-๑-๑ ஜ ๑- Chapter 29: Imagination -๑ ஜ ๑-๑-
It was loud for Shizuo. After dropping by at Izaya's room Shinra had called, and asked his superior to drop by for a check up. After all, the flea had been through quite a lot recently. He may have not suffered any serious injuries this time around but there was still a lot to recover from.
So Shizuo was left alone again. The sun had just started to rise and seeing as he didn't hope to get any sleep at the moment he decided to just head to the dining hall for some breakfast.
Maybe that would soothe the burning uneasiness fueling his anxiety. Shiki, the titans, him being one himself for no reason- all these facts were a bit too much to take for one person.
So it was peace that he had sought- instead he found more commotion.
Having spent half the night celebrating a mission with no casualties the rest of the survey corps had by now settled in the dining hall as well.
Cheerful laughter and meaningless chatter filled the entire room as Shizuo took a seat on a table far off from the group. He thought it was stupid.
Celebrating like this, that is. They acted as though the titans stopped existing when their troup had yet to return successfully from their mission.
"Now there are only women missing!" One of them announced heartfelt while raising his mug of beer. Another one nodded in agreement and a third sighed.
"Man, I miss Sonohara."
Laughter bellowed as the group directed its attention towards the fairly meager member.
"Are you crazy? She is a titan."
But the guy merely shrugged his shoulders.
"So? I bet titans get horny too!"
"Beware the great titan fucker is coming to claim them all!" Laughter filled the room yet again.
"Who knows they might run away when they see his face."
"Most effective titan repellent ever seen!"
"And that is how peace was brought to this world."
"Cheers to our savior!"
The conversation was annoying. So was listening to it, and the laughter that was loud enough to give Shizuo a headache. He pondered on leaving- but for what?
Exchange the, albeit annoying, company with silence? Silence and too much time to think about what was wrong inside the walls?
Chugging down a glass of beer he cringed at the bitter taste. He should know better than to try the same his comrades did and distract himself with alcohol. But right now Shizuo deemed any distraction to be better than none.
Besides, it wasn't like he couldn't somewhat understand them.
"Seriously, having a woman would be nice though." The meager guy sighed, twisting a coin on the table in a few playful twists.
"I don't think you will find any here that would accompany you." Those comrades sure were mean.
Not that they seemed to be wrong.
"Doesn't have to be a woman either, whatever's got a hole is fine."
A short moment of very much appreciated silence filled the room.
"Men? Seriously dude?"
"Who?"
He tilted his head thinking for a moment, before his face lit up.
"That Mikado boy for example seems like he wouldn't even mind-"
Shizuo's ears perked as the name seemed familiar. The group laughed.
Mikado- where-?
Ah.
He remembered that one, that timid boy that brought Izaya some documents when he was in hospital.
Documents from Shiki.
Feeling his mood start to shift again he quickly raised his own cup back to his lips.
"Or even better Captain Orihara."
Choking on the sip he had taken he quickly brought up his sleeve.
Izaya?
"No thank you, I like my dick not sliced up." One of the guys replied, as none of them seemed too keen on the joke.
"No, no, think about it, he couldn't walk right?" A sinister smile displayed on the guy's lips and for a second Shizuo felt the overwhelming urge to punch it out of his face.
"Duuude-"
"Good luck surviving after that!" His friends waved him off. "Yeah, especially with his watchdog."
"Who?"
"That new guy, that monster."
Shizuo felt his body stiffen at the word.
"Ah that one."
"He is around him more often than not. I bet Orihara pays him or something to be his bodyguard."
"Or lover."
Again laughter filled the room, the joke must have been the funniest of the whole year as the group wheezed by now.
"Okay, got it, marked down, you have the hots for our captain."
"Hey I'm just a guy, wouldn´t ditch him from my bed. Wanna join me later bro?"
"I think you had enough to drink."
More rambling and nonsense flew from the group's mouths, but Shizuo could no longer hear them. Flinging the entrance door shut he exited the building. Cool air met his now from anger heated face.
The nonsense they laughed, joked and rambled about had annoyed him quite a bit. The guts they had! It was obvious they didn't realize he had been inside the same hall, listening or else they would have kept quiet about shit like that.
Not only were they being disrespectful towards him but also Izaya.
