Experiment #1369
Main character(s): Hideyoshi Nagachika and orginal male character
Rating: T
Warnings: light shounen-ai and bromance. Mpreg without the actual mpreg.
Summary: AU. Hide is given a child to raise. A child that is apparently his and some ghoul's offspring. Except the baby is a tube baby that was created and saved from being an experiment. Now Hide is raising a half ghoul child all on his own. The only thing Hide wants to know is where to get the human meat without resorting to murder.
Disclaimer: Uh? The term fanfiction should explain everything.
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Hide just stared dumbly at the elderly lady across from him. Being told you're a father is shocking, it's even more shocking when you know you're a virgin and the person telling you is somewhere in her fifties-
"His name is #1369" the granny spoke.
-and if the child happened to be an experiment rescued from a mad scientist's laboratory. Yeah, Hide was surprised he hasn't had a panic attack. Really, as if waking up to find a toddler with lightly colored blonde hair and dark eyes sitting on his chest wasn't enough of a surprise.
"Thank you for your time" the granny stood up and made to leave the apartment.
Hide felt his breath catch in his throat, "where are you going!?" Hide asked, his voice hysterical.
#1369 continued to stare dismally at a stuff bear in the corner, he almost blended in the white colored walls with his pale hair and white hospital clothes.
"Don't leave him with me!" Hide protested at the woman's back, "how am I supposed to feed him?!"
The woman grabbed her coat before gesturing to the cluster of brown packages she had dropped on the table.
"What happens when it runs out?" Hide placed himself between the door and the elderly woman, "why is he left with me?" 'And not his other DNA donor'.
Looking slightly guilty, the woman avoided Hide's eyes. "His other DNA benefactor is not an option", the woman raised her head and stared determinedly at Hide, "ghouls are sentient beings, as a scientist I-" she swallowed "-cannot bring myself to experiment on something no older than my grandchild" she looked back at the toddler who was still sitting quietly and staring off brokenly into space.
Hide nodded in sympathy, Kaneki was a ghoul now and Hide still accepted him, even when Kaneki seemed determined to avoid him.
"For this child I have wronged" the woman looked older as she sighed, "I want him to be happy and live a life full of joys".
Hide still looked unconvinced.
"There is no guarantee that if #1369 was raised by his other DNA benefactor that he would respect humans". She finished and started to dig into her purse.
Hide felt slightly nervous as the old lady approached him.
"This is my entire study of ghouls and their behaviors" she held out a standard notebook full with notes sticking out of it. "Experiment #1369 does not let his kagune out often, even when feeding" she added at Hideyoshi's surprised look, "the only advice I can give you is to start him off by having him give thanks for his meals".
Hide took the notes and started to flip through them. "Humans live off of other beings too" he mumbled to himself.
The elderly woman smiled before bowing low, "please give him what I can't" she stood up straight before trying to move around Hide.
"Wait" Hide said as he moved with her, "you never answered what I should do after the food runs out" he gestured to his table.
She chuckled before pulling out a card from her pocket, "this man can help you when the time comes" Hide bowed slightly as he took the card, "but that food should last for the rest of the year" Hide eyes widen.
Hide bit his lips as he looked at the card, "I also have to work" he looked up at the old lady, "I don't have an endless supply of ghoul babysitters" he joked casually.
"He won't get into trouble when you are not around" she looked over to #1369 who hadn't moved from his spot.
Hide sighed heavily and brought a hand up to rub the back of his head, "fine" he said before he opened the front door for the woman.
She merely smiled at Hide and walked out of the apartment. "Nagachika Hideyoshi" she turned around to face the blonde, "thank you". With that the elderly woman strolled down the hallway.
Feeling as if he had been standing out in the sun for too long, Hide mumbled 'no problem' under his breath before softly closing the door. Turning around, Hide calmly took in the sight of his living room and dining room covered in various supplies needed for taking care of a toddler.
Gathering the brown packages, Hide opened the fridge and placed the packages in the back. Looking at the smallest package, Hide called out to the child. "Are you hungry?"
He was met with absolute silence. Placing the package back in the fridge, Hide stood up as he closed the fridge, "are you sad?" he asked as he approached the still sitting child.
