Shizuo was currently in the middle of reading the Okinawan section of the travel magazine he pulled out earlier in his seat on the plane. He kept a mental note of many of the places he could go to and places he could visit. He was very absorbed in thought and blocked out most of the outside chatter.
Moments later, a voice appeared. "Ah let's see row 24... found it!" Izaya burst out, looking at the seating numbers located at the top of the carry-on luggage compartment. He didn't notice the blond man sitting in one of the seats until he looked down and stood there in shock.
"Shi-Shi-Shizu-chan?"
At the sound of this, Shizuo immediately glanced up and saw who it was, standing in the aisle beside him.
"I-Izaya? What the fuck are you doing here?" Shizuo yelled, refraining himself from grabbing the closest thing in sight he could use to hurl at his enemy.
"Aha, that's what I should be asking you! You're sitting in my seat, ah worse, you're on the same exact plane I'm on! How could this even happen?"
"That's what I should be asking you. And this isn't your seat, it's mine. I checked my plane ticket, louse!" Shizuo was about to lose his temper but did his best to hold onto it as he didn't want to get in trouble or worse, get kicked off this plane.
Before continuing, Izaya stuffed one of his luggages into the compartment while putting his bag on the floor. He then sat in his correct seat next to Shizuo.
"First off, last time I checked, these seats were empty. Excluding mine, which would be one of these. And anyway, I'm here strictly on business matters only. So it's not unlikely for me to be traveling to places often, you know. Now for you... it's quite a rare experience. I never knew a monster like you would be into traveling at all." Izaya pressed.
"Shut the fuck up," Shizuo huffed. "I chose this seat last fucking night. And don't you even think that I'll be suffering this whole flight sitting next to a smarmy bastard like yourself. I'm fucking going to change my fucking seat."
"Well I chose this seat mid-day yesterday. And I don't know if you can do that. This plane seems pretty full already. And it's not like it's up to you to decide~" Izaya said, resting his elbow on the armrest and propping his head up while he leaned in closer to him.
"Tch, like I give a shit. And get the fuck away, too fucking close."
As Shizuo said this, a brunette female flight attendant happened to walk by and Shizuo immediately shouted, "Hey, excuse me!"
The flight attendant spotted Shizuo and generously asked, "May I help you?"
"Would you happen to know if there are any open available seats on this flight?"
"I'm sorry sir, but all of the seats on this flight are being occupied. I can double check that for you in case I've mistaken. Is there something wrong with your current seat that you have to move?"
Izaya chuckled softly as Shizuo tried to respond as calm as possible.
"You see, there's this certain flea that happened to have his seat next to mine. And I hate him. I really hate him." Shizuo flashed Izaya a death glare. "So please, if you can, I would absolutely appreciate it if you could change my seat."
"O-okay. I'll go ahead and check on that then..." she walked off.
"Oh, Shizu-chan, did you have to put it in those terms? You could have said something like you don't prefer sitting in the back, or it's too close to the lavatory, or something! You make me look like the bad guy here."
"Shut up."
The same flight attendant came back.
"I double checked the seating chart and I'm afraid that there aren't any free seats available. I'm sorry for the inconvenience." she bowed.
Shizuo's eyebrow twitched. "Ah no that's fine. Thank you." She walked off and one second later Shizuo slammed his fist into the chair in front of him. "Damn it damn it damn it!" he yelled. He startled the person sitting in that seat who turned around right after he said that. "Oh sorry..." He then took deep breaths to cool himself down.
"Aha, calm down. It's not like I'm happy either being stuck with a brute like you." Izaya complained.
"Please, just shut up. It would be the best for the both of us if you'd just shut the hell up for the rest of the flight."
"You can't just tell me to stop talking! You're so mean!" Izaya whined.
Shizuo just completely ignored Izaya altogether now. He was very tempted to get up at that moment and ask if anyone at all would like to switch seats with him, but he felt bad about separating a family or anyone who was originally sitting together. Not only that, he didn't want to have them suffer sitting next to Izaya for the duration of the flight. So Shizuo decided that he would endure the pain of sitting next to Izaya rather than plead a poor innocent person to do so.
The speaker came on the intercom one moment later and said, "Please make sure that your seat belts are fastened and all electronics are turned off. We are ready for take-off. Expected arrival time should be in approximately 2 hours and 55 minutes. We hope you enjoy your flight with us and we wish you a great day. Please now turn your attention to the television screens as they will direct the use of our life vests. Thank you."
"Hai, speaker-san~!" Izaya saluted the unresponsive voice. "Psstt, this is my favorite part, when the plane goes vvvrrrooomm, up into the sky!"
"Mm." was Shizuo's reply as he looked over at Izaya who was bouncing up and down the seat like a little kid. Shizuo turned and kept his head looking out the window as the plane moved into position. Afterwards, the plane stopped momentarily as it revved up the jet engines. Everything rumbled and the plane startled to accelerate at a fast speed.
"Oh my god, here it comes! Wwee! Wwweeee!" Izaya raised his arms up as the plane soared up into the sky. Once the plane was in constant motion in the air, Izaya turned to Shizuo and asked, "Wasn't that just awesome?"
Shizuo grumbled, "Too goddamn embarrassing. Ugh my ears just popped. I hate that."
"Here," Izaya pulled out a pack of gum and offered it to him, "It helps."
Shizuo just stared at him for one whole second and then grabbed the whole pack. He took a piece out and threw the packet of gum back at Izaya. He started chewing it and realized that it did help his ears. He didn't say anything.
