A/N: Chapter 16 is here. 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!

The physiotherapist had left way too quickly if you asked him, but Izaya knew that wasn't true. Her having left meant that he was closer to the time when his sisters would come and he honestly didn't want to meet his sisters while he was like this.

They would probably make fun of him or accuse him of not telling them sooner. Why had he even agreed to let them come here? He should have never called yesterday, he shouldn't have even started about the fact that he had two younger sisters. This wouldn't have happened if he had just kept his mouth shut.

How was he even going to explain this? He hadn't told them anything about what happened over the past months and now he was suddenly going to have to explain all that? They would definitely try to use it against him, he just knew.

"Izaya?" But he didn't listen, he was too far away in his thoughts. They had never cared about him, so why would they care now? They were ready to give him to Shizuo just so that they could meet Yuhei. They would easily give him up as long as it meant they could meet Yuhei, so why would they care if he told them he had had brain cancer? It was even gone, which meant that they didn't even need to worry and they would probably think that way too.

"Izaya!" This time he got shaken too and when he focused back he got a bit of a blurry image, but he recognized the blonde locks as those of Shizuo. He squinted his eyes a bit, trying to sharpen the image and realized that he wasn't wearing his glasses. "Izaya! Why are you not responding?" The blonde sounded a little desperate and Izaya blinked a few times, realizing he still hadn't said anything.

"I was lost in thought, Shizu-chan." He mumbled and then fumbled around with his hands trying to find the glasses. He must have dropped them somewhere.

"Here," Shizuo said and handed him the glasses. "You took them off remember?" Izaya blinked at that a bit surprised. Had he really taken them off without himself realizing it?

"Thanks." Izaya said and put the glasses on.

"What were you thinking about?" Shizuo suddenly asked and Izaya turned to face him.

"My sisters. I don't know if this is a good idea." He mumbled as an answer.

"Don't worry, it will be fine." Shizuo tried, but Izaya didn't believe him.

"How can you know that? They have never cared, so why should they care now?" This time he almost yelled the words at the blonde. He was frustrated and that was still an understatement. "How do you expect they will react when they find out I can't use my legs? They will probably laugh at me, there's no way they would show sympathy for me!" He was yelling by now. "They won't care, they will just laugh." He continued, but then started sobbing. Tears started streaming down his face. "Nobody… Nobody ever… cared." He said through sobs.

"That's not true, I care and so do Celty and Shinra." Shizuo tried, but Izaya shook his head.

"That's not… true." He didn't want to believe it, there was no way anyone cared. "Everyone is just doing it out of pity." Izaya mumbled, but still burried his face in the blonde's shoulder.

"Izaya, look at me." Shizuo said while he slowly lifted the raven's face by his chin. "I care, I really do and it's not out of pity." Izaya could see a blush appearing on the blonde's face. "It's because… of something else…" Izaya's eyes widened when he realized what the blonde meant.

Izaya felt his heart beating faster while he looked up to the blonde. Did the blonde really mean what he said? As if to confirm it, the blonde lowered his head and soon Izaya could feel the blonde's lips on his own. At first he was shocked, not really knowing how to react, but soon he closed his eyes and kissed the blonde back softly.

Izaya didn't want to break the kiss yet, but the blonde broke it before he could voice his complaints. "Do you understand?" Izaya could only nod, still a bit dazed from the kiss. He didn't dare asking what this meant for their relationship, afraid of what the answer might be.

An awkward silence fell between them and Izaya didn't look at the blonde. He wanted to confirm what just happened, but he didn't dare ask.

"Don't worry about your sisters." Was the first thing the blonde said to break the silence. "I will be there, so it will be fine." Izaya wanted to believe him, but he still had his doubts. He knew how his sisters could be and he couldn't really see them caring about him.

"I don't know, Shizu-chan." Izaya answered honestly and looked at the blonde. "I hope you're right, but it's hard to believe." Izaya said and then his phone started ringing.

Grabbing the phone he saw that it was Mairu who was calling. "Hello?" Izaya started when he picked up the call.

"Iza-nii, we're here and are on our way to room 305, so make sure to come too." Izaya sighed, knowing he had no choice now.

"I will be there in a bit, just go to the room and tell him who you are and he will understand." Izaya said and then hung up before they could say anything more.

"Seems like I have no choice." Izaya said and looked at Shizuo a bit nervous. "Never thought I would be nervous to see my sisters." Izaya mumbled and looked up when Shizuo held his jacket out for him.

"Here, wear this and then we can go." Izaya nodded and grabbed his jacket before putting it on slowly. Once he was done Shizuo had already gotten a blanket and the wheelchair was closer to the bed now. "Do you want to try yourself or should I lift you into it?"

The physiotherapist had told him this morning to try and get into the wheelchair himself if he felt up to it, so it was no wonder that Shizuo was asking it now.

"Sure, just make sure to catch me if I fall." He knew he needed to train his arms to be able to carry his weight, since it would be needed to start walking again and this was something to start with.

Izaya pushed the button to lower the bed just above the wheelchair, so that it would be easy to get from one to the other. He pulled the blankets aside and then first grabbed his left leg and helped it over the edge, before grabbing his right leg and helping that one over the edge too. Now there was the next thing that would be harder. He checked if the wheelchair had the brakes on and then he put his hands on the sides of the wheelchair, before slowly pushing himself up with as much strength as he could muster, but clearly it wasn't enough, since as soon as he had lifted himself his arms started shaking, but before they could give out he felt two strong arms wrap around him and placing him in the wheelchair.

"You did well coming that far yourself." He heard Shizuo say, but he felt like he had just failed. He had wanted his arms to be able to carry him, but clearly they weren't strong enough yet.

