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ஜ Chapter 17: Silver blades ஜ
-Shizuo´s point of view-
"Izaya?!" Panic started taking over his dizzy mind as he took in his surroundings- not giving a damn about whether there were any of these things- It was dark, soft rain was pouring down from the sky and he couldn´t make his vision become clear-
He pushed himself onwards, walking just a few steps away from the scene- the rain was only making it more difficult to take in his surroundings.
Those monsters were gone and Izaya- his brows furrowing deeply he snapped his head around, looking for some sign, looking for a hand waving at him in secret- because the flea had to be hidings somewhere right? There was no way he could have run away from those zombies- but he could have hidden. So he had to be waiting somewhere, grinning at him like he always did-
Make a joke about how he just passed out like that and shit-
That´s right, Izaya was somewhere- for sure-
Because if he weren´t then-
A cold shudder run down the blond´s back as he considered that option for a second.
He shook his head, not caring about the added dizziness it caused.
He had to find Izaya-
Windows, passed, the car´s light faded in the distance as the blond dashed away from the scene. Only barely he could even make out his surroundings and he was well aware of the fact that those zombies could be waiting anywhere for him, but still. If he didn´t run now, if he wasn´t fast enough then Izaya might be dead by the time he found him-
Water splashed when his steps resounded in the air- it was way too loud for his taste and not only he was thinking that way-
A soft groan made his blood run cold and he twisted his head, meeting a zombie´s dead and glassy looking eyes emerging from an alley- It wasn´t one of the fast ones, no, but that didn´t mean it wasn´t dangerous.
Snapping his head around the blond reached for the nearest street sign, metal creaking and protesting violently as the blond fist enclosed around it.
The groaning grew louder, the zombie approaching, having heard as well as probably smelled the nearby meal-
Shizuo didn´t let it get any closer though as he swung the shield down on the disgusting creature.
It was just that one swing with the sign and the head of the zombie emitted a platting noise that reminded Shizuo of the sound huge spiders made when you stepped on them- all the guts bursting out as they die.
And so it was silent again. Rain dripping down from the sky, washing away the blood. The zombie dead.
It was only then, when he stood above the zombie, heaving, blood oozing out of its smashed head and the stench filling Shizuo´s nostrils that a certain thought struck Shizuo like lightning making him freeze.
What... if he did meet Izaya again-
But as a zombie.
A hand found its way to his forehead as the blond´s eyes widened-
NO.
No, that wouldn't happen right?
But the image of a zombie- Izaya, walking towards him, with eyes glassy as theirs, blood dripping from his mouth and fingers from his previous meal-
No.
No- no that couldn´t be-
The blond trembled, the grip on the street sign tightening as he stared at the ground his eyes wide.
And suddenly there was a hand on his shoulder-
Startled the blond flinched heavily, turning around only half as he swung the sign at whatever was there-
A loud groan was to be heard as the hard metal met the body, sending him to the ground. The blond froze, blinking quickly at the man he had just sent down, laying on his back and holding his forehead.
"Shizu-chan, it´s me, you fucking dick-!"
Izaya.
The blond blinked and rubbed at his eyes thinking that now he might have just passed out due to feeling dizzy all the time- but no-
"Izaya-" Relief filled his mind as he dropped the sign, crouching down immediately. "Fuck, I´m sorry- Are you okay? Why did you not say anything?!" the raven merely groaned and glared at the former dept collector as he helped him up again.
"I called your name two times you deaf protozoan-" Izaya hissed, quiet however, obviously trying to not attract any form of unwanted attention.
"What-?" Shizuo couldn´t recall that sort of thing- he had been smashing down that zombie and before that or after that he hadn´t heard anything, really.
He was about to ask the raven where he had been, how he got away and where those zombies was, but something else drew his attention way quicker.
It was the smooth and sticky feeling to his palm that made the blond look more closely at the flea. With horror he realized what it was.
