After 3 long years, of wondering where he could possibly Tokua slowly changed in more ways than one. Her short purple turned long, her figure became curvier, but one thing did not change she was still at the comfortable, Anteiku. Everything was still the same customers came to get their coffee, meet with friends, or just come to read a book. Which always made her think of him. Pain was starting to build in her eyes from her holding back tears. "Where was he?..." She came back to her senses when the bell over the door of Anteiku rung. wiping the ready to fall tears from her face, she pulled her self together and put on a fake smile and turned around. When she turned its just her best friend, Yoriko. Yoriko came in to the cafe' looking for Touka, finally seeing her behind the bar. "Touka, hey how are you?" Yoriko sat down on a stool in front of Touka. "I'm okay, trying to hang in there" saying as she made her best friend her coffee just the way she liked it. "Oh... u must be still upset about..." before she could say his name Touka walked away and went upstairs. Once she was at the her door she stopped and imagined him coming after her to make sure she was okay. She went in her room, shut the door and collapsed right there. The feeling from before was trying to come back. "Why?...Why?" Yoriko knocked on the door hoping her best friend would let her in. "Touka, I'm sorry I didn't mean to make you upset. I..." the door open before she could finish apologizing. "Let's go shopping" Yoriko smiled at the thought of shopping with Touka. Touka grabbed her purse and headed down stairs with her best friend, she just had to get out of that place too many memories were trying to come back at once.
"Finally we made it" Yoriko said looking for Touka expression to change... nothing happened. Touka walked towards the mall doors and pushed it her head slightly down. Looking at people's feet making sure she didn't hit anyone. Yoriko caught up with her after getting a sample of chicken a girl handed her. " Where do you want go first" Yoriko asked with a big smile on her face, it digested Touka. " Ummm... bath and body works..." pointing to the store right in front of them. Yoriko ran in the store opening candles to smell the different scents. Touka did the same, but not for the reason Yoriko did, she had to find that scent, his scent. Ten minutes go by, after many scents and some Yoriko came to let Touka smell, she found it. The scent, his scent, Kaneki' scent. Touka looked up from the candle, and started to scan the room. After smelling his scent again she felt something she had felt in years, after scanning the room she could figure out why she got that feeling. She put the candle down and signed, she started to walk towards the entrance of the store when she got the feeling again. This time was different the feeling froze her in place, she couldn't move and she saw what was making her feel this way. "White hair?!" She wanted to move to go it what she saw. " it can't be" .The white hair was moving closer to her, but she couldn't see a face, she needed to see the face. Finally she was able to move, following the white hair through the crowd of people, "excuse" "move" "ugh" the white hair was getting further away no matter how fast she moved she couldn't get close enough. Finally she got to the food court where she saw the white hair, she scanned the space for it she had to find it looking out the windows it was in the parking lot. " ugh, I have to get to it, it has to be him ". Once outside she got to see the face as a car went by and it was the reason she was running, why she froze, the reason the tears were back...
Kaneki.