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Short chapter is short. Sorry. But I needed a bridge for the next chapter and this was the perfect excuse.

Shizuo opened one eye. It was pretty dark and he couldn't even see a thing. But something felt weird. He was sleeping on the couch and not on his bed. Then he remembered he agreed on sleeping in Shinra's house. But it still felt strange. He was on the couch and a slightly heavy thing was on top of him. He tried to remember and soon everything came back.

'Right…Izaya and I got in a fight…but…what happened then?' He thought, trying to move around.

'Of course! I remember now…Izaya fell asleep while we were fighting, and I tried to move him away but I fell asleep, too.' He continued. Then he blushed in embarrassment. He had a blanket on top of him. Well, basically on top of Izaya. That meant that Shinra and Celty had seen him like that. After some minutes, his eyes got accustomed to the darkness and he could recognize Izaya's figure. His face was buried in his chest, lightly tilted to the side. He could somehow see his sleeping face. It looked cute.

'Damn it! I can't be thinking this. He is my enemy, for goodness' sake!' He raged.

"Izaya! Izaya, are you awake?" He whispered.

"Mngh…? Nwhat…is…" Izaya mumbled, grasping Shizuo's bartender shirt even tighter.

"Wake up, flea!"

"H…humans? Were?" Izaya was talking in sleep. "S-Shiki-san? Do…do you think that is the right way?"

"What? Come on, louse, it's me, Shizuo…not Shiki. Wake up, damn it! You're disturbing me. I can't breathe if you keep grasping my shirt!" He shouted. Seeing how this had no effect, he tried to move Izaya away.

"Agh!" Izaya shouted. He woke up in the same instant. Shizuo covered his mouth with his hand.

"Shut up, flea. We're at Shinra's place." He said. Izaya seemed to remember everything soon, so he stood up and went to the other side of the couch, embarrassed about falling asleep in his enemy's lap.

"What…time is it, Shizu-chan?" He asked.

"I don't know…about midnight, I guess." He answered.

"I doubt I can fall asleep again…" Izaya said. "I'm going to my room to read a bit."

'Yeah, right…I have to figure out why Shizu-chan did all those things for me, right?'

The blonde ex-bartender held the raven-haired informant by the collar and dragged him back to the couch.

"You're not going anywhere, flea. What if we wake them up?"

"Shizu-chan's no fun. What are going to do now? Do you want to play some more?"

"No, my head hurts from so much playing, and I'm pretty tired, too. So, I don't care what you do, but I'm going to sleep." Shizuo said, grabbing the blanket and falling asleep on the couch.

"Wow...you're a light sleeper. How can you fall asleep so quickly…?" Izaya said. He kept sitting on the couch, trying to find something to distract himself. After fifteen minutes, he figured out that Shinra's and Celty's living room was really boring. He didn't feel like sleeping, either, so he grabbed the Wii remote that was lying on the floor and turned the TV on. He muted the TV and continued playing alone. But then he remembered that he hadn't taken a shower yet. He looked at the clock, which said it was 12 AM, turned the TV off, and went quietly to the guest room. He looked in his bag and took the clothes out.

He knew Shinra's house pretty well. He had visited it many times since middle school, and after he graduated from high school, he had gone because of injuries and that kind of stuff.

He entered in the bathroom and started to undress. Soon he felt the water on his skin and quickly showered. When he got out of the shower, however, he heard some strange noises. It wasn't usual for him to get scared, but it was Shinra's house, and he knew the underground doctor loved to experiment with dangerous things. He dressed up and with the towel on his shoulders he quietly opened the door.

Standing alone in the hallway, Izaya tried to be as quiet as possible, but the noises only kept growing. He heard some steps, so he took his flick blade out. Backing the laboratory door, he ran to the living room where Shizuo was sleeping and ducked next to the blonde. He tried to wake him up.

"W-what is it, flea? Can't you see I'm trying to sleep?" The blonde murmured.

"Yes…but, there are noises and steps in the hallway, Shizu-chan!" Izaya whispered.

"Wow, you are scared? How can you be scared of some noises?"

"S-Shut up!"

Shizuo grumbled, but he stood up, and with Izaya walking behind him, he went to the hallway and to the laboratory. He looked around and listened for a bit. Then he turned to Izaya and patted him on the head.

"See, there isn't anything strange here! There aren't noises or any steps. You imagined them, flea. And now, let me go back to sleep."

"I…" Izaya wasn't scared of blood. He wasn't scared of anything, but suddenly, seeing some vital organs displayed on Shinra's showcase made him pale a lot.

