Kanra on future development plans: Haro! Kanra-chan de~~~~~~su! Eh? Sou, I'm not at the chat-room right now. Very well, I somehow like how this is going. I'm so scared~! Someone save me from the killer! [Points at Shizuo] (Shizuo: Stop it, flea. You're making me puke.) …Then clean the floor after.

Disclaimer: I do not own Durarara and Another. Not a crossover. Other references are also used but fanfics of other authors are not included.

Warnings: Violence, gore and other horrible stuffs. Smut and sexy scenes will also be provided. Not all are incorporated in every chapter. OOC.

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Shizuo Heiwajima, the suspected murderer, is supposed to have a better life but it seems that his meeting with Emilia Kishitani and Kyoko Orihara has spun a different progression for his life. But he still then refuses to suspect the mother of anything she might know.

Kyoko Orihara, the mother of the 'murdered' young man, then puts her theories on a test as she finds out Shizuo's likely reactions to the things she have said. The blonde man then acts as expected— strengthening her earlier assumptions.

Shirou Orihara, the emotionless father, initiates a conversation with his wife about 'meddling' with the youngsters' thing. He then admits to have been feeling his son's 'ghost' somewhere outside the Orihara property… a ghost piling events for a sweet revenge.

Speculations surface the real world… and the backtracking continues.

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A creature of both day and night… messing up with the bounds of a human's pure love…

"…How can I be so proud of you, Shinra?! What you have to do should have been a piece of cake for you?!"

Shizuo hears loud yelling from the Kishitani residence's basement as he walks past the maids again. Celty has greeted him by the doorway and they are supposed to be meeting with Shinra… discussing more about the tooth and the zombie thing.

"I'm sorry. Shinra seems to be busy with what Shingen-san is asking of him." Celty speaks and then Shizuo scratches his head… "It's alright. I'll just wait for him to finish." The two then feel a presence so someone looking at them from the stairs. They turn to the steps… only to see Emillia gawking at them. She is just in her towels and a dry one is embracing her hair.

"…!" Shizuo suddenly turns away and then he frowns at nothing in particular… he still hasn't apologize for yesterday. But then Emillia speaks, "Shizuo-kun." The blond turns to her as he gets called even though his eyes are looking away, "H… Hai?" "Shinra said you asked him to look into something? He's been at it all night… what is that about?"

"…" Shizuo then looks straight at her, "Kasuka got attacked by a wild dog five nights ago. It left strange marks so I ask Shinra to find what kind of animal it is… it is hardly just a mere dog anyway." The blonde pouts in becoming convinced at his answer— she then waves at them, "Anata did ask him to do something. But it seems like things are getting rough…"

"…Is it really that hard?" Celty murmurs which is still in Emillia's earshot. The step-mother smiles and then she walks away to her room, "He doesn't really cut you open or hurt you like hell and then study your reactions to all types of environment— it really has become that hard." The two students twitch and then Celty sighs, "So it is about the zombies, huh."

"What really is a zombie?" Shizuo cannot help but to sigh…

"A zombie is a supernatural being that is simply a dead person magically brought back to life!" A strange man then pops up behind Celty and he starts blabbering, "Zombies have strange metabolism patterns and they either remain damaged forever or eat up human entrails to regenerate! They have this evident feature of blood red lips and beautiful faces— perhaps the beauty due to reconstructing their faces upon revival!"

"…! I haven't tampered with my face!" Celty reacts to the last comment strongly and then Shizuo tilts his head a bit to see the weird man with a gas mask, "Shingen-sama, you don't have to wear a mask inside your house." Shingen then chuckles loudly and smugly, "No!" Celty then goes back to their own topic, "…Well, it's not really becoming a monster… but basically it is."

"I see. So the zombie is indeed a beautiful young woman." "…?!" "S…" "ORIHARA-SAMA!"

