A/N: Here is chapter 5! I have made the decision of what to do in this chapter, so here it is. Please enjoy reading this chapter.

Summary: Izaya has been having headaches lately and when more symptoms appear he decides to go to the hospital. There he gets to hear that he has brain cancer.

Disclaimer: I don't own Durarara!

The nurse had come back the same day and had helped him walk slowly to the toilet. Afterwards he had been really tired and every day for the past week he had been improving on walking around.

Haru hadn't been leaving Izaya alone either, the boy had come every single day and talked to him. Izaya had no idea why the boy would want to talk with him, but somewhere he enjoyed the company, not that he was going to admit that.

Celty had also come two times in the past week for a short visit, to see if he was still alright, but left soon, since Shinra might find out and that was something Izaya absolutely didn't want.

Izaya heard the room to his door opening and he looked to see a nurse once again walking in, which meant that he would probably need to go for a walk again. They had been making sure that he got as much movement as he was able to, but he still noticed that he was weak. He hadn't expected a surgery to be able to do this much to him. The doctor had even told him that the recovering was going slower than he had expected, so it would probably take more than two weeks. This made him frustrated, since he had only given Namie two weeks of vacation and he had planned to start working again once he was recovered, but it seemed like he would have to take a longer absence.

"Orihara-san, are you ready to go for a walk?" The nurse was smiling, but Izaya knew she was either doing it because it was her job or she felt attracted to him. He didn't believe the last right now, so it was probably the first.

"It something that needs to be done." He said with a sigh, before throwing the blankets of and sitting on the edge of the bed. The nurse came over to help him, which only frustrated him and he tried to stand up fast enough so that she would be too late. This ended up not being a good choice, since once he stood straight he felt himself getting unsteady and he had to grab the bed behind him to keep his balance.

"What did I tell you about standing up too quickly?" The woman asked and Izaya only growled at that.

"I know, but I don't need help." He said and slowly began moving towards the door. He knew that if he moved too fast there was a risk of him losing his balance, so he was taking it slowly. Once outside his room he turned left to walk through the hall. The nurse was quickly at his side, which made Izaya want to walk faster, but he knew that that would only end up in the nurse helping him more.

"You're doing great." The nurse said and Izaya ignored her.

"How far do you want me to go today?" He decided to ask her.

"As far as you feel you can go, if you get tired, I can always help you back to your room." Izaya didn't talk to her any further. He was definitely not planning on letting her help him back, so he would better make sure that that wasn't necessary.

"Izaya?" Izaya stopped and stiffened when he heard that voice. He knew who that voice belonged to and he really didn't want to turn around, but he knew that there would be no choice. His room was back there and there was no way he could get away from the man with how fast he could walk right now.

Deciding that he had no other choice, he turned around to face Shizuo who stood there together with Tom. "Shizu-chan, never thought I would see you here." Izaya said with a fake smile plastered on his face.

"Never thought I would see you here either." Shizuo commented. "Why are you even here and dressed in hospital clothes no less and what's with the bandage around your head?" Sometimes Shizuo really was too observant and this was one of the times Izaya didn't really like it.

"That's none of your business. Why are you here anyway?" Izaya asked and narrowed his eyes for a bit.

"I could say that's none of you business either, but I have nothing to hide." Izaya flinched a bit at the tone of the blonde. "Tom-san and I were just visiting a colleague who is in the hospital and were on our way out. So now it's your turn to tell me what you're doing here."

"I don't want to tell you." Izaya said and looked beside himself to see the nurse look in fear at the blonde. Oh great, seems like his nurse was scared of Shizuo. So far for doing her job right.

"You know this is a hospital in Ikebukuro right?" Shizuo grinned and Izaya sighed at that.

"I know, but they had the best treatment here." Izaya mumbled and then turned to the nurse beside him. "I'm tired, can you take me back to my room?" Izaya really didn't want to talk to Shizuo any longer.

"S-Sure." The nurse looked once more to Shizuo before she helped Izaya get back to his room.

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Shizuo looked after them and was about to go after the raven, but was stopped by Tom. "He said he didn't want to tell you, so just leave him alone alright?" Tom tried, but he could see that Shizuo still wanted to go after Izaya.

"But I want to know what he meant by treatment." Shizuo said, but before he could go after Izaya he saw Celty walking through the hall. "Celty!" Shizuo called and the dullahan looked up frantically.

[Shizuo, what are you doing here?] She typed on her pda and showed the two men.

"I was visiting a colleague together with Tom, but what are you doing here?" Shizuo noticed that Celty was nervous and she was trying to type something, but then deleted it again. Shizuo sighed, it was clear why she was here. "Are you here for Izaya? We just met him here before he went back in his room." Shizuo said and noticed the dullahan stiffen. He had guessed it right.

