*Through The Nightmare*

Hachimenroppi Orihara That is my name, but you are not required to know it. I have no interest in getting to know you, or having you 'get to know' me. You're a human. A filthy, disgusting, worthless creature that should be squashed underneath my foot. Leave me be. [RP account for Izaya Orihara alter Ego: Hachimenroppi]

[poorunfortunate-souls]

[[The Last Night]]

[timidticketholder]

✉—Kept his hold even after he found his footing. At least the surprise of him stumbling into the restroom urged some of his blood flow to travel elsewhere, but being questioned about it… That flustered expression returned. “I…” He couldn’t admit to why he left… What if the raven thought he was some kind of pervert?

Another thought clouded those worries when he took in what Roppi had said… “Y-You don’t want to b-be separated..?” His expression softened and his arms came around to embrace him despite any disputes he might have. Holding him close, he buried his face into his shoulder.

“I wont separate again.”

A good moment passed before he reluctantly released the crimson from his embrace. “Are you hungry..?” He realized it had become well into the morning and his stomach stirred. If he wasn’t up for it, at least he could make him another glass of milk - without incident.

This time he wouldn’t carry him, but help guide him over to the kitchen for him to sit at the small table to the side of the kitchen. Heeding his desire, he would only bring the chair should they travel long distances.

[poorunfortunate-souls]

“Th-that..I-” He grumbled to himself, completely embarrassed by how his words had gotten fumbled up in that way, not even completely positive if that was the way he meant those words are not, but the blond looked all too happy and considering after this morning he wasn’t wanting to bring him down. Even letting himself be held that long should of been enough.

Now that it was mentioned, the raven could feel the pit of his stomach twist and turn in on itself. It had been days since he ate something that wasn’t just forced into him by an I.v.  A bit happy that he wasn’t flung and held. Instead walked very steadily into the kitchen, pulling himself into a seat to finally let go of the other.

His eyes looked around the room a bit coyly, not wanting to speak up about how actually hungry he was. Eating was already terrible, eating in front of others was worst. “We could-- always do some sort of breakfast. I’m sure I could...eat something.” The words were bitter to say, but if he didn’t eat soon he probably was gonna melt into floor right there.

Perhaps he shouldn’t of worked up his heart first thing in the morning.

[poorunfortunate-souls]

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[poorunfortunate-souls]

Watching the blond fumble around with his words once more and quickly make his way out of the room he didn’t know what else to say. His brain had wandered to one of their first conversations about what the other wanted out of him, perhaps he had gotten extremely too close to him.

This wasn’t good. The fact that he even reacted the way he did left him too confused to be able to move. Half is body was telling him to just run for it and not to turn back. No one needed to get hurt in this, but the sad fact of the matter was the other half of his body wouldn’t let him leave this time.

Giving a small grunting sigh, he shift his body to basically throw himself off the bed with his body still injured this was going to be an adventure. Pulling himself up, he stumbled himself to the bathroom door giving it a small knock as he leaned hard against it, messing with the door knob, “…Tsuki…you okay?”

[timidticketholder]

✉—He stared forward as if in some sort of daze… Thinking back on the events just prior… It didn’t help the situation. Instead it sent tingles down to his core, causing him the shudder aloud.

Think… Of anything else..!

Before he could there was that small knock. Hearing the door knob jiggle, Tsuki panicked. None of the locks were reliable, so he completely forgot to try latching it. Not reacting fast enough with his words, the door gave way to the raven’ s weight.

Thankfully, he was much faster physically and quickly caught the door and him before he could tumble. “I am f-fine..!” On the verge of a stroke, he held the other crimson again in his embrace. “I sh-should have brought your ch-chair…” Much too tired the night before to think of the day ahead.

[poorunfortunate-souls]

The raven obviously hadn’t thought this through, possibly should of leaned on doorway rather than on the thing he was trying to open. Gasping out as he flailed forward trying to catch himself, he was extremely relieved the blond was so quick to catch him. Giving out a small huff, he puffed out his cheeks in defiance, “I don’t need some dumb chair to roll around in like I’m a useless human.”

Grabbing onto the blond’s shoulders, he wiggled against him attempting to stand on both feet once more. Back to the problem at hand though--

“If everything is fine, why are you hiding away in the bathroom like there is something wrong?” Taking another breathe he managed to keep both legs on the ground though he still held onto Tsuki for support, “Look we don’t need to let what happened effect us to the point where we have to separate you know...?”

