[Izaya's POV]

Izaya and Kasuka were half-way through the movie before a buzz came from Kasuka's phone, letting him know Mr. Watane had finally figured out their second star was out for the next week as well. "Did you really not tell him you were leaving yesterday?" Izaya muttered, glancing at the movie again as an explosion rang out. They had the volume turned down considerably so Izaya wouldn't get a worse headache than usual, but it was still pretty easy to hear.

Kasuka chuckled behind him, having his boyfriend half in his lap and half on the edge of the couch as they watched the film. "No, I kinda just left a note and came here… I didn't want to deal with convincing him for an hour. You know how he was after all that with aniki." the ravenett mumbled, getting a nod as they both thought of what had gotten them together in the first place. Despite the bad connotation, neither of them bothered with it very much - Kasuka had let Izaya know the blond wanted to apologize in the first place even if he hadn't gotten around to it yet personally.

Kasuka left the room to talk with their boss as he began actually calling instead of texting, probably to see if everything was alright, and Izaya sighed as he sat back on the couch, missing the other's warmth. The informant shifted where he sat again as he glanced at his computer, realizing he hadn't done his more important job in a couple days and should probably get on with it if he didn't want another 'warning' from Shiki. Everytime he got one, he got more and more worried for his lover and co-star, giving him a lot of motivation to complete the tasks he'd been given

Just checking my emails won't hurt. Izaya convinced as he stood up and went over to his computer, pressing the power button and waiting patiently as it loaded, getting everything set up normally and checking over things, noticing he'd received even more tasks than usual in the last three days. Normal, I guess. The later in the year it gets, the more desperate people become. He scrolled through a couple of them before declining four out of the ten he'd gotten, thinking they could go to someone with a smaller skill-set than him to complete. They weren't assigned to him by Shiki either, so there was no harm in saying 'no'.

When he looked up and saw Kasuka still hadn't come back, he quickly went into his bookmarks and got into the Dollar chatrooms, wondering what good or bad news people could have come up with. Sadly, no one was on at the moment… Understandable, seeing as it was 9 a.m. on a weekday, most were probably at school or at work if they weren't skipping either option. Damn, and I actually wanted to get something done…

He shut everything down again as Kasuka came over and noticed he wasn't where he'd left him, frowning suddenly. "You shouldn't worry about working right now, you're sick." he reminded softly, patting the spot beside him on the couch for Izaya to come over. Said man just rolled his eyes and came over, plopping down gracefully and leaning into him. Like I would forget so easily.

They stayed like that for a while until Kasuka started falling asleep, the movie they had picked being one he'd seen before and also having an amazingly soft soundtrack. Izaya didn't mind of course, he just kept laying against him as he watched the movie and glanced at his boyfriend's sleeping face. After the movie ended and it was just showing credits, Izaya gazed up at the still sleeping man for a few moments, frowning to himself as he realized he'd only remembered things not involving his significant other yet. Of course I don't get to remember what I want to..

The informant sighed softly before he heard a knock on his door, making him perk up. For a while now he had stopped sending people to his own apartment for business, meeting them in places like Russia Sushi instead - for obvious personal reasons - so he pondered why someone would just show up out of the blue. He certainly wasn't expecting anyone, too busy being sick to really feel like chatting in the first place.

Nevertheless, he got up and went to the door, peeking through the peep-hole and blinking at what he saw. He double-checked just to make sure it was him before opening the door. "Shizu-chan.. This is a surprise." was all he said, looking the blond up and down as he stood before him, literally being the last person he had expected. "So, did you need anything or did you come to kick my ass after not seeing me for a week?" he asked immediately, leaning against his door even as he was ready to close it.

No one could blame him for not wanting the blond near his property after what had happened there, could they? Said blond just gritted his teeth, shifting where he stood as he glared at him over the dark shades. "I came to apologize for choking you, you fucking flea.."

