Chapter 5: Reunited

I'm sorry, Shizuo-kun that must have been hard…

Shizuo shrugged, and pulled out another cigarette.

Did you love her?

Shizuo sighed, and looked down at his feet.

"Sorry Celty, I gotta run, but I'll see you around".

Celty nodded, and hopped back onto her motorcycle and started to drive away.

Shizuo walked along the streets, inhaling the smoke deeply. With his hands in his pockets, Shizuo walked down the streets with a solemn look on his face. He didn't have a problem with telling Celty his story; she was just the first to know.

The blond turned a street corner and made it in front of the Russian sushi bar, and unexpectedly ran into his friends, Tom and Simon.

"Shizuo, there you are! What happened man?" Tom asked, but Shizuo walked right past him without taking a single glance at his dreadlocked friend.

"I gotta go, I'll catch up with you later" Shizuo waved him goodbye, and Tom shrugged.

"Bummer, I was gonna ask if he could help me with something…but oh well".

Simon put his large hands to his hips.

"Bummer indeed, I thought maybe he would want to grab some Sashimi!"

Shizuo made his way to the park and took a seat on a bunch, gazing at the sun as it set behind the tall skyscraper buildings of Ikebukuro. He didn't know how he exactly felt at the moment. It's been years since I've spoken of that story, he thought to himself, I told myself to just forget about it, my feelings mean nothing anymore…

But even now, I still feel emptiness inside me, and that emptiness digs deeper and deeper.

The stars are out now, and so is the moon. It's full tonight, and very large. I expect to look over and see her there, sitting on the grass and looking at it. I never asked her why she liked the moon so much, the whole idea fills me with much regret.

With no intention of going home, I relax on the bench and smoke my whole pack until its empty. I then fall asleep without a damn care in the world.

The next day, Shizuo wakes up to the sun hitting his eyes, and a bird walking all over him.

"Fuck! Shoo!" He yelled, and the bird scattered. He got up and stretched his long arms, and then walked away out of the park.

"Shit, I'm all out of smokes, I better head to-"

No. That's impossible.

A girl was sitting on the front steps of the central library, with a book in hand. The girls face was covered by most of the book, but Shizuo definitely knew who he was seeing.

It was definitely Kohana.

Shizuo turned to walk the opposite direction, when he heard his name being called by a sweet and sugary voice.

"Shizuo…? Is that you?"

Don't look back Shizuo. Don't you dare fucking look back!

"Uh…" Shizuo said, looking over his shoulder.

Oops, shit. I looked back.

"Shizuo, it is you!" Kohana said, "I can't believe it's you!"

"Yeah…hey Kohana" he said, and Kohana couldn't stop smiling.

"Wow! Look at you, you've gotten taller, and you're hairs blond!"

"Yeah…you look different yourself…" Shizuo said, and different she was indeed. Her brown hair was longer and darker, her lips fuller and her cheeks were pink and rosy. Not to mention, her body was curvy and thin.

S-she's…beautiful.

"Shizuo?" she said, her wide eyes curious as to why the blond was spacing out.

"Oh…sorry, um so…what have you been up to? Why are you in Ikebukuro?"

"I'm on a business trip!" She smiled, "And I never knew I'd find you living here".

"Yep, so I take it…you became a spinal surgeon?"

"Wow you still remember all that! And yes, I am. It's amazing Shizuo, and school was so much fun!" She sat down on a nearby bench under a shady tree; I took a seat by her. But, I refused to look at her again.

"So what do you do? Are you a bartender or a waiter?"

"No, I'm actually a bodyguard" he said, and she gasped.

"That's perfect Shizuo-kun!" She said, "I also thought you'd land a job like-"

"Kohana, why did you leave?" Shizuo asked, and she looked down at her hands, folded in her lap.

"The day after the last night I saw you, a family came to look at me. And they adopted me. Shizuo, I-I'm sorry, I couldn't find you…I mean I didn't know where you lived and they probably wouldn't have let me…I…" She sighed, and Shizuo clenched his fists and gritted his teeth.

"It's my entire fucking fault" He grunted, tears fell from his eyes and onto the sidewalk. Kohana grabbed his hand, and brought her frail hand up to his cheek to wipe his tears.

"What could possibly be your fault Shizuo-kun?"

"It was my fault for…falling in love with you" he said softly. And Kohana gasped, tears brimming her eyes and making them glisten in the sun.

"You…you're in love with me?" She asked, and Shizuo nodded.

"You were the only one who really understood me, you were the only one that really…cared about me, and saw the real side of me, not the monstrous, violent side".

Kohana smiled, and rubbed his hand gently.

"I'm glad I found you Shizuo-kun…being away from the one you love for so many years is difficult, there wasn't a single say in my life where you weren't on my mind".

Shizuo looked up at her, "Wait, you really love me too?"

"Of course I do, silly! All of these years we've been apart, not a single man could replace my feelings for you".

Shizuo grinned happily, and Kohana leaned forward, bringing her lips up to his and kissed him deeply. He wrapped his arms around her and kissed her back. Shizuo's heart wouldn't stop hammering, he hasn't kissed like this before, and him and Kohana's first kiss was far different from this.

"Shizuo-kun…" She whispered into his ear, and hugged him close.

"I have one more night here in Ikebukuro, and I want to spend it with you". The seductive tone of Kohana's voice made Shizuo blush, and he nodded.

"Anything is fine with me…" he smiled, and Kohana giggled.

"You're so cute when you look all embarrassed!"

"Damn, Shizuo won't pick up" Tom tried to get a hold of Shizuo but his phone would go straight to voicemail.

"God knows what that man could be up to, I hope whatever it is it doesn't involve destruction of someone's property…"

Shizuo's phone vibrated softly on the bedside table next to his purple tinted sunglasses and empty smokes.

Shizuo and Kohana were locked in a deep embrace, and they kissed each other passionately on her hotel room bed. Shizuo moved his hands up her shirt, and she giggled loudly, and he couldn't help but laugh too.

There was a side of me that said "do it Maggie, make it a lemon scene!" But my other side said "No don't do it because it would mess up the whole soft romantic side of the fic!" So I decided not to, but if any of you want I could write is as a side chapter?

Well, one more chapter to go! So stick around to see how it all…unfolds :O

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