[poorunfortunate-souls]

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[poorunfortunate-souls]

Watching the blond fumble around with his words once more and quickly make his way out of the room he didn’t know what else to say. His brain had wandered to one of their first conversations about what the other wanted out of him, perhaps he had gotten extremely too close to him.

This wasn’t good. The fact that he even reacted the way he did left him too confused to be able to move. Half is body was telling him to just run for it and not to turn back. No one needed to get hurt in this, but the sad fact of the matter was the other half of his body wouldn’t let him leave this time.

Giving a small grunting sigh, he shift his body to basically throw himself off the bed with his body still injured this was going to be an adventure. Pulling himself up, he stumbled himself to the bathroom door giving it a small knock as he leaned hard against it, messing with the door knob, “...Tsuki...you okay?”

[poorunfortunate-souls]

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[poorunfortunate-souls]

–It was really sudden. One moment he’s messing with the awkward blond and the next he was closer than any living being has ever been able to get. He was too frozen in shock to even react properly to the situation other than to kiss back out of the pure heat of the moment.

Gasping out, he finally managed to pull back enough to look the other crimson straight in the eyes, though now his face being just has flustered and red as the others, jokes were completely thrown to the side.

“Wh-what was-” he managed to stutter out, it was completely unlike him to trip over his own words, but he felt his own heart beating out of his chest making it hard for him to choke out any bit of communication.

The raven gave up on words, he wanted his heart to stop causing his him to gasp for air, he needed to let the feeling out. Immediately wrapping his arms around the blond’s neck, he went right back in for a full on kiss.

[timidticketholder]

✉— When the raven pulled away, the crimsons peered towards him. He didn’t expect his actions to impact him this much, afraid he might have a heart attack at this rate… Tsuki swallowed hard, fully prepared to be scolded by Roppi once he started to speak. Seemed both of them were taken back by the stutter.

“I’m Sor–…”

Before he could finish his apology, his lips crashed against his own - taking away his breath. This time was different from the one before… He couldn’t help except melt into the kiss, his lids fluttering closed when he pressed back. Exhaling shaky breathes through his nose as he went in again and again - deepening the kiss.

Completely engulfed by the heated, he squeezed around the raven’s waist. It wasn’t until he was nearly breathless that he pulled his lips away, head raised towards the headboard. He took a few heavy breathes, noting how the kiss had effected his body so he purposely released the raven and turned half his body away hopefully before he would notice.

[poorunfortunate-souls]

--There was absolutely no reasoning behind his actions on that morning, maybe it was just the fact he actually woke up in a good mood or perhaps he was growing some subconscious fondness of the shy blond. 

There was no explaining it, but when the blond finally pulled away from him the raven sat up pretty quickly in the bed, feeling as if he was able to inhale more air if he wasn’t staring at the person who was causing him to lose it. His fingers rubbing at his arms still frustrated with the situation, more so that he just didn’t understand it.

“I--” he tried to speak through pants, not daring to turn and make eye contact again for the risk of having a full fledged heart attack, “I’m sorry..--I, that was--” He certainly had no clue what to do with any of this and it wasn’t like he could run from it like usual when something was intimidating him.

[poorunfortunate-souls]

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[poorunfortunate-souls]

--It was really sudden. One moment he’s messing with the awkward blond and the next he was closer than any living being has ever been able to get. He was too frozen in shock to even react properly to the situation other than to kiss back out of the pure heat of the moment.

Gasping out, he finally managed to pull back enough to look the other crimson straight in the eyes, though now his face being just has flustered and red as the others, jokes were completely thrown to the side.

“Wh-what was-” he managed to stutter out, it was completely unlike him to trip over his own words, but he felt his own heart beating out of his chest making it hard for him to choke out any bit of communication.

The raven gave up on words, he wanted his heart to stop causing his him to gasp for air, he needed to let the feeling out. Immediately wrapping his arms around the blond’s neck, he went right back in for a full on kiss.

[poorunfortunate-souls]

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[poorunfortunate-souls]

Managing to reopen his eyes again after what only seemed like a few minutes to the raven, he peered to see the flustered boy looking as if any moment he might burst. Though he had every tight to be nervous, having the fact that the raven was too comfortable to move was just a once in awhile type situation.