The boy looked startled, "sad?" he asked quietly as he tried to avoid Hide's eyes.
"Yeah sad" Hide smiled and crouched down to see eye to eye with the experiment. "Haven't you been sad before?" he asked gently as the child shook his head quickly.
"No" #1369 whispered.
Hide smiled, "sad is what happens when-" Hide paused before chuckling to himself, "well it's hard to describe but one day you would feel this emotion". Holding out a hand to the toddler, Hide ruffled the experiments hair.
"Am I feeling sad now?" the boy asked as his cheeks flushed.
Hide made to stand up but was stopped by tiny hands quickly grabbing onto the hem of his shirt. Hide merely smiled, "what do you feel now?" he tilted his head in amusement.
"Weird" #1369 answered, "I feel warm-" the toddler let go of Hide's shirt and placed his hands over his chest, "-here". The young experiment looked up at Hide, "is this sad?"
Hide started giggling, "No, you are happy" he picked the child up.
"Happy?" the boy looked down at his chest. Snapping his head back up, #1369 had a look of amazement "I like happy!"
Crouching down to pick up a blue bag, Hide shuffled the child into one arm. "That's good #13-" Hide wrinkled his noise, "you need a name".
#1369 just looked at Hide with slightly dull eyes.
Hide ignored the lack of life in the boy's eyes and continued to walk around the room, picking up bags full of toddler clothes as he did. "Any ideas?" he placed the boy on the couch and opened up the bags.
#1369 just continued to look at Hide.
"Kouki" Hide smiled down at the child, "I like the name Kouki" #1369 blushed slightly.
"Kouki" the newly named Kouki muttered to himself before gazing up hesitantly at Hide. "Me Kouki" he stated quietly to Hideyoshi.
Hide nodded his head as he took out three shirts and pants from each bag. Frowning to himself, Hideyoshi selected three shirts and pants before putting the rest of the clothes back into their respective bags.
Kneeling to layout the three shirts and three pants, Hideyoshi gestured to the clothes laid out. "Kouki-chan" he smiled up at the toddler sitting on the couch, "what do you want to wear?"
Kouki eyes widen, "Kouki choose?" he asked in wonderment.
"Yes, Kouki-chan chooses" Hide laughed quietly as Kouki looked back and forth between the options.
Kouki pointed to a pair of yellow pants then a brown-white stripped shirt. "Those!" he shouted and bounced on the couch cushions. Kouki paused in the middle of his bouncing and looked terrified.
"What's wrong?" Hideyoshi asked worriedly.
Kouki tucked his chin close to his chest, "no box?" he asked quietly.
"No box" Hide smiled but wondered what Kouki meant by box.
Kouki smiled widely at Hideyoshi and Hide returned the smile with a wide grin.
Placing the other clothes back into the bags, Hide placed the clothes Kouki choose on the couch. "Now bath" he grinned as he slowly stood up.
"Bath?" Kouki asked.
Hide just smiled as he picked up the toddler. "It's fun, trust me" Hide winked at the toddler "you'll love the bubbles" Hide grinned as he started walking to the bathroom.
"Trust?" Kouki asked.
Hideyoshi hummed to himself, "trust is when you know someone won't hurt you" Kouki gained a more confused look.
Seeing Kouki pouting, Hideyoshi laughed before stopping in his walk to the bathroom. Suddenly holding Kouki upside down, the toddler broke into laughter as Hide tossed him up from the original position. Catching and throwing Kouki a few times, Hide stopped so that he could tickle the toddler's tummy.
Stopping the sudden tickle attack, Hide let Kouki catch his breath. "That was trust" Hide explained with a grin to the giggling Kouki, "you trusted me not to drop you" Hideyoshi further explained to the toddler.
Kouki nodded as he continued to giggle and Hide continued his walk to the bathroom.
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Bath time was an interesting experience for both Kouki and Hideyoshi. To start with, Kouki did not want to even approach the tub while the water was still filling it up. It wasn't until Hide added bubbles to the water and promised Kouki he would join him that the little toddler approached the tub.
