Is that a bird? Is that a plane? No, it's actually me making an early chapter on time! Got it done, I feel it's awesome, so I'm gonna post it before I change my opinion. Yay!
Oh, I also don't own anything
"What's wrong my beloved? You're shuddering."
Celty sighed, or at least made a sigh-like motion, when she heard Shinra speaking. After months of trying, today he finally succeeded in talking her into going on a date with him. What did the trick was the excuse of spending some nice time together after that one hell of the week they had, arranging the funeral and reporting to the police about 'how exactly two monsters of Ikebukuro died together'.
[It's... nothing. I thought I felt some sort of ominous presence, some vile thing, which seemed familiar, but I couldn't exactly put a finger on it. Now it disappeared, though.]
After reading that Shinra frowned, only to tighten his arms around her. His fingers curled reassuringly on her back.
"Don't worry, my dear. I'm sure that you're just tired. After all it's not every month that two of your friends succeed in murdering each other. Okay, one friend and Izaya. But still. Especially considering you and Shizuo were pretty close. Though I must admit, I didn't see it coming this way. I always thought it would be Izaya, who would initiate their final fight, not the other way around."
[Yeah, me too, to be honest. Never expected Shizuo to end things like that. Izaya must've been pretty unlucky, huh?]
"Oh, but you must admit it, he brought it upon himself. Leave it up to him to take one of the best persons in this fucked up city and push him to the point of snapping and killing people. Really, only a guy such as Izaya would be capable of that."
"See Shizu-chan, told you. Not even my so called 'best friend' mourns over my death. Not that it really surprises me. I suspected this turn of events somewhere from the moment he abandoned me after I got stabbed and hospitalized."
Totally ignored by the bickering couple the god and the ex-bartender's ghost chatted, walking around.
"And when exactly did that happen? Anyway, deal with it. That's what you get for being an asshole your whole life."
"For real Shizu-chan?! You didn't even take note of that? What am I for even my worst enemy not to notice my nearly fatal injury?"
"Well, that question is for once easy. You're a flea."
Izaya pouted, a small smile tagging on the side of his lips.
"You recently seem much livelier, Kida. Has something happened between you and Saki?"
Three students from Raira strolled cheerfully through the streets, enjoying the early afternoon sun.
"Nah, nothing like that. I'm just still overjoyed about that bastard's death! Now, without him being around, the only thing I need to worry about is how many erotic girls I can fit into my daily life without losing my brand quality."
"Ki- Kida! You really shouldn't say stuff like that! No matter how you felt towards him, Orihara-san is still dead . You should give him at least that much respect. Right, Anri?"
All flustered, the blue-eyed teenager turned to his calm friend looking for support. Unfortunately for him though, she shook her head in response, before ruining any hope for convincing his yellow-bleached friend.
"Actually, I agree with Masaomi. The city is now much more peaceful, compared to when that man was still alive. The only drawback of his death is that he took Heiwajima-san with him. That one was really a good man and he did all of us a great favor."
"Yup, you're totally right there, my sexy goddess. Shizuo really did a great thing. Maybe we should visit his grave, huh? You know, leave a flower as a 'thank you'?"
Seeing Anri nodding thoughtfully at that, Mikado could only sigh in defeat. They soon turned to another topic, not aknowledging two supernatural beings' existence just like the pair before.
"Do I even want to know how you managed to get high schoolers to despise you?"
"Nope, you definitely don't, Shizu-chan! But, just for you to know, I didn't do anything that bad this time. I haven't gotten any of them fired from their job and neither have I destroyed any precious brother-given uniform of any of them!"
"Watch it, flea."
Unmoved by the blonde's growl Izaya chuckled, malicious grin once again plastered all over his face.
"Or you will do what, Shizu-chan? Look at me with great hostility? Call me names and make me cry? C'mon, if you want to threaten me, you have to have a way to somehow back those threats."
Shizuo, unable to find a good response to that, turned away, hoping that Izaya won't see that little tint of red that stained his cheeks as he mentally scolded himself for even noticing how handsome the flea looked with that smirk.
"Is everything alright, Tom-senpai? You've been distracted the whole day. Are you feeling ill?"
The man with dreadlocks turned around hearing blonde woman's sudden question. Yeah, now that he thought about it, she was right, he really got carried away with his thoughts.
"I'm okay Vorona, sorry. I just... I still can't believe that Shizuo's gone, just like that. You know, I always viewed him as a kind of invincible."
He rubbed his suddenly red eyes with embarrassment, smiling sadly to his coworker.
"Affirmative. I too never expected anyone else to succeed in eliminating Shizuo-senpai."
Both her boss and the ghost of the ex-bartender leaning on a nearby streetlamp blinked, confused, after hearing the 'anyone else' part in this sentence. Only the winged raven, standing next to the latter, chuckled, clearly amused.
"Oh, the things I could tell you about that Russian friend of yours. I have more things on her than on most of the Yakuza in this city."
"Now that's just bullshit, flea. How much bad could have a nice girl like her done?"