Izaya looked out the window and exclaimed, "Look, look! We're almost as high as the clouds! Yippee~"
He took a look and indeed, they were flying close to the top of the clouds. The clouds were big and looked very white and fluffy. He wondered what it would be like to lay in one of them, as comfortable as they looked. Shizuo was at peace until the thought of having to sit next to his worst enemy for 3 hours popped back into his mind again. He knew that it was going to hell and that this torture would never come to an end.
30 minutes into the flight
"Excuse me, would you like something to drink?" the same brunette flight attendant asked.
"I'll have a 7 Up please." Izaya answered.
Shizuo turned from the window and asked, "Um, would you happen to have milk?"
"Yes, we do. 7 Up and a milk, coming right up." The attendant smiled as she handed Izaya his drink and then Shizuo's next. She left to continue serving the other passengers.
Shizuo spat his gum into the napkin the drink included before tasting his drink. "My. This milk is really good." Shizuo commented.
"Oh is it now? I never really was fond of milk. I guess airplane refreshments can be good, huh?"
"Mm sure."
Shizuo gulped down his drink. He was almost normal but knew that if Izaya added anything completely unnecessary, he would flip out in a mere split second. But for now, as long as he was just making useless, random comments, Shizuo didn't mind much.
He saw the same flight attendant walk back and that's when he spoke up, "Oi! Can I get more milk please?"
"Sure. One minute." She came back with a milk carton and a hand full of cups. "How much would you like?"
"Two cups, please."
"Of course." She smiled and handed him two more cups. "Here you go."
"Thank you."
Shizuo began drinking his second cup of milk. "It's really delicious." he thought. The taste reminded him of his childhood, back when he would break his bones every other day. He had drunk milk to help keep his bones strong and healthy. This milk made him reminisce about the good times in his past.
"Hahaha you're so funny. You sound like a little baby wanting his milk. It's kinda cute. I guess your nickname really does fit you, huh? Shi-zu-CHAN?" Izaya teased.
Shizuo whacked him in the head.
"Itai! Hurt!" Izaya yelped as he grabbed his head.
He sighed as he continued to finish the rest of his milk.
45 minutes into the fight
Shizuo finished all his milk and was now relaxing. He was finishing up reading the last part of the travel magazine when the urgency to use the restroom hit him. He groaned. He drank too much milk. He unbuckled his seatbelt and stood up, facing Izaya who was in the middle of reading a book.
"Move."
Izaya looked up from his book. "What, why? My legs are comfortable just the way they are."
"I don't give a shit. Move. I have to pee."
Izaya grinned. "Nah, it's okay."
"What the fuck do you mean 'it's okay'?" Shizuo raised his voice. "I have to fucking go. It's not your damn choice, fucking move your legs!"
He began to use his knee to nudge it against the side of Izaya's legs to try to get them to move. Izaya just strengthened them against the back of the seat purposely, blocking the way even more and making it harder for Shizuo to get through just to tick him off.
"Stop making this fucking harder for me and just move your goddamn legs, now! Ugh, why is it so fucking tight in this spot?" Shizuo growled as he began picking up his pace of nudging and hardening them to where they became kicks. Shizuo didn't want to cause a commotion to the people sitting in the front or to the back of them but he had long given up caring. Izaya burst out laughing.
"Ahahahaha! Yes, yes, harder Shizu-chan, harder! Hahahaa!" Izaya cried out. This definitely caused people to turn around and glance at what was going on.
"What the fuck are you laughing about?"
"Haha well," Izaya began as he wiped a tear from his eye from laughing so hard, "if you had at all been paying attention to the context of this conversation for the past minute, you would know why I'm laughing so hard."
Shizuo froze. It never occurred to him how wrong he sounded along with the sound of his movements until he thought about it now. He had completely lost it. He bent down, grabbed Izaya's legs, and forcefully pushed them up while making his way through. He dropped Izaya's legs when he reached the other side and that's when Izaya took his book and slapped Shizuo's bottom with it.
"Why'd you have to end it so soon? Naughty, Shizu-chan!" Izaya teased.
Shizuo glared at him from the corner of his eye and continued walking in the direction of the lavatory in silence.
He came back in a brief amount of time and stood in front of Izaya. He looked up again from his book.
"Back again, I see. Why are you so quiet all of a sudden? I was just having some fun with you~"
Without warning, Shizuo slowly began to reach, what it seemed to be, Izaya's crotch.
"Wh-what are you doing?" Izaya yelped.
Izaya suddenly realized that Shizuo just went down to unfasten his seatbelt. But before anything occurred to him, Shizuo picked him up out of his seat, dropped him on his bottom on the floor of the aisle, and made his way to his own seat. Izaya simply sat there on the floor stupefied.
"What the fuck! I was quite uneasy there for a second, you know! I would have let you through if you told me you were going to do that! Hmph!" Izaya got up off the floor and sat in his seat pouting.
Izaya turned to see Shizuo looking at him with a gentle smile appearing on his face. If Izaya wasn't flabbergasted before, he definitely was now. He never recalled a time Shizuo ever smiled this way, especially towards someone like himself.
"I was just having fun with you." Shizuo teased.
"Shi-Shizu-chan!" Izaya was beyond astonished. "How dare you! That was so uncalled for! Not cool, not cool at all." he said, crossing his arms.
The amused bodyguard just turned away and looked out the window. He wanted to see Izaya's reaction after what he had done and it was quite funny and surprising to see Izaya so unsettled and shocked like that. Shizuo was actually having fun right now and perhaps thought that maybe, just maybe this wasn't going to be such a bad flight after all.