Turns out, the toddler was enraptured by the bubbles. So much that Hide had more trouble getting the child out of the bath than he did getting him in. It was only thanks to the water becoming cold that Kouki wanted to get out. His claim of 'he's not cold here' was both endearing and alarming to Hide, who resisted the urge to retrieve a thermometer.
Getting Kouki dressed was a whole other matter. It seemed that whatever shyness (or as the old lady called it, "PTSD" due to tests) Kouki had around Hide was gone. Kouki bounced and smiled during the entire process of getting the child dressed. Especially the socks, Hide had to read the manuals and advice books that the old lady left behind for raising a child. Finding his timer, Hide set it for two minutes and gave the watch to Kouki.
Taking the moment reprieve, Hide exhaled the breath he was holding and swiftly dressed Kouki.
"Now Kouki" spoke as he finished dressing the toddler, "which one do you want to wear?" Kouki's eye widen as Hide held up two pair of sneakers. One was a deep green with shoe laces, the other was a dark blue with yellow Velcro connecting at its sides.
Looking back and forth, Kouki bit his lips as he pointed to the green shoes.
"Don't worry!" Hide laughed as he placed the green shoes on Kouki's feet, "I'll teach you how to tie them!"
And Hide spent thirty minutes teaching Kouki how to tie his shoes until the toddler started fuming and yelling at the shoes. Stifling his laughter, Hideyoshi quickly retied the green shoes before scoping the toddler up. Grabbing his keys and wallet, Hide stuffed the items into his bag next to the hard "candy" for Kouki.
"Going?" Kouki asked as he gave a frustrated look down to his hanging feet.
"To play" Hide responded as he double checked the items in his bag, "you want to play right?" Hide as asked he opened the door to the apartment. Making sure the door was locked, Hide closed the door behind him before adjusting his hold on both the bag over his shoulders and Kouki. Noticing Kouki's look, Hide tried to get the young toddler to look him in the eye, "what's wrong?" he asked in a gentle voice.
Kouki just bit his lips hard enough for blood to come out.
"Kouki-chan" Hide smiled as the child turned his face away from Hide's. "Would you like to call me mommy?" he asked as he figured out why the child was frustrated.
Kouki turned his dark eyes to Hideyoshi in happiness. Nodding his head vigorously, Kouki gave a wide grin at Hide.
Hide returned the smile as he bounced Kouki in his arms lightly. "Let's go~" Hide sang the words as he and Kouki started to walk off towards the elevator.
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Turns out, Kouki is a loner. Like a major loner, sometimes Hideyoshi felt that the young Kaneki would be more social than Kouki. Turning his head to watch his technical son build a sand castle, Hide wished that he had asked who the other 'parent' is. Hide didn't know if his son got his platinum blonde hair from him or his other 'parent', Hide also didn't know if Kouki's shyness came from genetics or being raised by a laboratory focused on test results. Humming to himself, Hide peered into the bag he packed for this trip and wondered what he would do for schooling Kouki. He could always make Kouki home-schooled but Hide wouldn't be home the entire time.
Sighing to himself, Hide wished that Kaneki would answers his texts or at least pick up the phone. Speaking of phone, an unknown number flashed across its screen as it began to ring. Keeping a good eye on Kouki, Hide answered the phone.
Listening to the phone call, Hide's eyes widen in surprise as the elderly woman from before told him that she deposited some money into his account as a present for Kouki. Apparently it was Kouki's birthday. Looking at his phone, Hide didn't notice Kouki getting up from his sand castle building to approach him.
"Mommy?" a tiny voice spoke and equally tiny hands grasped Hide's pants.
Hide jumped slightly in surprise. "What's wrong? Did you fall? Want me to kiss it better?" he asked.
"No" Kouki shook his head, "bad smell" the little noise scrunched up.
Hide sniffed the air, "I don't smell it" he smiled slightly as he ruffled Kouki's hair, "you want to go shopping?"
"Shopping?"
Hide grinned as Kouki tried to climb into his lap, "we're going to get you a toy~" he helped the boy up and nuzzled against the rosy cheeks.
Kouki only giggled in response as Hide laid a sloppy kiss on his cheeks.
