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ஜ Chapter 36: Last words ஜ
- Izaya´s point of view.-
... fuck.
He did it this time didn´t he?
Ahaha... he felt like laughing and crying at the same time.
He had been so stupid. He had let too much time pass, had been too hesitant, had been acting like a coward, and now he was paying for it all.
Sluggish he tried to tug at the bindings on his wrists. But, no chance. Of course. There was a thick rope tied around his arms as well as his feet as he laid quietly in the dark room on the cold floor.
He couldn´t get it off. And he doubted that even if he did, he would be able to escape.
There was only one door.
And now... it was Shiki they were talking about here.
Not some stupid underling or a client that held a grudge. The Awakusu-kai had always been quite thorough with their business.
Haha.. business... yeah that´s what they called murdering people on order as well.
Just business.
He tried to blink and keep his eyesight clear as blurriness started to take it over.
Haha... no way... he couldn´t cry now. He had seen it coming after all. He knew pretty well on his way here that it could end like this.
And still...
A sniff escaped him despite trying to keep quiet.
He couldn´t help but think that maybe Shizu-chan would miraculously appear again...
Like in that warehouse. Haha, he had thought he was done for good then. And even better he had nothing to lose then had he?
Shizuo wasn´t... what he was now to him. And his sisters, they were still safe. If it were just him dying, then the Awakusu-kai would have had no reason to act any further.
They wouldn´t have gained anything in killing them nor would they get any money anymore from them.
It would have been okay like that, he even kind of accepted it... apart from him being afraid to die after all.
He still remembered how desperate he was when he called Shizu-chan...
If just Shizu-chan were here... if only...
...
He regretted it now. What he had said before.
That they were over..
He should have thought twice about this… should have said something different.
After all... did he really want those to be the last words Shizuo heard from him?
... it seemed too cruel..
He wished he had told him he loved him once more...
He wished he had just...
Just...
I´m sorry...
A chocked sob escaped his lips as he finally let the tears roll down.
"Shizuo, I´m so sorry..."
-Torakichi´s point of view. Hospital-
"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?!" If the whole hospital hadn´t heard that yell, then Torakichi wouldn´t know who did.
He wasn´t as fast as the young blond and was still hurrying up the stairs to the twin´s room- it had been Mairu who screamed, that he was dead sure off!
And god, after hearing the young man yell like that he could only hope they were alright-!
He just reached the corridor that lead to Kururi´s room- he was only a few steps away from the open door-
And that´s when a body came flying through the door and crashed into the opposite wall.
A sickening crack was to be heard and a groan escaped the stranger´s lips as he slid down to the ground-
Shocked the old man stopped in his tracks, only to see the blond step out of the room and lift the guy up by the hem of his black shirt.
"What the hell were you trying to do?!" The words resounded in the corridor almost double as loud as they had from the room.
Shizuo had seen that bastard- once he slammed the door open his sight immediately fell onto Mairu on the floor. The guy was hovering over her, a knife in his right hand as he tried to slit her throat- tears had already gathered in Izaya´s little sister´s eyes as she tried to keep the knife away using both her arms.
Shizuo didn´t even think he ever felt this kind of rage before- sure he had hauled countless men and scum through Ikebukuro, and sure he had always been raging- but this kind of anger was new even to him.
He had punched the guy in his fucking face while he yelled, sending him to the floor, blood decorating the white tiles immediately. But the guy didn´t even seem to be done yet and had just gotten up again.
Usually Shizuo would try to cause as little damage as he could, but this time he didn´t give a fuck about whether he would accidentally kill the bastard or not and flung him through the door.
The crack he heard and the blood dripping down the guys face didn´t even make him pause as he lifted him up by the hem of his shirt asking him just what the fuck he thought he was doing.
Irritated, he stared at the man as a smirk crawled over his expression.
"I wanted to slit her neck, to finish the job of course," he laughed, blood seeping from the corner of his mouth.
The blond almost couldn´t believe how easy words like that spilled from the guy.
"Finish what?!" he yelled, pushing the man harder against the wall making him squeeze his eyes shut for just a second.
"Iza-nii! What did you do to Iza-nii?!" The cry made Shizuo blink and snap his head back to the girl.
"What?" he asked, the frown that had already appeared on his face deepening. The twin was still crying and rubbed at her eyes sniffing.
"He said I'm the second Orihara that gets to die today," she hiccupped, tears rolling down her cheeks as she stared almost frightened at the man.
Laughter erupted from the assassin´s throat and he threw his head back.
