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ஜ Chapter 6: Nighttime ஜ
-Shizuo´s point of view-
"Wake up, princess!" The blond cringed as the rather loud voice interrupted his peaceful sleep.
"What..?" Groggily he opened an eye, only to meet the grin of a certain raven haired man.
"Rise and shine," Izaya cooed, while slipping out of the driver´s seat before he slammed the door shut with a loud thud. The blond cringed at the sound and heaved himself up. He had been leaning against the seatbelt- hair was sticking to his face, and he could feel a certain warmth radiating from where he had laid. He was sure there would be some red lines on his cheek.
Yawning, he finally took in his surroundings. The flea had stopped here after all, hadn´t he?
He blinked- they weren´t quite where they were before anymore. Where the hell did the flea drive to? Or even better, how?
Because they sure weren´t in the city anymore- looked more like a sort of rural landscape- a single obviously abandoned house was the only thing that interrupted the nature-
It was still day, even thought the sun was already setting, so Izaya must have driven quite crazily to get so far away from Ikebukuro in that short amount of time.
"I fell asleep?" he asked, now getting out of the car himself. Izaya merely spared him an amused glance as he walked towards the abandoned house.
"Snored, too. My poor ears!" he teased, theatrically covering his ears.
Stupid flea.
"Are we already in Shirokanetakanawa?" He let his eyes trail around the surroundings once more, but soon after asking the question, he realized how stupid it actually was. Izaya couldn't have been driving that fast.
"Not yet- I´m taking a break from driving," Izaya declared, once again heading towards the little house. The blond followed while frowning slightly.
"Why?" It wasn´t dark yet; if he had to say, the sun was just about to start setting. They had at least one more hour of driving to go.
"Because I´m tired, Shizu-chan," the raven answered with a shrug. It was obvious that he hadn't planned on arriving at the hospital he wanted to go to yet anyway.
"I could drive," Shizuo suggested. It wasn´t like anyone would care anymore whether he had a license in this kind of environment.
"Ahhh, sorry," the raven waved him off, "If I might remind you, you just fell asleep on me during the ride. I can skip on a one second sleep of yours that will surely lead not to your, but my death."
The blond frowned.
"I wouldn´t fall asleep while driving." As if. Sure, he had fallen asleep, but only during the ride because he knew Izaya was the one driving.
He was about to reply more when suddenly something else caught his attention.
Something dead.
Both froze when familiar groaning noises filled their ears and they turned around, facing the abandoned house.
There was one. And it obviously had noticed them by how loudly they had spoken. It was approaching them fairly quickly- Shizuo felt his skin crawl as he saw the zombie. And for a second, he was just frozen.
For a tiny little moment, since he had teamed up with the flea and driven in the car he had thought everything was okay.
That everything was going to be fine again somehow. He had kinda forgotten those things existed for a second.
Swift movement next to him made him unfreeze, and a disgusting scream filled the air before the body dropped to the ground.
A knife was sticking in its head and its eyes had rolled back. The raven looked at the creature warily, stepping closer.
Seems he had aimed quite well, blood was streaming out from between the creature´s eyes and it wasn´t moving, even though Izaya knew it could hear him walk from this short distance.
It was only then that he noticed the bloody mouth and arm- the hand gave away why the thing looked like it had been murdered once already.
"Seems it was eating someone before we came." Its fists were closed around what Izaya believed to be someone else´s insides.
A retching sound made Izaya turn his head, only to see Shizuo bend over to throw up.
...
Well, he couldn´t blame him. The sight of that thing made him feel nauseous, as well.
Or rather, imagining how it had gotten someone else´s insides out of them was what made him feel nauseous. Turning his head away from the creature and Shizuo, he looked over to the house.
Maybe there had been some homeless guy living in that little house. The prospect of finding some food and water, maybe even other useful things helped getting his mind off things.
Swiftly, he started walking towards the building. The backpack he had been carrying around was again on his back, the car incautiously left on the street. He hadn´t even locked it. What for?
It´s not like there were any people left that could steal it.
