Okay. I have to make Izaya rest for a moment… here goes Shizuo! ^^ Blah-blah bashing! Blah-blah bashing! This is my story! Don't protest on who's the villain and who's the hero! XAX
Disclaimer: I don't own DRRR! And Kanokon as well. Guardian and Crimson Demons belong to me! ^^ Some other references are used.
Warning: YAOI and some violence. Swearing and sexual themes are also employed. Not for children who are not familiar with Shounen-Ai.
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Itazura no Inutachi
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Vorona, being bound by her job and duties, is not able to join everyone when they get to meet with Shizuo's brother and his demon lover. She has been requested to come and report… which further lead to an opening of a current case.
Shizuo and Izaya go out together that Sunday morning and plan to be roaming around the whole city for the first date. During a sudden conversation about humans and demons, some familiar words get to strike Izaya again… leading to carelessly showing affection publicly which the blond prohibits.
Seconds later, the whole Sunday date crashes as they give in to Vorona voiceless request of following her. Soon, exorcists have ambushed Izaya and neutralized him as part of the conviction process… leaving Shizuo unconscious as well.
With the kitsune neutralized by the Order, what consequences will it fruit into?
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Nothing else matters other than fun and promiscuity.
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The homeroom of III-C is out loud again since the news about Izaya and Shizuo flow around like a dead rat's stench in a closed room. Even Shinra and Celty are left out by this thought-so magical thing.
"I can't really believe it. Shizuo's really going out with a guy." Shinra chuckles at the news and then Celty hums… still occupied by Vorona's stillness.
There are girls chatting loudly before the Russian woman… as if slapping her with such victory from her supposed rival.
And then Celty turns towards the corridor outside their homeroom… seeing Masaomi wait there for almost more than thirty minutes now.
She then diverts her gaze at the seats where Izaya and Shizuo are supposed to be.
"Where are they?" She whispers and then Shinra twitches as he looks at the vacant desks as well, "Yeah, they didn't come back last night either. I wonder where those two are."
Celty stands up and walks outside the room to talk to Masaomi, "Kida-kun, are you waiting for Izaya-kun?"
"Hai. His presence vanished all of a sudden yesterday. And up until now, I still cannot detect him."
"What? Where did he go?"
"It's either he entered a dimensional rift or…"
"Celty-san." Their teacher calls her attention and she excuses herself to enter the room. The teacher then talks to Masaomi about going back to his room by then. Masaomi leaves but then his vicious eyes lay at someone within the room.
"Where are Shizuo-san and Izaya-san? Aren't they even in yet?"
"They didn't go back in the dorm either!" One yells as the class becomes covered in whistles and blue jokes. The teacher then panics to stop from them from getting too noisy… especially those who have been yelling out about hotels and stuff.
Sooner, Shizuo suddenly slams the door in destruction… and the class eyes at him. The blond is panting wildly and is covered in dusts, the girls yesterday pinpointing that he is wearing the same clothes he did yesterday. He then goes in and grabs Vorona to drag her outside as he runs off again with the teacher trying to stop them.
"Shizuo-san! Vorona-san! Come back! We're having a QUIZ!"
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Itazura no Inutachi
Rei Haruno —Sakura no Imooto
Chapter 9: Kitsune Calamity
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"Shizuo-san! Let go, it's hurting me!" Vorona tries to take off the blond's hand from her wrist… but she gets released only after they reach the rooftop. Shizuo then tries to clam himself as he pants loudly.
"Where… is Izaya?"
"I… no, consider him gone." Her eyes then grow serious… yet another yell from the man produces fear in her eyes.
"I said WHERE IS IZAYA?!"
"… I don't know."
"What?"
"I don't know! He's locked up somewhere that I don't know!" She then lays her palms at her chest, "Why are you so concerned about a demon? He's a demon for—!"
"…I know. But there's something that…"
"Whatever you had before, it's not love. It's just mere deception the kitsune is making you go through. He kills you slowly by simply staying at your side."
"…"
"…The case of the destroyed villages, they ceased. It's because we already caught the culprit." She whispers, thinking that Shizuo should know, "We have caught the demon that has been killing humans while disguising himself as one and—"
"Are you going to turn Kida and Celty in?"
