A/N: Chapter 6 is here. I hope you enjoy reading it and please review.
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!
Izaya was bored. He hadn't been allowed to go out of his room on his own, since they were worried that something could happen to him, but there was no way he was going to keep listening to that. He was tired of staying in the same room without being able to go out of it without someone following him.
Throwing the blankets off of him, he slipped out of the bed and stood up slowly. He was still careful with the standing up, since he didn't want to get dizzy. He was fine with walking normally, even though it was still in a slow way, but there was no way he wouldn't be able to make it somewhere on his own.
At the door of his room he looked to the left and then to the right to see if there was no one watching him and then he walked away from the room as fast as he could allow himself to go.
Izaya was planning to go and visit Haru, even though he didn't know the room number, he knew which section and then it wouldn't be too hard to find the room. He hoped that Haru was there, because otherwise he would have gone there for nothing, but he would at least not be in his room.
He had to take the elevator, since the section was one floor above him and he didn't trust himself with walking the stairs. He hadn't really been fond of them since he fell down the one at his apartment.
The elevator dinged, indicating that he had arrived on the right floor and Izaya walked out of the elevator. Now he needed to find the room. He could either walk past all the rooms to look which one he needed to be at or he could ask someone, but that would make him look suspicious. It was probably better to just walk passed all the rooms.
Izaya started with 301, which wasn't the room and went on till he stopped before 305. There he saw the name he was looking for and he opened the door to look inside. Seeing that the boy he had been looking for was there, he let out a sigh of relieve.
Entering the room, he closed the door behind him, which had alerted Haru, since he turned around to look at him. "Izaya-san? What are you doing here?" The boy asked and Izaya showed a smirk.
"I sneaked out of my room, since I was bored." Izaya said and walked over to Haru. "I decided that I would pay you a visit, instead of having you come to me."
"But you aren't allowed to go out alone right?" Haru said.
"I know, but that didn't stop me. They will probably just yell at me." Izaya said and then decided to change the topic. "How is your day?" Izaya asked.
"Pretty bored too, I was just planning on going to you when you came." Haru answered, but Izaya noticed the fidgeting the brunet was doing. "Ehm, can I ask you something?" The voice was soft, which surprised Izaya.
"Sure, what do you want to ask?" Izaya smiled at the boy.
"I want to go to high school if I get a heart transplant, but I haven't been to middle school, so to be able to enter one I would need to have that knowledge at least." The boy started and Izaya decided to wait patiently. "Since you seem like a smart person, would you please teach me?" Izaya had honestly never thought that the boy would ask him something like this, but it was true that if everything was normal that the boy would start high school this coming spring.
"I could teach you, but I almost never went to class, yet I got straight A's at the tests, so I might not be a good teacher." Izaya answered, remembering how he almost never went to class.
"That's fine, if you're just willing to help me, I'm already happy." Haru said.
"Do you have books? And we need to find out how far you are in your education." Izaya said getting to business.
"Ehm, I have books at home, I can ask my parents to bring them and I don't really know how much I need to know and what exactly I know, so we might need to start with going through everything." Haru said while looking down. The boy felt a bit ashamed that he didn't know how much he knew.
"That's fine, you can tell me when you want to start and then come to my room. At least I won't be bored that way." Izaya reassured the boy.
"Thank you! I will make sure to come to your room when I have everything." A genuine smile had appeared on the boy's face, which brought a small smile to Izaya's lips too.
"I wonder if they're missing me already." Said Izaya with a smirk back on his face.
"You really are a handful for them." Haru stated.
"I know, but I really like to see how long it will take before they find me." Izaya said.
"I kind of want to know that too, so let's wait together." Haru was an interesting boy. That was something Izaya knew for sure.
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Shizuo had gone back to the hospital. First he hadn't been sure if he should go back, but then he decided that it might not be so bad to talk to the flea again.
When he arrived at the raven's room, he could see that nurses were in a panic and they were shouting to each other to go and find the patient. What had the flea done now?
"What's the matter?" Shizuo asked and both the nurses turned to look at him.
"Are you here to visit Orihara-san?" Shizuo nodded at that. "Orihara-san has disappeared from his room and we haven't been able to find him anywhere here or anywhere down the hall." Oh great, the flea had decided to start wandering around. He must have been bored.