The wet grass made quiet squishing noises under his feet as he approached the house. It was really small. Warily listening, Izaya tried to determine if anything was moving in there. Like, one more of those creatures or something like that.
But it was quiet.
He put his hand on the door handle, opening the door slowly. The knife had already found its way to Izaya´s palm, and his grip on it only tightened when he scanned the inside of the house.
Almost immediately, a stench filled his nose, way worse than what he expected it to be-
Turning his head in the opposite direction of the smell, Izaya entered the house. He didn´t exactly need to look at that corpse in the left corner of the room.
What he saw of it already in the creature´s hands was more than enough.
He let his gaze trail through the house. There wasn´t much to see. Izaya passed something akin to a small kitchen, dust and dirt coating everything, and he quickly lost hope of finding anything safe to eat or drink in there.
Oh well.
Other than that, there was only the corpse and what Izaya suspected to be a bed in a corner. It was a real one, at least, and not just a futon, which gave him an idea.
It was getting late, after all.
Curious, he opened a cupboard next to the bed, careful to neither touch nor look at the corpse too much.
Something akin to a smile spread across his lips as he found what he had hoped to find.
Shizuo leant against the car, his hands in his pockets- they were still trembling and he couldn´t stop it.
Shizuo hazarded a glance at the dead zombie, just for the blink of an eye. Usually, those things didn´t make him feel sick. Not at all.
He had seen worse. But now... the only thing that had reflected in his mind when he had seen that zombie was the scene he saw after Kasuka died-
His stomach churning once more, he quickly glanced back at the house. The flea had walked in there, right?
He had not the slightest intention to enter that house.
The dead zombie on the ground was already enough for his tastes. He could guess what would be inside the house, given that the zombie had come from there.
Movement caught his attention, and his body stiffened, thinking another zombie was coming- but it was just Izaya.
He wondered what he had even been doing in there. The stench was noticeable from here; nothing could make Shizuo go in there.
"Would you come with me for a second?"
Of fucking course.
"In there? No way." He refused to go anywhere near this obvious stench of death. Izaya rolled his eyes as he stepped out of the house. His hands were shoved back into his pockets, and he let his eyes trail up a tree that was standing next to the building before pointing at it.
"I´m thinking of having you put that guy´s mattress in that tree." The blond blinked, a frown carving itself into his expression. The guy´s mattress?
"I always knew you didn´t have your shit together, but that?" What the hell did the flea want with it?
Though the raven actually didn´t laugh. Shizuo thought he had been joking or trying to imply something sarcastic- was he actually being serious?
"Well, Shizu-chan, as I might inform you, dogs, maybe due to their higher intelligence, can be affected by this virus too," Izaya suddenly stated, lowering his hand again to leave it hanging down by his side.
For a second, Shizuo had to blink, trying to understand the new piece of information he had been given.
"Wait, what?" He had said dogs, hadn´t he?
Izaya nodded as if to confirm Shizuo´s fears.
"Yes, Shizu-chan. I have seen 'zombie' dogs running around. And I´m not particularly keen to wake up with a zombie dog gnawing on my leg." He took a few steps forward, nudging the dead creature with his foot.
"This guy," he pointed at the house, "obviously lived here all alone. What do you think he most likely had?" The blond stiffened as the dots connected in his head.
"... a dog." Izaya nodded, turning his head to pointedly look around their surroundings.
"See it anywhere?" The question alone made Shizuo´s blood freeze just a bit as he let his own eyes scan the area. There was no dog.
At least not here-
But not knowing what kind of species it was, it could be hiding away somewhere very easily, waiting for them to drop their guard- Shizuo stepped away from the car, quickly looking beneath it- just in case. The raven pointed towards the tree.
"Scary, ne? So, I don´t know about you, but I will be sleeping in that tree, where I´m sure none of those things can reach me."
Shizuo glanced at the raven, who was now walking back to the house.
For once, that fucking flea actually had said something that made a hell lot of sense to him. Unwillingly, Shizuo followed Izaya- he didn´t want to enter that house, but then again, sleeping while just lying on a simple branch would be quite uncomfortable...
