Silence. They just sat there without saying anything. Not even a single word left any of their lips. The whole office was quiet, only a slight sound of heartbeat filling the room. Somehow it was awkward. An awkward atmosphere was build up between the two after the underground doctor had left them alone again.
Crimson red eyes glanced several times to the side to look at the blonde, the small body curled up on the opposite end of the couch both of them sat on. Izaya's heart was beating fast. For some reason he didn't know, he was nervous, nervous as hell. And he had absolutely no reason to be so. The monster didn't seem that angry right now and he only had to walk away and he would be safe. But he just didn't. He just continued to sit there, glancing over at the blonde and waiting for him to do something, anything.
The blonde didn't move. He just sat still and let his thoughts fly around in his head. He almost forgot the man he hated the most was sitting on the other end of the couch. Honestly he wanted to quit this job right away but he couldn't get himself to just leave. It was so weird and annoying. This was really not like him and he hated it. Just after that stupid accident with the fall, everything between him and the flea had changed for some reason. Now he couldn't get his mind straight and back on track and it was just annoying as hell. He wanted to just run away from everything.
Izaya didn't realize he was staring at the blonde. He just did it without making himself do it. His crimson red eyes wouldn't get off of that blonde hair, those mocha eyes, that...monster. Never in his life would he have thought he would ever feel something like this towards that monster. It was so... humanly and so unlike him. It made him feel completely wrong and he wanted to hide again; wanted to hide from reality and just never come out again.
Noticing the stare on him, Shizuo forced himself out of his own thoughts and slowly turned his head to look over at the raven, who had been staring at him for the past several minutes. Mocha eyes locked with crimson red ones, for the first time for who knows how many years without any signs of hate or any kind of anger. And it was really weird and strange. It was the two enemies, showing no signs of hate between them. It was just never going to happen again. Unless something just went ridiculously wrong.
Izaya swallowed thickly when the man locked his mocha eyes with his crimson red ones. Before he would have looked away in a split second but this time he just didn't. He just couldn't get himself to look away.
They sat like that for what felt like and probably was hours, before Shizuo finally broke the eye contact, turning his head and looking away. His stomach made a slight growl, showing he was hungry. It was actually strange he hadn't been hungry before now, since he had barely eaten anything since he got this damned job. Letting a slight sigh pass his lips he pulled himself up to stand. He could still feel the raven's crimson red eyes on him as he walked almost silently over towards the kitchen in the office/apartment, where he before had been standing and smoked out the open window. Now he wasn't allowed to even buy a new pack of cigarettes... or even a new lighter.
He quickly rubbed his mocha eyes, just for a short second, before he bend down to open the fridge. He was met with cold air from inside and he just slightly narrowed his eyes to look inside. He sighed at the sight. There was pretty much no food; almost just like at his own place. When he finally eyed something eatable, a half eaten sandwich, he grabbed it and smacked the fridge closed once he had pulled his hand out again.
He looked carefully at the sandwich. The flea had eaten the other half. Shrugging he just wrapped it out of the bag. It was better than nothing, right? Even if it had flea germs all over it, at least he got something to eat instead of starving to death.
He took just a small bite and chewed it several times before he swallowed. It was actually not that bad. Taking another bite, this one bigger than last time, he walked back out of the kitchen and in to the room with the informant still sitting with his crimson red gaze pointed in the direction of him.
"Why do you keep staring at me, flea?" It was actually quite annoying. Having the raven just stare at him, watching his every move like he was going to attack him. But when he looked into those crimson red eyes he saw nothing like hate or suspicion. He had no idea what it was in those eyes. But it was definitely not hate. Not at that moment.
Even though he wanted to, Izaya didn't take his eyes off of the blonde. He just couldn't stop staring at him. He didn't answer the question. He just slowly let his eyes trail down to what the monster held in his hand; the half eaten sandwich that he was going to throw out sooner or later. Raising an eyebrow he slowly stood up from the couch, finally leaving his curled up position.
"Shizu-chan... Is that my sandwich?" He pointed to the bread in the blonde's hand, his one arm just slightly pulled up and ignoring the question from the man. He felt exhausted for some reason, tired and sleepy. But that hadn't stopped him before so why would it stop him now? It wasn't like he was going to get a good night's sleep while that brute was under the same roof as him anyway. None of them would. Not as long as they had to stay together, the monster as the flea's bodyguard, butler, babysitter or whatever he was.
"Yeah," Shizuo mumbled after taking another bite in, bigger than before. He was really hungry and he wasn't going to hold back. Even if that meant he would eat it all in just a few bites. He didn't care. "I didn't think you wanted it, since you just left it there – half eaten. And I was hungry so I just took it." He shrugged slightly and shortly, chewing the bread still in his mouth. Anything would taste okay right now. He was just too hungry to even care. As long as it was eatable and could make him feel less hungry. Fortunately that was what the sandwich did; made him less hungry and more focused on how to keep his anger down. He had managed quite well, since the flea wasn't lying in the corner and bleeding to death.
"Well..." Izaya tried to find out why it annoyed him a bit, that the blonde was eating his sandwich. But truth to be told, it really didn't bother him at all. He was going to throw the sandwich out anyway. He could use the monster as a trashcan for whatever he wasn't going to eat. That might work. It wouldn't hurt anyone and both of them would get something to eat. Actually... it wasn't a bad idea at all.
