I'll Call You When The Dust Settles

Counting Knives

<<<<<<<Thank you all!😍>>>>>>>

Shizuo awakes the next morning stiff. His body ached and he has a massive headache. "Gah!! Fuck!" He arise from his bed in a daze. "What the fuck happened?!", asked Shizuo. He hears a faint noise coming from his right. He looks and there sleeping soundly next to him was Izaya.

He turns away and recalling last night's events made him flush. He remembered the look on Izaya's face when he was in pain; when he was in pleasure. "What am I doing?! With this damn flea?! Hell no!!" He looked at the sleeping man once again. "Damn, you really are small.", stated Shizuo as he gently grazes his face with his large hand.

"Ah.", moaned Izaya. Shizuo stops touching him and says, "Don't show such a calm expression around someone you hate." Shizuo gets out of bed and heads for the bathroom. "Shit! I slept in my clothes! Oh well, it already happened.", thought Shizuo. He begins to take his clothes off, takes a shower and begins to brush his teeth when he heard a dreaded sound.

"Shiiiii~zuuuuu~chaaaan!~" He frowns at the mirror clenching his toothbrush tight. He ignores him and continues to brush his teeth. "Shiii~zuuu~chaaan!", Izaya yells again. Shizuo spits in the sink and shouts, "WOULD YOU SHUT THE FUC..!" *STAB* He is interrupted by a sharp pain in his left shoulder. Shizuo has been stabbed by Izaya as he hops into the bathroom.

"YOU FUCKIN...!", Shizuo yells as he was interrupted once again by the sight of Izaya holding his side and leaning against the bathroom wall. Shizuo switches from wanting to kill Izaya to concern.

"Pfffffttt AHAHAHAH!!" Izaya burst into a fit of laughter. He stops and turns to Shizuo. "So are you NOT going to try and kill me just because I'm injured?", he continues, "trying to act like a human is just making you look more like a monster."

Shizuo grits his teeth and storms out of the bathroom. Izaya smiles, "this is getting fun, Shizu-chan."

<<<<<Later>>>>>

Izaya finishes his shower and steps out of the bathroom. His bandages were off and he needed new bandages. "Haa", Izaya signs, "what a bother." Izaya looks through Shizuo's mirror cabinet. There he sees an extra toothbrush in a package. He feels his face turn flush as he becomes flooded with jealously. But on the outside he still looked calm. "So you keep an extra toothbrush so that someone can use it if they decide to stay over huh?", Izaya says smiling. He takes the extra brush.

Shizuo has just finished making breakfast. "How long is this bastard going to stay here?!", thought Shizuo. He places the food down on the table and starts to prepare the plates. "That bastard should cook his own food!", said Shizuo. He places the food on two plates.

Just then Izaya skipped out of Shizuo's bathroom. "My~❤ what are we eating?~❤" Izaya was speaking in a very flirty voice. Shizuo was annoyed and he answered, "You can make your own damn food!" "Aww~❤ don't be like that Shizu-chan.~❤ Look..~❤", Izaya points to the extra plate of food, "then who's that for?~ ❤"

Shizuo stares at the plate. "Whatever!", he responded. Shizuo is wearing a white T-shirt with blue boxers that have two white lines going down each side of them. Izaya is wearing another one of Shizuo's clean white dress shirts and nothing else. "Wow!❤ This is amazing!❤ Didn't know a monster could cook." "Shut it!"

As Izaya ate Shizuo thought about Izaya's injures; about last night; about what the hell happened when he first came here; about how his heart felt when he saw Izaya so hurt and scared. "Fuck! Everything's a mess!", thought Shizuo. He looks back to Izaya who was eating and texting on his phone.

Without a word Shizuo gets up from his seat and walks over to Izaya. Izaya raises his head up from his phone and smiles. "Well, finally decided that I'm to much of an interruption in your life huh? Well I don't mind being kicked out and all but currently I seem to be lacking pants." "Why the hell would you say that? Is that the first thing your mind jumps to? That I'm gonna kick you out?!", Shizuo thought.

He kneels down on one knee and begins to undress Izaya. Izaya flushes bright red before flashing his knife at Shizuo. "W-what the hell do you thi-...!", Izaya stops as Shizuo looks up at him calmly. "I'm just about to change your bandages." "I-I can do that myself!", huffed Izaya as he turns his head away.

He opens up Izaya's shirt to reveal scars on his body. There was one that was on his chest near his heart going in a diagonal way. The largest one was on his left side. It began right under his chest and ended next to his hip. Shizuo felt a sharp pain pass through his chest yet again.

"Why does this keep happening?!", asked Shizuo out loud. Izaya turns to him with a look of confusion. He then smiles and lifts Shizuo's head up with knife in hand. "Wait wait hold on. What's with the pained look on your face? You wouldn't happen to be worried about the damn flea now would you?", Izaya stated dragging the blade across Shizuo's face.

"Tch! Ha! Like I actually care! I'm just doing a favor for Celty is all!" Izaya frowned intently at that statement. "Then why are you trying to cater to me and all I am to you is a favor being carried out?" Izaya smiles but to Shizuo the smile looked forced. Shizuo looks at Izaya's smiling face for a while then wraps his arms around him. "You know, for someone supposedly so smart you're really dumb."

To be continued......