-๑-๑ ஜ ๑- Chapter 32: Shock - -๑ ஜ ๑-๑-
-Shizuo´s point of view.-
"It's so freaking cold," it was the blond who was complaining. They had just gotten out of the shower within the school- of course they had checked the rooms beforehand as to whether there was one of these shitheads hiding there. But they were alone, left in peace for once.
"Aww does Shizu-chan hate showering cold?" the raven snickered, still standing beneath the dripping water and just enjoying his shower. Knowing the luxury of being able to enjoy something as simple as this Izaya took his time to relish in it.
"Cold showers are the worst," the blond grumbled, taking one of the towels that were resting in a cupboard not too far from the shower. It was morning still, well or rather close to midday judging from how far the sun was already up.
"It's just water Shizu-chan," the raven snorted, stepping out of the shower with quick steps.
The blond was already starting to dress himself in the bartender suit the flea had given to him as his birthday present. So far he had managed to keep it stainless. So far.
Glancing over he looked at the flea that was taking his favourite fluffy coat of a hook on the wall. He had hung it there before going into the shower, and being dressed in his usual black pants and black shirt he added the last piece of cloth to his attire.
"Say Izaya what do we do now?" Fixing the fur around his neck the raven shrugged, glancing towards a window that was lighting the room up with the sun´s rays gleaming through.
He could see a part of the street, and a certain shop not too far from them.
"I vote for killing the assholes next to the school. I feel uncomfortable knowing they are there," he announced, feeling the unpleasant sensation of a shudder travelling down his back at the memory of the monsters that were lurking in the shadows and waiting to eat them alive.
"I wasn't talking about that actually," the blond suddenly said, making the raven twist his head to glance at the blond.
Oh.
"Hmmm, is that so?" he purred, a smirk on his lips as he realized what the blond meant. Of all the things that had changed and twisted since the zombie apocalypse happened he certainly liked this development the most. "Are you waiting for something specific~?" the raven questioned, and seriously, it sounded like a challenge.
Snorting the blond couldn't help but shake his head.
Of course- he could have expected that. Like the flea was going to be easy or simple for once.
"I wonder," Shizuo said, buttoning that white shirt up that he was putting on. His hair was still wet, dripping some droplets of water onto his skin that travelled down his neck and to his shirt.
A snort was all that followed and before the blond knew it he found a towel thrown at his face.
"Okay, so the first point is killing those zombies for today?" he repeated the raven´s words, also casting a glance towards that window the raven had been looking out of.
"Yeah, the sooner they die the better," Izaya announced, flicking his flick blade out of his coat as if to reassure that it was still there and usable in worst case.
"That will be dangerous though," Shizuo threw in- he didn't like the idea of the raven going outside at all, and even less did he like the idea of visiting these monsters to finish them off.
Sure they were prepared, they knew about their weakness, namely sunlight, but still.
"The sun is up we can just lure them out and you smash them with a cupboard like last time," the raven shrugged and Shizuo couldn't help but frown softly at the nonchalant way the raven was talking about this.
He knew well enough just how scared he was of these creatures, so pretending to not give a fuck wasn't exactly putting the blond at ease there.
He was talking about the time they dropped by in that pharmacy. True, that zombie had been fairly easy to kill and not dangerous at all, staying in the shadows like it did.
But it had also caused the flea to lose it, to panic or something the blond wasn't quite sure what it had been that had been going on on Izaya's mind but it definitely wasn't anything positive.
And yet, once those assholes were gone Izaya would be able to sleep peacefully again.
"Okay," he sighed, admitting defeat. Knowing that the flea had his reasons he knew he wasn't going to back down from his idea anyway. And hey, once those bastards were killed it would be just a little bit saver around where they lived for now.
It was an argument worth considering.
Seeing the raven walk out of the bathroom and straight towards the entrance of the school the blond followed quickly, not being quite as fast when it came to dressing up as izaya seemed to be.
The sun was gleaming strongly, immersing everything in an unusually heat for this time of the year, but the heat was welcomed especially considering that Shizuo´s hair was still wet, dripping from its ends. He hadn't even had enough time to dry himself for fucks sake.
"Are you in a hurry or something?" the blond somewhat complained as he caught up to Izaya. The raven merely shrugged-
"The sooner they are dead, the sooner I can rest assured."
Certainly.
Creaking the entrance of the school slipped back shut, the huge leaves falling into its hinges as the walked onto the street.
there it was, that cursed building.
Despite the strength the sun was putting into illuminating the entire scenery it wasn't quite able to filled that shadowy shady building with the precious light the blond and Izaya wanted it to.
"Who is going first?" the blond questioned, reaching into his pocket only to realize that there was no cigarette waiting for him in there.
Ah dang he should have taken some with him from the library. his birthday cigarettes. he couldn't help but smile at the thought of smoking them later.
"We aren't going to do it this way, idiot," the raven snorted, confusing the blond just a bit. He had already been about to rip a sign out of the pavement when the flea dropped the words.
