Shizuo woke up next to Mayumi and found that she was wide awake herself. "What's gotten you to wake up so early?" Mayumi didn't say a word and then only smiled at Shizuo and kissed his nose. "I guess I got a good night's sleep last night." Shizuo sighed and sat up straight, and Mayumi noticed that Shizuo was shirtless. She turned red and huffed when Shizuo just laughed at her. "I want you to stay at home today. I'll be home a little late. Lock the doors and watch television or something." Mayumi giggled.

"I can take care of myself you know-"Shizuo shot her a look and Mayumi closed her eyes and smiled genuinely. "Okay, I'll do as you say, boss." Shizuo walked into the bathroom when Mayumi's smile died. The nervousness was suddenly born on her face and she gulped a large amount of saliva. She ran to her phone and checked the messages.

Good morning, Yumi-chan. Hope you slept well.

Everything that Izaya told her made her think he could see what she was doing. Everything that he sent her made her feel like she was being watched. It had been over two weeks and Mayumi hadn't slept with Shizuo. As much as she wanted to believe this didn't affect her relationship with him, she knew the truth. Mayumi sighed and sat on the bed, too afraid to reply. She didn't know what Izaya Orihara wanted with her, did he just want to use her to irritate Shizuo? If so, was she being a canvas for him to try out his goals? Was Mayumi going to be made the reason for Shizuo's defeat against the information broker? She didn't want that, for she loved Shizuo more than anything she had loved before. A love that could not be compared but only felt for Mayumi knew Shizuo was something to her that could never be replaced.

Shizuo thought to himself as he was showering. To most people the shower was a platform to perform, and to others a place to think. Shizuo was one of those who did neither, but right then he was thinking. He knew something was wrong, and he knew the relationship he shared with Mayumi was not just for sex. But even so, as human beings, sex was something as vital as breathing. It wasn't something dirty, and it wasn't a taboo. Sex, or love making was sacred, and he wanted to believe it since this was something Mayumi made him feel, for he wouldn't have come upon this on his own.

It had been two weeks, and sometimes, Mayumi didn't even let him kiss her. The sessions they had never lasted, and he could tell something was wrong. It felt to him as if she was afraid someone would see them inside their own house, and that fact irked him and worried him at the same time. Hence he decided that even on his day off, he would try and find out what made Mayumi behave the way she did, for before they slept together for the first time, she was never afraid to hug or kiss him.

It all changed that one night he robbed her of her virginity.

Shizuo walked through the streets, Tom right beside him, talking about absolutely nothing relevant to the blonde male, and Tom suddenly said, "So how are things between you and wifey?" Wifey? Shizuo stopped dead on his tracks and turned to his boss with the intent to kill, an expression that didn't scare Tom as much as he intended it to. "She's not my wife." Shizuo stated and Tom scoffed. "You are going to ask her right?" Shizuo hadn't even thought about it. He didn't know whether he wanted to. Marriage was a topic of his life that he never treaded on, and he didn't even come close to thinking about it.

But the seed that Tom planted in his head, the seed about marriage, marrying the woman he loved, and lived with, consumed him and he couldn't stop thinking about it. It seemed to him that marriage wasn't an impossibility, and he could actually ask her and if he did love her, that would be the alternative. Shizuo always wanted a family, to raise a family, and this woman made him think of it. Something any other woman never bothered to make him conjure in his thoughts.

But, from the past few weeks, Shizuo faced a problem that he didn't know was a problem. He didn't think too highly of it, and thanks to Tom's seedling of marriage, Shizuo only ended up thinking that Mayumi was a shy person.

Shizuo smirked inside his head, for he could see it clearly. Walking home to Mayumi Heiwajima, and a little baby Heiwajima, and Tom noticed that Shizuo Heiwajima was now day dreaming. "Earth to Shizuo-""Shut up." Shizuo said, and Tom chuckled. "Got ya." He said, and Shizuo despised the fact Tom knew him better than anyone else did.

Izaya on the other hand, enjoyed life more than anything. He enjoyed irritating Mayumi, and on the home run, effecting Shizuo's relationship with her. Izaya was trying to be an evil figure in her life, and this seemed to prove it. Mayumi was someone who wouldn't fight back, and that fueled Izaya to irk her more, for if she had once told Shizuo about him texting her, Shizuo would have ripped Izaya in two halves, something she didn't even think about.

She doubted Shizuo's power, or she believed in Izaya's strength of mind.

Both of which, were reasons for her strained relationship.

And when Izaya turned dirty with his texts, Mayumi only read them and sometimes didn't even read them, and deleted them. She could not go to anyone that could help her, and she didn't know what to do. She cried when Shizuo wasn't around, and all she wanted was for Shizuo to be safe. She knew he dreamed of a life without violence, and a life without Izaya Orihara would ensure him of that. But, if she somehow could take away Izaya from his life, that would alternately mean that Shizuo could live the life he wanted.
Mayumi texted Izaya that night, and sent him one simple text, from the little bravery that she had left inside her.

What do you want from me?

Izaya only believed that this text message from her were life the rest, meaningless and engrossed with fear. So he replied, You.

Mayumi gulped when she told him to meet him at the Shinjuku station, since she wanted to get away with him. It wasn't something Izaya believed right away, but this text caught his attention and he wouldn't miss an opportunity such as this one. He took his knife with him, just in case.

Mayumi wrote a letter and pasted it on the refrigerator. It was a simple letter, which consisted of merely six words and two phrases.

I'm sorry. This was a mistake.

Mayumi left Shizuo's apartment, packing all her stuff, and headed to the Shinjuku station to end something that had begun with the wrong person.

For she was a demon, who didn't accept one certain fact from her past. But at that moment, she embraced that fact, it was that fact that gave her the bravery and confidence that she needed.

The fact that she was the one who set the fire.

She was the one who killed her parents.

A fact that no one knew, not even Izaya, and it was a fact that she hid so much that sometimes, it only felt like a nightmare. And the reason she came to Ikebukuro, was to hide from everything that she had done.

She was a murderer. A killer.

The slaughterer of her own flesh and blood.

"One more murder won't make anything different."

When the curtain's call
Is the last of all
When the lights fade out
All the sinners crawl

But, this time, it was unreasonable rage that spoke, for it wasn't reason itself. For if it were reason, she would have seen Erika Karisawa, Walker Yumasaki and the person with the utmost suspicion on her, Kyohei Kadota watching her. The moment she stepped onto the train, and the moment they saw Izaya walk in behind her, Kyohei knew that something strange was happening.

And it was this something strange that he would later inform to a very angry Shizuo.

For abandonment without reason, breaks any man, stronger than the mighty ocean, crumbling him into mere feathers off a dead crow.

No matter what we breed
We still are made of greed
This is my kingdom come
This is my kingdom come

A/N: Aw, poor Shizu-chan!
(Actually poor Dotachin, he has to face Shizu-chan when he's angry and we all know how scary that might have been.)
Anyways, this story is ending soon.
Can't keep going on forever even if I want it to, right? *cries*
Anyways, review my loves~