"Have you checked the roof? He likes looking down on people." Shizuo said frustrated. Great now he had to find the flea probably.
"No, I will go look right away." One of the nurses said and left to go to the roof.
"I will look for him through the hospital." Shizuo said and turned back around. He could track the flea's scent after all, even though it would be hard with all the other scents and he knew the scent had changed a bit.
Shizuo was about to enter the elevator to the next floor when the door opened and a familiar raven walked out. "Izaya! Where have you been?" Shizuo growled and he saw the raven turn around to face him with a smirk.
"Just walking around, I was bored." Izaya said and kept on walking to his room, followed by Shizuo.
"Do you know how much of a panic you caused, you should have seen them when I came here. I even send one to the roof, since I could see you going there." Shizuo growled, but the raven didn't turn around.
"I wasn't there this time, I was with some other patient I met here." Izaya answered, but what he said had surprised the blonde.
"You're actually talking with someone?"
"Don't be that surprised, Shizu-chan." Izaya said and then sped up a bit, but this was clearly a wrong move as he lost his balance and was about to fall, if it hadn't been for Shizuo catching him in his arms before he could fall.
"Don't walk too quickly." Shizuo said and he had expected the raven to talk back at him, but instead he hung limply in the blonde's arms. "Izaya?" Shizuo tried to see the face the raven was making, but he didn't succeed. "Izaya!" He said a bit louder this time and that got him a reaction from the raven.
"You don't need to yell and I will be more careful next time." Izaya growled and got out of the blonde's arms before stalking away to his room. Shizuo noticed that Izaya was frustrated in the way he was walking and he decided to follow the raven.
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Once Izaya entered his room, there was already a nurse waiting for him, deciding to ignore her he walked straight passed her and went back into his bed.
"Orihara-san, where have you been?" The nurse was clearly not happy with what he had done, but there was no way he was going to tell her.
"I just went out!" He spat and saw the nurse flinch for a bit. "I'm fine, so just leave me alone!" The nurse clearly didn't know what to do and stood there, but then Shizuo came and placed a hand on her shoulder.
"Could you leave the two of us alone for a bit?" Shizuo asked nicely and then the nurse nodded and left the room. "Izaya, you realize that this is your own fault?" Shizuo said slowly and sat down in the chair beside the bed.
"As if, I was just bored!" Izaya snapped, but Shizuo didn't flinch.
"I know, but they're only trying to help you."
"With what? Making my condition worse? Keeping me locked in a room? I don't think so! I want to be able to go where I want to go. They said I would need to stay two weeks at the least, well, the two weeks are gone and I'm already going to three weeks, because the recovering isn't going fast enough!" Izaya yelled at the blonde.
If this had been the normal Izaya he would have already been yelling back, but he just answered calmly. "You have every right to be frustrated Izaya, but it is not good to keep it inside. If you really don't want to talk to anyone about this then you can talk to me, yell at me, whatever you want." Shizuo said, he had decided that if this was needed to get the flea back on his feet he was going to do it.
"But, Shizu-chan, you don't understand. I have always been able to move my body however I wanted, but now it isn't listening to me. It's doing unpredictable things and honestly that hurts my pride more than anything." The sad look in the raven's eyes was overwhelming and Shizuo almost felt like he would suffocate if he didn't look away. "What would people say if they knew how I was doing? My enemies would probably laugh at me, some would show pity and others would say that I deserved it."
"That's not true, there's no way they could think that you deserved this!" Shizuo said sternly.
"But isn't that true, Shizu-chan? You want me gone too right? This way you can get rid of me without doing anything." Izaya said and then looked away, he could already feel the tears in his eyes and there was no way he was going to show them to the blonde.
"Not like this, this is not something I want, I want to be able to chase you again and I will make sure of that." Shizuo said and then noticed that the shoulders of the raven were shaking. "Izaya?" Shizuo stood up from his chair and wanted to look in the raven's face, but he shook his head.
"Don't look!" Shizuo could hear the voice break and he knew what was happening. Sitting on the side of the bed, he slowly, but awkwardly pulled the raven in his arms. First he felt Izaya stiffen, but soon the raven relaxed a bit and started clutching his shirt while crying his heart out. Shizuo didn't know how long they would sit there, but he wasn't going to let go till the raven was ready for it.