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Shizuo stood, completely confused looking from his best friend who was pointing an accusing finger at the small raven to the said raven who was sleeping undisturbed, curled up in Shizuo's arms. He just couldn't wrap his head around that to make it understandable.
"Shinra, are you sure?"
"Of course I'm sure they gave me pictures! Shizuo he's dangerous. He needs to be taken back to the lab where he belongs and where they can monitor his actions." Shinra yelled out waving his finger around.
Shizuo looked at sleeping Izaya one more time; "Come on Shinra, are you sure? The guy's practically a puppy; he bounced almost all the way here. There's nothing dangerous about him."
"Shizuo, he is highly unstable. He could kill you at any given moment." Shinra yelled persistently.
"He acts like a three year old."
"I know, I spent all night reading about that thing that killed my father. Look, just listen too me. My dad made him for Mr. Yagiri of Yagiri pharmaceuticals. Mr. Yagiri placed and order for, shall we say a live doll for his niece. They kidnapped the kid, but make it look like he was carried of by waves and his "body" was naturally never found. In the meantime, they used and extract of Saika…"
"Saika?" Shizuo tilted his head confused.
"Saika is an ancient sword that loves humans*. The extract made the boy dependent on feeling of love. Then they trained him to be a perfect little pet and Mr. Yagiri gifted him away to his niece. But six months ago, something…went wrong, and Saika started to act on its own, using him to kill and hurt people. My father was just at the end of extracting the last bit of Saika out of him when he got killed. Now they called me in to continue his job."
Shizuo blinked rapidly, his eyes traveling from the sleeping raven to the underground doctor; "Shinra…I have no idea what you mean by that."˝
Shinra sighed, his hand traveling up to his forehead, pressing away the upcoming headache; "Come on Shizuo, I explained it in the simplest way possible. I didn't even use any medical references or named any experiments my father and the other doctors made."
"I know, I get it…I just can't believe it. He is just so…."
"Innocent? The drugs they gave him stopped him for growing emotionally and on parts mentally. He loves like a five year old child he was when this all started." Shinra reasoned approaching Shizuo and putting his hand on Izaya's face. Izaya reacted immediately, leaning his head closer to the source of the warmth. Shinra smiled slightly; "I have to say, considering everything, he is quite a marvelous experiment. I wish I knew about him sooner. When I wasn't emotionally evolved into this."
Shizuo looked at his friend. He knew Shinra from way back and he was always kind of weird. But could he really be interested in doing to hurting a person the way Izaya was hurt. Shizuo didn't know everything, but he saw the way Izaya acted. He was so bubbly when they met, like he thought that some random stranger couldn't harm him, like it wasn't important if he harms Izaya. Izaya acted clingy and way to hyper for his age, and then when Shizuo almost hit him…Izaya was submissive, meek. He accepted the fact that he was to be punished even though he did nothing to deserve it, well except from being annoying. Izaya was loyal, he saw that in the way he wanted to find that girl named Namie so bad, but he just dismissed it as a childish crush. According to what Shinra said Izaya may as well really think he loves that girl, Shizuo would bet anything that Namie was the niece for who Izaya was designed for too. Shizuo felt mad. How could anybody do that to a child, Izaya was only five when that happened, who knows how he felt when he was ripped away from his family and friends. Shizuo's grasp on Izaya hardened as he felt a need to protect the younger boy. He also wanted to know what happened to him in detail.
"You said you read about him?" he asked, hugging the smaller one closer to his obvious pleasure.
"Uh? Yes, I got his files in my room." Shinra said looking at Shizuo again.
"Do you mind if I take a look while you are fixing him up?"
Shinra sighed, eyeing the raven and Shizuo knew that he won't miss a chance to work at least a bit on the peculiar raven; "Okay, the fills are on my bed, leave him on the table."
Shizuo nodded and did as told then venturing to Shinra's bedroom; "Oh and Shinra."
"What?"
"No dissecting."
"I wasn't gona!"
"Yeah right." Shizuo chuckled and closed the doors behind him, sitting on Shinra's bed and taking the fills.
