Izaya Q
A/N: This was an idea I've had for a while now. It's another unusual crossover, but I thought I should at least try it out. I know it's different, but I think it will turn out good though. I think it will work. :-)
- For anyone who actually knows Star Trek: Voyager, this is not the same Q character as in the show. It's a different Q but of the same species. You'll see what I mean. I hope you like it. (I still tagged Q as a character though because of the same concept)
- I don't know yet how many chapters this will have yet though.
A/N: Since this is an unusual crossover, please let me know if any of you have any questions about this story. Such as regarding Q, voyager, or anything like that. I will try to make things clear in my story.
- If anyone here hasn't seen Star Trek: Voyager, I would definitely recommend watching it if you like sci-fi. This show was around in the nineties, it was a really good show though. There's also a bit of girl power in it as well since there's a female captain (and she can be pretty tough when she needs to be). (What I mean is that she's an empowering character.) It can probably be found on Netflix, and I've seen it played on live TV sometimes too.
A/N: I'll continue to look over this story to see if I need to edit anything such as with grammar. I'm always looking to improve my pieces since I would like to be a professional writer one day and I always want it to be the best that I can make it. Although like I've said before, if the reviews aren't completely positive that's okay but if there's something you don't like and need to say so I would prefer it if you state that in the form of a way I can improve it and not just saying you don't like it. I think that's reasonable.
- Let me know what you think~! :-)
Chapter 1
Izaya Orihara was well-known for having a god complex. He refers to people as his humans and limits his connections with people. Ever wondered why?
Everything seemed normal, well that is if you could consider anything normal with Izaya. He waited in front of the apartment door to Shinra's apartment. Celty answered the door.
"Hello courier. I'm here to see Shinra."
She typed on her phone.
[He just went to get something in the other room, but will be out in a moment.]
Izaya entered the apartment.
[What are you doing here anyways?]
"What, can't I just randomly come by to visit a friend?"
She crossed her arms as though she were skeptical. Izaya sighed.
"Fine, Shinra asked me to come by. He said I needed to have a regular checkup done by him since I don't go to a normal doctor often enough." This seemed to satisfy her as she uncrossed her arms. Izaya plopped on the couch and began fiddling with his knife. Just as Shinra was entering the room, a different voice could be heard.
"Wow, you have to rely on doctor visits now? How sad. How…vulnerable. It must be so miserable being stuck in a mortal state like that."
Izaya tensed at the familiar voice. No. It couldn't be. Why would he be here now? Izaya turned to see the last being he wanted to see. A man who looked like he was in his late twenties leaning on the wall near the kitchen. Nobody had heard him come in. Almost like he just appeared out of nowhere. He had red-brown eyes and dark hair matching Izaya's, although this man's hair was much shorter. Izaya clenched his fists as a rare anger began to take him over.
The man continued.
"I'm so glad I don't have to rely on anybody like that for my own physical health. Then again, I don't ever have physical health to worry about."
"Excuse me but who are you and why are you here?" Shinra questioned as he quickly came into the room. "And for that matter, where did you even come from?"
The man looked over Shinra smugly
"You are Shinra Kishitani, right? A human. And from what I gathered, the only one Izaya really considers a friend. My name is Q. I guess where I came from might be a bit complicated to answer. Why I'm here though is to see Izaya."
Before Shinra could questions him, Izaya pointed his knife at the being.
"What are you doing here?"
Q laughed.
"Why, is it so strange for a father to want to visit his own son?"
"Father!?" Shinra exclaimed. Shinra had never officially met Izaya's parents before, but he had seen them, and this man definitely did not look like the Mr. Orihara Shinra had seen before. Although, this man did seem to resemble Izaya more in physical appearance.
"You are not my father."
Q tsked Izaya at that.
"Oh, biology can't be helped Izaya. You can't change that I am your father. However, some would love to have a being like myself for a father."
"Being?" Shinra questioned.