What the hell were they even saying about their captain?
A stone was kicked out of the way as Shizuo walked along a lonely road.
He couldn't quite help imagining how the group of idiots would even try to approach the flea. Izaya would throw them off easily. And literary. Just like how he had done with Shizuo during their second encounter on the training ground.
Yeah they had no chance.
Not even if they tried.
Even with crutches he was going to kill them.
Shizuo imagined how Izaya would kick the bastards on the ground and hurl his crutches right at their faces.
The thought brought some really odd satisfaction to his mind.
…. he really wasn't used to drinking at all. Feeling his skin hotter than usual and his balance a bit off he decided to sit down at a nearby water sewer.
It was quite peaceful. No soul was out yet except birds and the first few rays of sunlight passing the wall. It was midday but the angle only allowed for its rays to pass by at this time of the day.
The soothing cold clinging to his hot skin sent welcomed goosebumps down his spine and he sighed pleased. Silence was better after all.
Silence and the sole sound of water trickling down its designated path.
Letting his head rest in his neck he glanced at the sky.
…
What did Izaya even like? Women? Men? Without wanting to, his thoughts trailed back to the conversation he had heard.
Imagining people he knew with the flea only annoyed him for some reason. Be it one of his comrades or a fictive stranger he made up in his mind, the imagination somehow just seemed off.
But men did have their urges, so the flea probably-
Image after image flew to his mind faster than he was even able to think. Images of Izaya moaning, of Izaya's hands inside his pants, of his voice, his breath-
Of course.
They were men
It was a natural thing to do-
And yet Shizuo's mind suddenly went blank.
He tried to imagine the flea masturbating in a way that would gross him out, to get rid of the image but only the opposite effect was achieved as his now raging hard on greeted him inside his pants.
Great.
Now he got a boner.
The flea was hot.
Objectively too.
And while this set of thoughts was definitely preferred compared to his worries from before he would very much like them to leave-
Being drunk and anxious wasn't enough a reason to defile his captain like that. Shaking his head he reached into the clear water and splashed some of the icy liquid into his face.
God how did he make this stop? Being slightly tipsy didn't exactly help with his problem either.
Feeling a heartfelt sigh drip from his lips he pushed himself from the ground.
…
How was the flea dealing anyway? With bitterness he remembered the mission. Izaya's outburst - his room. Shizuo didn't know his captain for long but he didn't strike him as someone who wrecked his own room on a common basis.
Everything going on inside this wall… must have stricken him harder than he let on.
"You know, I don't mind you being here, but I warn you, hanging around in your superiors room regularly might cause rumors to arise."
Shizuo wasn't all too sure how, but somehow his steps had led him back to the survey corps dorms anway. The first floor was where his own room was located and yet his feet had carried him to the second without him realizing.
Izaya's was on the second floor.
Not having expected the door to be open the flea had spotted the blond quicker than he was able to turn around.
"Rumors?" Shizuo repeated mindlessly, a bit surprised as he noticed the room was barely in the shape he remembered it to be.
The books had been cleaned up, the chair was back at the desk, everything was back in order actually and- did the flea even dust the place?
How the hell did he manage to get that far in, what, two hours?
"You sure, people associating you with the death reaper is fine?" Izaya questioned again, referring to his earlier statement.
"Oh."
"Oh?", this time he had Izaya"s full blown attention as he probably sounded as if he hadn't been listening at all. Quickly gathering himself he felt himself sober up faster than expected.
"I just thought you were worried about people thinking that you hired me as your bodyguard," he quickly lied, suddenly very grateful he had overheard the rumor.
Surprise met his face as the raven tilted his head amused.
"That's an actual rumor?" Shizuo found himself nodding before thinking. "People think you pay me for your safety. As if you would need it."
Izaya blinked, a little stupefied, before breaking out into heartfelt laughter.
"Well good thing they do, keeps us both safer I suppose." And Shizuo- well Shizuo was actually just kinda enjoying the sight of Izaya laughing
It wasn't something he had actually seen before either. Sure he would chuckle here and there if he was behaving stupid or in a way he didn't predict, but this-
It was a mesmerizing sight actually.
And a relieving one, especially after the previous mission.
