-๑-๑ஜ ๑- Chapter 8: The scientific unit -๑ஜ ๑-๑-
-Shizuo´s point of view.-
"Ready to get introduced to the rest of the members?"
Having reached the dorms once again the blond was only left to blink in surprise at the question. He had just been about to open the door when Izaya asked those words.
The rest of the members?
"I thought they all died on missions?" he asked, being pretty damn sure that they had just more than only talked about that topic, but the raven was merely shaking his head.
"Those that stayed behind didn't of course." The door was opened and the raven slipped past him, heading to the right of the corridor behind it.
More members?
… Somehow that revelation put the blond off. It was weird because, shouldn't he be glad there were more people here that knew a thing or two about the titans and could help maybe? But no, instead he found himself almost… being annoyed by that.
He thought Izaya was the only one to-
No, nevermind.
Shaking his head really hard the blond chose away the thought that was almost surfacing in his mind.
No, the more people the better.
Following the flea quickly, the door slipped shut behind them taking away the few rays of light that had managed to illuminate the hallway.
A pleasant smell was suddenly starting to fill the blond´s nose and curiosity was taking the best of him. The flea was already up ahead, a door being at the end of the corridor. His hand was resting on the door handle as he turned around with a grin.
"You ready?"
To be honest the blond didn't know whether he was. This was the first time he heard about recruiters staying behind from missions, he always thought they left as a whole group.
What kind of people were they going to be?
His question was answered sooner than he thought it would be- because the moment the flea opened the door he was facing nothing but chaos-
"Kishitani-sensei one disappeared beneath the shelf!"
"Beneath the shelf?!"
"Beneath the table too!"
"AHH IT'S HERE-!"
Chaos. Utter chaos, really Shizuo wouldn't have had a better word to describe the scene. Kadota, Yumasaki and Erika were running around in circles bumping into each other every now and then- baskets and towels were at hands- A guy seemed to be crawling beneath the table as an audible bump followed by a curse lifted the whole thing for a second.
And then there was one more dude clothed entirely in white, a mask on his face, doing squats in the back of the room while swinging flags with the letter "go for it" on them-
"I saw one run that way!" Karisawa was shouting when her eyes finally fell on the two standing in the door frame.
"Ah- Izaya~!" The moment she mentioned the two Yumasaki rushed over to the two, "Close the door!"
*Bam*
Barely having been able to avoid the shutting door slamming into him the blond had quickly stepped aside.
"Karisawa? What's going on here?" Izaya was the first to question that as this whole scenario seemed like one huge chaos.
"We met this strange doctor here on his way down to the laboratories and he carried this huge cage filled with mice," Karisawa explained, her eyes eagerly searching the ground again. "He said they were going to be used for scientific purposes."
It was then that something fluffy and cute rushed right between her feet making the girl shriek-
The raven sighed, rubbing his temples.
"Let me guess, he somehow let them free?" Honestly- there he was one time hoping for his team to appear at least somewhat sane and then he got this.
"How did you know?" Karisawa grinned already on to catch the escapees.
"I'm confused-" Shizuo announced, making the raven sigh again. "I would be too if i were you," he mumbled almost inaudibly as he walked over to the strange guy in his laboratory coat.
"Let me introduce you, this is Shingen Kishitani, leading operator of the scientific unit," he explained, pointing at the guy in white.
The doctor stopped doing his weird gymnastics to twist and look at the blond.
"Oh- are you the new one?" Shizuo cringed, that guy was so weird, he sent chills down his back, not of fear but just… he didn't know. If he didn't know it better he would say the guy was grinning beneath his mask. "I heard about that strength of yours~" he chirped on, passing Izaya so he could shuffle over to Shizuo taking a close up look at him before suddenly leaning up to his ear. "Ne ne can you do me a favor?" The blond already backed away at the way he whispered into his ear. And suddenly he saw something silver, something long and sharp and-
"What?" Suddenly there was a needle at his arm-
"Give me your blood." The doctor didn't even have time to shriek that´s how fast the punch had met his face and sent him flying into the opposing wall of the room. The blond was heaving completely bewildered and just- what the hell?!
