Rivalry and Fatherhood

Chapter 10

Gaelic/irish/english will be in underlined, Celty's speech is in bold, thoughts will be in italics.

When Slon had asked Keagan to heat up Tori's switchblade, she was expecting him to burn a part of her body. Instead, he shoved the blade into her leg and snapped off one of the pieces, leaving a searing pain in her leg.

He decided on what he was going to do next, which would be worse than what he was currently doing...

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Izaya darted out the door.

"Wait! Izaya!" Shinra called after him "Celty! get my medical equipment!"

Shizuo ran after Izaya.

Even though we're both rivals, Shizuo thought, and we're both fathers. Right now Izaya doesn't need a rival, he needed someone to console him.

"Izaya STOP!" Shizuo yelled.

"No! Not till I get my baby girl back!" Izaya shouted back.

He jumped up onto a fire escape and climbed to the top to get a better view of the city. Shizuo yelling all the way up.

"Izaya stop!" Shizuo panted as he got to the roof top. "We can help."

"Why? Just so you could say I messed up?" Izaya yelled. "I've lost Caoimhe, I don't need Maeve to be lost either."

"No, to make sure Maeve gets back to you safely." Shizuo said.

"Why? You've hated my guts for years." Izaya laughed, and sank to the floor.

"Yeah, but your a dad now with a crisis. That's something I help with." Shizuo said, sitting down next to Izaya and patting his back. "Kasuka is a dad now. So, I've given him advice and help for years, even though he has a wife."

Izaya looked at him, burgendy eyes redder than normal.

"It's okay. I'll just beat you up tomorrow, kay?" Shizuo grinned. Izaya finally cracked a smile.

"I'm going to make sure your baby girl gets back to you safely."

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Tori screamed in pain. Slon grinned. It was quite enjoyable to see pain on another person's face.

Slon started laughing.

"How do you like that?" he whispered when he leaned in close.

Tori's head whipped out at him, smashing into his nose. Slon screamed in pain.

Tori smiled.

"How's that now? Do you like the taste of your own medicine?!" Tori yelled triumpantly. Even though she was blindfolded, Slon getting closer was a plus.

"Keagan, heat this up again." Slon said. He pulled the blindfold off of Tori's eyes.

Tori looked at him with anger.

"Don't you look like your father!" Slon laughed. "Y'know, when Izaya was around you're age, I did this to him."

"Except, I didn't hurt him as bad." Slon muttered.

Keagan handed him a bright knife, showing that it was fairly hot.

"You're so simular to yer father that it's sickening." he said, waving the knife closer and closer to Tori's face. "So, to tell the difference between you two..."

The hot knife cut into her skin. Tori screamed once more in pain. Slon dragged the knife down from her forehead, very slowly.

Tori bit her tongue, she didn't want to give him the satisfaction he wanted.

Slon dragged the knife across the upper right half of her face. He hadn't heard her scream once after that, and he didn't like that.

Then he reheated the knife up once more and jammed it in to the lower part of her eye, then swept it up.

Tori went silent for a moment. Her eyes went wide. Then the realization of pain finally hit her.

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"Boys, we're going to need your help." Shinra said, packing a suitcase.

"With what?" Shizuno asked.

"Brute force." Shinra said. "Slon wasn't defeated by Shizuo 16 years ago. Actually we had to use a gun to shoot him down."

The two boys paled.

It shouldn't be to bad. We'll mostly want you as extra insurance for Maeve.

"Oh, so we're just luggage?" Celtion said sarcasticly.

"Please stop, don't be that way." Shinra said, finishing all packing. "Now, let's go."

He ran out the door. Celty waved the boys to follow and darted out the door.

"Hey Izaya," Shinra said into the phone "do you know where to go?"

The four got into the elevator as Shinra continued to listen on the phone.

"Kay, thanks." Shinra hung up the phone.

Where is she?

"In a werehouse in downtown Ikebukuro. Izaya will guide us when we get there."

The four darted out the door to the garage. Celty got onto her bike and handed Shinra a helmet, Celtion doing the same. The group went out into the night.

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"Well?" Shinra whispered to Izaya.

They were on a werehouse roof, looking at Izaya for instruction.

"That one. Over there, by the one right on the dock." he pointed over to a warehouse on the edge of the pier.