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Rei Haruno —Sakura no Imooto

Chapter 8: Sweetener of Kisses

"Shirou-sama." Shizuo whispers and then the newcomer walks to them with his secretary standing quite far from them, "Shizuo." The man places a hand at the blonde head and then he says, "I heard you argued with Kyoko yesterday. She's just getting pressured by the gathering. Just understand her state." The blond cannot help but to say yes and not talk anymore…

Celty and Shizuo feeling that strong aura of darkness seeping from the man named Shirou Orihara.

"Oh, you should have called that you're already here, Orihara-sama!" Shingen enthusiastically greets the man and then he pulls Celty up to a standing position, "Yes, she is the zombie I have been researching on—"

"Correction— Shinra! Not you, Shingen-san." "Err, whatever."

"…?! Orihara-sama!" Shinra greets as he walks out of the basement as he walks around while wiping his glasses clean. The brunette twitches as she sees him for the first time without glasses. Shizuo then speaks as to relieve himself from the fear, "Oi, Shinra. Are you sure you can see a thing without your glasses?" "Don't worry, Shizuo. I'm just taking baby steps! I won't— ouw."

"So he can't really see without them." Celty sighs and then Shirou walks towards the bespectacled guy who has put his glasses on, "I would like to see the whole research." The young man nods and leads the way down the basement, "Excuse the small space, this is my personal laboratory and I haven't exported files to Nebula yet."

Celty hums at the scene as she sits down… sadly watching Shinra leave with Shirou without even saying hi to her. Shingen has already run off to join them to watch Shinra's presentation. Shizuo and the zombie are left by the lounge and then she sighs yet again, "…That's strange."

"…Shinra shouldn't expose unnecessary care towards his subjects in front of Shirou-sama. It would cause him some major trouble. That's why he keeps you here at his house rather than at Nebula's facility." The blond answers her concern… the girl humming in sadness. The blond then speaks, "I take it as no one has ever cared for you like how he does."

"Was it really that easy to read?" "…Not really. We're both in that kind of situation… before so I kind'a know." "Which reminds me… you seem to address him differently than Shinra and Shingen-san— he calls you by your name, too. Are you… closely related to… Orihara-sama?" Shizuo twitches and then he stares at Celty's wondering green orbs.

"He's basically the father of Shizuo-kun's sweetheart!" Emillia then pops out of nowhere and then Celty looks at her, "Huh? Kanra-san?" The blonde twitches back and sways a finger as if correcting her, "…? It's Izaya-kun. Neh, Shizuo-kun, haven't you told her about Izaya-kun? Oh, my. He's going to be pretty mad if you hadn't!" Shizuo then just pouts in response… and then he sighs, "…I just thought she doesn't really have to know."

Emillia smiles differently and then she whispers at Celty's ear… loud enough for Shizuo to hear, "Shizuo-kun there used to have a boyfriend named Izaya— Shirou-sama's only son." A different gleam shows in her eyes as she continues staring at Shizuo's gold eyes, "But almost five years ago, he died in an… accident." "That's… wait, five years ago?"

"Hm." Emillia straightens up and shrugs her shoulders, "But hearing a different name from you seems to tell me he has already moved on— oh wait! He didn't even tell you so maybe he has already forgotten—"

"I haven't!" Shizuo growls and then he covers his face with a hand, "Why do mothers keep on infuriating me?" Emillia smiles again— Celty noticing something weird and… malicious in her eyes. "Eh? Infuriating? I'm just merely talking about the truth? Or maybe…" Shizuo lifts his face to see her… "You are finding yourself guilty about his death or something. You really are like that when it comes to Izaya-kun… well, it's not like you felt bad for Namie-chan when she died."

Emilia then waves for leaving them already… walking to the basement to watch the presentation. Shizuo then stands up with a darkened face, "I'm leaving. Just tell Shinra I'll be back another day." Celty then grabs his wrist as he passes by her… the blond stopping as she stands up, "…Did you really do something wrong?"

"…I won't call it a mistake. I won't say it's the right thing to do either."

And with those words, Celty let him go and then just merely waited as the presentations ended. Shinra takes the chance to leave the parents talk more and drags Celty back to his laboratory. He then asks, "Where's Shizuo?"

