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ஜ Chapter 3: Hospital. The flea has a plan? ஜ
-Shizuo´s point of view-
Shizuo frowned at the remark, of course he had understood what the flea meant.
"Why are you changing your mind now?" he asked, watching the raven as he started to climb down the convenience store´s wall. The gutter running down the side of the building screeched slightly as the louse leaned on it, making the blond frown.
But the flea didn't seem to mind as he answered. "To lessen the probability of my death being caused by a zombie version of you, I guess," and with that, he jumped down the last bit of the wall.
The convenience store was already... well, "opened", if you wanted to look at it that way.
The windows were smashed in, and it was quite easy to enter. The flea cautiously crawled over the broken shards of the window and inspected the building.
So far, it seemed to be empty. No gnawing noises, no rustling or suspicious movement in the far back corner of the store- none of these things.
A hard thud, not quite as gracefully as his descent, told him that Shizuo was indeed following him. The blond stepped into the shop shortly after. Emerging into the darkness, he let his eyes dart around warily.
"Don´t worry, they aren´t in here," the flea informed Shizuo, starting to stroll over to one of the shelves, looking for necessities and whatnot.
The blond didn´t seem to actually be convinced yet and strolled towards the shelves, inspecting the rows for himself.
The informant wasn´t all that interested in the brute´s movement- something else had caught his attention. Something silver and pretty neat looking. Grinning, he approached a shelf that held knives and other blades- they were actually supposed to be used by fishermen or cooks, but the flea would need them for something else entirely.
He dropped the bag that he had been carrying to the floor and pulled out what was still in there- first aid stuff, things like a rope and a bottle of water, a notebook that he wasn´t willing to leave behind, and his laptop, of course. He looked at it for a minute, pondering if he should even still keep it with him or leave it here.
It was just going to be useless weight without any way of charging it- and in the middle of a city where all that counted was to survive, a laptop wouldn´t help him a lot, except if he threw it in one of those creature´s faces.
Without wasting another thought on the matter, he dropped the device on the floor. It wasn´t like re-watching the scenes of the past month any longer would change anything or make it better. Any crucial information that he had gathered was in his mind or put down in his notebook, after all.
Glancing over his shoulder, he looked towards the blond- he already had his hands full with things that Izaya would not particularly describe as practical.
Food- that was all the brute had seemed to gather. The raven rolled his eyes, but didn´t say anything about it- it wasn´t like he wanted to start a fight with the blond now, anyway.
And in all honesty, he really couldn´t care less about what that protozoan did.
"We are going to the hospital," he announced, stuffing the knives in his backpack calmly as he watched Shizuo approaching him. The blond seemed to be not exactly amused, as his brows furrowed.
"We're going where?!" Izaya frowned in annoyance as he heard the shout, before turning around swiftly-
"Keep your voice down-" he hissed. Guilt nagged at Shizuo as he looked around quickly.
He had had enough of these flesh-eating creatures for now, as well.
Clearing his throat, he spoke again, more softly this time, as he scanned the area once more.
"What the hell do you want at the hospital?" he asked, the frown neatly in place as he watched the raven calmly fill his bag.
"I have my reasons," he stated, looking the blond straight in the eye. "Also," he continued, "I remember I said whether you follow me or not is your own decision. You are not in any position to try and change my mind."
Shizuo frowned, stuffing his hands into his pockets as Izaya finished filling his backpack, but didn´t say anything in reply.
Izaya could hear him mutter something under his breath, but he chose to ignore whatever it was.
He had his reasons for going to the hospital- sure, in movies about zombies or shit, that was usually not exactly the best place to go, since the apocalypse usually started there.
People turning to zombies and shit.
But their situation wasn´t exactly like that, after all- all the patients that had really turned into one of these things were either gone from there by now- lured outside by the noises of the city and the panicking people- or dead because of other people entering the hospital before them and killing them off.
For Izaya there were only these two options.
"What kind of fucked up plan is that, even?" The raven blinked as the words reached his ears. He didn´t expect the blond to still not drop the topic.
"My plan," he replied simply, shrugging. It wasn´t like he had to explain anything he was doing to Shizuo.
