p style="font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; text-decoration: none;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"Izaya opened the door to his apartment, locking it behind him. He sighed in relief when he was finally alone. He made his way over to his desk letting his fingers run over the expensive wood. Dust had collected on the surface he had been gone so long. He wiped it on his pants before sitting in his chair./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"His arm still in a sling from the broken collar bone made it annoying to type. The pain was still bad sometimes and the marks on his body were painful to look at. Shinra had been hesitant about letting him leave but he had finally given in to Izaya's constant nagging./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"The doctor had been worried about his mental health after the awful panic attack he had. Shinra even offered him anxiety medication which Izaya refused. He had never been medicated before and had always been fine. Well, his definition of fine./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"Shinra even gave Izaya a number for a psychologist which Izaya said he would think about going, mostly to get the man off his back./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"He remembered very little of the day he had the bad attack. Apparently it had scared Shinra quite a bit to react like that./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"Izaya had talked about his past sexual experiences which caused a lot of concern in his friend./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"Why had he been so stupid? He should have never brought up the subject. Thankfully he hadn't gone into many details except it had been before they met./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"He didn't know why Shinra was so upset about it, it was over ten years ago now./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"Izaya sighed, shaking his head, trying to figure out Shinra was impossible./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"His emails were full from clients who were trying to get his attention. He started answering the most important ones first getting back into his work headspace./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"It had been nearly a month since he had worked. Going through his channels for information with his various online personas./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"A message alerted him from the bottom of the screen./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="letter-spacing: normal;"emspan style="font-weight: normal;"em-It's been so long. How are you feeling?/em/span/em/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"Izaya gritted his teeth, Tsukumoya Shinichi was clearly interested in teasing him. The older informant knew everything that went on in this city. He clearly wanted to ask about what happened./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="letter-spacing: normal;"emspan style="font-weight: normal;"em-I heard what happened, I warned you about that group./em/span/em/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"Izaya could hear the condescending tone through the text. /span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="letter-spacing: normal;"emspan style="font-weight: normal;"em-You know they filmed it./em/span/em/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"Izaya felt his stomach drop. The man was clearly trying to get a reaction from him. He had no memory of anyone filming him but he had been in a lot of pain and not really aware of himself./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="letter-spacing: normal;"emspan style="font-weight: normal;"em-It was downloaded on several computers, that's the only way I found out about it. I wouldn't lie to you Izaya. /em/span/em/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"It was like the man was reading his thoughts. Izaya hated Shinichi sometimes./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="letter-spacing: normal;"emspan style="font-weight: normal;"em-Why are you telling me this?/em/span/em/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"Izaya would have been better off not knowing but of course Tsukumoya wanted to upset him. It was the nature of their relationship./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="letter-spacing: normal;"emspan style="font-weight: normal;"em-It's not on the internet but I could post it if you like. I know how you love attention./em/span/em/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"Izaya felt his face burning with anger and embarrassment./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="letter-spacing: normal;"emspan style="font-weight: normal;"em-Get rid of it. I'll pay you whatever you want./em/span/em/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="letter-spacing: normal;"emspan style="font-weight: normal;"em-I'm sorry I can't do that. You know I only buy and sell information. I don't delete a source of information. Every source is valuable even if you don't like it./em/span/em/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"Shinichi smirked, sitting back in his chair pushing his glasses up his nose. Izaya was clearly flustered by this information. He would be lying if he said he wasn't enjoying this./span/span/span/spanspan style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;" span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"Izaya needed to be taken down a notch, the boy had become too cocky./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"The computer notified him Izaya had signed off. Clearly he upset the younger man, Izaya was always too emotional. But it made the boy easier to manipulate. Just like Izaya used emotions to manipulate his own subjects./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"He looked to his other monitor where he had paused the video. Seeing Izaya's pretty young body getting debauched like that was quite arousing. Even for Shinichi who wasn't aroused by much./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"He hadn't told Izaya that Shiki Haruya was one of the people who downloaded it. Izaya worked for the man and he had no idea he watched him getting fucked almost every night. It was hilarious!/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"The Awakusu executive clearly wanted Izaya's body. He might just contact him to set that up. Shinichi could easily trick Izaya to do whatever he wanted. After all, the boy still relied on him for a large source of information and contacts./span/span/span/span/p
p style="border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;" /span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"Izaya shut off his computer quickly standing up. The dizziness hit him making him stumble falling to the floor. He put his hand out to catch himself only making the pain flare in his injured wrist. He sat on the floor until he felt the vertigo pass. Standing up slowly Izaya went up to his bedroom crawling under the covers finally letting the tears stream down his face soaking the pillowcase./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="letter-spacing: normal;"emspan style="font-weight: normal;"emHe wanted to die./em/span/em/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="letter-spacing: normal;"emspan style="font-weight: normal;"emSo stupid! Why had he thought everything would go back to normal./em/span/em/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"He knew he should probably talk to Shinra but Izaya found more comfort in the silence of isolation. It was his downfall./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"He pulled off his sling before falling asleep./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"The informant faded in and out of sleep, waking from nightmares before dragging himself into the bathroom to dry heave into the sink. The memories of the torture and abuse burned in his psyche./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"Those men had done vile things to him and they would pay. Izaya didn't care about the consequences anymore. Yakuza be damned! He was Orihara Izaya! Feared information broker. He had money and power and those who crossed him would pay the price./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"The sound of his doorbell awoke the informant. Izaya had no interest in getting up from the warm comfort of his bed./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"A few moments later it rang again startling Izaya from his near sleep./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;""Go away." He muttered./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"He awoke to the sound of a voice calling his name./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"His eyes opened slowly to see the blurred outline of Shinra. The man was too close, Izaya groaned softly putting his hand up to touch Shinra's face. It was cool to the touch./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;""Izaya you haven't been answering your phone. I've been worried. It's been two days!"