"But first" Hide stood up with Kouki and slung his bag over his shoulder, "you haven't tried the swings!" and Hide marched over to the nearby swings for toddlers. Examining the diaper like formation of the swings, Kouki allowed himself to be placed in it. "Here we go!" Hide cheered as he started pushing the swing lightly from the front of it.
Kouki squealed loudly as he gripped the seat and ordered for 'mommy to go faster'.
Hide grinned as he swung the toddler with a little more effort so that Kouki was coming up to his chest.
The two smiled together as Kouki reached an appropriate height for his swing. Slowly using less effort, Hide allowed for the momentum of the swing to slow down by itself. Once it came to a stop, Kouki clapped his hands and demanded to be picked up.
Hide, of course, indulged the demands of the toddler. "Okay! Are you ready to go?" Hide asked as he carried Kouki past two mothers smiling at them.
Kouki merely cheered support for whatever his mommy had planned next.
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Turns out, it's a universal fact that toddlers like toys. Doesn't matter if the child is half-ghoul like Kouki or ghoul or human; toddlers like playing make believe. Especially when it comes to puppets and puppet shows like the one being held right now.
Smiling as he watched Kouki cheer for 'Herakles', Hide let out an exhausted sigh as he leaned back into the chairs reserved for the parents. Turning his head to survey the room, Hide noted that many of the mothers where starting to fall asleep as their fatigue caught up to them.
Confirming all of the escape routes, Hide turned back as he watched Herakles battled against a dragon. The play was inaccurate, but Hide supposed that all plays for young children to be inaccurate. If the play was accurate, Hide doubts that any of the mothers here would allow their child to watch it. Hideyoshi probably wouldn't have allowed Kouki to watch if it was accurate. Yawning and slowly stretching as he stood, Hide smiled slightly at the multiple 'aww's were released from the crowd of children in front of the booth. Beckoning Kouki over, Hide knelt down with his arms wide as Kouki ran into them.
"How did you like the play?" he asked as he pressed a light kiss to Kouki's hair.
Kouki bounced in Hide's arms before he started to chatter about what happened in the play.
Hide waved goodbye at the other waking mothers as he walked away from the booth and to an aisle that contained age appropriate toys for Kouki. Waiting for Kouki to lose breath for his continuous chatter, Hide smiled as the toddler's words got faster and more unintelligible.
Finishing his story quickly, Kouki took a deep breath. Hide took this moment to let Kouki know he could go and pick his toy out.
Kouki's eyes widen as he realized where he and Hide where at. Leaning down to let him go, Hide kept track of Kouki as the toddler went back and forth in the aisle to check out the toys.
Picking up a rabbit that sang, Kouki brought it back to Hideyoshi.
"I want this one!" Kouki said as Hide leaned down to look at the rabbit, "please" he added as an afterthought, remembering the lessons Herakles went through.
Hide laughed in surprise at the politeness of Kouki, turns out the play wasn't absolutely useless after all. "Of course" Hide picked Kouki up and walked to the checkout area.
Holding the stuffed toy to his chest, Kouki muttered a 'thank you' to Hide.
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The two didn't go immediately back to the apartment. Hide wanted to take Kouki to the music store and then Kouki wanted to visit the fishes that were on display in a pet shop located next to a mask store. According to Kouki, the mask store smelled and Hide wondered if Kouki was smelling ghouls or something else altogether. Making funny faces at the fishes, the manager of the pet store suggested that the two should go and take some pictures at a nearby photo booth for a memory.
Wondering what that was, Kouki asked his mommy only to have Hide smile before walking out of the shop and to the booth the manager had suggested. Of course, they almost ran into a tall purple haired man.
"Sorry" Hide bowed slightly at the stranger and Kouki just looked confused. The stranger had the exact same look as Kouki and both of their noses where flaring. "Kouki-chan" Hide bounced Kouki in his arms to get his attention, "what do you say when you hit someone?" he asked as Kouki's eyes went wide.
Kouki's noise wrinkled in distaste. "Sorry" Kouki mumbled as he stuck his head into the side Hide's neck.