Stretching out his legs, he yet again made another noise but this time it was a small yawn mixed with the nice sensation of stretching after actually resting. Hand moving up to rub the side of Tsuki’s face with one of his thumbs, “Hmm-- strange, I thought we had gotten all the blood off of you.” Another teasing remark from the raven who couldn’t help but comment on how red the boy’s face had gotten.

“Keep getting like this and you may have to change the color of your scarf or you’ll blend into it.” He smirked while chucking out a half hearted laugh.

[poorunfortunate-souls]

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[poorunfortunate-souls]

Letting out a small yawn, completely unfazed by the pulling away or sudden embarrassed reaction. Although he let out a small groan at the loss of the extra warmth, once again not completely awake enough to understand the full situation so still not understanding the sudden reaction.

“Too early...” the raven yawned, tucking the blanket up as well, but turned towards the blond, blinking sleepily. Pushing his forehead against the other in an attempt to return to the warmth he was at before. Giving in to another sigh of relief as he could feel the warmth coming from the other, “Mmm....not so loud...”

[semi-poly]

so i saw this meme of @yorihara and felt a strong obligation to make one for Shizuo as well, pfffffffffft

[poorunfortunate-souls]

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[poorunfortunate-souls]

At this point it would of been nearly impossible to wake up the sleeping raven no matter what he did, the past couple days finally catching up to him and wearing him out to nothing, it was finally nice to sleep in a soft place for the first time in ever.

Only managing to make a mumble noise when he heard the lightest sound of his name, but only pulled himself deeper into the blankets with not a care in the world.

It wasn’t until the slightest bit of dawn light seemed to peer through and get in the raven’s eyes that he opened them. In a daze not moving, but taking time to observe his surroundings. Clearly, he didn’t recall seeing this room before and laid there trying to figure out exactly what had happened last night.

No, there was no time he walked in here, he fell asleep on the couch right? Giving a small sleepy grumble, he squirmed around under the blanket before settling for just laying there. This was so much better than being sore from his injuries.

Wait-- crimson orbs looked to the side and he was not completely surprised the blond was laying so close to him given the need to be by the raven. In a very rough morning voice he grumbled, “Tsuki...?”

[poorunfortunate-souls]

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[poorunfortunate-souls]

It nearly startled him to have the blond’s head just fall on his lap, but once again, lines had long been crossed in his eyes and his own exhaustion made him care about things less than usual. Besides, the boy looked so tired, who was he to start throwing a temper now which would just end up the blond getting off of him anyway.

Taking the remote in his hand, he flicked through a couple channels, completely forgetting how boring t.v was for him for just the fact it was all just humans doing stupid things or characters played by humans doing stupid things. It was too late now, even if he did want to just get up and do something else, he’d probably end up face planting with how weak his body still was.

Wiggling just slightly to get comfy, his arm ended up on top of the blond’s torso, leaning back in the chair, settling on a random documentary, he breathed out softly and before long the exhaustion of the past couple days finally hit him. No hospitals or loud monitors. Trying to fight back but failing his eyes slipped closed and his head rolled to the side. Roppi was out like a light.

[poorunfortunate-souls]

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[poorunfortunate-souls]

Starting to get completely unfazed now with being picked up in that sort of manner, he didn’t fidget and squirm all the way back to his seat before hand. Quite impressed with how fast he managed to do all this as well as how he didn’t even look like he was even putting in too much extra energy to begin with.

Observing him walking back into the room, he was sort of confused by the extra clothing until the blond spoke up. It hadn’t completely occurred to the raven that his clothes possibly weren’t the cleanest one would prefer. Roppi definitely wasn’t going to turn his nose up to something a bit more sanitary and comfortable. While waiting for the blond to set up a little bed for himself, the raven scooted forward in the chair strapping his fingers under his shirt and pulling it off. 

Any other time he would of preferred getting dressed alone, but it had seemed they had already crossed some lines these past couple of hours. Reaching for the spare shirt he fussed with it a little bit before pulling it over his head. It wasn’t an understatement, it was a bit baggy on him. The raven looked like a skeleton compared to the shirt engulfing him. 

“Just try to get some sleep...you look like youre about to keel over soon and I do not think I’d be able to help you in that sort of emergency situation.” He said with a bit of a snort.

