Weird. Impossible. Suspicious. Everything that happened yesterday is a lie, a cover. For what? He knew Seven since they're kids and she never showed any sign of being in love. He doesn't even know if she even know the concept of it. In the end, he decided to talk to the other involved person. Though it's too early for him to be in Izaya's apartment, he needs to know what is behind their relationship. Shinra glanced at Namie who served him coffee and to Izaya who smiled confidently.
"What can I do for you, Shinra?" Izaya asked as he watched the underground doctor sip his coffee. Shinra continued to stare at the troll.
"What are you two hiding?" Shinra bluntly asked. "Is that relationship really true?"
"We're not hiding anything and I do love Sev" The troll answered as a matter of fact. As a big money giver client, that is. He added in his mind.
"I understand" Shinra stood up. "Since neither you two will tell me, I'll find the truth myself" and he left. The doctor exactly knows that Seven is not a secretive person except for her work and now that she's not mentioning anything. Something is really off.
"What now?" Namie asked the troll after Shinra left.
"Nothing" he simply replied, "how can he search for the truth when he doesn't even know where to start, he doesn't even know where her apartment is."
Namie stared at Izaya, who she thinks is deep in thought. He's been like that ever since his subordinate, Rin, called him reporting what happened earlier. She didn't hear their conversation but Izaya's expression showed a puzzled thought. He stood up and stared outside before dialing a number in his phone. Izaya clicked his tongue when the receiver didn't pick up, he dialed again and again.
"I heard from Rin you nearly shot them dead when you entered the main lab, why?" Izaya asked when the receiver finally picked up the call.
"He stopped me before I can bring out my guns and pulled me out of that room"
"Why?" Izaya asked again and the girl on the other line fell silent "Is it because the one being experimented on that time is a kid?"
Seven suddenly ended the call, leaving Izaya hanging. The troll returned his phone in his pocket and continued to stare outside. He then turned around and left the room without bothering to put his jacket on. It pisses him off when his questions are not answered.
Shinra was right to wait for Izaya to come out of the building and just like what he planned, he'll follow him. He knows this is the only way for him to gather information. He did notice that Izaya is not wearing his usual jacket but he didn't pay much attention about it. Shinra trailed the troll for about 10 minutes until he finally sat on a bench in the park, the doctor watched him closely. He then hid behind a tree and carefully watched Izaya when someone tapped him on the shoulder.
What are you doing? Celty asked when Shinra looked back.
"Celty" Shinra said, startled at the sudden appearance of the dullahan. "What are you doing here?"
I'm searching for you. You suddenly disappeared and it's too early for your job, so I decided to search for you. Celty explained.
"I'm busy following a man right now" Shinra said, he didn't mention Izaya's name since Celty looked happy with the troll and Seven's relationship. He doesn't want to destroy her delight.
What man? We're the only ones here.
Shinra read her message carefully and hastily turned around to check the bench. Just as expected, Izaya disappeared.
"I lost him, ahahaha~," the doctor faced Celty trying his best not to look disappointed and mad. "How did you find me anyway?"
Izaya told me where to find you. Celty answered and showed him the text message of the troll.
[If you're searching for Shinra, he's in the park hiding behind the tree near the fountain. If you two already met, say hi to him for me. V(^_) bye~~ ]
Shinra stared at the screen and laughed wickedly. "DAMN IT!"
On the other hand, Izaya looked back with a smirk as he heard Shinra shout and continued to walk towards the apartment of Seven, ready to bombard her with questions. It didn't took him too long to arrive in front of her door. He turned the knob and as expected it's open. As he enter, he expected her to be scowl or ready to throw any hard material at him but he was greeted by a sleeping Seven.
The information broker approached the sleeping figure to study her. Her brows are furrowed and doesn't look like she's having a nice sleep, her hair is still auburn and messier than the usual and her clothes are damp, obviously the same one she wore earlier. In summary, she's a complete mess. Izaya's attention went to a small puddle of dark red on the floor, it is the only time he noticed the tremendous injury on her left hand. It's still fresh and the blood is still flowing out, he also noticed some glass shards embedded on her hand. He sighed.
The first thing Seven felt as she woke up is pain in her left hand and the throbbing of her head. She sat up slowly and checked her injury but was surprised to see it bandaged. She looked around her apartment and made a face when she saw Izaya quietly reading on the couch perpendicular to hers.
"You look pathetic" Izaya commented when he noticed that she woke up.
"And you're pathetic in treating" Seven answered back, showing the untidy bandaging.
"Is that your way to say 'thank you'?"
"I'm not thanking you"
"You thanked me yesterday morning and even called me by my name"
"Your point?"
"At least apologize for hanging up earlier"
"Never going to happen"
"You're not going to ask me why I'm here?" Izaya asked totally abandoning the book he's reading.
"I know you'll come here anyway. I guess I forgot to lock the door" Seven leaned back.
"Obviously. Since your mind is concentrated in murdering your reflection" he casually said.
"Unfortunately, I killed the mirror"
"And I cleaned the crime scene." Seven glanced at him, she'll not thank him for cleaning her mess since his expression didn't ask for appreciation. "You didn't even change nor wash the hair dye. At least you were able to remove your contact lenses."
Seven abruptly checked her hair and clothes before rushing inside the bathroom and banging the door behind her. 30 minutes later, she went out the bathroom wearing sweat pants and a baggy shirt, her hair dripping wet and the towel on her shoulders prevented the drops to reach the floor. Izaya irritatingly looked at her neatly bandaged hand. Seven smirked at him.
"How long are you going to make me wait?" Izaya impatiently said. "I waited for 3 hours and 24 minutes for you to wake up plus 30 minutes for you to take a bath."
"Right. So what do you want?" Seven queried ignoring his complaint.
"Answers" Izaya seriously looked at her in the eyes.
"What do you want to know?" she asked and sat on the couch she's sleeping on earlier.
"Your story. You're too mysterious"
"Am I? The most mysterious one here is you."
"I have a normal family, a father, a mother and two younger sisters, twins. I entered Raira Academy and after graduating in high school, I became an informant. End of story. Nothing mysterious." Izaya said with a fake smile on his face. Seven threw the wet towel on his face.
"And you forgot the part Shinra got stabbed because of you. Are you really here to ask questions or annoy me?" Seven rolled her eyes. The troll slightly twitched but ignored the fact she knows about that incident.
"Both… Mostly the first." The troll said and suddenly threw the towel back at her, also hitting her on the face. "You're turn to tell your story"
"Sure" the girl said after removing the cloth from her face. Izaya's grin disappeared. "What?"
"Bipolar." He said in response. "You should have refused to tell your story. Most people do that." Izaya disappointedly said.
"I'm not your usual 'human'. It's not that I'm hiding the truth anyway." Seven said as a matter-of-fact manner.
"Then start" Izaya waved his hand.
"Like I said earlier I'm adopted… no, we're adopted" Seven said few seconds later. "Me and my older brother, Kenji, are adopted"