(Izaya's POV)

It was just another ordinary day in Ikebukuro. Mikado and Anri were walking to school like any other day. Masaomi and Saki, his girlfriend, looked at the Tokyo Bay with many pretty boats moving around. Shizuo walked with Tom Tanaka, keeping a close eye on him as they made their way to random houses whose owners had debts to pay. Celty conversed with Shinra at his house about a new job that she could do. Izaya stared at his computer in his apartment, going through the chat rooms and looking for new information that would be useful to him. When he was done, Izaya looked out the window, thinking. I should mess with Shizu-chan some more today! Grabbing his jacket, he left the building and walked to Ikebukuro from Shinjuku.

As Izaya passed a Russian Sushi restaurant, he saw the person he was looking for, and smirked.

"IIIIZZZZZZZZZZAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYAAAAAAA!"

Izaya jumped to the side quickly as a vending machine flew by, which nearly hit him in the shoulder. He expected this, of course. Shizu-chan always ended up throwing things at him, but he was fine with it.

"Hi Shizu-chan~! I was wondering when I'd run into you!" Izaya exclaimed.

"I told you to NEVER come back to IKEBUKURO AGAIN!" Shizuo yelled, pulling a nearby sign out of the concrete and preparing to throw it.

"I'm sorry, Shizu-chan, but it seems that I don't remember you telling me that."

This was one of the ways Izaya loved to piss Shizuo off.

"DON'T CALL ME THAT! IIIIIIIIZZZZZZZAAAAAAYYYYYYYAAAAAAA-KUUUUNNNNNN!"

Shizuo picked up a trashcan standing nearby and threw it at the raven. Izaya turned and ran yelling out behind him "Catch me if you can, Shizu-chan~!"

The strongest man in Ikebukuro chased after the underground informant, tossing anything and everything around himself at the raven. Quickly, Izaya made a sharp turn into an alley. Speeding up, he was about to jump over a wire fence when he was grabbed from behind. Twisting around, Izaya lost his footing and began to fall backward.

It was as if everything was going in slow motion. Seeing Shizuo, he reached out and grabbed his bartender vest. Looking behind himself, Izaya saw the hole that Shizuo had seen. Plummeting down into the hole, Izaya closed his eyes, feeling the rush of adrenaline going through his body at the feeling of wind whooshing past him. Then . . . CRACK