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ஜ Chapter 4: On the way ஜ
-Shizuo´s point of view-
"They will hear us, drive slower!" the blond barked, pretty much nullifying his own argument as his own loudness would attract them, too. The raven didn´t even seem to care in the slightest, though.
"Oh, come on, Shizu-chan, they are way too slow to follow us. Besides, I´m driving to Shirokanetakanawa, I doubt they will be able to follow us all the way." He quirked an eyebrow at the blond, indicating the hilariousness of the brute´s arguments, but he still seemed to be stuck on his wish for Izaya to drive slowly.
He was just about to open his mouth again to probably say some more of that annoying stuff- so Izaya accelerated quickly, driving into yet another curve that made Shizuo grip at the door handle and headboard hard so he wouldn´t get tossed around inside the car.
Another, and another- the streets of Ikebukuro weren´t exactly free of cars or debris, so he had a perfect excuse to make all these sharp turns and weave around it all.
At top speed, the tires screamed at one curve in particular before he reached the relatively free highway.
The blond clicked his tongue, annoyed, as he glanced at the flea.
"You are freaking crazy," he announced, still not letting go of the door handle. Seriously. This really was too fun.
"Oh come on, let me live a little." Izaya smirked, the tachometer going way above the speed limit.
"If you drive like that, we're gonna crash," Shizuo merely grunted, his eyes darting around, already expecting some kind of obstacle to appear that they would crash into because Izaya was too fast to slow down enough to stop before it.
"Don´t piss yourself; it´s not like you are gonna die from a car crash anyway," the raven countered, shrugging, the comment making the blond raise an eyebrow.
"You would, though, ever thought of that?" The raven snorted.
"Aw, getting worried over little old me? I feel honored." Shizuo frowned.
"The hell I am."
The raven grinned, scanning the road and spotting a truck up ahead.
"Unlike you, Shizu-chan, I've got confidence in my driving skills," he announced, accelerating even more, his stare fixed on that truck in front of them. The tachometer was slowly wandering towards the 150km/h mark, and Shizuo glanced at the flea, a little worried-
"Oi, you do see that truck, right?" That freaking little louse was driving straight towards it.
"Oh, I do," he grinned, going faster and faster-
"Oi-!" the blond barked. There was no way he would be able to stop the car before he crashed into that!
But just as he was about to yell at him, some maneuvers were executed, way too quick for him to really see - He just felt the raven press the clutch and saw his hand switch over to the gear shift before he suddenly felt himself being smashed into the dashboard- then the side of the car-
The wheels screeched and his eyes darted up ahead, expecting his face to meet the truck in a couple seconds-
Except he didn´t.
Instead, he felt himself getting pressed more and more into the door, until the car stopped.
Sidewise.
He had fucking drifted towards the vehicle.
"Told you I can drive." The flea was sitting in his seat, his grin smug, and he laughed as he slowly drove off again.
The blond frowned, leaning back in his seat again.
Okay, he had to admit, the raven could actually drive... pretty well, okay... but still-
"You are crazy." Laughter reached his ears, just as expected from the crazy flea.
"You are repeating yourself, you know?" he chirped, at least driving at an almost normal speed on the highway.
"I should freaking puke on you for that," Shizuo growled grumpily. The raven cringed, glancing at the brute.
"Gross, please don´t." He could skip on the experience of being vomited on, thank you very much. He took the next exit, heading for the outskirts. As soon as he started driving down the road, he noticed that there were way less cars on the street.
As he expected. They only went for the fastest way, of course.
Fewer cars meant he could drive more smoothly, though.
"Better?" He pressed a button on the control panel, and the convertibles folded itself behind the blond-
Almost instantly, Shizuo barked at him-
"Keep the top on!" The raven frowned, his attention half on the street in front of him, half on the brute yelling.
"And why would I do that?" he asked, cocking his brows. The breeze felt nice. It was a warm day, after all; the sun had finally come out.
"What about the zombies!?" Izaya cringed-
"Could you please not call those creatures that?" They were not "zombies". Zombies were some fantasy humans created for their entertainment; fiction. These things were simply infected humans, acting like rabid dogs.
"Roll the window up again," the blond growled.
"What for? Think they'll jump into the car? Seriously, Shizu-chan, you didn´t pay attention to those things' behavior at all, did you? They can´t jump. And as long as I don´t see a flying zombie I´m not going to let you ruin my ride."
"Tch-"
Izaya rolled his eyes. Seriously- if the brute was going to be annoying like that all of the time, he would ditch him soon.
"Come on, relax. Doesn't the breeze feel nice? The sun? Pull that stick out of your ass. We won´t get in a situation like that again if you control that loud voice of yours. Actually, it´s easy to survive, you know."
Actually, it was. If you were careful and didn´t cause too much commotion, it wasn´t even that bad.
"Easy my ass," the blond commented. "If they gang up on you, then-"
"Shizu-chan. We are in the middle of nowhere. None of those creatures are in sight," he stated, and let his right arm rest on the cabrio´s door, the wind blowing through his hair.