[You didn't do anything to him right?] This made Shizuo a bit confused, since when was Celty concerned about Izaya.

"No I didn't we just exchanged words and then he suddenly left. Do you know what he is doing here?" He saw Celty hesitating for a while before she typed something.

[I'm sorry, but he told me not to tell anyone, not even Shinra.]

"Shinra doesn't even know? That's a surprise, but could you please tell me? I won't do anything to him." Shizuo said and he saw that the dullahan was doubting him.

[What will you do once you find out?] That was a good question, he didn't even know that himself. [I can at least tell you that you won't be able to chase him for quite some time.] Shizuo frowned at that.

"I don't know what I will do, but I do want to know." He answered and noticed that the dullahan felt defeated.

[Fine, but if you go to him after this, make sure not to tell him that I told you.] Celty shuddered at the thought of what Izaya would do to her if he found out that she told Shizuo. [Three weeks ago, Izaya found out that he has brain cancer and he had surgery for it a week ago.] Was all the dullahan typed. [That's all I'm going to tell you, if you want to know more you need to ask him yourself.] The dullahan said before walking away to leave the hospital again, there was no way she could go to Izaya now, he would definitely suspect something.

Shizuo stood stunned for a moment. Izaya had brain cancer and had been in surgery a week ago? "Tom, can you go back alone? I'm going to visit Izaya." Tom nodded and left the blonde to go see the raven.

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The nurse had left him after helping him get back and didn't question his actions. She probably just wanted to get away as fast as possible before Shizuo would come here, which Izaya knew wouldn't be long.

Just as he was thinking that the door opened and the blonde walked inside. "So now you're following me to the room too?" Izaya said a bit annoyed, but what surprised him was that the blonde kept silent and just sat down on the chair. He wouldn't even meet his eyes. It couldn't be that someone told him what was wrong right? There was no way that could have happened, but the way the blonde acted, he had to know. "Shizu-chan?" Izaya asked trying to get a reaction from the blonde.

"Is it true?" Shizuo asked his voice soft and if Izaya hadn't been listening he might have missed it.

"Is what true, Shizu-chan?" Izaya knew what the blonde meant, but he had to hear it from him himself.

"That you have brain cancer." This time Shizuo did meet his eyes and he knew Shizuo could see the sad look on his face. He didn't have the time to cover it up with a mask.

"Yeah, it's true, but just like I said before it has nothing to do with you." Izaya mumbled and looked away from the blonde.

"How bad is it? Did the surgery go alright?" Izaya turned his head back to look at the blonde. Had he even been told that?

"Why should I tell you?" He wasn't ready to tell the blonde. What if Shizuo knew? What would the blonde do? There was no way he could make this better.

"I don't know, but you can tell me." Izaya laughed at that.

"Are you serious? You don't know? And you expect me to tell you?" Izaya started, but then felt like he couldn't stop. "Do you really want to know how much it sucks to know you have brain cancer? To know that you might lose your balance if you walk too fast or stand up too fast? To have a possibility of dying, even though they tell you they will do everything about it that they can? To hear that they weren't able to remove the whole tumor with the surgery, since they were afraid of damaging your brain? Do you know how that feels Shizu-chan? Have you ever been scared of dying? Of not knowing what is to come? And then the radio therapy and chemotherapy that are coming with possibly another surgery. How do you think I deal with all that?" Izaya was panting by the time he was finished and he could feel his head pounding with a headache.

"I don't know how that feels and no I have never been afraid of dying, but Izaya, you need to talk about this you know? Keeping this inside is not going to work." Izaya hated that this was coming from Shizuo, but he could not help but to cling to the words the blonde said. Haru had said the same afterall. He needed someone to listen to him, who would be able to handle his outbursts and weirdly enough, it seemed like Shizuo was just the one for that.

"I know, I know Shizu-chan." Izaya said softly and then turned his gaze down. "Can you please leave, I'm having a headache." Izaya pleaded with the blonde this time.

"Ah, sorry, I will leave." Shizuo said and then stood up and left the room. Izaya closed his eyes and he honestly wanted to go to sleep, but he heard someone else walking into his room.

Opening his eyes, he saw Haru. "Sorry, I'm having a headache, so could you please skip today?" Izaya said and closed his eyes again waiting for the boy to leave, but he didn't.

"Seems like you found someone to talk to." The boy commented and Izaya opened one eye to look at him.

"You mean Shizu-chan? I was surprised he didn't get angry." Izaya said.

"He seems like someone who would listen." Haru said, which made Izaya laugh.

"As if, there's no way he's even coming back again." Izaya said and heard Haru sigh.

"Whatever you say. Anyway, I will leave you alone to rest." The boy said and this time he did leave. Izaya closed his eyes once more and this time he did fall asleep.