"So what are you doing?" Shinra asked, leaning over her shoulder closer than before.
Kanra stopped herself from slashing him with the knife they hadn't taken from her, and answered, "You don't need to know."
Shizuo growled loudly. "Tell us you little louse!"
A chat-room appeared on the screen talking with a person named 'Celty.' The person, obviously the mute, typed, "Are you searching for something?"
Kanra didn't answer, letting them use their eyes.
"I don't really know," Shinra answered. "She's not really using any methods I know of…"
"Oh calm down and back off!" Kanra huffed, glaring at the two men who had moved to breathe over her shoulders. "I'll answer just let me have some space!"
Shinra backed up with his hands raised in surrender, smiling bashfully. Shizuo was biting his lip, and only backed up about a foot. The mute wasn't close by, and was holding the laptop she was using to talk to Kanra.
"Ok I'll tell you," Kanra sighed, turning back to her work. "I want to know some stuff, and I'm hacking into some private areas to find out what I want to know."
"What do you want to know?" Shinra asked.
"I told you, you don't need to know." Kanra went silent, determined not to talk to them anymore.
"Maybe we can help," Shinra said. She heard him step forward again, probably out of curiosity but it still ticked her off.
"Another step and I put a virus on your computer," she giggled, turning her icy grin on him.
"No you won't," Shizuo said, putting out his cigarette butt in a tray on the doctor's counter. "You need that computer to find out what you want, so you won't shoot yourself in your foot."
Kanra chose not to answer.
"So maybe you'll be more helpful if I turn the tables?" he asked.
She hadn't noticed him get closer and he lifted her up again, this time by her jacket. She tried to reach her switchblade, but it had fallen out of her pocket and onto the floor. She hastily grabbed at his arms, trying to dig her nails into his hands to force him to let her go.
"Let me go!" she screamed, using her legs to try and kick the chair at him.
"Only if you promise to tell us who you're researching and why," he said stubbornly.
"It doesn't involve you!" she cried, grunting as her kicks weren't doing anything.
Shizuo was quiet. Kanra tried to swing in a way to allow her to see the other to, trying to see if she could persuade them to get the beast to let go of her. She couldn't see them, and their silence told her all she needed to know.
"Fine!" she growled, stopping her struggling and even letting go of his hands. "Just stop calling me 'flea'! I'm not a flea!" She would have told them to call her 'ant,' but that nickname was reserved for Shizuka's use only.
Shizuo let go, making her butt hurt as it hit the chair. "That hurt meanie!" she complained.
"Explain," Shizuo ordered.
She huffed and glanced back at the screen. "My father, if you must know."
Shizuka had fallen asleep on Izaya's couch shortly after he had stopped asking questions. She was having a pleasant dream about one of her memories from around a year ago.
It was when she and Kanra had just started going to high school. Kanra had accepted it without argument, but that was never Shizuka's style. She was yelling loudly at their father, claiming that he didn't love them and was subjecting them to torture. Don't ask her why she yelled that, she just did.
"Shizuka calm down," her father said with a sigh. He had already endured more than an earful of her complaints, and had even become irritated at the constant stream of objections. "High school won't kill you, and it'll give you something to do while I'm busy with my work."
"Work?" she spat, glaring and pointing at him. "For years you've said that Kanra and I are your only work! What's so important now?"
He sighed again, this time smiling a little. "I was hoping to bring this up some other time, but I guess I have no choice. Kanra, get in here. I want both of you here."
Kanra, who had been listening just outside the door as always, came in with an innocent look. "You asked for me?" she asked cutely.
Their father smiled wearily. "Shizuka, Kanra, I know you both are getting tired of always being stuck inside this house with nothing else to do all day. Now that I'm going to be preoccupied elsewhere, I had hoped that high school might retain your interests."
"That doesn't answer my question, geezer!" Shizuka growled, crossing her arms and looking away.
"The reason I will be preoccupied," he said with a pointed look at her, "is because of the new addition to our family." Kanra and Shizuka both looked at him with confused looks. He turned behind him and called, "You can lead her in now."
A servant came in with a little girl behind her legs. The servant led the girl to their father's side, and then exited the room. The little girl was young, probably only around seven or eight years old, and her skin was darker than anyone's Shizuka had ever met.
"Meet your new sister," their father said, crouching down and putting a hand on one of the girl's shoulders. "Simone."
Sarin: yes I know Shizuka's part was pointless, I wrote it to be. I just thought if I wrote an insanely long Kanra part then it would be uneven. Also I thought a little cute addition would be fun to add, can you imagine a little girl-Simon running around Ikebukuro?