Welcome to chapter 35~! *0* xD As you see I´m not slacking off again yet xD and ohohohohoh, the fear, the fear I can feel it hehe~
And I´m finally back to my usual lengths xDDDDDD
I bet you are curious what will happen now and what the flea is up to, well~
Guest 2: why are you calling Izaya a self sacrificing bastard tho xDDDDDDDD He is lovely for doing this isn´t he? x'D Just wants to protect lil old Shizuo and his siblings cx
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Now, I shall not hold you up any longer xD
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ஜ Chapter 35: Sacrifice ஜ
- Shizuo´s point of view.-
...he misheard right?
This had to be a joke-
"You can´t be serious-" the blond mumbled, a frown already crossing his surprised expression, transforming it into a confused one.
There was no way Izaya could be serious, why all of a sudden something like this?! Izaya loved him! He was pretty damn sure he did!
So why?!
Why?! The blond´s fists clenched slightly as he stared disbelieving at his lover.
But the raven didn´t seem like he was joking at all-
Wordlessly, Izaya moved away from his sisters, approaching the debt collector- but instead of actually talking to Shizuo, he glanced at the old man.
"I will leave things here to you." the blond clicked his tongue, his eyes narrowing. "Izaya stop it, I know you don´t mean it so stop saying things like this." but the raven didn´t even react.
"Izaya-" and then Shizuo took a step forward towards the informant- but that was the last thing he was able to do-
Running, that was the thing Izaya had always been best at. It was what he had always done wasn´t it?
And that´s what he was doing now as he dashed out of the room-
"IZAYA!" – it didn´t take a second for Shizuo to react as he ran after the flea-
Followed him as he ran down- disappeared down the flight of stairs-
Down into the hall-
The nurse at the front desk snapped her head towards the two as they dashed through the hall-
"IZAYA WAIT!"
The doors of the hospital flew open and Izaya dashed out of them-
"IZAYA!"
But no chance.
Shizuo came to a screetching halt as he stepped outside the hospital-
His head snapped left, then right- but the flea was gone.
He couldn't spot him-
People were walking by forming a little crowd-
Izaya could be anywhere.
He had lost him-
"Shit!" His fist connected with the wall of the hospital, forming a slight crack in it-
He fucking let the flea get away-
"Tch.."
Fucking fast flea..
That fucking-!
He would help him for fucks sake! If he just talked to him! If he told him what was so wrong he thought he had to break up with him for it!
What the hell was going on?!
"IZAYAAA-!" he screamed, yelled his name like he used to on the streets, but of course the raven didn´t answer him. Maybe he was too far away already, maybe he was just ignoring him and still close by, who knew.
Izaya might as well be still watching him- or be gone from here already.
Frustrated Shizuo plunged his hand into his pant's pocket and pulled out his phone. It didn´t even need a second before he had called the number he saved.
But instead of the flea, only the mailbox answered him.
...
A sigh left the blond's lips and he brought his hand up to rub as his temples as he waited for the beep tone.
beep-
"Oi Izaya," he started, voice way less angry. He had to approach this differently, the raven had always been running away from him ever since they met, hadn´t he? So why should that change once they became lovers?
The little conversation from before popped up in his mind.
"Would you run away from me again?"
"Only if you chased me."
Stupid flea. He wasn´t going to give up on the louse anytime soon.
"I know you didn't mean what you said." he finally continued, the phone having recorded an awkwardly long pause.
"Come back okay. Whatever... you try to hide or shit, we can talk about it, okay? I won´t freak out. So come back. If you hate the thought of telling me anything then fuck it okay, I won´t ask- but just come back. I will wait at the hospital."
-click-
Sighing he shoved the phone back into his pocket.
This... was difficult.
He felt like running around and searching in the city for the flea but he knew it was quite dumb to do that now. The flea could be literally anywhere.
He had the whole of Ikebukuro to hide from him and Shizuo had no clue where that louse even went.
He had a feeling he wouldn´t be able to find Izaya when he didn´t want him to.
His legs feeling heavy, he walked back to the door of the hospital. The doors slid open quietly, the woman behind the front desk was staring at him.
She almost looked like she wanted to say something, but decided to keep her mouth shut.
Was probably better that way.