"Kouki-chan" Hideyoshi tried to look at the toddler who was trying to disappear in his neck, giving the stranger another half bow, Hide stood up straight before walking over to the side of a shop so that the two were out of people's way. "What's wrong?" Kouki sniffled slightly.
"He smells bad" Kouki mumbled as he rubbed his nose against the warm neck "like the shop" Kouki gestured to the shop that the two were standing in front of.
Hide bit his lips as his guesses were proved right. "Would you like to go somewhere else?" he asked Kouki in a gentle voice.
Kouki shook his head up and down before shrugging, "I don't know".
Hide chuckled before stepping out onto the sidewalk again, "okay, how about we-" Hide looked around for something the two of them could do, "-go get some paint!" Hide cheered.
Kouki lifted his head out of Hide's neck, "paint?" he asked, his nose still flaring.
"Yeah", Hide started to rub Kouki's back, "we can paint your feelings" Hide grinned at the toddler in his arms, "then I can prepare your dinner" Kouki suddenly started hissing at something behind Hide's back.
"Go 'way" the toddler bared his teeth and Hide turned around to see the person Kouki was hissing at.
"Kouki-chan! That's rude!" Hide was only looking at Kouki before he gave a slight bow to the stranger, "I'm so sorr- Kaneki?" Hide cuts off in mid-sentence as he stares at his longtime friend. Ignoring Kouki's upset complaints, Hideyoshi steps forward as he curls a strand of white around his fingers. "What's with the hair? Is that what is popular with kids now?" he asked and turned his face to Kouki's. "You might as well match" he chuckled to himself as he moved his hands from Kaneki's hair to Kouki's.
Kouki pouted at Hide and crossed his arms. "No" he said with as much disgust a toddler could manage.
"Be nice" Hide tapped the tip of Kouki's nose, "he's my best friend and your soon to be babysitter!"
"Mommy" Kouki whined and Hide just smiled as he turned to face a shocked Kaneki.
The purple haired man stood beside Kaneki and looked back and forth between Kaneki and Kouki. Hide merely smiled at the man and Kaneki.
Kouki panicked slightly as he tried to think of ways to get out of the bad smell. Eyes going wide, Kouki tugged on Hide's sleeve for attention. "Mommy?"
"Yes?" Hide answered automatically.
Kouki pouted as he clutched his toy rabbit tighter to himself, "I'm hungry" he whined some more. This seemed to snap the miniature group out of its daze.
"Okay" Hideyoshi cheered slightly as he awkwardly handle Kouki and his bag. Grunting as he took the candy out, Hide struggled to unwrap it. Giving up, Hide crouched down as he placed Kouki on the ground. Freeing both hands, Hide was able to unwrap the candy. "Eyes closed~" Kouki closed his eyes and opened his mouth wide for the candy. Placing it there, Hide pulled his hand away as he threw the wrapper into his bag.
"Hide" a voice whispered and Hide looked up at Kaneki, "I-I- uh, I m-mean-"
"It's okay" Hide smiled at his childhood friend, gathering Kouki -who still had his eyes closed- Hide stood up slowly. "It's okay, I understand" for some reason Kaneki looked more guilty at that.
Coughing into his fist, the purple hair stranger bowed low and deep at Kouki and Hide. For a moment, Hide wished that Kouki could've seen the dramatic bow. "I am Tsukiyama Shuu" the newly announced Tsukiyama stood up from his dramatic bow, "would you care to join us for dinner?" he asked, and Hide didn't know if he should be terrified or laughing at his speech. Kouki swallowed his candy and opened his eyes to glare at Tsukiyama.
The toddler was stunned when he yawned in the middle of his stare down, Hide just started laughing. "We'll have to reschedule the dinner date" Kouki looked relieved until another yawn broke out of him, "but perhaps coffee? Kouki's going to fall asleep soon anyways" Hide grinned at the toddler.
Tsukiyama nodded his head at the idea and Kouki let his protest be heard. "No!" he screeched, "don't wanna!" he started kicking his feet wildly.
Wincing as a tiny foot slammed into the space between his ribs, Hide tried to talk Kouki down from his temper.
