A/N:Well, the Vessalius heir AND the legendary B-rabbit has to defeat Izaya Orihara. It won't be easy. No, he did not steal the head, but he saw it and is planning to tell the others about it. He stole some blackmail papers Izaya had on our heroes, so Izaya is horrified and needs to get them back no matter what. Yes, Izaya will discover Oz is B-rabbit, just not right now.
Chapter 9 Izaya's revenge on Oz
Kida's POV
I...don't really know what to say right now, because at this moment, my greatest enemy, Izaya Orihara, probably the most wicked, evil villain in Ikebukuro, is currently being terrorized by a little boy I only met a few days ago when he came out of absolutely nowhere.
The little boy has gone off away somewhere...oh, wait, there he is, drenched in pouring rain but smiling happily, while a furious Izaya is chasing him with a triumphant Shizuo following; neither of them seem to give a damn about the rain pouring down on them...actually, Izaya looks sort of funny with his hair all wet like that from the rain, it makes me feel like chuckling darkly at him like he does.
What would his reaction be to seeing such an evil thought come from the 'pure', unwholesome young Yellow Scarves leader, Masaomi Kida? Surely this boy is teaching him a thing or two about being terrifying, because even I wouldn't have the guts to go and plunder from Izaya when he is the epitome of terror.
Ah, who gives a darn? I'm enjoying myself, anyway! Time to go let Iza-Iza-chan know what I think of his new hairdo!
"...~Yo, Izaya-kun! You look nice with your hair wet...I think it makes you look like a drowned rat!" I cry.
"A drowned sewer rat is more like it," The creepy old guy beside me dressed in purple says, his one red eye gazing at me...more like staring right through me. Ah, when did he get there? "Ah, pardon me? Did I startle you?"
"...Ah, no, it's just that...can't you look somewhere else? Your eye is sort of creepy..."
"Oh, then would you like to see my other eye?" He says before he pushes his white bangs aside to show an empty socket. I resist the urge to puke. "For, just as my one eye was ripped out and stolen from me a long time ago, this one, too, is now becoming ...for I am blind. So I cannot see you, I only know that someone is talking to me and that I can see a vague outline...someone in yellow..."
"Oh, I'm sorry! I honestly didn't know!" I apologize. This old guy didn't seem blind at all-as a matter of fact, he seems pretty sure of himself and what he can do.
"Ahahahaha, no need to, uncute brat! Ah, you are like the spitting image of Oz-kun! And I see Oz-kun has gone and made fun of the second sewer rat..." He said darkly.
"Sewer Rat? Izaya...why would he be...?"
"Sewer rats are filthy, disgusting creatures that slither around in the dark and betray anyone for their own self-satisfaction. Also they like to toss around other people for kicks and claim they're doing it for their sakes. Ah...there's the first sewer rat!"
"Hello there, Hatter-san. Lovely weather out, isn't it?" The same creepy blond man from earlier says, although he isn't smiling anymore. His red eye and gold eye are both glaring at the white-haired man.
"Pardon if we haven't introduced ourselves, already...but my name is Xerxes Break. Your name is Kida, is it not? This is the despicable sewer rat, Vincent Nightray."
"...Oh, have you seen my big brother Gil around here? I'd like to be taken to him, please..." The blond man says, glaring at me. "Ha, you're as annoying as that Oz-kun brat Gil protects."
I'm curious; I want to know more about them. I shouldn't be prying, least of all coming from me, someone who selfishly protects their own secrets...but I must know. "...Who is that boy?"
The man smiles. "Ah...someone with a sharp mind. That boy...or, brat...is my big brother's 'master,' Oz Vessalius. He's the eldest child of Zai Vessalius and he's always been annoying Gil ever since he was little. Gil clings to him all the time and uses him as an excuse for everything. It is really such a pity that he came back from the Abyss...when he was dropped down in there ten years ago, I was so glad...I thought maybe Nii-san would be rid of that pest for good and need only me...but..."
None of what he's saying makes any sense, but to call that boy a pest and say he's useless...that's too close to home. People have asked me why I hang out with Mikado before and have called him annoying and useless. Izaya's words come back in my head and just hearing them pisses me off.
'Everyone uses someone, Kida-kun, just like you use Saki-san as an excuse for a failure to live up to your mistakes!~ Everyone does use others as an excuse, it's just the way of the world.'
I grit my teeth. "...I don't know what's going on here or what the history between you two might be...but I have this to say, at least...why do you hate this boy...why do you hate Oz so much? You don't even know him."
The man freezes for a moment. "Don't you dare presume you know anything about me, brat! Oz is the cause of all this mess! My brother always whines over him, clings to him and that stupid girl; that stupid rabbit; he should have just killed her from the start. I hate them; they tie down my nii-san. Plus, Oz has done something truly heinous...he killed my master!"
"...Do calm down, Vincent-kun. You'll have time to ponder over your misdeeds...when I summon Mad Hatter and send you down to hell yourself...maybe you can meet that sweet little girl and ask her why she hates you so much. I will tell you myself; while she is pure and twisted, you are such a disgusting piece of filth that even she can't stand you."
