Chapter 2: The Annoying Angel

It was happening again his anger was boiling, about to blow. The way Tom was talking to that girl was disgusting. True he never laid an eye on the girl and still now he didn't know what she looked like.

She didn't seem to notice Tom's gross attempts of flirting. Her missing sister was more on her mind.

Usually Tom was the last one he would want to throw across town, but he had made an ugly joke, about the sister in question, that was sure to have hurt the girl's feelings. Shizuo threw his cigarette to the ground and turned with a street sign in hand. Just before it made contact with Tom's head he saw her.

Her bright green eyes stared at him in shock. Her pale skin was playing with the light of the sun. She smiled slightly at him.

When Shizuo made eye contact with her his anger disappeared. He almost felt calm. He put down the street sign and put out his hand.

"Sorry, if I scared you." Shizuo said. He looked down at her, she was only as tall as his chest.

Without a sign of hesitation she took his hand, "It's okay, I'm Airashii Yamamoto." She smiled warmly.

"Shizuo Heiwajima. You're looking for your sister, right?" He dropped his hand. And put another cigarette in his mouth.

"Yes, She's my twin, her name is Hikari. I spoke to her two days ago but she hasn't called me since. I'm very worried it's not like her." Airashii clutched her purse strap as she explained.

"We normally don't do this kind of work. Why not go to the police?" Shizuo asked.

"I already did, they said she probably went on vacation and forgot to mention it or is with a boyfriend. But that isn't what happened! Hikari doesn't have a boyfriend and she didn't go on a vacation! She would never leave me alone for that long, she worries greatly about me. She is my sister. I know her. I didn't know where else to go. Please, help me." She bowed her head.

Shizuo stared at her. She looked up at him, how could he say 'no' to a small girl with an angelic face. "Fine, we'll help." Shizuo sighed.

Airashii's face lite up, "Thank you so very much."

Tom shook his head. "Well, we'll start looking, come on." He guided her by her shoulder; Shizuo followed.

As they walked around asking people if they saw a girl who looked like Airashii, she took quick notice of how most of the women they talked to tried to hit on Shizuo. Airashii made a mental note of this fact and concentrated on her sister once again.

"Maybe we should stop for a minute." Tom suggested.

"We can't!" Airashii stated. "My sister could be in danger!"

"Calm down. Maybe there is some truth to what the police said." Tom said scratching his head.

"NO WAY!" Airashii snapped, "You don't understand Hikari is not like that!"

"Enough." Shizuo said. "You're giving me a headache. And I really don't want to hurt you both."

"Sorry." The two said together.

"Well, let's keep looking." Tom sighed.

After a few hours their search didn't bare any results.

"I can't believe no one has seen my sister." Airashii sighed.

When they stopped at the corner store for a drink, Shizuo pulled out a cigarette and lit it. Airashii and Tom sat on the bench next to Shizuo, each with a drink.

"I'm sorry we couldn't find your sister. But give it time maybe she'll come around." Tom said patting Airashii's shoulder.

As Shizuo sucked in a long drag off his cigarette, he thought he spotted Izaya Orihara from the other side of the street. He picked up a newspaper stand that was near by and tossed it across the street at him. When it missed Shizuo ran off after him.

"Sh-Shizuo!" Airashii yelled. She went to get up but was stopped by Tom.

"He does that all the time. Just leave him be, he'll come back." Tom smiled.

Sure enough a few minutes later Shizuo was back.

He turned to Airashii, "Your sister has no facial expression and darker hair than you."

"H-how did you...?"

"I just saw her. She is with Izaya Orihara. I'm sure she is his new weird experiment." Shizuo said blowing smoke out of his mouth.

"My sister is with Izaya-san. I should've known. Oh yeah, Hikari did mention something about him early this week." Airashii said tapping herself in the head.

"Why would your sister be with Orihara?" Tom asked.

"He is intrigued with her because she never shows any emotion, ever." Airashii answered.

"Sounds about right." Shizuo sighed.

"Well it's nice to know she's alright. She can take care of herself with Izaya-san." Airashii smiled. "Thanks for all your help. I really appreciate it." she bowed, then reached into her purse and pulled out some money. "Here."

Tom took the money, "No problem."

Airashii smiled at Shizuo and waved, "Bye." Shizuo nodded his head in response.

She's quite annoying.

The next day, Shizuo was out on the street with Tom once again. Tom had a man in front of him begging for more time to pay off his debt. He tried to explain that he had the money but lost it in gabbling. His reason pissed Shizuo off. So he picked up a soda machine and threw it at the man.

As Shizuo and Tom walked down the street Tom sighed. "Shizuo, man, You have to stop hurting the people who we get the money from."

"Sorry." Shizuo said blowing smoke from his mouth.

Suddenly a voice called to him. "Hi, Shizu-kun!"

Shizuo ran through his mind all of the different people he knew. There weren't many and they never called him that. Not to mention that none of them sounded like that. When Shizuo turned he was met by bright green eyes.

"Airashii?" Shizuo said in shock.

"Aw, you did remember me. My name too. I wanted to tell you that my sister called me last night. She said she's fine. She told me not to worry." Airashii smiled.

"Why are you telling me this?" Shizuo asked.

"Because when Izaya-san saw you were with me he figured I was looking for her. So he told her to call me and tell me she was okay and I'd see her soon. It's all thanks to you." Airashii hugged Shizuo.

Shizuo was stunned. He didn't know what to do or how to react. Usually when someone touched him it was a fist to the face. Shizuo wasn't completely without experience he had had a girlfriend or two, but they didn't stay long. He was totally lost as to what to do so instead of hugging her back he just patted her head.

Airashii pulled away, "I'll see you later, Shizu-kun." she giggled.

"Uh … later?" Shizuo stammered.

As Airashii left Shizuo thought about how annoying she was but the fact that she didn't seem to fear him was strange. She had seen his strength why wasn't she scared of him? For this Shizuo had no answer.