Disclaimer: Durarara! is not mine. I don't win any money, and of course, this is just for fun. Ah, by the way...Durarara! belongs to Ryohgo Narita, kay? ^^ ~Enjoy
Author's Note 1: There isnt' any game featured in this chapter, but I hope what I did to both of the boys will make up for it. Thee-hee-hee.
Izaya looked up and found himself on the floor, Shizuo's arms around his body, in a protective way. His face was almost buried on his chest. He saw that the blonde was sleeping peacefully. His heart beat faster and he blushed four shades of red. He smiled, as well, but he was a bit sad as well, since he knew perfectly well, that Shizuo didn't do that on purpose. He knew how they still weren't even friends.
Suddenly, he tried to leave Shizuo's side without waking him up, and soon he managed to lose himself from the blonde's grip.
"I will save you the trouble. I don't want you to freak out when you realize you were holding me tightly." Izaya said to Shizuo, even though he was aware the other one couldn't hear him.
He saw that the door that Celty locked was opened, so he proceeded to get out and examine everything around him, making sure there was no one around. He found one yellow post-it note glued on the door. It read. "DON'T go out of the room. If I realize someone has touched something, you're dead. Both. I still wait for you apologies. Until you apologize, you won't do anything-Celty"
Izaya laughed at the note and went out of the room. He found Celty on the secong couch, sleeping. Too bad for Izaya, he didn't know if she was asleep. He decided to take one step further.
"DON'T MOVE" Celty suddenly typed and showed to the informant, making him jump in surprise.
"Well, Celty, you certainly surprised me." Izaya laughed it off, shrugging his shoulders.
"Go back to the room. I'm going to lock it." She typed.
"No…I'm sorry for my behaviour. I really mean it. I don't know what made me act like such a kid." Izaya smiled
"You are…meaning it?"
"Yes…and since I don't know why I acted like that, I'm begging you to let me search for it. Can I use your computer?" Izaya asked.
"Well…alright. But stay here with me. I won't look at what you do, but please, don't crack some information with that computer." Celty typed, rather concerned.
"Yeah, don't worry about that. I don't plan using your computer for work-related things." Izaya promised, going to the desk to pick the laptop up. Then he sat on the couch with Celty, making sure she didn't look at what he was doing. For security matters, when the Internet opened, Izaya tried to click a certain button.
"Don't you dare to press the Private Session Button. If you want me to believe that you aren't doing anything regarding your work, then you have to leave a trace behind." Celty typed.
"Well…that's disappointing, but since I don't want to deceive you, I'll do as you say." Izaya said, and proceeded to ignore further comments. He started typing something in the browser and click on different pages to read. Celty noticed he was blushing while reading some of them.
She saw how Shizuo got up from the floor, looking quite confused. Then he walked to the door and went to Celty's side.
"Um…Celty, sorry for back then. I didn't want to be such a small kid. If you don't mind, I'm going to take a shower now." He said, scratching the back of his head.
"Well…okay. ^^. " She typed in her PDA.
"Hello to you, too. Izaya." He mumbled as well, not caring much.
"Hello." Izaya responded with tiny voice, still blushing from whatever he was reading on the Internet. With that, Shizuo left and went into the bathroom. Izaya could hear the sound of water splashing. He smiled.
He didn't know why he was feeling that way, but he knew there was definitely something wrong with his behaviour. In front of Shizuo he was known to act like he always did. He mocked him off, he laughed about him, he teased him, and he acted a lot more dramatically. But right now, he was acting like a kid, he felt butterflies in his stomach, he felt nervous right in front of Shizuo. He read something on the Internet, and automatically regretted reading that. He shut the computer down, and angrily went to the guest room and shut the door.
Celty sighed. Izaya was so unpredictable. She didn't know how Shizuo had managed to stand him over those years. She didn't have the slightest idea of how her boyfriend could be friends with that weirdo. He was pretty weird himself, but that was much worse.
'Wait…maybe he read something he didn't like. He was blushing a lot with whatever he was reading.' Celty thought. Carefully, she put the computer on her lap and opened the browser, looking at the history it had.
She went to every page the informant had visited. She began reading everything.
"Inverse Psychology." Was one of the pages he had looked for. Celty couldn't see he entered any other page from that.
"What disease has this symptoms?" Was one of the other pages the flea had opened. Afterwards he had put some words into a page that found your illness if you put the symptoms.
'He could have waited for Shinra.' Celty thought, but quickly dismissed the idea as soon as she saw what Shinra's friend had written down. It was some kind of chat. She checked the logs.
Anonymous: I've been feeling strange recently.
