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Chapter 7: Reasons That Remain

'It seems that the Monster of Rairabukuro is waking up'

"DAMN IT! Shut up you jackasses! This is bullshit! I am going to live my own fucking life the way I want to, so stay out of my fucking head!" Shizuo Heiwajima was once again back in the world of the living as he felt air breathe into his lungs. His throat was raw so he coughed at the sudden intake of air, slowly looking around at his surroundings after the fit of coughing ceased. He saw grass and road, then he saw the messed up white van, along with the torn door. The torn door had been ripped off its hinges making Shizuo guess what had happened, he had probably woken up grumpy and crazy, the blonde's once again hazel eyes slightly cringed in regret.

'Wait! Where is that women who was with me?' Shizuo swung his body around to see the woman passed out in the grass. 'Did...Did I kill her?!' Shizuo's heart crunched as he walked toward her, terrified with every step that he had killed her until he heard a voice from behind him. "Well Shizu-chan~, did you wake up from your stupor now? Also don't worry, that bitch is alive, she just passed out, that's all. So~ did you have fun wreaking everything?" Shizuo turned around upruptly, his heart in his throat and his eye's widened in shock as he saw Izaya Orihara right behind him. Shizuo could only think of one question that begged to be answered at the moment,..

'What happened here!?'

"Shizuo Heiwajima, please go to the main office." Shizuo looked upwards at the speaker as the whole class turned to look at him. The blonde could only imagine what was going happen if he went, he was probably going to get yelled at. Shizuo growled and stood from his desk shouting, "What the hell do they want now!" Shizuo felt a small bit of chalk hit his head, and turned to see the teacher point towards the door with one menacing word, "Quietly." Shizuo didn't even have enough energy to glare as he walked obediently to the door and walked out, he even shut it nicely too. He muttered a small sorry as he shut the door, and began his way towards the long way towards the office since in was on the other side of the large building. 'This absolutely sucks' was his first thought. It made his mind wander back to overwhelmingly strange incident yesterday.

There had been a long silence after Shizuo had woken and the only conscious person was smiling as the blonde plainly asked, "What happened after…" Shizuo didn't know what to call it anymore, the monster inside of him, one he shut away years ago after the incident with his mother and father and Kasuka. The part of himself he put into the back of his mind, hoping it would never escape. It seems it had only gotten stronger since then, and that in itself was worrisome to the blonde monster who was already strong to begin with. Shizuo looked at Izaya right in his red eyes as he heard the annoying voice answer his question, "Well, I only just got here, but I saw Ms. Namie over here on the ground and you standing above. I can only assume that you also wreaked the car and scared the woman to death, that would also be the reason she has passed out."

Shizuo looked over at Namie as a rather intense feeling of guilt flooded his thoughts, this poor woman had to see that other side of himself that even he was scared to see. "Damn it!"yelled Shizuo as he hit the ground with his fist in frustration, the ground now having a rather large imprint of a fist in it. The blonde heard the raven giggle in glee at his display of force, and with heated eyes he stared straight at Izaya's red eyes. "Ooh~ So you can look into my eyes and not be hypnotized, huh? That's a real shame~ It would have been fun to torment you Protozoan."

The blonde only stared at him hatefully and stated monotonely, "I hate you." Though the words were softer than his usual shout of anger, they held his hatred much more meaningfully when he was calm. "Nare." Whispered Izaya as he smiled happily dancing slightly into the air above the blonde skipping upwards with a gleeful cheer as he said, "I love you too Shizu-chan~"He flew in circle's above the Beast's head in hopeful excitement, because Shizuo Heiwajima, in Izaya's opinion, was more interesting when he was angry.

While Shizuo felt intense burning hate, Izaya felt elation as he stared into the blonde monster's golden eyes that were now not as sharp or as frightening as when he had first arrived, and that made the raven curious. It was simply arousing to Izaya how much hate could burn in the Beast eyes, they were similar to the aroused one's he imagined for Shizu-chan as he lay on his death bed with one of Izaya's knives plunged into him. Izaya felt his smile broaden, but it faltered a little as he saw the blonde's eyes turn more remorseful.

