Shizuo`s Revenge
 
By Minako Tomoka
 
A Durarara Short Story
 
 
  The glassy white glow of the full moon shined upon the city of Ikebukuro as a lone blonde man in a bartender`s suit strolled the dark streets, presumably on the way home to his apartment. Well, that was half-true. He was heading home, but he had a little something to take care of first. Just about ten minutes ago, he`d been visiting Shinra and Celty`s apartment to discuss business.
  Shinra was just cleaning up the mess Shizuo Heiwajima had left behind after bursting in unannounced, typical of him. Then, he noticed something was missing. He swiveled his head in Celty`s direction and asked, "Did you happen to take something here? It kinda looked like a little gun."
 
  "No," Celty answered. "I didn`t even notice anything like that. Why? What was it?" Shinra gulped. "It was...my newest project...the Shrink Ray."
 
  Now, I could extrapolate on how much Celty beat the crap out of Shinra for losing such a dangerous device, but you don`t want to see that. You`re more interested in who took the Shrink Ray, and what they plan to do with it. Well, allow me to enlighten you, my fellow sadists. As he walked home, Shizuo glanced down at the tiny pistol-like device in his palm. It looked more like a toy than anything, or a prop from a bad sci-fi movie. Shizuo had overheard Shinra`s conversations with his father about the strange contraption, and he wondered if it really did work. But if he would test it on someone, it had to be someone who deserved it. So, who deserved to be shrunk down to the size of a Snickers bar?
 
  In the eyes of Mr. Heiwajima, that would be none other than his longtime rival and enemy, Izaya Orihara. He was an information broker and overall scumbag who took great pleasure in tormenting innocents for his own amusement. But now, it was his turn to be tormented. Shizuo knew very well that Izaya would show up to piss him off again. He always did. Now, it was just a matter of time. And sure enough, less than twenty minutes after Shizuo left Shinra`s apartment, the raven-haired troublemaker turned up. The ends of his faux fur-lined jacket fluttered in a stray breeze. His blood-red eyes gleamed in the light of the full moon, like the eyes of a demon.
 
  A smirk crept onto his face. "Hello there, Shizu-chan," Izaya snickered. "Nice night for a chase, isn`t it?" Shizuo sneered in exchange. "Sorry, but I`ve got something different on the agenda tonight." He whipped out the Shrink Ray, aiming it directly at Izaya`s chest. "What, you`re going to shoot me now?" Izaya asked. "That seems a little too extreme, even for you." Shizuo scoffed. "Well, if this thing does what it`s supposed to, a bullet through your heart will be the least of your worries. Take this, IZAYA!"
 
  He squeezed the trigger, firing a thin, narrow ray of blinding light straight at the black-haired man. Izaya was stunned by the sudden flash. He squinted, then felt a stabbing pain in his chest. He hunched over, coughing. It felt as if he`d been stabbed through the heart. His vision grew fuzzy. The entire world was spinning. At the same time, he felt...strange. Like a heavy weight was being pressed down on him. To him, it almost felt as if he were...shrinking.
 
  When the light faded, Izaya looked up. Something was not right. The lightpole he once stood next to towered above him like a skyscraper. The rest of the buildings around him looked utterly colossal. But that wasn`t the worst of it. "Well, what do ya know, it works," a huge voice rang. It sounded very familiar...and Izaya soon realized why. The ground seemed to tremble as a massive pair of black dress shoes stepped in front of him, belonging to a gigantic Shizuo Heiwajima. There was no doubt about it, Izaya had indeed been shrunk down to a mere three inches tall.
Compared to Shizuo, he was no bigger than a mouse. For the first time in a long time, fear rose up in him.
 
  "Hi there, Izaya," Shizuo grinned, peeking down at his tiny victim. Izaya was dumbfounded. "Wha-what...what have you done to me?! What`s going on here!?"
 
  "You`re in no position to be demanding answers from me," Shizuo replied. "I stole a little contraption from Shinra`s laboratory. He called it a Shrink Ray. So, I decided to test it out for him...on you, that is. And I guess it worked. Look how tiny and pathetic you are now. I could just step on you and mash you into a bloody mess." He raised his foot and pressed down on Izaya, grinding his shoe into the tiny`s chest. Izaya felt like his lungs were being crushed. He gasped for air. "Shizu-chan- I mean...Shizuo...please, don`t hurt me." Shizuo smirked, showing his teeth. "Oh, don`t worry, I`m not gonna hurt you...not now, anyway."
 
  As if on cue, a hungry rumble emanated from Shizuo`s stomach. He hadn`t eaten anything since lunchtime, so it was understandable that he`d be feeling pretty hungry now, but he had something a little different in mind. "Ugh, I`m famished," he grumbled. "I guess all that vending machine-throwing really worked up an appetite. Hey, Izaya...how would you like to be my late-night snack?" Izaya`s jaw dropped. His heart began to race. He squirmed about, but since he was being held down by Shizuo`s foot, there was no escape. "You...you`re going to eat me?! You can`t do that! Please, can`t we just work something out!?"
 
