The first time Neku showed up at Hanekoma's café with bruises down his arms I didn't think much of it. Figured he had just brawled with Daisukenojo or something equally idiotic. So I tease him a little bit and I'm hardly surprised when he tells me to go take a walk through traffic. What is surprising is the way his music goes chaotic in an entirely furious way. Now this gives me pause because his music hasn't had this under tone since his time spent in The Game. I also didn't really like how his imagination had seemed to take a much steeper dive than it usually does when he gets into one of his moods.

Normally I would just scan a person to get the information I wanted and be done with it. Since Neku is very paranoid and carries his player pin on him wherever he goes that option is immediately discarded. He has even gotten so sensitive to all things UG that he can tell when I'm around him on different frequencies so simply shadowing him for a while wouldn't work either. So I just settle for some good old fashioned RG stalking. Neku's always going on about me popping up wherever he happens to be so I might as well prove him right.

Unfortunately Neku turns out to be a lot sharper than I had thought. He hadn't even made it home before he noticed me following him and promptly and not to mention eloquently told me to fuck off. So with a pout I left to go plot in my sewer.