Doctor 1: Yes? Please tell us what you've been feeling like. But please, bear in mind we aren't sponsored by anyone. Use our words as if they were advice, but always ask a doctor in some kind of hospital.
Anonymous: Well…look, there's a person I hate, right? But I think, I've seen them so many times, that now I want throw up every time I see them. I feel nervous, I've got butterflies in my stomach and I feel weird.
Doctor 1: Are you sure you're serious?
Anonymous: Are you doubting me? Wow, that hurt me! Of course I'm serious. I hate them so much, that I think that has gotten me all stressed up. That's why I'd like to know the symptoms of stress. I think I'm too stressed.
Doctor 1: Don't worry. I don't think that's stress. The symptoms of stressed people are totally different. In fact, don't you think you're a bit wrong?
Anonymous: Heck…what? I don't know what you're talking about.
Doctor 1: Can it be, that maybe, and just maybe…well, tell me first. Have you ever felt love?
Anonymous: WHAT? I thought this is a medical chat room. Not a place where I share my personal information.
Doctor 1: But it is important. Just answer the question.
Anonymous: No. I mean… I love everyone around here. But…I feel like I love every person in the world…but it has no sentimental meaning, or so.
Doctor 1: Well, that may be subject of analyse. But, regarding your concerns…you've never felt love. Couldn't it just be you got the feeling wrong. Maybe…you mistook Love for Hate.
Anonymous: WHAT? Are you telling… I…. the awesome and almighty…well forget it, that I am in love with such a monster.
Doctor 1: Well...maybe you still have one or two issues with your ego, but that's the psychologists' job, anyway, what I am meaning is what you said. Why, yes. I'm referring to that feeling.
-Anonymous has left the chat room-
Celty laughed about the log, but she was sure the doctor was right. If Izaya had been feeling that way in front of Shizuo then maybe he was falling in love with him. And she herself had seen how he had been acting strange recently. She saw a last page that Izaya had opened.
"What is Love."
'Poor Izaya. He doesn't have a clue, right? All what he said, about loving humanity…he hasn't ever felt that way towards someone.' She deduced. Shizuo passed by, with a towel on his shoulder.
"Where's Izaya? I thought he was with you." Shizuo asked.
"In the guest room. But wait, Shizuo! Have you ever felt love?" She typed quickly, before the other one left.
"What? Love…? No. I don't think so. But well, that's my personal secret." Shizuo winked, laughing.
"So…might it be you're feeling strange recently?"
"Hey, Celty! Don't tell me Shinra has infected you with his complex. Do you feel like some kind of doctor? Well…anyway…I guess…I've been feeling strange towards Izaya recently. It isn't hate anymore. I'm glad. Truly, I'm so happy you and Shinra decided to do something about it. Now I won't have to worry about having anger issues every day." Shizuo responded.
'But you don't know what it is, right?' Celty thought. She wanted to suggest it to her friend, but she discarded the idea.
"Why don't you stay a bit more. Tell that to Izaya as well. You could stay some more. Maybe one day or so. Since the Wii's broken now you won't have anything to do. But I promise Shinra will repair it. Then you can continue with your games."
"Well…I don't have a problem with that. It's weekend, so I don't have work to do. I'll inform Izaya." The blonde said, smiling at Celty and leaving the room where she was.
Shizuo walked to the room Izaya was in, and quietly opened the door, knocking first. He saw Izaya reading some kind of book, with a disgusted face.
'More than disgusted…it looks like he's horrified by what he's reading.' The blonde deduced.
"Hey, Izaya…Celty suggested that you stay over the weekend." The blonde informed, proceeding to sit down on his own bed.
"Okay." The other responded. "S-Shizu-chan…What is love?"
"W-What!" The blonde was quite shocked to hear such a question from the flea's lips. "Aren't you always saying you love humanity and so on. Why the hell should I know about what love is."
"Well…because a crazy doctor told me my symptoms aren't from being stressed. He told me I was in love." Izaya said, blushing.
"What…?" Shizuo asked. His heart started to beat fast at the thought of love. He looked at the flea, who was lying on his bed, with ruffled hair, playing with his legs, moving them, as if he was bored. He was looking at him with a quite pledging expression.
"He told me I was in love, protozoan. Can't you hear what I'm saying?" Izaya said.
"Why…why do you say it as if it where something bad? I thought love was something beautiful and sweet." Shizuo bluntly said.
Izaya blushed. Shizuo had ruffled hair as well, wet blonde locks were all over his face. He was blushing as well.
"Well…I don't think it's a bad thing." He added.
"Have you ever felt love, Shizu-chan?" Izaya asked.
