"That is all for today Shizuo, you can go home now" Tom said, breathing out. It had been a long day, it had been harder today, people were more reluctant to pay, so Shizuo had to step in, which only resulted in the others going to the hospital. Shizuo nodded and waved starting to walk towards his apartment.

Halfway there, while passing by a dark alley, 20 men came out, all with clubs, bats or knives in hand, they surrounded Shizuo. Shizuo glared at them, pulling his cigarette out of his mouth and stomping on it 'what the hell do they want.' Shizuo thought, anger already running through his veins. "Move" Shizuo growled walking forward. "You will die today Shizuo Heiwajima." one of them said, Shizuo looked towards the man to see him holding a gun, the man was wearing pure black and had his face covered. He brought out a weird looking bullet that was glowing green.

'Did the flea send them?' Shizuo thought before snapping at the pure thought of it. "GET OUT OF MY WAY!!" Shizuo yelled in anger. The people surrounding him stepped forward in his outburst and started to try and hit him. Shizuo tried his best at holding them back, he had to admit that they were good, he was having a hard time hitting them specially since they were very agile, not as much as Izaya but were enough to dodge him. Shizuo got angrier by the second, he finally grabbed hold of one of them and started spinning with the man in his hands, that made the others back away and others fly when they got hit by the unexpected weapon.

"Shizu-chan?" Izaya asked arriving at the scene. "Izaya-kun!!!" Shizuo yelled angered at Izaya. One of the men took the chance and threw his pocket knife towards Shizuo. Izaya saw this and out of instinct threw his own blade which intercepted the other. Everybody, especially Shizuo, looked towards him to see an angered Izaya, for the first time. Shizuo saw Izaya's mask break. "Go back the way you came, Shizu-chan should not be injured by any of you, he is mine to play with" his words were full of venom, making everybody hesitate.

"Hahahaha", the man with the gun laughed, "he is not yours, he will die today, now Izaya Orihara why don't you go away, this has nothing to do with you". Izaya looked slightly perturbed for a moment but fastly covered it. He jumped down and went towards Shizuo, "I won't leave", he stated. "Fine by me" the man said and at that moment every single man ran forward. Izaya and Shizuo started fighting back. "Why you helping flea, I could do this myself you know." "Shut up Shizu-chan, you don't know them, they are specialized assassins almost as great as me in battle, if you put up with 20 you have no chance" Izaya said glancing at Shizuo, which was a mistake because one of the men took the chance and struck Izaya on the ribs making him fall over in pain.

The same man smirked and brought up his iron bat striking down on Izaya's left ankle, which gave off a terrible crack, repeatedly hitting him in the chest afterwards. Shizuo's anger grew and he hit the man taking the bat from him and hitting him with it. He started to fight ferociously not holding back anymore, when suddenly a gunshot was heard and a moment later Shizuo fell to his knees clutching his chest. "Noo!!" Izaya yelped trying to reach Shizuo, but his broken ankle and ribs made him stay in place, as well as the other men holding his wrists.

"Don't resist it Shizuo the poison is already doing it's job. Let's go boys!" the man yelled but then looked back and started to walk towards Izaya. "Umm, you're a pretty one aren't you, I could make some profit out of you," the man smirked grabbing Izaya's chin, making him look up. In that moment the shadows around them all started to move around, making all the guys try and free themselves. Everybody started running away. Some tried to take Izaya with them but Celty appeared before them, Shinra behind her.

"Let him go, and Celty won't harm you!" Shinra yelled with an unusual dark look on his face. The men nodded and let go of Izaya who just fell to the floor unceremoniously. They turned and ran away. Shinra stepped forward and turned Izaya onto his back. "Izaya, are you okay, answer me", Shinra said hastily. Izaya opened his eyes and tried to breath in. "I...can't...Shizu-ch...ribs" Izaya tried but couldn't his breathing was really uneven, not getting enough oxygen to his lungs. "One of his ribs must have pierced his lungs. Celty we need to bring him back" Celty seemed to nod and called her motorcycle.

Shinra picked Izaya up as gently as he could, noticing how light Izaya was. Izaya started to struggle ignoring the pain. "Shi...Shizu...chan" Izaya tried. At that Shinra and Celty started to look around, a moment late noticing him laying on the ground. "Celty..." Shinra whispered. Celty immediately moved to Shizuo putting her gloved hand on Shizuo's neck. "Antidote... left... pock...et", Izaya said, trying to move again. Celty stayed kneeled for what seemed like an eternity and then she slowly shook her head. "No?..." Shinra breathed out. Izaya stopped and looked towards Shizuo's limp body everything around him went black.