At age 19, Izaya found himself a single father. His love for humans and their worship had eased him through puberty. Now one of his conquests had left him a gift in the form of a wailing miniature human. A paternity test had confirmed it wasn't a scam. He was indeed a father. His parents had kicked him out and he'd had to drop out of school.
Instead of rising to god hood and controlling the city, he was buried under messy diapers, baby formula and sleepless nights.
"God you look tired." Shinra told him quietly. The first visit the idiot had woken his daughter. Izaya had not been happy.
"I have coffee. If I sleep she wakes." Izaya zombie walked to the sofa and slumped. "How's school?"
"Graduation day is coming up." Shinra shrugged. "Looks like no one failed."
"Not even Shizu-chan?" Izaya asked in surprise. Shinra shuffled nervously. "What?"
"Shizuo dropped out." Shinra mumbled. "He's in the same situation as you."
Izaya felt something red hot lash through him. "What?"
"Yeah. He came in holding a baby, said he was dropping out."
"What about the mother?" Izaya asked quietly fists clenched.
"Don't know. He didn't say." Shinra whispered. Shinra was still talking but he turned a deaf ear. Shizuo was a father. He'd slept with a woman. Izaya felt rage boil within him.
Shizuo needed sleep. His daughter was driving him insane with her crying. He'd changed her diaper, fed her, burped her and now he was gently swaying so she'd fall asleep or at least stop crying, at least enough so he could make some damn plans.
His parents hadn't been happy but Kasuka had offered to help out, since he was working through modelling and earned more than anyone in the family.
An hour later he stood over her crib cursing his stupidity. All she'd wanted was a pacifier. Shizuo sighed quietly leaving the room. He cursed as someone knocked on the door.
With a hiss he opened it ready to whisper yell and stopped short seeing Izaya in his doorway. Shit. Instantly he pressed a finger to his lips. Izaya's expression meant trouble.
With a sigh he walked into his bedroom, Izaya following and gently closing the door. Izaya was already taking off his coat. Shizuo waited.
"Who did you sleep with?" Izaya hissed.
Shizuo shrugged sleep deprived and slow. He fell back against the sheets as Izaya grabbed his throat and held him down. "You have a daughter."
"I do." Shizuo whispered.
Izaya growled turning him onto his belly. Shizuo sighed as his jeans were torn. "You are mine." Izaya's teeth bit into the back of his neck. Shizuo sighed again feeling the hot flesh of Izaya's cock pressed against him.
"Are you going to use a condom?" Shizuo asked in his normal voice.
Izaya's fingers curled in his hair and roughly pulled. "Don't know where you've been?" Izaya growled.
Shizuo sighed. "Because I don't want to get pregnant again."
Izaya froze. "What?"
"You heard." Shizuo snapped. "Or do you not know what happens when an alpha fucks an omega?"
Izaya released him and backed away. "I'm not-
"I'm a omega. The only fucker I've slept with is you. The children are yours."
Izaya blinked. "Children? You only have a...twins. You left one with me."
"Feel free to get a test done." Shizuo got up correcting his clothes. "Anything else?"
"We have children."
"Yes." Shizuo grumbled, wincing as wailing pierced the air. Opening the door he swept into the nursery lifting his daughter into his arms. Her soft red eyes filled with tears.
"Fuck." Izaya hissed in shock.
"Hold her." Shizuo handed her over happy with Izaya's hold.
"What's her name?" Izaya asked in disbelief.
"Haven't given her one yet." Shizuo scowled. "I thought you would've known straight away or at least guessed. Guess I'm not the only one you slept with."
Izaya winced. "You're the only guy I've slept with."
Shizuo shook his head. "Yeah that makes it all better. Don't worry about the fact I carried twins around for nine damn months and all you cared about was getting me in trouble and finding surfaces to claim your 'reward'. So observant. You can take her for now. Do what you want and let me know."
"She's yours as well."
Shizuo shook his head "Not enough. I'm not allowed to name them, I'm not even allowed to register them because I'm an omega. Without a damn alpha they don't exist. You're the parent and I'm the damn incubator, that's it."
"Shizu-chan-
"I need to rest. Get out." Shizuo stormed into the bedroom and slammed the door. He could hear his daughter crying and then silence.
Shinra gaped at him as he opened the door holding the baby. "What?"
Izaya groaned settling his new daughter next to his current one. The two immediately curled up with one another. "Shizu-chan is an omega."
"Ah." Shinra nodded. "I see why they're in your care. You're the alpha."
"So Shizu-chan said. He didn't name her."
