When Shizuo woke up the other day, he found his partner staring from on top of him.
"Izaya...what is it?''
"Oh, um...I was going to go shopping today for other nessecities we haven't gotten along with groceries since there was a sale on the department store nearby...and wanted you to help me carry some stuff.''
"...ok.''
The atmosphere between them seemed to lighten a bit when eating breakfast together.
Izaya was in a drastically better mood than the one he had been in the past two weeks.
With a smile so earnest Shizuo somehow felt guilty, Izaya commented,
"We haven't done this in a while, huh?''
"Mm.''
After finishing breakfast, the two headed out to begin their plans.
"The appliances section first.''
Izaya's eyes lit up from the sales while Shizuo laughed at that old lady personality of his. He did find it confusing to keep with Izaya during his shopping even though he was only holding the bags.
After a quick two hours, Izaya said excitedly,
"Let's go get the groceries now! What do you want to eat?''
"Ah...it's fine...anything you make tastes good.''
For the first time in a while, the raven-haired man's face heated up, glowing a deep pink.
"Is that...so...then curry should be fine.''
Shizuo cracked a small smile from amusement at his tsundere side. He also felt a lot better from not being tense all the time.
They did get a few glances from strangers as Shizuo was holding a rather large amount of items. Izaya had offered to hold some, but naturally was refused.
On the way home, Izaya mentioned,
"Let's take this route home. It passes by a river.''
"Ok.''
It was surprisingly almost sunset, resulting in a rather beautiful scene when they passed by the river and stopped.
Staring at it for a while, Shizuo didn't notice when Izaya quickly closed in and kissed him.
After pulling away, he quickly looked away and said,
"I...um...just haven't done that in a while...so...''
Shizuo looked at his blushing lover and laughed.
"You've completely fallen for me.''
Izaya was definitely more affected by all the fights they had physically because he was the bottom. To him, to surrender to a long rival, made this relationship unique.
It'd be nice if we didn't get into any more serious fights or always stay like this...
Wow...I really do sound girly...damn bastard.
Continuing on their walk home, the pair found on the streets another man wrapping his arm around someone else.
They were both men, and it seemed that one of them had a group of men with him as well.
Izaya could faintly make out what they were saying.
"You're really cute for a guy, you know? I'll give you money, yeah? It'll feel really good, too. Come on with us.''
The victim was very obviously frightened as he continued to glance between the group of men and the man touching him.
"U-Um...I'm okay...p-please leave me alone...''
He was suddenly pulled into a corner with the other men.
"Woah...Shizu-chan, hold on a minute.''
Izaya went to follow them.
"H-Hey! Idiot, I'll go with you.''
With these words, the duo carefully stalked the group of men.
After taking out a switchblade he always carried, Izaya swept into the scene before the man taken was injured.
"Get lost.''
Suddenly looking into the eyes of the ringleader, Izaya dropped the weapon in surprise.
Without thinking, he switched back to Japanese to converse.
"The one from before...R-Ryou...was it?''
Ryou smirked.
"You remember me that well?''
