Here's the next chapter. I'm updating quite frequently because I have quite a good amount of time on my hands. Meh, anways...These next few chapters are gonna be kind of like this one where Izaya and Shizuo get into situations or events and they sort of figure each other out through those sorts of situations/events. Their characters seem to be developing quite well, I think.
In the morning I was hoping that Izaya wasn't going to be at school today. I didn't want to deal with him, not after meeting him yesterday and completely figuring out that he's a total weirdo! Besides, I hate him! He's confusing and annoying. He says that he likes to hang around with me and he even shows me that he does because he follows me everywhere. He even followed Kasuka home, which I don't really mind because I was worried about my little brother walking home alone anyway, but still. He's got no right to barge into the Heiwajima home, especially after causing me so much trouble the day before. I just want to beat him up so badly!
I hear the doorbell ring suddenly and so I head over to open the door and low and behold Izaya is standing right there with his cat-like smile. I close the door quickly before he's able to sneak his way in and I lock the doors.
"Bro, who was that?"
"Some weirdo…" It's not a lie really.
"Shizu-chan is so rude!" Izaya says loudly. Kasuka can hear him through the door. He has such a high-pitched voice. I reopen the door after Kasuka tells me that what I had done was horrible and that I knew better than to do that to 'poor Izaya-kun'. Gross, just gross. I can't believe my own brother is siding with this weirdo! "Good morning, Shizu-chan, Kasuka." Why am I the only one that gets a stupid nickname?
"Good morning, Izaya-kun." Kasuka says as he blinks dully.
"I heard from Shinra that you and your brother walk to school every day, Shizu-chan." Shinra is as good as dead. "I really want to walk with you too Shizu-chan!"
"No, not a chance! Get lost, flea!" I say as I try to push him out of our home. Kasuka stops me and stares at me as if by saying 'don't be so mean to him'. "Kasuka, he's a weirdo, besides he's the reason why I got in trouble yesterday."
"You have no one to blame but yourself, Shizu-chan." Izaya says as he pats my shoulder. "Please, I walked all this way to just to walk with you to school." He clings onto me. God, again with the clinging? I can't stand the sight of this kid. He's getting on my nerves more than Shinra. I think I've already said that. Jeez he annoys me so much I have to repeat it!
"No definitely not." I repeat sternly.
On our way to school Izaya starts skipping like some girl. I get embarrassed to even live in the same town, in the same country, in the same planet as him. I tell Kasuka that we could easily run off without him, but my younger brother refuses. Great now I have to walk with Izaya who's all cheery and my brother who is the complete opposite. My head is spinning from glancing from one to the other…
When we finally get to school I do what I normally do and say goodbye to Kasuka, but this time I have this annoying flea following me around. Izaya waves goodbye at Kasuka and then grabs a hold of my hand. I try and get out of his grip, but he doesn't allow me to slip away. He smiles at me as I give up. As we walk to class he asks me stupid questions that consist of my likes and dislikes, my birthday, and other nonsense that I don't dare give him the joy in knowing the answers to. He whines when I don't answer.
"Do you ever shut up?" I ask angrily. He whimpers and clutches my hand even tighter. He looks as though he's going to cry and even though it's him, I feel kind of guilty. "Fine, sorry…" I escape his grip and calmly walk towards the opposite direction. "I'm going to the bathroom. Be right back." I open the door to the restroom and quickly get into a stall. I sure hope he doesn't follow me in here. I feel like no place is safe now. How am I supposed to have some alone time?
"Shizu-chan~!" Izaya calls out annoyingly. I can't even go to the bathroom without him bothering me…Great…
"What the heck do you want? I'm kind of busy." I say, trying to stay calm.
"Oh I know." Izaya says as he stands by the stall I'm in. "I like to be with Shizu-chan every minute of the day."
"For the last time, get away from me!" I say feeling myself getting way too angry.
When we finally get to the classroom I head for my seat. Izaya sits right next to me, but this time to the left of me since the desk to the right of me has disappeared, strike that has died from getting thrown at the wall. The wall didn't come out without a few wounds too. I sigh and then realize Izaya has moved his desk closer to mine like yesterday. Doesn't this kid learn?
"Get away from me, flea." I say calmly, trying to concentrate on the board. Izaya starts scribbling down something and then hands it to me. I read it to myself. "I love sitting close to Shizu-chan. You smell like waffles and milk~!" GROSS! "You're sick."