  Shizuo`s grin soon morphed into a growl. "Sorry, but you don`t make the decisions anymore. Right now, you`re nothing more than my dinner. And I`m hungry!" He swooped down, squeezing the tiny Izaya in his fist. Izaya shivered as he gazed into the blonde brute`s large brown eyes, flitting back and forth behind blue-tinted shades. "Oh, where`s all your snarky remarks now?" Shizuo asked. "Not so much fun when you`re the one being tortured, is it?"
 
  He lowered the tiny down to his waist and carelessly dropped him into the left pocket of his trousers. And with that, Shizuo began his trip back home. His mouth watered at the thought of how delicious Izaya would be when he finally got to eat him. Of course, he wouldn`t do this to just anyone, he wasn`t that much of a monster. But Izaya deserved it all. Nearly everyone in Ikebukuro had been tormented by the sadistic informant at one time or another, Shizuo being one of his biggest repeat victims. Things were different now, though. It was Izaya`s turn to feel what his victims felt like.
 
  As for the shrunken Izaya himself, he was beyond terrified. Not much scared him, and while Shizuo wasn`t really on the list of things that scared him, a giant Shizuo certainly was, especially now that the brutish monster was intent on devouring him. Trapped within Shizuo`s pocket, Izaya could hardly breathe. He sucked in weak breaths of stale air. But the horror was only just beginning. About ten minutes later, the hot, uncomfortable trip to Shizuo`s apartment drew to a close.
 
  Shizuo stepped inside, flicked on the lights, and yawned loudly, stretching out his arms. His stomach still clamored for food. And while Izaya certainly wasn`t going to be enough to fill him up, he would certainly enjoy sending the little flea on a one-way trip to his hungry gut. He swiftly moved to the kitchen, plucked the tiny Izaya from his pocket, then dropped him into an empty drinking glass. The walls were way too high for him to scale, and the glass itself was far too heavy for him to tip over and escape. From his spot on the counter, he had a front-row seat to his inevitable demise.
 
  He gulped. "Shizu-chan...you aren`t really going to eat me, are you? I mean, I`m still human, eating me would be cannibalism." Shizuo burst into thunderous laughter. "Oh, really? You`re human? For as long as I`ve known you, you talk like you`re not. Talking about loving humans and all that crap...only a freak like you would talk that way. And contrary to what the kids running away from me at the playground think, I don`t eat people on a regular basis. I`m just going to eat you."
 
  He looked over the stove, fiddling around with pots and pans. "I wouldn`t eat you raw. You`d probably give me a stomach ache or some disease if I did that. So, how do you wanna be cooked, huh?" Izaya`s eyes grew huge. "You`re going to...cook me?!" Shizuo didn`t even answer. He just set up a small pot of water and set it to boil, then went to work throwing in a bunch of different seasonings, like salt, pepper, garlic powder, and a few other spices to hopefully mask whatever nasty flavor Izaya would have.
 
  As he waited for the water to boil, he wasted no time teasing and taunting his tiny prey. "I wonder how you`ll taste, Izaya. I`ve never eaten a human before, so it`ll be interesting either way." His stomach continued to growl hungrily. "You should probably listen to that carefully, because that`s where you`ll be ending up," he sneered, gesturing to his belly. Terror flowed through Izaya`s brain. This was no joke. This blonde monster was really going to eat him, and he could do nothing to stop it.
 
  Shizuo glanced over the pot, noticing the water had finally come to a boil. He shut off the heat and snatched Izaya from his glass confines, playfully licking at his face. "Please, stop this!" Izaya squealed. "Just let me go, and I swear, I`ll never bother you or anyone else again! Just please, don`t eat me!" Shizuo shrugged. "Ehh, don`t wanna. I hope you like hot baths, `cause you`re about to get stewed."
 
  He grasped Izaya by the collar and dangled him above the vat of bubbling broth and spices. The smell made his mouth water, despite the fact that he was the meal. Shizuo released Izaya from his grip, sending him plummeting into the boiling-hot salt bath. His head went below water for a second, before he dragged himself up, coughing heavily. He started treading water to keep himself afloat in the sea of seasoned broth. It burned his skin on contact. He winced in pain. Thank goodness he had clothes on, or he`d probably be dead. It took him a few moments to adjust to the heat.
 
  He looked up, only to gape at Shizuo`s massive face grinning down at him from above. "So, how does it feel? Is it hot enough, Izaya? I`d turn up the heat, but I want you to stay alive until I swallow you." Shizuo began pushing his tiny prey around with a spoon, stirring the soup and even pouring some over his head, just to make sure he was properly marinated. He also hoped this would kill whatever nasty things Izaya had living on him.
 
  He hummed happily to himself, even licking his lips at times. It was almost unreal, Shizuo never, ever acted this happy about anything, even when it was something he liked. He usually had two emotions- quiet, and angry, the latter usually being dominant. Izaya had no idea he liked cooking, either. Maybe he just liked eating more. Meanwhile, Izaya was soaked to the skin by broth and seasoning. His clothes were drenched, feeling like a weight dragging him down to a watery grave.
 