[poorunfortunate-souls]

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[poorunfortunate-souls]

This was a reaction he hadn’t expected. Of course the redness was there, but to have him rest so calmly in his lap sent a bit of a spike into his chest which could of just once again been that weird sensation of being touched, but there was no way he was going to continue thinking of a ridiculous reason other than this was just another person with the possibility of hurting him.

The raven seemed to stunned to move, rubbing his thumb with the wash cloth over it continuously against his cheek which was sure to be cleaned by now, but felt if he stopped he wouldn’t have much time to figure out that feeling.

Nearly jumping when the blond finally spoke up, not even completely sure what the boy kept meaning about him still being there, like there was a point where he was gone. He too though was too exhausted to even question him at least in the meantime.

“I don’t suppose you’ve tried to sleep at all.” It was pretty obvious by how more laid back the other was seeming to appear, “I would not mind if you at least attempted to get some sleep you know. You could lay on couch and I’ll just sit there and watch some t.v. if that would help.” Considering his knowledge and the fact Tsuki couldn’t even take a shower alone, he was not going to battle the boy on sleeping.

[poorunfortunate-souls]

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[poorunfortunate-souls]

--There’s nothing that is ever going to prepare him for getting picked up so fast into a bride position. Absolutely not, luckily his face was still pink from the earlier request so he could pull it off just on that alone. Happy enough he actually did not hit anything on the way there, not the only thing that seemed to come to a halt was Tsuki actually wanting to clean himself.

The raven could of spoke up at anytime to calm the boy’s nerves, but in reality how much fun could that actually be. It wasn’t a crime to enjoy seeing the blond squirm around like an embarrassed teenager; he merely grinned until he saw him just give up and start bathing completely clothed. Giving a slight grin, he leaned his back against the wall, eyeing him, “Do you not know how to bathe correctly or something?”

Obviously the raven knew exactly why he was acting the way he was, but he was kinda growing fond of how self aware the poor boy was. Not taking his eyes off Tsuki for that exact reason. The raven didn't have anything better to do after all, he was going to be injured and unable to do his usual habits, what better way too pass the time than mess with a shy version of Shizuo.

"Do you need help figuring out the correct way to shower because I highly doubt you are gonna be able to get all of that off when youre covering half your body you know?" Sitting forward, just to make this moment for flusting he picked up a rag and placed it against Tsuki's face trying to wipe small imprints of tear stains and blood off his cheeks. "Besides...you've seen me dirtier." Letting out a snicker out from his impossibly bad joke about actually being dirty.

[poorunfortunate-souls]

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[poorunfortunate-souls]

It took some time, but when the blond finally blurted out the request, it started to turn Roppi’s cheeks the same tint as the others. Staring at him a bit taken a back, he just stared confused while Tsuki continued to babble on, more thoughts flooding from his head, but left total lack of words.

The biggest question in his head now was just ‘why?’ Roppi knew the kid was a little strange, but did he have a fear of water or something? 

“You don’t seem like the person who isn’t not good at being alone...” He supposed after all the other did for him he could at least accompany the boy even without a very good reason. “I..I suppose so, it is just sitting in there with you, right?” Without giving the blond a chance to try to make Roppi sit back down or worry about him, he pushed himself slowly off the couch, careful not to stumble and drop back and giving him a smile, “You help me in there and I’ll sit there with you.”

[poorunfortunate-souls]

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[poorunfortunate-souls]

--If it wasn’t for that fact that he had just blanked out and made himself so comfortable, he probably wouldn’t of flinched as bad as he did when hearing the glass shatter. Giving the blond a look of concern, he was about ready to tell him not to worry about the drink, but considering how flustered the boy has been since the day he met Tsuki could have a mental break down of some sort.

When finally approached, the raven ignored anything he had to say and grabbed a hold of the wrist of his injured hand. Not even carrying how the blond reacted he took his other hand and started pinching out the small pieces of glass from his hand and placing them on the coffee table, completely unaware of what exactly he was doing.

Blinking himself back into reality, he dropped the blond’s hand a bit embarrassed with himself. 

“So uh...what request...?” The raven particularly didn’t do requests for others, but the time for normal was completely out of the question by now and also he kind of didn’t want to talk about what he was just doing.

[poorunfortunate-souls]

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[timidticketholder]

✉— He fidgeted where he stood - that strong urge to help the raven when he saw him struggle… Decided it was best for him to attempt first before he made any assumptions that might hurt his pride, especially with how independent Roppi tried to appear.

