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Chapter 3

After Izaya's mental breakdown most people were standing in Shinra's apartment in a gloomy atmosphere. To see the raven cry, which was so very uncharacteristically, had left them not only in astonishment, but also in dejection.

Before the call, the kidnapping of the sisters had been a sole fact declared only by words. But when the call had reached the Informant and everyone had to hear the awful screams, they understood that this was not only an "adventure" like most of their days.

Of course, their friends and themselves had often been brought in danger, but never before had they had to hear their friends' screams like Izaya had to hear his sisters' that night, leaving them in amazement how the raven had been able to endure it until now.

When the call had ended and Izaya was kneeling on the ground, there had been only silence at first. No one knew what to do, until Shinra was the first one to approach the crying raven and took him softly into an embrace.

Stroking the raven locks while holding his best friend close, Shinra waited until Izaya could finally relax in his embrace and the crying died down to mere sobs.

He was still holding him, when a soft hand touched Shinra's shoulder making him look into the raven's face. His eyes were reddened and still wet, though his friend had finally stopped crying.

"It's ok now. Thank you, Shinra." the raven forced a small smile on his face to ensure the doctor that he could let go of him now, but it mostly managed to make Shinra feel even worse.

To see his best friend like this, who was normally never showing any emotion, this was the least he wanted to see. Seeing Izaya on the bottom, almost not able to stand up again, nearly broke his heart and he had to concentrate to not show any weakness at this moment.

He knew, that he had to stay strong and composed for his best friend, when this one was down.

"No problem. You can count on me, Izaya." the doctor replied standing up. He offered Izaya a hand and helped him to get up from the ground.

With one swift movement the raven used his sleeve to wipe off the left tears on his face, before he turned around to the other people, who were still awkwardly standing in the room.

"Thank you all for helping me. If you don't mind, I would like to discuss now, how we are going to find Mairu and Kururi."

Thanking them Izaya bowed in front of them causing their eyes to grew wide in surprise.

Who would have ever thought that the great Izaya Orihara would one day bow in front of someone genuinely thanking him?

With their capabilities -Mikado being the leader of the Dollars or Anri being Saika - the present group promised Izaya that they would find his sisters. Of course, they didn't voice their plans because them being who they are was still a secret to most people in the living room.

But they know, that Izaya as the great Information Broker he was, knew of course of their secret. Meaning when Mikado told him that he would do everything, that was in his power, Izaya immediately understood that the boy was going to use the Dollars to find the sisters.

However, Shinra noticed that the more the discussion went on, the more Izaya looked ill. His face was pale and big shadows were under his eyes. Having been there before the doctor saw that Izaya wasn't in a good condition.

The doctor clapped his hands immediately drawing the attention of everyone to him.

"Ok. I think that's it for today. We're all tired. Let's continue this tomorrow. " he chirped happily.

"Wai-" Izaya had widened his eyes in shock while jumping up from the couch, but Shinra, who had expected the raven's objection, didn't let him finish his sentence.

"Izaya, we're all tired. Especially you, who's looking awful if I might add that."

"But-"

"Izaya, we need our power to find them. And to regain power, we have to sleep. I mean, even you should understand that."

"But-"

"The kidnappers have to sleep, too. We would lose more, if we weren't going to sleep now."

"Shin-"

"The discussion is over now, Izaya." The doctor said finally, smiling at the raven.

This one looked back tiredly. The doctor knew that Izaya was pretty down and wished for some results, but he seriously worried about his best friend, and Izaya most probably understood the doctor's worry, when he let himself fall back on the couch saying a swiftly "fine then".

After nearly everyone had left Shinra's apartment only him, Celty, Izaya and to the doctor's very surprise Shizuo were still sitting in the living room.

Shinra hadn't dared to send Izaya home. He saw, that Izaya needed rest, but if he told his best friend now to go home, it would feel to him as if he would throw his friend out. And he wanted to prevent a situation like that - at least when his friend was in such a bad condition.

Izaya was sitting on one side of the couch, his eyes sadly staring to the ground while his raven locks were hanging softly into his very pale face.

To the doctor's astonishment Shizuo was sitting on the couch in front of the raven watching him with careful eyes. Izaya didn't seem to notice or didn't bother about it.

However, Shinra couldn't stop the thought that Shizuo seemed to be worried about the raven, too.

But on second thought, he knew this couldn't be the case.

Shizuo hated Izaya after all. He was most probably only worrying about his sisters, though that didn't really explained why he was the only one left in his apartment.

Whatever... Shinra thought tiredly. He was exhausted and not in the mood to think about something like that now.

He didn't even know how late it was, but when his gaze fell on the outside of the window, he saw the horizon slowly growing bright again. The sun was rising again, making him recognize that they had indeed taken the whole night to discuss.

The doctor yawned.

He knew there was no sense to continue this. Tiredly he approached Shizuo causing the blonde debt collector to tear his eyes away from the raven and look up to the doctor.

"Shizuo could you bring Izaya home?"

To his shock both widened their eyes in surprise, but didn't protested.

With few words they were saying goodbye and left the apartment, before Shinra finally closed the door, only leaving him and Celty inside the apartment.

[Do you think he will be ok?]

"I don't know. First of all he needs to rest now. And we, too." The doctor said yawning and put an arm around Celty's shoulders leading her to the bedroom to finally find some sleep.

Shizuo and Izaya were walking next to each other in silent.

The tranquility in the early morning hours felt nice to Shizuo, though it was a little awkward to acknowledge it together with Izaya.