It was actually a beautiful day. The sun had come out, showering everything with her rays, there was not a cloud in the sky, a cool breeze occasionally blew through the air.
"Chill for a sec, will you?"
...
"You are crazy." The raven shrugged.
"Just thinking freestyle, Shizu-chan. It´s needed at a time like this, you know." A sigh escaping Shizuo´s lips, he mimicked Izaya´s movement and placed his own arm on top of the door frame. Tilting his head to the side he leant back into the seat, trying to relax a bit.
After all, even if he hated to think that flea was right, he actually had only said true things.
It was a beautiful day. There was no zombie to be seen anywhere, they were driving on a road that was almost completely free of any cars that would block the way. He had just seen one or two since he got in here.
Slowly but surely, he let his eyes slip closed, taking a deep breath of the fresh air.
Ever since this whole scenario had started, he seriously hadn´t gotten to either sleep or rest at any time. Sure, Tom and Kasuka slept and offered to switch with him, since he was looking out for any zombies, but he refused. He knew he wouldn´t have been able to sleep anyway. Not with these things running around.
He was tired. Tired because of lack of sleep, and tired simply because he had been up on his feet fighting for two days.
Slowly opening his eyes again, he glanced at the sky, the sun blinding him.
To be honest, this was the most comfortable he had been in a while.
Maybe it wasn´t even that bad an idea to have teamed up with the flea.
"Nice, isn´t it?" He didn´t need to look over to know what kind of grin had to have appeared on the raven´s face.
"Maybe," he shrugged. Not in hell was he going to admit Izaya was right.
He looked into the distance. They were driving beside a park; the trees were blooming in beautiful colors. It was spring, after all. It was too bad... Such a lovely season had to be the start of something terrible like this.
"So. Who was the first one you killed?" The blond frowned, looking over at the flea for a second.
First he talked about how he should relax and then he asked things like that.
Fuck logic.
"Do we have to talk?" he asked, leaning back into his seat again, hoping the raven would just leave the topic alone, but of course that wasn´t Izaya´s intention.
"Well, I don´t know about you, but humans are social beings. Without any social contact, they will get ill or even develop mental illnesses. I´m sure you don´t want me getting any crazier than I am, do you?" Crazier than that?
The blond raised an eyebrow.
"That´s possible?" The raven ignored him, though.
"Seeing how you are a monster, though, I could totally understand it if you didn´t want to engage in this kind of human behavior."
The blond frowned. Of course Izaya had to put it like that. He hated when he said that.
Silence followed, and the raven wondered if Shizuo was actually ignoring him now. It would be a first for the brute. Almost something like an achievement, not flipping out after being teased.
He deserved an award.
"Kasuka." The raven blinked when the young star´s name was mentioned. He had been lost in thought and must have missed something, since Shizuo only said his name.
"What?" he asked, not getting what the blond was getting at.
"You asked who I had to kill first."
...
For a second, Izaya just stared at the blond, the car getting slower as a frown appeared on his face.
"Wait, you killed your own brother?" That couldn´t be right-
But it seemed to be true. The blond tensed and shifted in his seat obviously not wanting to talk about this.
"Can we please talk about something else?"
... to be honest, Izaya was kinda flabbergasted-
It wasn´t that he doubted what Shizuo said, Shizu-chan wasn´t the type to say something that serious for fun. He knew it was true.
What was so suspect to him was the way he said it.
He said it so easy.
"When?" The blond blinked, looking at the raven who was driving slower and slower, paying more attention to him than to the road in front of them.
"Huh?" This time the raven didn´t seem annoyed by Shizuo´s insufficient answer.
"When did you kill him?" he simply repeated, still watching Shizuo closely.
...
The blond looked back at the flea for a second, their eyes meeting. It wasn´t like he had to answer the flea, was it?
...
"... Today, midday," he answered with a grunt. He didn´t want to talk about this. The louse should just shut up already.
Izaya frowned.
Way too recent.
However, that explained the whole why are you alive speech- Shizuo hadn´t been annoyed that Izaya was alive and okay, but that it was Izaya that was alive and okay, and not his brother.
"You aren´t going to go psycho on me now and start wallowing in guilt and regret and accidentally kill me, are you?" The blond´s brows furrowed at that, and he glared at the informant.
"Shut up, Izaya," he snarled, annoyed. He could deal with an asshole Izaya, alright, but what he could not deal with right now was an Izaya that kept saying bullshit about this.
"Just making sure," Izaya shrugged. "After all, you just killed your broth-"
"Izaya." The raven shut up. Not because Shizuo wanted him to, but because he wasn´t too tempted to actually cause that protozoan to have a breakdown or something. He wasn´t going to deal with that kind of thing.
"Okay, okay, I'll stop," he announced, accelerating again as he focused on the road.
"What about you, huh? Who did you lose first?"
... Izaya blinked.
He hadn´t expected for Shizuo to ask him questions now. And a question like that... It was clear that the brute hadn´t intended to ask the question like he did.
