Oh-ho-ho! It is finally here! Another world-splitting line between my embodiments of night and day! OOC people… very OOC. ^^ Sixth entry for RHASNI's Christmas Bash 2012!

Disclaimer: I do not own Durarara! As well as Catherine. Plot and weird unheard-of places mentioned are mine. Some other references used as well.

Warnings: Yaoi and hentai. Horror and supernatural themes implied. This is NOT based on the game Catherine's story line. Shizuo, forgive me.

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Hi, I'm Shizuo Heiwajima and I am a man loving two women and a man that has a paranoid friend. Shinra suddenly starts talking about a hotline that he has picked up from someone in Goat's Den. I don't know much… but ever since then, he acts more interested in my decisions. Did something happen?

Anyway, the night before, I get to meet this odd woman from the Yagiri family, based from the door plate at her condo unit. She acts differently and strange… trying to kill me for 'being in the way of their love'.

And then I decide to beat up the mannequin in the nightmare… and it ends much quickly that way. However, I feel weird and uneasy the morning after… feeling something very strange occurring to me.

Now, I am sitting next to Izaya with her talking to someone she calls a witch. Does that mean anything strange? Why do I feel weird?

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Yanderes… men dressed as women… nightmares… I must be so fucked.

"Most persistent witch I've ever met."

Her words ring in my head as I stare at her… at her frowning face which is full of loathing. She then flips close her phone as it starts ringing… probably a call from that woman. She then sighs and clears her ugly expression… only to smile seductively at me again.

"Shizu-chan… maybe you have something for us to think about?"

…I suddenly twitch and then shake my head… "Nothing really. I just want to see you." "Oh my, that's really sweet. Want to spend the night with me again?" I finish my food… and refuse, "…I'm really sorry."

"…Well, whatever." She then smiles bitterly and she turns away again. I stare at her some more… feeling something very weird about things. Maybe I'm being paranoid myself as well… but the doubt feels so relevant.

"…What do you mean by… witch, Kanra?"

She then looks at me… her eyes expressing surprise and blankness… as if she fails to think that I have heard what she said. Izaya then leans at me and wraps her arms around me, "Shizu-chan… I love you."

"?!" That is something very uncalled for… but I really think she is just distracting me. But I lean closer and slide my arm around her back… sharing another hot kiss with my beloved hooker.

Midnight, at the streets…

"Yeah, I'm already heading home. You don't have to worry… Ikebukuro is not like the most of Tokyo in some ways." Kasuka, my brother, is on the phone and is on the 'how are you' mode. "That's what I'm worrying about. Ikebukuro is more dangerous than those places at night." "Don't worry about me…"

My gaze then shift from the sky to my walkway. The woman yesterday is standing before me again… but this time, she is unarmed.

"Yeah, Kasuka. I got to go. Just call you back when I get home alive." I flip my phone close and then I ask her, "Anything you want to say?" She then walks nearer and then she leans her forehead at my shoulder.

My eyes squint at her as she grasps at my clothes… whispering in her monotonous voice— leaving my eyes widen at her words…

"Leave Izaya alone. I still love him."

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Rei Haruno —Sakura no Imooto

Chapter 9: Barren Nights

Even the loud clicks of porcelain dishes and cups are not enough to break my thoughts… carefully recalling what she has said that time. She pours coffee into my cup and she sits down at the seat opposite of mine, "That must be a complete surprise for you."

"…I just don't want to say it. But I don't want to believe you."

"It's completely fine. I mean, I know you wouldn't."

Namie Yagiri. She presents herself as Izaya's ex-girlfriend… before he has quit school roughly a year ago. She has also offered me to go in her unit to talk about things but apparently she is not pushing it on me.

Izaya's real sexuality.

I sip the coffee in my cup and then she continues talking about the topic my head refuses to absorb. "Izaya Orihara. We have been together for a year but he suddenly changed and left me. The next thing I know… he's already in Goat's Den as a girl named Kanra."

…No, it cannot be jiving like this.

"He still looks as beautiful as he is before. Only that he has breasts and he wears some lewd clothing."

Shinra, I want to kill you right now.

"But no matter what he wears, how he acts, or what name he uses… he is still the same god I worship."

Her words then start to intrigue me… with her talking strange again. I watch her take a sip of her drink and then she continues, "And like most worshippers, I also blame him for the suffering I have to go through."

"A girlfriend that looks up to you like a god…"

"Completely. But I have chosen this path to take… and even if being with him would rip my soul from my body, I will compromise myself for him." She speaks words of devotion… yet her voice never changes. "He should have known better than to leave me. I cannot go to him directly… so I want to hurt everyone he has exchanged me with."

She suddenly feels like Vorona… only creepier since her face and voice would never change.

"?!" I suddenly feel like puking and then I shoot a hand at my mouth… trying to push back what is coming out. She then brings her cup down and she stares at me who is writhing already, "I never thought what Izaya chose over me is so protozoic that he didn't suspect me of anything. I did remember I attempted on your life once."