"Excuse me?"
"Masaomi Kida and Celty Sterluson. Aren't they demons, too? Are you going to turn them in?"
"… Maybe."
"Then listen to me…" She then turns to the Shizuo who has been staring at her with murderous eyes, "If you do so… I will kill you with my bare hands."
Time stops as her brain finally processes the straight-forward threat Shizuo has given her… and before he leaves, another rocket gets laid.
"They are much more human than you are."
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"Uso." Celty whispers as Shizuo breaks the small news to them… with Vorona and Izaya's seats vacant. Masaomi trembles all along and then Mikado stutters to break the shocking tension, "H-How are we going to get him out of there?"
Shizuo, who is now in his school uniform, refuses to answer… knowing that he has no idea how to.
Then the brunet freshman notices his lover's grave trembling and then everyone follows suit. He tries talking to Masaomi and then the Inugami stands up, "I need to find Saika."
With those words, he leaves the group and then Shinra wonders as everyone does, "Who's Saika?"
"She's… a demon possessing someone we know. But why would he look for her?"
The group gets left in the dark as they seem to fail interpreting everything that is happening.
In another place…
"Saika!" Masaomi yells as he finds Anri at an empty music room. The woman turns to him… with her pale eyes on, "I know. So what do you want to do? Sell the boy in exchange of my help?"
"I'm not up for a negotiation. I know you know so well what will happen if kit's barrier gets disrupted."
"It's rippling already. Any minute now, it'll break." Saika, speaking through Anri's body, gestures as she holds the window she's facing, "Why fret, Inugami? Why don't you just take the boy back to the mountains and leave Ikebukuro to die. It's just Kitsune who's obsessed in keeping the place. The Guardian will let you leave since you're clear from records. Besides, Kitsune doesn't have any hold on you, right?"
"It's true that I don't really serve the kit. But… you know they will kill every demon in this place if we don't do something about this."
"I will run away as soon as it starts."
"The Guardian will lock this place down. No other demon will be able to get in and run away."
"Geez. Kitsune should have known better than to leave his 'sisters' alone. He sure had been blinded by their thought-so loyalty."
"He's keeping them in check. They could have asked help from other demons."
"If the barrier gets released, Kitsune will have sufficient powers to reactivate it again then."
"If the barrier gets released, consider yourself dead then. Either way, you will. You're just buying yourself some more time if you don't fight." Masaomi leaves the girl alone…
"Choose which fox to kill you, huh?"
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Hours after… dismissal time.
"Masaomi!" Mikado calls on the blond Inugami and then he scratches his head, "Mikado. I'm very sorry."
"For what?" The brunet's smile falls and then the blond dismisses the thought with hand gestures… suddenly holding on his hand as they walk back to the dorm.
The whole city is in peace for a moment… until a loud shattering sound threatens all the demons in the area. Celty looks around as she walks with Shinra to the Girl's Dormitory. She then notices the sky growing yellowish. "What's happening?"
Everyone in the city watches the phenomenon of the bluish sky turns incredibly yellow. Then as if a colliding glass dome, the yellow cover breaks yet the glass debris get disintegrating along with the air.
Masaomi tightens his hold on Mikado as they watch the yellow sky phenomenon…
"It's breaking."
"What's breaking?"
"Izaya's barrier. Sooner, this place will be destroyed by two killer demons. Just stay by my side, Mikado."
The brunet nods and holds Masaomi's hand tighter as they watch the barrier go down. And as the barrier goes crashing… an eclipse starts to engulf the city. The people then start to freak out by the happenings and within this crowd stands Vorona. She watches the phenomenon and squints at the sky, "What is going on?"
"You disrupted the barrier sealing of the Destruction Princesses. Now Ikebukuro will suffer."
"Who—?" Vorona turns to the girl beside her and then she squints, "Demon."
"I'm under direct orders of the Guardian of Raira." She smiles at her, "Try to aim at me and I will kill you."
