Hiya everyone~ This is my first story on the site. It's going to be pretty big I think, with lots of chapters! I wanted to make my first fic with the anime Durarara! because it's my fave anime EVAH. Color gangs, a headless dullahan, demon swords, all these different plots weaving together up 'til the very end - that's what inspires me about this anime. It just makes me want to write (and make AMVS) with it. So, if you're reading this and you haven't seen it, SHAME. You'll be spoiled by the spoilerific fic, but even so I still want everyone to read it.
There's not much else I can say. Just that I picked Mikado as the main character because most of this is centered around him, as well as the fate of Shizuo in later chapters. (I'm evil to my characters, is all I can say.) This is just the first chapter, I have a few more in Word but I'm still polishing them up.
I'll stop talking now. Read, all you awesome readers. And review this stuff.
The Turning of Fate
Ch 1 - Chaos begins Again
It was just another day in Ikebukuro. The city hummed with life. The Black Rider continued to do her jobs, riding through the city and causing everyone to stop and stare. Even those that saw the Black Rider every day couldn't help but look at her pass. It was a pitch-black and silent bike, ridden by a woman with nothing but black smoke swirling inside her unique helmet.
Things were the same. Unchanging. Normalcy pursued the ones who lived here, though the city still hid its secrets. Secrets that lurked in the shadows, always waiting… waiting for those that would pry too deeply. No one knew these secrets better than Mikado Ryugamine and his friends, who had stared straight into the face of the city's darkness.
Though everyone continued on as normal, there were some things that changed. Like Masaomi disappearing along with Saki. Mikado still talked with him in the chatroom, but he never found out exactly where he went. All he knew was the Masaomi had left Tokyo entirely. It was strange not having him around, not walking home with him and Anri and listening to his obnoxious flirting.
Anri and Mikado still walked together after school. Masaomi had always managed to break the ice and the silences between them, but as time passed since he left, the two of them had to learn to bridge that gap themselves. The awkwardness between them disappeared, and soon they were talking and laughing like they never had before. They were even dating now. Still, there was always that feeling of something missing.
It had been two years. They were in their senior year of high school now. The school was the most unchanging out of everything. All that really changed there was that Takushi, the creepy teacher that always tried to molest Anri had quit his job and left Ikebukuro. It was a good thing, too, because Mikado wasn't sure if he could stand up to him like Masaomi had.
Izaya was still jumping from Shinjuku to Ikebukuro, still causing trouble wherever he could. Shizuo still chased him, causing endless property damage that the city mysteriously ignored. Mikado saw them occasionally. Sometimes he just heard Shizuo screaming at Izaya and saw something large flying across the streets. It always reminded him of his first day in Ikebukuro, when he saw a flying man and a flying vending machine. Shizuo's strength was crazy.
Other than that, he tried to stay away from Izaya, besides talking to him on the chat. Once he found out that pretty much all the bad things that happened to them had something to do with him, he did his best to stay out of his path. It bugged him that he was still in Ikebukuro. It meant that he still had something to do here, and that made him uneasy.
That was one of the many dark secrets that were still undiscovered. Celty had finally given up on her head. It was no longer important to her. She had realized something else that was more precious to her, more than the century worth of memories that she had hunted after for so long. It was Shinra. Celty was satisfied with her life now, and was finally at peace with herself.
However, that wasn't going to last for much longer. Izaya still had Celty's head. All this time he was setting up a new struggle, hoping to awaken Celty as a valkyrie. It was his theory that if he created a war that he could win the head he had in his possession would finally open its eyes. It was one of his morbid 'hobbies', one that he had stuck with longer than any other. His previous attempts had failed, but he was determined to make it work this time.
"It won't be long before everything will be in place, and the sparks will start to fly again," he said with a smile, lounging on his couch. He was speaking more to himself than Namie who was sitting at the desk, still doing most of his work. She hated working for him, but her section of Yagiri Pharmaceuticals had collapsed since the human experiments were discovered by the cops. Izaya had agreed to help hide her from the police (who were still searching for everyone involved) as long as she worked for him.* She frowned at the pile of papers next to the computer screen. She hated him.
"The only problem right now is Shizu-chan. I never would have expected it, but he is starting to make things difficult…" He looked over to the flatscreen, which was displaying one of the Tokyo news channels. They were talking about a string of supposedly-related crimes in Western Tokyo. "I suppose I could frame him again. It won't be hard, it never is. He has quite a history."
"Isn't he the Shizuo guy with anger-management issues that always tries to kill you?" wondered Namie as she moved files from one pile to others. She didn't understand why he didn't just put all of this on his computer himself. It would be so much easier to work with. Maybe he kept it like this to mess with her. After all, he was an informant, and he was on his computer a lot. Still, she had no say in what she had to do. This annoyed her to no end.
"That's the one… Hey, Namie. Can you do me a favor?" he asked.
"I don't really have a choice, do I?" she grumbled.
"Smart girl. I'm going back to Ikebukuro for a bit. I need you to stay here and handle things while I'm gone. I've got some more pawns to place," he said. He stood up and stretched. "Have fun~," he said to Namie before he left.
"Sure," she said bitterly, after he had left. "I'd have more fun kicking your ass."
And so, the chaos begins again. The wheels of fate turn and threaten to upset this era of peace that had settled on the world. Izaya grinned as he walked down the street, almost skipping. "This'll be quite enjoyable, won't it, Shizu-chan?" He said with a laugh, even though the violent man in the bartender getup was nowhere to be seen.
*I have no idea why Namie started working for Izaya in the first place, so I just made the Yagiri Pharmaseutical bit up. I must've missed that part when I was watching the anime - I only noticed that she started working for him.
This is short. It's kind of a prologue. Izaya talking about his plans here is like a little intro leading up to everything that happens later in the story.
