Welcome to chapter 9 *^*
And SO SORRY for being so late ;^; Seriously sorry ;A; I took so long hnnn gomen :C
A couple of things came together and yaaahh- basically I was in turkey and the internet sucked so bad and I could neither access the fanfiction page, nor even send e-mail. So I kinda really was rendered unable to send my beta anything or update my profile. T-T And when I was home hnnnnnn oh well- Life happens xDD
Ohohohoho now the real stuff is starting~ xDDDD Sadly I didn´t really get to the climax yet, but oh damn yes- next time you will die reading xDD Gosh I love zombie stories- xDDD
But only when there is Shizaya in them x'DDD
Guest 2: Yasss protection *0*0*0* Ahahaah next chappy will kill you xDD It will be so filled with omg xDD Hehe lemme tell you, that talk about death was not for nothing~ C; xDD God damnit, being chased to death by a zombie Shizu-chan really sounds like horror- O-O That would be so damn scary oh my god. xD But oh well, things will be coming a bit different than you might expect~ C;
Reader: Fearless Izaya is only fearless cuz he has a certain beast with him to protect him hehe C; Hospitals really are a bad place for people to stay in during a zombie apocalypse xDD Sorry I took so long again ;A; Things just suddenly got stressy and uwahhhh all of a sudden two weeks had passed xD I hope chu like this update hehe C;
Thank you for correcting this SoylentRamen~! you are an angel hehe cx
Well then enough rambling *^* I got a little surprise for you in the end note so please don´t skip it x'D
Enjoy~!
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ஜ Chapter 9: Dangerous place ஜ
-Shizuo´s point of view.-
He didn´t like this.
Not at all.
No sound reached their ears as they walked down the corridor. The only noise to be heard was their own footsteps as Shizuo´s eyes darted around, scanning their surroundings. But they seemed to be alone.
For now.
It was not exactly bright in there. Shizuo couldn´t help but worry that another zombie dog would appear- not that the normal zombies weren´t scary enough, but the dogs creeped him out on a whole new level.
"Why do we even need to be in here?" No matter how he looked at it, this whole building screamed danger at him.
"Aw, is Shizu-chan scared?" The blond frowned at the stupid remark, glaring at the raven from behind as he shoved his hands into his pants pockets, stomping after the informant. He was the one who should be scared the most here.
"That doesn´t answer my question." He wasn´t going to start a fight now, though. Izaya would just keep annoying him if he didn´t persist on his line of thought.
The raven sighed and stopped in front of a door, his hand already resting on the door handle as he turned to face the blond.
"Fine, if you really need to know, I have to get some things from this hospital, things that I will only get here."
Now that he thought about it, Izaya said something like that when he first mentioned the hospital, didn´t he?
"You are still crazy for walking in here," the blond grumbled, but quietly enough that the flea didn´t hear it as he opened the door he had already wrapped his hand around.
Shizuo swore he felt his hair stand on end as the door creaked open.
He had expected a room filled with at least one or two zombies eating at a patient from the hospital, but it was actually empty. There was neither the imaginary patient, nor any zombie.
"What? Expected something to happen Shizu-chan?" The raven showed his trademark smirk, pissing the blond off even more.
"Oh, shut up."
Whatever did he even think he had to protect the flea for?
He must have been delirious. That louse could go die for all he cared. If he was stupid enough to run around in a hospital and treat his caution as a joke.
Turning around, he stepped back into the hall, leaning on the wall, his arms crossed as he waited for that flea to finish rummaging in those cupboards.
In the room, there were only two patient beds and Izaya was stirring in some cupboards opposite to them. What exactly it was he was looking for was a riddle even to Shizuo.
It only took a moment or two till the louse came out again, shaking his head as he strolled down the hall.
"Wasn´t there," he let the blond know, walking farther down the hall.
The lights were all out. Of course, electricity had stopped working a few days ago.
The entire floor was pretty much dark.
Almost black at the end of the corridor. It reminded Shizuo of those horror movies, where all of a sudden a girl in a white dress would appear, with blackness staring at whoever came instead of eyes. Or the other one, that woman whose mouth had been cut open from ear to ear and would do the same to you, or even kill you.
Kuchisake-onna, that was her name wasn´t it?
Really now. This whole scenery around them seemed just too surreal to be true.
He wasn´t stupid, he knew this wasn´t exactly a zombie apocalypse. Those people weren´t dead, and if you hurt them well enough they would die, as well, not crawl after you.