Shinra was right. He did make it sound simple. Fills were full of medical phrases and Shizuo had to really turn on his attention to actually figure out what was it about. After an hour of examining the fills and various photographs that did indeed future the small raven, Shizuo sighed and walked away from it. He couldn't believe what he now knew. How can someone do something like that to a child? How can someone be so cruel?
"Shizu-chan, Shizu-chan, look at me! I'm all better now, see!"
He was met with a bouncing brunet who jumped up on him, hooking his arms around Shizuo's neck to hang on the taller male, giggling all the way.
"Yeah, you look better." He said, ruffling the raven's hair.
"Are we going to find Namie now? You promised remember?" Izaya laughed.
Shizuo sighed and seated Izaya back down on the nearby couch. Izaya looked up at him, instinctively knowing that something is wrong. Izaya tilted his head as Shizuo knelt down on his eyelevel, obviously wanting to tell him something.
"Is something wrong Shizu-chan?"
"Izaya do you really want to go back to…Namie."
"Of course I do, I love Namie!" Izaya chirped, a bit confused by Shizuo's question.
"But Izaya you are surely aware of what she and her family did to you."
"Yeah…"
"Well then why do you want to go back?"
Izaya smiled sadly; "I have to Shizu-chan. I have to because I love Namie and I can't stand being away from her. I know that I had a family and I know that Mr. Yagiri took me away from them, but I have a new family now. I have Namie, Namie does love me, I know she does."
Shizuo sighed taking Izaya's hands into his, rubbing small wrists with his fingers; "Izaya are you sure."
"Mhm! I love Namie, Shizu-chan. And even if she never loves me the way I love her I will always be by her side."
"Izaya, I don't know about this, what if…"
"Shizuo, can you come over here for a second?" Shinra voiced out and Shizuo sighed, ruffling Izaya's hair once more and following Shinra to his room.
As soon as they were out of raven's earshot, Shinra started talking; "I think you should let him go."
Shizuo was surprised, to say at least; "Shinra, I can't do that, they used him don't you get it! That idiot has no way of defending himself. You said that mentally he is still just a child."
"Shizuo, you are the one who doesn't understand. Izaya is dependent of his master. If he is unable to interact and receive attention from Namie Yagiri he will fall into a depression and eventually die from starving himself or something along those lines. He is completely unable to function right with a thought that he will never see her again. He needs her Shizuo."
"They'll just experiment on him again."
"No they won't. If they were they wouldn't hire me to cure him in the first place. I have his brain scans here and I'm sure that I can help him. I've noticed where my father went wrong. I'll cure him so he can never kill anyone again."
"Are you sure you can do that?"
"Of course I can. Of course it will take time for his brain to adapt from Saika missing and the fact that he has no need in being clingy anymore, but from what I can see he's been trained to be adaptable so that shouldn't be too much of a problem. He needs to go home Shizuo and believe it or not that is his home."
Shinra finished and watched his friend closely for a reaction. He knew that Shizuo could get over protective over weaker people who've been treated cruelly but he also understood the need of getting Izaya back home. That was actually only thing that Shinra could do to get over his fathers death. He needed to destroy the monster that killed him. Izaya wasn't the monster but Saika was.
"It's the right thing to do Shizuo."
"Yeah, I know. Heh, I sound like a kid who just got talked into giving away some dog he found on the street."
"I'll call Namie Yagiri to come and pick him up and you go tell him." Shinra said trailing to the phone as Shizuo left the room.
Shizuo was quite surprised when he saw Izaya happily chatting with Celty as if the fact that she did not have a head did not affect him at all. Of course what Shizuo didn't know was that Izaya spent twelve years of his life around the same head that Celty was missing and in search off. Izaya saw strange things and he did not mind Celty at all.
"Good news Izaya. Shinra is calling Namie to come over and pick you up."
"Yey I get to see Namie again! Thank you Shizu-chan, thank you, thank you, thank you!" the raven cheered before his face turned worried; "But what if she doesn't want me back Shizu-chan! What if she is angry at me and hates me and leaves me all alone!"
