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Force of Nature	By : HollowedRose Category: > Durarara!! (?????!! Dyurarara!!) Views: 6644 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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As expected, they soon heard the sounds of hurried footsteps and saw the door open, two men rushing in to see what was going on. Both Shizuo and Izaya were upon them, one of the men flying through the air before hitting the wall opposite to the heavy iron door while the other ended up on the floor holding onto the side to stop the bleeding caused by a switchblade slash. Izaya made sure not to kill him, murder being the last thing she wanted associated with her name. Besides, even someone as lowly as one of her captors was one of her humans, and she didn't like the thought of killing any of them if she could avoid it.
"Follow me," Shizuo whispered right before he grabbed her arm and nearly dragged her out of their prison, his eyes scanning the hallway leading upstairs.
"Let go," Izaya hissed and pulled back her arm while glaring daggers at the beast who dared to touch her so casually. She did however move behind him, a malevolent smile spreading across her face. If bullets came flying towards them, Shizuo would get hit first, while she'd most likely be safe behind his much bigger body. "Be careful," she cautioned once they went up the stairs and they heard voices coming from somewhere behind the closed door. "This is a bad idea, we're going to get killed," she complained in a low voice when he touched the handle. "Shizuo!" she hissed, but he shushed her before he pressed it and slowly pushed open the door, a few surprised faces turning in their direction. There were more than a dozen men out there, and the two of them swiftly charged forward when they saw their opponents grabbing their baseball bats. The man closest to her swung a fist, but she managed to duck in time to avoid getting hit and slash him across the abdomen. He cried out in pain and collapsed, while another one swung a metal bat at her which she couldn't avoid as easily as the fist. Her shoulder was hit pretty hard but she refused to cry out in pain, and before she even knew what was happening, she was grabbed from behind and pushed aside by Shizuo who had seen her get hit.
"The next one who touches her dies," he declared through clenched teeth, popping his knuckled as he stared down each and every one of the men in that room.
Izaya was still behind him, cradling her injured shoulder and feeling rather pissed about the whole situation. "I don't need you to protect me," she sneered. "I can take care of myself just fi―"
"Shut up," Shizuo growled before he dashed to the closest man, grabbed the metal bat the other swung at him and viciously crashed it into the head of the one trying to attack him from the side.
Izaya glared with animosity before she tightened the grip around her switchblade and slashed at the two men closing in on her, trying to ignore the sounds of metal hitting flesh each time Shizuo couldn't avoid a hit. An angry roar chilled the blood in her veins, and when she turned her head she saw an enraged Ikebukuro beast race towards her, grab the two men and brutally bang their heads into the wall behind her. Their eyes met, and for a moment, she feared he had completely lost his mind, but he cracked a smile and turned around just in time punch away a flying chair.
"Didn't you bastards hear me?" he barked, panting heavily, his body a mass of raw agony. He was pretty monstrous when it came to withstanding pain and damage, but he'd been injured too much in one day and it got to the point where running, let alone fighting, was proving to be difficult. He knew however that if he didn't beat each and every one of them, Izaya would most likely die, and he couldn't let that happen no matter what. He also knew that trying to protect her made her want to brutally murder him even more, the proof being the many insults thrown his way and her stating loud and clear how she didn't need him, and yet he chose to ignore her words in favor of making sure she got out of there in one piece. The men seemed to ignore his warning and instead close in on them, so he put himself between the mob of gangsters and the woman he wanted more than anything in the world. My woman, he heard a voice in the back of his mind, but he shook his head, trying to chase it away.
"Why are they out?" Aozaki's powerful voice boomed into the large room, making everyone freeze in their tracks. He stood menacingly at the door, katana drawn, effectively blocking their way out.
"We're not sure," one of the underlings answered and lowered his head in shame. "They just showed up here."
Aozaki made a sound of frustration before he advanced forward, Shizuo pushing Izaya backwards until her back hit the wall, her protests dying down when she realized that her switchblade wouldn't be a match for the man's sword.
"Shizuo-kun, you cannot fight your way out of here, no matter how much you want it." He then gazed at the little he could see of Izaya before his attention turned back to Ikebukuro's beast. "And you say you two aren't together..." he remarked in an amused tone.
"We're not!" Izaya protested while peeking from behind Shizuo's back. She was not stupid enough to believe that he could take on all of them and survive, especially when she hadn't even been able to fight off Shiki.