"Now that was one direct answer~!" the guy laughed while peeling himself out of that wall.
"What the hell is wrong with this guy?!" the blond barked, checking his arm if that retard had actually managed to sting him.
"As you might have guessed he has a few screws loose up there," Izaya merely shrugged, seeming as though this was not the first time he saw something like this happening.
"Which leads me to his son and second head in charge-" Izaya announced further crouching down onto the floor as he glanced beneath the huge table in the middle of the room.
And suddenly there was another guy, coming forth from the desk. Glasses hanging loosely from his face and dust collecting on his knees.
"Ah did you bring the new one Izaya?" That voice-
"May I introduce you to this guy here," Izaya said, pointing towards the guy who was now looking at Shizuo. "Shinra Kishitani. He is part of my team as well."
No way in hell.
"Shinra?!" No mistake, that white coat, those glasses it had been years and yet-
"Shizuo~! Damn it's been long hasn't it?"
A surprised expression decorated the raven´s face as he looked back and forth between the crazy scientist and the brute.
"What you know him?"
"How do you know him?" Shizuo fired back, obviously just as surprised as the raven- the only one not seeming all that surprised was Shinra actually.
"Shinra is our main investigator of titans. He dissects them, studies them, tries to find to how they work and why they eat us," Izaya explained to the blond, revealing how the two were connected.
"After I left Shiganshina I transferred to wall Maria, Shizuo and me went to the same school for a while," Shinra grinned in delight, he was obviously pretty damn happy seeing the both of them here. "remember how I wanted to introduce a friend to you?" he questioned making the blond frown for a second before blinking in realization- right.
There was one time the brunette kept bugging him about having to meet someone. They never got the chance to though actually.
"The asshole?" he asked, remembering quite well how Shinra had only talked ill about that friend of his.
Eagerly nodding the brunette grinned while getting up from the ground to wipe the dust of his coat and adjust his glasses properly.
"Yeah, that was Izaya, but obviously he never had time to drop by so you never actually did meet."
"Shinra how come you address me so defile when I´m not around?" the raven questioned with a raised eyebrow.
"It's not like I address you any better when you are around though~"
Ahh, somehow there was this nostalgic feeling overwhelming the blond for a tiny moment. Ever since Wall Maria broke nothing had been the same, but now that he saw Shinra here, the same happy chirpy crazy Shinra he used to know he felt as though he was set back in time.
He couldn't help but smile at the way Shinra seemed to not only drive him insane but also the flea.
"So basically we are all friends now right?" the brunette announced, making both, Izaya and Shizuo look at each other in what seemed to be a perfect agreement.
"I wouldn't exactly call us friends Shinra."
it was then that the door they had entered the room from opened again. A guy was standing there, a scar across his eye raising an eyebrow at the chaos still going on inside the room.
"What´s going on here again?" he questioned as Karisawa dashed by with her basket jumping at whatever she had seen on the ground.
"Akabayashi-san, it's rare for you to visit," Izaya announced, shuffling over to the man.
The blond scanned the man from head to toe. He seemed more collected than the rest of the crazy crew, that was for sure. Maybe he was someone from the upper heads? the way he behaved and looked at all of them made him feel as though he was- especially the way Izaya seemed to respect the man. He hadn't particularly seen anyone yet the raven actually paid respects to.
"I heard of the stunt you pulled at the recruiting exam- is this the guy?" the man suddenly asked, looking towards Shizuo. A staff was to his left, supporting him with each step he took. It made the blond frown a bit as he wondered just what had caused the man to get injured. maybe he had been in the survey corps too? Maybe he survived barely and this was just another injury left from the titans?
"Heard you can't use the gear at all boy," the man spoke, now facing the blond from a close distance.