He had survived very well on his own so far- he didn´t exactly need Shizu-chan, so if he ran off to somewhere else, it wouldn´t bother him.
Hissing slightly, he sat down on one of the shelves.
Shards of glass from Shizuo´s magnificent throw before were still sticking in his leg. He was tempted to bring that topic up and once again announce how downright stupid the amoeba was- but he decided to leave it as long as he wasn´t in a situation where he could actually run away from him and not get surrounded by those things because of the brute.
One after the other, he pulled bits of window out of his leg, his eyebrows furrowed slightly. At least they weren´t deep, but the sting was annoying.
"What do you even want to do there?" Glancing up for a second, Izaya glared at the blond, before lifting his shirt slightly- wincing as he noticed that some of the shards were sticking in his side. Rather annoyed, he started to tug the little shits out while answering.
"I need to get some things, if you absolutely need to know." One two three- he rolled his shoulder, and moved his arms to check for more stinging that would give away the position of other shards-
Satisfied the raven noted that he had gotten rid of them.
"Like proper stuff to fix wounds and shit?" Seriously- Shizu-chan was getting annoying.
"Shizu-chan, if you are just going to complain, then you can leave right now," the raven remarked, ignoring the brute´s question completely as he shouldered his bag. It was quite heavy, considering there were only weapons in it, but they could come in handy, if not even be life-saving, so he didn´t mind.
The blond finally shut up after the raven had made it clear that he wasn´t going to tell the brute whatever he wanted to know.
Izaya was just about to walk out of the convenience store again when something silver caught his attention-
Almost immediately, the raven was in a good mood again as he spotted something all too familiar.
"Ah, look what we have here~", he grinned as he bent over, lifting a rather large glass shard off the floor, the silver object resting underneath it.
Grinning, he flipped the cool blade open.
It was a flick blade.
Given the position it was laying in, Izaya guessed that someone had thrown it against the window, breaking the glass.
He suspected someone had been aiming at a zombie in front of the store and not been exactly good at aiming correctly.
A little disturbed, Izaya scanned the floor.
He hadn´t really been paying much attention to it so far, but there was quite an amount of blood on the ground...
Given that the flick blade wasn´t recovered and there was no dead zombie body anywhere, the only logical conclusion was that the only remains of the person who had thrown the blade was the blood puddle on the floor.
Feeling his stomach do a little back flip at the image of these creatures erasing that human´s existence, he quickly averted his gaze, looking at his new weapon instead.
It looked pretty much exactly like the flick blade he had had when he was in Raira, the handle silver and neat. It had been one of his favorites.
Sudden movement next to him startled him just slightly, before noticing that it was the brute´s arm that had invaded his sight.
He was still carrying his sweets and now held them out to Izaya.
The raven quirked an eyebrow at the gesture.
"What, you expect me to take that? I´m not going to carry your stuff." The blond frowned in response.
"Then give me the bag," he suggested, holding out his free hand now. But the raven shook his head, stepping out of the store.
"No, thank you. It´s better if we keep our stuff separated. Backpacks are over there, you can get whatever you'd like," he said, pointing to the far back of the store. The brute raised an eyebrow, a tad annoyed.
"What for?" After all, he could just carry Izaya´s bag. It would mean less trouble for him wouldn´t it?
"If we separate, I don´t want you taking my stuff and running away." The raven smirked as he shoved the flick blade into his coat´s pocket.
For a second, he thought Shizuo was going to complain again or something, but the brute seemed to get what Izaya meant as the frown on his forehead disappeared.
It made sense, didn´t it?
In an environment like this, it was crucial to be able to make quick decisions. And if they ended up being in one of those, there would be no time left for them to separate their things and for each to go their own way peacefully.
Moreover- who knew if they were even going to part peacefully?
With Shizu-chan being Shizu-chan and Izaya being Izaya, they were bound to get into a huge fight that would make them split up again.
It was just a matter of time.
"'Kay." The raven nodded approvingly at the blond´s reply as he watched him go to the back of the store.
Really now though, all that Shizuo packed were either sweets, like chocolate bars and toffees, or other sweet snacks like donuts, muffins, sweet bread- things that surely would keep him from starving t death, but healthy? Nah.