Shinra shrugged. "Not allowed. You'll need to register them too. He'll be lucky if he gave birth in a hospital."
Izaya cursed. He didn't think of that. Nine months and he'd been treating Shizuo the same getting him into fights and slamming him against things. He remembered one particular harsh slam into a locker. "I didn't know."
"Did you bite him?" Shinra asked.
"Yeah. I bit him."
"Then you recognised your alpha traits. You've claimed him as yours no one else can touch him." Shinra explained.
Izaya felt satisfaction at that. "What if I hadn't?"
Shinra winced. "If unmated and pregnant he'd be fair game. An omega has no rights. Any alpha would've been able to claim him or get him pregnant again. If that one doesn't then he's free for the next one and so forth until he did get bitten. Research omega trafficking and prostitution when you've got a chance."
Izaya growled. "Shizu-chan has been claimed. What now?"
"That's up to you." Shinra explained. "Shizuo will obey you no matter what you say. If you tell him he can't see his kids, he'll walk away. If you tell him to die he will slowly kill himself."
Izaya inhaled sharply. There was so much he had to research. "Alright. Shizu-chan is my omega mate. We have children together. So we need to do this together. We need a house. Shizu-chan needs to start thinking of names. We need schedules."
Shinra stared at him. "You need Shizuo to stay in the same room as you first."
"He's mine." Izaya declared.
"Just be careful." Shinra warned. "Anything you do effects Shizuo."
Izaya nodded. "I'll be careful."
The system was fucked up. Izaya cursed looking down at the form in front of him. "Why do I have this?" He asked. "I'm here to register my daughters."
"It's been a while since their birth Orihara-san, we need you to fill out the form and then we'll pass it to the police."
"The police, why?"
The woman smiled batting her eyelashes. "To make sure you weren't a victim of fraudulent behaviour. We take those concerns seriously and always go for the highest penalty."
"Which is?" Izaya asked reading over the form again.
"Imprisonment or death for the omega that wronged you." The woman smiled.
Izaya paled. The form asked when he was aware the omega was pregnant, when he'd claimed the omega, when the omega gave birth and how long until the omega gave him his children, there was also a box for why registration had taken so long. Izaya shrugged grabbed the pen and lied.
Handing the form back he received another one. "One of the twins doesn't have a name yet. I haven't decided."
Shizuo hadn't responded to his texts or calls. "That's not a problem, you can request a change at a later date."
After the registration mess, Izaya went to see Shizuo. The door was locked and the omega wasn't answering. Letting himself in he found the apartment empty. Pushing open the bedroom door he found Shizuo asleep in bed.
"Shizu-chan, I've been trying to call you." Izaya chided shaking his mate awake. "Come on we need to talk."
But Shizuo didn't respond. Izaya felt for his pulse feeling how slow it was. "Shit. Come on Shizu-chan, wake up!"
Izaya called the hospital. "My mate won't wake up." He started rattling off his address.
"I'm sorry we don't accept omegas." The woman said. "It sounds like they're struggling with the bonding. Please call with an emergency."
Izaya blinked at the phone and called Shinra. "Shinra, Shizu-chan isn't waking up."
Shinra sighed. "I guessed as much. He'll wake up when he's ready. Omegas sleep to recover from trauma."
"Trauma? What trauma?"
"I'd say the bonding and losing his kids." Shinra sighed. "If he's lucky, they won't find out he lied."
Izaya groaned. "This is a mess."
"Keep him with you. The more he feels you and the children, the sooner he'll wake."
Izaya scowled. "You're telling me to kidnap him?"
Shinra sighed. "It's not kidnapping. Legally Shizuo belongs to you. He's your property. You need to stop thinking of him like a person."
Izaya growled. "He is a person!"
"In the eyes of the law he's not." Shinra said. "It's the way things are. You can't get married and it's suggested alphas continue other relationships. As long as you have a babysitter, you can continue what you were doing."
"We weren't exclusive." Izaya snapped.
"Doesn't matter if you were. You would be seen as single. You need to think things through, Izaya. For all of your sakes."
Izaya brought a house. Izaya had the house cleaned from top to bottom and decorated. Shinra helped move his daughters into their nursery and Shizuo into his bed, where the omega continued to sleep.
Their daughters had quietened down now that they were together. Izaya spent every night curled up with Shizuo holding him close. Shizuo never stirred, not even when in contact with their daughters.
Finally after a month Shizuo twitched the first signs of waking. Izaya nuzzled him and held tight.