"Izaya you are bleeding again-!" with dread he looked at the rather huge crimson stain already staining the flea´s waist.
"No kidding-" it was only then Shizuo noticed that despite his calm expression Izaya's breathing seemed to be a bit off. In the night and dark and his panic on top he hadn´t even realized the cut on Izaya's forehead, the soft dried trail of blood emitting from there or how beaten the flea looked in general.
"Is that the friend you were talking about?" Startled the blond snapped his head around, the words having been spoken by the voice of a woman. It was still raining and yet he could clearly make out the person that was now approaching them, having a red glimmer in her eyes.
"Who are you?" he questioned, all his senses preparing themselves to run away or defend the flea if she was some kind of even worse evolved zombie- The red eyes did seem familiar in weird sense, but his mind didn´t even try rummaging in his memories for the answer as he glared at the woman.
"An ally for now if you need to know," again it was her voice that was speaking, but cut short as her expression grew just the slightest more serious. She twisted her head and Shizuo followed her glance- only to see what she was staring at.
The creatures- the ones that chased them-
Unwillingly his grip on the flea tightened- and a thought formed in his head that seemed so logic despite being impossibly optimistic as he narrowed his eyes at the creatures.
He was going to protect Izaya- Izaya was going to be fine because he would defeat them all if needed.
Despite all that it wasn´t Shizuo, however, who beat them up, no. Before he knew it the woman had lifted her hand and ... swords flew out of nowhere? Silver metal was suddenly filling the sky and they were floating above them, reflecting moonlight softly as they multiplied and multiplied-
For a second Shizuo thought he was imagining things, but no, they were true. Before those creatures could even approach the group of three, the swords stabbed themselves into the concrete ground, circular, surrounding Izaya and him as well as the woman that had approached them- and before he knew it their surroundings turned pitch black.
It was when a soft little flame illuminated the darkness that Shizuo realized what had happened. They were inside of what seemed like a giant tent of swords.
Screaming was to be heard and the swords were hit from the outside, but the metal did not budge in the slightest. The flame had come from a lighter the woman was holding and lighting a candle of her own with.
Only disbelieving the blond could stare at her and what she did, not able to make sense of what he just saw. Not able to make sense of what even jut happened-
"She is a Saika user, like the one who attacked you, but a different one, her name is Kasane Kujiragi," Izaya filled him in, seeming like he had already figured the blond would be craving for answers. Unfreezing the blond looked at the flea again remembering that he was still hurt and all these questions that were swarming in his head.
"What even happened to you? I woke up beneath a pile of trash and you were gone-" The raven snorted at the way Shizu-chan put it.
"That pile of trash saved your ass actually."
Confused the blond blinked.
"What?"
The raven sighed, letting his head thud against the metal behind him as he let himself slump down to the ground.
He was tired. Extremely so.
He needed a break. Yeah. Orihara Izaya was admitting that maybe he had been pushed to his limits.
If it hadn´t been for that woman to appear out of nowhere and see him running from the zombies- he didn´t even want to imagine what they would have done to him.
Torn him apart like the other Saika user probably, maybe tried to do more-
He gulped when he remembered how the zombie back at the hospital had grabbed the hem of his shirt- he thought he just wanted to kill him, crush him- but only now he realized that he actually had been about to pull his guts out like they did with Haruna.
It made him feel nauseous and scared at the same time- and he didn´t have the reserves anymore to just brush that off as a memory. It had barely been half an hour that passed since he woke up in the car and yet he already knew that nightmares were going to haunt him from this experience.
"You had passed out," he started slowly, explaining what had happened after they crashed. "You got thrown out of the car, you must have crashed with your stubborn head right against the wall or something it's a wonder you aren´t dead-" Ah, that was a moment he would see recur in his dreams for sure as well.
That sight when Shizuo was laying on the ground, not moving anymore.
