A week passed. Izaya kept tails on Shizuo and the reporter, but despite his best efforts he could find nothing important about what they were doing, even when he trailed one of them himself. They just appeared to be hanging out or doing random tourist crap. Once one of the tails commented that the two might be dating and Izaya stopped having her watch them.

Celty sometimes joined Izaya, or kept him company when he needed someone to rant too. He also annoyed Mikado and Dota-chin like usual, but neither of them helped to distract him from the worry that something weird was happening.

Every time Izaya got too close following the pair, Shizuo would chase Izaya until the informant escaped. Izaya was getting frustrated by his lack of information. He even told some of his yakuza contacts to beat answers out of the man, but Shizuo had protected Jurou each time.

Despite Izaya's interferences, Shizuo never once texted or called Izaya to yell at him. The informant felt even angrier because of it, and eventually stopped tailing him completely.


I know this is short, but I didn't feel like it fit in either the previous or next chapters, so here it is.