Thank you for all of the reviews! They prompted me to update this sooner than I planned :)
I still own nothing. Enjoy!
"Shizuo why did you throw that kid into the wall" questioned Shinra as they walked down the street on the way back to his apartment.
Shizuo just continued to look down with his hands stuffed in his pockets as he tried to calm down his anger.
Celty typed in her phone, "A kid from your school was asking about his youkai partner"
Shinra took a moment to read the message before adjusting his glasses and nodding in understanding, "Don't worry Shizuo you will find a partner soon." He said happily.
They were walking along the forest by now and were only five minutes from the brunette's apartment. After school they had decided to walk around instead of do homework so soon. They had been at a local hang out where kids gathered to play games when a group of students had decided to pick on Shizuo. These students were unaware of Shizuo's anger problem and had met the angry blonde by his fist.
"I don't need your pity Shinra" growled the fake blonde.
Before the brunette could reply, the sound of laughing filled the air. Not a happy child's laughter but a dark menacing chuckle. The trio stopped in surprise, they were the only ones on the street. Now that they focused on the noise they realized that it was coming from the woods.
"I wonder what is going on. No one is supposed to be in the woods after dark" whispered Shinra as he hid behind his dullahan partner.
Shizuo sighed and jumped over the railing to head into the woods. "Shizuo what are you doing?" yelped Shinra as he tried to reach for his friend.
The blonde turned back to his friend with an annoyed look, "Those could be some kids from our class. Let's just go check and make sure."
He might get angry easily but Shizuo did care about people, even if those people were his classmates who made fun of him.
"What if it is a youkai?" came the scared reply.
In response he felt a tap on his shoulder and he looked over to his headless girlfriend and blushed in embarrassed, "Sorry Celty. Ok let's just be quickly.
Just as the trio was about to start on their search through the woods a pain screamed ripped through the trees. They quickly looked at each other and realized that this might be more that a group of students just hanging out in the woods. They quickly made their way through the underbrush, following the insane laughter and few pain shouts that came every few minutes.
Right before they broke through the underbrush that lead to the noises Celty used her shadows to stop the two teenagers.
"I sense youkai over there, no humans"
Shinra and Shizuo nodded in understanding but came to a silent agreement that they would still look to see what was going on. Normally youkai did not come this close to the town so this was a strange occurrence. Getting down to a crawl the trio approached the last bush that separated them from the mystery group.
Shizuo's eyes widened at what he saw. Four Tsuchigumo were surrounding a smaller youkai and beating it. But what had caught the blonde's attention was the multiple tails that the furred youkai had.
"Celty is that what Shiki was talking about?" Whispered Shizuo to the headless being.
He could see the shadows move in what would have been a nod. "What is happening?" asked Shinra as he winced in sympathy for the downed creature as it was hit with more branches.
Before Shizuo could respond the captured kitsune let out a loud yell of pain, snapping his eyes back to the beating he saw that one of the spiders had stabbed a tail. The tails where jet black with the tips as red as fire. Looking closely he could see that one of the kitsunes other tails had already been pinned into the ground with a sword.
"We need to help it" growled Shizuo.
"Wait Shizuo, Kitsune are evil youkai. It might be better if we let the clan finish it off" read the screen that was shoved into his face.
"We can't just let them torture him to death" came the cold reply.
Before waiting for either of his friends to reply the blonde jumped from the underbrush and ran at the spiders.
Izaya Pov
One of his seven tails had already been pinned to the ground. Blood was starting to pool around him as his eye sight slowly changed to black. Before he could slip into the welcoming oblivion one of the soldiers had stabbed another tail to the ground ripping him wide awake in pain.
Ruby eyes glared at the four spiders towering over him, promising them all death if he survives. Suddenly his fox ears twitched at a slight sound and he looked over at a bush in time to see a teenage boy jump out and run at Hikade. The spider did not stand a chance as he was punched in the face and sent sky high and a few miles deep in the forest.
Izaya looked over to the soldiers that were staring at the teenager in shock before they pulled out their swords and attacked with blade and webs. Again the blonde showed his monstrous strength and grabbed a tree like it was nothing straight out of the ground and swung it across the advancing enemies. Sending them to their boss, in less than a minute all of the clansmen had been cleared from the area.
"Hey you are not gonna bite or anything right?" came a gruff voice.
Snapping out of his surprise Izaya looked up to see the blonde staring at him in annoyance as he waited for the reply.