Aozaki ignored her and instead smirked at Shizuo. "I hope you screwed her before you left the basement, because you're about to die!" he declared and charged forward, Shizuo barely ducking the incoming slash while Izaya jumped to the side to avoid getting cut, two men immediately going after her while Aozaki focused his attention on bringing down Ikebukuro's beast. Izaya was too busy doing her best to not get captured to worry about Shizuo, so after she successfully brought down the two men who had tried to grab her, she sprinted past another one and tried to reach the door, jumping on a chair, then a table and making a dash for the door, only to get viciously smacked in the back by a heavy chain. She cried out in pain and collapsed on the floor, Shizuo roaring a "You're all fucking dead!" while she writhed in agony and tried to reach the switchblade she'd just dropped. She grabbed it as soon as she spotted it, but one of Aozaki's underlings viciously stepped on her hand while another one hit the back of her head with a bat, her mouth opening in a wordless scream and her sight going black from the vicious blow she'd just received.
Shizuo was so distracted by the scene to his right that he couldn't avoid Aozaki's katana in time, the blade leaving a pretty deep gash across his chest. The blood gushed in a waterfall down his clothes, but his attention was somewhere else and he almost shouted in frustration when his opponent kept attacking him, effectively blocking his way towards Izaya who was obviously injured and in need of help. It was a miracle he was dodging the katana so well, but he figured it was a result of his too many fights with Izaya. Instead of moving closer to her, he ended up getting trapped in the corner with Aozaki staring at him with a blood-thirsty smirk on his face.
"You were a formidable oponent, Shizuo-kun, but not even Ikebukuro's beast was a match for this Aozaki."
Shizuo sneered, and the Blue Demon gripped the katana tighter as he readied himself to deliver the finishing blow, barely stopping himself in time when he heard Shiki's voice somewhere behind him.
"STOP!" the man had shouted, his eyes widening in disbelief at the bloody picture he was met with. He quickly pulled out his phone and sent a messed before he raised his head and fixed Aozaki with the full force of his glare. "You're about to murder an innocent man," he told him, wincing a bit towards the end. Shizuo was anything but innocent, but he was not guilty of the crime the Awakusu-kai were accusing him of. Aozaki burst into laughter, and instead of doing as Shiki had requested, he raised the katana again and moved to turn around, only stopping when Shiki pulled out a gun and pointed it in his direction. "Let him go... let both of them go."
Aozaki sighed loudly and lowered his katana. "Are you betraying us?"
"I'm simply trying to make sure that two innocent people don't get killed because you won't let them bring proof of their innocence. It's not 'guilty until proven innocent,' you know?" Shiki ignored the angry glare, and with a flick of the gun, he ordered the Blue Demon to get out of the way.
It was then when Celty burst through the open door and rushed to the fallen Izaya. She wasn't wearing her usual helmet, nor using her powers, not wanting to get recognized. Without her powers, she had no choice but to punch and kick her way to the place where Shiki told her to meet him, and as she wrapped an arm around Izaya's back and helped her up, she couldn't have been more surprised when the other woman hugged her.
"Thank you, for being alive," but Izaya only said the second half in her mind. It was like a great weight had been lifted off her shoulders, and she genuinely smiled as she turned her head in Shizuo's direction to see if he was still standing. "Shizu-chan just won't drop dead," she said in a half-joking, half-serious tone, and she almost snorted when the man smirked at her.
"Well, that was disgustingly sweet," Aozaki snorted, not getting fooled by Celty's disguise. He sheathed his katana, knowing better than to challenge an armed Shiki. "You will die; you know that, right?" he asked, but Shiki simply shrugged and waited for Celty to take Izaya out of there while he helped Shizuo regardless of the disgust he felt for the man.
Izaya almost tripped a few times on the fallen Awakusu-kai members on her way out, her mind going in overdrive trying to figure out who had Celty's head. With the Dullahan alive, it meant that someone had taken her head from inside the apartment before it got blown to smithereens. It didn't look like the Awakusu-kai were responsible, which left Heaven's Slave leader ordering the hit on her. That man, whoever he was, most likely had Celty's head. She'd have to work even harder to find the bastard now that he dared to take something that belonged to her, not to mention the destruction of her apartment, for which she would surely make him pay. She let herself be led to a car and sat on the backseat, Shiki and Shizuo sitting in the front.
[ I left Shooter further away from here, so I'll met you later, ok? ]
Izaya nodded and Celty closed the car's door while Shiki started the engine and they drove away. "Why did you save us?" she asked the Awakusu-kai Executive while pocketing the bloody switchblade with a trembling and injured hand.