Somehow this angered the raven slightly to seethe monster with such a human look, it was unsuitable for such a beast. Izaya bounced downwards till he touched the ground as watched Shizu-chan intently for another change in expression. The blonde had walked over to the car and looked inside, hoping that he could drive back to the school. A sour face appeared as he realized that the car wouldn't start. He looked down the road and up the road in confusion, because of one main detail was missing from his memory. "Hey Flea," Shizuo asked as looked both ways intently. "Which way did you come from to get here?"

Izaya looked over at him with a surprised look, probably because the beast didn't yell, and calmly said, "I thought dogs have a homing system that tells which direction home is!" Now that comment pissed Shizuo off a little, but he tried to suppress his anger, hoping that the other side wouldn't come out. "I am going to try this again, WHICH WAY DID YOU FUCKING COME FROM FLEA!?"Izaya only responded with another smart ass remark, but this time it blew his fuse, "Aren't you going to say the magic word~?"

Shizuo felt a vein in his head pop angrily as he grabbed the car in an iron grip and shouted, "YOU DON'T DESERVE THE MAGIC WORD!" The car was held menacingly over Shizuo's head like Thor's hammer, threatening and dangerous enough to make any normal person cry in fear, but Izaya's smile widened instead as he replied cheerfully, "Deserve! That's a new word I can add to your small 10 page dictionary of big boy words!" Shizuo growled as he threw the car directly at Izaya and shouted at him in rage, "FUCK YOU!"

Izaya easily dodged the large vehicle with ease and jumped right in front of Shizuo and said with a pouty looking face, "Now your back to your old vocabulary, spice it up a little Shizu-chan~ live a little!" Shizuo slowly reached out and grabbed Izaya's mouth with his bare hand, successfully quieting the man and shouted in his face, honey eyes glaring hatefully like laser beams. "Shut up!" Red eyes stared deeply into his own honey coloured ones, they cringed in the corners leading Shizuo to believe the man was fucking enjoying this. Especially, when it came to tormenting and mocking the beast about anything and everything. The grip Shizuo held became tighter on his mouth and soon the raven's face cringed in unmistakable pain.

Then something happened. It was sudden and undeniably strange, also subtle enough that they wouldn't notice if they were normal, but Izaya and Shizuo automatically sensed this change. Both instantly separated from each other in shock as a small stinging sensation built up in their hands and traveled across their bodies like a wave. Shizuo felt it climb around him like a mountain climber while Izaya felt his bind around him like a snake slithering, more mild and slow burning rather than bolts of pain. Shizuo felt the pain more than Izaya as the lightning like sensation ripped through him like a tazer while Izaya barely felt a mosquito bite on his skin.

"What the hell!" Shizuo muttered out as he felt the sensation tingle around him start to have new focus, but it gathered in one area in particular for no reason, his crotch. Shizuo's face dusted pink as he held a hand up to his mouth to stop any noise from being heard. Izaya felt the sensations wrap around one place in particular, his head, leaving him with a havoc wreaking headache. Then it stopped. It just disappeared as fast as it had manifested, an instant. Both of the students looked at each other, visible shock evident on each others face, and Izaya was the first to utter something, and for once it was actually a good question that Shizuo could bear to hear from the useless flea.

"Did you feel that Shizu-chan?" Shizuo cringed at the nickname, but other than that the blonde beast responded smooth and neutrally, "Yeah."

"Did it encircle your head or something too?" Shizuo's ears perked up slightly at that as he nodded halfheartedly and said, "Not my head, somewhere else." Izaya stayed quiet as he examined his own body astutely and determined nothing wrong or different had appeared, then he started evaluating the circumstances that led to that strange occurrence. Touch. Luckily for Shizuo, Izaya was so enamured with his new development that he completely overlooked Shizuo's cynical tone of voice. "What the hell was that?" Shizuo echoed Izaya's thoughts almost on the dot, and the more the raven thought, the more unanswered questions that occupied and flooded his mind.

Izaya needed time to sort this out, plus there was something that was bothering him about the whole incident. The raven understood very little about this matter, but he did understand one thing, that it happened when they touched. The raven had to talk to Themis, but not here, he would have to research extensively, even with the help of Themis. That loosely translated to 'I need my computer .'Izaya muttered in his haunting double voice, "Nare." He floated lightly in the air before he started to head back towards the school at full force, leaving Shizuo behind with the car.

