So here is the 5th chapter! Thank you to those who waited :) The lemons are coming verrry soon...be prepared ;)
Enjoy!
"Hey Celty, it's me, I have a mission for you. Yes. I'm trying to make dinner. Shut up. Don't laugh, this is an important experiment. What? No, don't come over. Tell me what to do, step by step. Please. Thank you."
He listened to her instructions to take out the necessary ingredients and he proceeded to do as she said. 15 minutes later he had prepared a delicious-smelling 3 course meal. He layed it on the table in front of Shizuo, whose eyes widened.
"Wow it looks so good Izaya Kun!"
He began to eat hungrily and Izaya sat opposite from him, observing carefully.
Shizuo noticed this and looked up.
"Don't just stare at me, eat something!" he held up a chicken leg. "Its super yummmmy!"
He waved it in Izaya's face and Izaya bit a chunk off with his mouth.
Not bad, he thought. I'll have to thank Celty later.
The next day went by flawlessly as Izaya carefully plotted out all of his actions. He kept Shizuo in the flat all day by giving him random, useless, paperwork to file. Of course, Izaya had to act as if he were Shizuo's best friend, so he kept him happy by giving him breaks to play games of chess, in which he would always win. Shizuo did not know what to make of Izaya's expert chess skills.
"You're incredible Izaya Kun! You should enter a chess tournament or something!"
Izaya laughed out loud and firmly dismissed the idea.
"I'm going to make dinner now. Keep working."
"Sure thing!"
Izaya got up and walked into the kitchen. All at once, a surge of thoughts entered his mind. He leaned against the counter and thought more about the difference in Shizuo's personality.
In a way, this form of Shizuo was kind of terrifying. Their personalities were so different! It was as if Shizuo was a completely different person. He remarked on the peculiar way memories form a human's personality and then the way memories had formed Shizuo's personality.
So freaking interesting.
Izaya let out a small laugh once more before he picked up the phone to call Celty.
Life went on smoothly from there and nothing changed. Izaya made dinner every night, Shizuo did useless work, and they always had a good game of chess.
Then, one day, Izaya stopped by Celty's flat to pick up a recipe book. Celty retrieved the book for him and as she handed it over, she looked carefully at Izaya.
"Did something happen?" she asked, curiously, typing in her phone and showing it to Izaya.
"No, why do you ask?"
"You seem, well...different."
"What do you mean by different?" asked Izaya with a sudden curiousity.
"You seem happier, Izaya."
Happier? Happier? Izaya was confused at once.
"I don't understand. How do I seem happier?"
"When you came in you were smiling, and when I left to get the book, you were snickering to yourself," said Celty typing furiously on her phone. "What happened?"
Izaya stood frozen. Celty had just proved something that he had not planned to happen. This experiment was not supposed to affect him.
"It's probably just the weather," he admitted smugly.
Celty turned away. She didn't believe that for a second, but decided it was probably best not to argue.
"Whatever, return that when you're done."
Izaya nodded and walked out of the flat. In the street on the way home, he thought deeply about what she had said. He knew undoubtedly that she was right. He was definitely feeling more on the positive end of the emotional spectrum than normal.
Of course, he would never fully admit it, and he covered it with his sadistic ideas about using Shizuo as a human experiment. He dismissed the happiness as the joy of being able to use Shizuo in this manner and did not think any further than that.
Then one day, which was a pretty typical day, Izaya was bathing when the door suddenly opened.
Shizuo stood there holding a towel. His eyes widened and he jumped back.
"Oh, Izaya kun, I didn't know you were in here."
Izaya looked up in surprise, but quickly hid it with a famous bad-ass smirk and said the first thing that popped into his mind.
"Don't worry about it. We used to bathe together anyway."
"Oh, in that case, I'm coming in!"
Izaya's eyes widened in disbelief and partial fear. He did not expect such a thing to occur, nor did he in his wildest dreams even think that Shizuo would dare enter the same bathtub as him. But suddenly, another emotion occured as he watched Shizuo strip down to his birthday suit. This emotion took him by suprise and he turned towards the wall to hide his horrified expression.
He barely maintained his cool as he heard Shizuo immerse himself in the bathwater.
"Ahh this feels nice!" commented Shizuo, relaxing at once.
Izaya continued facing the wall, pretending he was washing his face. Time passed and Izaya's panic level was rising.
Any more time spent in that bath and he would have screamed. He had to escape.
"I'm feeling dizzy from the heat, I'm going to get out," he told Shizuo, stepping out of the tub and snatching up a towel. He then walked out of the bathroom and shut the door.
He collapsed on his bed and tried to collect himself. He had never felt so many emotions at once and he did not know what to do. He needed more control. He needed to figure himself out.
Pacing the room, he began slowly sorting his emotions. His panic attack then, became a mere amusement that made him collapse in a surge of laughter.
Meanwhile, little did he know that Shizuo noticed how he had turned towards the wall in the bathroom and was debating why mentally the whole time. He suddenly came to the random conclusion that Izaya was avoiding him because he did something wrong and Izaya was mad. He jumped out of the tub and grabbed a towel.
Racing out the door of the bathroom and into the hall, he did not notice Izaya leaving his bedroom and thereby ran into him, toppling him over into an awkward position.
"Augh, Izaya I'm so sorry, I didn't see you..."
He stopped when he felt a sudden breeze and realized that his towel had not made it out of the bathroom.
Oops.
He jumped up in embarrassment and dashed off to get the towel, which had gotten caught in the door hinge.
Izaya was in partial shock and still lay there on the ground where he had fallen. Shizuo helped him up with many apologies.
"Its fine, I'm fine. Don't worry about it," was all Izaya could manage to say. So much for recollecting himself, he had lost his mischievous way of thinking the minute he had seen Shizuo running stark-naked down the hall.
Shizuo sighed and scratched his head in embarassment.
"I actually meant to ask you something."