"I think I should be the one to ask that" smirked the kitsune.
Shizuo glared down at the bound youkai and a vein popped in his head at the smug reply. He did not like this guy.
"You were right Celty" growled Shizuo as he turned to face his two approaching friends, "These guys are evil. He doesn't even have the decency to say thank you"
Celty slowly approached Izaya and typed a question into her PDA and showed it to him.
"I see you're a headless Dullahan. I wonder were your head has gone to" chucked the raven hair youkai.
Said Dullahan's smoke seemed to change pattern into that of annoyance and shoved the PDA closer to his face.
"You want to know why I was being attacked. Oh well you see they did not like the information that I provided their leader" he sighed in amusement.
"Information?" question Shinra as he stood behind his partner.
"Sorry but you will have to pay if you want to know any information from me. Now could you please untie me so we can all forget this happened?" asked the kitsune.
But before anyone could reply or move, a group of men and youkai jumped into the clearing. One of them being Shiki.
"What is going on here?" he demanded as he help up a torch to see better in the darkness.
Shinra gulped loudly as he jumped behind Celty, "Nothing Sir!"
"We heard noises and found this thing being attacked by spider men" stated Shizuo as he leaned against a tree.
Shiki followed the blonde's eyes and seemed to now notice the bound kitsune on the ground.
"A Kistune" came the whispers of the town men that surrounded the group. After all no one has ever seen a Kistune before.
"Shu, Mizuki grab it" came Shiki's cold order.
Out of the darkness came the two oni, one blue and one red. Shu, the blue oni, grabbed Izaya from the ground by the scruff of his neck. Causing a pain groan from the fox. Mizuki, the red oni, ripped the blades from the two pinned tails, this caused a yell to split through the night.
"He has seven tails" came Mizuki's happy report once he managed to count them.
The whispers grew at this point, the more tail means the more powerful a kitsune was.
"Where is the rest of your clan?" questioned the teacher as he glared at the wounded fox.
Ruby eyes clouded in pain glared back as his answer. Not satisfied Shu slammed the bound youkai into the ground face first before picking him back up. This time Izaya was barely conscious as tried to struggle to stay awake.
"Sir, what are you doing? He is extremely inured" exclaimed Shinra as he went into doctor mode.
He was never a fan of youkai being injured for no reason. Especially when it could not fight back.
"I would hold my tongue if I were you boy. You are not supposed to be in these woods you are lucky that Shiki is not punishing you right now for that" growled Mizuki as he glared at the brunette.
Giving a small yelp Shinra ducked back behind his partner as she turned to put herself in between the brunette and the demon.
"Besides a youkai with no partner is not within the laws to be treated kindly" huffed one man in the crowd.
"Those Kitsune are only known for bringing trouble, kill it now Shiki" roar another man with a torch.
Shiki looked to the group behind him and saw that they all seemed to want the youkai dead, not really in opposition to this idea he gave an evil grin.
"Very well. Shu, Mizuki you have not had any fun in a while. You may dispose of this fox as you see fit" he ordered.
Both oni gave and equally evil smirk as they ripped the webbing from Izaya's wounded body. Before Izaya had the chance to take advantage of this, one oni grabbed his right arm and the other grabbed his left arm and snapped the bones in half. The sickening break could be heard by all in the clearing. Shizuo grit his teeth at the animal like sound that ripped from the fox's throat.
He turned away unable to watch anymore. There was another crack followed by another scream but it was cut short. Shizuo snapped back up to see what caused this and his eyes went wide in shock. Mizuki had punched him in the stomach, after breaking on of his legs, causing all of the air to rush out of his lungs.
Shu wrapped his large blue fingers in the raven like hair and pulled him up to his now one good leg and punch him in a the face. With both arms broken to catch himself with the fox gasped in unimaginable pain as he laid on the ground in hopes of unconsciousness. But the two oni only smiled even more at this as they stomped on two tails.
By this point Izaya was praying for death. His body was broken and it was humiliating that this group of humans just stood there and watched him get tortured like this. He saw of the corner of his eye the man in white step forward towards his partners.
"I think that has been enough play time. Kill the thing" Shiki ordered, getting bored with the torture of the Kitsune.
Ruby eyes shifted back to his attackers to see the red one raise a foot to stomp on his head. Not even able to move his head a centimeter the kitsune just waited for all the pain to end. But instead of the feeling of a foot smashing his skull into little pieces he heard a growl and then a tree snap in half.
