1: Daddy, I Got Cider In My Ear

(N/A: If you get the title of this chapter, your parents subjected you to a very funny film. Just google it or something if you don't get it. On with the chapter!)

"Shizu-chan, do you want proof that you lost the bet? It's in you videos. You can go check it out~!"

"Shut your face, flea! Why are you happy about this?!"

"Because I get to see your face when you look at the lines Shinra's written! They're saucy, aren't they, Shinra?" The raven-head's red gaze fell upon the brunette with glasses fiddling about with a guitar in the corner of the room.

"They're not, sadly. You know you guys, you reeally didn't have to come. Celty could've brought the lines for the cover over to you."

"We're not talking about the cover! We're talking about the song!" Shizuo growled.

"Which has to be a love song!" Izaya grinned when Shizuo blushed fiercely and looked away.

"It's not saucy or anything. It's just like the usual songs, you're just singing it like you're in love with each other. It shouldn't be too hard-" Shinra was interrupted by the form of Erika appearing outside the window.

"-since you already do!" She cried, a sweeping grin like a Cheshire cat's covering her face from ear to ear. But they gravity happened and Erika stopped floating. They rushed to the window and opened it.

There was an extremely large trampoline on the pavement right next the apartment block, seemingly the way Erika had gotten up there. Walker was beside in cheering her on, along with Togasa who looked quite worried for Erika's safety, and Dotachin who was glaring dissaprovingly at everyone else.

"Y'know Erika, I don't punch girls normally, but for you I could make an exception!" Shizuo shouted. Erika just smiled smugly as she bounced back up, this time going just a little lower than the window.

"You'll be the seme then! Though then again I can't imagine Izaya as a normal uke, so he'd be the type of cheeky tsundere-like uke!" She giggled.

"I would never be a uke, Erika! Don't be fooled, Shizu-chan would always be the uke if we were to have a relationship!" Izaya cried, mocking hurt.

"IIIZAAAAAYAAAAAAAAA!"

"You two, cut it out! I'm trying to write a song here!" Shinra cried, pulling the two brawling singers apart, with sound of Erika giggling to in the background.

"And whose fault is that?!" Shizuo growled, pouting.

"Yours! You lost the bet!" Izaya smiled smugly, crossing his arms.

"I was drunk, flea!"

"Still counts~!" And with that, Izaya skipped away.

Suddenly there was the sound of Erika clambering in through the window. She looked inquisitively curious.

"What exactly did you bet on? How did you, lose, Shizuo?" She asked.

"Well..." Shinra began,

[FLASHBACK]

"I'm bored."

"Well, Shizuo, you aren't helping me one bit, so why don't you go to a bar or something. No offence, dude, I just need to concentrate." Tom went back to skyping Namie as he edited Shizuo's part of the duet they'd just recorded. It was a mix between Lights and Ghost.

(Izaya sang the lyrics in Lights, and Shizuo sang the Ghost ones. Shinra had done the music, and Simon had mixed them together- he was a DJ at a local night club run by fellow Russians. Now Namie and Tom were editing it so that there was a good video- They had decided to do it like a vocaloid, and Walker had no trouble drawing art for it. He was an otaku with an art channel on YouTube, too. Also, Erika had an anime review and react channel.)

"Fine, call me when it's on YouTube so I can share it on some random social media..." Shizuo grumbled.

"Sharing it on social media and being kind to your fans is important, Shizuo. I know you don't like him, but just look at Izaya's Twitter page!" He tabbed out of the video editing software and onto Chrome, where Izaya's Twitter page was open. He began to read out some tweets.

"' izayaorihara: Hi my fabulous fans! Are you feeling down today? Cheer up by listening to me and shizuohewajima in our cover of Happy! link' He says really nice and supportive stuff! Let's look at one of your tweets-

' shizuohewajima: Yo, look, me and the flea ( izayaorihara ) made a cover of Happy. link' That... To put it lightly, Shizuo, you need to be... More connected to your audience, you could say..." Tom cringed when Shizuo glared at him.

"IM GOING OUT." He said loudly, but not shouting. He picked up a packet of cigarettes and was gone.

"Man, what a jerk!" Name's voice said over Skype.

Meanwhile, at a nearby bar...

"Only one drink." Shizuo got drunk easily, and he didn't want to be even more 'disconnected to his audience' when he shared the next video. He would show Tom! He could be great at tweeting!

Suddenly the door to the bar swung open and in walked Izaya Orihara, looking very bored. He saw Shizuo and grinned. He sat across on the other side of the bar where Shizuo couldn't see him. He whispered something to the bartender and passed some money under the table. The man nodded and went over to Shizuo.

"I'd just like a water now." Shizuo told him. The man nodded and went off to get one, taking Shizuo's glass away. He came back quickly with a new one, full, and was gone just as quickly. Shizuo eyed him suspiciously, but drank the drink all the same. He couldn't help but feel that something was off with it, though...

He quickly became lightheaded and realised he was drunk, and the man still hadn't returned, and the drink was now empty.

He glanced across the bar and his eyes widened when they met the red ones he hated. There was Izaya, smirking his awful, smug, grin.

"What'd you get him to do to my drink?!" Shizuo growled, eyes narrowing.

"I just gave you a very high amount of alcohol, that's all. I should expect a tough man like yourself to be able to hold his liquor, ne~?"

"You-" He leaped forward to punch Izaya in the face, but Izaya stopped him.

"Now, now, Shizu-chan, is that any way to treat a fellow singer? I just want to make a little bet!"

"What?" Shizuo paused long enough for Izaya to turn the tables and have a knife at his throat. The only people in the bar were drunkards who likely would forget it in the morning, so what was the point in hiding their secret weapons?

"If I get more retweets on my Twitter post about the next cover than you, you have to do an original song with me, the theme of which will be love, and Shinra will write it."

"And if I win?" Shizuo asked, hesitant.

"Then you can have Shinra write a song the theme of which you choose that we have to sing, and you can choose who gets which parts." Shizuo's eyes widened. He would love to see the raven-head have to sing embarrassing lyrics. It would give him the payback of a lifetime.

"Deal." He said.

"Well then, to seal it~" Shizuo suddenly felt Izaya's lips on his hand. The singer looked up at him and grinned. Then he was gone.

"IZAYA!" Shizuo shouted after him, but he was long gone. He sighed. Well, so much for seeing his face when he WON by a landslide. He may sound optimistic, but hey, he was drunk.

[END OF FLASHBACK]

"So I guess Shizuo lost? What exactly did he tweet? Wait, I'll just look, I'm following him already." She took out her phone excitedly.

"You can't just look, we deleted it and Tom wrote a new one for him it was so bad." Shinra sighed. Shizuo growled, irritated.

"I was drunk! It's not my fault!"

"Whether or not it was your fault, you're singing a love song with Izaya! It's meant to be!" With that Erika skipped out the room, Shizuo's brown eyes staring her down angrily. If looks could kill, Erika would be so dead she'd be fossilised.

"Well, Shizuo... You can't exactly deny what she said-"

"SHINRA, DO YOU WANT TO BE BRUTALLY MURDERED?! NO? THEN SHUT YOUR MOUTH!" Shizuo shouted angrily, stomping out of the apartment.

"Celty, you can come out now!"

[Phew. Those two are finally gone!] Celty typed on her PDA. She was mute.

"I'm surprised Shizuo agreed to the bet in the first place... Maybe he is interested in Izaya?" Shinra pondered, only to get the PDA shoved in his face.

[NO WAY!]

"But you can't deny, there's a chance..."