Okay so this is about where Izaya is mostly and what happens after he starts that gang war or whatever. I've added more of the characters from the novel than the anime did but it's more based off the anime... Well at the moment anyway. Enjoy.
Orihara Izaya had skipped town after starting the gang war and to Shiki's slight annoyance their leader thought it was appropriate to call together the major executives of the Awakusu-kai. He didn't normally think that Dougen was wrong but this time he thought it was ridiculous to call them together. Shiki felt that he was partially to blame for Orihara's little 'vanishing' act though. Orihara should've never threatened her though.
"Don't you ever threaten her again!" Shiki's own words echoed through his head as he sat there and half listened to the rest of them discuss the war that was now starting to effect rival yakuza groups.
Shiki remembered the shocked look on Orihara's face when he slammed him against the wall. He had been using a different information broker and Orihara had noticed. Orihara had looked into who it was and planned on running her out of Ikebukuro like he did so many other informants. When Shiki had caught wind of this he let him know that wasn't an option. She was staying where she was and there wasn't a thing in the world he could do about her.
"No offence Dougen-sama," The object of Shiki's thoughts spoke out after listening to them talk, "but what is the point in this? If the other yakuza groups mess with the Awakusu-kai won't you just mess with them back? Isn't that what always happens? Why should this war between children be any worry to you?"
"Amaya-chan," Shiki's tone was holding a warning to his niece, "don't take that tone."
"What tone?" Amaya asked cocking a brow at her uncle.
"The point to this meeting is what we'll do when or if we get dragged into this war." Dougen said to her with a slightly amused smile, "this war isn't much of a war to me but I do want info on the other yakuza groups."
"They're in total disarray at the absence of Orihara Izaya." She told him without skipping a beat, "Apparently he was the only informant they used and since he ran off the other informants they have no one to turn to."
"Are you going to become an informant for them Tsukuda-san?" Dougen asked her.
"Yes but, I can promise my loyalty to the Awakusu-kai will keep me from betraying you." She said to him with a bow of her head. Shiki was thankful that she was showing respect now and her tone had turned serious.
"Hmm…" Dougen gave the girl a skeptical look. Shiki thought about taking up for her but in the back of his mind he knew that she was just as manipulative as Orihara when she wanted to be, when she needed to be. She could talk her way out of anything, or talk her way into your mind.
"I wouldn't turn my back on an organization that my family is involved with." She said to Dougen. Shiki knew she looked up to him as if he were her father. He had raised her after her mother had run out on her. His sister had never been responsible and getting knocked up with what she called 'a huge mistake' and then running away from that precious child had only proved that. Shiki was the only family Amaya had and he knew that she wouldn't stab him in the back even if it cost her, her life.
Most of the people in the room had been like family to her anyway, even Dougen himself. Shiki had had no choice but to leave her with the other Awakusu-kai members from time to time. She looked to Akabayashi as if he were an older brother – although Shiki wished otherwise. Dougen hadn't been angered by her appearance when she was only six and had even treated her much like he treats his own granddaughter today. Aozaki and Akabayashi had even taught her how to fight at age six – which caused hell for Shiki when she tried out her new skills at school.
"The kid's telling the truth." Akabayashi spoke up for her. It surprised Shiki but Amaya glared at him.
"Don't take up for me." she said snidely to him as usual.
"Well who else will?" he said to her, "Obviously your uncle isn't going to."
"No one needs to take up for me." She said to him with both her face and her tone devoid of emotion, "I'm not a child; I don't need someone to speak for me or help me."
"I believe her too." Aozaki said and she rolled her eyes, "Come on we've all known her since she was a little kid; if she were to turn on us in the back she would've done it by now."
"I know she won't turn on us." Dougen said to them, "but how do we know she won't betray us if she's captured and tortured for information?"
"That's simple." She said pulling the chain around her neck out from under her shirt and opening the heart shaped locket, "I'll take this; it's a cyanide pill." Shiki gapped at his niece and wondered when she had become so reckless, "It kills in nine seconds."
"That's a bit…" Akabayashi started but couldn't find the words to describe what it was.
"Unnecessary?" Shiki offered and she laughed and closed the little deadly pill back up in the locket, the locket that had her mother's picture inside it.
"I was thinking more along the lines of insane." Aozaki mumbled and Dougen sighed.
"Okay we'll keep you as our informant." He said to her and she bowed her head to him.
"Thank you Dougen-sama." She said and Shiki felt anger. He should have never gotten his niece involved with this organization. He should've gotten a nanny and had them watch over her but he hadn't. Shiki didn't trust anyone with the girl he considered as a daughter and those he did had molded her into another subordinate, as skilled as she was she was just another underling to them.
"If you wish to go Tsukuda-san you may." Dougen told her and she bowed to him and stood up without offering a single glance at her uncle. Shiki was far from happy with his niece at the moment anyway. Perhaps it was better that she hadn't given him the chance to speak to her. She had always been defiant towards his every expectation, maybe her defiance was why she had turned out the way she had?
