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And a longer chapter this time - with our favorite blond bartender turned boodyguard!

DISCLAIMER - I DO NOT OWN DURARARA.

CHAPTER 4

"What do you mean it's true love? HUH? You decided to borrow money to spend on her, and then she runs away, and you can't repay the debt you took, and after ALL THAT shit you have the audacity to say it's TRUE LOVE? What sort of an idiot are you? HUH? You're such an idiot it makes me want to punch your face! But like I've said before, I-"

Creak.

"Hate- "

Clang.

"VIOLENCE!"

Bang.

And the debtor flew away after being hit by the lamppost, courtesy of the infamous former-bartender-turned-bodyguard, Shizuo Heiwajima.

And somewhere on the other side of town, an informant donned on his trademark fur coat, intending to pay his dear old nemesis and his town a visit.

Things were definitely not going Shizuo's way.

"Table for two, eh Tom-san?" asked Simon with his customary smile.

"Thank you Simon!" said Tom, taking a seat across from Shizuo. It was evening, and they had decided on dinner at Russia Sushi.

"What's up, Shizuo, you seem out of sorts today," observed Tom. Shizuo wasn't the type to uproot lampposts on civilians. There was a time when he did, however ever since the Slasher incident he'd considerably calmed down, preferring to simply throw people instead of destroying property.

"I don't know, Tom-san. I woke up with a headache today. It's weird, because it's never happened to me before."

"Have you taken some painkillers?"

"I did, yes. But you know that they don't work me."

Saying so, Shizuo leaned back and sighed. He debated whether or not to tell Tom-san about the memory he'd encountered in the morning, when he slipped on his purple shades. He had promised himself that he would bury that memory deep in the recesses of his mind, because it only brought him pain when he would think of it, and cause him to act irrationally. Well, more irrational than normal.

That morning he was reminded of the woman who had bought him those shades.

Of a woman who was as strange, if not stranger than him, for she could move objects without touching them.

Of a woman, who, like him, longed to be accepted into society.

Of a woman with a halo of bright red hair and pale skin.

Of a woman, who, in his opinion, would be happier without him, for she deserved better.

Of a woman named Natasha Ascott.

"Tasha-chan, you should spend the night here! The guest room is unoccupied, so you and Sophie-chan can stay there for the night! Your new house is quite a distance from here anyway. Celty can help you there the first thing tomorrow morning! Isn't that right, Celty?" said Shinra enthusiastically.

Of course, Natasha. You should spend the night here. Sophie is already asleep anyway, it doesn't make sense for you to leave so late.

"Thank you very much, Celty, Shinra. I really appreciate it."

"Ah don't mention it! You're an old friend anyway, regardless of Shizuo being in the picture or not."

I must say, I had no clue Shizuo had a girlfriend. He seems so awkward around girls, and here I get to know that not only you have dated for three years, but also had a child!

"Ahhhhh… He doesn't know. About Sophie."

Silence. Shinra and Celty stared at her in shock. Shinra was the first to recover, "But Tasha-chan, why didn't you tell him that you were pregnant when you left the country? I'm sure he would've asked you to stay with him!"

"I didn't want to be a burden on him. He asked me to leave, so I left. I had no intention of trapping him in a situation where he would be hunted down by research companies and the like. Shinra, you know what my life is like. Do you really think Shizuo would've adapted to it?"

I know Shizuo. He would've taken responsibility for his actions. He loves his family, and will stop at nothing to keep them safe. He obviously would've had a good reason to ask you of something like that.

"Anyway," sighed Natasha, it's over now. There's no going back. Thank you for letting me and my daughter spend the night. Goodnight." She turned to lift her daughter's asleep form from the sofa, and went to the guestroom indicated by Shinra.

Shizuo's headache worsened, it was obvious at the way he was picking at his food, as noted by Tom. "Shizuo, why don't you take tomorrow off? There are no troublesome clients tomorrow, as far as I can recall."

"Are you sure about that Tom-san?"

"Yup," taking a bite of his sushi, and continuing, "Go visit Kasuka or something. I read something about him going on a break in the entertainment section of the paper today. You've been working quite hard, you should get a vacation."

"….maybe that isn't a bad idea," said Shizuo, thinking about it. Meeting Kasuka was out of the question, though, since even though he was on a break, he still needed to meet his agents and attend photoshoots. Maybe he's go visit Shinra and Celty. He was more interested in meeting Celty, as Shinra often annoyed him to no end. But he owed the young doctor-in-training quite a lot, so he decided to stop by at their place tomorrow. Yes, he'd do that.

Thinking thus, his headache decreased a bit, and he finished the rest of his meal making small talk with Tom, looking forward to tomorrow.

But to look forward to tomorrow, one needs to get past today, which was going to be tough thing to do, considering the fact that an informant in a fur coat decided to waltz into Russia Sushi, intent on ordering his favorite ootoro.

"Oh, Shizu-chan, what a surprise! I had NO idea that you'd be in here of all places!" came Izaya's mocking voice.

Shizuo's headache returned and with new zeal, he picked up the table in front of him veins popping out his forehead, screaming,"IZAYAAAAAA-KUUUN!"

Shizuo side-stepped Tom and ran towards Izaya, intending to throw the table at him. Simon suddenly appeared in view, caught the table thrown by him easily in one hand, saying,"Shizuo! Fighting is bad! Eat sushi! Sushi make you feel good!"

"Outta my way!" saying thus he moved past Simon and charged at Izaya, who had picked up his order and was on his way out.

"Some other day, Shizu~chan!" saying this, he leapt across gracefully into an alley. As Shizuo followed him, Izaya took a sharp turn onto the main road, and waved mockingly at Shizuo from the other side. As Shizuo, in rage, tried to run across the road to catch him.

Suddenly Shizuo stopped. He wasn't sure why, but he thought he felt something in his chest, a bit of pain. But only a bit. When he looked down, he saw red. Red liquid. Blood. The vision around his eyes started to blur, as he saw the flea run away, but not in his cheerful way, indicating that he hadn't been the one to shoot him. As he looked up, he saw a person at the top of the skyscraper in front of him. A person, whose long hair swished around her as she ran away from her sniping position. A woman.

As he collapsed, he saw Tom and Shinra running towards him.

And everything went black.

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