The Distance A Raindrop Falls
By: AtomicKokoro
Storyline
Set five years after the end of Durarara. Peace seem to have finally fallen in their lives, but one wrong word brings everyone back together for one last round of war.
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Before You Read
Last chapter! Yay!
That last chapter could have been divided in half. Oh, well.
On with the story!
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Chapter 15
Six Thousand and a Half
Ikebukuro, Toshima
Christmas Day, 2015
Peace fell over Tokyo once again.
The Evergreens disappeared that night. No one knew what happened to them, whether they joined the Dollars or quit Gangs all together. And even the Dollars were quieter than usual. There were no forums being used. No chat sites or get-togethers.
Everyone was simply living and enjoying Christmas Day.
Masaomi and Saki returned to their apartment on Takeshite Street for the day together. Saki was overly happy they both were able to live to see Christmas and that others were able to make it, too.
Izaya and Kyohei spent the Christmas Day together at the hospital, watching Baseball Games and chatting about small things that didn't matter.
Mikado and Anri had the day all to themselves to decide what they wanted to do. They went out. They watched movies. They simply talked. And they did special things, too. To celebrate they were still alive.
Everyone simply lived that day. And it was a very good day, indeed.
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Ikebukuro, Toshima
January 1, 2015, 12:38 AM
It wasn't even an hour into the New Year and there was already a change in the way the city felt.
Shizuo had been walking down the street when he noticed a certain Orihara walking towards him. He told himself not to kill him but that damn smirk on his damn face was really ticking him off. "What do you want?" he hissed.
"I'll be leaving Ikebukuro," Izaya replied. "permanently. Before I left, I wanted to give Shinra a Christmas Gift before I left. Something to watch while he is waiting for me in Valhalla."
Shizuo lifted an eyebrow, threw his smoke on the ground, and put it out. "A five year truce, broken by a small gift," he muttered. "It's not like I care. This is five years of anger all being vented out at once."
The city was a wreck and the people confused and scared. The fight finally ended after half an hour of vending machine throwing and knives flying and curses and threats warned.
It didn't matter, though. As soon as Izaya lost Shizuo, he took the next train out of Tokyo.
As he sat in the train car, watching the world pass outside his window, he began to think. Where on Earth would I find another Dullahan? The answer laid in Celty's home country; Ireland.
Whether or not he ever found one was unknown to anyone. No one kept track of him anymore. No one kept track of anyone anymore.
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Ikebukuro, Toshima
June 24, 2015, 4:56 PM
Everything had gone back to normal, as it should.
Mikado had finished college for the year and was more than ready to spend it with his fiancee, Anri Sonohara (her name would be soon enough Anri Ryūgamine, much to Mikado's pleasure), and with his best friend, a newly wed, Masaomi Kida.
However, he found it strange that he discovered Masaomi in Ikebukuro, looking up at the sky by Sunshine 60. Mikado was secretly praying that Masaomi hadn't found himself another fight. Curious, he walked over to Masaomi and looked up at the sky with him. "What are you looking at?" he asked.
"The sky," Masaomi replied with a gentle sort of wonder. "How far do you think a Raindrop falls?"
Mikado lifted an eyebrow. The sky was more clear than ever. "A strange question to ask on a fine day, don't you think?" Mikado asked.
There was a slight pause. "They say rain comes from the Heavens. It's the purest form of water, isn't it?"
"Yeah," Mikado replied. "It is."
"Well, if you find out the distance a raindrop falls, then you'll be able to reach the Heavens, won't you?"
Mikado hesitated then blinked. "That sounds like something Izaya would say," he replied.
"Yeah," Masaomi replied. "It was. I wonder if he ever got his question answered."
"I don't know," Mikado replied.
And that was the last they ever talked about Izaya Orihara.
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34 Takeshita Street; Harajuku, Shibuya
January 21, 2015, 3:48 PM
Masaomi found that Saki was staring at her phone on the couch. "What's up?" he asked, glancing at the phone.
"Nothing," Saki replied. "It's just that...The night of the Second War, someone had called me to warn me that a few Evergreens were coming. I got out of the house. When I called back to ask for some help, the person who owned the phone had no idea who had called me. I guess I'll never know."
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*Here's A Fact*
It was Mairu and Kururi. Why? Because they noticed their brother seemed a lot happier since the day he returned from talking with Saki. How? They asked Shizuo to see Yuuhei's amazing phone for telling him about Izaya's odd behavior.
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Mikado's Apartment; Shinbashi, Minato
January 29, 2015, 8:46 PM
Mikado had been doing nothing that day. The new normal was sort of strange. He didn't particularly like it, but he knew he didn't need a reason to live. Living was just fine right now, with his fiancee and his best friend. Life was good.
However, he eyed the computer on his desk. Curious, he walked over and opened a window. He typed in a few letters and waited for the site to pop up.
The Dollars site.
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Forum Topic: Not Again
Posted: January 28, 2015, 2:40 PM
I've seen a lot of guys in orange around. Do you think there is another Color Gang on the rise?
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Mikado stared at the forum for a long time. He shut the window and returned to his place on the couch. He ignored it and focused on the TV instead.
He was tired of Color Gangs now. He was tired of the wars and the fights and the worrying.
That was the last time that he ever checked the Dollars site.
He didn't want to fight to live anymore.
He just wanted to live for the sake of living.
Mikado smiled.
And that was exactly what he did.
The End
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After Notes
Yay! I hope I made ends meet. Go me!
Love it? Hate it? Wanna read it again? Let me know! The review button is right there!
Sorry for the quick ending. It's twelve and a half in the morning and I'm beyond tired. Plus, I'm sick, so, yeah. Anyways, the next story I might be working on is called "The Sal Tree". It's a really depressing story about Masaomi and his daughter, Sarasoujuu, trying to start a new life after Saki is killed in a fatal accident.
Thanks for reading, you guys! You've been a terrific audience!
Oh, and, the end.