But still.
It seemed way too much like a scene from one of those horror movies, those where everyone died at the end.
It was unsettling, to say the least.
Walking down a dark corridor only for something to be waiting for them.
…
"Oi, what exactly are you searching for?"
The raven glanced over this shoulder, looking at the blond for a second. He seemed surprised the blond had even started to talk again.
"Why do you want to know? Will you leave if it´s not anything you deem to be worth looking for?" The blond´s brows furrowed and he was about to deny it, but then again...
He did feel kinda more at ease when he didn´t know what exactly it was that the flea was planning on or searching for.
"Nevermind. Just thought we could get out of here faster if I helped look or something." He didn´t want to know after all.
"We will be out of here soon enough, don´t worry," Izaya assured, this time skipping on the chance of teasing the brute.
Izaya would be lying if he said he wasn´t anxious about this whole thing, but strangely enough, he felt a bit at ease with Shizu-chan walking behind him.
When he was alone, he always had to watch out for whatever could follow him or surprise him from behind.
Like this, it was actually not so bad.
He refused to admit that maybe Shizu-chan had been right when he implied that Izaya needed him when he offered to stick together for a while, but he knew he couldn´t exactly deny it completely either.
He was useful, at least.
With slower steps, Izaya approached the end of the corridor. A big double door was at the end of it, though he hesitated to open it this time.
The blond stopped when the flea did, a bit confused why he didn't walk on.
"Something wrong?" he mumbled, unintentionally lowering his voice.
The flea merely pointed towards the handle of the door.
It was smeared with red.
"Blood," he whispered and Shizuo could feel cold sweat run down his back.
His body tensed when the raven pushed the door open slowly. The knife had already found its way into Izaya´s hand, ready to stab whatever could be waiting for them there as the door creaked open.
Izaya squinted his eyes- the room being darker than the corridor- and tried to make out any sort of movement.
But there was none.
He pushed the door open with his foot, holding the blade in front of his body, ready to stab anything that dared to approach him.
With a slam so loud it made both of them jump when the door bumped against the wall.
Izaya could feel the blond´s hand on his shoulder as he pushed himself slightly in front of the raven. Almost as if to make sure nothing would get Izaya. It was kinda reassuring, though scary at the same time, as Izaya checked over his shoulder if nothing was approaching them from behind now.
The noise surely could have lured some more of those things here.
But nothing.
Izaya released the breath he hadn´t noticed he had been holding as he slipped the knife back into his pocket.
There were noises.
Noises that awfully sounded like they were coming from those things.
But they were muffled, as if they were coming from another room. It was only when the raven took a step into the room that he noticed the red on a metal door.
He suspected it was a store room.
Scratching, screams, growling, he heard them all come from behind, a cupboard having been moved in front of the door additionally and a broom locking the door as well.
The words "DEAD INSIDE" written all over it with what Izaya believed to be blood.
Whether it was from storage or an injured person, he couldn't tell.
"We are not going to open that." It was Shizuo who had stated that, and this time, Izaya could only agree.
"I wasn´t going to." It was obvious someone had been here, though. Someone that was not yet a zombie, if he was able to write those words on the door.
Whether or not that was a good thing was something that Izaya couldn´t decide on yet.
It was only then that he noticed what kind of room they were in. The strangely shaped lights at the ceiling and the instruments resting on a shelf next to one of those strangely shaped beds gave it away immediately.
An operation room.
Perfect.
Shizuo watched the raven as he moved over to some cupboards next to the operation table, but the noises coming from the door soon caught his attention again.
Just how many of those were in there…?
He had a feeling he didn´t want to know that piece of information. He had seen way too many of them already. Just the thought of more of those things waiting there to gnaw at him made his stomach churn violently.
He had had enough of this, to be honest. Just enough. He wished he could just go to some place, somewhere safe and stay there, away from all this.
Pretend this didn´t happen.
Though… that was a wish that would never come true.
"Let´s leave this place already-" he mumbled, more to himself and only half-heartedly, since he knew Izaya wasn´t going to leave earlier because of him, but he still voiced the thought.
Glancing over, he only saw Izaya closing his bag again as he pulled it on his back.
"Shizu-chan, you always get so tense around dark places," he cooed, trying to tease the blond, but right now said protozoan really was too tired and fed up with everything to even get mad.
"Not because of dark places. Because of these," he stated, pointing over to the door, the scratching still audible, of course.