"You should count yourself lucky."
"Lucky!? That's a laugh. Since when has having a Q for a father ever brought me any luck."
Q gave an almost sympathetic frown at that.
"Aw, don't tell me you actually prefer being this way? Mortal? Powerless? It saddens me so much to see you in this weakened state. I wish this did not have to happen to you."
Izaya glared at him and practically growled.
"Um, excuse me," Shinra managed out. "But what on earth is going on here?"
Izaya sighed. He really did not want his father to churn things up in his life now. Especially since at the moment, Izaya felt like he was doing very well with his own game in Ikebukuro.
"Hmm, I can imagine this would be confusing for a mortal like you. Especially since Izaya technically isn't supposed to talk about it. Not that it really matters now though. I can imagine you'd just be very annoying about it until I actually give you an explanation."
Shinra seemed like he was about to interject at that, but Q kept talking.
"Basically, I am Izaya's father but I am not human. I am a Q, an omnipotent being. You could think of us as being like gods in a way. Therefore, Izaya is not human, at least not fully. His mother was human after all."
"Wait a second, what do you mean by 'it doesn't really matter now'?" Izaya questioned.
Shinra still looked perplexed.
"Oh, a dullahan." Q commented about Celty, completely ignoring Izaya's inquiry much to his dismay. "I haven't seen one of them in a while."
"Was there a reason for you being here, because I gave no indication that I wanted to see you." Izaya jabbed at Q.
Q gave Izaya a scolding look.
"Such rudeness towards your own father. You're lucky it's only me who you said that too. Other Qs would not have hesitated to just snap you into dust."
Izaya let out an irritated groan. He really hated this man's games, not really thinking about the irony of the thought though.
Q snapped his fingers and then suddenly, he was wearing Izaya's parka and holding Izaya's knife.
Izaya looked at his now parka lacking torso, feeling very strange without his trademark parka jacket and just wearing a white V-neck shirt. He also looked back into his own hand that was holding his flick blade a mere second ago to where it was now in Q's hands.
"Hey! Those are mine! Give them back!"
Q hugged the jacket to himself and spun around.
"Hmm, I can see why you like this thing so much. It's comfy and stylish."
Izaya clenched his teeth.
Q looked at the knife in a patronizing way.
"You do realize how pointless it was to point this towards me, right? In case you forgot, I am in fact immortal and can't even be harmed by these puny things. It's so sad you lower yourself to such, needing to carry such a pathetic weapon around for your own protection. You should be immortal like your father. You were born with immortality after all. I only wish you could have kept what you were born with"
"Well, I didn't choose to have my powers taken away! I need some way to survive on earth."
"Hey, I didn't take your powers away. The continuum did. I fought for you, remember? You can't blame me for that."
"Hang on- "Shinra tried.
"Yeah, well because of you I became too dependent on my powers before they took them away. You don't have any idea what it was like to have to survive in this world when I wasn't used to being powerless! Do you know how much of an outcast I've been in the past because of the ways I felt I had to survive here?! I didn't know if I could trust anybody.
So, if you came here just to play more of your obnoxious games, teasing me about having no powers, I'm not interested. Do you have a legit reason for being here or not!?"
Izaya got so caught up in ranting to his father he nearly forgot that Celty and Shinra were still there. They weren't supposed to know anything about this. Izaya figured though that if need be, Q could probably find a way to fix their own lack of stealth.
For the first time since Q entered the apartment, his ridiculous playful grin was not shown on his face. He actually looked at Izaya seriously now and sighed.
"Alright- "
"Hang on! Please stop ignoring me! I may not entirely understand what's going on here, but you brought some conflict into my apartment, so I think it's fair that you either take it elsewhere or answer my damn questions!"
Everyone was quiet for a moment, but Shinra continued.
"So, you, some almighty alien, are Izaya's father?"
