Another Chapter!

Disclaimer: If I owned Durarara! or I-Pad (Which I don't), I would definitely have a bigger house, and a live miniature giraffe.

/.:~:./

These walls I built to keep everyone out.

To let no one in.

To let me see through you,

but no one to see back in.

…...

It was the way of life Izaya promised himself.

The life of an observer.

The life of an outcast.

The only life he believed he could live.

/.:~:./

It had been several months now since they had met each other, the banning of them to certain places and even streets had proved that. Often at times Izaya and Shizuo would be expelled from school temporarily, though Shizuo, for some reason would always take the blame, even when Izaya was the one to start it. It was also not unusual to see them coming to school on a daily basis with their respective injuries- Cuts and stab wounds for Shizuo and bruises, occasional fractures and breaks for Izaya, and several wardrobe changes for both of them.

Izaya, after leaving (dropping) his whiteboard got a new one, one that had functions and a touch screen and buttons that he could press, yes ladies and gentlemen I am talking about the I-pad, and Shizuo hated it, even more so than the acursed whiteboard. With this new, nifty contraption Izaya had several new ways to annoy Shizuo and cause him to explode in a fit of rage. Childish, yet so effective, the different sound effects and annoying apps had the brunet clinging to the edge of his desk at all times to prevent him from causing others bodily harm (especially Shinra who still flinched at the sight of desks. He has even developed a minor case of grafeiophobia.).

"Okay class we are going to start our final project for this half of the semester, it will be due after Winter break. You will be working in pairs that are prearranged by me. Any questions?" The teacher stated.

Kadota raised his hand in the seat next to Shinra and slowly asked his question. "What is this project about?"

"Your goal is going to be to learn as much as possible about your groups chosen topic from a list I am handing out to you. Over the course of next week and your vacation you're going to construct a short, five paragraph story based on your chosen topic. Remember grammar and sentence structure. The people paired together are..." The teacher rattled off the list and ended up pairing Shizuo and Shinra, as well as Kadota and Izaya, luckily they were paired with people they knew well. When this was over other students began moving and shuffling around to get next to their partner and begin planning, this was also the moment that the black haired terror decided that Shizuo wasn't quite pissed enough.

It was actually quite easy on his part, all he had to do was slip quietly behind Shizuo and breath down his neck in warning before playing the sound media he loaded on his I-pad.

Shizuo wasn't very pleased with hearing the sound of a lady giving birth with fart sounds in the background playing in his right ear.

The result was instantaneous and quite predictable.

"IIIIIIIzayaaaaaaa!" With his mighty battle cry Shizuo chucked his very heavy literature book at Izaya who like usual dodged at the last second watching with a smirk on his lips as the book headed strait towards the classroom window with enough velocity to possibly shatter it.

Luckily, or unluckily depending on how you see it, the book only caused a long, very noticeable crack along the window.

The teacher was not very pleased.

"Shizuo! Izaya! I have had enough of your shenanigans! You have destroyed this classroom one too many times and I am fed up with it. Instead of sending you two to the office I am going to make you partners! I expect you two to work together and if you don't I will fail you! Now, sit down and shut the hell up!" The teacher huffed out and Izaya and Shizuo could only stare at him in horror with the fact that that evil teacher had forced them to work together. After another moment of contemplation the bell rang signaling the end of class as well as the end of the day.

Nobody noticed the bruises on Izaya's face. Well, people noticed but no one took any mind. Izaya always had bruises, Shizuo and him were constantly fighting, it was to be expected. The thing that nobody noticed was the fact that Izaya and Shizuo hadn't had any major fighting for a while, the scuffle yesterday in the classroom didn't count because nobody got hurt, well except for the window.

Shizuo did notice though, he noticed that Izaya had lingering bruises on his face even though no fights had took place, but the brunet just assumed that they were still healing from the fight they had a week ago when Shizuo threw Izaya at a guy in a bunny costume advertising something energetically on a sign that read something along the lines of kinky...and toys...or was it perhaps batteries? Oh, well.

Anyway, Shizuo was secretly concerned for the Flea, not because he actually liked the annoyance to humanity but because he was worried that his parents would call his own parents and then his mom would nag at him, while she was doing that Kasuka would sneak into the refrigerator and steal his strawberry milk, then he would throw a tantrum and break something, and, and... headache. Deciding that the formerly mentioned situation should definitely not happen, Shizuo came up with a plan.

To go to Izaya's house under the pretenses of doing their project, plus the fact that his parents weren't allowing visitors this weekend due to their anniversary, and keeping an eye on him to make sure he doesn't nark on him.

Perfect.

He looked over to his right at Izaya and gave him a questioning glance.

"Oi, Flea. Can we work on the project at your house this weekend, my parents are celebrating their anniversary and don't want anyone in the house." Izaya got a look of horror on his face at the request, he frantically jotted on his touch screen and showed it to Shizuo so fast he thought his hands were going to fall off.

-' NO!'-

Shizuo stared. "But we have to, I told you why, so why can't I go to your house?"

-' Just no. I'm not telling a brute like you why. Besides, it's none of your buisness.'-

"Either you tell me the truth of why you don't want me there or I go to your house." Shizuo countered, while a thoughtful look fell on Izaya's face.

-'Fine, you can come home with me Friday.'- He finally relented.

So there it is. Next chapter is Shizuo going to Izaya's, also you'll find out what the project is on, and no for those rabid fan-girls, they are not going to do naughty things, yet.

Anyway I wanted to thank my diligent reviewers who unknowingly, or knowingly pressured me into writing another chapter. You know who you are, I will not list because it is pointless, but thanks anyway.

Ja ne,

Alou