-๑-๑ ஜ ๑- Chapter 36: Heartless? - -๑ ஜ ๑-๑-
-Shizuo´s point of view -
Confused- surprised the two of them were left to do nothing but look at that helicopter as it landed not too far from them. Entirely black, no insignias, no letters or numbers on it it mysteriously had appeared, just like that.
Shizuo didn't know what to think of it.
Was this- did someone defeat the virus? Was there some kind of camp? A camp for the survived? Maybe there were more people left- no there had to be more people left considering someone had had to steer that machine.
"What-" he was about to ask, ask Izaya what he thought about this helicopter, but the flea was already acting upon his own plans.
"Hey-!" hissing quietly although a tad too loud the blond watched the raven dash towards the helicopter.
Turning around the flea only hissed at the blond.
"Be quiet!" With quick even steps the blond followed the raven- he didn't need to ask what the flea was doing. He wanted to check out just who it was that had been steering the helicopter.
Stepping crawling, moving across the rubbish and broken walls of the city the two made their way over.
They could hear voices, noise.
It was beneath a pile of rubbish that the two stopped. Izaya signed for the blond to stay down as he glanced past the pile.
Only for his eyes to widen in surprise.
Shizuo hadn't missed the astonishment spreading across the flea´s expression and he followed his actions, glanced past the pile and-
"Is that-" the words died down as he spotted the all too familiar brunette. Glasses resting on his nose, that dirty, although clearly white lab coat dangling from his frame as the helicopter suddenly took on a different shape.
Two wheels, that neighing sound the two of them had heard so often inside the city. A bicycle was suddenly leaning against a wall. Shadows of black were moved around the landscape forming a set of tents, three of them in total- and something that Izaya could only describe as a wall behind them.
No mistake.
That yellow helmet decorated with kitty ears left and right-
"Shinra…" Izaya mumbled softly, obviously surprised he was meeting his old friend after all this time.
"And Celty-" Shizuo added, and they were not the only ones. Having transformed the helicopter there were now more people to be seen as well. Blond and stern there was Vorona, carrying what seemed to a box filled with weapons. Kadota, Yumasaki, Karisawa, they were right next to her also moving boxes filled with all kinds of supplies.
Getting up from the ground the blond had been about to walk over- to all their friends. Friends that were still alive! But a harsh tug on his wrist made him pause.
"Wait." Confused the blond looked at the raven that was still hiding beneath the pile of rubbish. Instinctively, knowing he could trust the flea he backed back down again, facing the raven head on.
"What for? It's Shinra and the others," he whispered, not really getting what the flea was doubting in this situation.
But then the raven lowered his gaze, lowered it to the wrist. The wrist he had stuck that needle into before.
"Don't tell them." Izaya didn't need to elaborate or explain to the blond just what he was talking about. He knew it just by saying these few words. He didn't want Shizuo to tell them about the possibly antidote that might as well turn him into zombie soon.
A frown crossed Shizuo´s expression at the request.
"But maybe Shinra can help you," the blond tried, "He might know how to-"
"NO." Harshly the raven cut him off mid sentence as he shook his head vehemently.
"Shizu-chan if you tell them about it then we might as well split ways right here right now." His expression was serious, not joking.
"What- why?" Shizuo didn't understand- why did their friends knowing about this mean that they had to split up?
With a sigh the raven let his head thud against the broken pieces of what used to be a wall.
"Being injected with this pretty much equals with being bitten, what do you think will they do if they know I have been bitten?"
If they knew? - But Izaya hadn't been bitten. The thought of terming it this way alone was making the blond cringe- and yet he knew what the raven was getting at. "I can tell you, Vorona for example, will try to kill me to erase the danger. And Shinra, we are friends Shizu-chan, but what do you think Celty will do if she knows I'm a potential threat to him?"
…
He understood. Shizuo understood what the flea was trying to tell him. "No one will be crazy like you and want to stick together with me, so if you want to go down there you either do it alone or keep your mouth shut."
And then the flea suddenly paused, paused as though he had come to another realization.
A bitter smile spread across his expression as he shook his head.
"What am I even saying," he mumbled, "maybe that's your chance."
Confused the blond frowned- okay now he had lost track of what the flea was trying to say.
"What is?" he already didn't like the expression Izaya was wearing. Made him think that he was coming up with bullshit again.
"You should go there. Without me. Shinra is not anyone, you can stay with them and then-" but the flea didn't get to finish this useless rant of nonsense as the blond pulled him close- pulled him in and not only that. Before he knew it he found a pair of lips press against his own. Izaya expected the kiss to be desperate- but no instead it was just warm- gentle, assuring.
Shizu-chan´s eyes were nowhere else but on him as he cupped his cheeks.
"No way." It took the raven a second to connect the blond´s words to what he said earlier.
"... are you sure you know what you are doing?" the raven mumbled, although he already had a feeling he knew the blond´s answer.
