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And yas I know xD I´m evil writing this stuff xD But don´t worry *^* This chapter and the next ESPECIALLY will turn out quite- surprising I might say~ xD and definitely get more interesting~ ;3
Oh well, enough rambling for now xD
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ஜ Chapter 9: Silence ஜ
- Izaya´s point of view.-
Black.
Just black.
That was literally what he found himself in. Just pitch black. Darkness.
He knew what happened.
He remembered the tight grip on his neck.
The sting on his cheek.
The pain in his head.
Everything.
He wondered why.
Why did he remember?
Why was he thinking?
The blond killed him right?
He choked him to death.
He had to.
He had seen Shizu-chan´s eyes.
He was willing to.
And yet.
…
Why was he conscious?
Swish
A soft sound reached his ears.
Then silence again. A comforting silence.
Swish
Again.
The more he started to concentrate on the sound the more he noticed the familiarity of it.
A jolt traveled through his skin when he tried to move his hand.
Swish
Again.
And then he slowly opened his eyes.
White flooded his senses almost immediately and he squeezed them shut. The bright light was making his head ache more than he thought it would-
Only reluctantly he opened them once more.
And then he waited, waited for them to focus.
A white ceiling. That was the first thing he noticed.
He let his eyes travel further down, down to his own body and spotted a familiar figure sitting in front of him.
Shinra.
Swish
He was reading a book. Some kind of medical book it seemed. At least the cover looked like it- having a skinned human body on it. His hair was standing away in all directions as usually, as he let his eyes travel over the numerous words.
He hadn´t noticed Izaya was staring at him yet. At least his fixated look on his book told the raven so.
The familiar sound he had heard was the noise being made when the bespectacled turned a page.
Wait-
Why Shinra?
A slightly confused frown spread over Izaya´s expression.
What happened?
Had he been dreaming?
Maybe he didn´t even meet Shizu-chan and Celty simply found him in that alley…?
Hah.. that might as well be the case- taking so many pills must have caused him to halluzinate quite a bit.
It would explain the brute´s behavior too.
Really now…
He closed his eyes actually somewhat relieved.
He could still picture it clearly. He couldn´t keep a smile from appearing on his face. He must have been delirious.
There was no way the blond would be that perceptive. There was no way he would save him from jumping in front of a truck either.
Shizu-chan hated him, no! Detested him.
Let alone patching up his wrist was something that he definitely wouldn´t d-
Wait-
No.
NO.
NO!
He couldn´t be at Shinra´s!
He couldn´t!
Panic was starting to control his senses and his eyes flew back open, looking down his own body.
A white blanket was spread over his body- but-
He froze-
… Confusion spread over his expression when he noticed his shirt-
His shirt.
… he was still wearing his own clothes…?
"Ah, you woke up." Startled Izaya´s eyes snapped up to meet the bespectaclet´s. His thoughts were riding rollercoaster when the bruenette closed his book shut with a smile and placed it on the desk behind him.
Fuck- anyone! Anyone but Shinra!
He had to escape- to get away!
Really quick, before he could-
"Izaya."
…
And then his thoughts froze.
…
That voice…
Only slow he turned his head to look into the direction of the door.
What he saw there threw him completely out of concept.
Utterly and completely.
"Whatever hit you on your head, it knocked you out pretty long. You have been out of it for over 10 hours!" Shinra grinned smugly, adjusting his glasses.
But Izaya didn´t even hear Shinra anymore.
He was just staring at the figure over there.
"… Shinra." He mumbled, finding his voice to creak way more than he thought it would as he kept staring- a glare settling on his face.
"What is Shizu-chan doing here?" the words dripped off his lips like venom as he stared at the hated ex-bartender.
The blond- was leaning there.
Just next to the door he was leaning on the wall and looking straight at Izaya without giving a single fuck about this situation it seemed.
A half smoked cigarette was hanging loosely from his mouth as he stared right back at the raven-
"Ahh, that´s a good question Izaya. I thought you could tell me." Shinra suddenly mumbled, adjusting his glasses and glanced at the brute as well- making Izaya frown questioningly.
"What?"
The bespectacled blinked, obviously surprised by Izaya´s answer- or better, by Izaya´s obvious lack of information in this regard.
"Don´t tell me you have no idea why Shizuo carried you all the way here…?" he muttered- "How hard did you hit him with that vending machine Shizuo?" Shinra whined in a sing sung voice. "Oh actually," his face lit up and he touched his chin with his index finger thinking. "You should have hit him harder! Maybe if he got amnesia he would turn out to be less of an asshole!" Shinra thought aloud, nodding to his own hypothesis.
Izaya tensed at the statement, cautiously eyeing the doctor.
Vending machine…?
He knew what happened-
And he knew that it was not a vending machine that caused him to pass out.
"You see, I don´t know what you did, but Shizuo actually carried you here. Saying you hit your head. Well- I guess with you two there is obviously only one thing that could hit your head that hard."
And so he figured that it must have been a vending machine´s fault - Izaya finished in his head.
Logical conlusion.
