Chapter 2
Posted: 07/09/2020
Status: Dropped
Surprisingly, but perhaps not so much, Shizuo was the one to bring it up, weeks later.
“Hey” he started. They were both on the roof, Shizuo lying down in the sun and Izaya sitting nearby with an overly complicated-looking book (and…was that Russian?) in his lap. Izaya replied with a non-committal “hm”, clearly focused on his book.
“We should go out” Shizuo said simply, still looking at the clouds, using his own arms as a cushion for his head.
There were a few seconds of complete silence.
Izaya blinked, moved his gaze from his book to Shizuo’s now blushing face, and answered him with a flat “What.”.
“I-I mean”, now Shizuo was flustered, “I think it’d be nice. Cuz’ you’re cool when you’re not being a jerk, and you’re not scared of me and stuff, but it’s not like Shinra you know? He’s kinda weird about it. Did I tell you about how he’s tried to dissect me multiple times? Anyway, you’re really smart and stuff, and also well you’re really, huh, pretty? I mean I don’t know if I should say that about a guy but yeah you’re good looking and also I really liked ki-ki…kiss—”
“Shizu-chan.” Izaya interrupted Shizuo mid-rant.
“Y-yeah?” Izaya didn’t think he’d ever seen Shizuo look so nervous before. It was, dare he say, pretty damn adorable.
“Do I need to remind you we tried to kill each other on our first meeting?”
At that, Shizuo finally moved his gaze from the sky to Izaya, cheeks still red.
“So?” He answered, matter-of-factly, like it wasn’t an issue at all.
Izaya looked at him some more, face expressionless aside from gradually pinking cheeks.
He put a bookmark on the page he was reading minutes ago, gently closed the book, then averted his gaze to the side as he muttered his reply.
“… I guess it’s fine.”
From his peripheral vision, he saw Shizuo immediately sit up and beam, becoming the sun itself. It was a good thing Izaya was still avoiding his gaze, or he’d be blinded, he thought.
And thus, Ikebukuro’s most dangerous couple was formed.
Shinra didn’t really understand how the heck it happened, but he was supportive of them getting together. After all, he was trying to get his two friends to get along, and while he had hoped for the two to be friends, them being a couple was just as well.
Kadota seemed surprised at the development, but otherwise didn’t comment on it and rolled with it, as he was wont to do.
Their other schoolmates and teachers were another story, but it took one student ending up on the business end of Shizuo’s fists and Izaya’s knife for daring to say they were “kinda gross” for everyone to get the message and let them be.
And, they figured, maybe it was better for the school if they were left together, the property damage having been greatly reduced since they had officially started dating.