[Kasuka's POV]
"Alright - so you and Izaya are being blackmailed, have no idea what you're supposed to do, and have no idea who is actually doing the blackmailing. Right?" Shizuo repeated back to him, just to double check that he'd gotten everything straight in his head. Kasuka nodded quickly, just waiting for him to continue.
"And you won't tell me what the picture Izaya ripped up was actually of because you're embarrassed." Another nod in response. "And you want me to help, along with Celty and Shinra so that we can find the bastard."
"Yes, that's exactly what I said, aniki.." Kasuka muttered, just wishing his brother would get right to point in situations like this. He almost felt like the other was just tormenting him with all the questions back because it involved his boyfriend anyway.
Shizuo nodded with a small sigh, obviously angry and uncomfortable with the situation as he tried to think of something to help his baby brother. Everything was quiet for a couple moments as they both thought, just glancing at each other. Finally, the blond sat up again.
"Well, the only thing I can think of that would help us would be to do a DNA thing on the picture you were sent. But Izaya threw it away." Shizuo grumbled, making Kasuka sigh again softly because he knew Shizuo wouldn't be this compliant to help in the first place if Izaya was the only one who needed help.
"No, we still have the picture. It's just.. In pieces now. Which probably makes finding prints on it a lot harder.." Kasuka replied, watching the other scowl. Shizuo muttered something to himself before focusing again.
"Right. So, we'll need to get the picture and head it over to Shinra's so he can run tests on it, then we can grab your dumbass of a partner and have him get information on whoever's name we pull up from the first results." Shizuo announced, making Kasuka blink at how quickly he thought of that. Sure, he had never once thought that his brother was stupid but he put a plan together so quickly it almost made Kasuka himself feel dumb. The younger Heiwajima went over the plan once in his head and nodded, deciding that this could work out really well if they did in fact end up getting some prints from it.
"Okay, I can go grab the picture and give it to him right away.. Thanks aniki." Kasuka announced, glancing up at his big brother, who was keeping a straight face for a moment before he was smiling like usual again.
"It's nothing, ototo. You want me to come with you, in case this guy decides to attack you?" Shizuo offered, watching the other as he stood and turned towards the door. Kasuka glanced back at him to say it wasn't needed but the look on the other's face let him know that he wouldn't be getting away with that.
"Sure. Come on, the faster we do this the faster this guy can be caught." Kasuka relented, walking out the door with his sibling in tow, back on the way to his house. I hope this actually works..
[Izaya's POV]
The informant now sat in Shinra's waiting room/living room as he waited for the results of the testing said doctor was putting their picture and envelope through, a blond debt-collector sat across from him with his arms crossed. The room was dead silent as they both waited, for once neither fighting with each other and Izaya couldn't even try to tease him about something. He just didn't have it in him at the moment.
Shizuo had been... kind enough to actually help them in this situation, even if it did involve his arch-enemy, and had told Shinra to call Izaya with some bullshit reason to come over as well, just so he could be there for the results as well. But when he'd gotten the news that Shinra was running the tests on it to find out who did this, he just felt sick to his stomach. One of his closest friends was looking at a picture of him and his boyfriend getting it on, and examining it intently as well, even if not for the picture - Celty was probably looking at it too, even though she would be a lot more professional about it probably. Even then, the thing that bothered him the most was who they could possibly blame this on.
If they ran the tests and it did turn out to be Dong-Yul, well things wouldn't be too hard for him. He already had a good amount of information on the man before this happened, even though he might need to gather it again once he got his laptop back or went to get a new one. But, if it happened to not be him, almost anyone besides him, then they could be in a lot of trouble tracking them down, following their terms if they ever fucking got any, and then have some troubles bringing him down if he was this good in the first place.
Izaya couldn't even pinpoint who could be responsible for all of this outside his own personal life.
So, he just sat in silence on the couch and stared at his hands as he waited impatiently. It felt like an eternity had passed before Shinra's door opened up again and he came out with a paper, handing it to Izaya with a, for once, serious expression. "Good news, we have a name to match the prints.. Does it ring a bell to you at all?" the doctor asked him, glancing behind him as Celty came out of the room as well, helmetless, and came up to wait for his answer as well.