The frown on Shizuo´s face had deepened as he got no answer but an odd stare from the raven instead.
"What?" he asked, annoyed. The raven shrugged, a kind of light sigh escaping his lips as he answered.
"Talking about losing, I guess Kururi was the first. She was one of the lucky ones that got to die peacefully."
... oh...
Shizuo´s expression relaxed when he heard the raven say that.
He had heard of Kururi´s death in the news, she was the one who died first because of the virus, but without turning into one of these things.
... he didn´t actually mean to put it that way.
"Sorry," he mumbled, feeling a tad guilty that he had made the raven talk about something that maybe bothered even a heartless asshole like him when he didn´t want to talk about his own dead brother.
The raven merely shrugged, though.
Who knew, maybe he didn´t care after all.
"The first one I had to actually kill was my boss," the raven continued, ignoring what Shizuo had said and answered what he had probably been intending to ask. "Sounds like more fun than it actually was though."
...
Izaya´s boss. The blond paused.
"Ah, the Shiki guy, right?" he asked, remembering seeing that shady guy around Izaya way too often. The raven smirked, humming softly.
"You are better informed than I thought."
Silence fell over the two for a minute as Izaya just kept driving down the road.
There weren´t many cars here- actually, there were almost none at all. They were still driving next to that park, and Shizuo suspected the louse did that on purpose or something, because the fastest route to Shirokanetakanawa would be different road.
"Who else is dead?" The question surprised the blond. He had kinda thought the flea was done with asking him things now.
"What do you mean?" He raised an eyebrow. Who else was dead?
The raven sighed. This time, he did seem like he was starting to get a tad annoyed.
"You know, people we know. I know that Shingen Kishitani is dead, for example. Namie, Kururi, Kasuka, going for those that you knew, too," he started listing a few, making Shizuo get what he meant. It only made the blond frown, though, when he heard the raven say his little brother´s name.
"You believe that I killed my brother that easily? You really have to think I´m a monster."
"Shizu-chan isn´t the type to wander around without trying to protect his dear little brother," looking at the flea, Shizuo listened as he started to talk again. "I already figured he was dead after you didn´t suggest searching for him together. This is not about being a monster, though. I take it, given the situation, it was the only way, wasn´t it?"
...
"... wished I had another choice," he mumbled softly.
Izaya nodded to himself. He knew it.
"Was he one of them?" That actor must have been one of them- otherwise there would be no suitable explanation as to why Shizu-chan would even touch his own brother.
He glanced at the brute.
A soft nod was all that he got from him this time.
"Then you had no choice," he started speaking again, warily eyeing the brute. "You shouldn´t feel guilty or anything. I think you did him a favor."
Shizuo snapped his head towards the flea, anger written all over his face.
"What the fuck, flea?" A favor- what was he talking about?
Izaya just stayed calm, though, taking another turn down a different street.
"Think about it. Would he have liked to attack innocent people and eat their insides?" Shizuo swallowed noticeably. Just the imagination made him feel nauseous.
"You are sick-" he announced. He didn´t want to think about these kind of things.
"Well that´s what this is about, Shizu-chan. The bitter truth. He wouldn´t want that, now would he?" Izaya didn´t let go and just went on.
The blond thought about it for a little while.
...
Logically speaking, there was no way he would have wanted that, of course.
"... no." Maybe he did have a point after all...
"See? So whatever you do, don´t let it get to you when you have to kill one of those things."
Yeah.
The blond sighed heavily, the image of his brother's face before all light disappeared from his eyes still clearly burned into his brain.
But the way Izaya had put it...
He glanced at the flea, leaning back into his seat, getting more comfortable.
"Are you actually trying to make me feel better about this?"
For a second the raven blinked, glancing back at the brute, only for a slight smile to appear on his face.
"Well, I can´t have my new companion go insane on me, can I?"
...
Crazy louse. And there he was always saying that he was acting unexpected.
"Heh, fleas actually can be nice if they try hard enough," Shizuo mumbled, something akin to a little smile appearing on his own expression.
The raven grinned, driving around another curve.
"Just like Shizu-chan can actually be peaceful like his name implies~"
END CHAPTER 3 cx
Hehe, for all those that are already sitting there, waiting for a zombie attack, not now xD
For now I wanna focus on Izaya and Shizuo ;3 and then the zombie shit shall turn up xD I hope you still liked the chappy :3 Even though it was mostly talk, but heyyyy cx
Well then, see you next sunday *0*
Ps.: You know what minna-san? xD I finally got enough confidence to actually write my book down ;/; well not everything yet, but chapter 1 got done yesterday *0* Perfecly done, it´s gonna stay just that way cx Now on to chapter 2 xDDD If I keep going like this it will be done around october 2016 ;/;
I kinda always doubted that I actually can write anything apart from Shizaya- but you guys gave me so much confidence over the course of time about my writing itself so, that the lil insecure me actually gained enough confidence to start x'D Thank chu ;/; Imma keep you updated in littel Ps.:- notes how my story gets along x'DDD