The blonde yelled profanities, but they fell on deaf ears as the raven's endless question's occupied the God's mind. Shizuo, now knowing which direction the school was, unless Izaya was going somewhere else, he followed the path where Izaya had flown holding Namie Yagiri in his arms, if only out of guilt for scaring the woman into her state of conciousness. Eventually, Shizuo made it back to the school by the afternoon hours, but not by much. Shizuo by the end of the trip was pissed and confused all at once, it was unusual for Shizuo to wear his emotions on his shoulders, but the blonde could not help the welling sighs that surged his mind as he walked to the dorms tired, confused, pissed, and worst of all, scared.

As Shizuo's memory made him even more angry, he looked up to see the office door in front of him, which left him wondering how long he had stood out here thinking back about yesterday with a grim face. It had probably scared some people away, and somehow that made him feel guilty. Shizuo often felt guilty about things that weren't even his fault, it was a gift and a curse of a guilty concious. It was rare that a beast utilized their brains and Shizuo was one of them, but the emotions that came with it were more of a burden on him than a blessing.

"Are you going to go in Shizu-chan~?" The blonde haired Beast whipped his head to see the dreaded Izaya Orihara in the flesh, red eyes lashing mischeiveously in the hallway light. A smug ever present grin never ceased even as he mocked one of the most scariest beasts in the world. "What?" growled out Shizuo intimidatingly that is, until he heard the door open and a male voice say, "Come in." The voice boomed angrily in his ears and left both students a little at a loss for words. Shizuo felt a bit of cold sweat come on as he walked into the room, the air was tenser and his instinctive signals were rioting against any movement towards the room, but the blonde ignored it firmly. His senses screamed at him like a siren, 'danger! This man is danger! This man is death.', but he knew the reason why his instincts were truly going crazy. It was because the man withing the room was one of the few people Shizuo could truly fear. The man inside here was the reason why his body refused further advancement.

Astonishing red eyes that were like Izaya's, were pointing his direction, but that is not what made Shizuo's alarms ring in his head. It was the aura of reservement, anger, blood lust, and negative emotion that man was feeding off of, and it disturbed Shizuo greatly. The man could have been a complete angel with only pure intentions for all Shizuo knew, but the darkness funneled around the man like a snake, in fact Shizuo was pretty sure it was his own fear making him hallucinate. Both students entered the room and stopped before the desk, one curious as to why he was here, the other angry that he was even here to begin with and a little fearful.

"Please take a seat, we are going to have a little talk about the events that happened yesterday." As the words left the older man's mouth, Shizuo felt himself pale instantly. His other self was to blame, yet he would take the fall as always, typical. Shizuo gritted his teeth in shame and anger all at once. It wasn't fair that the other side of himself always got him in trouble, and even almost killed. It happened and usually he never remembers any of it, because when other Shizuo is in control, Shizuo never knows when it happens. That also meant that there was no warning, but he had thought it had left him a while back, because there hadn't been any incidents in over 2 years, but it stayed longer this time, and Shizuo had a sinking feeling that the only place that could help him control it was kicking him out because of the other Shizuo's involvement. Fuck.

"Was it from the destruction I made?" Shizuo asked bluntly, but in a gentle softness of guilt that made the god beside him raise his eyebrows. Izaya watchedas his father also raised his eyes, it made him him realize that they both had the weirdest traits. A sigh left the principal as he spoke,"No, the reason why you are both here now doesn't directly pertain to Namie, or the destruction on your part considering you defended yourself Mr. Heiwajima against capture." The blonde felt the air from his lungs escape in relief, but he knew in his mind that there was a reason he was here with Izaya, and that alone was probably going to be bad enough to blow the previous relief out of the water. "You're both here because of what happened after Izaya arrived on the scene." Izaya perked up considerably at this topic, and Shizuo dreaded it.

"I have heard all the details of this transaction from my son, but I would like to ask you both a few questions, until I am done inquiring I would like to ask both of you not to question my questions, is that understood?" Shizuo nodded and Izaya smirked. That was as close to an agreement from both as Shiki would get without a yelling contest. His eyes shifted from one student to another trying to figure out how to word the questions, but Shiki soon saw no other way of asking it. He decided to be direct with his questions despite any discomfort either would feel from the questions themselves.

