A month and one day... I'm horrible at updates... But hey! This chapter is a good one!

The ceiling wasn't white like I had thought it was, it was actually more of a cream colour... I hated that I knew that, why did I know that? Oh yeah... The concussion had forced me to stay in bed for a day and a half which meant I had spent more time staring up at the ceiling than I ever would want to. On top of that, Izaya was the WORST person to depend on taking care of you. The flea had decided it was ridiculous for me to demand him to give me something besides otoro and otoro sushi. I could live without eating it every again honestly.

So, because I had said that, he decided to make me over cooked rice sandwiches with ouster sauce... I did it one time! One time in front of the flea and now he's saying some shit like 'But isn't this what monsters like to eat?' Just to make me pissed off. I wouldn't let him treat me like that, with every sandwich he brought to me I refused to eat them... He better not have been wasting all my food on those! Or maybe he was just bringing in the same one every time... I wouldn't put it past him.

But it was over...well, not yet. Shinra said he was going to come over and make sure I really had recovered before I was allowed to get up. I looked over to the door as Izaya walked in with a plate... If it was that damn sandwich again I'm gonna smash it in that fucking louse's face! What I wasn't expecting was shitty freezer burn egg rolls... Sure they were shitty freezer burn egg rolls, but they were at least edible.

He sat it down on my bedside dresser with a dramatic sigh "Shinra will get mad at me if he finds out you haven't ate anything..." He seemed... Weird... Weirder than normal making me suspicious of the plate beside me. "What did you do to them." I watched him warily as he turned to me fully with a fake pout "Can't I just do something nice for my Shizu-chan~?" This was annoying... Without over thinking it too much I shoved one of the egg rolls in my mouth "You're hiding something." I stated through the food in my mouth. He didn't waver but his eyes were visibly growing colder, though his voice was getting sweeter.

"I'm not hiding anything from Shizu-chan, I just know more than Shizu-chan does~" the crunch of the egg roll rap between my teeth was deafening in the silence that followed... He stood out of place in the middle of room, purposefully bored expression as he waited- waited for what? Was there something he expected me to say? What the fuck?"

"I'm not a mind-reader... Spit it out." He looked over to me and for a second I saw him faultier, I saw that in his eyes were fear and hatred... But like always, he blocked it up with a devilish smirk as he crouched down by the bed "What on earth are you talking about~?" Like I may or may not have said before, my head was mush... So I didn't think about what I was doing... Okay?

I grabbed hold of his wrist and flung him onto the bed beside me, pinning him down. Pain throbbed in the back if my skull but I didn't care, this dip shit needed to hear what I had to say about his huge attitude problem. "Listen here you piece a shit. I'm tired of this fake act! Just because you act all sly to everyone else doesn't mean I want to see it. It's annoying- why can't you just be whatever you really are under that maggot act?"

We didn't move, and I started to realize just how personal that had sounded. Shit. The Flea was going to get the wrong idea... He laughed tightly "What are you talking about, Shizu-chan? If this was just an act, why would I let you out of all people see the real me? I hate you. Don't you remember?" My head hurt... But I saw a gap in his mask and I went for it "Because! You're stupid." His smile dropped as I started to lean in...wait. Was I about to do what I think? No! Anybody but the flea!

"Shizuo..." It was a warning to back the fuck up but I couldn't. I wasn't looking down at the ass I usually chased around... A pale blush over his cheeks and a hesitant look in his red eyes that flickered to the side... I can't believe I'm about to say this but... He was beautiful. Somehow he had managed to pull one of his knives out and he stabbed it into the hand that was holding down that arm. Too late, our lips touched, he started to struggle but at the same time I felt him move his lips against mine... I gave up. Who cares if its the flea? He wanted this just as much as I did... That was really weird to think about... Let's just focus on the kiss, alright?

I let go of his arm in place of holding his face-skin so soft-and his arms rapped around my neck, pulling on my hair. God, he was amazing. Turing to the side to get more... funny, he tasted like otoro but I liked it. We pulledaway and just stared... Guilt and dread filled the pit of my stomach... We aren't suppose to- I really fucked up, didn't I? He looked to be thinking the same thing as he started to pull his arms away. And as if to make the situation worse, the door came flying open as Shinra made his grand entrance into the obviously tension filled room "Good eve-WHOA! I was not expecting to see that this soon!"

I got up off him, gave him one last glance before turning to Shinra "What are you going on about? Aren't you suppose to be giving me a check up?" He's a good guy... But sometime he really can't read the mood. He sat down his bag on the corner of the bed and I noticed Izaya trying his best to leave "I'm just happy you two finally are getting along-" "Shinra, stop." "Eh? Izaya where are you going? You don't have to get all embarrassed, I've walked into way more erotic scenes befo- "SHUT UP!" Shinra and Izaya both looked at me and when I saw his burning red face, his red eyes dug into mine saying very clearly 'I hate you.' Before he turned away and left.

"Sheesh, what's gotten into you two?" I was pissed, really fucking pissed... At myself. But I wasn't going to punch myself again so I went with next best thing. I flipped the bed with a roar and kicked a hole through my nightstand, it flew across the room and hit the wall... and then I burying my head in my hands with a groaned... I felt like dog shit on the bottom of a shoe... Why? Why did I kiss him? I wasn't gay, was I? No no no no!

Shinra rested a hand on my shoulder, probably starting to understand what just happened. "Hey Shizuo... Do you like Izaya?" I groaned before straightening up and turning to him "I need a smoke." And with that I hurried out of the apartment, ignoring his call of "But what about your hand!? It's bleeding all over the place!" I leaned against the wall of the apartment building and watched in a sort of daze as the people walked by... The cigarette slowing burning out with only two or three drags from it... How could I lov- like someone I hate so much? Damn evil spirit in the sky, why did you curse me like this?

I wonder... How different things would have been if I hadn't gone out for that smoke... If I hadn't looked over at that exact moment and saw the striped hooded guy jumping into that up marked van... If I hadn't heard the strangled gasp of Izaya.

Fuck that. I stomped over to the van and heard a man groan in pain before the back door was kicked open and Izaya hopped out switchblade in hand and a creepy grin... But it fell when he saw me and he crossed his arms "Shizu-chan... I hate you. get over whatever weird synthetic human feelings you have for me..." He turned to run but then fell over. I bent down beside him, clearly he was in pain but I didn't give a fuck, I flick him on the forehead "Don't tell me what to fucking do... And I don't have feelings for you... What just happened was from all the tension. That's it!" He chuckle and managed to sit up "Is that so? On a more important note; I've been poisoned... Would you mind caring me up the stairs? I mean, if you can manage not getting a hard on~"

Maybe if I wouldn't have gone out for that smoke... He would've died... I wasn't liking this striped gang very much anymore.

They kissed! Shizuo at least accepts his feelings for Izaya unlike the latter... Will they finally get together? And will Izaya find the leader of the stripes before he gets killed?

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