"How could you tell?" Shizuo muttered.

"The sound of water." Izaya grinned. Everyone one looked at him in astonishment.

"Also one of the mafia who still keeps in contact with me told me that Slon had been staying in this one spot for a while."

That's Izaya for you. The adults thought in horror.

Izaya got up, and everyone followed suit. Everyone then was about to shoot Izaya after he ran to the edge and jumped to the next roof. He then waved them all over.

Shizuo picked up Shinra and slung him over his shoulder.

"Don't be loud." Shizuo whispered to Shinra. Then he jumped over, followed by Celty.

Celtion and Shizuno looked over in terror.

"Are you freakin' serious?!" Shizuno whisper yelled "I can't jump that far!"

Celty made a small bridge for the boys to cross, and Izaya said something along the lines of "sissies".

The walked on the roof as silently as they could until Izaya found a hole in the roof. The group slipped down onto the second floor.

They looked down onto the lower floor. They saw Slon leaning over on the floor and Tori leaning against the wall.

"Go stróice an diabhal thú!" Tori yelled.

"What the hell..." Slon groaned.

"I wasn't totally expecting her to headbutt you. I'm sorry sir, but I did blindfold her..." Keagan trailed off. "Sorry Господин Слон"

"Чертов оставить меня в покое!" Tori yelled at them. "Can't you just leave me alone?"

There was a ton of blood on her pants, her arms, and her head. Izaya got nervous.

What if it's her blood? What if it wasn't her blood? He thought, terrified. But didn't show it on his face.

"Izaya, you distract. Shizuno and I will get Tori." Celtion said to Izaya. Izaya frowned at the thought of two adolescents ordering him around, but nodded in response and dashed over the front.

The two boys quietly walked over to where Tori was.

"Tori! Up here!" Shizuno whispered. Tori looked up, though she was blindfolded, it looked like for the most part (other than the bloody blindfold) that she was fine.

Izaya, luckily had distacted the two russian assasins right when Celty and Celtion lowered Shizuno down to Tori.

"Hi." Tori whispered and smiled. "Am I glad to hear your voice."

Shizuno smiled and carefully picked Tori up bridal style.

"Lift me up!" he whispered to the others.

"HEY!" Slon yelled. Shizuno looked back and realized that Slon caught up to what was going on.

"SHIT! Pull me up!" He yelled to the Kishitani's.

All three Kishitani's jerked on the shadows that Celty was holding the two teens by. Slon had nearly gotten them.

"Izaya you bastard!" Slon yelled, turning to the skinny man. Izaya darted out of the front, not needing to get in the middle of Slon's path of vision.

The Kishitani's and the Heiwajima's ran back up to the roof top, Keagan right on their tail.

"Hurry! Hurry! Hurry!" Izaya yelled at them.

Izaya took his now unconcious daughter from Shizuno's arms and dashed across the building rooftop and jumped to the other side. He made it to everyone's amazement.

Shizuo picked up his son as if he was a child and did likewise, in another direction. The Kishitani's darted back to their bikes and rode off.

Slon was screaming curses in Russian.

Yep, mission went sucessful.

Now to meet back at Shinra's place.

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"Well Tori," Shinra started "you have three broken ribs, holes in your legs and your eye and face probably will never recover."

Tori frowned. When Izaya and Shinra had taken the blindfold off of her, they had found that her right eye and upper half of her face was cut up and burnt.

"I kinda figured..." Tori sighed. They had wrapped up her face in gauze and salve to at least ease the pain.

Tori slipped her shirt back on and limped out to living room. Celtion jabbed Shizuno in the gut when he saw her, and both stood up.

"Are you okay?" Shizuno said walking over to her.

"More of less. I'll be outta- WA! Hey!" Tori shrieked as Shizuno wrapped himself around her.

"I missed you. I'm so sorry I wasn't there for you..." he whispered into her ear.

Tori's face started to turn a deep shade of red.

Izaya came out of the back and saw Shizuno hugging Tori.

"Next time, I'm going to be there for you." Shizuno continued on. "The only time I probably won't be there for you is if you leave the country, or don't want me there. But if you want, I'll follow you anywhere."

Shizuno then gave her a kiss on her right eye.

A/N

So I corrected some of my mistakes some, and added more detail.