'Tarakano Shin'
The informant looked over the name and tried his best to match it to a face, but in the end he couldn't recognize a single thing about it. "It doesn't look familiar, but.. A lot of my customers ask for things under an alias when their requests are bad, maybe that's it." he muttered, setting down the paper and pulling out his cell phone, tapping in the name to search and waiting for what came up. There was a fairly large list of individuals who came up so he racked his brain to try and narrow it down. He ended up excluding people who didn't live or rent apartments in the area of Tokyo, then excluded anyone from a certain age down, knowing it would take a lot of knowledge to do what he did.
The list kept getting shorter and shorter as he thought, finally only being down to 5 people and he sifted through them to see if any of their faces looked familiar to him. The first four were total strangers to him, not even looking like people he could associate with, and finally he looked at the fifth, knowing he'd never seen this person before but him somehow looking familiar. He stared at it, hoping to ring a bell somehow, then proceeded to track down this specific 'Tarakano Shin', looking through what records he could find on his phone since his laptop was currently out of commission.
"Well, do you fuckin' have anything?" Shizuo finally huffed from across the living room, teeth gritted as he watched his enemy taking, apparently, too long to find an answer.
"I think I have something but this is going to take a minute, so shut the fuck up, you neanderthal!" Izaya snapped, looking up at him with a glare that actually made Shizuo's own snarl fall, obviously not expecting him to snap back, just to smirk and taunt him about being impatient. The doctor and Dullahan beside him were also shocked, continuing to remain quiet as they sat on the couch as well.
Izaya went back to doing what he did best and frowned as he hit a wall or two, quickly working around them before he finally got what he wanted, the man's original name. He looked it over for a second before he blinked once, unable to believe that this was the man that had tried to come in between him and Kasuka. Well.. he could very fully believe it after all he'd done to him, but he hadn't even thought about this particular person for years now, thinking that he had been gone for good.
"Izaya, what is it? Let me see the name." Shinra prompted, making a grab for his phone before Izaya gave him a weak glare, pulling it out of his reach.
"Well, I know why this fucker wants us miserable now... The one that did it was Ikeda Nakura." Izaya announced finally, glancing at Shinra as he obviously tried to recognize the name as well before he went slack jawed.
"Wait, that guy!? I thought he moved, or died, or something!" the doctor announced, making both Celty and Shizuo glance at them.
"So this guy was a personal buddy to both of you?" Shizuo asked them, getting a quick shake of the head from both the informant and doctor.
"No, almost the opposite. He attacked Shinra when we were still in middle school and after that I tried to make his life hell. I made him change schools because of rumors and lies almost four times before his family went to move the States. Even then I kept watching him until he screwed himself over and shot someone, maybe two people I don't remember that bit.. it was by accident, but he did it in plain view of everyone so... I thought he got life in prison for that." Izaya finished with a mumble, rubbing his eyes as he felt it crash down on him that this really was his fault after all. He'd known it the whole time but it had made him feel a little better when Kasuka denied it before.
And I had really thought it was Dong-Yul for a while there.. Shinra and Izaya just glanced at each other while Shizuo seemed to have decided he'd had enough. The blond stood and gave a goodbye to them, muttering something about letting Kasuka know about this before he headed towards the door, where he suddenly stopped.
"Uh, guys?" the debt collector announced, glancing back at them to see Shinra coming towards him, obviously curious. The doctor paused for a moment as well before walking further and bending down to pick something up. The second letter.
Chapter 50~!
I'm so, so sorry about not updating yesterday!
I just have this thing where I feel like I can't do anything right on Friday the 13th, no matter how stupid that sounds.
I woke up yesterday with complete writer's block and was tired and hurt everywhere, so I decided to post-pone until today.
Sorry everyone, but Happy Valentine's Day!
To make up for it I posted another Kasuya drabble in 'Dura Love!' for you all, so I hope you like it.
I'm gonna also try to post another Hidashi drabble for all of you as well, if I can make one come out well.
See you guys in the next chapter!
PS. c-antonella did mention that he was the best informant and hacker in Japan, definetly, but this is one thing the States has got on them obviously ;3
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