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Chapter 8
Mikado Ryugamine was currently walking along the street his eyes nearly falling close, although he desperately tried to force them open.
He had tried everything.
Everything that had come to his mind.
But nothing had helped.
He hadn't been able to find the Orihara sisters.
Mikado sighed. He guessed that nearly the whole Dollar network knew about the missing sisters until now. At first he had doubted if he should really use the dollars for this purpose, but then again he couldn't think of any other way. What other method could he use than his special position in the dollars?
Still it hadn't helped at all. Apparently no one had heard of anything or had seen anything that could be in relation to the kidnapping.
It frustrated Mikado. Again he wasn't able to help his friends. Then for what was he even useful?
Drowning in self-pity and guilt caused by his uselessness he nearly didn't noticed the vibration of his phone.
His fingers fumbled it more or less torpid from his pocket but his eyes widened wide when his brain finally understood the words that his eyes were reading over and over again.
"Ha!" The sound escaped his lips by accident, but he couldn't suppress the sudden rush of adrenaline through his veins.
He read the message again, a dollar member had just sent him in private mode.
A: I may have some information to the missing girls that you were searching for. Want to hear?
Without hesitation Mikado started a reply. Maybe this was his chance. Finally! Finally he could help Izaya. Finally he could help Mairu and Kururi.
T: Sure! What do you know?
A: I was talking to a friend on the street. Suddenly there came a big pitch black van and a bunch of black wearing guys grabbed two girls walking along the street forcefully into the van. I followed them by motorbike until a deserted warehouse outside of the city.
T: Did you try to get help?
A: I tried to tell the police but they weren't believing me for whatever reason telling they wouldn't have time for this if I don't have any proof. But I was too scared to go alone.
T: It's fine. Can you tell me the direction?
The anonymous member immediately sent Mikado the description of the way to the warehouse.
Mikado thanked the member and promised to look into it.
Though there stayed a silent doubt inside him, that the member could be lying. From his time in Ikebukuro he knew until now that there really was a bunch of dubious guys here lying to others for whatever ill reasons, and Mikado couldn't quite understand why a person would do something like that.
Still he knew that this was the only hint he had until now.
He hadn't heard of someone else finding out something, therefore this was probably the only hint they had in this case at all.
He had to try it.
"I have to tell Izaya" the brown-haired boy mumbled to himself and automatically went into the direction of the Informant's apartment.
Izaya would know what to do, he ensured himself while thousands of thoughts were running through his head, that he couldn't quite organize in the short time he had left.
Izaya was sitting in front of his computer currently working at an errand for the Yakuza while Namie was sitting in the other corner.
They hadn't spoken a single word today. For Namie this was totally fine. She saw the connection to Izaya as only work based, therefore she highly appreciated when the raven for once in a while kept his annoying mouth shut. But it was very rare, that Izaya wasn't saying a word at all and she wondered if something might have happened to the man. Still she didn't like him enough to really care.
The raven was working calmly, although he definitely knew that this was the wrong task for him.
He shouldn't look for some stupid guy, who had spoiled things with the Yakuza, but for his sisters, who at this moment needed someone's help more than anyone else.
Izaya had to suppress a sudden rise of aggression against his own uselessness.
After he had figured that he wouldn't find out anything by himself he decided to trust his "friends" and wait for them to find something out.
This was not only a problem because Izaya hated feeling useless, and the current working he was trying to gain one billion Yen with- although he clearly knew that he could never afford something like that- made him even more aggressive against himself. At this moment the raven surely hated himself for just sitting there and doing nothing.
But relying on other people was also a problem for the Informant because it challenged his one but truly fear: trust.
Izaya had never trusted anyone, except for himself.
Although he felt highly connected and reliable for his family, especially his sisters, he couldn't say that he would trust them in all aspects.
He wouldn't entrust his work issues to his sisters in the way he did to Namie.
And he would never entrust his familiar issues to Namie.
If he could even use the word "entrust", because the raven would describe it more as a way of expectation. He told a person something and then he waited for that person to act in a very specific way. Rather saying he expected the person to do something that was highly advantageous for him. Therefore he didn't trust anyone to find his sisters, rather he expected of them to try to find them.
It made it even harder for Izaya to endure the long wait. His missing hope, the hope that anything positive could happen, was shattered by his lack of trust into his "comrades".
