The odd pair walked down the street as whispers and stares were following them everywhere they went. Izaya skipped happily beside Shizuo, apparently not noticing or not caring about this. The flustered blonde found it hard to believe the other wasn't tripping over his pants, as he was still borrowing them, because of how loose they were as they bunched up thickly around Izaya's heels. But more pressing matters were at hand as Shizuo scrolled through his contacts and called up Tom, "Hey where are you?" He said as he stopped in the middle of the bustling street, followed by his cling-on.

Izaya looked around as he was barely listening to his guide's conversation, "Shizuo-san, can we look around for a while?"

"No- What? No, not you Tom, I'm yelling at Iza- um never mind." Muffling the outside noise, he turned from the small informant and pressed the palm of his hand to his unoccupied ear.

"But I wanna look at stuff~" Izaya sighed under his breath as he looked back out at all there was to see.

A hand tugged at the back of Izaya's shirt, "Come on flea, we're going this way."

"Flea?" Izaya happily let himself be drug down the street by Shizuo, "Why do you call me that?"

"Because that's what I call you when I'm pissed at you!" The taller growled animalisticly.

"Why are you pissed at me? What did I do?" Izaya said as he walked quickly by Shizuo's side as he was still being dragged to their destination.

Shizuo stopped where they were, "Because! I'm late for work and my neck is killing me! Why? Because I had to sleep on the damn floor last night!"

"That's not my fault." Izaya pouted defensively, "I offered to let you sleep in the bed too, but you didn't accept. I can share with you tonight if you want."

Shizuo's expression tensed in attempt to cover his embarrassment as he grabbed the small informant by his shoulders and shouted, "FOR THE LAST TIME! I DON'T WANT TO SLEEP WITH YOU!" Everyone within a thirty foot radius turned as Shizuo felt his jaw gape open at realization to what he just said.

"Um… I can handle this one by myself if you want, Shizuo." A voice sounded to the blonde's right.

"T-T-T-T-T-Tom-san?" Shizuo twitched as he looked at his associate's disturbed expression.

Izaya waved at Tom, now recognizing him, "Hey~"

Tom waved back awkwardly, "Um, hi Izaya. Shizuo, do you two need a moment?"

"Moment? No!" He replied embarrassed.

A cautious look came from Tom as he pointed at the two still connected by Izaya's shoulders, "But it looked like you two were having a… personal conversation, its ok if you were, I get it."

"G-get? Get what?" Shizuo let go of Izaya and turned to his friend.

Tom coughed, "You know, it... Besides I thought you weren't coming to work today, Izaya said you were tired."

"You've talked?" Shizuo turned to Izaya and whispered hostilely, "You knew I had work? Why didn't you wake me up when Tom came to the door?"

The informant looked down and said silently, "You were tired! And you were so stressed out that you even looked it in your sleep. I just wanted you to relax a bit, you're so uptight…"

"Well that's your fault, you disaster!" The blonde yelled as the smaller barely flinched, probably used to his shrewish words by now.

Tom decided to intervene by pulling Shizuo back to the best of his abilities, "Whoa calm down. Shizuo, can I talk to you for a second?" Not waiting for an answer, Tom pulled him to the side. "Shizuo, I've known you to be a pretty sensible man, moody at times, but sensible… But why the hell are you all friendly with Izaya all of a sudden? I thought you hated the guy."

"What are you talking about! I'm just babysitting the stupid flea!" Shizuo yelled silently as Izaya watched the two questioningly.

"What?" Tom blinked, "You're not friends now?"

The blonde looked at him in irritation, "What the hell are you going on about?"

"Sorry I assumed! It's just, you were saying all that stuff a second ago and your being so nice to him. Besides when I came to your house this morning he was talking about you like you were some sort of god it was just kind of weird-"

"Well don't assume, ask!" Shizuo shouted at him as he turned away bright red, "Like I could get along with the flea..."

Tom looked at him in confusion, "Then what's he doing at your house?"

Pressing a palm against his aching head and sighing, Shizuo replied, "Look he's not the Izaya you and I know."

"…" Tom stared at him for a second, "He sure looks like him, is that his good twin or something?"

"No it's just, he's Izaya but he's not ok?"

Blinking, Tom's expression turned into a deeper confusion as he looked at Izaya again, "So… he's Izaya… but he's not?"

"Exactly."

"… Meaning…?"

Shizuo searched all of his pockets for his box of cigarettes in which he really needed right now, "He has amnesia, he doesn't remember who he was."

"Amnesia? How'd he get that?" Tom looked at him now realizing how out of character he was acting.

"Well..." Shizuo managed to find his lighter but no cigarette box was to be found, "I hit him in the face with a stop sign for one." He shuffled his pockets before making an irritated noise while shoving his lighter in his front pocket and giving up.

"Why'd you do that?" Tom started to walk down the street as Shizuo grabbed Izaya by his arm and drug him behind.

Shoving the flea ahead of him, Shizuo continued, "I was trying to kill him, what do you think?"

Tom sighed, "Well it looks like you've got more than you bargained for, that's what you get I guess." He smiled at his friend jokingly as he noticed that his attention was in studying the informant who was trying not to run into anything on the busy street. "Shizuo," Tom tapped his friend to shift his gaze.

"Huh?" He turned back to his colleague and in embarrassment looked away again before looking back to the flea.

"Shizuo-san~" Said flea swung around and confidently walked backwards through the crowd to talk to Shizuo face-to-face, "Can we please look around? We found Tom didn't we, so let's check around-"

Before Shizuo knew what he was doing, he grabbed the black haired informant by his shirt and pulled him close as a passing car flew by not two feet away. Izaya looked at him shocked as Shizuo looked back reflecting the mutual emotion. After all three thawed from their frozen state, Shizuo threw Izaya to the ground glaring through his tinted glasses in anger, "Idiot! Look where you're going next time!"

It took a few more seconds for the smaller man to register what just happened as his eyes followed his savior who was stepping around him to continue through the crosswalk, leaving behind Tom as well. "Shizuo-san…" the informant lifted himself up and rushed to Shizuo's side as Tom followed him seeing that he was alright as the three continued down the street silently.

Two chapters in a row, your welcome XD anyways I was pretty much done with this one yesterday so I was just like whatev, Ill post it. Sorry for any grammer mistakes, I tried ^^' and I hope you enjoyed this chapter~ I did... especially the beginning... XD comment if you must thank ya~~~