/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="letter-spacing: normal;"emspan style="font-weight: normal;"emTwo days? That couldn't be right. I just saw Shinra a few hours ago./em/span/em/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"A cold hand pressed against his forehead, Shinra made a face Izaya couldn't place./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;""Izaya? Talk to me, how are you feeling?" The doctor asked. His tone of voice much kinder than before./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;""Tired. Nothing wrong." He mumbled trying to roll away from his friend but pain stopped him halfway./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;""Izaya you have a fever, it feels bad. Do you remember how long you've been asleep?"/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="letter-spacing: normal;"emspan style="font-weight: normal;"emGod Shinra and his impossible questions. Make it stop./em/span/em/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;""No..." Was all he could manage to say./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;""You haven't eaten or drank anything?"/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"Izaya didn't answer, he had turned his back to Shinra./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"The doctor sighed, Izaya clearly wasn't feeling well./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"After getting some water and break reducers in him the fever began to break. Shinra was relieved but Izaya still seemed lethargic./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"He was sitting up in bed sipping a cup of water staring into space./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;""Are you sure you're feeling alright? Nothing else is bothering you?"/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"Izaya made a face of annoyance before looking away./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;""You know me Shinra, I'm always fine. Not like it matters anyway. You only care about Celty." Izaya's voice was laced with bitterness./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;""You're not the easiest person to care about Izaya-Kun. We barely speak except when you need something. So it's not like you're really trying."/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"The doctor said in his condescending tone. His face expressionless./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"Izaya felt tears burning behind his eyes. Shinra wanted effort from him? He put in the effort for years! Only to be put second to that monster!/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;""I attempted suicide in high school, you didn't even notice when I was gone for weeks. You only see what you want to see. In your mind Izaya is not trying to play nice when in reality every attempt he made was rejected because other people you liked more didn't want to be around me." Izaya spoke softly, not making eye contact./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"Shinra's eyes widened, he didn't know what to say to that. Izaya was frequently absent in high school, but he vaguely remembered the boy being gone for a few weeks maybe a month. He had asked other students but no one knew or seemed to care why, Shinra never pushed the subject further./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;""Izaya what happened to the man who hurt you as a child?" He asked cautiously./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"The look he got was deadly but Shinra was not fazed./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;""Nothing. Why would anything happen to him? It's not like it was against the law." Izaya said, his voice showing no emotion./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"Shinra felt a fury he never thought he could have. Raping a child was the most vile thing a person could do other than killing them./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;""How old were you?" Shinra feared the answer he would get./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;""About eight. Don't look so morbid Shinra, that was ages ago. It doesn't matter." Izaya said in a perfect lie./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"Shinra sighed, Izaya would never admit anything affected him. The man clearly had built up a strong emotional barrier. Maybe even convincing himself it never happened, that it had been his imagination. Until he was forced to face reality./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;""I'm tired, you can go now." Izaya said as he slid down into the bed./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;""Fine don't talk to me, but you better answer your phone next time. You need to take better care of yourself." Shinra said as he began to walk towards the door./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;""I will." The informant responded. But it sounded unsettling./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"Izaya threw himself into work once he felt well enough to get downstairs. Ignoring any contact attempts from Shinichi. For all he knew the older informant was spreading his humiliating ordeal with other clients./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"The jobs he did take on did not involve him leaving the apartment. His injuries were still painful and Izaya had no desire to go out of the safety of his home. He had people to do leg work for him that he paid nicely./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"Shinra called and Izaya made sure to answer, not wanting any surprise visits. The conversations were dull, Shinra had stopped asking about the abuse./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"Izaya assumed he scared the man off telling him about the suicide attempt. He never told anyone about it, not even his sisters knew they were too young at the time. His parents didn't even come see him in the hospital./span/span/span/span/p
p style="border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"br /br /p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"The park was empty at this time of night except for the undesirables. Izaya walked past them not acknowledging their existence. If he was a normal person that could have gotten him stabbed./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"But Orihara Izaya was not a man to be messed with and these low level gangsters knew that./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"His arm still in a sling showed weakness but Izaya needed to go to this meeting himself./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"He sat down on the bench, already tired from walking there./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;""Izaya-San, I was wondering if you'd show up." The man standing in the shadows said softly after he'd been sitting there for several minutes./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;""Why wouldn't I? I'm the one who called, Eita-San." Izaya said with a smirk, not surprised he was being monitored./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;""I've heard bad things...rumors. I know you wouldn't like spreading." The man said slowly, coming out from behind the tree./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"Izaya watched the man for a moment taking in the slim figure, shorter than himself with jet black hair hanging past his ears. The slight effeminate tone of his voice was barely there, but Izaya