"…Is this… poison?" I then partially collapse from the seat, vomiting on her shining floor.

"I can't keep poison in here so I used bathroom cleaner instead." She takes another sip at her coffee, "I prepared mine at the kitchen while I poured yours from the teapot. You're so kind. You don't even expect people to hurt you."

"Fuck… you."

I finally fall off the chair and lose my consciousness… hearing her before that. "You're a disgusting bacterium that I should clean off of Izaya."

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"…Tch, tch, tch…"

"…Neko?"

"Oh, hi. Shizuo." My eyes begin to open and then I see myself lying down at the dark floor. Neko is standing by my head, looking down at me, "That was so close for you. Does your tummy feel better?"

"…If I'm here… then I'm still alive in the real world." I then get up… finding myself in a patient's gown. Neko laughs out and runs around me, "Are you finally realizing that you wear the clothes you slept in?"

That detail is quite insignificant though. However, I look around again and notice that the nightmare hasn't started just yet, "Where's the angel?" Neko then hums and then he walks around me again, "Why? Beating up my angel after you beat up my demon?"

"This is ending quicker that way."

"Really? Then I should test your own theory!" Neko then vanishes with a wave… the world of ice reappearing again before me. I then remember the gush I got from the nightmare… taking into consideration that whatever happens to me here reflects on the real world.

The angel mannequin then walks out of a mirror reflection… now adorned by a full-face helmet with only her eyes seen. She also has much defined armor but her… supposed-to-be covered parts are still bare. "Shizuo-kun… are you… feeling better?"

"?!" I step back as she starts walking towards me… her eyes and voice finally resembling Vorona's in a weird way, "Who does not love you? Who hurt you?" "…Vorona?"

"…Shizuo." She then cocks her head at the side… before raging again, "THAT'S WHY I TOLD YOU TO BE MINE ALONE!" She then jumps at me and I have to dodge… still contemplating to run—

The surroundings then begin shifting… the maze turning into an arena. The angel doll then starts becoming more furious until it hurls at me some ice boulders, "BY THEN, NO ONE— I MEAN, NO ONE WILL EVER HURT YOU!"

…But I cannot just die here. I need to kill this thing again… this is not Vorona. I stand up from sitting at the floor… readying my fists to fight back and smash some flesh out of that monster which resembles my girlfriend. I am able to land a punch on her face after some dodging… compromising her beautiful image…

"Stop fucking with me, you impostor."

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Beep. Beep. Beep.

The shrill noise the heart machine is making awakens me and so I decide to look around a bit. The ceiling completely resembles a hospital's and so I can conclude I was sent to the hospital… but by whom?

"…Shizuo." A voice calls and it rings in my head… "Shizuo.Shizuo.Shizuo.Shizuo." The voices grow on… louder and louder. Yet my hands are too numb to move— restrained by the paralysis of pain. Come to think about it, I have been poisoned by bathroom cleaner. My eyes blink yet again… only to see Namie standing beside me.

"Fuck…" I wheeze and the word comes out like a shrill breath. The woman then grins strangely— unlike what she always does— and then she whispers, "You never fail to entertain me, Shizuo." She then begins to stroke at my blonde locks, "You're really becoming my most favorite sheep. Well, anyway, you better rest up and recover. Playing with an impaired stray sheep will never be right and… entertaining."

"…Neko-rabbit…?"

"You're starting to memorize my speech patterns. I'm deeply touched to be recognized outside the dream world."

"How are you…?" Should I ask him? If he can get in someone's dreams then maybe… he can control someone as well. Why would he poison me?

Neko-rabbit then chuckles and sits down the edge of my bed— making it creak and my wounds hurt, "Oh, my, Shizuo. It was Namie who poisoned you not me. I merely brought you to the hospital. And yeah…" He makes her face looms before mine, "Look closely." I stare deep inside her hazel eyes… only to feel getting sucked inside.

"Shizuo, I am Neko-rabbit and I am one of the handlers of poor and pitiful sheep in Tokyo. Yes, I can possess every human I wanted here in Ikebukuro…"

She then pulls back and swirls around, "However, I have my taste and~… see ya tomorrow night. You should rest more than a day. You are in a critical condition, no?" He then makes Namie-san wave cheekily at me, "Sayonara, Shizuo." She then sends me a flying kiss before prancing out of the hospital.

He leaves me… not in confusion but in grave terror. The way he moves… reminds me of someone else.

Not long after, the door motions yet again and then Vorona and Shinra come in my room. (Do I have enough money to pay for this room? Why did he get me a private one?) Shinra then jumps at me and begins crying at my tummy, "Shizuo! What the fuck happened to you, you asshole?!"

"Shizuo." Vorona grabs Shinra's collar and throws him away— the expression of her face remaining worried the whole time. She sits down at the edge of my bed, "Who did this to you?"

