Butlers (Shizaya)

Butlers, Safe

Izaya's POV

I watch Shizu-chan leave and with every step he takes I feel lonelier. I hate to admit this, but I want him to stay with me, I want to feel comforted by him.

I start to unconsciously follow Shizu-chan back to the mansion and watch him in the shadows. He gets ice for me and starts to come back to the garden, but before he steps outside he turns toward the master's daughter.

Typical, he always looks at her no matter what. It's obvious he doesn't realize Varona is going to announce that she wants to marry him. When Varona speaks I start to head back into the garden.

I already know she'll get what she wants, Shizu-chan. Even if he isn't in love with her she would still get him. It's not fair! Why do people with power think they can get something just by asking, it's ridiculous!

While walking back into the garden I feel tears threatening to come out. I let them fall, no one will see them anyway so what's the point of holding them in.

Shizu-chan won't come back I know that. He'll be too shocked that he is going to marry Varona, he won't be able to move. I should just say that I have lost my sworn enemy and maybe deep down inside a possible friend.

I get to the same place I was before just standing there crying for I don't know what reason. Then for some reason I start thinking about the talk, well argument with my father and what he said to me.

Why? Why does my father have the ability to see through me? Why did he have to say something I didn't even realize myself? I didn't even want to believe what he said, but as I keep thinking more about it the more I realize it's true.

I just keep standing there crying until I hear a gunshot. I look in the direction it came from, but then look quickly down at my stomach.

Seeing blood seep into my uniform, my legs start to feel numb and I fall to the ground. My entire right side feels like it's burning, but going numb at the same time.

I start to lose my vision and the last thing I can think of is that I'll die here with no one to know. That I'm not that important to anyone, especially Shizu-chan, to be even slightly concerned about.

Shizuo's POV

I quickly run to where I last saw Izaya, hoping that he's okay, but when I spot him, I'm horrified. He's lying on the ground with a puddle of blood around his stomach, motionless.

I quickly run up to him and check his pulse, it's very weak but at least he's still alive. I then hear a few people's footsteps coming near us and see Shinra and a few other people emerge from the darkness.

Shinra comes up to me and says, "I heard a gunshot. Is Izaya conscious?"

"No, he's not." I answer then ask worried, "Will he be okay?"

Shinra goes and checks on Izaya's condition by carefully rolling him over to his back and checking his pulse like I did, then gets a cloth and starts putting some pressure on his wound and says calmly, "He'll be okay, for now, I'll take him to the clinic, get the bullet out, and stitch him up... we do need to be safe about this, so I need to limit the movement of his body so he doesn't bleed out more."

"Okay, do you need me to help?" I ask still worried.

"Yes, could you-"

Shinra stops talking and looks toward a rustling noise further in the garden. Everyone watches the area, giving off a very tense vibe.

We all relax when we see one of the trusted guards, Kyohei Kadota coming out of the shadows gripping on to a man that looks scared.

Kyohei looks at Izaya for a second then says, "Hey, this guy is the one that shot Izaya. He was trying to escape through the back of the garden."

"Well, it's a good thing you caught him." Shinra says then asks, "Oh, also could you help bring Izaya to the clinic."

Kyohei nods and gives the scared man to another guard to take to the interrogation room. Then Shinra motions me to help pick up Izaya carefully with Kyohei, trying not to move Izaya much to give him even more injury.

We get to the clinic and lay Izaya gently on one of the beds. Afterwards Shinra tells everyone to leave and go back to work so he can focus.

Truthfully I want to stay and see how Izaya will be but I know better. I'll just get in Shinra's way if I stayed.

I walk to the servants dorm and go into my room to change my clothes and wash up a little. I try to get as much of Izaya's blood off of my hands as I could and walk back to the ballroom.

As I walk in I see everyone acting as though they didn't hear a gunshot. I see Izaya's family in their groups of two talking to many different people. After awhile of working Izaya's sisters run up to me and started asking questions and talking like I'm a old friend.

"So, who's Shizuo Heiwajima? He must be one of the servants since she said that the person she wants to marry wasn't introduced to her tonight, right?" The hyper one asks quickly.

"Well, you are right he is a servant, I'm Shizuo Heiwajima." I answer.

"Really?! So, you're going to marry Varona. Wow! What's your relationship with her? Well obviously you two love each other so much for her wanting to marry you instead of-"

"Wait." I say cutting her off, "Excuse me for saying, but truthfully I didn't know she loved me till tonight and I don't even know your names."

"Oh, well my name is Mairu and this is my older twin sister Kururi." The hyper one says.

"Also sorry to be rude but why are you talking to me like this." I ask.

"Well we also wanted to ask, where's Iza-nii?" Kururi asks.

"He usually gets really depressed after he has a talk with father, so we get worried about that for good reason." Mairu explains.

I guess they don't want to tell me the reason they get worried but who would, it's personal. I'm not sure if I should tell them what happened to Izaya they could panic, but they are family and they seem to be the only ones that care.

"Well, your brother got shot earlier and we don't know how he will be afterwards." I explain.

"Really? Then he'll be fine." Mairu says not surprised at all.

"Wait are you not worried?" I ask surprised, shouldn't they be more concerned about him being shot. I mean they're worried about him after a talk with their father, but not when he gets shot. What kind of family is the Orihara family?

"We're never worried about Izaya's physical state only his mental." Mairu explains.

"Why?"

They both don't look like they want to tell me anything else, but then Mairu starts to speak, "Well... Iza-nii-"

"Shizuo there you are." Varona says from behind me, "Come with me I want to formally introduce you to some very important people."

"Okay," I say to her then quickly say to Mairu and Kururi, "We will talk later okay."

They both nod and then Varona pulls me away from the two. We go around and Varona introduces me to many of the richest families or most powerful people in Japan.

It's very impressive that so many people are here, but I'm still worried about Izaya and what his sisters were going to say. I don't like how I don't know what's going on with him, I want to be beside him, I want to look after him. Izaya, please be safe don't leave me.