"What were your emotions before one of you had skin contact with the other?" He asked them both with observant eyes. Izaya answered first and almost automatically, "I felt utter elation because it was exciting to get almost killed by Shizu-chan~" There was such a wistful look in the other's eyes that Shizuo looked at the flea with a deadpanned face and said, "Your weird flea, no doubt about it." The raven haired boy was about to retort, but Shizuo completely ignored it. The beast directed his answer towards Shiki as he responded, "I was angry at the flea for dodging the car, and not telling me which direction the school was." An eyebrow was raised as Shizuo spoke and a small smirk slipped onto his face, this student wanted his son to just get hit with a truck.

"Ooh~ now I can add the word 'direction' to your 10 page dictionary Shizu-chan~"

"SHUT UP FLEA!"

"Please settle down, I am also going to ask you few more questions and explain what has transpired, and potentially what has taken effect on both of you." Shiki's hands were held up in a gesture that meant be silent, highly amused and slightly annoyed at their antics.

Shizuo and Izaya both stared at Shiki with curious intent in their eyes and with that he hoped he had their attention now. "At the time of direct skin contact, did you have eye contact?" Shizuo nodded while Izaya became more wary of what was happening when he saw his father sigh, the man rarely sighed, and when he did it usually involved something troublesome. This was the point where Izaya started to get a little anxious. "What exactly are we dealing with-" he was cut off by a murderous glare of his father. "I will know when you answer all the questions no matter how embarrassing or aggravating the truth may be." Shizuo perked at the word embarrassing, instantly knowing what the next questions would pertain.

"Did you both feel a tingling sensation envelop your bodies and if so where? I would like both of you to whisper it in my ear" Shiki asked.

Shizuo felt calmer when Shiki gave them the privacy of whispering it but he still had to fight the blush on his face as he remembered where the tingling sensation had surrounded on his body. Izaya was first and despite the glare he had from his father he said loudly from his seat, "I have nothing to hide, it surrounded my brain." Izaya then turned to Shizuo and smiled keenly as he asked in a teasing voice, "So Shizu-chan~ where did-"

"Shizuo, ignore my idiot son and please whisper it in my ear like I have instructed." Shiki sighed as Shizuo got up and walked over to him, relieved that he would be spared an embarrassing moment that the raven god would've held over his head forever.

"It umm…Oh fuck it...it surrounded my crotch." Shiki almost let his iron face slip as he heard that, but he knew better than that. The raven man knew if he let his mask slip, his son would torment the poor child, and that wouldn't be a good start to the relationship that these two were now intertwined in. It was one of the most difficult tasks Shiki had ever done, trying to hold in the laugh AND keep a straight face, but somehow he made it through.

"Boys, what transpired on the road yesterday was something we have hidden from those under the age of 21 from knowing, if only to stop a rise of great evil among the population. What you boys have just experienced is what we call a bond,and it can only be created if 3 conditions are met, one, a beast and a god must touch, two, their eyes must meet during the touch, and three, they both have to feel strong emotions. You two have forged this bond even if by accident so now it's called a "White bond" in other words you are unknown or neutral in other words. Right now you have none of the benefits or downsides of a bond. A white bond is one of 5 bonds, but there are 4 main ones. White is only a base stage that transitions into these other 4 bonds. After white has transitioned into one of these 4 stages it will only change colors every year. The main stages are red which is the "love" stage, blue is the "partner" stage, green is the "rivals" stage, and yellow is the "comrade" stage. Any questions so far based on what I have explained?"

Shizuo raised a hand begrudgingly and instantly Shiki responded, "Yes?"

"Once you have changed to one of the 4 stages can you ever return to white?"

"No, or at least it has never been seen."

Izaya processed the information in his brain, and slowly waited for Shiki to continue.

"These bonds are invisible yet we know of their existence from the power and the abilities that has been given through the process."

"Abilities?" questioned Izaya.

"Yes, abilities that are different for every invisible bound pair. The powers also vary depending on the color of the bond, that is how we know there are 4 bonds. Now since you two are in what we call "The White Bond Period" you will go through each bond phase, which means you will experience a special ability from each type of bond. This typical behavior of the WBP will continue for a month, before deciding on a color bond. Throughout the month it will cycle through each color bond's abilities and after effects."