"You are really mad right now because we are going to drink coffee with them" Hide wheezed slightly and Kaneki offered to carry Hide's bag. "How about you introduce yourself and they introduce themselves so you get to know them" Hide smiled and handed Kaneki his shoulder bag. "You may start to like them" he reasoned with the toddler.
Kouki didn't want to listen but he silenced himself and looked at the two ghouls. "Kouki" he mumbled under his breath as an introduction. "I'm sorry" he then looked at Hide in remorse. Hide's smile never left his face and a little girl joined their group.
Tsukiyama Shuu introduced himself again with the same dramatic bow and Kouki unwillingly giggled. The little girl hid behind Kaneki and introduced herself as 'Fueguchi Hinami' in a tiny voice. Kaneki was the last to introduce himself.
Kouki was still pouting but Hide liked to believe the toddler's pouting was a little less fierce than before.
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Turns out, Hideyoshi wasn't the only one that Kaneki had been avoiding judging on the shocked look on Touka-chan's face. As the group entered Anteiku, Kouki grumbled in annoyance as he scrunched his nose. Honestly, Hide felt good about himself due to all of his hunches being right so far. And he also felt good when the new Anteiku worker started to fawn over Kaneki. Though, it was disappointing finding out that Kaneki wasn't easily flustered by girls as he used to be.
As he waited for his order to be filled, Hide watched amusedly as a drama unfolded in front of him. Touka-chan had grabbed Kaneki into a hug which flustered the female temp worker and Tsukiyama. Letting go of Kaneki, Touka-chan growled lowly to the two before turning her attention to Hinami-chan. From what Hideyoshi was able to observe; Hinami-chan considers Touka-chan and Kaneki to be her older siblings, the female temp worker has a crush or hero worship on Kaneki, the same for Tsukiyama, Kaneki considers the group his friends with the exception of the new temp workers –Hide thinks that Kaneki never met the temp worker before today-, Touka-chan considers Kaneki a good friend and so does Kaneki. For some reason, Hide felt like he was watching a live soap opera in front of him.
Kouki yawned and mumbled something resembling 'quiet' into Hide's neck. Laughing quietly, Hide adjusted his hold on Kouki to make the toddler more comfortable.
"Your coffee" Yoshimura gave a reminiscent smile at Hideyoshi and Kouki.
Nodding, Hide reached for the coffee slowly as to not upset Kouki. "Thank you" he said in a whisper like voice.
The elder man nodded his head before he asked the group to quiet down, Kaneki accepted his coffee and talked quietly with Yoshimura before starting to approach Hide.
"Here, Hide" Kaneki sat across from Hide as he quietly place the bag next to Hide.
"Thanks" Hide smiled before waking Kouki up gently. "Wake up sleepy head" his voice filled with humor as his attention focused on the cranky, newly awoken toddler. "Aren't you hungry?" Hide asked as he dug for something in his bag. Balancing the bag and Kouki on his lap, Hide gave the curious Kaneki and Kouki a wink.
Kouki's eyes went wide and he made a grabbing motion in Hide's lap as an all-around blue Sippy-cup was brought out. Kaneki's eyes also went wide as his nostrils flared at the scent coming out of the cup.
Giving the cup to Kouki, Hide smiled as the toddler leaned back to sip lazy at the cup. Closing his eyes, Kouki kept on drinking from the cup as he felt his mommy's chest rumble slightly.
Keeping a steady hand on Kouki's back, Hide lifted his cup as he grinned across the table at Kaneki. "It's been a while" Kaneki flinched, "how is life treating you?"
Kaneki gave a small smile and responded as he brought the coffee cup to his lips. "It's been good, how are you?" Kaneki grinned steadily at Hide.
"I-" Kouki interrupted what Hide was going to say.
"Mommy" he talked around his cup, "I need pee-pee" this caused Hide to put his cup down immediately as he carried Kouki to the bathroom quickly.
Smiling as Hide walked away, Kaneki placed his chin on his hands before reaching over to retrieve the cup Kouki was using. Sniffing it, Kaneki nodded to the smiling Yoshimura. Placing the cup down and pushing it away, Kaneki almost released his kagune as the temp worker hugged him from the side crooning about his coolness and handsomeness. Kaneki tried to get her to go away before he heard the sound of a flushing toilet and water running.
