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ஜ Chapter 5: Working together ஜ
-Shizuo´s point of view-
"Are you going to keep driving like this until we are there?" The grumpy question had been asked by no-one but Shizu-chan. Soft laughter erupted from Izaya throat as he glanced over.
"Of course not. I don´t want to attract the attention of any of those creatures, after all. Once the city comes into sight, I'll slow down. The rest of the way, we'll walk." Shizuo frowned, still not particularly liking that the flea was indeed going to keep driving like this until they arrived there.
The blond leaned back in the car, again looking at the scenery that they passed.
"'Kay." He couldn´t wait until everything was over.
Because... It had to be over sometime, no? There had to be a way to put an end to all this.
Someone would find a way, and then everything would return to normal.
Just like it always was.
He would be collecting debts again in Ikebukuro, together with Tom, and maybe even be nicer to the guys that didn´t want to pay.
He would hold himself back from destroying the city.
... Ah...
What was he thinking- that wasn´t possible anymore, now was it...
"Now back to my first question, who else is dead?" Shizuo blinked as the raven snapped him out of his thoughts.
Who else, huh...?
"Simon. I found his corpse in an alley. Headshot." Blankly, sudden that statement had come from the brute, just as sudden as the declaration of him killing his brother.
The raven´s eyes widened.
"Simon?" Disbelieving, the familiar name rolled off the raven´s tongue. Seriously? He had thought for sure that someone like the Russian sushi man would be able to survive something like this for the longest.
"Didn´t think he would be on the list of the dead," he mumbled. He had known the guy for a long time.
"Me neither," the blond added. "He challenged me in strength."
I would doubt that Shizu-chan, but yeah, he was fairly strong.
"He must have tried to protect someone and got bitten," the raven concluded. It was the only logical explanation he had for this. Because if it came down to it none of these things would have been able to get him.
Or...
...
Another option popped up in the raven´s head, making him frown.
...
He would keep that one to himself for now.
"Anyone else?" he questioned, slowing down considerably as more and more cars started to block the way.
They had to drive through an area that was not quite as abandoned as the one before. Out of the corner of his eye, Izaya spotted one of those things- far away, though, and it couldn´t keep up with a driving car, of course.
As long as they stayed far away like this, it was fine.
"Not that I know of." It seemed the blond hadn´t noticed the creature. Otherwise Izaya bet he would have already complained about Izaya still having opened the roof and not closing it already.
"Hmmmm, I see," the raven hummed.
The blond kept staring out of the car.
Not really looking at anything, though. He was still a little caught up in the past. Or a possibly brighter future.
One that, honestly speaking, wasn´t possible. Shizuo kept forgetting.
"Well, what is Shizu-chan´s goal?" The blond blinked, glancing at the raven.
"Goal?" he repeated.
"Well, surely you aren´t just running around aimlessly. There must be something you are working towards, or else there would be no sense in you still fighting back. I´m curious as to what it is."
... Huh?
"... I don´t get what you are going on about," the former debt collector frowned.
Hmmm, he hadn´t made it that difficult to understand, had he? Stupid protozoan.
"Some examples should do the trick. Like, are you just afraid to die and that´s why you didn´t let those things get you, or rather, that's why you didn´t kill yourself yet?"
Gaping at the flea, Shizuo blinked.
"What the fuck flea, who would do that?" Seriousness had taken over his expression as Izaya turned around to look at him. Of course still keeping an eye on the road though.
"Lots of people, Shizu-chan. I saw it with my own eyes how they committed suicide because they couldn´t take this new reality."
And that wasn´t even a lie.
What should he say?
Just a day ago, he had it in his mind as a possible course of action. After developing his new plan, though, that was no longer an option, of course.
"You are kidding." Seriously, sometimes the raven wondered how the brute could stay so oblivious to the world´s dark side.
"It´s a natural reaction," he stated, setting the blinker as he drove down a different road, only to let him wonder a second later, who he was even notifying of his turn.
The blond was still frowning. "That´s not normal," he stated, not intending to let that flea tell him anything else.
Izaya shrugged. He wasn´t particularly keen on keeping an argument with the brute going that obviously neither side was going to win.
"Then what is it that keeps Shizu-chan going? Are you still hoping to find someone you know?" he asked instead, making the blond think.
"Yes... well, no," he mumbled, not too sure himself, actually.
"Yes or no?" Izaya inquired.
"I don´t know. I kinda don´t want to think about who could still be alive only to hope for finding them and then they are already zombies." The raven cringed.
"Again that word." He hated it. The blond snorted.
"Deal with it, they're zombies. I mean look at them." A sigh escaped the raven´s lips at Shizuo´s statement. Really now...
"Don´t worry, I´m not going to discuss with you complicated topics as science and chemistry to explain to you just why they aren´t really zombies, like those you know from movies."
A tad annoyed, Shizuo turned towards the flea.