"Shinra told me your apartment blew up, and that you disappeared along with Shizuo. After I found out our group had you, I told him I'd try to convince my leader to let you go, which is why I needed the full story from you. I'm sorry if that brought back bad memories."
Izaya didn't say anything while Shizuo simply cringed and looked away.
"You should've waited like I asked you to," Shiki hissed, some of the anger he felt at the whole situation bleeding into his voice. "Now I have to hide from my own men."
Izaya sneered and turned her head to look out the window. "The Awakusu-kai would've never just taken your word for it. I'll have to once again get proof that the Heaven's Slave leader ordered the hits on those men. I'll see if I can gather the information from my sources again. You can even take it to the big boss yourself. Who knows, maybe he'll spare your life."
"Orihara Izaya ― ever so generous," Shiki mocked, and they all spent the rest of the way in silence.
Shinra and Celty were already there by the time the car stopped, both of them rushing to help Izaya while Kasuka ran over to Shizuo. Shiki gave Kasuka a hand with Shizuo, Ikebukuro's beast having troubles standing because of how much blood he'd lost.
"Where are we?" Izaya inquired as they went up the stairs towards the elevator.
"This is where I've been staying with my brother," Kasuka infomed her, and Izaya almost paled at the implication.
"I'm not going to this monster's apartment!" she said through clenched teeth.
"It's my apartment," Shinra chirped, and then continued when Izaya gave him a confused look. "Even you don't know everything about me."
Izaya snorted but kept walking. Once inside, she allowed her eyes to roam all over the place, wondering how did the doctor get enough money to buy a second apartment. Since Shizuo was soaked in blood, they took him to the bathroom while Izaya herself sat down on the couch after Celty threw some towels on it.
"You know how to reach me," Shiki informed her and walked out the door, Izaya giving him a confused look before sighing loudly and reclining against the couch. It felt good to finally sit down on something soft instead of a dirty floor.
"Ah, I can't believe my precious everything is gone," she whined while Celty cleaned her wounds as best as she could because Shinra was too busy fixing Shizuo. Izaya threw the bathroom door a nasty glare before turning her attention back to the Dullahan. She didn't even want to imagine how boring life would've been without Celty, as well as how terrible it would've been if her means of reaching Valhalla had been taken away from her. Actually, it had been literally taken away from her, but all was not lost, and she had the confidence that she could one day ― as soon as possible, hopefully ― be able to get back Celty's head. "Do you even know what you're doing?" she inquired in a suspicious voice, but the Dullahan simply nodded and went back to pulling out pieces of whatever had penetrated her flesh during the explosion. She wasn't as badly injured as Shizuo, but her whole body still hurt and she was so tired that the pain was the only thing keeping her awake. She had no idea how long she stayed there, but after what felt like an eternity, Celty informed her that she was done and that she had to go check on Shizuo. Izaya put on the clothes brought to her and headed straight for the nearest room where she lay on the bed and fell asleep.
Celty blankly stared at her PDA for a minute or two, wondering if she should wake the sleeping women and tell her that she had just collapsed on Shizuo's bed. Izaya sleeping there was wrong for several reasons, and yet Celty couldn't find it in her heart to wake her up. As if to help her make up her mind, Shinra called her, and she closed the door to Shizuo's bedroom and went into the bathroom.
"So what did she say?" Shinra inquired as soon as Celty opened the door.
[ She didn't say anything. She fell asleep. ]
"The couch is not that comfortable to sleep in," Kasuka mused out loud.
[ She fell asleep in Shizuo's bed... ]
All three males snapped their heads in her direction, including Shizuo who was barely conscious.
"W-What... is s-she c-crazy?" Shizuo asked in a pained voice.
[ I don't think she knew it was your bedroom... ]
Shinra simply shrugged and went back to sewing. "She'll probably be mad tomorrow, but she needs rest. It looks like you're going to have to bunk with Kasuka tonight."
Shizuo grunted but didn't say anything. He almost feared Izaya's reaction when she'd wake up, and he had a feeling that he'd have to call Shinra to sew a bunch of switchblade wounds.
"Could you please go buy some more bandages? I'm running out," a frowning Shinra asked Celty. He hadn't realized that Shizuo's wounds would be so bad, and it was a miracle his patient was still somewhat conscious. "I think you need blood transfusion," he then told him, but Shizuo simply mumbled a "I just need some sleep" before finally passing out.