'What happened?' He asked himself. 'Before I went to take a shower…what game did I play. It wasn't Mario Kart, that's for sure. There were lots of zombies, right. Ah, yeah! I killed some of them, but they kept raising and taking my hand. They…they looked so real. Like when Shiki told me about the corpses he had seen. But…there are zombies in Ikebukuro, right? Yeah, everything's possible here. We have a headless chick walking around, so what's not possible…?' Izaya shivered and ducked, closing his eyes.

'Resident Evil! That's right…that was the game. Come on, Izaya. It's just a game…' He told himself.

Shizuo turned around and laughed at Izaya's actions. Suddenly, the raven-haired informant stood up and grabbed the mocha-eyed, tall young man, who blushed.

"I-Izaya! Oi, flea! What do you think…what are you doing?" He asked, stuttering.

"I'm scared." Izaya simply said.

'I see…' The bartender thought, while guiding Izaya to the living room. He sat next to him, but Izaya refused to let his hand go.

"What were you playing, louse?" He asked.

"Resident Evil." The smaller man replied.

"What's that?"

"A game where lots of zombies appear."

Shizuo nodded, and embraced Izaya. He could smell the scent of the shampoo he used.

"Don't think we're friends, though." He warned.

"I'd never think that, Shizu-chan." The other replied. They fell asleep for the second time on the couch.

After some time, which seemed an eternity for both of them, who were dreaming stupid dreams, someone opened the window, waking the pair up.

"It's time for breakfast!" Shinra said. "Wake up!"

"We're awake, Shinra, you don't have to shout." Shizuo mumbled.

"Haha, I see…Shizu-chan's not a morning person. How funny."

"Stop it, flea. I remind you who woke me up at night."

"Me? But, you see, Shizu-chan. I wasn't scared at all. It was just to laugh at you for your weird actions." Izaya lied.

"Yes, yes, whatever you say."

"Oh, come on! Don't ruin the morning spirit! Today, we have a day full of exciting things to do." Shinra suggested, making a dramatic expression.

"I thought we were going to play games until one of us won." Izaya asked.

"Well…yes, but you don't plan to play the whole day, do you?" The underground doctor warned. "It's not good for your health. Yesterday you played way too much. You could have some serious problems if you don't take care of your health. I'm serious!"

"Yeah, yeah. Let us play some more, please!" Izaya answered.

Shinra sighed in response, leaving the two of the young men alone.

"Um…do you want to play…Mario Kart?" Shizuo asked quietly.

"No…it's not interesting enough. We already completed the game twice." He answered. "We can…maybe we can play one with fights, you know, to finally get it done. Our hatred, I mean."

"You mean…you don't want to be my enemy anymore?" The blonde asked. Izaya chuckled, slightly blushing. Then he turned around and looked seriously at the other man.

"That's not what I mean…We're going to be enemies now and always, don't forget that. I mean, so that Celty and Shinra calm down." He explained, but in truth he didn't mean to say all that. He wanted to stop with the acting, to drop his actions and just let it go. He didn't want to keep fighting with Shizuo. All the things that the blonde was doing for him, even though they hadn't reconciled yet, they all pointed that the blonde's feelings were changing. Shizuo helped Izaya out when he was scared. He helped him in the game, but the only thing he did in response was mock him off. But it was funny. Still, he wanted to let the other know that he didn't mean all those things. He did them in a friendly way, unlike all those other times. But he didn't know how to say it.

"What about you, Shizu-chan?"

"I…I don't know. Let's play that game, it seems interesting, don't you think?" He said, taking a case out.

"Super Smash Bros. Brawl?" Izaya asked. "Heh, okay. We can fight against each other, then."

"Okay, where's my remote?"

Izaya remembered seeing one on the floor, but he had already picked that up, so it could be that the second one was under the couch. He lied down, and explored underneath the furniture, until one red light flashed.

"I…za…ya!" A voice growled and jumped against him, scaring him to death.

"AGH! ZOMBIES!" He shouted in response.

"Brains…" The other person shouted, taking the informant's head in his hands. Izaya glanced and saw the blonde bartender laughing at his response.

"Izaya…I can't believe you fell for that. It seems the game scared you to death, didn't it. Hahah, little Izaya is scared of monsters! Monsters that don't exist."

"SHIZUO! Protozoan, what were you thinking? Don't you know that…that you almost scared me to death! Don't you know how fucking scared I am of those monsters? You even screamed like one of them! I almost believed it was real."

"But I only used the light of the second remote. Come on, flea, it was just a joke, okay? Don't act like that. You gave me those headaches, too, right?"

"Yeah…you got a point…let's get playing."

Author's note: I really hope the chapter wasn't bad. ._. I'm kind of disappointed, but I really do hope that the next chapter will make it up. :D Anyways, thanks a lot for your kind reviews! They really encourage me to keep writing! I'm happy about them. I'm really happy that the OP likes the story so far! I hope you will like the next chapters as well, dear OP. ^_