Right at the moment Izaya saw himself more in the middle of a road. At one end of it there were his sisters' dead bodies, covered in blood and nearly unrecognizable, causing him to mentally look away from that direction. At the other end, how strange as it was, there were pictures of his youth, of his home actually, where he had been playing with them, had talked to them or just joked around.
Though the other end was clearly the worse one, this one made it harder for him to endure all of this.
Because he was standing in the middle, unable to move, unable to act, waiting for something to happen, something that he couldn't influence or predict, making him finally realize that all of this was so fucking unpredictable.
This whole world had broken to pieces, that once had been pulled by his strings, but now he was a mere puppet and couldn't do anything against it.
So fucking unpredictable! Oh, how he hated this!
It made him think of Shizuo.
The blond had never been predictable.
He had never acted according to the raven's plans.
And then that beast had even dared to...
Izaya's body grew hot. He didn't know if it was because of the things he remembered or the fact that he was still feeling very aggressive because of his situation.
He couldn't even tell, how angry he was at himself.
At first he seemed to be absolutely useless and powerless, and then he hadn't even been able to act rightly, when the blond monster had kissed him.
The more Izaya had thought about it, the more he was sure Shizuo had played him some kind of weird prank or the beast had just tried to get rid of some stored sexual tension (because the raven was pretty sure that no one else was willed to get touched by the beast with his inhuman strength) .
Whatever it was, Shizuo had done it because he was fucking unpredictable, like this whole fucking situation, like everything that seemed to happen lately and the raven wasn't willed to let anything more unplanned happen.
Even if he couldn't deny it to himself that it had felt good, that he was actually missing the beast's gentle touch- Izaya had decided to not trust Shizuo too much when it came to their personal relationship.
He couldn't let this get to him. Izaya was already busy with trying to calm himself down because of his sisters. He didn't need the trouble with Shizuo now. Still every of his fibers screamed for the man. He wanted Shizuo near, he wanted the blond to hold him and his lips were craving for the other man's soft touch.
But what if Shizuo wasn't seeing it that way too?
What if the man had acted just on an impulse, hadn't known what he had been doing and afterwards when they had been talking he had just behaved friendly, because just like Izaya he had felt embarrassed and hadn't known how to react to the situation?
The raven was still sure, the monster would do anything in his powers to help his sisters, but that didn't mean that the two of them could just change their relationship all over again.
After all Shizuo hated him- he loathed Izaya the most in the world.
Or not?
Not anymore?
Did the beast change his opinion suddenly?
Upon what grounds?
Izaya froze. How was he ever supposed to understand, let alone predict, the blond's decisions?
Izaya sighed staring tiredly at the screen in front of him.
Time to admit that we have to change, hm Shizu-chan?
An ironical grin had appeared on his lips when the thought came to his mind, but it vanished immediately when the bell at his front door began to ring-
and again and again, it wasn't stopping!
A slight fear was crawling up his spine. For whatever reason the raven didn't know if he should go to the front and open the door or not. It was an unexpected event and after all the unplanned shit that happened, the raven had to admit that he slightly started to fear the unexpected.
He changed a concerned look with Namie, but the woman was mostly staring neutral against the door, then back to Izaya giving him a questioning look what was going on.
"Orihara-san, it's me, Mikado Ryugamine! If you are there, please open the door!" Izaya heard the boy from the other side of the door, after this one must have figured out that no one was going to open it.
A sigh escaped Izaya's lips when his body relaxed and he walked into the direction of the door.
"Please tell me before, if he's trying to kill you. I don't want to get into any trouble, let alone die." Namie said in her usual tone causing a slight smirk on the raven's face.
"How can you even think something like that. Maybe Namie-san didn't notice, but I became utterly popular the last week~" he chirped, but didn't turn around to face her, though.
"What is it, Mikado?" the raven asked after opening the door. The fact that he had obviously ignored the boy's ringing before wasn't mentioned.
"I got a message from a dollar member that he witnessed two girls getting kidnapped and being brought to a warehouse out of the city! I think...I mean, it could be possible that ..."
"Alright! Let's go!"
Izaya's eyes had widened immediately when he had heard the boy's words.
He cursed himself for his hesitation at opening the door before.
How couldn't he have thought about the possibility that it was someone who had found out something about his sisters ?!
