen and found about 20 cartons in the fridge along with sweet foods and pulled out a large un-opened six litre bottle and waddled to his sofa while the tears stung his eyes.
He opened the lid and pulled the frustrating tab off before bringing the carton to his lips and cried even more. In his head all he could see was red, it was clouding his vision like the blood that had covered his fathers camera. He shut his eyes and slowly chugged down the milk until he felt like he was going to be sick and let it drop to the floor as he cried into the armrest with Sena jumping on top and snuggling up to his stomach and chest.
He heard his door open and saw his mother standing there trying not to cry. She walked over to her son and pulled him in for a long hug as he cried heavily into her shoulder. His mother rubbed his back softly while she whimpered not wanting to show her son her sadness.
"We were video chatting...I recorded it," Hanako walked over to her sons chair and he brought the video up and played it back for her. Tears slowly slid down her porcelain face and smashed into the glass table below her as she saw her loving husbands smile. His lovely ruby eyes, his loving attitude to all his family.
Hanako screamed when she saw the remainder of her husband and cried even harder in pain and hugged her son as close as she could possibly hold him. She noticed his pained face and put her hand onto his stomach only to feel his child kicking him hard.
"Get some rest. I'll tidy up the house and plan everything. I'll tell the twins. You just sleep," She helped her pregnant son to the couch and got him comfy and saw the cat that the twins gave him for comfort.
"Baby, what's Shizuo doing to you?" She asked as she stroked the side of his face.
"He keeps running away from me. He doesn't want to be with me anymore and would rather be away from me," He whispered. Hanako sighed and kissed his forehead.
"Your having his child. That won't be the case...if it is...threaten him to stay or he doesn't get to see it," she stood up then picked up the empty milk carton lying in it's own puddle. She got a cloth and cleaned up the spilt milk. She looked to her son and smiled softly. She was never this grumpy or angry when she had her three children.
A few days later the funeral was being held. Izaya had told Shinra and him and his father would be attending as both loved Sanji and wanted to pay their respects to him. Shinra had giving Izaya a fat body suit, so he'd look more natural. Shinra was already in the church in Ikebukuro and was waiting for all the Orihara's to arrive. The hall had two columns of benches and about 8 benches on each side that held about 5 people, but Shinra was sure that they'd all be filled unp easily. Sanji had bequeathed so many legacies and had touched so many lives in the short life span that he had lived.
There was a table at the front but it was empty except from a some what large picture of Sanji, smiling widely, reminding people that it was better to smile that to cry.
Hanako and Rei were outside the small church and was helping Izaya walk in as he looked very bloated and pale and very weak in the knee to walk. Miaru and Kururi held their aunties and uncles hand as they were too sad and found it difficult to talk. They spotted Shizuo not that far away and Miaru rushed over to him as he stood beside Celty chatting while he smoked.
"Miaru! What's wrong?" He asked taking the cancer stick from his mouth while he wrapped his arms around the girls shaking body, noticing the black dress that she wore and not her usual yellow hoodie with teal skirt.
"Are you on a break?" She cried. Shizuo nodded and looked to her sad face and nodded. He stubbed his cigarette out and took her hand as he dragged him into the hall and pushed him next to Izaya who had a small carton of milk on his lap and was looking down at it trying to calm himself down.
"Izaya. What's wrong?" He asked as he sat down next to him and noticed that he was crying, his tears falling onto his lap.
"Why'd you bring him?" Izaya hissed to his baby sister who looked horrid as well as he did. Izaya held Shizuo's hand when an oak coffin held by 6 men dressed in black walked in and put the coffin on the table that also held the picture and bowed before taking a seat at the back.
A minister walked in and stood in front and looked to the grieving audience before him, "Sanji Orihara. A great man he was. He'd be remembered for so much...for his love...for his warm smile...for his passion for his family and he'll always remain in our hearts for the man he was," The minister began watching as more of the family began to cry.
Shizuo turned to Izaya and realised who's funeral he was attending: Sanji Orihara, Izaya's father. He went to touch Izaya but he glared at him and shook his head while moving away from him, "Come on. Come here," Izaya sighed and moved into the embrace of his boyfriend as the ceremony continued.