A little surprised by the tranquility in Shizu-chan´s voice, the raven walked towards the door they came from. He didn´t feel like prying, though.
"I think I saw a sign pointing to showers back there." The familiar word made the blond look at the raven.
"Shower?" Somehow Izaya felt a bit bad for Shizu-chan. Right now he kinda looked like a kicked puppy. He didn´t know why, though. Was it those creatures behind the door?
What happened to Kasuka? Or maybe something else?
This whole atmosphere?
"You might want to wash yourself, too," he stated, looking at the blond from head to toe. He was still wearing the same clothes. They were red and brown, dried blood and dirt covering them. He doubted Shizu-chan had even had the chance to change into a shirt that did not have his little brother´s blood on it.
It was only when Shizuo looked down at his shirt that he seemed to realize though; suddenly feeling revolted by what was clinging to his body, he stomped out of the room.
"Down the right corridor." Izaya spoke as he followed the fortissimo.
He was right, the sign pointing to a washroom all too soon appeared on the wall, and Shizuo went a bit faster.
The closer he came, the more he felt almost suffocated.
Izaya had to almost run to keep up with the blond as he headed for the shower.
Well, if he had just killed his own brother and the blood was still sticking to him, he would probably want to get clean, too. To be honest, he was surprised Shizu-chan hadn´t said anything about that before.
He might not even have really thought about it, was what Izaya concluded.
Not minding the blond who disappeared in the mentioned room, Izaya strolled into a different corridor.
Just as before there was nothing there, no zombie, no survivors, nothing. It was just silent.
He still kept his flick blade ready, though, just in case. He entered another room, not a shower room, but a plain patient room.
Empty, as well.
He moved over to one of the cupboards, hoping to find some fresh clothes there.
There was no chance he was going to leave his coat behind, but it would be nice to have a change of his shirt and pants.
He sighed when he found some clothes- only in white, though. He preferred black... but oh well, these would have to do for now.
He was sure they would find some different clothes in the city later. He planned on stocking up on food and other supplies anyway.
Hearing the noise of rushing water, he picked two shirts from the cupboard, as well as some pants that were at least grey.
It sure would be strange to see that brute walk around in something other than his stupid bartender outfit. He had no idea why he was even still wearing it, considering he was a bodyguard for Tanaka.
With cautious steps, he moved back to the showers. The water was thrumming against the white tiles in an almost calming manner, while the gnawing noises of the zombies in the operation room where still to be heard. It was a weird kind of contrast.
The shower room reminded him a bit of Raira´s, to be honest. Four neat little shower stalls with hip-high walls parting them lined the wall. White tiles covered everything, and two little windows opposite the showers were illuminating the room well enough to actually see quite well.
The white of the floor and walls was contributing to that, too, he guessed.
"I got some fresh clothes." With a thud he dropped the clothes on one of the window ledges in the bathroom.
Shizu-chan didn´t say anything, however. Izaya didn´t really look over at where Shizu-chan was washing himself, but even from the corner of his eyes he could see the rapid movements- the hands moving over his shoulders with a piece of soap time and time again- if he didn´t know better, he would say Shizu-chan was up to break a record of cleaning himself the best anyone ever did.
He guessed it was disgust that made him shut up and act like that. Without another word he pulled of his own clothes, getting into one of the stalls, as well.
It was only when the ice cold water hit his skin and he jumped in surprise that he remembered how not everything was working anymore like he was used to.
No electricity, no warmth, seriously... this was probably one of the last times he was going to be able to enjoy something simple like this. A shower.
And he hated cold showers-
Rinsing off his body, he hissed a bit when he let a piece of soap that he found in there brush over some cuts and scratches.
Sure, he had survived pretty well so far, no serious injuries or even minor ones, but there sure had been times where he wasn´t so sure if he would make it out alive.
Hearing the other shower stop, he glanced over at the brute as he grabbed a towel dangling from a hook in the wall.
Strange, wasn´t it?
He was in an abandoned hospital showering with that brute.
Seriously, not even he could have seen that coming.
He would have laughed about the absurdity of this whole situation if he weren´t so tired and fed up with this himself.
But hey, at least he had a plan to follow.
He tilted his head back, closing his eyes for a bit as he let the cool liquid drip on his face. They shouldn´t stay here too long, he guessed, but right now, he felt kind of comfortable. It was so calm. Sure, there were those creatures in the other room and they weren´t exactly safe here either.
But right now he felt at ease.
