Chapter 10
This chapter will have a dream sequence in it~ The entire sequence will be italicized~ This chapter will contain triggers~ You have been warned~ XD
The next weekend came and Izaya and Shizuo were just walking into their house.
"That wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be," Izaya said, taking his shoes off and walking further into the house. "I was expecting them to be spawns of the devil."
"I thought you said they were spawns of the devil?" Shizuo reminded.
"Yeah," Izaya agreed, "but I was expecting them to act like it and they didn't." He sat down on the couch and laid his head back, sighing in relief. "Though I will say, they know how wear people out. Yet another reason why I can't stand them."
"Maybe they wouldn't be so exhausting if you just hung out with them more often," Shizuo said, sitting next to Izaya on the couch. Izaya dropped his head on Shizuo's lap.
"You make it sound so easy," he whined, looking up at Shizuo.
"Yeah, well, probably because it is~" Shizuo teased, ruffling Izaya's hair. Izaya sighed, leaning into Shizuo's hand.
"You don't know how they are," Izaya whined again. "You may think it's easy because Kasuka's normally quiet and easy to be around. My sisters are the exact opposite of your brother. You try living with them for eight years straight, then say it's easy to hang out with them often."
Shizuo chuckled quietly at Izaya's whining. Lately he had been finding it to be adorable and it helped that they acted like really close friends. It had gotten to the point where they would sometimes sleep in the same bed together. It definitely had Shizuo confused with his feelings. It was something he couldn't really admit to himself much less Izaya.
"Hello?" he heard, snapping him out of his thoughts. He looked down to see Izaya poking his cheek repeatedly.
"Can I help you?" he asked.
"Ah~" Izaya fake smiled, still poking Shizuo. "It does live~" He chuckled. "I was beginning to think you disappeared on me and left nothing but an empty shell~"
"Maybe I should have," Shizuo chided with an irk mark, taking Izaya's hand to stop him from poking him.
"But then who would make my life as interesting as you do~?" Izaya asked, squeezing Shizuo's hand slightly. "I don't want my life to become boring~"
"Then don't give me a reason to leave~" Shizuo teased, letting go of Izaya's hand and chuckling. Izaya chuckled as well.
That night, Izaya tossed and turned in his bed as he slept.
"You worthless piece of shit!" Kuro shouted at a small Izaya, slapping him in the face. "You should be grateful I'm allowing you to still be a part of this family!" He grabbed Izaya by his hair and tossed him into a nearby wall. Izaya yelped as he was grabbed and thrown, looking up at his uncle with anger in his eyes.
"Screw you, Uncle," he muttered, coughing as he tried to stand back up. Kuro, however was having none of that. He grabbed Izaya by his hair again, kneeing him in the chest over and over again. Izaya had to bite his tongue to the point of bleeding to keep from giving Kuro the satisfaction of hearing him scream in pain. Kuro threw Izaya back against the wall, watching as he coughed up blood and struggled to get back up.
Izaya still wasn't breaking though. He refused to give his uncle that kind of satisfaction, or any kind for that matter. He was going to show him that he wasn't weak, that he wasn't worthless. He had just barely managed to stand back up when Kuro pulled a knife out and started to stab him. No matter how strong his resolve was, the pain the blade was inflicting on Izaya was too much and he started to scream in agony.
"So you finally decided to make a noise~" Kuro sneered, a sadistic smirk carving his face as he continued to stab his nephew. Izaya could nothing more than scream and whimper in agony as he was stabbed over and over again. He knew he couldn't pass out though, for if he did, it would be like handing his uncle the victory he had set out to find. So with all the strength he had left, he channeled it into his arms to try and push Kuro away from him. However his uncle proved too strong and Izaya couldn't get him off.
"Wake up Izaya~" Kuro snickered darkly. "It's only a nightmare~" Izaya started to loose consciousness from blood loss and couldn't summon the strength to ask what he meant by that.
"WAKE UP!"
"WAKE UP!"
Izaya jolted awake from hearing Shizuo's voice. Almost immediately, he stated fighting to get Shizuo away from him, not fully aware of where he was and what was going on.
"Izaya calm down!"Shizuo shouted, holding Izaya's arms together so he couldn't hurt him, or worse, himself. He had to hold his strength back considerably, as he didn't want to hurt Izaya. Eventually, Izaya started to realize where he was and started to calm down.
"Shizu-chan?" Izaya asked, still a little confused.
"You were having a nightmare," Shizuo explained. "I could hear you screaming from my room so I came in here to see what was wrong." He let go of Izaya's arms. "Are you okay?"
As soon as Shizuo let go of Izaya's arms, Izaya wrapped them around Shizuo in a tight hug, sobbing softly and trembling almost violently. Shizuo was at a loss at what to do. He had never seen Izaya look so scared in his life. Slowly, Shizuo wrapped his arms around Izaya, hugging him back.
"Shhh," Shizuo soothed, rubbing a hand up and down Izaya's back softly and rocking him back and forth. "It was only a nightmare. You're okay." He kept up this mantra until Izaya stopped crying and only trembled slightly. He kissed Izaya's head and got off the bed, heading back to his room to go back to sleep. However, Izaya stopped him by grabbing his shirt.
"Don't go," he whimpered. He was too scared to go back to sleep alone. He didn't want the nightmare to continue. Shizuo sighed.
"Move over," he said finally, allowing Izaya to do so before climbing in himself. Once he was situated, Izaya latched back onto him, as if afraid he would leave if he didn't. He was still trembling. He was still scared. But after a while, he found that Shizuo's warmth was comforting and he eventually calmed down enough to go back to sleep.
To be continued…
And we finally get to see the brutality that is Uncle Kuro~ XD Not that that's a good thing~ Of course, since this was a nightmare, it may have been a little over dramatized since Kuro has never actually stabbed Izaya~ He's not stupid enough to do something like that~ And I'm sorry if the whole "really close friends" thing is a little rushed~ I plan on keeping this fic relatively short, so things kind of need to move quickly and I've been putting in a lot of time skips to help with that~ Sometimes laziness also plays in to whether or not I add time skip as you see with the beginning of this chapter~ I didn't really feel like writing the whole Izaya and Shizuo taking the twins out for the day scene so I just time skipped it~ I'm trying my best to blend in the time skips with the rest of the fic so if the story seems a bit choppy, forgive me~ Anyway, remember to read, review, and enjoy~ Seeya~
–Cheshy