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Izaya's POV
I open my eyes as my body recognizes that it's morning, but to my extreme surprise I find myself sleeping in very, very close quarters with Shizu-chan. His sleeping face so close that our noses are almost touching. I react in a way anyone in my position would react. I smile and run my fingers through his hair. Well, if you're a guy and aren't a homosexual you probably wouldn't do as I'm doing, but eh. I get up and yawn before looking for Kasuka whom I can't find. But what I do find is a small note left on his sleeping mat saying that he had to leave for a photo shoot at 8:30 so he couldn't say goodbye.
"8:30?" I look at the clock hanging in the living room and notice it's already 10:12. Damn, I overslept. Shizu-chan can afford to since he doesn't have work for about a week. I, on the other hand, have a meeting to attend at noon. Well, I might as well pay Shizu-chan back for tolerating me yesterday. I give Shizu-chan a quick kiss on the cheek before taking off the covers. He'll never know and I'll never have to explain. I stand up, suddenly remembering my tail as it starts to throb and then head into the kitchen after wrapping my tail in a roll of wrapping.
I haven't had to cook for myself in a while, but I think I can manage breakfast.
Shizuo's POV
I smell something really good, almost like an omelet, but I don't have a maid or a wife so who the hell is cooking for me? I open my eyes and then start sniffing the air for other scents. I get up as I notice whose scent it is in the kitchen. He better not be trying to burn my alive in my own house or poison me. I stand and walk over to the kitchen to see Izaya wearing an apron and cooking an omelet on the stove.
"Good morning, Shizu-chan~"
"Morning…? I thought you already left." I was hoping he had anyway.
"Nah, I have a meeting at noon so I thought I'd repay you for tolerating me yesterday." He says with a genuine smile. He hands me a plate (more like shoves it to me) and serves me the omelet he was making just now. "It has bell peppers, onions, and tomatoes."
"You're acting like you're my wife." I say dully as I look at him skeptically. "And you probably put poison in this." I say as I point at it. "Or chocolate."
"Why the hell would I put chocolate in an omelet?" He says as he looks at me like I'm crazy. "Actually…I wonder what that would taste like. I'd probably use dark chocolate since it's bitterer."
"To answer your question before you started talking crap, you'd put chocolate in an omelet to poison me." I emphasize on the word "poison".
"Nonsense, Shizu-chan; I haven't done anything to that omelet. I mean, if it had anything extract it'd probably just be pepper, but I don't usually say I add pepper since people can probably guess." Izaya says with a shrug. "Oh and salt, but that's a given too."
"Stop acting like that!" If he keeps acting like this, I won't be able to fall out of love with this damn flea.
"What do you mean 'acting'? I'm not acting, Shizu-chan." Izaya says with an annoyed expression. "Look, just eat your omelet." I growl under my breath as I place the plate on the table before sitting down and running my hand through my hair. "Here, if you're so worried about the omelet being poisoned then I'll taste it to persuade you." He says as he leans over me and cuts a piece of the omelet before putting it into his mouth. "There, hmm, needs some sort of sauce on it…ooh I know." Izaya takes something out of a bag on the counter and opens it with a can opener before putting it into a pot on the stove. "I forgot I bought this stuff. Oh, by the way, your kitchen didn't have much to work with so I went to the store to buy stuff."
"You didn't have to do that." He walks over to me and serves me some gray stuff that looks like cream of mushroom, but not the soup kind.
"Ne, but I wanted to." Izaya says as he looks at the time. "Well, I better go. My client is kind of aggressive and usually likes people to be on time. I'll see you later, Shizu-chan." He says before heading out. His scent still lingers around in my house even though he's gone. And even though I still think he put something bad in the food, I'm starving and I start stuffing my face. It's actually pretty good. I finish the omelet and serve myself some strawberry milk. I look at the carton in surprise and realize that I didn't have this before.
"He's a handful…" I say as I run my fingers through my hair.
At Shinra's Place
Yeah…I decided to head over here to Shinra's place again. I'm here mainly because I'm bored. Izaya's working, not like I want to hang out with him though…Tom's still gone. Kasuka is working on a new movie. So, I've decided to do something "constructive" as Shinra calls it.
"Alright, now we'll try 'beg'. So let's see. The book says that I have to…"
"Shinra, just give me the fucking treat."
"No, you have to earn it by performing the trick 'beg' I just have to read the instructions how I teach you it."
"Shinra, I can understand you just fine! Besides, like hell I'm gonna beg."
"Beg!" I suddenly lift my arms up and shake them a bit, begging like a dog would, which is completely embarrassing. Shinra laughs as he gives me the treat and pats my head. "Maybe Celty and I should have gotten a dog."