"You think I´m stupid, don´t you?" A grin spread over the flea´s features, doing nothing but testify what Shizuo had asked.
"Whatever made you think that?" the raven asked innocently, but didn´t dwell on his question too long, "Let´s make my initial question easier, what were you going to do before you met me?"
...
His expression darkening, Shizuo leaned back, letting his sight trail along the scenery outside.
After that thing with Kasuka...
"I don´t know. Nothing. I was wondering about it myself." That made Izaya perk his ears.
"Wondering?" he repeated. The blond nodded.
"Yeah. About what to do. I was together with Kasuka, his girlfriend, and Tom."
Wait a second-
"Is Tom dead too?" A nod followed.
"And the girlfriend?" Another nod.
The car got slower as the raven frowned, his attention more on Shizuo now then on the road.
He knew there was something off.
Ever since they met Shizu-chan hadn´t once tried to bash his head in.
He hadn´t even gotten seriously angry- he was just... tranquil.
"Shizu-chan, what exactly happened back there?"
The man in question frowned. Did he have to tell?
He didn´t want to think about it.
But...
"Kasuka´s girlfriend got bitten," Shizuo started. "Kasuka told me she was a vampire or something. Similar to Celty in a way, so Tom figured that she wouldn´t turn into one of those."
He could still remember it. She had looked so shocked- if he thought back to it now, maybe Tom just said that because he wanted to calm her down so she wouldn´t be scared.
But it wasn´t like Tom thought.
"She bit Tom and Kasuka before I could stop her." The sentence felt heavy against Shizuo´s tongue.
He could still remember it all too clearly... That face Kasuka had made-
Always composed, but... at that moment, he had looked really scared. He asked him to do something and if he would really turn into one of those...
"Tom shot her. After that, he handed me the gun, said that he wanted me to keep him from turning." The sentences kept flowing from Shizuo´s tongue despite him not wanting to talk about this.
Izaya watched him warily. He hadn´t failed to notice that this wasn´t exactly nothing to the brute-
No... Actually, he couldn´t call him a brute right now, could he? When he was obviously feeling too much.
"I didn´t want to. Then Kasuka turned to me and said he wanted that, too."
Getting more and more anxious around the blond, Izaya slowed the car down to a speed where a bicycle could have caught up to them.
"I didn´t do it. I couldn´t, they were still... themselves, you know?"
"So you waited." The raven finished for the blond.
...
No answer.
He could already figure out the end of the story.
"Too long, I guess."
A nod followed.
"Was Kasuka the first one you had to shoot?" Again a solemn nod as he looked out of window.
"And then Tom."
"It couldn´t be helped-" The blond mumbled, almost as if to defend himself.
"Was he a zombie, too, already?" A nearly silent whisper followed.
"About to." Okay, that was enough for the raven to know.
"Nice to know I´m sitting next to a walking time bomb." The car got even slower-
"What?" Swiftly the raven turned the car around- almost making Shizuo loose balance as he parked in the middle of a beautiful park.
"Get out." A frown formed on the blond´s forehead as he snapped his head back towards the raven.
"What?" He was about to ask what kind of bullshit Izaya was pulling on him now, before he noticed that the flea was getting out of the car as well.
A bit stupefied, he opened the door, stepping onto the green grass. It was barely after midday, the grass was in the shadow of a huge house, still wet from the morning dew. There wasn´t anything that looked like it could be any destination the flea wanted to visit.
"We're stopping in the middle of nowhere? I thought you wanted to get to Shirokanetakanawa?" he asked, taking in their surroundings.
This was really just the beginning of a simple park, not even a large one. He could see some houses on the other side of it from here, looking like the one in front of them.
"That can wait. I want you to strip."
...
What..?
Stupefied, the blond turned around, only to see the raven standing there, leaning on the car, his arms crossed.
The confusion on his expression must have been obvious because he didn´t even need to ask the raven for an explanation before he started to give it.
"I want to know if you have been bitten." The blond frowned at that.
"I wasn´t." Didn´t he already tell the raven that? Thinking about it, he wasn´t so sure anymore if the flea even had asked before.
"Still." The flea shrugged. The hell-
Was he not believing him?
"But I really wasn´t bitten!" the blond emphasized- he would know after all-
The raven shook his head though-
"Shizu-chan, you were around a horde of zombies, your closest friend turned into a zombie and your brother did, too. I don´t know about how the actual killing took place, but I take it you were pretty much in some state of shock. Actually, I think you still are, considering how easily you told me you killed your own brother and probably best friend."
The words made Shizuo swallow hard. His lips went dry as he tried to retort something to that- tried to deny it, but ... he knew himself he might not be able to do that this time.
"I highly doubt that you would have even noticed it if one of them bit you," he went on, and for once Shizuo got the feeling Izaya wasn't trying to mock him.