"Awww, poor girl, that big brother of yours," he grinned, pausing for a second, as if to savior the moment, "-is probably dead by now anyway."
-Izaya´s point of view. The dark room.-
"Well, well, Izaya. You woke up I see."
Hah that voice.
Glaring the raven tilted his head just a bit. He could see the door open as Shiki entered the room. Still laying on the ground he watched his predator come near.
"Slept well~?" He fucking hated this man. Hated him for seeming like he even enjoyed this show.
He had what he wanted, he should just get the fuck over with it already.
"Oh don´t glare at me like that, you could have seen it coming." One of the men walked towards him, offering him a cigarette, as Shiki pulled out the lighter of his pocket.
Calmly he lit the cancer stick and blew some smoke in Izaya´s direction before continuing.
"You were always doing good work, always punctual and reliable," he nodded, as if to agree with himself making Izaya frown. He knew what he was. He had always done what the Awakusu-kai had asked him to.
"But you see," the man continued, "you were getting annoying. That attitude of yours, you pulled strings behind my back, you see, that´s not something I´m particularly fond of."
...
He should have known it. Trying to get out of this by digging up some dirt on the yakuza wasn´t going to work.
"That´s why you wanted to get rid of me?" he asked, his eyes closed though. He could already imagine what the response was.
Of course. He did try to set the Awakusu-kai up after all.
"Remember Ryosuke, Izaya?" The raven blinked, his eyes opening again a he looked questioning at Shiki. He hadn´t expected this name to drop here.
"I do, what about him?" He was the one he always went to for his information, also the one that he shared information with at times. Well and last but not least he was also the one that tried to kill him.
"He had such hate towards you~ Akane Kuroshi, remember her?" The raven glared, of course he did. He wanted to kill Shizuo and him because he blamed Izaya for her death.
"You should have seen him when I told him you were at fault for his sister's death!" The raven blinked.
Wait- what?
"That was you?" His eyes turned into tiny slits. "I told you to protect that woman." Laughter was to be heard.
Hah, of course, he would find this amusing. This guy. Since when exactly did he have in mind to ditch him? Only recently? After he started dealing with other people and tried to dig things up about the yakuza? Or maybe all along?
"You start to realize, hm? Initially, I thought he would get rid of you on his own, but as you surely know he managed to fail at that. Thanks to a certain blond debt collector that took... a liking to you."
Izaya´s eyes widened.
He-
"Oh don´t look so shocked. You think I didn´t know that? Well too bad. You did a good job, Izaya, I know what you did, you threw Ryosuke into the harbor right? He was an impatient man… if he had just waited a little longer and pulled some more strings he could have gotten you so easily."
Izaya wasn´t even really listening anymore right now.
What did he say about Shizuo?
Shit..
Shit-!
Only now, now he connected the dots-
Fuck.
Ryosuke was actually sent from Shiki. That meant Shiki knew what Ryosuke told him and what he told Ryosuke all along.
In other words-
He knew about Shizuo and him.
"The first assassin the one supposed to shoot you and the one shoving you off the building were sent by me. Those others were too obvious, too rash but he liked to exaggerate, I mean he even burned a whole floor to make sure he killed you, and yet you escaped. He even got all of your sworn enemies together to finish the job," Shiki went on blowing away the smoke from his cigarette as he remembered those all too long ago events.
"At first we thought you died, 10 days at Kishitani´s and underlings getting knocked out told us otherwise though. We were getting impatient."
Izaya frowned. Shizuo had already been protecting him then, hadn´t he? It was all Shiki´s plan... and he even returned here... fuck.
This was just too messed up.
"Initially, I was planning to just kill you off then. When you leave the work to others it´s never going to be done well right? I was tired of waiting, but then something unpredictable, as you put it, happened and I chose against simply killing you off. Let´s just say, I got a special offer."
Izaya paused in his thoughts, looking at the man a tad confused.
He got a special offer?
... from whom...?
Izaya had a lot of enemies, but he thought they had all gathered when Ryosuke had him trapped in that warehouse... no?
Who else was left..?
"What was that offer about?" he asked, wriggling around on the ground so he was at least able to sit in front of the man.
Shiki just grinned, an evil smile spreading over his face.
"There is someone who wants to kill you himself, and he ever so kindly offered us quite the sum to be able to do that just as he wished."
...who...?
He frowned. He didn´t know anyone who would have a sum large enough to offer to the Yakuza, so they would actually reconsider letting someone else get rid of one of their own.