For the rest of the day Izaya stuck to me like glue. He was with me during all the classroom activities, during recess and lunch, during my trips to the bathroom too just like this morning. He wouldn't leave and it was really starting to make me furious. He was my partner during group art work before recess and then at recess he sat next to me eating some snacks. After recess he and I were reading buddies so we read together, first I read and then he did. At lunch he ate his bento next to me under the big tree. After lunch we had to do some work by ourselves but even then the flea stuck by me. The teacher even thought we were coping. When we were finally dismissed Izaya caught up with me and Kasuka. He clung onto me like usual and cheerfully started to hum a song I didn't know. But his eyes seemed to wander elsewhere rather than to me, which creeps me out by the way. I follow where he's looking at out of curiosity and find myself looking at the stairs that lead to the second floor of the school.
"Why don't we go upstairs~!" Kasuka and I look at each other questioningly as Izaya points to the stairs which lead to abandoned part of the school. Once upon a time the school used those upstairs classrooms, but now they don't have enough money to pay that many teachers and have that many classrooms so they just abandoned them. The electricity is fried up there so it's really dark. They probably would think about taking down that part of the school but they don't have money for that either.
"It's too dark to go upstairs, idiot." I say simply. Suddenly Shinra joins us in our small group and asks what we're doing.
"We're gonna go upstairs." Izaya says happily as he clings onto my sleeve once again. I'm really starting to feel sick to my stomach now.
"I would like to see what's up there." Shinra says curiously as he looks at the spooky stairs. "No one's allowed up there so…"
"Exactly, we should just go home. There's probably nothing up there anyway." I say sternly. I grab Kasuka's hand and tell him that we're going home before this crazy flea gets us in trouble. He's already gotten me in trouble; I don't need more of it. Unfortunately, Izaya pulls me by the arm and begs for me to lead him upstairs since he says I know more about it than he does.
"Ever since I came here I've just been curious." Izaya points out.
"You arrived only yesterday!" I say loudly.
"Yes, and I've been curious since then~!" Izaya laughs. Shinra smiles and tells me that going up there won't be that bad since no one's really here and if some teachers are around, they're in their classrooms busy. I finally nod in agreement and decide to lead them upstairs. Kasuka tags along seeing as I'm his big brother and we are told by our mother to stay together. That and despite the usual look on his face I'm pretty sure Kasuka is eager to find out the mystery behind the dark upstairs. Eh, maybe it's just my imagination. He sort of always looks like that.
"Shizu-chan can you hold my hand? I'm scared!" Izaya says as he reaches for my hand. I quickly move away from him and growl.
"If you're scared you shouldn't have said you wanted to come up here!" I say as I turn on the flashlight keychain I have. Izaya shivers and sounds really scared, but I just ignore it and continue leading the three down the empty, dark hallway.
"Well, I wasn't scared then, I'm scared now!" I hear more whines coming from the flea.
"What am I supposed to do about it? It's your own fault. I'm not gonna hold your hand, flea."
In the end I was forced to anyway.
I can almost feel Shinra and Kasuka staring at the flea and I. I hate it. Why is he so clingy? I suddenly realize that with my strength I could just push him away, but then again what if he starts crying? Shinra brings me back from my thoughts when he notices a strange door. Unlike all the other doors we've passed this one has a bunch of scribbles that look like writing.
"Hey, do you think it's alright if Kasuka and me wander around and look at the other rooms?" Shinra suddenly asks cheerfully. I turn around and get kind of worried about my younger brother, but Kasuka says that he'll be fine, so I let him wander around with another small flashlight I had in my pocket.
"Can we go in there, Shizu-chan~!" Izaya asks me as he tugs at my shirt. He points at the door with scribbles and I absolutely start refusing to go in there. "Aw, is Shizu-chan scared?"
"I'm not, you were a couple seconds ago, so I'm thinking you're gonna get even more scared going in there since you're such a baby." I say plainly as I shrug my shoulders. He pushes me slightly with a pout on my face. Heh, he's kind of cute when he gets mad. Wait…what?
"I am not a baby! Shizu-chan is so mean!" Izaya says as he crosses his arms. I look at him with an annoyed expression and then smirk as I turn off the flashlight. He jumps suddenly and clings onto me as he cries hysterically. "No, no, no! Please Shizu-chan turn the flashlight back on! I'm scared!"
"I thought you said you weren't a baby?" I ask as I laugh a little. Tears start to trickle down his face, but I can't really see them, but could feel them on my shirt as he buried his face in it.
