Overall Disclaimer: I do not own Durarara!. Ryohgo Narita does. All I own is a copy of the DVD and manga.

Chapter 1

It was such a nice night. Too bad he couldn't enjoy it.

"IZAYAAAAA-KUN!" A beast-like roar echoed through the streets followed by hysterical laughter.

"Catch me if you can, Shizu-chan~" The lithe informant giggled as he jumped off a dumpster and onto a fire escape. He paused for a second to allow his pursuer to catch up before dashing up the metal steps. The flimsy stairs quaked as Shizuo stomped up after him.

"Izayaaa-kun!" He rumbled dangerously, mocha eyes narrowed in determination behind purple shades. Izaya reached the top and looked around before spotting a possible escape and climbing several feet onto the roof. He ran to the corner and cursed. Not only did the railings come up to his chest, but the nearest building roof was well over 7 feet away.

"Looks like I'll have to fight." Izaya muttered to himself, drawing his switchblade and brandishing it threateningly. The monster approached at a steady pace. Izaya turned to face him and plastered a wide smirk across his face as he backed up until his back hit the railing.

"Izayaaaa-kun!" Shizuo roared. He finally had him cornered! He lunged to grab him but the slippery bastard dodged under his outstretched arm and pranced away laughing.

"You'll have to be quicker than that, Shizu-chan!" He teased. But as he said it there was a metallic smashing noise as Shizuo skidded right through the railing along the edge, his momentum rendering him unable to stop himself. Shrieks rose from the streets below, passersby preparing to witness the worst.

"Izaya!" He cried, desperately this time. Izaya wasn't sure why but he dashed forward and grabbed his hand, pulling him up a few inches, but the weight of his enemy worked against him.

"You're too heavy!" Izaya screamed through the wind. Shizuo's eyes widened as he slipped some more and there were more screams from below. Izaya tightened his grip on both Shizuo's hand and the broken railing, tugging uselessly as he tried to pull him back up.

"Izaya!" He begged, genuinely terrified for the first time in his life. He had been scared many times before but this was his first time experiencing pure and unadulterated terror, the kind that boiled in his stomach and made his heart pound so loudly that it echoed in his skull. Izaya's grip on the railing slipped, slicing open his palm. Blood oozed out, coating his hand and making him slip even more.

Izaya grit his teeth and let go of the railing, jerking forward before he steeled himself, grabbing Shizuo's forearm with his bloodied hand. He tried in vain to pull him up but Shizuo's shirt started to tear. Izaya attempted to get a new hold but the blood coating his hand slicked over Shizuo's arm, making it impossible.

The blond fell even more, pulling Izaya with him. "Just let me go!" He begged.

"No!" Izaya shouted furiously. "I'm not letting go, how dare you say that! You can't die like this!" No. Shizuo had to go down in a blaze of fury, brought down by Izaya, not gravity.

"I won't die! Just let me go!"

"How can you say that you won't die? Maybe you won't, but getting hit by a truck still stuns you! Falling from this height could put you in a coma, if you didn't die." Izaya's voice fell to a whisper so that Shizuo couldn't hear him. "I can't lose you."

But Izaya kept sliding forward until he was right on the very edge. The few inches he had managed to pull him up were quickly lost. Izaya looked nervously behind him as his grip loosened ever so slightly. Maybe Shizuo was right. Maybe he should just let him fall, just let this whole thing go. He could let his precious monster fall from his grip and break on the pavement far below, and he could walk away unscathed. Nobody would blame him if Shizuo fell. The blond's friends would try, but the blame just wasn't his.

Shizuo screamed as he fell even farther, and it was this sound, this wonderfully human sound that made Izaya stretch down as far as he could and grab his shirt. The fabric tore in his fist and Shizuo finally fell.

Maybe it was idiotic- no, it was, it definitely was, but Izaya didn't let go. He let himself be pulled over the edge, the wind whistling in his ears as they plunged. Izaya screwed up his face against the certain death looming before him as the pavement rapidly grew closer.

Pedestrians screamed as though they were the ones about to die. Izaya wanted to scream too but was paralyzed with fear. He didn't want to die!

The next thing he knew strong arms wrapped around him, Shizuo's body drawing him into a tight embrace like a cocoon and shielding him from the full force of the blow as the next second they hit the ground. Shizuo couldn't even scream; all that escaped him was a sound akin to that of a kicked puppy before he knew no more.

The world spun around him as Izaya tried to stand but he had barely risen to his knees before he collapsed into unconsciousness, a sticky pool of their conjoined blood growing around them.

My first published Durarara story! Yay! This first chapter was short, and so is the next one, but I am attempting to write longer chapters. Second chapter should be up extremely soon, since it's already written and just undergoing some edits. See you~