"We have a clip of his final moments, that he spent with his son. I must warn you...the video does include his death," The minister stepped aside and the video began. Shizuo watched the Izaya on the video and how sad he looked when he spoke about him, how he ran away from him.
"I've been working," Shizuo leaned in to whisper into his ear.
"DON'T LIE! YOU DON'T COME HOME. YOU SPEND ALL YOUR TIME AWAY! I DO NOTICE!" Izaya screamed at him and then watched as everyone turned to him and he just growled angrily and moved away from him. He sat in between his sisters and held their hands as the worse bit was to come and they had yet to see the video.
The bomb dropped.
The mouths dropped.
The tears fell faster and faster, especially for the twins but his fathers words still hit them like the bomb, "and if your crying now...stop it. I want you only to smile," both twins tried to smile but found it far too difficult to complete the task.
"Now we will hear from his son Izaya, well his daughter Miaru but Izaya's words," The girl stood up and went to the front and looked to the audience before all her, all of them including her grandparents to Shinra and his father, to her aunty and uncle to Rei, to military soldiers had tears stained faces, red blotchy eyes and snivelling noses with tissues in hands to try and help the mess they were in.
"Hi..I'll be reading what my brother wanted to say...he's really ill, and is unable to stand and talk...so from Izaya's mouth," She took a deep breath and looked to the audience that were friends and family and began reading the lines slowly.
"When I was young...I was fat...I guess I am again but anyway...Due to my weight I was bullied, these children...one of them being my now current boyfriend and these other two who did the worst...they made me feel horrid for the age of 3...but when I returned home that day. My dad was there and would lift me up, like I was a feather and made me fell better. He told me that, my fat was how much I loved and cared for life and those other twigs were heartless creatures with no sense of caring for anyone but themselves,"
Miaru laughed softly before going back to speak, "He always treated me like I was the king...like I was the only important thing in this world and I'd be the ruler. I was happy when I learnt that...he mad me feel like even god was beneath me and that feeling of being above everyone else just made me feel so much better, that they only called me names trying to find their happiness by trying to lower me who stood above them. The next year I learnt that babies steal the attention, I learnt that from Shizuo so when the twins came I was worried that they'd pull me down and I'd beneth the people who bullied me but not once did he ever ignore me, he always made sure that I was the one was even greater than god...to be honest, I think he hid from the terror of two," Miaru laughed at his name for her. She could feel herself tearing up at her brothers words.
"Even then he never shoved me away trying to focus on the two. He was always there for me, during fat camp and even know I would expect him to be standing behind me for my illness and such." Everyone was crying even harder at the girls speach, well Izaya's speech.
"The reason I showed the video, was because despite him being in a war zone he still smiled the way he did despite the noise in the background, despite that it was dangerous. He was with his family and that was all he need was to show of that large smile and as he said to the twins, if your crying then stop and smile instead for me that even though he is far away, he can still feel it, he just knows," Miaru just finished the speech when she gave the biggest grin she could possibly do and watched as everyone tried their hardest to match her smile while she rushed back to her brother and was pulled into his arms as she cried at her brothers words.
The ceremony ended with home videos of Sanji and Izaya was ushered away by his mother and Rei to his car as he sat front just thinking to himself. Rei sat in front in the driver seat as Izaya just murmured to himself. They heard a knock on Izaya's window and watched as the door opened to have Shizuo standing their with sad eyes.
"Are you alright?" He asked looking to his sad boyfriend who shook his head.
"Either get in the car with me or go to work. Warning, the latter will involve me kicking you out the house," Izaya hissed at the blonde who shut the door and opened the back door and sat beside Hanako.
Rei pulled out and left Ikebukuro and headed for Shinjaku. Shizuo reached forward to touch Izaya but he turned around and shook his head, "Come on," The blonde slumped back in his seat and phoned Tom to explain his absence.
"Hey. I won't be able to work this afternoon. Shizuka is kicking up a fuss, so I'm going to spend some time with her," he said to his boss who only allowed the male and hung up and retrieved Verona instead.
"I'm kicking up a fuss am I?" Izaya snarled at him from the front.
"Well threatening me to come with you or you'll kick me out would count as kicking up a fuss," Shizuo retorted turning his head away and looking out the window to watch the other cars pass him.