"Oh, you would be surprised, Shizu-chan. Anyway, don't you feel nice? Everyone seems to be missing you. Even those high schoolers from before want to thank you for killing me~"
"Tsk, stop bad-mouthing my friends, Izaya. And you still haven't told me what exactly you did to those kids."
"Look Shizu-chan! Isn't that a vending machine? I'm sure all of them missed you. Go, give her a hug!"
"Flea!"
"Yumacchi, that's so tragic! How could Shizu-Shizu do that to me? Ruined my OTP, just like that! If only he managed to understand his feelings earlier... And poor Iza-Iza, his tragic love unrequited to the bitter end!"
Narrow-eyed otaku patted his friend's back, trying to console her. Unbeknown to them, her words caused a certain blonde spirit to freeze in shock. He was left standing next to them, his mouth repeatedly opening and closing, failing to form any words.
"I know Erika, I know. But look for silver lining! At least in death they are forever together. Plus, now that I think about it, Dotachin and Chikage seem to be getting closer recently..."
"What's with that face, Shizu-chan? You look like you've never heard fujoshi's rumbling before. Wait, you really haven't?"
That finally caused Shizuo to snap out of his shock. He looked at Izaya, horrified.
"No, I haven't! And what the fuck is that?! What's wrong with her?!"
"Well, she is obviously devastated. After all her favorite ship just sunk. I know that she's been keeping her fingers crossed for us for years now."
"That's not what I meant and you know it perfectly well. Why is she talking about us... about us being together?"
"That's pretty normal for yaoi fans. Plus c'mon, it's not like she is the only person who thought that we would look nice together. Even my sisters used to yell at me to finally get together with you so they can meet Kasuka."
"Are you trying to tell me that for all these years some of our friends viewed us as a potential pair? I simply can't believe it..."
Suddenly both the supernatural and otaku pairs' dialogues were interrupted by an unexpected event. The always-calm-and-quiet Kadota abruptly turned around and shouted.
"Could you two shut up?! Please, just this once! Shizuo was our friend, for fuck's sake! How can you two act like that even after his death?!"
That actually caused them to shut up. All four of them. They stopped dead in their tracks, eyeing the rare phenomenon of shouting Kadota. That is, until Izaya's voice broke the silence.
"Woah, who would have thought that all it takes for Dotachin to loose it is both of us dying! If only I knew that would happen I would've done that years ago. Damn, why is there no pop-corn?"
"So how did you like that little field trip, Shizu-chan? Refreshing, wasn't it?"
"Oh, shut it, flea. That was just way too fucked up. Especially the last part."
They had already been walking for a while, Izaya chewing on some pop-corn he stole on the way.
"So, where are we going, Shizu-chan? Someone else you want to see?"
"Yeah, Kasuka. He is shooting his newest film nearby. It's already been a week so he should be working again."
Shizuo growled, feeling a corn seed hitting his head, but anger soon dissipated in him, replaced by the excitement of seeing his brother.
*BANG*
Suddenly, the sound of gunshot rang, alarming everyone around.
"Um, Shizu-chan, I'm not exactly well informed in this area, but shouldn't the guns used during shooting be like... fake?"
Leaving deity's question unanswered, Shizuo rushed towards the source of the sound, literally running through the startled crowd.
When he arrived on place, the sight left him breathless.
Pointing towards the young actor with a gun stood a crazed hoodlum, his hands shaking and his pupils wide from adrenalin and probably some sort of drug.
"Don't you fucking dare to move! Any of you! I'll kill him! That guy has monster's blood in his veins! He has to die!"
Everyone, Shizuo included, stood there paralised. They weren't able to do anything. That psycho had Kasuka targeted, gun already loaded and cocked.
"Well, that surely doesn't look good. I don't think any of those guys can do anything."
Shizuo turned on his heels, only to spot Izaya leaning on a nearby wall. Hope suddenly sprung in his heart.
"And you? Izaya, can you do anything?"
The flea, as if just waiting for that question the whole time, grinned and snapped his fingers. Everything around them stopped, people frozen in odd poses. Izaya rose up into the air, only to land before Shizuo, scarlet eyes gazing right into him.
"I'm so glad that you asked, Shizu-chan! You see, it's actually pretty tricky. I try not to interfere with mortals' life directly, at least not using the supernatural powers."
"Stop the bullshit, flea! If nothing happens that guy's gonna kill Kasuka. There must be something you can do!"
Shizuo was on the edge of begging. He didn't know what else could be done. He looked at Izaya pleadingly.
"Alright, alright, you got me with that puppy stare. There is one thing. But you're not gonna like the consequences."
"What is it? The price doesn't matter, I'll pay. Please, whatever it is, just do it."
"Well, that's part of the problem. That's not something I can do all by myself."
Shizuo looked at the god, confused.
"What do you mean by that?"
"You see, Shizu-chan, if we're going to help your little brother, I'll have to resurrect you."
It's me, Chromo again!
I know I normally put that part in the beginning notes, but hey, I feel so high on writing this early that it doesn't really matter. Hey, if it goes like that I just might write some more stuff today. Though, if I were you I wouldn't put any hopes into it.
Merry Christmas