The next time he opened his eyes, Shizuo wasn´t standing next to him anymore. A glance over his shoulder revealed that he had seen the clothes; he was buttoning up the short-sleeved white shirt Izaya had brought.
As if he had noticed Izaya's glance, the blond looked up, pausing with the buttons for a second. A sigh escaped his lips and he sat down on the floor, letting his back lean on the wall, a hand moving the towel over his hair to dry it off.
"Thanks."
Izaya blinked, a bit surprised at receiving gratitude for bringing the brute some clothes, but he figured it wasn´t exactly something he hated.
With a sort of sigh he turned around again, finishing his shower.
This... was really a strange set of events. Grabbing the towel that hung next to the shower, he pulled it over his head, ruffling through his black hair.
Really strange indeed.
If he thought about it, he remembered some philosophical quote, though he really couldn´t remember the exact wording anymore, nor the man who said it.
Just that it was about humanity stopping wars and working together if they had to face a common threat.
It reminded him a bit of their situation.
He and Shizuo working together, it really was a miracle of the same degree as wars stopping.
Nodding to himself, he noted to categorize that man as wise instead of stupid. He hadn´t believed that sort of thing would work for real at the time he heard it.
Shivering just the slightest, he stepped out of the shower only to the see the blond... sleeping?
Izaya quirked an eyebrow, stepping closer to eye that brute. He was still sitting there, one leg propped up and an arm laid over it, his head using it as a pillow.
For a second, Izaya thought he was just dozing a bit, though from the even breaths it was obvious he was sleeping.
Even more so when he poked him softly on his forehead and received no reaction.
Really now.
He couldn´t believe that brute could actually sleep here. He was the one saying they should disappear from here as soon as possible.
He guessed the brute got a little bit too comfortable.
He couldn´t blame him, though.
Pulling on his own set of clothes, as well as his coat, he walked out of the room.
To be honest, he had no intention of waking the brute yet- you could call it an act of kindness, but sleep was probably the only thing that really let anyone escape from this horror-movie-like reality.
He didn´t plan on tearing him away from that yet.
He would go get his bag from the operation room and wash those instruments before they left. The blond could sleep while he did that alright.
Walking down the hall again, he entered the operation room.
Only to instantly freeze-
The door was busted open.
The door of the storage room.
But the zombies, they were…
"What the hell…?"
... torn apart?
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End of chapter 9 C:
Ahahahahaha well, what the freaking hell did happen there?
Who knows~? C:
The more important question is: What´s going to happen to Izzy~? C: C: C: C: C: C: C: ahahahahah I´m evil
Anyway xD I got news for you! xD
I will be starting another two stories *^* xD
Now before people say this is a bad idea since then it´s 6 ongoing stories in total, no worries C:
I will be updating 3 stories each weekend. As you can see on my profile (where I will always post which chapters are coming out)
Next Sunday (24th.6.2016), I will update "The wish to disappear" 27, "Sinful desire" chapter 1 and "Survival of the doomed" 10
Together! with the PICTURE of twtd chapter 1 xD I didn´t forget haha nuh worries~ you will be getting the art I promised C: I hope it won´t disappoint you though x'D Giving my best here xD
And the following Sunday (31st.6.2016) I will update "No escape" 8, "Behind closed doors" 10 and "A single touch" chapter 1 *0* together with "I want to stay with you forever" chapter 38, the sexy chapter~ C; C; C; C; C;
The Sunday after that (7th.7.2016) I will update again "The wish to disappear" 28, "Sinful desire" 2 and "Survival of the doomed" 11 C;
And so on
So basically I will always update 3 stories each Sunday from now on C: And maybe an extra one shot or picture additionally, depends C; 4 updates a week were kinda a bit stressy to pull off for a long time span so I decided to settle for this instead C;
Also this way actually leaves me a lot more time to think about the actual plot, I mean I have 14 days from now on, like wow, if I get stuck I need not worry cuz the next update is only set in 14 days xD I need this especially since I´m slowly but surely getting drained for spontaneous ideas for Twtd and No escape xD
Moreover, I was just BURNING to write those two other stories xDDDD With all these dark stories, I was craving to write some smut xDD So hey~ If you miss the sexy times too you might like the "Sinful desire"~ C; xD And also, I kept getting ideas for "A single touch" (the rape story that was in my poll) so I just figured, if I´m already writing at it anyway I might as well post it xD
So hey~ Long author´s not is long xD
See you next Sunday C;