"How then?" he questioned, letting go of the innocent metal rod that had managed to escape his monstrous strength.
"We are going to use the sun, break the ceiling and the light will burn them all alive without us needing to get too close," izaya explained- and dang.
As expected the flea was way smarter than Shizuo- he had been about to walk into the building and just bash every single zombies head in- Izaya's idea was the more practical one here. This idea was certainly the wiser option.
"Okay, but you stay here okay?" meeting a soft frown as the raven rose an eyebrow Shizuo already knew he could get really to win a little argument.
"I can help at least a bit you know," Izaya snorted, somewhat offended the blond thought he couldn´t be of any use here.
he had been the to suggest killing these monsters so of course he was going to take part in that eradication as well.
"No, if you go in there I will just be distracted," Shizuo tried to explain, and it certainly was one reason he had for his request- the other well..
"Aw, looking out for me? That's not necessary," Izaya purred, but the solid stare Shizu-chan was giving him stayed serious. Shizu-chan wasn't joking around there and it wasn't just him trying to concentrate on killing zombies.
"Hey, we both know I'm best at wracking buildings right?"
…
That wasn't what this was about and Shizu-chan know that well enough. And yet it wasn't like he could blame Shizu-chan for wanting to get him away from anything that could come close enough to crack one more of his rips again.
Admitting defeat the raven sighed as he let himself slump down onto a piece of rubbish.
"Alright, bust the place up monster~" he joked, warily glancing towards those broken windows. To be honest he wasn't even that fed up about not having to go anywhere near that building.
He hated to admit it, but the thought of having to go even near there was still sending unpleasant shudders down his spine.
Executing the plan as Izaya had explained it to the blond Shizuo approached the building. A sign was ripped from the ground and smashed into one of the supporting pillars of the building- crashing sounds and the dusts were sent up into the air followed by a couple screams of the creatures seemingly having noticed that their end was near.
It didn't take long for the brute to pull that sign back out of the broken concrete and smash it into the other corner of the building. Crashing and breaking the ceiling finally came down, crashing the monsters underneath.
Struggling, screeching they were trying to crawl out of the pile of rubbish that the room now was, but the moment they did the devilish rays on the sun brunt death into their eyes and killed them all off in one clean sweep.
Not having noticed that the raven had been clinging harshly to his coat he easened the tight grip and tried to relax.
They were dead. All of them- at least the ones that were hiding next to the school.
"Satisfied now?" Shizu-chan questioned with a grin, that cigarette still dangling from his lips as he turned around on that pile of rubbish, the sign still at hand.
"Very," Izaya responded- finally he could relax- the things were dead. They were all dead.
Except they were not.
"GNARGH-!" a head shot out between the pieces of rubbish next to Shizu-chan- too fast to move too fast to react too fast to even say anything to yell the blond´s name as the creature rammed its teeth into the blond´s arm.
Cracking the skull of the monster went flying, the blond having knocked it right of its shoulders-
Blood was pouring everywhere- the blond´s heart beating so fast he thought he was going to pass out as he looked at his arm.
Horrified Izaya could do nothing but stare, look at Shizu-chan- his throat was constricting, his lungs painfully screaming for air but he couldn't breath-
He felt like he was choking.
The fabric was torn apart in a violent fashion revealing the skin of the blond´s arm underneath. Everything had went way too fast- Izaya hadn't even been able to move that horrifying sight of teeth, dirty, bloody, biting down on Shizu-chan´s arm.
"Fuck that was close," barely even reaching the raven´s ears as a loud ringing sound was blocking out almost everything Izaya managed to look back up at the blond- a blond that was smiling at him.
He was holding up his arm, showing no signs of a bite wound. The creature- it hadn't managed to bite through the fabric of Shizuo´s shirt.
Shizu-chan was smiling, was relieved obviously- but Izaya was not. Izaya was choking, his throat was still constricting.
It was at that moment that Izaya realized how fast they could die after all. How quick things could come to an end.
It was like this bubble they had been in had suddenly popped and burst.
"It bit you," he whispered with dry lips, his voice cracking barely at the statement.
"Yeah, but that didn't go through the vest so-" the blond threw in smiling assuring as he walked over-
"YOU GOT BITTEN SHIZU-CHAN!" and paused in his steps. The raven was yelling, actually screaming at him, "DON'T ACT LIKE IT'S NO BIG DEAL!" He was furious, his eyes were wide in anger- horror, maybe it was both.
"How can you even smile?!" Izaya's voice had dropped considerably but the desperation was still layered thick inside it.
"... Izaya?" the blond said, snapping the raven out of his daze as he turned around in a rush.
Seeing the raven walk away the blond dropped the sign and dashed after- he didn't need to be a genius to know that the flea wasn't okay right now.
He had almost caught up, was about to say the flea´s name again in an attempt of making him stop walking, but the raven did s by himself, turning around only to shove the blond away.