"Accept it once and for all. If we are going anywhere then together." Of course. The raven sighed.
Honestly- he didn't quite get why the blond was willing to go this far for him.
Letting his forehead connect with the blond´s the raven sighed.
"Okay." And this time it really felt as though it was a final decision. No more shoving Shizu-chan away. It had proved to be useless anyway.
And so the two got up from the ground. The pile of rubbish consisted of broken walls, dead people- from the overall looks of their surroundings this part of the city used to be a shopping district Izaya supposed.
Stones rolled, broken objects protested as they were stepped upon. The suspicious sounds of course didn't go by unnoticed.
Seeing the blonde woman snap her head around first they found themselves being greeted by a harsh-
"Who is there?!" Freezing in their motion they all stopped- Shinra, Vorona, Celty as well as Izaya and Shizuo.
For a moment the raven was almost convinced they were going to die right then and there because the woman already had dropped the box she had been carrying and pulled out a gun- ready to shoot- and Izaya wasn't quite sure she would not shoot the raven once she realized he was no zombie yet either.
Izaya was tense, about to back off again- but then his friend unfroze.
"Izaya-" Shinra´s expression was blank yet filled with astonishment as the raven waved at him.
"Hey Shinra."
"Heiwajima-senpai!" The blonde woman had finally lowered her gun as her attention had turned towards Shizu-chan who was standing next to the raven just as motionless as him.
"No way!"
"Izaya-"
"And Shizu shizu!"
Karisawa, Yumasaki, Kadota, they all stopped within their motions or whatever actions they had been executing.
Unfreezing finally Izaya walked forward.
"Nice to see you are alive."
Only barely he caught the glimpse of a shadow that just barely grazed past Izaya and right towards the blond.
"What-" before the blond knew it he had a certain old friend dangling from his neck and a PDA shoved in his face.
(I thought you were dead! What happened?! How did you survive?! Why are you with Izaya?!) Before the blond was even able to entirely read the sentences she had typed her fingers already flea across the keyboard once more. (Where have you been?! Are you alright?!) Putting his hand on the PDA the blond couldn't help but smile at the way Celty behaced.
"I'm fine Celty."
"Izaya?" Surprised the raven turned his glance away from the lovely reunion of Shizu-chan and his old friend as a pretty damn familiar voice reached his ears. "Too bad, I thought you already dropped dead."
It was Namie- Yagiri Namie. Blinking surprised the raven tried to make sense of her appearance.
"So did I," he mumbled perplex, "What about the pharmaceutical´s announcement of your death?" He had listened to the recordings till his laptops battery gave out- and that lasted a pretty long time. He was pretty sure he memorized every shred of information they announced- and Namie´s death was certainly one of them.
"That obviously was a lie. I went into quarantine on my own wish to research this virus. It just so happened that everyone died and I was the only left." Of course-
Shaking his head the raven was left to do nothing but grin at the turn of events- so that woman and him had both been researching the virus and tried to develop something that could fight it.
It was then that a pair of arms wrapping around his neck snapped the raven out of his thoughts and back to a very surprising reality-
"Shinra?"
"I have certainly never been so glad to see your face!" the doctor was laughing a huge smile spread across his features as he smiled at the raven. "When you last called me and didn't respond I thought one of the zombies got you!"
Right-
Thinking about it- the last time he had any contact with the doctor was back at his apartment when Shiki turned into a zombie and Izaya had to fight him off.
Shinra´s rambling had delivered the incredibly precious information of the monsters being blind. "Well not wrong, one of the creatures was attacking me at that moment. But I'm not this easy to get rid of." Izaya could feel the brunette literally freeze up at his description. And then he just whispered.
"I'm glad you are okay."
It was- unexpected. Usually their conversations were just dripping with sarcasm and implications to hear it this direct and honestly from the doctor made the raven swallow hard.
"Shinra what got into you? Didn't know you cared that much about me," he chuckled, returning that hug softly.
"Are you kidding? That guy left notes for you everywhere and kept rambling about what kind of places your sorry ass would go to." Namie suddenly announced all too sensitive with one of those annoyed roll of eyes of hers. "Once we got surprised by a group of zombies in a hospital and barely managed to lock them up in a room- and that guy had the nerve to stay behind and write a bloody warning on that damn door."
A warning on a door leading to a room filled with zombies in a hospital.
"Hey Izaya-" the setting wasn't only familiar to Shizu-chan.
"Wait, you didn't happen to write dead inside on that door did you?" the raven questioned making the doctor look at him as though he was deer that had ran into headlights.
"I told you he would go there!" he suddenly announced and that roll of eyes on Namie´s part was repeated once more.
"Okay, lovely reunion, but I think you are forgetting our goal here," the woman suddenly announced, walking over to grab the hem of Shinra´s lab coat as she dragged him off the raven.
"How can you be so heartless Namie-sannn~" the doctor whined.
"Goal?" Izaya questioned, with the hint of a grin as he watched the brunette being dragged away.