The way she talked reminds me of the angel mannequin… yet I have to dismiss that kind of thoughts first. I just smile at her and I say as I reach for her hair, "Don't worry, I'm fine. This is—" I halt speaking as she notices something at where she is sitting. She then picks up a lipstick that seems to be lying around at the bed. She looks at me with her inquisitive gaze and then Shinra takes it from her hand. He opens it and swirls to reveal the color…

"This isn't the lipstick Kanra-san would wear. It's too dark-colored for a hooker." The way he talked sounds like he is as clueless as Vorona yet I know he could have recognized it as Namie's instead. It must have fallen out when Neko made her lunge at the bed.

However, Vorona let it be as she takes it back from Shinra, "No matter. Please, tell me who did this? Did Izaya ask a favor from one of her co-workers?"

"Why would Izaya poison me?" Can I leisurely tell Vorona that I have met a girl that poses to be Izaya's ex-girlfriend and she is the one who poisoned me instead? Or maybe… I should just deny the fact that someone deliberately poisoned me? But the doctors must have told them it is bathroom cleaner… no one can mistake that for any ingredient in a brewed coffee.

"Is this from the woman who wanted to kill you?" Shinra then turns serious and then Vorona grabs his collar again, "What do you mean 'the woman who wanted to kill him?' Tell me! Tell me!" I keep on seeing new sides of people today.

"Shi… Shizuo brought a girl once to my clinic! She… she is about to hit him with a steel pipe… but he was able to block! She then… ouw… gets almost hit by a car so…" My girlfriend finally lets go of him and then she embraces me as she puts her face on my chest, "Shizuo. I won't forgive her. I certainly won't forgive her." She gets up and runs off… preparing her phone along the way.

Shinra chokes a bit and then he chuckles helplessly, "Did I just ask Vorona-san to kill someone?"

"…We need to go. Namie-san will be in trouble… or else, it might be Vorona."

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Inside Vorona's head…

I have been bad ever since the start of this night and to think my Shizuo will be murdered?! No! Whoever wants him dead will die by my hands first.

After rushing out of the hospital, I have been walking swiftly… yet I have slowed down as I reach the streets. My heart suddenly flares upon knowing about this woman who wants to kill my beloved. I have never felt anything like this before… not even towards my father. Detesting and outwitting Izaya Orihara is not my goals by now…

I dial the Hotline to Hell as I walk down the streets in the middle of daybreak. As a woman of my age, I shouldn't be loitering around but… I have a woman to kill. His phone rings continuously and then he finally picks up, "Hello, this is Hotline to Hell. Good morning, Vorona. What made you call so early?" I stop walking as I see drunkards walking my way, "…Shi… Shizuo was poisoned by a woman earlier. Please tell me where can I find her."

"Aren't you in a much bigger trouble there?" He worriedly speaks. I have to admit… the drunkards are eyeing at me and they start whistling— seeing a woman like me out in this hour. He then chuckles, "Ja. Since I will not be using anything. I might as well not charge you."

"Huh?" What do you mean, Neko-rabbit?

The moment a drunkard is about to speak, a woman suddenly thwacks his face with her shoe with a roundhouse kick. She then runs to grab my wrist and flails me away from the men. They chase us down yet we are able to lose them along the way. The woman smiles at me after she rakes her hands along her tangled hair, "That was so close, Vorona. Be thankful I was… around."

"…Neko-rabbit?" Is that… him? I have always thought Neko-rabbit is a man!

"Huh? No, don't misunderstand. I was just possessing this girl." She swirls around, "I did it for someone. I just… found her body… comfortable. So I decided to wear it longer." Then her eyes change gaze at me like how I can picture Neko-rabbit every time I call, "So, about this woman who wanted your love dead…"

"Right." I suddenly shift my confused attitude to a serious one, "Where can I find her?"

"She lives in a luxurious condominium. And do you know why she wanted to kill Shizuo in— Shizuo Heiwajima in the first place?" He suddenly stutters upon mentioning my beloved's name and then I have to shake my head as an answer.

"Why don't you ask your boyfriend yourself? He knows of it very well." He then shrugs his shoulders, "Well, not very well… but he got the full idea." He then twitches and then grimaces with a grin, away from me, "Well, not the full idea… but he gets the substance."

I then close my eyes and then I hear him whimper. I open my eyes and he greets me with a mischievous grin. I take out something from beneath the back part of my shorts. He smiles bigger and starts stepping back… as I aim the gun at the woman's chest, "That is her, isn't she?"

"Hey, hold up, Vorona." Neko-rabbit chuckles, "This woman has a child… a new-born baby. Do you want the child to live life without a mother like how you did? I may not die if you shoot but she surely will." I then deviously smile at him, "I wouldn't aim if I don't plan to shoot at her." Neko-rabbit then chuckles and he sighs, "My goats… they are maturing."

End of Chapter 9

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