"…Devastated."

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[Izaya_Be_Cute: You've been feeling bad every day lately. Are you sure you're alright?] [Shizuo_H: I'm all… nah, yeah. I'm not really feeling good. But I'll be alright… as long as you are there.] [Izaya_Be_Cute: That's sweet! Aw… I wished you could be here to see what I'm doing.] Blush. [Shizuo_H: What are you doing?] [Izaya_Be_Cute: Hey, pervert. ^_^] [Shizuo_H: Eh?] [Izaya_Be_Cute: I know what you're thinking. But~~~~ I'm trying to sweep my hair up in pigtails… and guess what! I can't! T_T] [Shizuo_H: Poor you. XD] [Izaya_Be_Cute: Shizu-chan is mean!]

Shizuo chuckles a bit as he starts exchanging messages with Kanra— who changed her username to Izaya_Be_Cute for Shizuo's satisfaction— that night… ever since he got home from Shinra's place. He starts to completely disregard everything else again… being completely contented that 'Izaya' exists even in just his own world. Not just any Izaya… but the one back in the days where they… really feel loved by one another.

[New message from Izaya_Be_Cute.] Shizuo then checks his phone for the new message… receiving a picture from Kanra. It is a mirror shot where she is winking and showcasing the neatly-tied pigtails she's working on. [You're not responding for minutes now so I took the chance to complete it.] But what Shizuo notices the most is that…

"…Kanra is Kanra." He smiles a bit with a blush at his face. Apparently she is only in brassieres when she is doing her hair. He stares at the picture longer… remembering how much of a pervert Izaya used to be as well. They— Kanra and Izaya— both like lewd and erotic stuffs… even though the latter is just a mere nine-year-old when he started…

[A new message from Izaya_Be_Cute.] [Izaya_Be_Cute: Hey! Where are your eyes going? ^p^] [Shizuo_H: I don't know you like floral designs.] [Shizuo_H: Kanra?] [Izaya_Be_Cute: I was actually thinking if you have ever seen me nude.] [Izaya_Be_Cute: Eh? You really wanted to see me nude?!] [Shizuo_H: …I was also thinking if I had.] [Shizuo_H: What are you planning to do if I do?] [Izaya_Be_Cute: Oh, my. I'm starting to… wait! You have to COME here!] [Shizuo_H: ROFL!] [Izaya_Be_Cute: TAT]

A sigh escapes Shizuo's lips as he lies down the bed… [Shizuo_H: Don't cry. Someday…] [Izaya_Be_Cute: Come here now. TAT] [Shizuo_H: Don't be that desperate. You'll see that someday.] [Izaya_Be_Cute: Are we still about sex? I mean… the lights suddenly went down and I'm scared.] "Fuck…" [Shizuo_H: My bad. Wait, won't someone fix the fuse box?] [Izaya_Be_Cute: You're too easy to trick, Shizu-chan. ^p^ It's just that I have to sleep now. I've already eaten dinner so… I'm turning off the lights now.] [Izaya_Be_Cute: Good night, sweet lover. I love you.]

[Shizuo_H: …Leave your lights open. Bogeyman might be knocking.] [Izaya_Be_Cute: …Oh, you're just going to get jealous.] [Shizuo_H: Fuck you.] [Kanra_Be_Cute: Don't you want to do it? XD] [Shizuo_H: Good night, Kanra.] [Shizuo_H: Sweet dreams. Don't worry about bogeyman. I already beat him up.] [Kanra_Be_Cute: That's my hero! ^p^]

Shizuo tosses his phone away as he decides to sleep as well. However, he just ends up staring at the ceiling longer than expected. For a second there, he suddenly thought of Izaya… unconsciously overlapping images again. Izaya has always hated ghost stories… he's scared of them and thinks they're all stupid. And for a moment, he actually realized something.