"Shizu-chan, you do realize you did that over a month ago, right? Why would you apologize now?"

"Because I don't want to, but I was around and if I don't do it now then I won't ever fucking do it and then Kasuka will get mad or some shit; so take the apology, you damn flea!" Shizuo suddenly announced, vein already popping in his head. He must've been thinking about doing this for a while if he's already so worked up. It hasn't even been 5 minutes yet.

"Fine, fine. Thank you for the apology, Shizu-chan, I forgive you. Was there anything else you wanted?" Izaya asked politely, feeling unusually compliant after two and a half days of sickness, along with gaining memories that he didn't even want back yet. Why the fuck do you have to look so much like Shinnosu? The informant waited patiently for the blond to ask him something as he stood in his doorway, seeing the little, tiny, almost broken wheels turning in Shizuo's mind.

"Have you seen Kasuka around? I know you're dating, so when he didn't answer me I assumed he's with you." the debt collector added hesitantly, obviously hating the idea of asking Izaya anything about his family. It simply made the informant smirk.

"Yes, I've seen him. And before you say anything, no he's not dead or in danger, we were just watching a movie." Izaya trailed along, glancing at his fingernails in boredom now that he knew he wasn't in danger.

"So he's here still?"

"Yes. Again, we just watched a movie."

"Can I talk to him?"

"He's asleep, Shizu-chan~"

"He's my fucking brother!"

"And he's my boyfriend. I win~"

"I-za-ya-kuuun…" came his small warning, letting Izaya look up to see Shizuo's arms now at his sides, hands in fists to threaten him. It had been a while again since their last chase, seeing as it was last Monday, so he was a bit tense that if they started fighting he'd once again be caught… Izaya shook off the shudder that threatened to go through him and just kept smirking at him.

"What? You can't deny that I'm right. Besides, if you hurt me now then he'll just wake up and throw you out."

"What's so special about you now?"

Izaya opened his mouth to say that he was sick before quickly shutting it, reminding himself that the beast didn't need to know when he was at his weakest. Even if death wasn't a threat, he could still worry for his beautiful self. "We.. were going to go out tonight. And he planned it. So if you ruin it, then you'll make him even more upset." the informant improvised, keeping his eyes steadily on Shizuo's, hoping his little brain wouldn't be able to detect lies. Then again, he thinks everything I say is a lie, so there's nothing I can do about that.

The blond just watched him with a look of disgust, gritting his teeth again as he turned to walk away. "I don't get why he likes you. You're still just as disgusting as the time you met him.." the other muttered, making Izaya perk up and watch his back as he left. He stayed where he was for a moment, just about to go back inside when a sudden pain went through his head and crippled him. From it being such a shock to him, he simply dropped to the floor and caught himself again as he squeezed his eyes shut, biting back any sound that could come from him.

There was a flash of some images behind his eyes, the one that repeated being of a teenage Shizuo with a much smaller looking Kasuka beside him, holding hands as they were about to walk off with their back to him.

The informant let out a small groan as he opened his eyes again, Kasuka beside him and gripping his shoulder. "I'm okay. I just moved too fast, I guess.." Izaya muttered, getting a nod out of his boyfriend before Kasuka took the opportunity to pick him up bridal style and carry him back inside to the couch.

Chapter 23~

And not much memory in this chapter, but there was a spark of it since I wanted to give Izaya a little break.

Plus, more reasons to involve our favorite debt collector!

...I'm not even sure if this counts as a cliff-hanger or not since the next chapter isn't going to start from right after this anyways, but again-

Shizuo sparks cliff-hangers for some unholy reason!

There is literally no reason for it, but somehow whenever I involve Shizuo in this story it makes things dramatic..

Gonna have to work on that. Or not. Probably not~

Anyways, I hope you like this little break of fluff that we got from Izaya being a sick lil babu~!

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PS. Sorry for this chapter being late. Wednesday are the roughest day to get out content!