Slowly, he nodded. Though… He already knew he would disregard that advice. Why couldn’t he just accept that Tsuki wasn’t the type to pretend anything? “Is th-there anything you might need right n-now..?” The blonde set forth for the kitchen while he still kept a careful eye on the crimson.

“W-Water..?” He said, taking a good look in the fridge. “M-Milk..? Food..?” Though he lacked the leafy variety, he still had a few light ingredients - plus onigiri wasn’t too heavy. Perfect snack..? And Tsuki never missed out of the various flavors the convenient stored had at the time. He pulled out a few things for him to choose from and presented it on the bar for him to view.

[poorunfortunate-souls]

--Luckily keeping his balance enough to shuffle to the couch, he not so gracefully fell on the cushion with a small groan of pain, shifting around trying to make himself more comfortable.

Even though it was still severely odd for him to be in someone else’s house, he felt like just maybe he could try to let his guard down for this person the raven considered nothing more than crazy. Eyes drifting at the bar to see the blond desperately trying to, in Roppi’s terms, trying to please him.

“I don’t like water, it’s too bland. I suppose I wouldn’t mind a little milk.” The thought of food made his stomach tighten up, but the thought of trying to eat only made him more sick.

Giving a once more over the room before crimson eyes fell back over the blond, he began to make a face, "Are you still in the clothes from the night...?" That didn't seem hygenic. "You should stop worrying so much about me and perhaps clean up a little bit..."

[poorunfortunate-souls]

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[timidticketholder]

✉— Tsuki folded up the wheel chair then packed it into the back before he slid into the taxi on the other side. Gave the driver his address after Roppi confirmed what he had hoped. His heart was nearly beating out of his chest when he glanced at the raven, it was hard to believe that he nearly lost him those few days ago… “I d-don’t mind taking c-care of you for as long as y-you need…” He reassured him.

“T-To the left…” The blonde spoke up as they neared his apartment. It was one of those hotel-style complex, one solid building with individual living spaces on each floor. “R-Ready..?” He asked once the taxi came to a stop, warning him this time when he came around the taxi to his side after reassembling the chair directly outside the car door.

When he approved, his arms slipped under his legs and back - lifting him with ease and placing him inside the chair. His one perk for being a carbon copy of Shizuo. “N-Not many people sh-should be in the lobby…” He said on their way inside the residence, just in case he was worried about anyone giving him strange looks.

The automatic doors opened to what looked like a nearly empty lobby aside from the front desk which Tsuki offered a brief smile, but never stopped moving until they met the elevators. The blonde was right, it was absent of actual housing patrons - even the elevator instantly dinged and they stepped inside. He leaned over Roppi and gently pressed the number five then the lobby became a distant memory.

The duplicated started to get a little anxious once the doors to his floor opened, wheeling him not too far down the hall when he began fumbling in his pocket for his keys. Did he leave it a mess..? He turned the key and opened the door to a dim-lit living room, the only source of light being the sunshine that peeked through the curtains.

“H-Hope this is okay for you…” His stomach now in knots. Never would he ever had thought the crimson would enter the privacy of his own home. It wasn’t much, standard living room - couch, television, coffee table with a mess of letters. Directly behind was the kitchen separated by a bar counter and to the right of the living room was a hall to the bed and bath.

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The entire ride to Tsuki’s place was a basic blur, even though he could clearly see the hint of excitement in his features making the raven roll his eyes and give a little smirk continuing back to staring outside the window of the taxi.

‘Ridiculous person’

It took a lot apparently to make Roppi realize just how happy he was to have his coat. Keeping himself buried in it even if the lobby seemed empty enough, he was already pissed off enough to be even a weaker nuisance than in general. Letting out a sigh of relief when the elevator doors finally closed in front of him, but continued to stay quiet as the amount of awkward tension was still filling up his chest.

Crimson orbs searched over the small room, it had an odd comforting feeling that came from it even if Roppi wasn’t use to such a nice up kept building.

“It’s not...terrible.” He was going to keep it simple, after all he was trying not to come off absolutely too rude to a person who basically just saved his life. Slowly untucking himself from the confines of his jacket, he gave it a few seconds before he felt like he had enough of the pity caretaker and pushed himself out of the wheelchair, clinging to the side of it to try to keep his balance.

“I’m not going to cause you too much trouble...you can just pretend I’m not here if that makes it easier.”