That was usually their own business. They took care of their own men themselves.
So who...?
"That person wanted to see you suffer, not physically but mentally. So I sent you a reminder." Shiki continued, starting to walk up and down the tiny room as he took a breath of his cigarette.
The guy with the cut up photos. Izaya´s eyes widened.
He had thought it was odd. Ever since Shiki said that he wanted Izaya dead he had wondered why that one guy hadn´t finished him off instead of just giving him those cut up photos of Mairu and Kururi.
So they wanted to see him despair over this whole situation..
"It was magnificent to see you in that kind of state when you arrived to meet me on my command."
This had all been planned.
Izaya couldn´t believe it. This was way worse than he had ever imagined it to be.
"And then it got even better~!" Shiki laughed, "You gave your grandfather a sign to just flee with those girls! I decided to let three guys patrol there, instead of two and secured them with guns. Really, who would have thought you would actually hire an assassin-"
Izaya´s head snapped up, meeting Shiki´s hard stare.
"Yes that´s right, we know what you did Izaya." Coldness and cruel tranquility had coated the man´s voice. "And now, you will pay for everything. A second assassin of mine is on his way to hospital."
Izaya´s eyes widened.
...
NO-
NO way, not the hospital-
Mairu and Kururi-
"I think your sisters and grandfather should be dead about..." Shiki grinned as he looked at his watch, "now."
"No... that can´t be..." He couldn´t...
Not Mairu and Kururi...
Not those two, not this grandfather..
He had tried so hard to keep them out of this-
He even went here believing he could save them by just handing himself over.
He thought... he really thought.
No..
They couldn´t be dead...
No..
No!
Only slowly Izaya glanced up at the man, right now he couldn´t give a single fuck about what more he said.
His thoughts were with his sisters entirely.
There was one hope wasn´t there?
Shizu-chan wasn´t going to be able to even come here... but his sisters.
If he was still at the hospital, then his sisters could still be saved.
Shizuo would protect them.
Shizuo would...
"Ne, Izaya, remember the old high school building you visited? You didn´t think you would meet anyone there, did you?"
The words snapped him out of his thoughts rather harshly as he mentioned something that he didn´t think he would hear from his mouth.
Michiru and Kawashi...
How could he not remember them?
He knew something was fishy when they appeared at the school.
He just knew it. He knew they had to have been watching him or something like that, or else they wouldn´t have been able to know he would be there that day.
Coincidence? No way.
"You sent them there...?" he asked, his voice near to a mumble. He felt like nothing could shock him anymore now.
"Well, actually that wasn´t my idea~" Shiki laughed, and suddenly the door to the room opened slowly.
Izaya didn´t even bother to look into its direction as he let his head hang low.
It was obvious that the man that had offered Shiki a quite big sum of money had entered the room.
He didn´t even care to know who it was. It could be some rich sick bastard that he had once dug some dirt up on or maybe someone else that he already forgot.
"Now then, I think I will leave you two alone."
Footsteps were to be heard as the man approached the sitting raven. More footsteps were to be heard as Shiki and his guards left the room.
But Izaya didn´t even care.
Whoever it was, it didn´t matter anymore did it?
It didn´t-
"Hello, Izaya-kun~"
And then he froze.
He froze entirely.
His breath got stuck in his throat and his mouth went dry as he recognized the voice that had called his name that way.
His eyes widened, but he didn´t dare to look up.
He didn´t dare to face... this monster.
Because he couldn´t be real. There was no way.
He was dead-!
He was supposed to be dead! Izaya had shot him!
Between the eyes, he had-
"Izaya-kun~ Don´t you want to play~?" A tight grip grabbed a hold of Izaya´s chin, and before he knew it he faced the face he never thought he would see again.
A shiver ran down his body as he stared into that clear blue eye.
"Hono..." It was him.
It was that guy.
The guy that had... had done all of these things to him.
The guy that cut off Shotaro´s tongue... the guy that tortured them for his own fun, that guy... that guy... that made him shoot his best friend...
Tremors shook his body as he tried to calm down. This couldn´t be true. He shot him between the eyes, he was sure he..
"No way- you are supposed to be-"
"Dead~?! Ahahahahaha~" Laughter erupted from the guy´s throat, and Izaya flinched, as he was pulled up by the hem of his shirt. "Too bad to disappoint you, but I was just in a coma. For fucking 10 years."
