Kida's eyes shot open, "Where the hell am I?!" He thought as his heart raced. Palms sweating, he looked down at himself and noticed the array of bandages covering his body. His eyes narrowed in confusion as he racked his brain for who might have helped blonde pushed himself off the couch,not realizing how intense the pain would be if he did this. Yelping as pain seared through his body "whoever is keeping me must have heard that! Shit!...I'm in no condition to fight if I need to…."He swore at himself. Sweat beaded down Kida's face,as he heard the footsteps in the other room.

Shizuo awoke to a loud yell that bounced around his ears coming from his living room, " I guess that kid woke up..Better go calm him down."

The debt collector calmly walked to the living room,not realizing that with every step he took Kida's heart speed up a little more. When Shizuo finally arrived in the living room he was greeted with the person he saved glaring at him. Well glaring until he recognized his savior.

"H-H-H...Heiwajima-s-san….?!" The gang leader's eyes widened as he tried to think of how he should act. "Why did he save me..?"..That question of why ran through his mind, and in his current state he simply couldn't think of an answer.

"Yeah,got a problem with that?"

Kida's eyes went wide once again and he could feel glistening beads of sweat roll down his face,"No…sir.."

Shizuo's look softened the tiniest bit,"Good." He turned and looked at the still full glass of water on the table."Hey Kid, I'll get some aspirin but try to drink bit of that water." He walked out before Kida could utter a word.

Said "Kid" blinked once then began to look at his surroundings, completely forgetting Shizuo's suggestion for the moment. There were a few dents in the walls quite obviously from the owner but other then that it was pretty normal, a little bare, but normal. The couch kida was laying on seemed old and the coffee table second hand. There was a kitchen connecting to the apparent living room it seemed small and rarely properly was a small hallway with a door and shoes aligned against the wall.

"That must be the front door..and the other doors.."Kida leaned his head to view the the other small hallway on the wall that the couch faced,"must be bathroom and bedroom…."At least I now have my bearings...well kinda..what part of Ikebukuro does Shizuo even live..?" To speak of the devil is to want him to appear, just as the injured blonde heard the debt collector's footsteps, came the gently squeaking of a door to alert him that Shizuo was coming out of the bathroom.

Kida's eyes widened tremendously as he looked over to the forgotten glass of water.."Shit..I was supposed to drink some of that wasn't I?" Panicking, Kida grabbed hold of the glass of water and chugged down half of it's contents. Just as Kida was doing this Shizuo had walked out,and it seemed he couldn't help but smile at the younger's antics. Of course Shizuo didn't realize how panicked the younger was, but oh well..

"Good to see that you can drink something,but save some of that for when you take the aspirin."And with that said he outstretched his hand to Kida to offer him the aspirin.

Kida nodded nervously,"Y-yes of course.t-Thank you.."Kida stanched the pill from Shizuo's hand as a stray dog might do with food-Like if he touched Shizuo's hand for too long something sour and foul would be bestowed upon him.

The older of the two's eyes narrowed in the slightest, "The kid is scared on me.."He thought,"I guess it's to be expected,I mean I get this sort of thing all the time."..from the recesses of his mind he heard a little thought,"It doesn't mean that it doesn't still hurt."Shizuo nodded slightly,which Kida mistook as a welcome for his previous thank you.

Shizuo paused,and then said,"So why exactly did you get beat up for? It seemed kinda personal with all the damage they did.."

A bead of sweat rolled down Kida's forehead and he quickly took a shaky tried to swiftly form some sort of lie.

"O-Oh I don't k-know maybe they had me mistaken for someone.."

"That was a lie,wasn't it?"

"Damn!How did he find out?!" Kida thought,"Should I just tell him the truth..?...I don't know.."

Shizuo watched the younger and he could see the turmoil in his head,"You don't have to tell me yet if you want..But.."For some reason unknown to him, he wanted to say 'I can keep an eye out for you'..

Kida blinked…"But what?"

"But..Can you just take your aspirin ..?"

Once again the younger blonde blinked before realizing he still hadn't taken the pill,"Sure.."He swallowed down the pill.

His gaze firm on Kida and quietly thought to himself,"What was that thought earlier..? Guess I should just forget about it"