"Didn't I- "
"Just answer him, "Izaya implored. "It's only fair. It's a lot to take in, and you did bring this into his home."
Q sighed.
"I suppose it's not that big of a deal. He is your friend after all. Yes, I am."
"A Q, you said?"
"Yes."
"You said that the Q are omnipotent beings and godlike? Could you clarify that please?"
Q rolled his eyes and sighed overdramatically.
"I-I just mean, because, that could describe various types of creatures." Shinra tried to explain as he pushed his glasses up. "I guess what I'm trying to clarify is the type of powers you have and other factors that make you some amazing being."
"Alright, I suppose I see what you are getting at. I am what you could say an all-powerful being and immortal. I don't die so I live for a very long time. I don't need to eat or sleep. I have powers that can do in a way pretty much everything."
"What do you mean by pretty much everything?"
"Well, in something called the continuum, which is where my species remains, there are a set of rules we have to follow. Things like we can't kill ourselves or take away another Q's powers. There are restrictions so that we cannot physically break these rules."
"Oh, um, alright. I'm still having trouble wrapping my head around all of this. I mean, this doesn't sound like it could be even possible!"
"You did see me just appear and Izaya's belongings just appear to me without me moving, right?"
"Yes, well, unnatural abilities and omnipotent powers are two very different things with different amounts of believability. After all, we have seen supernatural things here in Ikebukuro. I mean, I have a headless woman living in my apartment for crying out loud. Although, she is still more lovely than any woman here with a head." Shinra managed a groan as Celty jabbed him in the gut, puffing out her smoke in a way that seemed like she was blushing.
Q laughed at that.
"Ah, yes, the dullahan. I suppose that does explain why you've adapted to this bizarre situation surprisingly well. Would you like me to show you more of my powers to prove it to you?"
Before Shinra could respond, Izaya interjected.
"No. No he doesn't need to see that." Izaya was glaring at Q again, arms crossed.
"The point was for you to answer his questions, not prove against his disbelief."
I won't let you drag him into Q chaos. Izaya thought very loudly, knowing Q could hear him. Q merely shot Izaya an amused look and then shrugged.
"Alright then. Proceed with your other inquiries."
"Alright. Izaya's mother is human, right?"
"Yes."
Shinra wondered how a supposedly all-powerful being like Q would end up with a human, but decided it wasn't his place to ask. After all, he didn't know anything about this species.
Q laughed out of the blue.
"Oh, it's quite alright to wonder about things like that, Shinra. After all, it is an unusual situation for me to have mated with a human. Don't feel bad about wondering."
Shinra just gawked at Q, causing Q to laugh even more.
He really did just read my mind, Shinra thought. Maybe he could do what he claimed after all.
Izaya let out an irritated sigh.
"Answering the questions Shinra voices, not every single thing he wonders about in his head. If you were to answer every question in Shinra's head who knows how long we'd be here."
Shinra just smiled at that, not at all offended.
"So, then, Izaya is half human half Q?"
"Technically, yes."
"What would go along with that then? I mean, you said earlier that he was born with powers?"
"Yes."
"How or why did he lose them?"
Izaya and Q were both quiet for a moment. Q cleared his throat (more for affect) and finally spoke up.
"Well, um, it's kinda hard to explain.
One day, and I'm not entirely sure what happened, Izaya went a little power crazy in elementary school. I don't need to go into the details though. Just know that he used his powers more than he needed to and in ways that was not good. Especially for humans here. Unfortunately, that caught the continuum's attention. Q activity should not have been detectable on Earth at all, let alone in the 21st century. The Q consider themselves as guardians of the universe, so naturally they would not approve of any unwarranted harm to come to mortals. They were very upset.
A lot of arrangements were made to fix what he did. Everything he did was reversed and the memories of those who had witnessed it were changed. Only my pleading, over the fact that Izaya was only a boy, saved him from a much worse fate as punishment from the continuum for what he did.