[What are you doing?] Celty asks on her PDA, showing it to Shinra, but I can see it too.
"I'm training Shizuo. I feel more in control this way." I get up in a flash angrily and hold him by his collar menacingly. "Sit!" I sit down immediately, but I'm still fuming. "It's quite enjoyable and it gives Shizuo's brain a lot of stimulation. I've been thinking that all this bottled energy inside him needs some sort of release and usually trainers teach their dogs tricks or train them to run agility courses. I think Shizuo would do great in a course."
[I think when you play with fire you're bound to get burned. Please be careful.]
"Are you worried about me Celty? I'm so happy!" Shinra says as he's about to embrace her, but she quickly jabs him in the gut before sitting on the couch. I laugh as he holds his stomach and crashes on the floor. "Ah…I'll take this as an act of love…" If that was an act of love I really wonder what an act of hate would be. "Anyway, Izaya said he'd be here in few minutes. He wants to talk to me for some reason."
[Is there something wrong?]
"I don't know he didn't go into any specifics. He just said he wanted to talk. Shizuo! Don't dig our tree out!"
"I got bored. Did you just say that the flea's coming here?"
"Yes, now give me back my tree." Shinra says as he grabs the small tree and puts it to the side to put all the dirt back into the pot. "I think we're done for the day if you want to go home now, Shizuo."
"I'm bored at home." I state blandly. "Besides, there's food here."
"Now you're thinking with your stomach, Shizu-chan? You're all over the place~" Izaya says as he enters the room. He smiles at me before patting my head. I don't know why, but my tail started wagging once I heard his voice and now that he's petting me I feel a bit warmer. "Shinra, you didn't tell me you had a guest."
"I didn't want you to avoid coming here because Shizuo is here. So I just didn't say. Besides, I rather like my living room neat and tidy. No doubt that if I told you Shizuo was here, you'd find some way to make him blow a gasket." Shinra says as he puts away all the training stuff he had out for me. I look at Izaya with a glare. I don't want to deal with him, but I don't want to go home. "Anyway, what did you want to talk about, Izaya-kun?"
"I really don't feel like talking when that brute is around." He was really sweet this morning, making me breakfast and buying me food. "Shouldn't you be busy getting run over by a car or something, Shizu-chan?"
"Sounds like you're really eager to have my foot in your ass." I say angrily.
"So vulgar Shizu-chan~" Izaya says with a laugh. "You should try being more of a gentleman, if that's even possible for you."
"Maybe you should try to be less of a prick."
"I'm just trying to give you some useful advice, no need to be an ass about it, Shizu-chan."
"Guys please…" Shinra says as he waves his hands back and forth at us. "This isn't the time to…"
[They said that we can go pick him up, so can we?] Celty shoves the PDA at the three of us, even if Izaya and I don't know what the hell she's talking about. Shinra's the one who nods and then looks at us with a glare. Shinra sighs before scratching the back of his head.
"We need to go get Blackstorm from the vet. He had stayed overnight because of some observation, so now we're able to bring him home…but I really don't want to leave you guys here alone…in our house…without any supervision…just the two of you…"
"We get it, Shinra, we're not trustworthy when we're paired together." Izaya says with annoyed tone of voice. "In fact Shizu-chan isn't truthworthy period."
"Neither are you, Izaya-kun." Izaya glares at him. "You ate our fish!"
"Hmph, it wasn't even that interesting to look at, it was more tasty than interesting."
"You ate it raw?" I ask with disgust. "Didn't it taste strange?"
"It didn't seem to bother me at the time…but now that you mention it…" Izaya makes a sort of disgusted sounding meow.
"Guys!" Shinra yells so that he can get our attention. "Thank you…Look, if you guys can just hold down the fort for us? If the house isn't in wreckage when we get back, then I'll give you both a treat." Izaya's and my ears prick up as our tails move, mine wags while his sways. "Catnip for Izaya-kun and a nice steak for Shizuo."
"Okay we get it, Shinra." I say as I feel my mouth watering.
"We'll behave." Izaya adds with a sneaky smile. Shinra probably doesn't believe either of us, but he's gonna have to leave with Celty anyway. I just hope that the flea doesn't make me go ballistic. Shinra may get on my nerves, but Celty is a good friend who listens to me whenever I have problems. She lives here too, so I rather not demolish the place.
The two leave the apartment in a flash, Celty seemed really eager to get her precious cat back. Izaya makes himself comfortable after the two leave so I try not to pick a fight with him. It's more difficult than it sounds.