As winter drew in Izaya came up with a ridiculous way of keeping Shizuo and their daughters warm. He brought dogs. Large fluffy imports that kept guard. He'd gambled on whether it would be easier or harder. He was happy his gamble paid off.
He couldn't do everything though, not since he was pretty much still a single father until Shizuo woke up. Izaya hired a house keeper after running a background check. She was quick and efficient at her job, so he left her to it.
Next he had to hire a babysitter, since the trust fund from his grandparents wouldn't keep them going forever. Again he ran a background check and checked the cameras he'd hidden around the house. Another piece clicked into place.
Izaya used what he knew, putting his all into the computer. Information was a game he would excel at and keep him home incase his family needed him.
But he still needed food and as would Shizuo, so he hired a chef. He'd almost hired a doctor until Shinra confronted him.
Unfortunately he'd had to name his daughter, he couldn't let her go around nameless. They were twins and his light so their names were Hikari and Akari. He hoped Shizuo would approve.
Their first family Christmas came and went. Izaya had made the room festive and secluded the four of them together. His daughters rested on Shizuo's chest. Izaya took a picture and saved it as his screensaver but it wasn't the same.
Shizuo's fingers twitched and Izaya pressed the blooming hope down. He'd gotten over excited the first time it happened and Shizuo still hadn't woke up. The twins lifted their little heads and waved their arms in a pat.
"I want him to wake up too." Izaya sighed.
Izaya fired the housekeeper. He'd reluctantly left Shizuo alone and took his daughters to the shrine for new year. He didn't believe in gods but he would try and had been trying for Shizuo.
When he'd gotten back to the house, he'd settled the girls and checked on his mate. His shirt was undone. Izaya said nothing but checked the cameras as soon as possible. The house keeper had been cleaning until their room. Izaya watched as she walked over to the bed and glanced around. He watched as she walked over to the bed and started stripping his mate. Izaya's fists clenched. He forced himself to watch the housekeeper get on her knees and take Shizuo's cock in her mouth. That was all she'd managed before quickly escaping at their return.
She stood in front of his desk not looking bothered in the slightest. It irked him because he knew why. In the eyes of the law she'd touched her employer's possession. If he went to the police she'd get a slap on the wrist if that.
"You're fired." Her face fell. Izaya wished he could tear her apart.
"What? You can't-" her indignant babbling was getting on his nerves.
"Effective immediately." Izaya growled. "Take your belongings and get out. Don't expect a reference from me either."
"You can't fire me. I didn't-"
"Get out." Izaya seethed.
She went.
Izaya went back to the bedroom and rebuttoned Shizuo's shirt. "If you were awake, things like that wouldn't have happened." Izaya sighed rounding the bed and climbing on to snuggle with his mate. Shizuo's fingers twitched but he didn't wake.
Two weeks after the housekeeper incident, where the woman may or may not have killed herself, Izaya woke up in bed alone. Next to him the other side of the bed was cold. "Shizu-chan?"
Izaya shot up looking over the edge. Shizuo hadn't fallen. Panic shot through him at the thought of his missing or runaway mate. Running from the room he stopped to check in on his daughters and found Shizuo sitting next to the crib back facing the door. "You're awake."
"They've gotten big." Shizuo's voice sounded weak from non use.
"Yeah. You've been asleep for a while."
Shizuo nodded a small drop of his head. "Where are we?"
"Our home." Izaya grinned.
"Okay."
Izaya's smile slipped. "No questions?"
Shizuo shrugged. "I've been taught to accept things as they are."
"You weren't like this before." Izaya growled.
"Suppose not. You learn a lot giving birth." Shizuo sighed.
"You didn't tell me."
"It wouldn't have made a difference."
"Because you're an omega?" Izaya scowled. "I had to lie so they didn't press for arrest or death. This would've been easier if you had told me. We could've planned."
Shizuo sighed, it was a long broken sound that made him rage at the cause. "I wanted to be normal as long as I could. Do you know what happens to pregnant omegas?"
Izaya was silent.
"Claimed omegas get to stay with the father if that's what the alpha decides. Unclaimed get locked away and monitored till they give birth." Shizuo shrugged starting to sway a little. "I didn't tell anyone until it was too late. Shinra and Kasuka found a midwife that didn't ask questions."
"It's ridiculous." Izaya cursed. "I would've claimed you."
Shizuo smiled at him and Izaya felt his heart flutter. "You did. You want me to stay?"
Izaya held him. "You're not going anywhere. You're mine. I need you. Our daughters need you."
Shizuo smiled and leaned into him. "I need you too. Tell me everything I missed."
Izaya settled in and did just that, the two of them watching as their children slept.
End