Kaneki turned around to see a beaming Kouki and Hide come out. Tsukiyama and Hinami-chan were able to wrestle the female temp worker away from Kaneki. "Did you make it?" he asked Kouki who puffed up his chest in pride.
Making a universal sound for 'yes' in the back of his throat, Kouki tried to climb into the seat next to Kaneki as Kaneki congratulated him. Helping Kouki into the booth without actually helping him, because even though Kaneki only knew Kouki for about an hour he knew that the small toddler had pride, Kaneki praised the toddler again as Hide climbed into the seat across from them.
Moving the coffee cup away from him, Hide laid his head down on the table in exhaustion. Kaneki reached over and grabbed Kouki's cup and handed it to the toddler. "Are you okay?" he asked and Hide lazily waved off his concerns.
"It's been a really tiring day" Hide mumbled, not bothering to move his head.
Kouki choose this moment to speak up, "mommy, you didn't pick up a cook book!" Kouki swung his short legs in the seat as he reminded Hide of what they didn't get to do.
Hide groaned but picked his head up quickly, releasing a few choice words in English; Hide grabbed his cup and started to drink it.
Kaneki's eyes went wide as he watched the blonde drink something that was once referred to as 'drinks even the dead don't want' by Hide.
Bringing the empty cup down, Hide placed it on the table and picked up the bag full with supplies and Kouki's stuffed rabbit. Touka-chan quickly appeared in front of the table to pick up the cups as Hide stood up shakily.
Picking Kouki up, Kaneki stood up and walked to Hideyoshi. "I'll take this" and Kaneki took the bag from Hide "you need a break" Kaneki spoke as he held Kouki away from Hideyoshi.
"Nope!" Hide cheerfully responded as he held out his hands for the toddler transfer, "I'm good now!" Kaneki still didn't hand over Kouki nor the bag.
"I can hold them" Kaneki gestured to both Kouki and the shoulder bag. "I'm strong" he continued. "What is it that you need?" he asked his friend.
Hide gave a small smile "I just need to figure out how to cook the meat for Kouki".
Kaneki nodded, "I'll help" he gave a gaze that made everyone who was about to protest stop, "I need to talk to you" Kaneki stared hard at Touka-chan. Touka-chan stared at Kaneki too and looked away suddenly with a scowl on her face.
"That's nice" Hide nodded with a serious face, "I have something I want to talk with you about too" Hide continue to smile as Kouki started to whine about 'mommy carry'. Leaning into Kouki, Hide allowed the toddler to fist his shirt. Kaneki merely sighed in frustration as he shifted to give Kouki to Hide.
"Let me know if he starts to get heavy" Hide nodded at Kaneki's demand.
"I will" Hide turned to the entrance of Anteiku, "now let's go!" Hide cheered and Kouki joined him in the cheer. Kaneki ignored the whining Tsukiyama and the temp worker were giving but turned around to wave at Hanami as she wished him a safe trip and 'good luck'.
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A/N:
Mpreg without the actual mpreg! Science is beautiful, especially the science in TG. And no, Kouki's other DNA donor is not Touka-chan. It's a tossup between Ayato and Kaneki. That's the reason why I did not mention the eye color of Kouki.
Kouki has more clothes than three pair of pants and shirts. It's just easier to have a toddler chose from a small selection, trust me. Anyways, the timer trick works on younger children who want things to be over quickly, use it and give them the timer so they can watch the time go by. It helps teach them patience.
For those thinking that Hide is giving Kouki too much control… between the ages two and three, toddlers are beginning to recognize that they are separate individuals from their parents. This means that they are driven to assert themselves, to communicate their likes and dislikes, and to act independently.
Now, how did Hide know that Kouki wanted to call him mommy? Simple, normalcy or the act/feel of normalcy. I think Hide wouldn't really care if he's called mommy or daddy so he went with the word more associated with the care and love of children.
This takes place after the Aogiri Arc and before the Raid of Kanou's lab. I own up to all mistakes made. As per usual this is not edited and straight off the press because of my eagerness.