  A sinister, toothy grin worked its way onto Shizuo`s face as he watched Izaya being slowly cooked. "Ya know, I think you`re about done. I`m starving, and I`m ready to eat. Say your prayers, little flea. Then again, I guess praying wouldn`t do you much, since you don`t even believe in God." He carelessly dove a large spoon beneath Izaya`s body, pulling the shrunken informant out of the broth and into a huge, deep bowl. He scrabbled around, trying to climb the walls, but they were too steep and slippery for him.
 
  Shizuo, who was already hungry enough as it was, snatched up a pair of chopsticks and carried it and the bowl containing Izaya over to the couch, where he plopped down and made himself comfortable, getting ready to eat. "So, any last words, fleabag?" he snickered, gazing down at Izaya hungrily. Izaya was beyond terrified. He was about to be devoured by his worst enemy, and there was nothing he could do about it. "Shizu-chan, please...please reconsider! I promise, if you change me back and let me go, I`ll leave Ikebukuro and never come back! You`ll never see me again, I swear!"
 
  Shizuo was beyond convincing at that point. "Sorry, but I don`t believe you," he chuckled. "And even if I did, I still wouldn`t let you go. Becoming my midnight snack...this is the kind of end you deserve for all you`ve done. And now...it`s dinner time."
 
  Unable to hold himself back any longer, the blonde reached down and clamped his chopsticks around Izaya`s torso, lifting him up to his waiting mouth. "You won`t even be that hard to swallow," he sneered. "You`re so damn tiny and pathetic, you`ll slide straight into my gut." Shizuo parted his lips, allowing Izaya to gaze in horror at his gaping maw, his throat pulsating all the way down. The raven-haired man let out a scream as Shizuo shoved him directly into his maw. He snapped his jaws shut, then went to the work of savoring Izaya in his last moments.
 
  He slithered his tongue across Izaya`s body, licking violently to make sure not a single part of him was left untasted. Izaya, on the other hand, was thrown back and forth within his mouth, desperately clawing and grabbing at the slippery surface of his tongue. "Spit me out, you monster!" he screamed. Shizuo didn`t even hear his frantic pleas. A few moments later, the blonde decided he had savored him long enough. He tilted his head back, allowing Izaya to slide down, directly into his throat.
 
  Izaya`s red eyes grew huge. "S-Shizu-chan, don`t eat me-"
 
  His weak begging was soon muffled by the walls of flesh pressing down on him. Shizuo gulped hard, swallowing his tiny prey alive. Izaya felt like he was being crushed on all sides by the blonde`s rippling throat muscles. It may have just been because of his micro size, but it seemed like the inside of Shizuo`s body was just as monstrously strong as the outside. Shizuo grinned, feeling Izaya`s weak struggles within his throat. "I gotta say, you actually tasted better than I thought," he chuckled. "Guess cooking all that nastiness out of you really worked. For a midnight snack, you were pretty damn good."
 
  It wasn`t long before Izaya made his last descent toward Shizuo`s stomach. He crashed face-first into a slimy, mushy mixture of what used to be the brute`s breakfast and lunch. He pulled himself upright, sucking in a deep, rancid breath. The scent almost made him vomit. It reeked of rotted, half-digested food, an amalgamation of soda, sweets, junk food, and whatever else Shizuo had been eating and drinking that day.
 
  Izaya flinched as a stinging sensation hit his skin. A shallow, yet growing pool of stomach acids and gastric juices began to rise up and flow around him. Panicking, he punched and clawed at the stomach walls, trying to make Shizuo throw him up, or at least give him an upset stomach. "Let me out of here!" he shrieked. That wasn`t going to happen.
 
  Meanwhile, Shizuo yawned loudly, feeling a wave of exhaustion sweep over him after his meal. He still felt his prey writhing within him. It tickled a little bit. "Would you quit squirming already?" he grumbled. "You`re not getting out, so just give up. It`s pissing me off." He stretched out his arms and laid back. Soon enough, Izaya`s writhing ended. The blonde slowly closed his eyes, drifting off into sleep and letting his stomach take care of the rest.
 
  On the other hand, Izaya realized his fate, stopping his wild thrashing. The sound of Shizuo`s slow, diligent heartbeat and breathing unnerved him. The flood of digestive juices had risen up to his chest level. Shizuo`s stomach growled and rumbled all around him. Soon, he would be digested, just like everything else the blonde brute had devoured. Izaya leaned back, already given in to his end.
 
  He chuckled darkly. "I`m going to be digested. Just like some cheap midnight snack. I guess you were right, Shizu-chan. A miserable person like me deserves a miserable death like this. But really, you proved my point for me better than I ever could. You really are a monster. After you`re finished with me, what other innocent civilians are you going to devour? I guess it`ll only be a matter of time. But until then, I`m your first victim..."
 
  Accepting his fate, Izaya leaned back, allowing the flood of gastric fluids to wash over and consume his body, succumbing to becoming his greatest enemy`s midnight snack. And that was the last anyone ever heard of the raven-haired informant, although some suspicions rose after Shizuo returned the Shrink Ray to Shinra...
 
 
The End...