Chapter 6:
"Karin-san. You ha-" Yuuhei stopped short as he saw Karin's hand stretching toward the hood of a black fur jacket.
"I am God…" She was still staring at the man with a puzzled expression plastered on her face; however she withdrew her hand on Yuuhei's interference.
"Orihara san?" asked Yuuhei, his face not showing the surprise, but his voice hinting just a tiny bit of it.
"O..orihara…orihara… iz..orihara Izaya.. I feel like I have heard this name before"
Had it been someone else and not Yuuhei, he would have definitely predicted the end of the world, as for the people of Ikebukuro, having no knowledge of Orihara Izaya is the same as having no knowledge about what their own self is. He was the infamous informant after all, the only informant who ambles through the streets so carelessly; the only informant who, to add to the misfortune of Ikebukuro's residents, doesn't value his life and pisses the shit out of the monster of Ikebukuro every once in a while and brings chaos to the city, and thus there was no way people of Ikebukuro would not know who the Orihara Izaya is.
But no, it was Yuuhei Hanejima, aka Kasuka Heiwajima, the younger brother of the monster of Ikebukuro, who is just too accustomed to hearing his brother blabber about how much he hates this damn flea and knows about the foreign nature of the woman in front of his eyes.
"Orihara Izaya, the one who brother calls as "flea"" he told.
"Ahh, that "damn-shitty-flea-always-pissing-me-off-and-jumping-around-like-the-shitty-flea-he-is-and-does-not-die-at-all guy"?" Karin asked, a little excitement showing its colors in her voice and her face as well.
Yuuhei stared at her, quite surprised at how she managed to sound those words as if they meant nothing.
He nodded, and turned to look at the black figure who still sat silent with his head bowed down, not saying anything at all throughout this whole chattering episode.
It wasn't like Izaya. Had it not been Shizuo's girlfriend he was facing, he would have loved to introduce himself in front of another one of his lovely, specially a foreign "human". In fact, he would be eager to introduce himself. But things were different this time, he didn't want to introduce himself as an informant he usually is, but rather as something else, something of much more value, something with much more power and influence, so that she won't dare messing with him and his Shizuo's life.
"I am the God", rather it was this fact he was more interested in letting the girl know about him.
"I never knew he was this silent type, I mean just look at him. He is just muttering "he is God" and just sitting over here?"
"May be we should let him be" Yuuhei suggested, doubting the informant's current mental state.
"He may need a therapist" he thought to himself and started to walk away.
But his steps paused midway; as a loud roar echoed from the house they both had just left, followed by a loud slamming sound.
Seeing this as his opportunity, Izaya got quickly on his feet and flipped the knife blade out, twisting Karin's arm, locking them behind her, and placing the blade against her bare throat.
Her eyes widened as a cluster of her brown hair flew right in front of her eyes and slowly fell onto the ground.
A chucked escaped Izaya's still covered face;
"Hahahaha Karin san, I am much more than an informant here. I am God, who controls and knows all." he pressed the knife more against her throat, until a little blood oozed out.
"Orihara san! You would not want to do this" said Yuuhei, with the same expression on his face.
The source of loud roar once again echoed; Shizuo bursting inside his home for some unknown reason.
"KARIIIIIN!" The yell sounded, as clear and loud as it has been whenever Shizuo called Izaya's name during the chase.
Izaya's grip loosened for a while, a little astonished at the loud and the clamorous tone that Shizuo's voice held, it was the same, exactly the same as it has always been when Shizuo yelled his name into the streets of Ikebukuro.
Karin benefitted herself from this little opening and stomped on his foot and elbowed his stomach, gaining a groan of pain from his mouth. Before wasting another moment, she swiftly moved around and caught the hand that was holding the knife, twisted it and turned it so as now the blade's tip was pressed against Izaya's throat.
Izaya stood, motionless, for no one had ever really managed to escape from him so easily, astonished for he has never spaced out this much during a battle.
She smirked,
"God or not, never dare to pick on Karin Nanjo, a pro martial arts trainer, ever in your life. You would lose it."
"I am going to check what's wrong with brother." Saying this, Yuuhei went inside the house, leaving the two dangerously engulfed people in a yet more dangerous fight, all alone.
Izaya wanted to spit, too disgusted at himself for he was getting easily snubbed into a corner by a woman; a woman who wasn't even an Ikebukuro resident.
He curved his lips once again into a smirk just as wide as hers. He is God here who controls all and not vice versa, he is not going to lose to her. He needs to control, and he will do it no matter what.
"You seem pretty good at this"
"Heh... Obviously I am. I am a professional after all." She said, turning her head just a bit to see the face that hid under the shadows of the hood.
Izaya lowered it more, not wanting her to see his face but just his curved lips.
"KARIIIN!" the yell came again, much louder and much closer this time, and next moment the source of the voice, Shizuo, busted into the scene, shoving a fur ball onto their face in pure rage.
"THIS FUCKING DOG HAS GOT DAMN FLEAS IN ITS FUR AND ITS FUCKING THE SHIT OUT OF ME AND REMINDS ME OF TH-" he paused in middle, taken aback at the scene in front of his eyes.
Izaya's face hidden by his hood, a blade pressed against his throat, a tuft of Karin's hair on ground, a slight line of blood running across Karin's throat, both figures suddenly motionless and surprised at Shizuo's sudden arrival, their eyes turned and staring at him.
"flea" murmured Izaya.
"What?! This puppy has no fleas whatsoever Shizuo!" said Karin, withdrawing her hands from Izaya and aiming her attention wholly at the little puppy that Shizuo held so cruelly in his hands.
"Flea… what are you doing here?" Shizuo asked, tossing the puppy onto Karin, making a face that said "I don't want more fleas in my life"
Izaya's body jiggled, his shoulder trembled.