studied humans so it was something he took into account./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"He rarely saw the man in person, usually it was texting. But it seemed like Eita liked him enough to take a meeting in person./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"Izaya pulled a manilla folder out of his coat's inner pocket holding it out./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"Eita sighed like it was a chore to walk over and take it./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;""Always so organized Izaya-San. You know I won't take the job unless you tell me what they did to you." Eita said without breaking eye contact. It was unsettling, like the man enjoyed hearing why he was going to kill someone./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"Yes, this small effeminate man was an assassin. One of the best in Tokyo at that, and Izaya had him on call./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"Izaya knew this was coming but he still felt like he was going to be sick./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"Meanwhile Eita was skimming through the folder Izaya handed him./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;""Oh a Yakuza, naughty boy Izaya." Eita said aloud putting his foot up on the bench next to Izaya./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"His face only inches away Izaya could smell the soap he used./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;""I'm waiting." He spoke softly./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;""I...he attacked me. Forced me to have sex with him and his friends. It hurt, there was so much blood." Memories of the assault came back tears blurring his eyes./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"Eita's eyes darkened, fury at seeing one of the best be broken by such a vicious act. Sadly not an uncommon one. Eita sighed standing up./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;""So the rumors are true. I hoped they weren't."/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"Izaya looked up at him trying to regain his composure./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;""What rumors are you talking about?" He asked cautiously./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;""Oh, you haven't heard what people are saying? They know you were badly injured in a Yakuza incident. Not the details but the Kobi organization is taking credit for putting you out." He said with a shrug./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;""You smell Izaya, when was the last time you bathed?" /span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"Izaya flushed at the comment, he usually kept very good hygiene. But the pain from his injuries made it difficult./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;""That's quite a rude thing to say to a client Eita." Izaya countered./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;""The transaction will be completed within the time frame you listed. As well as your requests." Eita said switching back to a professional tone./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"Izaya stood up regretting it immediately at feeling the weakness in his legs. He couldn't stop himself from falling. The firm grip of the other man stopped him from hitting his head./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;""Easy Izaya!" He muttered, setting the informant back on the bench./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"Izaya felt the pain flare through his body, the pills Shinra had given him were not effective enough./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="letter-spacing: normal;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"span style="font-variant: normal;"He felt dizzy and nauseous as he leaned over pressing his good arm against the seat of the bench. /span/span/span/span/span/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="letter-spacing: normal;"emspan style="font-weight: normal;"emGod he hated this./em/span/em/span/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;""Hey, are you going to be alright?" The man over him asked./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;""Y..yeah." Izaya responded weakly, sounding nothing of the sort./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;""You sound like shit. Let me drive you home." Eita said./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"Izaya nodded in agreement only making the dizziness worse./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"Izaya must have zoned out because the next thing he knew he was inside a car. The rumbling of the motor snapped him out of his daze./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"He groaned weakly trying to sit up straight but failing. Pressing his face into the back of the seat he could smell the expensive leather upholstery./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;""You better not puke in my car Orihara." A male voice told him with little sympathy./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"That was the last thing Izaya heard before he passed out./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"Waking up was brutal, Izaya felt such an awful headache making it hurt to open his eyes. He could feel the soft bed underneath him. He tried to roll over on his side but the pain in his arm stopped him. He realized someone had removed the sling as well as his coat./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"There was a damp cloth on his face attempting to cool his fever./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"When he was coherent enough to look around Izaya finally realized he was not in his apartment./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"The room was very nice with the curtains pulled open a bit letting streams of light into the dark bedroom./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="letter-spacing: normal;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"span style="font-variant: normal;"He remembered going out last night, he was meeting with Hattori Eita./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="letter-spacing: normal;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;" /span/span/span/span/span/span/spanspan style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="letter-spacing: normal;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"em /em/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="letter-spacing: normal;"emspan style="font-weight: normal;"emOh God he passed out in front of him. That was worse than telling him what those bastards did to him./em/span/em/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"Izaya assumed this was Eita's apartment./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"The door opened and Eita looked inside./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;""You're awake, you've been sleeping a long time." He said as he walked over./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;""W..what happened?" Izaya asked softly, his voice weary./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;""You passed out in my car when I was trying to drive you home. I never got your address." The man said with a smirk./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;""I'm sorry." Izaya whispered. He still felt awful./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;""Hey, it's no problem. You clearly weren't ready to be going out. You're still quite bruised up."/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"Izaya realized he must have seen the injuries on his body./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;""I'm fine." He snapped, the defensiveness clear in his voice./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"Eita gave him a wary look before speaking again. "All right, you can rest here until you feel better. I won't bother you."/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"The older man said before leaving, shutting the door quietly./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"span style="display: inline-block; border: none; padding: 0in;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #2a2a2a;"Izaya knew how rude he had acted but he was sick of being treated so delicately./span/span/span/span/p