The next day, Shinra noticed that Izaya winced with every step and kept his legs apart when he sat down. "What happened to you?" The raven-haired boy shifted nervously, which meant something was definitely wrong-Izaya Orihara was never nervous. "Well, I...promise you won't tell anyone?" Shinra shrugged. He didn't have any other friends, so he couldn't tell anyone except Celty. Izaya took a deep breath, then quietly told Shinra how he had intentionally soiled his bed last night. "It got their attention, but they wouldn't let me change clothes after, so I might have a rash now. I'm going to do it again tonight." Shinra laughed, not entirely surprised. Izaya always wanted peoples attention, and while bedwetting was a strange way to achieve that, it was apparently an effective one.
True to his word, Izaya did the same thing that night, and the next. The night after that, however, his mother stopped him from drinking anything at dinner. When he reached for his glass of water, she snatched it away from him. "No. You're not allowed to drink anything in the evening." Izaya was tempted to roll his eyes, and that temptation only grew when, just before he went to bed, his father followed him into the bathroom and insisted that he use the toilet before sleeping. After his parents were asleep, Iaya slipped into the kitchen and drank four glasses of lemon water (lemon was a natural diuretic). It didn't take long before he needed a restroom, but instead he just relieved himself in bed before getting up to tell his parents. The next night, Izaya found a package of diapers lying on his bed.