Hard.
Shizu-chan could have died.
The thought terrified Izaya- Shizuo could have died just like that.
His heart was pounding he felt nauseous
He felt as though something was crushing his heart
This- was dangerous.
What if something really happened to Shizu-chan?
"Izaya-"
What if he got bitten?
"Hey, Izaya-"
Would he still be able to leave him behind like it didn't matter?
The familiar feeling of a hand wrapping around his wrist made the raven flinch away from the touch, and angry glare settled on his face as he looked at the worried blond.
"Look, I'm sorry- I didn't get bitten on purpose I just-"
"No one gets bitten on purpose Shizu-chan," the raven commented, bitter, angry. It wasn't even like he was angry at Shizu-chan. No, the blond had no fault, this could have happened to anyone and yet-
He just didn't know what to do with this devastating feeling. This feeling of losing control losing what he thought he had, losing Shizu-chan.
It was so unbearably cold.
Like a brick reality had smashed into his face, making him realize just how dangerous their situation still was.
What had they even been thinking? Fooling around as if they were save, acting as though everything was going to be okay when it was not?
"izaya wait-" but Izaya wasn´g going to stop. not now not when he felt this intense urge to run, to do something anyway thing, just so he wouldn't go insane at the incredible feeling up being out of control.
The door to the school was pushed open and the flea walked back to their room. the library, that place that was supposed to be save.
Shizuo was right behind him.
"Izaya wait up a second," he requested, closing the door to the library as the raven had walked back inside their small home.
But he didn't seem to be listening, the opposite, his eyes were distant his expression motionless as he glanced at the blond.
He wasn't in the mood to talk, he wasn't in the mood to interact with the blond at all at the moment.
He was about to tell him to leave, to tell him to just go away when his eyes settled on something different. Something that had been nothing but a pile of rubbish jelly and liquids mixed with each other in the morning and that was now clear and white on top of his desk.
"Shizu-chan look-" following the raven´s gaze the blond glanced at the table next to him, seeing how much the liquids he had accidentally spilt had changed since they were gone.
"It killed the virus-" Izaya whispered and Shizuo's eyes widened in surprise at those words- he glanced at the flea, glanced back at the table, he had no idea of chemicals or anything like that but if izaya said it killed the virus didn't that mean-
"It works?" was this the antidote the raven had been searching for, was this what was going to make everyone normal again?
A shrug was all that followed however as the raven approached the desk. There was one of the test tubes, tilted slightly but containing a fair amount of the clear substance.
"We don't exactly have a human to test it on Shizu-chan," the raven mumbled while pulling one of the drawers of the desk open. There were a couple syringes inside it. Fresh, not used on anything yet.
"What would happen if it doesn't work?" Shizuo asked, hope still lingering in his voice, after all, this was it right? This was what was going to save them!
"Worst case? It would work just like being bitten by those assholes," the raven informed, using one of the syringes he had found to suck some of the clear liquid into it.
"Can´t we like.. test it on rats?" Shizuo questined, watching how the raven collected this precious thing they had created- well or rather that Izaya had created.
"Not possible," was all the aven stated though, lifting the syringe to look at it with the light shining inside the cylindrical shape of the syringe.
"Rats are not humans Shizu-chan. Even if it works on animals it might not work on humans still." Frowning the blond looked at the clear liquid- but weren't those scientific people always tasting shit on animals?
"How about monkeys?" He saw that on tv, monkeys being used to look whether a serious illnesses could be cured.
"I would love for you to find me a monkey Shizu-chan," the raven mumbled, and even though it sounded like one of his usual teases and jokes this time it just lacked emotion. The raven was so cold.
A if he just didn't care anymore.
".. so then…"
"We need to test it on a human," the raven confirmed his thoughts, only making the blond´s guts churn all the more. On a human? Just who were they going to test this one?
That woman they had met earlier popped up in his mind but there was no way he could give her that antidote knowing she might as well transform into a zombie taking it. Or did they have to give it to someone that was already infected?
"Well if we find someone that's already infected, then we can try giving it to that person," he stated, after all there were more than enough candidates walking around outside for that.
But the raven shook his head nonetheless.
"It's an antidote Shizu-chan, it will only work on non infected humans- and moreover this will only survive for a few hours. If we don't test it on a human now we won't get another chance."
That was the hard truth. Just the fact that this antidote had created itself just by accidentally spilling these various samples into each other was already a miracle in itself. Izaya doubted he would be able to create this again within a time span they would both manage to survive in.
After all, everything could be over any moment. There was no time to waste.
He already knew it was futile to try and survive much longer with no chance of rescue in sight. Because no matter what- living like this, it was like they were both labeled with an expiration date.
One of these days one of them would be infected
Either him
... or Shizu-chan.
"Heh, I am at my wits end anyway-" were the words that left Izaya's lips and Shizuo felt as though the world came crashing down in his stomach as that needle pierced Izaya's skin.
To be continued~
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