"I will, too." he announced, making the flea cock an eyebrow. The floor creaked slightly as they both entered the house. Shizuo instantly lifted his hand, covering his mouth and nose with his sleeve as well as he could- and tried to avoid looking at the spot the stench came from.
"Ah, there is only one mattress, though, Shizu-chan," Izaya announced, walking over to the bed in the corner. Shizuo rolled his eyes.
"Oh, shut up. You barely take up space, anyway." Skinny as he was- he glanced at the flea.
"Why, thank you." Of course the louse was grinning back.
Seeing the flea like that was still kinda odd. He was dirty, obviously very tired- at least, the bags under his eyes made him look that way. To be completely honest, this was the first time that Shizuo found himself thinking of Izaya as weak. Not that he would underestimate him. No, Izaya could very well make up for any lack of strength with his freaking smartness, but now in an environment like this- where he couldn´t scheme anything and had no power whatsoever- he actually seemed weak.
"Wasn´t a compliment, skinny flea." The flea grinned and started pulling at one edge of the mattress, trying to lift it or rather drag it off there, but it was obvious he would barely be able to drag it through the blood like that- let alone get it up into the tree.
It put Shizuo off- seeing how much the flea could actually struggle to do something.
He frowned, annoyed, and grabbed the mattress, lifting it over his head without any problem- careful not to accidentally lift his sleeve off his face as he stomped out of the house.
He didn´t like this at all.
It almost felt as if Izaya had some sort of expiration date printed on him that counted down how long he would be able to survive out here. Sure, he was smart, he could hide, avoid any dangerous situations, but if it really came down to it- if he got cornered because of someone else´s mistake, like before, it was pretty clear just what was going to happen.
Pissed him off.
Finally being out of the stinking house, Shizuo grabbed the mattress with both his arms and flung it up the three- leaves and branches rustled as they fell down- for a second Shizuo thought the mattress was going to come down again, but no, it stuck between three thicker branches.
He heard clapping behind him and frowned the slightest bit. He didn't need to turn around to face that stupid smirk of Izaya´s or any joke on how brutishly he had solved this problem.
"Thank you very much, Shizu-chan~" the raven purred, walking past him to the trunk of the tree and swung himself up on it.
Leaves came down, and a couple more little branches broke, as the flea dragged the mattress to a horizontal position. Light reflecting from his silver knife caught Shizuo's attention, and for a split second, he thought Izaya was going to fling it at him. He didn´t, though; instead, he used it to pierce the mattress.
Izaya pulled a rope out of the backpack he had been carrying around, and Shizuo wondered for a second what else the flea had in there.
The sun was already setting by now, and Shizuo was feeling more and more anxious down there as he kept scanning his surroundings. Somehow, he wished Izaya hadn´t told him about the zombie dogs.
Deciding that he was fed up with looking around, he climbed up the tree. Izaya was using his knife to cut into the mattress edges and binding the whole thing to the three thick branches with the rope. The way he was doing it almost reminded Shizuo of a hammock.
"Done~" the flea cheered, hanging the backpack onto another, not quite as thick branch next to them and lying down on the mattress. To be honest, like this, the tree with its leaves and the mattress looked like a pretty neat hideout. People wouldn´t be able to see them from a distance, either.
The blond sighed-
"Move over." He pushed at the skinny flea to get his own share of the mattress. The raven frowned a bit, not moving.
"I´m still not all too happy that I have to share my sleeping place with you," he muttered, only to find himself being pushed over fairly quickly. A growl followed as the mattress shifted a tad, the blond making himself comfortable on it.
"Shut up, or I will shove you out of the tree." Wow, now that was something to look forward to.
"Is that what I get for saving your life?" Izaya asked sarcastically, pulling his legs up slightly on the tiny bit of the mattress he had left.
...
He blinked when he didn´t receive an answer and instead felt the blond move away a bit.
A snort escaped his lips and he cocked an eyebrow as he turned around to face the blond.
"How serious you get."
TO BE CONTINUED XDD
Well then, i hope you liked this chapter~ Enjoy the fluffy scenes as long as you can because soon- SOOON SOMETHING is gonna happen C:
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