Somehow he felt the need to say something, but he didn't know if there was anything at all that he could say.

He was observing the raven from the side from time to time, eyeing the black shadows under his eyes and watching the pale skin with worry.

The raven really didn't look good at all. Seeing him like that left Shizuo in astonishment, because on one hand he had never seen the raven like this despite of knowing him for years now. On the other hand he hadn't thought that the raven cared enough for anyone to be discomposed by it so easily.

Apart from this could he still bear the raven a grudge after this?

The whole night Shizuo had thought about the possibility, what he would do if Kasuka were kidnapped and he was in such a situation.

He didn't really have an answer to that. The sole thought was too painful to even consider it.

They reached Izaya's apartment in time letting his urge to say something grow inside the blonde's chest.

When Izaya bowed down to thank him - even him - his normally most hated enemy - it nearly broke Shizuo's heart.

This was not the Izaya Shizuo knew. This man in front of him was acting so differently compared to the arrogant louse he normally knew. Never before had Shizuo thought that he could actually feel something like pity for the raven, but this night had taught him different.

Watching the man's sad eyes made him lose it.

"I will find your sisters, Izaya. I promise." he said seriously - causing the raven to look at him in shock.

But the shock was fast replaced by anger marking the raven's face - making the blonde debt collector wonder what he had said wrong.

"HOW can you dare ..." the raven began saying angrily ringing for words. "... to give me hope?!"

The blonde's eyes widened in surprise.

"Why are you helping me anyway?" the raven hissed then his piercing eyes going like daggers through Shizuo's head.

Shizuo almost wanted to give an angry reply to that but then he saw tears forming in the raven's eyes again.

Embarrassed that he had managed to force tears to the man's face, Shizuo felt his anger die down immediately.

Thinking desperately that he didn't want to see the raven cry again, he put deeply grieved a hand on the Informant's head.

This one's red eyes softened immediately by confusion causing the blonde's face to heat up a little by the embarrassing situation.

"I can't ... empathize with your pain ... but I know, that if something like that happened to my brother, it would kill me from the inside." he muttered hoping that the raven would understand.

This one just dropped his gaze making the blonde unable to see his eyes. Nonetheless he still felt the need to make the raven feel better.

"I seriously don't know ... what I would do in such a situation." he ended still having his hand on the Informant's head.

Feeling the soft locks under his hand the blonde almost didn't hear the silently given reply.

"I will kill them." the answer left the raven's rosy lips making the blonde shudder.

"Wha-"

"I will kill the kidnappers." the raven repeated again his gaze still directed at the bottom.

In shock Shizuo pulled the hand back from Izaya's head. He could almost feel the aura around the raven darkening making the hair on his arms stand up.

Izaya was really scary right now and Shizuo didn't know if he should actually be afraid of him or if his senses were only playing him a trick.

Feeling awkward he balanced his body weight from one foot to another before he mumbled a final "goodbye" and dashed off in the direction of his home leaving the raven alone in front of his apartment.

Izaya slowly opened his eyes. Something had woken him and his gaze fell on the window, letting him see the moon standing high in the sky. It's light was illuminating the room accentuating the shapes of his furniture.

When his gaze wandered along his walls he suddenly saw that the light was emphasizing something next to him.

Delicate proportions were lightened and the raven could already feel his heart start to beat faster, when he understood then someone was lying next to him.

Slowly he turned his head to the side his eyes widening in shock and in fear, when he saw someone lying next to him, who definitely couldn't be there.

-Himself.

His image was lying there supporting himself with one arm from the bed, while the other one was lying on the delicate waist. But the scariest thing of this already impossible being was the cruel smile covering his clone's face.

'That's not true' he thought to himself.

"Oh, this is the only truth that has ever been" the man in front of him replied making his body shiver.

His image had not only replied to his own thought, but it or he had also responded in a voice that definitely wasn't his own.

This voice was dark and dripping with inhumanity, that Izaya had to suppress the urge to just storm off of his apartment.

When the raven already wanted to form words again to ask what was going on, his image stopped him right away.

"You should kill them."

Izaya eyes widened in fear. What was this image of him saying?

"I don-"

"Of course you know. After all you want to kill them all, right?~" his image chuckled making Izaya's skin get goose bumps.

Suddenly it was above him pinning him down to the bed. Izaya hadn't seen any movement. The man had just been there from one moment to another, the scary grin never leaving his face.

The man's red eyes were piercing through him and Izaya wondered if his own eyes always looked just as scary, when suddenly blades started to sprout out of the man's body.

The raven could feel his fear increase strengthening his urge to run away, but he couldn't move at all. His body was pressed against the sheets making him paralyzed and he could only watch with tearful eyes what the man was going to do to him.

"They all deserve death" the image above him suddenly whispered, when a blade started to grow out of his mouth making the raven's body start to tremble in fear.

Suddenly his face was grabbed with both hands forcing his mouth to stand open, while the face of his image was coming closer and closer to his own.

A silent scream started to escape his lips when he could almost feel the blade enter his mouth.

Tears started to stream down his face. Izaya wanted to escape, wanted to flee, wanted this to stop, but he couldn't move one limp.

All he could do was to drown in the bloody eyes of his own image.

Covered in sweat Izaya awakened from his dream rising his upper body in shock.

His eyes were staring at the wall in front of him widened in fear - still remembering the awful voice of his own image.

"They all deserve death"

I'm in Spain from 02. - 15.08. So no update in that time. Sorryyyyyyy! I will start updating constantly after I come back. Promised! Dates for the updates will be on my profile ! xD

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