He didn´t trust himself to not randomly flip out if someone pissed him off right now.
Weary he walked the stairs back up, the cigarette hanging loosely from his lips.
Ah.
Come to think of it, this was a hospital wasn´t it? That woman probably wanted to tell him to stop smoking inside.
He sighed as he tugged the cigarette out from between his lips and pushed it out on a dustbin, throwing it inside after making sure it wasn´t glowing anymore.
Only slowly he made his way back over to room 204.
… the flea´s sister was still there. Sitting next to her unconscious twin she kept holding her hand and watching her chest rise and fall.
Soft beeping filled the silence. The old man was still just standing there, in the door frame.
He was the first that noticed that Shizuo had come back.
"… I take it he was too fast." He mumbled, making Shizuo glance away.
"…yeah. He ran away from me again."
…
The man mumbled something under his breath, making the blond look at him.
"What?" the old man turned towards him, stepping out of the room. "Would you join me for a little walk?" he asked, a kind of gentle smile appearing on his face as he looked at the younger man.
The blond blinked, a little surprised by the offer, but nodded.
Why not?
"…sure." He stepped out of the room, watching the old man close the door to Kururi´s room, leaving the two siblings alone in it.
Silence filled the room as they walked down the corridor.
Shortly Shizuo glanced back at the door. "Is it alright to leave her alone like this?" he asked, wondering about it just a little.
"She isn´t alone." The old man smiled a little, "She has her sister, I´m sure she will be waking up again soon." Shizuo frowned.
"I thought her condition was critical?" The old man nodded, making the blond blink.
"It is, but Kururi is strong, way stronger than Mairu." He spoke, sounding really fond of both of the two, "She will pull through."
…
He really believed that didn´t he?
Shizuo smiled just slightly. The way he said it, it made him believe he was saying the truth.
"Say-" the old man started, walking down a flight of stairs that led to a kind of little park of the hospital.
Some people dressed in white were outside, some in wheel chairs, some just walking around leisurely.
"You love Izaya don´t you?" Torakichi asked, eyeing the blond from the corner of his eyes.
"Of course I do." Shizuo answered instantly. He knew that for sure. It had taken a little while until he realized what these feelings were he had for the flea, but by now he was pretty damn sure.
He loved the flea, and he wasn´t going to give up on him.
"Instant answer, I like that." The old man laughed, making Shizuo blink.
"Why are you asking?" he questioned, tugging out one of the cancer sticks. After all, now that they were outside he could smoke as much as he wanted to.
The old man hummed.
"I was just thinking of something. Would you like to know more about Izaya, Shizuo-kun?" Shizuo paused, having just been about to lit the cigarette in his mouth.
What did he just say?
"More about the flea?" the old man chuckled.
"What a lovely nickname, yeah, more about the flea if you put it that way." a kind of little sigh escaped the old man´s lips as he looked around the park. "He will probably hate me for it later, but I think you deserve to know more about the person you love. Especially since he loves you back."
Yeah... that made sense.
The blond smiled. That silly flea actually did love him back after all.
"If he just weren´t always so secretive." He sighed aloud, making the old man hum.
"He wasn´t always that way." Shizuo turned his head to look at the old man. He was Izaya´s grandfather after all, he was sure he knew a damn lot about the flea.
"I don´t know what happened," Torakichi started, "but Izaya only started this closed up behavior after he disappeared from my son´s household." His eyes seemed to grow sad as he went on.
"We had a fight, my son and me you know, he was drunk and I fear he was doing way more things to Izaya than I ever feared. I realized way too late." The old man´s eyes closed shortly as he sat down on one of the benches outside.
Shizuo lowered his gaze, keeping standing.
It was obvious that the man felt responsible for what happened to Izaya.
… after a fight huh?
He had a feeling he knew what exactly Izaya´s grandfather was talking about. It was that day, before he hid away with Shotaro in school wasn´t it?
…
Did Izaya´s grandfather know about what happened then?
… no.
Probably not.
How would he?
"I love my grandson." The old man started talking again. "He has my brains, but that stupid prick of a son treated him like shit- his wife was no better. And then, one of Izaya´s classmates died. That was the first time we saw him again at the funeral, he was just standing there on a hill."
The blond stuffed his hands into his pockets, feeling a little cold as he looked around the park, just listening. Just listening to the continuation of the story Izaya had told him.
"He suddenly had money." The old man continued. "He got a lawyer to work for him and got his parents to give the parental rights to me. Since then, the twins have lived with me only. But Izaya…" the old man fade out a bit, letting his eyes trail up to the sky, watching a cloud fly by.
"He started distancing himself starting from that day. He kept telling his siblings how he hated them or didn´t care about them at all. It was obvious that he was just pretending all this though. Even to his siblings. They had lived together with him for so many years, no acting in the world could have made them believe that lie."
…of course not.
From what Izaya had told him, how his father treated him and how his sisters loved him, the flea was actually was a little stupid to believe that could have worked.
Silence took over the scene for a while and Shizuo listened to the wind blowing leaves through the park.
"We moved into a rather quiet area of Ikebukuro. You should know where my house is, when Izaya visited me a while ago you were there after all. You looked like you didn't like that the flea just ditched you like that." The old man smiled slightly.
Shizuo did as well as he remembered the memory.
"The house with the dog right? I saw the flea leap away from it, would have never guessed he is such a scaredy cat." Shizuo chuckled slightly. "It did make me wonder, why the flea would all of a sudden choose to ignore me when 99% of the time all his focus was just on me when we met."
"Yeah I got that kind of feeling from you." Torakichi smiled, folding his hands in front of his not too small stomach.
"We were living there quite peaceful actually. Izaya was still trying to pretend he didn´t give a shit about us at all, but apart from that, everything was normal. Well until that day." Shizuo rose an eyebrow at the way he put it.
"That day?" The old man´s expression took on a dark one as he continued.
"Ever since Izaya left us there were guys wandering around in front of our house. It didn´t take me long to find out that they were part of the Awakusu-kai. Izaya was working with them, that much I figured out the moment he stepped into that car at the funeral. But I didn´t know how bad it really was."
Somehow those words made Shizuo feel like he was missing out on something.
"What did they do?" he asked, an all too familiar frown already appearing on his face again.
"They wanted money. Regularly. That is, if we don´t want anything to happen to Kururi and Mairu on their way home from school."
A vein popped on Shizuo´s forehead. "They were threatening them?!" but Torakichi shook his head quickly.
"They were threatening Izaya, Shizuo-kun, and they still are."
A frown carved itself on Shizuo´s face. How in the world could anyone do something like this- how?!
"Tch, these fucking bastards-" he growled. Scum like that pissed him off- they were children for fucks sake!
"We would always meet up, once a month." the old man said. "Izaya gave us money, to pay those guys to fuck off. He even made up a special system of meeting. So we wouldn´t got involved. After all, if the money I received from Izaya "got stolen" on my way home then the Awakusu-kai would still want to see the money."
"Tch-"he was going to fucking murder those assholes.
"But then one day he suddenly said he would leave." The blond blinked.
"Yeah, you should have seen the hurt in his eyes, I don´t exactly know what happened, but it was quite obvious it involved you."
The day he ran to the ship-
"It was a misunderstanding." Shizuo explained, rubbing his temples. "A guy called Arizawa had planned out some pretty fucked up things and made Izaya think I betrayed him." Shizuo said making the old man nod.
"I see. Well that explains. He gave me a whole years worth of money that day- said he would hold contact with Shiki from somewhere else- that´s when we met first right?" Shizuo nodded. He still remembered how he had met the old man randomly.
"Come to think of it, how did you know he was on the ship?" The old man shrugged.
"Intuition. Where can you travel without being seen at all? A flight? No way. The only possibility of leaving Japan would be a ship if he wanted to do it without drawing attention to himself."
Seemed logical. "I think I know where Izaya got his brains from." Shizuo smiled, making the old man laugh.
"I like you already."
For a moment Torakichi just looked at the nature surrounding them, keeping silent.
"You know" he started once more. "He thinks his sisters hate him- but no." he shook his head slightly.
"They don´t, they care, they love their brother, but they know they have to keep away. To make it easier for Izaya they act like they hate him. The threatening mails are just a means of letting him know they are alright. You should see them when they fuss every day about what it should look like. They want to be creative." He smiled a little.
"I think Izaya got that a while ago, even if he doesn´t want to admit it."
"Sounds like the flea yeah," the blond admitted.
"A week ago, something happened that Izaya just couldn´t brush off," the old man suddenly told him. "Shiki suddenly offered the girls work." The blond´s eyes widened-
"He did what?!" the old man chuckled.
"Izaya´s reaction was exactly the same. I have never seen him that angry to be honest. He was yelling even at me through the phone, trying to vent his anger a little I guess and then he made some calls."
Suddenly a memory popped up in his head. He remembered a moment like that-
It was when they were walking to the apartment. Izaya had been yelling at someone on the phone and Shizuo had been wondering who he was that mad at-
So it was because of this.
"After that we met up a week later. He said we needed to talk. It´s never good when Izaya says we need to talk." His expression darkened.
"The amount of money he gave me was not for the guys this time. It was too much. Izaya was planning on disappearing again but this time he meant for us to disappear too."
"Wait, what do you mean?" Shizuo blinked confused.
"He wanted us to flee while he stayed. Not the same day, but two days later to not raise any suspicion. When Izaya called and said they would "disappear" on their own and I should go within three days- I knew what he was planning."
The blond´s eyes widened.
Within 3 days?
Those three days, it couldn´t be-
"He hired an assassin for Shiki." The blond blinked-
What did he-
"Wait what-?!" He hired an assassin?!
"He didn´t tell you anything, did he?" Torakichi asked, observing the blond´s reaction as he let his hands run through his hair.
"...no. Nothing at all." He didn´t fucking tell him a single thing!
"It´s a good solution actually. If the guy succeeded then everything would be over now but if not..."
Worst and best outcome- now he knew what it meant. That stupid flea- was talking about his death-
If that boss of his found out what he did then-
He felt like someone had just punched him in the gut-
What the hell was Izaya doing?! The old man sighed.
"And now it´s come to this. I don't know... either Shiki got wind of this, or Izaya did something else that dissatisfied him. I tend to the second option, because if he knew Izaya hired a killer, he would have killed us instead of just injuring her."
Just hurting her huh... Izaya´s sister almost died. She could have died!
"So that´s why he acted that way before..."Shizuo finally realized.
"You mean the break up? Yeah. I´m pretty sure he didn´t do it because of lack of love or something. No..."
Tch of course not, that stupid flea..
"I would rather say, it´s the opposite case." Izaya loved him, just like he loved his siblings and now he was trying to pull the exact same shit he did with the twins for so long.
NO fucking way.
"That idiot..." he was trying to keep him out of everything- Acting as if Shizuo couldn´t at least try to do anything!
-Izaya´s point of view. Shinjuku-
"Orihara Izaya..." astonished mumbling went through the rows as the raven entered the house.
Surprise was visible in everyone´s faces. All of these men that were trained to survive in dangerous situations seemed to be amazed by how bold Izaya was by coming here.
Where the raven was?
In the middle of the Awakusu-kai´s base.
He knew what he had to do, and even though he already felt it was a bad idea, he knew it was the only one he had.
The only choice.
"I want to speak to Shiki." He announced, two of the members nodding at him- "Understood." And disappeared down the corridor as Izaya waited for his probably last meeting with his boss.
-Shizuo´s point of view.-
"He is just trying to keep everyone safe around him and while doing that, he abandons all feelings of his own," the old man mumbled, making Shizuo just more and more angry-
But also worried.
"That idiot." He turned on his heels, suddenly heading back to the hospital. The old man snapped his head towards the blond, standing up from the bench.
"What are you going to do?" he asked, hurrying after the blond.
"What I´m going to do? Isn´t it obvious?" Shizuo asked, slamming the door they came through open to enter the hospital.
"I´m going to beat some asses and get Izaya out of this mess!" he announced, anger already making him grit his teeth as he headed for the front entrance.
He still had no clue where to search for the flea, but he fucking would find him, beat those assholes up and take him back forever!
He wasn´t going to let them do with Izaya as they pleased anymore!
He wasn´t going to just sit by while Izaya-
"AAAAAAAAAAHHH-!"
