[Kasuka's POV]

"Kasu-kun, you came to save me!" Izaya announced the second he opened his front door, throwing his arms around the actor's neck and hugging the life out of him while Shizuo calmly, in probably his own opinion, watched from the couch with a frown. Kasuka did his best to ignore the stare he was giving them as he wrapped his arms around the informant's waist in return, pressing a kiss to his cheek.

"Yeah, I'm here but just how am I saving you?" the actor asked with a small laugh, smiling lightly as Izaya leaned back, still hugging him.

"Your brother is the worst house guest I've ever had. He's so boring... And I've had Namie to talk to for the past couple years, so that's really something." Izaya huffed back, getting a shout of irritation from both Shizuo and Namie.

"We still hear you!"

"If you keep that up I'm never buying you lunch again..."

Kasuka shook his head at all of them, giving his boyfriend a squeeze before letting him go. He walked into the living room and greeted Namie before looking to his brother. The blond looked bored out of his mind as well after a whole day stuck in his boyfriend's house. "Hey aniki. You're free to go now, if you want." he muttered, actually wishing that they were at his own house at the moment so Shizuo could stay and hang out again. He already knew there was no way that his brother would consider staying put as long as they were here though, his point proven when the blond stood up without hesitation.

"Finally... I don't get how you can spend even an hour in this place, it's not exactly-"

"Shizu-chan, he said you're free to go. If you don't leave I might start to think you love it here." Izaya interrupted, ignoring the tightening fists at Shizuo's sides as thin arms once again wrapped around Kasuka, this time from behind. Kasuka suppressed a blush on his part as Shizuo silently murdered Izaya in his head, his sunglasses currently off and just making it all the more obvious. "Shoo~" Izaya prompted now, even making the motion towards him and just smirking wider as Shizuo made a grab for him, just barely missing as Kasuka moved them both out of the way.

"Is this what you two have been like all day?" the actor finally asked, glancing between them cautiously.

"Actually, before you got here they were practically mute. Neither of them made a peep all day." Namie announced from where she was, not even sparing the group a glance as she flipped through a magazine. Kasuka raised a brow at the new information. So they do get along sometimes?

"Namie, get back to work."

"I could tell you the same."

"Flea, you'd better listen to her. She's obviously the brains in this business."

"Kasu-kun, they're ganging up on me!"

Still, I'm surrounded by 10 year olds...

"Guys, if you two don't start at least pretending that you can stand each other then I'm gonna force you both out to dinner with me again. We all know how well that worked out the first time." Kasuka announced, hoping to defuse the situation around him as quickly as possible. If aniki's already jumped at him once then there's not a lot left until he's pissed again.

His plan seemed to work too, Shizuo and Izaya both going silent while Namie looked up at them in confusion, obviously waiting for one of them to make a comment. The two started ignoring each other once more, the blond making a grab for his cigarettes while Izaya poked his boyfriend instead. "Ne, ne, can we go get ootoro tonight? I think Simon's got something new on his menu, I wanna try it."

"You've already had ootoro once today, flea. Get a better diet."

"And you've already smoked once in my house today, beast, now drop dead. You're gonna make my house stink." Izaya snapped back, snatching the cancer sticks out of his hand just before they could reach the blond's mouth. Shizuo's eye twitched once before he growled.

"You're house already stinks as bad as you do! Now stop taking stuff out of my hands already!"

"Then stop breaking my house rules! You're lucky I didn't throw these things away the minute you came inside!"

Kasuka let out a small sigh as he stayed out of this argument, knowing both sides opinions on cigarettes very well and not wanting to pick a side at the moment. There was a a tap on his shoulder and the actor turned to see Namie finally standing with them, her arms crossed as she watched his boyfriend and brother continue their debate.

"I dunno what you do to those two to make them this way but thanks for making them a little less boring." the assistant announced, getting a small smile out of the actor.

"Were they really that well behaved while I was gone?"

"Yup. They didn't fight, didn't look at each other.. well kinda... But yeah, they didn't do anything like this today from what I've seen." Namie admitted, shrugging along with him as they both glanced back at the informant and debt collector, who were now arguing about something besides smoking. The both of them were talking so fast though that Kasuka couldn't even hope to understand what their points were.

"It's good to know neither of them almost died today then." Kasuka started smiling to himself as he kept watching them, noticing both of their little quirks as they argued, the ones that let him know neither of them were truly upset. Ticked off and kind of annoyed, definetly, but not upset For some reason, even with them almost constantly shouting at one another (Shizuo actually shouting and Izaya teasing instead now), Kasuka just couldn't see why there was no hope of them getting along.

"What are you smiling so much for?" Namie finally asked him, smiling now as well when Kasuka smirked. Both of them had the same idea.

"Nothing, nothing. I was just thinking about how much they sound like an old, married couple." the actor announced, raising his voice to ensure that they both heard him.

The fighting behind him halted and he glanced back at them with a (forced) blank expression, seeing both of them gaping at him in horror.

Izaya actually made a sound like he was gonna throw up and Shizuo backed away from the other with a pale face, not looking too well either. "That's disgusting! Why would you ever even think-"

"That's ricidulous, I would never-"

"Oh my god, I'm gonna be sick.."

Kasuka and Namie discreetly high-fived before moving closer to comfort their respective responsibilities.

Chapter 82!

I also like to think that Kasuka and Namie could be best friends, like her and Izaya's bromance just not as tight knit.

What do you guys think?

PS. I revised chapters 78-81 this morning. If you wanna go back and reread them to see the differences then I hope you think they're better now too ^^

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PPS. Beato: I'm so sorry this took me a couple chapters to reply to, I thought I already responded but when I went back to correct things I noticed that I didn't write down my thoughts.. Sorry!

I hope you're feeling better now and that you're allergies lighten up as well. I don't have allergies that I know of but I think I'm developing one to pollen.. It's not pretty already so I hate to imagine what you go through. Anyways, take all the time you need to get better and I'll await your return. Take care, Beato!