"Well then my bodyguard, it's time to head down to the dining hall. I'm afraid as hard as we tried we aren't going to get around celebrating."
Snapping out of his daze, the blond merely found himself nodding as he watched Izaya get up.
Stairs downwards were taken and while Izaya was still leaning and resting on things a lot here and there most of the way he seemed just like before.
Shizuo already heard the cheers and screaming from all the way down the hallway leading to the dining room.
Upon opening they were presented with what seemed to be a very, very drunken Shinra.
"Izaaaaaayaaa~!" Taking a quick step aside the captain of the survey corps smoothly avoided the incoming crushing hug.
"Shinra, just out of curiosity, how many drinks have you already had?" A wide grin was given as the addressed bespectacled had planted his face into the doorframe.
"Too many."
"Wow."
"Shinra! Join me in my battle against the infidels!" Another call screamed across the hall belonging to no one else but his father Shingen kishitani. Wielding a spoon like it was the deadliest weapon alive, he pointed it at a random member of the survey corps.
"What why me?" he complained, only followed by laughter.
Pretty much everyone seemed to be having a good time. Shizuo could spot the group from earlier as well. Quick glances were cast towards the two as they entered the room before they laughed.
Shizuo already knew what they were talking about.
"Seiji!" a woman with long brown hair rushed right past the blond as she made her wax to one of the desks.
"Aren't they beautiful? She was still moving. they are undefeatable! Even if you knock off their heads they survive!" Another man, Shizuo recognized him as one of Shinra's helping hands, was giving a fiery speech to a small group it seemed.
His audience didn't seem half as enthusiastic, however.
"What's wrong with him?" Shizuo asked, having followed the flea as he poured himself a glass of red wine.
"Don't ask me, I just know some titan went rigid a few days ago and ever since then he has been a little nuts." Oh. Maybe that one incident? Where the titan had stopped attacking halfway? Shinra was over the moon because of it too.
"At last his sister´s there for him,"Shizuo found himself mumbling, earning a snort from the raven.
"She loves him." Taking a sip from his glas Izaya let his words sink in, like they were something…. bad? He was looking at Shizuo expectantly as if he wanted to see his reaction.
"Yeah?" was all Shizuo could reply with as he showed a puzzled expression.
"No like, in a non-platonic way." Finally seeing what his captain had probably expected, a grin spread across his lips.
"But she is his sister-" Shizuo cringed, casting one more glance towards the siblings. If he thought about Kasuka- god no.
"Well, I guess she can't change the way she feels." Izaya hummed as he refilled his already empty glass.
Shizuo couldn't help but watch as his hands delicately encircled the glass.
Elegance. That's the striking image the action provided.
"Have you ever loved someone?" The question slipped before he could think about it, surprising not only Shizuo himself.
Setting his glass at the table a moment of silence followed as Izaya looked quite stupefied.
"What? Interested?" he joked- but shizuo didn't yell no, didn't react. Instead he just looked at him.
They both did at each other actually.
Wait.
Why did Shizu-chan not say anything?
Why were they both not saying anything?
"Izaya come on!" Shinra,'s voice crushed through the silence like an elephant into a porcelain shop.
Izaya's wrist was grabbed faster than he was able to get up, nearly sending his glass of wine flying.
"What- Shinra-"
"I want to play a game!" mischief and joy reflected in the doctor's glasses and honestly Izaya couldn't bring himself to deny him the favor.
"Which one?"
To be continued~
HOHOHO finally getting to the Shizaya part of the shizaya story xDDDD Took me long enough haha all that scheming, all the titan shit well~ now things are finally going to get a bit… spicy C:
Sorry I took a while to update btw but I ended up more busy than I thought xD
Crafted myself some wings for my albedo cosplay from overlord and built some blasters for Kai'sa from League of Legends xD Yes, me n my sis are both League addicts in tft and sr hahahaha but no flaming just gaming C;
Anyway~
Gonna be on the Aninite, an anime convention in vienna next weekend xD I'm gonna do Shen'he from genshin too haha gosh how I love all these hot chicks
ANYWAY XD
Soon there will be some spice and everything nice hehe 3
Sotd and Impostor is updated as well and the rest will follow tomorrow/Thursday
I hope you have a nice summer xD
With that being said see you again in the next update on 1st of September 2022! :3