"Ah… yeah," the blond mumbled. He was kinda speechless, what was he supposed to say? That he had no idea what the heck he should be doing? Or how he was going to survive going out there? Hell he knew he was going to be pretty damn useless in an actual fight against the titans by now and having this man here inspect him made him feel as though he didn't belong here in the first place.
"And you are as strong as the rumors say?" he continued further, scanning the blond.
"He just threw me across the room into that wall with a single punch so I can attest to that!" the creepy doctor chirped suddenly way too fucking close as the blond snapped his head to the right, they guy already next to him with that creepy needle again-
"Me too, he has been like that since forever," Shinra agreed while hitting the man with what seemed to be a pan.
… and no one seemed to give a fuck. Honestly just what was wrong with the people here?
"I see," the man mumbled, finally turning around to face Izaya again.
The blond couldn't help but feel as though he had seen this guy before. No, not seen, he would have recognized this kind of man anytime- but still he seemed familiar for some reason.
"Akabayashi-san?" a small voice coming from the door the man had entered through made him twist his head towards the entrance. A little girl was standing there, both hands on the door frame, she seemed shy, her eyes were hidden partly by black bangs covering her face.
"Ah I'm coming," the man spoke friendly, almost gentle, opposing the so authoritarian impression he had given from the moment he had entered this room.
"Well then, I will leave, continue with-... whatever you are doing here," he said with a smile glancing at the chaos and walked back to the door.
"Understood~" Shinra chirped obviously not in the slightest intimidated by the man- then again there were probably few things the brunette even gave a fuck about to begin with.
"Two more belong to the scientific unit, that would be a woman called Namie Yagiri, pretty skilled on her field of work, and now Kadota´s friend Togusa," the raven simply went on as the door slipped shut again, acting as though the guy hadn't even been here just now.
For a moment Shizuo wanted to ask who this was, why he was here, but then he decided if it were important Izaya would tell him. And if not he would just tease or annoy him for not knowing who that was. it was only then that he noticed just what name Izaya had just spoken about.
"Togusa?" he repeated remembering the guy in Kadota's gang far too well. "What is he doing in the scientific unit?" he didn't mean to offend anyone, but that guy wasn't exactly the brightest light in the casket.
"Nothing scientific. He serves as the bait for the titans," Izaya shrugged. Ah, that certainly explained a lot. Wait-
"What?" But Izaya had already stopped listening to the blond as his attention shifted to the three idiots still chasing the mice instead. Feeling a bit lost in this chaos the blond could merely watch him as he told the three to let the doctor catch his mice alone and that they should get prepared for tomorrow´s mission instead.
…. heh, tomorrow already. Somehow Shizuo´s guts churned the slightest thinking about how they were going to go outside the walls.
"Nervous?" it was Shinra who had asked that, making Shizuo snap out of his thoughts as he twisted to look at the brunette fellow instead.
Ah, despite being so weird the guy had always been more perceptive than people might think.
"What exactly are you working on?" Shizuo asked, not wanting to talk about tomorrow-
The question seemed to be fatal though as the man's eyes started to glitter in a weird fashion and he grinned at the blond.
"I´m glad that you ask~ We have some top priority secret stuff down here," he announced chirping, his expression taking on a somewhat dreamish impression.
"Down where?" The way Shinra grinned- it couldn't be anything good that was sure.
"You want to see it?" the doctor smiled, already walking to another door inside the room. See? To be honest Shizuo wasn't so sure if he really wanted to see what Shinra was working on.
"Ah are you visiting the laboratory?" And then Izaya was already back, joining the conversation and Shizuo felt even more like he didn't want to see what Shinra was doing. And yet- curiosity was taking the best of him.
"Sure-"
Just what was he going to see?
heyo my lovely cookies~! *0* xDDD lmao this chapter was a good mix of comedy and mystery xD heheh anyone got an Idea what Shinra might be working on? C: I will drop a hint- it´s something he loves.
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