Without hesitating the raven turned around to his chair grapping the jacket hanging around it with one swift movement.
"Izaya" Namie said perplexed, not understanding what was going on. She actually didn't care, but when the woman had seen the facial expressions of the raven, wandering from something like fear to surprise and then from realization to worry, she wasn't sure if it was really clever to not know about the stuff that was going on.
If it could cause such a change in the raven's face, then it must be something really significant.
However, she never got her explanation.
"I don't have time to explain that to you now." the raven just shouted when he grabbed Mikado by the hand- who was at that moment just as surprised as Namie- and ran with him out of the apartment closing the door behind them.
They were faster out on the street than Mikado could have looked around and the brown-haired boy wondered how Izaya could have been able to wink them a taxi within a few seconds.
"Have you told Anri Sonohara about this yet?" Izaya asked while shoving him into the taxi.
"No..." Mikado could barely react in time, when the taxi driver was asking him for the address just at the same moment.
He told the man the address while handing his phone to Izaya, who was scrolling swiftly through the chat messages.
They already started driving, when Izaya handed the phone back to him.
"You should send her theses messages. Maybe she knows someone who could help us."
Mikado kept the question to himself, why Anri should know someone important and just started typing instead.
In the corner of his eye he could see Izaya who started fumbling with his own phone definitely dialing a number.
His eyes widened when he heard who the raven was calling but he didn't say anything, though.
Whatever, hard times call for hard measures. Mikado just thought continuing to message Sonohara.
"Shizu-chan, Mikado Ryugamine has a hint where the twins could be. I'll send you the address." Izaya made his phone call as short as possible knowing that the blond wouldn't approve of his sudden action.
Mikado heard the protest on the other end of the call but Izaya just ignored it and let his phone slip back into his pocket.
He suppressed the disquieting feeling inside his belly, that he didn't really want to let his name fall during a conversation of those two.
As strange as it was that Izaya was calling Shizuo Heiwajima of all people, who the raven was supposed to hate - if Mikado remembered it rightly- the brown-haired boy didn't want to get into any trouble with those two, because -if he was honest- he wouldn't survive a single minute between them.
He didn't know if the two had become friends suddenly, but even if not, he could still quite understand why the raven would call the blond.
After all, if the kidnappers were armed or outnumbered, the blond's inhuman strength could be of high advantage for them.
However, he didn't vocalize any of his thoughts neither did he ask the Informant any question.
Because even if Izaya was able to hide his true turmoil behind a strong facade, the boy could feel the tensed aura around the man and although he knew that Izaya wouldn't hurt him, a slight fear came crawling up his back by the thought of talking to the man right then.
I wouldn't like to be one of the kidnappers now. He thought ironically, before his eyes were directed back to the street.
This was going to be a long drive.
"Shit!"
Shizuo cursed when the call had ended after just one sentence of the raven.
He had to control his anger to not break his phone with his bare hand.
How could Izaya be so utterly selfish?!
Hadn't the raven get until now that Shizuo was worried about him?!
I guess, I'll have to beat it into his memory. The blond thought angrily while flipping his phone back into his pocket and turning around to Tom.
"I'm sorry, Tom! I have to go. I promise I will tell you later!"
Tom nearly hadn't any time to give his assent, when the blond immediately dashed into the other direction.
The senior was staring perplexed at the back of his junior, before turning around mumbling a quiet "whatever" to himself.
Meanwhile Shizuo was already running into the direction of the address, that Izaya had sent him immediately.
Passengers were eyeing him worriedly when he was running by as fast as he could.
He couldn't hesitate. Who could know what the raven would do, when it came to his sisters?
Shizuo only knew that he would do anything for his brother, most probably going berserk at the kidnappers- but Izaya wasn't Shizuo, Izaya couldn't just throw a street lamp at them and everything was fine-
If the kidnappers were going to attack him, what could the raven do?
Throw a fucking switchblade against a gun?!
Why didn't Izaya wait for him anyway?!
His teeth pressed angrily against each other in frustration while a row of curses slipped his mind.
Don't do anything stupid, Izaya!
For those who think we are close the end: Nope! We haven't even reached 1/2 of this story yet~
There's going to happen so much more tehehehe, and don't forget that "supernatural" is still one of the ratings *^*
(that will only happen during the last 1/4 of the story, though)
OR NOT?!
Who knows ;D haha~
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