"Shiki-san …" his attention was taken away from his niece and brought back to the matter at hand. He would have to find her later and force her to give him that damned pill. He would not let his only remaining family kill herself for this organization.
Amaya walked into her apartment and into the kitchen. She opened the fridge and grabbed the half gallon of milk and took a swig straight from the jug.
"That's disgusting." He complained as he walked around her with his characteristic smirk slapped across his face.
"So, it's not like you ever drink milk." She said to him as he leaned against the black marble of her kitchen counter.
"I have cereal for breakfast every once in a while." He said and she rolled her eyes.
"So, you know where my mouth has been and, you know I brushed my teeth this morning." She said to him and he sighed.
"It's still a disgusting habit." He said shaking his head.
"Fine I'll go buy another two half gallons of milk and I'll write 'Orihara Izaya's milk' on one." She said using air quotes as she held the jug of milk.
"Really, that's so sweet of you!" he said overly happy, "I thoroughly enjoy it when you go out of your way to please me!"
"Wow you really are losing it from being away from your precious humans." She said as if humans were anything but precious. She felt that way too. Izaya was probably the only person in the world she could get along with besides a sparse few others and she could barely get along with him.
"I miss them all so much but thankfully I have you to give me reports on the interesting ones!" He said to her with impatient eyes.
"The whole city is in a panic and the gangs are going wild wanting to know where the hell you are." She told him and he smiled, "Your old secretary, Yagiri Namie?" He nodded and she went on, "Was kidnapped by someone who referred to herself as Earthworm." Amaya smiled at the slight twitch at the name, "The Awakusu-kai called together a meeting with Akabayashi, Aozaki, Shiki, I and Dougen because of the war and Heiwajima Shizuo has been getting into more fights lately."
"You're such a lovely information broker Maya-chan." Izaya said and she smirked at the pet name.
"I know." She said seeming full of herself to anyone but Izaya, to him he thought of her just being convinced by him saying it every time she reported to him, "Oh and Mikado and Anri are finally dating."
"You always did find love amusing, didn't you?" Izaya asked her and she laughed.
"I only think so because I know it's never really true." She told him honestly, "I wish more people were like you and I, we both know love is nothing but a lie."
"Humans find it so easy to believe in don't they?" Izaya mused.
She merely nodded as she looked away from Izaya and thought of a horror filled past that Izaya heard her mewl about in her nightmares. It always woke him at night when she would cry and toss and turn next him. He would never admit it to her but he often held her smoothed her hair down, whispered soothing things to calm her and it always worked. It bothered him that she would confide everything to him but not that.
"I forgot to get your sushi…" she said breaking out of the past horrors to give Izaya an apologetic look, "… I'll just call Russia Sushi and order some."
"Aw! I feel so offended! How could you forget me?" he said in mock hurt as he pretended his heart was hurting by clutching his chest.
"You're such a dork." She said shaking her head as she put the milk back in the fridge.
"You can be just as bad when you want to be." He said and she rolled her eyes, "So how did the meeting go anyway?"
"I told them I was going to an informant for the other yakuza groups as well and that I would take a cyanide pill if I were captured by them." She laughed at that, "And Dougen actually believed I would kill myself for the sake of the Awakusu-kai!"
"You do carry one on you though." Izaya said and she nodded.
"I only carry it for when I find her." She said devoid of emotion in her tone and visage.
"And yet you'll never tell who this mysterious woman is." Izaya said with a frown.
"And I never will." She told him still emotionless.
"So… after sushi?" he couldn't help ask since he had been bored all morning without her around to keep him entertained, to keep him preoccupied, lewd.
She let a devious smile stretch across her face as she walked over and put her arms around his shoulders. Her body felt good against his and her lips on his neck turned him on. Izaya enjoyed this 'friends with benefits' thing they had going on and he knew she enjoyed it just as much. She felt nothing for him other than friendship and it wasn't about to change after four years.
He had just graduated from high school when she saw him for the first time and then they had started to talk and he noticed she was lot like Shinra only she was above humans because of her hatred not love. He never learned what it was she hated but he knew how to push her buttons and make her angry. That was how it had happened the first time.
They got into an argument and then she took a swing at him. He had grabbed her wrists, pinned them to the brick wall behind her and she had pinned him to her by wrapping her legs around his hips. He had never felt a woman like that before and he didn't think he would've reacted the way he had. She had just smiled defiantly at him when he had blushed at the sudden and confusing hardness in his pants. He had let go of her wrists and she had thrown her arms around his neck in a very deep and lustful kiss. She was still the only woman he could get it up for. He wondered if it had anything to do with her being his first.
"Maybe we could get sushi after –" Her tongue got in the way of his words and at the same time answered his question. Izaya responded by putting his hands under her butt so she lock her legs around his waist and be carried off to her bedroom so they could fuck each other senseless. Izaya was thankful that her apartment was sound proof from the sounds they were making.
Ladybug's ramble: I hope you liked it! I'll be adding more chapters later! Review or comment or whatever! Oh and the chapter title is "The woven meadow unravels," because Ori means woven and Hara means meadow but interpret it however you wish. Ladybug out~!