"I had hoped my arms could carry me." Izaya mumbled and looked at his lap, where the blonde placed the blanket he had gotten.

"You will get stronger, it just takes time." Shizuo said and lifted the raven's face, so Izaya was looking at him. "We will be doing this together alright?" A small nod came from Izaya. "Good. Now let's get this sister-thing over with." Izaya couldn't help but smile at the comment and let Shizuo take him out of his room.

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Once they arrived at the room, the door was open and loud voices could be heard coming from inside. Clearly his sisters were already there. He felt Shizuo pause for a moment and he looked up to see the blonde looking at him as if to ask if he was ready. A small nod and the blonde pushed him inside the room.

Inside the room, they could see Haru sitting on the bed, with the twins around him and showing him all kinds of things about Hanejima Yuhei.

Izaya should have known that they would take those things with them to show the boy. "Are you enjoying this Haru-kun?" Izaya decided to ask with a smirk and he could see the boy looking at him as if asking for help.

His sisters had stopped talking as soon as they heard his voice and they were now both looking at him and then at the person who had come in with him.

"Iza-nii? What is Shizuo-san doing with you?" Mairu was the first to say something.

"He just helped me get here." Izaya gave as an answer. His sisters stayed silence and were now looking at him again. He felt a bit uncomfortable with them looking at him like that. He knew that it would only be a matter of time before they would start asking questions about why he needed the help from Shizuo and of course questions about why he was here and what was wrong.

"Iza-nii? ...Wrong?"(Iza-nii? What's wrong?) Kururi had been the first one to dare ask a question and Izaya was opening his mouth to answer when Mairu started asking questions too.

"Iza-nii? Why are you here? What happened? Did Shizuo-san do something? Are you going to die?" The last one hurt. She kept saying it in her enthusiastic voice of asking questions and that meant that the last one was said in the same tone too.

"I'm not dying any longer." Was the only answer he dared to give.

"What do you mean?" But he didn't answer, just ignored her look at her. "Iza-nii? Tell us! We want to know!" She sounded more desperate.

"And what are you going to do when you know? Just laugh at my face? As if you would even care!" He couldn't help but yell at them. Izaya grabbed the wheels himself this time and tried to turn around, but failed, since the blanket fell off his lap and caught on one of the wheels. Frustrated he tried to grab the blanket, only to lose his balance and fall out of the chair before Shizuo could catch him on time. The blonde hadn't been expecting him to act like this, so he had been stiffened for a moment and had been too late to react.

Izaya hit the floor in frustration with his fist. Why was this happening to him? Izaya felt helpless when he said there on the floor, knowing he wouldn't be able to get up without help, but there was no way he was going to ask for it.

Suddenly he felt small hands grabbing his arms and trying to lift him, but they didn't succeed until two strong arms grabbed him from behind and then lifted him back into the chair. Now that he was back sitting in the wheelchair he could see that the two who had been trying to help him were Mairu and Kururi.

"Iza-nii…" He heard Kururi say first.

"Iza-nii, you don't need to tell us if you don't want to, but we want to know, we are your sisters after all." Mairu tried and Izaya took a deep breath, maybe it was fine to tell them.

"It's fine." He mumbled. "Thanks for trying to help me." He could see the surprised look on their faces. This must have been the first time he had thanked them.

"Iza-nii thanked us?" He could hear Mairu in a way too happy voice, but when he glared at her she shut her mouth.

"I will tell you, but don't you dare laugh or anything like that." He growled for a bit and when both girls nodded he had to take a deep breath before starting. "In september of last year, I was diagnosed with brain cancer, since then I have been receiving treatment and have had two surgeries." He started. "The tumor has been completely removed and the treatment has stopped too, I'm rehabilitating as they would like to call it." He said and then knew that they wanted to know what happened to his legs too. "Just before my second surgery my legs stopped working and now I'm working with a physiotherapist to get to work again, but up to now I haven't made much progress yet and she told me that it would take months before I would be able to even walk again." Izaya kept quiet after this, Shizuo could tell them why he was helping him, there was no way he was going to tell that.

"Iza-nii, why didn't you tell us?" Mairu started and he could see Kururi nodding.

"I didn't want you to pity me or act nice out of pity." He said and looked at his lap, not really wanting to face the two.

Suddenly he felt two pairs of arms wrap around him and he looked up surprised. "We would never pity you, Izay-nii." Mairu was the one saying it all, but he knew Kururi meant the same.

The both of them stopped hugging him after a while and then looked to Shizuo. "Why are you helping Iza-nii." Izaya was happy that the question was asked to Shizuo.

"Ah… How should I say this…" Shizuo was clearly fumbling with his words and Izaya knew he must be blushing. "I kind of have feelings for him." This was said a lot softer, but the two still heard it.

"You mean the two of you are dating?" Oh great, now they thought that.

"We haven't decided on that yet, Mairu." He said stopping the girl from asking more questions. "Haru-kun, sorry for all the commotion." Izaya told the boy, but he shook his head.

"It's fine, your sisters are quite special." Izaya knew he didn't mean it in a good way, but he couldn't help but smirk at him.

"If you ever want to date one of them I wish you luck." He could see the boy get flustered and his smirk only grew. "You have my permission, since I know you're a good guy."

"Iza-nii! Don't try to couple us with someone already!" Mairu suddenly yelled.

"Why not? He's a good boy and smart too." The last thing was true and he knew that Haru would be able to handle the twins. "Shizu-chan, let's leave the three of them alone, they might want to be left alone." Izaya was still smirking and Shizuo started smirking too. Shizuo gave him the blanket and Izaya put it on his lap, before the blonde grabbed the handles and started wheeling him out.

"Have fun you three!" With that they left the three teenagers in the room.