[Izaya's POV]

Yet another week gone by and nothing new going on; Kasuka had been taking him out for an awful lot of dates lately, trying to make him feel better and happy when not at work, and he'd been getting a regular amount of assignments too, though most of them had been petty ones and could be done in say... 3 hours if he didn't take breaks? Yeah, apparently Shiki was forcing quantity over quality onto him now since he'd been 'disobedient' that while back. The informant was sure that would change back to normal within a couple weeks though, so he didn't worry about it.

As Izaya sat at his desk and worked on one of the dozen assignments he'd received that weekend and been given a week and a half deadline for, he continuously shifted in his office chair, glancing around and across the street as he felt a pair of eyes on him. He had no idea if he was just being paranoid after another weeks span of being given the cold shoulder from a certain admirer or if he was actually being watched - if it was the second option, then it definetly wasn't Shiki's warnings again. Whoever was watching him, if someone was, was very good at their job, not allowing Izaya to pinpoint them even once as they did whatever they were doing.

But either way, he couldn't shake the feeling and he'd even had the gut feeling to push Kasuka away for a couple days, saying that they'd gone on so many wonderful dates that he needed a day or two to himself. The feeling of being watched hadn't gone away when the ravenett came over a couple days ago after all, so if someone was paid to watch him or just felt like observing and stalking him, he didn't want to drag Kasuka into it.

Izaya finally shifted once more before huffing to himself and typing a 'brb' into the chatroom he'd been gathering information from, half-shutting his laptop and taking it with him from his desk and to his bedroom where there was a lot less chance of someone watching him. As expected, once he got into the upstairs hallway the eyes were gone, obviously not being able to watch him if there were no windows there to do it from.

"This is ridiculous.. I can't even be at peace in my own home." the man grumbled to himself, sitting up on his bed with pillows propping him up, his flick-blade sitting beside him if he needed it as he got back to work.

"Will you stop pulling my hair so tightly!?" Izaya finally snapped after the fourth time his hair had been tugged by the comb running through it, his assistant being not quite as skilled in the process of getting him ready as Shara had been. The product was always much better than before, but getting there had been torture every time. And with not being able to sleep peacefully last night because someone had been noisily trying to get in his front door, obviously not smart enough to look for the spare key and not being a good lock-smith, which had made him have to scare them away with his flick-blade and then retreat to Kasuka's home so he could be surrounded by security... Izaya was not in any mood to be having his hair pulled or for anything to go wrong really.

"Karuha, she didn't mean it. Just think of how pretty your hair will look when she's done, zone out till then." Kasuka advised from where he was on the couch, already dressed and prepared for the next scene. Izaya glared at him through the mirror and saw Kasuka giving him a look to say 'sorry but calm down a little'. He sighed and relaxed again in his chair, Kanesi still paused and waiting for an outburst before she got back to fixing his hair.

The informant couldn't help himself from snapping every now and then, though now they were a lot quieter and not as frequent, calmed down just by Kasuka being there to comfort him. He hadn't told his boyfriend about the stalker - stalkers, maybe? - but he did know that Izaya wasn't doing his best lately, so almost anything he said was something to try and benefit the informant's mood. Even that was getting irritating at the moment, but it was welcome. Kasuka knew he didn't mean any insults given to him either way, so it was fine, the actor said so himself.

The ruby-eyed man let out a sigh of relief as his hair was finally done, letting them go out of his dressing room and onto the stage, finally able to perform. The scene they were doing today was the first time their characters would kiss, so both of them were a little flustered but Kasuka was a master at keeping a straight face and Izaya pounded it into his head that this was business as usual. Even then, they were both blushing for real when they finally got around to it, and the minute the camera turned off was the same moment Izaya was covering his face at the teasing look Kanesi was giving him.

Besides the many teasing looks from the staff, he still couldn't push passed one certain glance that was being thrown at him and piercing him. Izaya looked over his shoulder to see Dong-Yul watching him with a cold stare. They held each other's gaze for a moment before the Korean's expression changed, almost looking smug as he turned away from the scene and went back into the room with dozens upon dozens of cameras. That one look had sent shivers down his spine, the informant not being able to shake off the feeling that he had done something horribly stupid.

Kasuka turned him back to the camera when they were ready to film the next part of the scene, the informant pushing it to the back of his mind and trying not to mess up his lines for the rest of the day he had left. And it's gonna be such a long day..

Chapter 45!

I know, not a whole lot of excitement in this one, but we're getting there!

Smug!Dong-Yul can go fuck himself in my opinion, even if I made him and made him do this...

Tell me what you guys think, and how you guys think he's involved in this?

There could be quite a very scenarios actually, so I wonder which one you guys have gone for :P

And to the people that couldn't get on yesterday because of the sight being a big bag of small dicks, I'm irritated too. I almost couldn't write the last chapter and felt really bad, but thank all it finally got working again!

Speaking of being able to write a chapter, I finally added another drabble to 'Dura Love!' If anyone wants to see Baby!Kasuka and Child!Shizuo, then go check it out ^^

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