At the old mansion where Izaya lives…
"Barrier, boom (The barrier is crashing)." Kururi, one of Izaya's sisters, who is wearing a geisha's yukata, speaks and then she climbs up the roof with Mairu, the other sister who is wearing the shrine maiden outfit, yelling out loud, "WOW! This is amazing!"
"Izaya will kill me." A woman in a casual wear joins them and then Mairu gives her a thumbs-up, "Don't worry, Namie-san! He'll let you off the hook!"
"Mairu, burn (Mairu, let's burn the city)."
"What I'm about to do, Kuru-nee!" Mairu raises her hands up in the air, "Burn! Ikebukuro, burn! To the city that sealed us, BURN!"
Even though her chant sounded elementary, a wild fire circle suddenly engulfs the borders of the city… angry red flaring amidst the dark night-resembling sky. The people start screaming in hysteria and then the bespectacled shrine maiden laughs out.
"YAHOOOOOO!"
She then turns into her pure form and then Kururi follows her. The woman named Namie then sighs and turns into her pure form as well. Mairu swirls around with her glowing snow eyes looking at the fire that consumes the city, "Let's start a reappin'! It's been a LOOOOOOOOOOOOONG while since Iza-nii let us reap some human souls!"
"Everywhere, corpse (Let's kill everyone and turn them into corpse we can feast at)."
"I better find Izaya." Namie whispers and goes on as the two sisters swirl around the premises of their mansion. Then they look at each other and Mairu yells, "NOM NOM NOM! Let's see who gets more souls, Kuru-nee!"
"Earth (I will be as big as the Earth)."
The two female Kitsunes then take on separate paths… filling themselves with the souls of the living.
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The exorcists have been utterly busy, dealing with demons that sprout out of nowhere. Vorona runs along the streets despite the reversed current of the people.
'Shizuo-san! I need to get to Shizuo-san!'
She pushes through and goes in the school premises where a lot have been hiding. However, tremors are starting to haunt the whole city and so the buildings are starting to shake as well. The students have been screaming… some men running off towards the Girl's Dormitory for their lovers. Shizuo, Masaomi and Mikado are threading the same way… inevitable for them not to bump into Vorona.
"Shizuo-san." She whispers for his name but then he ignores her and runs ahead… Masaomi and Mikado doing the same. Another tremor hits the place and so the earth cracks in two… dividing the worlds of the students' lines. Screams echo around as some students fall off the crack and then Vorona twitches as the ground she's standing at breaks apart. She falls off the crack and closes her eyes as she accepts her death… until a hand suddenly grabs her wrist. Her eyes shoot open and then she sees Shizuo holding her from the edge…
"Shizuo-san?"
"I'm not a monster to leave you out here." He pulls her up and to a much safer edge, "Let's go to the Girls Dorm and meet up with Shinra and Celty."
"We… broke the barrier…"
"What barrier?" Shizuo asks as he drags her along the running mass along with Masaomi and Mikado.
"The dimensional barrier Izaya created to seal the powers of his sisters along with his." Masaomi answers and despite the shock, they have to continue running, "His sisters never dreamt of anything but to destroy cities and villages to become powerful beings that can overthrow Guardians. Izaya knows how hard to wield such power that's why he sealed his sister's powers. As long as he gets in contact with the barrier, it will never break."
"What do you mean he knows how hard?!" Vorona asks with a yell, "Does he—?!"
"He possessed that kind of power before… he's been destroying village after village for ages. Until a certain night…" Masaomi narrates as they make their way through breaking earth, "In just one night, he decided to stop and settle down. His sisters didn't approve of it so they wanted to be as strong as he is to continue the reign of Kitsunes in the demon and human realm. After that, he sealed their powers and that has basically turn them into normal Kitsunes… losing their other tails in the process."
"C-Can't he just recreate the barrier?" Vorona asks and then Masaomi stops running… the other three stop as well.
The Inugami's hand clutches harder…
"Yes, he can."
"Then let's make him do so!"
"But he needs to sacrifice all of Ikebukuro just to do that."
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End of Chapter 9
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What has my fic turned into? TAT But it's starting to get more awesome… Thanks for reading and please review! ^^