"Shizu-chan is a bully!" Izaya says as he bolts away from me, pushing me a little harder than before and opens the door to the scribbled door and closes it. I panic for some reason and then chase after him. I look around the abandoned classroom and notice a light coming from the closet. I walk over, carefully trying to step over all the abandoned junk. I twist the doorknob and notice that it's lock.
"Flea, come on we don't have time for this! Besides what if someone catches us!" I say as I twist the knob again. I hear soft sobs through the door and start to feel a bit guilty. Was he really that afraid of the dark. "Look…I'm sorry…okay…?" After a little while I hear a faint click and then see the door opening slightly. I hate him so much. Why the heck does he make me feel so guilty about things like this? He's not a girl. Izaya opens the door all the way, but doesn't come out so I go inside and sit next to him. "We have to get out of here. Let's go."
"No." Izaya says flatly. What a brat!
"Either you follow me downstairs so we can all go home or I drag you down there you stupid flea!" He looks up at me and then turns his head with a huff. Suddenly the light turns off and we're left in the dark since the only light up here was the closet's light, for some reason.
"Shizu-chan! Turn on the flashlight!" Izaya clings onto me fearfully again. I sigh and turn on the flashlight and shine it on him.
"You just had to be curious about this stupid place." I say angrily.
"I'm curious about everything, but especially Shizu-chan." He stopped crying? He wipes his eyes and takes my hand. "Now I know that Shizu-chan isn't afraid of the dark."
"Yeah, and you are."
"Am not!"
"Are too!"
"Am not!"
"Are too!"
"Shizu-chan is a real bully and a monster!" Izaya says as he gets up and heads to the door that leads to the hallway. I push him a little roughly to get out of here and then we go and look for Shinra and Kasuka.
We all get the heck downstairs and head outside to walk home. Shinra decides to walk part of the way home. Kasuka and Shinra talk amongst themselves though while I'm stuck with this flea.
"Can Shizu-chan just walk to and from school with me?" Izaya asks as he holds my hand. I get my hand away from his and raise one eyebrow.
"What? Why?" I ask as I look at Kasuka. Why would I ever leave my brother just to walk with this flea?
"Because I want Shizu-chan all to myself~" Izaya says cheerfully as he once again takes my sleeve. Is he completely crazy?
"Hell no! That's stupid!" I say as I feel myself nervous. What the heck could he mean by that? "I mean, what are you, five?"
"No, but Shizu-chan always wants to hang out with his brother. Why can't he hang out with only me…?" He asks in a whimper. It's true that I try to keep myself from being alone with this stupid flea. We're usually in a group, Shinra, Izaya and me or Kasuka, Izaya, and me. I hate being alone with this crazy kid. He makes me feel uneasy like he's some kind of evil, little demon.
"Plain and simple, I don't like you." I say a matter-of-factly. This makes Izaya smile for some reason.
"That's not true~" Izaya says in a sing-song voice which annoys me to no end. "Shizu-chan loves me."
"Heck no, that's gross! You're sick!" I say as I start to move away from him and high-tail it to the front of the group where Kasuka and Shinra are talking. What the heck? That little flea is crazy and gross! Why would I ever love him?
By the time we got home Shinra had already went a different way. So it was only Kasuka, that stupid flea, and me. I open the door and let Kasuka get inside first then I turn to Izaya and tell him to get lost.
"B-but Shizu-chan…can you ask your mom to drive me home. I'm scared out here all alone." Izaya says although he's smiling. "Please Shizu-chan, you don't want something to happen to your future wife, do you~" That was the last straw. I slammed the door, almost breaking the hinges off and ran upstairs to my room. I hate him, I hate him, I hate him!
I hear my mother through my door saying I shouldn't slam the door otherwise we'll have to pay for a new like before and then I heard her go downstairs and find that stupid flea. She scolds me through the door for doing such a thing to my 'best friend' and then heads off to drop him off at his house.
Izaya isn't a stupid girl, so why is he saying gross things like this? I hate him so much for making me all flustered.
A/N: Pfft, Shizu-chan is all flustered. This is kind of where we notice Izaya's love of information. He's a very curious/bratty child. Anyway, I hope everyone who's reading, enjoyed! Please, please review! I really take reviews to heart 3 Also I apologize once again about the Oocness if that's bothering anyone. I just like twisting personalities in my weird fantasies. I hope they kind of resemble their true characters, even if it's just a smidge ^^