…
And then time seemed to stand still for a second-
Shizuo turned around, facing the stairs that lead up to Kururi´s room-
That scream-
It had resounded through the whole hospital- snapping both their heads to the door of room 204-
No mistake- that had been Mairu-
-Izaya´s point of view.-
"Ahh, hello Izaya. Fancy seeing you here." Those were the words with which Shiki greeted the raven as he entered the room.
A glare was sent at him from the precious informant as he let himself slump down on the couch in front of the tiny table.
"Cut the sweet talk." he hissed, folding his hands.
"So serious. What did you come here for?" Shiki chuckled, obviously not intimidated or surprised at all by the way the raven acted. A glare was sent at him for even asking that question.
"You know why. I want to quit. Now." Izaya announced, making the executive smile amused.
"Hoh, big words for a brat like you. What makes you think I would let you go so easily?" A grin flashed over the informant´s face as he heard the question.
He had thought about this before.
"You have to or I will give all the information I have on the Awakusu-kai to everyone I know. I already set someone to do the job if I don´t return soon." he declared- feeling victorious, because the only way to get back at the Awakusu-kai was in fact to blackmail them with information, wasn´t it?
Just like they were doing it with him all the time.
But Shiki- didn´t look intimidated.
The opposite.
"Ahaha, Izaya, you know…You are a bad liar." Izaya froze at the reaction of his boss.
"What?" he asked, his eyes turning into slits as he watched the man go up and down the room.
"We have been watching you Izaya, for quite a while."
... the raven´s eyes widened.
Wait what-?
"What do you mean…?" Izaya asked cautiously. More and more he felt like he was being the one trapped here instead. Shiki just laughed, two guys suddenly entering the room.
Izaya glanced warily at them.
"Ne Izaya, how is your sister?" A glare was shot at the man for that question. That fucking bastard-!
He had done that to Kururi!
And now he had the nerve to bring it up in front of him?!
"Ahh, don´t look at me like that, you don´t even get to know the best part!" he laughed, finally sitting down opposite to Izaya on the couch.
"The best part?" Izaya asked as the man crossed his legs and got comfortable, a cigarette being tugged out of his pocket. A grin flashed over the man´s face as he lit it slowly.
"What are you talking about?" Izaya pressed, getting impatient.
"Well," Shiki grinned, blowing some smoke into the air. "-as far as I´m informed, you have two sisters right?"
...
NO-
He could see Shiki´s lips curl into a disgusting grin as the dots connected in Izaya´s head.
"NO-!" he barked, jumping up from his seat, his favorite flick blade faster at hand than the man could even see- but the two men that entered the room did see it.
Before Izaya could even react he found himself pinned to the floor, arms behind his back and the flick blade clattering to the ground.
"YOU CAN`T DO THAT! We have a deal!" he yelled, squirmed, tried to escape the hold of these men, but no chance- because suddenly there was a white cloth.
His eyes widened as it was pressed against his face, and he tried really hard not to breathe, tried to get away, hit those guys somehow so he could get them off, but no chance-
Slowly he felt his consciousness fade.
"Had a deal Orihara Izaya, had a deal." Shiki grinned as the informant´s sight went blank.
Silence filled the room for a few seconds. But then something was to be heard.
Laughter.
Quiet it started, but louder it got.
It came from the other room, connected to this one- and the doors opened. A familiar face with just one eye entered the scene.
"You caught him~!" he laughed amused, walking over just to poke the unconscious informant with the tip of his shoe.
"Just as I promised." Shiki answered, blowing away some more smoke.
A grin spread over the eye patched man as he crouched down to look at the raven.
"Long time no see Izaya-kun~ " he laughed as the two men dragged the raven over into another room.
"You should enjoy this little nap. It will be your last~!"
DUN DUN DUNNNNNN
END of chapter 35 Sacrifice
Well then, I take it things took a turn that you didn´t expect xDDDD Ahahaha I´m so evil-
But the question is how evil am I exactly~? Or even a better question, how in hell could Izaya even get out of this~? ;3 Can he even...? What is that guy going to do? Ahhh so many questions~ And everything, everything will be solved in 2 chapters~
Be prepared to get mindfucked over and over ;3
Chapters left: 2
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See you next sunday~! xDDDD
PS.: I´m still curious what you think the story Sotd is gonna be called xDDDD the suggestions I read were just brilliant xDDD
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