He still wondered why it had shocked him so much, but no matter how much he tried to analyze the situation and build up logic conclusion, like the one that he was just worried about his own safety, he knew that he had been distraught by the prospect of the blond having died.
It was going to haunt him as well.
"I couldn´t drag you anywhere those bastards were right at my heels you know. So I hid you and ran on."
Hid- the blond blinked, now that Izaya said it, it made sense and yet- he almost felt angry at the flea for what he did.
"You put that shit on me?" he asked and Izaya didn´t miss the hostility in his voice only adding anger to his own exhausted distress.
"That shit saved your life," he hissed, not getting what the brute was even going on about.
It wasn´t even that Shizuo was mad at Izaya for burying him beneath dirt, no that´s not it-
"You fucking risked your life at that moment- you already got injured why did you not just run away right away?" It was the chance of Izaya dying just because he was risking his life for him-
"Injured?" the woman suddenly threw in, having stayed quiet all along. She had sounded a tad worried, yet her expression still stayed the same kind of stoic as before.
It almost reminded him of his brother.
"I wasn´t bitten or anything, but I got injured. A rib pierced my lung," Izaya explained quickly, answering the question whether she had to fear he was going to turn into one of those meat eating creatures soon.
"I did wonder why you were bleeding as much as you do. May I see?" The raven smirked just slightly. Of course she wouldn´t just believe him like that of course. You don´t just trust Orihara Izaya´s word.
Letting his hand trail down he softly pulled at the sticky shirt he was wearing. A pained his escaped his lips when he pulled the sticky shirt up, moving the band aids just the slightest. And there he didn´t even get to the really painful thing yet-
Layer after layer he started unwrapping the white or rather now red texture off his waist. More and more it clung to his skin until the last layer rested on top of the injury-
His other hand curled into a fist and his teeth clenched as he pulled the last bit off his skin. All while the blond was watching him with an expression that almost looked like he wanted to beat someone up.
"What a poor job," the woman commented, inspecting the wound, offending the blond all the same.
"Well.. sorry I´m not a surgery doctor or anything..." Shizuo mumbled just the slightest offended. He gave his best, Izaya lived, what else was there to want for?
"You did that?" She turned to face the blond who sat down next to Izaya as well now.
"Yeah. Izaya instructed me what to do before he passed out kinda." The woman hummed, still staying the same stoic way though.
"I may redeem my first impression, it´s an amazing good job considering it was a first try. I´m surprised he is actually alive."
Shizuo didn´t know whether he should be in joy to hear that or feel his stomach drop at the prospect of the chances having been pretty damn high for Izaya to not survive-
"I told him so too, but he didn´t take me serious." Shifting away from the raven the woman got up again the swords above her almost touching the top of her head. It wasn´t the biggest sword tent they had.
But it was effective. Izaya didn´t hear the groans anymore.
"You are aware that being wounded is close to a death promise at this point in time, yes?" the woman, asked, one eyebrow raised in question while blond almost froze at the question.
"What?" he repeated, glancing at the flea who was only shaking his head however.
"She is just joking Shizu-chan, calm down."
Joking huh...? Somehow Shizuo wasn´t so sure anymore he could really believe what Izaya told him.
"... so what do we do now?" the raven asked the question aimed at the woman in front of them who had her arms crossed as she watched the fire of the candle on the ground flicker.
"We wait till its morning, they can´t stand the sunlight."
...
"...wait what?" Izaya asked, his expression dropping for a second. The woman glanced at him just for a second before she looked at the candle again.
"These alliterated zombies. They hate the light. Once the sun rises they will be gone into houses."
They will be-
Sighing deeply the blond let his head thud against the metal swords behind him.
"Fuck- finally some good news." They were only outside at night- that meant if they only traveled in the day and were cautious enough to find a save place for the night, they could avoid these bastards- if just they had known that earlier!
"Do you know what they are? What they came from?" Izaya questioned further, hoping to gain more Intel from the woman, but she just shook her head.