Opening the eyes he did not even realize he closed Izaya looked around the see the blue and red oni's on their back with looks of surprise on their faces. Next the group of humans looked both surprised and scared. The man in white glared hard at something to Izaya's right with immense hate. Painfully turning his gave to the direction of everyone looks Izaya was slightly surprised to see the blonde boy from before standing a few feet away from him with another tree in his grasp.
"This Kitsune is my partner" growled the teenager.
Both the oni's jumped to their feet, "Like hell he is. You don't even know his name to make the pact" growled Mizuki.
Shiki stepped forward again with hate burning in his eyes, "If you can get this kitsune to agree to the pact then I will permit this partnership. But if he does not then we will take him back for studying"
Shizuo's spine ran cold to that, he had been studied on when he was a kid because of his strength. The things they did to him were inhumane and he could not even imagine what they would do the kitsune whom everyone seemed to hate.
Dropping the tree Shizuo turned to the barely conscious fox and got down on his knees so he could talk to him semi-privately.
"Hey you still alive?" he asked hoping those eyes would open.
Slowly ruby eyes reviled themselves, "What do you care?" he couched with blood running down his chin.
The blonde stared into the youkai's pained eyes and could see a fire in them that could only mean he wanted to live to come back and fight these people. With a smirk Shizuo wiped the blood from the fox's chin.
"Do you want to be my partner? This way they won't kill you or experiment on you" he asked.
Izaya let out a pain laugh, "What could a beast like you want with a partner? You just took down five youkai by yourself with a tree."
Shizuo laughed slightly as well, after all he could beat most youkai with his bare hand alone, "I just don't want you to die from these guys" he said nodding to the oni behind him, "I want to kill you myself that way I can prove to everyone that I don't need a partner"
"So you save me today only to kill me later? How monstrous" chuckled Izaya as a spasm of pain went through his body leaving him breathless.
"But I have always been wanting to visit a human town. I guess it would be fun" agreed the kitsune after he recovered his breath.
Shizuo nodded, glad that he had agreed quickly, "Ok I need your real name. If you give me a fake one then the pact will not work and Shiki will kill you"
With a sigh Izaya gave a slight nod, "I am Izaya Orihara, pleasure to meet you"
"Shizuo Heiwajima. Now I need to do the pact I am going to have to cut your hand a little" he explained as he pulled a knife from the ground, that was originally in the kistune's tails.
"Very well" moaned the Kitsune as he still struggled to stay conscious.
Making a cut along both of their right palms Shizuo pressed them together in a blood pact, "I, Shizuo Heiwajima enlist the partnership between a man and youkai to that of Izaya Orihara of the Kitsune" he stated as he felt his hand to start feel warm.
"I, Izaya Orihara agree to the partnership" replied the kitsune.
Shizuo let out a surprised gasp of pain at the heat between their hands. Once the heat went away he released them and saw that the cut was gone.
"Don't worry that is normal. The pact has been made" said Shinra as he rested a hand on Shizuo's shoulder.
Shizuo nodded in confirmation as he turned his attention to his new partner. Izaya barely had his eyes open now and Shizuo felt concern for the Kitsune in the back on his mind.
"Shinra will you be able to help him?" he asked his childhood friend.
Before the brunette could reply Shiki made his presence known, "I want a test of this pact. To make sure that the Kitsune gave you his real name" he stated.
"How do we do that?" asked Shizuo.
Shiki just nodded to Mizuki who using his youkai speed charged at Shizuo.
Surprised Shizuo put his arms up in defense of his face but instead of a fist he felt air brush into him. Confused he put his arms down and was surprised to see Izaya standing before him with Mizuki's fist in his stomach.
"Hmmm. It seems that he was not lying." Came one of the men from earlier.
Shizuo was confused for a moment before was Izaya falling backward and eyes rolling into the back of his head. The blonde easily caught his new partner in his arms and was concerned with the amount of blood seeping into his t-shirt.
"The pact is true. I will see you in class tomorrow" came Shiki's voice as the group disappeared as quickly as they had arrived.
Shizuo glared at the shadows of the men as he held the dark haired youkai to his chest.
Once they were all gone Shinra snapped into doctor mode, "Shizuo let's go we need to get him back to my house before he bleeds out"
Gathering the unconscious fox in his arms the trio ran off back to the brunette's apartment.