"Shut up! I hate that girl, Alice! I'm going to kill her for making my nii-san suffer!"
I don't know what's going on, but things are getting too complicated for me. It's about time I run. So I do, heading for Izaya, just to give him one good punch, when the blond boy catches sight of me.
"...That bastard. He's got Alice!" He snarls.
"Calm down. Your friend will be fine!"
"...Try and summon your unearthly powers now, my beloved Valkyrie," Izaya purrs, holding onto the brown-haired girl tightly, stroking her brown hair as though it is nothing more than an object he has caught and wishes to examine. "Perhaps I should cut your head off, hmm?"
"...Move back," The boy demands in a calm voice.
"What? What can you do?" I ask the boy, Oz, who lifts his head up to face me, and I gasp-for his eyes are normally calm and peaceful, but there's a look of hatred in them, but most alarming of all-they are blood-red.
"I'm going to destroy him," He states, as suddenly bladed chains surround him and aim at a startled Izaya, who wasn't expecting this. A copper scythe suddenly appears in his hands. "It's been a while since I destroyed anything. I suppose I'll start with anyone who hurts my precious Alice!"
The girl has woken up and seems panic-stricken. "Oz, don't use my powers! Your incuse will...Oz, stop using my B-rabbit powers! They belong to me!"
"Oh, what's this? You two share abilities? Tell me, what sort of freak are you, Alice-sama? Should I cut your hair off or should I make you transform into that magnificent rabbit again-"
What is wrong with the boy? What the hell is all this? It feels like I'm in some sort of demented manga series.
"Uwahh, look, Dota-chin, Izaya-kun's molesting a girl! I never knew he was a lolicon! Oh, and look there's a cosplayer wielding a scythe! Is he a deathmeister?"
"Leave. This is between me and him. I will destroy him."
The boy is scary. I take it back; he is terrifying beyond belief.
"Kida-kun, you here to watch the movie screening, too?" Erika cries out.
"This is no movie, Erika-chan. It's all very real~!" Izaya chirps, having the time of his life...that sicko, hurting a girl like that. What if he breaks her arms and legs like he did to Saki? I've gotta do something...move, move...why can't I move my body?
It's then that I see the girl open her mouth and then she squirms, slightly...trying to move, somehow...to do something...
"Easy, Valkyrie. You have to take me to heaven now..." He says, moving his arm slightly and the girl glares at him and then she spits in his face. He gasps.
"How dare you spit on me!" He cries. She does it again and again. As he tries to reach up to wipe the spit off of his face, she closes in on her target and she bites his shoulder, hard. Izaya clearly wasn't expecting this and he wails in pain.
"What the hell did you just do? Let go of me...let go of me, dammit!"
She continues to bite, pressing harder and harder...until blood flows down his arm. She licks the blood off. "That was nice...your blood tastes salty. I like that." She lets out a little insane giggle as she steps back. "I came out to see you again but you cannot hurt my Jack. So I suppose I'll kill you instead!" She chirps.
What the hell is with her personality change? I can't wrap my mind around anything...mostly the idea that the ground is turning to dust beneath my feet...it is. Holy crap, what's happening?
"Oh my, Alice-sama, it looks to me like your precious 'Jack' is doing what he pleases."
She looks at him and then her eyes widen. "...Why is he destroying again? He's not supposed to."
The boy comes charging toward Izaya with the scythe and slashes half of his jacket, which dissolves into nothingness. "Should I destroy you?" He says with a dark chuckle. "Remember, any time you mess with Alice, you mess with me. I destroy anyone that makes Alice sad or makes her suffer."
Izaya looks afraid.
"What the hell are you doing, runt?" Shizuo cries. The two of them...know each other?
Shizuo's POV
Things just turned from strange to downright bizarre. It's hard to wrap my mind around...so the flea has captured the girl that's a rabbit...and now this boy...Oz, I believe his name is, is using her powers? This is strange. Isn't he a human?
"My, my~, you just become more and more unnatural the more I see you, Oz-kun! I am so proud of that...I can't wait to unravel your secrets and lay bare the truth of your existence-" The flea chirps, only to freeze as the scythe is raised inches from his head, and Oz is gazing at him with an unnaturally demented look on his face, his red eyes gleaming in madness.
"I SUPPOSE I'LL DESTROY YOU NOW! YES, I WILL! THEN I CAN LAUGH!"
"OZ, STOP IT! NO DESTROYING ANYTHING ANYMORE! STOP IT, OZ!"
The girl screams out the boy's name...that tough girl I saw before is crying...looking at him with pleading eyes. "I don't know why I'm saying this...normally, I'd let you kill Cactus-head, but today you can't use my powers! I'm Alice the B-rabbit, and you're my contractor! Who do you think you are, using my powers like that without my permission?"
The boy looks at her and his eyes become green again and the scythe vanishes from his fingertips as the chains still surround him protectively. I move and the chains encircle the boy more and they nearly come towards me, but he smiles at me.
"...I suppose it's your turn to destroy him, isn't it?" He says, but he's troubled by something. He looks at his hands in shock as a terrified Izaya releases the girl known as Alice, he catches her and crushes something beneath his boot.
