Written by: hiyoriiiiin
Edited: Food-chan
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Kazu as usual he woke up and was ready to do the house work that day. Picking up newspaper, going to buy milk, there was an additional thing he noticed. A letter to Master Izaya.
"Who would send letters these days? So old fashioned.", Kazu just murmured to himself until Izaya grabbed it.
"Must be my mom who got tons of time in her hands."
Izaya tore the mouth of the letter very carefully to not damage the letter inside.
Come home tomorrow, I need you and all other people for THIS important party. Don't try to excuse again or your dead before you know it and I send list of girls with whom you would like a blind date. No don'ts, choose someone you like from the list and let me know, so I will arrange a blind date between you two. Take care and reply to this letter through letter. Don't think I will let you go like those previous letters.
-From The Co-Ceo of K Corp., Tomane
"Talk about a pain in the ass." Izaya said with a sigh.
Kazu's mind was lingering to know what was in it. He kept on trying to peep to take a hint at the random words atleast to get the gist of it, but in vain. "Blind date", Kazu was able to see that word in specific. Kazu sighed.
"Why are you doing what I should be doing now?"
"Master nope, its another sigh. Its weird to see a letter delivered in this electronical age. Quite a rare sight."
"Is that so? Its one of the habits she has. She has never lived with me after my grade 4. She stays with dad faraway, but thinks sending manual letters would show her care for me as her son or whatsoever."
"Does she do it all the time? I mean, sending manual hand written letters master?"
"Yep. This is the proof that she needed me for business than family bonding and suddenly she asks me to go through these blind date list and bull shit."
He went through the photos his mom gave one by one. He slided off every photo he saw, reasoning something silly for the rejection.
"Nope, nose looks too blunt…. This one's face is fake as fuck... This one needs to put on some weight." Izaya was trashing everything he saw.
"Master they look fine to me though. Why do you keep rejecting it?"
"Do you know why playboys are mostly preferred by a ton of girls?"
"Because they are handsome and spoiled?"
"Are you referring that to me perhaps?"
"Nonono, I just said in general. But I don't have an idea about these stuff anyways…"
"Ahem back to what I was saying, the reason why girls are often attracted to playboys is not just because they are handsome but they just know the way how to treat them well to their satisfaction. Also playboys can also spot out good from rotten just with a look."
"So, you say these are all rotten just by a look?"
"Yup, mother should have the intention of setting me up with a girl who is on the same level as us or lesser but still in the rich circle. Most of them maybe just after a big company's heir and not truly about finding someone for them. Tsk thats why I don't like them."
"Oh I see."
"But you are just my type hmm", he smirked at him.
Kazu flinched hard remembering clearly that those were also the words of his "was bestie" Paul. He rushed out of the place to avoid further complications because of his emotions. He said that to him just as a joke but it was heavy on him. He doesn't have any idea who might Paul be and what did he do, but he couldn't avoid being sad.
***
Kazu heard someone ringing at the door, but before he could open it Izaya already attended to him. Izaya brought back a tub of ice-cream which contained the most plain flavoured one, vanilla. He went and kept the ice cream in the freezer to freeze it to the fullest. And Kazu brought him a cup of tea which was as his daily habit. But it looked like Kazu's hands shivered so much that even Izaya looked at it in the first glance.
"Why does your hands shake so much mutt?"
"Don't know master, I.. I just feel uneasy and dizzy." Kazu replied squinting his eyes as if he couldn't see anything clearly.
Izaya suddenly touched his forehead with his forehead while Kazu's face ran red.
Here goes his playboy habits again
Kazu thought to himself.
"See, you got a fever and its terrible to the extent that even your face has gone all red."
「 You wouldn't know why that was for anyway 」
"Its really nothing master. I have lots of work to do."
"No, go rest. Even if you do it, you won't do it correctly with this state of yours anyways. I need perfection."
Kazu went to his room and wrapped himself inside a thick blanket. It was really warm, so warm that it felt like the best place in the world to settle at that moment. Suddenly a voice barged in.
"Hey mutt what do you usually write to your mom?" he asked in a curious way.
"I don't write manual letters master."
"then what do you usually reply your mom with when she had sent you a letter?"
"Umm is it perhaps the reply for your letter master?"
"You sure catch up on these kinds of things very quickly."
"But my mom died a few months ago and I don't know how our age group would respond to her." he replied with a seemingly sad tone.
They quickly went to silence however Izaya broke it immediately.
"Sorry for your loss"
"Already heard that a lot. Thanks"
Kazu cut off the conversation.
"Then imagine one. Consider it as an english assignment."
"If I want to decline something she asked, I would do it in a tricky way that fools her as well showing some affection or else it would have greater consequences later if you were to decline in a straight forward manner."
"Such a troublesome work during my freetime tsk tsk."
Izaya asked what he had wanted to ask and nagged how much he had wanted to nag him and left the room without a notice. Kazu's mind was completely blank. He took a sedative to put him to sleep and also to lower his fever, but the medicine looked like it wanted some time to become active. He wondered what might have been the reason for his sudden fever. He went through his thoughts about what he did the previous day and that day. He did not get fever from a cliche event like getting soaked from rain or not changing wet clothes. Then it striked, the events with Paul that he had ingest it all of a sudden and the events with Paul in his unnarrated past. The sedative hit him in and he lost consciousness before he could even calculate his bad luck to have run into him.
***
"Mutt, hey mutt wake up dude." someone was calling for him in his dreams. But the feeling was real, he sensed his hands being poked. When he realized it wasn't a dream, he saw Izaya with a bucket of ice cream with a spoon in his mouth.
"W-whats the matter master? Does something need to be done?" he murmured in his half sleep state.
"Eat this." said Izaya forcing a spoonful of ice cream into his mouth.
"I'm not feeling well and it might only get worse.."
"Nawww you must eat things like these especially at times like these."
"No anything but this master, please."
"Just eat this and you will be fine. If you want to shoo away your sickness that you don't do like, then you need to do things that you like. Even if someone or doctor says thats not the way to treat a person with fever, all it takes is for just your mind to accept it." he forced his hand into his mouth yet it touched kazu nose. Now kazu have cleaning to do on his nose. Kazu who was already hot is now feeling hotter than before because of anger issue. He yelled, scolding his master for putting an ice cream on his nose although Izaya was laughing all the time putting another ice cream on his cheek and his forehead. When he had an enough fun, he seriously gave Kazu an ice cream and rushed off taking an incoming call.
After a few hours or so, Kazu opened his eyes and this time he looked really fresh and all new. His eyesight was not blurry like before, his dizziness disappeared and he felt so normal. The words Izaya spoke, it all felt like a dream. For him to say this kind of thing, it was the eighth wonder of this world…
All it takes is for your mind to accept it
Those words circled his head. He linked Paul's incident to those words and connected a bridge. That made him feel a bit at ease though not completely. He thought that Paul and Izaya were the biggest eyesores as persons in his life. But there was a difference between them. He can be related to both of them through the same thing. He almost did it with Izaya and he never did it with Paul but he was falsely accused. When he compared both of them in that way, he realized that someone who is rude and cold is way better than someone who breaks the trust and bond formed over these many years…. He just gave a smirk.
"I guess master is better than I thought."
He left his room to find out izaya was gone for a day.