"Just keep your mouth shut until we get back. I'm not in the mood," Izaya began to sob and that's when everything when silent in the car as Izaya sobbed hard into the dashboard.
When they finally got out, Shizuo opened the door for Izaya who grunted and stormed ahead of him while Shizuo chased after. Rei stayed in the car to see to her family while Hanako rushed after the arguing couple.
Once they were inside, Shizuo took a seat on the couch and watched as Izaya stormed over to Sena and picked her up before snuggling into her neck as he sat next to Shizuo, "Are you going to leave me?" Izaya asked sadly while he played with Sena's paws.
"Why would you think that?" Shizuo asked turning to see his exhausted facial expressions.
"Please don't leave me...if you do, I won't allow you have any contact with the-" He was hushed by Shizuo's lips pressed against his own.
"I'm not leaving you. Why would I?"
"Because I won't snuggle!" He cried into his shoulder while Shizuo rubbed his lower back trying to get him to calm down. He took a deep breath then looked to the male that was pregant.
"I come home almost every night but you're always fast asleep. I stay with Shinra when I have to get up earlier. I sleep here. How do you think there's always milk in the fridge and cake. I bring them in. I have to get up early and come back later, and you're still fast asleep. I didn't know about your dad, because you never told me. I'm only working so hard so I can have some money for the kid and I can buy nice things for it," Shizuo kissed his cheek and allowed Izaya to hold him closer by sitting on his knee.
"I'm not leaving you despite you being a grouch," Shizuo kissed his cheek softly. He would get frustrated by Izaya's screams and his harsh behaviour but he knew it was just the pregnancy that made him act the way he did.
"I'm sweaty. Look away," Izaya stood up began to un-button his shirt slowly as Shizuo studied him. He pulled the cloth off and throw it over Shizuo's face so he didn't watch but the blonde pulled it away to see the soft fabric that was Izaya's fat suit. He undid the large trousers and looked to Shizuo who was still staring at him. "Stop staring," Shizuo shook his head and watched as Izaya unzipped his bodysuit and stepped out wearing nothing at all.
"I stink. I'm going for a bath," he stood up and made his way up the stairs followed by Shizuo who was undressing himself as he walked up the steps and threw his clothes onto the banister until his top half was naked. "I don't remember inviting you to join me," Izaya said as he turned the taps on for the hot water.
"I'm inviting myself. Don't need you to think stupid things," Izaya nodded then walked over to him to unbuckle his belt and push his trousers down then reached up to kiss his lips as they waited for the bath to fill up.
Izaya pushed himself away and watched as Shizuo got into the bath first, the water over flowing over the side as he sat down. Izaya climbed in after and sat opposite him and just stared at him for a while.
"We've never bathed together before?" Izaya spoke softly as he flicked the water softly. Shizuo nodded then watched as the brunette stood up and turned around and lay against his chest, closing his eyes.
"How have you been recently with the pregnancy? Has it been kicking?" Izaya nodded his head as he raised his arms behind him and touched Shizuo's dry hair.
"Yeah. It's been kicking really bad of recent. Not sure what it wants but it should stop," Shizuo kissed Izaya's neck softly before wrapping his arms around his small waist and brought him in closer as they lay back and just allowed the water to wash over them as they shifted.
The two stayed in their washing each others backs and hair before they rinsed of with the shower and headed out and lay on the bed together with dressing gowns wrapped around them while they shared the one pillow and massaged the others free hand.
"You know you're mum is down stairs," Izaya nodded then lay on his back and scooted closer to Shizuo before slowly leaning into him again. With the big belly he as unable to stay close to Shizuo.
"We are only cuddling," Izaya responded looking to his naked body. He reached down to untie Shizuo's bathrobe and rested his hand against his inner lap and stroked the soft flesh, grazing his thumb over his limp cock causing the man to catch his gasps within his throat at the feeling.
"The pregnancy is painful and my head is all mush right now. I get irritated too easily...and I'm sorry," Shizuo softly stroked his cheek and watched as he peacefully fell asleep and rested one hand on his stomach to protect the child. Shizuo pulled the covers over both of them and turned the light off so that Izaya could sleep peacefully.
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