"What the hell do you have on your tail?" I ask as I just now notice the small red bow. Izaya looks at his tail and growls at the red bow.
"My stupid sister's came to my office to bug me and this was the result. I forgot I had it." Izaya says as he tosses it in the trash. "They think of my whole ordeal as a fun game. I have to admit though, it's better than having them set fire to my living room like last month."
"They're just as crazy as you and not to mention that you think of this whole mess as a fun game too."
"Why thank you, I trained them well." Izaya says with a smirk. "And yes, I suppose you're right. It's much more fun this way since I can easily capture the hearts of my humans, more than I already had before."
"You're demented; no one loves you." I say harshly. "People like Celty and Shinra put up with you. All you're clients and anyone who's come in contact with you hates your guts."
"Ah, on the contrary, Shizu-chan loves me~" He says with a purr.
"I do not." I say angrily. "I'd be fucking crazy if I did." But I do…
"Well I guess you're 'fucking crazy' then." I guess I am.
"Shut the hell up! You don't know what the fuck you're talking about!"
"You looked at me yesterday with such loving eyes and not to mention the kiss you almost gave me." Izaya reminds me as he smiles. "What do you call that?"
"That was a mistake. There's no way in hell I'd ever kiss you. Sure, my mind might have been fogged up because of the moment, but you're still that sneaky psychopath everyone—including me—hates. I know you've been acting like you're not a bad guy all this time just to mess with my head. Sure, it worked for a little while, but I'm thinking clearly now."
Izaya's POV
It's been a while since the last time I've had my hopes up just to have them shut down. It's sort of a coincidence that it'd be Shizu-chan to make me feel like shit again. Years ago, when we first met in high school, he had piqued my interest. For a while I had just observed him take down the entire football team. It was an amazing performance from a guy who was not only strong, but almost monstrous…just like me. Shinra was the one who introduced us, but the introduction didn't go well after Shizu-chan had told me that I piss him off.
Flashback
He's clearly not human, but he makes my chest tight. I suppose this is what people call love at first sight? It doesn't even bother me that he's a guy. He's handsome, unbelievably strong, and looks like he has quite a temper, which is always fun. Besides, he's like me, alone and isolated on his own little island. Shinra told me that almost everyone is afraid of him, except for Celty and him; though I'm pretty sure deep down they're just as afraid as everyone else. I smile as he finishes off the remaining guys of the football team then start to clap. He turns around and looks at me, first with a straight face and then as I finish scolding Shinra for telling me I'm not such a good guy he glares at me.
"You piss me off." He says then turns around. I hide my pain with a smirk. What did I do wrong? Apparently I made him angry, but how? Was it the facial expression I was wearing? Inside I feel hurt, but I don't want to show it so I turn whatever feelings I have for him into something I could manage. Rather than feel love for him, I decided to hate him. If he hates me then why not? Hatred is a much easier emotion to deal with since I won't be the one getting hurt.
"Oh yeah? That's too bad, we could've had lots of fun together." I say with a smirk. I then lunge at him and slash his chest as he turns around to try and block the attack. I smile and lift up my knife. "See? Isn't this a blast?" He holds onto the wound on his chest as he glares at me.
Inside me I suppose, all long, I had felt something more than hatred for the brute. He hurt me, but all this time I couldn't hate him, which made me frustrated with myself, therefore shoving my hatred for myself onto him. As it turns out, I've been fooling myself all these years. As I came to learn about Shizu-chan, I came to long for him. So, all the times I had provoked him I just wanted to get his attention, to have him look at me, to have him near me. I suppose the only hate I really had for him was derived from the fact that he wouldn't love me. So, I had him hate me instead so he could feel something for me.
Now, although I wanted a serious answer from him, I presented him with something to get angry over. I tease him, though I really didn't need to, or want to. I just didn't want to have him think I cared. I didn't want him to think of me differently if he knew I was really eager to know if he had feelings for me.
"You're definitely a monster, Shizu-chan. No wonder everybody doesn't want to get near you."
"Same thing goes for you." Shizu-chan says angrily. The fur on my ears pricks up and I clench my fists for a moment before getting one of my knives out and pointing it at the brute.
"That's it, I'm done trying to chase after you."
"What the fuck are you talking about? I'm the one always doing the chasing."
"First, you forget what happened before the hit and run, then you continue to think I'm acting, and now you're taking back everything, calling it a mistake?" It was split second, I slashed his chest again just like before, but this time he tried to grab a hold of me. I escape his grasp and try to slow him down by blocking his way with the lamp, the potted tree, and the small drawers next to the TV by putting them in front of his path, but he just toppled over them and followed me into the kitchen, where I jumped on top of the refrigerator before sliding on the counter then rushing into Shinra's bedroom. I tried to close the door and lock it, but the monster broke it down. He caught me while on the bed and grabbed a hold of my wrists. I growled at him, but he wasn't intimidated.
