who am I?

Ch. 2 Ears and a tail

(Izaya P.O.V)

I woke up happy and sore. My body felt heavy and I almost didn't get up, that is until I saw the time. It read 12:34. "What!" I yelled rubbing my eyes and looking at the clock again. "12:34" I hardly ever sleep this late, not even when I'm exhausted from being chased by gangs and then playing with Shizu-chan only to lose him and have the gangs find me again.

I rushed to get in the bathroom to wash my face and get in the shower. I soon realized that something felt different, but I ignored it and rinsed my face, thinking about the gift I had supposedly been given. That is, until I looked in the mirror. "What?!! How Did! This! Happen?!!" I screamed and touched me ear. Only to yelp after I pinched it. "Man, their sensitive." I grumbled, then another thought occurred to me. "If I have black cat ears, then does that mean I have a tail too? Pleeeease please tell me it doesn't." I begged as I turned around, but when has begging ever helped me. Everyone else gets answered and have mercy, wellllll I guess that's until they meet me but still, they had it before they met me and the way I see it I never ever got mercy so why should they. "Great I'm rambling. Tch! What did I ever do to deserve cat ears and a tail."

"I have to fix this somehow or at least find a way to hide them." I hissed out the last word with venom. How is this a gift, it's a curse that'll ruin everything I have worked for. I decided to do what I do best and think about what to do while taking my couple minute shower. Fortunately I discovered some things that could cause problems for me later if I'm not careful. My skin has become more sensitive than before and my senses have been inhansed. On the positive side my body feels lighter causing my movements to be quicker that before.

I sighed as I got out of the shower. Should I call Shinra? No. He'll ask about how it happened and I don't want to explain the fact that it was a gift for encouraging a cat. He also might want to experiment on me to find out how this happened. I also do have a reputation to keep you know. That means that I have to have to keep up appearances and that meant going out to meet clients, teasing Shizu-chan and being extra careful instead of hiding in my apartment until I'm back to me before this incident.

I decided to go for a walk. I put my usual black attire and favorite jacket on, along with a black bejewled hat that I had long forgotten about. Luckily my tail was easy to hide. It wrapped around my stomach snuggly.

Then, with a deep breath I walked out onto the street and put my mask on. I let my feet take me where ever they wanted while I was enjoying the new sights and sounds around me and soon enough I was in front of Russia Sushi.

I spotted Simon and gave my best innocent smile. "Hi Simon. How's it going?" I said smirking. "Good. Something happen?" He asked, almost sounding worried. Why? Oh....probably because I wouldn't be able to eat at his restaurant anymore, I thought sighing inwardly.

"No. What makes you say that?" I asked trying to tease him. "Your eyes, teeth and nails." He said showing me on him, but just as I was about to ask what he meant, instead of running to the bathrooms in Russia Sushi he changed his mood and cheerfully said, "Izaya eat sushi? Sushi good." I sighed inwardly yet again and said, "Yes Simon, I'm taking home my favorite ootoro to eat." As I was doing my best not to run to the bathrooms immediately and ordered first.

As soon as I looked in the mirror I new what Simon ment. "Fuge!!!"(sorry can't swear;) I spat realizing some changes since this morning. My eyes had taken on a feline-ish look, my canine teeth became longer and sharper, and my nails had grown and formed a sort of point, making it easy to scratch things. I was too preoccupied with my current changes to realize a certain monster was shooting daggers into my back. It was only when I heard my order being called that I calmed down and fixed my crooked mask.

"Here!" I shouted skipping to the pick up line to grab the ootoro that smelled 20x better than usual and my taste buds told me it tasted even better. That is, until I heard, no felt the words "Izzaayaaaaaaa-kkuuun!!!", being shouted from around the bathroom by none other than my monster Shizu-chan. Wait? My monster? Since when is he mine? Did he hear me in the bathroom earlier?, I thought as I grabbed my precious ootoro and ran the streets of Ikebukuro trying to stay at my normal pace instead of my new found speed. This was surprisingly more difficult than dodging the deadly projectiles being thrown at me, which I literally heard being ripped out of the ground and thrown.

Once I felt the need to leave, before it got too boring I decided to slow down just enough so that he thought he caught me and then sped up so he was a few meters behind me and said "Bye bye Shizu-chan it's been fun!" as I decided to go into a dead end ally to show off my fabulous parkour skills and escape onto the roof, then I'll watch him look around expecting me to be there and quietly laugh to myself. Unfortunately, that's not how it happened. Why you ask, because the dumpster that was always there wasn't anymore. So instead I was seemingly trapped. Why, why, why wasn't there a dumpster here? I thought starting to panic. Can't I not be stuck here, why couldn't I have been an actual cat? Then, just as Shizu-chan came into view I transformed into a cat. May be I should at least consider not killing the cat that gave me ears and a tail for saving my life from Shizu-chan. Then, I did the only thing I could, I ran.

I didn't stop until I was home safe and sound although I was a cat. Then, I figured out how to turn back into myself. All I had to do was think it and I could be a cat or neko and tada I was one. Another bright side to it was my clothes transformed with me and I was still able to eat my delicious ootoro. How? I carried the bag with my teeth. Then, after I was finished I gave Namie the rest of the week off to spend time with her precious Seji and went to bed. Until I woke up from another nightmare, then I stayed up working or watching tv.

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( Shizuo's P.O.V.)

I was having a fun, peaceful day when I went to eat at Russia Sushi. Should have known it wouldn't last long because there I was minding my own business when a certain annoying flea walked/ran in. Okay, the flea ran in, thats how I knew something was wrong. He always acts like he's on top of the world or something. Then he swore, I have never heard him swear and I immediately knew something was definitely wrong. I wanted to find out what, so before I knew what was happening I let him know that I was there. Before I knew it he was back to his old flea-ish self. I had been chasing him for about 20 min. before he decided to take his leave. That's when I almost had him, I was so close, but at the very last possible second he sped up, announced that he was leaving and went into an alleyway. I pushed myself to the limit and thought I had him, but before I could even blink he was no where to be found, again. There was nowhere he could even go, but like the flea he was he somehow managed to escape me yet again.

I searched everywhere in that ally, but the only thing I could find was a cat that ran past me like it's life depended on it. After a few more minutes searching I gave up and went home. It was getting late anyway, but I couldn't sleep. Something about the flea today felt off and I don't like it. So, before I finally fell asleep I made up mind to ask Shinra for Izaya's address.