He acknowledged me, he is talking to me.
Shizuo's brow twitched,
"Let me guess, you already know, don't you?" asked Shizuo, already knowing the know-it-all informant would know about his departure already.
"Of course, of course Shizu chan, I am surprised you have got yourself such a lovely and yet powerful girlfriend. It was sooo surprise to know you two are going on a honey moon so soon! Bikkurishita bikkurishta" said Izaya, his voice seeped in flout and pure mock. Yes, it was painful for him to say the word "girlfriend" in front of Shizuo; and much more painful to say the latter lines, for deep in his heart he was still not accepting it.
Shizuo turned his gaze from Izaya towards the brown haired woman on the ground, cuddling a puppy against her.
"Tch.. Karin. He has fleas! The damn fleas, you should just throw him away"
"Oh shut up Shizuo, we can't just let him go just because he has fleas. He would be lonely once again."
"What lonely? You just picked him up off the street; he would definitely have some friends out there on the streets"
"LOOK AT HIS WOUND, SHIZUO! YOU CAN'T CAST HIM ASIDE AT ALL!"
"WE CAN'T TAKE HIM WITH US EITHER, KARIN! IT HAS FUCKING FLEAS AND NO ONE WOULD EVER LET US PASS THROUGH AIRPORT SECURTIY WITH A BAG OF FUR TEEMED WITH FLEAS!" Shizuo yelled back, ignoring the presence of another flea in his balcony, as if his existence no longer mattered.
Izaya stood and watched the scene playing in front of him. Shizuo saw him, Shizuo acknowledged his presence, then Shizuo turned to his girlfriend again, didn't even denying whatever Izaya has said about honeymoon and started talking to her about the fleas that her little pup held as if whatever he said didn't matter at all to him.
D-does it mean…
Izaya shook his head slightly, this cannot be happening.
It's not possible for her to snatch his role as "flea" and replace him in Shizuo's life. Did she bring a dog with fleas just so she could make Shizuo forget who the real flea has been in his life for the past ten years? But… But why Shizuo too? Did these fleas manage to piss him enough to make him forget how much chaos he has created in his life? Did he really forget how 99% of the bad things that were happening in Ikebukuro were actually Izaya's, the real flea's fault? Am I no longer the only flea that Shizuo had in his life? Am I no longer the only flea capable enough to pester Shizuo's life?
Damn… this Karin bitch is replacing my Flea-role too! DAMN DAMN DAMN!"
Izaya opened his mouth to speak, to say something in protest, to make Shizuo pay attention to the flea standing in front of him again, but his lips were trembling and the words refused to come out.
It was stupid of Izaya to be thinking like this, too irrational for his overly intellectual and noetic mind. He couldn't believe how much possessive he was being about this flea-role. Rather than thinking about how Shizuo didn't deny the honeymoon part, he was much more focused and troubled about the flea-part.
He stared at the little dirty grey-colored pup, a sudden bubble of feelings emerging in his chest, the feelings people usually term as jealousy. He was jealous of not only his girlfriend, but this pup as well, the pup that held flea in his fur. His hands were itching, the blade flipping in and out, in and out, in and out. His lips still stitched, but his legs ready to charge.
Tch.. I can't be as irrational as to kill a pup out of jealousy!
Izaya thought, wincingly. He was too disappointed at himself. Ever since he heard about this Karin bitch; he had not been his usual self. He was failing at various things; he was having various feelings in his insides. He knew what these feelings were, for he had studied the human nature in his entire life. But no, he is not a human. He shouldn't be having these stupid girly jealousy feelings at all. Out of all, being jealous of the fleas in a pup's fur was the most disoriented and abnormal thought that has ever popped up in his mind. This is just too illogical, not even his beloved human would feel this way.
"Oi Izaya!"
Shizuo's voice jerked him out of his mental battle against himself; he looked at him, and blinked.
Shizuo was holding the pup in his hand like a little dirty rag, his face scrunched and his eyes glaring,
"Since you are the shitty flea here, so you better have this pup full of shitty fleas as well." He shoved the pup in Izaya's arm.
He was too surprised at Shizuo's closeness; his heart had already skipped a beat or two at Shizuo's nearness. And just when he called him "the shitty flea", his heart soared.
Fuck...fuck! I am being too irrational again! It's nothing of being so happy about, you idiot.
Izaya stared at him, with the pup in his arms.
Shizuo smirked,
"Good, seems you don't have any trouble with this since you are just as shitty and damned as the fleas inside its fur. You two will be happy together"
Izaya snapped out of his temporary catalepsy at the "happy together" part, and let the pup go, a sudden anger replacing the little happiness he had just felt for a brief moment.
"I am not the fucking flea here, you can have this shitty pup with you whatsoever and enjoy your fucking honeymoon with the shitty fleas spread all over your bed!" yelled Izaya, still as jealous as he was before. He turned and started to stomp off; with a little hope in his heart that Shizuo may call out to him, or hit him or punch him or something like he always did.
But Shizuo just stared at him, a little too astonished at what Izaya had just said.
"H-he… he thinks we are going on a honeymoon…" said Karin, holding the pup once again in her arms.
"M-Mhmm" was what came out of Shizuo's tightened lips as reply. He raised his hand to scratch the back of his head in utter confusion and watched the black figure walk away.
Here is the new chapter, hope you would enjoy. well yah Karin is Shizuo's gf but something else is involved too. Things would reveal soon in the upcoming chapters as i am kinda lazy to write loong chapters -_-" So till then, let me know whether you are liking the current progress or not :)
Thanks to Rimmilim, SleepyMorning, Glitterbaby's Girl, Mizuno Aoi for reviewing and to those too who are following my story. Such acts are always appreciated, since they give me courage to continue the story~