Izaya´s eyes turned into tiny sliths as he glared at the debt collector.
Those things… they all seriously happened.
Did he actually just pass out? If so, then why? Did he pass out from being hit by that car? Or from Shizu-chan choking him? Or hitting him multiple times?
He didn´t even need to look into a mirror to know he probably had a huge bruise on his face and multiple others on his body.
He let his hand wander to his throat, feeling around it, only to slightly flinch when he noticed that it hurt.
He bet he had some kind of really ugly looking bruise there.
But then-
Why the hell would he bring him here?
Why didn´t he just leave?
Why did he patch him up?
Just- why?
"Why?" he didn´t even notice he had mumbled that aloud, still frowning at the blond, while the hand was on his throat, but the doctor took it as a reasonable question to his own statement and answered with a shrug.
"I have no clue~!" Of course the doctor wouldn´t know the answer. If anyone then only Shizu-chan could give him the solution he searched for.
And so yet another "why" added to his questions list-
Why was Shizu-chan keeping quiet?
A clear of throat drew his attention finally back to the doctor.
He hadn´t even realized that he had been staring at the blond all along.
"Anyway," Shinra started, addressing the blond this time. "Izaya woke up now, so Shizuo uh could you, you know, leave now?" Shinra voiced, but Shizuo just kept staring at Izaya.
For the first time since Izaya had woken up he moved- dragged his hand up to remove the cigarette from his lips.
But his eyes were not leaving Izaya for a single second while doing that.
He wasn´t even looking at Shinra while he spoke.
But at Izaya instead.
"No."
Simply no.
He didn´t say anything else.
Izaya could hear Shinra give a sort of sigh at the answer, but he couldn´t care less right now about that doctor.
Izaya knew Shizu-chan was as smart as an ameba when it came to talking, but he did expect him to say at least a little bit more considering the things that happened by now-
…
Why was he still there? And…. Most importantly-
…
Why did he not tell Shinra anything?
It was strange. It was really strange.
He had known Shinra for years. He would even go as far and say Shinra knew him best of all people he ever had come in contact with.
So- if Shinra seemed normal like this, like nothing happened at all, as if this was just a routine check up, then possibly…
…
"Ne, Shinra… what about my left arm…?" Izaya breathed, his voice trembling more than he wanted it to as he glanced warily at the doctor´s reaction.
"Left arm?" the doctor blinked, looking like he was a little confused by the question. "It was already patched up when Shizuo brought you here."
So he was right after all-
Shizu-chan hadn´t said a word.
And Shinra hadn´t seen anything yet.
"You want me to check it up or something?" the bespectacled suddenly asked, making the raven flinch hard-
"No-!" he replied quickly- cursing himself for answering so fast. Shinra looked at him a little perplexed.
"I mean- No. It´s fine." He repeated, more calmly this time. Seeming suspicious was the last thing he wanted now.
"Well… I don´t really know what´s going on, but okay. Just so you know, I only treated that wound on your head. Looked pretty bad, but it was more bloody than damaged. About your leg and shoulder- well…" The doctor trailed off.
"Don´t think I´m lying now Izaya." He raised his hands in defence as if to underline what he was saying was true. "But Shizuo didn´t allow me to properly examine you." Izaya blinked.
But said nothing, instead his eyes turned into sliths as he glanced at the blond.
…
… what does he think he is doing…?
He had obviously been keeping the bespectacled from discovering his cuts.
Why?
It couldn´t be for his sake right?
No. As far as Izaya could judge that blond he bet Shizu-chan would want Izaya to get himself admitted to some psychiatric clinic so he wasn´t a hassle to him anymore. If anything at all.
… but then why didn´t he say anything?
"Izaya?" startled he snapped his head back to Shinra.
"Yeah?" Only now Izaya noticed that the doctor had been talking to him all along.
"I just asked if it would be alright with you if I took a look at your shoulder, just to make sure it isn´t serious."
Izaya froze-
Ah.
Looking at his shoulder…
That meant he had to take off his shirt-
Ahhhh- bad idea. Suspicious lines were aligning all over his body…
Shinra wasn´t stupid.
"I don't think that´s necessary." Izaya waved him off quickly, putting on his trademark smirk.
He had to act normal now. Shinra didn´t know anything but if he didn´t pay attention he might realize something was off.
And a naggy Shinra was the worst thing ever.
The doctor blinked at the answer but just shrugged.
"If you say so." He mumbled. "Guess you can leave then. Your jacket should be somewhere in the living room." Suddenly the sound of a door falling into its lock resounded in the apartment and a smile flashed over the doctor´s face.
"Celty darling, welcome home~!" the doctor immediately chirped and before Izaya could even blink the doctor was already running out of the room-
…
Sometimes Izaya really did think that Shinra was a little strange regarding his love to that headless dullahan.
But that wasn´t even what he was going to think about now. The moment Shinra had left the room his only focus rested on the blond opposite to him.
Silence hung in the room and neither really felt a need to speak to the other at the moment.
To be honest Izaya still was quite perplexed.
Maybe it were the hits to his head that he received from the blond.
Could also be the pills he took, he didn´t know.