"Oh, and nice, putting a little device on Alice so you could watch us! I told you I'd destroy you!" He calls back cheerily.
"How did that little brat...how did he know?" The flea stammers.
"...I suppose this round is over, Iza-Iza-chin! Well, I'll be taking these papers with me. Since they contain information you need...oh, Heiwajima-san, take all the time you like to beat him up!"
I love this kid.
The boy is waiting for me in an alleyway with the girl, who's attempting to chew on the papers he's holding above her head.
"Hi!" He says brightly, but I know he's conflicted about something. "...I'm glad you're here. We need to talk. I was rummaging through that bastard's office...and I found these really nice documents...he was holding info on people, so I decided I'd borrow them for a bit!"
"Oz, what are you so troubled about?" The girl says, and he whispers something that I barely catch.
"...I was afraid he was going to do that to you, like Humpty-Dumpty." He whispers.
"...What do you mean, Humpty-Dumpty? That's a fairy tale." I sneer.
"...No, it's a chain, like me-er, Alice. It lops off people's heads. Before we came to this dimension, we were attacked by this chain. It feeds off of numerous people...and can hold many contracts with others so it can kill as many people as it needs to..."
"Heads?" I say. "What does this have to do with anything?"
"...When I went into Izzy-Tizzy's office, I found that he had a head in a jar on a shelf. There was a human head there. Do you know what it could be? I have no idea why he would keep something like that there, unless he has fetishes for someone's head...which is really damned creepy..."
'Head? Like Shinra does for Celty's...head? Celty's head?'
"Tell me again, what did the head look like?"
"Huh? Just a human head, with brown hair...and no neck..." He mutters.
"GRRRR, I'M GOING TO KILL THAT SON OF A BITCH FOR STEALING HER HEAD AND LYING TO HER! HOW DARE HE! HOW DARE HE! HOW DARE HE! I'LL KILL HIM! I'LL KILL HIM!"
The boy blinks. "...Say, does the head belong to anyone you know? I don't really think there's a way to put a head back on once it's cut off."
"...The biker you ran into before...the black biker...Celty...she has no head and she's looking for her head...he's been keeping it from her all this time...I'll kill him for sure...but you mind telling me just what went on back there? What's with you and that scythe?" I say.
"Hm?" He says, looking at me in confusion.
"...Oz was using my powers again. I tell him not to and he uses them, anyway!" The girl cries.
"...You ever feel like there's a part of you that's not human, like everything you do is monstrous...?" He whispers, dropping the happy mask then and there.
"...Yup. People call me a monster. But you don't seem like a monster..."
The boy looks genuinely afraid now. "...But it's just as he said...all I do is destroy everything and break everyone else...I'm not even human...I'm a fake...a toy in someone else's hands..." He mutters.
"Oz?" The girl says, "What's going on?"
"...So?"
The boy looks at me in shock. "What...but..."
"I don't know what your deal is, and to be honest, I don't care. Er, maybe I do care. Whatever, the thing is, Celty isn't human and she's my friend. What makes you think people would care if you're not human? Tell me what you are."
"...Nothing. I'm nothingness..."
"Pah, if you're nothingness, then that makes Celty be nothing. Well, Mr. Nothing, tell me, can't you feel the ground, touch it and talk to others? You're right here, aren't you?"
He looks at me with shocked eyes... "You don't understand...I'm not Oz Vessalius...I'm the worst chain in existence...I'm the Bloodstained Black Rabbit...I killed tons of people and destroyed everything...I even let Alice die...and now she's feeding off my existence as a chain herself!"
"Oz, I'm the B-rabbit-"
"No, no, you're not. Alice, you own me...I'm just a worthless plush rabbit doll and a destructive rabbit chain...someone meaningless..."
This pisses me off. So I slug him.
"Listen, do you think I give a damn about that? If you're saying your feelings don't matter, plush-rabbit, then I say Celty's feelings don't matter, which is bullshit. It's your feelings that make you alive! So get over this angst! I don't give a damn if you're a black rabbit or a human-all that matters to me is that you continue to piss off Izaya!"
The boy chuckles. A natural laugh, not one of the fake ones he usually gives out, and oddly enough, it's cute. "You are...so much like Elliot..." He whispers. "...The first time I met Elliot, he scolded me about that, just like you..."
"Do you love this Elliot?" I ask. The boy's face reddens and he looks away...
"N-No...I love Alice...but Elliot doesn't care about that...he likes Leo...that servant of his...Leo is more suited for him..." The boy says, his face heating up.
"...Hmm...so the answer is yes? Well, then, you're in love. There's no love that's unnatural. My friend Shinra is in love with Celty because she has no head; the flea claims to 'love' all humans,...so what does you being a plush rabbit have to do with being unnatural, when every other Ikebukurian is just as unnatural, huh?"
He starts to cry, which is really, really annoying. "Stop it!"
"Uwahh, look, Dota-chin, Shizu-chan is a shota-con!"
"Shut up! It's not what it looks like!" I cry.
"Wahh...I always thought you were into Izaya! So you're into the younger guys, huh?" Erika snickers.