The continuum decided that a boy like Izaya was too dangerous as a Q, they did not trust that he could be controlled given what had happened. They took away his powers and said that I couldn't raise him anymore. They also blamed his mother for being influenced by mating with me so they said she couldn't raise him either. The continuum placed Izaya in a fairly normal human family, altering the memories around him so it would seem like he had always been a part of the Orihara family."
Shinra couldn't help but wonder what it was Izaya had done that was so bad, but he figured there was a good reason they weren't telling him.
Izaya sighed and avoided eye contact with Shinra throughout Q's tale. Izaya was not always the greatest person and never pretended otherwise, but he still didn't like hearing about what had happened to him in his past. Those first few years without his powers had been very painful. He had felt alone and abandoned, constantly questioning his ability to act human.
Despite all that, Q at times still didn't seem to take life seriously.
Even though Q wasn't allowed to raise Izaya, he had still popped in at random points of Izaya's life to supposedly check in on him. Typically, it would happen just like it had this time, he would just show up out of nowhere, constantly remarking how sad it was that Izaya was a mortal when he should be omnipotent. Often times Q would still interfere in Izaya's life without asking. Sometimes it would be to drag Izaya into some sort of unwanted Q game, other times Q would claim to help Izaya with something in his life yet usually just ended up completely turning everything around.
Luckily during some of those times the continuum would intervene, saying Q was not allowed to do things like that in Izaya's life, and a few years without any Q influence in Izaya's life typically followed. This was part of the reason Izaya always tensed up whenever he heard from his father. Because Izaya never knew what to expect, and not having control of a situation was something that Izaya hated.
Shinra stayed quiet for a moment, like he was taking in everything he had just heard. The silence was heavy.
"Well," Izaya broke the silence suddenly, "Now that we've explained my family history to Shinra, could you please tell me why you're here? Or did you just want to bring Shinra and his beloved into our secret circle?" Izaya prodded. Q looked at Izaya again and sighed.
"Alright. Yes, I did have a legit reason for coming here this time. I'm sure given my history that can be a bit hard to believe, but trust that you'll want to hear this out." Q walked over to Izaya and looked at him, red-brown eyes reflected back into his own.
"As I'm sure you've figured out by now, the continuum has been monitoring your activities since the incident when you were a child. They've become aware of your activities in Ikebukuro as an information broker. They know how you manipulate situations to go the way you want them to and how you seem to have a lot of control in this city. And well, they're not happy."
Izaya raised his eyebrows.
"Why does the continuum even care what I do now? I don't have my powers anymore, what I do now shouldn't affect them. It's not like I can hurt anybody like I could."
"Well, apparently, they are still concerned. Because you used to have Q powers and you were influenced by a Q when you were a child. You are half Q after all. They seem to think that this has influenced who you have become and that you act more like what a dangerous Q would act like, not a human. Despite not having any powers, you still seem to manage to have a hold over people, like a Q would, so the continuum still considers this an unfair advantage over humans."
Izaya let out an irritated groan.
There was just no winning with these beings. He didn't even have powers any more, yet he still had to worry about what kind of threat the continuum would see him as. Izaya tried to hide a gulp.
"So, um, what does that mean for me then?"
"Well, the continuum has simply told me about their concerns for the moment, so I thought I should just warn you."
"Well, um, I appreciate it- "
"Although, I believe that even if you were to stop those kinds of activities now it would most likely be too late. The continuum has already decided that you are dangerous. After all, what happened when you were a child is not easily forgotten."
Izaya felt his throat closing, but resisted against it.
"So, uh, what does that mean will happen to me then?"
"Well, I'm not certain actually. The Q doesn't have very many criminals, so punishments are not something I have seen much of in the continuum. I don't think they would kill you, your actions are not bad enough to deserve that sort of punishment. I can imagine it still would not be pleasant though. Most likely I would assume you would be put in some type of holding cell. They would want to keep you away from humans. I'm not certain where in the universe it might be though or for how long."