His throat felt constricted as the raven reminded him of what he had done.
"You get what I mean? It´s not that I think you are lying, but rather that you could have just not realized it."
Made him feel sick.
"I got it, now stop talking already..." He swallowed and squeezed his eyes shut for a second as he tried to not think too much about what Izaya had said.
Slowly, he grabbed the hem of his shirt, pulling it over his head. He just wanted to get that picture of a zombie Kasuka out of his head.
The blood spray- it was still staining his shirt wasn´t it?
A tad disgusted he threw it to the ground as he undressed. The pants following shortly after-
If he could, he would just burn these clothes.
The raven watched the scene, not quite being able to decipher Shizu-chan´s expressions as he tossed the clothes to the ground.
Something was wrong with the brute- mentally. He had failed to notice that aspect when they met. He was slacking off.
He let his eyes trail over the blond´s well-built body- to be honest, he expected him to have way more muscles- since he always heaved those heavy things- but then again, that was just his brain limitation missing.
Scars covered his entire body, probably from their fights. It didn´t surprise him.
Slowly the blond turned around, letting Izaya look at his back-
"... Any bite marks?" It was a quiet question, almost sounding unsure. The raven stepped closer, inspecting the scarred skin.
"Yes."
For a second Shizuo felt as if the world had just frozen.
...
WHAT?!
No way, there couldn´t-
He felt nauseous- no, no way-
His eyes wide, the debt collector turned around- only for Izaya to snort.
"I was just joking, there are none."
...
For a second Shizuo let that information sink in- relief washing over him as the possibility of turning into a zombie disappeared.
And then he glared- his fists tightened as he retrieved his clothes from the ground.
"You're a dick, you know that?" The raven shrugged.
"Well, you looked so tense, it really was too tempting. Seems you don´t want to die yet, though." He earned a glare for that one, and he probably destroyed whatever little sympathy he had gained from the brute before, but Izaya didn´t care.
It was needed. He had to determine if the brute was just following him around to wait for his own death or if he still had the will to survive. Dragging dead weight along with him was something he didn´t intend to do.
"You take off your shirt, too." The raven blinked at that, he had just been about to slip into the car again.
"Oh? Shizu-chan wants me to strip?" He quirked an eyebrow, hoping the brute would drop the question.
"Stop that shit."Hmm seemed not. How stubborn.
"Unlike you, I would have noticed if one of these things bit me, Shizu-chan." The blond frowned.
"Yeah right, and who says you would tell me that, though?"
...
Only slightly the raven´s lips turned into a smile. The brute wasn´t as stupid as he thought.
"Heh, the protozoan got smart. Oh well." With one swift movement the coat was taken off and dropped over the car´s door. The shirt following rather quickly.
"You are getting the show of your lifetime here, Shizu-chan~" Izaya chirped as he unbuckled his belt, making Shizuo roll his eyes.
In just another moment the pants were down and the raven turned around for Shizuo to look at him.
Skinny flea. He should eat more. Shizuo was surprised though that there weren´t any scars on the louse´s body. He had thought he would have at least a couple ones.
At least he had no bite marks.
Of course- the blond was kinda relieved, even though that pest was the last person that deserved to survive.
"And?" The blond grinned, unknown to Izaya.
"You got bitten," he stated, waiting for the flea to freak out like he did before, but instead... the raven laughed, heartily.
"Shizu-chan, the same joke doesn´t work twice, and I know I didn´t get bitten. Nice try though." Shizuo clicked his tongue.
Damn flea.
Still slightly pissed because of the louse´s stupid joke from before, Shizuo slipped his clothes back on.
...
He didn´t like knowing what kind of stains painted the shirt, but he shoved that thought aside.
"Come on." The flea slipped back into the driver's seat as soon as he dressed himself again, the engine roaring as he started it once more.
"Let´s drive on, Shizu-chan."
Still annoyed, the blond slipped back into the car.
Why did he decide to team up with the flea, again?
...
Right.
"Why are you even driving out here? There are way faster routes to Shirokanetakanawa." he asked, leaning back into his seat as the raven drove on.
"Sure, there are lots of faster routes- which will all be blocked by dozens of cars, of course."
"... oh."
"Exactly." Really now, maybe Shizu-chan wasn´t as smart as he thought. "Therefore, I´m driving alongside parks and roads that aren´t connected to the highways."
...
Maybe it really was a good idea to be with the flea after all. He was annoying and an asshole, but he sure knew how to survive.
"You sure think your actions through." The informant flashed him a smile.
"That´s my job, Shizu-chan~"
End of chapter 5 C:
Next chappy is gonna be seriously sweet xD With a tiny winy zombie included- and then ... ehehehehehehe~ DRAMA xDDD
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And next week, aka 15th May, there will be no updates, except The wish to disappear ;3 That one is gonna get updated xD Can´t leave you hanging for too long, now can I? xD