"…? What is Emillia-sama trying to pin against me earlier?" "But almost five years ago, he died in an… accident." "You are finding yourself guilty about his death or something." Eh? Were they… pertaining to…?Shizuo suddenly gets up and bits his lips in terror. There's no way they could have—! No, what am I thinking? The blond covers his face with a hand— smirking in defeat, "What am I really thinking? They are the feared yakuza families of Raira… I should know better than to underestimate them…"

[Incoming call from Shinra Kishitani.] Shizuo then picks up his phone and stares at the caller. He then sighs and he pushes the Answer button, "Yes, Shinra?" ["You didn't come back the house so I just thought I should call you. I think I just found a probable Kanra Nakura."] "…! R-Really?" ["It'll be better if you come here tomorrow. I can't really explain everything on the phone (considering your brain capacity.)"]

"…Drop dead when I don't need you anymore."

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"So here's what." Shinra starts displaying windows at his computer where there are several newspaper sheets and character profiles presented, "The Nakuras only had one son— that is what most do know. But… tracing back to the activities of the father… I found out that he has a daughter with an unknown woman. Apparently, that girl is a prostitute somewhere in Shinjuku's premises. And guess what… the daughter…"

Shinra smiles deviously with his glasses all white, "Is named Kanra."

"…That basically makes her Kanra Nakura if she was legally held." Celty says and then Shinra continues his report, "However, a year ago… this Kanra girl died in the hospital after being involved in a car accident who placed her in confinement for five years. Too little details were taken and the news didn't reach Ikebukuro so no one could have known. Moreover, the father didn't like the Press knowing that he had an illegitimate daughter so she was carrying her mother's last name."

"…I don't get it."

"…That means… there is a probable Kanra Nakura who existed in the past. As for our Kanra Nakura, I have to get samples of her DNA so I can compare it to the deceased and illegitimate Kanra Nakura. If that girl is the zombie you're fucking, then maybe… I can sniff around some more as to why she's doing this. And if she's not… at least we're not back to square one."

"I can get samples… but… how are you going to get one from the…?" "Nebula, my dear friend. What is my authorization code doing?" Shinra then chuckles as the witty and badass answer, "But… you should get blood samples when I actually secured a legitimate sample from the girl." The doctor then stops his trailing chuckles… and then he turns to Shizuo… "And yes, about the tooth. I already found a match…"

"…! Good! Wow, this is surely your specialty, huh, Shinra!" Shizuo praises the doctor all of a sudden but the expression on his face doesn't change. The bespectacled man then sighs and turns his swivel chair towards Shizuo, "Are you sure you're ready to know who bit your brother?"

"…Yes. Why? Is something wrong it?"

Shinra then turns back to the computer and then he seems to open a program that analyzes DNA samples as to show Shizuo the process. He stops clicking and entering data as soon as an animation of pointers appears in the screen. The pointers are screening different parts of the DNA ribbon and then another tab shows the flashing samples of different DNA to find a match.

Match found!

"…No." The only word that escaped Shizuo's mouth. Shinra whimpers and then he looks at the blond's devastated face… "I'm sorry… but at least we know who the dog is." Shizuo then covers his face with a hand again, "Why? Why is this happening?" The blond recalls the 'wild dog' that he saw one night… the actual night when the ribcage-opening murders started…

"…Is he the one killing all those people?" "…I can't tell. Celty could be responsible for some of them but… geez, I'm having a knowledge fever in here!"

Match found: Izaya Orihara.

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As if a man who lost everything, Shizuo Heiwajima walks down the long way to their home. The findings that Shinra presented are either… bad or good— he can't really decide on it anymore. Two things are whirring around his head all time after that… Kanra and Izaya. They are all he has been thinking off and he didn't even care if he crosses the streets with the green light on.

The face of that thing that night… its flaring red eyes… filled with anger— pure hatred. "Oh, who would not get so angry? You were my friend!" "Stop it… stop telling me things I already know…" The blond whispers to himself as he walks along the cliff-side road towards their home. But then another disturbing image comes to Shizuo's sight. He suddenly stops walking and frowns at the distant figure by the railings.