Izaya glanced away from Q, trying to hide how much he was scared of what might happen.
"When?" Izaya managed to croak out.
"Like I said, nothing is for certain yet. I just figured that warning you might give you some sort of advantage against- "
"Some sort of advantage!?" Izaya exclaimed suddenly, bitterly.
"Is that another one of your undesirable jokes? What could possibly be any sort of advantage for me, a mere mortal, against who knows how many omnipotent beings who want to lock me up somewhere in the frickin' universe!?"
"Now, Izaya, I wasn't implying that pure knowledge would be enough of a defense against the continuum. The other reason I came was to help protect you in case the continuum decides to do something. I could update you on what they are thinking, so that way you could be a step ahead of them when it comes to say hiding."
Izaya scoffed.
"Oh yeah, that's very reassuring. Because you've done such a good job protecting me in the past. You may say that you care about me like a son, but I haven't seen enough evidence to suggest that you are sincere about it. Plus, watching me all the time, you'd get bored. Humans are too simple for you, like you always say. I didn't ask for your protection anyways. You're annoying enough the few times I see you in my life. I don't know if I could manage your annoyingness being with me all the frickin' time. In case you forgot, I actually have a life here, and a job. I don't trust you to not interfere with things in my life and I don't know if I could concentrate on anything if I have to constantly worry about you spreading chaos somewhere. Please do tell me that you have some sort of other suggestion, because I really can't bear getting dragged into stupid Q business again."
I don't want my life turned upside down by Q stuff again, is what he didn't voice. He was just so tired of how turbulent anything around Q could be.
"Well, I'm not going to change my mind about helping you if that's what you're asking."
Izaya groaned. Great…
"But since I figured it may be best if I'm not with you all the time, I insured another way to help protect you."
"Oh, yeah? And what might that be?" Izaya looked up to see he was met by Q's smirk.
"This may or may not please you. I have restored your powers."
Izaya gawked at him for a moment.
"Are you serious? I didn't think you could."
Q tsked Izaya in an annoying fashion again.
"I'm your father, Izaya. There's some rights the continuum couldn't take away from me. Go ahead, see for yourself."
Izaya cleared his throat and tried to remind himself how to use his powers. It had been so long.
Izaya closed his eyes and concentrated on what he wanted to happen. He snapped his fingers and heard the familiar short whooshing sound. Even though his eyes were still closed, Izaya felt the familiar warmth of wearing his parka jacket. He smiled as he opened his eyes to see that he was in fact wearing his parka again.
Izaya heard Shinra gasp.
He reached inside his jacket pocket and almost sighed in relief at feeling the familiar coolness of his flick blade.
"My word…" Shinra expressed quietly. "That's just amazing!"
Izaya looked back at Q, who was smiling. He bowed shortly to him.
"Thank you. I should be going now though." Izaya turned around, and said behind him,
"I'll have to reschedule this appointment for another time, Shinra. Clearly something of importance has come up."
"Izaya- "Q started, but Izaya had already closed the door to the apartment on his way out. He could softly still hear Q making sure that Shinra and Celty were not to tell anybody about what they had learned that day.
Izaya quickly made his way out of the apartment building and headed for his home in Shinjuku. He knew it would not take long for Q to catch up with him, but Izaya couldn't help but feel like he had to get out of there. This was becoming a bit overwhelming again and he hated that. Izaya couldn't bother to answer all of Shinra's uncomfortably curious questions about Izaya's state of being. Izaya knew that he probably had a better chance against the continuum if his father was with him, but Izaya really didn't look forward to it. He hated being around his father. He was so annoying.
He just wished that none of this had to happen. He was actually happy with the way his games were going in Ikebukuro at the moment. However, when you have a father like Q, things weren't bound to stay under Izaya's control for very long.
Izaya groaned out loud at the thought.
Great! I really hate this.