"So that's what you meant by white being neutral, it has no abilities or after effects, I see~"

"Wait a second, what do you mean after effects?"

Shiki looked at Shizuo with a smirk and said, "To put it simply, each time you use the ability even if unconsciously you will have to deal with the after effects which vary like the abilities. It could be something small like a crick in the neck or something big like a sudden temperature drop, enough to get hypothermia."

"When does it start? This WBP? The color swapping?" Izaya asked pointedly.

"The swapping of colors should start happening in two days, so it should end in a month. Also, you can't tell anyone what has happened between you two, it is against the law for people under the age of 21, got it? You can tell anyone over the age of 21 in an enclosed room, and even then I'd advise against it. The reason why you can't tell anyone younger is because these bonds are only created under the age of 21, and strangely enough they are able to be created between a God and a Beast. Only."

"Then why can't we tell anyone who's not a beast or god?"

Shiki looked at Shizuo, "They could spread it around, especially kids. Plus it's against the law to speak of it. We generally are trying to hide it all together, for the safety of others."

Shizuo nodded but his head swam as he thought about it, he and the flea were going to be stuck together forever. Shizuo instantly raised his hand again, "yes?"

"Is there any way to erase the bond?"

"No, there isn't."

"Does that mean I have to be near this egotistical bastard forever?!"

"Shizu-chan~ you wound me~ but you added another word to your vocabulary! You may upgrade to an 11 page dictionary!"

"SHUT UP FLEA! I WANT TO HEAR THE ANSWER!"

"Yes, typically for the WBP you need to stick together because there are times when you will have mood swings depending on the bond color."

"Will we have the same type of mood at the same time?" Izaya asked

"No, generally speaking you will have the same color of bond, but the way your brain reacts to the bond will be different, but the after effects usually hint us on which color it is. Like a friend of mine who was happy, but the after effect was the urge write down names who he hated. It was a jealousy type which we classify to Green. Typically, for red you feel lovey, for blue you feel responsible for the other person and act maternal-"

"Shizu-chan~ Maternal means mother."

"Shut up, I know that flea!"

"Green is usually anger and/or jealousy, and yellow is happiness or child-like actions. Now you two, I must ask something of you for the safety of the school, I ask that you bunk in the same room. It will ensure that during WBP time you won't harm students, because the mood swings are worse than a woman PMS. I would like Shizuo to move to your room Izaya to take it a step further since Shizuo and you are not your average beast and god pairing. Both of you are highly dangerous, but if you stay in Izaya's room it would definitely be safer than anywhere else."

"WHAT!" Shizuo yelled loudly in disbelief, he was going to have to sleep in the same room as the flea for a whole month!

Izaya shared Shizuo's shocked face, and stood up abruptly in protest and for once Shizuo was glad he agreed with Izaya, "Father, it-"

"Both of you are bunking together alright?" Shiki asked intimidatingly, daring either boy to oppose him, and sure enough neither motioned to do so. No one would if they saw the way the principal's eyes dared them to try anything.

"Since your class is done Shizuo, and yours hasn't started yet Izaya, get situated with the living situation now." He looked pointedly at Izaya, because Shiki knew that the raven would cause trouble the most in this situation.

"Fine," they both groaned.

"Now leave, if there is any more questions you can come ask me at any time, now both of you get out of my office."

Both practically jumped at the chance to leave the suffocating room, and Shizuo looked at Izaya and sighed.

"Okay flea. How about you clean your room and I gather my stuff, we meet here-" Shizuo pointed to the ground, "In an hour."

Izaya regarded him a second, gauging in his head how long it would take to move all his more important items into his office space. An hour should be enough time to do that, "That seems very reasonable, for a protozoan."

"Piss off, jackass!" Shizuo shouted as he walked down towards the dormitories.

Both separated towards their dwellings with one thought in mind however,

How to keep their secrets and weaknesses hidden from the enemy who now would live inside the same room.

Aryes: OMG! I know we haven't gotten to any of the Weed and the Plucker game yet, but it will happen soon (hopefully) I also want to know whether or not people would like a bit of a love triangle happening with Mikado, what do you guys think? I love all of my reviewers! Thank you for reading my work, and for reviewing and following:) You make my day!

~Aryes