"We are searching for my brother, I still have Seiji´s last coordinates, he can't be too far," the woman announced simply, checking some kind of device she was carrying around.
"You are just as obsessed of your brother as Shinra was of Izaya," Karisawa pointed out, only causing a frown to appear on the woman's face.
"Don't compare me to that waste of humanity."
"Seiji…?"
Softly. Quiet.
The whisper had dropped from Shizu-chan´s lips. Letting go of the blond Celty looked at him, seemingly noticing that something was off.
Izaya had heard the whisper from the blond as well.
Yeah.
The smile he had been wearing had dropped of his face the moment she mentioned her brother.
Seiji.
Fuck. Shizuo knew it, only barely he could remember the raven saying his name. That guy´s- the one that was carrying the head of a woman, covered in bite marks.
That- it was the guy they met at the gas station.
The guy that had sawn off a girls head.
"Anyway, hurry up! He can't be too far!" again the woman announced these words and the blond felt his guts churn at how dedicated she was to find him- to find her brother.
It reminded him way too much of himself and how he had searched for Kasuka.
He needed to tell her- but he didn't know how-
But Izaya seemed to know just the way.
"Seiji is dead." Izaya said it, cold just like that.
The words just dropped off his lips as though he had just announced the weather forecast.
"Izaya-" Shizuo started although he wasn't quite sure what to say- because- how? How even? What was the best way to tell someone their beloved had already died?
Blank faces met the blond´s before turning to look at the woman.
She had frozen. Looked at Izaya as though he had just started to fly.
"... w-what do you mean he is dead?"
And all of a sudden the flea´s expression changed, warped into one of those annoying smirks he used to wear on their chases through Ikebukuro.
"I stabbed him with a knife! Tilted over like a sack potatoes~"
Shizuo didn't know what was going on, why Izaya was so devious to them why he had to put it that way- and Namie certainly didn't either as her expression churned- churned into something so violent, so-
And suddenly she had one of the guns at hand- instinctively without even thinking about it the blond moved in front of the flea at the same time instance as the woman faced him with ferocious eyes.
"GET AWAY! I WANT TO MURDER THIS SHITTY ASSHOLE!" Shocked faces were drawn to the brunette-
"Namie-san!" Karisawa, was the one who was calling her dropping a box she had just been picking up from the ground as she hurried towards the crazy woman. Vorona who was standing practically next to her was not doing anything on the other hand.
A deep glare settled on her expression that offered nothing but disgust for the raven she glowered at Izaya.
"You asshole."
"Hey, stop!" A hand was grasping Namie´s pushing her hand down to stop aiming at the raven- and subsequently the blond that had moved in front of him. It was Kadota.
Shizuo understood, understood the woman´s pain, but even if the flea had put his words more than just shitty, that was no reason to murder him!
"It's not Izaya´s fault, he was bitten!" he announced, barked, loudly so the woman would get a grip on himself. But all hope was lost it seemed.
"WE COULD HAVE SAVED HIM MAYBE!" the woman was out of her mind. Tears were dripping from hatred filled eyes, a hand used to shove Kadota away and aim at the two once more.
"I will kill you Izaya. I will kill you!" and yet she didn't shoot- couldn´t- because despite her loss of sanity she seemed to be hesitant to kill the blond along with the flea. Kadota was approaching her again, but this time she was smarter, aiming the gun towards the man for just a moment as she barked.
"If you come closer you can gladly go first!" Kadota wasn't willing to risk as much, his hands up in the air as he tried to somehow deescalate the situation.
"Move!" again the woman was barking. And honestly speaking by now she pissed the blond off.
"I won't."
He had told her. He had told her, her brother had been bitten- so what the hell was she doing now?
Feeling the raven shift behind his back the blond´s arm was quicker to react than the raven as he grabbed his arm.
"Don't you dare," he didn't even need to finish his sentence for the raven to understand.
"I didn't really plan for you to get shot today Shizu-chan," the raven hissed, and he actually sounded mad. Why was he mad at the blond? Seriously- Shizuo thought he had understood the flea, but it seemed he was wrong.
"Guess she has to do just that because I won't budge and neither will you."
to be continued~
Ohohohoho some people were asking whether Shizuo and Izaya were gonna meet some other people again- well there you have your answer xD Yes, oh yes xD They are meeting people xD And I can already tell you these won´t be the last they meet in this story C: I just made them love each other before dropping them into the confusing mix of social interactions xD besides -coughs- having sex is kinda easier when no one is around- coughs- x'DDDDDDDDDD
Anyway~ lol Namie, what will you do? xD how will this turn out? xD well we will see on May the 9th~!
Guest 2: haha yeah xD by now they are even without actually talking about it, a real couple xD I'm curious! What do you think? C: why did izaya announce Seiji´s death the way he did? C: was there a reason for it? xD or do you think this is just part of his role as the evil bastard everyone knows? C: C: C: