Oh my… I don´t even know what to say… Sorry, really, really sorry, I took longer than a month for updating! O.O Gomenasai! TT-TT Oh well, but now, here you have it~ The last chapter~ It even is a little longer than usual~-^.^-

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Chapter 5: Wrong decision

-Shinra´s room. Izaya´s & Shizuo´s point of view-

"Well, there you have it, Izaya, tell us what happened." The bespectacled sat down on his chair and smiled at the raven.

Mentioned informant, though, wasn´t as happy as the doctor was.

Oh damn…

Damn damn damn.

Izaya gulped.

What should he do?!

Should he tell him?

Would it be wise to tell them what really happened?

These guys… that wanted to initially murder Shizuo… they were still alive.

Izaya had been given IKTX by one of their men- who was dead now. But... that fact didn´t even help him in any way. If they had at least seen that Izaya received the deadly poison, then they would think he was dead now, but this way…

The only thing they would notice if they came out of that warehouse, was that Izaya killed one of their men. Which they surely did, after all they just needed to clean away the boxes in the back of the warehouse to get outside through the delivery entrance.

They would search for him. They would try to kill him- not knowing, that exactly that Izaya should basically be already dead, which he only miraculously was not. And their goal to kill Shizuo surely wasn´t forfeited yet either.

If they really had that much of the poison stocked in the warehouse, then this was way more than just a dangerous situation.

Rationally thinking, he should tell the truth, if only to at least warn the blond, but… he knew Shizuo. He didn't even need to look at the fuming blond, to know that he would immediately go and search for these bastards so he could beat them up. No matter what Izaya said.

No matter if he told the blond about the poison or not, he would do it.

He sighed. He had no choice.

He had to lie.

"Earth to Izaya, you still there?" A hand waving in front of his face snapped him out of his thoughts.

Shinra was the one waving it, grinning but looking a bit concerned.

"You alright Izaya?" Shizuo suddenly asked, inching closer to the raven. He had been standing beside his bed, and now sat down on it, scanning the raven obviously worried.

"Ah, don´t worry, I am. I just thought about something." Izaya mumbled, avoiding Shizuo´s glance. Damn, he didn´t want to have to lie to Shizuo…

Shinra smiled, getting his pencil once again, he brought his hand to his notes- ready to write down what Izaya had to say.

"Okay, so then, spill it Izaya, when, where and how did you receive the poison, and what did you do before and afterwards? Don´t leave out even the slightest detail. No matter how insignificant it seems." Shinra ordered. His eyes almost glittered from curiosity.

Izaya nodded- damn he had to be careful, Shinra really needed the important details for his research, he had to choose wisely about which parts he would lie.

"Did it have something to do with the fact that you were gone the past week?" Shizuo suddenly threw in.

… Was it only him or did he look a bit... guilty?

Why was he avoiding his glance?

Izaya shook his head.

"No, work just piled up a bit." He started making Shizuo look back at him. The blond sighed, relieved.

Okay, so at least he wouldn´t have to beat himself over the fact that maybe something happened to Izaya while he was gone the past week…

Curious Izaya stared at Shizuo.

Really now... he couldn´t shake off the feeling that Shizuo was thinking about something stupid again. The tapping of Shinra´s fingers on his notes, snapped Izaya out of his thoughts. Right he had to continue. He cleared his throat and went on.

"I was just going home after finishing one of my deals with a client. It was already getting dark, but then I noticed there was some strange guy following me." he started, his explanation- leaving out the aspect that he was tailing Shizuo and that it was actually him following more than one guy around.

"You didn´t have any kind of illness or fever or anything lowering your immune system as far as you know until then, is that correct?" Shinra suddenly asked. Izaya nodded.

"Yeah, as far as I know yes. Either way, after realizing he was following me, I just ran for it, I wasn´t in the mood for teasing that thug, and decided to do that instead. However, while running he actually managed to tackle me down, I don´t know where he came from, he must have taken some shortcut? I don´t remember. Either way, he got me and tackled me to the floor." He pointed at his scratched chest.

"Shards of metals were lying on the ground and they cut me." He explained. Shinra nodded scribbling the facts down in his notes.

Almost correct. He wouldn´t have to mention Kasuka, or the motive of these "men" to kill Shizuo, at all in his explanation, as far as it concerned Shinra´s analysis.

"After that he tried holding me down, but I managed to escape, however, that was when I suddenly felt a sting on my leg." He pointed to his thigh. "That´s where I took the syringe."

A surprised look was directed at the raven at that piece of information.

"He gave you a syringe? That´s actually surprising... could you make out the amount of poison he gave you?" Izaya nodded. After all, he inspected the syringe after he cut the bastard on his chest.

"Yeah, it were about 5ml I suppose."

Clack

Surprised Izaya glanced at the doctor.

Shinra dropped his pencil, staring at the raven in pure disbelief.

"You´re lying!" Surprised and probably a bit panicking Izaya gaped at the doctor. What? What did he mean? He thought he was careful about his lies?!

"What are you talking about Shinra?" Shizuo suddenly questioned, the whole time having been rather silent.

Shinra sat down again, still looking quite staggered.

"W-well. Izaya, I don´t mean to scare you, but, the usual amount sufficient to kill a person is about 0.5ml only."

…

What?!

Shouldn´t it be more than just impossible for him to be alive now?!

Now Izaya was confused, and it seemed Shinra was as well.

"This is certainly interesting… are you sure about this?" Shinra asked, adjusting his glasses. Izaya nodded frowning.

"Yeah, after I threw this bastard off I cut him with my knife and he went down. I pulled the syringe out and took a look at it, and it was clearly visible that it was filled up to the 5ml mark because of the slight color remaining in the syringe. That reddish color was something I couldn´t have overlooked." Izaya remembered.

That was true, he did see that strange color and he definitely gave him around 5ml from that syringe.

"Well, this is yet another mystery it seems…" Shinra suddenly announced. "IKTX is usually colorless as well as odorless. How come you are so sure it was IKTX they gave you? I mean the symptoms do match, and I wouldn´t have doubted it was that deadly poison... but now, I kinda get the feeling you must have been given something different."

Eh? Odorless? No way, he still remembered that acid smell lingering in the place.

Well, this actually surprised the raven now.

"It was written on the syringe. IKTX Nr. 8 and smelled acid." he explained, clearly remembering how shocked he was when he read that…. Fuck.

He felt like someone threw him into and endless black hole that time.

Even the memory of it made him feel quite uncomfortable.

"Nr. 8? That´s weird, usually they don´t use any kind of numeration on their poisons…" Shinra mumbled, scribbling on his notes.

"Is this the reason he survived?" Shizuo suddenly asked. Shinra seemed to ponder on that for a while, but then only shrugged.

"Possibly, the only thing I can imagine is that these guys didn´t receive the real IKTX, but were trying to make it on their own- like a copy-cat drug if you will."

Izaya´s eyes widened.

So that´s what they were doing in that warehouse!

They weren´t exactly making the drug, but rather trying to produce IKTX.

"… what did you do then Izaya?" the bespectacled asked. Izaya gulped.

"Well… I kinda… panicked... to be honest." He admitted, avoiding Shizuo´s, as well as Shinra´s eyes.

"I took my knife and stabbed my leg… yeah I know, it´s stupid, as if I could get out the poison like this… after all the blood flowing at a rate of 30cm/second transported it to every single cell of my body by then anyway…" Izaya waved his hand dismissing, but Shinra shook his head.

"Not necessarily. I mean yeah you are right, blood does flow that fast, but the blood loss actually reduces the blood and logically concluding of course also the poison, you lost quite a bit of it Izaya. I don´t know if this is the reason for your survival though…" he admitted.

"Okay, Izaya, were you scared that time?"

Eh?

"What?"

Why did he want to know that?

The bespectacled seemed to notice Izaya´s hesitation as he sighed.

He put away his notes and looked Izaya directly in the eyes.

"Izaya, there is one difference between you- and the poisoned patients I usually treat- you knew from the second you got the injection, what it meant- not about dying, but about the effects I mean. I believe you must have been scared shitless, causing immense amounts of adrenaline to flow through your body. This is no question of your feelings or pride Izaya, I need to know this as a doctor." The look Izaya received from the physician told him how serious the medic was about the topic.

Reluctantly the raven nodded.

What Shinra was pointing at definitely made sense, he had never felt an adrenaline rush higher than he did the day before.

"Yeah… I was." He admitted.

Confused Shizuo eyed Shinra. Something else except of the fact that Izaya was going to die? What was Shinra talking about?

"What do you mean, effects? What more should he know than the fact that he was going to die?" Shizuo asked, not quite getting what the doctor was pointing at.

Shinra and Izaya exchanged a quick look, debating on whether it was necessary to tell him or not. Shinra was the one who decided to spill the information.

"You now, Shizuo… well, IKTX doesn´t only kill. It has some nasty side effects as well… it´s getting the heart and lounge to dissolve itself."

Shizuo swallowed hard.

What?

He glanced at the raven. Even now he looked scared the moment Shinra pointed that out.

"Shit, you knew that? Is that why… why you tried to k-" Izaya interrupted him.

"Yes. Now please, could you stop remembering me of it?" he mumbled, avoiding Shizuo´s stare by looking out of the window. A little cough escaped his lips.

Somehow he felt hot again.

"Sorry…" Shizuo apologized and took Izaya´s hand, rubbing his thumb over the back of Izaya´s hand comforting.

…

The flea was really panicking that time... He even tried to kill himself.

Now he knew why.

Damn…

And he remembered him of that unpleasant experience just now.

…

"Okay…?" Shinra attempted to dispel the dense air to no avail.

After a second or two Shinra cleared his throat and the sound made Izaya's eyes focus on the brunette. "So… what happened then Izaya?" Shinra inquired, attempting to mantle the matter, to focus on the essential issue at hand.

Izaya sighed, leaning back on his bed.

"Well… I don´t really remember, it was kind of a haze, I was stabbing my thigh, that guy was just laughing, and next thing I knew the man was dead…" Izaya admitted. He wasn´t really surprised by that.

Even though he never ever killed someone before, that guy… he definitely deserved no better.

"You killed the guy?" Shizuo asked surprised. Izaya just nodded.

"So he won´t come after you anymore, at least." Shinra pointed out, nodding.

Exactly.

Izaya sighed, relieved.

Good, they had taken the bait, without knowing that these guys were still there Shizuo had no reason to act reckless and do anything that could get him into trouble.

He frowned as another cough shook his body. This time it worried Shizuo.

"Oi, are you okay?" he asked.

Now that he took a closer look on the raven he noticed that he had gotten a bit pale.

He was about to say something to Shinra, but the doctor was already over and checked on Izaya.

"Hmm... you have a bit fever Izaya. I guess your throat and head hurts again?" he questioned.

Izaya nodded. Yeah, his throat hurt again, and his forehead as well, not as bad as before though.

"I take it you cut down on the painkillers already?" Izaya guessed rolling over.

He felt hot.

He didn´t need to be a genius to know that his temperature was rising again.

"Correct. But be at ease, it shouldn´t hurt more than it does now- and that´s bearable right?" the doctor smiled.

"Bearable... yeah." Izaya admitted.

Hurting, but bearable. He glanced at the clock in the room.

11 pm.

Okay. Now he had to set his plan into motion.

He glanced at the blond, and yawned.

"You tired?" This time it was Shizuo asking. Izaya simply nodded, and snuggled into his cushion.

Shizuo watched the flea in awe. He looked kinda cute rolling up like that. He turned his head to Shinra as a sigh reached his ears.

"Well, I have all the information I need for now." He announced, getting up from his seat. He smiled at the blond.

"Let him sleep Shizuo, it will help him recover." The blond nodded, getting up from his position on the bed.

"Night, flea." he murmured, and brushed away some bangs covering Izaya´s face.

His eyes snapped open again and he looked fondly at the former bartender.

"Night, protozoan." He chuckled, before closing his eyes again.

Silently they left the room.

-Shizuo´s point of view-

As soon as they closed the door a chuckle left Shinra´s mouth.

"What?" Shizuo asked, eyes darting to the giggling bespectacled.

"Really now Shizuo, the way you act with Izaya, is just too cute." The doctor laughed, making the blond growl.

"Tch shut up!"

Now that he had Izaya he wouldn´t let go of him ever again. What´s wrong with being a little overprotective?

-Izaya´s point of view—

Cautious the famous informant opened one eye.

It was quiet.

…

Did they really leave? He cracked one eye open, tilting his head to the side so he could see the door.

It was closed, he could hear the two of them talk in front of it.

He sighed. At least this was going the way he planned to.

Quickly he sat up- a mistake, as he immediately realized.

He winced a little and held his head.

It hurt terrible and the sudden movement had caused the world to spin. He squeezed his eyes shut, trying to chase away the dizziness.

Well, at least that worked a bit. He opened them again and held onto the chair standing next to his bed, as he got up. Slowly this time.

Frowning, he realized, that his ability to walk had decreased considerably. The room was swaying terribly, and he couldn´t exactly feel he was standing. He looked down his legs. It felt almost as if he was walking on some useless sticks instead of his own feet.

He glanced at the door, which was still closed.

His sight darted to the window right next to his bed. There was a fire escape right beside it.

He had been escaping through there whenever he was here and Shizuo suddenly dropped by- and now he would as well.

He couldn´t let Shizuo get dragged into this, he would find those bastards before they found either Kasuka or Shizuo and render them harmless.

Tch... Shizuo would kill him if he found out what he was doing… but…

… No-one was allowed to kill Shizuo, no-one except himself, even if that goal kinda dissipated into thin air by now.

With difficulty, but still soundless the raven-haired slithered out of the room, cautiously, not wanting to be discovered of course- and vanished into the dark night.

-Shizuo´s point of view-

"You should be grateful I am not punching you straight in the face." Shizuo stated, lighting one of his cigarettes.

Surprised Shinra eyed the blond.

"Eh? Punch me in the face? Why would you want to do that?" Shizuo growled.

"Well, think about it, who was it again, that said Izaya couldn´t be saved? If I didn´t bring him over myself he would have died. I am still angry at you for that." he glared at the doctor, but soon dropped the glare and sighed instead.

"Well, but on the other hand, you did save him after all." He admitted, sitting down on Shinra´s couch.

Damn, he was tired. That short nap, he had taken with the flea had just made him even more tired.

"Exactly." The doctor grinned. "I was the one saving him. But you are right." He let himself slump down too.

"I should have at least looked at him first before stating that there was nothing that could be done, and I am sorry for that." He apologized.

"Tch… right." Shizuo huffed. Shinra sighed.

"Well, at least I think I know now why Izaya survived." Surprised Shizuo glanced at the doctor.

"Eh? Really?" The bespectacled nodded.

"Yeah. You see, there are three important factors that made this possible. First, it was the wrong drug. I finished analyzing Izaya´s blood, and came to the conclusion, that what he received, was way less strong than the real deal. That´s why even though he took 5ml of the poison he survived." Shinra explained.

"Secondly, it seems it is still similar to the real drug, because just as in the real one, adrenaline seems to be the key to defeating it. The fact that he knew about the effects oft he drug probably saved his life, and last but not least- he was running."

"How does that matter?"

"Well, you see, when we run our body's natural immune system circulates protective cells through the body faster, to attack and eliminate bacteria, viruses and fungi. Infection fighters, such as Natural Killer Cells, macrophages, immune-globins, white blood cells, and other antibodies, produced in the bone marrow, lungs and spleen, have a clean up effect on foreign invaders. In other words also for the poison. So it was already up and ready to defeat the poison as soon as it entered Izaya´s body."

Shizuo nodded. He kinda got what the doctor meant.

"Oh well, but let´s not dwell on this any longer." Shinra sighed and got up from the couch.

"Yeah right, after all he survived. Even though they gave him that pois-"

Surprised Shizuo stopped talking mid sentence.

…

Wait.

Something was bugging him.

…

They?

"Didn´t he say, they gave him IKTX...?" Shizuo suddenly mumbled, thinking back to when he found the flea. He told him to tell Shinra that they had given him IKTX.

But before he said it was just one, so why…?

"What are you talking about, Shizuo?"

"The poison… just now Izaya said he got it from one guy, but yesterday he said he got it from several..."

Why should he have lie-

Suddenly it dawned on both of them; a worried glance was exchanged before Shizuo shot up and dashed into the flea´s room.

"Izaya!"

But they were too late- the window was open, the bed was empty, and the flea-

Was gone.

-Izaya´s point of view-

God damnit...!

Izaya swore as dragged his body up the stairs.

He stopped panting while holding onto the railing of the staircase.

What the hell was going on?!

He couldn´t even walk straight for god´s sake!

And why the hell was it so difficult to move up those damn stairs?!

He frowned, he had gotten out of his room, and taken a taxi here, but oh how great- the elevator to his apartment wasn´t working! How damn fucking great!

He slumped down on one of the stairs and rested his head in his hands. The room was spinning more and more.

Damn damn damn!

He didn´t think the aftereffects of the poison would make him that weak!

A short glance to the cursed staircase told him, that he had only to manage going up ten more.

Only ten.

Sighing, he heaved himself up again.

"Come on now, this can´t be so difficult." He mumbled between tight lips as he dragged himself up the torturous steps.

Once he was in his apartment he could let himself sink into his beloved swivel chair and start working on getting those guys back.

He didn´t know much, but he had a name- one of them was called Hiroshi if he recalled correctly- Kasuka had been kidnapped, no matter how good they were, there was surely some material somewhere, and last but not least he knew their faces.

For an information broker as great as him- this was more than enough information to sniff those guys out.

He would find them, and then he would get the Yakuza to think of them as a threat somehow- they could eliminate them without a trace. Or if they didn´t see them as a great enough threat, he could still hint the police where they produced their stuff.

He chuckled. Oh yes, he wouldn´t let them carry out their goal to kill Shizuo.

Huffing, he leaned until his palms pressured his knees for support. He felt fatigue and weariness spread all over his body.

God damn he would have to speak with Shinra, he wasn´t even able to stand without fearing that his legs would give away under him any second.

Smirking, he got his keys, but now he was here. Sighing, he inserted the key into the door lock and turned it around.

Finally. He stepped into his apartment.

And his smirk dropped.

No-

…

No way.

"Oh hello- Orihara Izaya-san."

He couldn´t believe his eyes- or rather he didn´t want to. This was just too cruel to happen.

They were here.

All of them.

The guys… the guys who had held Kasuka captive, the guys who wanted to kill Shizuo- the guys whose member he killed.

The guys- who would kill him now.

Instantly he turned on his heels- planning to run away- but to no avail. It wasn´t that he wasn´t fast enough, or that they got him already, no- he simply lost his balance.

The quick movement was too much to take, and besides his head playing tricks on him by making the room spin, his legs finally did what Izaya had feared for them to do during the whole walk here.

They gave away under his weight, and he fell to the floor.

Heartfelt laughter was heard.

He panicked.

He couldn´t escape! There was no way he would be fast enough!

There was no way-

Suddenly one of the guys approached him.

"Well then, how about we test something on you, huh?! I am sure you would love to be experimented on with this, ne?" He held a syringe in his hand.

Izaya´s eyes widened and his blood froze.

He tried to pick himself up from the floor, but didn´t succeed as he slumped down the wall he leaned on for support.

Shit…

Shit shit shit...!

Before he could react the guy gripped his collar and threw him inside his apartment. Izaya flinched, the spinning, dizziness, the pain in his leg and head were still there, preventing him from defending himself properly in any way- and the fact that his reaction time had slowed down considerable wasn´t exactly helpful either.

He was defenseless. The guys laughed.

"Last time you escaped, but what about now? Huh? Orihara Izaya-kun? How about this? Why are you so weak? Huh? You are making it too easy!"

The guy approached him again and held the syringe in front of his eyes. The others laughed, sitting on the black leather couch and his swivel chair they watched the scene amused.

"You know what this is? This is IKTX- the real deal, extra bought from another producing company." He laughed crazily. Izaya tried to crawl away, but it was no use, before he knew it a foot was planted on his back, pushing him to the ground, preventing him from moving away.

"Oh no, you stay here. You killed one of our guys Izaya-kun. Now it´s your turn."

There he was. On the floor- one of the guys approaching him, with another syringe of the stuff that was not pseudo IKTX but the real deal- it had no color, and he didn´t smell anything from it- this would kill him for sure.

Shit… He didn´t think they would be waiting for him. He didn´t think they would be so fast in figuring out who it was that messed up their plans…

His mind was racing, trying to think of a solution- to think of any possible way to escape this, but…

He shivered. There was no hope, no need to struggle, he wouldn´t get away this time. Not this time.

They would give him the poison- and this time it would work. This time he would really die. No-one… not even Shinra would be able to help him now.

Shizuo…

The image of his blond figure flashed through his mind. Damn…

A sad smile settled on his expression.

He would be really angry once he found out that he escaped from the room…

Shizuo… he squinted his eyes shut as the guy approached him with the deadly needle.

I am sorry…

CRASH

Instantly Izaya´s eyes shot open again.

What was that?!

The guy who had been approaching him was gone.

No- not gone.

Izaya spotted him on the other side of the apartment, lying in front of his bookshelf, on the ground.

Who..?!

"You damn flea, if you ever do something like this again, I will fucking kill you!" Izaya´s head snapped in the direction of the voice.

Disbelieving he stared at the well known blond figure towering over him as he punched the guy holding him down straight into the face.

"Shizuo?!" he couldn´t believe it.

"Damn straight." A growl left said man´s lips as he brought down one arm and pulled the raven up from the floor.

"What the hell did you think you were doing?!" Shizuo asked, visibly in rage.

Izaya quickly clung to the blond as he was put on his feet. He could only barely stand.

"Shizuo, I just-" but he was interrupted.

"Go." Was the only thing Shizuo spat between tight lips as he pointed at the door while fixating his new enemies.

Izaya squinted his eyes shut, trying to make sense of the swaying surroundings. But only looking he knew he wouldn´t be able to.

"I can´t." visibly confused the blond looked at the raven.

"What do you mean you can´t?" Worry reflected in his eyes as he looked at his raven. Only now he realized how the flea clung to him and seemed to be in distress.

He was about to ask Izaya if he was okay when one of the guys in the room rose his voice.

"Well, if it isn´t Shizuo Heiwajima. The guy we want to kill. What a coincidence!" he laughed, seemingly unaffected by the fact that it was the fortissimo of Ikebukuro standing in front of him he leisurely approached the two.

Confused Shizuo looked at the guys.

"What?" Kill him? Why the heck would they be in Izaya´s apartment if they wanted to kill him?

"Yes, kill you Heiwajima. That was our plan before this bastard." He pointed at Izaya. "… Destroyed our plans by freeing that damn brother of yours." He spat.

"Kasuka?" well now Shizuo was confused. What the hell was going on here? Izaya saved his brother? When?

"Izaya?" he asked, giving the raven a questioning look.

A sigh escaped his lips. Now he would have to spill it.

"Yesterday… I overheard them talking about how they wanted to kill you. They wanted to use Kasuka to lure you to a warehouse, and give you the IKTX they had in stock. I followed them and freed your brother, before they caught me and gave me poison." Izaya explained.

Shizuo stared at him in disbelief.

"So the only reason you got that poison, was because you wanted to- wait, those were the guys who gave you that IKTX?!" he suddenly realized and shot a deadly glare in the direction of the men.

Izaya simply nodded. "I managed to escape, but one of them still got me and managed to inject the poison… that one I really killed."

A whistle was heard.

"Oh, you already got a taste of our poison, this is surprising, must be pretty bad if you´re still living." he smirked.

" Heh~. Now I get why you didn´t try to escape. You can´t, right?" another laughed, Shizuo tightened his grip on the flea.

"Well, either way, we will just kill you both now~" he grinned, every single one of the man pulled out a syringe, all filled with the deadly clear liquid.

"Oh no, you won´t." Shizuo growled. Izaya´s eyes widened.

Was that brute really dumb enough to fight them with the risk of getting poisoned?!

He quickly turned his head, glaring at the blond

"No, Shizuo, you ca…n´t…" suddenly the world started to spin.

Feeling the pain shoot through his brain, he squeezed his eyes shut.

Too quick-

He heard some rushing sound in his ear and before he knew it, he felt himself falling down.

Shizuo of course noticed Izaya loosening his grip, and caught the raven.

Swiftly he placed one hand behind the raven´s back and the other underneath his legs and lifted him up effortlessly.

The guys were still occupied with finding this whole situation highly amusing, and didn´t do anything as the blond carried the raven to the back of this room, and gently placed him on the floor, leaning him onto his big window.

"Shizu-" but Shizuo ignored the raven´s call and turned around, cracking his knuckled.

"You fucking assholes, you are at fault for this." He growled.

"Shizuo. Don´t-!" Izaya started, but he was quickly interrupted.

"What?! I just need to avoid those fucking needles, right?!" he growled, annoyed turning back to his new enemies.

"Now, be prepared." He turned to the right, grabbed the flea´s bookshelf without effort and hurled it at the group. Two people successfully received the harsh impact, the rest, unfortunately absconded the hit.

In a blink of an eye, they were all charging at him with the whole intention to assail him in the most violent way.

One needle, they would just need to get him with one needle and then they could just make a run for it.

However, this wasn´t as easy as they thought it to be. The first guy approaching Shizuo didn´t even get the chance to aim at the blond, a punch to the face, sending him flying through the wall was what he got.

Same fort he second and third, they were no match for him, and even though they had those damn dangerous syringes, Shizuo wouldn´t let them inject him with it.

He evaded each of their attempts to give him the shot, and sent them flying.

Izaya watched them with mixed feelings. On one side it really seemed like the blond had control over the situation, but... what if they still got him?!

Suddenly he noticed movement beside him. The guy Shizuo had thrown against the bookshelf had been lying unconscious on the floor- but now he was moving!

"Tch… damn bastard." He growled. Terrified Izaya looked at the guy as he slipped one hand into his pocket- not pulling out a syringe- but a gun!

Aiming at Shizuo!

"NO!"

BANG

"WHAT THE HECK?! YOU DAMN BASTARD! GET OFF ME!" the guy yelled. Izaya had shot forward and pulled up his arm, making his shot hit the ceiling instead of Shizuo.

"I SAID, LET GO!" Before Izaya knew it the guy had lifted him by his collar and smashed him against his window.

"Ah!" A hurt gasp escaped his lips.

Glass shattered, he squeezed his eyes shut in pain as he felt the warm liquid run down the backside of his head.

"IZAYA!" A worried yell came from Shizuo´s direction. Izaya winced.

Fuck his head hurt. It hurt.

Damn it hurt!

He slowly opened one eye, seeing Shizuo storm over- the guy holding him by his collar was now pointing the gun at his forehead.

The guy…

The guy was grinning.

A short glance told Izaya why- a syringe, he held it in his other hand, hiding from the blond.

Shit…

If Shizuo came closer he would-

"Sh… iz..u..o." Izaya tried to warn him.

Fuck, black spots were invading his vision.

Shizuo he has a syringe!

Was what he wanted to say... but his voice… he already felt his consciousness fading.

Shit.. Shizuo be careful! Watch out…!

Slowly darkness filled the flea´s vision.

He... he has...

Coldness…

"Shiz…"

Panic…

Shizuo! The syringe…!

"H-he… W-watc…"

"WATCH OUT!" Izaya shot up, panting, screaming.

Wait, screaming?!

Why could he suddenly scream?!

He turned his head in confusion. Where was he?! This was not his apartment!

Looking down, he noticed white sheets covering his body.

He was in a bed?! He scanned his surroundings in confusion.

He knew this place!

This was Shinra´s!

What the-?!

"Ah, Izaya! You woke up?" Utterly confused Izaya looked at a well known bespectacled doctor entering his room.

"Shinra...?" he whispered confused.

What… what was going on? He thought he had… what?

"Ah, you slept quite long. How are you feeling, are you okay?" Shinra asked approaching the raven.

Slept?

Wait.

Did he- had he just dreamt all of that? No, impossible, he didn´t… or did he?

He took his head in his palms as he tried to take in the confusing information.

What was going on?

"Does your head still hurt?" Shinra asked- but Izaya ignored the doctor.

His head darted around, scanning the room.

He just… dreamed? For real?

But what about those guys?! What about his apartment, what about-

"Shinra where is Shizu-chan?" he asked, for the first time looking at the doctor.

Suddenly his eyes widened in shock- Shinra… looked like he had cried!

A stare, looking at Izaya as if he was insane, was directed at him.

"You… you don´t remember?" he suddenly asked and Izaya got a really- really bad feeling at that question.

"What don´t I remember? I asked where Shizu-chan is, shouldn´t he be here? Where is he?!"

Izaya didn´t know why, but somehow he panicked. His voice shrieked at the end of the question.

Something was wrong, very, very wrong.

"Izaya..." the doctor started, avoiding his stare.

Izaya´s heart skipped a beat.

No…

No no no, the way Shinra looked. No, don´t tell me-

"Shizuo…" tears started gathering in the informant´s eyes. But he couldn´t tear his stare from the bespectacled doctor.

No, please don´t say what I think you want to say…!

Shinra inhaled deeply, before-

"… Shizuo… didn´t make it out of there."

No.

Izaya stomach churned, he felt like drowning.

No!

No, this is not true!

"Shinra that´s a really bad joke." He tried, forcing a smile on his face.

However, the doctor didn´t seem like he was joking at all.

Not. At. All.

"Izaya… sadly-"

"SHINRA!" Izaya blurted out, clutching his head in a tight grip as he leaned over.

No!

No way!

Hot tears spilled on the white blanket. Eyes wide in horror Izaya thought back what happened. That guy, had a syringe... and a gun.

And he killed Shizuo?!

No…!

Shizuo couldn´t…!

He rocked himself comforting, eyes wide in terror, the tears wouldn´t stop.

Shizuo couldn´t… couldn´t be-

He felt so much pain, much worse than any physical pain he ever felt.

Shizuo... but, no, that´s just so unfair.

Shizuo... Shizuo was... they just got together!

Tears spilled and dripped down his face.

The brute loved him...!

He.. He..

He hiccupped.

He couldn´t even... he couldn´t even tell him that he loved him back!

He couldn´t... he couldn´t even say goodbye..!

He..!

No…

No!

NO...!

SHIZUO...!

"IZAYA!" heavy panting Izaya shot up-

What?! Where?!

Tears were running down his face in endless streams.

This voice.

No way.

"Shizu-chan?" he whispered in a shaky voice. Eyes adjusting to the light, he realized where he was.

The same room- Shinra´s room. Again? What was going on?!

"God damn you scared me! Don´t ever do something like that again, you got me?!"

His eyes darted back to the blond who had spoken the words.

His eyes widened a fraction at the sight, he took in. No sad Shinra, telling him that Shizuo was dead was sitting in front of him-

No- it was Shizuo himself!

It was Shizu-chan!

His Shizu-chan!

He was there!

He was alive!

He-

Izaya lunged forward and wrapped his arms around the blond burying his face in the blond´s shirt. Surprised Shizuo looked at the raven.

"Izaya?! What´s wrong?" he asked, wrapping his arms around the flea, hugging him back.

"Shizuo, please hit me." Izaya sobbed.

"Huh?" Confused Shizuo looked at the raven.

"Please hit me, so I can be sure this is not a dream." He cried, wiping away his tears.

"Izaya, what are-"

"Please!"

The raven let go, and backed away from the blond, giving him room to do what he had asked him to.

Izaya squeezed his eyes shut. Preparing for a blow, however, what he felt next wasn´t a fist connecting with his face- but soft lips touching his own.

Surprised, he opened them again, looking straight into those golden orbs of Shizuo.

"Wha-" Shizuo however, took the opportunity to slip his tongue into his mouth, efficiently shutting Izaya up.

Gently he explored the raven´s mouth, playing with Izaya´s tongue. The raven complied, melting into the soft kiss, too happy to complain. He moved his lips against Shizuo´s, and before he knew it his hands had found their way into Shizuo´s blond hair, while his had sneaked around Izaya´s frame, holding him close.

Shizuo kissed the flea a few seconds more, before letting go again. He softly bit Izaya´s lips before he ended the kiss.

Dazed Izaya stared at the blond.

"That wasn´t a hit..." he clarified, a little smile tugging at his mouth.

"I am not going to hit you Izaya..." Shizuo chuckled, but looked at Izaya with concern.

"What´s wrong? Why were you crying in your sleep?" he asked. Izaya flinched and looked the blond into his eyes.

"Shizuo, what happened?" he asked.

"Hah?"

"At my apartment, what happened?" he asked more detailed. Shizuo got what the flea meant.

"Ah, that guy wanted to shoot you, but I didn´t let him, he suddenly turned around and had another one of those fucking syringes in his hands. Ah well…" Shizuo rubbed his neck apologizing.

"Don´t get mad, he kind of managed to give me the shot." Eyes widening in shock Izaya stared at the blond.

No.

Nonono!

He didn´t say that just now!

"What?!" he yelled, almost jumping out of bed.

"Ah, you don´t need to worry though. I am fine. More or less thanks to you, Shinra finally got an idea how the real poison works." He explained, smiling at the raven.

"Which means?!" Izaya pushed further, too agitated to realize himself what it meant.

"He managed to make that antidote for the poison he has been trying to make for so long." Shizuo smiled.

Izaya stared disbelieving at the blond.

"He- he succeeded?" Izaya repeated. Shizuo nodded, caressing Izaya´s cheek.

"Yes, he did, you never need to be afraid of someone wanting to kill me with that poison." He smiled fondly at the flea.

Izaya felt as if a huge burden had been lifted from his shoulders. Shizuo. Shizuo was really alright.

He didn´t need to fear the blond getting killed again- at least from the poison. He laughed, tears suddenly returning to his eyes- but this time they were spilled of relief.

"Izaya?" Shizuo asked, not quite sure how to approach the raven.

"Why are you crying?" he asked, gently cupping Izaya´s face. The raven chuckled.

"I- I dreamed you got killed Shizu-chan." He smiled, sadly, gulping at the nightmare.

"I really thought you died, that you were gone... forever… even though… even though…" he sobbed, not able to continue further.

Shit, he was so scared, he really thought…!

Suddenly two arms found their way around his body, trapping him into a tight hug.

"Shh… it´s okay." Shizuo comforted the flea, stroking his back. "I am not dead, I am here." He smiled, placing a butterfly kiss on Izaya´s forehead.

Izaya smiled at the blond.

"Shizuo, I love you." He suddenly said, hugging the blond as tight as he could.

He didn´t say it before, and he thought he could never tell the blond when he dreamed he died, but he wanted him to know.

Shizuo smiled at those words.

"I love you too Izaya." He replied, placing a soft kiss on the raven´s lips again.

"Don´t worry flea." He chuckled and hugged him tight. "This protozoan here will never leave you."

Izaya smiled.

Never… huh?

That actually sounded good.

He snuggled into his chest.

…

Really, really good.

.

.

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THE END

Aaaand that´s it. The end. Finally. Finito. Ende. Owari~ xD

Well~ this story ended up being longer than I initially thought it would be. xD What was planned to be a One-shot ended up having 5 chapters. XD Oh well~ I don´t think you minded~ ;3

Anyway, *bows deeply*:

Thank you.

Thank you, for reading my story. I sincerely hope you enjoyed reading it despite my late updates from time to time~ ^^' (Gommmeeeennnnaasaaaiiii!)

Thank you for always leaving such nice reviews! You have no idea how happy and motivated for writing they made me! ~^o^~

Thank you for 70 Favorites, 106 followers, and 46 Reviews. Honestly… HOLY SHIT.. I wouldn´t have thought I would get that many...! O.O I mean… this is only 5 chapters long?! How did I get that many? xD

Thank you for proofreading chap 1-4 IkaruSakurai~! And also thank you, my new Beta, sis, for correcting chapter 5 and helping me on ending it right~ ;3 And of course thank you my dear sis for inspiring me to write this in the first place~ ;3

I am truly happy I wrote a story, that made people feel that much, and I am honored you all read my whole story up to now.

Thank you! :´3

And now I have one final last request~! X3 I am asking you for a review~ XD I bet you´re thinking now "ohhh the author just wants to gather even more reviews -.-", nono, that´s not my intention, I just really wanna know what you thought of this story. You can even PM me what you thought of it, I really am not craving for reviews here. XD I already have more than enough~ xD

I just wanna know, you guys reading this, you read the whole story, and I wanna know looking back on all of it, what do you think of it?

Why did you read it in the first place? What caught your attention, and I don´t mean the title or description here, that too, but mainly I mean when you started reading the first chapter, what was the moment you felt like, Oh, hey this gets interesting! xD How was the story progressing over time? Did it get better? Worse? What about my style of writing, is there anything I could do better? Regarding the story, did you think some things were out of place or were weird? Not understandable? Did you like/ enjoy it?

Or did you just not have anything better to do and think you wasted your time reading it? XD That´s possible too, I just wanna know what you thought of it, what you especially liked, or disliked, so I can possibly improve~ :3

Thank you all in advance~! X3

Okay and noooooowwww~

Another request xD

You see, my sister has finally started writing Shizaya stories and posted them on fanfiction. And HOLY FUCKING SHIT, they are both GREAT! I swear! Seriously, I wouldn´t recommend them if they weren´t. The problem is: she doesn´t believe so herself... v.v

Quite the opposite, she hates her works, she thinks they are bad- which they are certainly not! She is called "VenemousSyring".

I would be really, really grateful if you went and checked her out- I swear you will love them! ;3

Okay and now: This story is over… but a new one just begun! ;D

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT* XD : As you know, Halloween is coming along this week~ ;3 Well... in fact tomorrow. xD Aaaand, since my second story "What happened Izaya?!" Is complete, I am going to start a new story~! A Shizaya story, of course- this time: covered in utter horror. ;3 The flea can´t be scared, can´t quiver in horror and fear? Well that´s what you think- I say he can~ 3;D

Look forward to "After sunset" starting: 31st october 2014 ~ ;3

Well... now I said everything I wanted... I think xD

Bye minna~ -^.^-

See you~ ;3