Pain-
Izaya hadn´t seen it coming, and even if he did he wouldn´t have been able to dodge-
The knee hit him hard into the stomach and within a second he found himself again on the ground, gasping, holding his stomach, but that wasn´t enough apparently.
Anger ruled the man´s expression as he glared at the raven, laughed insanely and let his leg repeatedly stomp down onto the raven´s frame.
Kick after kick hit the raven, making him flinch and grit his teeth in pain.
"Do you know how fucking long it took to even be able to do as much as walk again, huh?!" Another kick- in his face.
Izaya spit blood as he tried to roll away from the man- tried to get away- as stupid as it was in a tiny room like this.
But he couldn´t get away.
Another kick to his head made him see stars as he dropped to the floor, gasping as he found himself unable to breathe for a second. A harsh tug on his hair made him squeeze his eyes shut as the man lifted his head off the ground.
Wetness stuck to Izaya´s forehead, and he knew he was bleeding.
"Oohh, how I love that blood running down your head~!" Insane laughter left Hono´s mouth as he slammed the raven into the wall.
"More~! Scream more for me! Izaya!" He laughed, he grinned and then he dropped the raven down onto the ground once more. "You ruined everything," the man growled. "Everything. And now I´m going to ruin you."
And then something happened that Izaya didn´t see coming.
A kick, okay.
Maybe hit him, that too.
But he started to unbuckle his belt.
"Ne Izaya, I heard you have a male lover," Hono suddenly almost purred as he leaned down, tilting the raven´s chin. The raven turned his head away, trying to get up, but he was forced down immediately.
Shizu-chan-
"Heard you like taking it up the ass now~" Izaya stilled, his eyes widening.
Laughter filled the air again as the raven looked back at his predator.
"Ahahaha, don´t worry Izaya-kun~ You know, I want to have some fun! You won´t be able to feel this."
Fear welled up in him as he backed away towards the wall.
No-
No way, he didn´t want that-
But his reaction just caused Hono to laugh more.
"Oh how I love this expression of yours~" he smirked, suddenly approaching the raven.
"I can´t wait to feel that tight hot flesh of yours giving me pleasure." Nausea welled up inside Izaya´s throat as the man approached him.
"But you see, living bodies just struggle too much~ Especially you."
Wait what-
Suddenly a gun was pointed at his forehead.
A grin flashed over the man´s face as he bend down, the gun still aimed at the raven´s head.
"I´m going to use you, ruin you inside out and then, I´m going to send you back to that disgusting lover of yours." And then he released the safety catch with a click. "In pieces of course~"
-Shizuo´point of view. Hospital room-
"… What? Already…-" What did he just say-
Izaya... no, no way- Izaya just left the hospital! There was no way he could be dead!
"YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE YOU`RE LYING!" he bellowed, pressing the man harder into the wall, making it crack all the way up to the ceiling of the hall. But the man didn´t even seem to be intimidated.
Laughter erupted from his throat instead.
"You can yell all you want, Izaya Orihara is dead by now."
CRACK
The wall cracked further, this time even the guy squeezed his eyes shut in pain.
"I will only ask you one fucking time, where is Izaya now?!"
-Izaya´s point of view-
CLICK-
The safety catch released, making Izaya flinch. He could feel the top of his gun pressing against his forehead.
Cold.
"Well then any last words?" Hono grinned, leaning forward to whisper disgustingly close into Izaya´s ear. "Hurry up, I can´t wait to feel the tight heat of your dead flesh~"
He flinched as the gun pressed against his forehead, the finger already resting on the trigger.
This was the end.
He knew it…
He was never going to see Shizuo ever again…
-Shizuo´s point of view-
He was running through the streets, as fast as he could.
Izaya couldn´t be dead!
It had to be a lie!
Faster- he had to be faster!
SCREETCH
HE didn´t see the car, really didn´t-
But he didn´t even feel it when it hit him, he just stood straight up again once more.
He had to get to izaya!
He had to get there fast!
Izaya couldn´t be dead!
Just no!
Izaya!
Please Izaya you have to be alive!
-Izaya´s point of view-
"No last words? Seriously? Aw you dissappoint me." A grin flashed across Hono´s expression.
"Well then good bye Orihara Izaya."
He shouldn´t have broken up with him.
I´m sorry Shizu-chan…
-Shizuo´s point of view-
"He is probably already dead."
A lie-! It was a lie! A lie!
No!
This couldn´t be true!
-Izaya´s point of view-
"I love you Shizuo."
-Shizuo´s point of view-
Please!
"Izaya!"
-Izaya´s point of view-
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