"N-No…well…I don't know. What is love?"
"According to this doctor, it's just how I feel. Butterflies in the stomach, I'm feeling nervous…I act childish…I feel stupid, I want to be great. Well, I always want to be great…but…you get what I'm trying to say?" Izaya said.
"Is that how you feel? Because I've felt that way, too." Shizuo mumbled.
'Stupid Shizu-chan. I hate you so much…how can't you see how I'm feeling right now. Stupid doctor, stupid Celty, stupid Shinra…Why did they have to suggest this…I…I'm in love…with…S…Shizu-chan' Izaya thought, placing his hand on his chest, where his heart was supposed to be.
"Y-You feel that way, too?" He asked.
"Yes…for some time, actually."
"Shizu-chan. I don't know what Shinra and Celty have done to us. But…this doctor was right. I'm in love." Izaya admitted.
Shizuo blushed. He was quite sure he didn't want to hear more from Izaya's lips. He knew he was going to say he was in love with his boss or something. He had always known Shiki and that flea had something going on. And that fact only, made him hate everything even more. He had been aware of his feelings for quite a while, but he hadn't admitted it yet. He didn't want to lose the flea, and if fighting was the only way of seeing him, then he would do that.
"Yes? May…May I ask who it is?" Shizuo asked, damning himself for asking the lethal question that would finish him off.
"I'm in love…with a stupid, brutish protozoan." He said. "And I don't know why. And I regret it, but that's it. It's a fact."
"A…Pr…protozo…an? Rzan…" Shizuo couldn't get the words right. He only knew one person who was called Protozoan by the flea.
Izaya ran to his arms, smelling the manly perfume of his shampoo, and let himself in Shizuo's care.
"That's right, mister protozoan. I'm in love with you." Izaya said, quickly kissing the other's lips.
Shizuo closed his eyes, enjoying the kiss. He didn't want to let the other go. He blushed and was quite shocked of that sudden confession, but he didn't expect anything else from the flea. He hugged the other quite strongly, he didn't want Izaya to go.
He saw tears rolling down on the raven-haired informant's pale cheek. He assumed they were from happiness, and soon found himself crying as well.
All those years wasted…All those things they fought over, it was all a waste of time. He didn't want to let go. It had taken both almost eight years to notice that the feeling they felt towards each other wasn't hate, but rather instant love. He laughed, as soon as the kiss stopped.
"Hey, Shizu-chan…let us make a deal. We won't say anything to anyone. I want to know how much it takes that stupid doctor to see what he has caused." Izaya said, looking straight at Shizuo's mocha coloured eyes. His own eyes had a pure red colour.
"And I've always wanted to know how those looked on me." He said, taking Shizuo's blue sunglasses from his pocket and putting them on.
"You look horrible, louse. Take them off. And yes, I agree with you. Although, I'm happy I can call you mine now."
"Yours? In your dreams, Shizu-chan." He teased. Then they heard keys and Shinra's voice.
"I GOT THE WII REPAIRED." Was the only sound they heard.
Both slammed the door, and went to Shinra's side, quietly holding hands with nobody noticing.
"Hey…we were playing a game back then…and the doctor just looked like you, Shinra." Izaya said. Shizuo nodded, although he didn't know what the flea meant.
"Yes, and?" Shinra asked, hoping to hear more.
"He called himself the 'doctor of love'." Shizuo found himself stating.
"Hahah, I am a doctor of love as well!" The other affirmed. "I am able to see love even when the persons haven't realized yet."
"Let's see if that's true." Izaya said.
Of course, Shizuo knew what that meant. Nobody would know about their relationship. Although the ex-bartender wasn't so sure about how it would end, or if it would work.
"I also got some music games, Celty." The doctor said. "We can play them right after we eat, don't you agree?"
Everyone nodded, since they were starving.
Author's note 2: Hahaha, first! Thanks for the reviews! I'm really happy to hear that the OP said such a thing about the story. I'm more than glad that you like my story.
So, secondly...this isn't over yet! You still have to see what tortures I've got prepared for the duo. You know they made a bet, they can't show that they're in love, right? XD
Seriously, I'm planning to change the genre to, romance and Fluffiness, (if only that existed) but I hope the next chapters are a bit more humorous. Okay...so...if you want to request a game, please tell me! I've got no idea about other games, since I haven't played with the wii for two years. Okay... I guess that's all. Hope you liked the chapter, and expect more!
Side note: I listened to a special song when writing this chapter...It's a video, but the song tells the story of it. If you want to check it out: Ore dake Shitteiru monogatari. It's a Shizaya video. xD But well... it's really cute.