That brute was going to die of scurvy if he just ate things like that from now on.
Shizuo glared slightly as he noticed that the raven was watching him.
"Got a problem?" he asked, a tad annoyed by the smirk on Izaya´s face as he kept watching. But he just shrugged in response.
"Not really. Are you done?" A nod was given and Izaya took a few steps away from the store- and away from the bloody mess on the ground.
He let his eyes dart around the street once more- it was around 6pm, the sun was still up.
By nightfall they should get somewhere safe if possible. Also, he had a certain destination that he had wanted to start moving towards by today.
As soon as he deemed the street was clear of any creatures, he started walking down the road, searching.
He could hear the brute follow as the shards on the floor cracked beneath his shoes.
Sooner or later, he would tell the blond to pull some socks over them. For now, that was irrelevant, though. They were going to make quite the noise soon enough.
Smiling, he approached an empty car lot.
Well, not exactly empty- the cars were still in there, just the people they belonged to were missing.
He had spotted a red cabriolet in the front row. The roof had been stretched over the car, closing it completely.
A soft whistle resounded from his newfound partner as he looked at the vehicle.
Obviously, it was to his liking. The raven smirked.
"You like that one, too?" Shizuo nodded, shoving his right hand into his pocket- only to realize he had no cigarettes left. He frowned; he was craving a smoke. Not particularly because he needed it, but smoking had something soothing and calming to it that the blond really liked.
A sudden loud crash startled the debt collector, and he swiftly turned his head towards the source of the noise.
A glare was directed at the flea standing next to the vehicle with a stone in his right hand.
"What the fuck, Izaya?! That´s not even your car!"
He had smashed in one of the triangular little windows in the front of the car and was now reaching inside to open the driver´s door.
"What? Want me to ask the owner?" he asked with one eyebrow raised rather amused by the brute´s outburst.
The blond closed his mouth again, passing on saying what he had been about to as he thought about what the raven had said.
Izaya was right... After all, there was no saying whether the guy this car belonged to was even still alive... Or would need that car.
He watched Izaya as he slipped under the steering wheel, cutting something open there- Shizuo was wondering what he was doing, until he heard the engine of the car roar.
Surprised, he looked at the flea, who was now leisurely slipping into the driver´s seat.
"You started it?" The raven grinned.
"Obviously, I did." Shady flea.
"How do you even know how to do that?" he asked, only to earn a slight chuckle from the louse.
"Please, Shizu-chan, hotwiring a car is not rocket science. I think even you could do it, assuming you didn´t lose patience and ruin the car first." Shizuo graciously ignored that comment about his assumed stupidity.
"And why are you the one driving?" Shizuo wasn´t particularly elated about Izaya wanting to drive. And as if the raven knew what the blond was thinking about, he put on his best smirk.
"I doubt you would drive like me, Shizu-chan," he cooed, making the blond´s suspicion rise even further.
"What´s that supposed to mean?" Getting slightly annoyed, Izaya rolled his eyes.
"Shizu-chan, get into the car or I will leave you here," he set an ultimatum and let the engine roar a bit as he spotted a pair of those creatures entering the hall-
Shizuo saw them, too, and clicked his tongue before finally getting into the car- he wasn´t particularly keen on being left to fight with these creatures yet again. Between those creatures and Izaya, he would much prefer Izaya.
The door slammed shut and the raven grinned- and then he started-
BAM
The blond barely managed to hold onto the door´s handle before he slammed into the dashboard as the raven blasted off- the tachometer instantly going up as the wheel screeched along the street-
"What the fuck, Izaya?!" Shizuo barked- but Izaya just laughed as he pulled the car onto the street.
To be continued- xD
Yayayayaya, Izaya loves driving like a dick xDDDD But hey, who would be left to complain? -except Shizuo- xD
Ahhh next chappy is gonna be a sweet little thing~ xD This fic is going to turn out to be way sweeter than you may expect from a zombie story xDD But of course I won´t completely forget about those shits~ Don´t you worry~ ;3 They will barge into the plot at the most unexpected moments hehehehe
Oh well, I hope you liked this chappy cx See you on sunday~! *0*0*0*
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