A/N: woo! Finally done! This is the last chapter full of explanations and stuff so after this we can get to the awkward yaoi fun times with shizui~chan and iza~kun!

Also just to let you guys know, rhamadhan is starting soon so my updates may be more scarce than usual for a month, but i shall try my best!


Definition

"Sooo..." Shinra smiled, oblivious of the poison infecting the air in the room. Celty and Kadota were sitting uncomfortably as they sensed the palpable tension in the room but unfortunately before they could think of an excuse to ensure their escape Shinra started off again. "I can't believe you woke up after a week! I thought for sure you'd die haha, you need to let me take some of your blood it'd be fascinating to study its structure." He flipped through the chart a little too cheerfully thus lending him a somewhat 'mad scientist' aura.

"Ahaha Shinra~ don't you have somewhere to be?" Izaya sang light heartedly but his deadly stare betrayed his true feelings of annoyance. "Dotachin~ won't you go show the good doctor...something far away from the hospital?" he smirked evilly, tilting his head to the side as Shizuo shook his head in exasperation. Honestly no matter what happened Izaya was still Izaya.

"Ehh? I want to stay longer!" Shinra whined but was promptly shut up as Celty typed up something on her phone and showed it to him. Eyes gleaming he shot up from his seat and grabbed her by the arm. "Something urgent came up see you guys later!" Shinra rushed through his sentence and ran out of the room.

"Ehh..." Kadota scratched his head awkwardly and stood up "Erm...get better? Or something..." he finished just as awkwardly and left.

"Subtle much?" Shizuo smiled sarcastically at Izaya who just scowled in response.

"Well excuse me for wanting my sanity back quickly. I happen to be very fond of my sanity," crossing his arms, he pouted at Shizuo, who couldn't help but tease further,

"You have sanity?" he smiled. Izaya sputtered and was about to devise a scathing rebuttal when he notice the sly smile on his face and it dawned on him that he was being toyed with. Smiling along with him he said

"Who knew you could fool me..." he trailed off thoughtfully, his finger resting on his chin pensively.

"Who would have thought you would get suicidal," Shizuo shot back

"Who would have though you cared?"

Silence.

Izaya scratched the back of his neck wondering what to say next, he had just been going with the flow but when he had said the conversation stopped abruptly and Shizuo had put on his 'serious face' rendering Izaya's thoughts to repeat the word 'awkward' over and over.

"I do care, that's about the gist of it Izaya and I'm sorry for not telling you but I kind of thought you would figure it out, hell I guess you're as stupid as I am."

"I'm not stupid...you're stupid..." Izaya couldn't think of anything else to say.

"Yeah...okay...that's kind of what I said...um anyway...I've been thinking about how to...well how to handle this, and I think it's best if I just go from the start?" he searched izaya's face for any betrayal of emotion but he had his poker face in place and just nodded at Shizuo to go on. So he began from the very start and went through his entire confusing, mind-wrenching and painfully wonderful experience once more as he explained it all to Izaya. He kept his eyes trained on him so he could see his reaction to this revelation but he just sat there and listened calmly the whole way through, which was unusual for Izaya.

Once he had finished he sat back in his chair and waited for a reaction with baited breath. He didn't exactly know what to expect, even though he thought that maybe he could get a positive reaction Izaya wasn't that predictable and Shizuo was no-where near that confident. It felt as though time was moving as slowly as possible just to torture him, the 'tick tock' of the clock taunting him, his emotions bubbling up and changing over and over in the few seconds that felt more like a lifetime. Finally he was released from his agony and exhaled the breath that he didn't know he was holding in as Izaya spoke.

"Come over here" he motioned with his fingers, his face still betraying no emotion. Shizuo complied walking over to the bed and leaning down to izaya's face at his further instruction. And then. Izaya proved Shizuo's prediction about him being unpredictable right by kissing him full on the mouth.

Pushing his soft lips to Shizuo's he used his slightly less broken arm to circle the blonde's neck and entwined his fingers in the dyed hair. Shizuo moved down to get into a more comfortable position and then proceeded to deepen the kiss, running his tongue along the bottom of izaya's lips whilst cupping his chin with the hand he wasn't using to support himself.

As they drew away from each other Izaya smirked at Shizuo,

"Consider that payback for kissing me out of the blue," and Shizuo couldn't help but let out a low chuckle and replied swiftly

"Well you know how I hate to lose to you Izaya..." and swiftly captured his lips once again.

Needless to say they kept up their 'payback' for quite a while until they were interrupted by a poor startled nurse who wasn't expecting to see two (extraordinarily good looking) males ferociously devouring each other and she certainly wasn't expecting to be thrown out of the room with such brutality either.

Well after the nurse had been removed from the room, Izaya decided they should probably talk about their new 'relationship' and Shizuo complied, because he knew that although Izaya insisted he wanted to get it all over and done with that he was actually embarrassed at being caught in that kind of position.

Since neither of them counted themselves as 'normal' they knew it was going to be difficult to define their relationship although Shizuo insisted that Izaya was normal if he just stopped acting like a psychopath, to which Izaya scathingly replied that if he hadn't been a psycho they would have never ended up like this, thus shutting up the blonde.

Izaya was afraid that if they started a relationship, all his weaknesses would be found out and his vulnerability would destroy him, he needed to keep his mask and persona intact and he didn't want anything to interfere with it, but if he didn't have a relationship with Shizuo he knew he would be driven to a point of insanity that was similar to the spell of madness cast on Hercules by Hera.

Shizuo was afraid of his power, he had hurt people before, what if he hurt Izaya? Now that he knew he was capable of loving he had to asses whether or not he was worthy of loving, what rights did he have as a monster that harmed the innocent?

Of course neither told the other about these fears, they were still far too wary, too guarded and too afraid. But they felt as though if it were with the other, then perhaps these thoughts could be baseless, they had defied the laws of normalcy, broken the barriers of society and had turned the odds into their favour countless times. So maybe, just maybe if it were the two of them they could make this work.

They were both exceptions to the rules so maybe they could once again fool fate and live in their own extraordinary way.

They sealed their fate with a kiss.


Got kinda angsty at the end...it always seems to end like that...

random and obscure greek mythology is always great lol~

I'll explain, the goddess Hera was outraged at her husbands (Zuess) infidelity that she decided ti ruin the outcome of that infidelity which was hercules. She sent him a spell of madness that mad him lose all sanity, reason and sense which resulted in him murdering his child.

I'm weird~~