"Kasuka?" He then taps the one sitting at the railings and then his brother turns to him with a surprised face, "Nii-san? This isn't your way home right?" "It isn't… but if I wander around the city, I will end up here." Kasuka tilts his head a bit to tell him that he doesn't understand. Shizuo fakes a smile and drops it immediately as he sits beside his brother… both looking up to the clear night sky… "Are you here every night?" "…I was waiting for someone. But he never came around again."

"My brother is waiting for a guy. At night." The blond chuckles as if drunk and then Kasuka asks, "Why is my manly brother wandering around the city earlier? Did something happen?" The blond sighs and then hangs his head… still having a helpless grin on, "I can tell you everything but I don't think you'll understand a thing. Things are too… complicated. I'm even having a headache—" Kasuka snickers. "Even Shinra is having a knowledge fever!"

"Do you even know what a knowledge fever is?" "…No."

"Come on, Nii-san. I have seen… a few things as well." The younger brother's faint smile falls and then he speaks, "…The creature that bit me—" "It's Izaya." "…You knew?" Kasuka speaks in surprise again but then Shizuo just waves his hand as if telling him not to ask how… because it's probably thru Shinra. The brunet then looks up the sky, "…How can that be possible, Nii-san? How can someone dead… be alive like that?" "…I don't know. There's a lot of fucking things happening that I can't even understand why. Why Ikebukuro? Why us? Why Izaya? …Why me?"

"…He can at least be more human. Rotting skin is not that cute to touch… maybe that's why he's just around at night." Kasuka then starts a monologue as to keep 'talking' with a man who is reaching the limits of sanity again. Kasuka then holds his brother's head and caresses it like how he does to Izaya, the wild dog, "Don't get too silent on me. You're becoming like him…"

Beep! Beep! Beep! [Incoming call from Kanra Nakura.] "Kanra Nakura?" "…How do I put this? Girlfriend." Kasuka twitches and then he just looks around as he listens to his brother and the girl's conversation over the phone. ["Good evening, lovey-dovey! You're not replying to my messages, is something wrong?"] "Messages? I'm sorry, I'm not checking my phone lately." ["…Hm. You're not hanging out with other women, are you?"] "…?" ["…? Aren't you—? Oh my, did something happen again?"]

"…A lot." ["…I can someone breathing aside from you. Isn't it too quiet over there? Oh, are those insects?"] "I'm outside the house with my brother. Just chilling out in a… by the road." ["That's some creepy road. I'm having dinner here at Russia Sushi, want to come?"] "…I guess I'll pass." ["…You're actually cuddly when you're messaging me… phone calls sure are different, huh."] Shizuo smiles a bit and hands over the phone to Kasuka. The brother takes it and then she suddenly squeals, ["Uh-hum! Tuna sushi sure is the best! Neh, Shizu-chan, want to eat with me here sometime?"]

…Kasuka is not pretty sure what to answer. The girl is calling Shizuo like how Izaya does and she talks like how Izaya does. He then gulps and speaks, "…Hi, Kanra-san…" ["Huh? Oh, is this Shizu-chan's brother?"] "…Yes. Ah, I didn't take the phone from him." Strange chuckles then are heard from the other side of the line. The girl then speaks in a whisper, ["Hm. So this is Shizu-chan's brother. Hi, my name is Kanra Nakura. What's yours?"] Kasuka glances at his still brooding brother and then he starts whispering as well, "…Kasuka Heiwajima."

["Oh, hi, Kasuka-kun. It's nice to know you."] Kasuka then glances at Shizuo again… thinking that this woman must be a 'danger' that Izaya is pertaining to. But if that is really Izaya, then why isn't he the one to go and protect Shizuo instead? Kasuka frowns at nothing particular as he thinks of the possibilities. Another round of strange chuckle comes from the phone, ["I picture you as a cute brother considering your brother's face…"] Kasuka's eyes suddenly widen for a strange wind. ["…Let's go see each other someday, neh? Kasuka-kun~"]

End of Chapter 8

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