Kasuka's expression turned into one of panic, but Shinra assured him that Shizuo would be ok. He was a pretty good doctor, so he knew what he was doing.
Celty was back with more bandages not even ten minutes later, and with Kasuka's help, Shinra finished patching up Shizuo and both of them carried him to the other bedroom where they laid him on the bed. They decided it was best that Shinra and Celty went home, to not arise any suspicion. Besides, they didn't want their apartment to get trashed by the Awakusu-kai. Even if Aozaki had figured out that Celty had helped them, he couldn't prove it.
Once the two of them were gone, Kasuka went to check on Shizuo and then went to get rid of the bloody towels on the couch so that he could sleep there. He had no idea how to act around Izaya, especially after threatening her, but he hoped that she wouldn't attack him, or worse, panic when realizing that she was alone with the two of them. He didn't want Izaya anywhere near Shizuo any more than she wanted to be around them, but all of their lives were on the line and they couldn't afford to bicker among themselves. That night he fell asleep pretty fast, exhaustion finally catching up with him.
Izaya woke up in middle of the night, her dry throat screaming for some water. She staggered out of the room on wobbly legs, forgetting in her half-asleep state where she was. She tripped on something that shouldn't have been there had she been inside her own apartment, but she kept on walking to where the kitchen was supposed to be, only to run into something and grunt in pain.
"Are you ok?" she heard a voice from right in front of her, and she jumped back in fright, only now realizing that she was not inside her own apartment. The voice sounded familiar, but it was only after she heard it again that she figured out who it was. A quick inspection of her clothes told her that she was weaponless, and she turned on her heals and dashed towards the nearest door she could see in the dim light, a mistake she immediately came to regret when she seemed to have entered the room where Shizuo was sleeping.
She was trapped in hell, that had to be it. Somehow she had died and now her punishment was to be forever haunted by her tormentor and his bastard of a brother. She tried to back away but she ran into Kasuka, so she moved further into the room until she was trapped in the corner furthest away from both the Heiwajima monsters. She thought she heard Kasuka talk, but she couldn't be sure when her heart was making so much noise. As if that wasn't bad enough, the man turned on the light, by doing so waking up the sleeping beast. Finally, Izaya remembered where she was and what had happened before she fell asleep, the sight of a heavily-bandaged Shizuo jolting her memory. She licked her dry lips to say something, but she couldn't find her voice. Instead, she intently watched the sleeping beast's eyes flutter open before finally settling on her.
"I...zaya?" Shizuo asked, his expression one of confusion.
"I'm sorry for waking you up, nii-san, but it looked like she was starting to panic and I had no choice but to turn on the light."
Shizuo's gaze drifted from Izaya's frightened face to Kasuka's apparently emotionless one. "Why is she here?"
"Shinra and Celty-san thought it was best she stayed here. They didn't want to go into hiding, so they went home."
"Are they insane? he growled at Kasuka before turning his attention back to Izaya. "If you want to go, then go," he told her and motioned for Kasuka to get out of the way, "but it's not safe outside." The silence stretched for a few long moments until she laughed.
"And here it is?" she hissed as soon as she found her voice, and she glowered at Shizuo with all the animosity and hatred she felt towards him.
"You're safe here, Orihara-san," Kasuka assured her. "I gave Celty-san my word that I wouldn't let anything bad happen to you while you're here."
Izaya broke into hysterical laughter and allowed her body to slide down the wall. She didn't have any energy left in her battered body, so walking out of there and into the street where the Awakusu-kai could find her was like asking to get killed. It was a tough choice, but after a few minutes of considering her options while fighting off the nausea, she concluded that she had no choice but to stay in that apartment with the Heiwajima brothers. Her limbs were shaking with fine tremors, but she refused to show how terrified she was of both of them.
"I'm going to kill them," she spoke in a spiteful voice while pushing herself off the floor. "That bastard and that monster, I'll kill them with my own two hands," she hissed through gritted teeth as she stumbled out of the bedroom and went straight to the one from where she came before slamming the door behind her. Both Celty and Shinra would pay dearly for what they had done. They should've known better than to do that to her. She would skin them alive and throw their corpses to the dogs to feast on them.
She sat down on the bed and warily stared at the door, wondering if either of those monsters would try to come in. Deep down inside, she knew they wouldn't, and yet her mind kept imagining terrible scenarios of what would happen to her if they were to burst through that door.
That night she wasn't able to go back to sleep.
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