Masks of Deception (A Shinzaya AU Fanfiction)

Chapter 2

It was three days after Orihara Izaya had been approached by the weird bespectacled boy named Kishitani Shinra, and coincidently, that was also the last time he'd seen him.

He couldn't say he found it odd, for some students would come for self introductions and then vanish for the whole week following.

But despite this fact, he still couldn't deny the disappointment lurking and building up in his heart. Perhaps, it was because the boy had told him that he would ask to be his friend again if he turned him down. And the way he had spoke to Shinra before they departed the other day sort of expressed that he had done just that.

- "Unless... he saw through it...?"

Why wasn't he there? The boy had seemed so adament, so Izaya could only muse on it without a certain answer to his question.

Finding himself glancing at Shinra's empty desk, he was having trouble setting his priorities straight, as he wanted to just go back to observing his humans like before.

But he felt tied in between.

"He didn't seem like the type of person who would typically skip school... so did I really scare him off, after all? Doubt it, he's probably just sick... What about his head injury, though...? Did he get it checked out? It's not my problem, so why am I thinking so hard on it...?"

Izaya was not used to having friends or many personal connections with much of anybody, so he had no clue how to handle himself when it came down it. Perhaps that was one reason why he had always tried to avoid getting too close to people and stay as detached as possible in all school dealings. As such, when Kishitani Shinra had entered his life, approached him and said such strange things to him if even for a little while, it was the first time anybody had not walked off and had in fact sort of embraced his nature, he didn't know how to handle it.

It was possible he could end up hurting Shinra, and he knew he didn't want to do something like that down deep, but that was just the thing; He didn't get attached to people because he knew how humans were, yet something about himwas different.

And he was also aware that there probably wasn't any reason for concern, and that he should have been able to focus on other humans right now without distraction whether the other was there or not, but once again he couldn't deny the emotion he was feeling.

- "Ah... It's 'worry'. I'm really worried..., but why? He's fine, right?"

One such encounter had thrown him off and he didn't know why.

"Hey, do you want to be friends?"

"Not intrested. Sorry."

"Ah okay, I'll just ask again tomorrow."

"He said all that as if he was definitely planning to be here... so... Did something happen? Tch... Guess he's more of a liar than I thought..." He thought, suddenly finding himself feeling irritated at the boy with no real cause, despite his knowledge that he had a whole year ahead of him and would probably even see him next week, before smiling to himself. "and I also guess he's not so much of a friend, after all, huh? I'll just have make sure to rub that in his face, too, if I see him again..., but... what if he really is hurt? I wonder if anybody else would know something..."

And just like that, with that thought in mind and standing up, he made to approach a group of some other preteens who he vaguely remembered as a some kids Shinra had been talking to on the day they did self introductions.

They seemed to be discussing after school clubs and extracurricular activities and if they should join one or create one.

"No way..." one of the girls nodded. "sports are too lame and exhausting..."