If it wasn´t a necessity for Izaya to find out what really happened he would have preferred to stay in this comforting silence.
But remaining clueless about the blond´s reasons? That´s a state he couldn´t remain in now could he?
"So-" he started, cutting through the quiet atmosphere. "You made me pass out? And then you brought me to Shinra? Tell me Shizu-chan, what kind of logic is that?" he asked, intending to provoke the blond- just a little bit.
Shizu-chan had stayed quiet all the time- which was a miracle in itself. And for once he really looked like he wasn´t angry at all.
It couldn´t stay that way.
He had to make the blond at least a little angry. Maybe that would get him to talk.
Not much of a reaction was shown at first, but then the blond closed his eyes, breaking the intense eye contact.
"I just wanted you to shut up. You didn´t listen. It´s easier to patch you up when you don´t wiggle around. That´s all." He answered, opening his eyes again to half return the glare that Izaya sent him.
Seems remembering what happened before pissed the blond off slightly.
Izaya just took in the information for a second, thinking about his next words carefully-
He was walking on thin ice here. One wrong word and he could get himself trapped in a situation he didn´t want to end up in.
"You…" the raven started to mumble softly- he didn´t want to accidentally have Shinra overhear their conversation. "You didn´t tell him… right?" he almost whispered, keeping his eyes locked with the blond.
For a second Shizu-chan just kept looking at Izaya.
Not responding.
Making Izaya more than just a little anxious. He couldn´t have interpreted Shinra´s acting wrong, right? He didn´t know right?
"I didn´t." A sigh of relief escaped the raven´s lips despite him trying to act indifferent with the blond.
He seriously didn´t tell him.
Shinra didn´t know.
For a second he really thought-
"You tell him."
…
The raven blinked.
"Huh?" only this unintelligible sound left his lips at the blond´s words.
What was he saying-
"Shizu-chan-"
"Do it or I will." The blond looked at him- and that´s when he realized- he was dead serious.
When Shinra came back- he would tell him.
He would-
He felt nauseous.
If Shizu-chan told him, Shinra would keep him here.
Against his will.
A normal doctor would try his best and let him leave after a few tries or maybe even if he got admitted to a psychiatric clinic, he knew they were easy to escape from, he knew how to act to seem like everything was fine.
He knew how to get out of there.
But Shinra?
He would tie him up. He would do things no normal doctor would do because he wanted to "help"- Shinra knew Izaya!
He would know if he really was alright or just playing the part-!
He would rip him of all possibilities-! Of all freedom-!
He wouldn´t be able to leave! He wouldn´t be able to relieve himself of the pain in any way!
He didn´t want to be caught with all these-
All these thoughts- all these feelings-
Just-
No!
He didn´t want that-!
He did not want that!
"Shizu-chan if you do that I will bite my tongue off!" he shot so fast he wondered if the blond was even able to understand him- "I will bite it off! I`m serious! I will bite it off and bleed to death right her-" way too fast the blond pushed himself off the wall, and rushed right towards him-
Izaya flinched away, his back hitting the wall hard making metallic instruments fall clattering to the floor- his tongue stucking out at the speed of lightning-
Making the blond freeze halfway in his movement-
A frown spread over the debt collector´s features and he glared at the raven.
And then time seemed to stand still.
Izaya was remaining in his position as frozen and so was Shizuo.
Just a few steps separated the two from each other.
Izaya gulped, the tongue still out and between his teeth and a glare settled on his expression.
He could almost see how tense the blond was.
He had stopped.
He had taken the threat for real.
Fascinating.
He had stopped because he thought Izaya would do it.
Almost as if he cared.
Too bad Shizu-chan didn´t seem to know that one couldn´t really bleed to death that way.
Well except he bit on the clotted tongue long enough to bleed to death.
It was impossible to die fast this way though- even more so when the doctor was already next door.
Izaya knew that.
But, Shizuo didn´t-
He bet he was remembering some stupid movies where spies had killed themselves like that.
"Put that fucking tongue back in." the snarl had been filled with so much malice Izaya wondered if the blond would add a "or I´m going to kill you" phrase at the end.
Which would be a paradox in itself of course.
But he said nothing more.
He kept the glare, he kept his distance and didn´t move a muscle.
And Izaya did the same.
Faint steps were to be heard and soon enough the doctor that had left to welcome his lover returned to the room.
"So anyway Izaya, you can leave and-" Izaya didn´t even need to look at Shinra´s expression to know what he had to look like right now.
He could almost imagine him blinking, looking at Shizu-chan and then at him showing the blond his tongue.
"Guys uh- please just don´t destroy my apartment…"
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Shinra being awesome as fuck xD And the two looking like they are just about to fight, yayaya~ xD
I hope you liked this chapter :3 It was slightly longer too xD I will be udating in my regular fast fashion now again xD So, see you soon *0*
See you in chapter 10: Fixing fleas due to 5thFebruary2016
Love ya all *^* see you~!
PS.: Thank you guest 2, you unintentionally gave me a wonderful, maybe even essential idea for this story to add x'D