"How are you gonna slip out now, Iz-ay-a-kun?" He asks with a smirk. I glare at him before licking his cheek. He releases me and rubs his face before chasing me into the living room again. I toss a vase at him that breaks on his head upon impact. When that doesn't stop him I try to hide in Celty's room, but before I can reach the door he grabs a hold of my sleeve. I worm my way out of my jacket and toss it at him. He growls as he tosses it aside and attacks me. I try to get loose of his grip but he's got me pinned.
"Let go of me you wild animal! You heartless monster! You…" I stop as I feel faintish. He's taking up all my air being so close.
"You want me to tell you that I remember you confessing to me that much!?" He asks as he growls lowly. He gets up and lets me go. I lie there for a moment trying to realize what he just said. He sighs as he runs his fingers through his hair. "I was trying to forget about it, but you just kept asking about it." I get up and look at him in disbelief. He knew? All along he knew and he was acting as if he didn't remember? He avoided talking about it for this long… I smirk as I try to recompose myself.
"No…it's nothing important Shizu-chan. You know? I was wrong to think that confessing to a monster like you was going to make my life any better. It's more fun ruining your life. This is a lot of fun, isn't it?" I ask as I smile. "Let's just continue to despise each other, to get in each other's way and make a mess of things."
"I didn't say that! Shut up!" He picks up the couch and is about to throw it at me, but the door suddenly unlocks and Shinra and Celty (along with the cat) enter the room in shock. Blackstorm hisses at Shizu-chan and I after escaping Celty's hold and runs off into Celty's room to hide from our chaos. "Oh shit…"
"OUT!" Shinra says loudly as he talks a hold of Shizu-chan's collar and mine. He pushes out, while pulling on our collars which hurts a lot actually; it feels as if he's strangling us. "Out, out, out!" He says angrily as we now are put outside. I turn my head a little and bite his hand that was holding onto my collar so roughly. Shizu-chan barks a little before standing their silently.
"It wasn't my fault, Shinra. It was this brute's!"
"Ah, so I'm guessing Shizuo was also the one who just bit my hand?" He asks skeptically as he shows me the bite mark. I smile and shrug my shoulder.
"There's a possibility that that's an old wound. Maybe you were just imagining something biting you."
"The pain isn't imaginary."
"Well…" I try to think of something clever to say, but I'm not getting anything even remotely useful in my thoughts. Right now, I'm just thinking about how harsh Shizu-chan was talking to me before. And to think he lied to me also. Though, that's not so surprising since I've lied plenty to his face as well. But this is different. A confession isn't something to play around with. Feelings aren't meant to be tossed around like some rag doll. "Look, I'm sorry I had a hand in trashing your home Shinra, but I really need to talk to you and Celty about some pressing matters and I rather not have the brute here."
Shinra looks over to Celty who's cleaning some of the stuff on the floor. She nods simply, not able to grab her PDA at the moment and type a quick response. Shinra sighs before telling me that I can come in and Shizu-chan needs to head home. Shizu-chan is none-too pleased, but he does as he's told after he tells Shinra a quick "I'm sorry."
I help clean up some of the mess before sitting on the slightly broken couch. Shizu-chan had managed to damage the couch when he picked it up in his fit of rage, upon which he had held onto it much too tightly thereby smashing the sides. Shinra sighs again upon further inspection of his once neat home.
"Okay, so what do you need to talk about Izaya-kun…?" He says as he downheartedly sits on the one-seat couch. I nod and try to find the words to explain my current feelings, my symptoms. I hold onto my tail and open my mouth to begin, but then close it.
"I'm not so sure how to begin…"
"How about 'Once upon a time'?" Shinra says with a smile.
"I'd rather not be unoriginal." I say flatly. "Look, it's just that I've been feeling nervous, anxious, and my paws have been sweaty and my stomach aches. Surely, you can prescribe me something." Did I say 'paws'? I'm clearly losing it now.
"Hmm, sounds like you're in heat." Shinra says with a smile. I growl at him lowly in annoyance. "What? It's a valid, medical conclusion." Celty isn't amused either she types quickly on her PDA and only shows Shinra. "Well…I've never seen you type that before..." He clears his throat before speaking again. "What I mean to say is that you're in love."
A/N: In love? Or is he really in heat? xD Well, anyway thanks for reading, please review it makes me ever so happy.