Sighing he sat back down on the couch, finally forcing his crimson red eyes away from the blonde. "Fine, just eat it."
Hours passed with none of them saying as much as a word to each other. It was slowly nearing midnight, the town outside dark like it always was whenever it was this late. The town went silent, cars stopped driving up and down the road and people were back inside to get some sleep.
Izaya yawned and stretched his arms high above his head, his crimson red eyes tightly closed as he did. He had been tired the past hour but only now considered going to bed. And he was also going to do it. ...Maybe in just a few hours when he was done checking up on these people.
The bright light from the lit computer screens made him narrow his crimson red eyes just a bit. He was tired and the light hurt his eyes. But he wasn't going to stop. He wasn't going to stop searching for information about these people. It wasn't like they were interesting or anything. Actually they were just random boring people, who he wouldn't have started his search for himself. But it was his job and he was ordered to find information about them and so he did. It was good money and he wouldn't refuse to do it. He never would.
Shizuo stared at the raven, stared at the small fingers going fast over the keyboard, faster than he had ever seen a person ever type. It was insane. The man was obsessed. Sighing, he stood up from the couch and walked over to the other side of the large desk with the many computers and the concentrated flea, placing his palms down on the wooden surface and leaning a bit forward to look at those searching crimson red eyes. It was like the man was in trance.
"Flea..." He tried several times to get in contact with the man but he didn't even glance at him – not even once. And so he just gave up with trying to get contact with him that way. He walked around the desk to the other side and grabbed around the black leather chair's back, before he quickly pulled it back, making the flea unable to reach the keyboard and the computers.
"Hey!" Izaya quickly turned his tired gaze up to the blonde as he was pulled away from the computers. "I was just in the middle of something, Shizu-chan..." He tried his best to hold back a yawn but it was impossible. His mouth opened wide and his crimson red eyes closed just slightly, sending a yawn out. He had to admit it; he was tired as hell and he really could need just a bit sleep.
"I don't care. Turn the computers off and go to bed." Shizuo sounded annoyed and probably just a bit angry. He was, after all, tired as hell himself. After not being able to sleep the night before, he just wanted to get at least an hour sleep before he had to return to this hell of a job he now had.
Izaya grumbled something incoherent as he leaned forward, turning all the computers off and leaving them with a blank and black screen instead of a lit up with lots of text. Yawning one last time he stood up from the black leather chair. He was barely aware of his own actions as he moved his one arm around the blonde's, pulling him with him as he started walking towards the bedroom.
Unaware what the flea wanted, Shizuo just followed. It bothered him how little it made him angry to have the flea snake one arm around his and drag him to the bedroom. Bedroom... That was when it finally hit him. He was not going to get into that bedroom and sleep on the same bed or in the same room as that damn flea! He would much rather stay awake the entire night than do that.
"Hey, hold on, flea! Don't freaking drag me into the bedroom!" He tried to stop but for some reason he just kept following the man, even though he had a feeling where it might lead. It was really the last thing he wanted and he would not enter that bedroom.
"Relax, Shizu-chan. I'm only making you follow me to the bedroom. I'm not going to let you inside," Izaya explained with a slight yawn at the end. He finally stopped walking right in front of the bedroom door, his one arm still snaked around the blonde's. His mind was blank so he just did whatever he felt like, whatever he wanted to do.
Turning a bit he moved in front of the monster, locking crimson red eyes with mocha colored ones and tilting his head just slightly to keep eye contact. His heart was racing as he slowly moved his hands up the white shirt, before he grabbed around some of the fabric. He could just slightly feel the man's heartbeat race just a little bit faster. His own was racing faster than it ever had and this was the time he had to do something he never thought he would ever even think about. He was tired and his mind was blank; his body acted on it's own but it knew quite well what he wanted it to do. Something he wouldn't have the courage to do himself if he was fully awake.
Shizuo just stood there, confused and not understanding what the hell was going to happen. He didn't move. He just stood there and stared down at the raven haired, his brows slightly furrowed in confusion.
Izaya took a deep breath in, collecting just enough courage to do as he wished. He slowly pulled the blonde down to himself, leaning up at the same time he did. His crimson red eyes slowly closed as he felt the monster's breath hitting him. He swallowed thickly before he leaned closer up, his eyes now closed completely.
Their lips met softly just a short second later, making Izaya blush slightly and Shizuo freeze in surprise. The blonde's mocha eyes widened slowly as he felt the raven's soft lips against his own. Even if he tried telling his body to move, it wouldn't. He was frozen in surprise and he couldn't move. Not even to kiss back, even though he would never do that.
After several long moments, Izaya slowly pulled back, creating distance between their lips again. He blinked his crimson red eyes open and looked up at the surprised blonde. Swallowing thickly he slowly loosened his grip around the white shirt, letting go and taking just a short step back. His cheeks were light red and his heart was racing.
"G-Goodnight..." he mumbled low and quickly turned around to open the bedroom door. He didn't give the monster a last glance. He just walked in and slammed the door shot, leaving the blonde alone out in the hallway, confused and not getting what just happened.
Izaya leaned up against the door, letting just a few fingers move up to touch his slightly parted lips, that just a minute ago had been connected with the monster's. Had he really done that?
A/N: I'm sorry this was so bad and sucked, but I'm not feeling very well at the moment. Updates might be slow for a bit. Only a maybe, though.
Anyway; please review! ^^