Shizuo sighed, patting ravens head. Shinra was right, Izaya did need Namie. He was here, practically having a panic attack from mere thought of Namie leaving him.
"I'm sure she's wants you back Izaya."
"You think so?"
"Yeah, who wouldn't want a puppifide human by their side?" Shizuo snide but Izaya missed the sarcasm by a mile.
"Thank you Shizu-chan~."
Shizuo just patted the younger one on his head again and sat down, tuning in Celty's and Izaya's conversation about Sushi. It wasn't long after and the door bell went off, having Izaya bouncing up and down in sheer excitement, chanting the girl's name as Shinra unlocked the door and Shizuo saw Namie Yagiri, the girl who owned an incredibly loyal human, for the first time in his life.
"Namie!" Izaya piped out, almost knocking the couch over as he bounced over it to reach her, hugging her like he haven't seen her in decades, which was true if you counted on Izaya time.
"Oh Izaya, I was so worried! Are you okay? Now why would you run away from me?" the girl hugged him back tightly and Izaya dug his head in her hair, practically drowning himself in her sweet scent.
"I'm sorry Namie, I tried to find you and then I got lost but Shizu-chan found me and sawed me. Shizu-chan is a super hero Namie!"
Namie laughed, looking at Shizuo from where she stood with a raven all wrapped around her; "A super hero huh?"
"Yup!"
"Well I'm glad I got you back. I need you to promise me that next time I leave you someplace you will not try to escape, alright Izaya."
"But I missed you, I missed you a lot." Izaya wailed but Namie gave him a strict look which stopped Izaya complaints in their roots..
"Okay Namie. I promise. Never, ever again."
"That's right Izaya, I need to know where you are so I know you're not in danger. I know you'll be good."
"Yes I will Namie! Yes I will!"
"Who's my good boy?"
"I am, I am! Izaya is!"
"Yes you are. Now go on, wait for me outside for a second, I need to speak to your friends a bit."
"Okay! Bye Shizu-chan, bye Shinra, bye Celty!" Izaya cheered as he skipped out of the apartment.
Namie looked after him for a second, before closing the door to make sure he can't hear them and turned to the three occupants of the apartment, her face strict and void of emotions, complete opposite from the calm, loving face she showed around Izaya.
"I believe that I don't have to tell you that none of this is to be repeated in the public and that if you do that I'll send my uncle's men after you."
Shizuo twitched at the treating tone and was surprised by Shinra's calm answer.
"Why, of course Miss. Yagiri, none of this shall leave this room."
"Good. I believe that you mentioned that you found a way to extract the rest of the Saika out of him."
"I have. I'll start tomorrow, it shouldn't take me long, it's just a small fluke."
"Very good. Good bye then."
And with that Namie Yagiri walked away, leaving everyone just a bit uneasy. Izaya was patiently waiting for her at the entrance and skipped after her as she walked home.
"Hey Namie, can I visit Shizu-chan sometimes?" the boy cheered as he skipped next to her.
"No." Namie just like her uncle decided to cut that fantasy in its roots.
"But why? He is my friend." Izaya wailed, not understanding why he was not allowed to visit his friend.
"He is not your friend Izaya."
"But…"
"Izaya, did you perhaps not hear me." She turned around and Izaya winced under her cold gaze. Why was Namie mad at him?
"If I say no, that means no, do you understand that Izaya!"
"Yes, Namie." Izaya whispered in defeat, his gaze dropping down.
Namie sighed and tipped his head up, meeting his eyes; "Look Izaya, I'm doing this to protect you okay. This is for your own good, you have to trust me."
Izaya nodded and hugged her, burying his head in her shoulder, mumbling softly; "I trust you Namie."
Author's notes: Blargh I just disappointed myself with this chapter, I could have done soooooo much more! I suck~
Oh well you and I are going to have to live with it.
Thank you RetroSlashTrack for your info on Shizuo's big brother complex (lolololol)
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*Don't you just love how a sentence like that is said so casually in Drrr universe~