"Sadly not. I was investigating them with Haruna-san and her boyfriend, but we lost each other out of sight so I don´t know if she gathered any valuable data."
That made the blond blink for a second.
"...wait, is that girl maybe a woman in a pink dress...?"
"Indeed, how come you know that?"
Oh.
Shit-
"... we kind of.. saw her," the blond mumbled slowly, still remembering detailed just how those guys got her and ripped her apart.
She was probably the only reason they were still alive now...
The woman nodded to herself, the blond not even needing to talk on as she figured out just what had happened when they saw her.
"So she died. I calculated the probability of that happening. It doesn´t surprise me."
It doesn't- what? Shizuo had expected at least some sort of sadness or at least a change of expression on her face, but she just remained as stoic as she had been before.
"Aren´t you... sad?" he asked, already feeling the question was unnecessary when he asked it.
"No. After all we were just allies in this doomed world."
... just allies, huh? And alleys meant she didn´t give a fuck about those two?
"That´s sorta fucked up," the blond mumbled, ruffling through his hair. "This whole world is fucked up-"
"Anyway," the woman clapped approaching the flea again. "As you might remember I only saved you because you said you have a couple interesting pieces of information for me- what is it that I will be glad to know?"
Oh yes, Izaya did. He saw her fight against the zombies, defend herself more than just amazingly well and his brain went working quicker than his tongue could even stutter the words. If there was anything he had ever been good at then it was dealing with information.
"That´s how you persuaded her to help us?" Shizuo asked, raising an eyebrow. He knew very well that Izaya didn´t have any sort of special knowledge about what was going on. Except for the fact that the ordinary zombies were blind, but that fact was clear to all of them by now he guessed. "You don´t know anything."
And there was a long pause.
A pause in which Izaya just glanced at the blond and then back at the woman. Looking forth and back as his lips moved slowly.
"... well, actually I do."
To be continued C:
I´m evil I know xDDD And yes, yes cliffhangers give meh life xDDDDDDD I live for the fucking cliffhangers xD
-coughs- anyway~ C: Now I bet you wonder what sort of information Izzy has C: or maybe some of you know already hehe xD
Also also, thank chu very much "Guest 2" C: She helped me and read this chapter to look for severe mistakes or typos so I could post it today- BE GRATEFUL PEOPLE xDDD
Shufflepink: awwww xDDD gosh, please don´t get a heart attack there please C': -glompies- izzy is back, see? Chu is finey now xD
Name: XDD I´m pissing myself laughing I swear x'DDD ahaha you can calm down now x'DDD izzy is oki gosh xD and they got some help haha C':
RandomReader: xDD haha please don´t let your heart pop out gosh- C': Well I guess this cliffhanger is better than the one of last chapter x'D for once everyone is alive and safe xD
Guest 2: ahaha actually I didn´t even consider that x'D but you are right, just randomly starting the chap with a fast forward I sure confused a few readers I guess x'D haha well as you see izzy made it anyway C': tho Shizzy is right to get a bit angry for that, after all, if something had happened to Izaya because f him he would have never been able to forgive himself. I hope this chapter was fine though cuz honestly I feel like it lacked the usual feelyness a bit xc Maybe cuz I was time pressured hnn- oh well C: the next chapter will be loaded with kawaii and heart tugging feels hehe C; Oh chu is smart- pssst don´t tell the others yet ;3 xD Gosh I have no idea how fast they were- just like I don´t know- xDDDD No idea x'D tho the zombies did fall behind so izzy drove faster by a bit. Guess he had accelerated to like 70 or 80 km/h when the accident happened. They weren´t super fast, they just fell behind by a bit, but since their smell and hearing is superb they had no troubles sniffing them out again. xD aww thank you 3 haha
Well then, this was it C': thanks for reading xD
I will see you again on Sunday the 27th for the net update hehe Cx 3 love ya all 3